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But it dragged on for more than ten minutes.

The temple masters also couldn't see any signs of him absorbing Wind Energy.

Or rather, even if he did absorb it, he wouldn't be able to see it or perceive it.

The vast difference in their levels made it completely impossible for him to understand the principles behind the attacks of a Palace Master.

Coming to his senses, Lin Hui focused his mind and manipulated his Disaster Energy to continuously condense unknown substances targeting the junior expert opposite him. Although he and another fellow disciple were struggling to hold on, they still managed to maintain the situation.

Not long after, a loud chime slowly rang out.

All the experts from the Red-Robed Myriad Stars Tower withdrew and disappeared.

All that remained were the devastation of the sect.

Some of the disciples who died in battle were resurrected and returned to this place. Among them, the souls of a few were somewhat strange. It was clear that they had died many times and their loss of cognition had begun to cause abnormalities in themselves.

They were completely unaware of it, and no one around them offered any reminders; they simply kept their distance from them.

"Those who fought so hard this time, each of you will receive three strands of Yuan Qi as a reward. Come to me in a bit to collect it." Hongyu Chun, looking exhausted, gathered her Guangxin Hall disciples and announced this news.

No one showed any joy. Some people had expended more than three strands of vital energy in this battle, and the compensation was barely enough to restore some health. Lin Hui didn't care about the three strands of vital energy. What he cared about was that his Wind Energy, after this battle, had penetrated deep into the bodies and souls of everyone in the Guangxin Hall.

This is fantastic news for him.

Now that he has achieved Dao, as long as the Wind Energy exists, so too does he. The entire scale of the Wind Energy is the foundation of his immense power.

"Therefore, next, I need to properly evolve the speed and efficiency of Wind Energy conversion. The new cultivation technique and secret arts, I've reached the basics, but they also need further evolution to see if they can completely resolve the resurgence and immortality of the Fusion Faction."

"Finally, now that I have completed my advancement and reached the Dao Integration stage, it's time to consider the next step in my advancement."

How exactly should one advance to the spacetime distortion level, which is equivalent to the deputy hall master or hall master level?

He has no clue what to do either.

It's possible that the Heaven Seed could forcefully elevate him, but that would be a forced boost. So far, he hasn't seen any Palace Masters absorbing Wind Energy. What if they never absorb it? Does that mean he'll never advance?

Therefore, after considering integration, Lin Hui first chose the Fusion Faction method, which was just beginning to be learned in evolution.

Fangsheng Art: This technique can be applied from a special dimension.

The next possible evolutionary branch is: 5.

Lin Hui returned to his yard, rebuilt the house that had mostly collapsed, and sat cross-legged back under the tree.

Open the Blood Seal, click on the evolution branch, and review the past items one by one.

"1. Sentient Fangsheng Art: An evolved version of the Fangsheng Art Fangsheng Art, significantly increasing the activation and adjustment speed of memory modification." "2. Myriad Fangsheng Art: Significantly increases the number of targets that the Fangsheng Art can target."

"3. Eternal Peace Codex: Any individual who is aware of themselves will have their self-image and memory gradually improve over time. 4. Chaos Codex: Any individual who is aware of themselves will undergo a mental cognitive assessment of their self-image and memory at regular intervals. If the assessment is passed, the memory will be biased towards themselves; if it is failed, the degree of confusion will increase."

"5. The Illusory Codex: Transforms a memory of the designated target into a blurred dream, making it impossible for them to distinguish between reality and illusion. This is a permanent alteration from reality to illusion, consuming an extremely large amount of energy, and its release cycle is once every one hundred years. It will be ineffective if the target's energy level is too high."

Lin Hui didn't hesitate on these options. The Fangsheng Art was already quite perfect, and although the other branches were stronger, they weren't as useful to him as the Fangsheng Art. He chose the Sentient Fangsheng Art and checked its evolution time.

Remaining time: 990,000 years.

"For such a mere secret technique to cost so much... its effectiveness is clearly beyond question."

Next, Lin Hui removed the fish eyes and quickly absorbed nearly fifty of them, completing this evolution.

A wealth of cultivation experience and memories flooded into his mind.

Lin Hui felt a throbbing sensation throughout his body, and the Immortal Fire within his soul trembled and flickered.

It seems that some inexplicable, permanent change is taking place.

The change was completed in about ten minutes.

Lin Hui checked himself over and found no problems. He then quickly activated the Sentient Fangsheng Art.

He had only reached the first level of this secret technique before.

But now.

Laugh!

The next moment.

He completely vanished from the spot.

The surrounding world changed drastically, turning into a grayish-brown color.

The courtyard disappeared, the Wind Disaster and flood disappeared, and everything around it transformed into clumps of indistinct gray-blue matter.

Lin Hui floated in place, looking around.

This was the first time he had truly entered this special dimension that could modify memories.

Although he had previously come into contact with it and even grasped the basics, he had only sensed the existence of this dimension.

Now it's different. With the Fang Fangsheng Art evolving directly into a more powerful Sentient Fangsheng Art, he has completely entered this special dimension. "From now on, let's call this place, which is all gray, the Gray Dimension."

