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Chapter 68, come out! Zhuge Kongming!

Thinking of this, Zhuge Qing couldn't help but feel a little excited. He took a deep breath and quickly calmed down.

Hands quickly formed hand seals...

"【Four Plates Harmony Formation】, activate!"

With a deep, resonant command, a divination formation was instantly activated.

The rays of light intertwined and quickly formed a semi-transparent energy shield, completely enveloping the entire room.

This is a special formation secretly passed down by the Wuhou School, the 【Four Plates Harmony Formation】.

Once this formation is successfully set up, it can completely isolate the space covered by the formation from the larger environment, sealing off both the inside and outside and isolating all energy flow.

After making all these preparations, Zhuge Qing adjusted his breathing slightly, and a few fine beads of sweat had unknowingly seeped out from his forehead.

Although the [Four Harmony Formation] is incredibly powerful, activating it consumes a considerable amount of energy for his current cultivation level.

After setting up the formation and confirming that there were no flaws, Zhuge Qing sat cross-legged in the center of the room and slowly closed his eyes.

With a calm mind and clear consciousness, he once again entered that familiar yet mysterious [inner landscape].

Through years of continuous exploration, his understanding of the "inner landscape" has long since moved beyond the initial state of ignorance.

If we compare the "Heavenly Way" of this world to a super cloud computer with infinite computing power.

So what these sorcerers call "inner visions" are actually more like "virtual machines" with independent computing space created in the cloud by using their own "qi" as the access key and leveraging the massive computing power of this supercomputer.

The various mystical methods such as "asking about Qi" and "divination" in the "Inner View" are essentially the process by which sorcerers use their unique methods and exquisite manipulation of "Qi" to access the vast database of this supercomputer and retrieve and extract information from it.

Of course, this access permission and the information that can be obtained are subject to extremely strict rules.

What Zhuge Qing is about to do is a hundred times bolder than simple "information retrieval".

What he had to do was to download all the souls, or rather, related "data packages," of his legendary ancestor, who was famous throughout the ages, directly from the cloud from this "Heavenly Way" database.

The most crucial step in completing this experiment lay in the constantly pulsating energy in his palm, radiating strange fluctuations.

In Zhuge Qing's palm, a fist-sized ball of [Faith Power], composed of countless tiny points of light, was pulsating restlessly.

This thing is his "navigation beacon" and "soul grappling hook" for this operation!
Of course, relying solely on this method still offers little chance of success.

Therefore, during this year and a half, in addition to diligently collecting [Power of Faith], he also occasionally "showed his face" in the public eye, making a few news stories to maintain his persona as a descendant of Zhuge Liang and a scientific genius.

All of this was certainly not to satisfy his pitiful vanity.

His real purpose was to subtly and gradually change the public's overall perception and positioning of Zhuge Qing's identity in the collective subconscious.

Based on his test results, the difficulty of obtaining certain information within the [Inner Realm], and the intensity of the backlash that may result from success.

It largely depends on whether the information you are trying to obtain matches your "identity label" in the current public perception.

Simply put, the inner vision, or the "Way of Heaven," will judge: "Are you qualified to know this?" and "Is what you're doing reasonable?"

To put it in the simplest terms.

If he were just an ordinary, unknown college student, yet he fantasized about peeking into top-secret information like the "launch codes of the US nuclear arsenal" within the [Interior].

The probability of success is infinitesimally close to zero, and the backlash from the [Inner Realm] could blast him to annihilation on the spot, leaving not even a trace.

Conversely, if his current identity were the head of the U.S. government or a high-ranking staff member with influence in a five-star office building, then obtaining this answer would be drastically easier.

Because in the general public's perception, "it is only natural that someone in that position would know these secrets."

Similarly, during this period of time, he has been painstakingly reinforcing and solidifying his two core persona labels in front of the public: "descendant of Zhuge Liang" and "once-in-a-millennium scientific genius," and has been constantly using solid and astonishing achievements to prove and deepen the "value" of these two labels.

The more firmly established and deeply rooted these two identity labels are in the public's mind, the less "information barriers" he may encounter when obtaining relevant information in the "inner world," and the less "rule backlash" he may suffer.

