"How could this be... I see..."
Wen Jing asked and answered his own question.
When she had this question, she subconsciously examined her own information and found the answer in the characteristics of the Secret Treasure Gate.
After gaining Information Perception, she can see deeper attributes.
This trait, bestowed upon her by Dean Bai, is fundamentally different from the other traits she acquired through devouring or evolution.
Its essence is the rules created by S-class Awakened. If we consider the world as a running game, the Secret Treasure Gate is like an extra-loaded, enhanced mod.
Its function is to directly open backdoors in the ruins of Ancient Wilderness civilizations and capture a portion of the world's core manifestations—that is, the Wilderness Weapon.
This is also why the corresponding Wilderness Weapon light spots Secret Treasure Gate would disappear simultaneously after Wen Jing Secret Treasure Gate used it to devour the Ancient Wilderness ruins.
The bronze fragments were obtained by Dean Bai during her exploration, and they did not disappear because she devoured the related ruins.
Of course, Information Perception has already fully covered the functions of the Tactical Glasses, so there is no loss for her.
Seeing is the prerequisite, and on this basis, [ Information Touch ] allows Wen Jing to consume energy and mental power, just like touching a physical object, to 'suppress' or 'raise' the functional and status information of the target.
In other words, if she suppresses all of an Awakened's extraordinary abilities, she can achieve the same effect as ' Supernatural Disintegration '.
However, this is not a direct deletion or creation, and the resulting changes are not permanent.
At the same time, the degree to which she can interfere and the amount of energy she expends vary depending on the different things and different information.
The more powerful and closer information is to the fundamental essence, the harder it is to influence, and the greater the energy and mental effort required to influence it.
As soon as Wen Jing had a thought, a box-shaped mechanical insect that was near her floated over.
"Click!"
The box, over two meters long, was opened, revealing the leader of the Phase Creation Civilization inside.
The opponent's polymeric body can survive in space without atmospheric moisture, but due to the strong force field they encountered earlier, even though she rescued them in time, their current state of life is [severely injured and unconscious].
Then, Wen Jing used his Information Touch to suppress the opponent's negative status of [severely injured and unconscious].
The next moment, the consciousness fluctuations of the leader of the Xiangzao clan became active again.
Suppressing negative state information is different from healing. The latter involves repairing damage after it has occurred, while the former involves temporarily eliminating the damage.
While it cannot be described as a traditional healing ability, it is an alternative and powerful life-extending ability.
In fact, the consumption of negative status effects on the leader of the Wen Jing Restriction is greater than the consumption of warp engines on fifteen warships.
Because the warp drive has a human-controllable 'switch' function from the moment it is manufactured, this information is easily triggered at the information level.
Conversely, if Wen Jing were to suppress the warship's "high-speed motion state" or the "material composition" of a certain component of the warp drive instead of changing the "switch" information, the consumption would be enormous.
Similarly, [ Information Touch ] can even allow Wen Jing to suppress the 'life' information of a living being.
However, interfering with such fundamental information at the information level, even if the target is an ordinary life form without extraordinary power, requires Wen Jing to suppress it with all his might.
This is clearly inefficient; with other attack methods, the enemy would have been wiped out countless times over.
Therefore, the correct application of this characteristic against the enemy is to suppress what a person or thing can do, such as preventing Wilderness Beast or Awakened from releasing skills.
However, 'suppressing' external information is not the most powerful aspect of this feature.
What truly convinced Wen Jing of his S-level ability was the 'elevation'.
She can now temporarily 'boost' her own attributes, with an effect equivalent to an evolution upgrade on her character panel.
Besides the traits gained from devouring Ancient Wilderness ruins, all traits gained from devouring Wilderness Beast and self-evolution can be enhanced using Information Touch.
[ Gravity Silk Gland III (Temporary)]
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh--"
An invisible gravitational bowstring was drawn in space, rapidly pulling back fifteen evacuation warships whose engines had failed, hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.
They moved even faster than when they were evacuating, leaving electromagnetic trails in space before landing precisely and without any inertial deviation beside the nine warships captured by the swarm.
"My lord... this is..."
The slender octopus, which had just woken up, first saw Wen Jing, and then it saw this scene. It took its brain a while to process what was happening.
At the same time, the two Clone in the Ancient Wilderness also completed the final absorption of the world's core and returned to the material universe, to the territory of the Phase Creation Civilization.
The expeditionary force of the Boundary-Breaking Empire had already left, originally intending to return to provide reinforcements, but now they had gone into exile.
" Atom Controller!"
The Phase Creation Civilization didn't know what had happened; the only thing they could confirm was that the expeditionary force left because of Wen Jing.
