Chapter 673 - 221: Advancing to the Infinite Sea! The Emperor’s Gaze and Protection! Constructing the Indestructible Projection

Chapter 673: Chapter 221: Advancing to the Infinite Sea! The Emperor’s Gaze and Protection! Constructing the Indestructible Projection

Everything, in its most primitive and chaotic form, swirled together, threatening to utterly overwhelm and submerge his mind.

After only a moment of contact, Qin Feng felt an exhaustion that stemmed from the very depths of his soul.

But he had long anticipated this.

With a thought, the Spiritual Energy within his body began to slowly circulate according to the profound techniques of the Ten-Complete Hand.

A gentle, nourishing current instantly flowed through his Sea of Consciousness, rapidly mending the fatigue and wear caused by the informational torrent.

At the same time, he took a breath and swallowed a Spirit Mushroom he had prepared in advance. It was rich with pure Spiritual Energy, and it dissolved into a cool stream of power that endlessly replenished what he had expended.

A cycle of depletion, replenishment, and growth.

Under this delicate cycle, not only did his Mental Power not weaken under the torrent of information, but it was like steel being tempered a thousand times. Through repeated cycles of depletion and recovery, it began to improve—a slow, but incredibly solid, ascent.

’It’s just as Han Yu said. This is like playing a puzzle game designed specifically for one’s Mental Power.’

A faint smile appeared on Qin Feng’s face.

He felt no pain. Instead, he became completely immersed in the unique sensation of solving puzzles and strengthening himself.

Time flew by during this monotonous yet fulfilling training.

「One month later.」

When Qin Feng finally emerged from a distorted Light Gate, he had successfully completed the first and simplest of the Library Labyrinths.

He could clearly feel that his progress bar toward the Infinite Sea had advanced by about two percent.

Without a moment’s hesitation, his form flickered, and he plunged directly into the entrance on the second, much larger planet.

The psychic pressure and the sheer volume of the information stream in the second labyrinth far surpassed the first.

This time, it took Qin Feng a full six months to successfully break through.

His reward was just as great; his progress toward the Infinite Sea advanced by another five percent.

Two years later, he conquered the third Library Labyrinth, and his progress jumped another eight percent.

...

The years passed in silence, time slipping by unnoticed.

With single-minded focus, Qin Feng moved from one labyrinth to the next.

His entire being was devoted to confronting and analyzing the endless torrent of information, and he had long since lost track of time.

「Twenty years later.」

Qin Feng was deep within the eighth Library Labyrinth—the second to last one.

It was then that his Mental Power, which had long been accumulating at a critical point, finally underwent its ultimate transformation during a deep analysis of a massive amount of data.

There was no earth-shattering sound of a bottleneck shattering, no violent eruption of energy.

Everything happened as naturally as a river carving its own channel. It was like a dam, filled to the brim, simply and naturally overflowing.

In that instant, the boundaries of the countless vast, surging "rivers" within his Sea of Consciousness finally dissolved completely.

In their place was a truly boundless, vast, and ethereal expanse with no visible end—an ocean!

The Fifth Planetary Limit, the Infinite Sea, was achieved!

The "Infinite Sea" referred to the state where the foundational droplets of Mental Power had become so numerous they formed a veritable, endless ocean.

When a new droplet of Mental Power was born from the source of his Sea of Consciousness and merged into this ocean, it dissolved completely without stirring the slightest ripple.

The moment he broke through, Qin Feng felt his entire perception undergo a world-altering change.

The psychic pressure and torrent of information, which had once felt as heavy as a mountain and as turbulent as a raging sea, now seemed like a gentle breeze and a babbling brook to his senses. They could no longer pose any real obstacle to him.

He no longer needed to deliberately analyze anything. With a mere thought, the entire structure of the complex labyrinth that had trapped him for years—all its information nodes, all its correct paths—appeared in his mind, as clear as the lines on his own palm.

After achieving this final breakthrough, he passed through the eighth Library Labyrinth with ease, taking only a few days.

He could feel that his Mental Power had been greatly enhanced during that final sprint.

However, because he had reached the realm of the Infinite Sea, the total volume of his Mental Power had reached a point that was difficult to quantify.

Therefore, he could no longer discern the specific degree of improvement as clearly as before. He could only rely on his own intuition for a vague sense of it.

Afterward, without pause, Qin Feng entered the last and largest of the Library Labyrinths.

This time, he felt an unprecedented sense of ease.

The terrifying pressure, which would have been enough to immobilize even a peak River Realm genius, was now completely negligible to him.

The torrent of information, capable of overwhelming even the most fortified mental defenses, couldn’t stir so much as a ripple in his ocean-like Mental Power.

Qin Feng strolled through this final labyrinth as if it were a peaceful courtyard.

In the end, it took him only a year to successfully navigate the ninth and final labyrinth.

When he stepped out from the Light Gate at the exit, returning to the familiar vacuum of the Cosmos, his eyes shone with a brilliance he had never before possessed.