The silver shuttle continued flying in the reversed 'time channel' without a sound. It was so peaceful that it was somewhat unnatural.
The land projected by the 3D light beams around gradually sank into the ocean. The terrestrial animals gradually degenerated into the fish in the ocean, and the fish degenerated into nautiluses and trilobites. In the end, it was a desolate, deadly primitive ocean.
A drop of cold sweat slowly leaked out of Li Yao's forehead. For a moment, countless thoughts were flashing deep inside his soul.
He was not worried about how he could see through and break the virtual world, but he could not figure out why Professor Mo Xuan would do such a thing if he was the one who had constructed the 'second illusionary land'.
In the jargon of the Cultivators, a virtual world such as the 'Grand Illusionary Land' could be easily seen through even if the degree of realism was a hundred in theory.
It was because, however powerful its real-time computation and rendering abilities were, allowing it to simulate anything and even everybody vividly, it still could not simulate the things that it did not know.
Everything in the Grand Illusionary Land was predetermined. Even the seemingly random real-time calculations and renderings had to follow certain rules and be composed of 'materials' that were gathered from a database of original information.
One could not make bricks without straw. Without materials, there was no way to simulate anything.
The simplest example was the woman who looked like Long Yangjun sitting next to Li Yao. It was very easy to simulate the appearance of such a person. As long as Long Yangjun secretly took pictures of her with the crystal cameras after she entered the Tinder Base and scanned her from multiple angles, it would be easy to obtain the 'materials' of her appearance.
Based on her public relationship with Li Yao, and perhaps the conversation between the two of them in reality just now, it would be possible to grasp Long Yangjun's speaking habits and how she addressed Li Yao.
However, the creator of the Grand Illusionary Land couldn't have known Long Yangjun's hidden identity, nor could he have known that Long Yangjun called Li Yao 'Monster Li' in private!
It was a secret that could not be deduced even with the computational ability of all the super crystal processors in the entire Federation.
In fact, it did not need to be so complicated. There was a simpler solution. The appearance, or 'skin', that Li Yao appeared in the Grand Illusionary Land was exactly what he looked like when he entered the Tinder Base. But it was only the surface, too. It was impossible for anyone to scan how many Cosmos Rings were hidden on his body or what was inside his Cosmos Rings. So, how could they be simulated?
Therefore, if they were not reassured, they could simply take out their Cosmos Rings and take a look.
Li Yao had brought back a lot of rare materials from the Ancient Sages Sector that could not be found in the entire federation, much less in the 'material library' of the Grand Illusionary Land.
He did not even need to activate his Cosmos Rings. All he needed to do was summon his spiritual energy and trigger a fire of spiritual energy. It was impossible for the creator of the Grand Illusionary Land to know the color, shape, and changes of the spiritual energy when he performed his unique techniques.
In short, the Grand Illusionary Land that was 100% realistic was just something that 'looked beautiful'. It could only function perfectly within the boundaries of certain rules of the game. Once the boundaries were crossed, there would be nothing that it could do, and the 'players' would immediately see through the flaws that were hidden under the delicate appearance.
Unless …
Unless the creator and controller of a Grand Illusionary Land were strong enough to hack the brains of the 'players', read all the information from the depths of the brains, and generate a new 'material library' in real time so that they could perform calculations and deductions before the neurons in the brain realized what was going on.
It meant that as long as certain 'flexible' images popped up in Li Yao's head, they would immediately be captured by the Grand Illusionary Land, and a series of complicated but quick calculations would be carried out.
Or maybe, the Grand Illusionary Land could perform brilliant mental attacks on the brains of the 'players' and put the 'players' into a certain mysterious hypnotic state, as if they were dreaming.
When a person was dreaming, the 'dream world' that they perceived was also incomplete and bizarre. It was completely against common sense and law.
In the dream, people could fly, dead people could reappear, animals could talk, and everything could be perfectly overlapped. Anything bizarre could happen.
If someone were awake and saw such a dream, they would certainly find it ridiculous and unreal.
But those who were trapped in nightmares would barely realize that they were dreaming.
However, it was certainly not easy to achieve those two points.
Li Yao sneered silently in his heart.
Invading the brain to read the memories and thoughts, or paralyzing certain areas of the brain and directly hypnotizing them, would be very taxing on one's soul and computational ability.
Besides, he was not an ordinary person but a Yuanying monster with a powerful soul, a firm belief, and a profound brain. He was also one of the best Yuanying monsters!
Not that Li Yao was bragging, but in terms of absolute combat ability, he was indeed not the best in the Federation. A hundred years ago, he was probably in the top three to top five in the Federation. After a hundred years of sleep, without the Crystal Suit and the Colossus, he might not even be able to defeat Ding Ling Dong.
However, in terms of 'brain battles' or 'mental power', hehe. He might be the strongest person in the entire Federation beyond the Divinity Transformation Stage!
Ever since he was born and had self-awareness and memories, he had been haunted by a weird dream. The dream of 'Earth' that he was born with was definitely not a normal dream. It was more like something similar to the 'Grand Illusionary Land' that had been polishing his brain without him knowing it, allowing him to grit his teeth and persist in his crazy training in the future.
