Chapter 123: Conceptual Realm
Chapter 123: Conceptual Realm
“Colossal Beast Scripture Lecture?” Li Yi wore a suspicious look. He glanced at Tao Hua beside him and found she also seemed puzzled.
“In ancient times, a very few Sacred Beasts would hold a scripture lecture assembly every hundred years to explain the Rules, preach, and impart knowledge. This was—’Colossal Beast Scripture Lecture’.”
“What? Magical beasts and such… have such refined interests?” Li Yi’s eyes widened. What Zhangsun Shenji said overturned many of his understandings.
“However, according to records, those who held the Colossal Beast Scripture Lecture were all ancient giants like ‘Bái Zé’, ‘Chóngmíng’, ‘Xièzhì’… These were all magical beasts prefixed with ‘Sacred’, a realm even higher than Heaven’s Revelation magical beasts.” Zhangsun Shenji was indeed knowledgeable and had a strong memory, effortlessly recounting many unofficial histories and anecdotes. “It’s truly hard to imagine this Evil Eye Tyrant also knows how to put on cultured airs?”
But such a scene was right before their eyes, making it hard not to believe.
Purple light bloomed like a lotus. Magical beasts, one after another, had dazed looks, completely intoxicated, evidently immersed in comprehension, unable to extricate themselves.
“Good, take this chance to search around!” Tao Hua stared intently at that vertical pupil and whispered, “Don’t worry, you don’t need to go over either. You can use mental tendrils to search underground. Those magical beasts are in a state of comprehension; they won’t notice…”
“Alright!”
The young woman’s personality was clearly one of not giving up until the goal was reached. Li Yi and Zhangsun Shenji had no choice but to go along.
“Huh!”
Sitting cross-legged, Li Yi’s mental power flowed underground, transforming into an invisible undercurrent. It went straight forward, continuously extending.
Mental power was like skin. He could physically feel the damp, cold soil underground, the wriggling of earthworms and ants, even the heartbeats of the magical beasts above.
Roar!
Deep within his body, the Black Dragon bloodline gave a faint, low hum, conveying a sense of joy.
“Oh?”
The Black Dragon dwelled in deep ravines and loved such gloomy, damp, deathly silent environments heavy with undead aura.
After a few low hums, Li Yi’s mind cleared. He suddenly realized his mental power had slightly increased.
“Perhaps I can cultivate here in the future. It would greatly benefit the Black Dragon bloodline…”
With his mind settled and calm, the mental tendril stretched straight forward. After extending over thirty meters, it finally stopped.
“Can’t go further…” Li Yi slowed his breathing. At its limit, the mental tendril was like a taut snake, extremely fragile.
Snake?
As the thought arose, the image of a coiled, swaying black snake surfaced in his mind.
Soaring Serpent Conceptual Realm!
Li Yi was different from Zhangsun Shenji. He focused on cultivating power, while his comprehension and mastery of the Rules were relatively weak.
But he happened to be an Armament Master and had once put the Soaring Serpent Conceptual Realm down on paper. Although he hadn’t fully grasped it, he remembered it in his heart. In this instant, a spark of inspiration flashed, and he suddenly grasped some meaning.
“Like this then…”
The mental power no longer stretched straight. It became winding and twisting, thin and long, extending a full eighty-plus meters!
“This… is the effect of a Conceptual Realm?” Li Yi’s eyes held doubt; he was extremely surprised inwardly. “What I comprehended is just a drop in the ocean of the Soaring Serpent Conceptual Realm… No wonder great clans like the Zhangsun Clan cultivate Conceptual Realm first, then power!”
“How is it? Found anything?” Seeing Li Yi’s odd expression, Tao Hua asked.
“Not yet!”
Li Yi closed his eyes, integrating that sliver of the “Soaring Serpent Conceptual Realm” into his Soul Origin until they became indistinguishable.
Instantly, his mental power transformed into a serpentine form, winding out a hundred meters without any hindrance.
“The way of Conceptual Realms truly has its unique aspects,” Li Yi muttered to himself.
While pondering, the mental tendril slithered along, then suddenly paused, sensing a spherical object.
This object was extremely smooth, definitely not naturally formed.
“Is this what Tao Hua is looking for?”
Li Yi remained expressionless. His mental tendril extended and wrapped around it.
“Ah!”
A cry of pain was especially clear in the silent marsh.
It felt like his mental power had grabbed a sun!
Violent, blazing heat erupted. Raging flames burned his mental tendril. Under the intense pain, Li Yi couldn’t help but cry out.
“Found it!” Hearing this, Tao Hua didn’t seem surprised. She raised her eyes, a fleeting red light reflected in her pupils.
Before she could act, a vast, immense force, like an invisible mountain, seized them!
Bound by an invisible, powerful force, like the immense pressure of the deep sea, the three couldn’t move. They floated up and flew towards the vertical pupil.
Li Yi strained to turn his eyeballs. If gazes could kill, Tao Hua beside him would already be full of holes.
The thing they were searching for could burn the mind, and this woman hadn’t mentioned a single word about it!
