I Am Already Invincible Under Heaven

Yet at this moment, Zhao Cheng felt all 1,296 Essence Apertures across his body heating up, burning hot, their radiance more than ten times brighter than before!

Qi, scorching like magma, flowed from each of Zhao Cheng's Essence Apertures. This was the state qi took after being condensed to an inconceivable degree.

It was as if the gaseous qi of the past had been compressed into liquid.

At the same time, the countless cells throughout his body seemed to undergo their ultimate qualitative transformation within that searing magma.

By Zhao Cheng's reckoning, every cell in his body seemed to have transformed into an extremely condensed gold. No longer dazzling, it instead resembled ancient bronze—so rich to the utmost that its splendor had turned inward.

At the same time, the smallest units that made up his body became even finer, yet denser as well!

But none of that was the key. The key was that Zhao Cheng realized he no longer needed to first convert qi into the lower-grade energy of Essence Yuan and blood qi. He could directly use qi to fuel the needs of life itself.

It seemed as though only a single conversion process had been removed, but its true significance was immeasurable.

It was like nuclear energy in the real world. Even nuclear power generation first had to turn nuclear energy into thermal energy, then convert it into electrical energy.

Nuclear energy was high-grade energy, yet in truth, even modern technology was doing nothing more than boiling water.

But if that water-boiling process were omitted, there might not seem to be much immediate change, yet looking toward the future, everything would be utterly different.

It was the beginning of stepping out of the age of steam and into the nuclear age!

Thus, at this moment, Zhao Cheng