The Last Piece of the Puzzle

Two days slipped by quietly amid the restoration of his soul.

On the metal platform, Benjamin slowly opened his eyes. Deep within his pupils, a warm, jade-like spiritual gleam flowed briefly before vanishing.

Feeling the utterly transformed state within his body, the corners of his mouth rose uncontrollably.

"Soul strength assessment complete." The silver construct's flat synthetic voice sounded at just the right moment. "Current soul integrity: 62.7%. Conclusion: The primary soul has completed critical reconstruction. The damaged portions are healing independently at a stable rate."

Sixty-two percent.

The number still sounded incomplete, but Benjamin knew better than anyone what this transformation meant.

This restored sixty percent of his soul, in both its "volume" and "density," was nearly equal to his entire soul at its peak before his injury!

This meant that, driven by the almost barbaric "adaptive evolution" of the Body Tempering Method, his soul had not simply "healed." Instead, in the process of breaking and rebuilding, it had been forced to absorb, compress, and transform greater nourishment from his body's vital essence and environmental energy, completing a dual leap in both quality and quantity.

The strengthening of his soul also caused his spiritual power to rise with the tide.

He vaguely felt that once his soul fully recovered, his spiritual power might truly be able to barely catch up to the physical strength of his body, which had long surpassed conventional limits after being hammered again and again by the Body Tempering Method.

More importantly, the stabilization of his soul's core framework had freed him from that fragile state where he could "leak" at any moment.

Previously, his soul had been riddled with cracks, like a wooden barrel full of holes. No matter how much restorative energy transformed from essence, qi, and spirit was poured into it, the