Chapter 523

Gao Jie Ming floated in mid-air, feeling every pulse of this brand-new body.

From a very, very long time ago, he understood a cruel truth: war is never a fair tournament.

No one will play a game of soldier against soldier, general against general with you, and will not send only Tier 5 enemies to duel with you just because you are only Tier 5.

Higher-level existences may descend at any time, crushing you along with your pride.

So he always consciously maintained the integrity of the combat system.

At least to ensure that at every stage, he possessed trump cards sufficient to deal with "cross-level encounters."

Just like when he used rune wizarding tools, he had 【Great Light Phase】.

That barrage torrent composed of tens of thousands of rune wizarding tools could rely on environmental energy to carry out saturation strikes on the area, sufficient to support his cross-level combat.

And now, facing modified spells, he still maintained this principle, preparing the final means matching them.

It was this dark golden body at this moment.

At first glance, this seemed to be just the "body elementalization" extremely common in the wizarding world—transforming one's flesh and blood body into a pure energy form to avoid physical damage and enhance elemental affinity.

Tier 2 wizards can initially master it after completing body activation modification, which is not strange.

But Gao Jie Ming knew very well that his current state was the exact opposite of "body elementalization."

Body elementalization is essentially turning oneself into an element.

Using spiritual sense to deconstruct the flesh, reconstructing a temporary body with elemental energy, and needing to re-condense back to the original state after the battle.

It is a transformation from "real" to "virtual."

And what Gao Jie Ming achieved at this moment was turning specific elemental energy into his own body.

It was casting "reality" with "virtual."

The foundation of this technology came from his life-bound magic treasure—the Five Elements Transformation Rainbow Mirror.

This magic treasure had one and only one core ability: helping the user "turn into light and fly away."

And the reason it could maintain the user's complete thinking during the light transformation process and perfectly reshape the body after the escape technique ended was because it touched a very deep technical field: temporarily transforming the user's flesh and soul into a "massless information state."

With Gao Jie Ming's current knowledge, he was still far from being able to analyze the technical principles contained within.

But as the master who had cultivated with his life-bound magic treasure, he didn't need to fully understand the principles, just utilize this function.

Turning himself into information was the first step, and also an absolute prerequisite.

After that, it was Gao Jie Ming integrating the technologies related to the modified spells he had selected in advance.

The second step was using stronger, more controllable energy to fill this information-based body frame.

He chose Li Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light.

This killing technique, which originated from the Soul Transformation stage immortal cultivation spell and was thoroughly modified and reshaped by the wizard system, possessed the most extreme destructive power and controllability among all his means.

Replacing the "natural light" originally relied on by the Five Elements Transformation Rainbow Mirror with it was a concept he had long ago.

The third step was maintenance.

The consumption of energy by the information state is astonishing.

Without stable supply, this form couldn't even be supported for half a second.

For this reason, he stripped and reconstructed the technology regarding energy convergence and steady-state maintenance from the Return to Ruins Armor, embedding it into the underlying architecture of this combat system.

As long as the energy of the internal cave heaven was continuous, this body would not collapse due to energy dissipation.

The fourth step was control.

How to precisely manipulate the body composed of Li Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light with an information-based self?

This was the reason Gao Jie Ming chose the Causality Tracing Shadow Technique.

The essence of this spell was originally "mobilizing analytical information."

He used the same logic to construct a set of "self-information control protocols," allowing consciousness to command every bit of energy flow of the light body at a speed exceeding conventional thinking.

The fifth step was fusion.

Integrating all of the above—informationization, energy filling, steady-state maintenance, information control—into a set of smoothly operating overall architecture required a technology that could "glue" them together.

So Gao Jie Ming chose the Grand Void Step, utilizing its core principle: energy resonance.

He made the Li Fire Divine Light constituting the body, the Return to Ruins Armor energy flow maintaining the architecture, and the invisible and intangible consciousness fluctuation of the information-based self perfectly resonate at the same frequency.

At this moment, they were no longer pieced-together components, but a natural-born living body.

Gao Jie Ming called this form of his: 【Light God Transformation】!

However, even after completing the above five steps, Light God Transformation still had a fatal flaw.

The duration was too short.

The squeezing of spiritual sense by informationization, the erosion of the body by Li Fire Divine Light, the consumption of computing power by multiple architectures—

Although he alleviated these problems through technical means, he could never eradicate them.

Before he thoroughly understood the "Water Elemental Shaping and Energy Compression Technology" gifted by the Tier 5 wizards he had saved, Light God Transformation could not be used in actual combat at all.

Until he extracted the most critical piece of the puzzle from that seemingly unremarkable technology—the fine shaping and steady-state compression of fluid energy.