“We’re in trouble, this woman…” Bitterness rose in Li Yi’s heart. Before a Seventh Level magical beast, they wouldn’t even have a chance to struggle.
The giant vertical pupil quietly examined them. Just one gaze, its vast power, almost caused their souls to disintegrate!
The gaze shifted, first landing on Zhangsun Shenji.
An invisible gale pushed Zhangsun Shenji sideways. The wind roared, and within a few breaths, he disappeared into the distance.
“This Evil Eye… just expelled him? It doesn’t kill?”
Seeing this, Li Yi felt a bit of relief for his hanging heart.
It seemed the Barbarians had experienced a similar scene, which was why that item had fallen here.
The gaze moved, next onto Tao Hua.
As the gaze fell upon her, Tao Hua’s body shuddered. She actually opened her mouth and let out a fierce beast’s roar. A rust-colored ferocious beast aura spread out.
After observing for a moment, the Evil Eye put Tao Hua down, seating her close to the four lesser lords.
“Hmm?” The scene before him made Li Yi understand something. “The Evil Eye treats Tao Hua as a magical beast. If that’s the case…”
His eyes turned sharp. With a low shout, his Soul Manifestation appeared—a ferocious dragon beast roaring fiercely behind him.
After hesitating a moment, the Evil Eye also placed him on the ground.
Looking left and right, beside him was a lion-sized golden toad and a strange turtle with rugged shell patterns.
“Both are Level 2 magical beasts? This Evil Eye thinks quite highly of me.” Li Yi steadied his mind, then felt some regret. “Wouldn’t it have been better to leave just now? I don’t want to wade into this muddy water… The important business is to quietly withdraw and go get the Mist-Hidden Epiphyllum!”
This thought only lasted a moment before quickly fading.
A beam of purple ghostly light fell upon his head.
Before Li Yi’s eyes, light and shadow transformed, as if he was in an illusion, bizarre and fantastical.
“Eh?”
Before him, two utterly opposite forces—light and darkness—like two armies in vibrant attire on angry steeds, drew shining comet tails as they collided again and again in the Void!
With each collision, amidst the sparks, a strange power between light and dark was born out of thin air.
This power seemed minuscule, yet its realm was extremely high, as if capable of destroying heaven and earth!
“This… is a demonstration of a Conceptual Realm! But which one? Wait, it seems like…”
His heart swaying, Li Yi was confused for a while, then suddenly understood something, his expression turning fanatical!
“This Conceptual Realm is the Obliteration Conceptual Realm!”
“My heavens, Obliteration!”
Obliteration was one of the spell effects, above “Annihilation”, belonging to an extremely powerful Rule!
Its effect was naturally countering all attributes.
All distracting thoughts vanished from his heart. Li Yi opened his mind, immersing himself wholeheartedly.
The Obliteration Conceptual Realm was profound and mysterious. Even if Li Yi comprehended it, he couldn’t master it in a short time, let alone apply it in spells.
But he was an Armament Master!
He could present this comprehension in Dao Transformation Armament.
His heart surged with excitement. Right in the midst of his agitation, the scene before him abruptly stopped.
“Damn it!”
Li Yi instantly realized they had joined too late. The demonstration of the Obliteration Conceptual Realm was already nearing its end.
“Teacher, can we do it again?”
Li Yi’s mouth was full of bitterness; the emotions in his heart were truly unpleasant.
The scene before his eyes suddenly changed again.
Emerald-green misty rain swirled and coiled, sometimes transforming into a giant scorpion, sometimes into a spider. Its color also constantly changed, sometimes light, sometimes dark, with a dense, murderous aura.
Miasma Poison Conceptual Realm!
Having learned his lesson, Li Yi focused completely, not daring to slack off for a moment.
“This one…”
Perhaps his comprehension was lacking. Even when it finished, his gains were still meager.
Instead, that golden toad seemed to have gained something, croaking restlessly.
Time passed. Scenes constantly shifted.
Mist Conceptual Realm!
Wraith Conceptual Realm!
Flowing Water Conceptual Realm!
…
However, regarding the comprehension of Conceptual Realms, Li Yi’s talent seemed extremely average, almost completely in the dark, unable to see anything.
Only with the Flowing Water Conceptual Realm did the Dragon Turtle and Black Dragon within his body roar incessantly. He inexplicably had a Sudden Enlightenment, comprehending quite a bit.
This didn’t feel like comprehension; more like a Conceptual Realm originally within him suddenly awakened.
Regardless of the situation, just the Flowing Water Conceptual Realm alone made Li Yi feel he had gained greatly.
“This Flowing Water Conceptual Realm can not only be used for Dao Transformation Armament but might be directly applied to spells…”
The ghostly light gradually faded; the scripture lecture ended.
Li Yi returned to his senses and was greatly surprised.
An entire day and night had actually passed!
The beast horde had not dispersed.
The Evil Eye hung high. Its pupil rotated, its gaze falling upon the Red-Back Centipede, as if inquiring about something.
“Is this—a Q&A after class? Do the good performers get a little red flower?” Li Yi was taken aback again, secretly guessing.