Chapter 555

Jie Ming "moved" through the pure white sea of light, following that faint connection.

There was no distance, no direction.

He simply kept adjusting his own information structure, making himself "approach" that target more and more.

The white light around him began to show subtle changes.

Not a change in color, but in "texture."

The originally uniform and soft sea of light gradually revealed a certain faint pulsation.

Like a heartbeat, and also like breathing.

Then, Jie Ming saw it.

An indigenous inhabitant.

It hovered not far in front of Jie Ming, completely different from the image he had seen through the Black Giant priest's vision before—it was a "sense of reality" that could not be described in words.

Its form remained abstract, a cluster of condensed light, with fine filaments of light dissipating at the edges.

But now that Jie Ming saw it with his own eyes, he could clearly perceive its internal structure.

The outer layer was pure energy, temporarily constructed from the four basic elements uniformly distributed around.

The core was a cluster of highly condensed information.

That information squirmed, split, and reorganized like a living thing, continuously issuing instructions to the outer energy.

The outer energy changed its form according to the instructions, sometimes contracting, sometimes expanding, as if breathing.

Jie Ming's expression became strange.

"This thing..."

He couldn't help but mutter in a low voice.

Because this structure was exactly the same as his Light God Transformation.

The essence of the Light God Transformation is to construct a body with specific energy, while the core consciousness controls everything.

The external energy is the shell, and the internal information is the soul—aren't these indigenous inhabitants before him just natural "Light God Transformation" lifeforms? The difference is that his Light God Transformation still requires active maintenance, while these indigenous inhabitants were born looking like this.

That indigenous inhabitant seemed to have perceived Jie Ming as well.

The light on its outer layer fluctuated violently, and then... it launched an attack directly.

Jie Ming only felt the information flow around him suddenly become violent.

Countless obscure tentacles surged from all directions, attempting to invade his spiritual sea, read his core information, and then, like dealing with the Black Giant priest, cause him to collapse from within.

"Return to Void Armor!"

Jie Ming stirred his mind, and a layer of invisible light shield instantly appeared on his body.

Those countless information tentacles crashed into the Return to Void Armor like water hitting a reef, instantly dissipating.

Jie Ming raised an eyebrow.

Blocked it?

He had originally thought that the Return to Void Armor might not be able to defend against this kind of information-level attack, and he had even prepared to activate the Fate System to counterattack. The reason he used the Return to Void Armor was just because he wanted to test his own hypothesis.

But those information tentacles were indeed blocked, and the Return to Void Armor itself remained motionless, without even a trace of vibration.

Jie Ming separated a wisp of spiritual power to perceive deeply, and a moment later, a flash of realization crossed his eyes.

"Return to Void artistic conception..."

The core of the Return to Void Armor is that "Return to Void" artistic conception—a embryonic form of a law that devours everything and contains everything.

Although those information tentacles were strange, they were essentially still things that "existed."

As long as it is something that exists, the Return to Void can devour it.

It was just that in the past, Jie Ming only used it to devour energy or other messy attacks, never expecting that it could devour information too.

"It truly lives up to being one of the top-tier defenses in the Soul Transformation Stage. It seems the saying that Soul Transformation cultivators will spend thousands upon thousands of years specifically pondering a single spell is not without foundation."

A smile curled at the corner of Jie Ming's mouth.

Seeing that the information intrusion was ineffective, the indigenous inhabitant's outer energy expanded suddenly. It began to mobilize the surrounding energy, preparing to attack in a more direct way. Jie Ming did not dodge or evade; it just so happened that he wanted to test other things:

"Let's try this again."

He raised his right hand, and a blinding dark golden beam instantly condensed at his fingertips.

Li Huo Extinction Divine Light.

The beam shot out, heading straight for that indigenous inhabitant.

Then Jie Ming saw a scene that made his pupils shrink slightly.

That Li Huo Extinction Divine Light, which was enough to pierce through Level 6 defenses, suddenly stagnated the moment it touched the indigenous inhabitant's outer layer.

It was as if the image had been paused, "frozen."

Immediately following, that cluster of light began to distort, split, and disintegrate...

Just like a painting being erased bit by bit by an eraser, it completely dissipated into the air within a few breaths.

The light on the indigenous inhabitant's outer layer didn't even show any obvious fluctuation.

"This..."

He quickly mobilized the Fate System's computational power to backtrack the process just now.

Soon, he saw the truth.

The moment that Li Huo Extinction Divine Light touched the indigenous inhabitant, the opponent's outer energy analyzed its information structure: the arrangement of fire elements, the frequency of energy output, and the underlying logic of the attack.

Then, it just lightly modified a few key parameters, and the entire structure collapsed on its own.

Just like a key whose teeth have been tampered with, it could no longer open the lock.

A quite familiar combat style; the Return to Void Armor had blocked it, yet the Li Huo Extinction Divine Light had failed?

Jie Ming's expression was somewhat ugly, because he already understood the reason for this.

"When I modified it back then... the technology was insufficient, and I cut away too much."

When he originally modified the Li Huo Extinction Divine Light, due to the limitations of his technical level, he had indeed cut away many complex characteristics of the original spell in order to ensure compatibility with the wizard system.

The current Li Huo Extinction Divine Light had immense power, but its information structure was relatively simple.

Simple enough to be instantly analyzed and tampered with by the opponent.

"Fine, this actually reminds me."

Jie Ming took a deep breath and began the next test.

He closed his eyes, and his consciousness sank into the depths of his spiritual sea.

He soon found a basic rune from the Ring of Truth; it was the most elementary fire element rune, the kind that any wizard apprentice would know, and also the foundation of meditation.

Jie Ming opened his eyes and pointed forward with his hand.

That basic rune glowed slightly.

The surrounding elements instantly rioted.

A massive amount of fire elements surged wildly from all directions; Jie Ming did not use them to construct a wizardry model, but simply summoned, compressed, and then... pushed them toward that indigenous inhabitant.

Thus, in the blink of an eye, a pure elemental torrent was formed.

Overwhelming and unavoidable.

The indigenous inhabitant's outer energy fluctuated violently, clearly attempting to analyze this torrent...

Then it gave up.

Because it was fundamentally impossible to analyze.

Because this was not wizardry; there was no logic, no structure, just the most primitive accumulation of elements.

Just like one might be able to untangle a string that has been kneaded into a ball of chaos, but when faced with the most basic plant fibers, one wouldn't even know where to start. The pure white light was submerged by the four-colored elements.

The indigenous inhabitant's outer energy rapidly disintegrated under the scouring of the elemental torrent, exposing the information core inside.

Under the continuous scouring of the fire elements, the information core trembled violently, and then with a "pop," it completely collapsed.

The indigenous inhabitant disappeared.

Countless fine information fragments drifted slowly in the sea of light.

Seeing this, Jie Ming frowned; the effect of the pure elemental impact was unexpectedly good.

However, he reacted quickly, stepping forward without hesitation and forming seals with his hands.

"Causal Trace-Shadow Technique!"

Pale golden light spread from his palms, enveloping those information fragments that were dissipating.

The spell was activated, and those fragments were forcibly frozen, then began to backtrack their residual traces, their previous structures, and every interaction they had had with the surrounding environment.

Countless information surged into Jie Ming's mind.

The Fate System operated wildly, piecing these fragments together one by one, analyzing them, and archiving them.

A moment later, Jie Ming withdrew his hands and exhaled a long breath.

"The harvest is not bad..."

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