The First Order

Chapter 1078: A sea

Breathe.

This was something Yang Xiaojin had purposely taught Ren Xiaosu. She said that for an excellent sniper, breathing should be like a hint to oneself. The moment you adjusted your breathing, all of your willpower should serve you alone.

Ren Xiaosu breathed slowly and started trying to get into condition so he could completely relax.

Melgor said that some sorcerers’ inner world of meditation was a pool of water, while others were streams. In that case, Ren Xiaosu was very curious about what his inner world would look like.

In Ren Xiaosu’s opinion, it would be more appropriate to call this inner world of meditation an inner world of spirituality. Since the Eye of True Sight was a willpower concentrating device, the world it led its owner into should naturally be an inner spiritual world.

The nation of sorcerers was very magical and strange, but in truth, Ren Xiaosu felt their powers should be similar in theory to the willpower of superhumans in the Central Plains.

He sat in his tent and quietly took out his Eye of True Sight. It was a black stone with a purple eye sigil on it.

However, Ren Xiaosu was not in a hurry to enter a meditative state. Instead, he quietly waited to see if Melgor would have any reaction.

Melgor had said he wanted to search for this stone because he had sensed its presence.

Ren Xiaosu did not know how the other party had sensed it or what the explanation for it was. Therefore, he would have to be careful just in case Melgor sensed it again after Ren Xiaosu took the stone out of his mind palace.

After waiting for some time, Ren Xiaosu finally felt at ease when he saw no reaction from Melgor.

It seemed that when the third weapon appeared, it was that huge phenomenon in the sky rather than the Eye of True Sight that Melgor had sensed.

But what was an inner world of meditation like?

Willpower was imperceptible, but ever since he became a superhuman, he had never been worried about his willpower drying up like the others.

Therefore, what would his inner world look like?

Ren Xiaosu closed his eyes and slowly settled down. When his entire world fell into darkness, he noticed the Eye of True Sight in his hand seemed to be breathing in tandem with him.

If an outsider were present, they would discover the Eye of True Sight was also pulsing.

Melgor said one could enter their inner world after a 100 respirations.

But Ren Xiaosu did not deliberately count. He just allowed his mind to continue wandering before refocusing again.

Ren Xiaosu could hear his own footsteps in the darkness. He felt like he was walking down a dark corridor. Every breath he took was a step forward in here.

At this moment, Ren Xiaosu saw a door appear in front of him. The complicated wood grain patterns on it were extremely abstract, but when Ren Xiaosu took a closer look, he was surprised to discover they were actually a collection of all his superpowers: the steam locomotive, the black saber, the black sniper rifle, the shadow clone, the Potato Shooter….

Meanwhile, at the centermost position were two playing cards. The two Jokers wore strange smiles.

Ren Xiaosu took a deep breath and pushed the door open. It creaked, but he did not find it ear-piercing. Rather, it made him rest easy.

“This is…” Ren Xiaosu was stunned. He was already extremely familiar with the place in front of him. That was because the inner world he entered was the palace.

Ren Xiaosu’s consciousness had been in here. But at that time, it felt like he was overlooking the entire structure of the palace. He did not “exist” in here, nor did he have a “body.” It was only his ethereal consciousness that had been to this place.

But now, Ren Xiaosu was like a visitor to the library who could stroll around freely.

He slowly walked over to the brass typewriter and tried pressing the brass keys. Although he heard the typewriter making mechanical sounds, nothing was typed out.

Everything in the palace had taken on a physical form after his meditation.

So the palace was his inner spiritual world? Ren Xiaosu pondered this seriously.

He had always been curious about the origins of the palace. Other people’s superpowers could be traced back to how they came about, but only his power of the palace had suddenly appeared after he fell unconscious one day.

Ren Xiaosu asked a lot of people before, but he had never heard of anyone needing to fall unconscious to awaken their powers.

Therefore, he was always puzzled by the origins of the palace. So this was the manifestation of his willpower?

More importantly, everyone said that the power of materialization was related to one’s subconscious. For example, Yang Xiaojin had awakened the power to materialize a sniper rifle because she liked sniper rifles, while Luo Lan awakened the Martyr’s Palace due to his desire to keep his comrades by his side. Zhou Qi, who liked to swim, awakened his power of parting water. Because Li Shentan hoped that those who had witnessed his mother’s tragedy would repent sincerely, he awakened the power of hypnosis. As Xun Yeyu was particularly afraid to die, he awakened his radar-esque power.

When Ren Xiaosu was discussing this topic with the Great Hoodwinker, Wang Yun, and the others, he asked them why Wang Congyang’s awakened power was the steam locomotive.

Wang Yun guessed it could be that Wang Congyang yearned for freedom, so he wanted to use the steam locomotive to escape the control of the consortiums.

That also made some sense.

Of course, there were other, relatively abstract powers, such as Zhang Baogen’s saliva bubbles.

In that case, what was with his power of the palace? The circular walls of the palace were filled with cabinets and looked like a library. While this could be understood as Ren Xiaosu’s thirst for knowledge, what the hell was the Potato Shooter power about? Weren’t his powers too diverse?

Back to the topic at hand, he had entered his inner world this time because he was curious about how big it was.

Just as Melgor had said, the more powerful a sorcerer was, the more magnificent their inner world would be.

Someone’s inner world was comprised of a mountain-sized leaf, so why did it become just a palace when it came to him?

Actually, having a palace was still much stronger than many other people. But the problem was that this did not match Ren Xiaosu’s usual performance. After all, Wang Congyang’s steam locomotive only had four carriages, while his had sixteen.

It was not that Ren Xiaosu was trying to be narcissistic, but the truth was that he had the right to be so.

Ren Xiaosu stood in the middle of the palace and shouted, “Hey, Palace, you there?”

There was no answer.

Alright, even the palace had stopped talking after he came here through meditation.

Left with no choice, Ren Xiaosu could only figure things out on his own to see if there were any other secrets to the palace.

But just as he looked around, his gaze landed on the cabinet that was supposed to be holding the Eye of True Sight.

There was an empty hole in the walls of that display cabinet, which looked just big enough to fit an Eye of True Sight.

Ren Xiaosu glanced at the Eye of True Sight in his hand before gently placing it into the gap.

With a crackle, the chains and mechanisms holding the palace together started moving, pulling open the cabinets on both sides of the palace walls and revealing a door. This door was exactly the same as the one he first entered the palace through.

Ren Xiaosu resolutely pushed it open and was greeted by a vast expanse of the sky outside. Clouds were even floating past him.

There was no path that led outside, and Ren Xiaosu stood at the edge of the door. He was teetering on a cliff on the edge of an island in the sky as a blue sea stretched out under his feet..