Yet none of it changed because of their feelings.
Six hundred and forty minutes later, the seventh refinement was complete. Amid the white, a spark of life appeared—a wisp of gold dyeing the white platinum-gold.
One thousand two hundred and eighty minutes later, the eighth refinement was finally complete. This was also the limit of what Zhao Cheng could currently deduce.
As for the ninth refinement, he had both the line of thought and the ideas. If he disregarded the future and forcibly took a leap through thin air, he could achieve it as well. But that would leave a gap. To fill that breach later, who knew what price he would have to pay.
In total, two thousand five hundred and fifty minutes—forty-two and a half hours. From beginning to end, Zhao Cheng had taken less than two days to complete the process.
Compared to the very beginning, the process had undoubtedly become swift to the extreme.
It also revealed his growth. Compared with who he had been then, he had become countless times stronger in every respect.
And this was merely the beginning of the transformation. Once the 1,296 Essence Apertures had undergone eight evolutions, they immediately began to divide.
In an extremely short span of time, the Essence Apertures divided seven times in succession, bringing their total to 165,888. Yet in the next instant, 36,288 Essence Apertures perished, turning into qi and being absorbed by the remaining 129,600 Essence Apertures.
One aperture became a hundred apertures!
Only now did Zhao Cheng's number of Essence Apertures finally match that of his former Hyper-Dimensional Body.
Yet though both had over 120,000 Essence Apertures, the former and the current were fundamentally different. Though Zhao Cheng had possessed many Essence Apertures before, only 1,296 of them could truly produce qi. Now,