Chapter 2 Space Tunnel (I)

  As Ye Qing was constantly eroded by the spatial energy, Ye Qing slowly calmed down, closed his eyes and introspected his body. He found that the energy produced by the Evolution Technique was being constantly worn away by the spatial energy. In the process of resisting the spatial energy, a thread of green energy appeared in Ye Qing's body, but he didn't notice it.

  Ye Qing's body slowly collapsed under the relentless barrage of spatial energy, his skin drifting away like ash, followed by chunks of muscle falling off, and then being annihilated by the endless spatial energy. Next were his internal organs and skeleton, which also failed to escape the fate of becoming ash. In the end, only a small amount of green energy remained, enveloping a white gaseous substance - Ye Qing's soul.

  Ye Qing's soul condition didn't look good, every time the green energy and spatial energy collided, Ye Qing's soul would violently shake, and some white gas would fly out from Ye Qing's soul and disappear, those were Ye Qing's soul fragments.

  But just after his body completely collapsed, Ye Qing found that he could see everything around him again.

  At this time, Ye Qing only noticed everything around him. He was now in a huge circular passage. The wall of the passage was chaotic and unclear, making it impossible to see what was behind it. There were only sparks of light flashing by in the chaos, which quickly disappeared. The walls of the passage and the inside of the passage were densely packed with spatial energy. Those things that had been sucked into the passage with him had all disappeared.

  When Ye Qing noticed himself, he was immediately stunned by his own situation. He was now wrapped in a green shield like a gas, and it was constantly dissipating. Ye Qing guessed that he might be in a spiritual state now, and from the constant collision between his spirit and spatial energy, he saw that the white spatial energy was constantly eroding his spirit. Every time the spatial energy collided with the green energy, Ye Qing found that a thread of spatial energy seeped into the green shield to erode his spirit, and the green energy was constantly decreasing. Although it was very slow, there would eventually be a time when it would be exhausted. Ye Qing realized that he had to think of a way to stop this situation, otherwise, he would disappear from the world.

  Ye Qing's white soul was being constantly eroded by the spatial energy, slowly fading away. Ye Qing saw no other way out and in this moment of life and death, he steeled himself to absorb a thread of spatial energy. Pain... pain... pain... countless needles kept pricking him, making Ye Qing feel like one second lasted an eternity. As time passed, the pain gradually weakened, and finally Ye Qing endured it. However, his soul had become even fainter. But Ye Qing didn't give up, continuing to absorb spatial energy. Slowly but surely, he felt the harm caused by the spatial energy decreasing. When his soul was on the verge of disappearing, the spatial energy could no longer harm him. His soul had become much more resilient than before, and his willpower had greatly increased through the constant tempering of the spatial energy. Ye Qing slowly absorbed the spatial energy, his soul growing stronger and stronger, and he became immersed in the pleasure of his soul's continuous growth.

  It was unknown how long it had been, possibly hundreds of years or even thousands of years. Ye Qing's soul had become much stronger than when he first entered the passage and had also solidified a lot. Its size was now tens of thousands of times larger than when Ye Qing first entered the passage, and it was still growing slowly but continuously.

  In this long period of time, Ye Qing learned the soul perception, which made him discover a shocking thing. The passage he was in was actually the space channel speculated by scientists on Earth. The flashing lights that kept appearing on the wall of the passage were actually the light produced by the energy released when the bit spaces were destroyed. And the chaotic wall of the passage was not like an imaginary wall, but like a void, where one space after another was like a colorful bead floating densely around a huge bead, reflecting the entire void with a colorful splendor.

  Ye Qing had once thought of putting a small part of his soul into a space with life fluctuations. If he succeeded, it would mean that as long as Ye Qing could find the space where Earth was located, he would be able to return. However, when that small part of his soul entered the tunnel wall, Ye Qing discovered that this void was not as simple as he had thought.

  That endless void appears calm, but in reality is fraught with crises. From time to time, violent distortions of space-time sweep through, destroying everything they touch, including Ye Qing's resilient soul. Around the spheres representing space, black hole-like spatial whirlpools frequently appear. Unlike black holes, these whirlpools not only have terrifying gravitational pull but also a dark energy that mercilessly pulls in anything that approaches, then converts it into nothingness. On the surface of each sphere, there is a hard spatial barrier that blocks external objects from entering the interior of the sphere, causing varying degrees of damage to space.

  Ye Qing's small portion of soul that had fallen into the void soon encountered a spatial turbulence. Although he didn't know what the dark energy was, the intense tremors from his soul made him choose to retreat. However, in the end, he accidentally got grazed by the edge of the spatial turbulence, causing nearly 60% of Ye Qing's soul to disappear. The remaining 40% of his soul was then sucked away by a sudden spatial whirlpool that appeared beside him, taking away nearly 30%. The remaining 10% of his soul finally reached the nearest spatial sphere after going through immense hardships, but he couldn't enter it no matter what. In desperation, Ye Qing could only recall this small portion of his soul and think of other ways to leave.

  After an unknown period of time, Ye Qing finally knew what the dark energy was. The dark energy was the legendary destructive power. From then on, Ye Qing did not dare to touch it again. He could only wait until he became stronger before trying again.