Gandonggon Mingwen's consciousness gradually began to blur.
He could not even remember how he had slain the last Mahayana Zheng Beast. His injuries were simply too severe. Countless high-energy particles, like maggots clinging to bone, gnawed into his body from every direction.
Even after his fallen transformation, he had no confidence that he could dissolve them.
Several venomous Attack Words had also remained directly within his body, wreaking havoc without restraint.
His originally intricate and orderly nascent soul had shattered the instant he chose fallen transformation. Yet he had not died. Instead, he had survived by relying on the life force transformed from the Heavenly Sword's Sword Qi.
During these days, he had constantly pondered the mysteries of Hermit Cultivators' nascent souls and had figured out a few things. Though immature, they were enough for him to reshape the structure of his nascent soul.
More importantly was the state of mind he held at this moment.
The aesthetic experience of "the contrast between an instant and eternity," the "solemnity" born in that split second, was precisely the state of mind of the True Flame God.
Using art to break through the fog surrounding life and grasp oneself.
And Gandonggon's state of mind in that instant happened to align with the True Flame God's research results. In that moment, his conversion into a Fire Folk unorthodox path akin to the True Flame God's was perfectly timed.
Furthermore, Wang Qi had intended from the beginning to help him refine that strand of Heavenly Sword Qi, and the Heavenly Sword Qi could happen to transform into life force.
It was simply the right time, right place, and right people.
An opportunity more protagonist-like than any protagonist's.
Moreover, he had just observed Wang Qi's process of turning from the reverse path into the orthodox