Illusions came one after another, and all had different lives in them.
Austin played different roles and experienced diverse lives in these illusions. Sometimes he was a
mortal, and at other times, he was a martial artist. He experienced becoming an evil demon, a Buddhist
monk, and even a powerful Taoist.
Although Austin knew that these were all mere fantasies, they seemed real to him when he
experienced these lives. It felt, during each time, like real life.
Sometimes, those days seemed so real that Austin almost lost his last grasp on the clarity of his mind.
It was like he was just a few steps away from losing himself to these false lives he was living.
'It feels so real!'
Austin couldn't help but sigh whenever these moments caught him unguarded.
If it weren't for his unyielding will, he might have lost himself in the illusions long ago.
At the same time, he found that each time he experienced a different illusion, his mind power level also
increased to a certain extent.
In this way, Austin's will grew stronger day by day until these illusions could no longer shake his mind.
The clarity in his mind and heart simultaneously grew more prominent as well, and the thick fog of
confusion that shrouded him daily became nothing but a light mist.
Before long, although the illusions continued attacking Austin one after another, their effect on him
dwindled to almost nothing.
He finally learned to stay steadfast against these illusions with ease, as he remained objective and
clinical in his mind as if he was an outsider.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
At that moment, Austin's body was emitting increasingly powerful mind power.
He resembled a volcano, swelling with destructive lava beneath a peaceful facade.
Boom!
In the next breath, a world of mind power came into being automatically and rushed out of Austin's
body, engulfing the space and time around him.
His solitary figure could be seen in this world of mind power.
Austin resembled an authoritative figure as he stood with his hands behind his back, and he threw a
fleeting glance toward the world of mind power, which was slowly bulging with a domineering aura.
It was at this instant that he suddenly realized something.
Austin felt like this world of mind power was at least a hundred times stronger than those he had
previously constructed.
And he knew that the level of his mind power had significantly improved.
"Well, well, well. It seems that he has already made a breakthrough in his mind power,"
Old Lady Meng muttered to herself.
She had abruptly appeared a short distance away from where Austin was, and she was now watching
him fondly with a pleased smile on her face.
"Mind power has always been one of the most challenging kinds of power to cultivate in all universes.
And only those who have a natural penchant for it can develop it.
I knew that he was strong, but I didn't expect him to be a genius in mind power too,"
she sighed quietly, sounding slightly pleased and astonished.
At present, Austin was yet to finish his cultivation of mind power.
In fact, his cultivation was still ongoing.
But he found that the illusions he was encountering now had become much more powerful than the
illusion he had experienced earlier.
'This must mean that the illusions I experience when I cultivate my mind power is possibly directly
correlated to the level of my mind power. Thus, the stronger I become, the stronger the illusions grow
as well!'
Austin thought to himself, pensively.
At this time, increasingly powerful illusions suddenly appeared out of nowhere and rushed towards
Austin one by one, like the trickling of water from a leaky faucet.
Each illusion represented a life.
Austin had experienced different lives, one after another ceaselessly.
Thus, he knew love, hatred, laughter, tears, joy, and bitterness. All these were as familiar as the back of
his hand.
The illusions attempted to overwhelm Austin with these experiences, hoping that he would get lost in
them.
But at the end of every illusion, Austin would swiftly regain the clarity of his mind, break away from
these illusions, and then enter the next illusion.
Time passed on as these steps repeated over and over again.
In a flash, Austin had experienced thousands of lives.
At present, he lived the life of a jaded man. He was tired of the mortal world and determined to become
a Buddhist monk. He had traveled to an ancient temple and was kneeling in front of an old monk at this
point.
"Master, I have seen enough of the mortal world, and I'm willing to cut off all my hair and spend the rest
of my life by the wooden fish. In this way, I will prove my belief in Buddhism,"
Austin said earnestly.
"My child, you are saying these not because you've seen through the mortal world, but because you
desire to escape from it.
If you have truly seen through the mortal world, Buddha would have been in your heart.
There is no need for you to become a monk to prove your belief.
After all, it's just a form.
As long as your mind is enlightened, you will become a Buddha."
The old monk disagreed with Austin, although he spoke kindly to belie the harshness of his words.
Meanwhile, the aged monk's words seemed to strike a chord in Austin's Soul Sea, and shook the
serenity of his spiritual soul.
In the blink of an eye, the world around Austin began to collapse and disintegrate.
"Wow! My mind power just soared sky-high once again!"
Austin murmured to himself, sounding awed and pleased.
Boom!
An exceedingly large amount of mind power rushed out of Austin's body like a tsunami.
Then, it gathered together until it formed a vast world made up of mind power.
And this world of mind power soon integrated into the real world completely.
No one could sense the existence of this world of mind power that Austin had created. It couldn't be
perceived with the naked eye, nor with the spiritual sense.
However, this world of mind power was also everywhere, for it was fused and scattered throughout the
real world.
At that moment, Austin could use his world of mind power to envelope his enemy in an instant, all
without the enemy noticing.
And since his world of mind power had wholly integrated with the real world,
his enemy wouldn't realize that a world of mind power surrounded him until Austin had launched an
attack and made himself known.
Furthermore, Austin found that the world of mind power that he constructed now covered an area that
was almost thousands of times larger than before.
That was how much he had improved.
Within this range, Austin's mind power could smoothly and quietly attack any target that he chose.
'Now, I can defeat governing gods at the sixth and the seventh stages with ease!
And even if I meet governing gods at the eighth stage, I would still have a chance to defeat them.
At this point, only governing gods at the ninth stage could pose a serious threat to me.
But then, now that I think about it, I don't really know how powerful a governing god at the ninth stage
is,'
Austin pondered thoughtfully.
He had never met a governing god at the ninth stage before,
so he didn't know how powerful the governing gods at the ninth stage could be.
But that was normal because, generally speaking, it was even rarer to meet a governing god at the
ninth stage than to meet a god of chaos.
That was because governing gods at the ninth stage would usually go to the most dangerous relics to
explore, and they were very keen on looking for opportunities to break through and become gods of
chaos.
The rest of them preferred to cultivate in seclusion for a long time, where they could focus and prepare
for a breakthrough.
Typically, the governing gods at the ninth stage undoubtedly spent most of their time and energy on
trying to break through.
For them, the only thing they cared about was to overcome the last obstacle in their way and become a
god of chaos. Everything else was mere background noise.
As for other worldly affairs, a governing god at the ninth stage could not care less about them at all.
"His mind power has experienced another transcendent leap!
In just a short period, he has already made such significant progress in mind power, and he has done it
repeatedly.
His talent is absolutely terrifying!"
When Old Lady Meng sensed the incredible mind power from Austin, she could not help but feel
astonished.
'Hmm... It seems that my world of mind power can still be improved. Perhaps, it can even be
expanded,'
Austin thought as he planned how he could better himself more.
Even though the world of mind power that he had constructed could perfectly integrate with the real
world, he still wasn't satisfied.
He needed to improve his mind power further.
Thus, Austin began to study how to perfect his world of mind power.
Boom!
At this point, Austin's world of mind power appeared once again, floating around him like a phantom.
'Maybe I should create more things in my world of mind power to help me practice, and in that way, I
could finally perfect it,'
Austin thought to himself, nodding.
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