Su Yu looked up toward the direction he was being guided in.
Only then did he realize that, as he radiated brilliant light, his range of perception seemed to have expanded as well.
It felt as though the light he gave off had pierced the darkness of this night-shrouded world!
Of course, the area it illuminated was limited.
Farther out, everything remained pitch-black.
But everything within his range of perception was no longer lifeless and gray.
That eased his heart considerably.
Without lingering too long, he swiftly flew toward the place he was being guided to.
Within this inner landscape, he could fly millions of miles with a single thought.
After all, this was his own body. His thoughts traveled within it, so making several round trips in a single breath was perfectly reasonable.
Once he reached the designated location, his consciousness began to burn of its own accord, without Su Yu needing to do anything.
It was as though he had forcibly expelled something.
Then his mental will naturally began to shine.
Outside.
Du Busi abruptly opened his eyes and withdrew the light silhouette of his silver-grade second awakening into his body.
He stared at Su Yu in bewilderment.
"I was actually forced out."
This was the first time he had encountered such a situation.
Seeing that Su Yu was still cultivating and had not come to, Busi did not disturb him immediately.
He looked at Long Aotian and Vina. Both were still immersed in the sensation they had just experienced, wasting no time, and naturally had not noticed what had happened here.
Du Busi sat cross-legged nearby and closed his eyes to rest his mind.
Guiding three martial soul second awakenings just now had taken an immense toll on him mentally.
That, too, could probably be counted among the costs of the secret art.
Meanwhile, within his inner landscape, Su Yu was undergoing a transformation.
His consciousness had been guided to an extremely unusual place.
This is my lower dantian.
Yes, he had found the location in his inner landscape that corresponded to his lower dantian.
The second awakening of a body martial soul actually involved a transformation that occurred when the consciousness reached deep into the region corresponding to the martial soul.
And that transformation took place somewhere like the inner landscape.
Ordinary soul masters had no way to enter their inner landscapes. But the changes in their consciousness probably manifested on this same level.
So the inner landscape truly did play a part in a martial soul second awakening, along with a process of unearthing the hidden treasures of the human body.
The enhancement doesn't come from uniting spirit and flesh, but from the consciousness stimulating the body's potential.
All kinds of thoughts surfaced in Su Yu's mind.
At the same time, his mental consciousness continued to expand.
Within the dantian, his consciousness seemed to become the core of heaven and earth, receiving a kind of nourishment. Not only did his range of perception increase dramatically, but he also emitted even more light, radiating outward.
My heart blazes with light!
At that moment, Su Yu experienced an entirely different sensation.
It was as though he had touched some sort of switch.
The next moment, he felt his soul power surge wildly.
His spiritual power also poured toward his dantian.
Spiritual power suddenly erupted within the inner landscape, violently sweeping up much of the mysterious substance around him.
Outside, a silver light silhouette slowly took shape behind Su Yu.
Sensing the soul power fluctuations, Du Busi snapped his eyes open at once.
He looked at Su Yu, saw the silver light silhouette behind him, and froze on the spot.
"How is that possible?"
Although the secret art was very effective at guiding disciples and could help many of the sect's disciples achieve a second awakening with relative ease, it should not have been this easy.
Most disciples had to wait until they had five rings, or even six or seven, before they had any chance of succeeding.
Some had martial souls of limited innate potential and could not even cultivate to that stage. In such cases, no matter how many times Du Busi guided them, they could only fail.
Until now, the earliest second awakening recorded by the sect had been achieved at level 40.
Even though he had been prepared to let Su Yu attempt it at level 20, now that it had actually happened, Du Busi still felt as though he were dreaming.
It was too astonishing!
He had succeeded after just one round of guidance.
That meant Su Yu's martial soul had already been only a single step away from its second awakening.
Du Busi observed the silver light silhouette behind Su Yu.
Once it finished taking shape, it quickly dispersed.
At the same time, Su Yu's soul power rapidly ran dry.
His entire aura weakened.
Yet Su Yu still did not open his eyes.
He kept them tightly shut, remaining in a meditative state.
Du Busi frowned slightly at the sight.
"His soul power level is too low to sustain the martial soul second awakening state."
"But this kid has exhausted himself, and he can still immerse himself in meditation."
Du Busi was very familiar with this sensation. He had observed Su Yu more than once before.
As Du Busi understood it, this state resembled deep meditation, and was perhaps even better than deep meditation.
The crucial point was that Su Yu could enter it whenever he wanted. Every time he meditated, he did so in a state even more efficient than deep meditation. It was utterly absurd.
Du Busi suspected that this had also contributed to Su Yu achieving his second awakening on the first attempt.
Within the inner landscape.
In my current state, I'll be much more efficient at exploring the inner landscape.
Su Yu's consciousness did not immediately return to his physical body.
Too much had changed this time. He needed to process it first.
My range of perception has expanded dramatically, and I can serve as a light source myself, illuminating the darkness around me and extending my field of vision even further.
More importantly, my spiritual power actually poured into this space!
Just now, at the instant he completed his martial soul second awakening, Su Yu's spiritual power had erupted within this space.
It was precisely that indiscriminate sweep of spiritual power that had activated much of the mysterious substance in the region corresponding to his lower dantian.
That had completed his martial soul second awakening.
And after the eruption ended, Su Yu only needed to pay a little attention to notice that the mysterious substances activated by the sweep of spiritual power were rapidly recovering.
This was the first time he had observed the mysterious substance regenerating.
There are still many secrets in this inner landscape that I know nothing about, waiting to be unearthed.
There's no rush to explore.
Su Yu had already sorted through the new details he had noticed during this transformation.
He was in no hurry to use his broader perception to explore the inner landscape.
His consciousness returned to his body.
His physical weakness did nothing to dampen his enthusiasm.
He opened his eyes, a golden gleam flashing through them, his gaze bright and lively.
"Sect Master, could you help guide me to my middle and upper dantians as well?"
There was a hint of entreaty in Su Yu's voice.
Rather than exploring the inner landscape right away, he wanted to first pinpoint the regions within it that corresponded to his three martial souls.
How should he put it?
Simply having his consciousness in the region corresponding to his lower dantian granted him a mysterious boost.
This led Su Yu to suspect that the upper and middle dantians had corresponding wonders of their own.
Those wonders should aid him in exploring the inner landscape.
So, by locating his three bases of operations first, he would be able to achieve twice the results with half the effort when exploring the inner landscape in the future.
Du Busi was speechless after hearing the first thing Su Yu said upon waking.
"Would you like to take a moment to feel what state your body is in right now?"
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