Chapter 380: Transit Inference

Wang Yu used the key to open Room 303, did nothing else first, but released his vast spiritual sense to carefully inspect the entire room, especially all hidden corners, leaving not a single spot unexamined.

This was Xierde—no one knew what surveillance devices might have been installed inside the room.

Indeed, after a moment, he frowned and suddenly walked to the desk, tearing off a sheet of white paper from a notebook lying atop it.

Then Wang Yu approached the wall lamp facing the bed, slapped the paper onto it, wrapped his fingers lightly around it, and completely blocked an inconspicuous tiny hole on the lamp.

Only then did he relax, flicked a hand seal with one finger, and his facial skin rippled unevenly as thin black mist seeped out; he rubbed his entire face with both hands.

A shower of powdery substance fell away, revealing his true face.

Only then did he enter the bathroom beside the door and begin washing.

After a cup of tea's time, Wang Yu fell into deep sleep on the bed.

This physical body was still that of an ordinary mortal; though he had safely escaped into Xierde using artifacts and his vast spiritual sense, his body had nearly reached its limit of exhaustion.

He slept for most of the day.

When he awoke, it was already the next morning.

He felt his fatigue completely gone, but did not get up immediately; instead, he closed his eyes again on the bed and silently murmured, "Overclock."

…Beep, beep… Overclock synchronization mode failed. Mother system detected. System reset and fusion in progress. Reset fusion completion: 27%. Estimated completion time: twenty-one days, eighteen hours, thirty-six minutes, twenty-seven seconds…

A mechanical, lifeless voice echoed in his mind—the Taiyuan System.

Wang Yu was not surprised; he had tried entering overclock synchronization the moment he escaped the castle and found the system had re-entered reset mode.

The last time he returned to Blue Star, the Taiyuan System had also done this.

But what puzzled him was that last time, the reset had taken only a few days—this time, it was nearing a month.

Had China's "Taiyuan" AI encountered a problem, or was it because he was overseas, too far from China?

Wang Yu was puzzled, but under these circumstances, he could only wait patiently for the system's reset to finish; then he shifted his thoughts and began analyzing the circumstances of his two consciousness transits between worlds.

His first transit to the cultivation world was understandable—he had relied entirely on preparations made by the China base: they had leveraged the "Saitan" celestial phenomenon and deployed the Zero-Type Sleep Pod, enabling his consciousness to transit safely.

But when he first returned to Blue Star, it was not the China base that recalled him—he had been forcibly pulled back when his spiritual sense was struck by the secret technique of Li Yan.

Logically, had his consciousness not returned, he might have been severely injured—or even killed—by that Golden Core elder's secret technique.

Yet by then, the Saitan celestial phenomenon on Blue Star had already vanished.

His second transit to the cultivation world was vastly different.

Without the Zero-Type Sleep Pod, he had been invaded by Helena's ability; in his desperate resistance, her ability went completely out of control. Before his consciousness was transported away, all he remembered was flashes of silver lightning—he believed the situation had been deadly.

This time, Blue Star had no Saitan phenomenon, but the cultivation world did.

Yet when he returned to Blue Star the second time, he was again in extreme danger.

Wang Yu remembered clearly: just before his consciousness returned, he had been standing on the teleportation platform—the array had already been activated—when he was suddenly ambushed by a Golden Core-level lightning spell.

He could not escape the array; he barely managed to release the Misan Seal to block it, then had to rely solely on his own near-Second-Stage body to endure the impact.

Though he did not yet know the condition of his cultivation world body, from the agony he felt just before his consciousness left, he believed the outcome was certainly dire—perhaps his entire body had been destroyed.

After all, that was Third-Stage power—especially potent, destructive lightning energy.

Yet although no Saitan phenomenon had occurred in the sky before he entered the underground stone chamber, as his consciousness left his body and transited, he had seemingly glimpsed the Saitan phenomenon for an instant.

He wondered: was that an illusion caused by his consciousness transit, or had his powerful spiritual sense truly sensed the Saitan phenomenon at that moment?

Wang Yu opened his eyes, and began analyzing the general pattern of his transits.

First, each time before his consciousness transited, he had been in an extremely dangerous environment—this was likely triggered by the system's built-in self-protection mechanism, activated when the system sensed his life was in mortal peril, forcing his consciousness to transit to the other world.

Second, each time his consciousness transited to the other world, one of the two worlds must have been experiencing the Saitan phenomenon—this must be the interdimensional passage effect Chen Boshi described; only when the passage existed could his consciousness transit between worlds.

Third, each time he returned to Blue Star, his built-in Taiyuan sub-system had to reset and fuse with Blue Star's main system.

The effect of this reset and fusion, besides granting him a temporary predictive authorization, had revealed no other anomalies so far.

Wang Yu pondered silently.

If the above pattern held, and if his cultivation world body had not yet been destroyed, then whenever the next Saitan phenomenon occurred, as long as he was in extreme danger, he might automatically transit back to the cultivation world.

Another point: when he first transited to the cultivation world, his body had been perfectly intact—did this mean that using the Zero-Type Sleep Pod would allow him to transit to the cultivation world voluntarily, even without being in danger?

He thought of this, and his heart quickened—but finally shook his head.

All this could be considered later; this time, his return had been so perilous, his cultivation world body might already be destroyed, making it impossible to return.

If so, then all he had experienced in the cultivation world was merely a magnificent dream.

At this thought, the image of Yin Linglong, his cultivation partner, surfaced unconsciously in his mind, and a pang of melancholy stirred within him.

After a long while, he calmed himself and finally rose from bed.

He took from the bundle on the floor a set of black clothing, including undergarments, put them on, then gathered his old clothes into a bag and walked into the bathroom.

In his hand, surrounded by swirling black mist, a sudden flame erupted—the bag and clothes turned to ash, falling into the nearby toilet and being flushed away by a rush of water.

Wang Yu cast several hand seals onto his face, activated the Illusory Form technique again, making himself appear as an ordinary local to others, then strode out of the room.

A quarter-hour later, Wang Yu emerged from a clothing store carrying a bag, then slipped into a nearby convenience store and bought some flour and honey.

Soon after, when he stepped out of a narrow alley, his clothing had changed to a different set of bluish-gray garments, and his face now resembled a fair-skinned man in his thirties.

Next, Wang Yu headed straight for the Huanglong Entertainment City.