Master of the Stars

Chapter 132: Perhaps of the Truth (Part 2/2)

Translator: Strivon

The structure of the Logic World deformed within this warped space, to the point that it radiated energy and information. If this energy and information were analyzed, it would likely yield the crackling sound of collapse.

The situation grew all the more complicated within the mental plane. Though Luo Nan was not going to listen to Fairchild’s proposal to leave quickly, he stopped extending his mental senses. He stopped going deeper into the mental plane. Instead, he tried to retract his senses.

Finally, Luo Nan saw that the demon was using the opportunity to ’vent’ with attacks to escape suspicion. After it had caused the Logic World’s structure to collapse, it occupied a plane of some already-disconnected curtains. Meanwhile, a tape line rapidly retracted. This curtain and this tape line, their relationship with the Logic World had been severed Then, it headed toward the depths of space.

An Weng was forced to make a choice, as he had solely focused on Luo Nan... Actually, his choice did not matter. The demon’s foundation of power had absorbed the cocoon of light and the heart. An Weng would certainly have to leave along with it.

An Weng’s focus that was like a red-hot longsword had left at last.

Luo Nan could not help but relax a bit. However, he soon discovered that it was too early to relax.

The demon had left. An Weng had left. But the familiar yet strange vibration grew clearer and clearer. It caused the dark chains to oscillate a bit more intensely than normal.

The resonance still continued.

The dark chains were being affected by the distant information. Even if Luo Nan deliberately pulled some distance to stay out of it, there existed a resonance-type relationship. As long as he remained in this plane, his consciousness would be attracted. There would always be a constant desire to approach it.

Luo Nan’s mind was in a bit of a trance. Some energy and information fragments were injected into his mind thanks to the attractive force. They turned into fuzzy images upon analysis. Luo Nan felt as if he was in a dream.

He felt uncertain about this sight because his analytic abilities were lacking. At this time, a different source on the mental plane transmitted vibrations over. Ouyang Chen had sent the information. The President had locked onto his level and position, and he was catching up through it.

This was the first time Luo Nan had experienced the mental senses of an Extraordinary. It miraculously lacked all pressure, and it only sent over pure information.

"Effective division of labor is more important than working overtime."

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Luo Nan’s mind jolted before he could truly understand what was going on. He felt an astonishing storm being set off on the mental plane. It was an enormous force with an unclear source, and It came blasting across.

The gale blew and light swayed. It covered an extremely vast range and level. It enveloped the star river scene which Luo Nan drew, which caused it to turn blurry in an instant.

The sudden onslaught of the storm would have affected Luo Nan further, but Ouyang Chen’s telepathic thoughts were here. Ouyang Chen erected a defensive barrier out of nothing to block the follow-up attacks.

The mental plane had not been calm before. Now that it received this influence, its curtains and tape lines fluttered around everywhere. The numerous chaotic information flow drowned out the specific direction that An Weng and the demon headed, forever lost.

The unknown party used the storm to cover demons tracks! Luo Nan made this initial judgment at once. The sudden appearance of the storm came too coincidentally. It made one naturally doubt its purpose.

Who made the move? Was there a powerful member of the Order of Justice in Xia City who had yet to reveal themselves?

"President!"

"They should be here now."

Ouyang Chen knew all of Luo Nan thoughts through the communication on the mental plane. Ouyang Chen, on the other hand, lacked even basic emotional waves. After evaluating of the sudden change in the situation, he explained a bit of background for Luo Nan.

"An Weng... The target he is trying to control contains an important secret. Many people and many powers have an interest in it. I believe that our Society needs to seize this decisive opportunity. It would be best if we could lock onto the position of that demon."

This left Luo Nan dumbstruck. How could they possibly lock onto it?

The demon had caused quite a large amount of chaos when it destroyed the Logic World. Then, the mental storm appeared from somewhere, and the demon used the storm to sever its trail in a truly effective manner. Even if Ouyang Chen wanted to lock onto the demon’s position, there was not a lot of time...

Before Luo Nan could complete his thoughts, another change occurred in the void.

Suddenly, another force surged. It was like a high cliff that abruptly ascended into existence. It stood in the middle of the void and completely suppressed the gusts of the mental storm that came from some distance. In the midst of Luo Nan’s daze, something had inexplicably and heavily quelled the chaotic terrain within the mental plain.

This ability of dynamic quelling was on a much higher level than that of pure destruction.

Though the cliff stood there quelling, there was a sort of overwhelmingly dangerous feeling emitted from it for some reason. It was not due to instability. It was because there was an even more powerful active nature within its majesticness.

