Chapter 21: I Will Make the World Feel Pain!

In his perception, more and more cool air gathered within his body, but once it entered his body, it vanished without a trace, like a stone sinking into the sea.

This piqued Fang Xiu's curiosity. Where did the strange energy go once it entered his body?

Could it be the mind?

He couldn't help but immerse his consciousness, letting it flow with the cool energy toward an unknown place, like a small boat floating down a river, eventually merging into the ocean.

Here, Fang Xiu sensed a grayish heart, slowly beating, covered in a layer of dust, dirty and grimy, and all the cool energy eventually entered the heart.

Is the mind the heart?

No, that's not right. The mind cannot be the heart.

The mind has no fixed form; it is the heart because it is an unconscious manifestation.

This is my mind; I should be able to control its shape.

With a thought, the grayish heart slowly transformed into a sword, then into a knife, and even into Fang Xiu himself.

Clearly, Fang Xiu's guess was correct.

However, the shape of the soul is irrelevant; what matters is awakening its spirituality.

Thus, the soul once again took the form of a heart.

As more and more cool air seeped in, the heart beat more violently, emitting a faint glow, but all of it was blocked by the dust on its surface.

Fang Xiu waited patiently for a moment, and finally, a change occurred.

There was no so-called breakthrough of a bottleneck as described in fantasy novels; it was simply a natural progression.

Suddenly, the dust at one corner of the heart vanished, as if wiped away by something.

A black light, resembling a black hole, blossomed from that corner.

This was the natural luster of Fang Xiu's soul.

In the next moment, all the strange energies converged on that exposed corner, coalescing into a crimson light as red as blood, which then invaded through the corner of his soul.

The black light and the crimson light intertwined and reflected off each other. The crimson light seemed to want to corrupt the black light into its own color, but no matter how they merged, the black light remained unyielding.

In the end, the blood-red light completely merged into the black light, and everything returned to silence.

At that very moment, Fang Xiu felt an earth-shattering transformation within himself!

In an instant, it was as though he had been cleansed by the black light. His five senses became extraordinarily acute—his vision, hearing, smell, touch, taste, and all other perceptions had undergone a profound change.

If before, seeing the world felt like looking through a veil, now the veil had vanished, and the most authentic world lay bare before his eyes.

Besides the enhancement of his senses, he felt his thinking and neural response speeds had also improved to some extent.

His physical strength hadn't increased much, but his control over his body had greatly improved. If an ordinary person could only activate 40% of their muscles, Fang Xiu could activate over 80%.

Muscle movement is controlled by the brain, which is in turn guided by the mind. Under normal circumstances, humans can only fully activate their muscles when under extreme mental stress or facing life-threatening situations. Of course, this varies from person to person; most people never achieve this even at the moment of death.

An example: During the Han Dynasty, the renowned general Li Guang, while on patrol, mistook a stone in the grass for a crouching tiger and fired an arrow with all his strength, embedding it three inches into the stone. However, after that, no matter how hard he tried, he could no longer penetrate the stone with his arrows.

At this moment, Fang Xiu could unleash such power at will, though his body remained unchanged, his control over it had undergone a complete transformation.

As his physical condition improved, the power he could unleash grew even greater.

Gradually, Fang Xiu opened his eyes, and a faint black light flickered in his clear, black-and-white eyes.

"Is this what spiritual essence is?"

At this moment, he gained a deeper understanding of spiritual essence.

So-called spiritual essence is the product of the mind's inherent power being distorted by mysterious forces.

The mind possesses immense power, but this power cannot be applied to the real world; it exists only in the realm of illusion. It is as though each person is a god within their own mental world—in your mind, you can imagine anything and everything, but it cannot be applied to reality.

The mysterious force is the tool that breaks the barrier between illusion and reality.

A mind infused with mysterious power can influence the real world.

Of course, this does not mean that once spirituality is awakened, one becomes omnipotent in the mind and equally so in reality.

Firstly, spirituality has only awakened a small corner, not the entirety. According to Fang Xiu's estimation, the awakened corner accounts for approximately one percent of the mind's total area, meaning only one percent of spirituality has been awakened.

Secondly, even if the spiritual realm were fully illuminated, it would likely not be as omnipotent as one might imagine, because the mind is not synonymous with fantasy; it is a composite of imagination, emotions, memories, mindset, and more.

The power of the mind is the power of the heart!

The stronger your heart, the stronger the power of the spiritual realm—provided there is sufficient fusion of mysterious power, otherwise it cannot influence reality.

All power has its own form of expression, and the power of the mind is no exception. Its form of expression is tied to one's inner world—what you value most, desire most, and need most will manifest accordingly.

It is also influenced by personality, imagination, environmental factors, and more.

This is why every Spirit Tamer possesses unique abilities.

A Spirit Tamer's abilities are the manifestation of their mental power—this is what is known as the "power of the mind's reflection."

So what is my ability?

Fang Xiu couldn't help but wonder.

Or rather, what is it that I desire most deeply in my heart?

With this question in mind, Fang Xiu began to summon his pitch-black spiritual energy.

The next moment, he sensed a piece of information and froze in place.

Because his ability was... pain!

Is my heart filled with nothing but pain?

Fang Xiu felt astonished. He continued to sense it carefully and immediately obtained a more detailed description of his ability.

Harming others can make them feel pain. ???

Fang Xiu felt like he was reading a meaningless statement.

Is this even an ability?

Without this ability, if I punch someone, they will still feel pain.

When Fang Xiu began to use his ability, he was surprised to discover that he seemed to "see" his own death scenes in the pitch-black spiritual realm.

Being eaten by his wife eighteen times, being crushed into mincemeat by a little girl, having his head severed by a female doctor.

And a familiar sense of pain surged through his heart—the pain brought by each death, not just physical pain, but more so mental pain.

Despair, fear, collapse, hatred, anger... all the negative emotions that had once consumed him seemed to be contained within this pitch-black spiritual realm.

It was only at this moment that Fang Xiu finally understood what his ability truly was.

It was the ability to inflict the pain he had experienced onto others, making them feel it as if it were their own!

"Ha... ha ha ha..." Fang Xiu suddenly burst into uncontrollable laughter.

Even Zhao Hao, standing beside him, was startled.

"Xiu Ge, you... you succeeded?"

Fang Xiu did not respond, but continued to laugh.

This is amazing! This ability is simply amazing.

Fang Xiu roared inwardly, unable to contain his excitement.

He was simply too satisfied—even the ability to control time and space couldn't compare to this ability in terms of satisfying him.

Because this was what he truly desired most deeply.

Since coming to this world, he had endured far too much suffering. The only thing that had kept him going was revenge!

Now that he could make his enemies feel his pain, was there anything more wonderful in this world?

Ha ha ha ha... The pain this damned world has inflicted on me—one day, I will repay it all!

I will make the world feel pain!!!