Spatial Turbulence
What is space?
If this question were posed to Ling Yi in his previous life, both the art students and the physics students would have given their own opinions.
The former answer is to create a three-dimensional visual effect on a two-dimensional plane through visual means such as shape, lines, and colors.
The latter, on the other hand, lists a series of relative physical forms, and the spaces between these physical forms, or the gaps they surround, are a kind of empty space, a transitional zone between objects. Although they do not have actual forms, they can bring a strong visual impact.
Hmm, it's a bit complicated and mind-bending. To keep up with this young lady's train of thought, Ling Yi took a break from going to the restroom and searched online. In short, space is a form of material existence relative to time, manifested as length, width, height...
But in the Douluo Continent, space is a kind of elemental energy.
emmm...
Well, compared to the definition of space in other online novels, the space in the Douluo Continent is really a bit low-brow.
However, it must be said that this kind of low-end spatial attribute is still quite friendly to a novice like Ling Yi who is just starting out.
If he were to start with those lofty concepts like laws, rules, or the origin of the universe, Ling Yi would be completely lost, except for recalling a few seemingly sophisticated settings from online novels.
In the No. 3 casting room, Ling Yi was inscribing Space Expansion Soul Guidance Array Patterns on a piece of spiritual metal while thinking about all sorts of random things.
After skillfully inscribing the array patterns, Ling Yi placed a "Starry Sky Stone" the size of a fingernail into the pre-prepared groove and stroked his chin. "The problem now is how to draw out the spatial energy from the stone."
After muttering to himself, Ling Yi decided to try the simplest method first.
"Buzz—"
A tiny blue glow bloomed at the tip of Ling Yi's right index finger.
Ling Yi placed his index finger on a node of the Space Expansion Array Patterns engraved on the spiritual metal, and injected his Soul Power in a subtle and slow low-frequency rhythm.
The blue Soul Power, like water, gradually filled every corner of the array. When the entire array was fully lit up, a hidden spatial fluctuation appeared.
"They're here!"
Ling Yi activated his mental power to the fullest extent, his sharp eyes fixed on the location where the spatial fluctuations converged—the center of the groove where the "Starry Sky Stone" was located.
The next second, a dark black spot appeared, its position exactly overlapping with the "Starry Sky Stone"!
"Good! First step, success!"
Although he was overjoyed, Ling Yi calmed himself down and channeled his Soul Power into his right index finger without any disorder.
Next comes the crucial moment, where all the previous experiments failed.
Lacking sufficient spatial energy, the tiny subspace that had expanded couldn't even last a third of a moment before vanishing into nothingness.
Now, it remains to be seen whether the spatial energy within this "Starry Sky Stone" can be activated and captured by the tiny subspace that overlaps and coexists with the main space.
Fortunately, the spatial energy within the "Starry Sky Stone" was indeed activated and absorbed by that subspace, which was less than the size of a sesame seed.
Visibly, that tiny subspace, like a deflated balloon, was slowly expanding as it was filled with air formed from the spatial energy within the "Starry Sky Stone."
Sesame seeds, rice grains, mung beans, soybeans, broad beans...
Almost every breath, the subspace grew larger. After about twenty breaths, a subspace the size of an infant's head appeared inside the "Starry Sky Stone".
Don't ask how a "Starry Sky Stone" the size of a fingernail can hold a space the size of a baby's head; the answer is the power of space!
"Snap—!"
A sound so subtle that it was imperceptible to the human ear suddenly appeared inside the "Starry Sky Stone".
Fortunately, Ling Yi, who was in a state of mental overclocking, sensed the commotion.
"Grass--!!!"
Before he could even utter a third of a word, Ling Yi took out a piece of Gao Qiang metal plate, one meter long and one meter wide, and fifty centimeters thick, from his Storage Soul Tool and held it in front of him.
"..."
Silently, without any explosions or cutting or tearing sounds, except that the metal plate in my hand suddenly felt much lighter, it seemed as if nothing had happened in the entire No. 3 casting room.
The frantic pounding in his heart subsided, Ling Yi flipped the metal plate over. What he saw was a semi-circular dent with a radius of more than 30 centimeters, which appeared openly on the metal plate.
"This is damn..." Ling Yi couldn't help but blurt out a phrase from his past life, a national treasure.
It should be noted that the strength and thickness of this metal plate are such that even Power Attack System Sixth Soul Skill can only penetrate it by one or two inches. But now, it's like a piece of soft tofu, with more than half of it being eaten away by an invisible giant mouth.
Moreover, judging from the appearance, if the area affected by the attack hadn't been limited, it wouldn't have only 'nibbled' at the metal hemisphere with a radius of thirty centimeters, but would have swallowed the entire metal plate.
"Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit—!"
The three consecutive sounds revealed the excitement in the speaker's heart.
Don't misunderstand, such rude remarks were not made by Ling Yi, but by someone standing more than ten meters away on Lou Gao.
At this moment, Tie Futu, Yang Shelly, Ah Yin, who had silently witnessed the entire process, did not utter any profanities like Lou Gao, but they still looked shaken and fearful as they stared at the workbench with a large hole missing in front of Ling Yi, as well as the large metal plate that had just been taken out.
In terms of metal strength, the alloy used to forge the workbench is not as good as the metal plate that Ling Yi used for self-defense, but it is by no means weaker than ordinary Hundred Refinement iron. Not to mention that as a workbench specially used by Grandmaster Blacksmith and Divine Craftsman, its sturdiness, that is, the thickness of the table surface, is more than ten centimeters!
At this moment, the all-metal workbench resembled a dining table used in a hot pot restaurant, with a round hollow appearing on the surface, just missing a hot pot stand and a charcoal stove underneath...
"Brother Yi!"
Startled awake by Lou Gao's words, Yang Shelly quickly strode across the dozen or so meters to Ling Yi's Ling Yi, grabbed his arm, and looked him up and down, asking, "How are you? Are you hurt? Say something—"
"Alright, alright~" Ling Yi placed his hand on Yang Shelly's shoulder and said gently, "Don't worry, I'm fine. Look, I'm perfectly alright—"
As he spoke, he opened his other arm and showed it to Yang Shelly.
"Brother Yi ~" Ah Yin came to Ling Yi's side at this moment. She first glanced warily at the gap in the workbench and metal plate, and then said to Ling Yi, "No, let's not study this thing. It's too dangerous! Storage Soul Tool aren't too expensive for you. Even if we don't buy them, we can find some ancient ruins and dig them up..."
As she spoke, Ah Yin recalled the scene from just now, still feeling lingering fear. The power of that spatial cutting was something that even if she were a Three-Ring Soul Elder now, or even when she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, the "Blue Silver Emperor," she would not have had any good means of resisting such an attack except to dodge.
Just as Tie Futu was about to say something, Ling Yi stroked his chin again, seemingly lost in thought, and said:
"Before the spatial energy of the ' Starry Sky Stone,' the annihilation of the subspace created was completely silent, but with spatial energy, it has such powerful destructive force..."
"Do you think it's possible to solidify this destructive power?"
The "Fierce Fire Thunder" I developed before, in terms of destructive power, is only at the level of a hundred-year-old Soul Skill.
If such spatial energy surges were used to create similar weapons, could Titled Douluo withstand them?
Tie Futu, Lou Gao: "..."
Yang Shelly and Ah Yin: "..."
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