After his Strongest Clone arrived, he used the Door Handle Wilderness Weapon to open a massive spatial portal. "Take all your fleets and come with me."
Moments later, the warships of the Phase Creation Civilization, aided by extraordinary power, traversed 130,000 light-years and arrived on the battlefield.
Seeing three Clone existing simultaneously, no one in the Phase Creation Civilization was surprised; they simply tried to observe each 'reconnaissance aircraft' and identify the differences between them.
"I just finished my 'conversation' with the Boundary-Breaking Empire. The remaining prisoners will be handled by your civilization. I will come back in a while."
Wen Jing didn't delay. He used the Mental Link to instruct them on how to handle the aftermath and handed over the leader of the Xiangzao clan to them for treatment.
"No need, no need, I'm in good condition now," the chieftain tried to decline.
The next moment, Wen Jing stopped suppressing the information about his serious injuries.
"Smack!"
The slender octopus went limp and fell into a coma.
"Chief! Quickly bring the consciousness connector!" The Creator beside him rushed forward to treat him.
The three Wen Jing then 'opened the door' again and disappeared into the void.
Although the military strength of the Phase Creation Civilization was weaker than that of the Pojiedi, it was still a well-established second-level civilization. It quickly deduced what had happened based on the situation on the ground and immediately began cleaning up the battlefield.
If you can't even handle this small, finishing touch, how can you talk about following a Level 3 civilization?
"Is this the military technology of the Atom Controller?"
The soldiers cautiously approached the Imperial warship, which was covered in mechanical insects, without rashly attempting to destroy or dismantle it, but still conducted a comprehensive Analysis and scan.
However, the more Analysis, the more confused they became.
Wen Jing's departure naturally severed the Resonance Network and the Memetic Infection effect, turning the mechanical swarm covering the warship's surface into scrap metal and lifeless matter.
No matter how they Analysis, they couldn't figure out how all of this was done.
At the same time, other forces also boarded the Boundary-Breaking Empire fleet that had been 'pulled' back.
"Whoosh..."
The gate opened, revealing the Imperials inside the cabin, who were plunged into despair.
After splitting apart for hundreds of thousands of years, the two groups of Changheng people, whose appearances and life structures have become completely different, once again faced each other in close proximity.
A moment later...
The worldview of the Empire was once again overturned.
By this point, they had all prepared for the destruction of their civilization.
In the Purity Faction view, the underlying logic of interstellar warfare is: I must destroy you because I cannot guarantee that you will not destroy me.
Without negotiation or weighing the pros and cons, due to the inherent value gap between civilizations and the existence of a chain of suspicion, different civilizations either ignore each other, or once war begins, it is a situation where it will not end until one side is destroyed.
Therefore, after learning the intentions of the Phase Creation Civilization, they realized one thing—
"What? We... can surrender?"
*
The three Clone, through Door Handle and a Ancient Wilderness Traversal, arrived at a desolate asteroid belt.
This area is a vacuum of civilization, and one of Wen Jing's safe footholds in the material universe.
After reconfirming the safety and privacy of her surroundings using her Information Perception, she directly invoked the control panel in her mind.
"Panel, evolve!"
"I must maintain my absolute self; I must evolve the ability to be unaffected by any extraordinary rules or interference with my mind and consciousness... without limit!"
This was the decision Wen Jing made the instant he woke up.
If she didn't possess Multiple Consciousnesses, she might have unknowingly had her original intentions altered by the Information Age Relics the moment she first entered them.
Even if one doesn't wake up by chance, other parts of their consciousness will be infected as well.
This made her realize that, regardless of whether she could successfully devour the core of the 'home' world, in the current situation where the resurrection ability could not evolve, this was far more important than continuing to evolve the splitting characteristic.
She wandered the universe, encountered multiple civilizations, and tirelessly traversed Ancient Wilderness day and night. What was her purpose? To resurrect her teacher and take revenge on the Prophet.
If one's will wanders or one forgets their goal during this process, what is the point of all this effort?
[The direction of evolution has been determined...]
[Consumption points...]
[ Skill Points: 94642 → 0]
The vast gains Wen Jing received from devouring the relics of the Information Age, and the Skill Points he acquired from learning the technologies of various civilizations, were all ruthlessly wiped out in an instant.
"Buzz..."
The instant her Skill Points were wiped out, she felt her consciousness dissipate, and she fell into an extremely deep place.
It seemed like there was nothing there, yet it also seemed like there was everything.
During the fall, Wen Jing felt as if he understood everything, but in reality, he understood nothing at all.