A seven to eight centimeter long metal thread that was shaped like a spider's web and emitted electricity on the mental plane transformed into a hollow donut with a diameter of 0.02 millimeter and a thickness of 0.5 millimeter in front of Luo Nan's eyes. Just like that, it weaved and perhaps condensed and shrank, finally forming a microscopic structure on the micron scale, and displaying a wonderful quality between the material and the spiritual plane.
Fine. In any case, Luo Nan had never truly grasped the external neuron's volume, weight, and material.
Luo Nan was quite cautious about the new Condensation Ring floating in the air. His soul force touched it carefully, but the other side was incomparably cooperative. With just a thought, he could control it effortlessly. It felt no different from the previous version.
At first, Luo Nan was cautious, but later on, everything went smoothly. He was already unable to distinguish the difference between the two versions of the Condensation Ring. Subconsciously, he controlled the water droplets to fly up and down in the bedroom.
The rest of his brain was occupied with thinking: What concept is this? What is the principle behind this? What kind of trick is this … Why the f * ck!
His emotions, which had been muddled by the miraculous changes of the external neuron, finally recovered the momentum that he should have after repeatedly thinking about it to no avail. With a surge of emotions, all of his thoughts were overturned.
Even though the scene of Luo Nan seizing his body and exchanging his bones was a wondrous creation, and the mysteries within pointed to the essence of the universe, it was unable to overcome the ecstasy that surged within Luo Nan's mind at this very moment.
No matter how good the theory was, it couldn't beat reality, right?
Luo Nan already understood the practical significance of the changes. From now on, he could carry the external neuron with him to any place that his soul body could reach.
Of course, this also included Gear.
The human mind was just that strange. No matter how strong the desire in the bottom of one's heart was, one could still remain calm when the goal was just out of reach. However, once the goal was confirmed to be within reach, all the previous cultivation would be instantly broken.
Before the pleasant surprise brought by the external neuron faded, Luo Nan's mind was occupied by Gear.
Luo Nan confirmed that Gear hid a great secret. It was a great treasure trove for him. As the key that was most likely to unlock the treasure, the external neuron also hid a big secret. Perhaps only when the two came into contact would they appear at the same time.
He didn't know if his conjecture was correct, but how would he know if he didn't try?
Luo Nan was a bit unable to control his emotions. He was impatient right now. The soul circled around the bedroom three times and came up with three reasons.
First, today is Sunday, the construction team will not work, there are no miscellaneous people waiting there.
Secondly, the soul could leave the body and bring along the external neuron. The micrometer scale structure was equivalent to the cross section of a spider's silk. It was extremely tiny and could come and go quietly without anyone noticing.
Thirdly, it was still early. He could make a round trip within five minutes. There was plenty of time to explore. If everything went well, he could come back for dinner. If things didn't go well, he could go back again after dinner.
All the reasons were in support. All the conditions were in place. What was there to wait for?
Before he could finish his thoughts, his soul body charged out of the room, ignoring the window screens and whatnot. When he reached the courtyard, he flashed out of the neighborhood and charged into the sky.
Luo Nan clasped the Condensation Ring formed from the external neuron, and the flying speed of his soul body was not affected in the slightest. Faint traces of water could be seen in the courtyard, but he disappeared without a trace as soon as he entered the sky.
At four or five o 'clock in the afternoon, the sun seemed to be at the same level as the dense forest of skyscrapers. Only the endless light still floated in the clouds. At this time, it was approaching the peak traffic period. Small and medium-sized aircrafts were also shuttling back and forth in the high-altitude traffic layer.
The late autumn sun was slightly warm, and the high altitude airflow was dense and cold. The two intersected, and the impact of Luo Nan's emotions melted a bit. He suddenly came to a realization. The external neuron had a physical body. Only the heavens knew what the consequences would be if it were to collide with something while flying at high speeds.
There was nothing wrong with rushing to excavate the treasure, but he was carrying the external neuron. If he were to lose it in a careless operation, he might as well smash his head into his bed and play soccer!
Luo Nan was about to fly out of the Nade District by now. His thoughts stirred, and the flying speed of his soul body slowed down a bit. He was a bit further away from the uppermost traffic layer. As for the Condensation Ring formed from the external neuron, it floated in front of his soul body all this time. The condensed bead of water had lost too much energy from flying at high speeds. It was practically shapeless. Even though it was endlessly replenished, it was still several times smaller than when it was at its peak.
