Li Zheng felt a wave of annoyance in his heart. Ever since he entered the Sloth Sin Domain, he always felt that his mind wasn’t as agile, sowhat like when he first awoke from the Matrix.
Or rather, it’s not that his mind wasn’t working, but he subconsciously resisted thinking.
And the less mindful one is, the easier it is to be driven by emotions.
"Sothing’s wrong with this Sin Domain!" Li Zheng furrowed his brow. "There must be sothing here that can affect my consciousness, a spiritual power that can rival mine!"
Upon realizing this, his mind suddenly beca clear, and details he hadn’t noticed before stood out vividly before him.
"Yes, the tentacle can pass through the Golden Light Zone to reach the other side, which already indicates that deep in the Sloth Sin Domain, there’s one or several extrely powerful entities." Li Zheng didn’t stop, thrusting, picking, cracking, and swinging his spear, as those who had fallen into madness seed to have lost their combat skills, only charging forward barbarically, completely unfazed by the Black Dragon Spear in his hand.
"He wasn’t expelled!"
"Catch him! Throw him out and kill him!"
"I want to eat at, eat at!"
Insane utterances ca out of their mouths, making Li Zheng increasingly irritated.
"Xiahou Fei!" Li Zheng shouted, "Did you forget the state you were in the Fourth Sin Domain? These lunatics can no longer be considered human, fight back and kill them!"
"But..." Xiahou Fei was being chased around by dozens of frenzied figures, he couldn’t bear to be ruthless, considering how tough it was for these people to survive.
"rcy!" Li Zheng sneered, "Are you really a Wilderness resident? You don’t even dare to kill? In that case, why don’t you feed yourself to the tiger, give them your at to eat!"
Li Zheng ignored Xiahou Fei and wielded the Black Dragon Spear spectacularly, creating an impenetrable barrier around himself, surrounded by countless spear shadows, making water unable to seep through.
The madn seed to have completely lost their minds, fearlessly charging forward one by one, and when the spear swept across, their bodies shattered, leaving bits of flesh strewn on the ground.
The madn attacking him were quickly killed, and when Li Zheng glanced towards Xiahou Fei, he was still evading wildly, showing no intention of fighting back.
Frowning slightly, Li Zheng held his head as he stood: "What was I thinking about a mont ago? Damn it, I seem to have forgotten... No, I’m too lazy to recall, I need to find a way to keep my brain active!"
He now felt like a regular person who had stayed up for three consecutive nights, with many thoughts bouncing in his mind, but his brain, a precise instrunt, started to beco dull and aged, forcing the thoughts bouncing up back down again.
Obviously, if he could think just a bit more, follow the ideas that were erging, and think a bit further, he could uncover a wealth of information.
But thinking about needing to process all that erging information made his mind feel more fatigued, so his brain instinctively suppressed those jumping thoughts, unwilling to delve deeper.
"Sothing... is interfering with us!"
"Xiahou Fei shouldn’t be such a rigid person. He must be, too... feeling too lazy to move his mind!"
"Damn it!"
Li Zheng slamd his head with force: "How is it possible? How could there be spiritual power in the Sin Domain to affect my existence?"
"No! Don’t stop, brain!"
"Follow the thought you just had, that clue is crucial!"
Li Zheng noticed a thought had just risen up but was instantly suppressed again by his brain’s laziness.
His intuition told him that if he followed that direction of thought, he could figure out many things, maybe even deduce more truths about the emotion storm behind the Sin Domain.
"Old Prel!"
"Old Prel!"
Li Zheng called out in his heart, trying to look in the direction of the Sin Domain depths: "Help investigate what’s really there!"
[Empty! (Horrified!) There’s nothing there! It’s empty!]
[I’m blind! I can’t see anything!]
"How could this be?" Li Zheng showed shock on his face. Prelis’ Eye, usually impervious and shielded by his spiritual power, actually suffered setback?
"No... my mind is starting to get chaotic, I need to find a way to stay clear-headed."
Clang.
A Glazed Long Saber appeared in Li Zheng’s hand, and he forcefully slashed it against his own wrist.
Spurt!
His skin split open!
Thick blood rolled within the wound, not spilling out, even pulling at the surrounding wound, trying to haul back the torn skin to nd it.
For the first ti, Li Zheng felt his current healing ability so botherso, as the cut by the saber almost completely healed in a blink.
He could only slash repeatedly, opening up cuts on his wrist and arm, using pain to stimulate himself.
Finally, Li Zheng seized the thought he had previously overlooked.
"Emotion Storm! Spiritual Power Storm!"
Li Zheng opened his eyes wide, staring into the depths of the Sloth Sin Domain, he finally understood sothing.
"Outer City people can’t break through the limit of spiritual power, so... as an emotion storm originally condensed from spiritual power, how strong must it be when it transforms into twisted creatures?"
"Outer City residents and Wilderness people both think twisted creatures are brainless monsters, only acting on instinct, but..."
"What if all these years, what has appeared before people is rely an illusion, just smoke and mirrors?"
"The emotion storm has brewed for countless years, so imnse it nearly covers the entire universe, with such a scale, how could it not transform into so intelligent entity?"
Li Zheng’s mind spun faster and faster, as if the entity affecting him had withdrawn, and Xiahou Fei’s clumsy stumbles also ceased, the madn no longer so extre, bitterly pleading Xiahou Fei for more food.
Xiahou Fei, wary now, waved them away to not co near, fearing the madn would surround him, shouting to eat his at.
Seeing they couldn’t get any food, the madn disappointedly dispersed, and Xiahou Fei dared not ask them for the Twisted Magic Crystal previously agreed upon for food trade.
He just lifted his foot to check on Li Zheng’s condition, suddenly sensing sothing and turned around to look back.
There was only the corpse of the Celestial Dragon Race, nothing else, not even a single madman.
"I felt soone watching there, how did they disappear when I turned around?" Xiahou Fei remained wary, not thinking it was his imagination, just before he turned, there was definitely soone there secretly watching!
Li Zheng had already stopped cutting his arm, the wounds healed entirely without a trace, new skin growing indistinguishable from before.
But his heart remained unsettled.
If his earlier speculation proves true, then the Terminal’s grand efforts using the Matrix to contain universal races against the emotion storm over the years was nothing but a joke.
Because the true danger within the emotion storm has never erged.
"But... why?" Li Zheng puzzled: "Why would the emotion storm keep the Matrix, letting the Terminal stay three years ahead, snatching batch after batch of alien species away?"
What is the true goal of the emotion storm?
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