"It's getting hot..."
"The ground—it's getting hot!"
In the dim yellow light, the spiritual-body youth sitting atop the water-like ground abruptly lowered his gaze, a trace of astonishment appearing on his face.
The ground in this Sealed Space was getting hot!
At that moment, a thought could not help but surface in his mind.
At the same time, he rose from the ground.
"What's going on?"
Looking at the ripples on the ground, which had somehow become a chaotic mess again, as well as the Yin-Yang Fish Eight Trigrams that only appeared among the ripples he had examined nearly eighteen thousand times, Chiba furrowed his brow tightly.
Without realizing it, he had already begun standing on tiptoe.
The temperature was still rising.
Could this Sealed Space actually undergo temperature changes like heat? And...
In my current spiritual-body state, aside from enhanced memory and never getting tired, can I still feel cold and heat?
After the heat beneath his feet made it difficult for him to remain standing, that thought flashed through Chiba's mind.
Though it was an unpleasant sensation, for someone trapped here and unable to do anything, someone who had found no solution after examining the so-called only way out around eighteen thousand times, it was an enormous discovery.
It gave him, at least, a little hope.
To be honest, bolstered by the fact that a spiritual body did not grow weary, and by the habit he had formed since transmigrating of never giving up easily, he had not considered giving up. Still, those eighteen thousand fruitless observations had dealt something of a blow to his fighting spirit. Not enough to make him give up, but enough to weaken his resolve and breed a certain mental inertia. He might very well become too "lazy" to think over certain details