Hyper-Dimensional Player

Chapter 369 - 9: Mechanical Soul (Part 3)

After Duncan figured it out, the first thing he thought of was the Dantian, then he looked down again.

This can also be strengthened.

It’s just that people in the Mechanical Divine Sect don’t have much demand; they often strengthen it to mitigate a fatal weakness.

After all, they can’t just do as those in the Insight Sect do, directly cutting it off cleanly.

Let’s try meditation first.

Duncan sat cross-legged and emptied his mind, reciting the Mechanical Prayer to enter a special state of mind. As time passed, a unique BUFF mark emerged.

——"Mechanical Mind: Makes one’s mind like a machine, discarding the seven emotions and six desires, and can also weaken the perception of pain, eventually stable in a state of ’No Self’."

——"Mechanical Soul Resonance: You have perceived the existence of the Mechanical Soul, which has a completely different soul structure from humans. Within you lies a budding Mechanical Soul, originating from the source power of advanced mechanical life."

One icon after another is lit up.

Dimension Space.

Under the projection of God’s perspective, the third Human Form amazingly turned into an anatomical structural diagram, with different areas marked.

——"Strengthen Spine (Progress 0%): By mobilizing Mechanical Nanofluid, assimilate and transform one’s spine into a steel-cast form, and use Source Power and thought to carve Steel Runes on the spine with nanofluid."

[Strengthening process: Activating Metal Spine——Steel-cast Biomimetic Spine——Stigmata Construct Spine——Mechanical Divinity Skeleton.]

——"Strengthen Lungs (Progress 0%): By mobilizing Mechanical Nanofluid, transform one’s lung structure, significantly enhancing resistance to toxic gases, strengthening respiration body functions, increasing explosive force, etc. Additional magic-like ability: Steel Lung.

——"Strengthen Heart (Progress 0%): By mobilizing Mechanical Nanofluid, gradually transform the heart into an active metal body; the heart acts like a mechanical turbine, continuously providing an inexhaustible power source."

——"Strengthen Kidneys (Progress 0%): By mobilizing Mechanical Nanofluid, activate the kidneys, vastly increasing metabolic filtration ability, actively controlling the secretion of adrenaline, etc."

One by one, the body icons are being lit up.

Duncan’s limbs, bones, muscles, blood, skin, internal organs, etc., even the brain can be actively enhanced, though brain enhancement is the most challenging and typically requires years of meditation practice to achieve some success.

Normally speaking, without any external aid, estimating around several decades would just about enable one to enhance the bones, muscles, and internal organs once.

"Seems like one must feel the Mechanical Soul to actively control the direction of enhancement."

"Otherwise, it’s wherever you train, that’s where you enhance."

Duncan tried running along the path of Minor Circulation he had seen in his past life. Under God’s perspective, he easily accomplished what other Mechanical Priests couldn’t in over a decade; that was to keep the ’Mechanical Mind’ permanently active during a meditation state.

With Primordial Magic Power running along the Ren and Du Meridians, the injected Mechanical Nanofluid inside him, just like a swarm of bees chasing nectar, rapidly converged towards the Dantian from all over his body.

On the projection page, Duncan’s Mana Bar began to slowly decrease.

Unlike the inner strength cultivation in martial arts novels, where after training, inner strength grows, Duncan’s Mana Bar continuously decreases as he practices.

Soon, his Mana Bar consumed approximately one-third.

Those nanobodies Duncan had gathered with his mind, perceiving the Mechanical Soul, after consuming enough Primordial Magic Power, immediately began to work, even manifesting a faint Spiritual Light, concentrated together as glowing Curiosities.

Different cultivation schools of the Steel Rune Sect have varying focuses.

Duncan mimicked the breathing techniques from his past life, so once filled with magic power, countless tiny nanobodies gathered toward his lungs, followed by a ’strengthening and transforming’ icon mark around the lung organs on the human body icon.

Throughout the process, Duncan’s breathing became elongated, instantly achieving lung capacity akin to many years of training in his past life.

On average, Duncan’s single breath would last one to two minutes.

However, not all nanobodies concentrated around the lungs; they also gathered towards the lower Dantian along the breathing intention, while part focused on strengthening the kidneys, and some even entered the reproductive organs. Since Duncan wasn’t very knowledgeable about breathing techniques, the Mechanical Nanobodies didn’t gather extensively around the spine, nor did they ascend towards the brain.

Basically, every body structure activated by the nanobodies manifested a ’transform and strengthen’ mark; the size and degree of concentration variously differed.

This is essentially the internal cultivation method of the Steel Rune Sect’s inner cultivation stream.

For instance, the Mechanical Monks he saw, perceived the existence of Mechanical Souls through meditation, and gradually cultivated themselves into Living Metal Armors.

However, the cultivation of Mechanical Electric Monks is even harsher; their bodies began accommodating electrical energy.

As for the Steel Rune Warriors Duncan encountered, they pursued the external cultivation method, strengthening their muscles, bones, and skin through external stimuli training.

Within this process, there is a very crucial threshold—’Perception’!

Unable to perceive the Mechanical Soul.

One cannot actively influence the Mechanical Nanobodies within their body through intention; ordinary Mechanical Cultivators mainly start from skin and muscle, and those who directly influence enhancement to internal organs have very strong perception talents.