The Mech Touch

Ves wanted Blinky to gain the ability to output spiritual energy with other attributes. Though he could already obtain a lot of different elements from different design spirits, he felt it was better to reduce his dependence on external parties.

𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙪𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙖𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙩 𝙣𝒐𝒗𝙚𝙡𝒖𝒔𝒃.𝒄𝙤𝒎

”I also need to obtain a supply of physical materials.”

This was a lot more difficult to accomplish. A lot of the example cultivation methods that his mother granted him did not contain any word about conjuring up materials. They mostly focused on increasing the direct combat power or other mystical capabilities of the practitioner!

None of them put a lot of emphasis if at all towards the production of resources.

This reflected an overall tendency of cultivation that bothered him a lot.

Many qi cultivation methods were incredibly selfish by nature. They only focused on strengthening the cultivator without describing any clear or obvious means of giving back to their society.

This was much different for mech designers who would never be able to make a lot of progress unless they explicitly made it their goal to benefit their own society!

”I canʼt repeat the mistakes of the past.”

In order for Blinky to complement his career as a mech designer and serve a useful function to society, Ves did not want his design spirit to focus solely on cultivating his devouring and absorption capabilities.

Ves rejected the notion of turning Blinky into the Unending One!

Even if he could successfully modify the cultivation method provided by his mother so that Blinky retained his cute cat form, Ves still did not intend to pursue this path!

What he actually wanted was to turn his companion spirit into a resource processor of sorts.

”If Blinky can devour a lot of ambient spiritual energy from the environment and convert it all into useful spiritual energy and physical materials, then I can truly maintain an independent existence!”

He could obtain all of the phasewater he needed to produce his transphasic mechs and goods!

He could generate all of the universal life energy that he needed to accelerate the growth of all of his spiritual products!

Third parties would no longer hold as much leverage over him as before by restricting their supply of essential resources!

The advantages to Ves were too many to count. He could not think of many reasons to reject this approach.

”The only problem is making it happen.” He frowned.

The greater the goals, the greater the requirements!

Cultivation methods had to follow the law of conservation of energy and other fundamental laws of nature as well.

While it shouldnʼt be too challenging for Blinky to gain the capability to produce other spiritual energy attributes, making him spit out real physical materials such as P-stones and Unending alloy was another story!

As Ves went over the many problems associated with this incredibly difficult demand, he soon thought of a possible way to effectively satisfy his needs.

He thought back on one of the most ridiculous cultivation methods shared by his mother.

”That stuff about opening up an entirely independent space inside your own body and slowly expanding it to form a landmass, a planet and star is pretty interesting.”

This was mostly a body cultivation method, much to Vesʼ surprise. While it contained a lot of elements of qi cultivation as well, the main purpose was to strengthen a human body so that it could ultimately harness the power of an entire internal universe!

This was a cultivation method with extreme resource requirements, but also possessed an extremely high upper boundary.

There was no theoretical end to this cultivation method. A practitioner could form an internal star system, galaxy or even an entire universe as long as he was able to absorb enough resources!

Of course, Ves had no intentions to practice this stupid body cultivation method, but he became inspired by many of its processes, theories, techniques and possibilities.

What if Blinky formed his own internal space through cultivation?

What if Blinky absorbed Messier 87ʼs practically limitless supply of E energy radiation to continually expand the volume of this internal space?

What if Blinky converted the absorbed energies into a rich variety of stars and planets that contained a huge amount of different resources?

It would be like having a galaxy like the Red Ocean or the Milky Way all for himself!

His breath grew hotter as he became engrossed by all of the possibilities.