Mental power seethed like a tide within this vortex of mental power.
Even Lin Ke, who considered his mental power sufficiently vast, felt somewhat unable to withstand the impact of this force.
"Foster Father, what... is going on?"
Inside the Niwan Palace, the Dream-Eating Gecko, jolted awake by this force, could not stop shouting.
He had really suffered these past few days.
First, Lin Ke had woken him while refining Xuanyuan, and now a massive mental storm had suddenly formed within the Niwan Palace.
Fortunately, his mind was linked to Lin Ke's, so he quickly learned what was happening.
Otherwise, he would have thought Lin Ke was being hunted by a mighty cultivator who intended to extinguish every trace of his life through mental means.
Lin Ke ignored him and focused solely on condensing his mental core.
Buzzz-
The entire Niwan Palace reverberated.
As more and more mental power condensed, Lin Ke's consciousness seemed to begin drifting away from his original body, spreading beyond the Niwan Palace.
He seemed to pass through the barrier of the Niwan Palace and arrive somewhere unknown.
It was a vast expanse of darkness.
Deep, desolate, and cold, it carried an indescribable air of barrenness.
Where is this?
Lin Ke's consciousness could not help asking itself.
The only answer remained that indescribable desolation.
Cold permeated this space, carrying a bone-piercing chill that nearly froze his consciousness.
This is...
Just as he felt his consciousness beginning to freeze, something suddenly appeared, tearing apart the surrounding darkness.
It was light!
Like a beacon in the darkness.
More and more appeared, shining ever brighter.
Those lights flashed past his eyes, finally colliding and annihilating one another in the void ahead, then gathering and intersecting again.
Eventually, they gathered into ribbons resembling celestial rivers.
Lin Ke's consciousness jolted.
Only