Chapter 1000: Chapter 53: Ranked Among the Immortal Class
At this moment, Xiao Jie had transformed into a terrifying being beyond description. His body twisted and swelled, covered with layer upon layer of tumors and keratin shells of different colors. His limbs exhibited bizarre characteristics of tiger, eagle, bear, and turtle, with skin dried and cracked like the bark of a thousand-year-old tree. The thin spiritual energy surrounding him was being madly absorbed by the increasingly dazzling “Golden Core” within his Dantian! And at the core of that Golden Core, a human-shaped silhouette composed of pure, refined spiritual energy—a reflection of Xiao Jie’s Divine Sense—was slowly gestating and solidifying!
Such is the nature of the Triple World.
Within Taixu Illusion Realm—
After painstakingly sealing away a formidable force of demon power, Xiao Jie suddenly sensed that his “perspective” seemed to change! When he “looked down,” he saw that his formerly immaterial Divine Sense had now condensed into a distinct body with clear limbs and bones! A “Spirit Body” completely formed of pure, concentrated spiritual energy, with Divine Thought as its core, was taking shape in the Qi Sea of his Dantian!
Scanning his surroundings, he found that over 90% of his massive physical world had been completely occupied and polluted by various rampant demon evil powers! These demon powers had deeply fused with the blood and flesh he had forsaken, rapidly losing vitality due to the lack of nourishment from the original source of spiritual energy, turning into dead, rigid wood and stone, displaying a gloomy, barren grayness!
Only the small circle around the Qi Sea in Dantian, protected by layers of tenacious membranes, still harbored weak signs of life.
And the ‘Spirit Body’ formed from his Divine Sense was hidden within this sole safe area, likened to a newborn larva nurtured inside a cocoon.
Suddenly enlightened, a tremendous joy overwhelmed Xiao Jie! His initial plan was merely to discard most of his flesh, to form a shell outside his body to contain demon power, while retaining one-third of his core flesh to rebuild his body, willing to become weaker if necessary.
Better than having a body that breaks down.
Never did he imagine that the total amount of this demon evil power would be so terrifying, forcing him to transform his entire physical body into a “cocoon” and “garbage bin”! The ultimate result was nearly complete stasis of his body, becoming a tomb sealing demon power. Meanwhile, his Divine Thought absorbed all refined spiritual energy in the desperate situation, resulting in a novel “Spirit Body” within the Dantian!
This Spirit Body, though humanoid, was not of flesh and blood; though concentrated from Divine Sense, it wielded a real and tangible form, able to clearly perceive the external world! It even possessed a sense of touch, a marvelous experience that brought instant enlightenment to Xiao Jie!
(Primordial Spirit! Is this the Legendary Primordial Spirit?!
(Yes! The physical vessel is merely an external object, a raft to navigate the world! Today I abandon this mortal body defiled by demon evil, reconstructing my true self with Divine Sense as foundation and spiritual energy as form… Isn’t this exactly what Feather Transformation and Immortal Ascension truly mean!?)
Yet delight lasted but a moment. An intense wave of weakness and an invisible sensation of shackles suddenly assailed him! He attempted to manipulate this newborn Spirit Body to break free from the “cocoon” of the dead physical body but felt powerless! Although his body was nearly overflowing with spiritual energy, he faintly sensed a feeling of emptiness, as if the Spirit Body lacked the final opportunity for Perfection!
(What’s the matter? Why can’t I break free?) Xiao Jie’s mind sounded alarmingly, a dreadful thought arose within him, could it be…
He abruptly turned his head, looking behind, where his gaze penetrated flesh, darkness, and pierced through all illusions comprising the Taixu Illusion Realm.
He saw his game character sitting before the Taixu Illusion Mirror, he saw his real self sitting at the computer.
The source of this weakness stemmed from outside this world, from within the game, from reality.
Indeed that’s it! Xiao Jie called out bitterly in his heart.
In this world, his spiritual energy was naturally sufficient, but in reality, within the game, his spiritual energy fell short to complete the transformation.
Now things have gone awry; he should have refined all the demon cores in his inventory before entering the Taixu Illusion Realm.
Now he can only hope those Immortals would lend a hand, not merely stand by and watch as he fails to ascend.
Gu Feiyu watched in fear at everything unfolding before him. On Xiao Jie’s body’s surface, viscous, dark red substances like semi-solid blood continued to secrete, rapidly spreading and accumulating, covering and enveloping him layer after layer, gradually forming a massive, bloated, pulsating horror-filled humanoid cocoon!
“Jie!!” Gu Feiyu was terrified out of his wits but, catching sight of the computer screen’s images and the incessant scrolling system prompts, forced himself to suppress his fear, realizing this might be a part of Jie’s “Ascension” process. The source of this content ɪs n̷o̷v̷e̷l̷f̷i̷r̷e̷.net
On the screen, lines of system prompts flashed quickly, nearly overwhelming.
System prompt: Using custom-created Spell ‘Feather Transformation and Ascension Skill,’ current progress 1%…
System prompt: Current progress 7%…
System prompt: Current progress 13%…
There were indeed a dozen such prompts.
“Is Jie really… going to ascend?” Gu Feiyu’s heart rose to his throat, nervously watching the cocoon’s changes in reality, while intently focusing on the screen, listening to the game Immortals’ conversation, trying to find clues from their dialogue and system prompts.
When the progress bar arduously climbed to 91%, it suddenly stalled!
The speakers timely played the grave dialogue of the Immortals: