Black Energy, Physical Transformation!

After strolling around Bifu Castle once more and purchasing a few interesting trinkets, Luo Ya and his two companions decided to head out and find an inn to stay in; after all, the major cities in Hell enforced a "curfew."

In House City, every inn provided lodging in the form of individual, detached courtyards. After all, god-level cultivators preferred peace and quiet.

"Let's go with this one." They chose a luxurious-looking inn reception area located relatively close to Bifu Castle. Even Luo Ya had to admire the decorations inside; the level of craftsmanship was clearly the work of a grandmaster.

"The three of you, would you like to check in?" A red-haired woman at the reception desk asked with an enthusiastic smile, looking at the three of them with anticipation.

"Of course." Luo Ya glanced at the room rates. They were certainly not cheap—eight hundred Moshi per year, equivalent to the value of eight Lowgod Godheads.

"We'll stay for ten years." Although Milia said she only needed two or three years to break through, the time required to overcome a cultivation bottleneck could not be precisely predicted, so Luo Ya paid the ten-year fee upfront.

After receiving a black token, Luo Ya and his companions entered their quarters. Pushing open the courtyard gate, they were greeted by an independent courtyard that was both luxurious and tasteful, with a flower garden occupying a third of the space.

Behind it stood a quaint three-story building.

"Morti, you take the first floor. While you're at it, refine that Midgod Godhead as soon as possible. Once you succeed, I will bestow a Highgod Godhead upon you." Hearing Luo Ya's instructions, the white-haired, single-horned youth respectfully agreed.

Although he had cultivated to godhood on his own, he had felt that cultivation after reaching the god-level was becoming increasingly difficult. If he didn't refine a Godhead, he estimated it would take an eternity to reach the Midgod level, so he was not opposed to refining one.

Following the stairs, Luo Ya and Milia arrived at the third floor. The furniture was complete, and there were even exquisite handicrafts made by famous artisans on display.

"The environment is quite good." Luo Ya nodded in satisfaction, then took out the four Highgod Godheads.

With a thought, a suction force erupted from the Black Hole within his body, instantly devouring all four Godheads, which vanished in the blink of an eye.

At this moment, on the other side of the Black Hole within Luo Ya's body, the four Godheads traveled along the Black Hole until they reached the "Dark Space" that belonged to Luo Ya.

The "Dark Space" specifically referred to the small area within the endless "Paste Space" that belonged to Luo Ya. Originally, this space was only two or three meters in length, width, and height.

After the upgrade he received upon becoming a Midgod, the area belonging to Luo Ya now measured about ten meters in length, width, and height.

At the same time... this space was still slowly expanding at an imperceptible rate.

Inside the Dark Space, the four Highgod Godheads of different colors had just been pulled in when they were rapidly dissolved and disintegrated by the peculiar matter originating from the "Dark Space"!

The hard Godheads, which should have been impossible to destroy by conventional logic, melted away as if they were iron ore submerged in molten lava, and four peculiar golden grains, each the size of a spark, appeared.

These peculiar golden grains were, in fact, the essence of the Godheads!

In reality, as early as his time in the Material Plane, Luo Ya had discovered that his "Dark Space" could refine this Godhead essence, but the amount of essence refined from Lowgod Godheads was simply too scarce.

"The Godhead essence contained within one Midgod Godhead is roughly a hundred times that of a Lowgod Godhead, and the essence within one Highgod Godhead is roughly a hundred times that of a Midgod Godhead..." This was the result of Luo Ya's previous experiments.

"Next, I'll try to see if they can be fused." Luo Ya remembered that in the original story, when Beirut forged the Godhead weapon "Liuying" for Linley, a mysterious black energy had appeared inside the weapon. Luo Ya was very curious about that black energy.

"Will it succeed?" Luo Ya used his consciousness to drive the four differently colored Godhead "golden grains" toward each other, attempting to make them fuse.

"Sss~" Just as different levels of wine could be mixed together, as the four Godhead "golden grains" approached each other, they naturally merged like water and milk. Immediately following this, a trace of peculiar black energy emerged from their intersection!

