Need to Hurry
Zhou You chuckled, pulled Feidian into his arms, and gave him a hard squeeze.
He brought Feidian to the windowsill, used Cloud Ladder Step technique to nimbly climb the wall and onto the eaves, reaching the very top of the sloping roof.
Their house isn't at a high altitude, but fortunately, there aren't many tall buildings in Spirit City, so the view is still quite wide.
He stared intently into the distance and saw the Main Hall about three kilometers away, where the guards were diligently patrolling.
Well, you can't see any more than that. The Main Hall's walls are quite high, completely obscuring the interior, except for a small hill that rises significantly above them.
That mountain is further away, probably more than five kilometers away. Zhou You can see some buildings scattered on the mountainside and the summit.
He could not only see the buildings clearly, but also the Angel God Statues carved on them, as well as the symbol of the Spirit Hall.
At this moment, Zhou You suddenly felt a pang of fear and immediately shifted his gaze, no longer looking in the direction of the Main Hall.
'We've been discovered?'
Danger lurks within the Main Hall!
He turned his gaze toward the outer city, where the city gates were also very high, blocking his view once again, so he could only see the sentries standing guard on the city walls.
These men weren't as diligent as the guards from the Spirit Hall. He saw several of them dozing off, so the sentry post was barely effective.
However, considering that this is the inner city wall, it's not surprising that these sentries were negligent.
If someone could sneak in silently through the outer city gate, then no matter how careful the sentries at the inner city gate were, it would be useless.
The city walls were not built to defend against high-level Soul Masters who could fly, but to defend against enemy forces pressing in.
Under the cover of night, he freely observed his surroundings and found that everything within sight was as clear as if it were right in front of him. If this were combined with long-range attack methods, he could instantly transform into a super sniper.
He suddenly realized that the Pan-Continent at this stage did not seem to have beyond-visual-range strike capabilities. Hmm, I'll make a note of that.
After trying [Far Sight], he lowered his head and observed his palm in the Yue Guang. The faint palm lines were magnified instantly under the adjustment of his eyes, like ravines, and the lines on them were clearer than ever before.
It's good; its performance at the Microscopic Vision level is also excellent. Although it doesn't reach the level of a microscope, it's still much better than a regular magnifying glass.
But these eyes can do more than that. He just discovered that some of the Circulating Qi pathways in the eyes follow the optic nerve into the brain, thus providing a certain boost to thinking.
He savored it carefully, cautiously activating the mental processing area along the previous Circulating Qi route, and then noticed that the surroundings seemed to slow down.
It's hard to describe the feeling; it was as if all my senses were magnified tenfold in one breath, but my body felt like it was sinking in water, with resistance everywhere.
As long as his thoughts remained unaffected, he opened his eyes wide, his eyeballs gleaming with a faint, eerie light.
He saw the dust particles floating in the air, the Tyndall Effect of Yue Guang on the dust, and the flight paths of tiny flies and ladybugs in the Yue Guang.
He could even count how many times the insects flapped their wings per second as they flew.
Time seemed to slow down for him; it was as if he had suddenly stumbled into a slow-moving world, his thoughts trapped within his sluggish body...
This is a kind of "bullet time"-like ability to Thought Acceleration, but the acceleration effect is so significant that the other hardware functions of this body cannot keep up with the speed of thought.
The resulting sense of disorientation made him slightly uncomfortable, but it didn't stop him from feeling invigorated.
Zhou You was overjoyed to have successfully verified his conjecture, but soon he felt dizzy and a wave of fatigue washed over him.
His Mental Power was somewhat depleted, so he immediately stopped circulating his qi and returned it to his Dantian.
But as a result, the scene before him returned to that hazy state, as if the sky had suddenly turned completely dark, which made him feel uncomfortable.
However, this also allowed him to fully understand how the Eye of Truth works.
By converting Soul Power into Mental Power through the core components, and then mixing the Mental Power with a portion of Soul Power, and following a specific Meridians route around the eyes, a comprehensive upgrade of the human visual system can be achieved.
This is a method of observation, but it differs from the Qi observation method that Zhou You himself knows. The method of observation on this Soul Tool is more inclined towards the direct observation of the material world.
It has two basic functions: one is Far Sight. The maximum distance is currently unknown, but within a range of five kilometers, everything seen is as if it were right next to you.
Secondly, it is Microscopic Vision, able to focus light and see objects in the dark as if it were daytime, and can clearly observe the fine hairs on the body of flies.
As for that kind of Thought Acceleration ability, it should not fall under the category of enhanced vision, or at least not entirely. That belongs to another application of Mental Power, involving the field of brain development.
The complete brain development function should be accomplished by the array pattern on that octahedron, and only when the two are combined with the array pattern on the eye can it truly become the [Eye of Truth].
This is a Spell Formula that combines visual system development with overall brain development, requiring extremely high levels of Soul Power and Mental Power.
However, the finished product's Eye of Truth reduces some of the Mental Power requirements through materials and design. It allows Soul Masters to directly convert Soul Power into Mental Power, and then use the converted Mental Power to activate the visual function.
The key feature is its incredibly simple operation. It doesn't matter if your Mental Power isn't strong enough; just keep injecting your Soul Power into it.
The only requirement is that Eye of Truth must be implanted in the eye socket, because it needs to be connected to the user's optic nerve; only in this way can the brain be further developed.
Without implanting the Eye of Truth into the eye socket, the user can only use limited functions; although the core components can still function, the effect is greatly reduced.
Even Zhou You could only extend his Mental Power outside his body when he held the Eye of Truth in his hand, relying on sheer force and a crude method of application.
However, this also shows that as long as the Soul Power circuit of the core component can be successfully constructed, then he can completely replicate the function of the Eye of Truth.
The problem is that the Meridians around the eyes are easy to find and experiment with, but if the Circulating Qi in the brain is accidentally disrupted, the person could become mentally disabled, and in that case, it would be very difficult to save them.
Therefore, Zhou You chose to play it safe and not rush into the task of etching the Soul Power circuits on the octahedron, as the current research results were sufficient for the time being.
At worst, he could wear the crystal on his body at all times, which would solve the problem of excessive Mental Power consumption, but that would inevitably consume some of his "mana bar".
For ordinary Soul Masters, the Soul Power Bar and the Spirit Bar are separate. Unless they are Spirit-type Soul Masters, the two hardly interfere with each other during battle.
However, for Zhou You, when using this [observation] method, both his Soul Power and Mental Power have to be diverted from the [Qi] channel, which will inevitably make his "mana value" even more strained.
We still need to Refining Qi; Qi is the foundation of all Arts.
So this brings us back to the initial problem: he needs to level up as soon as possible and expand his energy bar.
The Refining Qi must be swift, and the prescription for the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue must also be made quickly!