Obsession and Delusion.
Although they differ by only one word, the difference between them is vast.
Delusion is a thought of fantasy.
Obsession is a thought of absolute necessity.
Everyone has delusions; after all, they are just fantasies. However, not everyone possesses an obsession. Most ordinary people have a fleeting interest, finding it difficult to maintain absolute obsession for a single matter or person.
The Willow Deity no longer expected to dispel Shi Yi's unrealistic delusions regarding her. If that was the case, then she would guide him to transform them into obsessions, allowing these obsessions to become stepping stones on Shi Yi's path to growth.
If there really came a day.
Shi Yi could stand shoulder to shoulder with her, or even surpass her.
Satisfying his Obsession isn't impossible.
The premise is…
That there really is such a day!
Shi Yi naturally didn't know what the Willow Deity was thinking. He waved his hand and started walking towards the Golden Passage, directly entering the Starting Ground of the Virtual Spirit Realm's First Realm.
He didn't know much about the Virtual Spirit Realm, only that it was a mysterious virtual spiritual world. The Starting Ground, where the Blood Refining Realm was located, was officially called the First Realm.
The realm where the Heavenly Cave Realm was located was naturally the Second Realm.
Blood Refining Realm, Heavenly Cave Realm, Spirit Transformation Realm.
Inscription Realm, Array Formation Realm, Honored One Realm.
And so on.
The Virtual Spirit Realm has a total of six realms on its surface, and each realm is equivalent to a level of the heavens.
The realms are vast and boundless, stretching as far as the eye can see. Each realm is comparable to the vastness of Heaven, Earth, Xuan, Huang, Yu, Zhou, Hong, and Huang, the sum of all the Eight Regions of the lower realm.
However, because of the existence of teleportation channels, like the Golden Passage that directly transports people to the Starting Ground, the Virtual Spirit Realm seems large but is, in reality, only a stone's throw away.
In addition to this, the Virtual Spirit Realm also has its own unique set of laws and order, a set that the beings of the Eight Regions of the lower realm cannot resist.
For example, in the First Realm's Starting Ground, no matter how strong your physical body is in the real world or how high your true cultivation realm, the spiritual consciousness formed in the Virtual Spirit Realm can only exert the power of the Blood Refining Realm.
When Shi Yi left King Wu's Mansion, he was still in the Blood Refining Realm. He had only come to the First Realm's Starting Ground of the Virtual Spirit Realm a few times. He found that the beings here only knew how to fight, so he lost interest and never came again.
Virtual Spirit Realm, why bother with anything else?
Everyone's a brute, all they know is fighting.
Now.
After Shi Yi once again passed through the Golden Passage and set foot in the First Realm of the Virtual Spirit Realm.
Standing in the Starting Ground, which everyone tacitly agreed upon, the air that met him wasn't a sense of decay and ruin. Instead, it was refreshing wind that made him feel incredibly comfortable.
Shi Yi didn't know where he had been before. The ground was covered in wreckage, decayed and ruined. His spiritual power couldn't communicate with the Virtual Spirit Realm, and he couldn't even leave.
In that strange place, he felt very oppressed. It wasn't just forgetting; there was also a despairing oppression that arose from within, impossible to describe.
"Hoo, this sense of reality is completely indistinguishable from the real world," Shi Yi took a deep breath, and he could feel the faint fragrance permeating the air.
The faint fragrance wasn't from any strange odor in the air, but rather from a towering ancient tree not far away. The scent permeated the area for miles around.
In Shi Yi's mind.
The Virtual Spirit Realm was indeed impressive. The air, water, trees, and everything else in the world were almost indistinguishable from reality, and substitutes could be found for everything here.
It was just a pity.
The creatures in this world only knew how to fight. In this virtual mental world, death wasn't truly the end. Since only the spirit, energy, and spirit were damaged, the creatures here were even more unrestrained. Most of them would start fighting if they disagreed on a few words.
