Chapter 609: Breakthrough in Super Evolution
Bai Kou was able to release her spiritual power and fully display her spiritual world in front of others with complete control, and Xu Huo guessed that she had either broken free from prop mediums, or that the prop played only a minimal role in the process.
The "Star-Binding Sphere" she had given him was a medium prop. After Xu Huo's super evolution, he could not convert his spiritual power into tangible offensive force. Using prop mediums allowed him to create a small area where his spiritual world could manifest. The only two times he had expanded that range were when he used the hospital that had become a random dungeon.
He still hadn't figured out how to use spiritual power to influence others, but the "Murmur Sphere" was also a spiritual attack prop. Perhaps he could find a breakthrough there.
Eight minutes had passed. Yuan Yao was already preparing to stab himself in the thigh with a knife, but the Painting Woman quickly knocked him out, tied him up, and threw him into a corner. Sima Xiao'er, meanwhile, was on all fours, making pig noises.
After multiple failed attempts to project his spiritual power outward, Xu Huo hesitated for a moment, then walked over to the "Murmur Sphere" and actively exposed himself to the black smoke.
This time, the murmurs he heard were more distinct. They mentioned words like "treatment" and "medicine." The black smoke in his vision drifted for a while, then suddenly twisted like a living snake and plunged straight into his eyes!
He instinctively closed his eyes to block it, and when he opened them again, a blinding light surged before him. He squinted to adjust and found himself back in the hospital.
In the brightly lit treatment room, the same table was still there, covered with playing cards, dice, chips, and other items. A man in a white coat sat behind the desk, smiling at him. "You did very well. In such a short time, you separated your brother personality."
His low field of vision rotated to the right, and Xu Huo saw a younger version of himself. On that child's chest was a spinning black disc. As the disc turned, its area grew, gradually covering his upper body and encroaching on his neck and lower limbs.
"Don't worry." A hand landed on his shoulder, forcing him to face the child who was slowly turning into a shadow. "The only purpose of a brother personality is to store the things you don't want. Do you remember what you wanted to abandon?"
"Evil." Xu Huo didn't open his mouth, but he heard a childish voice.
"Correct." The doctor behind him continued to praise him. "What you wanted to abandon was human nature. Human nature has both evil and good. Only one of them will dominate. You used your brother personality to bear the evil for you..."
Mid-sentence, the doctor's tone suddenly changed. The hand gripping him thrust into the shadow child's chest. "But every personality is equal. You want to lock him away, and he wants to replace you!"
Then Xu Huo saw his own arm gradually turn black, while the black on the shadow boy's body faded away. The boy flashed him an innocent yet cruel smile.
"Why you?"
"Why you?"
"Why you?"
The venomous accusations surrounded him from every angle, with no blind spots. There were children's voices, adult voices, some belonging to a younger Xu Huo, and others to the faceless doctor who had appeared in his dreams before.
These voices were irritating, but they carried a powerful persuasiveness. Soon, the room turned gray, and bloody footprints appeared on the floor. On each pair of footprints, a new "Xu Huo" was born, from all age groups. They all reached out to him simultaneously, trying to drag him into the black mud surging up from the ground.
Xu Huo's body was covered with hands, completely immobilized. He stood frozen until the mud reached his neck. The "personalities" surrounding him were also submerged. Only then did he pull his hand out of the shadow child's chest, grab the child's face, and twist it clockwise.
"Click!" The sound of a door lock opening.
The mud and all the "personalities" vanished. What appeared before Xu Huo was again the circular tower staircase. But the white steps were now stained with many colors, and the staircase itself was twisted like an abstract painting. Voices rose from below, constantly urging him to descend.
Xu Huo frowned, stepped back, and closed the door. He then opened another door in a different direction, saw the staircase was equally twisted, and switched again. After several attempts, he finally found a normal staircase. But this time, he still didn't go down. Instead, he tried to construct a picture frame in front of him.
The picture frame was the symbol of the second gate within his spiritual world. Only if the frame appeared normally could he be sure he was truly inside his own spiritual world.
After failing, he quickly closed the door and opened it again.
Three minutes later, he found the correct door and went straight to the bottom of the circular tower. The other three personalities hiding in the book tower room were sitting around the table. They looked at Xu Huo as the floor tiles beneath them continuously grew outward. As they grew, the area inside the circular tower also expanded. When it reached twice its original size, the black disc on the table melted like water, spreading into several thin lines across the surface.
These lines radiated along the floor, gradually forming a slender-framed but massive circular cage on the tower walls. However, if one ignored the connecting lines between the table and the floor, the lines clinging to the walls looked like shadows cast by objects, hardly noticeable.
The black disc continued to drip. Xu Huo stepped into it, reached out, and grasped the air. A door automatically appeared before him. When the door opened, the black lines instantly radiated outward, hiding in the gray shadows and rapidly spreading throughout the entire room.
He was still standing in the same spot, right next to the "Murmur Sphere," but this room had now become the projection range of his spiritual world.
Yuan Yao had woken up, but he was mentally exhausted, staring blankly ahead like a dead man.
Sima Xiao'er lay on his back nearby, with several knives scattered beside him.
The Painting Woman crouched beside him, holding up her phone. "He wanted to cut open his stomach."
Seeing their condition, Xu Huo roughly guessed what they had seen in their hallucinations. He put away the Murmur Sphere, walked over to Sima Xiao'er, lifted him up with one hand, and signaled the Painting Woman to slap him. In that brief moment of mental stimulation, Xu Huo quickly opened a door and stepped out with him.
Sima Xiao'er took a while to come back to his senses. He opened his eyes and said, "I saw the Skinner. He was scraping me like a pig... Hey, why is there a door here?"
Xu Huo used the same method to wake Yuan Yao.
After putting away the Murmur Sphere, the lines he had placed in the room did not disappear. The room was still the same, but Yuan Yao and Sima Xiao'er could see the door. This proved that he had initially succeeded in using spiritual power to influence reality. It wasn't as powerful as Bai Kou's ability, but simple hallucination induction was no problem.
Feeling quite pleased, he said, "You've worked hard. I'll treat you to a meal."