Chapter 501: Adapting to Death

He was startled, endured the soul-tearing severe pain, and forced his sluggish thinking to start moving with difficulty.

"Because... I died once?"

He thought of that experience in the "Justice" plane.

Facing the erasure of the intelligent creation left by a Tier 9 existence, he had no power to resist, and his soul and existence were completely disintegrated.

It was the substitute doll prepared in advance that activated and pulled him back from absolute death.

"Could it be... because I truly 'died' once, the 'adaptive evolution' of the body-refining method... started to produce adaptation to the concept of 'death' itself?"

This guess made him feel a chill.

He had always known that the self-adaptive evolution ability of the body-refining method had huge potential, allowing him to adapt to various injuries, pressures, environments, and even mental pressure.

But he never thought that this adaptability... could actually extend to the realm of "death"!

If this was true, then his current situation could be understood.

Even if he hadn't been able to completely adapt to death, just adapting to a part was enough to greatly increase his tolerance for death.

Other wizards would fall directly when receiving fatal injuries, while the same injury falling on him might only lead to "near-death" or "serious injury," and would not "die" immediately.

Because the "adaptability" of his body and soul had already to some extent greatly increased the threshold of "death."

This also explained why he could maintain consciousness and "live" after his soul was broken.

"Body cultivator... the immortal cultivation world claims to be the strongest in combat power at the same level... but I have always subconsciously regarded it as a cultivation method to supplement physical strength."

Jie Ming lay on the cold ground, his broken soul trembling in severe pain, but his thoughts drifted to the records about the immortal cultivation world in the Great Dao Book Pavilion.

"But thinking about it now, even other types of cultivators can improve physical fitness through various means. So... the core of body cultivators, distinct from other cultivators, is actually the 'self-adaptive evolution' ability, whose ultimate form is that even 'death' can be adapted to, or even immune..."

He felt his scalp tingling.

Then, those body cultivator geniuses from top immortal cultivation sects, possessing massive resources and senior guidance, could completely consume resurrection-type secret treasures or pills under the protection of the sect, "experience" death time and time again, and let the body and soul continuously "adapt" to it.

Finally, create a monster that is truly "impossible to be killed"!

Body cultivators are not afraid of injury, what they fear is being killed in one blow before adapting to the injury.

If even "being killed in one blow" can be resisted or even immunized through advance adaptation...

"Then body cultivators really... have almost no weaknesses." Jie Ming muttered.

Although he had been increasing his psychological estimation of the combat power of body cultivators, now he found that he still underestimated it.

"In this way, maybe I can also... no, the cost is too high... at least I can't do it at the current stage." He shook his head immediately, dispelling that unrealistic fantasy.

An ordinary substitute doll was priced at 10 billion high-stage military merits on the exchange list of the Xinghuanlian Alliance!

That was an astronomical figure, enough to make many Tier 6 wizards despair.

Relying on this to brush "death resistance" with his current money-making ability was simply a pipe dream.

However, this discovery was still of great significance.

At least, he had a clearer understanding of the potential of the "Body Refining Method" he practiced.

Time passed bit by bit in severe pain and wild thoughts.

A few hours passed, Jie Ming still lay weakly on the ground, the severe pain of the soul did not weaken in the slightest. But gradually, he felt a difference.

That severe pain that was enough to crush the will of ordinary people seemed... no longer so "unbearable."

It was not that the pain was reduced, but his "tolerance threshold" was forcibly increased under the continuous adaptive evolution of the body-refining method.

He could still clearly feel every bit of the pain of soul tearing, but these pains could no longer easily submerge his consciousness.

He tried, extremely slowly, to move his fingers.

Succeeded.

Then, it was the wrist, arm, and then supporting the ground, bit by bit, extremely difficultly, lifting his upper body off the ground.

Every tiny movement was accompanied by the pain of the soul being torn, cold sweat poured out like pulp, but he gritted his teeth and bit by bit regained control of this broken body.

"Must... leave immediately..."

He panted, stood up shakily, and looked around.

This area had been completely destroyed in the battle just now, and the energy fluctuations were abnormally chaotic.

The death of that Tier 6 wizard would definitely attract the attention of the allied high-level.

Pursuers could arrive at any time.

But in his current state, even if another ordinary Tier 5 wizard came, it would be enough to take his life.

Jie Ming panted, trying to concentrate his broken mind.

He needed to erase traces and interfere with tracking.

He took out the Causal Tracing Technique wizarding tool from the cave heaven, spiritual power flowed slowly toward the wizarding tool with his intention, activating the modified spell.

Afterwards, Jie Ming intended to further manipulate the spell...

"Uh ah!!!"

The severe pain like billions of steel needles piercing erupted from the depths of the soul, making him groan instantly, his eyes went black, and he almost fainted.

The spell model that had just formed shook violently under the disturbance of spiritual power, and then collapsed and dissipated.

He knelt on the ground, his hands buckled into the cold ground, his knuckles turned white from force, and cold sweat streamed down his forehead.

"No... in the current state, I can't control this kind of wizardry that requires fine continuous manipulation at all..." Jie Ming gritted his teeth, his face as pale as paper.

The Causal Tracing Technique was not a spell that was done after release; it required the caster to continuously guide and adjust to precisely cover or forge information flow, requiring extremely high computing power and spiritual concentration.

With his current broken soul, forcibly casting it was no different from self-mutilation.

He gave up the idea of erasing information by relying on the Causal Tracing Technique with an ugly face.

And there was no way to use the Causal Tracing Technique, let alone the light-transforming escape technique.

That required temporarily transforming one's own existence, and the requirements for soul integrity and control were extremely strict.

Complex high-computing-power wizardries like space teleportation were even more extravagant.

Finally, he could only pin his hopes on other wizardries.

His intention moved slightly, and a special talisman wizarding tool engraved with the 【Grand Void Step】 rune was activated from the cave heaven and attached to the side of his leg.

The familiar concealment and acceleration force field quietly shrouded his whole body, but Jie Ming's heart sank slightly.

After careful perception, it was indeed as he expected: the "deep concealment" effect of the Grand Void Step, which could perfectly merge into the environment and deceive conventional perception in a static state, did not fully take effect.

(There is one more chapter.)

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