Chapter 1444: Fake Fifth Stage?

Drip, consuming points, current willpower attribute breaks through 1000 points!

Accompanied by the final system prompt, Lin An, as if weakened, only then withdrew his mind from the system redemption.

As if from a third-person perspective, his thoughts detached from his body.

Thump-thump—thump-thump

His eyes bloodshot, his heart pounding like a war drum.

Almost unable to maintain normal thought, Lin An at this moment only felt as if he had returned to being an ordinary person, yet had taken hundreds of tubes of stimulant. A vast amount of power with no outlet wandered inside his body, wave after wave of strange power, surging toward his brain with the rushing blood.

The world was incredibly slow, yet his movements were so fast that even he couldn't react in time. Or rather, his own thoughts couldn't even become aware of them.

Under this huge disparity, he actually felt a strange, nauseous sensation.

It was as if, at this moment, he merely covered this terrifyingly extreme body.

He was like a fragile-to-the-extreme worm, controlling a god-level war machine!

In every gesture, each shockwave he unleashed was as terrifying as a nuclear explosion. Even if he were inside a hard, nearly million-times-alloy-density planetary core, he could still feel that, if he wished, he could even tear open the planetary core with his bare hands, cleaving heaven and earth!

The illusion of arrogance to the extreme left Lin An somewhat dazed, unable to comprehend just how strong he had become.

If we say that when he first entered the Fourth Stage, he was equivalent to a demigod of myth, possessing the destructive power to annihilate all land.

Then at this moment, a single will strike from him could instantly kill his former self!

From Fourth Stage initial to Fourth Stage Peak?

His increase in strength is far more than a hundredfold!

"Why... even after increasing the willpower attribute, it's still like this..."

Not daring to move randomly, Lin An feared that even a slight tremor would send him flying kilometers away, and couldn't help but lower his head to look at himself.

He initially thought he couldn't adapt to the power; one reason was that he hadn't yet increased his will, another was that the surge was too rapid for him to adapt.

But even after raising his willpower attribute to one thousand points, he still couldn't control this body!

The violent power to the extreme seemed as if a single move could shatter continents!

Willpower surged; in an instant, his mental power could cover over ten thousand kilometers! Achieving the true feat of a single thought instantly killing the former Corpse Emperor!

Speed reaching the extreme!

Merely exerting a little force, he actually shot out kilometers within the high-density metal core!

After a simple conversion, Lin An shockingly discovered that his current movement speed had surpassed 101 times the speed of sound, i. e., over 122,400 kilometers per hour!

At such speed, although he could react and see his own motion trajectory, his "consciousness" couldn't keep up!

This also made Lin An suddenly realize that the speed of thought reaction is actually not linked to willpower agility!

Before, he merely pushed the limits, but once surpassing the limit, no matter how high his will, he could not control this body.

He could feel that the soul power he had previously devoured was desperately rushing into his brain, as if to alleviate this uncomfortable feeling for him.

"When the body surpasses its limits, surpassing everything confined by genetics..."

"Soul, will it be the key to restraining 'control'..."

"Soul power, is it related to the Fifth Stage? Or rather, is it the rule?"

Unable to understand what state he currently is in, Lin An could only, based on his knowledge, vaguely arrive at a guess.

Between consciousness and body, it's equivalent to a program (app) and hardware (phone).

His hardware, i. e., his body, being too strong, means that any command he issues is so fast that even the program cannot react before it's completed!

It's like a painter preparing to paint a picture.

The result: the moment he had the thought, the next instant he discovered he had already finished the painting, and even sold it!

Such speed, such rapid processing, that even becoming aware of it, he couldn't participate!

"Human consciousness, in fact, is limited.."

"Humans appear to claim they possess infinite consciousness, but in reality it's merely an illusion.."

"Just as one might feel a single thought contains myriad ideas, but if a person truly spent a day doing nothing but idle fantasizing, they'd likely have only tens of thousands of thoughts..."

"Similarly, even if we treat those thoughts as commands executed, that is the limit of how many commands thought can output."

"Just a few ten-thousand commands, simply pitifully few..."

"Given my current bodily strength, whereas before a single thought needed one second to complete, now it can be done in zero point zero zero several seconds, even a hundred times, ten thousand times..."

"With such a huge disparity, thought naturally cannot adapt..."

His complexion grim, as if a worm adrift in the vast cosmos, Lin An speechlessly realized that the speed at which he had grown strong was such that he could no longer adapt.

He even felt that his former combat techniques were now utterly meaningless.

The so-called consciousness and fighting methods are merely useless.

"I suppose.."

He raised his hand.

However, with this slight movement, the metal core at Lin An's arm's surface, constantly being compressed, instantly shattered, turning into a metal jet that pierced the core.

A flash of white light, he grasped Cain's Blade in his hand.

In an instant, an extremely strange feeling arose in Lin An's heart.

"I suppose..."

"No need to consider any swordsmanship methods..

"One sword...

"Swish!"

He casually swung a sword.

In an instant, the earth's core shattered.

"Boom!!!!"

Only saw that the metal core before Lin An, like a wall, suddenly burst with a roar, as if boundless force began to shatter it.

A huge crack stretched out for several kilometers before it stopped spreading.

Molten fire erupted, and bright-white metal flames exploded.

Looking at the huge cut he had made before him, Lin An, in silence, could no longer describe it in words.

You must know, this place is the high-density underground core.

He merely exerted a little strength, and with an unsophisticated swing of his sword, the earth's core was cut open.

If this sword were placed on the surface, wouldn't it pierce the continent with a single strike, forming the East African Rift!?

No... perhaps it's a single sword that splits a continent...

Everything in the material world, before his power at this moment, is as insubstantial as air; if he wishes, he can even smash the moon with his flesh, punching straight through the planet's surface to the other side.

Feeling the pleasant temperature on his skin, if he didn't know he was in the earth's core at tens of thousands of degrees, he would think he was soaking in a hot spring.

「Too... too strong!! 」

「Is this the power of the Fourth Stage Peak!? Or is it the power that is infinitely close to the Fifth Stage!? 」

Seeing that his attributes could no longer be increased, and for a moment unable to adapt to this power, Lin An had no mind to check the rules any further.

He always felt that he seemed to no longer need any rules at all...

Just in this state, he could slaughter his way through the entire Alien Species world!

Compared to the Fifth Stage state he had never experienced before, this time he faintly sensed what the Fifth Stage truly is!

He was only missing a layer, a barrier he didn't know how to break through.

In a state infinitely close to the Fifth Stage, a thought flashed through Lin An's mind.

Fifth Stage..

It is none other than destroying heaven and exterminating earth!

Whether it is the Fifth Stage of rules or the Fifth Stage of the body!

He can... shatter a star with a single sword!

And at this moment, his points still remained a full seventeen million points!

In a daze, lost in thought.

Lin An didn't even pay much attention to the spatial fluctuations coming from the extreme distance.

He knew that was the Alien Species Emperor, who had locked onto him and was now rushing at him at full speed.

But...

「I've only consumed a fraction of my points... 」