Chapter 674 - 573: Annihilation Form and Breakthrough
Chapter 674: Chapter 573: Annihilation Form and Breakthrough
Half a month later.
Jeming stood at the center of the experimental area, surrounded by High Tier Wizards.
Before him floated a massive light screen, densely packed with technical summaries from the past half month.
Every line of data, every parameter, every simulation, recorded in meticulous detail.
"Finally completed..."
Jeming muttered to himself, with a hint of emotion in his tone.
Originally thought it would be done in a few days, but it was dragged out for half a month.
The reason is simple—the essence of Light Divinity Transformation is to use "order" to command filled energy.
While Martin’s Grey Ash Flames are genuine "heat death," an extreme of chaos.
Essentially, they are completely opposing functions.
Trying to integrate them turned out to be more than ten times more difficult than anticipated.
Fortunately, there were plenty of High Tier Wizards around.
Over the past half month, more than a dozen Seventh Level Wizards took turns to help with parameter simulation, model adjustment, and structural optimization.
Martin also contributed his own data model for controlling Grey Ash Flames directly.
Even though that was just a part specifically used for manipulating heat death forces, it was his core achievement accumulated over tens of thousands of years, something never privately shared under normal circumstances.
With this, the hardest hurdle was finally conquered.
Jeming looked at the technical summary, his eyelids twitching.
One could only say the research capabilities of High Tier Wizards are still exaggerated, although starting from his Light Divinity Transformation technology, this thing... except for the basic principles, is essentially entirely redefined.
"Enough with the sentiments."
Beside him, a Seventh Level Wizard urged: "Quickly try it out, if it doesn’t work we need to continue adjusting!"
"Yes, yes, let’s see the effect!"
Others joined in, eyes flashing bright with anticipation.
Jeming took a deep breath to calm his nerves and nodded.
He closed his eyes, his brow glittering with golden light.
The Fate System operated at full force, the doors to his Inner Grotto Heaven slammed open.
The Seventh Level Large Elemental Pool from the Purgatory Sulfur Plane frantically output energy, continuously flowing from the spatial connection of the Lower Dantian into his body via the Incense Fire Divine Dao’s cross-space energy transmission system.
Then, he initiated Light Divinity Transformation.
Five Elements Rainbow Transformation Mirror—Informationization.
Grey Ash Flames—Energy Filling.
Ruins Armor, heat death power cycle maintenance sequence—stabilization maintenance.
Cause and Effect Tracing Technique, Fate System—Information Control.
Void Step, energy recovery cycle model—energy information resonance.
All five steps operated simultaneously.
Jeming’s body began to change.
A layer of grey-white flames surged from within him, instantly engulfing his entire body.
Those flames lacked temperature, lacked brightness, only carried a heart-pounding "dead stillness"—anything they touched would become void.
His form began to distort.
Initially, when filled with Fire Extinction Divine Light, Light Divinity Transformation under fluid energy manipulation technology showed a dark golden metallic condensed texture, like a finely sculpted statue.
But now, those grey-white flames couldn’t consolidate into a fixed shape and could barely maintain a humanoid outline.
Moreover, the outline continuously fluctuated, with edges occasionally disintegrating into fragmented sparks, only to recondense.
It looked like a flame ghost that could disappear at any moment.
However, even barely maintaining such a basic state was already sufficient.
"Succeeded!"
Cheers erupted around him.
Jeming did not respond.
He lowered his head, gazing at his hands composed of grey-white flames, eyes filled with shock.
This power...
Too terrifying!
He could feel it—every inch of his "body" at this moment was composed of the fire of extreme chaotic entropy increase.
Anything he touched would be forcibly decomposed into the most primitive energy particles.
Any force that attacked him would be reverse-eroded and annihilated by Grey Ash Flames.
Even merely standing here, the elements in the surrounding laboratory floor and atmosphere began to disintegrate into the most basic of the Four Great Elements.
But the cost was glaringly evident.
The consumption was too high.
Inside his Inner Grotto Heaven, the altar connecting the Incense Fire Divine Dao Seventh Level Large Elemental Pool was frantically outputting energy.
The Incense Fire Divine Dao from the Purgatory Sulfur Plane operated at full force, transmitting energy incessantly over cross-space.
Even so, Jeming felt a crisis of "energy depletion."
The grey flame on him was neither hot nor animated intensely, yet still gave an illusion of hollowing him out completely.
More alarming was the calculation power consumption.
The load of the smoothly-operating Fate System had already surged to 91%, and was still climbing.
Every second, massive calculation tasks poured in—to maintain body stability, control Grey Ash Flames, coordinate the five-step framework, combat external interference...
It’s no exaggeration to say, without the Fate System’s assistance, he wouldn’t be able to complete even the most basic transformation.
