Chapter 665: Earth Vein Timeline Backtrack and Heart Sense Resonance
“Xiao Han… Are you okay? What did you see?” Bai Yu stepped forward with concern upon seeing my appearance, as she, being a subjective consciousness outside of the sense of subjective time, naturally didn’t understand what had happened.
She could only infer from what Xiao Han had just murmured to herself that this might be caused by the sense of time.
Moreover, she clearly heard keywords like “time reversal,” and even without a sense of time, she understood that time had not reversed, and body cultivation couldn’t possibly make time go backward, let alone Xiao Han.
So Bai Yu could only approach to stabilize Xiao Han…
“Bai… Sister Bai… I’m sorry, something unexpected happened here, and I might not be able to explain it clearly right now.”
At this moment, after calming down, I was gradually adapting to this experience. Knowledge Shadow informed me that this was a subconscious behavior resulting from my low control over my own abilities.
I was slowly experiencing and feeling it, attempting to master this sensation and ability.
“It’s okay, take your time, no need to hurry.” Hearing my clear speech and logical reasoning, Sister Bai felt somewhat relieved. She was worried about my earlier motionless state in the car.
“I’m currently using the Earth Vein Identification Technique from the Great Knowledge Tree, advancing through past events in chronological order, but the sense of time has trapped me in a time illusion, and what my subjective consciousness sees has been replaced by past phantoms…”
“The sense of time can do such things?!” Sister Bai was puzzled when she heard my brief account.
“The sense of time is not merely about manipulating subjective time… but a form of control, a control that represents the power of body cultivation… manipulating time perception is the most typical representation, but its derived abilities actually expand upon the concept of control…”
“Alright, let’s not try to explain those principles right now. After we go back, we can discuss it slowly. Xiao Han, try to adapt to this state quickly; if possible, it’s best to break free from it soon.” Sister Bai anxiously interrupted me.
She could hear that I wanted to share my feelings and experiences, which might provide her with some insight and enlightenment.
And that was indeed my intention. This was not only for Sister Bai but also for myself, as I was articulating these insights for my own comprehension and to help myself adapt to this ability.
Moreover, I had overlooked one thing: the awareness and understanding of this earth vein information came from the Great Knowledge Tree and Heart Sense, and it was Heart Sense that shaped this cognitive illusion of the “timeline.” The sense of time controlled and organized this illusionary timeline and pushed it forward.
I have to say, this was a marvelous experience. After briefly adapting to this backward-flowing time, I understood who these phantoms were at that moment.
They were my “parents” and my younger brother.
To my surprise, I could often see Yang Yunhan’s figure in this family!
I knew the school he attended was not far from home, but in such critical moments, they chose to commute!
I tried to slow the flow of time to understand their conversation, but it took a lot of time to manage that.
Additionally, while slowing down time, I also needed to play these illusions in real-time. This constant reverse control was quite taxing.
But thankfully, I succeeded.
“Hurry up and eat! With just this little for breakfast, how can you ensure you have the energy to study in the morning? Are you going to eat that junk food at the intersection again?” A familiar voice echoed as a figure quickly emerged from the kitchen.
“Mom, I didn’t…” A tired, half-asleep voice came from the phantom sitting at the table.
“Your dad is free today; he’ll take you to school. You’d better eat a bit more…”
“No! I can walk on my own! I got up early to walk myself! Why should my dad take me? Can’t I sleep a little longer?!”
“Sigh! You’re starting to talk back! Do you think you’ve grown up and can ignore my words? I’m only doing this for your own good! Are you also running errands for others in your class? Why do you want to do useless things and help others instead of studying? Do you want to grow up to deliver takeout?”
A series of statements came with increasing intensity, each sentence firing like a barrage that left no room for rebuttal.
“They give me delivery fees; do you?”
“Delivery fees… What are those worth? What’s the point of earning that shady money?!”
“What you give is barely enough!”
“You spend a little in the cafeteria each month; days like this, don’t you want to have fun every day?”
“Look at the time! The college entrance exam is approaching, and you’re not even anxious! You have to treat our kindness like dirt…”
“……”
I looked at these scenes, momentarily lost in thought, as the images began to blur.
