134: Chapter 134: Breaking Through the Inner World

Chen Mo had completely focused his mind since mid-July, placing all his Cultivation efforts on a deep understanding of his Inner World.

His last clash with Kong Ji in the Trial Tower had made him clearly aware of his own shortcomings.

The core ability of Kong Ji's Xuan body system was to cover the surface of his body with a layer of void power; any attack that touched that layer of power.

Matter would instantly disappear, energy would directly dissipate, and Mental Perception would be suppressed to the point of near blindness.

To defeat Kong Ji, he had to break through the suppression of his Domain and shatter that layer of void power on his body surface.

In the cultivation room, Chen Mo sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, his body surrounded by a pale yellow halo of Hengyuan Force.

Amidst billions of cells, the Hengyuan Force, resembling miniature stars, slowly circulated, continuously tempering his Physical Body and Mental Power; the color of the halo grew purer with each passing day of tempering.

His consciousness was completely submerged within his Inner World, replaying the entire battle with Kong Ji over and over again.

From the stagnation of power during their first contact to the strange sensation of his fist force being dissolved layer by layer in the Middle Stage.

And finally, the moment he forcibly broke the situation with Hengyuan Force, every detail was dismantled to the extreme.

At first, he had always thought that Kong Ji's Domain was rewriting the spatial structure, leveraging space with the power of the Fourth Rank.

But after millions of retrospections and deductions, and with the slow growth of his own Inner World, this conclusion was being overturned bit by bit.

No.

A Fourth Rank life form simply did not have the qualifications to shake real space.

In Chen Mo's deductions, even a Fifth Rank Universe life form only binds its own existence to space; it is far from being able to distort or rewrite space at will.

Kong Ji's void Domain had never changed real space by even a fraction from beginning to end.

"It is assimilation... It is coverage at the level of perception."

On this day, Chen Mo's tightly closed eyes moved slightly, and the fog that had lingered in his heart for a long time suddenly dissipated.

Kong Ji's Domain was essentially a kind of extreme innate ability, essentially a diffusion of his own power.

It was like a thin film covering all spatial mediums within a certain area, thereby interfering with the perception, energy flow, and even the body control of life forms that entered it.

The original space had been there all along, motionless; it had just been covered by a "shell" belonging to Kong Ji.

Those within it, what they saw, felt, and the energy they mobilized were all results filtered through this shell, which naturally created the illusion of being suppressed.

This was fundamentally different from his Inner World.

His Inner World was a human world evolved from his own system, with its Foundation in himself; it could be retracted or expanded at will, and it had its own complete set of operating rules inside.

Kong Ji's Domain, however, was more like a powerful Force Field derived from an innate ability, existing by attaching itself to external space; it had no roots and no source, and once the core power was pierced, it would instantly collapse.

The moment he understood this layer, it was as if a ray of light flashed through Chen Mo's mental sea.

He no longer obsessed over "cracking space" but instead focused on tempering and expanding the power of his Inner World.

Days passed in dedicated Cultivation.

The amplification multiplier of his Inner World also climbed upward extremely slowly but firmly through the grind of Cultivation.

14.6 times, 14.7 times, 14.8 times...

Every 0.1 increase meant that the perfection of the Inner World's rules and the cohesion of its power had taken a small step forward, and Chen Mo's control over his own power became more refined.

This amplification was an all-around improvement from energy level, mental intensity, and physical toughness to rule suppression; it was the Foundation of the Fifth Rank control Realm.

Seemingly small growth, but in reality, every step was solidifying the confidence to cross ranks.

By August 27th, when the amplification of the Inner World reached the peak of 14.9 times, the accumulation finally ushered in a qualitative change.

The next instant —

Hum!

A vibration that only Chen Mo could hear sounded from deep within his body, like the first pulse of the world's creation.

The Inner World expanded outward on its own without any active stimulation!

Pale yellow light surged from the surface of Chen Mo's skin, expanding outward with him as the center.

The light contained power like a star.

Chen Mo's mind stirred, and almost at the same instant the expansion began, he forcibly suppressed this power.

The surging Inner World, like a star, barely covered a one-meter radius around him before it was firmly locked within this square inch, not leaking out a single bit more.

But even as fast as he retracted it, the mental fluctuations scattered at the moment of the Breakthrough still spread outward in all directions from Han City, like a giant stone thrown into a lake.

Within a radius of three thousand kilometers, the hearts of all living beings trembled simultaneously.

...

Blue Star, Han City, Federal capital.

Old Liu, who was reviewing documents, suddenly stiffened, and the pen in his hand dropped onto the table with a "clatter."

