Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible.

Chapter 404 Spiritual Space
The dry wind blew across his cheeks, making Xu Yue feel a bit of rough friction. Looking around, he was now in an open and transparent place, and was actually in an old neighborhood.

The street under my feet is quite wide, but it is littered with all kinds of debris and garbage, and from time to time I can see a few suspicious dark bloodstains. On both sides of the street are neatly arranged classic American two-story buildings.

Like the streets, the buildings are also abandoned, dirty and dilapidated, as if they have been abandoned for a long time.

There was an indescribable strange smell in the air, and it was so quiet that the only sound was the crisp footsteps of combat boots hitting the ground. Although there was no sign of any life activity around, a heavy feeling of oppression always enveloped Xu Yue's body and never left.

In every dark and hidden corner, he could also feel undisguised greedy gazes, which made his breathing gradually become rapid.

"This is Qin's spiritual space..."

A faint murmur came out of Xu Yue's mouth. While speaking, he was also looking around without stopping. Compared with his own spiritual space, this space was simply larger than he could imagine, and it was also much more gloomy and weird.

Even though he looked as far as possible, he still could not see the end of the town. The iconic sea of ​​stars was no longer in the sky, and instead there was a thick and swirling fog, which was the surging negative emotion that was so huge that it was difficult to estimate.

As the sea of ​​fog surged, a large number of dark snowflakes shaped like ash were falling from the sky, evenly sprinkling every inch of the space.

Soon the falling snowflakes touched Xu Yue's body surface. The moment the two touched, the snowflakes dissipated in an instant, and many negative emotions, either violence or despair, emerged in his heart.

But often these emotions would be extinguished shortly after they emerged by the strong consciousness that Xu Yue had forged through the long-term purple fire soul-forging.

"Has the star sea connecting to the outside world also been closed? What about the main consciousness of the professor and Qin?"

His eyes fell on the thick sea of ​​fog that covered the sky and the sun, and Xu Yue's face darkened slightly. The sea of ​​stars was the only channel connecting the spiritual space to the outside world. Now it was covered by the vast fog, which meant that the black phoenix had realized the invasion of foreign objects and was ready to leave them all behind.

This is also the biggest risk of rashly invading other people's mental space. If the target is an ordinary being who cannot control the mental space, it is not too bad. Even if the confrontation with mental power fails, you can retreat calmly.

But if the target of the invasion is also a powerful psychic, then it will be quite troublesome. In this world that they independently opened up and completely controlled, the pioneer is a weakened version of a god, and wishing for everything is just a standard feature. Before forcibly defeating the opponent, the invader can even hope to escape.

Of course, this does not mean that the invaders have no room for resistance. After all, the professor took such a big risk to bring them in not just to die.

His primary goal now is to immediately find the main battlefield where the professor and Qin's consciousness are confronting each other.

As his thoughts turned, a pair of flaming wings behind him suddenly spread out, and as the wings flapped, he turned into a beam of golden red fire and shot up into the sky.

Soon the flames stopped below the sea of ​​fog. The wings behind him flapped slowly. Xu Yue floated high in the sky, lowering his eyes and looking down.

Based on the vast perspective brought by the height, this time he was finally able to see the entire spiritual space in its entirety. The scene below was like a three-layered concentric circle.

The outermost area is an endless sea of ​​boiling fog, with faint red light flashing in it, which is extremely similar to the fog that obscures the sea of ​​stars above the head.

The circle in the middle was the dilapidated town where he had been before. Looking down from above, the entire town was gray without a trace of color. It looked extremely dilapidated and desolate, like a huge corpse that was about to rot and decay.

As for the smaller center of the circle, it is an extremely familiar and elegant castle. It is also the only place with color in the spiritual space. It is particularly prominent, yet so out of place.

However, if you look closely, you will find that this striking exception is now being slowly swallowed up and assimilated. As the ashes and snowflakes of the sea of ​​fog in the sky continue to fall, every snowflake that falls on the castle in the center will directly bury the color of the castle.

