Nightmare Immortal Era

Chapter 26: Erosion of Nightmares

"What's going on?" Yang Ning was dumbfounded as he looked at the windless and self-moving tank in front of him. I'm still outside, and this tank doesn't have any power at all. Moreover, I placed it on flat ground!

He seemed to sense something and used his mind to control the tank to move forward, backward, left, and right. He even controlled the crossbow on the tank to load, aim, and fire on its own.

It was as if this tank had a brainwave controller and didn't require manual operation at all.

"It's the Dragon Ball!" Yang Ning quickly summoned the Nightmare Dragon Ball and held it in his hand.

This Dragon Ball seemed to be no different from when he put it in a month ago, but upon closer inspection, there were some differences.

There was a misty aura inside the Dragon Ball, and upon careful sensing, it could actually connect with his own consciousness!

"This is your scattered spiritual power!" Deep Blue reminded him.

Human life activities constantly emit thermal radiation, and the human brain is constantly emitting spiritual fluctuations.

In the macroscopic physical world, this manifests as brainwaves. Brainwave controllers and lie detectors utilize this principle.

As for spiritual power, the scientific community hasn't even discovered the existence of souls, let alone spiritual power.

However, in the Extreme Eternal World, spiritual power is a tangible force that is stimulated when the physical body reaches the Ninth Layer and evolves into divine consciousness at the Qi Refining Stage. This is not only reflected in various cultivation techniques, but also has a systematic method of application for strengthening divine consciousness.

Meditation is a process of gathering and strengthening the spirit, but his rudimentary meditation method couldn't prevent the scattering of spiritual power. On the contrary, due to the increase in the base of spiritual power, more of it scattered.

It's like pouring water in while water is flowing out, but the rate of pouring water is faster than the rate of outflow.

This means that Yang Ning's spiritual growth speed is faster than that of ordinary people, and it's possible for him to perceive spiritual power before reaching the Ninth Layer.

But Yang Ning didn't expect that he hadn't even sensed his own spiritual power yet, but instead saw the spiritual power he had scattered.

These things were absorbed by the Dragon Ball and accumulated quite a lot.

"So, do all Dragon Balls have this function, or is it just this one?" Dragon Balls are extremely rare and important, and they mostly belong to the secrets of major sects. Therefore, no one has compiled research on Dragon Balls for public knowledge.

Yang Ning experimented and concluded that the ability to gather spiritual power should be present in all Dragon Balls.

Because after the Dragon Balls were borrowed into the human world, they became Gold Cores, and Gold Cores are Dao Fruits cultivated by gathering essence, energy, and spirit. Therefore, it is normal for Dragon Balls to be able to gather spiritual power.

However, it is abnormal for the spiritual power in the Dragon Balls to integrate with machinery. Although Zhao is a scientist, he is also a member of the royal Dragon Race with a high status. He doesn't dabble in puppetry, and there are no puppet-related things in Zhao's memories.

The "Great Dragon's Image Technique" he passed down also does not contain any puppet-related techniques.

"It's the Nightmare!" Nightmare Cataclysm is mentioned vaguely in the books circulating in the Extreme Eternal World, but its ability to erode living beings is very real.

Nightmare Beast and Nightmare Dragon are both products of creatures being eroded by Nightmare Energy.

Can Nightmare Energy erode inanimate objects?

Yang Ning tends to believe that it can. Anything that is alive can be eroded, let alone lifeless objects.

But Nightmare Energy is lifeless and without an owner. Even if it erodes inanimate objects, there is no one to control them. So even if the objects are damaged by the erosion, they won't move, unlike living creatures that can continue to fight.

Until it came to Yang Ning, things changed.

He didn't know if he could control Nightmare Energy, but after his spiritual power entered the Dragon Ball, it was definitely influenced by the nature of the Nightmare Dragon Pearl.

However, it didn't change the essence of his own spiritual power. Therefore, even after eroding inanimate objects, he could still control them!

Yang Ning took out a sniper rifle to test it.

The size of the eroded creations varies, and the amount of spiritual power required also varies. If eroding a tank requires 100 units of spiritual power, eroding a sniper rifle only requires 1!

As for the results after erosion...

Yang Ning threw the sniper rifle on the ground and then used his imagination to control it. Surprisingly, the sniper rifle stood up on its own and after turning in the open space, it fired at a distant target!

"It actually worked!" Yang Ning widened his eyes. What's the principle behind this?

Where does the force to pull the trigger come from? Where does the force to make the firearm stand up come from?

What's even more absurd is that I didn't even load any bullets into the gun!

"Are you familiar with this setting?" Yang Ning asked.

"Knights don't die empty-handed?" Deep Blue replied.

"Yes!" Yang Ning nodded, suddenly feeling something was off. "No, I mean the concept of 'Machine Spirit'!"

Knights don't die empty-handed is someone's skill, which allows them to turn other people's things into their own Noble Phantasms. It only has a slight similarity to Yang Ning's ability.

