Transformation Force—Achieved!

The moment the pill entered his stomach, vast vitality erupted like a volcanic explosion. Its medicinal power became a golden torrent that flowed through his limbs and bones, even swelling his meridians beneath its immense force.

Its effects were more than ten times stronger than a Qi-Replenishing Pill, and after being amplified by a hundredfold vitality, they became utterly terrifying.

Lu Fan felt vitality flooding every inch of his body. At once, he activated the Tortoise Breath Formula, compressing and refining the medicinal power filling his body before gathering it all into the Force Core within his Qi Sea.

As an endless stream of refined force poured into it, the Force Core, originally no larger than a walnut, swelled visibly. The force contained within it also grew increasingly pure.

Even so, the medicinal power infused with vitality that filled his body showed no sign of diminishing.

Using the Tortoise Breath Formula alone to compress and refine vitality before converting it into force was simply too slow. It could not possibly consume that sea of vitality.

Moreover, even if the Tortoise Breath Formula could keep up with the refinement, the Force Core in his Qi Sea was already nearing the limit of what it could bear. Waves of intense swelling pain surged from the depths of his Dantian.

Clearly, this was a signal from the Force Core—it was approaching the upper limit of the force it could contain.

If he did not find a way to deal with this immense force, he might truly be blown apart.

Wait. Since the Force Core could no longer contain it, why did he need to keep maintaining the core's shape?

His Qi Sea was clearly so vast, yet he had confined his force to such a tiny area.

The instant this thought flashed through Lu Fan's mind, enlightenment dawned on him.

That was right. Before this, he had been too fixated on preserving the Force Core itself.

Force was power that was never bound by any particular form. Previously, the refined force had merely gathered together under his guidance, thus forming a Force Core.

He had no need to preserve the core's shape. What he needed was something broader, more efficient, something capable of containing an endless stream of force—a sea!

Lu Fan opened his eyes and activated the Evergreen Formula without hesitation.

He had not activated the Evergreen Formula before because he feared that, with its endlessly growing power, the force transformed from the medicinal power would directly burst his Force Core.

But now, that was exactly the effect he wanted!

As the Evergreen Formula circulated at full power, the vitality filling every corner of his body began to increase continuously, even spilling beyond his body.

A faint mist of blood enveloped Lu Fan's body. It was vitality that he could not absorb.

Under the influence of that vitality, his skin also glowed with a vivid crimson light.

Heart-rending pain tore through every part of his body, as though a savage beast were about to burst out from within him.

His meridians, the first restraints binding that beast of vitality, endured fierce impacts. Soon, they shattered inch by inch, only to be rapidly repaired beneath the influence of that vitality.

It was not just his meridians. His flesh and bones were also being affected.

The agonizing pain nearly made him pass out, yet Lu Fan did not utter a single sound. Instead, he continued driving the Evergreen Formula to increase his vitality.

Then he used the Tortoise Breath Formula to compress and refine it into force, feeding it endlessly into the Force Core.

The Force Core grew larger and larger, soon expanding to the size of a fist. Its surface was covered in spiderweb cracks.

Crack. Crack.

Faint sounds, like something breaking, came from deep within Lu Fan's body.

That was the sound of the Force Core about to shatter.

Upon hearing it, a flicker of exhilarated joy appeared on his aged face instead.

Now!

He poured all the force he had just refined into the Force Core, which was already riddled with holes.

The next moment, the Force Core could no longer withstand that vast force and exploded in one burst.

The force packed within it also detonated throughout the Qi Sea.

Yet that surging, roiling force did not rush out of the Qi Sea. Instead, it converged at the center, twisting and spinning without end until it formed a vortex.

The force gathered around it was drawn in by the vortex, rotating and compressing continuously as it became even purer.

The refined force then flowed back out from the vortex and merged into the Qi Sea below.

The vast quantity of force that had been raging wildly only moments ago soon transformed, beneath the Force Vortex, into an even purer liquid form and flowed into the Qi Sea below.

This differed from the Force Core, which used the Tortoise Breath Formula to compress and refine force before gathering it all in one place.

This vortex form was faster and stronger.

Even without circulating the Tortoise Breath Formula, the vortex drew the vitality from every part of his body into itself, transforming it into pure force, continuously compressing and refining it, until it finally became liquid and flowed into the Qi Sea.

One had to understand just how enormous and boundless this Qi Sea was, and how terrifying the amount of force it could contain would be.

Without question, until this Qi Sea was filled with force, he no longer needed to fear being burst apart by it.

Until just now, the medicinal power that had filled every part of his body was being consumed at an astonishing speed before this terrifying Force Vortex.

Before long, the sensation of his body being stretched to the point of explosion vanished.

All of the vitality had transformed into pure force and settled in the depths of his Qi Sea. Most terrifyingly, under the Force Vortex's pull, even the faintest thread of force flowing through his fingertips would be drawn in and deposited within the Qi Sea.

In other words, before he fought anyone, he could even ensure that not the slightest trace of his force aura leaked out.

And once he did fight, as the Force Vortex reversed, the pure force settled deep within his Qi Sea would spread throughout his body in an instant, unleashing an incomparably terrifying power.

"Phew..."

Lu Fan exhaled softly and opened his eyes. A frightening light flickered in their depths.

He now understood why the gap between Dark Force martial artists and Transformation Force martial artists was so immense.

The capacity for stored force alone was the difference between a pond and the sea.

Not to mention when it came to wielding it.

A Transformation Force martial artist could even draw out all his force in one breath and concentrate it into a single strike.

A Dark Force martial artist simply could not achieve such a feat. Even if he forcibly mobilized it, his meridians would be burst apart by that immense force before it could be released.

Of course, the most crucial point was that Transformation Force martial artists could—Force Projection.

Lu Fan raised his gaze toward the earthenware jars stacked by the doorway, used to store meat.

He lightly raised a finger toward one of the jars. Pure force was drawn from his Qi Sea and shot from his fingertip.

Bang!

The earthenware jar exploded, shards scattering everywhere. On the wall behind it, a thumb-thick indentation appeared.

This was Force Projection!

This was the power of a Transformation Grandmaster.

Lu Fan exhaled, closed his eyes, and carefully sensed the power he had gained after breaking through to Transformation Force. At that moment, a powerful aura entered his perception.

That surging vitality was... a Late Dark Force martial artist!