Chapter 420: Advancement to the Divine Transformation Realm (II)
Translator: AnubisTL
His fleshly body, tempered by the Body Tempering Method, was like a drawn bowstring, brimming with surging power.
The opportunity had arrived; it was a natural progression.
“The time is right. Then… let’s begin.”
Jieming murmured softly, closed his eyes, and sank his consciousness into his dantian. He began circulating the profound cultivation method described in the Qi Refining Method, specifically designed for breaking through from the Nascent Soul stage to Divine Transformation.
There were no earth-shattering phenomena, no arduous trials of the breakthrough.
Under the command of the fourth-tier wizard’s formidable mental power, the entire process unfolded with unimaginable smoothness, as if merely pushing open a door that had long been ajar.
Within his dantian, the nascent soul, identical in appearance to Jieming himself, began to slowly “grow” as the magic seals circulated.
But this “growth” wasn’t a simple expansion of volume; it was an essential “diffusion” and “fusion.”
The nascent soul’s radiance grew increasingly intense, while its form became progressively transparent, gradually transforming into a chaotic yet luminous ball of spiritual light.
This mass of spiritual light did not leave the dantian. Instead, it flowed like mercury over a flat surface, like spring sunshine melting snow, flowing against the established meridians and bloodlines, spreading upward.
It began to fuse with every inch of Jieming’s flesh, every bone, every cell—re-establishing the deepest fusion with his fleshly body.
This wasn’t the nascent soul leaving the body, but a perfected union of “spirit” and “form” on a higher dimension.
An ineffable sense of “completeness” filled Jieming’s entire body and mind.
As if the invisible, subtle barrier between his nascent soul and fleshly body had been completely shattered, Jieming felt a profound change.
Before this, while he could manipulate his nascent soul as easily as his own arm, it still required conscious effort and mental energy.
Now, he was his nascent soul, and his nascent soul was him.
The Three Treasures of Essence, Qi, and Spirit had achieved an unprecedented state of harmonious unity, cycling endlessly in a self-sustaining cycle.
The vast spiritual power within his body, already as boundless as the sea, seemed infused with new vitality and spirituality, flowing with unparalleled smoothness and freedom.
His recovery speed was astonishingly fast. With a mere thought, he could draw in external energy through every pore to replenish his depleted spiritual power, or instantly regenerate it through his inner circulation.
An illusion of “nearly infinite spiritual power” arose naturally.
The quantity of his mental power remained fixed due to his wizard level, unchanged by the immortal cultivation breakthrough.
Yet Jieming keenly sensed that his control precision and application efficiency had soared by several orders of magnitude.
Fine mental operations that once required painstaking care now felt effortless, achievable with the slightest mental nudge.
His breadth, depth, and speed of thought had all dramatically improved.
The direct enhancement of his fleshly body wasn’t particularly noticeable, as the body tempering method had already forged his physique far beyond that of his peers.
However, the sensation of “perfect harmony” and “unity between inner and outer self” seemed to elevate his body’s defensive capabilities, regenerative power, and its “adaptive evolution” against various forms of damage.
But the most exhilarating change for Jieming came from the “cognitive” realm.
His mind became exceptionally clear and calm. Previously intractable research problems now yielded insights from multiple perspectives with just a moment’s thought, sometimes even revealing the answers directly.
His perception of the surrounding environment had also reached a completely new realm.
Without needing to consciously employ wizardry, he could vaguely “see” the flow of elements in the air, the direction of energy currents, and the subtle vibrations of material structures—all through his senses of sight, hearing, touch, and even his most basic “sense of presence.”
It was as if everything in the universe was “telling” him the “principles” of its operation.
With a slight shift of his mind, his gaze fell upon a cup of ordinary water placed beside the magical formation.
No incantations were uttered, no spells cast, not even a discernible fluctuation of energy.
He merely “thought” about making the water “disappear.”
The next moment, through Jieming’s “perception,” he sensed that the fundamental “material particles” composing the water—which, in wizard theory, could be considered the ground state of the primal Earth element—had their activity “dampened” by an invisible force.
This wasn’t the decomposition and transformation of alchemy, but something closer to… temporarily shifting from an active state of “existence” toward “stillness” or “dissipation.”
The cup remained in his hand, but the water within had vanished as silently as if erased by the most skilled eraser, leaving no trace—no steam, no residue—as if it had never existed.
“The threshold for manipulating elemental activity has been drastically lowered… Is this the preliminary application of the dao by a fourth-tier wizard combined with the divine transformation realm? It truly shares similarities with a wizard’s manipulation of laws, but it approaches the matter from the essence of ‘existence’ and ‘change’…” Jieming’s eyes sparkled with excitement.
He immediately tried his go-to observational wizardry: Universal Eye.
Once activated, this spell would collect every observable detail within its range with meticulous precision.
Energy spectra, material composition, microscopic structures, life fluctuations, and even faint spiritual residues—the sheer volume of information was terrifying.
Even after advancing to fourth-tier wizard and significantly increasing his mental power, Jieming could previously only barely maintain the Universal Eye’s effective range within a four-to-five-meter radius around himself. Beyond this range, the overwhelming flood of unprocessed primordial data would crash his conscious processing capacity, leading to a “brain freeze.”
Now, the Universal Eye activated silently.
Hum…
The familiar torrent of information surged into his consciousness.
But instead of being overwhelmed, Jieming felt a effortless ease in “receiving” and “organizing” the data.
With a slight shift in his will, the observation range expanded outward like ripples on water.
Five meters, eight meters, ten meters… twelve meters!
Everything within a twelve-meter radius was now fully visible to the “eye”!
Moreover, the precision and dimensionality of his information processing far surpassed anything he had experienced before.
He could even “see” the dynamic equilibrium in the Incense Divine Path’s energy network, the intricate balance between faith power and spiritual energy transformation.
He could “see” the slow radioactive decay of isotopes within the rocks beneath his feet, driven by prolonged geothermal heat.
Being able to “see” the extremely subtle polarization phenomena of elemental energies of different attributes in the air—a phenomenon arising from the characteristics of the plane…
This was no longer mere observation; it was approaching an “all-knowing” level of insight.
Jieming had no doubt that the observational precision and information processing capabilities of the Universal Eye alone were sufficient to replace most of the precision instruments used in laboratories for routine matter and energy analysis.
“Divine Transformation… this is the benefit of integrating all one’s power through Divine Transformation,” Jieming said slowly as he withdrew his wizardry, a genuine smile curving his lips.
The elevation of life, the leap in cognition, and the initial manifestation of his ability to interfere with the essence of the world.
This was not merely an increase in combat power; it represented a massive leap forward in his ability as a “researcher” to explore the Ring of Truth.
He slowly stood up, feeling the new, unified power surging through his body. His gaze turned toward the depths of the Incense Divine Path Network.
Divine Transformation was complete, and the road ahead stretched wider than ever.
It was time to put the theories and insights he had accumulated over the years into practice.
(End of the Chapter)