After several attempts, Lord Autumn Wind had exhausted too much power, and his control over his true body began to slow. Left with no choice, he could only abandon any attempt at a proactive assault and fall into passive defense.
As for Lin Qi, he had no mind to spare for anything happening outside. He was in an utterly strange, utterly wondrous state. All his senses had collapsed inward and drawn inward, leaving only his physical body to undergo earth-shaking changes under Hell's guidance and the Osmanthus Tree's aid—a transformation that had suddenly leaped several major tiers forward along the road of evolution.
Vast energy filled Lin Qi's entire body. Every minute particle within him trembled violently. The source light sphere formed from Lin Qi's soul and all his life energy spun madly, compressing, devouring, and gathering inward every trace of energy within his body that belonged to Lin Qi himself. The source light sphere gradually compressed, gradually compressed to its limit, gradually becoming an infinitesimal point of light.
It was somewhat like the singularity that had formed within Lin Qi's body that day, yet not quite the same. The simple, tiny singularity in his body back then had contained merely a thread of source power; but the origin point now forming within Lin Qi contained his entire soul, all the life force and source power in his body that belonged to him.
As his own power compressed inward without end, Lin Qi's body was filled with the energy released by Hell and the Osmanthus Tree. Hell's viscous, evil power was like glue, firmly binding Lin Qi's bodily particles together and preserving his human shape. The particles of his body jumped and ground against one another violently, causing a terrifying heat to radiate from his body's surface, while an incomparably