Luo Nan had abundant experience with his mental senses, but this force simply gave off the feeling that said, "I do not come to the mountain. The mountain comes to me." This was the first time Luo Nan had ever experienced such an imposing force. In comparison, Fairchild was too pure and Ouyang Chen kept a low-profile the entire time. They were not as bright as this power, this unforgettable power.

Who was this? It looked like they were on the same side, but how come they did not make a move when the situation was more favorable?

Luo Nan hesitated internally. On, the other hand, this did not shock Ouyang Chen at all. He just sent out new telepathic thoughts over to Luo Nan, "I was left too far behind just then. My ability isn’t sufficient to lock onto the demon’s position from here. I need you to help confirm."

Ouyang Chen acknowledged this in an easy-going manner. Luo Nan’s ability to trace with his senses on the mental plane exceeded Ouyang Chen. Ouyang Chen placed Luo Nan in an awkward position when he admitted this.

"I can’t lock on!"

Right now, Luo Nan could only confirm that the demon was located in the extreme depths of the mental plane. The construction of the Logic World warped the curtains of the mental plane, which brought them close to the material plane. It was only in this way that this chance appeared before the demon.

Many curtains layered upon each other to form the mental plane. With the construction of the Logic World, this curtains tangled and merged together into a single mass. Now that the Logic World’s structure had collapsed, the curtains were being set back into place. During this upheaval, the curtains interacted each other. It was simply like the scattered pages of a book dancing in the wind.

At this moment, it was very hard to find the location of the demon and An Weng. First, one had to find which layer of the mental plane they were in. Then, one had to find them on that layer. The difficulty was on the same level as trying to lock onto a single page of a book’s scattered pages; then, trying to find a single typo within the densely packed characters.

Just the thought of the magnitude of this undertaking caused a chill to run down Luo Nan’s spine... Uh, actually he was in his soul form now. He did not have a spine.

Ouyang Chen clearly knew the difficulty of the matter. He did not intent on giving Luo Nan more pressure. "Just a general direction is fine. You can integrate with this image."

Pure information cut through once more, but this time, the quantity of it was large. It made Luo Nan a bit dizzy.

The information that came in was just as Ouyang Chen had described. It was similar to an image; it was just far more complicated. A unidirectional perspective or three-dimensional figure could not describe it. After Luo Nan analyzed it, it was as if someone had squeezed him into an immersion VR device. Luo Nan personally experienced the complicated nature and the abundant content of the image.

This was where the benefits of communicating on the mental plane laid. Soon, Luo Nan understood that this was the structural design drawing of the Logic World.

After sorting through the general outline, Luo Nan instantly felt that the structural patterns of the Logic World were like thick sponge mats. The mats gated off in all directions and were stacked three, four layers inside out for each side. Then, the layers pressed together from the outermost layer.

Luo Nan could represent the material plane, while the sponge mats represented the mental plane. Force was exerted on the high levels of the mental plane to forcefully warp the structure of the folded layers. This ripped apart the separation between extremely distant regions of the mental plane, which allowed them to directly interfere with the material plane.

This was probably how it worked. Luo Nan understood the basic principles of erecting the Logic World. Of course, actually doing so was another thing. It was absolutely not easy... It was not even worth thinking of attempting if one did not possess the strength of an Extraordinary.

Moreover, how many layers of sponge mats were there? Does the thickness of the mats pose an issue?

From what Luo Nan could tell with his own senses, the mental plane was a multi-layered structure, but it describing as thousands of layers of curtains would be more accurate. Especially since this feeling grew stronger the deeper he delved into the mental plane. No matter how the layers overlapped; no matter how they fluttered and shook.

Well, Ouyang Chen had sent the structural drawing of a simplified model for the Logic World. How much harder would calculating the distortion of several thousand layers be when compared to calculating the distortion of a few layers? Even if Ouyang Chen sent over the calculations, Luo Nan probably would be unable to receive such a mass of information.

Luo Nan had found a rational explanation, and his mind calmed down quite a bit. Though a small mistake would lead to a huge difference in the result even when he used the model, Ouyang Chen did not expect precision from him.

He thought about it broadly and telepathically drew a circle upon this image. He felt that this region was the most suitable location for the demon. He felt that this one circle would require him to comb through over a hundred ’curtains’ to verify the demon’s existence. If Luo Nan had the misfortune of the target ’curtain’ to drift away during this time... Then the only ending would be all his efforts going down the drain.

After Luo Nan drew the circle, he felt that his solution was unreliable. However, Ouyang Chen was quite pleased with it. "The direction is quite convincing. We can give it a shot. If it doesn’t work, we can do more research."

"But..."