And now, even with the Fate System supporting him, his Spiritual Power and Heart Power were visibly depleting.
"This thing..."
Jeming rasped, his voice crackling with the sound of burning flames.
"Probably won’t last long."
Everyone around nodded in agreement.
No one was surprised.
The power of the Ashen Fire was genuinely at the Eighth Level Wizard Level, and if such power could be used casually, that would indeed be strange.
"Give it a name," Martin’s voice came through.
Jeming thought for a moment, then slowly spoke.
"Light Divinity Transformation: Heat Death Form."
After speaking, he looked up, gazing at the distant pitch-black Absolute Zero barrier.
"Just in time, let’s try its effect."
He stepped forward.
The ashen humanoid flame walked through the void, and with each step, it left a burning trace of fire beneath its feet.
Those traces lingered in the air for a few seconds before slowly extinguishing and turning into nothingness.
In the area where the burning fire traces disappeared, all matter and energy were likewise completely decomposed into pure, free elements.
After using the Ashen Fire, Jeming’s Light Divinity Transformation lost its light-speed movement ability, but the speed of movement was not slow either.
Very soon, he reached the barrier in front of him.
The pitch-black wall stood silently ahead, without showing any fluctuation or aura, like a wall of sighs isolating everything.
Jeming raised his right hand.
Ash-colored flames condensed in his palm, the color growing more ashen, yet the power becoming even fiercer.
Then, he pressed his hand against it.
At the moment of contact, Jeming felt an extreme contradiction.
His right hand was pushing forward, but everything he could perceive—temperature, energy, information, even the sense of time—was completely frozen upon touching the barrier.
All probing particles would be frozen, hence there was no feedback.
He didn’t know how much he had progressed, didn’t know how thick the barrier was, didn’t know what was on the other side.
All means of detection failed before this absolute stillness.
This is why wizards dared not directly attack the barrier with brute force:
You don’t know its thickness, you don’t know its strength.
If the destructive power is small, it’s useless; if it’s large, it might directly pierce the entire plane, destroying all the precious Entropy Brains and resources on the other side.
After all, the Absolute Zero barrier is completely different from other barriers.
Once it collapses, it won’t shatter like a normal barrier, only leaking excessive power that cannot be contained.
It will directly release all the confined energy, forming a devastating energy storm.
But Jeming, in his current state, was just exploiting a loophole.
He himself was a continuously emanating source of power.
The Ashen Fire was constantly generated within him, continually dissipating outward.
Even if the barrier collapsed, the dissipated energy was part of him and could be reabsorbed and controlled by him.
More importantly, he had the Ashen Fire with him.
"Want to freeze me?"
Feeling the unceasing force trying to immobilize him, Jeming sneered:
"Let’s see whether entropy reduction is more extreme, or entropy increase more ferocious."
The golden light in the center of Jeming’s brow shone brightly, as though a golden eye had grown on the forehead of the ashen flame humanoid.
Fate System—full power!
Cross-space energy transfer system—full power!
The Seventh Level Large Elemental Pool of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane trembled crazily, with a torrent of energy flooding out like a breached dam, entering Jeming’s body through the cross-space transfer system, and was instantly transformed into Ashen Fire by him.
His hand was pushing forward.
Very slowly.
So slow that motion was almost imperceptible.
But that pitch-black barrier began to change.
Centered on the point of contact with Jeming’s hand, countless fine cracks began to spread, like an ice surface about to shatter.
Within the barrier, the information beings sensed danger.
The computation power of the entire plane began to converge wildly.
Countless information beings outputted simultaneously, integrating their computation power into the barrier in an attempt to maintain that absolute stillness, attempting to freeze the ashen-colored flame.
Jeming felt the pressure.
The surrounding stillness force suddenly intensified, like an invisible giant hand desperately pinning him down, trying to nail him in place.
His flame fluctuated violently, with edges constantly being frozen into fine ashes, then reigniting under the impact of subsequent energy.
Entropy increase versus entropy reduction.
Chaos against order.
Heat death facing Absolute Zero.
Jeming gritted his teeth, pushing forward fiercely.
The energy reserves within his Inner Grotto Heaven were depleted at an alarming rate, the load rate of the Fate System spiking to 99.7%, his spiritual power pouring out like a flood through a sluice gate...
But he did not stop.
Because the crack on the barrier was expanding.
From as fine as a hair strand, to as thick as a finger, then to as wide as an arm...
Finally, a silent boom that seemed to resound directly from the soul was heard.
The Absolute Zero barrier that had stood for half a month burst open under Jeming’s palm.
The ashen-colored flame pierced through easily, like a hot knife through butter.
On the other side of the barrier was an endless sea of light.
It was those terrified information beings retreating.
Jeming stood at the opening, ashen-colored flames burning around him.
Looking at the scene before him, the ashen flame monster displayed a sinister smile.