"Reconstruct the Sea of Consciousness?"
Shi Feng stared at the system notification, his eyes filling with astonishment and disbelief.
Reconstructing the Sea of Consciousness was not something unfamiliar to him — in fact, it was a concept so legendary that practically everyone in the know had heard of it.
And that was precisely why he found it so incredible.
The Sea of Consciousness was, in essence, a player's soul. For any fifth-tier Class player who wished to advance to the sixth-tier God Rank, there was one hurdle that had to be crossed without exception.
A qualitative transformation of the soul!
Advancing to the sixth-tier God Rank required not only a powerful physique but also a powerful soul. Only when both met the standard could one step into the God Rank.
Of the two, forging a powerful soul was by far the hardest, because the soul was ethereal and intangible. The only thing one could do was continuously raise one's mental strength level, and the soul would naturally grow stronger in turn.
But that process was agonizingly slow, because even when one's mental strength reached the peak of the fifth tier, the effect on the soul was still modest. Growing the soul to the point of a qualitative transformation required untold rounds of mental tempering before it could be achieved.
Of course, there was a faster path — pushing one's mental strength all the way to the sixth-tier God Rank!
At that terrifying level of mental strength, one could reshape one's own Sea of Consciousness through sheer force of will, a feat utterly beyond the reach of fifth-tier mental strength.
There was also a third method available in the Divine Realm: using an external object to shatter the existing Sea of Consciousness and reconstruct it from scratch. This method was similar to achieving sixth-tier God Rank mental strength, but far more violent and thorough.
That was because this reconstruction involved completely dismantling everything and rebuilding it from nothing, rather than the partial renovation a sixth-tier God Rank practitioner would perform to gradually grow their Sea of Consciousness.
Such an opportunity was something peak fifth-tier experts could only dream of — one that came purely by fortune and could never be sought deliberately.
Shi Feng had never imagined that before he had even advanced to a fifth-tier Class, he would be granted such an opportunity.
After sitting in silence for a brief moment, Shi Feng didn't hesitate for even a second and chose to accept the World Blessing to reconstruct his Sea of Consciousness.
System: The World Blessing will activate in thirty seconds. Please prepare yourself. The higher the completion rate, the better the reconstruction effect on the Sea of Consciousness.
"The higher the completion rate, the better?"
Shi Feng didn't dare treat this lightly. He took a deep breath and devoted just enough mental focus to stabilize the Broken Bridge, ceasing all construction on it. He intended to pour his full attention into the World Blessing.
The moment the thirty seconds elapsed, Shi Feng felt his soul being torn apart in an agony so absolute it was as if his very being was being shredded. If not for the tempering he had endured through the fourth-tier Strange Fire, this pain would have been utterly unbearable.
But after lasting roughly ten seconds, the pain vanished completely — so completely, in fact, that Shi Feng's mind went blank, leaving nothing behind but countless soul fragments scattered in every direction.
Then, before his eyes, magical elements began weaving themselves into magic arrays one after another. These arrays were staggeringly complex, and even a half-step Grandmaster of magic arrays like Shi Feng was left awestruck.
Just the Grandmaster-level arrays he could identify numbered over a dozen, while Master-level arrays numbered in the hundreds. Together, they formed a single colossal soul magic array.
System: The player has four hours of guided time. After four hours, the World Blessing will fully conclude. If the completion rate fails to reach 40%, the Sea of Consciousness cannot be reconstructed. The player will then suffer complete soul disintegration, resulting in a Soul Weakness state lasting twenty natural days.
"Twenty natural days?"
The existence of a penalty for failure didn't surprise Shi Feng in the slightest. After all, the Divine Realm had always been a place where opportunity and risk walked hand in hand. Twenty natural days was actually a remarkably lenient penalty.
If the peak fifth-tier experts of his previous life knew about this, every single one of them would be fighting tooth and nail for the chance.
Shi Feng cleared his mind of all other thoughts and began devoting his entire being to tracing the magic arrays within his Sea of Consciousness.
At that moment, Shi Feng couldn't tell if he was fortunate or cursed.
The fortunate part was that while receiving the World Blessing, he was situated in a special space filled with Eternal Energy — an environment that provided tremendous assistance in tracing the arrays. The unfortunate part was that his current mental state could no longer sustain control of his body, which meant he couldn't stabilize the Broken Bridge.
In other words, he didn't actually have the full four hours to complete this soul magic array...
But misfortune aside, the effect of the Eternal Energy made tracing Master-level arrays feel almost effortless. Even without studying each one carefully, the arrays looked as familiar as if he had studied them hundreds of times. His hand moved through the patterns in one fluid, unbroken motion.
Before long, the completion rate of the soul magic array began climbing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
1%... 3%... 7%...
In less than a single hour, Shi Feng had already completed 16% of the massive soul magic array. By his estimation, reaching 40% within four hours was entirely within reach — even accounting for the inevitable slowdown once he had to tackle the Grandmaster-level arrays, hitting 40% would not be difficult.
Another hour and a half passed, and Shi Feng's completion rate had reached 35%. The speed was so staggering that even he himself could hardly believe it.
The moment he finished tracing the first Grandmaster-level array, the soul magic array's completion rate shot up from 35% to 38% in a single leap.
"That much from just one?" Shi Feng glanced at the completion rate, genuinely startled.
Earlier, completing a single Master-level array had barely moved the needle by half a percentage point. Now, finishing just one Grandmaster-level array had boosted it by nearly 3% — and thanks to the Eternal Energy, tracing Grandmaster-level arrays was hardly slower than tracing Master-level ones.
"The Broken Bridge can hold for at most three hours without me stabilizing it, and I've only got about twenty minutes left. Looks like I'll have to try tracing one more Grandmaster-level array."