In truth, this was merely the aftereffect of burning Vitality too fiercely.
In the conventional sense, a life bar was the manifestation of one's Vitality. But how could Vitality be something so inconvenient? Under the right conditions, a living being's emotional energy—even everything they possessed, whether tangible or intangible—could be turned into Vitality and burned.
That was the secret to pushing Life Burning to 1000%. So long as one had enough conviction, anything was possible.
One hundred percent was merely the limit of life itself, yet there were always a few moments when life could transcend life.
For life's informational state was not a solid state in which everything had already been fixed, but something closer to an ethereal, ever-shifting quantum nebula.
The Cosmic Breathing Method created by Zhao Xiaoxiang looked casual enough, but it had actually been developed after painful reflection upon her first fifteen encounters with the source in this world. It was the method most capable of squeezing Zhao Cheng's remaining value to the absolute limit.
In the physical world, Zhao Cheng's body was exceedingly weak due to this world's unusual life trajectory. But his spiritual world was another matter. His Hollow soul seemed vacant and silent, yet because it could remain empty without shattering, it was instead closer to the source.
At a time like this, so long as the fire of hope was lit in his heart, his potential could be wrung out to the utmost extreme.
The only problem was that neither Zhao Cheng's body nor mind had yet adapted to such extreme exertion. Thus, afterward, he entered a Sage-like state.
As time passed, the first round of the game ended before the countdown even ran out. Of the ten contestants, only eight successfully reached the finish line. The other two met with