Chapter 2049: Even More Perverse Challenge

After returning from Four Seas City, Xiao Feng cultivated for 12 hours.

Then he silently chanted "Origin Mi Jing", opening the teleportation gate.

For several months he hadn't entered Origin Mi Jing, and his progress had been dragged out for quite a while.

Qian Sha, Super Mecha Soldier No. 1, and other top players had already cleared the second-layer challenge, and were now struggling in the third stage.

Through conversations with his friends, Xiao Feng already knew what the third stage's content was.

Origin Mi Jing is a very perverse place.

The first stage requires defeating a heart demon with ten thousand times one's own attributes; the second stage requires fighting one's past and future selves, which is nearly impossible to overcome head-on, so the only way to barely pass is to die a hundred times.

And the third stage is even more perverse!

This stage's challenge is to disassemble the player into hundreds of millions of pieces, scatter them in the boundless starry sky, and require oneself to piece the body back together piece by piece.

This stage's challenge is the same as the second stage's, both taking place in an independent instance space where only oneself is present.

No, more accurately, only one's own fragments are present; you won't find other players' fragments.

Qian Sha, Super Mecha Soldier No. 1, and Shen Chuo have all endured this stage's torment for quite a long time.

After Feng Feng Shi's rebirth, he also came here a few times, but didn't stay long.

According to Qian Sha, this stage's challenge is not only perverse but also disgusting; searching for one's own body fragments is extremely bloody, and he envies the players of Zu Jian Xing, who, when disassembled, don't bleed—at most they leak oil or electricity—unlike him, who has to search for bones, skin, muscles, and also blood, sweat hairs, and hair, which is terribly troublesome.

The perverseness of this challenge let Xiao Feng faintly

He roughly guessed that its purpose should be to temper the challenger's will control ability.

The first stage tempers explosive combat ability, the second stage tempers mental tenacity, and one must not doubt oneself.

And this third assessment of collecting one's own flesh fragments requires using willpower as both hands, gathering one's own flesh fragments bit by bit to succeed, naturally needing stronger will control ability.

Xiao Feng arrived at the second stone platform of Origin Mountain, looked around, and saw no one.

He then stepped onto the third mountain path alone.

This mountain path is still very long; trying to rush past by speed is completely impossible.

After walking just a few steps forward, Xiao Feng felt his consciousness affected by an unknown force, beginning to dissipate.

In the next moment, ripples flowed before his eyes, the scene changed, and it became a boundless starry sky.

Boom!

At the instant of entering the starry sky world, Xiao Feng's body shattered.

The challenge of Origin Mi Jing does not have system information giving explanations, unlike the Myriad Heavens Tower, which clearly tells you what the assessment content is and what the passing standard is.

Xiao Feng's flesh was torn apart, shattering into countless tiny powder-like remnants, like a supernova explosion, forming a huge shockwave that spread in all directions.

In the blink of an eye, his flesh fragments were divided into hundreds of millions of pieces, radiating into the boundless starry expanse.

Although he had mental preparation, this sudden tearing still left Xiao Feng somewhat unprepared, feeling his mindset wobble a bit.

The surroundings were silent, with no system display.

Xiao Feng's will was also torn apart,

turning into countless tiny molecules, wandering with the flesh powder through countless areas.

However, compared to the flesh, the division of willpower is not so exaggerated, only about tens of thousands of parts, attached to some flesh fragments.

After being divided, the clarity of willful thought markedly decreased, as if one person had become tens of thousands of people; the thinking ability remains the same, but one must consider many more things, making mental stamina easily insufficient.

Xiao Feng silently chanted "Abort the challenge," and a large portion of the tens of thousands of will fragments were thinking that way.

Soon, his consciousness regained clarity, and he exited that instance starry sky.

At the same time, the person also returned to below the mountain path, as if he had never taken that step.

"It's truly terrifying; if one's real flesh were torn apart like this, and willpower ground down into tens of thousands of parts, recovering would take at least several years." Xiao Feng said with lingering fear.

If he hadn't broken through as a Controller, he wouldn't feel this so clearly; now, having just broken through, he deeply understands what flesh and willpower respectively represent.

Controllers like him, who take the flesh as their life core, will not die as long as a single cell remains, and can recover by relying on the origin seed within the cell.

But……that takes time!

The real world is not like the game world, where dying lets you instantly return via the teleportation array and stand up again.

Once a fatal injury is sustained, the flesh collapses to only a few cells; merely gathering energy and reconstructing the flesh is an extremely lengthy process.

If energy is scarce in an area, it could even take several hundred years to recover to peak condition!

Of course, the probability of this situation occurring is very

very very low; generally recovering about 20% allows a Controller to exert most of their abilities, and they can go find a place with more abundant energy to recuperate.

Xiao Feng experienced the sensation of being torn apart once, then returned to normal. After confirming the challenge could be aborted midway, he didn't delay and stepped onto the mountain path again.

Soon, the sensation of flesh being torn apart came again.

This time he did not exit, but instead first divided the spiritual will scattered in the starry sky into primary and secondary sections.

He still couldn't manage to use tens of thousands of minds at once.

These spiritual wills, each being a pair of his hands, with his mental strength and multitasking ability, can now simultaneously control about 48 Divine Sense for operation.

Thus, after clarifying, the fragments of these 48 spiritual wills began attracting surrounding spiritual will fragments and flesh fragments, to piece together.

With the flesh shattered, a single cell cannot perform complete actions such as breathing, grasping, or walking.

And after the spiritual will is divided, it only resembles a clone: from a strong body it becomes many slightly weaker bodies; although strength declines, they still have full capacity for action.

With Xiao Feng's heart-mind guiding, the 48 spiritual will fragments quickly gathered all fragments within a 500-kilometer radius around each.

These flesh powder and spirit fragments are irregularly distributed; within the same 500-kilometer range, some have more, some less, resulting in large differences in strength after absorption.

The largest piece of flesh fragment is about the size of a sesame seed, a small part of Xiao Feng's own flesh pectoral muscle. The smaller ones, the naked eye cannot see

cannot see, merely a small clump of cell tissue.

And the strongest portion of spiritual will happens to be not far from this flesh.

Thus he continued acting, merging these two fragments together to forge a "relatively strong" piece of muscle.

After about ten-odd minutes, the two largest fragments successfully made contact and merged with each other.

Willpower, carrying several Li Ti fragments and spirit fragments, successfully fused and assembled with this sesame-sized muscle fragment, turning into a body the size of a mung bean.

Although it's still very small, compared to the state where it couldn't even be seen, it's already a great progress.