Chapter 431: Avatar Beyond the Body

"Eleven‑level Wizard!"

Lei En was immersed in the joy of leveling up, and saw a new branch sprout on the World Tree within his soul, at the same height as the Bimon Giant Beast's Magic Soul, but the branch bore only a single leaf.

The runes on this leaf were extremely intricate, resembling three‑dimensional lines tangled together; within the mysterious symbols lay dizzying, profound knowledge that surpassed all his current Elements, even beyond the Truth Willpower.

"Truly a Legendary Element!" Lei En exclaimed.

His mastery of Element runes had already reached a high level; generally, the more complex a rune, the greater the amount of information it contains, and the higher its grade.

The Magic Soul of Arcane Touch only increased his energy by three units, far less than a normal Legendary Magic Soul.

Lei En was not surprised, because most of the mental power of Arcane Touch had manifested as a corpse; the Magic Soul was merely a container for a Legendary Element and had not taken away much energy.

"Next, I will forge an Avatar."

Having just merged the Magic Soul, Lei En's mental state was at its peak, and he immediately activated Arcane Touch, causing the leaves on the World Tree to glow.

Buzz…

Lei En's soul trembled as the World Tree in his mind gently swayed.

The Arcane Touch Element was like a bottomless pit, devouring all the soul power poured into it; the second tier of energy was exhausted within seconds, and the first tier began to drop. In less than thirty seconds, his energy had been drained by twenty units.

As massive soul power was injected, the Element runes grew ever brighter.

Another minute passed.

The first tier of energy had already fallen to half, and as Lei En began to worry that his soul power might be insufficient and whether to draw from the soul power pool, the Element rune's consumption halted.

Then, he "saw" the runes on that leaf lift off.

The illusory runes, made of purest soul power, detached from the World Tree, floated within the soul space at a distance from the Tree, hovering there and rotating slowly, with occasional strange silver threads protruding like tentacles.

Lei En waited a few seconds and lightly touched the rune with his consciousness.

In an instant, something miraculous occurred!

He felt his consciousness being drawn into the Element rune, falling into his own soul space, where a towering World Tree stood before him, making his perspective seem minuscule. At the same time, he did not lose control of his body and could still see himself seated in the meditation chamber.

In that instant, another version of himself was born.

The original soul remained intact, its thoughts clear and calm, unaffected; the newly formed soul also possessed its own thoughts and independent reasoning, yet lacked a body of its own, like a rootless water‑lily drifting beside the World Tree.

The sensation resembled multitasking, but went a step further.

It was as if two independent people, their thoughts unsynchronized, yet essentially the same person—me in you, you in me!

"This…" Lei En scratched his head uncomfortably and muttered, "Hope it doesn't cause a split personality."

The newborn soul in his mind thought, "It shouldn't cause a mental split, right?"

"Lei En" had no eyes, yet could sense the space he occupied; a massive World Tree stood before him, lush and vibrant, with branches bearing varying numbers of leaves, each different Element rune emitting multicolored radiance.

This was Lei En's first time observing his own soul from such a perspective.

"And then?"

"What should be done?"

Before the thought could finish, "Lei En" suddenly appeared at the World Tree's trunk as if teleporting, a leaf close to him instantly identified as the Key of Doors Element.

Before he could act, the rune on the leaf vibrated.

A duplicated phantom rune detached from the leaf, turning into a stream of light that merged into Lei En's soul, forming the first Element within the newborn soul—the Key of Doors!

This Element was identical to the Key of Doors on the World Tree and was already at six rings.

"So that's how it is!"

"Lei En" thought, and saw that the branch bearing the Key of Doors had six more leaves; he approached each, and six beams of light entered his soul, becoming Elements: Light Burst, Vector Shield, Blink, Arbitrary Door, Mirror Image, and Space‑Time Shock.

After copying these Arcane Elements, "Lei En" teleported a short distance, appearing beside the branch transformed by the Fuxinyuan Demon Soul Demon Soul Demon Soul.

A few seconds later, the Truth Willpower Element merged into his soul.

