The new Mini-Mini Fruit, infused with the abilities of termites, now possessed the potential for awakening, which was undoubtedly good news for Xiao.
Xiao once again extracted the laws contained within the brand-new Mini-Mini Fruit and compared them to the original Mini-Mini Fruit laws. As expected, there were slight differences between the two.
The laws of the new Mini-Mini Fruit were more complete and better aligned with Xiao, meaning he could utilize this power more effectively, even directly reaching the awakened level.
Thus, Xiao began to repeatedly decompose and regenerate the Mini-Mini Fruit.
Each regeneration of the Mini-Mini Fruit created a tighter bond with Xiao, enhancing his control over it.
As for the extracted law powers, Xiao threw them all into the Cyber Dimension.
Laws could also be transformed into data, containing not only a massive amount of data information but also being of extremely high quality, even exceeding imagination.
These law powers could be used to strengthen the world's integrity and enhance the stability of the Cyber Dimension.
Of course, while gaining benefits, Xiao also made sacrifices.
Each regeneration of a Devil Fruit required the consumption of a vast, astronomical amount of Cyber Dimension energy.
If calculated by the lifespan-extending Peaches of Immortality, regenerating a Devil Fruit once would be equivalent to growing a peach that could extend a person's life by a thousand years.
Such consumption was truly astonishing and had already negatively impacted the growth of the Cyber Dimension.
Compared to the negligible law data obtained, the energy consumed was disproportionate, resulting in a net loss.
However, if this operation could continuously enhance the strength of the laws, the situation would be entirely different.
After all, no matter how much energy there was or how vast the world's area, if it couldn't achieve a qualitative change, its significance would be minimal.
Yet, with law power, even a minuscule improvement could lead to earth-shattering changes in strength.
One was pursuing an increase in quantity, while the other was pursuing an improvement in quality.
The result was that no matter how many eggs were thrown at a stone, they could not cause even the slightest damage to it.
Therefore, after confirming that the Mini-Mini Fruit could absorb the laws of the Cyber Dimension to enhance itself, Xiao was no longer stingy.
He continuously supplied the Mini-Mini Fruit with energy, causing it to regenerate repeatedly within the Cyber Dimension: ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times…
After the Mini-Mini Fruit regenerated 1,000 times, a crisp sound suddenly echoed in Xiao's ears.
Through Dimension Sight, Xiao keenly perceived a subtle crack appearing at the core of the Mini-Mini Fruit.
"Finally reached its limit?"
Xiao felt a surge of excitement, his eyes gleaming with unrestrained thrill and a hint of madness.
A nearly insane thought welled up in his mind: what would happen if the core of the Devil Fruit were shattered?
Once this thought emerged, he could not suppress the intense urge within him, eager to put it into practice.
Thus, Xiao once again repeated the Mini-Mini Fruit's regeneration process, but unlike before, this time, a new crack appeared on the Devil Fruit's core after each regeneration.
For some reason, the Devil Fruit in Xiao's hand began to tremble on its own, and he could clearly feel its fear.
This feeling was peculiar; it was just a fruit, yet it could exude such real emotion.
But Xiao's face showed a devilish smile as he accelerated his movements.
When the Devil Fruit underwent its 9,999th regeneration, its core was like a ceramic piece covered in ice cracks, seemingly ready to shatter instantly with just a light touch.
Xiao could even feel the Devil Fruit's plea. Just then, Xiao softly said, "The ten-thousandth time!"
Immediately following that, he unhesitatingly performed the ten-thousandth law extraction.
"Boom~~~"
With a loud bang, accompanying the extracted law, the Devil Fruit core, which was on the verge of collapse, completely shattered into countless fragments.
As the core shattered, countless pieces of knowledge flooded into the Cyber Dimension like a tide, their quantity unimaginable.
These were all the knowledge about how the Mini-Mini Fruit appeared, how it was born, and how it grew step by step to its current state!
It could be said that Xiao now mastered the entire process of forging Mini-Mini Fruits. He could use this data to create countless Mini-Mini Fruits at any time!
However, this knowledge was merely a byproduct of the Devil Fruit core's shattering. The truly valuable thing was the trace of World Origin Power that Xiao obtained from the Mini-Mini Fruit's core!
As this origin power diffused, Xiao felt a slight tremor in the surrounding space—this was the joy of the entire Cyber Dimension!
Its scope was vast, encompassing the entire Cyber Dimension, and even affecting everyone connected to the Cyber Dimension!
Everyone felt the Cyber Dimension trembling slightly, and following that tremor came an unprecedented sense of joy!
That was the Cyber Dimension's emotion, and also the feeling of joy from Xiao's soul!
The cultivators perceived the Cyber Dimension even more clearly, as if the Cyber Dimension had suddenly become more solidified!
In fact, this was not the cultivators' illusion, but a real occurrence.
After absorbing that trace of origin power released by the Mini-Mini Fruit's core, the Cyber Dimension became more solidified and more robust.
That trace of origin was clearly the World Origin from the One Piece world, and it was the existence of this trace of origin power that created the magic of the Devil Fruit, giving it power comparable to a godhead.
If laws were the world's source code, then the origin was the hard drive carrying these source codes.
The larger the hard drive's capacity, the more and more powerful data codes it could run.
The appearance of Devil Fruits came from the prayers of all sentient beings, the most desired fantasies in people's hearts.
Thus, the world responded to the people, sending down a trace of origin to form the Devil Fruit.
Although all things in the world have an origin, the World Origin is divided among all things.
However, the amount of origin in all things is extremely scarce, negligible, so little that it can be ignored.
As for the Devil Fruit, as something that carries laws, the origin contained within it is strong enough for people to feel it intuitively.
After absorbing this trace of origin power, the Cyber Dimension was equivalent to consuming a portion of flesh and blood essence from a complete world, achieving an absolute increase in quality.
"Hahaha, an unexpected delight, an unexpected delight indeed!"
Xiao's original intention for this trip was merely for the Mini-Mini Fruit, to further miniaturize the Cyber Aura system and enter a more microscopic world.
But he never expected that the decomposition of the Devil Fruit would also yield a trace of World Origin, allowing Xiao to find a method sufficient to cause a qualitative change in the Cyber Dimension. This was truly a double blessing!
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