novelraw Chapter 574: Annihilation Form and Breakthrough
Chapter 574: Annihilation Form and Breakthrough
Chapter 574: Annihilation Form and Breakthrough
Half a month later.
Jie Ming stood at the center of the experimental zone, surrounded by a crowd of high-tier wizards.
Before him floated a massive light screen densely filled with the technical summary from the past half month.
Every line of data, every parameter, and every deduction was recorded with perfect clarity.
“It’s finally complete…”
Jie Ming murmured, a trace of emotion in his voice.
What he had thought would take only a few days had dragged on for a full half month.
The reason was simple—the essence of Light God Transformation was using “order” to command the filled energy.
Martin’s Ashheart Flames, however, were true “heat death,” the ultimate chaos. The two were fundamentally opposite in nature.
Trying to unify them proved more than ten times more difficult than expected.
Fortunately, there was no shortage of high-tier wizards around him.
Over the past half month, more than a dozen seventh-ring wizards had taken turns assisting, deducing parameters, adjusting models, and optimizing structures.
Martin had even directly contributed his own data model for controlling the Ashheart Flames.
Even though it was only a portion specifically used to manipulate heat death power, it was still a core achievement accumulated over tens of thousands of years—something he would never normally share.
With this, the most difficult barrier had finally been overcome.
Jie Ming looked at the technical summary, his eyelids twitching.
He could only say that the research capabilities of high-tier wizards were still far too exaggerated. Although it started from his own Light God Transformation technique, this new version… aside from the basic principles still matching his original, nearly everything else had been completely rebuilt.
“Stop sighing already.”
A seventh-ring wizard beside him urged, “Hurry up and test it. If it doesn’t work, we’ll still need to keep modifying!”
“Yeah, yeah, let us see the results!”
The others chimed in excitedly, their eyes shining brightly.
Jie Ming took a deep breath to ease the tension in his heart and nodded.
He closed his eyes, golden light flashing between his brows.
The Fate Subsystem operated at full power, and the gate to the inner world within his body boomed open.
The seventh-ring large-scale elemental pool in the Infernal Sulfur Plane poured out energy frantically. Through the Incense Fire Divine Dao’s cross-spatial energy transmission system, it surged endlessly into his body via the spatial connection in his lower dantian.
Then, he activated Light God Transformation.
Five Aggregates Rainbow Mirror—informationization.
Ashheart Flames—energy filling.
Return to Ruins Armor, heat death power circulation maintenance sequence—stable state maintenance.
Causal Trace Shadow Technique, Fate Subsystem—information control.
Great Void Step, energy recovery circulation model—energy-information resonance.
All five steps operated simultaneously.
Jie Ming’s body began to change.
A layer of grayish-white flames surged out from within him, instantly engulfing his entire body.
The flames had no temperature and no light—only a heart-palpitating “deathly silence.” Anything they touched would return to nothingness.
His form began to distort.
When filled with Trigram Fire Annihilation Divine Light – Light God Transformation, under the control of fluid energy manipulation techniques, would present a condensed, dark-golden metallic texture, like a meticulously carved statue.
But now, those grayish-white flames could not condense into a fixed shape at all. They could only barely maintain a humanoid outline.
Moreover, that outline kept fluctuating. At the edges, it would occasionally scatter into fine sparks before re-condensing.
It looked like a flame specter that could dissipate at any moment.
Even so, merely maintaining this basic state was already enough.
“It worked!”
Cheers erupted all around.
Jie Ming, however, did not respond.
He lowered his head, staring at his own palms formed from grayish-white flames, his eyes filled with shock.
This power…
It was too terrifying!
He could feel that every inch of his current “body” was composed of the ultimate chaotic entropy-increasing flames.
Anything he touched would be forcibly decomposed into the most primitive energy particles.
Any power that attacked him would be counter-eroded and annihilated by the Ashheart Flames.
Even just standing here, the various free elements in the laboratory ground and atmosphere around him were beginning to disintegrate into the most basic four elements.
But the cost was equally obvious.
The consumption was far too great.
Inside his inner world, the altar connected to the seventh-ring large-scale elemental pool of the Incense Fire Divine Dao was outputting energy frantically.
The Incense Fire Divine Dao in the Infernal Sulfur Plane operated at full capacity, continuously sending energy through the cross-spatial transmission system.
Even so, Jie Ming still felt a crisis of “energy exhaustion.”
The gray flames on his body were clearly not blazing fiercely nor moving intensely, yet he still had the illusion that they were hollowing him out completely.
Even more terrifying was the computational power consumption.
The Fate Subsystem, which had always run smoothly, had its load rate surge to 91%, and it was still climbing.
Every second, massive computational tasks flooded in—maintaining bodily stability, controlling the Ashheart Flames, coordinating the five-step architecture, resisting external interference… It was no exaggeration to say that without the Fate Subsystem’s assistance, he could not even complete the most basic transformation.