He only felt as if his heart had been tightly gripped by an invisible giant hand, his breathing stalled instantly, and a sense of insignificance originating from the depths of his Soul came flooding in, as if he would be crushed into powder the next second.

This feeling came quickly and left just as quickly.

In just a blink of an eye, that terrifying pressure disappeared without a trace, as if it were just an illusion.

Old Liu's face turned pale; he stood up abruptly and looked out the window.

Rapid footsteps could already be heard outside the corridor, and several security personnel and Extraordinary officials rushed over with panicked expressions, clearly having felt the palpitation just now.

"The Speaker's side..." Old Liu steadied his mind, and his first thought pointed to Chen Mo.

Apart from him, there could not be a second person on Blue Star capable of emitting such terrifying pressure.

And on the vast land, this sudden "heart palpitation" caused even greater waves.

In Yunmeng Province, the public on the commuting tracks all felt their legs go weak, and many sat paralyzed on the ground, looking around with pale faces, their eyes filled with confusion and fear.

Some clutched their chests, gasping for air, feeling as if they had just walked through the gates of hell.

There were children crying loudly, hugging the necks of adults and curling into a ball, unable to say why they were afraid, only feeling a chill all over.

The feelings of Evolvers were more intense than ordinary people.

On the training ground of the Federal Extraordinary Administration, thousands of Evolvers who were training froze in place simultaneously; the lower the Cultivation, the more violently the body trembled.

Several Second Rank instructors gritted their teeth tightly to barely remain standing, their eyes filled with horror.

They could feel that the pressure was not directed at anyone; it was just an unconscious dissipation, but even just that dissipation.

Was enough to make them unable to muster any thought of resistance, and even the Source Power within their bodies remained stagnant.

"What level of power is this..." someone's voice trembled.

Within a few short minutes, the major network forums and social platforms of the Federation completely exploded.

"Did you guys feel it just now? My heart suddenly tightened; I almost thought I was going to die!"

"I thought it was just me! I thought it was a sudden heart attack and was about to call an ambulance!"

"Too terrifying... It was like being stared at by some peerless Vicious Beast; all the hair on my body stood up."

"It's not an illusion! Everyone on our entire training ground froze; thirty-some Rhythm Realm Evolvers, and not a single one could move!"

"Could it be that an alien civilization is attacking? Didn't they say we needed to be vigilant about deep space threats before?"

Speculation, panic, and confusion; all kinds of opinions fermented rapidly.

As more and more people confirmed they had the same feeling, the "illusion" theory collapsed.

The fear of the unknown shrouded the hearts of countless people like dark clouds, the emergency alarms of the Federal emergency departments sounded instantly, and all security forces across the regions entered a standby state.

Just as the panic began to spread, the official Federal channel, all public screens in the cities, and the communication terminals of all users simultaneously popped up a top-priority emergency announcement.

[Federal Announcement: The energy fluctuation just now was caused by Speaker Chen Mo's Cultivation Breakthrough; there is no external threat. All citizens, please rest assured; do not panic.]

The announcement was very short, just one sentence.

But the moment they saw this sentence, the entire internet went quiet for a few seconds, and then it completely boiled over.

"Speaker?! So it was the Speaker who had a Breakthrough!"

"I said it! Who else besides the Speaker has such terrifying power! Scared me to death; I thought the end of the world had come again."

"My god, has the Speaker become even stronger? There wasn't such a big commotion when he broke through to the Constant Source Realm last time, right?"

"That sense of oppression just now... I still get weak in the knees thinking about it; just how strong has the Speaker become?"

"It's fine as long as it's fine; if it's the Speaker, then we are completely relieved."

The heavy stone hanging over everyone's hearts instantly fell. The panic vanished, replaced by a strong sense of relief and pride.

In the cultivation room, Chen Mo also slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.

He could clearly perceive just now how wide a range of commotion that dissipated pressure had caused.

If he hadn't retracted it in time, it might not have been just simple palpitations; a large number of ordinary people would have been injured internally by the pressure.

"I cannot continue to break through within the planet." Chen Mo thought to himself.

As his strength grew stronger and stronger, his life level had already opened up a chasm-like gap with ordinary humans.

Even an unconscious dissipation of power could be a catastrophe for Mortals.

Blue Star was the Foundation of humanity, the place he wanted to protect; it could not tolerate the slightest mistake.

He stood up and pushed open the door of the cultivation room. With one step, his figure turned into a stream of pale yellow light, rushing straight into the clouds.

Breaking through the atmosphere and entering the vacuum of the Universe, his field of vision suddenly opened up.