Crack, crack—Shi Tie Zhu's fingers, palms, wrists, and arms all made sounds like taut steel wires. Those were the sounds of super-enhanced muscles erupting with power.
Such strength was already closing in on the peak of Second Heavenly Layer body tempering, the level of "Energy Reshaping." Snapping handcuffs with a twist of the wrist or hooking a finger beneath a car and lifting it had become routine.
Yet the anomalous substance wrapped around his fingers did not budge in the slightest.
"This anomalous substance is too sturdy. I still can't break out, so I can only remain sealed inside this rock for now. Fortunately, there are enough Heavenly remnants here. Once I devour all these remains, the strength of my body may even reach the immortalized level."
Shi Tie Zhu controlled his tentacles as they burrowed everywhere, continuously absorbing Heavenly Essence. His body was undergoing a great transformation every moment. Deep within every cell, crackling sounds rang out—signs that he was surpassing the strength threshold of Unique Power.
Normally, breaking through Unique Power required completely reshaping one's origin energy, condensing and tempering it into life origin energy. Without that process, no body-tempering cultivator's flesh could support such outrageously powerful strength.
The Heavenly Revelation Undying Body did not strengthen origin energy, so Shi Tie Zhu lacked that process. His was a wild and crooked path fraught with endless hidden dangers.
But the Heavenly Revelation Undying Body could rely on its recovery, adaptability, and rate of cellular mutation to force its way through. Thus, hidden dangers were no longer dangers.
"Once I reach the strength threshold of bodily immortalization, I will surely shatter this stone and emerge, shaking heaven and earth."
Having planned out his future direction of enhancement, Shi Tie Zhu returned the borrowed Rhetoric thought channel. The other consciousnesses each