Just from this conversation, I could infer their controlling attitude towards their child, and also… their stinginess.
Recollecting my time in boarding school, I had to find ways to earn money, even while living in school. I could go out in the morning to deliver meals for some extra cash or work part-time on weekends…
But to me, those things were insignificant now.
I could only lament that, after my departure, these two had indeed begun to project their unhappiness in life and work pressures onto Yang Yunhan.
What baffled me even more was… shouldn’t Yang Yunhan be their hope?
In the face of family expectations, why were they acting so irrationally?
Just a single act of stinginess should not explain so many questions.
I continued to push further into the scenes; at this moment, after gradually familiarizing myself with this ability, I could vaguely control it subjectively. In short, this ability was also a part of my own. I just lacked absolute control.
“Xiao Han, are you feeling any better?” At this moment, Sister Bai noticed I was no longer as flustered and uncertain as before, and she leaned in to ask.
“Hmm… I’m gradually becoming familiar with this power. I see the phantoms recorded in the earth veins from the past.” I looked up at the empty space beside me as I spoke.
At this moment, Sister Bai was obscured by my subjective illusions, but after I became familiar with the control, I could also perceive her objective position.
“Be careful, Xiao Han.”
“Mm, I understand.” I nodded, accepting the companionship from Sister Bai. This feeling was wonderful; I couldn’t see Sister Bai in my line of sight, but she was right beside me.
At this moment, I was also thinking about another matter.
That is… whether what I am hearing and seeing now is a form of real perception?
The answer is… yes.
A sensory experience potent enough to deceive perception, thus this perception can be shared.
As for the means of sharing?
The live broadcast platform built on the Great Knowledge Tree, along with the information interchange completed by the Great Knowledge Sharing Technique should suffice.
Sister Bai also has the Great Knowledge Seed. Even though I couldn’t fully share all my perceptions, simple sharing of visual and auditory perceptions would be enough.
Perhaps… Heart Sense, this power, seems to offer the potential for even more unknown perceptual resonance.
But regardless of anything, at least this way Sister Bai can share in my past or my former family.
“Sister Bai… may I ask you something? I’ve grasped a method… Would you be willing to witness my past with me?”
“I’m willing.” Without hesitation, Sister Bai nodded in agreement upon hearing my words.
“Then… hold my hand and accept this sharing permission.” I extended my hand, reaching in the direction of Sister Bai by instinct.
At that moment, a symbol of the Great Knowledge Sharing Technique appeared on my hand, forming a live visual-sharing scene designed for Sister Bai. This was a synchronization of live broadcast through visual sharing.
This technique was certainly not something I constructed within such a short time. It was due to those witch sisters who tirelessly built up the architecture and updated the applications for the Great Knowledge Tree platform…
“Alright.” Sister Bai also nodded, taking my hand. The sharing symbol with Sister Bai’s Knowledge Tree quickly established a sharing permission, and soon, familiar yet strange scenes appeared before her.
“Do you remember the Heart Sense resonance we talked about and tried? It allows us to perceive each other’s feelings more clearly.”
“Mm.”
Bai Yu nodded, looking at the somewhat dizzying scene, still relaxing her Heart Sense perception. When facing another person with a similar Heart Sense, without any defenses on either side, Heart Sense can reach a state of resonance. It is a marvelous state; even a simple “meeting of hearts” does not suffice to describe the intimacy between the two.
At that instant, in the moment of Heart Sense resonance, along with those images, Bai Yu completely immersed herself in the phantom named “past.”
And at that moment, I also saw Sister Bai’s figure walking from the future into the past, her form gradually solidifying until our gazes intertwined.
Indeed, the connection of Heart Sense resonance was far more terrifying than the sharing of the Great Knowledge Sharing Technique; this was a resonance above cognition, which also influenced the subjective consciousness of both parties to some extent.
“Is this the scene you saw, Xiao Han?” Sister Bai looked at the continuously forwarding images while actually retreating, astonished, even faintly feeling a hint of insight and understanding.