At the same time, outside the castle, the dilapidated town in the middle ring was continuously advancing inwards. It was like a fat gray worm, devouring the besieged castle step by step.

Combining what he had learned about the target's experience, the next second after seeing the full picture of the mental space, Xu Yue easily understood the specific reasons why it was structured in this way.

The dilapidated town outside undoubtedly represents the place where Qin lived when she was young. It is also the part of her memory sealed by the professor. When she awakened, she accidentally killed her mother, and in the following time, she gained the fear and dread of all her relatives and friends, even her father.
All this malice was so clear to Jean, who had just awakened her telepathic ability at the time, that it brought her young mind to the brink of collapse, which is why the professor sealed it completely.

Then, this gray and desperate memory gradually gave birth to a new consciousness called the Black Phoenix during the long period of sealing and imprisonment. Now the Broken Town is encroaching on the Central X Academy step by step, which represents the Black Phoenix's devouring and strengthening of Jean's main consciousness.

Once successfully completed, the Jean of the past will completely cease to exist, and she will be replaced by a destructive monster called the Black Phoenix.

"call out!"

While he was thinking, a sound of breaking air suddenly rang in his ears, and a beam of silver light rose from the center of the castle. It did not stop rising until it reached a position parallel to Xu Yue, and then revealed a golden-haired figure floating in the air inside the silver light, stepping on a brick and stone round platform.

"Have you discovered where the professor and Qin's consciousnesses are clashing?"

As soon as her body stabilized, Queen Bai began to ask questions anxiously, but unfortunately the result she got was just Xu Yue's faint shake of the head.

"That shouldn't be the case. A clash of conscious minds in the spiritual space is usually very loud. How come there is no sound at all?"

"Perhaps it's not that there is no movement, but we just can't observe the location where they are fighting."

"Unable to observe..."

As she repeated this, the White Queen suddenly thought of something and quickly looked up. If it was impossible to observe, the most obvious thing was definitely the endless gray fog above her head that obscured the sea of ​​stars.

Sure enough, as soon as the line of sight moved upwards, layers of violent waves suddenly appeared in the rolling sea of ​​fog not far away, and then the starting point of the waves exploded, and a giant fire phoenix with countless chains wrapped around its body flew out from the sea of ​​fog.

"Charles!!"

The sharp roar of the Fire Phoenix created ripples in the void, but the next second, a huge giant almost the same size as the Fire Phoenix leaped out from the breach in the sea of ​​fog above, and then the giant's right arm immediately charged out with power.

Along with the dull sound of the air exploding with huge force, the giant's huge fist slammed heavily on the side of Fire Phoenix's cheek. While beating its head hard and twisting it drastically, the giant did not stop his movements. He bent his knees and pressed them against the target's abdomen, while his free left hand just grabbed the slender neck in front of him.

Then, with the help of gravity, the tightly bound Fire Phoenix didn't even have time to react before it was suppressed by the giant and fell vertically from the sky.

Like a meteorite falling to the ground, a line of brilliant fire flashed across the air, followed by the collapse of buildings on the ground, waves of earth surging, and large clouds of smoke and dust rising into the sky with a violent roar.

"boom!!!"

Before the first roar faded away, more intense and dull roars began to resound, mixed with several calls.

"BOOM! BOOM!...Qin! Wake up!...BOOM!...I know you are there!...BOOM! BOOM!..."

The scene below was like two giant beasts fighting to the death in the city. Looking at the giant shadow in the smoke and dust that was hitting the Fire Phoenix on the head, Xu Yue's mouth twitched slightly, and he said uncertainly:
"This is...the professor?"

Beside him, the White Queen gently raised her hand to touch her forehead, and her tone was muffled, as if she was thinking of some scene she didn't want to recall.

"Well, combat performances in the mental space are often rough."

Xu Yue did not continue speaking, but suddenly recalled the professor's spiritual power that he absorbed in the world of "Wolverine 3".

Previously, he thought that the main reason why those mental powers condensed into a Hulk version of the professor in the octagonal cage was due to the excessive amount of mental power piled up, but now it seems that the reason is not just that.

(End of this chapter)