Terrible news! My deskmate's first chapter is gone!

"So what do we do now?"

"It took us a lot of effort to find this gorilla."

"Does he expect him to light the candle himself?"

"But would he be that self-aware?"

"Or should we threaten him?"

Chen Xi did not answer Yang Wei's three questions, but instead reached out and grasped the white candle again.

His eyes revealed a determination.

"Are you going to pull it out?"

Yang Wei asked in surprise, "I just held this white candle. It was extremely cold, and the closer you held it, the colder it became, like wearing a reflective armor."

Chen Xi did not answer, her gaze remaining focused.

After a while, the white candle gradually began to turn red.

Slight red... pale red... pale red... pale red...

The candle's color kept deepening, but it could never reach that true red; it remained stuck at a pale red hue.

"Phew..." Chen Xi released his grip and let out a long breath. "Psychic power, this candle needs to be lit with psychic power."

"As more and more mental energy is invested, it should eventually turn from a white candle into a red candle and be lit."

"I'm quite certain of that; the temperature of the candle changed synchronously during the color change."

"Not only is it not cold, it's even a little warm. If all goes well, the candle will be lit when it turns completely red."

Yang Wei nodded, looking as if he understood.

"So, boss, you're going all out now?"

Chen Xi shook his head: "Unfortunately, that wasn't a test; I went all out!"

"After I put in a certain amount of mental energy, I found that no matter how much mental energy I put in afterward, I could only maintain the status quo and could not go any further."

Therefore, I draw the conclusion.

"It's my mental strength that's lacking in 'quality'."

"Quality?" Yang Wei murmured. These were words Chen Xi had coined himself, so it was normal that he didn't understand them.

Chen Xi, naturally unsurprised, replied, "You can think of our mental power as 'fuel.' Stage I uses Stage I fuel, and Stage II uses Stage II fuel."

"Upgrading from Phase I to Phase II not only increases the total amount of psychic power, but also its quality."

"Of course, this quality is something I just came up with; I didn't have this concept before."

"Higher quality telekinesis can naturally activate extraordinary abilities more easily, which is why, as the stage increases, those extraordinary abilities become easier to use."

"Because the quality of our mental power improves as we progress through our stages."

"That's how it is anyway."

At this point, Chen Xi turned his gaze to the candle, which had returned to its white color.

"The mental energy I just put in was theoretically enough to ignite it, but I still failed and got stuck at a bottleneck."

At this point, Chen Xi paused and pointed to the candles that had completely returned to white:

"Yang Wei, go over and hold it like I just did, then infuse it with your mental energy, and stop when you can no longer feel any color change."

"Okay," Yang Wei replied, and walked up without hesitation.

Hold the candle with one hand.

Following Chen Xi's instructions, I poured my mental energy into the candle.

Sure enough, the candle began to change color and became no longer cold.

The final color settled at a slightly reddish hue.

No matter how hard Yang Wei tried, the color of the candle remained unchanged.

"I tried my best, this is the only color I can get."

Yang Wei released his grip, saying with some regret.

Chen Xi nodded without any surprise:

"really."

"After thinking it over, there's only one explanation."

"We're not at the right stage!"

"Lighting this candle will probably require Stage III psychic power!"

As Chen Xi spoke, she seemed to remember something and unconsciously smiled.

"The setup of this Great Dark Realm is really interesting."

"The area here is incredibly vast, yet the view is extremely limited. It's perfectly normal to be trapped here for 100 days."

"If any Tier III transcendent accidentally wanders into this area, unless they can kill their way from 0% to 100% progress in one go, they will need to find a safe zone to hide in temporarily."

"If we can find this gorilla, great; if we can't, we might die here."

"And for those of us without Tier III, our vision is even worse. If I didn't have those arrows in my mind, getting lost would be perfectly normal. Even if I found the gorilla, I wouldn't have the ability to light a lamp."

"Ultimately, they were trapped and died."

Yang Wei wasn't worried after hearing this, because they wouldn't be trapped.

But it was embarrassing not being able to turn on the lights, and he desperately needed to find that special safe zone to upgrade.

"Tier III?"

"But right now, boss, where are you going to boost that last 1%?"

"Besides, that last 1% is probably the hardest to improve."

"Even if you kill that King Kong Lizard once, you probably won't level up."

The 1% Yang Wei mentioned refers to the final step.

"I have a way!"

"But it's only possible on a theoretical level."

Chen Xi didn't keep them in suspense and took out a test tube filled with red liquid.

"A magic potion?"

Yang Wei knew about this thing; it was a low-end version of the Rising Dragon, capable of providing a temporary upgrade.

"Although I don't know what you're planning to do, boss, I remember you're not suited for potions."

"And whose vengeful spirit is this red liquid?"

Chen Xi smiled nonchalantly: "I'm not, but it doesn't matter, someone else is."

"As for which vengeful spirit it was, it was of course the Golden Lizard. I collected some of its blood on the spot."

Chen Xi had already learned how to use the potion from the chameleon imposter through the reflection.

It is indeed somewhat similar to the Rising Dragon.

Rising Dragon absorbs the essence of life, while potions absorb blood; they are similar but different.

Chen Xi is not an adaptee, so the blood in this test tube is just blood.

He needs an adaptor to turn it into a drinkable "temporary upgrade potion".

There is only one person who can do this!

At least Chen Xi only knew him.

Come out, author!

Chen Xi made a claw strike out of thin air, and the author appeared out of nowhere without any danger.

Good luck, it seems that the author's identity has not been realized during this period.

Although it reflects two people, both of them are at level I, so the pressure is very small.

"Huh? Why have your clothes changed?"

Chen Xi looked at Chen Xi and the other person with a blank expression. His memory was still stuck at the stage of seeing Chen Xi and the other person off and preparing to deal with the curly-haired fake man.

Without further ado, the two began a two-hour process of recalling each other's memories.

The author was skeptical and asked a lot of pointless questions, so Chen Xi and his companion spent another half hour adding details.

This is what made the author know and believe everything that followed.

"That wretched Yan Mingliang! All that effort I put into practicing darts with him every day was wasted on me!"

"That's so vicious!"

(300 chapters already, it wasn't easy!)