From Luo Nan's perspective, President Ouyang's Logic World used the complex structure of the mental plane to forcefully pull the distant plane over, forcefully linking it with the surrounding material world. It was like casting a hook to fish. It looked casual, but the purpose and logic were extremely strong. It was just that outsiders had no way of knowing.
The atrium cyclotron took the form of the order bestowed by Luo Nan as the core. It stirred forcefully, causing the nearby region to weave and twist, pushing outwards layer by layer. It was like grabbing one end of the bedsheet and twisting it forcefully. This would cause the other end to spin, pushing it closer and further.
On the other hand, the Logic World already had a blueprint and was constructed layer by layer. As for the atrium cyclotron, it started from the inside out. First, it changed itself. Then, it probed into the distance. One was building a house. The other was...
The telescope.
It could be seen that the effects of soul strength were different. The structures and algorithms were different. The results were as different as heaven and earth. Luo Nan had always suspected that the huge increase in the range of his mental senses after that night was due to the effects of the telescope's structure.
Right now, the information gathered by the telescope was gradually enriched. The gray-white light smeared and interweaved on the mental plane, gradually materializing to reveal the marvelous landscape of the clouds high in the sky.
But no matter how close the telescope's perspective was, the real situation was still separated by a layer. Last time, Luo Nan had fallen here.
It was impossible to truly touch the cloud world that he yearned for day and night with just the telescope's structural model. It was something that Luo Nan could only do if he didn't rely on external objects.
But today, he had the external neuron.
The external neuron didn't have any particularly obvious reactions during the early stages of the Far Gazer Realm's formation. It was just that the bizarre cloak that had just taken shape had already revealed a special quality due to the external neuron's influence on the road.
The cloak warped and rippled within the rapidly rotating atrium vortex, but it maintained an inconceivable degree of flexibility and independence. It continued to display its ability to interfere with the mental and material planes. Because of this, the myriad curtains that fell on the mental plane were connected to the surrounding material environment through the cloak.
It was just a little bit, but it was like the cloak when it took shape. It achieved a breakthrough from zero. This allowed Luo Nan to realize a small portion of the effect similar to the Logic World. It formed a warped independent region around his soul body.
The problem was that the most powerful aspect of the Logic World lay in its logic. That was the decisive factor in its construction. Luo Nan did not possess that sort of logic. After the interference between the mental and material planes was achieved, the corresponding area no longer belonged to the scope of the "Faraway Realm" structure. There was no specific order and it was purely a superfluous thing. It would also increase the burden of the soul body.
In just a few short seconds, the 'cloak' had become a little sluggish. The excessive structure directly affected the efficiency of the soul energy conversion. As the situation continued to worsen, the external neuron, which was the center of the conversion, was finally stimulated.
The Condensation Ring constructed by the external neuron showed signs of instability for the first time. Some of the 'lines' were extracted from the Condensation Ring and reached the center of the structure of the Condensation Ring, where they performed new structures on the microscopic level.
This was a completely spontaneous action of the external neuron. Luo Nan's consciousness did not participate. In fact, the scale of the fabric this time had already been probed down to the micron level. It exceeded the precision of his senses. Were it not for the fact that the external neuron and his consciousness were tightly linked together, Luo Nan would not even have the slightest of senses.
Though this was the case, Luo Nan's state of mind was pounding and throbbing. He gradually became high-spirited. He was unable to clearly probe the composition of the external neuron, but the chilling aura and the myriad of changes in the curtains were clear to see.
During the rotation acceleration process, the chaotic, distorted interference between the mental world and the material world began to show regular fragments. The corresponding interference forces no longer conflicted and melted each other. Instead, they piled up and spun, achieving a certain reflection with the structure of the telescope.
If the rotation speed of the telescope was said to be 10, then the region that Luo Nan could interfere with and warp had a rotation speed of 1. Every ten revolutions of the telescope, the interference area would revolve once. It was precise and rhythmic, but it was gradually changing and speeding up.
10: 1, 10: 2, 10: 3 …
The rotation speed of the telescope was already relatively fixed, but the rotation speed of the interference region was constantly increasing. When it came to the material plane, there were already obvious signs.
In the center of the atrium, the light in the void was clearly distorted, and the low sound of "Beng Beng", like the vibration of a bowstring, continued without end. If Luo Nan hadn't lost his temper two days ago and destroyed the majority of the surveillance cameras inside Gear, this piece of information would have been impossible to hide.
How could Luo Nan care about this?
His soul body was located in the core region of the distorted void. He could personally experience the extent and speed of the distortion. The cloak was no longer sluggish, but the layers of acceleration accumulated astonishing potential energy. It pushed his emotions endlessly, causing his body and mind to tremble both inside and out.
