Jiang Ding quietly watched the Spirit-Particle Lock that had fallen into a minor thousand world.
This object, identical to a basic spiritual energy particle, was not particularly imposing. It naturally took part in the world's cycle, its innate form lying somewhere between matter and energy.
At first, it was unconsciously swallowed by a sparrow and became a tiny part of the sparrow's body.
Several months later, the sparrow was hunted and devoured by a gray hawk, its body becoming part of the hawk's body. This was an exceedingly common scene in the natural cycle.
No one knew that, amid this process of life and death, the Spirit-Particle Lock silently completed a replication.
No, it was not replication. Perhaps it could be called infection.
During this process, a normal spirit particle was infected and turned into a Law-Annihilating Spirit-Particle Lock. The Law-Annihilating Spirit-Particle Lock had increased by one through replication.
The entire process took three months and eighteen days.
The shortest possible time was thirty days. This period could not be reduced further, because the Spirit-Particle Lock needed time to fuse with its host. Otherwise, it could not complete the replication and transfer process.
Was it long?
It was long.
If one looked only at the rate of this first-generation proliferation, the time required for first-generation Spirit-Particle Locks to spread throughout the True Phoenix Star Domains would approach infinity without end. It would likely take hundreds of millions of years even to replicate enough to cover a minor thousand world.
But after one round of proliferation, the Spirit-Particle Lock's replication speed doubled!
Now, two Spirit-Particle Locks were replicating at once!
Next would be four Spirit-Particle Locks!
And so they would continue proliferating, proliferating, replicating without end...
"How beautiful."
"What a beautiful sight..."
Jiang Ding looked appreciatively toward a corner of this