Chapter 1041: Chapter 794: Mental World
Aimondeus left, and Elder Solis suddenly burst into laughter.
"You’re scared, parasite!"
In the mirror, Solis mockingly looked at the version of himself with blood-red eyes.
"I will not feel any fear!"
The God Chaser roared.
"Yes, you really are scared because you once said, the Empress of the demon realm is searching for you, and the more people know you’re here, the greater your danger! And now you have exposed yourself!" Solis laughed heartily.
"How could he possibly know about me! The meaning of Long Yi’s words should be that he knows you are plotting to kill Elma, right!"
The statement from the God Chaser immediately wiped the smile off Solis’s face. Indeed, Solis was conspiring against Elma, and at this moment, he could no longer hope to control Elma but had to eliminate him to truly take command of the Ancient Mage Tower. He had planned this very secretly, and all those in the know were his most trusted confidants, none of whom would betray him.
"No, Long Yi couldn’t possibly know about my affairs. And even if he did, he would never use this to threaten me because even Elma himself knows very well that I am his biggest threat right now. Admit it, parasite, you have been exposed, you are afraid!" Solis pointed at the God Chaser in the mirror and shouted loudly.
"Even if this is true, do you really think you can escape unscathed?" Finally, the God Chaser stopped arguing and looked at Solis with a gloomy expression.
"Nobody can do anything to me!" Solis said.
"No! Have you forgotten? I am the parasite within your consciousness! If I am discovered, if I am forcibly stripped from your consciousness, then you will definitely not escape unscathed! Your consciousness will shatter in an instant! You will become an idiot the moment I leave!" The God Chaser growled.
"Are you trying to scare me?"
"You are more than welcome to try!"
As he spoke, atop Solis’s head, a red glow resembling a worm slowly emerged, and at this moment, Solis actually felt a bout of mental daze!
"What are you doing!" Solis roared.
"Quite simple, I am letting you experience the feeling of me forcibly leaving your body!"
"Stop it right now! I understand!"
The glow disappeared, and Solis, holding onto the edge of the mirror, gasped for breath heavily, drenched in sweat. Meanwhile, the God Chaser in the mirror also looked in bad shape, as if he might dissipate any moment.
"So, it means our fates are actually intertwined, right." Solis said quietly.
"Exactly."
"Then from today onwards, let’s stop all infighting, and we can settle everything after Long Yi is out of the picture," Solis said.
"That’s exactly what I was thinking," said the God Chaser.
Solis caught his breath for a while, gradually relaxing himself. He stood up and glanced at the mirror, but with just one look, he could no longer move his eyeballs.
"Parasite! What are you doing!" Solis yelled.
"Can’t you see what this simple action means? Obviously, it means controlling you!" the God Chaser laughed maniacally, "Just now, your mental defenses surprisingly showed a small vulnerability! How could I miss such an opportunity! And this time, your consciousness will belong to me forever! Including your body!"
The God Chaser laughed heartily.
"Just as I had anticipated!" A cold smile appeared at the corner of Solis’s mouth. He suddenly opened his mouth, and a series of Runes spewed out, which effectively locked the God Chaser in the mirror in place!
"A psychic shackle? How is that possible! How did I not know! Your mind was clearly under my control!"
"As you said, your consciousness and mine are inseparably linked, so sometimes you really don’t know, some things, if I don’t want you to see, then you simply cannot see! And that supposed vulnerability you found was actually the entrance to a cage! If you had ignored this opportunity, you might have gained your freedom! But now, just stay in the cage obediently! Hiding, you will certainly not be found by Long Yi."
"No! You can’t do this! You can’t bind me! If I am bound, you will lose a significant amount of power!"
"You don’t need to worry about that," Solis said.
The semifinals and finals will take place tomorrow, but today Long Yi was also not idle.
Yavenny’s projection had already prepared him for his combat training, and the training ground was deep within his own consciousness.
According to Yavenny, the God Chasers are a type of parasitic life that relies on consciousness to exist, and battling them will inevitably end up on the plane of consciousness. To defeat an opponent on that plane is very difficult, especially for a novice.
Therefore, Yavenny meticulously prepared a series of training programs for Long Yi.
Normally, this kind of training would definitely start with training mental strength, but because Little Zi had been with him for many years, Long Yi’s mental strength was actually the last thing he needed to worry about. So, they skipped this part of the training and directly moved on to the next step, focus and precision training.
