"However, there's a new school of thought and theory that can be analyzed from another angle." Gong Yi smiled. "That's the theory of eternal life through projections, or the theory of eternal life through the soul."
"The Hyperdimension is the Spiritual World. Everything in the universe, as long as they're strong enough, will be able to find a projection here. This projection is immortal. At least for now, as long as there's no external interference, the life forms here are practically immortal and have an incomparably long lifespan. It's just like heaven or hell in ancient human legends. The physical body can rot, but the soul can live forever. This theory was proposed by a Heavenly Soul Stage expert. That lord seemed to have experienced some extreme evolutionary path. He said that when humans reach the peak of their ultimate evolution, they still pursue the essence of the soul. To put it bluntly, the so-called ascension from the Fourth Dimension to the Fifth Dimension is to allow the soul to transcend and stay in this stronger and more peculiar dimensional plane, pursuing the eternal life of consciousness. The energy to maintain this eternal life is nourished by the consciousness of the life forms in the lower realms. For low-class life forms, this is called faith. "
Everyone fell into deep thought. They were all Heroic Soul Stage experts, and were clearly filled with yearning for the Heavenly Soul Stage. This was the path that humans had to take. Although they kept saying that they were weak and noobs, their performance in the cursed lands was clear. Even the weakest Little Xin and Wang Zhong didn't fall behind.
Gong Yi smiled. "I personally feel that it's feasible. Sometimes, there's no need to understand the true principles. It's already not bad for the weak to grasp the method. It'll definitely be very exciting if they can reach the Heavenly Soul Stage one day."
Gong Yi gave off a rather knowledgeable feeling. Although he wasn't an expert in a certain field, he more or less knew a little about various unpopular knowledge and history. He might not dare to say that his knowledge was correct, but he definitely had his own unique insights and analysis.
Things like right and wrong had to be understood and comprehended by one's self. Gong Yi's erudition allowed everyone to relax, or else their bodies would consume even more energy. In fact, this was also a way for Gong Yi to relieve his stress. At this point, he had to believe that the map was correct, and that everything was real. As a professional gambler, he wanted the excitement of the unknown.
As they conversed in a low voice, everyone continued to walk with all their might, wanting to reach the small path that Gong Yi had mentioned as soon as possible. Advancing in this boundless hell was truly too frightening.
At the same time, Wang Zhong had also extended his Heart's Eye in all directions. Frankly speaking, it wasn't very useful. Although the Heart's Eye's strong speciality lay in observation, it was mainly used in real-time combat, where it could observe one's opponent from a relatively close distance. It was not able to detect one's opponent from afar. In such an environment, the Heart's Eye's usefulness was rather limited within a range of 20 metres. Previously, it was Sister Hong who had first discovered Margaret's presence. At that time, Wang Zhong's Heart's Eye had completely failed to react.
Along the way, they didn't encounter any other dimensional life forms. Frankly speaking, it was too smooth. However, the smoother it was, the more uneasy they felt. Perhaps Margaret had been scared off?
From Gong Yi, everyone found out a portion of the information that had been sealed by the Federation. After surviving the dark era, humanity's greed for the Dimensional World had reached a crazy level, with the cursed lands being one of them. In the beginning, humans had always felt that although some dimensional life forms were strong, they were 'stupid' in nature. They either had obvious limitations, had simple intelligence, or had simple desires. Therefore, they weren't a threat to humans. That was until they encountered dimensional life forms that were strong, intelligent, and ambitious. To them, humans were just vegetables. However, it was obvious that their evolution was stronger than humans, causing them to be unable to enter the lower latitudes.
After walking for an unknown period of time, a huge chasm appeared in front of them. It was as if they had walked to the edge of a cliff. The flat wasteland had suddenly split apart, revealing a huge crack. What was peculiar was that the walls of this chasm appeared neat and tidy, and contained an ancient pressure.
Standing at the edge of the chasm, everyone felt as if they could see an ancient scene. A towering giant had once fought with a ferocious beast here, before casually chopping down with his blade.
The earth trembled, and the entire planet trembled under this terrifying might. The boundless saber Qi directly split the earth apart, forming a huge canyon that was 30 to 40 meters wide, with no end visible! Even after thousands and tens of thousands of years had passed, the might of that blade still lingered here, causing people's hearts to palpitate!
Everyone couldn't help but feel a sense of terror and reverence. It was hard to imagine exactly how powerful the life form that had fought here was.
There was no path left or right. Following the characteristics that Gong Yi had mentioned, they quickly discovered a gigantic black hole at the bottom of the cliff. There were quite a few black vines growing at the mouth of the hole. It was rather rare to see plants that still had vitality in this region.
Without a doubt, all the characteristics matched up. This was the small mountain path that the fugitive had told Gong Yi about.
However, the cliff was exceedingly smooth, and there was practically no way to climb it. Taking out their weapons, everyone forcefully stabbed them into the cliff, using them as support as they slowly approached the hole below.
This wasn't an easy task. Under the high-gravity environment, the mountains, soil, grass, and trees here were all exceptionally tough. The hardness of the cliff was at least several times that of ordinary rocks on Earth, and was comparable to steel. Therefore, they needed to use a lot of strength to stab their weapons into the cliff. Boundless heatwaves rose from the surging magma below, causing the surrounding temperature to rise to a frightening degree. The entire cliff was extremely hot, and everyone's shoes were on the verge of catching fire. They were burnt through, with the soles of their feet showing through. It was only thanks to the protection of their Soul Power that they managed to prevent themselves from being turned into "pig's trotters".
Just as they were about to reach the hole with great difficulty, all of the hairs on Sister Hong's body suddenly stood on end.
It was a fiery red flying beast. It looked a bit like the Archaeopteryx or Dragonbird from Earth's legends. It had a huge dinosaur-like head, and pitch-black hellfire pulsated in its eyes. It had a pair of huge wings and glided over from afar. At a glance, it saw the group of people who were hanging and climbing up the cliff.
Extremely excited, the Hellbird Dragon let out a long cry of joy, before abruptly increasing its speed.
This fellow's speed was simply too fast, easily breaking through the sound barrier as it swooped down like a flash of light. Furthermore, its Soul Power reaction was even more astonishing, indicating that it was at least a 4th rank dimensional life form.
If they were on flat ground, everyone might still be able to put up a fight. However, at this moment, they were hanging on the scalding cliff, and were using all their strength to control their weapons as they climbed. They simply didn't have the opportunity to retaliate.
Everyone's faces instantly changed. However, before they could react or come up with any countermeasures …
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