Only I Have the Law: A Fantasy Daily Life

Chapter 86 Level 5! Astral Projection and Spiritual Perception!

Chen Baiyu looked at the system notification.

I sincerely praise the incredibly high efficiency with which the bonuses were distributed that day.

It's well known that you can hardly expect any efficiency from slightly larger organizations, which is inherent to their bloated underlying architecture.

Even if you just go to get a certificate, the first day they tell you the system is under maintenance, the second day they say the person in charge is away for training, and the third day they tell you that one document is missing.

When I returned with all the missing documents, I found that the staff at the window had changed. The new staff member spent a long time looking through the documents and said, "Oh, this policy was canceled last week, so you don't need to apply anymore."

Of course.

He was referring to Amelika.

In conclusion, it's a good thing that the bonus arrived quickly.

This means the task rewards will be delivered.

The 500 experience points that came with the bonus instantly propelled Chen Baiyu to level five.

And at the moment of receiving the experience reward from the mission and reaching level five.

Chen Baiyu suddenly realized why the job change requirement was set at level five.

The instant he received the 500 experience points, he seemed to hear a soft sound as if some invisible barrier within his body shattered.

It's not bones, not flesh and blood, but something much deeper.

Reaching level five felt like acquiring some kind of qualification, or like turning on a switch, or even like breaking through some kind of boundary.

He immediately became so elated that he forgot what the world was like.

Not to mention their even more exaggerated physical bodies.

The enhanced spirit seemed to solidify into a faint, almost imperceptible form at this moment, frantically trying to break through the barriers of the physical body.

That's right.

Spiritual power undergoes a transformation at this level.

Ancient texts imagine and record that so-called ancient cultivators practiced breathing exercises and refined their spirits in order to allow their primordial spirit to leave their bodies and roam the vast void.

The feeling I have at this moment, that so-called "breaking through the barriers of the physical body," is precisely the stage when the Yin spirit is initially formed and is trying to break free from the constraints of the physical body.

Chen Baiyu understood.

Perhaps the awakening of intuition earlier was a sign.

Level 5 is an important threshold.

His previously inactive mental attributes, after growing to five times the human limit, finally made him perceptible to others.

Even more than that.

Chen Baiyu seemed to have a real illusion that he was "floating away from the world, ascending to immortality".

It's as if one's spiritual energy is about to leap out at any moment, transforming into a Yang spirit to travel the world, creating a beautiful tale of traveling to the North Sea in the morning and Cangwu in the evening.

His intuition told him.

It seems that even though he has separated from his physical body, his nascent primordial spirit can still stubbornly survive in the material world for a while.

In fact, at this moment, his nascent primordial spirit was already gradually trying to break free from his heavy physical body.

Chen Baiyu's consciousness seemed to be lifted up by a gentle tide, rising upwards.

It was an indescribable feeling of lightness, as if one had shed the heavy, water-soaked shackles of a lifetime, or as if one were breaking free from the sticky, suffocating constraints of a cocoon.

His physical body no longer seemed to be a warm dwelling, but rather a bloated, sluggish, and heavy shell that isolated him from the real world.

At this moment, this outer shell is being stretched open little by little, and an incomparably pure "self" condensed from the spirit is breaking free from it.

free!

This is the strongest, most primal feeling.

This is a real and tangible feeling of "freedom," which is even more genuine and real than the feeling of "being free" that one imagines on a spiritual level when acquiring the system.

At this moment, there is no need to breathe, no need to have a heartbeat.

The speed of thought is the form of existence, and the direction of intention is the direction of the extension of perception.

He immediately "saw" his own body sitting cross-legged behind him—a perspective he had never seen before, cold yet clear.

He could even "sense" the subtle energy flow in the air, a rhythm of a world forever shielded from his clumsy body.

This transcendent experience brings unparalleled pleasure.

Chen Baiyu didn't know what it felt like to take drugs.

However, he was certain that the physical, neurological, and hormonal stimulation from drug use was far less than the mental stimulation that no one had ever experienced before.

It was as if the soul was stretching out its limbs, which had been curled up for too long, for the first time, and every thought trembled with joy.

It's so captivating that you can't help but get hooked.
however.

This ultimate ease and freedom did not last long.

It was almost the instant when the nascent form of the primordial spirit was about to completely emerge from the physical body.

