Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2148 Soul Alienation
Of course, if a person who can live forever in the material plane returns to the main plane from the astral world, there is no need to consider the issue of longevity, and there will be some very interesting phenomena in this case.

For example, the eternal holy spirit achieved by the astral mage.

Although they cannot live forever in the material plane, their life is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people. They have enough lifespan to explore in the astral world and then return to the material plane. (The price is that you need to stay in the astral world for a long time, and the end result is to stay away from the material plane completely)
When an eternal holy spirit wants to descend to the material plane, he needs to be guided by the receiving magic circle. Xia Duo himself has experienced the receiving magic circle. When searching for the receiving signal in the astral world, he got not an isolated signal , but a surface signal that radiates outward from a point.

The center point is the time when he left the material plane last time, and the outside is the almost infinite future. In other words, as long as the material plane maintains the receiving magic circle, the eternal Holy Spirit will be able to fail the receiving magic circle in the future at a certain point in the past Any moment before it came.

Of course, if the eternal Holy Spirit doesn't want to sever ties with the material plane too early, he will choose to respond to those earlier receiving signals as much as possible.

If there is no accident, Iolum's friend should not be the Eternal Holy Spirit. If so, why is there any need to hide it?
It is conceivable that if Iolum's friend survived at this moment, he should have been adventuring in the astral world for dozens or hundreds of years. If he had been to the projection plane during this period, he might have to spend several times more.

If this returns to the main plane, I'm afraid there will be no bones left.

Xia Duo is in trouble now, so of course he didn't say anything about going to the star realm to find the other party. For now, gathering gems is useful to him, but only a little bit.

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After Iolum left, Xia Duo checked the location of the Floating Void City and found that he had reached the preset height, but he really didn't want to experience this feeling of "traveling through time" for a moment.

After only showing his face once in front of the mage of the Tower of Time who was still working on the floating city, Xia Duo went back to the lounge and lay down on the bed.

It wasn't that he was unable to move, in fact, he didn't even lose his ability to cast spells, but the occasional "coma" made him feel that it was more convenient to lie down.

The Focusing Gem in his hand still shone with a strong magical aura, but under the aura, the purple color on the body of the gem was slightly lighter than when Iolum took it out before, and it couldn't even be seen without looking carefully.

It seemed that this was what Iolum referred to as "loss".

Xia Duo put his hands on his chest and held the gem. He could feel his willpower was unprecedentedly strong, so he didn't delay any longer, and quickly focused on it.

Compared to when he was not assisted by the Focusing Gem, this time he was much more relaxed. The distracting thoughts that kept churning in his consciousness, whether it was his own or Mojave's, couldn't shake his will at all.

With the high concentration of spiritual will, Xia Duo finally perceives his own soul—the concept that is exactly the same as his body.

It's just that the soul, which originally reflected a small space around it, is now wound into a messy ball of thread by a large group of dense dark red silk threads with no beginning and no end.

At the perceptual level, Xia Duo "looked" at the countless dark red silk threads entwined around his body. He tried to tear or pull them apart, but was soon refilled by the silk threads squeezed in from other places.

Those continuously wandering and entangled silk threads are like a living creature, and they won't stop for a moment once they see him.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the whole body could originally reflect the glow of the God's Country Garden on the outer plane. Although it can't continue to reflect the God's Country Garden at this moment, it firmly resists those annoying dark red silk threads.

Without those lights, Xia Duo really doesn't know what would have happened!

Before, he thought that he had resisted the opponent's attack with his own will, but now it seems that the glow produced by the power of faith hitting the soul may be the biggest contributor!

But even so, many dark red threads penetrated into his soul and body, no matter how many were pulled out, they would not break.

For a while, Xia Duo couldn't tell whether these dark red threads came from the outside world, or whether they were part of his soul, but were alienated by external information.

If it's the former, he just needs to tear off those dark red threads that go deep into the soul; but if it's the latter, the more you pull, the higher the degree of penetration will be.

Xia Duo didn't dare to take risks, and decided to try to perceive the depths of the soul first, to see if he could find some clues.

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Xia Duo's soul was in an unformed state at the beginning, and it was only when he perceived the soul for the first time that it became a body image that conformed to cognition.

After that, he couldn't even change himself, but now, with the perception of the soul itself, he found that his soul seemed to have a tendency to return to an amorphous state.

If the ontological image represents the stability of the soul, then the tendency to return to an amorphous state may not bode well.

Xia Duo continued to perceive, and soon found the source of the dark red silk threads. There were a total of twelve thread ends, but they extended from the body surface of the soul, as if a layer of skin had been peeled from the soul body and twisted into silk threads.

He immediately realized that these dark red threads were not outsiders, but alienated products of his own soul!
"This is going to be difficult!"

It can also alienate the soul, which makes Xia Duo even lose the chance of a strong man breaking his wrist, but anyway, he has found the source—one of them!
The alienation at the soul level and the information storm at the consciousness level should be two sides of the same coin, no matter which one is solved, it will affect the other.

Xia Duo has nothing to do with the information storm at the consciousness level, but it doesn't mean he has nothing to do with the soul, he has already thought of a way to freeze the soul.

Eternal stagnation is one of them, but it is also the last choice. If all the methods are tried and nothing works, he will choose to smuggle into the future to wait for rescue.

What he needs most now is a way to freeze his soul while maintaining a clear mind.

This method actually exists!

It is related to a certain life extension ceremony. Although Xia Duo himself doesn’t understand it, some people do. It’s just that the life extension ceremony belongs to the Seven Towers. If he wants it, the Seven Towers should give it to him, but it’s inevitable that he will put forward some conditions that he doesn’t want to agree to. !
Even if it was Giles Tower, Schom knew he might not be willing to provide it at all.

"It looks like I still need to ask the teacher for help!"

In addition, since the power of faith can resist the invasion of this dark red silk thread, it is time to think more about it.

Apart from awakening the bloodline, Xia Duo basically did nothing deliberately to gain the power of faith before, and it is somewhat awkward for him to do so now.

(End of this chapter)