Stronger! Stronger! Stronger!
As the saying went, understanding determined strength. Zhao Cheng's greatest growth at this moment was the growth and transformation of his understanding. The increase in mental power was comparatively secondary. Even so, the strength brought by this growth in understanding far surpassed the improvement brought by an increase in mental power.
Zhao Cheng's spirit was changing. His material body, genes, energy, Primordial Spirit, consciousness spirit, mind, skills, self, and even the still relatively weak energy spirit were all changing, all evolving—toward greater size, greater strength, and greater stability. Within dimensional spacetime, his scale expanded at a furious pace.
The path of mecha had always been a path of cultivating the material body: seizing the essence of the universe to nourish oneself, bringing about a qualitative transformation of life.
The Empire had traveled an immensely long way in this regard, even ascending in the end and reaching higher dimensions. Though at the very end, for that final step, the Empire had taken a shortcut rather than completing the accumulation, instead making a leap into the air, that did not mean everything before ascension had to be denied, nor that everything after ascension was wrong.
As more and more knowledge was forged together, Zhao Cheng gradually traced back from the pinnacle of mecha to the source of all things. A complete path emerged before him. After it merged with Zhao Cheng's own knowledge and understanding, he finally comprehended it—comprehended the mystery of the material body's ultimate point, Material Transmutation to Pure Yang.
At the very beginning, his cultivation of the material body had still been in the exploratory stage, hazy and uncertain. At the time, he had guessed that the material body was a perfect arrangement and combination of matter, possessing both ultimate stability and ultimate changeability—that is, plasticity.