Chapter 971: Break the Illusion! Spiritual Force Annihilation!

“Jingming, Jingming, wake up quickly!”

“You have to report to the company today!”

Amid violent shaking, Xu Jingming slowly stirred from sleep.

He scanned his surroundings—a spacious living room came into view.

The one who woke him was a short-haired young man.

“Where am I...?” Xu Jingming frowned.

“What, still not awake?”

The short-haired young man chuckled, then scratched his head awkwardly:

“It’s our fault—we got too wild last night, drank several cases of beer alone!

But we don’t have time to waste; we have to report to the company today.

We finally graduated from grad school and landed a good job—if we’re late on our first day, that’d be terrible.”

As he spoke, the short-haired young man reached out to grab Xu Jingming.

But Xu Jingming stood perfectly still, not moving an inch.

“Jingming, what’s wrong?” The short-haired young man looked at him in confusion.

“The illusion is convincing—but unfortunately, it won’t fool me.”

Xu Jingming simply stared at him.

The next instant,

the short-haired young man vanished like a soap bubble.

Immediately, the entire space collapsed with a thunderous crash!

BOOM!

The young man, the living room, the scattered beer bottles—all vanished.

In their place rose a violent, thunderous torrent of spiritual energy.

All the spiritual energy crowded together, churning like a vast ocean.

Above this ocean stood an ancient, simple tower.

At this moment, the ancient tower emitted a faint glow, its powerful defense guarding the entire spiritual sea.

This was within Xu Jingming’s consciousness sea!

“I didn’t expect a Soul-Still Tower and a Guardian Spirit to be here.

Yet the Void creature still managed to briefly drag me into an illusion, even back to a past-life memory scene...”

The short-haired young man just now was Wang Hao, Xu Jingming’s roommate in his past life.

Had he not been reincarnated, he would have joined the same company with Wang Hao.

“The Void creature is truly terrifying.

Not only can it find my mental weak points, but it can also extend them.

Still, an illusion is just an illusion.

My spiritual energy is strong enough—I see through it at a glance.”

SWISH—

Xu Jingming’s consciousness withdrew from his consciousness sea, and his eyes snapped open!

“S-rank, you broke free? Are you hurt?”

Eva, who had been guarding nearby, froze, then exclaimed in relief.

There was no help for it.

Xu Jingming had moved too fast.

From falling into the illusion to breaking free, the entire process took less than a second!

“I’m fine. How’s Teacher Su?”

Xu Jingming turned to look at Su Qingli.

She remained rigid, eyes vacant.

“Teacher Su is still trapped in the illusion—I can’t wake her,” Eva replied quickly.

“Once someone falls into an illusion, only they can break it themselves—others can’t easily awaken them. To wake Teacher Su, you must destroy the illusion’s source.”

WHOOSH—

Spiritual energy surged forth; Xu Jingming activated his Mind Net and gazed forward.

He immediately “saw” the group of Void creatures again.

Over a thousand Void creatures had left the crimson lightning sphere and were flying toward them.

But their flight speed was only twice the speed of sound, still over a kilometer away.

“Good—they haven’t reached us yet. If they had, our spiritual energy would’ve been devoured.”

Eva, who received the shared spiritual energy visuals, patted her chest and exhaled in relief.

Once a Void creature devours spiritual energy, an immortal void appears in the adept’s consciousness sea.

Recovery is extremely difficult—only time can slowly mend it.

Even the smallest void requires years to heal.

“Void creatures are essentially aggregates of spiritual energy. Lightning abilities have extremely limited effect on them.

I shouldn’t have used Thunder Dragon Technique just now—I should’ve used a spiritual attack technique...”

Xu Jingming rapidly searched his memories.

For any other elemental adept, finding a spiritual attack technique would be harder than climbing to heaven.

But he was no ordinary adept.

From his past spiritual master’s inheritance, he possessed countless such techniques!

“Found it!”

Xu Jingming’s heart leapt—he immediately selected a skill point allocation!

Skill Points -12,000

Spiritual Storm → Spiritual Storm (Beginner)!

The instant allocation completed, the technique’s release method appeared in Xu Jingming’s mind—as if he’d practiced it tens of thousands of times.

【Spiritual Storm (S-rank): Form a storm of spiritual energy to shatter an opponent’s spiritual energy and obliterate their consciousness sea!】

It was merely an S-rank technique, but to Xu Jingming, its power was more than sufficient.

“Unlike elemental techniques, spiritual techniques require only spiritual energy—no elemental affinity needed.

From this alone, spiritual techniques are far simpler to activate than elemental ones.”

WHOOSH—

Vast spiritual energy surged from Xu Jingming’s consciousness sea, then began swirling according to the Spiritual Storm’s pattern.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

In an instant, the spiritual energy coalesced into a storm over a hundred meters tall.

This spiritual storm was invisible to the naked eye.

Yet even so, its overwhelming power radiated unmistakably.

“Go!”

With a flick of his right hand, the spiritual storm roared forward and slammed into the Void creatures!

AHHHH!

The familiar spiritual shrieks erupted from over a thousand Void creatures.

But to Xu Jingming, who had multiple spiritual defenses, the shrieks were useless—the storm didn’t waver.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The spiritual storm collided with the Void creatures.

Like a fully powered meat grinder, it effortlessly shredded each Void creature.

“Each Void creature’s spiritual energy is roughly equal to that of an Eighth-Rank Grand Master.

With over a thousand of them, their combined strength slightly exceeds a Lower-Grade Ninth-Rank Law Saint.

They managed to trap Teacher Su—but they can’t trap me.”

Xu Jingming stared intently at the spiritual storm ahead.

In his spiritual perception, the number of Void creatures was rapidly declining.

As their numbers dropped, their total spiritual strength weakened, making them even less able to resist the storm.

A vicious downward spiral began.

Within just over a dozen seconds, most of the Void creatures were completely annihilated.

Still, Xu Jingming wasn’t confident—he unleashed a second Spiritual Storm to be certain.

Now, in his perception, not a single Void creature remained ahead.

But something else had appeared—strange liquid.

The liquid was completely transparent; without spiritual perception, it would be utterly undetectable.

“What is this? Residue from dead Void creatures?” Xu Jingming frowned in confusion.