[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-vrmmo-mage-starting-with-a-10-000x-intelligence-":3,"chapter-vrmmo-mage-starting-with-a-10-000x-intelligence--online-game-mage-starting-with-a-10-000x-boost-f-chapter-456":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","MMO Mage: Starting with a 10,000x Intelligence Potion Boost",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2203761,3818,"Chapter 456: Soul Leaving the Body","online-game-mage-starting-with-a-10-000x-boost-f-chapter-456",456,"\u003Cp>Qin Feng's words made everyone fall silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If the oxygen Qin Feng spoke of was truly a necessity for human survival,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>then Beigong Shang's current situation was indeed very dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although it was also possible that it wasn't because of a lack of oxygen that the flame couldn't burn,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>both possibilities existed, and as long as they existed, there was danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"You wouldn't be saying that I'm already dead, would you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"If I'm dead, how can I communicate with you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Beigong Yun and the others could hear it, and naturally, Beigong Shang could too.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Qin Feng's words made him feel very helpless.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It wasn't that he felt Qin Feng was making up stories to lie to them,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>but he truly felt that he was unlucky enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Ending up in such a strange, ghostly place.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Death is not quite the case.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"If you were dead, the Soul Chain would automatically detach from you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I would know by then.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"It's just that, although you are still alive now, whether you can continue to live is another question.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Do you feel any tightness in your chest, or are you unable to catch your breath?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Qin Feng then asked Beigong Shang about this.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Humans lacking oxygen should feel suffocated.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If he couldn't feel it, either there was no lack of oxygen at all,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>or Beigong Shang's consciousness was currently affected.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He actually had these reactions, but for some reason, he was completely unaware of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>There was another possibility, which was that Beigong Shang had already lost consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Or rather, what was wandering on that pitch-black open ground right now\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>was not Beigong Shang himself, but Beigong Shang's consciousness body, or soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Since Beigong Shang's consciousness body could wander in that place like a normal human,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>and remain clear-headed,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>then communicating and talking with Qin Feng and the others was not impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And during the time Beigong Shang's soul was out of his body and wandering around,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>it was also possible that Beigong Shang's physical body was not in a state of death for some reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As for whether it was alive or in a half-dead state, Qin Feng couldn't judge yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although this possibility sounded quite ridiculous, it didn't mean it didn't exist.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the eyes of others, how could a soul leave the body and still be alive?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But for Qin Feng, these were all basic operations.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After all, this was the territory of the Sunset Empire, not the Mobis Kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In this place, what conditions didn't exist?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Let alone a geographical environment that allowed a soul to leave the body and move freely,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>even if there were environmental conditions where a person could be hacked into pieces and still move separately, with hands and feet jumping on their own, Qin Feng wouldn't think it was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"No, I feel refreshed now; there's no feeling of suffocation at all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Except for the pain from the wounds and the internal injuries.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Beigong Shang said straightforwardly, answering very quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Are your wounds still bleeding? What is the situation with your internal injuries now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Qin Feng did not lower his guard because Beigong Shang said he was fine; instead, he continued to ask.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Wounds...???\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Beigong Shang was just about to say that the wounds had stopped bleeding, but suddenly stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>For a moment, the entire communication channel fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It was silent enough to be unsettling.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, it was only silent for a few dozen seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Just as Beigong Shang was about to lose his patience and ask again,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Beigong Shang continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Logically speaking, so much time has passed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"The wounds must have stopped bleeding.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"If they hadn't stopped bleeding, after such a long time, I would have bled dry. I should have died long ago.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"My wounds look like they have healed quite well on the surface.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I applied medicine earlier, and the openings have closed up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"However, I just pulled at the wound with my hand and tore it open. But it didn't bleed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>I don't know if it was a flash of inspiration,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>or human intuition regarding a sense of crisis.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>While Beigong Shang was looking down at the wound, thinking it was very normal and there was no problem,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>he actually reached out and pulled at the wound on a whim.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He tore open the wound that had already stopped bleeding and healed.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And it was precisely because of this whim that he noticed something wrong with himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A mortal body, how could it not bleed?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>There was definitely a problem!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I'll take a look with the Eye of Truth. See if I can detect anything.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Now, Qin Feng's Eye of Truth was their only means.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After all, they really couldn't enter this place.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Going in would be suicide.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Qin Feng was already very proficient in using the Eye of Truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Therefore, he could achieve his goal without consuming much time.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>With just two seconds of activation, Qin Feng basically scanned the entire Spell Range between the two peaks.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But the ever-victorious Eye of Truth failed to see Beigong Shang's figure this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the scene seen by the Eye of Truth,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>this black mist was as if it didn't exist.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It was indeed a canyon in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>There were many corpses lying helter-skelter in the canyon.