Dominating Evolution of the Cosmos

Christina was also shocked, and she wondered… What does a basic cell value of 800 points mean exactly?

In human understanding, this represented near limitless potential. More specifically, it was the potential to become an Ares!

Ares Li Long was the world's first Ares and was also the strongest Ares! His basic cell value was 900 points, and no one had been able to break through this value thus far.

Though Steve had not yet reached 900 points, he had exceeded 800 points, thus surpassing even the Second President of the Ares Council! This also meant that he was now ranked the second among humankind! Moreover, Steve's basic cell value was still increasing, not showing any signs of stopping!

"His basic cell value is still rising!"

"Oh my god! It's a miracle!"

Everyone was shocked by Steve's continuing ascension. His basic cell value of 800 points was already the second highest among mankind. No one could imagine the extent to which his cell value would continue to ascend to.

Steve himself had no idea how much the ascension of his basic cell value had shocked others. At that moment, he could only feel an infinite force coming out of his body.

Along with the constant refinement of this force, his ascension speed for his cultivation became even faster. Even he himself did not know how many times he had broken through the bottleneck.

For an unknown period of time, he met with a bottleneck again, and at that time, the power in the cells became more saturated. Every time he reached such a saturation, he would make a dash towards the bottleneck in accordance to his Spiritual Training. Every time he did this, he broke through the bottleneck and the capacity of his cells increased yet again!

Boom!

Steve experienced yet another breakthrough in the bottleneck, and a bigger whirlpool formed around him, devouring the cosmic forces that were around him crazily and causing the internal forces to surge within him.

Everyone who was watching Steve's training was shocked. In fact, they were so shocked by this that they both were in complete dazes.

"900... 900 points of basic cell value…"

"He... He reached 900 basic cell value! That means that he is on par with the mighty Ares!"

"The second limit for cells among mankind!"

Everyone was amazed by Steve's progress and couldn't help but exclaim in awe. At this moment, Steve finally felt that the cosmic force that was contained by his cells had reached the highest limit.

Now, no matter how he absorbed and refined the cosmic force, he could not force it to expand its capacity. At the same time, his spiritual strength and brain functioning had both reached their fullest states.

Steve slowly opened his eyes, frowned, then looked at Judy and asked, "Why is this happening?"

"No... According to what is recorded in the Original Gravity Tower and the Spiritual Training method, the basic cell value limit should be 1,000 points!" Steve insisted.

"The basic cell value can indeed reach 1,000, but you can't do that now," Judy said.

"Why not?" Steve asked, clearly impatient.

To gain the Apollo Battleship completely, one of the conditions that first had to be met was that the basic cell value must reach the 1,000 point limit. At the same time, the ultimate inheritance of the Original Gravity Tower could only be achieved once the basic cell value reached 1,000 points.

Wendy and Christina were also nervous as they were hearing all of this, and their hearts were full of doubts as to why mankind could not exceed the 1,000 basic cell value.

Judy explained further, "This is because cells are like receptacles. After a human's birth, the person's cells grow and absorb more energy. Once 900 points is reached, that means that the basic cell value has been expanded nine times. Nine times is already the limit."

Judy then added, "There are two ways to break this limit. The first way involves External force factors, such as the formation of the essence of spiritual power, the basic cell value of 900 points, and the superimposed spiritual power. When all of these are combined, one can then reach 1,000 points."

Judy paused, then continued her explanation, "The second way is by breaking containers. Breaking containers is a very dangerous method, and in most cases, one can directly explode and die if it is not completed correctly."

She then added, "The only way to avoid such a disastrous outcome is to get rid of the state of cellular organisms. Life forms in the universe are so strange that even one of the carbon-based organisms has a more advanced state than all others. So, if we want to break the limit, we need to break away from the original cellular biological state."

Judy's face looked serious as she said, "Of course, there are gains and losses that will occur if such a feat should be accomplished. Cellular organisms are perfect creatures. Thus, if they change into other life forms, you will lose many characteristics of their original cell organism states."

"What kind of characteristics?" Christina asked curiously.

Judy looked at them, then said, "For example, if one turns into stone, he will lose the ability to undergo genetic evolution, as well as to experience emotions, desires, speak languages and so on. The characteristics lost depend greatly on the life form one transforms into."

Upon hearing such serious side effects, Christina and Wendy looked pale, and they couldn't help but wonder… Why are human beings able to continue to be so powerful, even producing many forces to dominate the universe?

The answer to this was because human beings had evolving and superior characteristics. Though other life forms were also able to evolve, human beings were more complex and perfect life forms.

Thus, once some of their characteristics were lost, they could not be measured. For example, losing the ability to lie, although seemingly worthless, was actually a huge detriment. After all, it was an important ability that could be used to disguise oneself. Hence, losing the ability to lie was like taking a naked lamb into the black forest and leaving it alone to become prey for all kinds of predators!

Steve frowned as he thought of all of this. He now knew that there were two ways to reach the 1,000 point limit. But, as far as he could tell, the only recommended way was the first one. However, it was not an easy thing to condense spiritual power into an essence!

Steve's spiritual power had become as powerful as the ocean after his successive breakthroughs. However, though the quantity had indeed increased, it had also become more difficult for him to achieve a qualitative change.

Spiritual power was invisible and immaterial. So, if one wanted to condense it into an essence state, one would need to constantly refine and compress it.

"You're lucky to have passed the Soul Dual Training and to have merged with Wendy's strength. That's why there's been a surge in your training," Judy said. "But, because of that sudden surge in your growth, your control of your spiritual power has been greatly weakened, thus making it more difficult for you to compress it into an essence."

In the past, Steve had trained and shaped his spiritual power. Though his spiritual power was far from being in the essence state, it was kind of like a fog.

As long as he trained slowly, this fog state would transform into a state similar to water droplets, which would then eventually form the state of essence that he desired. But now, Steve's spiritual power was back to its original state, which was invisible and immaterial.

"Although your control of your spiritual power has been weakened, your brain development has reached 100% completion. Now, as long as you adapt to your current strength, your control over your spiritual power will be greatly increased. Your speed of condensing your spiritual power into essence will also be accelerated," Judy said.

She then added, "So, this can be considered as a blessing in disguise."

Upon hearing this explanation, Steve felt satisfied with his current situation. With his 100% brain development, it was only a matter of time before he could condense his spiritual power into essence. That was to say, he would soon become the first human to reach a basic cell value of 1,000 points!

"Your wounds are healed, so it's time for us to leave," Steve looked at Christina and Wendy and said.

He then added, "But, I hope that you both can keep everything that happened here a secret."

"You can rest assured that we will never tell anyone," Wendy said. At the same time, Christina nodded her head.