He named it directly in his mind. In fact, this dimension had never been named in the cultivation technique. It was either Gray Dimension, a special dimension, or an unknown dimension.

After deciding on the name, Lin Hui looked at himself and found that he was also a bluish-gray blur, looking a lot like a lump of mashed tofu. Then he looked at the others.

The most recent clump of grayish-blue substance was on his right side.

With a thought, Lin Hui swiftly moved closer.

With the Wind Energy of wind, he can now move quickly by leaping and traversing using Wind Energy.

This speed is far faster than the speed of light, and much faster than his previous methods of movement. Aside from being unusable for direct offense or defense, this method of movement is also extremely stealthy.

In other words, after moving there, the body needs to reassemble, which is a relatively complicated process.

After a few quick movements, Lin Hui arrived in front of the grayish-blue substance.

Only when the object got closer did I realize that it was only the size of a small watermelon.

It floated in mid-air, with wisps of gray smoke faintly visible above it, constantly drifting out.

Lin Hui reached out and gently tapped.

Within his soul, a pre-cultivated and fixed energy flowed from his fingertips, penetrating the mass of matter before him.

A deafening roar followed.

In an instant, a massive amount of memory information flooded into Lin Hui's mind.

The chaos, noise, and disorder startled him, causing him to quickly take a step back and stop.

"Is this technique really that dangerous?" He had never truly accessed another person's memories before, and this was his first real attempt. He was almost overwhelmed by the opponent's incredibly vast torrent of memories.

Compared to his mere few hundred years of memories, each of these old fellows possesses over ten thousand years of memories and experiences.

In this respect, Lin Hui realized that he was the weakest of the weak.

Although some cultivation memories are instilled during the Blood Seal transmission, these are extremely simplified versions, focusing solely on cultivation.

Unlike now, it's all about feelings, thoughts, and everyday trifles.

After absorbing the chaotic flow of memories spanning hundreds of years in an instant, Lin Hui learned that this grayish-blue substance contained all the memories of a fellow disciple named Xu Lingfei.

Yes, it's not the soul, but pure memory information.

This Gray Dimension only displays and communicates the memories, or rather, memory information, of different individuals.

Lin Hui carefully examined Xu Lingfei's memory cluster. The constantly drifting smoke above it must be the so-called forgetting process.

But aside from that, upon closer observation, he also saw that the surrounding area was constantly and subtly converging, condensing into new grayish-blue substances. However, the rate at which this condensation increased was extremely slow and minute.

Unless you get close and observe carefully, you can't see it clearly at all.

"This should be the process of new memories forming."

This Sentient Fangsheng Art is truly wondrous; it has completely discovered a new dimension that no one else has ever heard of, and once inside, one can freely manipulate everyone's memories.

"But adjustments inevitably involve contact, and contact inevitably requires enduring a massive surge of information and memories from the other party..."

Lin Hui was having a headache.

Based on the memory information just now, this thing is somewhat similar to the Mind Sea. Apart from the real parts, the memories actually contain a lot of intermediate products such as fantasy, stream of consciousness, speculation, and thinking.

Many of these are simply rubbish.

It's fair to say that out of ten thousand pieces of information, having even one genuine one would be quite good, and he'd also need a way to distinguish between the real and the fake. "No wonder things go wrong if you stay here too long..." Looking at the mass of memory matter before him, Lin Hui found a way to adjust it using the Sentient Fangsheng Art, but that was the content of the second and third layers. He was currently only at the first level, able to only fix the dimension and make superficial contact.

Immediately, he had a thought and withdrew from this Gray Dimension.

The scene in the surrounding courtyard was completely restored.

In an instant, in a private pavilion atop another alchemy furnace in the distance...

A pretty, three-eyed woman in a yellow dress suddenly opened her eyes and looked around.

"I feel a little cold all over."

After confirming that she had found nothing, she continued her cultivation, absorbing vital energy to stabilize her own perception.

In reality, most of the Fusion Faction, without special means or cognitive crystals to maintain their cognition, can only rely on dormancy to buy time. It is the presence of vital energy within this courtyard that allows a large number of Fusion Faction to have significantly more time to operate.

Despite this, there are still traditional, Fusion Faction elderly people like Xu Lingfei who, apart from absorbing vital energy and going on missions, spend most of their time in a deep sleep.

Simply put, these traditional Fusion Faction come here to earn extra money from the energy industry. They can't compete with the big players for cognitive crystals, so they have no choice but to take this path.

As an old guy who has lived for over 7.5 million years, Xu Lingfei appears to be a young, beautiful, and aloof girl in her early twenties. But for a materialistic powerhouse, youth and beauty are just a matter of whether or not to maintain them, while aloofness... having experienced everything, she no longer cares about most things, so naturally she takes everything lightly, hence her aloof demeanor.

It can be said that the vast majority of elderly people who Fusion Faction share a similar temperament.

Soon, Xu Lingfei entered the absorption and cultivation process again, completely focused.