novelraw Chapter 361: Nirvana Rebirth
Chapter 361: Nirvana Rebirth
It wasn't just the injuries to his flesh. Even his long-damaged, nearly withered Awakened meridians were nourished by this vast surge of vitality, with each broken meridian being reconnected one by one.
A vast, nimble Spiritual Energy belonging to an Awakened individual was rapidly reviving within his body.
All the wounds on Su Zhan's body began to glow.
A rainbow-colored light radiated from within him, illuminating him like a divine being.
His aura, which had been at its most feeble extreme, instantly recovered to its peak.
Su Zhan's eyes snapped open.
His left eye was a cold, vertical golden pupil, burning with the will of destruction!
His right eye swirled with silver radiance, perceiving the mysteries of time!
Aberrant and Awakened, in this moment, were perfectly fused into one body by the Reforge Fruit!
The Time Abyss Pupil was no longer a pocket watch; it had truly become a pupil.Su Zhan did a kip-up, leaping from the ground. He stretched his body, now perfectly intact, feeling the roaring, surging power within.
Nirvana Rebirth.
A torrential surge of vitality flowed ceaselessly within him.
Su Zhan's Awakened Spiritual Energy, which had been stagnated at Stream Realm second stage due to his damaged foundation, now skyrocketed wildly as if riding a rocket.
Stream Realm third stage, fourth stage, fifth stage...
Tide Realm!
Tide Realm first stage, second stage, third stage...
It advanced with unstoppable force, encountering no bottlenecks whatsoever.
This surging power gradually stabilized at the level of Abyss Realm fifth stage.
And at the same time.
Su Zhan's Aberrant power, which had originally reached Peak Special-risk, seemed to be balanced by some kind of rule. Its realm began to fall back, ultimately settling at Special-risk fifth stage.
One rose, one fell. On the surface, his overall realm seemed to have lowered.
Standing in place, Su Zhan clenched his fist slightly, feeling the two completely different yet perfectly unified forces within him. Wild joy flashed in his eyes.
Unprecedentedly strong!
If he were to face his former Peak Special-risk self now, he had absolute confidence he could crush him.
This strength wasn't a simple stacking of energy values, but a qualitative transformation, a sublimation of life level and the very essence of power.
As his Awakened realm broke through to the Abyss Realm, his SSS-grade Life Soul, the Time Abyss Pupil, awakened two brand new abilities.
A stream of information naturally surfaced in his mind:
Time Reappearance: Can read residual memory fragments from those with weaker mental strength than oneself, or from corpses whose time of death does not exceed a certain limit.
Time Remolding: Can choose to restore one's own injuries to any time point from one second to ten seconds ago.
One of these abilities leaned toward investigation and intelligence gathering, mysterious and unpredictable.
The other was a heaven-defying, life-saving divine skill.
Although Time Remolding could not recover expended energy and consumed a large amount of Spiritual Energy, at critical moments, it was enough to reverse life and death.
The biggest surprise was yet to come.
Su Zhan clearly perceived that the Time Abyss Pupil Life Soul deep within his soul was now tightly connected with his Aberrant power, forming a stable, balanced structure.
This meant that when he killed Mist Creatures and absorbed their Life Essence, it would no longer merely elevate his Aberrant realm, but could synchronously enhance his Awakened realm as well.
Conversely, by cultivating to improve his Awakened realm, it seemed he could also nourish his Aberrant power in return, making its foundation more solid.
From now on, cultivation and hunting, two paths, merged into one, complementing each other!
This completely shattered his previous bottleneck.
Once, his Aberrant power advanced by leaps and bounds, while his Awakened abilities stagnated due to hidden injuries, leading to a severe imbalance.
Now, this greatest weakness had been filled.
His future growth speed would reach a terrifying level unimaginable to anyone!
"Hah... hahaha..."
Even with Su Zhan's resilient temperament, he couldn't help but let out a low laugh at this moment.
A cold fighting spirit burned in Su Zhan's heterochromatic eyes.
He twisted his neck, emitting crisp cracking sounds from his bones. The frustration of being beaten without any ability to fight back earlier had now transformed into a surging will to battle.
Future Vision remained in a constantly activated state.
"Now, it's my turn."
Su Zhan whispered, and his figure suddenly blurred.
Time Abyss Pupil, Acceleration.
As an SSS-grade Life Soul, the potential of the Time Abyss Pupil far exceeded the limited power it had previously displayed.
He had never used the two basic abilities of Acceleration and Deceleration before.
Because before consuming the Reforge Fruit, his Awakened realm was firmly stuck at Stream Realm second stage.
The Spiritual Energy at that realm was simply too weak.
Even if he pushed Acceleration to its limit, it might only make his punching speed increase by a negligible fraction, having a minuscule impact on the overall battle situation.
And Deceleration was even more like child's play. Wanting to affect an entity of the Frostgnawer's level?
It was like an ant trying to shake a tree, utterly incapable of slowing its movements even by a hundredth of a second.
The strength of basic abilities was intimately connected to the host's realm.
Without sufficiently powerful Spiritual Energy as a driving force, even the most exquisite ability was just a castle in the air.
Therefore, in the previous battle, facing a terrifying enemy whose strength far surpassed his own.
Su Zhan wisely did not employ these two nearly ineffective abilities, as that would only pointlessly consume his already scarce Spiritual Energy.
But now, everything was different!
His Awakened realm had already leapt to Abyss Realm fifth stage.
The vast, pure Spiritual Energy was enough to support the Time Abyss Pupil in truly displaying its terrifying, rightful power.
Times had changed.
In the Frostgnawer's perception.
Su Zhan's speed suddenly increased severalfold, appearing to its left as if teleporting.
His left fist clenched, the Flame of Destruction coiled around it, condensed into a layer of dark red, crystal-like armor. He threw a punch toward the Frostgnawer's flank.
The Frostgnawer's icy eyes shifted slightly. Its slender arm, though moving later, arrived first, covered in profound ice, coming to block.
"Boom!"
Fist and arm collided.
This time, the Flame of Destruction was not easily frozen and shattered like before. Instead, it and that ancient profound ice wildly eroded each other.
Dark red and ice-blue energy turbulence exploded, shaking countless cracks into the surrounding ground and crystal clusters.
Su Zhan's figure retreated using the force, while the Frostgnawer was also shaken back half a step by this power.
On its arm, at the point of impact, a faint trace of melting appeared on the profound ice.
Effective!
Su Zhan's heart steadied.
The quality of his fused power was now not inferior to his opponent's.
The Frostgnawer was thoroughly enraged. It spread its arms, and terrifying cold air erupted with it as the center.
Absolute Zero Domain!
Within a radius of several hundred meters, the temperature plummeted to a terrifying degree capable of freezing even souls.
The air solidified, the ground transformed into an indestructible ice plain, and countless massive ice spikes thrust from the ground like a forest, sealing off all of Su Zhan's movement space.
Simultaneously, countless tiny ice crystal snowflakes swept toward Su Zhan, containing the vicious cold force that could freeze meridians.
If it were before.
Su Zhan, caught in this domain, would instantly lose most of his combat ability.
But now...
"Hmph!"
Su Zhan snorted coldly. The golden vertical pupil in his left eye blazed with intense light, and the Flame of Destruction erupted from his body.
"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—!"
The two diametrically opposed domain powers of extreme cold and extreme heat clashed wildly.
Red and blue halos flickered incessantly, for a time actually forming a stalemate.