True Magic

Wright's aura and vital force had nearly collapsed, yet the Abyss Zone Configuration remained unchanged. Clearly, it was not based on Wright's will, but borrowed some external power. But to borrow power, one still needed the basic strength to pry it loose. Having entered a near-death state, Wright chose to "burn" himself.

In a state of combustion, the macromolecules composing the human body became exceptionally active. They broke down into atoms, then rapidly underwent various chemical reactions, recombining into carbon dioxide, water vapor, or something else, while leaving behind substances with higher melting and boiling points—usually carbon.

Of course, Wright was not truly burning right now. Or rather, it was not his body that was burning, but his soul.

Even within the Brain of Emptiness System, no clear definition had ever been given for the essence of the soul. Yet for a cultivator, when that core that had to remain stable and resolute suddenly underwent a phase transition, its manifestation seemed to have no fundamental difference from the laws of the material world—the soul burned, released heat, reacted with other components in the surrounding environment, and recombined into a new structure.

Once the reaction occurred, the reconstructed result was irreversible. Ronan watched as Wright's "burning soul" "combined" with certain components of the Abyss Zone Storm, filling that precise Configuration in an entirely different form.

The precision of this Configuration far exceeded the limit that a B- Mental Side could control. Yet after paying the price of "burning his soul," the effect was immediate. The force of the storm turbulence it stirred instantly increased more than fivefold. As the boundary of the "burning" continued to seep inward, Wright lost more of his soul's essence, but the power he could command grew stronger and stronger.

This kind of "burning" must have followed