Chapter 12

"Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch!"

Li Yao's first sensation was an excruciating headache. The vivid centuries of time in his dream transformed into an information stream as vast as the sands of the Ganges, surging and colliding in the depths of his brain, finally crashing directly into the pineal gland in his forehead!

His brow throbbed, as if a bamboo shoot after the rain was about to burst through his skull and emerge from his body!

This was followed by a strange feeling that defied description.

It was as if he had been a "man in a cocoon" wrapped in multiple layers of shell, and each pain tore a hole in his "shell," greatly enhancing his five senses and allowing him to perceive the vivid real world.

In an instant, he counted 327 cracks on the ceiling, clearly saw the hundreds of tiny characters engraved on the teacup three meters away, and remembered that these were battlefield poems written by a military poet 133 years ago. At the same time, the poet's life and the seven battles he had experienced, including the outcomes of those battles, all surfaced in his mind, crystal clear.

Incidentally, he also heard the sounds of flesh and spirit colliding from a room twenty meters to the right downstairs.

"What the hell is going on? This is... incredible!"

Li Yao blinked his eyes, and with each blink, the world seemed a bit clearer. Countless colors he couldn't name collided with his visual cells, making him dizzy and elated.

He rubbed his brow with both hands, trying to clear his thoughts, but the information stream in his brain was like a tsunami, a raging river, unstoppable.

"58942 times 88743 equals 5230689906! The winning numbers for the 903rd issue of the Federation Cultivation Lottery, issued on August 25th last year, were 73, 89, 42, 74, 55, 16, with a prize of 13,547,328 yuan, netting 11,607,350.63 yuan after a 14.32% special tax! The Starlight Federation covers an area of 37.14 million square kilometers, with a total population of 10.455 billion, a standing army of 16.7478 million, and 13 'Primordial Celestial Venerable'-class super-giant strategic crystal warships; 52 'Heavenly Master'-class heavy crystal cruisers..."

"On May 30th, three years ago, I walked through the intersection of Luofu Avenue and Qishan Road. The temperature that day was between 13 and 21 degrees, with a 2-level northwest wind. Eleven meters southwest of me, there was a woman in a light green dress, aged between 26 and 29, whose skirt was lifted by the wind, revealing her pink undergarment with light purple patterns!"

"The one downstairs engaging in a heated battle should be Brother Zhao. There were 72 collisions in one minute, a 35.8% increase from his usual performance. The woman's screams were also at least 23.4% sharper than usual. If Brother Zhao didn't take some secret medicine, he might be wearing a green hat soon!"

"Is this a joke? Why can I suddenly think of so many things and process so many chaotic thoughts? It's like... a cultivator!"

Li Yao was startled by his own thoughts and recalled the dream he had just escaped from, feeling a chill at the back of his neck.

He squinted his eyes, pinched his thigh hard, using the pain to focus his thoughts, and concentrated to think about the cause and effect.

After a moment, hundreds of pieces of useful information jumped out from the vast information library in his brain, like shining pearls, forming a complete chain of clues.

"Crystal brain, activate!"

Li Yao called out softly, and a triangular crystal brain floated up at the foot of the bed, emitting a gentle beam of light. After a tinkling startup melody, it expanded into a huge light screen.

Li Yao connected to the Internet, opened a page called "Myriad Phenomena Search," and typed "Bailian Sect" into the search box, lightly pressing the "Search" rune.

The page was colorful, with seven-colored runes dancing across the screen, forming several short paragraphs of text.

"Bailian Sect, during the mid-classical cultivation era 47,000 years ago, was a prominent sect in the 'Central State Region' of the 'Vast World.' It was famous for its expertise in forging, sword-making, and crafting magical treasures, especially the 36th generation sect leader, Ouyezi, known as the 'Master of Artifacts,' a renowned forging master mentioned in many ancient notes and classics."

"About 46,000 years ago, Bailian Sect was destroyed by a massive explosion of unknown cause, and within a few decades, it vanished completely."

