Chapter 75

Habitually closing his eyes, he sank his mind into his body.

During this decadent relaxing time, Jie Ming did not give up nourishing the magic treasure, and his efforts were not in vain.

He could feel that the degree of connection between the Heart Mirror and his mind was getting deeper and deeper, as if it had become the sixth organ of his body.

This feeling became stronger day by day, until just now, Jie Ming felt that perhaps it was time for the first attempt.

So Jie Ming couldn't wait to experience the core function of the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror: transforming into light and escaping.

He wanted to test what effect the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror could achieve at the late Qi Condensation Stage, and the limit he could bear himself.

Considering that the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror's escape speed is extremely fast, a simple laboratory training ground is no longer enough.

Jie Ming left the academy again and flew for several days before choosing a mountain range with open terrain nearby as the test site.

This place is far away from towns and rarely visited by people; even if it creates an astonishing movement, it will not attract attention.

In a valley, Jie Ming took a deep breath and calmed his mood.

He concentrated his spiritual sense completely on the Heart Mirror in his dantian.

"Transform into light!" He silently gave the order in his heart.

In an instant, the Heart Mirror in his dantian suddenly burst into a dazzling light.

This light did not spread outward, but instantly converged, transforming from real to virtual, turning into an invisible force that surged out from his dantian and instantly wrapped his whole body.

This is a peculiar feeling that is hard to describe.

His body seemed to have lost its physical reality at this moment, becoming extremely light, like pure light itself.

A layer of "light clothing" emitting five-colored faint light covered his skin, merging with his body.

He could feel that what constituted this layer of light clothing was exactly the five light concepts intertwined and entangled inside the Heart Mirror!

His body did not feel pain or discomfort, but instead had a wonderful sense of liberation.

He seemed to have gotten rid of the shackles of the flesh and could rush in any direction at any time.

"Travel by light!"

His mind moved again! He chose a protruding rock in the distance of the valley as the target.

There was no roar, no loud noise, and not even the slightest sound of air tearing appeared.

Jie Ming felt his body suddenly burst into golden-red flowing light, and the surrounding scenery became fragmented at this moment, as if it had been chopped into countless pieces by a giant axe.

The sense of time was completely distorted, and space seemed to be folded and compressed.

Everything before his eyes turned into blurred light bands and color blocks; he could only barely capture some fragmented scenes—the phantom shadows of trees retreating rapidly, the outlines of mountains passing by, the vegetation on the ground flashing briefly... all of this superimposed and jumped in a non-logical way, so fast that his eyes and brain could not process it at all!

He felt that he was not "flying," but "teleporting."

He was not mastering light, but briefly becoming light!

Unable to perceive air resistance, unable to perceive the distance from the ground, Jie Ming only knew that he was "rushing forward" at an unimaginable speed!

Jie Ming tried to control the direction, tried to adjust the trajectory, but his body didn't listen at all!

He is now like a driven arrow; once shot, he can only move forward at extreme speed in the established direction!

How long did the transformation into light last?

Maybe it was one ten-thousandth of a second.

Maybe it was shorter...

The distorted sense of time produced by extreme high speed made Jie Ming completely unable to judge.

Without any deceleration, and without any warning, the previous second he was still feeling that extreme speed, the next second, a huge impact force suddenly came!

The escape light dissipated in an instant, his body appeared suddenly at the physical level, and then...

He felt that he had crashed into something hard!

Boom!

A huge force backlashed, and his body let out a painful muffled groan.

He tried to stand firm, but felt his legs go weak and his eyes go black.

It took a long time to come back to his senses, and Jie Ming found that he had crashed heavily into a huge rock!

Half of his body, from the waist down, was embedded in the hard rock.

He barely pulled out his arm, leaned against the rock wall, and gasped for breath.

In his dantian, true essence was like a riverbed that had been drained, exhausted to the extreme.

Just this instant of escape consumed all his true essence at the late Qi Condensation Stage!

His soul was also like experiencing torture; he felt his soul trembling, his brain exhausted and stinging, almost collapsing!

He struggled to pull his body out of the rock, and the pain made him let out a low roar.

Fortunately, the magic treasure itself was endowed with an extremely perfect safety system when it was refined; after the light-transformation flight ended, the user would not carry the inertia during flight.

The reason why Jie Ming was embedded in the rock was purely because he couldn't control his power well when using it for the first time, and the residual energy that exploded when he finally released the light transformation caused him counter-damage.

As long as he practices a few more times in the future, such problems will not occur again.

Compared to the damage caused by power backlash, what is more terrifying is the short sense of emptiness after the escape ends.

Jie Ming felt that at that moment, his vitality had been drained; his limbs were not listening to him, and at least within a few breaths, he could not make any effective dodging or counter-attacking actions.

If this test was in front of an enemy, he would be a piece of meat on the chopping block now, at the mercy of others!

He tried his best to crawl out of the rock and slumped on the ground, leaning against the rock that had been crashed into a human-shaped depression by him.

He is now weak all over, and even standing up is difficult.

Empty inside, weak spiritual sense, body pain, and that indescribable sense of stiffness...

It wasn't until he stayed on the ground for a long time that he felt he had come back to his senses, and tremblingly reached out to take out a well-protected potion bottle from his clothes, opened it, and poured the potion inside into his mouth.

Feeling the coolness of the potion quickly restoring his body's injuries and mental strength, Jie Ming finally had time to savor the feeling of transforming into light just now.

Too fast!

The speed of light-transformation flight was so fast that he didn't even fully understand what had happened, and everything was over!

So fast that he completely lost control!

But... it was also too powerful!

Just at the late Qi Condensation Stage, relying on the primary form of the magic treasure, he reached this level of escape speed!

He probed his consciousness into his dantian; that Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror had also become somewhat dim at this moment, and the light was flowing extremely slowly, obviously the consumption was equally huge, and it also needed time to recover.

He gasped for breath, looked up at the mountain range where he had come from and could no longer see the shadow, and then looked down at his embarrassed state.

Being able to make his vision unable to see the mountain range shows that he flew at least a thousand miles away in that instant.

This was still because his true essence was too little, and he could only maintain the light-transformation state for a very short moment.

If he could maintain the light transformation for a longer time, the distance he could fly would increase exponentially.