The underlying logic is that when enough people subconsciously agree that "Oh, you, Zhuge Qing, are a direct descendant of Zhuge Liang and an unparalleled genius, it's perfectly normal for you to know some secrets about your ancestors and even inherit some unknown legacy," then it's not unreasonable.

This widespread and deeply ingrained collective unconscious "approval" will clear away a great deal of invisible "resistance" for his subsequent actions. Everything is ready except for the final push.

Or rather, all that's missing is for him to take the initiative to light the fuse.

Zhuge Qing took another deep breath, his eyes instantly becoming sharp as an eagle's, all distracting thoughts were discarded, and his mind and spirit were in perfect harmony.

He began to carefully activate the ball of [faith power] in his palm.

The energy, formed from billions of pure thoughts, began to slowly spread outwards as if it had come to life.

Its spread was not directed towards exploring the deeper, more unfathomable levels of the [Inner Realm], but rather... straight upwards!
It penetrated the boundaries of the [interior]...

"oh?!"

Zhuge Qing's eyebrows shot up suddenly; this was the first time he had ever encountered something like this.

This unprecedented change was also the first time he had personally witnessed it!

The inner vision is a means for sorcerers to borrow the power of the heavens, but now that framework has been broken.

This undoubtedly proves that his previous deductions and preparations were completely correct!

The next moment, without the slightest hesitation, he grasped firmly the tentacle of [Faith Power] that had successfully extended outwards, as if probing into some unknown realm.

Then, exert force suddenly!
boom--! ! !
A vast torrent of consciousness, indescribable in any language and filled with boundless information and will, surged upstream along the connection channel of the [Power of Faith], sweeping into his mind with an unstoppable and overwhelming force!
All of these are the cognitions, imaginations, interpretations, praises, slanders, worships, fears... of countless beings over thousands of years regarding the symbol, concept, and existence of "Zhuge Liang." All positive, negative, and neutral emotions and thoughts instantly filled his consciousness space like the Big Bang!

This level of mental shock is so immense that it can completely shatter an ordinary person's mental defenses in a fraction of a second, causing their personality to disintegrate, their will to dissipate, and turning them into a walking corpse that can only breathe.

But Zhuge Qing had made thorough preparations for this.

His greatest reliance, and the source of his confidence to conduct such crazy experiments, is his understanding of himself from another world.

Zhuge Qing gritted his teeth and tried his best to pull back the tentacle of [faith power] that had successfully "hooked" with some kind of "being," little by little.

He persisted like this for a while.
Click!

A very faint, yet incredibly clear sound of breaking, deep within his consciousness, suddenly rang out.

The hook, formed from pure [power of faith], couldn't withstand the terrifying force of the two sides and snapped in two!

"puff--!"

In the real world, Zhuge Qing, who was sitting cross-legged in the center of the [Four Plates Harmony Formation], suddenly opened his eyes!
He opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood, which splattered into a bright red flower on the ground in front of him.

His face turned deathly pale from the intense backlash, but the corners of his mouth uncontrollably curled upwards, forming a smile of excitement and fervor.

His gaze was fixed intently on what was in front of him, or more precisely, on the air not far ahead.

This area is completely sealed off by the [Four Plates Harmony Formation], which theoretically isolates all energy exchange between the inside and outside.

But at this moment, without any warning, a wisp of innate Qi appeared out of thin air... emanating an indescribable and unique aura.

It was about the size of a baby's fist, hovering there quietly, emanating an indescribable aura.

The innate Qi of ordinary cultivators, once it is separated from the master's control and exposed to the external environment, will quickly dissipate and dissolve due to the loss of restraint, and eventually return to the world.

But this primordial energy that appeared out of nowhere was completely different.

It solidifies and does not dissipate, maintaining its shape stably without showing any sign of dissipating.

Zhuge Qing was 200% certain that before he set up the [Four Plates Harmony Formation], and even before he began that dangerous experiment, there was absolutely, absolutely no such thing in this room!

That is to say...

His experiment was a success!

(End of this chapter)