Chapter 2621: Fair Trade
Although these people had heard that Xu Huo’s spiritual world could materialize a human-shaped entity with consciousness, seeing it firsthand was still shocking. It was not just a shadow simulated by a materialized entity, but a real person.
The stronger one’s spiritual power, the less likely they are to be disturbed, especially for these mental Super Evolutionaries in District 001. However, when they saw the childhood Xu Huo, he appeared as a real person. This could only indicate one thing: that Xu Huo’s spirit evolution intensity far surpassed theirs, even if his current spiritual world range was not as wide as theirs. His talent in spirit evolution far exceeded theirs!
The childhood persona’s range of activity mostly remained within Xu Huo’s spiritual world, but when he acted alone, Xu Huo didn’t need to fully unleash his spiritual power, merely following him and avoiding interference from the District 001 members.
Similarly, although these people had a large evolution scope, it was very difficult to deceive someone who was also an Evolver. There wasn’t enough time, and the distribution of spiritual power around him was very peculiar. Usually, from the Evolver to the edge of the spiritual world is a process of gradually weakening spiritual power. Within this range, a psychic Evolver can focus his spiritual power to attack a few targets, but it requires a high degree of concentration, making it difficult to multitask, which is a shortcoming of mental evolution.
However, Xu Huo did not deliberately concentrate his psychic power in a specific area, but instead formed scattered points that gathered like stars around him. These small gathering points distributed unevenly in the air didn’t actively attack, but when someone approached or touched them, they would feel the spiritual power multiply. This concentrated yet dispersed state seemed to not consume much psychic power.
At least from Xu Huo’s performance, he could still deftly avoid attacks from other materialized entities while maintaining this state of using spiritual power.
No need for a life-and-death struggle, the materialized entity could be sensed the moment it activated with spiritual power. So if District 001’s attack was detected by Xu Huo, they would withdraw voluntarily.
The "Endless Sky Road" and "Suffocation Space" required too much interference time and were essentially ineffective. The female player’s "Age Regression" was slightly stronger but also ineffective against Xu Huo. Thus, besides using mental pressure, their main confrontation was through materialized entities.
The childhood persona went to the primeval forest to find someone, countless mutant plants and animals attacked from all directions, surging like a tide, and the spiritual power pressurized the air like a tsunami. Xu Huo, caught within it, naturally felt threatened, but as he retreated from the assault, the childhood persona transformed into a black shadow and vanished on the spot. He navigated through the mutant plants in District 001 players’ spiritual worlds and quickly found the players’ hiding spots.
With one hand extended into the mutated beast’s throat, the suspended childhood persona gently patted the shoulder through the materialized entity.
The player was startled, turned back in shock, blurting out, "You aren’t..."
You aren’t in front of me?
He didn’t finish the sentence, the confrontation of spiritual power left him incorrectly assessing his opponent’s position. If it were a real match, he might have died here.
"I don’t understand, the materialized entity can’t disappear into thin air, I’ve been tracking its movement all along, why did it suddenly transfer behind me?"
The duel temporarily paused, the player skilled at transforming his spiritual world into a primeval forest puzzledly asked the approaching Xu Huo.
No matter how talented he was, decades of training and learning disparity were insurmountable. Moreover, when the match started, he could estimate the opponent’s level, and by rights, Xu Huo’s strength shouldn’t allow him to move freely without traces in his spiritual world.
Xu Huo looked at the childhood persona, the child glanced back at him before disappearing directly.
Actually, he just played an optical trick—while the strength of the childhood persona was uncertain, it should be stronger than Xu Huo’s adult persona. He avoided the District 001 player’s sight, letting the childhood persona appear in the primeval forest to divert attention, while he circled behind for a surprise attack.
"His spiritual power is stronger than yours." Xu Huo simply answered, the childhood persona was strong enough to steal a materialized entity from Dou Shengnan’s spiritual world, indicating his strength among the four mental personas.
District 001’s members, excluding the unfocused young player, all fell silent. They indeed witnessed a different use of spiritual power, but this special method vastly differed from their understanding. Not only could they not learn or emulate it, but they couldn’t even grasp its roots.
Xu Huo didn’t mention the inter-persona matter, he just scheduled the next few days’ training time—they would rely on luck to learn anything new from each other.
The group didn’t reside in the manor, and after today’s confrontation ended, they left first.
During this period, the female player from the Rank-A Wormhole Point kept observing him until the sixth day when Xu Huo had clearly informed Jing Shi and Mr. Xi and others to rest one more night before heading to the next dungeon instance. She found him.
"Most people tend to value strength, believing that strong individuals can thrive anywhere," the female player sat across from him, speaking casually, "But I think luck and strength are equally important because countless strong players die in games due to bad luck, while those with good luck, even if morally corrupt or not strong, can gain some fame."
"You managed to escape the forbidden zone of the Night Tour Dungeon, besides strength, there’s surely an element of luck."
"With your strength and luck, you can accomplish more and should receive better rewards."
Xu Huo listened quietly, then said, "Are you asking for help?"
The female player smiled, "Not really asking for help, I’ll name a price, you do the job, it’s a fair trade if you agree."
She raised her hand, revealing a white metal box. When it opened, it contained three neatly placed stones, two being well-formed Secondary Stones, while the third stone was dry and cracked on the surface, yet the overly dense spatial rays it contained displayed its extraordinary nature.
The female player placed the box on the table and pointed to the stone full of fractures in the middle, "This is a Primeval Stone."
"Although not as precious as a Time-Space Native Stone, and despite being consumed multiple times, the remaining material is enough to support making an A-level prop close to a Super Prop as core material."