Time slipped by little by little. The essence crystals and spiritual materials that had covered the entire hall now amounted to less than a tenth of their original quantity.
Chen Fei, who had remained motionless with his legs crossed, suddenly grew hotter, and the surface of his body even began to melt slowly.
His flesh, which could withstand an attack at the eighth order peak with no more than some injuries, was now dissolving uncontrollably.
In the blink of an eye, the intense heat had melted away all of Chen Fei's flesh, leaving only a golden skeleton seated cross-legged in the hall.
His internal organs pulsed powerfully, but the next moment, they followed his flesh, dissolving at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The golden skeleton, which seemed capable of enduring for eternity, also began to disappear.
Under the boundless heat, the physique Chen Fei had relied on to sweep through the eighth order was as fragile as ice and snow.
Chen Fei's body vanished completely from the hall, though a faint human silhouette could still be seen where he had been sitting.
This was Chen Fei's soul, the foundation of a cultivator. If even the soul dissolved, the cultivator would naturally perish, their path ending with them.
Yet as time passed, Chen Fei's soul also began to dissipate. The many rule crystals within it shone with dazzling light, trying to halt the process, but his soul continued to vanish little by little.
Raising an eighth order physique to the ninth order was anything but easy. Even among the astonishingly gifted Origin Race, few had managed to accomplish this step back then.
This was a true transformation. In some respects, its difficulty was no less than breaking through to the ninth order supreme realm in cultivation.
After all, once