Chapter 2824: Multiple Spiritual Worlds

“A model house.” Tang Xu said, “I’ve only seen it once, it was the house where she lived as a child, and her Spiritual World unfolded as city buildings. It’s not very expansive.”

Xu Huo nodded. This description had appeared once, during Miss Zeng’s first therapy session. Later, her Spiritual World became an inescapable forest, underground tunnels, and endless darkness.

After checking Miss Zeng’s Psychic Power peak and the spiritual power peak of the Evolver treating her, Xu Huo felt it might be worth a try.

The accompanying expert suggested conducting a spiritual power value test for him first to determine if he could interfere with Miss Zeng’s Spiritual World. If his value was low, there was no need to take the risk; otherwise, not only would he be in danger, but it might also affect Miss Zeng.

Xu Huo looked at Tang Xu.

Tang Xu said to the expert, “I directly authorize it as a family member.”

The expert could only nod. However, for safety, they didn’t remove the monitoring devices from Miss Zeng, allowing for observation of her condition.

Even with the nutrient solution, Miss Zeng, lying in the hospital bed, looked unwell, not only with sickly paleness but also with a blue-gray hue on her forehead and mouth corners, as if it was emanating from inside her body. Although she hadn’t woken up, she occasionally showed signs of extreme distress, requiring medication to calm down.

Miss Zeng’s mental state was unstable, causing her Psychic Power to occasionally leak. Thus, Xu Huo could directly observe her spiritual power, which wasn’t very strong.

After getting a slight sense of the situation, Xu Huo pulled up a chair to sit by the bedside. He nodded to Tang Xu and others, confirming they were ready, then closed his eyes and opened his Spiritual World.

He controlled the range of the Spiritual World, not covering Miss Zeng entirely at first. Instead, he increased the spiritual power intensity after attracting her attention. Once Miss Zeng instinctively retaliated, her Spiritual World instantly covered the entire room.

The walls and floor of the room were made of special partition materials, so her spiritual power didn’t leak out. The expert invited by Tang Xu observed and operated from outside the room with him.

The instruments in the room sounded a gentle rhythmic alarm, and Xu Huo’s vision shifted to a dim forest.

The forest wasn’t very realistic. In the distance, only blurry tree shadows could be seen, mostly shrouded in darkness, with a faint path underfoot. However, before moving forward, a corpse with a scarred face suddenly dangled from a tree ahead.

Unless using a real setting, most things seen in such a purely spiritual power collision within a Core Spiritual World are fake, and the realism depends on the Evolver’s evolution level.

Despite the scarred face, there was no smell of blood. Xu Huo bypassed it and continued walking.

The visible range of the forest wasn’t large, but the path was long. He wasn’t in a hurry, walking along the path slowly to give Miss Zeng time to adjust.

Approximately ten minutes passed before he raised his hand and gently made a mark ahead. In the forest world crafted by spiritual power, a vertical line appeared, and as it opened like an eye, a portal to the outside world was formed.

Xu Huo walked over. Behind him was a tunnel filled with a musty, unpleasant scent. The rhythmic dripping of water echoed, muddy ground making it hard to walk. The water and footsteps sounds reverberated, overlapping repeatedly, gradually forming a noisy soundstream.

This time he took fifteen minutes to open a portal with a Vertical Pupil, leading to a purely black world thereafter.

The purely black Spiritual World, among the Evolvers Xu Huo had encountered, only Dou Shengnan’s world was like this. Her Spiritual World seemingly lacked concrete Materialized Items, resembling flowing forces like water. However, this didn’t imply weakness; instead, such an elusive Spiritual World made it challenging to handle.

Upon stepping into this Spiritual World, he sensed spiritual forces around him moving rapidly. Although gathered, these forces hesitated to approach for some unknown reason.

Xu Huo reached out and smoothed the air ahead. The dense black forces slightly dissipated, momentarily revealing and then concealing the outline of a face.

It appeared to be an extremely pained face, but it didn’t belong to Miss Zeng.

He continued smoothing out spiritual forces in other places, revealing behind each force movement was a face, each different, yet all seemed very pained.

Perhaps it was a proactive attack from the Spiritual World; suddenly, numerous faces surged from the darkness, surrounding him from different directions.

Considering Miss Zeng’s endurance, Xu Huo used only one Prop, cutting a gap in the wall of faces before walking out.

At this point, Miss Zeng’s Spiritual World became quite unstable. The black world collapsed in many areas, with the previous forest and tunnel worlds appearing erratically like a puzzle within the darkness. Xu Huo also sensed sharp spiritual power attempting to assault his brain.

Ignoring these attacks, he opened several Vertical Pupil portals within this Spiritual World, shuttling back and forth between the forest and tunnel worlds, eventually locating Miss Zeng’s original Spiritual World, a dark street.

Her Spiritual World was very unstable; buildings were intact only near street lamps, while other areas were mostly incomplete or were invaded by other Spiritual Worlds.

Seeing this, Xu Huo slightly frowned. This scenario was more like someone had implanted a Spiritual World into Miss Zeng’s, rather than her having split personality.

He hadn’t encountered such a situation before. However, if this were indeed the case, finding a cure would require searching within other Spiritual Worlds.

A childish personality appeared beside Xu Huo, nodded at him, then ran toward the forest world.

Street lights flickered occasionally, or emitted crackling sounds. Xu Huo slowly walked along the street, using spiritual power from time to time to push back other invading Spiritual Worlds. After walking a bit further, he finally saw a small red-tiled house at the end.

That should be Miss Zeng’s Core Spiritual World.

He knocked on the door. After getting no response, he opened a Vertical Pupil portal intending to enter. However, unexpectedly, inside appeared the face of Dou Shengnan!

Composed of white spiritual power, a long blade Materialized Item instantly surrounded Dou Shengnan, rapidly piercing toward her. Instinctively, Xu Huo immediately mobilized spiritual power to kill the opponent, but as the Materialized Item touched her, he abruptly reined in his spiritual power—this wasn’t Dou Shengnan.