Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 587 - 372: Characteristics

Chapter 587: Chapter 372: Characteristics

Compared to the bone-deep agony of the previous two times, the process of Sea of Consciousness absorption was marked more by an unending dizziness and nausea.

Pain could affect one’s consciousness, but the sensation of pain could also make one alert, allowing Xu Yuan to maintain enough control to manipulate and guide the Origin Qi within his body.

However, the dizziness and nausea kept Xu Yuan’s state of consciousness blurred, causing him to be distracted with little carelessness.

Difficulty in maintaining focus was an extremely bad piece of news.

Everything within a cultivator’s body is of the utmost precision, incapable of tolerating even the slightest deviation, let alone the dangerous act of absorbing another’s will-spirit within the Sea of Consciousness.

But aside from this bad news, there was also good news.

This time, the will-spirit’s secret technique would operate on its own.

What he needed to do was actually only two things.

First, maintain stability of mind and observe if there were any deviations in the automatic operation of the secret technique within the Sea of Consciousness. If so, guide and correct it immediately.

Second, consume the will-spirit that had merged with the Celestial Fates Divine Soul within the Sea of Consciousness by any means possible to prevent it from bursting his Sea of Consciousness outright.

This also made the process of absorbing the Celestial Fates Divine Soul much easier than Xu Yuan had anticipated.

Of course,

this "easier" was relative to the challenges he previously faced in acquiring the Innate Taoist Body and spiritual vision.

The Celestial Fates Divine Soul of Tianyan continued to batter the inner walls of Xu Yuan’s Sea of Consciousness with the continued absorption of the will-spirit’s secret technique.

Had the hardware of the Innate Taoist Body not been exceptionally good, and the walls of the Sea of Consciousness extraordinarily resilient, Xu Yuan might already have become an idiot due to a ruptured Sea of Consciousness.

But even with the resilience of the Sea of Consciousness of the Innate Taoist Body, cracks still appeared on the inner walls under such impacts.

Oh no, referring to them as cracks is perhaps too concrete; after all, a cultivator’s Sea of Consciousness is not like the Dantian, a concretized organ.

It is more akin to a domain of nothingness, stored within the brain.

Within this domain of nothingness, a series of tiny granular specks gradually began to emerge at the edges.

Black at the center, gray around the periphery, densely packed and connecting into a mass, strands of will-spirit residue were seeping out from within.

The external manifestation of this anomaly was the gradual emergence of illusions within Xu Yuan’s consciousness.

There were extravagances from a past life, and debaucheries from this life.

One second he was in a modern metropolis, surrounded by trendy beauties in various modern short skirts gyrating their figures, with deafening techno blasting in his ears.

The next second, he found himself in the ancient charm of a Hook Bar, gently plucking the strings of a zither that tugged at one’s soul.

With a momentary disturbance in his consciousness, a slightly clear and sharp voice rang out beside his ear.

"Stabilize your mind."

The instant this voice sounded, the illusions that Xu Yuan had been seeing burst away at a breakneck speed, and everything around him returned to the severely damaged chamber within Tianyan.

It was Tianyan’s Heavenly Word Mantra.

Upon realizing this, Xu Yuan quickly gathered his thoughts.

He discovered that the will-spirit’s secret technique, which had been operating on its own due to the rupture in the Sea of Consciousness, was beginning to deform.

He needed to rectify this right away.

Enduring the dizzying nausea that made him want to despair, Xu Yuan forcefully guided the misshapen will-spirit back onto the correct path, and suddenly, a spark of realization surfaced in his heart.

What he had just experienced made him understand the working mechanisms of illusionary techniques in this world.

The fundamental logic behind the execution of illusionary techniques was not to affect the will-spirit of the cultivator, but the brain.

It’s just that the rejection within a cultivator’s body causes the will-spirit to subconsciously resist the invasion of illusionary spellcraft, ultimately turning into a contest between will-spirit and secret techniques.

The reason the Enchantress Divine Sakura Tree was able to drag him directly into the Illusionary Realm, ignoring cultivation level and constitution, was likely because it could penetrate the will-spirit’s defenses.

Understanding this mechanism, many potential applications of the Enchantress Divine Taoist Charm began to form in Xu Yuan’s mind.

However, the crisis was not yet over, so he temporarily suppressed these thoughts.

Up to now, it was still merely an appetizer; Xu Yuan could sense that only one-third of the ground divine soul sand within his Sea of Consciousness had been digested.

Time passed by, second by second.

While everyone inside the chamber was holding their breath and concentrating, Lou Ji’s brows gradually furrowed.

Although her will-spirit was unable to delve deep into Xu Yuan’s Sea of Consciousness, her experience allowed her to conjecture what he was currently enduring simply from the aura he exuded.

A trace of irritation began to surge within her heart.

Willpower is indeed important to a cultivator, but material things won’t change just because of your strong willpower.

Like Xu Yuan’s gradually fracturing Sea of Consciousness, for example.

The spell deployed by the Jiatiange Saintess was actually a symptomatic but not a root-solving delaying tactic; "stabilize your mind" didn’t repair the gaps caused by the cracks in the walls of Xu Yuan’s Sea of Consciousness, it simply protected his brain so that he wouldn’t be influenced by the Illusionary Realm.

And at this moment, the protection brought by the words "stabilize your mind" was beginning to fade.

In this silent moment, Lou Ji glanced at Tianyan:

"Saintess, could you perform that technique once more?"

Tianyan stared at the half-naked man on the bed, her beautiful brows slightly furrowed, her voice still devoid of emotion:

"The technique was performed earlier because the fissures in Changtian’s Sea of Consciousness were not large. If it is performed again now, it is highly likely to make things worse. The soul power used to protect his brain will seep through these fissures and into his Sea of Consciousness."

Within moments, the light in Lou Ji’s amethyst pupils shifted unpredictably: