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Chapter 441

Twenty days passed quietly.

The floor around Su Hao was covered with countless fragments of Diamond Armor, all of them impurities expelled from his body during the intense metabolic transformation.

For nearly three weeks, his body had continuously replaced its own tissues at an astonishing rate.

Now, every cell cried out for rest.

An overwhelming fatigue spread from his flesh into his very consciousness.

It was a feeling Su Hao had rarely experienced.

It reminded him of the frailty of an elderly man approaching the end of his life in his previous world.

Fortunately...

His goal had been achieved.

He had successfully entered the Nascent Soul Realm.


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After twenty days of nonstop transformation, the total amount of spiritual power within Su Hao's body had decreased considerably.

At the same time, the structure of that spiritual power had undergone a complete transformation.

The enormous circulation system originally centered around the Five Viscera Spiritual Core and the Twelve Meridians had extended deep into every organ.

Instead of merely flowing around the organs, spiritual power now penetrated them, intertwining with flesh and blood so thoroughly that the two could hardly be distinguished.

Su Hao's body was no longer composed solely of flesh, blood, and bone.

It had become a fusion of biological tissue and spiritual power.

As his cultivation progressed further, the proportion of spiritual tissue would continue increasing until, eventually, his entire body would become spiritualized.


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After adapting to his transformed body for a while, Su Hao quickly discovered its greatest advantage.

A vastly increased lifespan.

"Although some biological characteristics have diminished..."

"My body's durability has increased tremendously."

"It's like replacing biological components with mechanical ones."

"Mechanical parts may not possess every function of living organs..."

"But they are far more durable."

"And even if they're damaged..."

"They can simply be replaced."

This...

Was the biological technology of spiritualization.

To a certain extent, the cultivation civilization of this world had pushed biological engineering to an astonishing level.


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"The structure of my spiritual power has changed as well."

"After passing through this new internal circulation system, the quality of my spiritual power is beginning another qualitative evolution."

Previously, the Five Viscera Spiritual Core functioned like an external circulation system.

Now...

After taking root deep inside every organ, it resembled an ancient tree whose roots had spread throughout the earth.

Its circulation was no longer superficial.

It had become layered and profound.

With every cycle through the Spirit Energy Wave structure, the very nature of his spiritual power slowly evolved toward a higher level.

Eventually...

Every technique, every artifact, and every formation would become substantially more powerful.


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"At present, only my body has completed its transformation."

"My spiritual power itself hasn't fully evolved yet."

"That process will require more time."

"I'll leave it alone for now."

"The priority is getting some proper rest."

"Once my body recovers, I'll conduct a complete evaluation."


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Ordinary cultivators never experienced this level of exhaustion after entering the Nascent Soul Realm.

Their breakthrough usually unfolded over twenty years or more.

During those decades, their bodies and spiritual power gradually transformed together.

Everything progressed naturally.

By the time they reached the Nascent Soul Realm, every change had already stabilized.

Su Hao's method was completely different.

Instead of allowing the transformation to proceed organically...

He assembled everything piece by piece.

Like constructing a machine.

The process was incomparably faster.

Its side effects were equally obvious.


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Su Hao did not mind.

No one understood his own body better than he did.

As long as he did not exhaust his vitality beyond recovery...

He could push himself as hard as he pleased.

After sleeping for a while...

His body would naturally recover.

Even sacrificing a small portion of lifespan was acceptable.

Because...

His objective had never been becoming a powerful cultivator.

Nor was it obtaining two thousand years of longevity.

His true goal had always remained the same.

To completely master the principles governing spiritual power.

Then...

Using that knowledge...

Discover true immortality.

Su Hao had realized this long ago.

Cultivators pursued longevity.

They did not possess eternity.

No matter how long two thousand years seemed...

Eventually, it would still come to an end.

Everything they accumulated would ultimately return to the world.

That was not what Su Hao wanted.


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One must never forget one's original purpose.

Every world possessed countless fascinating things.

It was impossible to experience them all.

If something did not contribute toward his ultimate objective...

It simply did not deserve his attention.

Time was limitless.

Human attention was not.

It was all too easy to lose sight of one's destination.


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Su Hao often thought of a simple example.

A hunter chased a rabbit into the grass.

Suddenly, a pheasant burst out nearby.

The hunter immediately abandoned the rabbit and pursued the pheasant instead.

Eventually, cornered, the pheasant turned around and fiercely attacked the hunter...

Shattering one of his eggs.

Everyone watching exclaimed,

"What an incredible pheasant!"