“Sister Bai, it’s okay. I’ll accompany you to experience this journey through time together.”
At this moment of Heart Sense resonance, I actually didn’t need to communicate verbally with Sister Bai anymore. I knew she felt something in that brief moment; it was a slight opportunity of the sense of time.
Thus, during this journey, I would slowly trace back my past while leading Sister Bai together towards new breakthroughs.
This was not something unspeakable; I always regarded Sister Bai as my true other half. When I welcomed her back to the Main World, I realized that Sister Bai hadn’t changed.
At least for me, she hadn’t changed. Differences in status, power, life levels, and cognitive gaps were not what separated me from Sister Bai.
Whatever I was capable of, I naturally wouldn’t hesitate to pull Sister Bai along, just as when Sister Bai learned about my awakening to the sixth sense, she wouldn’t hold back in passing this knowledge on to me.
I held Sister Bai’s hand, continuously tracing backward along the Earth Vein timeline, encountering the most intense fluctuations of the Earth Vein, and paused to observe…
The only regret was that we could only see the happenings inside this house.
With Sister Bai’s company and sense of security, I felt a renewed drive to continue moving forward.
We learned many things about what happened after I left, understanding why they believed in the Holy Light.
After I departed from this family, right up to that last phone call and the fragmented words, we realized that it was the people from the Holy Light Church who had sheltered them; otherwise, Yang Yunhan might have been dragged away by the Inferior Demon Academy at that time.
Even though Yang Yunhan wasn’t of age yet and hadn’t taken the entrance exam, he awakened Spirit Vision early on.
Although we didn’t know what had happened outside this home, looking at the end result, it was evident that the Holy Light Church, which wasn’t far from this home, intervened in this matter.
While I found the Holy Angels I encountered to be unreliable, the people from the Holy Light Church seemed willing to lend a hand.
Even though from an outsider’s perspective, it appeared they wanted to use this incident to promote the Holy Light Church’s protection and undermine the Inferior Demon Academy, the outcome was that they saved this family.
After all, the Inferior Demon Academy and the Holy Angel Academy indeed had conflicts; however, the current Inferior Demon Academy had already been integrated into the Abyss Demon Academy as a department.
“What a suffocating family…”
Along this journey, Sister Bai accompanied me, witnessing this twisted set of values firsthand. She remembered that this family used to treat their son, Yang Yunhan, quite well, at least back then, but now it had turned ugly…
Even though time had not progressed to when I was still there, she could still feel what little Xiao Han had to endure every day, being unappreciated.
“Indeed… it’s truly suffocating. A single phrase, ‘for your own good,’ satisfies their self-gratification while binding the child’s freedom and fulfilling their desire for absolute control over the child.”
“And they never said a single thing for your sake, did they?” At that moment, Sister Bai inquired, but the answer seemed to no longer matter.
Just then, the point in time revealed my figure; at that time, I was still a boy…
I pulled Sister Bai to open the door. In the study, a thin figure sat at the computer desk, and I ceased the backtrack, allowing the present time to flow forward.
Until a phone rang.
“Hello~ Is this Yang Yuelan?”
“This is the admissions office of the Witch Academy; today is the day for filling out applications…”
With that familiar voice coming through the phone, I understood that this moment was the most crucial turning point in my life.
I looked up at Sister Bai, as if indicating that this was the reason I was “led” to the Witch Academy.
I still remembered the incredulous look on Sister Bai’s face when I told her I applied to the Witch Academy… looking back now, it’s a nice memory.
Teacher Ji… she was the most important benefactor in my life.
And Sister Bai… she is the one willing to accompany me for the rest of my life, oh, now she should be a witch.
“Wait… someone’s coming back.”
At that moment, the perceptive Sister Bai sensed the movement. She was not the main initiator of the Earth Vein backtrack, so she could more easily sense the stirrings of objective reality.
“What?”
“It’s nothing… they won’t find us.” Sister Bai tightened her grip on my hand, seemingly trying to soothe the panic I felt at that moment.
Because I knew who was returning at this time.
“Thank you…”
“It’s nothing; I will always be by your side.”