What he learned was not specific water elemental manipulation, but a methodology: how to keep unstable energy maintained for a long time according to a preset form, and minimize the internal pressure and structural collapse risk during this process.

He completely transplanted this methodology into the architecture of Light God Transformation.

Thus, the "chicken rib" that could originally only be maintained for less than an instant became a "big move" that could be used for continuous combat.

At this very moment, Gao Jie Ming stretched this brand-new body constructed from Li Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light, fused with Return to Ruins Armor steady-state, Grand Void Step resonance, and Causality Tracing Shadow information control, feeling an unprecedented sense of completeness.

Like a humanoid statue cast from dark golden rare metal, he slowly moved his fists and palms.

Every tiny movement had destructive energy condensed to the extreme flowing at the "joints," yet strangely, it was firmly constrained within the body outline, without the slightest leakage.

His eyes opened, and in the depths of his pupils were two dark golden vortexes rotating slowly.

This was the variable brought by Augusta, giving Gao Jie Ming a third choice: Light God Transformation.

Gao Jie Ming raised his eyes and looked at the black-robed figure not far away.

His figure disappeared suddenly from the spot.

The black-robed wizard's pupils shrank!

Fortunately, the 【Fiction】 autonomous defense he had been maintaining allowed him to complete the most basic "result definition."

A heavy punch condensed with dark golden luster printed squarely on the defensive position of his left arm, which he had instinctively raised!

Boom!!!

Almost no physical impact, but what erupted from the point of contact was destructive energy released suddenly after being compressed to the extreme!

The black-robed wizard's figure shot backward for several hundred meters like a kite with a broken string.

The rune patterns on his robe flickered frantically, and it was only after forcibly "defining" the result of "this attack being defended" that he could barely stabilize his figure without being injured on the spot.

"Fiction?" He was suspicious in his heart.

The passive feedback of the 【Fiction】 law quickly corrected his judgment—no, it was not the 【Fiction】 law, there was no trace of "skipping the process."

It was a true displacement at the speed of light!

But immediately, his suspicion turned into a kind of calm with scrutiny.

If it was just this—then it was still not enough to fear.

The impact of the light-speed movement of the energy body itself had no threat.

Energy has no rest mass, and even if it hits at the speed of light, its kinetic energy approaches zero.

The opponent's real killing means was still the destructive energy erosion of the Li Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light attached to this energy body.

And for him, who specialized in the 【Fiction】 law, dealing with pure energy attacks had never been a difficult task.

The black-robed wizard sneered, raised his hand and pressed lightly in front of him, completing the defense definition once again.

The next instant, Gao Jie Ming's figure approached at the speed of light again!

Another punch, carrying the energy of Li Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light enough to pierce through conventional Tier 6 defenses, blasted head-on!

The fist hit the invisible barrier.

Dark golden energy and invisible law power confronted fiercely!

The surface of Gao Jie Ming's fist, the "skin" and "muscle" composed of Li Fire Divine Light compressed to the extreme, suddenly disintegrated and collapsed in this high-intensity consumption, like a dam that couldn't withstand the pressure!

Dark golden fragments drifted away.

The entire fist, from knuckles to wrist, turned into nothingness in an instant!

The black-robed wizard's mouth hooked into an arc as expected.

However, this arc had not yet fully formed—

Gao Jie Ming's arm, which had already disintegrated—the "remaining part"—the bare, energy-turbulent forearm cross-section—actually didn't stop at all, continuing to smash onto the barrier with the remaining impact, together with the sharp energy fragments at the edge of disintegration!

Crack!

Different from the muffled sound before, this was a sharper impact sound!

The black-robed wizard clearly felt that the 【Fiction】 law he constructed actually appeared with visible tremors and energy ripples under this strike!

Gao Jie Ming's fist, which had just disintegrated, after touching the barrier that could theoretically forcibly define the result, actually re-condensed and shaped like a waterfall flowing backward!

Countless dissipated dark golden energy fragments seemed to be summoned by an invisible force, rolling back, instantly re-assembling into a more solid fist at the end of the broken limb!

This newly born fist, carrying the power that hadn't been fully vented in the previous strike, and the more violent energy after re-condensation, smashed into the same position again!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In the blink of an eye, Gao Jie Ming, with that strange recovery speed that almost violated the conservation of energy, blasted three heavy punches at the same point of contact in succession!

Every punch exploded a circle of destructive energy ripples on the invisible barrier!

The black-robed wizard's expression changed suddenly!

Not right!

This was completely different from before!

His 【Fiction】 barrier was not a simple "defense," but directly "defined" the result of "attack being defended."

According to common sense, as long as this "result" was successfully defined, both Gao Jie Ming's fist and the energy on the fist should have been "judged" as "invalid" the moment they touched.

Either disintegrate, or deflect, or annihilate.

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