Cave Refuge

As he was about to approach the city wall, Dong Tianyu realized that he had not followed the main road but had been advancing casually along a small path.

Under normal circumstances, unless necessary, Dong Tianyu would not expand his Divine Sense to its maximum coverage.

The reason is quite simple: if Divine Sense is expanded to its maximum coverage, the details of every blade of grass and tree, and every action of each person, would transmit into Dong Tianyu's Sea of Consciousness.

Although the vast majority of these matters are irrelevant to Dong Tianyu and are trifling issues not worth mentioning, it's like Superman initially obtaining superhuman hearing.

After gaining this ability, it is not something you can ignore if you wish to; most importantly, the images transmitted through Spiritual Sense Scanning directly enter Dong Tianyu's mind.

Even as his power and spiritual strength have grown stronger, it's like Superman first acquiring superhuman hearing; despite being powerful, he cannot resist the incessant trivial matters flooding his mind.

Although prolonged training gradually allowed mastering the art of filtering out distractions, even selective screening can consume a considerable amount of mental focus. Hence, usually, unless there is an emergency, Dong Tianyu, for safety reasons, only allows his Divine Sense to cover an area of about twenty to thirty meters around him.

Only at this time, when the base is already deserted, does Dong Tianyu expand his Divine Sense to its maximum to see exactly where he is now.

Dong Tianyu originally expanded his Divine Sense just to confirm his position, as whether to go towards the city gate at this time was no longer important.

After all, Dong Tianyu believed that the members of the Patrol Team responsible for defending the city would surely close the city gates before evacuating, so even now, if he wanted to leave the city, he would still need to scale the city wall.

Since he has to scale the wall anyway, why would Dong Tianyu go to the wall at this time? He might as well climb over it directly from here.

However, just as Dong Tianyu expanded his Divine Sense to determine his location, he found several signs of human activity within the range of his Divine Sense coverage.

Just as Dong Tianyu previously thought, in the face of a Natural Disaster, although being outdoors might be dangerous, there's an old saying that danger and opportunity coexist.

Just like the wildfire at the Eagle Sauce Family's estate before the Natural Disaster, although the residents of the wealthy district had already evacuated, they still left many valuable items at home.

Setting aside whether the destruction of those items by the wildfire is considered wasteful and not discussing the legality of Kundale Slaves picking locks and breaking in.

Through the actions of these Kundale Slaves, the idiom "looting in the wake of a disaster" finally had a concrete demonstration.

Although Dong Tianyu discovered these people's actions, he had no intention whatsoever to stop them, as he had also done such things in the past.

What's more crucial is that, at this moment, their actions epitomize robbing the rich to help the poor; whether the assisted "poor" is themselves or not, the act of robbing the rich is definitely not wrong.

The reason Dong Tianyu was so sure that they were not robbing the wrong people is very simple: all of the areas they chose to target are standard wealthy districts.

The inhabitants of those areas are generally either rich or noble. It is important to note that the current Magic Capital Base, unlike Kyoto before the Natural Disaster, does not have ordinary people living in crowded courtyards within the first and second rings.

The residential areas of the reconstructed Magic Capital Base had been divided by class at the time of house purchasing, without the required standard, one didn't even have the right to choose their area.

Moreover, committing such acts at this time, let alone whether they would be discovered later on, is risky.

Even though the sunlight outside is not of a high temperature, its blinding intensity has reached a level capable of causing blindness, Dong Tianyu does not think others have Divine Sense like him to make selective choices.

Therefore, no matter what method they rely on to be active outside, it is their own skill, as the old saying goes, it's honorable to live by one's abilities.

Ignoring the actions of those few people, Dong Tianyu quickly determined his own location.

The Flying Swords unsheathed, ascending into the air with Sword Control.

This time, Dong Tianyu did not leave immediately but instead landed on the ramparts of the base. In theory, whether standing at the edge of the city wall he was at before, or now standing on top of the city wall, the range covered by Dong Tianyu's fully expanded Divine Sense should hardly have any significant difference.

However, having been accustomed to the idea that a higher vantage point offers a further view since childhood, Dong Tianyu subconsciously sought a higher position, even for using his Divine Sense to probe the surroundings.

After the First Transformation of his Golden Core, Dong Tianyu indeed had not tested just how vast an area his Divine Sense could cover at its maximum.

Theoretically, although Dong Tianyu had chosen to refine his Golden Core, each Transformation of the Golden Core only represents the refining of the Spirit Power within the body, and does not have much impact on the Divine Sense.

But with each Grand Circulation of Spirit Energy within the body, not only does it absorb external Spirit Energy, the absorbing process also slightly improves physical quality, although the enhancement effect is minuscule. However, accumulated over time, the effect of the enhancement becomes noticeable.

With every session of Cultivation, the tempering effect on spiritual power might be weaker compared to the physical enhancement effect.

After all, with every absorption of Spirit Energy, a small portion of it is passively absorbed by the body once it enters.

But as the old saying goes, 'Refining Essence to Energy, Refining Energy to God,' the improvement in physical quality also passively increases some spiritual strength.

While it is certainly not as effective as those Cultivation Techniques that actively temper the Divine Sense, this kind of extra, passive enhancement effect is better than nothing.

After trying out, the maximum coverage of Divine Sense at full expansion is around ten kilometers.

When the Divine Sense is spread to its limit, it's like looking through thick glass; one can see the surrounding scenery generally, but can't make out the specific details.

After several attempts to narrow the range, Dong Tianyu also determined that the optimal range for using Divine Sense is around one kilometer, with Dong Tianyu as the center, within a one-kilometer radius, even a single strand of hair on the road is discernible by Dong Tianyu's attention, even though not to the exaggerated extent of seeing the texture of the hair itself, noticing and seeing it clearly is no problem.

Having determined the optimal range for his Divine Sense, Dong Tianyu once again reduced the coverage of his Divine Sense to about twenty or thirty meters around his body.

After all, the oft-repeated phrase goes that the larger the coverage of Divine Sense, the more information is received every second. To avoid excessive mental exhaustion, Dong Tianyu is not willing to keep his Divine Sense in its peak state all the time unless it's necessary.

Now, if it weren't for the fact that the Natural Disaster caused almost no life to be active in the outside world, Dong Tianyu would not have attempted to actively test his Divine Sense.

Dong Tianyu also did not expect that this test of his Divine Sense coverage would yield quite a few unexpected discoveries.

The glaring sunlight from the outside world is not just targeted at humans; it affects not only the creatures that originally lived in the wild but also the Otherworldly invaders facing this dazzling sunlight, leaving them at a loss.

Just now, when Dong Tianyu was trying out the coverage of his Divine Sense, he happened to probe a Plane Transmission Channel that had just opened not long ago.

The reason it is said to have opened not long ago is that under normal circumstances, after a Plane Channel is opened, it usually lasts for only about two to three hours.

Of course, there are special Plane Channels opened specifically for waste disposal that last only a few minutes, and those with exceptionally long durations; it's not that they don't exist, but Dong Tianyu has never encountered them.

After all, having experienced it personally once, Dong Tianyu is very aware that each time the other side opens a Plane Channel, they have different purposes, and depending on the purpose, the individual in charge of the other side can choose the duration of the Plane Channel.