Under the illumination of the light, countless fine runic patterns emerged on the barriers at the edge of his mental sea. Those patterns were the stabilizing structures of the mental sea recorded in the Myriad Forest Meditation Method, automatically branded onto the barriers the moment the mental crystal took shape.
Then, the singularity exploded.
There was no sound.
Only light.
An emerald-green light erupted from the singularity, spreading to every corner of his mental sea.
Wherever the light passed, the gray mist was swept away, and the volume of his mental sea expanded frantically under its push.
It swelled from its original fist size to the size of a head, and then from the size of a head to the size of his entire torso.
The mental crystal rotated slowly at the center of the light.
It was only the size of a thumb and formed a perfect sphere.
Countless overlapping emerald-green light patterns flowed across its surface. Every time the light patterns flickered, they stirred up a faint ripple of energy in his mental sea.
Inside the crystal, ninety-nine layers of particle alignments were stacked together with perfect precision, each layer resonating simultaneously with the other ninety-eight layers.
Ethan's mental power surged into the mental crystal.
The amount rushing in was hundreds of times greater than before the fusion.
The mental crystal swallowed all that mental power, then spat it back out.
The expelled mental power became purer and more condensed.
It was not a simple purification, but a fundamental leap in the nature of his mental power.
The total amount of mental power that thirty-six runes could hold was like a puddle compared to a lake in front of the mental crystal.
Ethan opened his eyes.
It was done.
A theoretically perfect fusion.
On the seventy-seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-seventh attempt.
The fusion was finally complete.
However, this did not mean Ethan was already a First-Tier Wizard—at least, not completely.
There were three criteria to be recognized as a First-Tier Wizard.
The first was to unite the mental runes in the mental sea, fusing them into a mental crystal.
This step was already complete.
The second was a First-Tier wizardry model.
This required complete mastery, after which the wizardry model would be branded onto the mental crystal, transforming the spell from an active cast into a passive one.
This step had to be done last.
The third was the need to complete the radiation-based transformation of the entire body.
The essence of this radiation-based transformation was to use the radiation field generated by the mental crystal to thoroughly reconstruct every cell in the body, allowing flesh, bone, and internal organs to transmute from mortal matter into supernatural tissues.
This step was just as important as fusing the mental crystal, and failure would similarly result in mutation, collapse, and death.
Ethan closed his eyes, his consciousness sinking back into the mental crystal.
The rotation speed of the crystal began to quicken.
Going from a slow spin to high-speed rotation, the emerald-green light flickered wildly across the crystal's surface.
All ninety-nine layers of light patterns lit up at the exact same instant. Light erupted from the crystal, penetrating his mental sea and skull, spreading toward every corner of his body.
The radiation field was activated.
Ethan's body suddenly tensed.
An invisible force surged from the depths of his mental sea, spreading throughout his body along his nerves, blood vessels, and fascia.
Wherever it passed, cells began to vibrate violently. This was not the brute force of energy particles washing over flesh, but a much deeper transformation.
Under the envelope of the radiation field, every single cell was forcibly awakened, transmuting from dormant, mortal tissue into a living organism capable of containing supernatural energy.
The change began with his bones.
The skull was the first to be irradiated.
Ethan could feel an itch deep inside his skull. Stimulated by the radiation field, the marrow within his bones began to proliferate and transform frantically.
The old bone marrow cells were replaced by newly born supernatural marrow, and his hematopoietic function multiplied dozens of times over in just a few seconds.
His blood changed from dark red into a liquid with a very faint, emerald-green luster. Every single drop of blood contained a trace of wood-element energy.
Next was his spine.
The thirty-three vertebrae were enveloped by the radiation field one by one, from top to bottom.
His bone density climbed crazily under the radiation, and the bone matter transformed from ivory white into a texture with pale green patterns.
Fine energy circuits emerged on the surface of the periosteum. These circuits, projected from the mental crystal, automatically branded themselves onto the periosteum, forming a natural protective layer.
Then came the ribs, sternum, shoulder blades, arm bones, finger bones, pelvis, leg bones, and toe bones.
The more than two hundred bones in his body transformed one after another within the radiation field.
The transformation lasted for a full thirty-three hours.
Ethan could hear his own bones creaking and groaning, continuously fracturing and reorganizing under the radiation.
The fractured bone fragments were devoured by the newly born supernatural bone matter, and the old structures were torn down and rebuilt.
Every single bone was evolving in a direction that could bear a higher density of energy.
Goddess of Life's Favor continuously repaired the damage caused by the fracturing bones.
Restoring five percent of his maximum vitality per second, every single fracture healed in the very next instant.
The healed bones were denser than before they fractured, and the energy circuits on the bone surface grew even clearer.
The skeletal transformation was complete.
Next was his muscles.
Over six hundred skeletal muscles twitched simultaneously under the envelope of the radiation field.
Muscle fibers vibrated violently under the infusion of supernatural energy. The old muscle fibers were torn apart, and new ones grew in their place.
The newly born muscle fibers were more than a circle thicker than the old ones, and extremely fine emerald-green patterns emerged on their surfaces.
Ethan's physique did not swell.
Instead, the density of his muscle fibers was increasing.
The force each muscle fiber could withstand multiplied by more than tenfold, and his reaction speed climbed rapidly alongside the synchronized modification of his nervous system.
The modification of his internal organs was the most violent.
His heart beat frantically in the radiation field, his heart rate soaring to over four hundred beats per minute.
The myocardium was continuously torn and healed amidst the high-speed beating, the volume of his ventricles expanded, and the thickness of his cardiac walls increased.
The volume of blood pumped with each heartbeat multiplied several times over, and the emerald-green light contained within the blood grew increasingly rich.
His lungs expanded and contracted in the radiation field, and the density of his alveoli increased.
Fine energy circuits emerged on the surface of every alveolus, causing his oxygen absorption efficiency to climb crazily.
Liver, kidneys, spleen, stomach, and intestines.
Every single organ went through the same process of tearing, reorganizing, and strengthening within the radiation field.
Fine beads of sweat seeped from Ethan's forehead.
The pain brought by the radiation-based transformation far surpassed that of the Elemental Torrent Body Refinement Technique.
The washing of energy particles over flesh was a form of brute destruction, whereas radiation-based transformation was a modification starting from the lowest level of cellular structure.
Every cell was being forcibly awakened, forcibly evolved, and forcibly adapted to the existence of supernatural energy.
He lost track of how much time passed,
but finally, the last bone finished its transformation.
The last muscle fiber completed its regeneration.
The last organ stabilized.
The mental crystal suddenly flared with light.
Emerald-green light erupted from the crystal, penetrating his mental sea and skull, spreading in all directions.
Wherever the light passed, the entire cultivation room was illuminated in a brilliant green.
A terrifying aura spread outward from within Ethan's body.
That was the instinctive pressure brought by the transformation of his life-tier—the natural suppression of a supernatural lifeform over mortal beings.
Under the pressure of this aura, the walls of the cultivation room trembled slightly, and fine cracks emerged on the stone floor.
The aura slowly receded.
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