His guess was correct. No matter what form the external neuron took, its existence held an extremely important meaning to Gear.
It was like a key was inserted into a keyhole. It twisted according to the rules of induction, and the heavy door slowly opened for him.
10: 4, 10: 5!
In other words, when the telescope structure made two revolutions with his soul strength, the interference region revolved once as well. The two revolutions were perfectly synchronized, and Luo Nan's consciousness went blank for an instant.
This was because at this very moment, the stacks of gray clouds he had been paying attention to all this time collapsed without any warning. It was as if the entire sky was pressing down heavily on him!
Luo Nan came to a realization in the next second. It wasn't that the firmament was pressing down. It was that he was piercing through the clouds.
Heaven and earth had already shifted.
Luo Nan crashed into the depths of the nearly boundless grayish-white cloud layer. His perception of the outside world was a bit more realistic thanks to the existence of the cloak.
Clouds piled upon each other under the dim lighting. Smoke flew about, and a blood-like color seeped through the gaps between the clouds. A direct chill and the ear-piercing howl of the wind came at the same time.
This place seemed to be some high-altitude region, probably the upper part of the troposphere. The airflow was intensely disturbed, like a never-ending tsunami of clouds and mist. The airflow swirled the clouds, water droplets, and ice crystals. It swept past with a rumble, violent and manic.
The astral wind blew through the gaps between the clouds. Luo Nan could see that there was an even vaster space beneath the thick clouds. It was just that it seemed to be covered by a prairie fire. The blood-red color between the gaps between the clouds was the reflected light.
"That's right. It's here! It's here!"
Luo Nan looked all around. He saw the cloud world that often appeared in his dreams, and he personally experienced this absurd yet realistic scene. Even though he didn't know where he was and it was hard to distinguish between things, his impatient and unavoidably absent-minded emotions from the past ten days finally knocked the last nail in his coffin, and it fell to the ground with a bang.
He let out another howl under his impassioned excitement. This time, the cloak stirred the clouds and ice crystals, and a wave of grayish-white air rumbled out. But soon, it was swept flat by the fierce whistling high-altitude astral wind. It was annihilated within the surging and flowing clouds, leaving no trace behind.
The vile environment of this place could be seen at a glance.
However, no matter how vile the environment was, Luo Nan, who had entered in his soul body form, received the same effects as nothing. It wasn't like last time, when he had entered with his fleshly body in a muddle-headed and relaxed manner. Since he didn't have the ability to fly, he fell madly all the way. It was hard not to be flustered under the darkness of the sky. He held on for a dozen or so seconds, worried that he would fall to the ground and die without a corpse, so he could only move out.
He never expected that it would be so difficult to enter again!
In any case, it was hard for Luo Nan's imagination to run wild when faced with such a vast world and experienced such a marvelous and strange place.
In the final phase of Gear's atrium, the 'telescope' became a 'silo' under the magical effect of the external neuron. Luo Nan was directly transported to this cloud layer of unknown origin and unknown position. Only the heavens knew how far this place was from Xia City and Gear.
A few hundred kilometers? He had never heard of a similar environment around Xia City. Tens of thousands? All right, this was very fantastical. It was very pretentious with extraordinary power...
It was useless to let one's imagination run wild. Though it was difficult for Luo Nan to enter this place this time, he was a thousand times more relaxed than last time. He decided to observe carefully and gather as much information as possible to provide a basis for his later judgment.
Observation and reconnaissance had always been Luo Nan's strong suit. Pure observation combined with the living starry sky gave him an effective observation range of over twenty kilometers. Aside from Extraordinaries who were unable to grasp accurately, this was a top-notch observation range in the modern world. And as the saying goes, 'Knowing one's self speaks for itself'. After Luo Nan comprehended the principle of the structure of the 'telescope', the utilization of his soul strength had a clearer goal. He consciously adjusted and optimized it, and there was still considerable potential to be excavated.
"If this continues, it won't take too long to break through with an observation range of twenty-five kilometers... But who the hell can tell me which part of the world has a cloud layer that exceeds fifty kilometers in thickness? And it doesn't even have a boundary?"
Luo Nan was at the peak of a young man's memory. His general knowledge of geography was quite decent. He remembered that the relevant course had taught him that it was impossible for the cloud layer to exceed the height of the troposphere. And the Earth's troposphere was the highest at the equator. It was only seventeen or eighteen kilometers. The polar regions were only eight or nine kilometers. What the hell was fifty kilometers?
