Chapter 1228: Second Space Evolution
Xu Huo really hadn't expected that his shadow personality could actually mimic sounds to interfere with Xue Lang. He hadn't fully recovered the memories related to that period at the Seventeenth Hospital; what he'd retrieved was only the part concerning Dr. Zhang. Most of the details were actually lost to him. The other children in the hospital were also part of Dr. Zhang's training courses, so he didn't know the specifics completely. Whether his childhood self had any "friendship" of playing games with Xiao Liang, he didn't know... But judging by Xue Lang's expression, it probably wasn't a pleasant experience.
The fragments of the black shadow scattered on the ground, and a portion of them flowed like a thin stream behind Xue Lang, then slowly rose into the air, coalescing into a hand reaching for his throat.
But before it could touch him, Xue Lang vanished from his spot and teleported a hundred meters away.
Staring at Xu Huo's position, Xue Lang's expression flickered between light and dark, as if he was hesitating about something. At that moment, the communicator in his pocket rang, its urgent tone solidifying his decision.
"We'll meet again after the instance ends." He said this to the space in front of him before opening a teleportation portal and leaving.
Xu Huo breathed a slight sigh of relief, but also felt a bit disappointed. Xue Lang had probably sensed his intentions, which was why he withdrew and left.
He just didn't know if the companions around him were also children trained by Dr. Zhang.
Applying medicine to his wounds, Xu Huo reopened his spiritual realm.
Earlier, when the space ray had passed through the materialized door, he had sensed it. When he first underwent space evolution, he had also discovered space rays through his spiritual realm. Although he couldn't actually do anything concrete with space rays, this meant that with a high degree of spiritual power enhancement, he could touch the boundaries of space evolution—that is, perceive the existence of space rays.
So when Xue Lang's ray cut through the materialized door, he confirmed that this was another use of space rays, like a blade formed from space rays, just in a different form.
Super evolution in the spatial direction generally involved controlling space teleportation and remotely controlling objects or people. For those more powerful, they could naturally use space rays to kill—Bai Kou had demonstrated the object control aspect before, and Mr. Kang had achieved killing with space rays. Although the forms were different, Mr. Kang's space ray blade and Xue Lang's rays could both directly affect props, possessing high destructive power.
This should be the further level that spatial super evolution could reach.
Xu Huo could move short distances within space, but he hadn't yet reached the stage of directly touching space rays, so he had to rely on the cube space.
Unable to touch them directly, his perception of space rays was blurry, and he lacked understanding. That was why he hadn't attempted to directly contact the rays during his fight with Xue Lang, nor had he used props to clash head-on.
What he hadn't expected was that his shadow personality could actually grab those rays. Although the damage to his personality had caused him some trauma, being able to touch the rays after just a few attempts was a very small price to pay.
Putting away the cube space, Xu Huo looked at the lines in space through his spiritual realm.
He first tentatively plucked at a line beside him. Hmm, the difficulty had decreased. At the same time, the distance of the line was stretched. Supporting himself on the line, he took a step in space and smoothly crossed over four hundred meters, and was able to successfully touch a branch in the distance through the ray.
After the first successful attempt, he grabbed several more lines and used them to pull at the leaves on the branch. He noted that he could only "pluck" them, but after several tries, these rays became more flexible and no longer required much effort. He easily plucked the leaves from the branch.
At the same time, he sensed a subtle connection between pure space and objects.
Objects actually existed, and they inherently had fixed rays. In Xu Huo's current view, the rays within objects and the rays in space were separate, just crammed together like clutter, with clear boundaries. Although he could use space rays to pluck and move objects, it was more like applying force from a distance, without intersecting with the rays inside the object.
But in that instant, Xu Huo vaguely felt that the rays in space could connect with the lines within the leaves.
He chose a larger branch as a new target to test. First, he used space rays to lift the branch, then attempted to directly penetrate the branch itself with the rays.
This was like fishing with a straight hook—it wasn't even a question of difficulty anymore. Before long, sweat covered Xu Huo's forehead—this was extremely energy-consuming.
He had to stop to replenish his strength. After eating and drinking heavily, he began his second attempt.
Compared to the seemingly more orderly space rays, the rays within objects were very irregular, some like a tangled ball of yarn, some appearing to have a certain pattern, and others being clustered dead knots, yet they were very stable.
After trying several times, Xu Huo still couldn't translate that feeling of connection into practical operation. With limited energy, he had to give up remote control and switch to direct contact.
Unexpectedly, this was much more convenient. The elusive things under the touch of space rays suddenly became substantial, and at the same time, the rays within the object seemed to become pliable.
Xu Huo first used space rays to twist the branch into several segments, then plucked at the lines within the segment he held in his hand. After several attempts, he finally managed to thread a line through from a certain point!
At that moment, it was as if the space rays had automatically penetrated every gap within the branch, filling its interior like omnipresent space, or as if a node between the space rays and the branch's rays had connected, achieving the condition for external control of the interior... In any case, at this point, Xu Huo could completely control this section of the branch through space rays.
He lightly closed his five fingers, and this ten-centimeter-long branch crumbled into a pile of fingernail-sized fragments in his hand.
Turning his palm over, Xu Huo watched the wood chips falling to the ground and suddenly realized that spatial evolution and spiritual evolution were very similar. When spiritual evolution reached a certain level, the wall in front of a person was no longer a wall, but an existence that could be freely passed through, like air. Spatial evolution was the same; objects blocking the rays could both exist and not exist.
With the first success, subsequent attempts came naturally. Maintaining distance from objects and choosing different objects all allowed him to achieve direct control via space rays. It looked somewhat like decomposing objects, but it could only go from large to small, and couldn't change the nature of the object.
Additionally, the size of the manipulable objects was limited. With Xu Huo's current ability, the maximum he could destroy was roughly the volume of a person. Of course, this didn't mean he could directly slice a person with space rays. The material of the object was also very limited. Ordinary flowers, grass, trees, or some basic tables, chairs, and boxes were no problem to destroy, but items that had undergone precision processing, such as various boxes, metal objects, and props commonly used in the game, could not be destroyed. However, ordinary glass bottles or paper items were possible.
Simply put, the easier something was to destroy by hand, the easier it was to destroy with rays.
(Chapter End)