"Why is the link’s strength increasing?"
Zhou Xuan felt puzzled. He paced around the research facility a few tis, noticing that as ti passed, the strength of the link between the Bone Elders and the experintal corpses was still climbing,
albeit in an extrely subtle manner.
"The strength is still increasing."
Zhou Xuan closed his eyes and summoned the eight human brains moving around the City God Taoist Temple.
The human brains wailed within the Secret Realm, releasing perception to resonate with Zhou Xuan.
Zhou Xuan’s perception surged to its peak, fully unleashed, so much so that it twisted the space within the research facility.
The two Bone Elders, who were standing very close to each other, seed to lock eyes, yet they could not see each other.
The space within the research facility was sliced into floating blocks by Zhou Xuan’s perception,
resembling chunks of ice levitating in mid-air. Light from the lamps scattered and refracted across the room, creating a kaleidoscopic cage of colors through the blocks.
"What... what is this?"
"Where am I?"
"Who locked in here alone?"
"Professor Li, Professor Li, my link with the corpse has been disrupted... Wait, why is there red light beneath my feet?"
The entire research facility descended into chaos. Li Chengfeng, who was originally on the second basent level instructing his assistant on stitching spiritual communication characteristics, suddenly heard the uproar. What startled him even more was the sound of a woman’s sigh echoing faintly from B2. Alard that sothing serious might have happened, he hurried upstairs.
The mont he entered the research facility, he was stunned by what he saw. The space had been divided into dozens of fragnts, each one floating at different heights.
Simultaneously, the fragnted spaces began to fold upon themselves. Their surfaces rippled with wrinkles, scattering the Bone Elders’ gazes and the lamplight into unpredictable trajectories, leading to unknown places.
"What is this...?" Li Chengfeng muttered, his expression a mixture of shock and confusion. Just as he struggled to comprehend the situation, the space within the research facility abruptly returned to normal.
The wrinkles in the space disappeared. It ceased folding in on itself and seamlessly rged back together as one.
"Phew!"
Zhou Xuan withdrew his perception.
The Bone Elders in the research facility were in complete disarray. So whispered among themselves in hushed tones, recounting the bizarre phenona they had just witnessed. Others expressed concern for Zhou Xuan’s physical condition.
Yet another group quickly rushed over to Li Chengfeng, eager to relay their unsettling experiences.
Li Chengfeng, however, wasn’t in the mood to listen. Concerned about Zhou Xuan’s state, he approached swiftly and asked, "Young Master, you weren’t hard by that strange event just now, were you?"
"Well..."
Zhou Xuan felt sowhat apologetic. Clasping his hands toward the Bone Elders in a sign of respect, he said, "The peculiar occurrences just now were caused by fully releasing my perception. I didn’t warn any of you in advance, so I apologize for the disturbance."
"???"
The Bone Elders exchanged bewildered glances. To them, it sounded like a tale out of fantasy—perception affecting real-world space? And to such an extre degree?
This far exceeded their understanding of mysticism.
Zhou Xuan leaned in close to Li Chengfeng’s ear and whispered, "Old Li, I... last night, my perception entered the Day Trip Realm."
"The Day Trip Realm! Just what I’d expect from you."
Li Chengfeng, knowing Zhou Xuan very well, wasn’t surprised that sothing extraordinary like this would occur to him—a High Priest chosen by the Blood Well, a descendant of the Nuo God...
Well, to claim he wasn’t surprised would be a lie.
"That’s the Day Trip Realm we’re talking about, a domain of myth and legend."
Only perception attuned to the Day Trip Realm could manifest effects that altered reality.
"If perception this powerful were applied to the Bone Old Society’s research, imagine how much more efficient it would make things," Li Chengfeng pondered, envisioning an ideal scenario. However, deep down, he knew clearly—relegating Zhou Xuan to rely serve as a researcher for the Bone Elder Association would be an absolute waste of his extraordinary abilities.
With that in mind, Li Chengfeng waved off the Bone Elders who were still gawking at the scene. "What’s everyone standing around for? Get back to your experints. The You Shen guard us in circles, layer upon layer. They’re not here so we can stand idle.
And keep your mouths shut outside. Don’t go spreading what happened today."
Chastised, the group reluctantly returned to their seats and resud linking with the experintal corpses.
Still, doubts lingered in their hearts—was the Young Master’s perception truly powerful enough to tangibly affect reality?
"Young Master, did you suddenly release your perception because you observed sothing?"
Li Chengfeng knew Zhou Xuan. As the Blood Well High Priest, he wasn’t soone who would recklessly unleash his perception without reason.
"You know well, Old Li. Let’s talk outside."
Zhou Xuan gestured toward the door.
It wasn’t that he intended to avoid the Bone Elders in the room but rather the Buddha mantra fragnts within the corpses.
The two quietly exited, not stopping at the door but heading straight to the second basent level.
The mont Zhou Xuan’s foot touched the floor of B2, he heard a sound.
A sound akin to a woman’s sigh.
"What’s that sound?"
"Ah, that’s our Bone Old Society’s Sighing Mother Wall," Li Chengfeng explained. "It’s said that the earliest Bone Elders were born from the Sighing Mother Wall.
The Mother Wall contains the mysteries of flesh and blood. Our Bone Elder Association’s blood-tech innovations were all derived from what we learned through her.
She enfolds us Bone Elders within, allowing us to see the nerve distributions within the human body and perceive the workings of the human brain."
Hearing the origin of blood-tech, Zhou Xuan felt like many of his questions had been answered.
"No wonder," he murmured.
To Zhou Xuan, Jing Country was a place steeped in incense worship and ruled by divine authority. Its technological developnt, however... had a distinctly archaic flavor.
Yet despite such outdated technology, the Bone Elder Association had managed to develop sothing as extraordinary as the Blood Well Human Brain, a machine of imnse energy ford from flesh and blood.
"The Mother Wall is a living entity. She should have a consciousness, yet her language seems different from that of us Jing Country people, making deep communication exceedingly difficult,
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