Chapter 58: Experience
Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire

On the way back, the shell girl returned to her lively nature.

She kept on chattering excitedly next to his ears.

She would say how many giants had died, then say how many nature spirits she had discovered in hiding earlier. She even mentioned how many big trees and beautiful flowers she had seen.

She lived on a desolate island since young, and such an experience was clearly exciting and fresh to her.

Chen Shouyi rowed the canoe, dragging along the other canoe he had captured behind him.

He didn’t say anything.

He turned and took a glance at the island in the distance, not wearing any emotions on his face.

He could be said to have gained great success in this operation. Other than that canoe that had managed to escape, the barbarians’ abilities to cross the seas had taken a critical blow.

Even though there was one canoe left, he could deal with it when he came back next time.

It didn’t take long for the space channel’s safety issue to be completely resolved.

However, he didn’t feel elated at all. Instead, he felt heavy-hearted.

Chen Shouyi couldn’t explain what brought about the feeling.

Was it that mysterious power on the island? Or was it his unrestrained massacre of the barbarians this time around?

It might be both.

…

Thankfully, he wasn’t an emotional person. Moreover, it was hard for people in this world to feel pity toward barbarians.

When he returned to the small island, all these suppressed feelings immediately disappeared.

The merging of Earth and the Otherworld had started from 20 years ago.

Ever since then, the massacre between humans and barbarians had never stopped.

According to publicized information, the number of humans killed in the hands of barbarians each year across the globe was about two million. If they were to include the deaths caused by the invasion of other lifeforms from the Otherworld, the count would be close to three million.

It was the first on the rank of unnatural deaths among all human populations.

…

Chen Shouyi tied the two canoes properly and then returned to the space channel.

The trip to and fro took him close to ten hours in total. It was just past noon in the Otherworld.

It was around 4 a.m. on Earth.

His constitution was powerful, so he didn’t feel much fatigue despite not having slept for close to one night.

He decided that he was in no rush to head back.

After eating some food he brought along with him, he then started his training.

He performed his stance and started practicing the Thirty-six Stances of Body Training.

In the end, Chen Shouyi could feel the difference between the two worlds after just practicing for one round.

When he was practicing on Earth, although he would be able to sense the mysterious force each time he finished one round of practice, it would be relatively weak and close to non-existence.

However, when he was here, the feeling was quite intense. He could feel that his entire body was soaked in this massive force. It was as if there were streams of power that kept on darting into his body incessantly.

“Are the effects of practicing the Thirty-six Stances of Body Training in the Otherworld so apparent?” Chen Shouyi thought to himself.

He was a little astonished by these intense effects and couldn’t help but open up his attributes panel. In the end, he realized that he had thought too much about it.

Even though there were ample mysterious forces here, it was impossible for there to be an obvious improvement from just one round of practice.

However, his willpower had increased by 0.1, reaching 11.9.

This was clearly the improvement that he had obtained from his experience on the barbarian island.

Chen Shouyi continued with his training.

After practicing consecutively for five times, he depleted all of his strength. Even his muscles were starting to twitch incessantly.

He was so tired that he was panting hard and lay down on the grass plains.

Then, he looked at the shell girl in the distance. She had taken the initiative to search for golden sand. Looking at that, he smiled and went into a daze.

He had to say that the powers displayed by that mysterious lifeform on the barbarian island had left behind a tremendous pressure and shadow on his heart.

This power was very terrifying, to the extent that it led to a change of the climatic conditions. It completely surpassed his understanding.

He had never seen an existence like this that could cause him to be on tenterhooks and almost forced him to turn and escape from just the aura alone.

At this moment, he was suddenly struck by a thought and closed his eyes.

His consciousness entered the gray foggy space.

He looked toward the memory leaves for today on the top of the big tree and soon directed all of his consciousness into them.

…

When that aura appeared, it was when he had been plucking out the arrows from the barbarians’ corpses.

The surrounding light rays suddenly turned dim, and strong gales started to blow on the island.

He observed everything from a third-person perspective.

It was very strange. Even though he hadn’t entered his own body and maintained a consciousness state, he was also able to sense this aura.

In fact, he had long since realized that the images in the memory space weren’t just purely his memories.

For example, ordinary people would only be able to see a two-dimensional scene with their eyes. A three-dimensional impression were all a result of the changes to light and shadows.

This was also the reason why three-dimensional images could deceive human eyes.

If some things were hidden by other things, the human eye wouldn’t be able to capture them.

Based on common sense, since they couldn’t be seen by the eyes, they would naturally not appear in one’s memories.

However, the memory space in the Book of Knowledge broke this common sense.

Memories were still memories. They didn’t look different, but when one’s consciousness entered them…

They would discover that this memory space didn’t just present a two-dimensional but three-dimensional memory!

It was like an actual space, where he could see more details that couldn’t be presented by his memories. He could even allow his consciousness to enter someone’s body!

This far surpassed what one’s memories covered.

…

However, to Chen Shouyi, this was a good thing and he didn’t mind. Very soon, he looked toward the forest on the island.

The “holy tree” mentioned by the barbarians, according to its name, should be a tree.

He wanted to see if he would be able to find it in the memory space.

His consciousness rapidly flew to the front.

Many towering trees rapidly flew past behind him.

He had no idea how many years the trees on this island had been growing for. Many trees were so thick that one couldn’t wrap their arms around them. It wasn’t rare to find trees with a diameter of three to four meters either.

However, he soon lost interest in observing the forest here.

The deeper he entered, he realized that the aura was increasingly suppressive. The intense feeling of horror almost made him suspect that this wasn’t his memory, but an actual world instead.

He flew for about two kilometers, and after ten or more seconds, he suddenly came to a stop.

He looked into the distance and was taken by astonishment!

What appeared before his eyes was a massive existence that was like a towering building with a height of several hundred meters. It stood out from the rest of the island.

Its massive umbrella-top almost covered about one to two square kilometers, forming a densely packed green net that didn’t allow anything to pass through.

He withstood the eerie and suppressive aura, assessing this terrifying and big tree from a close distance.

Its leaves were green like jade, emitting a glistening glow under the sunlight. It presented a great and abnormal sight.

He noticed countless thin streaks of air currents between the leaves that were like spiritual snakes, darting and tangling around. Even further places were influenced by them.

In fact, their existences were quite striking.

Even on the seas, one would be able to discern them with one look.

The tree was really too tall.

However, when looked down from a distance, who’d have expected that this stretch of lush and green forest that took up an area of two square kilometers actually came from just one tree alone and not an entire stretch of a forest?

At the very least, Chen Shouyi wouldn’t have thought of it from this approach.

“I shall see how powerful you actually are!” Chen Shouyi thought.

He directed his consciousness into it without any hesitation.

“Boom!”

It was as if a bomb had detonated in his mind.

Chen Shouyi lost control over his consciousness.