When Li Yao's soul returned to his shell at the bottom of the Gold Crystal Pyramid, he felt that he had never felt so tired and lackluster before.
The mental devil was right. Repairing someone else's brain remotely was indeed not the same as repairing one's own brain.
It was like the difference in difficulty and consumption between lifting a one-kilogram weight with one's hand and lifting a one-kilogram object a thousand kilometers away through remote manipulation.
Li Yao hadn't completely repaired Fang Gang 123's brain yet. The trauma and "cleansing" that he had been through since childhood were too severe. His brain palace was shaking and vulnerable. The more delicate the repairs were, the more mental and spiritual energy Li Yao had to devote to it.
However, they finally had a good start.
At least until the end of the restoration, when "Fang Gang 123" heard a pleasant song, his soul was beaming out delightfully, like the purest smile of a child.
For Li Yao, such a smile was enough to eliminate all the pain and exhaustion.
Xiaoming and Wenwen monitored Li Yao's every move closely and recorded tremendous data about his soul waves, partly to ensure Li Yao's safety and health, and partly to simulate Li Yao's process of control and treatment with the crystal processors. Their ultimate purpose was to build an enormous array of super crystal processors, which could replace Li Yao to carry out the Sunspot Plan and wake up all the sunspots and even all the people of the Holy League.
Otherwise, if Li Yao's brain were to wake up the sunspots one by one, he wouldn't be able to save too many people even if all his brain cells were exploited.
"Dad, you have to take a rest this time."
Xiaoming cut off the connection between Li Yao and the brainwave amplifier without hesitation. He extended a few artificial arms and released waves of special frequencies to massage Li Yao's brain and repair his soul. "You've been out of your body for six hours. Your brain is as terrible as if you had just gone through the fiercest battle for six hours. One second longer, even if your soul lingers outside for one second longer, it's possible that your soul will disperse and turn into a ghost!"
"Yes. Take a good rest. Sleep for at least three hours before you can leave your body again for the delicate work such as brain repair."
Wenwen also said softly, "It's for your own good and for the sunspot's own good. You don't want to connect his brain nerves or his brain to the wrong one, do you?"
It was a good reason that convinced Li Yao.
Li Yao lay down like a broken machine. Stretching his limbs, he moaned in satisfaction.
"As the first time that the soul has left the body over a long distance, we have a very good start," Xiaoming continued.
"We've collected enough data to establish the first rule. The soul leaving the body over a long distance consumes a lot of mental power and spiritual energy, which equates to the fiercest battle in fury. Also, when we enter someone else's brain, the environment is very complicated, and we may be faced with all kinds of unexpected situations at any time. Even if the ordinary people or the low-level warriors trigger their soul power, it is possible that they will hurt our intruding soul. It's like some sort of … 'rejection reaction'.
"If the enemy's brainwave frequency matches ours, or if they are a product of special refinement such as the sunspot, the 'rejection reaction' will be minimized, but it doesn't mean that the danger is gone.
"Therefore, you must be very, very careful.
"Alright, Dad. Take a good rest. Is there anything else you need?"
"Yes."
Hardly had Li Yao lowered his eyelids, and he snored for the first time. His left eye suddenly opened weirdly, beaming out glamorous redness. He said with a smile, "Neltharion is too narrow for me right now. Can you build a brand-new body for me as soon as possible, one that boasts the most advanced array of super crystal processors as the 'brain' like yours? I can't stand sharing a body with such a self-righteous idiot anymore. I'm going to get away from him. The farther away, the better! "
"Huh?"
Xiaoming and Wenwen exclaimed at the same time, "It's you!"
"If you want a brand-new body, perhaps Master A Boxing Champion has a better idea than we do. He is a battle-type and is more suitable for you."
Xiaoming thought for a moment and said, "Master A Boxing Champion is designing a new-generation 'Great Iron City', which will transform an entire space fortress into his body. He can also transform into a super giant dozens of times larger than a Colossus. I wonder, are you interested?"
"Is this place awesome?"
The mental devil's left eye glittered. "Of course I'm interested. Get one for me!"
"However —"
Wenwen said, "Even if you can crawl into a brand-new body smoothly, are you sure that you can get rid of Dad?"
The mental devil's face immediately collapsed.
"Fine, you're right. Absolute kindness and absolute evil cannot exist on their own. Even if I'm thousands of lightyears away from that idiot, his pedantic, absurd, and hilarious kindness will still catch up with me and harass me, nagging and nagging deep inside my soul like a goddamn quantum entanglement."