"According to some contemporary cultivation notes that have been unearthed, Ouyezi claimed to have successfully created a time-traveling teleportation array. During the first test, he accidentally triggered a massive spiritual energy tidal explosion, resulting in his complete annihilation, both body and soul."

"However, no ruins of Bailian Sect have been discovered yet. All information about Bailian Sect comes from ancient notes, which are indirect evidence. The true reasons for Ouyezi's sudden death and the decline of Bailian Sect remain unknown."

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Li Yao ignored the last piece of information and read the previous paragraphs over and over again.

Gradually, his eyes brightened, and his divine consciousness raced, weaving countless thoughts into a complex and intricate pattern.

"So, Bailian Sect was a real ancient sect, and Ouyezi was a genius forging master. He invented a 'time machine' 46,000 years ago and personally tested it, but it caused a massive explosion, leading to the destruction of Bailian Sect."

"Although Bailian Sect was destroyed, Ouyezi's experiment was successful. He truly crossed the barrier of time and came to the 40,000th year of cultivation, 46,000 years later!"

"In this era, there are countless magical treasures that ancient cultivators could never have imagined. Ouyezi, a forging enthusiast, was naturally delighted, especially with modern large-scale magical systems like 'ultra-high-speed crystal rail trains.' How could he not study them thoroughly upon seeing them?"

"But he was hit by the train!"

"Probably, time travel is very damaging to a cultivator's body. Ouyezi must have been severely injured, his cultivation greatly reduced. Otherwise, with the formidable strength he displayed in the dream, he might have even knocked the train off the bridge."

"Regardless, Ouyezi's body was torn to pieces by the crystal rail train, but his vast divine consciousness didn't easily dissipate. It just so happened that I was passing by the bridge, and it surged into my body, attempting to 'possess' me!"

"That's right. At the time, I felt a cold wind raging inside me. This old man must have had ill intentions. The various strange phenomena in the dream were all his tricks. If I hadn't seen through them in time, the person lying in bed now would surely think they were the real 'Ouyezi'!"

"But how could I, a low-level ordinary person, resist Ouyezi's powerful divine consciousness and make his possession fail?"

Li Yao's thoughts raced, and after a moment of contemplation, he recalled a discordant ripple that appeared in the dream when he was about to consummate his marriage with the daughter of Supreme Master Tai'a.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him, and he found the reason.

"Haha, Ouyezi, you old man, you're really unlucky!"

"With his formidable divine consciousness, he could possess anyone in the Federation, even some low-level cultivators, without any trouble."

"But I'm different. In the depths of my brain, there was already a memory that didn't belong to this world. In a sense, my body had already been 'possessed' once by 'Earth's Li Yao,' which is like having been vaccinated, giving me a natural resistance to possession."

"No matter how dangerous the virus, it's powerless against someone who has been vaccinated. It was Ouyezi's bad luck that he not only failed to possess me but also left me with great benefits!"

No matter how dull Li Yao was, he realized that something extraordinary had happened to him. At the very least, his thinking was at least ten times faster than before.

Without mentioning other things, he had deduced the cause and effect from fragmented information in just three minutes, which would have taken him three days and three nights to figure out in the past.

"The teacher in the meditation class once said that the highest realm of meditation is a state where 'time flows incredibly slowly, and one second in the real world feels like a year in the spiritual world.' In this state, cultivating greatly benefits the development of spiritual roots!"

"In the dream, I seemed to have lived for centuries. Could it be that I entered this mysterious realm, and my spiritual roots were greatly enhanced by Ouyezi's powerful divine consciousness, without me even realizing it?"

Li Yao remembered that his teacher had said that the improvement of spiritual root development would instantly enhance memory, analytical and computational abilities, thinking power, and perception.

Another more direct sign was the "pineal gland" in the center of the brow, which would have a feeling of a bamboo shoot about to burst through.

All these signs matched the strange changes in his body!

"Great, great, I wonder how much my spiritual root development has improved. Do I have the strength to turn the arrogant elites in the advanced class into pig heads?"

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