As the protection offered by his physical body began to wane, the "freedom" that had once captivated him instantly revealed its ferocious fangs.

Without the cushioning of flesh and blood.

The material world displayed its most primal malice towards his pure spiritual being.

The beautiful energy rhythm he had previously perceived had now turned into a violent and chaotic turbulent current; the air was no longer formless, but as viscous as mercury, squeezing his fragile existence from all directions.

The most terrifying thing is the wind.

A faint, almost negligible flow of air gently brushed against his primordial spirit.

"Well--!"

An indescribable, excruciating pain suddenly gripped Chen Baiyu's entire consciousness!
The feeling was not a physical cutting, but a more fundamental torture, as if existence itself was being forcibly torn apart and disintegrated.

Where is that breeze anymore?

It is clearly the fierce hurricane that destroys everything in the heavens above the mythical world!

Each "blow" felt like countless red-hot blunt knives scraping, cutting, and grinding his primordial spirit, slowly and painstakingly torturing his newly formed and unstable form to death.

The world was filled with sharp noise, the most basic collisions of matter particles, which were deafening at this moment, almost shattering his consciousness.

The light became blinding, each ray like a steel needle piercing the deepest part of his senses.

Vulnerable! Powerless!
An unprecedented sense of weakness overwhelmed him.

I just realized that the physical body is a constraint.

Only now do I realize that it is also the strongest and gentlest fortress in the world.

Now, he himself has pushed open the fortress, exposing its softest interior to the cruel world without any defense.

Every second felt like an eternity, and every tiny fluctuation in the material world brought with it the fear of impending destruction.

His primordial spirit trembled under this terrifying pressure, its light flickering uncertainly.

It seemed as if it might burst completely at any moment, like a soap bubble, and vanish into nothingness.

Come back! We must come back immediately!
The survival instinct emitted its sharpest cry.

The heavy flesh he had just broken free from, which he had regarded as a barrier, now exuded an unparalleled attraction; it was the only haven that could protect him.

Chen Baiyu's nascent soul dared not indulge in the so-called "freedom" in the slightest.

With all its might, like a fledgling bird battered by a storm, it struggled and cried out, frantically throwing itself towards the quiet, seated body below, following the last remaining thread of cause and effect.

He was trying to escape the omnipresent, almost crushing material oppression.

The world is like a vast sea of ​​suffering, and people drift and sink within it. The physical body is like a small boat adrift.

The soul is a traveler on the boat.

Only by carrying travelers in small boats can they slowly sail towards the other shore.

If one loses the physical body, the vessel that carries one across the world.

Chen Baiyu's nascent primordial spirit was ultimately just a flickering candle in the wind, with no chance to survive for long in the vast sea of ​​suffering of this material world.

Fortunately, Chen Baiyu's attributes increased in all aspects simultaneously, and his physical attributes, which were not unbalanced, were sufficient to steadily control his primordial spirit.

In fact, the current nascent form of the primordial spirit cannot even actively detach itself from the body.

Even if Chen Baiyu doesn't actively try to retrieve his primordial spirit, it will be pulled back by the body's gravity before it completely leaves the physical body after it has left the body to a certain extent.

When Chen Baiyu took the initiative to retrieve his primordial spirit...

This process is accelerated and faster.

At this moment, the body is pulsating with a special power.

It easily and forcefully pulled the disobedient primordial spirit that was trying to break free back.

That nascent, restless "primordial spirit," like a newly lit candle flame, was firmly bound within the body by an invisible force originating from the flesh itself.

Every impulse to explore outwards is drawn and suppressed by a stronger life magnetic field, ultimately resonating and flowing only within this near-perfect physical form.

This feeling is strange; it's not painful, but rather a sense of constraint, as if being forcibly brought onto the right track.

Just as a raging flood is diverted into a solid riverbed, it cannot overflow unchecked, but can instead accumulate even greater power and flow forward.

There was no magic formula for the whole process; it all came down to intuition.

It seemed that with just a slight thought, the nascent form of the primordial spirit that had been spreading out slowly receded like the tide.

Ultimately, it no longer wildly tries to "break through," but rather gently envelops the body like a warm halo.

The convergence of internal and external factors achieves a dynamic balance.

An unprecedented sense of security emerged.

Like a traveler who has been wandering far from home, finally returning to a familiar home, able to shed all the weariness and hardship.