Then, Ou Yezi's possession. When he was in the Flying Star Sector, the 'star child' tried to invade and control his brain with the 'star brain'. When he left the Flying Star Sector, the Blood Stripe Virus tried to take over his body when he was in the void. The three soul-stirring, life-threatening battles of the brain further polished and cleansed his brain and soul. They even allowed him to split into a weird 'second soul' such as the 'mental devil'.
His experience was unique and unduplicable in the entire Federation. Therefore, if other people were to launch 'mental attacks' on him, they would be trespassing into the field that he was best at. It was exactly what he wanted! …
Of course, if his professor was truly up to something, he must not be underestimated.
As a 'star spirit', Professor Mo Xuan's soul had undergone some sort of mutation, too, which made it extremely weird and mysterious. Also, in the battle against the 'star child', Professor Mo Xuan had swallowed a lot of the star child's soul and computational ability, too. Perhaps he had benefited even more than Li Yao did.
After that, Professor Mo Xuan had been in charge of the Glorious Era Magical Equipment Research Center and the repair work of the hundred super crystal processors from the Star Ocean Imperium on Spider Den and the Star Prier's House. With his secret arts as a 'star spirit', he had accumulated even more computational ability.
Li Yao had a half-real competition with his professor, too. The conclusion was that Professor Mo Xuan's mental power and soul were truly immeasurable!
But that was a hundred years ago.
During the hundred years, Professor Mo Xuan had not been idle. He was a 'human-shaped crystal processor'. Even if he was not personally involved in the production, assembly, and debugging of all the super crystal processors in the Federation, he must've been involved in them and trained himself to a higher level!
With his life form of liquid metal right now, his level of training might not be measured by 'Yuanying' or 'Divinity Transformation Stage'. But according to the intelligence that Li Yao had collected from various sources, in terms of computational ability alone, Professor Mo Xuan was far better than the common 'Divinity Transformation Stage'!
His professor's computational ability was the well-deserved best in the Federation.
Otherwise, how could he have been qualified to be the president of the Association of Refiners and the Association of Spectral Cultivators of the Federation?
Generally speaking, 'computational ability' and 'combat ability' could not be equated to each other.
But in the Grand Illusionary Land …
To this moment, Li Yao still did not feel that Professor Mo Xuan was capable of sneaking into his brain, reading his memory pieces, and paralyzing his central nerves and thinking cells without him knowing it.
Also, it was not difficult for a 'big player' such as Li Yao to crack such a Grand Illusionary Land.
As long as he kept burning his soul and releasing infinite telepathic thoughts and techniques that exceeded the real-time computation and rendering speed of the Grand Illusionary Land, the information streams that constituted the Grand Illusionary Land would be in a certain 'overflow state'. It was entirely possible that the Grand Illusionary Land, as well as the super crystal processors hidden behind the Grand Illusionary Land, and their controller, would collapse.
It was exactly how the 'star child' had collapsed in the past.
It was the same for Ou Yezi. With the last bit of his computational ability and mental power, Ou Yezi constructed a vivid illusionary world, hoping to corrupt Li Yao's soul bit by bit in the illusionary world.
But out of his expectation, Li Yao's soul was far more solid than he had anticipated. As a result, Li Yao did not fight back at all, and Ou Yezi collapsed because he could not bear the enormous computation and rendering.
Mental attacks were double-edged swords in the first place. If the target's mental power was weak, the target would be hit. But if the target's mental power was too tough, it was very likely that the attacker would be the one to suffer.
Li Yao narrowed his eyes and stared at the seemingly peaceful blue sky, white clouds, and vast prairie far away. He seemed to be able to see the green numbers and runes that were sliding down like waterfalls behind the sky and the clouds.
If it was really Professor Mo Xuan, why was he doing that?
On the surface, Li Yao was an honorable guest on Firefly and a representative of the Speaker of the rightful government of the Star Ocean Republic. So many special agents of the Union Army and the Secret Sword Bureau were present, and everything was being closely monitored. Was it necessary for him to attack him in public?
Also, although he was there on behalf of Speaker Cui Lingfeng, Firefly was just a bunch of refugees after all. In the war between the Black Wind Fleet and the Federation to come, his identity on the surface was just a nobody.
If his professor really had any scheme, was it worth the risk for such a 'nobody'?
The shuttle would return to the spaceport very soon. The scale of the Grand Illusionary Land could not be large, and there would not be too many characters that could be simulated in real time. It was impossible to simulate every member of 'Team Red Lotus'.
Therefore, the real purpose of the 'game' would be revealed right now!
Hardly had the idea occurred to him when Li Yao's pupils constricted violently!
Perhaps because he had been deep in thought for too long and did not continue talking to 'Long Yangjun', this' Long Yangjun 'slightly stiffened.
In the meantime, Li Yao sensed that an unprecedented, destructive killing intent had locked onto him! (To be continued.)
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