In simple terms, all battles on a mental level are derived from imagination, and whether one’s imagination is rich is not the issue. Whatever you think of will become reality—the premise is that your mental strength must be stronger than your opponent’s.
Both Yavenny and Little Zi told Long Yi that mental confrontations depend on two elements: focus and precision. Because in the realm of consciousness, everything that happens is just a thought away, and if one’s focus is not strong enough, they could be led around by the nose by the opponent’s consciousness. Precision, on the other hand, determines to what extent one can go.
Let’s take an example: Your enemy imagines you being killed by a stick. But if your mental strength surpasses his, you can negate this imagination and, at the same time, imagine your opponent being beaten to death, thereby victorious over him. But just this is not enough, because everything here is imagined. So, if the opponent imagines they have incredible defensive power, with thick skin and flesh, then a stick is definitely of no use. Then, you could imagine yourself wielding a sharp blade, capable of cutting through them. And compared to the stick, the complexity of the blade far exceeds the stick, with the result of the blade slicing through the opponent’s body also stemming from your imagination! Precision decides whether your imagination is realistic or not, if it’s not realistic enough, the opponent will instinctively deny you. But if you can realistically recreate the damage received by the opponent, then the opponent will instinctively accept your imagination, and if he believes himself to be mortally wounded, then he will truly be mortally wounded!
Yes, everything that happens here comes from imagination.
"So, I just stand here and think about whatever I want?"
Clang!
A tank falls from the sky, its turret rotating.
Dang!
The sound of metal striking metal resounds.
Boom!
A shell flies out, and almost simultaneously, another tank lands in front, with a massive metallic collision noise and a spurt of large sparks flying diagonally.
"We failed to penetrate its armor!"
An hysterical voice comes from all around.
Just then, a girl dressed in a bunny girl outfit, holding a huge broken sword, suddenly jumps out from the side. She glances at Yavenny beside her, raises her hand high, and bellows, "I have awakened!" The broken sword miraculously transforms into a giant rune blade that’s even larger than her! With a single hand, the bunny girl brutally dismantles the tank into pieces, then vanishes into thin air.
"That’s quite a convenient ability," Long Yi says with a smile.
"As long as your imagination is sufficient, here you are the greatest overlord, and you can create anything out of nothing."
"Even universes and life?" Long Yi asks with a smile.
"That will depend on your precision. You know, a true life is very complex. It’s not as simple as the images you just thought up."
"If I can do it, wouldn’t that make me almost godlike?" Long Yi says, but then he freezes, pondering for a moment, "Yavenny, do you think that we might actually just be living in someone else’s mental world? Or say, we’re just living in his dream?"
Upon hearing this, Yavenny gives a wry smile, "That shouldn’t be the case. If it were so, we would probably have died a long time ago, since dreams do come to an end."
Long Yi, however, shakes his head, "For her, it might just be a dream, but for us, a single dream of hers might last tens of thousands of years!"
Yavenny is stunned.
"By the way, how far back does the oldest history of the demon realm go?" Long Yi suddenly asks.
"The history that can be traced back goes to about a hundred thousand years," Yavenny says.
"So, what exactly happened a hundred thousand years ago?" Long Yi asks in a hushed tone.
Yavenny tenses up, as Long Yi’s words sound alarmingly logical!
But at that moment, he bursts into laughter, "Haha! Don’t worry, it’s just a conspiracy theory born of needless fears. The greatest fear of humans comes from the unknown, and the unknown often leads people to wild speculation, usually veering towards the most terrifying possibilities. Therefore, this dream theory is no more than a kind of ultimate horror."
Yavenny’s expression becomes a mix of emotions upon hearing this, but there isn’t much change overall.
"You know, I have pondered a similar question myself," Yavenny suddenly says softly.
"What question?" Long Yi asks.
"Gods are second-class lives, so above them, there must be a first-class life. Since gods already possess such immense power, how do those first-class lives view us? Is there something beyond the higher planes? Is there something beyond our universe?" Yavenny whispers.
"I don’t know if there’s something beyond the higher planes, but there most certainly are other universes." Long Yi says with a smile. Clearly, he himself is an example.
"Let’s drop it, whenever I think about it, it gives me the chills. Maybe it’s not something I can explore for the time being. Let’s continue with our training instead!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it with recommendation tickets and monthly tickets at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)
