novel bin Chapter 71 Deformity
Chapter 71 Deformity
Chu Zihang's voice was hesitant as he continued, "There's so much of it that it gives me the illusion that I don't need to continue cultivating to completely control the dragon blood within me."
Huo Yuhao frowned.
He hadn't noticed anything unusual at all, but Chu Zihang said his mental energy was abnormally high, so this matter couldn't be ignored.
"Senior brother," Huo Yuhao hesitated before speaking, "would you mind if I used my mental power to probe your spiritual sea?"
Chu Zihang replied without hesitation, "Okay."
Huo Yuhao pursed his lips.
He didn't ask Chu Zihang why he believed him, nor did he make any lighthearted jokes.
"Senior brother, relax and don't resist," Huo Yuhao said gently.
Chu Zihang nodded.
Without further ado, Huo Yuhao slowly and gently probed a wisp of spiritual energy into Chu Zihang's spiritual sea, and quickly withdrew it.
"Senior brother, your mental strength is indeed very powerful. I haven't detected anything unusual." Huo Yuhao genuinely hadn't noticed anything amiss, so he speculated, "Perhaps it's because your mental strength is naturally strong, or maybe it's due to the influence of the Blood Explosion?"
Lu Mingfei's understanding of the Bloodlust Technique was limited to its name and general function. He wasn't a member of the Lionheart Society, and he usually just coasted through his time at the academy, barely managing to pass his courses. Expecting him to understand such advanced technology was out of the question.
"I've also studied the information on Bloodlust," Caesar said. "Why don't I try cultivating it myself and conduct a control experiment?"
Making guesses out of thin air is meaningless, and Huo Yuhao originally intended to take a look at the comparison results.
"Okay." Huo Yuhao nodded in agreement, then focused his mind and became Caesar's protector.
Half an hour later, Caesar still hadn't found the Sea of Spirit. He was getting a little anxious, but he was still able to stay calm for the time being.
Half an hour later, Huo Yuhao frowned and began to secretly guide Caesar with a wisp of spiritual energy.
Ten minutes later, Caesar found his spiritual sea!
Surprisingly, Caesar's mental strength was also quite powerful. Although it was slightly weaker than Chu Zihang's, if measured by the level of a Soul Master, its reserves were comparable to those of a level 50 Soul King.
As for Chu Zihang, he is at least a Soul Saint.
Caesar opened his eyes, looking at Huo Yuhao with a somewhat complicated expression: "Thank you."
Huo Yuhao smiled and said, "I'll only save you ten minutes at most."
This wasn't Huo Yuhao trying to comfort Caesar; he was indeed close to success.
Caesar shook his head: "Sometimes, the final push is the most crucial."
He wasn't someone who couldn't tell good from bad. Although he was a little surprised that Lu Mingfei, this loser, had suddenly become so capable, he had gotten used to it after a few days.
It's never a bad thing for team members to become stronger.
Huo Yuhao nodded, then looked at Erii, whose eyes were filled with confusion.
"Eri, would you like to try it too?"
Huo Yuhao didn't plan to let Erii search for the Sea of Spirit on her own. Putting aside the time it would take, he was afraid that Erii's Sea of Spirit was too chaotic and that problems might arise after she found it.
It's like a seemingly calm sea; only when a ship is launched and begins to sail will you know what kind of turbulent waves are beneath the surface.
Erii glanced at the two successful examples and nodded to Huo Yuhao.
She also sat down cross-legged and closed her eyes.
"Relax, slowly clear your mind, listen to my voice, nothing else matters. Good, now breathe slowly, yes, inhale, exhale, even slower... Good job. It's a little dark, but don't be afraid, feel your own presence, imagine you can see a point of light, just like when we were underwater, you could see my eyes, you could feel the warm embrace in the cold seawater..."
"That's right, that's it. Slowly approach that point of light. Yes, touch it. Great, you found it... Next, let's explore this territory together..."
Huo Yuhao's tone was soft, like a dreamlike murmur. To guide Erii more effectively and prevent her from feeling afraid in that dark sea of consciousness, he even used a slight mental interference.
Caesar and Chu Zihang exchanged a subtle glance.
When did Lu Mingfei end up embracing the head of the Uesugi family underwater?
They only went into the sea during that mission, right? Lu Mingfei wasn't this powerful back then!
Lu Mingfei's transformation occurred during their first planned trip to Genji Heavy Industries. It was as if he had undergone a complete change overnight; just two days prior, he had been capable of doing things like wearing brightly colored blue boxer shorts under a semi-transparent gauze costume for a performance, and innocently and comically running across the stage...
But after he got drunk that day, he seemed like a different person.
Mature, reliable, and with occasional surprises.
This change even made Caesar marvel at how quickly things were changing.
At this moment, Huo Yuhao was staring at the dark, bizarre, and distorted sea of consciousness deep within Erii's mind.
He discovered that Erii's spiritual sea was very similar to his, no, to Lu Mingfei's.
Previously, Huo Yuhao thought that Lu Mingfei's spiritual sea was deformed because his power had been suppressed or sealed for a long time. But now, seeing Erii's equally deformed spiritual sea, he realized that there was a conspiracy waiting for him!
Logically speaking, the sea of the spirit has no fixed shape; it is a very idealistic… organ, yes, an idealistic “sensory extension” that only awakens in specific groups of people and under specific circumstances.
Huo Yuhao's own spiritual sea was initially a relatively blank space. Later, it acquired Tianmeng's spiritual power "sun," the gray sphere from Electrolux, the Ice Emperor, the Blade of Life Watch, the Snow Emperor, and more and more milky white "seawater"...
Milky-white spiritual energy ebbs and flows within it, transforming into a sea of flowers, a wasteland, or even a magnificent palace according to his will... because spiritual energy is omnipotent in the sea of spirit; it can become anything.
It's probably because Huo Yuhao was using Lu Mingfei's spiritual sea that it appeared somewhat distorted, like a perfect circle missing a piece, containing nothing but milky-white spiritual energy.
Erii's spiritual sea, as a manifestation of her will, is pitch black—because it has been eroded by the violent will contained in the dragon's blood.
It is bizarre and wonderful—because Erii's world is very simple, she is like a child, and the world is strange and wonderful in the eyes of a child;
It was distorted—Huo Yuhao understood. She had undergone some kind of brain tissue removal surgery. Yes, Huo Yuhao discovered that Erii's pons tissue was missing a portion.
Pontine tissue.
—A collection of nerve tracts near the junction of the medulla oblongata and the midbrain, a part that would never be lost by a normal person on its own. The cut surface is abnormally smooth, as if it had been precisely removed by some extremely sharp instrument.
Given the regenerative abilities of mixed-race individuals, this level of tissue loss should recover quickly.