On the way back, the Shell Lady returned to her usual lively self.
She chattered excitedly by his ear without stopping.
At one moment, she talked about how many Giants had died, then about how many hidden Natural Spirits she had just discovered. She even mentioned seeing a few large trees and some beautiful little flowers.
Having lived on a deserted island since childhood, such experiences were undoubtedly thrilling and novel for her.
Chen Shouyi paddled the canoe, with another captured canoe trailing behind.
He glanced back at the small island in the distance, his expression silent.
This operation could be described as mostly completed; except for the escaped canoe, the Barbarians’ ability to cross the sea had suffered devastatingly.
Even the remaining canoe could be dealt with next time.
Before long, the safety issue of the passage could be completely resolved.
However, there was no joy in his heart; instead, it was somewhat heavy.
Chen Shouyi could not clearly say what exactly caused it.
Was it the terrifying Mysterious Power on the island, or this time’s reckless slaughter of the Barbarians?
Fortunately, he was not someone who was particularly compassionate, and those living in this world would find it hard to sympathize with the Barbarians.
Upon returning to the small island, these repressed emotions instantly disappeared.
Since twenty years ago, when Earth and the parallel world began to merge,
the slaughter between humans and Barbarians had never ceased for a moment.
According to the published information, about two million people globally died each year from Barbarians’ slaughter; if adding deaths caused by invasions from other parallel world creatures, the number approached three million.
This ranked first among all non-natural causes of death.
Chen Shouyi tied the two canoes firmly and returned to the passage entrance.
In total, coming and going had taken him nearly ten hours, and it was just noon in the parallel world.
Meanwhile, on Earth, it was already around four in the morning.
He possessed great physical strength, having stayed up an entire night without feeling tired.
Therefore, he did not rush back.
He ate some food he carried with him and began training.
He assumed a stance and practiced the Thirty-Six Stances of Body Refinement.
After only one round, Chen Shouyi noticed the difference between the two worlds.
When practicing on Earth, every time a round was completed, the Mysterious Power could be sensed, though it was quite faint and barely noticeable.
Here, however, the sensation was quite intense, as if his entire being was immersed in this vast and majestic power, with delicate strands of force continually burrowing into his body.
He felt as if his body had been renewed after just one round of practice.
"Does practicing the Thirty-Six Stances of Body Refinement in the parallel world indeed yield such remarkable results?" Chen Shouyi pondered.
He was somewhat shocked by this strong effect and couldn’t help but open his attribute panel, only to realize he had somewhat overestimated it.
No matter how abundant the Mysterious Power was, one practice surely couldn’t produce noticeable improvements.
However, his will increased slightly by 0.1, reaching 11.9.
This clearly resulted from his experiences on Barbarian Island today.
Chen Shouyi continued his training.
After practicing five times consecutively, he exhausted all his strength, with his muscles beginning to twitch uncontrollably.
Exhausted, he breathed heavily and lay directly on the grass.
He blankly eyed the Shell Lady, who was diligently searching for golden sand in the distance.
One must admit, the Mysterious Being on Barbarian Island displayed a force that left him with immense pressure and unease.
This force was so frightening that it even incited meteorological changes, far exceeding his comprehension.
He had never encountered such an existence where the aura alone was enough to make him tremble with fear, almost turning to flee.
At that moment, inspiration surged within him, and he suddenly closed his eyes.
His consciousness entered the Gray Mist Space.
He looked at today’s Memory Leaves on top of the tree and quickly immersed his mind into them.
The formidable aura appeared just as he was bending down to retrieve arrows from a Barbarian’s corpse.
The surrounding light darkened, and a violent wind swept the small island.
Through a third-person perspective, he observed everything.
Strangely, even though he hadn’t entered his own body and was merely in a conscious state, he could still feel the presence of this aura.
In fact, he had long realized that the imagery within the Memory Space wasn’t simply his mere memory.
For example, the normal human eye can only perceive two-dimensional images; the sense of depth is caused purely through light and shadow effects. This is why 3D images can deceive human eyes.
If something is obscured by another object, the human eye cannot see it.
Logically, since the eyes cannot see, naturally, it shouldn’t appear in memory.
However, the Book of Knowledge’s Memory Space defied this logic.
Although memory remains memory, seemingly unchanged, once the mind dives into it, one would find that the memory presented isn’t two-dimensional but three-dimensional.
It resembles a real space; he could see more details that memory couldn’t reveal and even enter someone else’s body with his mind. ᴛhis chapter is ᴜpdated by nοvelfire.net
This far exceeded the scope of memory.
Nevertheless, for Chen Shouyi, this was undoubtedly a good thing; he didn’t mind and soon turned his gaze toward the island’s forest.
The "Tree of Sanctity" mentioned by the Barbarians, as the name suggests, should indeed be a tree.
He wondered if he could find it in the Memory Space?
His mind swiftly flew ahead.
Each towering tree flashed rapidly behind him.
The trees on this small island had grown for countless years. Trees requiring two people to embrace were a common sight, even those with a diameter of three to four meters weren’t rare.
However, he soon lost interest in further observing the forest.
The deeper he ventured, the more suffocating the aura felt, with such an overwhelming sense of fear that it made one suspect that this wasn’t a memory but a real world.
After flying about two kilometers, within a dozen seconds, he suddenly halted.
His gaze settled not far away, and his heart trembled!
In his view was a massive, tower-like being hundreds of meters tall, standing conspicuously on the small island. Its enormous canopy nearly covered one or two square kilometers, forming a dense green web.
He forcibly suppressed the obscure and oppressive aura it emitted, observing the terrifying tree up close.
Leaves, green like jade, glimmered in the sunlight, creating a splendid display of phenomena.
He noticed countless fine airflows, like spiritual serpents, weaving between the leaves, even affecting more distant areas.
In fact, its presence was extraordinarily prominent.
Even from the sea, it could be identified at a glance.
It was extraordinarily lofty.
Yet, viewing from a distance, who would imagine that this vast, one or two square kilometers of verdant forest came entirely from a single tree and not a forest?
At least Chen Shouyi wouldn’t think in that direction.
"I want to see how powerful you truly are!" Chen Shouyi thought to himself.
Immediately, his mind fearlessly plunged into it.
It was as if a bomb exploded inside his mind.
Chen Shouyi’s consciousness instantly faltered.
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