And just as Shi Yi was marveling at the Virtual Spirit Realm, the heavens and earth trembled. A stone tablet suddenly appeared before him, densely covered with characters, all recording the records of breaking through the Virtual Spirit Realm and surpassing the limits.
[I am not Little Bud. Blood Refining Realm, break through the ultimate limit of power, defeat the Starting Ground passage, reward: a piece of primal treasure bone.]
Upon seeing this.
Shi Yi's heart skipped a beat. He realized something was wrong. The Willow Deity wouldn't set conditions that were easy to achieve. He figured that Shi Hao had already claimed all the various limit records of the Blood Refining Realm.
Don't ask how Shi Yi knew I wasn't the Little Not-so-little Guy, but Shi Hao.
Even though Shi Hao, with his Supreme Bone intact, didn't get the nickname "Loves-Beast-Milk-the-Most" this time, only Shi Hao could do something so...undignified.
As expected.
Shi Yi continued reading, seeing records of Shi Hao breaking the records in the First Realm's Starting Ground, surpassing previous limits. He then saw over a dozen more records related to Shi Hao breaking the Blood Refining Realm's limits.
"I..."
Shi Yi really wanted to curse, but he couldn't.
Although the Double-Pupiled One possessed innate divine abilities, eyes that could open the heavens and earth and reverse the cosmos, with boundless divine power, his only weakness was that it was difficult to cultivate his physical body to the ultimate level.
Of course.
This was relative, not implying the Double-Pupiled One's physical body was poor.
Rather, compared to the Supreme Bone, it seemed weaker by several degrees.
Although Shi Yi had been cultivated with various rare resources in King Wu's Mansion, and had even undergone the cleansing of pure-blooded ferocious beast blood, his physical body strength was only barely on par with the limit of the Blood Refining Realm.
However, Shi Hao possessed the Supreme Bone. While the Supreme Bone's effect wasn't significant in the later stages, its early-stage enhancement of the physical body was not simple. It could easily surpass the Blood Refining Realm's limit.
After pondering for a few minutes, Shi Yi waved his hand to dismiss the stone tablet in front of him and began to use his spiritual power to communicate with the Virtual Spirit Realm, contacting the one known as "I Am Not a Little Guy."
The Virtual Spirit Realm was a virtual spiritual world, not the real world. Everything here was simulated by spiritual power; although realistic, it wasn't absolute.
Therefore, one could communicate directly through the Virtual Spirit Realm here.
But whether the other party would respond was another matter entirely.
"Yi-gege?" Shi Hao's voice was still so innocent.
"Little brother, where are you?" Shi Yi's tone was very direct.
"I'm now..."
After stumbling over his words for a long time, Shi Hao finally managed to explain his location.
It wasn't his fault he couldn't figure out where he was.
Mainly because he recklessly destroyed the channel in the Starting Ground, and the whole person fell directly from the Golden Passage, plummeting into a place he'd never been before.
"Don't run around, wait for me."
After getting the exact location, Shi Yi once again used his spiritual power to communicate with the Virtual Spirit Realm. The Golden Passage appeared from the void, and then he walked into the Golden Passage without even looking back.
In the Virtual Spirit Realm, this golden passage is equivalent to a global teleportation portal; as long as you have accurate coordinates, you can be transported directly there.
At the same time.
The golden passage is also the only way to leave the Virtual Spirit Realm. If, after communicating with the Virtual Spirit Realm with one's mental energy, one cannot summon the golden passage, it means that one's spiritual consciousness is permanently trapped in the Virtual Spirit Realm.
The reason why Shi Yi was so panicked before was because his mental energy's communication with the Virtual Spirit Realm didn't respond. Fortunately, after he successfully reached the Spirit Transformation Realm, the golden passage appeared before him, like a network delay.
Virtual Spirit Realm, First Realm, Endless Volcano.
This is a place rarely visited, even in the Virtual Spirit Realm. This is because there are active volcanoes everywhere here, and ordinary Blood Refining Realm beings simply cannot withstand the high temperatures and magma.
At this moment.
A phantom golden passage descended from the sky, and Shi Yi's figure materialized.
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