The only people left in the room were Xiao Chen and Li Jia, who were sitting cross-legged on the floor. Serinda and Nina were also placed on the floor. The four of them occupied the four endpoints of a diamond, and in the middle of the diamond was the "Shadow Scroll of the Sea of Consciousness".
As the host of the ceremony, Xiao Chen will bear most of the mental consumption, so that Li Jia, a low-level mage, can also participate in the action. He put his hand on the cover of "Shadow of the Sea of Consciousness" and looked up at Li Jia, who looked a little pale. He pinched his flat thighs with both hands, veins protruding, knuckles trembling slightly, and pinched the soft flesh on his thighs into a dent.
"Relax." Xiao Chen said.
"I know, I know." Li Jia replied hastily, "I'm sorry just now."
"It's nothing. I know what you're thinking. But since the book spirit has recognized your ability, you should have confidence in yourself. I have a guess that what we do may be similar to awakening a vegetative person. Her feelings for you may make you a better match than me."
"Yes, I think it makes sense! Why don't you explain it in detail to the Earl?" Li Jia said.
"Guess is just a guess." Xiao Chen paused and glanced at the door. Through his mental power, he could sense the figures outside the door. "But attitude is attitude. In fact, we haven't seen through the earl. Being tough at this time may help protect ourselves better."
Li Jia nodded, and after talking to Xiao Chen for a few words, he slowly began to calm down, at least his hands stopped shaking.
Xiao Chen put his hands on Li Jia's shoulders and said seriously: "Don't think too much, concentrate. Our strength lies here, and a stable mentality is more important than anything else." He pointed to his head.
Li Jia gently rubbed Serinda's cheek with the back of his hand, as if he was caressing the most precious treasure. After a moment, he took a deep breath and said, "Let's get started."
As a low-level magician, Li Jia was not qualified to enter the Sea of Ten Thousand Worlds, so the two of them had entered their respective meditation worlds after entering the "Shadow Scroll of the Sea of Consciousness".
Xiao Chen returned to the small island in his own world again. The blue sea and white sand were still there, but affected by his mentality, the air around him became more stagnant, and the thunderstorms and black clouds in the distance became more chaotic.
"Your heart isn't at peace either." The captain stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the place where the sea and the sky meet. There were flashes of silver light, followed by rumbling thunder.
"This is the first time for a young lady to get into a bridal sedan. I'll get used to it after a few more times." Xiao Chen said. This time he was no longer wearing his usual shirt and trousers, but a tight sportswear, hiking shoes on his feet, a dagger on his waist, and a cane in his hand, looking like he was ready to go on a long journey.
The captain looked back at him and smiled. He said nothing more, but stretched out his finger and drew a circle on the sand not far away. The sand he drew with his finger suddenly collapsed, forming a black hole.
The captain took two steps forward and stretched out his hand at the entrance of the cave, gesturing for invitation.
"Just jump down like this?" Xiao Chen also came over. He looked around for a while, but could not see anything in the cave except darkness.
"Good luck to you," said the captain.
Xiao Chen squatted beside the cave and reached in with his walking stick to probe. The walking stick was like plunging into a dark pool of ink, and the section below the level of the cave entrance suddenly disappeared.
"Can't you hold it upright? Jumping down makes people feel insecure." Xiao Chen said.
"It's too late. Opening two channels at the same time consumes a lot of my energy. Don't waste time." The captain said. He made a gesture of listening attentively, and then said: "Your companions have already started."
"Okay." Xiao Chen did not stand up, but half-crouched and jumped forward, sinking into the black hole without hesitation.
Xiao Chen felt like he was floating in a starless night sky. There were some faint lights around him, illuminating scattered black outlines, but none of them allowed him to draw a meaningful shape.
This space gave him a feeling of suffocation, and then he realized that there was no air here. Although as a thinking being, air was meaningless to survival, his survival instinct for more than 20 years still made him rely heavily on the instinctive expansion and contraction of his lungs.
Suppressing his discomfort, Xiao Chen tried to release a light spell, but nothing happened.
He closed his eyes and thought for a while, then he raised his finger and pointed upwards and said, "I say: Let there be light!"
A ball of light emerged from between his fingers, then slowly expanded, slowly turning from a candle flame into a searchlight, illuminating the world around him.
This world is very cramped and messy. Stones ranging in size from fists to washbasins are scattered around Xiao Chen in strange shapes. These floating objects are suspended and moving without any rules as if in space. However, when they come into contact with a place less than ten meters away from Xiao Chen, they will hit a wall in the void and then slowly fly back. Xiao Chen carefully observed all directions and roughly determined that this space is an egg shape, and its size is at most like an ordinary building.
