I Can See Your Combat Power
Chapter 1710 - 148: A Different Story (3)

Ever since sending the person up the mountain, Yun Xiu would visit every two days to check on Tang Luo’s condition and maintain the Illusion Array.

She originally thought it was just simple maintenance work, but the reality turned out to be far beyond imagination.

As a person who has awakened the bloodline of Charming Eyes, she was well aware that if spiritual power was strong enough, it could have many miraculous uses, akin to supernatural abilities.

For instance, the Illusion Techniques cast by Charming Eyes contain strong mental suggestions, greatly influencing, or even dominating, the recipient’s decisions and thought processes.

But a sufficiently powerful Illusion Technique could achieve the same effect as Charming Eyes, except the practitioner relies not on inherited talent but on spiritual power.

By using spiritual power to give strong suggestions or perform hypnosis, masters of Illusion Technique can bewitch the mind as well.

However, the perilous nature of Illusion Technique lies in the fact that if the recipient has a firm Dao Heart, such suggestions and hypnosis would be futile efforts.

What’s more infuriating is that this judgment is not based on strength or weakness, for a person’s mental state is always fluctuating.

And emotions serve as amplifiers for spiritual power; those who are experiencing intense emotions usually see a few levels of increase in their mental strength.

Therefore, many combat Illusion Techniques not by remaining calm, but by stirring up strong emotions like anger or hatred within themselves to achieve destruction.

Although the Illusion Technique laid out by Charming Eyes is much more robust than a typical Illusion Mirror, considering these factors, Tang Luo specifically entered into a feigned sleep state before undergoing the procedure and, coordinating with Yun Xiu’s Illusion Technique, isolated strong emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure.

This plan was supposed to be foolproof, but during a check-up on the mountain, Yun Xiu was shocked to find out that her husband’s spiritual power had inexplicably surged.

It had become so overwhelming that it began to affect the stability of the Illusion Technique’s model, leaving Yun Xiu with no choice but to constantly reinforce it using Charming Eyes.

She had initially thought this was a one-time task, only to find that Tang Luo’s spiritual strength kept escalating as if there was no limit, requiring her to strengthen the Illusion Technique each time she visited, every two days.

As of today, it has been done a total of forty times. She’s somewhat afraid that if this reinforcement continues, Tang Luo will perpetually sink in the world of illusions, never to awaken.

Looking at the black sphere containing the soul, unchanged, and the untriggered mechanisms, Yun Xiu begins to worry about her husband’s condition.

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This marks yet another year that Tang Luo has been struggling as a planetary life form.

The good news is that he’s sure his spiritual power has significantly increased (judgment based on the number of switch activations and the duration of concentration).

The bad news is that dozens of times he has felt just a bit away from wresting more control, only to be inexplicably suppressed.

It felt as if he was about to lift a stone lock, but the stone suddenly became heavier.

If it were just once or twice, it might be dismissed as an illusion, but with it happening dozens of times, and always at the moment when he’s about to gain more "permissions," the phenomenon is worth contemplating.

Tang Luo can actually feel that his consciousness has strengthened, not diminished. It’s not that he can’t get new permissions, but rather the standards for obtaining them have been raised.

It’s like a child reaching for candy, only to have the adult lift their hand higher.

Is this teasing?

It’s a possibility, but what would be the purpose of doing that?

After all, most of the time when children are denied candy, it’s out of health considerations, not because of deliberate difficulty.

If understood from this perspective, the laws constantly raising the threshold for him to gain control could also be for his protection? For the sake of the universe’s order? To prevent the movements of celestial bodies from being disrupted?

Thinking this through, it seems reasonable; the universe which appears to be chaos, is in fact a place of extremely strict order.

Especially between celestial bodies, their subordination, proximity, and even the precision of their orbital displacement are all meticulously designed.

Because his viewpoint is fixed, Tang Luo is unable to see the celestial body he is orbiting, but after so many rotations, he can roughly estimate that the other 4,095 companions in this star field are likely orbiting the same one.

If such is the case, then the central celestial body of this universe must be an enormous and terrifying entity, able to control such a vast number of celestial bodies and impose such strict rules.

Suddenly, Tang Luo really wants to turn his fixed viewpoint around, not for any other reason, but just to glimpse the majestic presence controlling the lives of these 4,096 celestial bodies.

But obviously, in his current state, he simply can’t accomplish such a thing, so he can only toggle his viewpoint several times, as a show of respect!

Respect is respect, but to expect him to cease his self-destructive grand plan is absolutely impossible.

As a celestial body, he has lived long enough, and now he just wants to end it all sooner rather than later.

Indeed, upon learning of the astonishing supervisor above him, Tang Luo, the celestial body, became even more diligent in his exercises.

Because of a simple principle: the law uses the method of raising the upper limit to prevent him from acquiring new privileges through a strong consciousness, which precisely indicates that he is on the right path.

As for how long this path is, or how high the law’s upper limit is?

Tang Luo doesn’t care; after all, there is nothing more painful than living this icy cold life, so what’s there to fear in making an effort?

On, off, on, off, on, off, on, off, on, off... fainted.

Striving until consciousness is lost, that must be the romance of a celestial body’s existence!

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What’s the best way to magnify fear?

Imagination.

Thus, those who are scared witless by ghostly rumors are often those with a rich imagination.

Similarly, Tang Luo’s great computational ability endowed him, the celestial body, with vast imagination, but thanks to the settings that strip emotions, he is not overwhelmed by fear.

So even if there’s not a glimmer of hope ahead, he doesn’t stop his training.

And relentless dedication has never been let down by time; the first change is that his fixed viewpoint became broader and deeper.

And then celestial body Tang Luo saw the boundary of this universe!

He began to doubt the reality of this universe; seeing the boundary of the universe was far more mind-shattering than having a direct encounter with that indescribable, mysterious celestial body.

A universe with only a few thousand stars?

What kind of universe is that!

As he doubted the universe, a Spirit Seed quietly bloomed outside of his fixed viewpoint.

"Want to know the answer? Go seek the law that becomes the world!"

The voice, mysteriously familiar, echoes in the silent cosmic space, causing Tang Luo, whose thoughts are devoid of emotion, to crash.

After seeing the boundary of the universe, he now also hears its voice; the meaning beneath it all requires, with his current astonishing computational ability, some time to ponder.

Simply put, he needs a bit of time to quietly... ponder.