Hidden Moth-Chapter 405 - 226: Embarrassing the Bashful with Secret Fantasies

The man didn’t react, implying he hadn’t noticed him.

He Kao wanted to conduct an experiment; earlier, no one had noticed him, but those were ordinary people. What about substituting them with sorcerers? Practice proved that in this state of stealth, even sorcerers with cultivation found it difficult to perceive him.

Although He Kao could see the other person, the two seemed to exist in different worlds.

He Kao drifted closer into the fast-food restaurant, coming to a place just a few steps from the man, floating in mid-air across two tables, maintaining a state of observation without thought.

What does observation without thought mean? It can be roughly described as seeing but not seeing, like how an average person walks down the street, can see many things, and can avoid various obstacles, but their consciousness is not deliberately observing them.

At this moment, if a handsome man or beautiful woman with outstanding looks were to approach, you might immediately notice them and take a special second glance, which is not observation without thought.

To truly observe without thought requires extremely deep meditation cultivation, requiring willpower strong enough to overcome inner demons, something only high-tier sorcerers can generally accomplish.

He Kao drifted in for the sake of this unknown sorcerer and managed to keep an observing without thinking mindset, something ordinary people couldn’t do... In this state, the other still seemed unaware.

He Kao attempted to drift closer, almost sitting across from the man just over one table. The man frowning slightly all of a sudden, looked up with some confusion, his gaze appearing to aim at the counter.

He Kao instantly vanished, finding himself outside the fast-food restaurant in mid-air. Although the man couldn’t see him, sorcerers possess a sense of spiritual awareness, a kind of indescribable intuition. The other might have sensed something.

Floating in mid-air, He Kao conducted another test, actively shifting from the previous observation without thought state to intentionally focus on observing the man’s back...

Zhang Jingu was eating noodles when he inexplicably felt something was off, as if something was right in front of him. He looked up but saw nothing, deploying his divine sense to no avail.

At that moment, he suddenly had the sensation of being watched, turning to look at the mid-air behind him, his gaze penetrating through the glass window, seeing nothing in the space before the plaza... His divine sense also swept across the area.

He could feel that there seemed to be something there, existing somewhere between presence and absence, but didn’t know what it was specifically—something shapeless and formless that flashed by and was gone.

Was it an illusion, or... did he encounter a ghost?

Someone must have been spying on him a moment ago, yet Zhang Jingu, as a Tier Four Flower with Spirit Awakening Skill cultivation, felt no emotions from such observation.

Zhang Jingu had long confirmed that Yin spirits and ghosts didn’t exist in this world, feeling both puzzled and regretful. Then what was that moment? Could it have been some high master’s technique?

Zhang Jingu stopped eating his noodles, got up, and walked outside, standing in the plaza looking up at the sky and observing his surroundings, but found nothing...

He Kao’s consciousness returned to his body, his whole being tingling as if swept by electrical currents or pierced by countless fine needles.

This was actually the result of his consciousness being attacked by the mysterious sorcerer’s divine sense. The other was at least a Tier Four Sorcerer. Luckily, the attack wasn’t strong, merely causing his consciousness to instantly return to his body.

From spirit to form, consciousness affected, his body responded with sensation.

He Kao had tested part of the results: ordinary people, even with occasional spiritual sense, couldn’t detect an out-of-body consciousness. If maintained in an observation without thought state, even cultivators with divine sense would find it hard to detect, unless at a certain proximity.

If intentionally observed, the detectable distance becomes much greater; He Kao had been discovered from ten meters away. Divine sense attacks have some harmful effects on out-of-body consciousness, but the damage isn’t strong.

He Kao’s primordial spirit wasn’t injured, merely driven back swiftly to his body, with a rather significant consumption of divine power and mana.

An out-of-body consciousness can’t touch anything and is unlikely triggered by other means, leading to a reduced effect of various attacks.

However, this was under conditions where the other didn’t deliberately attack him. What if magical treasures were used for a strike? Without bodily protection, even if damage is mitigated, it might be very dangerous.

Remembering the mysterious sorcerer’s appearance, he decided to inform Old Qian later.

He Kao turned away from the station exit, disappearing at a quiet spot and, in the next moment, appearing at the Jinxiu Science and Technology Park in Nanhua’s north suburb, where Ye Liangcheng was stationed at the secret base.

The base center, on the fifth floor of the Jinxiu Entrepreneurship Mansion, where Lan Jiwan had created a dwelling by renovating three rooms and connecting water, electricity, and the internet. She also arranged a meditation chamber.

She practiced here almost undisturbed; besides Ye Liangcheng and the Hidden Moth brother, no one else knew of this place.

He Kao appeared on the rooftop terrace, using "Consciousness Stealth" to drift down along the building’s exterior. He referred to his newly mastered ability as Consciousness Stealth, marking a Tier Four Sorcerer of the Hidden Moth Sect.

The state of Consciousness Stealth is peculiar, unlike divine sense, as if he himself were floating mid-air. Outside the building, unless he actively thought about it, he couldn’t see inside.

But in this state, he could pass through very narrow spaces or directly penetrate thin walls. So he drifted in, not through the wall but through doors and windows, reaching Lan Jiwan’s meditation chamber.