Chapter 1419: It Is Alive.

Then there was the fact that not every entanglement state was useful or active all the time. Some entanglement groups were duds that did nothing on their own most of the time and were mostly there for redundancy. He called them Dead Entanglements.

The special thing about Dead Entanglements was that their identity wasn’t fixed. Groups that were alive a few moments ago could go silent, while dead groups could come to life and begin working.

The way they worked was similar to how a swarm of birds flies, or a school of fish swims together as a group without colliding with each other. As they switched on and off, firing off information to produce interaction and going dark, they formed a beautiful wave of twinkling colors.

On the surface, the activity of the Phantom Entanglements gave the incomplete Supreme Metac a phantom shell. But because he could see the entanglement states, he saw the phantom shell as a wave of activity, like a sky full of stars rolling about and twinkling with colors of the rainbow.

"It is as if it is alive," he said in awe. "No, it is alive. It is a beautiful living thing."

"This is the language of the pathway. It is the Supreme Metac itself, and it is alive."

To confirm his conjecture, he infused the Name incomplete Supreme Metacs with lifespan. Then he observed closely.

He saw that the commonalities and the Real Entanglements still ignored his lifespan. But he also saw that the Phantom Entanglements greedily soaked up his lifespan.

It was as if he were pouring water into porous, coarse sand. The water would fall through the layers of sand, sinking rapidly. That’s how they absorbed his lifespan.

His eyes lit up with hope when he saw this. He immediately urged them, saying, "Drink my blood. Drink it to your heart’s content."

And drink they did. The incomplete Supreme Metac absorbed millions and millions of years of lifespan. Even though nothing was changing on the surface, he didn’t mind. He continued to feed it.

But when the incomplete Supreme Metac absorbed 8.1 million years of lifespan and didn’t solidify, he became worried. He didn’t stop, though.

He kept feeding the incomplete Supreme Metac more of his lifespan, hoping something would change. Unfortunately, it stopped absorbing his lifespan. The Phantom Entanglements were saturated with lifespan, but they did nothing with the lifespan.

Seeing this, he frowned and said, "I am missing something. What am I missing?"

His mind immediately went back to the ’skin’ he removed earlier. He also remembered hoping he hadn’t removed something important.

"Clearly, I removed something important," he said, rubbing his forehead.

As he grumbled, he waved his hand and created a new Name Supreme Metac. Then he put it beside the incomplete one to see what set them apart.

He immediately noticed many differences between the two Supreme Metacs. They had different energy content, energy density, various force field intensities, and frequencies.

He didn’t know which one was right, so he copied every difference he noticed onto the incomplete one. He copied them one at a time, not all at once. When one didn’t work, he removed it and tried another.

First he changed the energy density. Next, he changed the energy distribution from uniform to irregular. Then he changed the direction of the flow of energy to change the direction of the force field, or the intensity of the flow of energy to change the force field intensity.

He tried this for every difference he noticed, but nothing worked. The incomplete Supreme Metac remained the same, as if he hadn’t changed anything. So he began testing the combination of two differences at a time.

This time, something changed. Unfortunately, the changes were usually harmful. In fact, the incomplete Supreme Metac almost collapsed many times. He had to quickly remove some changes to save it from collapse.

When no two differences gave him what he wanted, he tried the combination of three factors next. The first three changes he tried caused lifespan to leak from the incomplete Supreme Metac, like air from a balloon.

The incomplete Supreme Metac leaked lifespan repeatedly and sustained damage he had to take time to repair before he could continue with the experiment. Fortunately, he was able to get the right combination of energy density, energy distribution, and force field intensity.

As soon as he got the right combination, the incomplete Supreme Metac began to change. At first, the Phantom Entanglements greedily absorbed the lifespan, like dry foam soaking up water. But now, they expanded and solidified quickly.

The more lifespan they soaked up, the harder they became. And during the hardening, their phantom appearance was becoming opaque.

Seeing this, he quickly destroyed the complete Name Supreme Metac to make room for the new one. His eyes were full of hope again, but now they carried a desperate edge from spending so much lifespan and effort on it.

He needed the incomplete Supreme Metac to work more than ever before. So his heart was in his throat as he watched the Phantom Entanglements saturate with lifespan.

This time, after saturation, the incomplete Supreme Metac had hardened enough to become opaque, with another layer of skin around it. It now had shape, size, volume, and color. It looked exactly like the previous Name Supreme Metac.

"Marvelous! Marvelous!" he exclaimed, clapping.

"They are phantoms, but they are the ones that make the Supreme Metac a real object of power. They may be largely invisible, but they possess the greatest potential."

"However, they are not the only ones responsible for the power of a Supreme Metac. There is also that weird energy signature needed to solidify the Phantom Entanglements."

"I wonder what that’s about," he said as he examined his work.

He spent a few more moments examining his handiwork. He also compared the Supreme Metacs to what he had before to make sure nothing was missing.

When he confirmed they were identical in form and function to the original copies he tore down, he rubbed his hands together and said, "Now for the moment of truth."