Chapter 282: World-Shocking Fool

Not mad, not a Buddha!

The so-called Mind-Only Martial Dao! It must be extreme!

It must be radicalized!

A mediocre mortal without any unusual traits—what are you even practicing martial arts for?

If your mind is normal and your understanding of things matches those around you, why do you expect to succeed?

A genius is someone who is different.

On the very first day Fang Can began training in martial arts, Instructor Yang Lie had said:

"You can seek the Dao in every action—whether through perseverance, brilliance, love, immortality, lust, laziness, greed… as long as you walk one path without ever losing heart, the Martial Dao will lie open before you."

The most important part of that statement is: never lose heart!

If you walk a path to its bitter end—even if it's a negative trait—it will carve out a grand road for you!

After all, everything has two sides!

If you take Fang Yuan's perseverance to chase after green tea, you're just a top-tier doormat and love-sick fool.

But recklessness, from some perspectives, can also be called decisive and swift action.

Even laziness can be turned from trash into treasure!

Stupid! How can it not be called pristine sainthood, unwavering mind?

In Dongfang Wujie, outside the Five Nations, the Holy Mind Sect's sole criterion for selecting their Holy Child.

Is possessing the world-shocking stupidity of an ultimate Bai Chi!

And Yun is the fifth-generation Holy Child of the Holy Mind Sect!

Or rather, the latest model produced after five cycles of renewal and iteration by the Holy Mind Sect!

…

"Superpower Lords, eternal and immortal!"

"At birth, human nature is good! Nature is similar, habits diverge!"

"1+1=2, 2+2=4, 4+4=8, 8+…"

"ABCDEF…"

"Under the bridge before the gate, a group of ducks swim by, hurry up, hurry up…"

"I'm Peppa, this is my little brother George, this is my mom…"

Outside the Guiyun Peak ruins, Fang Can's mind-image surged with a flood of early childhood knowledge toward Yun's consciousness.

From the first complete sentence the child was taught by his parents: "Superpower Lords, eternal and immortal!"

To nursery rhymes, basic math, and English learned in kindergarten daycare.

With Yun's fourth-transformation thinking and computational capacity, even an infant with no concept could rapidly understand and apply the meaning.

But facing Fang Can's mind-image, Yun's expression remained blank, like an infant utterly unaware.

"Muda muda muda!"

Watching Fang Can's mind-image engulf the blonde boy, the distant third-transformation elder shook his head and chuckled:

"The questions you immediately think of—our Holy Mind Sect has pondered them for over a thousand years; how could we possibly overlook them?"

"After summarizing countless patterns and dead ends from the first four Holy Children, Yun is absolutely the perfect invincible being!"

"The second Holy Child failed because of his mind-image; hence, from the third generation onward, every Holy Child possesses dual consciousness."

Hearing the third-transformation elder's explanation, Fang Can abandoned the thought of instantly killing this noisy fool.

This guy is truly overconfident—he doesn't care about information leaks; keeping this comic relief will yield even more intel.

Fang Can looked at the perpetually blank-faced boy and asked: "Dual consciousness? Like Qian Longtao's dual souls before his first transformation?"

The third-transformation elder explained: "Not dual consciousness—subconscious and conscious mind!"

"Since the first Holy Child, our sect has faced a long-standing problem: how to handle the excess thinking capacity after fourth transformation."

"A wise man's thousand thoughts may still miss one; a fool's thousand thoughts may still hit one!"

"No matter how pure a person is, if they think long enough and enough, they will eventually deduce most truths and shatter the world we build for them!"

"On the first Holy Child, we sealed most of his thinking ability, making his thought speed slower than an ordinary person's."

"But we soon discovered that suppressing a third-transformation mind was already our limit."

"If the Holy Child ascends to fourth transformation, the torrent of thoughts—like Dahe River—cannot be restrained by us."

The elder, as if holding back for centuries, now proudly unveiled their research to the entire world!

"On the second Holy Child, we learned from the previous generation's mistakes."

"Blocking is worse than guiding—we no longer suppress the Holy Child's consciousness, but instead create a single body with two souls."

"We allocate most of the thinking capacity to one soul, preserving the other soul with human-level thought and childlike innocence."

"Meanwhile, the Holy Mind Sect invented a language called Zanghua!"

"This language contains no words corresponding to pain, discomfort, failure, or loss in the official tongues of the nations."

"This ensures your words are incomprehensible to the Holy Child's human soul."

"But after the second Holy Child emerged, he quickly fell in battle."

"Because mind-image—and what the Hundred Sages now call Heavenly Sensation—can bypass language entirely and achieve direct understanding."

"Through mind-image transmission, even without corresponding words, the Holy Child's human soul understood the concept of pain—and shattered."

"Finally, after our relentless efforts, the third Holy Child solved the mind-image problem."

The elder's eyes gleamed with pride.

And as he recounted his mind-image, those watching, all eyes fixed on him, grew curious—how had he solved this problem?

