Chapter 1680: Transcending Dimensions
After several time rewinds without seeing Carmen Field again, Xu Huo stopped wasting time on the rays. The farther he got from the central temple, the fewer battle scenes he could see. Since the chance of seeing Carmen Field again was slim, trying every possible method to find him was meaningless.
However, during these time rewinds, he not only witnessed the two Divine Envoys’ control methods over space rays but also saw Carmen Field’s alternative control method over space-time rays. Xu Huo had no say regarding time rays, but as far as space rays were concerned, both the Divine Envoys and Carmen Field had reached the level of ray assimilation that Lady Gong had mentioned. The latter, in particular, could even refine the rays further beyond their basic units.
For Xu Huo, a single space ray was the fundamental unit of space power. He could only manipulate these smallest units to piece together or form certain objects, thereby changing the overall state of space. Within his perception, space rays were indivisible—like how the human eye might see a speck of dust but could never perceive its smaller structure or composition. Those smaller components were a blind spot for humans.
Thus, whether it was subdividing space rays or assimilating them, both were blind spots for Xu Huo.
Xu Huo had obtained the “Cube Space” from Mr. Kang in the high-risk instance. This device could assist him in controlling space rays, but even after his mental power evolved again and he successfully created the “Confusion Barrier” by borrowing space power, he still couldn’t achieve the effect Mr. Kang had when he directly used a space blade to destroy a high-level space item. Since Mr. Kang had committed suicide, Xu Huo didn’t know what item or device he had used to utilize space power so effectively without super evolution.
But thinking carefully, relying on items or devices had its limits and many restrictions. Only by truly mastering this power could one use it freely.
Subdividing space rays, assimilating space rays, or changing the form of space rays—these were three different directions of controlling space rays. To evolve further, the key was to see which direction was more achievable.
Having witnessed Carmen Field’s close-range demonstration and being in a suitable space evolution venue, Xu Huo decided to first learn from him by subdividing space rays.
Most of the buildings near the central temple had been destroyed in the fighting, so there weren’t many eye patterns nearby. He further expanded the range of his spiritual realm, using his mental power to visualize space rays as he had when he began his space evolution, thereby observing their state.
Assimilating space rays could achieve what Lady Gong did—easily connecting to the rays within objects and changing their form. This method was similar to how Xu Huo had previously destroyed smaller, loosely structured objects, but his approach was to figure out the ray structure of an object and destroy the object by breaking that structure. A stronger individual might be able to pulverize an object effortlessly. Lady Gong’s approach, on the other hand, was to use her own rays to assimilate the object’s rays, making the rays within the object as easy to change as the rays she could control. He had tried this many times later but never succeeded.
Xue Lang’s direction was to change the shape of the rays, completely turning them into tangents. The length and quantity of the rays were the direction of evolution. This should be closer to Carmen Field’s subdivision of space rays. So Xu Huo started from these two aspects to see if he could achieve similar effects.
He first tried to influence the space rays in the surrounding space, but because the rays in this chaotic space were harder to control than those outside, multiple attempts yielded no results. He then looked for existing space bodies nearby, some of which were created by Carmen Field, so the residual space rays might leave traces.
However, although he had personally seen Carmen Field merge several threads into a single space ray, whether in the space bodies or the traces left on buildings, the space rays still existed in their basic unit form, not maintaining the state they had on Carmen Field’s fingers.
After many failed attempts, Xu Huo began to find it strange. He couldn’t quite understand why Carmen Field used a one-to-five form when connecting to the space rays on the Primordial Stone. From the final result, the five rays combined had no change in appearance. If so, why do it this way?
If the power connected to the Primordial Stone was insufficient, wouldn’t using just five fingers be too few? Space rays weren’t something you could actually grab or touch. With a flick of the finger, you could summon hundreds or thousands. Wouldn’t that give a greater chance of success?
Perhaps it wasn’t that troublesome in his hands—two or three versus five made little difference—but the fact that he didn’t use a single ray from the start indicated that connecting to the Primordial Stone required this method.
Primordial Stone… Xu Huo took out the “Angel’s Eyes” from his backpack.
Similarly, the time rays Carmen Field used to connect to another Primordial Stone were also five-in-one. It was only later, when the rays connected to the sky and then dispersed back, that they automatically separated into countless threads.
He deliberately walked a bit farther to find a time ray, examined it carefully for a moment, then withdrew his gaze. As far as he could tell, there wasn’t much difference between the time rays in this space and those within the Primordial Stone, but he didn’t dare touch them recklessly, lest something irreversible happen.
After killing someone with time rays, Carmen Field had said, “Isn’t there a dimensional space with smaller time flow around here?” Although it sounded a bit cryptic, Xu Huo had just begun his evolution, and his first impression of time rays was still very clear. Besides time being ungraspable, he also felt that time penetrated space.
Before this, he had difficulty understanding what it meant for time to penetrate and transcend the limitations of this space. But connecting it to that sentence, it was easy to think that time could indeed connect to other spaces and even cross dimensions, unlike space power, which was relatively closed.
For a space—say, a district—its internal space power was the same. Whether it was a Super Evolver or an item or device, unless the space was completely destroyed or a passage to another district was forcibly opened, the space power within that district was stable and unbreakable. Take this chaotic space, for example. Although it intersected with District 014 and had a mutual passage, the state of the space rays outside was completely different from those inside. This was one reason Xu Huo felt his body heavy when he entered—controlling space rays was more difficult for him.
But time rays were different.
(Chapter End)