Chapter 74: The Master Craftsman
The Chosen One's Primal Stone Twelfth Order comprised four realms: Summoning, Metamorphosis, Rebirth, and Transcendence.
The Summoning stage concerned the growth and evolution of one's abilities. The Metamorphosis stage shifted toward the fusion of soul and body, gradually stripping away the flaws of mortal flesh. By the Rebirth Rank, once soul, abilities, and body had fully merged, a Chosen One could already be called a fantastical creature beyond ordinary humans.
Depending on their Superior Virtue and Matrix, some could bathe in blazing fire and soak in magma without changing expression. Some could shrink and enlarge themselves at will, concealing their forms. Others, like the elves of legend, possessed an affinity with plants and could freely borrow their vitality. Some could simply turn into monsters.
Formless's Rebirth transformation was spiritualization!
Under the influence of the Matrix, it had even acquired traits akin to the River Styx. Soul and Spiritual Substance underwent a complete conversion, and every trace of Spiritual Substance could be regarded as himself.
It was through this transformation that he earned the name Formless—parasitizing countless things, present everywhere.
Unfortunately, his once-unfailing methods had suddenly hit a wall after entering the Rift World... Much like a certain Mr. Ji, he had been thoroughly taught a lesson by the local canned herring.
There was shit!
Fucking shit everywhere!
These puppets without souls or consciousness had originally been the easiest to parasitize and manipulate. Yet now... every one he encountered was insane, and he had nearly been infected himself, falling into madness!
Their Spiritual Substance was filled with so much chaos and insanity that if he truly swallowed it all without knowing better, even Formless would probably undergo a blighted transformation on the spot.
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