Use first and repay later: Advance the future cultivation fruits

At the same time, the gravity of this sky island was tens of thousands of times higher, making flying extremely difficult.

Lin Qing took a deep breath and immediately landed on the ground, quickly walking towards the crystal statue in the center.

After a dozen minutes, he finally arrived in front of the crystal statue in the center.

Although it was somewhat torturous, it wasn't too difficult.

This was quite normal. With his basic consciousness strength as an Original Life form and his exceptional willpower, if he couldn't even pass this test, it would be hard to find a second person among the explorers who could.

"We meet again."

As Lin Qing approached the crystal statue, a figure floated out from within it. It was the black-haired man he had seen on Sky Island 01399.

"It's you again?" Lin Qing was astonished, "Are all the guardians of the sky islands you?"

"Who else would it be?" The black-haired man laughed.

"Alright then."

Lin Qing said, "It seems you'll be seeing a lot of me today."

"Well then, here is the legacy of the Holy Text 'Source Soul', for you."

The black-haired man pointed a finger, and a dot of light instantly entered Lin Qing's heart, transforming into a large amount of memories and a strange illusory power.

Lin Qing silently closed his eyes to accept the Holy Text's legacy, and only opened them after a while.

Source Soul.

It uses one's own life as the source to protect one's soul. Once subjected to a spiritual or soul attack, this Holy Text 'Source Soul' will act as a link between life and soul, using life force to resist spiritual attacks.

No matter how strong the enemy's spiritual attacks are, they will first deplete his life force before harming his soul.

By engraving this set of Holy Texts, he could safely escape when facing powerful soul opponents.

And only the main body needs to be engraved. Even if an avatar is controlled by the soul, he can collapse the soul directly through the Gate of Eternity and create a new one.

The key is to leave enough room for error for the main body.

Most importantly—

The Holy Text only consumes extremely significant energy during engraving, but once successfully engraved, it's like a permanent state buff and no longer requires activation.

It's effectively a passive or buff effect.

"The Source Soul protects the soul from erosion and attacks, and is also needed to defend against spiritual illusions..."

Lin Qing thought to himself, "Just in time, the Mirror of Suffering is used to resist illusions... I'll need to see specifically..."

The information Jiayi gave him only provided a brief introduction, the specific details were still unclear.

...

After leaving Sky Island 02477, Lin Qing flew directly towards Sky Island 21775 without any hesitation.

This sky island housed the Holy Text 'Mirror of Suffering'.

Similar to the test for 'Source Soul', both required walking under high-gravity environments, mainly testing one's spiritual will.

However, this sky island focused more on the endurance of pain.

Many people with strong willpower might not be good at enduring pain, so it's very normal to fail under torture.

This test on Sky Island 21775 sealed Lin Qing's mysterious energy within his body, preventing the use of any divine abilities or combat skills, relying only on the basic physical body to walk barefoot on a ground full of spikes under ten times the gravity.

These spikes seemed to have some special illusion poison that penetrated the soul!

Fortunately, this body and soul were reflections created by the Second Cosmic Network, so even if the soul collapsed, it wouldn't affect reality.

However, this illusion poison didn't cause great harm to the soul, mainly igniting soul pain.

Additionally, with each step he took, more poison accumulated within his soul.

Theoretically, if enough illusion poison accumulated, the soul would also collapse.

"So far away..."

Lin Qing numbly looked at the black statue more than twenty kilometers away, taking each painful step on the spiky ground.

"I can endure... I can endure..."

"Damn... it's getting more painful..."

It's not just about pain tolerance, but also matching the soul's strength.

His soul had endured storms in his previous life, proving his innate soul advantage.

So the key here was pain endurance.

After all, in the Second Cosmic Network, even if the soul collapsed, it had no real effects, and the illusion poison only targeted souls in the Second Cosmic Network.

Under ten times the gravity, the more than twenty kilometers road with no abilities, relying only on the basic physical body, Lin Qing took three to four hours to walk to the black statue.

He was already numb with pain, relying solely on his will to proceed.

"Your soul is quite strong, its resistance to soul poisons is so high? No wonder you don't seem too pained."

The black-haired man floated out from the black statue, smiling at Lin Qing, "It seems your soul is even stronger than those called the Intelligent Star People."

"Intelligent Star People?" Lin Qing's heart moved.

He remembered Chen Guang had said that Intelligent Star People were naturally strong in the soul.

Moreover, the homeland of Intelligent Star People also had that special 'storm' from the apocalypse period of his previous life, and those with strong souls from Intelligent Star People could survive such storms.

The cause of Earth's apocalypse was this special storm.

According to Chen Guang, Dr. Chu Hui had found that there was a spaceship of Intelligent Star People style on Earth, having arrived about a century ago.

Furthermore, the special storm seemed to be a modified high-energy field, which naturally existed on the homeland of the Intelligent Star People.

"Senior, I'd like to ask a question."

Lin Qing couldn't help but ask, "About a hundred years ago on Earth, there was a special storm, suspected to be a high-energy field. Only those with strong souls survived. Twenty years after the storm ravaged Earth, high-energy evolutionary radiation appeared everywhere. Do you know what happened?"