Battle intent surged to the heavens, vital energy transformed into armor, and magic became the cycle!
Mysterious patterns of profound principles pulsed and flowed across the golden armor, all skills Chen Luo commanded now became pure instinct.
Power! Power!
The essence of all skills was merely the way power circulated. The system's assistance gradually weakened, and the powers of talent, skills, and attributes began to merge.
The data on the system panel blurred, and after fluctuating, only one status remained:
True Transformation!
[Congratulations to the player for comprehending the Abyss Dweller's exclusive skill "True Transformation"!]
[True Transformation]
[Type]: Skill
[Level]: No Level
[Effect]: The convergence of intent and energy, comprehending the true self from the void!
[Description]: A great wind rises over the Qiantang River, today I finally know myself!
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"Impossible!!!!"
A near-maniacal roar echoed from ahead. The nine-headed evil dragon now dared not believe what it saw.
"Why?! I fused with trillions of evil souls just to cross the threshold of True Transformation, why can you humans?!"
A dense black mist seeped from the dragon's nine heads, flowing into the world.
Countless souls of the dead and resentful writhed and wailed within this black mist.
These were the undead spirits that, after the death of countless beings, refused reincarnation due to resentment or unfulfilled desires.
They harbored hatred for the living, hatred for the world!
Just as Chen Luo had previously speculated, Theodore's essence was a collection of the undead.
His True Transformation was not like Chen Luo's, which was the purification of a single thought to its extreme. Instead, he had taken another extreme path.
It was an indescribable complexity, a pure monster formed from the convergence of countless dead spirits!
"Roar!!!" Jealousy towards Chen Luo and a natural hatred for the living caused Theodore's faint rationality to be extinguished once more.
The nine dragon heads, cloaked in terrifying, defiled black mist, lunged forward fiercely.
At this moment, Chen Luo was merely quietly sensing the power within his body, as if it had been amplified a thousandfold.
A fierce wind attacked! A mountain-sized dragon head bit down with terrifying ferocity!
The golden giant's eyes flickered, and a thought flashed through his mind:
"True Transformation - Extreme - Wind Blade!"
Hum!
Around the dark dragon head enveloped in black mist, the void was instantly sliced open by extreme sharpness.
Countless massive wind blades, shimmering with a verdant hue, as if carved from top-grade jade, slashed towards the attacking dragon head!
Screech...
Even a nuclear explosion at his side would not have injured the nine-headed evil dragon in its True Transformation state.
But as the verdant wind blades danced, gaping wounds appeared consecutively on the dragon's head.
Thick, dark blood, accompanied by the monster's enraged roars, splattered everywhere!
Seeing one dragon head under attack, the remaining heads spewed black mist to intercept the wind blades.
Under the erosion of the substantial black mist, the wind blades slowly dissipated.
As the black mist cleared, eight intact dragon heads cautiously guarded the injured head, which was being repaired by the black mist, and looked at Chen Luo with vigilance.
Unlike the madness of the other heads, the pain caused the rational leading dragon head to speak in a deep voice:
"Human... how about we call a truce?"
"I guarantee that I will restrain the other undead on this land and never again invade you humans!"
The mad Theodore was actually begging for mercy.
But Chen Luo offered no response. His eyes gazed calmly at everything before him, as if looking at Theodore, or perhaps at the entire world.
The state after True Transformation was truly miraculous.
His nearly ten-thousand-meter-tall body was Chen Luo's true form.
Magic power, vital energy, and spiritual power were all fused into one, and Chen Luo's will permeated every part of his body.
The attack just now was essentially still an SS-grade Wind Blade spell, but in the True Transformation state, the power of the attack had undergone a new qualitative change.
The nine-headed serpent before him seemed to be saying something.
Chen Luo paid no mind. He was more curious about the state of this monster.
"True Transformation - Eye of All-Encompassing Reflection!"
The demonic patterns talent and the Eagle Eye skill in his eyes had completely merged, and in True Transformation, they had been thoroughly enhanced.
The world before Chen Luo's eyes was now one of energy and information interaction.
As long as Chen Luo willed it, he could completely observe the movement of every atom in each leap of the lava.
Everything before him was composed of countless minute particles.
But only two existences were not like this.
One was the ugly nine-headed serpent before him, and the other was himself after True Transformation.
Chen Luo curiously looked at his palm, a palm cast from crimson gold, seemingly capable of containing the power to tear apart heaven and earth.
But this palm, and indeed his entire body, in Chen Luo's current all-reflecting eyes, had no gaps whatsoever, completely unified and integrated.
"A water drop?" Chen Luo couldn't help but recall a science fiction novel he had read, describing a special material with absolutely no seams.
His body after True Transformation had likely reached a realm that human science could not attain within a thousand years.
However, when Chen Luo turned to look at the nine-headed serpent, which seemed to be roaring something, his expression became strange.
Too weak...
Although it was clearly composed of minute particles, unlike other matter.
The nine-headed serpent before him, however, seemed like a crudely made pile of large building blocks haphazardly stacked together.
Beneath its seemingly mighty and sinister exterior, in Chen Luo's eyes, it was filled with flaws and deficiencies.
Perhaps Chen Luo's gaze provoked Theodore, or perhaps Chen Luo's persistent refusal to negotiate made Theodore feel uneasy.
Boom!!!
Dark energy converged violently, and a black sphere of light, more powerful than the previous "Dirge of the Dead," was suddenly spewed towards Chen Luo!
But after the sphere of light!
This fierce and frenzied nine-headed evil dragon suddenly leaped upwards,
It was clearly attempting to flee the battlefield directly!
Its dragon heads plunged into the thick mantle, the solid earth like air before its True Transformation body.
The central dragon head reverted to Theodore's mummified form.
A trace of lingering terror remained in its eyes.
"Damn it... just how far has this human progressed in True Transformation?! Why do I feel like I've been targeted by a natural predator!"
"No, I have to escape! I must get to the surface!"
"This human cares deeply about his compatriots! As long as I capture those weaklings, he will surely yield!"
"Heh heh! No matter how strong you are! It's because you still have emotions, because you still care about the weak! That's why you are destined to fail!!!"
This was two million three hundred thousand meters underground. At the monster's speed, if Chen Luo were delayed even for a moment by the "Dirge of the Dead," it would be enough for it to escape to the surface.
And the seemingly thick and massive protective shield of the Imperial Capital was, in Theodore's eyes, nothing more than an eggshell that could be easily shattered.
The earth continuously shattered as the island-like nine-headed evil dragon frantically charged towards the surface.
Millions of meters of mantle were easily penetrated!
Until!
Bang!
The earth broke apart, and the terrifying demonic creature returned to the sunlight once more!