Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

The closer he was to the city, the more Li Yao sensed the burning fire of life that was blossoming like flowers and sending all kinds of sounds and pictures to Li Yao.

Of course, he could not directly pry into other people's hearts. But when they were too excited, it was possible that their brainwaves would reveal some of their feelings and be received by Li Yao.

Those complicated memory pieces crushed Li Yao's soul again and again like the glamorous images on a kaleidoscope.

It was so overwhelming that Li Yao did not feel enjoyable as a peeper at all but was tortured. As if he were involved in a tsunami of cries, shrieks, roars, and sobs, he was torn apart into pieces, before he sank into the abyss made of the pain and miseries of thousands of people. He almost couldn't free himself from the dark emotions.

"That's too horrible!"

Li Yao tried his best to retract himself from the ocean of feelings. Looking at his dimming soul, he was still more or less frightened.

He finally understood why human beings chose to communicate with languages on the path of evolution when telepathy was so efficient and useful.

It was exactly because the interaction efficiency of telepathy was too high; so high that one feeling could contaminate every individual in a group very quickly until the whole group only had one feeling and one way of thinking.

If one man cried, the whole group would cry, and if one man laughed, the whole group would laugh with him. The fury of a single person might spread throughout the group instantly and cause a civil war in the next second!

Such a social structure was definitely far away from any kind of civilization.

Only the collective creatures like the Houyi Clan or the machine civilizations that were absolutely rational could choose telepathy as their way of information interaction.

The human brain was the hardest fortress for the soul of a human to hide in. They could think calmly and independently without being affected by radiations or the feelings of other people. That was the foundation for different thinking patterns and emotional statuses. Only when they were different could they explore different types of future!

But for Li Yao at this moment, his soul was too far away from his shell.

He was like a soldier who had taken off his crystal suit while confronting a stormy barrage almost nakedly!

Even though his soul was extremely sturdy, he could hardly compete with the feelings of billions of people.

The fire of his soul was dying and shivering like a candle in a storm.

"What a terrifying status!"

Li Yao thought to himself, Now, I'm only resisting the influence of other people by condensing my soul, but as someone in the Divinity Branching Stage, I'm supposed to split my soul into thousands of parts, resonate with millions of people, and absorb their powers for my training. Wouldn't I get schizophrenia if something goes wrong?

Li Yao finally understood why he got a general picture of the Divinity Branching Stage so easily after only secluding himself for seven days.

It seemed that the most difficult thing was not to break into the Divinity Branching Stage but to keep one's own heart from being influenced by other people when one could split their soul into thousands of parts after they entered the Divinity Branching Stage.

Come to think of it, after Wuying Qi reached the Divinity Branching Stage, was he really unchanged?

Or rather, did the darkness in the hearts of thousands of schemers and villains gather together and shaped Blackstar the Great, a so-called savior?

If Li Yao were submerged in the feelings and will of other people and was led by their desires and worries, what would his soul turn out to be in the end?

Greatly alarmed, Li Yao further condensed his soul.

He could not crawl into a random guy's head.

The brain was a fortress for the soul. Even the brain of an ordinary person was extremely solid. They would be their own king in that domain.

Li Yao might be strong, but if he were to enter a random guy's head, he might never be able to get out, like how poor Ou Yezi died in someone else's head.

"The adults, the vigorous men, and the aggressive soldiers… Their vitality field is very powerful. Their brainwaves bounce like the most colorful flames. If my soul approaches them, I'm likely to be influenced by them or even be swallowed by them.

"It will be barely possible for me to communicate with those people.

"The seniors, the children, the sick, the depressed, and the sleepers… Their vitality fields are dim, and their brainwaves are like peaceful rivers. They're not very dangerous. I can try to inject my virtual nerves into their vitality fields and transmit simple information to them.

"Huh. Why does it feel like one of the ghost stories in the ancient Cultivators' notes?

"According to the ancient Cultivators, men are less likely to be invaded by ghosts and evil creatures, and the soldiers who have been through bloody battles can scare off any foul things. On the other hand, the old people, the children, and the devastated people are more likely to see ghosts. So, it's not superstition. It's just that the latter's vitality field is weaker, and it's easier for outsiders to mess with their retina and their optical nerves!

"There's also the story where one can appear in someone else's dream and make a request. It's for the same reason. When someone is sleeping, they're least wary and defended, and it's easy to simulate their brain cells and present information in their dream.

"It's not entirely impossible for me to even possess someone now. If I choose someone who is weak and unstable, I can invade his brain, hijack some of his brain nerves, and use his body remotely. Of course, it will be very dangerous and exhausting for both of us. There's no need to do something so stupid unless it's absolutely necessary.

"All in all, the ancient people were unaware of the approaches of systematic research and only concluded the phenomena, but they're quite similar to what I've seen today."

Li Yao thought quickly and tried his new techniques.

He should've spent a month if not a year on familiarizing himself with the new techniques.

But there was no time for that. The center of the cosmos was on fire. How could he take his time studying the techniques?

Concentrating his soul into a long, narrow streak of light, Li Yao left the city and flew to the east coast of the continent in a tube of spiritual energy.

In the blink of an eye, he had reached the coastline.

Through the tube, Li Yao continued the journey and dived into the ocean. Very soon, an island appeared before him. It was exactly Zhuge Jinglun's Third Psychic Research Institute.

Li Yao's soul leaped from the tides and observed the asylum from the sky.

The vitality fields of the psychopaths were a hundred times more violent and creepy than those of the ordinary people. Li Yao couldn't help but feel frightened.

Carefully circumventing the psychopaths, he marched further into the town of the Covenant Alliance people through the tube.

There was no difference between day and night deep down the island. The place was as bright as day under the illumination of lights even though the sky was dark outside. The thousand captives of the Covenant Alliance were still working like tireless machines and building their home with their natural instincts.

The vitality fields of the Covenant Alliance were completely different from other people.

The brains of the normal people were like flowers, vortexes, mazes, or kaleidoscopes, and the brains of the Covenant Alliance people were like dry wells, frozen lakes, and hard rocks, nothing more.

While Li Yao was too scared to enter the brains of the normal people, the brains of the Covenant Alliance people seemed to be too boring to be studied.

Even so, Li Yao identified the person who seemed to be the sunspot without any problem.

Under his perception with his vitality field, the sunspot looked even more out of the picture.

Even though he was as busy practicing as other soldiers of the Covenant Alliance were, he simply felt different for Li Yao.

There was no telling if it was because of Wuying Qi 3.0's influence, but Li Yao found the sunspot very amiable, as if they were connected by blood!

Li Yao's soul couldn't help but drift toward the sunspot's head.

The sunspot's head was not wary or resistant at all. Instead, there was some sort of uncanny attraction, as if he were welcoming the guest!

Even so, Li Yao was not Wuying Qi.

He was civilized and polite.

"Knock, knock, knock."

Li Yao released threads of spiritual energy and tied up some of the sunspot's auditory nerves before he said politely, "Hello, may I come in?"