Chapter 224: The Sun in the Heart

Cold, trembling...

Floating in midair, Clark Kent slowly opened his azure-blue eyes.

In his line of sight, a group of people in white coats surrounded him; the square-faced man at their head spoke, asking, "Do you know who you are?"

'Who am I?' Clark Kent recalled his past in his heart.

'I am Clark Kent, who once guarded justice under the name of Superman. But the cruelty of the world made me disheartened; justice compromised before power, and kindness seemed powerless. I began to question: where is true justice? Thus, I was no longer bound by rules, using my power to punish criminals who escaped legal sanction.' Kent thought to himself.

"My lord, he is an alien; you should use English." A white-coated person beside him reminded the square-faced man.

"Ah, I used the Chinese-dubbed version; never mind that." The square-faced man waved his hand impatiently.

Facing everyone's gaze, Kent said calmly, "The world calls me the Injustice Superman; I am the scourge of evil, the hero's nemesis, the people's leader."

As he spoke, amidst everyone's joyful gaze, Clark descended slowly from his midair floating, saying, "Where is this, and who are you all?"

"I am your creator."

Li Huowang waved his hand, excitedly examining the man before him in a black uniform, with a crimson red S symbol emblazoned on his chest and a red cape billowing behind.

"Creator? Hmph, sheer nonsense!"

Speaking coldly, Clark suddenly thrust his hand forward; amidst a cloud of dust, he prepared to fly out of the base, but the moment he took off, the square-faced man grabbed his arm.

'No... something's wrong...'

Under Clark's observation, the person before him, at some point, now had an F symbol carved on his chest and was smiling at him.

"Your original host couldn't even beat me; much less you, a doll covered by my personality after the fact." Li Huowang laughed heartily, having already borrowed F Superman's abilities.

Filtering out Li Huowang's incomprehensible words directly in his mind, the Injustice Superman saw his own arm as if clamped by iron tongs, utterly unable to break free.

"Are you a Kryptonian too?" Clark asked subconsciously, then his eyes activated his x-ray vision, sweeping the surroundings.

Through his super vision, he immediately discovered he was now in an unfamiliar base, filled everywhere with clones floating in nutrient fluid.

But in the next instant, with no thought of explanation, Li Huowang's fist struck Clark directly in the face: "You talk too much; let me test your physical functions after rebirth."

As he spoke, Li Huowang grabbed Clark's head and smashed straight through the thick underground rock layers toward the surface, followed by an explosion like a violent storm bombardment.

Ten minutes later, Li Huowang returned to the base, dragging Clark's unconscious body.

Throwing the unconscious Clark to the ground, Li Huowang said indifferently:

"More stubborn than before; strength is about seven hundred eighty thousand tons, speed is fifteen times the speed of sound, and defensive power can withstand an impact of one million five hundred thousand tons without injury."

"But compared to the ten million tons of strength I set in his memories, it is far weaker."

"However, due to the change in memories, this fellow has completely forgotten his inheritance 【Blood Sea Undying Body】, and instead gained special abilities like bio-field, x-ray vision, laser, and freezing breath; no different from the Superman portrayed in the movies."

Listening to Li Huowang's account, a researcher nearby summarized, "So it seems the influence of consciousness on the body is greater than imagined; that so-called Light of the Heart must be something like skill points in a game."

"And if a person's cognition is completely erased, in the Light of the Heart's cognition, that person is considered completely dead, their data deleted."

"But although the data is deleted, for the body, it merely means a person's skill points have been completely reset; these returned skill points can be allocated to new attributes."

"Strength, speed, defense, and special abilities can all be readjusted through resetting points."

"But since the points are fixed, no matter how much the Second Transformation distorts cognition, it remains merely a Second Transformation."

"However, I feel there is still some content that needs deeper exploration; my lord, shall we continue the experiment?" the researcher asked cautiously, though he had not slept all night, he was extremely excited.

"Of course; this time, let's distort his memories with a different personality. This Light of the Heart feels like a combination of the Desire to Divide Demon Chapter and the Hell Soul-Washing Sutra." Li Huowang said excitedly.

After a night of relaxation, Fang Can was awakened by knocking sounds from outside the door.

Before opening his eyes, he felt a soft body burrow into the quilt.

Through the contact, Fang Can immediately concluded that the one hugging him now was Liu Qingmeng.

Because he had already felt his Heart-Image being continuously absorbed and transformed by the young girl.

Before he could speak, a crisp voice sounded by his ear: "Fang Can, don't forget today's friend fee."

Sighing lightly, Fang Can said no more, letting the girl's small actions be, and instead began to cultivate.

Feeling that while in the First Transformation Feather Transformation Stage, his body's strength was visibly increasing under the Hundred-Day Foundation Establishment; he only needed to pass the hundred days steadily to make his strength ten times stronger.

But now, during this Hundred-Day Foundation Establishment process, Fang Can could also artificially accelerate it through cultivation.

The main cultivation method is the liberation of the spirit and visualization, to achieve mental stability, then apply the spirit to the body.

Simply put, one must fix one's character setting; every word and action must strive to align with one's own personality.

The more your behavior and personality align, the more stable your will becomes, and naturally, the speed of strengthening increases.

Another method is pure cultivation, such as nurturing literary qi, forging the body through martial arts, and using the placebo effect to make the false real and become stronger.

After all, the essence of the Idealist Martial Dao is the liberation of the spirit.

And now, Fang Can, having entered the First Transformation, naturally needed to upgrade the cultivation method of the old version of the 【Great Sun Undying Demon Body】.

Compared to the previous cultivation, during the Path to Heaven stage, Fang Can completely abandoned body forging and instead began to visualize a sun within his heart.

As his eyes closed slightly and his consciousness sank into the Lake of the Heart, the world, originally pitch black, was now illuminated by a warm and bright orb of light.

The sun in Fang Can's heart was not as scorching and blinding as the one outside, but like his own personality, radiating a glow of order and stability.

Through the visualization of his consciousness, he could feel the light radiating from the sun in his heart truly penetrating into his cells, gradually strengthening both his body and his Heart-Image.

(End of Chapter)