Caroline turned into a bird and, without alerting the rampaging Divine Remains, circled around for over a hundred kilometers at top speed and arrived behind it.
Old Rex, who had witnessed this scene through his sniper scope, nodded. He took a deep breath as Gang Qi surged through his body, then began activating the Shapeshifting Technique!
The originally illusory Gang Qi condensed into substance. Centered on Rex himself, it rapidly constructed enormous fleshy tissue. As Vital Energy increased, it continuously expanded and thickened, almost instantly forming a heart as massive as a building.
Thump!
With the heart's beating, vast numbers of blood vessels spread out layer by layer, outlining the other organs. An outer layer of bones formed to protect those fragile tissues, followed by nerves, muscles...
In the blink of an eye, a Giant thousands of meters tall appeared in the high altitude and began falling under its immense weight.
"This is..." Seeing Old Rex transform into a Giant whose body size was not inferior to the Divine Remains, Caroline finally understood what he had meant by a signal.
Heavenly Manifestation! The ultimate ability of the Shapeshifting Faction!
Ordinary Shapeshifting Faction members could generally only transform into monsters a few meters tall, or at most several dozen meters. Only at the Peak could the monsters they became reach the hundred-meter scale.
But this was, at best, a quantitative change brought about by greater Vital Energy reserves and control, rather than a qualitative one. In theory, if a Cultivator possessed exceptional talent, spirituality, and innate potential different from ordinary people, they might be able to transform into a hundred-meter giant beast even without reaching the Peak.
What truly distinguished the Peak from the Heart Refining Realm was actually the ability to shrink!
At the Peak, Shapeshifting Faction Cultivators could not