Chapter 968: Endless, The Difficulty of Resurrection

After bidding farewell to those four young people suspected of being Reincarnators, Xia Duo found his bearings and set off toward the Kingdom of Radiance.

It was strange to say; previously, he had teleported several times, only to be caught up by the farmland of those four Reincarnators, or rather, he had failed to truly leave.

But now, as he walked on foot, he was truly moving further and further away from that area, bit by bit.

This wilderness was incomparably vast; as Xia Duo walked through it, looking out, there was nothing but weeds and scattered trees, with no other scenery to be seen.

Every so often, Xia Duo would stop to cast a spell and look out from high above to ensure he did not deviate from his route, but eerily, the position of the sun remained completely unchanged.

It still lingered at the edge of his vision; if not for the fact that the farmland behind him had long since vanished, Xia Duo would have thought he was still circling in place near the farmland.

Yet, such a long and arduous journey made him feel a sense of despair; he could see it, but he could never get close, or rather, no matter how he approached, he could never arrive.

This scene was extremely similar to the Plane Barrier of infinite distance, giving a feeling of a Near-at-Hand World's End, but Xia Duo had an extraordinary memory; he remembered very clearly that every cluster of weeds and every solitary tree he passed was real and true.

Could it be that for every inch and every meter he advanced, some unknown great power was creating an equal distance and everything within that distance ahead of him?

Xia Duo did not consider himself qualified to have an unfathomable great power specifically come to block him, just to stop him from going to the Kingdom of Radiance?

Or was it to trap him in this Boundless Wilderness?

At this moment, Xia Duo's heart was in chaos; the unknown was what people feared most. Truly, the more he thought, the more afraid he became, and the more afraid he was, the more he thought.

After not knowing how long he had been moving forward, Xia Duo finally could not endure this oppressive atmosphere and flashed into his Personal Space.

"If there really is some mastermind behind the scenes, come to the Personal Space and find me!"

In truth, this was also Xia Duo's final probe; he truly did not understand why he had been fine in the Main Plane and suddenly arrived here. If one were to say there was no mastermind and everything was natural, he would never believe it.

Yet, after entering the Personal Space, Xia Duo revealed an expression of astonishment, and without staying for even a second, he immediately left the Personal Space again.

He came out to the same spot, but the expression of astonishment on his face had not dissipated. "How could it be like this?!"

He had the mind to enter the Personal Space again to see what was going on, but looking at the thin radiance shining out from the cracks on his skin like a broken piece of porcelain, Xia Duo decisively dismissed that thought.

He had a premonition that if he stayed in the Personal Space for too long, his form would undergo an irreversible change.

After calming his mood slightly and waiting for a while, the Liexi on his body surface gradually mended, but the sense of emptiness in his body could not be shaken off.

However, there was one thing that made Xia Duo very happy: he had finally confirmed that he was not dead. Just now, in the Personal Space, he had seen the true state of this body.

It was not the flesh and blood body he had previously thought, but rather one composed of a layer of inexplicable power, with his Soul residing within it, just like the form he perceived when entering a state of extreme focus—

Only, perhaps because the Personal Space blocked those Belief Power, his Soul did not suffer the impact of Belief Power, and thus did not emit any radiance.

His current state was extremely similar to his Projection body when in a Projection Plane; the difference was that during a projection, the body contained a Soul projection, whereas now, it was his true Soul.

And the reason Xia Duo was certain he was not dead was that he sensed the existence of his true body while in the Personal Space. Without reason, like an intuition, it was very blurry, yet also very real.

He was currently experiencing an out-of-body Soul; if he could return to his original body in time, perhaps nothing would happen, and it would just be a wondrous journey, but if he did not do so in time—

Then that might be stepping onto the road to the afterlife.

Currently, this temporary body of his appeared extremely real, but in the Personal Space, its unreal essence was fully exposed. As truth and falsehood conflicted, the longer he stayed, the more damage he would sustain, until it eventually disappeared, leaving only the Soul itself.

If he were in a Projection Plane, it would be highly probable that his consciousness would automatically return to his original body, but now, what was here was not a projection, but his true Soul. If he lost this temporary vessel, no one could predict what would happen.

Perhaps he would return to the Main Plane, or perhaps, like the four young people suspected of being Reincarnators he had encountered earlier, he would forget his past, and even his current life would become blurry and unclear.

How could anyone be born able to speak the Netherese language? This was clearly abnormal, just like a pre-programmed NPC, only with a bit more intelligence.

Xia Duo did not dare to gamble on the probability of returning to the Main Plane and could only try his best to preserve this temporary vessel until the day he truly confirmed his return.

Fortunately, this temporary vessel was the same as his original body; as long as no accidents occurred, it should be able to live for a long time, but his original body in the Main Plane was a problem.

If it were like Iron Crutch Li in the legends of his hometown, where his spirit traveled and upon returning, his body had been burned or disposed of, that would be a tragedy.

"Sigh—" Xia Duo let out a long sigh.

Although he had confirmed that he might not be dead, or rather, not completely dead, the situation was also not optimistic. Not to mention how his Soul would return to the Main Plane, even if everything went smoothly and he was allowed to return to the Main Plane, it did not necessarily mean he could return to his original body and recover to normal.

Although Netherese Mage did not have much research on the Soul, one point was almost universally accepted: once the Soul left the body, regardless of the reason—natural death or extraction by a Spell—it was considered dead.

Trying to put the Soul back into the body to achieve Resurrection was fundamentally unworkable; forcibly confining it would mostly just create an Undead, not a living person.

This was actually one of the difficulties of Resurrection—

The return of the Soul.

Another was how to preserve the Soul, especially in the event of an accident.

Xia Duo had experienced a resurrection event in the 【Projection Plane: Arcane Empire】; although he did not experience it personally, he knew that only by intercepting the Soul would there be a chance for subsequent resurrection.

On this point, the Death Priest who had mastered the Resurrection Divine Art was superior; it was said that as long as there was a corpse, even just a part of it, one could be resurrected.

Now that Xia Duo's Soul had left his body and he had even seemingly run into the legendary Outer Planes, the resting place of souls, he was theoretically already considered dead.

Unless a Death Priest who had mastered the Resurrection Divine Art took action, otherwise, even with the Arcane Magic version of Resurrection, it would be very difficult to truly save him.

But even so, Xia Duo did not give up. He never believed he would die for no reason, and after knowing he might be in the Outer Planes, he also had a vague guess about his current state.

It was just that until he truly confirmed it, nothing counted. He still had to find a way to save himself, and the Kingdom of Radiance was his best choice.