"Lei En" began to work busily, copying his Elements from low to high, one after another, and soon realized he could only duplicate Arcane Elements and Ability Elements.

Physical Elements had no effect on Lei En.

His strongest ten‑level "Strength" remained unchanged, and the rest—"Iron Body", "Swiftness", "Blood Frenzy", "True Dragon Body", "Bimon Claw", as well as melee Elements like "Charge" and "Devastating Critical"—all could not be copied.

Earlier, when Lei En sensed the Arcane Touch Element, he already knew the Avatar's mental power could not be transformed into bodily attributes, but he did not expect it to exclude Physical Elements so directly.

"What a pity, the Avatar can only be a glass‑cannon Wizard."

Lei En still felt a bit regretful.

"He" continued copying Elements, and upon reaching the branch transformed by the Electric Light Mouse, saw the Thunder‑Electric Form that had evolved from Lightning Affinity, and suddenly hesitated.

According to the plan, Lei En intended to have the Avatar cultivate the Elf Meditation Method to become a Wizard.

In the future, he will arrange a public identity event for the Avatar, and, like Ao Xiliya, publicly claim to be an Arcane practitioner.

With the Key of Doors Element, the Avatar would inevitably be an outstanding Arcane practitioner, impossible for outsiders to see through.

Lei En also wished the Avatar to double‑train as an Elementalist, like the most powerful casters; many Law Seal school Holy Soul Wizards double‑train in two, even three specializations!

For example, Hong Shi, Duke, this self‑proclaimed first genius in human history Holy Soul Wizard, who is both a Spirit‑user and an Elementalist, and masters two elemental schools, possessing three affinities in total.

"Prophet" Master Mei Difu, also a dual‑trained Arcane practitioner and Elementalist.

The Arcane Touch Avatar's innate talent was even higher than that of a Holy Soul Wizard, so Lei En naturally did not want to waste such a gift; he aimed to become stronger, fully exploiting the advantage, planning to master three specializations—that is, three affinities!

The first is Arcane affinity, based on the Key of Doors and Void Resonance.

The second is Spirit affinity; the Truth Willpower will allow the Avatar to easily master Spirit spells.

The third is Element affinity; as a Mo Du Wizard and a disciple of Master An Xiwo, the original self has already taken the combat Wizard path, so the Avatar should at least inherit the teacher's doctrine, otherwise it would be hard to justify.

Moreover, Lei En himself leans toward Mo Du's philosophy, so making the Avatar an Elementalist also serves as practice.

However, with two affinities already, the Avatar can only choose one elemental school.

Even the most gifted casters cannot fuse more than three affinities simultaneously; three is the theoretical limit.

Lei En possesses a Thunder‑Electric Form, so the simplest choice is to become a Lightning Elementalist.

However, he prefers fire elements, which would allow him to most fully practice Mo Du theory. Also, to diversify his spell repertoire, his original self already commands many Lightning spells; a differentiated choice will unleash greater power in the future.

Most importantly, Lei En does not want anyone to know the relationship between his true form and his avatar; if the spells are too similar, people will inevitably make the connection.

After some careful thought, he decided to abandon the "Thunder Form".

Among the many thunder spells on the World Tree, Lei En also gave them up, choosing only the "Electric Flash Teleport"; this displacement spell can be used interchangeably with "Flash", greatly increasing combat flexibility.

When Lei En copied an Element, Lei En was rapidly manipulating the phone interface.

He opened the Taming Master, severed the bond between a Flame Dragon perched on the cliffs of Jin Gang Fort and an Extreme Warrior, and selected the "Flame Affinity" Element from its soul to share with himself. On the World Tree, a new leaf sprouted instantly, its Element rune being Flame Affinity.

Unfortunately, even though he owned dozens of Flame Dragons, he could share only one Element.

Otherwise, by sharing a few more Flame Affinities, he could advance to the "Flame Furnace".

Lei En immediately copied "Flame Affinity", gaining a third affinity and sparing himself the trouble of providing a constant effect for his avatar later.

After completing all this, Lei En ended the sharing with the Flame Dragon and reassigned the Extreme Warrior as its tamer. The entire process took less than ten seconds, and the resting Extreme Warrior never noticed the change in his draconic mount.