Yes, yes. He was too timid last time. He couldn't hold on for more than a dozen seconds before fleeing. According to the results of his observations, how could he live up to the cloud layer thickness if he didn't freefall for five minutes?
His soul body floated within the cloud layer, staring blankly for a while. During this time, the two sides of the cloak interfered, condensing mist for him to form a blurry human silhouette. It was very likely that it would become more lifelike if this continued for a period of time.
Luo Nan didn't care about this. He had already begun to feel that something was wrong.
Not to mention the thickness of the cloud layer, the blood red color within the cracked and warped cloud crevices did not fade for a long time. He had previously taken it for granted that this was the influence of a great fire burning on the surface of the earth below, or perhaps a volcanic eruption. He was even prepared to use this to further clarify the specific coordinates.
But right now, the range of his mental senses, which he was so proud of, couldn't even go beyond the cloud layer, let alone confirm a volcano... Moreover, was it really a volcano?
Luo Nan was deeply doubtful.
His observation continued. The living stars were spread out, displaying a simple ecological map within the range of the mist. A few believers continued to display their usefulness in the surroundings of the core star cluster of the Self-Format, but the life forms further away had already switched to another group...
It would be quite awkward to say "another group". The cloud region was inconceivably vast, but the density of life forms was truly urgent. Luo Nan could only detect two or three kittens within the range of his senses of over twenty kilometers.
Oh right, what did he say just now? Kittens?
Luo Nan's thoughts had yet to come to a realization when a thick cloud suddenly exploded a dozen meters in front of him. Smoke scattered in all directions. A dark red shadow flashed into existence out of thin air. It was as swift as lightning, smashing through the cloud layer and pouncing in front of Luo Nan in the blink of an eye. A thick and long arm smashed over, and its sharp claws distorted Luo Nan's perception.
Only now did the boiling murderous aura appear with a rumble. Not only on the material plane, but on the mental plane as well. It brought forth a terrifying attack akin to an eruption of lava.
The change happened right in front of him. There was no room for him to operate his thoughts. Luo Nan could only make the most instinctive reaction: the cloak interfered with the mental plane to the greatest degree. He ignored everything else and his soul body escaped to the deepest depths he could reach on the mental plane.
The blurry silhouette formed from the mist exploded and shattered, turning back into water smoke. The attack on the material plane had hit nothing but air.
But the most fatal attack was still on the mental plane.
He had been thinking of a volcano just now, but now there really was a volcano erupting on the mental plane. It was as if Luo Nan had returned to the time when he first saw the terrifying might of the Human-Faced Arachnid. He looked at the enormous specter that was burning and expanding in the void. The specter faced the sky and roared, extending its claws to strike over. It was truly like an erupting volcano, a pillar of turbid smoke and fire that smashed into the clouds.
The mental plane trembled and swayed. The burning demonic claw, brimming with the desire to destroy, chased after the tail of Luo Nan's soul body. It crushed through several hundred layers of the curtain structure of the mental world to form a shadow behind Luo Nan.
Luo Nan could already feel the breath of the Grim Reaper.
However, the Grim Reaper's scythe was unable to hook onto its target in the end. Luo Nan didn't know just how deep he had dived into the mental plane. He only knew that the burning demonic claw had crushed through nearly a thousand layers of curtains in succession before finally reaching its limit.
No matter how much it ignited with its killing intent, burning through and warping the majority of the mental plane, it was ultimately unable to crash into the level of Luo Nan's soul body. It was just a little bit off, but it was still not enough.
And in reality, the powerful attack missed. The dark-red shadow completely disregarded the laws of matter. Its figure came to a halt like a steel nail, smashing into the clouds. It seized the position of Luo Nan's cloud aura silhouette and used malevolent eyes to stare fiercely at Luo Nan.
What the hell was that?
Luo Nan was both shocked and furious. His reaction to stress just now was truly extraordinary. It was all thanks to his soul body. If his fleshly body had come in, wouldn't he have been smashed into a meat patty just now?
No, from the speed and strength of the attack just now, he would probably have been blasted into smithereens. He would have died without an intact corpse. It was fortunate that he hadn't encountered such a situation the last time he came in. Otherwise, today's matter wouldn't have happened.
Right now, Luo Nan was like entering a wildlife sanctuary. He was sitting in a fully armed tour bus, separated by a layer of transparent glass. He was in close contact with a dangerous ferocious beast.
As for the ferocious beast, it was entrenched in the clouds, revealing its malevolent body. Its height should be between five to seven meters. The reason why there was such a large discrepancy was because its body was crooked like an ape. Its forelimbs hung down, making it hard to judge.
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