[You activated the skill "Mind Journey"] [Lifespan -1,000] [Target "Fengyu·Iliya" located] [Entering the target's "Mind Corridor"]
As the notifications appeared, Zhou Heng's consciousness sank into a protracted, deathly silence. The scene among the clouds vanished, replaced by darkness stretching an unknown number of kilometers. Soon, a ray of light appeared out of thin air before him, guiding him deeper into the darkness...
When the light vanished, he stood somewhere resembling Beautiful Starfish's Mind Corridor, except that Fengyu·Iliya's was a gallery-like passage in comparison. Walking through this "Mind Corridor" composed of various moments from the past, Zhou Heng saw many scenes he had never encountered in textbooks: people ridden like dogs, people used as human punching bags. He even saw an enormous livestock farm filled entirely with Ordinary players like himself.
Zhou Heng knew that the Longevity-Cursed Species were all beasts, but he had held on to a little hope. Now it seemed that all such hopes were delusions. Many of his fellow humans across multiple chapters were still suffering. Suppressing the agitation in his heart, Zhou Heng continued deeper into Fengyu·Iliya's "Mind Corridor"...
"Come, my darling. Today, Mommy will teach you what rank is. Among our noble Longevity Species, whether someone is noble is determined not by which family they come from, but by the lotus petals between their eyebrows. One petal represents..." The sudden scene brought Zhou Heng to a halt. It showed Beauty, an incomparably beautiful woman, wearing her luminous white hair, more than ten meters long, loose around her. Her eyes held the color of stars, and there were seven lotus petals between her eyebrows. Holding a very young Fengyu·Iliya, she explained the hierarchy of the lotus petals to him. From her words, Zhou Heng finally understood what the number of lotus petals meant. It