Chapter 941: Adding a Pair of Eyes Within Five Hundred Meters
This vertical pupil looked more like a child’s doodle—just a few simple lines standing in the black space, like a pasted-on painting, completely devoid of any spirit.
But in the next second, the vertical pupil disappeared along the path it had formed, first the central circle, then the arcs on both sides. However, just as it shrank back to its final point, the lines began to regrow. This time, they no longer resembled white brushstrokes but instead took on the texture of knife carvings. The carved lines first merged into two arcs, then converged from the midpoint toward the center to form a circle. Yet just as they were about to complete a full circle, the carved lines stopped and began to retract again.
When it once again became a single point, that point hovered in place for a full ten seconds before beginning to move.
This time, the lines were very thin and light—neither like a single brushstroke nor as deep as carved lines. If one had to give a precise description, it was more like a thin sheet of metal, gleaming with a white luster, split into two layers front and back. The two sides simultaneously drew the arcs representing the eye sockets. However, as they extended from the midpoint of the arcs toward the center, the originally flat pupil became three-dimensional, forming an arched surface on both the front and back.
But it was still a simple vertical pupil made of lines, only now divided into front and back sides. It looked more like two eyes placed back-to-back, sharing a single double-sided pupil.
Xu Huo turned around to look at this vertical pupil. His eyes moved left and right, and the vertical pupil followed suit, sliding left and right as well. Although it had no eyeball, the arched circle in the middle was already dynamic enough to convey the meaning of an eye.
He nodded lightly and brushed the back of his finger across the upper corner of the vertical pupil to the right. The vertical pupil began to form continuously at regular intervals, rotating around the pupil as the center to create a flower-like shape.
This was the eye he had seen when He Pu’s left-behind box was opened. Although he didn’t know what special significance the eye pattern held, it had given him excellent inspiration.
He tapped his index finger lightly on the vertical pupil, and the overlapping eyes quickly separated, floating at varying distances and sizes like the nearby chains.
Xu Huo stepped forward and casually opened a door in the air. A vertical pupil randomly attached itself to the door panel. As he passed through this door, he felt that the visible range of his spiritual realm had expanded.
Within the scope of the spiritual realm, “seeing” was closer to “sensing,” especially in a spiritual realm of Bai Kou’s level. The controller could perceive everything within the entire range very clearly, much like how after Spatial Super Evolution, one could still know the subtle movements of a person behind a wall even without seeing them.
But after the vertical pupil appeared, a true “field of vision” emerged within the spiritual realm.
Xu Huo opened a section of stairs. Good—beyond the stairs, he could now see clearly as well.
Of course, this didn’t mean there was anything substantial near the stairs. Rather, places that were originally unclear could now be seen clearly. That was a patch of darkness, not a void.
This feeling was like peeling away the veil covering the spiritual realm. The haziness disappeared, and it became more real.
This change had two effects. First, the constructed spiritual realm could be made more realistic. Second, the spiritual realm became thinner as a result—at least in Xu Huo’s eyes. The stairs were no longer a bottomless, endless path where one didn’t know how long they would have to walk to reach the end. Standing at the entrance of the stairs, he could now see where the bottom was. The so-called hundred-story library tower was also compressed to the maximum.
It was like the original design drawing was a magnificent, extremely luxurious grand palace, but what was built turned out to be a patch of tiled houses enclosed by low walls.
Now, even if one could see outside the tiled houses, what use was it? The tiled houses couldn’t block the view outside either.
Of course, this was only in Xu Huo’s eyes that it had become a patch of tiled houses.
But to be effective against high-level players with strong willpower, he still had to find a way to turn it into a real palace.
Time to expand.
Xu Huo walked into the library tower and sank the round table placed in the center. The flowing black liquid pulled up a small model of the library tower.
The original library tower had a hundred floors, each floor arranged in a ring filled with rooms, and behind each room were more rooms. The form was close to a large ring enclosing smaller rings, and each ring could rotate freely. That meant after leaving one room, one might never be able to return to that room again.
This was a method to increase spiritual interference. The more chaos, the harder it was for those entering to find the exit or the materialized object. But no matter how many rooms were added, they were all in the same place. The accumulation of quantity didn’t create a qualitative leap. To make a separate space like Bai Kou’s…
Xu Huo pondered for a moment and extended a new spiral staircase from the top of the library tower model. After the staircase separated from the library tower by a certain distance, a new library tower was generated on top of it.
This looked like two identical library towers overlapping in midair.
One was certainly not enough, so he made five more identical library towers in the front, back, left, right, and below, totaling seven library towers.
But this only expanded the scope of the spiritual realm, dividing it into seven parts on a single plane, far from reaching Bai Kou’s level of spatial overlap.
Breaking through seven rooms was certainly easier than breaking through a mountain.
Xu Huo stood for a while, then waved his hand to merge the seven library towers together and left the library tower.
Standing outside, he roughly sensed that the range of the spiritual realm had expanded to five hundred meters. That meant he could bring an area five hundred meters in length and width entirely into his spiritual realm. And thanks to the generation of the vertical pupil, he could still perceive and perform spiritual interference beyond five hundred meters, though both would weaken with increasing distance.
After Spatial Super Evolution, Xu Huo’s perception range was about two hundred meters. Even without using items, he could make relatively clear judgments about things and people within two hundred meters. Now, spiritual evolution had expanded this range to five hundred meters. Moreover, it wasn’t just at the “perception” stage. Everything within the spiritual realm could be clearly seen through the vertical pupil. He himself was more like a centralized monitoring room, able to see everything within five hundred meters—and even beyond—clearly through the “camera.”
This included the ten players hiding three hundred meters away.
These ten players, positioned in different directions and locations, had entered his spiritual realm as soon as he evolved. However, without spiritual interference being applied, they were unaware that they were in someone else’s spiritual realm.
Xu Huo tested three of them with the vertical pupil, and only one sensed something unusual. This meant that this evolution, in addition to “increasing space” and “generating vision,” also included an improvement in “control precision.”
The simpler and rougher the generation of a spiritual realm, the more likely it was to be discovered by others. If one realized they had stepped into a spiritual realm from the start, their vigilance would be stronger, and they would be less susceptible to interference. Silent and gradual influence was more in line with the characteristics of spiritual interference.
“What are they doing?” The lightning-patterned man leaned against a tree and spoke into the communicator. “Ren Man has been sitting on the ground for almost ten minutes. That guy Xu just stood there doing nothing. Did it succeed or not?”
(Chapter End)