High Above

After everyone finished resting, more than an hour had passed.

And just as Ian himself speculated, after holding the power of the dead king for a period of time, he had a vague understanding of the existence of the 'heart light body'.

To be honest, after practicing the way of sublimation for so many years, Ian has already had a precise understanding of the power system of the world of Terra.

In essence, Terra's way of sublimation does not focus on the body at all, but on the 'soul'.

According to many classics in the Imperial Capital Library and a few words about the civilization of the previous era, Ian discovered that during the civilization of the previous era, there seemed to be no sublimators above the 'fourth energy level' at all, and even all members of the first energy level were No.

The entire art of sublimation is a branch of alchemy, a spiritual sect that focuses primarily on upgrading one's own soul.

In the pre-epochal civilization, there were not many Warcraft today, and there were not so many rich power components. The sublimates at that time could only hone their bodies and temper their spirits through constant meditation and exercise. When the will reaches a 'perfect' state, it reaches the limit of human beings.

After that, those with talent can gradually perceive the sefirah and use it to condense source seeds for themselves.

This is the first energy level.

Only those who have reached the limit of human beings are qualified to gather source seeds, and the success rate of source seeds is not high. Although medicine has been extremely advanced at that time, and it can be saved if it fails, but it has been very difficult to do it a second time since then. It's extremely difficult.

As for the second energy level, the source essence accumulated by the source seed needs to reach a threshold, so that the spirit gradually matures, and then the soul is condensed.

The third energy level is another transformation - after the soul is solidified, it can move away from the body.

As we all know, humans can think without the need for a soul. The body itself has wisdom, and the soul itself also has the ability to think independently. The two resonate in a way that transcends time and space and engage in double thinking. And this soul that escapes from the body, It even has various mysterious powers.

The soul at that time was called the mind-light body, the substitute, or the superego... In short, that was the limit that the sublimation skills of the civilization in the previous era could reach.

After all, in a civilization that can reach the virtual realm and transform the virtual realm by relying on pure alchemy, the function of the soul can be completely replaced by many lunar instruments and alchemy.

The process of sublimation and cultivation is very painful, and it also depends on talent - here it refers to a persistent mental state. Pure physical talent is meaningless to pre-era civilizations - even if you succeed and have a soul, it is nothing more. It's just that you can sneak into the virtual realm without using instruments, it's no big deal.

Only the third level is enough to become a master and privileged person in the relevant field.

Because they have indeed proven their extraordinary will and wisdom, they can live in this world without seeking the speed and convenience brought by any technology, but rather analyze their own hearts and dig deep into the power deep in their souls.

Such a person can succeed no matter what he does, and he can achieve success no matter what career he has. Even if he has bad luck for a while, as long as he is not killed, he will be able to rise again. He will not be discouraged or blame himself, but will be rational. Look at your mistakes objectively.

Because the way he views the world has surpassed the thinking of ordinary people, they are like manipulating game characters, viewing the world from a condescending perspective. The body is no longer a prison that restricts their thinking and perspective, but a starting point.

As for the fourth energy level...

Human beings have never reached this energy level with their own efforts during the pre-epochal civilization.

Those who possess this power are actually their creations - originally those super creatures such as the 'Alternate World Colonization Center' and 'Space Battleship Carrier Mother Body' that use the etheric hearth as the core energy, whether it is a crystal dragon or a frost-laden lure. Moths, they are the ultimate civilized war weapons created by the civilization of the previous era by integrating the essence of the entire civilization. If placed on an ordinary planet, one of them would be enough to suppress the entire planet.

Even among the vast stars in the universe, there are very few planets with natural fourth-level life. Each of them is an extremely rare Titan planet and a super-high-risk forbidden death zone.

As for such important weapons of civilization, pre-epoch civilizations have built countless of them, God knows how many types and how many.

Anyway, with the fire spaceships of alien civilizations, the Terran people of the pre-era civilization were constantly inspired. They enthusiastically absorbed those technologies and used their own methods to turn them from imagination into reality.

However, this alien technology and even civilization form also greatly affected the development of Terra's civilization itself.

The most obvious performance lies in the sublimation of skills.

The disaster of falling from the sky has aggravated this point.

The disaster of falling from the sky. So far, no one knows the truth about this disaster that destroyed the civilization of the previous era, but the broken moon is enough to prove that it was a terrible disaster that could completely destroy the civilization of Terra. It is just that the Moon of Gaze blocked the destruction for people. .

A large proportion of the surviving Terran people are Ascended... The individual strength of the Ascended has been proven, and they are able to live freely in the environment after the Skyfall disaster, and even better ascend.

Why do pre-epoch civilizations need to reach the limits of the human body in order to gather source species?

To put it bluntly, the physical body of the human species is actually too weak.

——Since perception cannot capture the source of matter, then we must transform our bodies.

Even if it is limited to the strength of the physical body and cannot sense the source of semen as an adult, it can at least greatly increase the number of sesame perceivers.