"It actually broke the hunter's egg!"

But...

Was the broken egg really the important part?

No.

Everyone had already forgotten the original objective.

The rabbit.

No one remembered why the hunter had entered the forest in the first place.

That...

Was what it meant to lose sight of one's goal.


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To prevent himself from making the same mistake, Su Hao had long ago placed a huge task board in the most prominent location inside the Marble Space.

Upon it was written the single core objective of this world.

Everything unrelated to that objective was pushed aside.

His attention would never wander.


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After reviewing the current progress recorded on the task board, Su Hao left the Marble Space.

His figure disappeared.

The next instant...

He appeared on the bed inside his bedroom.

After sending Yashan a brief message informing him that his seclusion had ended...

He immediately fell asleep.


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That sleep lasted three days and three nights.

When Su Hao finally opened his eyes again...

His mind once more felt completely refreshed.

After washing, eating, exercising briefly, and thoroughly examining his own body...

He finally reached a conclusion.

"My rapid breakthrough method..."

"...works."

"If the entire process were extended from twenty days to around one hundred days..."

"It would become much smoother."

"The physical and mental strain would also decrease significantly."


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"The next step..."

"Restore my spiritual power."

"And then completely refine it into Nascent Soul spiritual power."

"Only after that will this breakthrough truly be complete."


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With a thought...

Su Hao Blinked directly into the meditation chamber.

Sitting cross-legged once more, he waved his hand.

Bottle after bottle of elixirs appeared before him.

He smiled.

"Time to take some medicine."

Without hesitation, he grabbed four bottles.

He swallowed every pill in a single motion.

Then closed his eyes.

The conversion of spiritual power began once again.


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Three months later...

Su Hao slowly opened his eyes.

The familiar feeling returned.

His spiritual power once again felt overwhelmingly abundant, like a balloon filled to its limit.

Satisfied, he stopped cultivating.

Looking at the mountain of empty pill bottles piled before him, he sighed.

"So many pills..."

"And they're still barely enough."

Before beginning cultivation, he had believed the enormous stockpile would last for years.

Instead...

After filling his Nascent Soul spiritual power reserves...

Almost nothing remained.


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Without those pills...

Even with cultivation speed roughly fifty times greater than an ordinary cultivator...

Su Hao estimated he would still have required nearly six years.

For an average Nascent Soul cultivator...

Relying solely upon ordinary cultivation...

Reaching the peak of the realm required roughly one hundred years.

To cultivators blessed with thousand-year lifespans...

A century was acceptable.

To Su Hao...

It was intolerably slow.

How much knowledge...

How much research...

Could be accomplished in one hundred years?

Far too much.


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"The efficiency of these pills is disappointing."

"In the future..."

"I'll develop highly concentrated primitive protein pills."

"Those will deserve to be called true cultivation pills."

"As for these..."

"They're little more than low-grade medicine."


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After adjusting his condition once more...

Su Hao resumed cultivation.

Now that his spiritual power reserves had been replenished...

It was time to refine every strand into true Nascent Soul spiritual power.

That process would take considerably longer.


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He briefly considered another possibility.

Directly using a Spiritual Power Property Transformer to elevate all of his spiritual power in a single step.

Unfortunately...

The technology had not yet reached that level.

Current transformation runes could modify spiritual power properties.

They could not yet accomplish a complete qualitative evolution.

According to Yashan's latest estimates...

Another year of research should allow him to fully derive the transformation laws governing spiritual power.

From first-order transformations...

To second-order...

Third-order...

And beyond.

Eventually...

Not only would runes and techniques become transplantable...

Even the quality of spiritual power itself could theoretically be upgraded directly.

Foundation Establishment...

Golden Core...

Nascent Soul...

All through controlled transformation.


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Thinking of that possibility, Su Hao smiled.

Even so...

He remained realistic.

He did not believe that a single rune system could endlessly elevate spiritual power without limit.

That violated every principle he understood.

Just as the mathematical constant e represented the natural limit of continuous growth...

Every system possessed its own upper bound.

The Spiritual Power Property Transformer would be no exception.

If he wished to surpass that limit...

Additional conditions would have to be discovered.

As for what those conditions were...

He still had no answer.

But that merely meant more research remained to be done.


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"If you gave me one hundred years..."

"I could completely revolutionize the cultivation civilization of this world."

"From its very foundations."

Then...

Every cultivator would no longer spend centuries simply accumulating spiritual power.

Instead...

They could devote their lives to joyful cultivation, discovery, and research.

Everyone would benefit.

A true win-win outcome.