Chapter 2909: Evolution
The treasure vault space had a gap deliberately left by a predecessor. After Xu Huo repeated his attempts many times, he finally succeeded in entering the treasure vault space two days later.
He casually picked up a gold coin, weighed it in his hand, and released his spiritual power to begin searching the entire vault.
A few minutes later, a white materialized object passed through the mountain of gold, lifted a metal box from the bottom, and slowly carried it over to Xu Huo.
The box had a combination lock. After a moment's thought, he entered the numbers 917.
With a "click," the lid slowly sprang open, revealing a pale green injection quietly resting in the box's groove. The syringe was marked with the letters "P7S."
He pulled it out for a look. On the other side of the injection, a special note read: "Use in a safe environment."
The previous Perfect Potions had each increased the evolution rate by 10%, but based on the information from the Bookworm, starting from P7S, the increase in evolution rate was no longer as significant. Dr. Wu had left the potion and specifically noted it should be used in a safe environment, indicating that taking the later potions might cause severe side effects.
At this moment, what place could be safer than the treasure vault?
He took out a small bag of compressed biscuits he had in his pocket, ate them, then sat cross-legged on the ground, rolled up his sleeve again, and slowly pushed the injection into his arm.
After the injection was complete, he waited, but there was no expected pain or fainting. However, a few minutes later, he began to hallucinate. In a daze, he actually saw Xu Zhi standing before him.
His consciousness seemed to be stripped from his body. His soul was pulled by some force, maintained in a half-asleep, half-awake state, completely incapable of thought, drifting along purely by instinct.
He reached out to grab the person in front of him, but his hand passed through Xu Zhi's body. Xu Zhi was smiling. As he smiled, he transformed into Dr. Zhang's appearance. Dr. Zhang was also smiling, and after a moment, his lips moved, opening and closing as if he were saying something.
Xu Huo couldn't hear anything. Sweat from his forehead flowed into his eyes, blurring his vision, making it hard for him to tell whether the person standing in front of him was Xu Zhi or Dr. Zhang.
He shook his head. Dizzy and disoriented, three figures appeared beside him.
The childhood persona stood in front, the teenage persona and the young adult persona on his left and right.
Among his three personas, the childhood persona was the most like a real person. He could make expressions and had his own thoughts. Although the teenage and young adult personas could also act independently, they lacked a certain flexibility...
But when Xu Huo looked up now, all three faces were smiling.
Innocence, cunning, indifference; sincerity, wildness, cruelty—multiple emotions intertwined on the three smiling faces. Suddenly, they reached out to grab and tear at him, as if trying to seize control of the body.
Xu Huo closed his eyes. This was the only simple action he could manage now. This body had become a container, his soul trapped inside without a body, while the other personas tried to squeeze in.
Spiral staircases appeared in crisscross patterns. The Library Tower rose and then deconstructed. White spiritual power surged like a tide, repeatedly building new Library Towers and then drowning them again... until everything turned pitch black.
He found himself seemingly opening his eyes. Between the opening and closing of his vision, he saw several shadows. One shadow lay on the ground, one knelt, and two other shadows stood in front. Suddenly, one of the standing shadows reached out and touched the head of the kneeling shadow. A black spiritual power was drawn out, and then the standing figure used two fingers to snip off a segment of it...
Spiritual power, like a real object, was cut off a section, and then a new section was patched in.
The vision grew darker and darker. Amidst the shaking, Xu Huo saw himself reach out a hand forward, and then he completely fell into darkness...
"Crash!" His body woke before his consciousness, causing the mountain of gold beside him to slide down. Xu Huo propped himself up on his arm and slowly sat up from among the gold coins.
The sweat on his body had long since dried, and his stomach was growling with hunger. It felt like he had slept for a very long time.
He looked down at the time and frowned slightly. Seven days had already passed.
A small hand reached out from beside him and deliberately covered the terminal.
Pushing aside the childhood persona, Xu Huo ignored the teenage and young adult personas standing like door gods on his left and right, stood up, and stretched his body.
Although, under the catalysis of the potion, his spiritual evolution had undergone another change, and he had been hungry for several days while unconscious, his body felt no fatigue. Instead, there was an unusual sense of ease.
This sense of ease came from a more comprehensive and precise control over his body. It was as if some kind of shackle had suddenly been broken. His body was not only lighter but also had a certain transparency. When his palm brushed through the air, he could feel the slight friction of the airflow passing through the gaps in his bones.
Whether in contact with the outside world or not, in this state, he could even finely grasp the changes in his bones, muscles, and internal organs. Whenever he wanted, he could mobilize every cell of this body at any time.
Beyond that, for the first time, he could finely perceive the vitality of the King Fungus mycelium. It grew along his blood vessels and meridians, extending to every part of his muscles, aging and growing faster than his own body.
The increase in evolution rate leading to further physical evolution of the player was only natural. This entirely new feeling was indeed astonishing, but what surprised Xu Huo even more was his spiritual evolution. After the upper limit of his body was raised, some of the constraints on his spiritual evolution naturally loosened.
It seemed that the P7S potion had a special promoting effect on the player's advantages... Or rather, evolving to this level could be considered reaching a stage of qualitative change, so it brought more than just an enhancement in physical ability.
Naturally, his perception of spatial power had also undergone a subtle change.
Gently plucking the spatial rays in front of him, the spatial power that quickly gathered, folded, and compressed transformed from a space entity into a space entity band, and from a space entity band into a finger-sized progressive polyhedron. At this stage, spatial power had truly reached a level visible to the naked eye.
The complex geometric shapes formed by simple line arrangements were difficult to clearly see in their permutations and combinations, but they possessed a simple beauty. The power they contained added a mysterious color to this beauty. They had no color, yet appeared so magnificent.
Xu Huo constructed a progressive polyhedron band. Through the flickering polyhedron band, the faint light released by the metals and ores in the vault was projected into tens of thousands of rays. These refracted rays intertwined to form a tiny kaleidoscope world.
The kaleidoscope world was the final form of spatial evolution he had seen in the spatial super instance venue.
Of course, he now knew that beyond space lay hyperdimension, and the kaleidoscope world was not the end. But this was already the limit a human could reach. Creating it with his own hands was still exciting enough.