And now, even with the Fate Subsystem supporting him, his mental and spiritual power were being consumed at a visible speed.
“This thing…”
Jie Ming spoke hoarsely, his voice carrying the crackling sound of burning flames.
“I’m afraid it won’t last very long.”
The people around him nodded one after another.
No one was surprised.
The Ashheart Flames were genuine eighth-ring wizard-level power. If something of this level could be used casually, that would be truly strange.
“Give it a name,” Martin’s voice came.
Jie Ming thought for a moment and spoke slowly.
“Light God Transformation: Heat Death Form.”
With that, he raised his head and looked toward the distant pitch-black absolute zero barrier.
“Perfect timing. Let’s test its effect right now.”
He stepped forward.
The grayish-white flame humanoid walked through the void. With every step, it left behind a trail of burning flames on the ground.
Those trails lingered in the air for a few seconds before slowly extinguishing and turning into nothingness.
In the areas where the burning flame trails disappeared, all matter and energy were likewise completely decomposed into pure free elements.
After using the Ashheart Flames, Jie Ming’s Light God Transformation had lost its light-speed movement ability, but its movement speed was still not slow.
Soon, he arrived before the barrier.
The pitch-black wall stood silently ahead, still showing no fluctuation or aura, like a wall of sighs that isolated everything.
Jie Ming raised his right hand.
Grayish-white flames gathered in his palm, growing grayer and grayer in color, yet their power grew increasingly fierce.
Then, he pressed his hand forward.
The moment of contact, Jie Ming felt the ultimate contradiction.
His right hand was advancing, but everything he could perceive—temperature, energy, information, even the sense of time… was completely frozen the instant it touched the barrier.
All probing particles were frozen, so there was no feedback at all.
He did not know how far he had advanced, how thick the barrier was, or what lay on the other side.
All detection methods had failed before this absolute stillness.
This was exactly why the wizards had not dared to directly pierce the barrier with a powerful attack:
You didn’t know its thickness or its strength.
If the destructive power was too weak, it would be useless. If it was too strong, it might directly pierce through the entire plane and destroy all the precious Entropy Brains and resources on the other side.
After all, the absolute zero barrier was completely different from other barriers.
Once it collapsed, it would not shatter like a normal barrier and only leak excess power that could no longer be blocked.
It would directly release all the energy it had imprisoned, forming a destructive energy storm.
But Jie Ming’s current state had perfectly exploited a loophole.
He himself was now a continuous source of radiating power.
The Ashheart Flames were constantly generated within his body and continuously escaping outward.
Even if the barrier collapsed, the dissipated energy would still be part of him and could be reabsorbed and controlled.
More importantly, he had the Ashheart Flames protecting him.
“Trying to freeze me?”
Sensing the continuous power attempting to render him still, Jie Ming let out a cold laugh:
“Then let’s see whether entropy reduction is more extreme, or entropy increase is more ferocious.”
The golden light between Jie Ming’s brows shone dazzlingly, as if a golden eye had grown on the forehead of the grayish-white flame humanoid.
Fate Subsystem—full power!
Cross-spatial energy transmission system—full power!
The seventh-ring large-scale elemental pool in the Infernal Sulfur Plane trembled violently. Massive amounts of energy surged out like a bursting flood, entering Jie Ming’s body through the cross-spatial transmission system before being instantly converted into Ashheart Flames by him.
His hand continued advancing.
Very slowly.
So slowly that the movement was almost imperceptible.
But the pitch-black barrier began to change.
Centered on the point where Jie Ming’s palm made contact, countless fine cracks were spreading, like ice about to shatter.
Inside the barrier, the information beings sensed the danger.
The computational power of the entire plane began to converge frantically.
Countless information beings output their power simultaneously, pouring their computational strength into the barrier in an attempt to maintain that absolute stillness and freeze this grayish-white flame.
Jie Ming felt the pressure.
The surrounding stilling force suddenly intensified, as if an invisible giant hand was desperately pressing down on him, trying to nail him in place.
His flames fluctuated violently. The edges were constantly frozen into fine ash, only to reignite under the impact of subsequent energy.
Entropy increase versus entropy reduction.
Chaos versus order.
Heat death versus absolute zero.
Jie Ming clenched his teeth and pushed forward with all his might.
The energy reserves in his inner world were being consumed at a terrifying rate. The Fate Subsystem’s load rate had surged to 99.7%, and his mental power poured out like floodwaters released from a dam…
But he did not stop.
Because the crack on the barrier was expanding.
From hair-thin, to finger-thick, then to arm-wide…
Finally, a silent boom that seemed to resound directly from the soul rang out.
The absolute zero barrier that had stood for more than half a month was blasted open by Jie Ming’s palm.
The grayish-white flames pierced through like a hot knife through butter, unobstructed.
Behind the barrier was an endless sea of light.
And the information beings retreating in terror.
Jie Ming stood at the opening, grayish-white flames burning around him.
Looking at the scene before him, the grayish-white flame monster revealed a grim smile.