After a long while, Zhou Yu's complexion recovered a little and was no longer so ugly, but it was still bloodless and pale.
However, his mind was still greatly affected. His consciousness was constantly submerged by the waves until he lost consciousness and then regained consciousness. This constant repetition caused great damage to Zhou Yu's mind, as if even his ability to think was greatly affected.
"Where exactly is this place? How did I end up here all of a sudden?"
Zhou Yu regained some of his spirit and began to recall what had happened to him.
Despite some headaches and discomfort, he still gritted his teeth and persisted, recalling his memories. However, after searching through his memories, he seemed to have not found the reason why he came to this mysterious dark space. The only clue was the jade talisman.
"Don't worry about it for now, the important thing is to recover."
Zhou Yu didn't think about those things. Instead, he concentrated on calming his mind and meditating on refining his nerves. With the power of refining his nerves, he nourished his damaged mind.
However, as the nerve refining was in progress, the dark space around him also changed. It seemed that as Zhou Yu's mind recovered, some strange energy substances came from nowhere and had a nourishing effect on his mind. He immediately felt a clear stream flowing through his body, relaxing and soothing himself.
"This dark space seems to be helpful for me to visualize and cultivate my nerves and spiritual consciousness."
Zhou Yu realized this and worked harder to visualize and refine his nerves, continuously absorbing strange energy substances in an effort to recover his damaged mind more quickly.
Perhaps it was the strange energy substances contained in this mysterious dark space, or perhaps it was because of the constant torture and repeated tempering that Zhou Yu's mind was improved to a certain extent.
After visualizing and refining his nerves and completely restoring his mind, Zhou Yu keenly realized that he was one step closer to the level of opening up his spiritual consciousness.
Combining the description of spiritual practice in the Sutra of Refining the Mind with Zhou Yu's own insights and understanding, Zhou Yu roughly divided the levels of spiritual practice into five levels before developing spiritual consciousness.
From weak to strong, there are five levels: early, middle, late, peak and perfect.
And Zhou Yu's own mind is currently at the peak level.
An ordinary person's mind should be in the early stage, but Zhou Yu often practices in the Spirit Tree Valley to refine his nerves, absorb and refine the remnants of spiritual consciousness, and his mind progresses very quickly, already at the late stage.
This time, after being tempered by the waves of the mysterious dark space and with the help of strange energy substances, it was improved again.
“Maybe if I come a few more times, I can reach the level of perfection, or even open up my spiritual consciousness!”
After the training, Zhou Yu was no longer as resistant to this dark space as before.
But after the waves receded, he still couldn't find a way to leave, which made him feel anxious and irritated.
"I don't know how much time has passed."
Zhou Yu asked himself this question in his heart while wandering around in this dark space.
While looking for a way to leave, Zhou Yu tried more than once to regain his lost power.
However, no matter how he tried to practice the Tianyang Breathing Method and the Sword Refining Technique, there was no response, as if he had lost the ability to practice.
Trapped in this place of eternal darkness, I have lost the ability to practice.
Although Zhou Yu's heart was filled with bitterness, he was not desperate and was still trying to find a way to leave.
During this period, Zhou Yu regained consciousness and once again completely lost track of time.
I only knew that I had been moving in one direction for a long time. When my consciousness was about to become numb again, changes finally appeared in the unchanging darkness.
A ray of light, like the dawn of the birth of heaven and earth, broke through the darkness and illuminated everything!
"Hmm... This is, light!"
Zhou Yu was completely stunned. Feeling the presence of that ray of light, he became excited in an instant. He gathered his strength and started to move towards the place where the light appeared.
As I got closer to the light, it became brighter and brighter, but not dazzling. I could even feel the warmth contained in the light, all scattered along with it.
When my fingertips touched that ray of light, everything disappeared.
Instantly breaking free from the constraints of the dark space, Zhou Yu's consciousness returned to his body.
He stared blankly at the jade talisman in his hand, with a complicated look in his eyes.
Now the jade talisman has returned to its original purple-green color, and the blood color on it has completely disappeared.
However, it was still changing slowly, with a faint blood color gradually emerging, as if it was still continuously absorbing the remaining spiritual consciousness in this place.
"It seems that this jade talisman is the key to entering the dark space."
Zhou Yu also realized the importance of the jade talisman at this time. Combining it with what happened before, he was completely certain that the jade talisman was the reason for his entry into the dark world.
He relaxed his body a little, and then circulated his blood, energy, and spiritual energy, confirming them one by one.
Zhou Yu shook his head at first. As he was thinking, the jade talisman in his hand became slightly hot again.
He looked at the jade talisman in his hand. Unconsciously, the jade talisman had turned blood red again. Apparently, it had absorbed enough residual spiritual consciousness to be able to enter the spiritual cultivation space again.
However, looking at the jade talisman in his hand, Zhou Yu hesitated and did not enter the spiritual practice space immediately.
After all, the process of practicing in the spiritual practice space just now had already made Zhou Yu feel what the ultimate torture was.
Whether it is the eternal darkness, the irresistible and endless waves, or the loneliness when searching for that ray of light, the training and torture of the mind are all exhausting.
"Let's take it easy."
After hesitating for a long time, Zhou Yu put the jade talisman into the storage bag, and then walked under the spirit tree.
Taking advantage of the improvement of his mind and will, he once again attacked the spirit tree, also to try whether he could climb to the lowest branch.
The mental will has been enhanced, and the pressure of the residual spiritual consciousness on oneself will be reduced accordingly.
While visualizing and refining his nerves, Zhou Yu resisted the pressure brought by the remnants of his spiritual consciousness and climbed up the spirit tree.
This time, Zhou Yu succeeded.
He climbed to the lowest trunk of the spiritual tree and successfully stood on it.
"Huh..."
Zhou Yu let out a long sigh, looked around, and felt refreshed and happy.
After so much hard work, I finally saw the results.
"The Crimson Fire Fox clan leader once told me that these spiritual fruits are extremely helpful for the growth of the Crimson Fire Fox."
Zhou Yu muttered to himself, then stretched out his hand, wanting to pick the spiritual fruit closest to him.
The spiritual fruit is like red crystal, crystal clear and tempting.