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Every single one of them had turned into white bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Some of the clothing had not been completely corroded, and one could still make out a little bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And for some, let alone clothing, even the bones had been corroded by more than half.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Only broken skeletons remained, and one didn't know if they were complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This proved that these white bones were likely not left behind within a hundred years.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But left behind over many hundreds of years.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Perhaps even older ones existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>For example, the original inhabitants of the Sunset Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It's just that the skeletons of those inhabitants had likely turned into ashes and were not easily seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But no matter how many white bones were left, there was no trace of living people inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Naturally, there was no trace of Beigong Shang's existence either.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Could it be that Beigong Shang was really not in the canyon in front of them?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If the Eye of Truth hadn't malfunctioned,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>and the Soul Chain hadn't malfunctioned,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>then the problem must lie in space.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Qin Feng had great trust in the power of the system.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A mere Sunset Empire could only be treated by the system as a small part of the main quest.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In this case, Qin Feng didn't think there could be anything in the Sunset Empire\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>that could deceive the detection of the system.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Then, all Qin Feng could think of was space folding or even an independent space.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But this independent space seemed to be hidden very deeply.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And the entrance and exit of the fold might not be in the area where Qin Feng and the others were.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Therefore, Qin Feng couldn't find any traces of space folding at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This also made Qin Feng feel troubled.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Beigong Shang is not in the canyon in front of us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"But the Soul Chain won't make a mistake, so there must be a hidden independent space here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"But the entrance to the hidden independent space...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"The Eye of Truth didn't see it from this side, which proves that there must be other entrances.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"But to find other entrances, we have to enter this canyon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"But entering the canyon might mean dying inside.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"There are hundreds or thousands of corpses inside.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"They should all be left behind by our predecessors.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Even if we have to go in to find him, we can't just go in like this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Qin Feng stated his findings.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But the problem seemed even bigger.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This was more troublesome than Beigong Shang entering the pitch-black canyon in front of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It was so troublesome that they couldn't even find him, let alone go in to save him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"What do we do?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The few people connected in the Soul Chain looked at each other, and no one knew what to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It wasn't that they were incompetent, but that a clever woman couldn't cook without rice.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If they were powerful, like the Dean of the Mobis Academy,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>they could try having someone else go in to take a look.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But in fact, Beigong Shang was the strongest among their group.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If even Beigong Shang went in and was caught without knowing it,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>then the three of them going in probably wouldn't make any difference.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"If it really doesn't work, we'll go around the peaks on both sides of the canyon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"See what's on the other side of the canyon, then make a decision.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This was the only thing they could do.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After all, their strength was indeed a bit low.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Three people, and not one of them was at the Dao Proving realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Moreover, Qin Feng was only at the sixth level of Dao Entering.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the day since entering the Opening Origin Secret Realm,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Qin Feng hadn't had any time to cultivate Tong Yuan power.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So his Tong Yuan power hadn't increased at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Then let's go.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Whether this method was stupid or useful,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>it was the only thing they could do.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So don't waste time, hurry up.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although this canyon was dangerous, the peaks on both sides were relatively normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>During the process of the three of them climbing the peaks, they didn't encounter any danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>They climbed to the top easily and then walked along the top.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Because the canyon was very long, the peaks were also very long.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>They ran quickly on the peaks for two full hours before they vaguely saw the end of the peaks.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After walking down the mountain along the path, they arrived at the other side of the canyon.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The entrance on the other side of the canyon was no different from the entrance on this side.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>They looked almost exactly the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If they hadn't run for two full hours, leaving them panting,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>they would have suspected they were walking in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After arriving at the canyon entrance on this side, Qin Feng\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>didn't say a word and directly activated the Eye of Truth, looking into the mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But what was frustrating was that within the field of vision of the Eye of Truth,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>there were still only large patches of white bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Other than that, there wasn't a single living thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In fact, there wasn't even a complete corpse; it was all white bones and broken white bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"No, there's still nothing. It's the same as on the other side.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Qin Feng said helplessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Now everyone was at a loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"What about the distance? Has the distance changed?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Could it be that we are caught in some kind of illusion, so we've been walking in circles?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1811,"2026-06-17T06:32:32.271Z","2026-06-17T09:01:34.923Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","52511608a92918447fc3d71a60d6a37319481baa05af687eb9249d46b01e60d2","online-game-mage-starting-with-a-10-000x-boost-f-chapter-457","online-game-mage-starting-with-a-10-000x-boost-f-chapter-455",496,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fonline-game-mage-starting-with-a-10-000x-boost-f-cover.jpg"]