"After centuries of our sect's exploration into the human mind, we discovered human consciousness is divided into two categories: perceptible and imperceptible."

"What can be perceived, we name the conscious mind."

"What cannot be perceived, we call the subconscious."

"Information transmission like Heart-Images, which can only be felt but not spoken, first passes through the deep subconscious before converting into the conscious mind for the brain to understand."

"Therefore, we abandoned the dual-soul structure and constructed a dual-layered consciousness network within the Third Generation Holy Son's mind."

"We used most of the Holy Son's thoughts to strengthen the subconscious's screening and discrimination abilities, building an absolute wall to block Heart-Images."

"Any Heart-Image wishing to enter the Third Generation Holy Son's brain must be screened by the subconscious first, then converted into hidden speech to be passed to the surface consciousness."

"So, the so-called Heart-Images and Bai Xiaosheng's telepathy cannot be understood at all by the Holy Son's conscious mind."

The old man's face wore an expression of unparalleled pride, causing Fang Can to inwardly retort:

'What a martial arts version of a mental firewall and signal translator.'

'I have to say, being able to research something like this, you guys are truly awesome.'

Fang Can, speechless, controlled Ji Donglai's body to retreat via teleportation, then in the next instant leaped behind Jushan Chaoliba, extending an arm to strike.

"Boom!"

Almost instantly, Xiang Hongtu's figure, like a ghost, inserted itself horizontally.

Seeing Fang Can's calm expression on Ji Donglai's face, Xiang Hongtu's charming face revealed a cold sneer:

"Within the range of my domain, your so-called teleportation is not faster than mine."

Jushan Chaoliba turned his head to look at the two people before him, fear evident in his eyes.

Compared to other martial artists with different mechanisms, he was only slightly superior in numbers, but not superior enough to reach the Fifth Transformation stage.

At this moment, he clearly knew that his current Fourth Transformation power in this battle was basically no different from a puppet.

Thinking of this, Jushan Chaoliba looked grateful and said, "Thank you, Emperor Chu, for intervening. Please..."

"Who said I wanted to save you? You have no more use now!" On the side, Xiang Hongtu's cold Heart-Image transmitted chillingly.

A suppressed anger flashed in Jushan Chaoliba's eyes, followed immediately by a terrifying illusion of death rising from the depths of his heart.

【Avidya Backflow】!

Instantly, within a ten-thousand-meter radius of empty space, the atmosphere was sucked dry by terrifying force.

Layer upon layer of power erupted, surging like a tsunami; each layer of force was enough to collapse mountains, and now, exploding in succession, it swept like a flood destroying the world.

Jushan Chaoliba's expression held disbelief, because this suddenly exploding surge of force was not targeting the superpowered individuals.

Facing Xiang Hongtu's cold gaze, Jushan Chaoliba's massive body exploded with a boom, without warning, turning into pure energy, leaving not a shred of life behind.

Thus, the first Fourth Transformation to die in this battle appeared!

For a moment, everyone watching the live broadcast was stunned, unable to understand why Xiang Hongtu suddenly attacked his own side.

"Emperor Chu, what are you doing? Are you sane!"

From afar, Yi Tianxing let out a huge cry of shock and suspicion, doubting that Xiang Hongtu had been mind-controlled by Fang Can and the others.

Even Fang Can was utterly confused; how had the enemy started an internal conflict first?

Seeing Ji Donglai's suspicious gaze, Xiang Hongtu's voice, cold as a forest, spoke:

"He has only one minute of maintenance time left, has no use for the battle situation, and living only gets in the way. Since he will die soon anyway, I might as well help him a bit early."

As he spoke, his gaze pressed coldly toward Yi Donglai: "Old thing, what are you looking at? I order you to win the match immediately, or you won't live either."

'Is this guy crazy?' Fang Can's mind subconsciously rose with the thought.

But the next moment, Xiang Hongtu had flashed to his front, swinging his right fist carrying Chixiao, bringing the roaring atmosphere of a ten-thousand-meter radius down upon him.

"Boom—"

A silent thunderclap exploded at the moment of the fist collision; Ji Donglai's strength, proliferated to two hundred billion, surged out, filling his body with a surging, mighty force.

But this terrifying right fist striking Chixiao was like hitting indestructible vibranium; all kinetic energy was absorbed, with not a trace leaking out.

In contrast, Xiang Hongtu, utilizing 【Avidya Backflow】, once again formed countless deposit numbers on Ji Donglai's body.

Immediately, amidst the shocked gazes of countless live broadcast viewers.

After the initial phase of suppression, where both sides merely tasted each other's strength to gather intelligence.

When Fang Can saw through all the Fourth Transformation inheritances, the Fourth Transformation side had also almost figured out the methods of the superpowered individuals.

Thus, a Fourth Transformation battle, free from restraint, officially entered an intense, white-hot combat phase.

(End of Chapter)