It was a sense of peace and tranquility that welled up from the depths of one's bones, as if the whole world had stopped, leaving only the dialogue between oneself and one's heartbeat.

The moment his primordial spirit returned to his physical body, Chen Baiyu even heard a faint hum, which was probably the resonance produced when the spirit and body reunited.

but……

The primordial spirit did indeed vaguely leave the body in part.

Therefore, as the changes and fluctuations in the physical body and primordial spirit subsided, a completely new feeling, unlike anything before, began to slowly emerge.

That was the perspective from which the primordial spirit had once "seen".

Some remain at this moment.

Even without astral projection, one can still have this entirely new perspective.

First, my vision was slightly distorted, and the fluorescent tubes in the study diffused into a hazy halo.

Then the sounds became distorted: the clatter of keyboards in the next room, the whispers of children playing games, the hum of air conditioner units everywhere…

All the sounds suddenly receded into the distance, then abruptly drew closer, becoming exceptionally clear, each one striking a completely new dimension of perception.

This state represents a detached observer's perspective.

A completely new perceptual ability has emerged.

Chen Baiyu prefers to call it spiritual perception, or divine consciousness.

After all, isn't this experience of highly concentrated yet infinitely outward spirituality, seemingly achieving a subtle resonance with the surrounding environment, exactly the divine consciousness described in Taoist classics and fantasy novels?
It's as if a completely new sense has been forcibly added out of thin air in addition to the fifth sense, and this new sense can also integrate the effects of the five senses, allowing you to experience sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch at the same time.

Its experience is somewhat similar to that of [Intuition·lv1].

But they are not exactly the same.

Chen Baiyu closed her eyes, but "saw" even more clearly.

That wasn't vision, but a diffuse, pure "perception".

That is when thought and spirit are no longer confined to the cranial cavity, like mercury that has broken free from gravity, flowing and spreading in all directions.

He could "feel" the steam rising from the bowl of pork rib soup on Jiang Haochen's computer desk across the wall.

He could "catch" the subtle trembling of the air as a leaf detached from a branch not far outside the window.

You can even "touch" the softness of the carpet under your feet and feel the texture of the cement structure inside the floor.

The physical body still sits in the ergonomic chair, but the tentacles of the spirit have extended outward.

It is an extreme clarity, yet accompanied by a strong sense of detachment.

Self-awareness seems to coalesce into a crystal, suspended above the physical body, calmly observing the workings of the physical world.

Thoughts arise and disappear many times faster. Countless fragments of information captured by mental perception spontaneously collide, combine, and deduce, yet they do not interfere with each other and remain orderly.

The result of this divine perception was not as clear and detailed as what the primordial spirit "saw" when it was halfway out of the body.

However, it is still amazing. Whether it is the convenience or the level of detail, it is basically enough to surpass the five senses of ordinary people.

Its only drawback is probably its range.

A rough assessment confirms that the range of his divine sense is basically a spherical area with a radius of about five meters centered on him.

Within this range, he can detect even the slightest movement from anyone.

However, this range is by no means large.

Under ideal conditions, human vision can clearly see distant mountain peaks, the outlines of buildings several kilometers away, and even distinguish starlight thousands of light-years away in the night sky.

During the day in an open area, an average person without nearsightedness can see facial features at least tens of meters away and can easily spot moving objects at hundreds of meters away.

Chen Baiyu's spiritual sense only has a radius of five meters.

What does five meters mean?
This means that he was standing in the middle of the street and could only perceive the range of one or two parking spaces around him.

This means that in a crowd, he can only "see" a few people in front, behind, left, and right.

This means that as long as the other party retreats to more than six meters away, they are completely out of his mental sight.

this distance.

It's incredibly close to human vision.

Not to mention it can't compare to telescopes, surveillance cameras, or even military satellites.

But even so.

The clarity and information density provided by this five-meter range still amazed Chen Baiyu.

Its practicality is beyond doubt.

As for the limitations in scope, Chen Baiyu felt there was no need to worry too much.

As he grows, the value of this range will inevitably continue to increase, and it is impossible for it to be limited to a mere five-meter radius forever.

When he grows to be very, very strong.

Perhaps it can achieve the same level of invincible powerhouses in fantasy novels, whose divine sense can instantly cover the entire universe.

Even if it's not that strong.

Even just covering the entire Earth would be quite an exaggeration.

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