Even if it was a spaceship cobbled together from scrap, it was still a spaceship.
Compared to flying on his own, Jiang Ming's efficiency was vastly greater.
If it had not been damaged and unable to enter lightspeed, Jiang Ming could have reached the sun in just a few minutes.
Even so, half an hour later, the spaceship arrived eight million kilometers outside the sun's corona.
"There are still eight million kilometers to the sun's corona, but the temperature here has already reached over a hundred thousand degrees Celsius."
At this moment, scarlet-gold divine patterns glimmered across Jiang Ming's body, while scarlet light blazed in his eyes like fire.
His Stellar Body was operating at full capacity, and the Son of the Sun's First Form had been pushed to its limit.
The Son of the Sun's First Form could only withstand temperatures of sixty thousand degrees.
Even with the Son of the Sun state pushed to its limit, Jiang Ming could no longer fully convert the surrounding heat.
Yet Jiang Ming was still in excellent condition.
Within his body, a scarlet flame burned fiercely atop the scarlet Miniature Planet.
All the heat Jiang Ming could not endure was absorbed by that flame.
The spaceship hatch opened, and Jiang Ming flew out.
This spaceship had been assembled from parts. Though the assembly technique was not poor, its joints were not sturdy enough.
The temperature of over a hundred thousand degrees had already pushed it to its limit.
If it went any farther, the joints would melt and the ship would fall apart.
"Wonderful."
Bathed in the radiance of the star, powerful energy was constantly being generated within Jiang Ming's body.
Surging heat flowed continuously through his body, generating an endless supply of force energy and strengthening him.
The scarlet-gold divine patterns grew ever more dazzling, their brilliance steadily intensifying.
As though starlight itself had been born!
Light now radiated from within Jiang Ming's body, illuminating the starry sky.
At that moment, Jiang Ming felt as though the surrounding temperature had suddenly dropped.
No!
The temperature had not dropped. His tolerance had increased!
Light shone out from his body, as though another star existed within Jiang Ming.
The Stellar Body's Second Form!
Light Illuminating the Great Thousand!
"So this is the Second Form?"
Jiang Ming felt the temperature throughout the starry sky being drawn into him.
For the first time in billions of years, the temperature in this region of space had fallen below ten thousand degrees Celsius.
"The Stellar Body has three forms. The First Form can withstand sixty thousand degrees and can be activated as early as Apprentice level.
"The Second Form can withstand six million degrees and can be activated as early as Planetary level.
"The Third Form can withstand six hundred million degrees and can be activated as early as Universe level."
Jiang Ming recalled all sorts of information about the Stellar Body and pondered inwardly.
"Unfortunately, even with my current 33-fold Gene Multiplier, the Second Form I've activated is still incomplete."
Jiang Ming thought regretfully.
When he had first entered the Planetary level, Jiang Ming could only wield a small portion of the First Form's power. However, after his Gene Multiplier rose to 33-fold and he broke through to Planetary level two, he gained the ability to fully unleash the Son of the Sun's effects.
Now, within this stellar environment, heat continuously arose within Jiang Ming's body.
The Second Form thus activated naturally.
There was no need for enlightenment, nor any need to learn.
This was a talent Jiang Ming had possessed from the start!
As long as he fulfilled the necessary prerequisites and his body could endure it,
he could naturally use this talent.
As for why he could do it?
Jiang Ming could not explain the principle.
Just as someone who fired a gun did not need to know how to make one, Jiang Ming did not need to understand.
He only needed to pull the trigger.
"I can't currently unleash the Second Form's greatest power. I can probably only withstand temperatures of six hundred and eighty thousand degrees. But even if I could fully activate the Second Form, I could only withstand six million degrees.
"The sun's corona can reach temperatures of ten to twenty million degrees Celsius. I'm still far from enough."
Though Jiang Ming thought this, he was not discouraged.
The Stellar Body was merely a Domain Lord level talent. No matter how heaven-defying it was, it had its limits.
And Jiang Ming possessed more than this one talent.
Scarlet flames sprang up before Jiang Ming. Cradling the scarlet fire in his hands, he strode toward the star!
As he drew closer to the corona, the surrounding temperature rose higher and higher.
It gradually climbed to several million, ten million, fifteen million—
Yet no matter how high the temperature rose, it all ultimately flowed into the scarlet fire in Jiang Ming's hands.
The scarlet fire continued burning and gradually grew more vigorous.
It slowly expanded from the size of a fist to the size of a palm, then the size of a head—
"The temperature here has already reached twenty million degrees."
Jiang Ming sensed the plasma within the corona. Every strand of plasma here was identical to stellar matter.
"I'm currently in the sun's atmosphere, its least dense region, but the temperature here is not low.
"By comparison, the star's surface is cooler."
The surface temperature of a star was only a few thousand degrees Celsius, while the corona could reach twenty million degrees Celsius.
The road ahead would only become easier.
Though with the scarlet fire present, it had already been easy enough.
Jiang Ming stepped forward, descending step by step toward the star's surface.
Although the temperature continued to drop, the energy Jiang Ming absorbed was increasing.
A star's energy was all stored within its central core.
The closer he got, the more energy Jiang Ming could draw upon.
His destination on this journey was the sun's core.
Upon reaching the sun's surface, Jiang Ming did not pause at all and continued deeper.
A star differed from a planet. Both the corona and the sun's surface had extremely low density.
They were practically gaseous.
Only upon reaching the core region would the density surge dramatically.
Therefore, Jiang Ming needed no other action. He simply walked forward step by step until he reached the stellar core.
"How magnificent."
Jiang Ming gazed at the regions within the stellar core where nuclear fusion was taking place.
Each nuclear fusion reaction released an enormous amount of energy.
Like a flame glutton, the scarlet fire continuously devoured the energy produced by stellar fusion.
The flame continued to expand until it grew to the size of an adult, after which it stopped growing.
Yet it still did not stop absorbing energy.
At that moment, Jiang Ming felt that a life sharing his origin was being nurtured within the flames.
"It still needs one year and four months before it can emerge from its embryonic state?"
Jiang Ming sensed the progress and thought inwardly.
After the scarlet fire absorbed enough energy, the embryo still needed time to grow.
"One year and four months. Not bad, that isn't too long."
Jiang Ming thought to himself.
As he watched the fusion reactions in the stellar core, Jiang Ming's gaze became immersed in them.
Every stellar fluctuation, every torrent of energy, held Jiang Ming utterly spellbound.
At that moment, Jiang Ming's soul realm was continuously rising higher and higher.
When Jiang Ming finally came to his senses, he saw that the scarlet fire was gradually extinguishing.
And Jiang Ming could feel that his soul had become countless times more powerful than before.
"My... my soul?"
Jiang Ming was somewhat confused. How could his soul have improved so quickly?
Then a piece of information came from within the scarlet fire.
"So that's it! So that's how it is."
Jiang Ming suddenly understood.
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