Ye Fan's spirits immediately lifted!
There was a way!
But when he looked closer, he found that the stone was silent again.
He firmly believed that the stone had indeed moved just now, and it wasn't his hallucination!
Ye Fan quickly probed his mental energy into the stone again, increasing the output.
This time, the effect was immediately obvious!
The stone actually detached from Ye Fan's finger and floated in mid-air.
And as the mental energy injected increased, the stone itself began to emit white light!
A quarter of an hour passed.
Half an hour passed.
An hour passed.
...
Ye Fan started to panic a little.
Because by now, it wasn't him injecting mental energy into the stone anymore.
Instead, the stone itself was madly draining his mental energy!
Completely out of his control!
And the rate of consumption was extremely fast!
At this rate, he would be drained dry before long!
At the same time, a familiar sensation returned.
Ye Fan's body stiffened, and he lay straight on the bed.
"Plop."
Cold and hard...
Having his mental energy forcibly drained was an extremely painful experience.
As time went by, Ye Fan felt as if countless needles were being poked into his brain!
And those needles were not still after piercing in, but were stirring erratically!
Ye Fan felt like his brain was about to explode at any moment!
He didn't know how long it had been.
The pain finally subsided, and his brain grew increasingly heavy.
Ye Fan knew this was a sign that his mental energy was about to be drained.
Being drained of mental energy was different from continuous lack of sleep.
Continuous lack of sleep would at most lead to mental fatigue, which could be recovered with rest afterwards.
But being drained of mental energy was not that simple!
Because it could potentially be permanent!
In a previous life, he had encountered a similar situation.
In order to deal with a terrifying enemy, Ye Fan was forced to frantically extract his mental energy.
Although he survived, his mental energy was almost depleted.
He then tragically lost all his cultivation and became a complete imbecile.
Later, he was killed by an enemy who found him...
Although he had no enemies in this life, he didn't want to become an imbecile again.
If that happened, he'd rather be dead!
Unfortunately, he was completely powerless to stop it from happening...
Ye Fan's consciousness grew more and more blurry, more and more blurry...
Finally, it completely disappeared...
And as Ye Fan fell unconscious, the stone finally quieted down.
After swaying in the air a few times, it plunged into Ye Fan's brow!
Within Ye Fan's mental sea.
The area that Ye Fan could previously control was now completely dry and devoid of mental energy!
And as this mental energy disappeared, a fine crack appeared on the seal of the mental sea!
The energy fluctuations at the crack were extremely violent, as if something was about to emerge!
The stone swayed a few times and finally stopped next to the small stone.
Upon approaching, the two stones seemed to generate some kind of resonance.
They actually began to vibrate violently at the same time!
As they vibrated, they moved towards a certain spot!
At the same time, the cracks on the seal began to expand!
Vast mental energy surged out madly!
In just a moment, it filled the previously dry area!
It was even ten percent more than before!
As the surging mental energy increased, the cracks also grew larger.
It seemed that if this continued, the seal would shatter completely!
Suddenly!
After the two stones touched, they actually fused together!
In less than a blink of an eye, they had completely merged!
The newly fused stone looked no different from before, only its size was smaller.
If it was originally the size of an egg, it was now only the size of a quail egg.
And as the fusion of the stones was completed, the cracks on the seal began to self-repair!
In just an instant, it was as good as new!
Ye Fan's mental sea returned to calm.
It was as if nothing had happened.
...
He didn't know how long it had been.
Ye Fan's consciousness gradually returned.
Upon waking, he found himself not in his room.
But he had returned to the world inside the stone he had seen before!
At this moment, he was sitting in an altar, surrounded by the familiar barrier.
Floating above were the runes he couldn't understand at all.
Outside the barrier were the colorful flowers and grasses he had seen before.
Those flowers and grasses touched each other, and then merged into one.
With his previous experience, Ye Fan was not panicked at all this time.
Ye Fan began to study the entire altar.
The altar was entirely condensed from an unknown white mist, not belonging to any material category.
But after circling several times, he still found no trace of any formation.
And the attribute-less energy that the stone had emitted could not be felt here at all!
Even though he was a versatile talent, he was a bit bewildered now...
This...
How to get out?
Last time, it seemed that he touched the white mist before he got out...
Thinking of this, Ye Fan reached out his hand to the white mist again.
But this time, after touching it, the white mist did not surge towards him as before.
Instead, the ground around him began to vibrate violently!
"Rumble—!"
Ye Fan looked towards the source of the sound.
Not far away.
A staircase rose from the ground!
The stairs soared into the clouds, and it was impossible to see where they led.
And with the appearance of these stairs, the barrier and runes around the altar disappeared!
Ye Fan rejoiced in his heart and ran towards the stairs.
After running for a while, Ye Fan realized something was wrong.
The stairs looked close, but no matter how he ran, the distance seemed to be shrinking...
Thinking of this, Ye Fan took out his flying device.
Full power ahead, he sped towards the front!
A few minutes later, Ye Fan stopped again.
At the speed of the flying device, he should have flown thousands of miles by now.
But the distance between him and the stairs seemed to have not changed at all.
Ye Fan vaguely knew that continuing further would be meaningless.
If he wanted to leave here, he had to find a breakthrough from the altar!
Thinking of this, Ye Fan turned around.
Then he was stunned!
Logically, after all this commotion, the altar should have been too far to see.
But he was horrified to find that the altar was only a few meters behind him!
So all his efforts before were in vain???
Ye Fan maintained his posture facing the altar and backed away.
He could be sure that he was constantly moving backward.
But the distance between him and the altar did not change at all, as if he was walking in place!
Ye Fan sighed helplessly and walked back towards the altar.
"Damn it, this is really strange..."
Ye Fan muttered and sat down on the ground.
The barrier was gone.
But he seemed unable to leave.
The white mist of the altar had no effect either.
Was he going to be trapped here for a lifetime?
Suddenly!
A low whisper sounded in Ye Fan's mind!