An odd thought crossed Luo Nan's mind when he saw this situation. In the next moment, he used his soul strength to guide the external neuron into the interior of his soul body. As long as he didn't get into a car accident, the external neuron would be fine.
The feeling of his soul body swallowing the external neuron was very subtle. This was because there was a constant transmission of soul strength between them. After the external neuron was absorbed into his body, this transmission relationship was completely assimilated into the interior of his soul body.
The process was roughly like this: The soul body would first pour soul strength into the Condensation Ring that the external neuron had reconstructed. The power of nothingness would naturally possess the nature of interference power. It would gather the water molecules in the void.
Under the high-speed flying state, the bead of water would be lost at every moment, but it would be endlessly replenished. The early stages of the accumulation of water molecules existed on the nanometer scale. Luo Nan could do nothing about it, but he could sense the large-scale condensation of water vapor in the later stages.
This feeling was like the soul body inhaling and exhaling water vapor, carrying out a peculiar breathing. It naturally formed a connection with the outside world.
In the traditional sense, the soul body was only at the level of a yin soul. Of course, it was impossible to realize such a connection. In fact, the source of this phenomenon came from the new version of the Condensation Ring. The interference power emitted by the Condensation Ring gathered water, and it acted back on the soul body itself. It permeated into every corner of the soul body.
And then...
Luo Nan's high-speed flight came to an abrupt stop. He hovered high in the sky, and below him was the stream of light from the aircraft whistling past. It was as if the entire city was operating at high speeds. Only he stood alone in the sky, distancing himself from the world below him.
He didn't have the leisure to sigh with emotion. He just happened to find an interesting processing machine for his soul strength.
This machine swallowed 'nothing' and came out 'something'. It absorbed 'zero' and came out 'one'. It burned 'nothingness' and condensed 'reality'.
This was the Condensation Ring. This was the external neuron.
As the interference power gradually pervaded, it was as if a set of incorporeal skeletal meridians had been stuffed into the soul body. It was draped with flesh and tendons of the same nature.
Well, this description was a bit too exaggerated. A more realistic way of saying this was that Luo Nan's soul body seemed to be plated with a layer of gradually closing incorporeal yet marvelous membrane under the full effect of the interference power.
Figuratively speaking, Luo Nan's soul body seemed to have turned into a cloak. Luo Nan's core consciousness resided in the center, and he made contact with the mental and material worlds at the same time through this cloak.
The cloak became the facet of the mental and material worlds, intersecting with both planes. It was thin to the point of nothingness, but it had marvelous effects.
Luo Nan's consciousness was wrapped in this cloak, and it had a bit of an 'independent' flavor. It seemed that there was an indescribable layer of separation between the mental and material planes. The feeling was subtle.
The current Luo Nan was no longer on any plane. Instead, he existed in the interlayer between the mental and material planes. Wherever his mind went, he would sink in that direction.
Of course, he was in a soul body state right now, so he naturally leaned towards the mental plane. The resistance he faced on this side was minimal, close to zero. Forcefully interfering with the material plane would certainly consume a lot more energy, and there would be a few more links …. But no matter how much energy was consumed, it was still a breakthrough in his essence!
Luo Nan's consciousness suddenly flashed, and the incorporeal cloak stirred. It heavily smacked the nearby void under the surge of soul strength like a storm.
Wind appeared out of nowhere under the sunlight, and it transformed into a fine stream. It spun and traveled several dozen meters away, nearly brushing past the upper edge of the high-altitude traffic layer before finally dissipating.
The stream of air went far away, and Luo Nan's state of mind was like a whirlpool, endlessly turbulent. However, his state of mind had swelled to the extreme by the time the stream of air dissipated.
See? Such a crude attack pattern was able to cause considerable turbulence in the material world. What did this mean? It meant that Luo Nan had leaped out of the stage of soul embodiment, the level of a yin god. He could truly interfere with the material world, shifting the interference force from the tiny structure of the Condensation Ring to the entire world.
Such progress was like jumping from the ground to the clouds. But under the catalysis of the external neuron, it was logical and natural.
This was because this was a jump from nothing to something. It was a qualitative change from zero to one. One begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things. It evolved into limitless possibilities.