Next, he copied "Void Resonance" and the "Rainbow Light Principle".

"Metal Touch" and "Activated Metal" are both psychic Elements; copying them into the new soul allows the avatar to study machinery and weapons together, improving production efficiency. The final copies were the "Rainbow Light Beam" and the "Dragon Power Technique", both Arcane.

Lei En counted; he had copied a total of fifteen Elements, which wasn't many.

He rose and approached the corpse of Mysterious Touch, which had been dead for nearly half an hour yet had not vanished; thousands of blood-colored runes were almost fused with the monster's body, each tentacle, each worm, each eye looking as if swollen with blood, vivid crimson, gently twitching on the ground as if still alive.

In fact, calling it a "corpse" is inaccurate; it is merely a manifestation of mental energy, the body remains alive but soulless, just an empty shell.

As soon as a soul is loaded into the monster, it will instantly become "alive"!

Lei En took a deep breath.

He stared at the monster's terrifying body, picked up one of its tentacles and grasped it; it was viscous, slick, and icy. Yet after it had fused with a demon soul, its exterior no longer seemed that dreadful, but instead had a strange "beauty".

Lei En focused his mind and began transferring the soul in his brain outward.

In the soul space, the Element leaf of Mysterious Touch lit up again, its light forming a passage to the outside world.

The newly created soul, having just copied a dozen Elements, immediately flew into the passage.

At the moment Lei En was about to depart, the phone interface in his view flickered briefly; the battery plummeted instantly, nearly empty, with a full fifty units of charge disappearing.

This sudden change almost caused Lei En's brain to crash.

A Little Red Flower caught up with the Lei En soul in the passage and merged into it; this scene left both Lei Ens both shocked and delighted— the MutatedPhone had even duplicated a copy of itself, completely beyond his expectations!

But he didn't have time to check the situation, because the soul had already transferred out.

Lei En appeared in Lei En's hand, slipping directly into the tentacle, entering without resistance as if a sponge soaking up water.

The monster's corpse immediately began thrashing.

Lei En released the tentacle and stepped back a few paces; this massive octopus‑like monster, as if electrocuted, twisted wildly on the ground, its tentacles flailing in the air and striking the floor. The blood covering its body began to flow, and the blood-colored runes that had floated on the surface started seeping inward.

This blood, solidified into runes, seemed to have a calming effect, and the monster's thrashing gradually ceased.

Gradually, the monster and the blood merged completely.

Its body changed, countless worm‑formed flesh masses contracting inward; the terrifying shape gradually became less gruesome, the worms vanished, and all tentacles retracted, forming a lump of blood‑colored flesh.

The flesh lump twisted and distorted, extending and elongating bit by bit.

First the torso formed, then limbs and a head grew, as if a human's development were accelerated millions of times, growing at a visible speed; bones, organs, muscles, blood vessels… every human feature appeared one by one.

He stood up, his body now covered with a layer of skin and hair, indistinguishable from a normal person.

At this point, the facial features also became gradually clear.

When fully formed and the appearance of Lei En was visible, Lei En felt both astonishment and a very complicated emotion.

This Lei En has black hair, fair skin, and stands close to 1.8 meters—neither tall nor short. He has almost no visible muscle, a proportionate build, showing no signs of training, appearing as an ordinary, slightly gaunt person.

Lei En's appearance is handsome and fresh, but pales compared to Lei En's true form; the temperament is worlds apart.

But Lei En looked at this face and let out a sigh.

It is the likeness of his previous life.

The avatar not only looks identical to Shi Jingchui on Diqiu, even matching his physique, but there are slight differences—perhaps because it transformed from Mysterious Touch; even with eyes closed, it still radiates a cold, eerie demeanor.

At that moment, Lei En opened his eyes.

His pupils were also black; indeed, his gaze differed completely from his previous life—strange, indifferent, mysterious, as if capable of drawing others' souls in, making people reluctant to meet his eyes.

A "di" sound.

Red flowers floated in Lei En's pupils; the MutatedPhone powered on!

(End of chapter)