The pre-era civilizations have already adapted to this - they have transformed all human beings, whether they are the white people, the red people, the iron people, the gold people, or even the elves, dwarves, fish-men and demi-humans... they all used to be interstellar immigrants. , an adaptive 'template' developed to correspond to various planets.

Yes. Terran humans will show different adaptability depending on the area they live in.

Any human race that exists today is essentially the same kind of people. It is just because of the drastic changes in Terra and the extreme ecological environment that they have shown their adaptation to the environments of different planets.

In this case, through the screening caused by a large number of deaths, the human race that adapted to the world after the Skyfall disaster was naturally born.

They are the people of Terra today. The tribes of Terra.

Races adapted to Sefirot and Ascension.

But this is not enough.

The first energy level is too weak. Apart from greatly improving the perception and energy of the outside world, there is no enhancement in strength. All kinds of monsters, fallen monsters, aliens and even alien monsters are raging on the land of Terra. Just relying on the weak strength of the first energy level, it is impossible to fight these man-made weapons and tools, or even alien monsters.

So, use their power for yourself.

The biotechnology of the Terrans of the pre-era civilization was extremely advanced. They had already left a foundation for their bodies to carry various biological organs, and they had even loaded many of them.

After the Skyfall disaster, the Terran people used their remaining alchemy and sublimation skills to transform their bodies, refine the source material structure in the monster's body, perform a kind of finishing, and create the original magic potion.

That was the initial prototype of the way of sublimation that Ian is practicing now.

Combining the information in the Sequoia Base and various hints given by the silver chip, Ian sorted out the evolution of Terra's sublimation skills from the pre-epochal civilization to the present day.

From this, he keenly realized that the current sublimation skills are essentially two systems of practice.

One is Terra’s original ‘soul sublimation’. One is the 'physical sublimation' developed after the disaster of falling from the sky.

The mixture of these two cultivation systems gave rise to the 'fifth energy level', a level that even the civilizations of previous eras had not fully touched.

And the Heart Light Body is no longer just a solid soul with superpowers.

It is a fifth element conceived after the organic combination of soul and body.

"ether……"

Standing at the edge of the black soil field, Ian stared at the mist in his hand that shone with cyan light.

It seems to be an entity, but if someone touches it, it will never react.

Just Ian. Only Ian himself can operate the fifth element created by the mixture of his soul and sefirah.

The fifth element that is unique and never the same for everyone.

He whispered slowly: "So, spiritual energy and sefirot are essentially one. The reason why natural spiritual energy is difficult to use is because it is the most deeply integrated with sefirot. It is the power closest to the original ether. Therefore, It is almost inexhaustible and inexhaustible.”

"Only after humans have mastered the original ether, can they freely control the power of the world like real extraordinary beings. The same is true for Warcraft. The unreasonable giants of the giant beasts are precisely because of the support of ether and natural spiritual energy."

"Magic potions can only provide materials for 'physical sublimation'. If you really want to achieve the transition from the second level to the third level, potions are just an introduction. It is just a 'source of power for the sublimator.' What is needed for sublimation is The understanding of self is extremely stable, so stable that even if the body has no soul, and the soul has no body, it can still maintain the same 'consensus' without any mistakes."

"And this consensus is so strong that it can even initially mix the spiritual energy condensed in the soul with the source material condensed in the body, creating the initial 'original ether' in the human body."

"And the heart-light body was born from this primitive ether."

"It can also affect the essence and natural spiritual energy, allowing people without spiritual energy to create 'life spiritual energy' for themselves."

Ian doesn't need this - he already has a precognitive vision. If his mind's light body awakens powers again, it will only strengthen and assist the precognition vision, but even so, his mind's light body will also Possessing extremely powerful power.

And now, with the blessing of the power of the dead king and the extremely large amount of source material bred in the core of the ancient dragon, Ian's body has begun to condense some 'original ether' bit by bit.

He is already condensing his mind, light, and body.

But this is just the power of the Dead Lord, and it does not mean that Ian himself has completely crossed that threshold.

Ian is still thinking about his ‘consensus’.

——What is it that I will never give up, and will definitely act on it, so that I will not be troubled, worried, or have distracting thoughts?

Ian looked around the entire black soil pastoral in silence, and his scarlet blood eyes looked around the entire subspace maze. His doubts seemed to be asking many dead souls: "Where are you?"

【revenge】

The dead souls responded in unison: [And rest in peace]

There is no hesitation in their voices, no distracting thoughts and worries, no confusion or confusion.

This is what they always agree on.

yes. Therefore, if a dead king completely integrates himself into these dead souls, he will break through the third energy level by leaps and bounds - possessing his own mind light body.

But Ian is different... his self-awareness is too strong and he has never been affected by the dead souls.

He is even influencing the dead souls in turn.

But even so, the dead souls are still relying on their own consensus to condense the light body and provide Ian with valuable experience in condensing the light body.

At this moment, Ian heard the voice of the Huaiguang rescue team headed by Huijian. They had finished their rest.

never mind. It's time to go.

He thought so.

So Ian turned around and walked towards them.

Toward the end of this adventure.