Chapter 972 - 427:
Darkness, silence, emptiness, all senses are sealed off, unable to perceive a trace of information, as if floating in a black, soundproof, and boundaryless cage.
This emptiness gives him a very familiar feeling, like Abyss City devoid of any information flow.
"Is this... a higher dimension?"
Here, Chu Xiu completely loses all perception, unable to sense any information!
At this time, a thought suddenly flashes through his mind.
"Abyss, abyss, isn’t this place just like the abyss? Could it be that I’m now at the core of the abyss?"
Before he can think further, a sudden sharp pain manifests in his consciousness, as if a supremely sharp knife has sliced through his soul!
"Space turbulence!"
Chu Xiu instantly recalls the words of the Outer Realm Demon, that in the space of higher dimensions, extremely terrifying space turbulences exist, which only a few high-dimensional creatures and those proficient in the Law of Space can enter!
Only upon personal contact does Chu Xiu realize how terrifying this space turbulence is! His consciousness and flesh are extremely condensed, yet before this space turbulence, it’s like a sharp knife slicing through tofu.
Moreover, Chu Xiu can feel that the surrounding space turbulence is escalating at an astonishing speed, probably because the awakening space he "clung to" has begun accelerating!
Without any hesitation, Chu Xiu directly withdraws all consciousness back into his body and activates his own awakening space within the Star Core!
Immediately, he feels a strange fluctuation rapidly spreading out from his space, completely isolating all those space turbulences.
Once all the soul-cutting pain dissipates, Chu Xiu then discovers that this space is not entirely dark; instead, four small points are lit up, one feeling very close to him, while the other three are far away.
Could this be...
Chu Xiu reminisces about the feeling from the time when datafication was still present, contacting his thoughts to those four points of light, and in the next moment, a look of wild joy appears on his face!
These four points of light are precisely the four anchor points he once linked to in the abyss!
Furthermore, he can clearly perceive the information transmitted from within the points of light, just like when datafication had not yet dissipated!
"It actually works!"
"Did I just inadvertently stumble upon a major bug that no one has walked on before?"
Actually, by now, Chu Xiu also realizes how difficult it is to acquire his [Dataless] trait.
Before this, he thought that the tribulation was rare, but how vast is the infinite cosmos? How many possibilities might be birthed among countless civilizations over billions of years? So, though his dataless trait is indeed rare, it certainly is not unique.
However, now he realizes things are not that simple.
The most critical point: the tribulation’s restraining effect becomes stronger the higher the tier of the organism!
Chu Xiu has a hypothesis that this could be because each tier advancement trial simultaneously strengthens one’s [datafication] level.
And [Tribulation] was specifically created by the Abyss, as a lethal weapon against all creatures, possibly similar to some kind of [Data Reset] method, thus creating the counterintuitive phenomenon of the higher the tier, the stronger the effect.
Becoming a Heroic Spirit at King Tier amounts to the biggest datafication leap, also producing a qualitative change, because only after becoming a Heroic Spirit can one possess the ability to perceive rules.
During normal cultivation, ancient cultivators would have to cultivate all the way to divinity transformation, cultivating a primordial spirit that specifically perceives the Heavenly Dao, before beginning to comprehend rules, whereas awakened ones significantly advance this process, needless to say, because of the Abyss’s [datafication] power.
In other words, to withstand the tribulation, one must be at King Tier!
And how many can be as exceptional as Chu Xiu, who possesses strong demigod-level combat power and basic attributes at King Tier?
Even the powerful Chu Xiu faced harrowing dangers during the tribulation, barely crossing it.
If possessing a tribulation body is already difficult enough, the subsequent [Tribulation] trials pose even more extreme difficulty!
Seven major rules plus a completely identical incarnation, making the stronger the main body, the harder it is to successfully cross the tribulation!
Just as Chu Xiu earlier speculated, even among the few who successfully cross the tribulation, it is with the help of treasures from a Divine King, crossing under the Divine King’s protection.
However, doing so results in extremely poor completion, making it difficult for the tribulation body to achieve perfection, and naturally unable to trigger the [Dataless] trait.
Strong as Chu Xiu is, strictly speaking, he also cannot be considered to have successfully crossed the tribulation, because he lost in the confrontation with the tribulation thunder incarnation; the Law of Destiny is too extreme, without divine-level treasures for protection, it is basically impossible to pass.
If not for the opportunity presented by the Nebula Pill Formation Method afterward, he would have been trapped and died on that Barbaric Planet!
It can be said, the difficulty of acquiring the [Dataless] trait is unbelievably high, which is probably why those Divine Kings researching methods to counter the abyss yet have no results.
Of course, this is only Blood Pool’s unilateral statement, Blood Pool can’t know all Divine Kings, perhaps some Divine Kings have discovered the secrets of the abyss and nurtured strong beings with the [Dataless] trait unbeknownst to others.
After all, the cosmos is too vast, with countless talented individuals like fish crossing a river, unable to be counted, and in the long years, anything coincidental might happen.
Suppressing the joy in his heart, Chu Xiu selects the anchor point representing the Corpse Demon World to focus his thoughts.
The next instant, Chu Xiu feels the surrounding space begin to rapidly accelerate, and at the moment of connection, the awakening space begins to rush forward like a rocket igniting!