At this moment, the sea of blood surged, completely submerging the Dharma Image that Zhang Chen visualized. Amidst the sea of blood, a figure clad in a gray robe slowly maneuvered a boat, drifting out from the sea of blood.
"It’s you!"
As soon as the figure appeared, Zhang Chen immediately recognized who it was.
"Kid, I didn’t expect we’d meet again. It’s really good to see you!" The eyes of the black-robed figure were full of teasing and coldness as they looked at Zhang Chen.
"I don’t think it’s good at all." Zhang Chen’s face turned gloomy, "How did you get into my Meditation Realm?"
"Your Meditation Realm? Hahaha, you’re simply an ignorant novice in cultivation. The Meditation Realm is an Endless Void, and what all beings call meditation is merely anchoring a coordinate in the Endless Void to build a courtyard or create an illusory world. Some people, with stronger cultivation, can move from one place to another, driving out or annihilating the original owner, and then replacing them. Do you understand now?" The black-robed man’s voice was full of arrogance.
Zhang Chen cursed silently upon hearing this. Is there really such a theory about the Meditation Realm? He had been focused on cultivating and had never heard of such a secret.
Now that he was immersed in the Blood Sea World, with the sea of blood constantly eroding his foundation, he feared the other party was aiming to invade and possess him?
However, he was not panicking at this moment because his Dharma Image was stable and showed no signs of breaking.
"Even if what you say is true about possession, the Meditation Void is infinitely vast. How did you lock onto me in the Endless Void? How did you find my trace?" Zhang Chen was puzzled.
"Don’t forget, at the Wangchuan River, one of your arms was already covered by my robe. At that time, my robe had already imprinted on your Essence, Qi, and Spirit. Even separated by space and time, across endless dimensions, you cannot escape my control." The black-robed man’s voice was full of arrogance as he pointed at Zhang Chen:
"Kid, look down at your own arm."
As the Dharma Image in Zhang Chen’s Meditation Realm heard this, he quickly looked down and saw that his Dharma Image’s arm had inexplicably sprouted half a sleeve. The sleeve was pitch black, exactly the same as the black-robed man’s cloak.
When Zhang Chen looked at the black-robed man again, he indeed saw that one of the man’s sleeves had disappeared without a trace, having somehow transferred onto him.
"How could this be? I clearly broke your Divine Techniques at that time!" Zhang Chen was shocked, his eyes wide, staring at the boundless sea of blood filled with horror. What should he do now? Even if he had some support and the other party couldn’t possess him, if the opponent created chaos in his Meditation Realm, preventing him from cultivating, it would be deadly.
Zhang Chen wanted to activate the Soul Hooking and Soul Stealing skill, but at this moment, the skill was still on cooldown, so how could he activate it?
Although the Soul Hooking chain didn’t successfully activate, it allowed him to detect a flaw.
"I understand now, you’re deceiving me!"
Just as Zhang Chen was about to activate the Soul Hooking and Soul Stealing chain skill, suddenly an inexplicable insight surged to his mind. What the other party said about the interconnectedness of the Meditation Void was not incorrect, and even being able to possess through the Meditation Void by driving away and replacing the original owner was also true.
The reason the other party could find this place was not that his arm was marked by the sleeve, but the issue was with the Soul Hooking chain.
While the other party couldn’t mark or sense Zhang Chen’s physical presence in the real world, they could sense Zhang Chen’s Meditation Realm via the Meditation Void.
It must be noted that Zhang Chen’s Soul Mark contained the essence of Zhang Chen’s soul. Whenever Zhang Chen entered meditation to cultivate, and mobilized the Power of the Soul, the ’Soul Hooking and Soul Stealing’ mark in his soul would also react.
It was like the concept of quantum entanglement in the real world, where a change in one particle would also change another connected particle.
When the state of Zhang Chen’s soul changed, the Soul Hooking and Soul Stealing mark on the other party’s soul essence would also change.
Amidst these causation fluctuations, the old guys’ Essence, Qi, and Spirit, having integrated with the Soul Hooking and Soul Stealing mark, effectively became part of Zhang Chen’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit. Thus, they were directly summoned.
To summarize, when Zhang Chen was cultivating in his Meditation Realm, the marks he implanted into others’ bodies would also change accordingly. And since the souls of those old guys were integrated into Zhang Chen’s Soul Mark, their souls would also respond, allowing them to be summoned.
"I didn’t expect the Soul Hooking and Soul Stealing would have such loopholes." Zhang Chen mused in his heart.
While he was dissatisfied with the loophole, he didn’t realize that those marked by his soul would be cursing—they couldn’t remove the mark, no matter what methods they used. Was there anything more incredible than that?
They were all old souls that had survived countless tribulations, with meticulous control over their souls. How could they not destroy a mark left by what they considered an ant?
"It’s all fake! This is just an illusion. You merely used the fluctuations in Essence, Qi, and Spirit to create illusions to interfere with me." Zhang Chen’s expression returned to calm, and his Dharma Image suddenly spoke the True Words: ’Om Mani Padme Hum.’ As the Six-Word Mantra was spoken, it was like thunder exploding in the darkness, causing the vast sea of blood to collapse, the black-robed figure to vanish, and the dark void to restore peace.