Evolving infinitely from ground zero

"Xiao Chen, why did it suddenly get dark, I can't see anything."

Shen Qinghan felt very uneasy, holding Lin Zichen tightly.

While staying alert to his surroundings, Lin Zichen spoke in a soothing tone:

"Don't panic, it's not a big problem, I can solve it."

"Mhm."

Shen Qinghan obediently responded with a sound and didn't make any more noise to disturb Lin Zichen.

At this moment, the delicate voice of the fox-eared girl came through the darkness:

"Oh, feeling confident, are we?"

"..."

Lin Zichen looked towards the source of the voice, but all he saw was endless darkness; he couldn't see anything.

The voice of the fox-eared girl rang out again: "You, my overconfident little bedslave, come, let's see how you're going to break through my illusion technique this time."

As her voice fell,

the pitch-black sky suddenly conjured a beautiful purple moon out of nowhere.

The purple light it emitted scattered much of the darkness.

Suddenly, the purple moon turned into an eye with pale purple pupils.

It held traces of allurement.

It was captivating.

Lin Zichen recognized that they were the eyes of the fox-eared girl.

He was extremely shocked in his heart.

The fox-eared girl's illusion technique was too strong, completely shattering his understanding of the use of spiritual power.

Before this, his understanding of the use of spiritual power had been very limited.

It was nothing more than moving objects through space, flying through the air, enhancing sensory perception, and so on.

If one was more advanced, they could perform a spiritual shock,

projecting their spiritual power to attack the target's spirit, causing the target to lose consciousness.

However, such as the fox-eared girl, who could conjure an illusion with a thought, making the target fall into it without distinguishing reality, he was seeing for the first time.

"Little bedslave, it's coming for you."

The voice of the fox-eared girl echoed hauntingly.

As the voice ended,

the eye in the high sky shone a strange purple light.

The next second, Lin Zichen's mind felt a jolt.

Heaven and earth seemed to invert.

The things within his field of vision were visibly distorting at a rapid pace.

Fishes grew wings and flew in the sky.

Birds grew gills and swam in the water.

Reptiles stood upright and remained motionless, like trees.

Plants uprooted themselves and started running wildly, devouring the motionless animals around them.

At the same time, a strange whispering sound gradually arose by his ears: "Red umbrellas, white handles..."

The sound kept echoing in the depths of his mind.

It made one's consciousness unclear, their awareness blurry, and their sensory perception weakened continuously.

It was like having consumed the hallucinogenic mushrooms of a region known for fresh air.

Fortunately, this state did not last long.

Under the blessing of [Advanced Spirit], it only took a few seconds to return to normal.

After he recovered,

Lin Zichen found that the darkness around him was no longer as dense as it had been at the beginning.

His view became much clearer.

He could see everything within a hundred meters.

Looking around, he saw Li Moyu and the others about tens of meters behind him.

At that moment, they were all trapped in the illusion and couldn't escape, their expressions extremely painful.

Lin Zichen glanced at the three of them and quickly withdrew his gaze.

He then turned his attention to Shen Qinghan, who was being held in his arms.

He found that Shen Qinghan was also in pain, but her condition seemed a little better.

Her eyebrows were slightly furrowed as if she was having a nightmare.

"Huh?"

The fox-eared girl walked out of the darkness, surprised, and said, "You can even withstand that? Are you sure your biological level is just Ordinary Ninth Rank?"

As she spoke, her delicate face filled with disbelief, she couldn't help but exclaim, "Earth, a place with such scarce evolutionary resources, could actually give birth to such an exceptional genius."

"If you were born in the Origin Land, having enjoyed the abundant evolutionary resources from a young age, it's hard to imagine how strong you would be now."

"Advanced Intermediate Rank? Advanced High Rank? Or even Rare Level?"

As she said this, her stunning face became tinged with excitement, her eyes filled with desire: "A genius of your caliber, it's a waste to stay on Earth."

"You should become my bedslave, exchange your vital essence for evolutionary resources, and evolve together."

"As my bedslave, although you would lose your freedom, correspondingly, you would gain a future beyond your imagination."

"Take this chance while I'm still willing to treat you with respect."

"..."

Lin Zichen did not respond. He remained on guard against the fox-eared girl in front of him while diverting some of his attention to the darkness around him.

He keenly noticed that the darkness was dissipating faster and faster.

Considering that the illusion technique that plunged the entire world into darkness seemed so extensive,

it must require a tremendous amount of spiritual power to sustain.

With that thought,

he surmised that the reason the fox-eared girl was willing to talk so much now, rather than continue her assault, was most likely not because she was patient.

Rather, her spiritual power was nearly exhausted, unable to support her continued use of the illusion technique.

With this realization,

Lin Zichen immediately acted upon the thought, using [Forest Lord], his Biometric Attributes, to effortlessly control several vines, silently approaching the fox-eared girl from behind.

The fox-eared girl, whether due to the excessive consumption of spiritual power or something else, seemed unaware of the vines that were stealthily creeping closer like venomous snakes.

Seeing Lin Zichen remain silent, her voice turned cold: "I have been utterly sincere with you, but you've repeatedly refused, my patience has its limits."

Lin Zichen said indifferently, "You can't even show your true self, is that your sincerity?"

The fox-eared girl laughed: "Little bedslave, is there a possibility that I am speaking to you in my true form right now?"

Lin Zichen: "Whether there is a possibility, that's something we'll have to test to find out."