Chapter 3: Spatial Tunnel (II)

  After several thousand years, Ye Qing discovered that his soul had stopped growing. Now, even he couldn't say exactly how big his soul was. He only knew that if the volume of his soul when he first entered the Time-Space Tunnel was 1, then now it was at least around 10 million, and this was just an estimate. It could be seen that Ye Qing's soul had become incredibly massive. From the color of his soul, Ye Qing's soul now presented a pale blue color. Ye Qing knew that his soul had already reached its limit, if he wanted to further enhance it, then he must find other methods.

  For a long time recently, Ye Qing has been recalling his past events due to loneliness, from childhood to adulthood, and even some forgotten things have been recalled again because of the growth of Ye Qing's soul. Ye Qing constantly recalls and thinks, many things that were previously incomprehensible or unclear have become clear after repeated thinking. The martial arts knowledge he saw in the library has also been fully understood by Ye Qing through repeated thinking. Now, if only considering martial arts theory, Ye Qing can absolutely become a master-level existence on Earth. Moreover, during Ye Qing's continuous derivation, the evolution key has been continuously improved, and it was only stopped when it could no longer be derived. However, Ye Qing knows that the evolution key can still be further improved, but his own ability is insufficient for now, so he can only wait until he becomes stronger to continue.

  In constant contemplation, Ye Qing made a systematic summary of his 20 years on Earth and discovered two deep-seated regrets. The first regret was that he had not properly taken care of his parents and younger siblings. However, what Ye Qing did not know was that after he disappeared for half a year, his parents reported him missing to the police. After investigating, the police found that Ye Qing had vanished on Mount Hua. When they informed Ye Qing's parents of the situation, his family gave up hope of him being alive.

  While sorting through Ye Qing's belongings, his parents stumbled upon his human body research notes and a book titled "Evolutionary Key". Upon seeing these, they were shocked. Ultimately, the entire family decided to send Ye Qing's research notes and Evolutionary Key to the government. When the government learned of this, they immediately dispatched special forces to protect Ye Qing's family and secretly took his research for further study.

  Fifteen years later, the government publicly released Ye Qing's research notes and a simplified version of the Evolutionary Key, preparing the entire nation to cultivate it. When Ye Qing's notes were made public, the world was shocked, hailing him as the "Father of Human Evolution". The country of Huaxia also became the world's number one superpower.

  At that time, Ye Qing's younger brother had cultivated the Evolution Technique to the fifth layer and became the second-ranked in the Tianbang of Huaxia. Ye Qing's sister had reached the fourth layer peak and was ranked sixth in the Tianbang. Finally, the Ye family also became one of the top ten aristocratic families in Huaxia under their siblings' efforts.

  That's no longer something Ye Qing knows about.

  As for Ye Qing's second regret, it was because he was too obsessed with human body research, until he was sucked into the time-space channel, he was already 24 years old, but he had never been in love, not even a first love, and hadn't even given his first kiss. So Ye Qing made up his mind secretly, "If I were given another chance to start over, if I had brothers and sisters at that time, I would definitely be close to them, care for them, and wouldn't let them get hurt in the slightest. Of course, I also want to find a good wife, she doesn't have to be very beautiful, doesn't have to be very talented, or outstanding, as long as she truly loves me, and I truly love her, if she is willing to give up everything for me, even her life, I will definitely protect her, care for her, no matter the storm or rain, no matter the disaster or calamity, I will always be by her side, shielding her from anything that could harm her, even if it means giving up my own life."

  Long periods of contemplation led Ye Qing to repeatedly reflect on his life, which was only over twenty years old. However, for some reason, he felt that his memory and thinking ability had been getting worse recently, often becoming muddled. At first, Ye Qing didn't pay much attention to it, but as time went on, the situation became more severe, with this muddled state lasting several times longer than his clear-headed moments. It wasn't until then that Ye Qing realized the severity of the issue and began to pay attention to it. He felt that something might be wrong with his soul, so he started carefully observing it, wanting to see what had happened to it. As a result, through continuous observation, Ye Qing discovered a chilling fact: his soul was being assimilated by the destructive power mixed in the spatial energy of the space tunnel.

  At this moment, Ye Qing felt a deep sense of fear, and at the same time, he also felt boundless gratitude. This was because he had discovered the matter in time, before it had developed to an uncontrollable extent. However, Ye Qing also found that his own situation was equally grim.

  Ye Qing found that his soul was assimilating with the dark destructive power at an increasingly rapid rate, and if he couldn't find a solution within this period of time, his spirit would scatter and disappear.

  For a period of time, Ye Qing was constantly paying attention to his soul condition while thinking about various feasible methods, but in the end, he couldn't think of any good method. However, Ye Qing's soul had already been eroded by nearly 40%, and this number was increasing every moment.

  This situation made Ye Qing feel extremely painful, but under the pressure of his soul flying and dispersing, Ye Qing could only continue to rummage through every memory in his mind, from martial arts to science. Finally, when his soul was invaded by purple lightning for nearly 80%, Ye Qing finally thought of a method he considered feasible, a method that required a huge cost.

  Ye Qing thought of a method, which was to use ultra-strong energy, go through high-intensity compression, and concentrate all the compressed energy at one point. Then, simultaneously trigger an explosion of these energies that have been compressed to the extreme point. The tearing force produced by the explosion of these energies at one point would tear open a spatial rift at this point, allowing him to escape from this space tunnel filled with crises everywhere.

  The principle of this method already existed on Earth before Ye Qing was sucked into the space-time tunnel. At that time, there were scientists on Earth who speculated that as long as they had enough energy, people could tear open space, but unfortunately, the technological level of human civilization at that time was still far from being able to condense such a powerful energy.

  It was this principle that inspired Ye Qing, although Ye Qing knew that it was just a guess of those scientists, but Ye Qing felt that the principle should be correct, and at this time Ye Qing had no other way to go, so Ye Qing decided to bet on this method being feasible.

  It can be said that the key to this method lies in where Ye Qing will get such a strong energy. After careful consideration, Ye Qing made a ruthless decision to use part of his own soul as the energy that would be detonated, and at the same time, there was another benefit to doing so, which was that he could take the opportunity to thoroughly clear out those souls that had been eroded by the destructive energy. However, if the loss of soul is too great, it will inevitably damage his own consciousness and memory, among other aspects (here, the soul is set to include consciousness, memory, and other aspects).

  As for how to avoid such a thing from happening, Ye Qing only thought of one method, which was to transfer all his consciousness and memories, everything, into his still intact soul.

  Ye Qing had analyzed everything multiple times and was certain that there were no obvious loopholes, so she began to act according to plan.

  He first transferred all his consciousness and memories to his intact soul, placing them in the deepest part of his intact soul. Then, Ye Qing separated the souls that had been eroded by destructive energy and began to compress them continuously. As Ye Qing compressed these eroded souls, he found that their color gradually changed from light gray to dark gray. Finally, when the compression was complete, a black glow even appeared at the center of this part of the soul.

  During this time, Ye Qing suddenly figured out a problem that had been troubling him for a long time through the changes in the colors of these souls. When the volume of the soul expanded to its limit, he could continue to enhance his own soul by compressing the soul.

  When these souls were compressed to the limit, the original soul of the size of a thousand meters was compressed to the size of a basketball. On the surface of this sphere, there were intense energy fluctuations everywhere, and even on the surface of the sphere, there would be occasional faint spatial distortions, which showed that the compressed soul energy ball had terrifying energy. Ye Qing felt both fear and excitement at the same time, because the stronger the energy contained in the soul ball, the easier it was to tear open space when it exploded. At the same time, Ye Qing continued to compress his own uninvaded soul, which originally had a light cyan color, slowly turned into blue, and finally appeared with deep blue spots when compressed to one meter. However, when Ye Qing's soul was compressed to one meter, he could no longer compress it. When Ye Qing's soul was compressed to one meter, he had the ability to compress again, and the original basketball-sized soul was now reduced to the size of an egg. On the surface of this egg, spatial cracks flashed constantly.