Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!-Chapter 2184: Anchor of the Spiritual World

Earlier, the library in the spiritual world was smashed to pieces by Dou Shengnan. Now, without having been restored, it encounters this instance, and it’s impossible for Xu Huo to condense the library back again. So, he can only simplify the process as much as possible, using just a spiral staircase to enter the depths of the library.

At this moment, there is only one table in the deepest part of the library. In addition to the materialized items representing Xu Huo’s several personalities on it, there’s also a black cube, which looks a bit like a square brick. It’s placed individually, keeping a distance from the other materialized items.

Xu Huo has never come into close contact with this materialized item because it has been kept by the childhood personality since it was stolen. Even now, he does not fully grasp everything about the childhood personality.

In fact, the same is true for the other personalities.

Whether it is Zheng Yuci, Dou Shengnan, or other Psychic Evolvers, they all suspect he has multiple personality disorder upon seeing the childhood personality, or to put it less politely, they suspect he has a mental illness.

But Xu Huo showed no signs of personality disorder during his growth. If there were any, he couldn’t have been completely oblivious to them. He believes the personalities that appeared at the beginning of his spirit evolution were due to problems with his memory, which extended into parts of him that he couldn’t fully control.

Take the childhood personality, for example. His memory of learning from Doctor Zhang was altered, so after his spirit-evolved brain developed further, he realized this. But because his childhood memories were rewritten using special methods, the childhood personality was thus created.

The formation of the adolescent personality resulted from the mystery of Xu Zhi’s death. Xu Zhi’s memory was also rewritten at the time of death, and there have been no signs of recovery to this day.

The third personality, closer to his current age, is the product of his self-suppression.

Even though these personalities have a certain degree of autonomy, they actually all represent Xu Huo himself, like instincts that appear in moments of crises that cannot be resolved through intelligence and logic. Essentially, they are the final result of his accumulated experience and habits—it’s quite normal for thoughts and ideas to lurk in a person’s consciousness without being aware of them.

But all of this is built upon his spiritual world. His personalities, materialized items, or otherwise, find it hard to exist outside the scope of the spiritual world, let alone persist after a person leaves.

However, the childhood personality has managed to do it. Not only did it manage, but it also even stole a portion of psychic power from Dou Shengnan’s spiritual world. So Xu Huo now needs to figure out exactly how this was done, how to maintain mental interference in the long term after separating from the main body.

He tried using spiritual power to interfere with the black brick, and it unexpectedly turned into a puddle of water, swaying on the table.

Just as Xu Huo reached out, the black water seemed to evade intentionally, then as if catching a scent, it quickly flowed toward several materialized items on that side.

It seemed as though it wanted to enclose the materialized items. Unfortunately, the black sheet from the childhood personality immediately flowed and stood up, slicing the liquid into two parts.

After being weakened, the black water lost its earlier agility, becoming somewhat sluggish to respond, with one segment quickly captured by Xu Huo in his hand.

As soon as the black water touched his fingers, he realized Dou Shengnan’s psychic power was several times his own, not only in terms of the scope the psychic power could cover but also in the volume of psychic power needed to form materialized items.

Condensing psychic power into a materialized item requires highly concentrated spiritual strength, which itself is a threshold. Upon reaching it, the scope usually extends outward. For instance, Xu Huo’s now materialized space range is about two hundred meters. If he were stronger, he would further expand this range, thus increasing the width for defense and attack by materialized items.

Meanwhile, Dou Shengnan’s materialized item seemed more like another sublime level of materialization after psychic power transformation. In this light, her black water was closer to Xu Huo’s initial understanding of materialized items—the range that black water could cover was vast enough to form a tidal wave!

Is it possible that when psychic power evolves to a certain degree, it sublimates to such a level?

When Dou Shengnan plotted against him, she was already without a super prop, so the psychic power existing separately from the body should not be influenced by the prop. If so, it indicates that the final manifestation of super evolution with mental powers should be at the level of a black water spirit world.

However, it seems extremely laborious to make psychic power leave the main body and remain effective. Otherwise, Dou Shengnan wouldn’t have resorted to it only in times of crisis. Still, being able to use psychic power to kill an opponent even after the opponent has escaped is a horrifying yet highly effective measure. Moreover, Xu Huo himself is also a super evolutionary with mental powers.

But there’s one problem: Dou Shengnan surely wouldn’t voluntarily maintain the brick in this state for a long time. It was stolen by the childhood personality. Does this imply that Psychic Evolvers, even after achieving psychic power detachment, still face the risk of it being snatched away?

Reason tells Xu Huo that the possibility is very low, but he has no better ideas to answer the question.

He turned his gaze toward the childhood personality.

The childhood personality, clad in pajamas, sat beside the table, using the spiritual core that represents him to cut the other half of the water on the table into uneven pieces. Unlike the resisting one in Xu Huo’s hand, the pool of black water obediently became like dough.

"Can other psychic evolvers also steal materialized items from my spiritual world?" Xu Huo asked.

The childhood personality shook his head, then pointed to his book on the table.

Xu Huo opened the book, and where there had been nothing on the pages, words appeared.

Anchor:

Released by a Super Evolutionary with Mental Powers from the spiritual world, it is a small segment of spiritual power directed elsewhere, having a limited duration. Its effectiveness is determined by the strength of the Super Evolver. An anchor is generally a small-scale materialization of the spiritual world, which once released, is beyond the control of the person releasing it, causing a considerable mental burden, making it difficult to use on a large scale or multiple times.

So was that final strand of black light that flew from Dou Shengnan’s eye her casting an "anchor"?

"Then what about this?" Xu Huo pointed at the black water on the table, indicating that the "anchor" Dou Shengnan used to kill him wasn’t large, certainly not large enough to be stolen as a brick.

The childhood personality reached out and made a grabbing motion in the air, then pointed at himself.

"Because you’re capable of stealing it?" Xu Huo immediately understood what he meant.

The childhood personality nodded. Because he could steal it, he did.

"What’s the difference between Dou Shengnan and Zheng Yuci?" Xu Huo asked again.

The thin piece in the childhood personality’s hand morphed into a hexagon, and he pointed to the letters on the page, then shook his head.

"Zheng Yuci doesn’t have an anchor." So Zheng Yuci’s spiritual world hasn’t evolved to Dou Shengnan’s level.