"Did you feel it?" The Guardian Assistant—a vague humanoid outline formed from pure dimensional energy—floated beside him. "They are about to face real danger."
Lin Ye nodded, his gaze resolute. "Yes, I have to do more." He looked at the Purple Patterns flowing along his arm. "That projection just now was too weak. It couldn't provide enough help."
The Guardian Assistant slowly drifted around Lin Ye. "There is a deeper way to use the Runes, but the risk is enormous. Your consciousness could be permanently scattered between dimensions, never able to return."
"Tell me the exact method," Lin Ye said without hesitation. "If I do nothing, they could all be in danger."
The Guardian Assistant rippled slightly, as if sighing. "Enter a deep meditative state. Guide the Runes within your body into forming a closed-loop energy channel, then project your consciousness along that channel into the real world. This method can create a more solid projection, one that can even weakly affect the material world."
Lin Ye sat cross-legged as Void Energy formed a platform beneath him. "Begin."
As Lin Ye closed his eyes, the Runes within him began to emit a brilliant purple glow. The Guardian Assistant's voice became distant and ethereal. "Focus on the core of your consciousness. Imagine it as a ball of light, then send it bit by bit into the real world along the paths of the Runes..."
Lin Ye's breathing became extraordinarily slow, nearly stopping altogether. He felt his consciousness being stretched and extended, like a thin thread passing through the heavy Dimensional Barrier. The process was agonizing, as though every cell in his body were being torn apart and reassembled.
"Hold on," the Guardian Assistant encouraged. "Your consciousness is piercing through the dimensional barrier."
At the same time, part of Lin Ye's consciousness