Chapter 495 - 223: Return to Silence! SSS-Grade Potential
Chapter 495: Chapter 223: Return to Silence! SSS-Grade Potential
No light, no darkness, no matter, no time, no space.
In this ultimate silence, the meaning of all existence was utterly erased.
All concepts, both macroscopic and microscopic, lost their meaning.
The instant Lin Ye witnessed this vision of the universe’s end.
Inside the Dubhe Cube’s observation hall.
A sudden change occurred!
WHIR—
The massive main screen at the front of the hall, along with the hundreds, even thousands, of smaller screens suspended all around, flickered violently in unison!
On the screens, the lines of newly refreshed numbers representing the brilliant achievements of countless geniuses began to flicker wildly at a speed the naked eye couldn’t follow.
The numbers constantly changed, then dissolved into a garbled mess!
Finally, as if wiped away in an instant by an invisible hand,
all the numbers became a single digit—
0!
"What’s going on?!"
"All the data is gone! Did the system crash?"
The commotion had just begun when something even stranger happened.
The entire observation hall seemed to plunge into a bizarre, unpredictable phantom realm as all vibrant colors rapidly faded away.
Red, blue, gold... In the blink of an eye, the colors of every object and person bled into a monotonous black and white.
But that wasn’t all.
Soon, even the fundamental concepts of black and white began to blur.
The boundary between light and darkness shattered, throwing everyone’s visual perception into complete chaos!
"AH—!"
Unable to bear the bizarre transformation, one person subconsciously opened their mouth, trying to let out a terrified scream.
He could clearly feel his throat vibrating, his chest in Resonance, the air being forced from his lungs.
But he heard nothing.
It wasn’t just him.
In that moment, everyone in the hall had been utterly deprived of their voices.
The hum of the equipment, even their own breathing and heartbeats... every possible sound had vanished.
The world had fallen into absolute, dead silence.
Panic spread like a plague.
But soon, that panic was replaced by a deeper, more terrifying emotion.
A sense of nihilism welled up from the depths of everyone’s hearts without warning.
’Who am I?’
’Why am I here?’
’Does my existence have any meaning?’
’Joy, sorrow, anger... what meaning do these emotions hold?’
’In the end, everything is destined for oblivion anyway.’
The faces, once twisted in panic, gradually grew numb and tranquil.
The silent screams slowly died down.
Everyone fell quiet, staring ahead with hollow eyes like soulless puppets, completely denying the value of their own existence.
The three metal rings of the All-Seeing Instrument came to a complete stop.
Lin Ye withdrew from the vision.
On Lin Ye’s system panel, the new progress bar finally froze.
[Second Martial Arts Spirituality Awakening Progress: 1.57%]
He slowly opened his eyes.
And in the instant he did,
back in the observation hall,
it was as if someone had pressed a restore button.
The grayscale world was instantly refilled with brilliant color.
The stolen sounds rushed back into everyone’s ears like a tidal wave.
"Gasp... Gasp... Gasp..."
In the hall, most people were slumped in their chairs, drenched in cold sweat and gasping for air, their faces a mixture of dazed confusion and lingering fear from having survived the ordeal.
’What... just happened?’
They desperately tried to recall, to think, but found that the memory had been forcibly gouged from their minds, leaving only a blank space and that bone-deep sense of nihilism and fear.
They couldn’t remember a thing.
The only proof that something had indeed happened was the strings of numbers on the leaderboards, all of which had been completely zeroed out.
"The system is undergoing emergency repairs! Data restoration is in progress..."
The proctor’s announcement over the broadcast shattered the eerie silence.
In the main seats, both Zhu Mingyi and He Zhenghong wore incredibly grim expressions.
Only Yi Jiugao stared at Lin Ye’s figure on the main screen, an unprecedented shock swirling in his eyes!
"That... should have been a worldly phenomenon."
"It’s an anomaly caused by a spirituality, in the process of being stimulated, communing with the Ultimate Truth of heaven and earth!"
Zhu Mingyi nodded.
At their level of power, they hadn’t been greatly affected by the phenomenon.
But they had to admit, a worldly phenomenon of this magnitude was enough to show just how heaven-defying Lin Ye’s next Martial Arts Spirituality would be!
WHOOSH— Everyone’s gaze instantly focused on Lin Ye!
Or more precisely, on his test results, which were about to appear!
Just then, the system repairs were complete, and all the zeroed-out data returned to the leaderboards.
And Lin Ye’s final test result finally appeared before everyone’s eyes!
[Examinee: Lin Ye]
[Probability of Martial Arts Spirituality Awakening: Extremely High]
[Potential Rating: SSS]
SSS!
Not S+, not SS, but three S’s!
It was the highest possible rating in the All-Seeing Instrument’s system—one that existed in theory but had only appeared twice in the hundred-year history of martial arts!
Li Kai Nian sat in his seat, completely stunned.
He felt his mind go blank, his heart pounding so hard it felt like it would leap out of his throat!
An SSS-rank potential rating for Martial Arts Spirituality...
He could hardly imagine what that meant!
But he knew one thing.
The last person to possess an SSS-rank Martial Arts Spirituality...
...could now roam the myriad realms of the Celestial Abyss, capable of reducing the life in an entire realm to ash with a flick of their finger.