"My darling, I'll take you to explore the world today!"
On stage, the man sang at the top of his lungs, almost screaming and roaring, exuding charisma.
He wasn't actually the soul of the original superstar; he was an emotion imprinted on the mind of countless viewers, which then manifested as a concrete image.
You sat in the audience, enjoying this audiovisual feast from over 200 years ago.
[During the performance, you saw some audience members scream and faint, and some even climaxed along with the music at its climax.]
After a concert ends, it doesn't stop, but rather begins a new cycle.
[Phantoms flickered in the audience seats; some returned to their original positions, while the afterimages of those who had fainted from excessive excitement also teleported back to their original locations.]
You exhale softly, rise from your seat in this spiritual realm, and a couple rises with you.
[The three of you are all outsiders in this projection of the spirit world; you are extraordinary individuals who have reached a certain level and can freely enter and exit the spirit world.]
The couple appeared to be around 20 years old and possessed the cultivation level of elites (second realm).
The woman was fine; she exclaimed with admiration, "No wonder she was once the world's greatest singer. I've even heard that some travelers from the celestial realms linger in our spirit world just to hear her perform once."
"His aura was too overwhelming. Even though he had never cultivated spiritual power, he was still as dazzling as the blazing sun. Like this 'afterimage' left here, many outstanding individuals (at the third realm) could not create it."
"...even if this was something he 'created' together with those viewers."
The man, however, was filled with fanaticism. The woman, caught off guard, failed to grab him and was propelled forward, heading straight for the phantom on the spirit realm stage.
The man was a die-hard fan of that superstar, a man who had finally broken through to the second realm of the Spirit Realm Walker. How could he not be excited to witness his idol, who had died hundreds of years ago, in person? How could he not lose control?
He wanted to rush onto the stage, hold hands with the singer's fading image for a photo, and express the surging emotions within him.
Just as he was about to rush onto the stage, he was suddenly repelled by a psionic barrier. The impact of the mental force nearly tore his soul apart, and he screamed in agony, clutching his head.
[The woman sighed helplessly: "Idiot... These spirit realm ruins must contain protective measures set up by extraordinary beings, or even greater beings."]
"Otherwise, if everyone who comes along rushes in like you, it will only damage these afterimages. How could they have remained unchanged for hundreds of years?"
[You did not leave the spirit world, but continue to walk in this second world.]
In reality, two different civilizations on a planet can be hundreds of light-years apart. However, due to the scarcity of life-bearing planets, they are the only two adjacent worlds in this region of space to harbor life.
Therefore, the spirit realms of these two planets are connected, and the distance between the two different lands is zero.
You merely traveled tens of thousands of miles across the spirit realm of this cyberpunk planet, and arrived at the spirit realm of another planet on the other side of the cosmos.
When you leave this new spirit realm, you will naturally appear on this new planet, which in reality spans 327 light-years.
[Once a transcendent being who is relatively well-adapted to the spirit world system reaches the second realm, they can freely enter and exit the spirit world. By traversing this special passage, they can easily cross hundreds of light-years, a speed that even some sixth-realm beings from outer space cannot achieve.]
Therefore, the extraordinary environment here has led to an exceptionally advanced ability for communication and connection among various planets and life forms, making the entire starry sky a single spiritual village.
This star field is 30 million light-years in diameter, but the spirit realms of all worlds and all living beings are pieced together from fragments, ultimately forming a "Greater Spirit Realm" only a few light-years in length and width.
[You travel through the spirit world, sometimes withdrawing, and arrive at different planets in the star field to visit some ancient cultural sites.]
Sometimes you don't even need to leave the spirit world, because reality might not be as exciting as it seems.
[Besides the battles between extraordinary beings and living beings from various realms in the spirit world, a large number of carefully selected magnificent scenes have also been preserved.]
You can't help but sigh, "The spirit world is extremely selective; everything that survives is a top-tier storyline, accumulated over hundreds or even thousands of years. How easy is it to encounter such a thing in reality?"
The establishment of a religious order 90,000 years ago.
[A sacrificial dance performed by a primitive tribe at the dawn of civilization.]
[The afterimage of a cataclysmic disaster from a bygone era.]
[Some spirit realms even present an illusory appearance, indicating that the planet corresponding to him in reality has suffered some kind of destruction.]
Perhaps it was a meteor shower that struck, or perhaps it was a war between nations that wiped out all life on the surface; in any case, that planet became a dead star.
The Death Star signifies the end of life and the cessation of spirituality; over time, the original spirit world will naturally dissipate.
Even if there are still surviving life forms on that planet, they are extremely rare, and the energy they provide cannot sustain the existence of the spirit realm.
[You have seen some immigrants using the spirit world to move extraordinary individuals to another planet for colonization and exploitation, but the efficiency is very low.]
Some compatible spiritual systems require the second realm to enter the spiritual realm, while those that are not compatible require the third realm or even higher.
[...]
Some projections were not protected in their early stages, and even if they were lifelike at the time, their imprint on the spirit world disappeared over time.
[Or it looks very blurry, like an old film with damaged film stock, thick mosaic, and various noises mixed in with the sound. The characters in the afterimage are dancing wildly, and distorted, grotesque images appear from time to time.]
Some projections were either covered up or deliberately removed.
For example, on "White Orchid Star," a great plague broke out a thousand years ago, covering an area of 30,000 square kilometers. In addition to the real-world areas becoming dead zones, its location in the spirit world was also transformed into a forbidden zone.
At that time, some second-realm transcendents dared to enter the real-world plague sites, but dared not enter their projections in the spirit world.
[Because in the spirit world, the despair of tens of millions of people has transformed into a "spiritual plague virus." Although it's merely a replica created based on reality, its killing effect on extraordinary beings is countless times stronger!]
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