Chapter 108: The Seventh Sense
After concluding the mission to purge the Evil Soul Masters, the members of the squad once again entered a cycle of diligent cultivation and practical combat training.
There were still sixteen months remaining before the Soul Master Tournament began—more than enough time to make a full-force sprint forward.
Ming Xin began frequently visiting the Pape's Palace in search of Lin Beiya. The power of the Cancer Gold Cloth and the tremendous boost it gave to cultivation speed filled him with longing.
Lin Beiya did not refuse him. Just as he did with Shi Nuo, he lent the Cancer Gold Cloth to Ming Xin during the day, then recalled it at night for his own cultivation.
After spending several months in Spirit City, Ming Xin gradually shed his former timidity. His gaze slowly grew firm and resolute.
The environment truly had an enormous impact on a person. If one were to remain in an oppressive place like Vast Sea City for too long, even the kindest individual could inevitably become extreme.
By then, Ming Xin might really have ended up walking the path of an Evil Soul Master. Fortunately, he had been discovered early, while the child was still in the vague, formative stage of shaping his worldview.
Time flowed on steadily amid this orderly cultivation, and in the blink of an eye, a full year had passed.
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Lin Beiya had never relaxed his training of the Cosmo and telekinesis.
At present, he could already freely shift his position within a fifty-meter radius. If he moved in only one direction, he could even perform consecutive instantaneous teleports to a distance of one kilometer.
What pleased Lin Beiya even more was that the medicinal power of the Infernal Delicate Apricot and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass had almost been completely absorbed.
It was finally time to consume another immortal herb that would be of immense help to him.
Taking it out from his soul tool, Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew appeared to be an utterly unremarkable medicinal plant. Its entire body was jade-green, but what was peculiar was that at the center of the herb were three snow-white leaves. At the heart of those leaves were several droplets of water, like dew left behind in the early morning.
The method of using this immortal herb was extremely simple—drip the dew at the center of the leaves directly into one's eyes.
After using Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, one could train fiery golden eyes, allowing one to see through all kinds of wondrous objects.
However, Lin Beiya did not care much about this effect. His eyesight was already more than powerful enough.
What he truly valued was Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew's enhancement to mental power. He could already feel that the growth of his Cosmo had entered a bottleneck.
Within his spiritual sea, the galaxy filled with countless stars could no longer continue expanding outward.
This meant that his Cosmo had reached the absolute peak of the Sixth Sense. In the world of Saint Seiya, the Seventh Sense was known as the source of all great power.
It was an extremely vague concept. With no teacher to guide him, Lin Beiya could only feel his way forward by groping through the dark.
Now, lost as he was regarding a breakthrough, he placed his hopes on the immortal herb Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew. Perhaps once his mental power grew stronger, the Cosmo would naturally break through to the Seventh Sense?
Having been accustomed to using eye drops during countless late nights in his previous life, Lin Beiya felt no unfamiliarity with the method of using Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.
Sitting cross-legged on the bed, he directly tilted the herb in his hand and let the dew drip into his eyes.
A warm, soothing sensation instantly spread from his eye sockets to his brain, and his consciousness became extraordinarily clear.
Lin Beiya could feel his mental power continuously strengthening. The most intuitive manifestation of this was the dramatic expansion of the range his consciousness could cover.
It could even pass through several kilometers of the Pope's Palace gardens and head straight toward the Pope's residence… ahem, that was a place he definitely shouldn't go.
Reining in his wildly surging mental power just in time, Lin Beiya began to focus on absorbing the vast medicinal power of Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.
As time passed, he could feel that both his computational ability and his thinking speed were steadily increasing—clear benefits brought about by the growth of mental power.
Lin Beiya accepted these gains calmly. However, what disappointed him was that the Cosmo within his spiritual sea, although operating much faster than usual, showed no signs of leaping to a higher level.
"It seems that simply strengthening mental power isn't the key to reaching the Seventh Sense. Then what exactly must be done to comprehend this source of life?"
"Life? Could it be that I need to create living beings within the Cosmo I've created myself?"
At this point, having finally grasped a thread of possibility, Lin Beiya could only treat a dead horse as a living one. Using his consciousness, he controlled the dust within the Cosmo, condensing it into a radiant, glowing planet.
Using the Arc Geminga techniques, Lin Beiya began bestowing gravitational pull upon the planet. He then created eight additional spherical bodies, arranging them in a ring around the glowing star and setting them into centripetal motion.
"In the universe, the only planet I can think of that possesses life characteristics is Earth."
"Let's recreate the solar system and see if it can help me break through to the Seventh Sense."
The newly formed solar system was extremely rough, merely possessing a crude outline based on his memories.
Lin Beiya did not pay much attention to the other planets. Instead, his gaze settled on the third dark-red planet.
"Let's begin simulating the process from Earth's birth to the emergence of life."
At the start, the dark-red planet looked ferocious and terrifying, covered everywhere with volcanoes and magma. Gradually, it evolved into a deep black world.
The planet transformed from a raging furnace into a land of utter silence.
Only when water vapor condensed and evolved into vast oceans did the entire planet turn a deep oceanic blue.
From an era of extreme cold, where the oceans were completely frozen, to the gradual melting of ice and snow, the first single-celled organism was born.
Relying on his powerful mental strength, Lin Beiya directly evolved the entire process, from the origin of life all the way to the birth of humanity.
From creation to destruction, and from destruction to rebirth.
As the water-blue planet within his spiritual sea burst forth with its most dazzling radiance, Lin Beiya felt his Cosmo steadily stepping into an entirely new level.
In the next instant, Lin Beiya abruptly opened his eyes. His pupils shone with golden brilliance, and his black, broken hair fluttered without wind.
"Another Dimension!"
The best way to verify whether he had entered the realm of the Seventh Sense was to test whether those combat techniques he had previously been unable to use could now be successfully unleashed.
As the Gemini Cloth attached itself to his body, the entire room transformed into a dark, shadowy space, within which countless grid-like lines began to appear.
Through them, Lin Beiya could glimpse many worlds utterly different from the Douluo Continent.
There were Worlds where people held sharp iron tools to stab skeleton giants, Worlds where hundreds of thousands of people in righteous white clothes bullied an old giant, and Worlds where a wolf couldn't catch a sheep and shouted, "I'll be back!"
Unfortunately, these worlds that existed apart from the Douluo Continent only flashed briefly through the Another Dimension. With Lin Beiya's current strength, he was still unable to perform precise positioning.
Even so, his attempt to test whether he could successfully use Another Dimension was a success. This also signified that he had indeed entered the realm of the Seventh Sense.
The golden light in his eyes slowly faded. Lin Beiya's lips curved into a slight smile, and in the next moment, he vanished from the room.
In the blink of an eye, he appeared on a road a hundred meters away from his residence.
With the advancement of his Cosmo realm and the tremendous enhancement of his mental power, his degree of control over telekinesis had increased exponentially—something that filled him with even greater excitement.
"Xiao San, your immortal herb really is amazing."
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Fasinuo Province, the back mountain of Holy Soul Village.
The unremarkable young boy was still sitting cross-legged here, cultivating the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
Suddenly, the boy opened his eyes. His pupils rapidly dilated, and cold sweat instantly covered his forehead.
After several months, Tang San once again experienced that heart-piercing pain. Aside from the intense agony, what he found most unbearable was the maddening sense of loss that accompanied it.
"Damn it… what exactly have I lost this time?"
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