Chapter 971

"Jingming, Jingming, wake up quickly!"

"You have to report to the company today!"

Amid a violent shaking, Xu Jingming slowly stirred awake from sleep.

He scanned his surroundings, and 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 sheepishly scratched his head:

"It's our fault—we made too much noise last night, downed several cases of beer alone!"

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

After finally graduating from graduate school and landing a good job, being late on your first day would 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 silently.

The next instant,

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

Immediately after, the entire space collapsed with a thunderous boom!

Boom—boom—boom!!!

The young man, the living room, the scattered beer bottles—all vanished without a trace.

In their place rose a furious, thunderous torrent of spiritual force.

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

Upon this ocean stood an ancient, simple Gao Ta.

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

This was within Xu Jingming's consciousness sea!

"I didn't expect there to be a Zhenhun Tower and a Guardian Spirit."

"Yet the Void creature still managed to briefly drag me into an illusion, even returning me to a memory from my past life..."

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."

"It not only found my mental weakness, but also exploited it."

"Yet illusions remain illusions."

"My spiritual force is strong enough—I see through them at a glance."

Shhh—

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

"S-rank, you broke free of the illusion? Are you hurt?"

Eva, who had been guarding beside him, blinked in surprise, then exclaimed with 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 is Su Laoshi?"

Xu Jingming turned to look at Su Qingli.

She remained rigid, her eyes vacant.

"Su Laoshi is still trapped in the illusion—I can't wake her," Eva replied quickly.

"Once trapped in an illusion, only the victim can break free themselves; it's nearly impossible for others to awaken them. To wake Su Laoshi, you must destroy the illusion's source."

Hua—

Spiritual force surged outward; 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.

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

"Good—they haven't reached us yet. Otherwise, if they swallowed my spiritual force, it'd be trouble."

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

Once a Void creature devours spiritual force, an permanent void appears in the psychic's consciousness sea.

Recovery is extremely difficult afterward; only time can slowly mend it.

Even the smallest void requires years to heal.

"Void creatures are fundamentally aggregates of spiritual force; lightning-based abilities inflict almost no damage on them."

"I shouldn't have used Thunder Dragon Art just now—I should've used a spiritual attack technique..."

Xu Jingming rapidly searched his memory.

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

But he was not ordinary.

Among the spiritual master legacies he had once received, there were countless such combat techniques!

"Found it!"

Xu Jingming's heart leapt with joy, and he immediately chose to allocate points!

Psychic Points -12,000

Psychic Storm → Psychic Storm (Beginner)!

In the instant after allocating points, the method of releasing this combat technique instantly appeared in Xu Jingming's mind, as if he had practiced it tens of thousands of times!

【Psychic Storm (S-Rank): Generate a storm of psychic energy to destroy the opponent's psychic force and obliterate their consciousness sea!】

This was merely an S-Rank combat technique, but in Xu Jingming's view, its power was more than sufficient.

"Unlike elemental combat techniques, psychic combat techniques require only the mobilization of psychic energy, without needing psychic energy to be coordinated."

"Just from this point, releasing psychic combat techniques is far simpler than releasing elemental ones."

Whoo—

Vast psychic energy surged from Xu Jingming's consciousness sea, then began to circulate along the trajectory of Psychic Storm.

Hu hu hu—!!!

In mere instants, the immense psychic energy coalesced into a storm towering over a hundred meters high!

This psychic storm was invisible to the naked eye.

Yet even so, the staggering power radiating from it could still be felt.

"Go!"

With a flick of his right hand, the psychic storm howled toward the Void creatures ahead!

Aaah!!!

The familiar psychic shriek rose from over a thousand Void creatures.

But to Xu Jingming, who possessed multiple layers of psychic defenses, it was utterly useless—the psychic storm did not waver in the slightest.

Boom boom boom!!!

The psychic storm quickly collided with the Void creatures.

The psychic storm acted like a meat grinder at full power, effortlessly shredding one Void creature after another.

"The psychic strength of one Void creature is roughly equivalent to that of an Eighth-Rank Grand Master."

With over a thousand here, their combined psychic strength slightly exceeds that of a Low-Rank Ninth-Rank Law Saint."

"It caught Su Laoshi off guard, but it can't touch me."

Xu Jingming stared intently at the psychic storm ahead.

In his psychic perception, the number of Void creatures was rapidly dwindling.

As the number of Void creatures decreased, their total psychic strength weakened, making them even less able to resist the psychic storm.

Entering a vicious cycle of continuous decline.

In just over ten seconds, the vast majority of Void creatures had been completely annihilated.

Yet Xu Jingming still wasn't reassured—he released a second Psychic Storm before fully relaxing.

At this moment, his perception detected not a single Void creature ahead.

But there was something else: peculiar liquid.

The liquid was completely transparent; without psychic perception, it would be impossible to detect.

"What is this? Residue from the Void creatures after death?" Xu Jingming frowned in confusion.