Chapter 3012: Rebuilding the Core Spiritual World
In the white spiritual world, Ms. Yao's figure flickered a few times before arriving at the deepest part of the Library Tower. She stood before the table with its symbolic significance, seemingly scrutinizing the books placed upon it.
The table silently disintegrated, merging with the books into the white ground beneath, while Ms. Yao instinctively launched an attack. She thrust her hand into the ground, as if trying to pull the vanished table back up.
This attack caused Xu Huo to feel pain—it was as if her hand had penetrated deep into his brain, stirring his thoughts. This also made him understand what Tang Guangbo had meant: opening up the core spiritual world was equivalent to directly exposing one's mental defenses. When spiritual power was unequal, he held the advantage, but against a fellow Mental Evolver, it could instead harm himself!
Xu Huo's figure appeared beside Ms. Yao, and he swung his hand toward her.
Fingers carrying the power of Hyperdimensional Space, as long as they touched the reflection figure, would cause it to vanish instantly. He no longer wanted to investigate how Ms. Yao had breached his mental defenses...
Unfortunately, Ms. Yao disappeared a step ahead of him, dissolving like a mass of black mist into the white space, only to reappear the next second in a random room within the Library Tower, continuing to destroy his core spiritual world from within.
"Capture it," Xu Huo said to the upper levels of the Library Tower.
With the sound of several doors opening and closing, his other three personalities sprang into action, beginning to pursue and intercept Ms. Yao.
Xu Huo tracked their movements, observing for a while before re-condensing his core materialized object.
Now that he understood mental defenses, the Library Tower as a core spiritual world no longer felt safe. He should hide his core materialized object deeper.
Standing still and concentrating, it took him a long moment before he walked toward the entrance of the Mirror Space beneath the spiral staircase. This was a vertical entrance he had created within his own spiritual world. Like the materialization of spiritual power, Mirror Space had a certain range and couldn't cover as vast an area as the Library Tower, but Ms. Yao's memory fruit had given him some inspiration. Perhaps he could hide his core materialized object even deeper.
Stepping into the Mirror Space, the surrounding layout remained unchanged. The vertical deepening of spiritual power within the core spiritual world only manifested as a faint blurriness. Xu Huo looked around, then finally crouched down, stroking the small patch of ground beneath his feet.
Seconds later, imitating Ms. Yao, he plunged his hand into the ground. As the surface rippled with white waves, his figure appeared underground in an instant—or rather, he toppled into another mirror world, a relative world hidden like something underwater.
After Xu Huo's figure vanished from the core spiritual world, the three personalities that had been active in different places all paused simultaneously, their gazes turning toward the direction of his disappearance.
But the next second, they refocused their attention on Ms. Yao, who was rapidly darting through the Library Tower, blowing open doors like the wind, searching for the true core materialized object as she moved.
The three personalities only paused briefly before resuming their actions. Now, it wasn't them stopping Ms. Yao; rather, she was relentlessly chasing them, mistaking them for the core materialized object.
The four of them played hide-and-seek within the Library Tower. The three personalities could appear anywhere in the tower at any time, and even if they deliberately slowed down, Ms. Yao found it difficult to catch them.
However, Ms. Yao had a strong learning ability. Moreover, she had already learned in the Reflection Space how to split her shadow into multiple parts.
Thus, seconds later, she split into over a dozen figures, each blocking one of the three personalities.
At this point, hide-and-seek was no longer enough. The childhood personality struck first, mobilizing materialized objects to shred the three pursuing reflection figures into pieces. Unlike the outside world, there were no reflective surfaces here for them to hide and escape. As a mass of energy, once scattered, they couldn't re-condense, and were soon captured and completely suppressed by Xu Huo's spiritual world.
Seeing the childhood personality kill the reflection figures, Ms. Yao immediately turned around, focusing her attention on him.
But the shadows she had split off didn't return. When they were locked in separate rooms with the other two personalities, they vanished almost instantly, leaving no trace.
Ms. Yao looked back, then split off even more reflection figures. However, before her reflection figures could run off, white water waves surged from the bottom of the spiritual world. The silent waves initially spread slowly, but when Ms. Yao looked down, they suddenly turned into a violent torrent, sweeping upward through the entire Library Tower world!
The powerful spiritual power materialized into water waves that swept through the core spiritual world before quickly receding. All the newly split reflection figures vanished, and Ms. Yao was carried to the base of the spiral staircase. She looked down and saw Xu Huo standing opposite her, feet to feet.
He was in another world, another reflection world, a newly created reflection world. It seemed like a shadow of the core spiritual world, yet it was indeed another complete spiritual world.
Ms. Yao immediately bent down, trying to reach into the reflection spiritual world as she had done before. But this reflection world was like a world hidden underwater. Even if she could touch it, she couldn't truly pierce the surface to grasp the entity.
Ms. Yao couldn't get through.
Her expression darkened as she attempted to pour the absolutely dominant spiritual power of the instance venue into Xu Huo's core spiritual world.
But Xu Huo wouldn't give her the chance. He immediately closed off the Library Tower and kicked her out.
When the two returned to the manor, Xu Huo's spiritual power seemed to have reached a new peak.
Ms. Yao's expression twisted for a moment, then, just like in her memory fruit, she was quickly replaced by another personality. She no longer maintained her harsh, gloomy demeanor but became murderous, instantly closing in!
Xu Huo stepped back, sinking into the reflection world. This process, originally used to breach others' mental defenses, now became his escape opportunity. The manor was peeled away layer by layer. As he passed through one layer, he saw Wang Xiaohui's reflection figure again, the black mass entangled by Wei Mang.
He kicked Wei Mang away and extinguished the black shadow. When he landed again, the real Wang Xiaohui appeared in the observation tower, along with Wei Mang.
Both were shocked and surprised, but their expressions changed when they saw Ms. Yao appearing right behind. Before they could react, Xu Huo, along with a child in pajamas, pressed down on Ms. Yao's shoulders from front and back.
Ms. Yao's skin began to peel off. In just a few seconds, she cycled through dozens of faces, finally revealing Xu Huo's face!