Chapter 2154: Soul Alienation

Of course, if a person who can achieve immortality in the Material Plane returns to the Main Plane from the Astral Plane, they would not need to consider the issue of lifespan, and in such a situation, there would also be some very interesting phenomena.

For example, the Eternal Holy Spirit achieved by an Astral Mage.

Although they cannot achieve immortality in the Material Plane, their lifespan is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people; they have enough lifespan to explore the Astral Plane and then return to the Material Plane. (The price is the need to stay in the Astral Plane for a long time, and the final result is to be completely distanced from the Material Plane.)

When an Eternal Holy Spirit wants to descend to the Material Plane, they need the guidance of a guidance Magic Array; Xia Duo himself has experienced a guidance Magic Array, and when searching for a guidance signal in the Astral Plane, what he obtained was not an isolated signal, but a planar signal radiating outward from a point.

The center point is the time of the most recent departure from the Material Plane, and the outside is the nearly infinite future; in other words, as long as the Material Plane maintains the guidance Magic Array well, an Eternal Holy Spirit can descend at any moment from a certain point in the past to before the guidance Magic Array fails in the future.

Of course, if that Eternal Holy Spirit does not want to sever ties with the Material Plane too early, they will choose to respond to those earlier guidance signals as much as possible.

If there are no accidents, Yinaole's friend should not be an Eternal Holy Spirit; if they were, what would be the need for concealment?

It is conceivable that if Yinaole's friend is lucky enough not to be dead at this moment, they should have been adventuring in the Astral Plane for decades or even a century; if they had visited a Projection Plane during that time, I am afraid it would be several times longer.

If they were to return to the Main Plane, I am afraid not even a scrap of bone would be left.

Xia Duo can barely protect himself now, so of course he did not say anything about going to the Astral Plane to find the other party; just for now, the Focusing Gem is useful to him, but only a little bit.

……

After Yinaole left, Xia Duo checked the position of the Floating City and found that it had reached the preset altitude, but he really did not want to experience this feeling of "traveling through time" for even a moment.

Only appearing once in front of the Tower of Time Mages still working on the Floating City, Xia Duo returned to the Xiu Xi Shi and lay down on the bed.

It was not that he was unable to move; in fact, he had not even lost his Spellcasting ability, but the "fainting" that occurred from time to time made him feel that lying down was more convenient.

The Focusing Gem in his hand was still flickering with intense Magic Aura, but under the aura, the purple color on the body of the gemstone itself was slightly lighter than when Yinaole took it out earlier; if one did not look carefully, one could not even tell.

It seems this is the "wear and tear" Yinaole mentioned.

Xia Duo held the gemstone with both hands on his chest; he could feel his will was unprecedentedly strong, so he did not delay any longer and quickly focused his mind.

Compared to when he did not have the assistance of the Focusing Gem, this time he was much more relaxed; the distracting thoughts that kept surging in his consciousness, which he could not tell were his own or Mohawi's, were completely unable to shake his will.

As his mental will became highly concentrated, Xia Duo finally perceived his Soul—that conceptual existence exactly the same as his physical body.

It was just that the Soul, which originally reflected a small space around it, was now wrapped into a messy ball of thread by a large mass of dense, dark red threads with no known beginning or end.

At the level of perception, Xia Duo "looked" at the countless dark red threads wrapped around his body; he tried to tear them off or push them aside, but they were quickly filled back in by threads squeezed in from other places.

Those constantly wandering and entwining threads were like a living thing, determined not to stop for a moment.

The only thing to be thankful for was that the radiance that could originally reflect the Divine Kingdom Homeland of the Outer Planes around him, although it could no longer continue to reflect the Divine Kingdom Homeland at this moment, was firmly blocking those annoying dark red threads outside.

If it weren't for that radiance, Xia Duo really didn't know what would happen!

Before, he thought he had resisted the other party's invasion by his own will, but now it seems that the radiance produced by the impact of Belief Power on the Soul might be the greatest contributor!

But even so, many dark red threads had penetrated deep into the tissue of his Soul, and no matter how many he pulled out, they would not break.

For a time, Xia Duo could not tell whether these dark red threads originated from the outside world or were originally a part of his Soul, just alienated by external information.

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If it were the former, he would just need to desperately tear off those dark red threads that had penetrated deep into his Soul; but if it were the latter, perhaps the more he pulled, the higher the degree of infiltration would be.

Xia Duo did not dare to take the risk and decided to first try to perceive the depths of his Soul to see if he could discover any clues.

……

Xia Duo's Soul was in an unformed state at the beginning, and it was only when he first perceived his Soul that it became a physical image that matched his cognition.

Since then, even he himself could not change it, but now, with the perception of the Soul itself, he found that his Soul seemed to have a tendency to return to an unformed state.

If the physical image represents the stability of the Soul, then the tendency to return to an unformed state is probably not a good sign.

Xia Duo continued to perceive and soon found the source of the dark red threads; there were twelve thread ends in total, but they extended from the surface of the Soul, as if a layer of skin had been peeled off the Soul and then twisted into threads.

He immediately realized that these dark red threads were not outsiders, but the alienated products of his own Soul!

"This is troublesome!"

Being able to alienate the Soul made Xia Duo lose even the chance to cut off his arm to save his life, but in any case, he had at least found the source—or one of them!

The alienation at the Soul level and the information storm at the consciousness level should be two sides of the same coin; no matter which one is handled, it will have an impact on the other.

Xia Duo had no way to deal with the information storm at the consciousness level, but that did not mean he had no way to deal with the Soul; he had already thought of more than one method to freeze the Soul.

Eternal Stasis is one of them, but that is also the last choice; if he tries all methods and none of them work, he will choose to smuggle into the future to wait for rescue.

What he needs most now is a method that can freeze the Soul while keeping his consciousness clear.

This method actually exists!

It is related to a certain Longevity ritual; although Xia Duo himself does not understand it, someone does, but that Longevity ritual belongs to the Seven Towers; if he wants it, the Seven Towers should give it, but it is inevitable that they will put forward some conditions he does not want to agree to!

Even if it were Giles Tower, I am afraid Sikumu would not be willing to provide it at all if he knew about his situation.

"It seems I still have to ask the teacher for help!"

In addition, since Belief Power can resist the invasion of this kind of dark red thread, then he should also consider more in this regard.

Before this, except for awakening his bloodline, Xia Duo basically did not do anything deliberately to obtain Belief Power; now that he is asked to do so, he feels somewhat awkward.