While Shun Long was sitting peacefully in a cross-legged
position atop his bed, an apocalyptic scene was taking place inside his
spiritual space. The golden book had started vibrating inside his spiritual
space, and with every passing moment, it was doing so even more intensely.
Every time the golden book vibrated, it was also slowly
discharging some kind of heavenly aura which also nourished Shun Long's
spiritual strength every time it came in contact with this aura.
Shun Long then noticed a rune that resembled a lock, as it
slowly emerged from the cover of the golden book and it suddenly expanded and
binded the golden book, almost as if the rune was trying to seal it.
The book then started struggling desperately as it was trying to
rid itself from the rune, but the rune didn't let up at all, firmly wrapping
itself around the golden book.
Just as the book was about to get suppressed by the rune, a tiny
fluctuation came from the triangular stone that had stayed silent all this
time, and a heavenly pressure radiated from it, that seemed as if it had come
from the start of time.
Then the stone sent a small stream of blue light straight
towards the rune.
The rune-lock that was suppressing the golden book instantly
released it's hold as it tried to flee, but that tiny fluctuation from the
triangular stone had already sealed time and space inside Shun Long's spiritual
space, and the rune couldn't even move. It tried to instinctively vibrate and
rid itself from the temporal restrictions that the little stone had placed
around them, but before it could even do anything, the triangular shaped stone
instantly released a force that sucked the rune inside it, and then as the
temporal restrictions retracted, as everything returned to normal.
The previously suppressed golden book instantly erupted with a
burst of golden light, as for the very first time, it's cover instantly opened
to reveal a blindingly bright white page.
As soon as the white page was revealed, the book released a
startling kind of force that tried to absorb Shun Long's spiritual strength
inside it.
A person's spiritual strength was practically their
consciousness. If their consciousness was lost or destroyed they would be
practically dead.
They would turn into a weed, a body without a consciousness.
Shun Long tried to resist the force from the golden book by
retracting his consciousness back to his mind.
''F.u.c.k, what is this? Am I really going to become a weed
after just reincarnating?''
He was terrified to see that his consciousness had already
arrived in front of the white page, when the golden book instantly absorbed
him.
His entire spiritual strength had now left his body, which had
now turned into an empty shell.
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Shun Long however was startled to see that he was not dead, but
he was also shocked because he didn't have a corporeal body anymore.
Not just a corporeal body, he didn't have anything aside from
his spiritual strength, his consciousness and his thoughts.
There was nothing in front of him, just endless white that
covered everything as far as the eyes could see.
All of a sudden the scene in front of him changed..
A plant appeared right out of nowhere, one that he had never
seen before, and yet, just by looking at it this time, a sudden influx of
information appeared in his brain that told him everything about the plant..
How many stem cells the plant consisted of, how the plant would
react in different temperatures, what are its leaves consisted of, how many
years does it take for the plant to mature, what is needed for it to mature
faster, what are the ideal conditions to nurture it, what are the plants
properties and how it can be used, along with all of it's special individual
properties..
''My brain feels like it will explode any second now'' Shun Long
thought as he suddenly felt that needles were piercing his consciousness… sadly
this was only the beginning of his suffering
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''AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH''
Shun Long suddenly roared, as billions of scenes flashed through
his eyes, every scene including a plant that went from a seed to it's full
maturation stage until it changed again to another one..
Every scene made Shun Long feel that he was about to die from
the pain and he couldn't even think anymore as information was practically
getting crammed in his soul..
The pain was so intense that at some point Shun Long felt that
it might be better if he just stopped enduring this and gave up .. then he
wouldn't have to feel this pain he thought.
Although he had felt pain in the past, and although he had
suffered from hunger and physical pain, by fighting, or having his
underdeveloped muscles aching and stinging him after overworking himself or
suffering injuries, this was a completely different type of pain..
The difference in intensity and quantity couldn't even be
mentioned in the same breath as anything that he may have felt in the past. If
all the pain he had felt in his past 20 years could be considered as a single
drop in a bucket, then the pain he was feeling right now would be much more
than an ocean..
And the worst part was that this was a pain coming directly from
his soul.. a stab in your soul was thousands of time worse than a knife
stabbing your heart. This was a type of qualitative difference that couldn't
even be compared in the same breath with a flesh wound..
Just as Shun Long felt that he should perhaps give up and that
he had already reached his limit, the triangular stone buzzed and a scene
replayed itself in Shun Long's brain..
''That's right… It's better to suffer now and give it my all to
become strong after this than give up and die and have people trample upon me
in my next life and the next one after that..
No matter what I will not give up, I will rather break than
bend.. let's see who is stronger, this pain or myself….. hahaha COME'' he
roared in the end while laughing and his will was invigorated as he became
clear headed all of a sudden.
This was both thanks to the little stone, replaying in his mind
the scene when he swore his oaths outside of the Blue Forest, as well as to
Shun Long's will to endure this crazy inhumane pain.
But after a few hours, the pain was already so intense that Shun
Long couldn't even speak, as his mind had finally reached a point where he just
couldn't absorb more information and was already full.
This wasn't a matter of whether he was willing to endure more
pain but whether his brain had any more mental capacity to absorb all this
knowledge.
All of a sudden Shun Long started to feel that his mind was now
absorbing a strange kind of energy that made his soul bigger and stronger as
his spiritual strength was improving at an unbelievable pace.