Chapter 929 - 410: Free Deep Diving

Chu Xiu had heard enough about the dangers of Free Deep Diving. In everyone’s description, it was almost a chaotic unknown, filled with randomness, where even the strongest could fall!

Previously, Vengeance had mentioned that a Heroic Spirit got lost in the Abyss, and a Demigod went to rescue them by Free Deep Diving, only to perish in the Abyss instead.

The depth at which the Heroic Spirit got lost wasn’t even considered high. It was so dangerous, and the Tribulation Chu Xiu matched with... Even the most conservative estimate wouldn’t be less risky than any Heroic Spirit Level Ancient Trials!

"But there’s no other option now."

"Let’s give it a try for now; we can’t remain trapped here forever."

Taking a deep breath, Chu Xiu closed his eyes and communicated with the Awakening Space through his mind.

In fact, even entering Free Deep Diving mode wasn’t easy.

If Awakening Space were likened to a complex spacecraft, then previously, the Abyss had set the whole "program", and the Awakened only needed to perform actions like pressing corresponding buttons to automatically complete operations.

But now, Chu Xiu had to start from basic principles, learning from scratch how to control this spacecraft!

"The principle of Awakening Space is likely to help one enter some higher-dimensional space."

Just like the Black Death Prison in the past, the hemisphere covering the entire Peng City was merely a small dot in the higher-dimensional space.

In higher dimensions, one can cross vast spaces with very little energy!

For example, in a two-dimensional space, a line segment spanning a thousand kilometers—if folded along its center, from a higher-dimensional perspective, the start and end points of the line segment seem "stuck" together.

Actually, the use of high-dimensional space isn’t that profound. Strong beings of the Heroic Spirit Level can barely manipulate it, like Ella, the Wolf of Fear encountered in Peng City, having a similar Shadow Space. Chu Xiu’s Garuda’s Wings space travel Divine Technique essentially also relies on high-dimensional space.

But these two are vastly different from Awakening Space. Both Shadow Space and Space Travel involve temporarily leaving reality, like a fish leaping out of the sea.

Truly entering higher-dimensional space is completely leaving the sea surface and flying in the sky!

This involves too much, like how to travel between the current world and higher dimensions, how to adapt the body to higher-dimensional space, how to move within it, etc...

With just Chu Xiu’s understanding of space, it’s utterly impossible; let alone achieving it, he could barely touch the edges!

But fortunately, he has Awakening Space.

With Chu Xiu’s mind fully immersed, a flood of information entered his brain.

Although he lost datafication, the connection he established with Awakening Space hadn’t disappeared. This feeling, similar to an Artifact recognizing its owner, was very mysterious. Just like how he couldn’t fully understand Garuda’s Wings’ space travel Divine Technique, it didn’t hinder Chu Xiu from using it.

No matter how complex the thing is, when it comes to usage, it would always be designed as simple and understandable as possible. Like a smartphone, the pinnacle of technology, yet even a three-year-old can easily figure out how to use it.

Awakening Space is far more complex than using a phone, but how vast is Chu Xiu’s Divine Thought?

"I understand."

"This Awakening Space is essentially a ’door’ connecting the inside and outside."

"Just that the way to open this door is somewhat special..."

When it hadn’t gone dataless yet, Chu Xiu could detach merely with a thought. He guessed that Awakening Space, though looking like an ordinary space, actually contained components that rely on "Divine Thought" for control, like the fire cannons in Titan Giant Mechanism which can be controlled using Divine Thought.

After some exploration, Chu Xiu’s eyes suddenly lit up.

"Found it!"

Immediately, Divine Thought surged, hundreds of strands of Divine Thought simultaneously extended, precisely activating different areas. As those areas were activated, Awakening Space started to expand outward from Chu Xiu’s Dantian!

Chu Xiu rapidly experimented with different "activation points" affecting Awakening Space, relying on calculation speeds comparable to supercomputers, almost by brute force, it didn’t take long to find the manipulation for continual expansion of Awakening Space!

The Awakening Space within the Star Core kept expanding, suddenly as if it broke through a certain critical point. In less than zero point zero one second, it abruptly expanded a hundredfold! Instantly engulfing Chu Xiu entirely! The next moment it rapidly collapsed!

Chu Xiu felt a blur before him; when he regained consciousness, he found himself in a chaotic space that felt both familiar and strange.

Familiar because it was no different from Awakening Space; strange because a huge amount of information was pouring into his mind—meaningless noise, bizarre and motley scenes, brief and rapid flashes...

His brain felt like it was colors stirred together, a continuous dizzy sensation arose in his mind.

"Uh..."

He grabbed his head, breathing in short bursts, trying hard to adjust to the information flooding into his mind.

Chu Xiu knew this discomfort came from directly falling into high-dimensional space. He had heard before that Awakened trying Free Deep Diving for the first time would go through a period of adaptation, and the stronger the Divine Soul of the Awakened, the greater the impact!

This is because during directional travel, Awakening Space acts like a train moving along a fixed channel, with the channel constructed by the Abyss isolating the inside and outside. But with Free Deep Diving, you are directly thrown into high-dimensional space with your entire being.