Chapter 353: Carrying the Burden

Su Xing currently had no means to recover the consumption of his Sleepless Spiritual Light. He either had to contain it within his sea of consciousness and recover through rest and sleep, or rely on his sole meditation method, the "Ascending to the Heavenly Court" heart-cultivation technique, to recover.

Other than this, all his other methods were ineffective against this Sleepless Spiritual Light.

At this moment, he certainly could not retract the Sleepless Spiritual Light; he had to keep it emitted at all times to illuminate all the darkness around him, as well as these flesh-embedded objects, in order to block the arrival of that formless entity and maintain the sanity of these flesh-embedded objects.

Therefore, the only thing he could do was enter the "Ascending to the Heavenly Court" meditative state to recover the Sleepless Spiritual Light.

Even if entering the "Ascending to the Heavenly Court" meditative state outside of Gaia would lead to being watched by the Heavenly Court, or perhaps even more serious consequences, he could not afford to care about that now.

Just as he had said to himself earlier, when the sky collapses, someone tall must hold it up, and he was currently the tallest one, just like the countless times in the past when Chu Minghao and Liang Min had stepped up...

(Come! Watch me!)

Within Su Xing's sea of consciousness, it transformed into mist, mountain paths, mountain peaks, and that high and lofty, majestic Heavenly Court palace. Su Xing was trekking along this mountain path, advancing toward the summit of the peak.

As Su Xing's meditation began, the Sleepless Spiritual Light, which had been growing increasingly faint in the outside world, suddenly stabilized, though its weakening continued.

As Su Xing climbed higher, he also felt the difference in this meditation.

In the past, when meditating on Gaia, he would reach the summit of the peak after climbing this misty mountain path for at most ten minutes, but this time, he felt that the mountain path was long, like a staircase to heaven, climbing step by step without seeing the peak.

Moreover, the mountain path he walked became increasingly steep and treacherous, and the small pebbles on the ground became sharper, as if small daggers were standing between the mountain paths. When his feet stepped on them, they were almost instantly a bloody mess. His Copper Skin and Iron Bones, his Martial Arts Jin, and even his Human Immortal Martial Dao physique all disappeared at this moment, leaving only the flesh and blood body of an ordinary person climbing step by step on these ten-thousand-foot sharp blades. From his feet to his legs to his body, he was covered in blood and gore.

In this meditation, his body was injured, and besides the intense pain, all sorts of strange and bizarre painful sensations followed—extreme pain, extreme numbness, extreme itching... even emotional pain, fear, cowardice, lust, darkness, helplessness, lethargy, and other emotions followed one after another. Even though Su Xing's will was incomparably firm, he felt incredibly miserable at this moment.

(Is this... the true "Ascending to the Heavenly Court"? Yes, the so-called "Ascending to the Heavenly Court" is essentially a kind of projection power of the Heavenly Court, spreading within this meditative sea of consciousness. Even if the Heavenly Court is already polluted, this power is essentially still a tempering of the spiritual will of sentient life, but this tempering will be watched by the polluted Heavenly Court, and those with weak wills will be polluted and deformed...)

Su Xing still climbed step by step. Although his body in the sea of consciousness was constantly being severely injured, his will was incomparably firm, and there was not even the slightest thought of giving up in his heart. The injured body naturally healed, and as the body healed, Su Xing also felt that his spiritual will seemed to become even firmer. The Sleepless Spiritual Light floating in the air outside also stopped weakening, and its light seemed to become even more brilliant.

The effect of meditating on the "Ascending to the Heavenly Court" heart-cultivation technique outside of Gaia was more than a hundred times stronger than when on Gaia!?

But at the same time, Su Xing also felt that in the majestic palace above the nine heavens, there seemed to be a gaze wanting to look down.

It was just that he was still climbing on the mountain path, and this gaze was blocked by countless thick mists, unable to find him for a moment.

At this time, Su Xing could not stop, neither outside nor inside. He could only continue to climb on this increasingly steep mountain peak, scattering his own blood all over these towering mountains and ridges...

In the first layer of space, the number of personnel who had arrived at the 0.3 Dream World had reached 7,500. Everyone stood quietly in the open square, providing a trace of insignificant power for the Main Brain to anchor the weekend coordinates, while at the same time, they were all trapped in inexplicable fear.

The trembling of the ground had not stopped, but no terrifying giant creature had appeared around them; there was only the churning darkness, the trembling ground, and that persistent sense of fear.

"... It seems it should be some kind of natural phenomenon, not really any monster attacking, right?"

Xu Ruonan asked Liang Min, her face tense as she looked into the distance.

Not only her, but the other five presidential candidates who had already arrived, the top extraordinary individuals of each team, including Chu Yuyan and others, were all pricking up their ears, waiting for Liang Min's answer.

The situation before them was truly too bizarre. That sense of terror was so intense, and the trembling of the ground suggested that some terrifying giant creature was either arriving or waking up.

But they had all waited for more than ten minutes, having prepared for a bitter battle or even the death of everyone, yet the terrifying existence of this 0.3 Dream World still showed no signs of arriving. Even the giant eyeball that had always been appearing, and the flesh-embedded objects that had broken through space, had never appeared again. Did all signs indicate that they were overthinking it?

No one at the scene could answer, except for Liang Min...

Having experienced no changes in the past, he was perhaps the only person at the scene who could answer this question.

Liang Min's eyes were fixed on the depths of the darkness. In his eyes, countless pasts were changing. He did not answer, only silently feeling and watching, and then suddenly his expression changed. He retreated several steps, and then, without thinking, he directly gouged out one of his own eyeballs and threw it far away.

Everyone was stunned and horrified. They saw that bloody eyeball fall far away to the ground, and before it even landed, it began to decompose, turning into a small cluster of flames. The flames wailed and turned into liquid, the liquid screamed and turned into mist, and the mist turned into light in agony, and then this light turned into darkness in despair.

This darkness was as thick as ink, and under the illumination of the strong light source in mid-air, it gradually dissipated and disappeared.

A physical eyeball of flesh and blood turned into various elements under the gaze of everyone. The most critical thing was that everyone who saw this scene clearly felt that kind of painful and desperate emotion...

This was truly impossible to describe or articulate with language. How could emotions be felt so clearly and plainly through the eyes?

And why would flesh and blood transform into so many elements?

What happened in between?

Had Liang Min been polluted and alienated?

Everyone stared fixedly at Liang Min. Liang Min covered his eye socket. At this moment, two people from the team stepped forward without a word. One guarded Liang Min's side, while the other took out something like a spray from their personal space and sprayed it onto Liang Min's eye socket. Although an eyeball did not grow back immediately, the flesh and blood in his eye socket healed rapidly, and the bleeding stopped very quickly.

(... Spies from the Human Revolutionary Alliance.)

Everyone was silent, just watching Liang Min and the two personnel guarding him.

Only then did Liang Min let out a breath and say, "That was truly close. That thing..."

At this time, Gao Zhanggong strode over. He walked to within five meters of Liang Min before asking, "Mr. Liang Min, we are now grasshoppers on the same rope. Any grudges can be left for later... What exactly was it that hurt you? Does it pose a threat to our main force? Regarding the rescue of the President, we hope to get a definitive answer."

Liang Min shook his head slightly, but still said, "Su Xing is suppressing the terror that is about to appear. Do you really think that this supernatural sense of fear and the trembling of the ground are just natural phenomena? Stop joking. This is the 0.3 Dream World. There is no luck, and there are no accidents. It is just that someone is carrying the burden for you!"

Hearing Liang Min's words, no one at the scene had any rebuttal.

They had actually guessed this possibility, but because it was too incredible, they dared not be certain.

In this 0.3 Dream World, Su Xing was currently fighting alone. This meant that if there really was some monster that had an impact on them, but this monster had not appeared, then it must be that Su Xing had blocked this monster.

But... had Su Xing really become this powerful already?

Able to suppress the terrifying existence of the 0.3 Dream World with the strength of one person?

!

Even Zuo Zongpeng, who had a different evaluation of "ordinary super-brains," had no doubts at this moment.

He even began to doubt himself, and also doubted the analysis of the think-tank members in his family.

Could it be that a super-brain really ascends to heaven in one step? Even if it is just an ordinary super-brain, once awakened, will its strength suddenly undergo a huge qualitative change?

Could it be that the super-brain supreme theory during the Fourth War was not Chu Minghao and Liang Min establishing a so-called persona, but that the super-brain really is a high and invincible existence?

Everyone was silent, shocked by the terror of this 0.3 Dream World, and also shocked that Su Xing was actually sweeping everything away and suppressing everything with the strength of one person, just like Chu Minghao in the past.

Time passed slowly in this silence, and the number of people arriving at this square quickly reached 8,000, 9,000...

The hole in the sky that broke through the dark spiral was becoming larger and larger, almost occupying one-third of the entire sky. At the same time, the images appearing in this hole were becoming clearer. Vaguely, it seemed that streaks of sword light were sweeping across, and there was a person constantly wandering among endless monsters...

And in the second layer of space, Su Xing had already climbed to the summit of the peak.

The entire summit was as sharp as a knife, and he stood on this knife, looking toward the sky.

The majestic Heavenly Court at the top of the sky was becoming more and more magnificent, but one could not look at it carefully. If one looked carefully, the palace seemed to be made of skeletons, the railings seemed to be flesh and blood, and the swirling immortal mist seemed to be internal organs...

"... Come!"

Su Xing leaped from the ten-thousand-foot mountain peak, and his whole body jumped toward the palace in the sky.

When he jumped into mid-air, out of the range of the mist, a giant eye suddenly flashed in the center of the majestic palace at the zenith, and then a humanoid figure, three zhang tall and covered in golden light, shouted loudly.

"I see you!"

In the next instant, at the very top of the sky in the outside world, beside that spiral-shaped void, streaks of golden light fell from the heavens!

(End of chapter)