Chapter 1027

Xia Duo did not go into detail about the specific contact process, and Niya did not press him, only saying that if he did make contact, he must tell her.

Afterwards, the two chatted for a while longer about topics related to Magic Web Background Fluctuation; naturally, it was mostly Niya speaking and Xia Duo listening.

From Niya's narration, Xia Duo could vaguely see Niya's research trend, which seemed to be intentionally moving toward the field of Magic Net Background Communication.

Xia Duo guessed that perhaps her choosing the research direction of Magic Web Background Fluctuation from the very beginning was to deeply study or even improve Magic Net Background Communication, so as to maintain the Tower of Time's continued lead in the field of Communication Magic Tools.

It seems that not only is he working hard, but Niya is also working very hard!

……

Under Niya's urging gaze, Xia Duo quickly left the Study and returned to the residence he and Niya shared on the sixth floor of the Tower of Time.

Wanting to contact a Princess, to contact a god, naturally could not be done through ordinary means; otherwise, with all the new Priests Seventon had scraped together from all over Netheril, there would have been no sign of anyone being able to accomplish it through conventional methods.

The so-called conventional methods were nothing more than a Mage's Communication Spell, or a Priest's (or believer's) prayer request.

But it was very obvious that, as things stood, both of these methods were unworkable; if they were workable, the Seven Towers would have already succeeded long ago.

The Nan Jing where Xia Duo was located did not possess the various perfect conditions of Seventon, but he also had his own advantage, which was—

Going there in person!

The Princess had been out of contact for so long that although Seventon had yet to reach a conclusion, there were many speculations, one of which Xia Duo felt was very reasonable, namely—

The Princess was trapped in the Outer Planes.

She had not yet found the way back to the Main Plane, or she had been delayed by something.

And the Outer Planes, for the current magical world of Netheril, remained a field that was almost completely unknown.

Of course, this did not include Xia Duo.

Regarding the Outer Planes, he was not groping in the dark like other Netherese Mages; at the very least, he had been there once before and knew some of the special properties of the Outer Planes.

Therefore, he had the idea of going directly to the Outer Planes to find the Princess and then bringing her back to the Main Plane.

Due to the special nature of the Outer Planes, finding the Princess was not a very difficult problem; he just had to do what he did when he found the Kingdom of Radiance back then.

The only thing to worry about was the issue of returning.

As for traveling to the Outer Planes, Xia Duo already had seven or eight tenths of certainty.

From the end of the New Year Festival until now, more than half a month had passed.

During this half-month, although Xia Duo had not been able to undergo Bloodline Awakening again, the endless, continuously growing Cloud Qi still brought a not-insignificant improvement to his Soul.

Because Bloodline Awakening was not a leap-like mutation result, but rather a process from quantitative change to qualitative change.

In the past, when he could not perceive his Soul, he perhaps could not have instantly experienced this process of quantitative change, but now, he could clearly perceive the subtle changes brought about by the growth of the Cloud Qi.

These changes did not act directly upon the Soul, yet they were closely related to the Soul.

……

Inside the bedroom, Xia Duo lay on the bed, gathering his focus, and soon entered a state of extreme concentration; in this state, he directly perceived his own Soul.

Or rather, he had obtained the perspective of the Soul; or perhaps, he felt that he had become the Soul itself.

Over the past half month or more, the continuously growing Cloud Qi had been incessantly impacting his Soul and tempering his Soul; in this state, he actually had a feeling that his Soul was continuously growing stronger.

This feeling was not an illusion either.

In fact, the mysterious space illuminated by the radiance sparked by the Cloud Qi's impact around the Soul had now expanded by at least double.

And in this mysterious space, besides the strange human shadows that had appeared before and vanished in a flash, occasionally some familiar scene images would flash by.

Having had one trip to the Outer Planes, Xia Duo already had some guesses about the various anomalies of this mysterious space; those strange human shadows were very likely souls reincarnating into the Outer Planes through his mysterious space.

And those familiar scene images that had only appeared recently, if he had not guessed wrong, should be the scenes of souls reincarnating into the Outer Planes.

Specifically, they were the strange farmlands, farmhouses, and Reincarnators on the Boundless Wilderness of the Outer Planes that he had once seen with his own eyes.

As the Soul grew more powerful, Xia Duo felt that he could travel to the locations of those soul Reincarnators in the Outer Planes through this mysterious space around his Soul.

Of course, a more accurate way of saying it was that only the Soul went to the Outer Planes; the body did not go.

And this kind of ability was more like the ones he had previously obtained, such as Water Control, Cloud Riding, and Memory Retrospection; it was an instinct derived from his bloodline.

There was no need to learn it; he just naturally knew how to do it.

Perhaps because his current bloodline had not yet reached the critical point for the next awakening, Xia Duo could only temporarily feel that he should be able to travel to the Outer Planes again.

But as for whether he could return on his own after going, and how to return, he had absolutely no concept.

At this moment, Xia Duo could not help but think of the Divine Envoy Kafa he had met in the Kingdom of Radiance back then; if he had not been in a hurry to leave and had chatted with the other party for a while longer, perhaps he could have established a personal relationship.

And now, he was not sure if he went to the Kingdom of Radiance again, whether the other party would still appear, and whether they would again send a subordinate to send him back to the Main Plane.

But judging from the other party's attitude, they should be quite easy to talk to; if he went over this time and brought them some local specialties from the Main Plane, plus the latest news from the Main Plane, Xia Duo was confident he could get the other party to send him back again.

Furthermore, it was not necessarily the case that only Kafa in the Kingdom of Radiance could send subordinates to return him to the Main Plane; contacting Kafa's subordinates, or anyone else capable of doing this, would work.

And in the Kingdom of Radiance, a land of order, Xia Duo did not worry about being deceived or mistreated, only that there might be twists and turns.

Additionally, finding the Princess might not be as smooth as he imagined.

But regardless, he had to try; and Xia Duo was also very curious about his new ability—how exactly the Soul traveled to the Outer Planes, and whether this process could be realized through Magic.

Also, the Soul could go over, but what about the body?

The Outer Planes were further away from the material foundation than the Astral Plane; Xia Duo was also very curious about what would happen if the body went to the Outer Planes.

However, these questions could be answered step by step in the future, and for now, what he had to do was—

Observe the mysterious space around the Soul, wait for the moment an Outer Plane scene appeared, and then, following a certain instinct from the depths of his body and Soul, leap forward.

Suddenly, the scene around Xia Duo changed.

He was no longer in the state of perceiving his Soul, but had become a physical body of flesh and blood; of course, he knew that his physical body at this moment was not real.