The mental devil gnashed its teeth, but it couldn't help but say, "I can't separate from him. I was just kidding. How … annoying!
Closing its eyes, the mental devil cursed and mumbled. In no more than half a minute, it fell into the deepest sleep, too.
…
From that day on, Li Yao barely left the Gold Crystal Pyramid. He seized every second to carry out the final test of the Sunspot Plan.
Perhaps it was by accident that he was really just trying to heal Fang Gang 123's brain injury. However, during the treatment process, he found that it was also a very effective training method that could help him adapt to the out-of-body state as quickly as possible and refine the most precise techniques.
As Fang Gang 123's brain was recovering day by day, Li Yao's soul power and his ability to control his soul to travel in the sky were improving at an unbelievable speed too.
Li Yao named the technique that allowed his soul to travel in space with the Spiritual Nexus, radiation, and high-energy particles after it was enhanced by the Gold Crystal Pyramid as "swing".
On the second day of the test, his soul "swung" to another continent on the capital planet that was symmetrical to the Black Star Continent and traveled through dozens of cities in the blink of an eye.
On the third day of the test, his soul tore apart the atmosphere and "swung" to the Fifth Planet that was close to the capital planet, where he witnessed the busy reconstruction of the military base and A Boxing Champion's "second-generation Great Iron City" project in person.
On the fourth day of the test, Li Yao's soul crossed the four-dimensional space and "swung" to another Sector with tremendous data streams through a super-remote communication base.
It was impossible to imagine the feeling of the soul traveling in space without experiencing it in person.
Even a million words or thousands of vivid pictures could not describe one billionth of the magnificence of the experience.
During the moment of the "swing", Li Yao felt that he was truly like a tiny plankton wandering in the depths of a boundless ocean.
Had it not been for his firm belief, the vastness and absolute silence around him would have been enough to crush him into pieces like billions of tons of seawater.
Xiaoming and Wenwen also established a second rule of "swing" based on Li Yao's test data.
The farther the "swing" was, the more the soul would be consumed, and the weaker the senses and control of the soul itself would be.
When Li Yao's soul "swung" to the back of the planet, he could still "see" the magnetic field around him with his own strength.
When he "swung" to a nearby planet, he could only sense hazy streaks of light.
When he "swung" to a nearby Sector, he was like a plankton that had lost 99% of its sensory organs. It had no eyes, no ears, and no skin that was full of tactile organs. It only had a feeble sense of light.
At such a moment, he had to attach himself to other people's brains and share their vision and senses to observe the new world.
"The farther the 'swing' is, the weaker your ability to interfere with the target world will be. If you pass through dozens of Sectors and enter the Thick Soil Sector in the frontline, you will have to bear the continuous interference of spiritual and magnetic fields. Your interference ability will be extremely weak."
Xiaoming came to a conclusion. "Basically, in that state, you are like a weakened version of an 'old grandpa'. You can only interfere with the target and influence the target's actions by nagging and persuading them."
"However —"
Wenwen brought hope to Li Yao. "If the target is truly persuaded by you and has the same brainwave frequency as yours, it is possible that you will resonate with him. Then, you will be able to transmit your strength to the target incessantly, which will strengthen the target's senses and body. You will even be able to control the target's body for a short time and perform unbelievable techniques!"
Then, they established the third law of "swing", which was the law of target searching.
Basically, after Li Yao's soul passed through dozens of Sectors and entered the Thick Soil Sector, his ability to search and attach himself was already very weak. It was impossible for him to accurately control the status of all the sunspots and choose one of the thousands of sunspots that he wanted. He could only find the few sunspots that were closest to him and attach himself to the target's head.
"The key is what you mean by 'relatively'."
Xiaoming said, "Although we can understand your beliefs, Dad, it is impossible for you to treat another 'Hei Zi' like you treated 'Fang Gang 123' after your soul transmigrated through dozens of Sectors. It is far beyond your abilities and safety."
"Thankfully, not all the people of the Holy League are bottom-level soldiers whose brains have been seriously wrecked like Fang Gang 123. Such soldiers cannot carry out the advanced missions that require rigorous logical thinking."
Wenwen said, "Therefore, if you can find a higher-level and smarter sunspot, it won't be so complicated."
"However, the smartest sunspots of the highest level are also most likely to resist your treatment and orders. Don't forget that you are not the real Wuying Qi 3.0, and you are not willing to force them to do anything in a simple and violent way."
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