It was impossible to overstate the great significance of the external neuron from this perspective. And to put it bluntly, all of this was brought about by the external neuron.
How did it accomplish this?
In the end, what kind of product was it?
What else could it do?
It could serve as the framework for Luo Nan's God Gear. It could serve as the materialization of the structure of nothingness. It could serve as the pivot for the transformation of soul strength. And all of this seemed to have only unearthed a small side of the external neuron. It could do much more. For example:
Gear, gear, gear, gear, gear ….
The more doubts Luo Nan had in his mind, the more expectations he had for Gear. He knew that this sort of mentality wasn't healthy, but he was unable to endure it no matter what.
His soul body suddenly entered a state of flight once more, and its speed increased. Right now, his connection with the outside world grew more and more real. His perception of the late autumn setting sun and the high altitude cold wind grew clearer and clearer. It was to the point where he forgot himself. He roused his power and howled to his heart's content.
He didn't deliberately attack the material world, nor did he have the substantial power to stir the void. But the incorporeal attack on the mental plane still rapidly spread in all directions. It was fortunate that Luo Nan hid himself deep enough on the mental plane. He didn't go to a depth where most ability users could probe and create a major event.
Even if he did create a major event, Luo Nan couldn't care less.
He cut into the Pingjiang District of Acumen College in the blink of an eye. Gear was already in sight within the range of his mental senses with a radius of over twenty kilometers.
At this very moment, there was nothing else that could attract Luo Nan's attention other than Gear. But there was a difference in the magnitude of the attractive force within the various regions of Gear.
Luo Nan's mental senses covered the area, and he locked onto the westernmost region of the building on the ground of Gear. It was a large atrium fifty meters deep and twenty meters in diameter.
With a sudden jump, Luo Nan's soul body cut into Gear. He arrived within the atrium and floated in the center.
His feelings of urgency and anticipation suddenly transformed upon reaching his destination. Luo Nan began to become nervous. He was just as anxious as he was before. He was just as anxious as he was now. His emotions transformed to the fullest, not missing a single bit.
The fluctuations of his mood didn't affect his perception at all.
Within the atrium, the entire structure of Gear guided and gave birth to a chilling aura. It was just like what he experienced on that night. Wave after wave of energy gathered here. After the orderly flow of energy shifted, this place lost all dominance and became chaotic.
The ticking sounds rang out on the mental plane. They seemed to have a clear rhythm, but they didn't have any direction. It was like someone had purposely messed up a password lock, waiting for a successor who knew the secret to come and crack it. Of course, the successor would need to bring a special key.
Luo Nan's soul body floated in the air. He suppressed his turbulent emotions and sensed earnestly for a moment. He confirmed that the current situation was no different from that night. He followed the solution from last time and gave himself a boost. He stirred the chaotic aura within the atrium once more.
Last time, Luo Nan's boost revealed a classical visualization structure. It was the geometrical figure of a tetrahedron, inscribed sphere, and circumscribed sphere. But as the Format Pyramid transformed into a star atlas, the external symbol this time changed into a rotating nebula. Its appearance was greatly different.
But the effect was the same. It gave this space a thrust of order. It began the process of cyclotron acceleration like a particle accelerator.
Once this process began, there was no option to slow down or stop it.
Luo Nan's soul body floated alone in the atrium. He calmly welcomed the crazy scene of layers of restriction, rotation, and acceleration. He also experienced the myriad curtains that fell on the mental plane. The layers of strange information intersected.
He knew long ago that the mental plane in his eyes was different from the vast majority of ability users. The mainstream theory of the structure of the mental plane divided the mental plane into three zones, one region, and one domain. It was simple and clear. But from Luo Nan's perspective, the mental plane was a deep multi-layered structure. There were hundreds of layers, thousands of layers, and there was no end.
The vast majority of phenomena on the mental plane of the inner world could be calmly explained using general theory. In comparison, Luo Nan's perspective was far too cumbersome and complex. However, Luo Nan had never seen an explanation that was more accurate and appropriate than his multi-layered curtains perspective in describing President Ouyang's Logic World.
Yes, the Logic World.
Luo Nan never stopped pondering over the strange phenomena within the atrium over the past two days. He already felt that the atrium cyclotron he sensed right now was actually a bit similar to the Logic World. At the very least, it was a method of distorting the mental plane. Of course, there were more differences.
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