Hum!
The moment the system prompt sounded, Chen Luo's soul body was suddenly enveloped by an irresistible, immense force.
In an instant, Chen Luo's soul was ripped from the vast vortex of souls by this colossal power.
Everything around him turned into nearly unobservable streams of light.
At this moment, Chen Luo's soul body completely lost all perception of its surroundings.
After an unknown amount of time,
When Chen Luo's soul body regained consciousness, he found himself in an indescribable space.
There was no up, down, left, or right. Chen Luo's soul body floated in a colorful, boundless expanse.
The only thing Chen Luo could perceive was that this space was immeasurably vast and beyond description.
Yet, this space did not feel desolate. Countless energies and information within this space
were interacting at speeds beyond light, in ways Chen Luo could not comprehend.
Just as Chen Luo was wondering about his current predicament, the system prompt sounded again:
[Player's current location - The Void]
[Player's current status - Returning]
[Status explanation: The forbidden skill "Divine Body Refinement Technique" does not have an S-rank form. After the skill reaches the peak of A-rank, no matter how it is cultivated, it cannot advance.]
Chen Luo was slightly stunned upon seeing this. Combined with everything he had just experienced, he began to form some conjectures.
Indeed, this skill was different from all the others he possessed.
It could not advance no matter how it was cultivated.
From another perspective, the true advancement condition for this skill was definitely not cultivation-based proficiency.
[As the player surmises, the advancement condition for "Divine Body Refinement Technique" is: "To break through life and death, to be born from death."]
[Only those who have truly transcended life and death and understood their true selves can truly wield the power of Qi and Blood.]
[Player has fulfilled the advancement condition, "Divine Body Refinement Technique" is undergoing ultimate sublimation.]
[....]
Looking at the system prompts, Chen Luo let out a wry smile. He never expected that by chance, he would fulfill this condition.
According to the system's description, was he currently undergoing a so-called "return"?
Could he return to his original world?
Chen Luo gazed at the colorful world around him. He could sense that this world possessed unimaginably abundant power.
And this, was the so-called Void.
...
Previously, every time Chen Luo constructed a skill, he would probe the Void with his spirit, inscribing the skill patterns provided by the system to use various wondrous abilities.
However, the Void he perceived back then was merely a haze, indistinct.
It was only after completing the skill construction and injecting mana that peculiar powers from the Void would attach to the skills, amplifying their strength.
To personally enter the Void like this now was a peculiar experience.
Chen Luo, who was looking around, was unaware that the system was using a power he could not yet perceive to completely envelop his soul body.
The Void, as the nexus of all energy and information, was not a gentle place.
With Chen Luo's current strength, entering the Void directly would instantly grind him into the most basic energy units.
As if sensing Chen Luo's thoughts, a circle, one person high, suddenly appeared in the Void before Chen Luo.
Within the circle was the scene outside Starfire City after his self-detonation.
Between heaven and earth, the dense darkness had been dispersed by the power of the self-detonation.
The protective shield of Starfire City was covered in dense cracks, appearing precarious, but it had ultimately held on through the terrifying self-detonation.
And a massive crater, a hundred meters deep, silently bore witness to the destructive power of Chen Luo's self-detonation.
The corners of Chen Luo's mouth twitched slightly:
"As expected of me. Exploding mid-air and creating a hundred-meter-deep crater. I'm probably more potent than a nuclear bomb."
"But that trash Lich definitely didn't expect me to self-detonate directly. Hmph, at such close range, I don't believe you survived!"
Looking at the people within Starfire City, their expressions filled with grief and bewilderment, Chen Luo felt fortunate that he had given Zhuzhao to Su Xiao earlier. At the same time, he couldn't help but find it amusing:
"When I return, I'll probably scare them to death."
Suddenly, a dark shadow slowly flew up from the deep crater.
When Chen Luo saw the black shadow, his pupils contracted sharply:
"Ulquiorra?!!!"
Chen Luo stared at Ulquiorra, who appeared to be severely injured, his face growing extremely grim:
"The Abyss! This is the Abyss!! A monster whose power is more terrifying than a nuclear explosion, a monster that couldn't be destroyed by a direct explosion!"
When he saw Ulquiorra's hand fiercely strike the cracked barrier, Chen Luo anxiously shouted:
"System!!! Send me back!!!"
[Skill undergoing metamorphosis...]
[Unable to return before metamorphosis is complete...]
[Detected strong desire to return from player. Would you like to connect your soul body to the skill metamorphosis process? Connecting will accelerate the metamorphosis speed.]
An extremely anxious Chen Luo had no other choice:
"I agree! Quickly!"
BOOM!!!
Instantly, an indescribable torrent of immense information surged into Chen Luo's soul body.
Only then did the system's warning belatedly arrive:
[Warning! This intervention process is highly likely to destroy the consciousness of beings below the transcendent tier!]
But Chen Luo could no longer hear this warning.
The metamorphosing skill had begun to take effect directly within Chen Luo's body.
And under the terrifying flood of information, Chen Luo's consciousness instantly lost its ability to think.
Only the belief that he was concerned for his companions allowed him to hold onto his last shred of sanity, preventing his consciousness from completely dissipating.
Initially, it was the sea of consciousness...
This mysterious sea of spirit and consciousness, which reflects the subconscious of living beings, was reborn from his soul body under an unknown power.
Within the sea of consciousness, all of Chen Luo's information began to converge.
Under the blueprint of life, in this Void of infinite power, Chen Luo's body began to be redrawn, starting from his brain.
Cells, nerves, blood vessels, muscles, bones, then skin and hair.
A naked flesh and blood body, starting from the head, was meticulously "printed" out, piece by piece.
Using Chen Luo's soul body as a reference, it was directly printed onto his soul body.
And during this process, the information and trajectory of every cell's movement, every muscle's tremor and stretch, impacted Chen Luo's brain in the form of information.
All of this was originally supposed to be processed by the system before being applied to the player.
However, at this moment, with his choice to intervene, and using the sea of consciousness as an intermediary, Chen Luo's consciousness directly bore the impact of all the information.
On the flesh and blood body that had already been constructed, Chen Luo's eyes were devoid of any spirit.
[Skill metamorphosis complete!]
[A-rank skill "Divine Body Refinement Technique" has been sublimated to the racial foundation-tier skill "Qi and Blood Martial Way"!]
The moment the metamorphosis was completed, in the image before Chen Luo,
The twin-tailed girl and the silver-haired older sister launched a suicidal charge towards an insurmountable enemy.
The light and shadow of the scene reflected in Chen Luo's vacant eyes, and a ball of crimson flame flashed from his soul!
The metamorphosed body seemed capable of breaking through all restrictions!
Looking at the extremely critical scene, Chen Luo's right hand fiercely reached out towards the image!
BOOM!
The boundary between the Void and reality shattered!