When Luo Nan released this thought, the turmoil on the mental plane, which had lessened substantially, suddenly ignited once more. The enemy that had covered An Weng’s trail with the mental storm attacked the ’quelling cliff’ time and time again to no avail. The enemy switched to a different method and began to jump back and forth between various regions of the mental plane. Sometimes, the enemy even touched the material plane. Rolling clouds gave birth to waves that directly affected the existence of the Logic World.

Everyone could tell that the complete collapse of the Logic World was only a matter of time.

Ouyang Chen stopped wasting time speaking and did not consult Luo Nan for his opinion anymore. He took the bit of strength that he used to protect Luo Nan’s mental senses and made a subtle change. He took Luo Nan and his mental senses that had stirred up quite a bit of trouble tonight and expelled him from the Logic World.

By the time Luo Nan came back to reality, he had found his soul body floating in the area of the building complex in the real world. Unlike the smashed state of Frost River Reality in the Logic World, it was unscathed in reality. It shrunk into the cover of darkness.

However, Luo Nan’s star river scene turned more and more confusing.

It was only now that Luo Nan discovered the clash between the strong. It was not merely limited to the Logic World. Their power possessed a penetrating and stable nature that was astonishing; they forcefully broke through the barrier of the Logic World. The resulting shock waves passed onto this plane.

Even though Luo Nan could not evoke enough power with his mental senses, the structure of his Life Sketches received real effects. The pressure was mounting.

Without needing much thought, Luo Nan began to rapidly reduce his sensing range. From his perspective, he could do this in a single effort of will. However, he soon felt something wrong.

Life Sketches composed the scene of the star river, and Luo Nan drew it personally. This was not something that Luo Nan could withdraw from with will alone. He could not delete it with his will alone. The corresponding information was already deeply engraved in his mind, and this caused Luo Nan to receive real influences himself.

Energy and information exchanged on the mental plane. Expanding the range of one’s mental senses did not come with any difficulties. However, the instant Luo Nan retracted his mental senses, he compressed complicated information. They swept over his soul body.

Whether it be his soul or his main body dozens of kilometers away, they all shook violently.

Luo Nan was already familiar with this kind of feeling. Every time the altar frame completed a sacrificial ritual successfully, every time the Wraith Sign reaped some gains in a hunt, corresponding energy and information would always be fed back to Luo Nan.

His soul was becoming stronger. When this happened, troubles always followed like a shadow following a body. This time, the troubles seemed to be even bigger than before.

Before, the limits of his soul body’s endurance had yet to be tested. This time, things were completely different. Before Luo Nan could retract the range of his senses by even a half, the feelings of swelling, rupturing, and dizziness magnified endlessly. A bad omen of a runaway effect appeared within the operation of the convergence of energy and information.

There was something even more deadly as well. The clash between the strong on the mental plane was stuffing a bunch of useful and useless energy and information into the equation.

His soul body had reached its limits! Or in other words, the operational structure of energy and information, also known as the Soul Configuration, had reached the cap of the amount of energy and information it could process.

There was a great amount of information. The lost of control and the disorder caused the boundaries between information to blur and mix together.

Which information was his self? Which information was his own consciousness?

Which information was his surrounding insignificant memories and impressions?

These things were all kneaded into one spot. They interfered with each other and affected each other. Soon, it seemed that his soul would stop working.

No, that absolutely could not happen!

Luo Nan knew that regardless of what happened next, he needed a buffer. He needed a way to discharge this flood... He could not think of anything else at this moment but the successes he had in the past.

The external neuron!

A lightning bolt cleaved through the sea of his mind and Luo Nan’s physical body sprung up in the vehicle. It fell back down again and began exhibiting death convulsions.

The values of the medical monitoring instruments at the scene rose and fell sharply. The values did not go straight down. Instead, they bounced up and down and went off the charts. It was as if the instruments had entered strong magnetic field. The numbers they gave were no longer worth anything.

Everyone was startled and baffled in the vehicle, be it Bai Xinyan, Zhang Yingying, Xue Lei, Red Fox, Cat Eyes, or Papercut. At the same time, a static sound rang in the ears of several members of the Society. The Psychic Wave Network, which had ceased to operate for a while, began to restore communications. Only, the first wave of information transmitted over to them was bizarre.

Within rustling noise like the rise and fall of the tide came two voices in sharp opposition. Thoughts transformed into callous words. "The Order will purge all who desecrate the Holy Entity..."

"Then let’s go to war!" The response was leisurely and calm, as if the previous words were just a breeze blowing past the ear. However, the information within along with the corresponding power and identity of the speaker made the members of the Society who had heard the messages look at each other in dismay.

Then, everybody cast their gazes near-simultaneously on a single person.

What the hell is your boss doing?

Zhang Yingying spread her hands in a helpless shrug. It was rare to see her speechless.