Chapter 1110 - 315: Invitation
Half an hour has passed.
Cheng Xinghai suddenly woke up.
The moment she woke up, she started breathing heavily, as if she had seen something terrifying in her sleep.
However, she quickly calmed down, and her breathing returned to normal; the comforting effects of Chen Ming’s constant expenditure of Spiritual Power were evident.
"Awake?"
Upon hearing Chen Ming’s concerned inquiry, Cheng Xinghai realized she was lying on her bedroom bed, with Chen Ming sitting beside her.
Her face turned red instantly, and she subconsciously checked her clothes, which were still neatly arranged.
Chen Ming hadn’t done anything strange while she was unconscious.
Cheng Xinghai let out a small sigh of relief.
However, she glanced at the bedside and found her slippers neatly placed there.
Images flashed through her mind of Chen Ming carrying her to the bed, helping her take off her slippers, and gently placing her feet flat on the bed.
Her face turned even redder.
Having decisively tossed Cheng Xinghai onto the bed earlier, Chen Ming casually put the thrown slippers back in place and tilted his head, asking, "What’s up?"
"Nothing."
Cheng Xinghai couldn’t possibly admit she had imagined some ambiguous scenarios.
Saying such things in her bedroom could quickly shift the atmosphere in a certain direction.
She wasn’t ready for that.
Holding her head, Cheng Xinghai propped herself up. "What happened to me just now?"
Chen Ming succinctly replied with two words: "Fainted."
"I know I fainted. How did I faint?"
Chen Ming drew a pistol from its holster, spun it around, and handed it to Cheng Xinghai.
"Aren’t you afraid of it going off?"
Cheng Xinghai looked at the end of the revolver handle adorned with twisted, chaotic patterns of the Stone of Chaotic Words, but hesitated to take the pistol.
"This thing..."
"It’s what I use now for exercising Spiritual Energy, but the effect is becoming less noticeable."
"Not noticeable for you?!"
"Yes."
The Stone of Chaotic Words was acquired during the last dimensional infection, and with prolonged use, Chen Ming had become completely accustomed to its Spiritual Shock, diminishing its impact.
However, what Chen Ming did not expect was, after casually mentioning something he barely felt.
Cheng Xinghai suddenly seemed dispirited.
It seemed his words revealed an insurmountable gap to Cheng Xinghai.
Chen Ming promptly comforted her: "Don’t lose heart. I also started from whispers and worked my way up. In the past, even the Spiritual Stone I gave you at first would cause me brain pain."
Cheng Xinghai said, still somewhat dejected: "That was so long ago..."
"About two years ago."
"At that time, I was surviving in the wilderness of Rimu Star, and there was an undetected Mind Pulse Generator of the Mechanical Race on Rimu Star."
"It was emitting Mind Pulses continuously in the surrounding area with a Whispering Spiritual Stone inside, and I endured about a month of Mind Pulses."
"Back then, those Mind Pulses almost drove me crazy. I had to rest on a spaceship in space to gain some respite every day."
"I was much more fragile than you back then."
Chen Ming’s reassurance had some effect, and Cheng Xinghai perked up a bit, asking: "Was the Spiritual Stone you first showed me the Whispering one?"
"No, it was the later one."
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Cheng Xinghai was momentarily puzzled.
The effects of the Spiritual Stone, referred to as the Stone of Chaotic Words by Chen Ming, were too terrifying.
If the former Chen Ming came into contact with the Stone of Chaotic Words...
Of course, it wasn’t as exaggerated.
Chen Ming quickly explained: "The Spiritual Stone I obtained from the Mechanical Race’s equipment was indeed a Whispering Spiritual Stone, and its situation was quite special."
"It transformed from a regular Spiritual Stone into a Resonating Spiritual Stone, and gradually became what it is now."
Chen Ming still recalled when he placed the Whispering Spiritual Stone in the warehouse of his Iron Ore No., at a time when he was transporting some pirate corpses.
Let’s say when he received the coffins, the pirates inside hadn’t completely died yet, and only expired upon boarding the spaceship.
The typical cause of Spiritual Stones is when individuals harbor extreme emotions at the time of death.
These emotions, stimulated by their heightened Spiritual Power, affect some ordinary stones present and convert them into Spiritual Stones.
Normally, the pirate’s resentment at death would trigger the transformation of nearby stones into new Spiritual Stones.
Perhaps because he was in space at the time without suitable stones nearby, or perhaps because the Spiritual Stone itself was special.
Ultimately, the Whispering Spiritual Stone Chen Ming stored in the spaceship’s cargo hold was activated, became the Delusional Spiritual Stone, and generated a unique resonance.
Chen Ming needed to achieve the resonance purpose.
And the Delusional Spiritual Stone resonated completely with him after he killed the intermediary who double-crossed the pirate captain.
Later, the Delusional Spiritual Stone came into contact with the chaotic creation of dimensional infection, further evolved with the demise of the aberrated heart.
Turning it into its current form.
Chen Ming thoroughly explained the origins of the Stone of Chaotic Words to Cheng Xinghai.
Finally, he concluded: "It grew as I grew, so I’m quite lucky to have had this Spiritual Stone enabling me to practice Spiritual Energy all along."