Soon, Xiao Chen and Gu Yue returned to the Spirit Transferring Pagoda, and a stretch of dull, tedious days followed.
Life for Xiao Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er became simple and regular, consisting of little beyond cultivating and studying. Whenever they had some free time, the two girls occasionally dragged Xiao Chen out to wander around the vast Shrek City. He had toured it so much he was nearly sick of it.
Aside from cultivating and having fun, their main concern was resolving Xiao Chen's headaches.
Ever since he finished forming his spiritual soul core, those headaches had latched onto him.
He was perfectly fine when nothing was happening, but whenever he overtaxed his brain, or even experienced a slight fluctuation in his mood, his sea of consciousness would suddenly swell with pain. Waves of dull agony swept through his entire body, becoming unbearable.
Xiao Chen and Gu Yue had told Leng Yaoyu about it as soon as they returned to the Spirit Transferring Pagoda. She had racked her brains trying to eliminate this hidden danger.
She tried all sorts of methods, but none of them ultimately solved it. They could not even ease the symptoms.
The reason was simple: Xiao Chen's headaches stemmed from a problem with his sea of consciousness. His spiritual soul core constantly fed spiritual power into it, and the core's infectious properties caused his sea of consciousness to tremble without cease.
To resolve it, someone first had to enter Xiao Chen's sea of consciousness, but that was precisely the problem. His sea of consciousness was different from everyone else's. No outsider could enter it; only Xiao Chen himself could.
Without being able to enter, naturally, there was no way to solve the problem.
For this, Leng Yaoyu even invited Han Tianyi, the Illusory Brain Douluo,