Perhaps he was angered, or perhaps he couldn't freely withdraw because he was trapped in the Mental Portal Dr. Zhang had left behind. In any case, Tang Guangbo didn't simply let go and leave. Instead, he waved his hand, expanding the space around the two of them in an attempt to rebuild the cage from before.
But the eyes beyond the space wouldn't give up. The pressure they exerted repeatedly compressed the expanded area back down, and as more eyes gathered, Tang Guangbo's clock face warped under the strain, clearly on the verge of collapse.
Xu Huo had been astonished by Dr. Zhang's power more than once. Before the treatment began, he had already sensed that the man might be highly accomplished in Mental Evolution, but he had never expected even a Mental Portal preserved in his memories to be this powerful.
As Tang Guangbo struggled against the eyes, Xu Huo opened his Spiritual World once more. This time, the Book Tower unfolded without a hitch and even held the space open for a while. But it was soon hit by a counterattack and crushed in an instant.
Tang Guangbo's clock face was crushed as well. As the space gave way, the two of them were swept apart by the oncoming eyes, each dragged into a different one.
Entering an eye's world meant that one's consciousness would wander with it. What might seem like an instant from the outside could stretch into a long and painful ordeal in this mental space... Xu Huo had endured this pain before, but he had no memory of the last time, so this was another new beginning. And now that he had begun Mental Evolution, it was easier for him to immerse himself in these worlds, and harder to escape.
Still, he knew very