This shows that Nina's talent in magic is really average. Not only is the meditation space very small, but the things in the space also don't have time to form specific images.
However, Xiao Chen looked for a long time but did not find the most crucial thing: Nina's body.
According to the book spirit's explanation, the main consciousness of the owner of the meditation space should inevitably exist in the meditation space in the form of his own body. This is the instinct of human self-consciousness. If the main consciousness dissipates, the space will also collapse.
"Book spirit? Book spirit?" Xiao Chen shouted twice. Even though there was no air here, he could make his voice resound throughout the world, because the essence of this world was the manifestation of spiritual power.
Maybe he went to help Li Jia? Xiao Chen thought to himself. This is a good thing.
Since you can't rely on others, find it yourself.
Xiao Chen flicked his finger, and the ball of light flew to the edge of the space and was embedded in the barrier like a plate.
"You can be the sun here." Xiao Chen said. He used his spiritual power to wrap up the larger rocks, and after finding out that there was no trace of Nina on them, he threw them under the world. These rocks deformed, stretched, connected, and then formed a larger rock.
Xiao Chen repeated this action, and after consuming about one-third of the floating stones, there was a piece of land about ten meters square on the ground.
"There is also air and gravity." Xiao Chen slowly descended, and when his feet touched the ground, the short sword at his waist hung beside his legs, and the sky also reflected a bright blue.
Xiao Chen took a deep breath, the air was filled with a hint of fresh earth, and he was satisfied with the details he had created. He waved his hands again, and the breeze moved his hair, and the stagnant air slowly flowed along the barrier in this "big egg" in a rotating manner.
Xiao Chen glanced at the sky and found that the "sun" was too close and too big. He stretched out the index finger and thumb of his right hand, pinched the "sun" from a distance and squeezed it towards the center. The "sun" suddenly became smaller and emitted a little warmth.
At this time, the stones still floating in the sky began to slowly fall down. Some gathered together to form small earth slopes, some fell to the ground and turned into puddles of water, and finally condensed into a pond. Some also fell to the ground in small pieces, revealing their sharp corners, and turned into green grass all over the ground.
When Xiao Chen used his power to change the world, his mental force would scan every stone to look for Nina's trace. When half of the floating stones fell, Xiao Chen suddenly looked up and stared at one of them. He stretched out his hand and the stone, which was not much bigger than a book, floated in front of him.
When Xiao Chen caught it with his hands, he looked back and forth and finally found a little person less than ten centimeters in the crack of the stone. The little person looked exactly like Nina. She was wearing a linen skirt commonly seen in the countryside, with a frown on her face. She seemed to be unconscious and in great pain. Her originally tall and beautiful figure now looked like a broken rag doll. There were exaggerated cracks on her neck, abdomen and thighs. Her head and feet were bulging and bent at strange angles, but no blood flowed out. Instead, the broken wounds emitted bursts of faint white light.
"She turned into Thumbelina." Xiao Chen knew that this was the result of mental damage. If he didn't help her, this little person would get smaller and smaller. She would probably disappear from this world in a few days, and then Nina would no longer exist.
Xiao Chen carefully took her out of the crevice and placed her in his palm. He tried to use the method taught by the book spirit to slowly restore Nina's consciousness with his mental power.
Nina's main consciousness was completely different from the subconscious that made up the world. Xiao Chen always felt that no matter what he did to this little man, there would be an instinctive resistance in the little man's body to go against him, which made the repair much more difficult. It took Xiao Chen almost the same amount of time as it took to create the world to repair the wound on her neck and put her head back on her shoulders.
When he was about to repair the villain's abdomen, the villain's eyelids blinked a few times and slowly opened. Then Xiao Chen heard a scream that resounded through his soul.
"Ah!!" Nina opened her mouth and screamed in Xiao Chen's hands, covering her chest with both hands, half paralyzed on the ground, her eyes full of fear. If she hadn't had the energy to shed tears, she would have burst into tears.
"Stop screaming!" Xiao Chen said. But what greeted him was a longer scream. But if anyone suddenly woke up from a coma and saw a giant face covering half of the sky in front of them, they would not be too calm, right
"Quiet, I won't hurt you! Look at me carefully, do you recognize me?" Xiao Chen repeated this sentence five times before the screams subsided. Nina stared at him for a long time and said uncertainly: "You... Are you Master Xiao Chen?"
"That's good. It means you can still speak and recognize people. It seems that the main part of your consciousness is not seriously damaged."
After getting Xiao Chen's confirmation, Nina seemed even more frightened. She looked up and down at the huge Xiao Chen, and then saw her torn abdomen and thighs. She screamed again, and then sobbed in despair: "Have we, have we been caught by you? Where is this? Are you torturing me with magic?"