There was no change in her appearance, but a considerable transformation had taken place within.
Her flesh still seemed to be "human," but Xu Zhi discovered that when she held her breath, she did not feel "suffocated." Instead, her extraordinary energy diminished slightly.
She had become an existence that no longer needed to breathe.
Or rather, all Named Ones were like this.
A Named One needed only "extraordinary energy" to survive. Extraordinary energy could replace all survival resources, including food and oxygen.
Flesh and the body were merely shells carrying a Named One's soul and attributes. The destruction of that shell did not always mean a Named One's death. At this stage, the only way to completely kill someone was to destroy both their physical body and talent circuits.
Yet Xu Zhi's expression was somewhat subtle, because she discovered that her flesh did not seem to be merely a shell, as the textbooks described.
She "saw" strange patterns running across her flesh and bones. It was as though part of her talent circuits had transferred into her physical body. Extraordinary energy no longer simply accumulated within her circuits, but flowed throughout her entire body.
If she wanted to, even slapping someone could count as a kind of "extraordinary attack."
Xu Zhi suddenly recalled the scene of being struck by lightning in the Great Dream. At the time, she seemed to have sensed a familiar aura—the fragment she had already digested.
The fragment had long since melted into her body. She still had no conclusion as to what exactly it was, but after the thunderbolt struck her, its aura had indeed guided the lightning through her entire body and talent circuits, transforming her body.
She even vaguely felt that the silver bolt had not dissipated at all, but had instead been