What's more similar is the concept of Machine Spirit!

Machine Spirit, also known as Machine Soul, is a product of the belief that all things have spirits.

In modern times, this concept mainly appears in the military field. For example, the famous "J-20" fighter jet has a Machine Spirit called "Eagle God".

The existence of Machine Spirit has strong symbolic significance. It not only enhances people's sense of identification and belonging to equipment, but also stimulates their military honor and patriotism.

Of course, it is various fantasy games, novels, and animations that have developed and expanded the concept of Machine Spirit.

For example, in Warhammer 40K, there is the concept of a non-scientific machine spirit. In the world of One Piece, there are ship spirits that can operate the ships themselves. There are also various artifact spirits in xianxia novels.

Yang Ning never expected that he would encounter something like this, and that he had created it himself!

"Fire, fire, fire!"

"And you, don't just stand there!" Yang Ning looked at the tank and made it start running as well.

The sound of sniper rifle shots continued without interruption, like a submachine gun, without even needing to reload.

The key is that it actually fired bullets, and with great killing power!

As for the tank on the other side, it goes without saying. There was no one inside, but it ran very fast. Between Yang Ning's thoughts, the tank's speed kept increasing, and after fourteen seconds, it directly exceeded the speed of sound!

Twenty-two seconds later, the sniper rifle stopped firing.

The tank kept running, showing no signs of slowing down, and Yang Ning could sense that the parts inside were intact. It didn't seem like a tank that had just broken the sound barrier!

In an instant, Yang Ning created a circular racetrack with his thoughts. He watched as the tank ran around and around on it, until at 64 seconds, when its speed had reached 4.6 times the speed of sound, it suddenly lost power and was instantly torn apart by the immense acceleration, disintegrating on the racetrack.

Bearings and gears scattered all over the ground, and even a wheel rolled more than five hundred meters away. Unable to bear it, Yang Ning created a wall to stop this thing.

"The sniper rifle fired at a rate of 64 bullets per second, and in 22 seconds, a total of 1408 bullets were fired!"

"The tank kept accelerating from the start until it stopped. The acceleration was 24.31 m/s^2, and the acceleration time was 64.93 seconds," reported Deep Blue.

After sensing it, it was clear that the tank and the sniper rifle had exhausted their spiritual power.

"With just that little bit of spiritual power, it can run for so long?" Yang Ning was somewhat surprised. He sensed the remaining spiritual power in the Nightmare Dragon Pearl and found that there was still quite a lot.

According to the standards he had just set, there was still 360 spiritual power left, enough for the sniper rifle to fire another 510,000 bullets, or for the tank to accelerate for another 180 seconds!

Yang Ning knew that spiritual power was not so exaggerated. The ability to create bullets like the Void Creature was something only powerful beings in the Spiritual Law Realm could do. He, a mere Physical Body Realm cultivator, couldn't even dream of it.

But just now, the Void Creature clearly created bullets.

"So, it's the Nightmare Energy. I added Nightmare Energy!"

After all, it was an energy that could corrode the entire world and destroy the entire Dragon Race civilization. It was not difficult for the Void Creature to create it.

Yang Ning immediately took out the Dragon Pearl and summoned one point of spiritual power.

"Create a lithography machine for me!"

The spiritual power remained completely still.

"Then a steamed bun!" Yang Ning desperately tried to imagine what a steamed bun looked like. With the ability to create 1408 bullets with one point of spiritual power, making a steamed bun should be a piece of cake.

But the spiritual power still didn't respond, showing no intention of turning into a steamed bun.

Yang Ning thought for a moment and simply created a steamed bun machine with his hands, then integrated ten points of spiritual power.

The steamed bun machine showed no signs of working.

"Why?" Yang Ning scratched his head.

"Could it be that it doesn't know how to do it?" Deep Blue reminded.

"How is that possible? It knows how to shoot a gun, doesn't it?" Yang Ning said, suddenly realizing something.

He first took out a bag of flour and placed it on the steamed bun machine, then ran it once.

When the flour ran out, Yang Ning started the steamed bun machine again.

This time, there was no problem. The steamed bun machine ran smoothly, producing one steamed bun after another, even without any flour!

He understood. He had driven a tank before, and he had also operated a sniper rifle, so injecting spiritual power was necessary to use them.

Yang Ning nodded. "I seem to understand the principle of this thing!"

The Void Creature is very unscientific.

But the equipment that can work with it must be something that can operate.

From this perspective, it is also very reasonable.

Obviously, it's useless to just randomly make a few sticks or a matchstick man. It is also impossible to use the principles of the Void Creature to create a tablecloth for a gourmet.

But even with many restrictions, it is still a genuine divine object for Yang Ning!

What's there to be afraid of in scientific research? Isn't it just afraid of not having people or time?

The Spirit Realm solves the problem of not having time for research.

And the Nightmare Energy erosion solves the problem of not having people to operate machinery.

A thought suddenly came to Yang Ning's mind.

I alone am a technological civilization!