Chapter 270: Everyone Has a Bright Future

"No, tell me the truth—I won't discriminate. We're all Demon Lords; none of us is superior to the other. So be honest: do you really believe in a collective consciousness of races?"

Seeing Feng Xue's strange expression, Melo tilted her head cutely, puzzled:

"Yeah, what's the problem?"

"Huh…" Feng Xue took a deep breath, then pointed at the ritual diagram:

"So what's this spell?"

"It's a familiar summoning spell… In my world, it's used to summon the god's servants to work for us. But after coming here, what it summons has no consciousness—worse than ordinary demons. So I rarely use it. Still, it's the most representative divine spell."

Melo still didn't grasp the issue, but Feng Xue was nearly at his limit. He stared at the utterly chaotic ritual diagram output by Little Xiao Lingdang, then at the Cthulhu-like "creature" stitched together from the worst parts of a turtle, deep-sea fish, cephalopod, seaweed, and more on the table. He thought long and hard—but couldn't find a single suitable remark, only muttering inwardly:

"You really don't deserve to be a Demon Lord!"

But this remark was clearly inappropriate. Feng Xue knew his social skills well enough, so he shifted focus to the chaotic ritual diagram:

"Then what about your spell's structure? Do you cast spells without any rules?"

"Well…" Melo's face flushed slightly at this topic, but she still explained:

"In our world, spells are mostly granted by gods. Since gods themselves are collective consciousnesses, they have no inherent logic. Some did try to refine divine spells, but the modified versions were far weaker than the originals. Eventually, everyone just accepted whatever the gods gave them."

"That's acceptable—at least you know the spells are chaotic, not that you never thought about it at all." Feng Xue nodded. As everyone knows, the most basic way to tell if something is artificial or natural is to check for order and patterns. If you glance and think, "What the hell is this?"—it's probably natural. But if you glance and see perfect symmetry? Then it's definitely artificial.

If Melo's world truly operates solely through collective consciousness, then it's inevitably shaped by that consciousness—everyone's imagined spells differ, so their manifestations naturally become chaotic.

But in This World, it's different. This World has no devotional energy. Melo's divine spells are entirely blue-bar-ified. Thus, standardization becomes highly…

"Wait!"

Feng Xue suddenly widened his eyes, as if struck by an idea, and asked:

"Melo, what do you think the current composition of your familiar is?"

"It's the energy of this world." Melo answered without hesitation—

"When I first arrived, I wondered if I could dismantle the spell to extract divine power. But it's fundamentally made of this world's energy, lacking any devotional properties. Even if dismissed, it's just a pile of this world's energy."

"I know." Feng Xue nodded. But given the precedent of Bi Gelei's elemental spells, he could already simulate a hint of "Primordial Qi" using near-black-box rituals. Could he use the same technique—by analyzing how blue bars simulate devotional energy—to first simulate devotional energy with cultivation energy, then simulate devotional energy itself, and ultimately design a ritual to directly simulate devotional energy using cultivation energy?

Don't think that simulating Primordial Qi makes simulating devotional energy unnecessary. Even if Primordial Qi is excellent, it's still simulated. He doesn't even know why it produces Primordial Qi—he's just following Bi Gelei's rituals. That means he cannot create any spells using Primordial Qi beyond those Bi Gelei controls.

He certainly cannot use it to revert his own Qi to its primordial state and cultivate into Primordial Qi.

But Melo's spells are different. Both devotional energy and cultivation energy are things he himself can produce. If he solves the problem of converting between them, he effectively holds a transcoder—capable of translating the Kichidora format in devotional energy into the cultivation energy format.

Then he could truly embed Kichidora into his mind sea, allowing his soul to interface with it.

Thinking of this, he immediately said:

"Little Xiao Lingdang, initiate project: standardize this chaotic structure."

"This requires more spell models for comparison," Little Xiao Lingdang said pointedly. Melo immediately understood and nodded:

"No problem. If we can generate divine power in this world, it'll benefit me too!"

"Then start. By the way, Little Xiao Lingdang, keep an eye on the players. I suspect those strange devotional energies came from rituals they accidentally created." Feng Xue spoke with certainty. Compared to devotional energy crossing worlds into This World, he found it far more plausible that players had stumbled upon a small-scale ritual converting cultivation energy into devotional energy.

Little Xiao Lingdang, ever dutiful, had no objections. She immediately pulled up the players' spell records from the Hidden Village database. Even the latest generation of spell engines used by players were built upon Feng Xue's first-generation Talisman and Spell. All their technology came from Feng Xue. They understood how to use it, but not why—so they simply copied the data structure recording spell information.

…

While Feng Xue continuously disassembled and compared various spells, and while Bi Gelei once again departed from the Hidden Village, tracking Feng Xue's aura, the science fanatic finally, under Professor Wang's guidance, converted cultivation energy into electricity and fed it into the Rasengan casting unit.

"As I suspected. Even without measurement tools, its current state matches the Rasengan in our reality almost exactly."

Professor Wang stared at the fist-sized ball of electricity, eyes alight with excitement. If electricity could truly replace cultivation energy to activate all spells in this game, a new energy revolution might erupt in reality.

No—not just an energy revolution. A life science revolution!

Professor Wang had once been young himself. He understood cultivation systems perfectly. If electricity could replace cultivation energy, could humans also cultivate by charging up?

Thinking of this, the old professor felt his whole body heat up. He immediately said:

"Xiao Yang, where's the library? Let's go check out cultivation techniques!"

"It's over there. But I've already screenshot all the cultivation techniques in the library—I'll send them to you offline. But shouldn't we use the cultivation energy still active in the game to first try solving the electricity-to-cultivation-energy ritual?"

(End of Chapter)