With personal growth and life experiences, Hui had become an incredibly calm person.
These days, he maintained a tranquil state of mind almost constantly, like a breeze passing gently through the clouds.
However, this time, he was excited.
It was because the gains from assimilating with the space were enormous. The abilities he now possessed after this assimilation were overwhelmingly powerful.
After the assimilation, Hui's sensitivity to space had drastically increased, elevating his spatial aptitude to its peak. But even saying his spatial aptitude was maxed out was not enough to describe the scope of his gains.
Because Hui had gained the ability to manipulate space!
Remember, this is the ability to manipulate space itself, and that distinction is key.
For example, Hui could now extend his hand and fold space, enabling him to retrieve objects from a distance.
Although his eyes had already allowed him to perform similar feats, this new ability was fundamentally different from the spatial skills granted by his eyes.
The eye-based skills functioned more like abilities in a game, when the conditions were met, all he needed to do was activate the skill, and the desired effect would occur automatically.
In contrast, the spatial manipulation ability he gained through assimilation was a skill he could consciously control in the real world.
It was like a complex program: the spatial abilities granted by his eyes were pre-written scripts. He didn't need to understand how the program worked; he simply provided input and got the output.
But the spatial manipulation ability after assimilation was like writing the program himself. He understood what inputs produced specific outputs and why.
To put it more simply, the difference was that the former allowed him to know what would happen, while the latter allowed him to know both what and why.
Now, space itself had become tangible in Hui's eyes. It had taken on a form he could see and touch.
For example, retrieving an object from afar. Using his ocular skills, he only needed to activate the ability, and the object would naturally appear before him.
But with his own spatial manipulation ability, Hui folded space with his own hands, bringing the distant object closer by altering the spatial distance until it appeared in front of him.
This ability could be described as transcending dimensions or even surpassing them.
Let me elaborate a bit more about transcending dimensions.
Imagine the world as a flat piece of paper, and all humans as two-dimensional beings living on this paper.
If you are at point A, and there is an apple at point B, ten meters away, a normal person would need to walk from point A to point B to retrieve the apple.
But with the ability to manipulate space, you could fold the paper at the midpoint between points A and B, bringing point B closer to point A until they overlap.
Once the two points overlap, the apple at point B would instantly appear at point A.
This is spatial folding!
To a normal person, this process is neither visible nor perceptible. For two-dimensional beings living on the paper, no matter how the paper is folded or twisted, it would still appear as a flat surface.
So, in their eyes, all they would see is you reaching out, and the distant apple would seemingly appear in your hand out of nowhere.
And this is not limited to retrieving objects from a distance. There's also instantaneous teleportation, spatial traversal.
For Hui, as long as the area is within his range of spatial folding, he can fold the space of that location and make it overlap with his own space, thereby reaching that place instantly.
Thus, Hui now possessed not only the ability to retrieve objects from afar but also the ability to teleport instantaneously.
And these were just the most basic abilities that came with spatial manipulation. As he gained deeper mastery of space manipulation, his repertoire of spatial abilities would undoubtedly grow.
Abilities like spatial cutting, spatial distortion, spatial solidification, and spatial transformation were all within reach.
This was Hui's first major gain from assimilating with space, the ability to manipulate space.
With this power, one could say Hui had, in a certain sense, ascended to true godhood.
Furthermore, gaining the ability to manipulate space meant that Hui could directly interact with space itself, allowing him to explore and understand the very essence of what space truly was.
This ability to harness spatial power and transform it into tangible, usable constructs for others would greatly aid Hui in creating spatial artifacts.
For instance, the spatial teleportation array, an idea that immediately struck him after his assimilation of spatial power. Hui realized that it wouldn't take long for him to complete this technique.
Moreover, beyond manipulating space, Hui now also had the ability to create space.
Don't forget that his Primordial Qi had the power to assimilate and transform anything. After assimilating spatial power, Hui could convert any assimilated energy into spatial energy.
This made him unimaginably powerful.
However, for now, he had no immediate intention of utilizing this power in any specific way.
"An unexpected harvest. Space Manipulation truly lives up to its reputation!"
Hui exhaled deeply, joy brimming in his heart.
But it wasn't over yet. After assimilating spatial power, the space-based abilities embedded in his Celestial Eye technique had also undergone significant enhancements.
Previously, his spatial abilities allowed him to instantly transport any object within his line of sight to his location.
Now, the time needed to lock onto a target had been drastically reduced, and the process was faster than ever.
At this point, as long as something was within Hui's field of vision, he could effortlessly retrieve it in an instant, provided it was within his ability to move.
While this might seem redundant, as he could achieve the same effect using spatial folding, there was an important difference.
Hui discovered that the range and ease of using his eye-based skill surpassed that of his own manually controlled spatial manipulation. It seemed that this skill inherently contained some advanced, profound technique.
This technique significantly boosted efficiency, much like shaping the same material into either a cube or a sphere. If you were to roll both on the ground, the sphere would undoubtedly travel farther.
"If I can fully understand this technique, my mastery over spatial manipulation will undoubtedly skyrocket."
Thankfully, what was once an incomprehensible mystery to him had now become visible and decipherable, opening up the opportunity for him to study and learn.
Hui couldn't help but smile as he muttered to himself.
This wasn't the only improvement, either. Apart from enhancing his spatial retrieval ability, his eyes had unlocked another spatial skill.
This new spatial ability seemed to relate to spatial traversal.
Of course, Hui already possessed spatial traversal through spatial folding. By folding space, he could instantly move from one point to another.
However, since this new ability was tied to his eyes, it was bound to function differently.
Testing it out, Hui's body disappeared from where he stood and reappeared hundreds of meters away in the blink of an eye.
This wasn't the full extent of the ability. Hui merely activated it lightly to observe its nuances and compare it to his own spatial folding technique.
It was clear that this skill also contained an exceptionally advanced technique, one so intricate and subtle that it made Hui's scalp tingle.
It was akin to a middle schooler suddenly being exposed to a world-renowned scholar's proof of an exceptionally complex problem, it was utterly incomprehensible.
"This technique… It's terrifying! It completely exceeds my understanding!"
Hui sucked in a sharp breath, utterly shaken by the profundity embedded in this skill.
However, instead of intimidating him, this realization only excited him further.
The more difficult the technique, the more powerful he would become once he mastered it.
"It's no wonder such a powerful skill has such a long cooldown time," Hui mused, feeling the cooldown period stretch out over several minutes before he could activate the ability again.
"But should I go all out and test this skill fully? See how far its range truly extends?"
Hui's curiosity was piqued, and he was incredibly tempted to push the skill to its limits right away.
Yet, after some consideration, he restrained himself.
If he used the skill at full power, he had no idea where he might end up. What if he teleported to a place so far away that it took him months to return? The villagers would be worried sick.
Still, Hui remained unaware that if he did unleash this skill at full strength, the distance he'd traverse would be far beyond anything he could imagine.
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