Pure black, without a single impurity!

"This kind of energy..." Just as Luo Ya was preparing to probe this energy, the "Dark Space" spontaneously released strands of peculiar matter, gathering toward the black energy.

As time passed, the amount of black energy grew larger and larger.

"Is this... self-transformation?" Under Luo Ya's astonished gaze, the trace of dark energy, which had been barely visible to the naked eye, became the size of a fist in the blink of an eye, and it was still crazily transforming!

Judging by the momentum, it looked as if it might drain all the peculiar matter in the entire "Dark Space."

Perhaps sensing that the energy stored within the "Dark Space" itself was beginning to run low, the endless Paste Space outside the "Dark Space" also began to let strands of chaotic paste energy seep through the membrane to fill the "Dark Space's" depletion.

As the external paste energy was absorbed, the more it was absorbed, the more empty the "Paste Space" closest to the "Dark Space" became, and Luo Ya's "Dark Space" took the opportunity to expand its territory.

"This paste energy is good stuff. It just needs to be absorbed continuously, and the bigger my 'Dark Space' gets, the better." Luo Ya was in a very good mood; he hadn't expected that by trial and error, he would actually find a way to make the "Dark Space" expand.

"This black energy..." With a thought from Luo Ya, a strand of black energy as thin as a hair flowed out along the Black Hole and entered his limbs and bones.

"Sss-sss~~" Luo Ya's Dark God Clone body immediately began a delightful strengthening process!

Although it was a divine body condensed from divine power, it still possessed structures like bones and flesh, so it could naturally be strengthened and transformed.

"So comfortable!" Perhaps because the amount of black energy introduced at once was too small, although the change itself was extremely intense, it felt like a strand of electric current wandering through his body, which was instead unusually comfortable and tingling.

"Next time, I'll take more..." After realizing the benefits, Luo Ya immediately began to increase the "dosage," introducing more and more black energy!

As time passed, his body itself was strengthened time and time again!

In the end, the black energy flowed through Luo Ya's body like a torrent, washing over every part of his body without any pattern.

A large amount of black energy flowed along his muscle fibers, blood, and bones. The black energy seemed to have found a "home," continuously pouring into his bones, muscles, internal organs, and so on, making Luo Ya's body look increasingly imposing, like a demon god statue!

"Could this black energy be the same as the four-element divine power that Linley fused when he was a Highgod?" Luo Ya couldn't be sure, but he felt that this was very likely!

"The power of this black energy itself is also incredibly great, but for now, I can only use it to strengthen my body; I can't use it as divine power." Strengthening the physical body should be a characteristic inherent to this type of energy.

"My physical body is getting stronger and stronger..." As time went on, Luo Ya could clearly perceive that every part of his body was constantly undergoing metamorphosis; his muscles were strengthening rapidly, and the hardness of his bones was leaping forward time and time again.

This terrifying rate of progress was truly incredible!

"This kind of strengthening is indeed quite peculiar, as if divine power were nurturing an artifact." The nurturing of an artifact is actually the artifact gradually absorbing divine power within the body, becoming sharper and tougher, and also incorporating some spiritual force to gradually develop sentience.

However, making one's own body undergo a metamorphosis like an artifact is not a simple matter.

Luo Ya did know some relatively simple methods for how to strengthen the body.

The principle of body strengthening is actually just letting the body gradually absorb energy and continuously strengthen itself. It sounds simple, but there is a lot of energy—how can one make the body absorb it? That is the difficult part.

Except for a few gifted divine beasts or special races, even the Chief Sovereigns who possess countless drops of Sovereign's Might have few who can achieve great success in this area.

But clearly, the black energy Luo Ya had produced possessed the special effect of naturally strengthening the body.

"Hmm?" Luo Ya's divine sense delved into his muscle tissue and discovered that his subcutaneous tissue, as well as the junctions between his muscles and bone joints, had already begun to undergo special changes.

"It seems that this strengthening will require a relatively long period of time."

During this strengthening process, Luo Ya also used his own spiritual force to control and guide it, preventing any unexpected situations.