513: Chapter 513: Completing the Metamorphosis!

In the cultivation room, Nie Ning sat cross-legged in the middle of the Spirit Gathering Array.

Slowly exhaling a breath of turbid air, Nie Ning awakened from his meditation.

"Fifth-Circle late-stage, my strength is mostly stabilized."

Although he had soaked in the Shengyang Secret Spring last time, its main function was not to increase cultivation.

Coupled with the god-forbidden ring, the leap in his strength was not too significant.

However, compared to his regular cultivation, it was at least two months ahead of schedule.

[Rank: Fifth-Circle Rune Knight (Late-stage), Fifth-Circle Wizard (Late-stage)]

[Talents: Supernatural Adaptability, Death-Speech Curse Binding]

[bloodline: ??? (Inactive)]

[Derived Traits: Star Abyss Beast Body, Elemental Star Source, Power of the Tribe, Super-Limit Fusion, Super-grade Mental Power Amplification, Advanced Shapeshifting, Super-grade Chaos Affinity, Advanced Life Force Affinity, Corruption]

[Derived Skills: ..., Super-grade Chaos Manipulation (Conversion), Advanced Life Force Manipulation, Forbidden Domain of Living Beings, Elemental Blood Spirit Avatar, Shadow-Shaking Sky Technique, Mystic Thunder Flash, Mystic Yang Thunder Aura, Absolute Zero Dragon Breath]

[Artistic Conception Insight: Wind (9%), Lightning (8%), Earth (8%), Light (7%), Dark (7%), Fire (6%), Water (6%), Metal (6%), Wood (6%), Soul (6%), Ice (6%), Life (11%)]

[Cultivation Techniques: ..., Five-Qi Origin Breath Method, Yin Wind Bone-Eroding Book, Stairway to Godhood, Golden Scale Dragon Transformation Art]

[Imprint Techniques: Star Source Spirit Gathering Array, Mountain-Moving Rune Technique]

[Skills: ..., Ice Blue Wing Technique (Grandmastery), Rainstorm Condensation Technique (Grandmastery), Blood Cloud Escape (Grandmastery), Taixu Annihilation Blade (Introductory)]

"As expected, pressure leads to improvement..."

Looking at his panel, Nie Ning couldn't help but sigh.

Just as Nie Ning had envisioned, after soaking in the Shengyang Secret Spring and acquiring genes during this period, his body and even his soul had begun to complete themselves automatically.

The result of this was that many abilities merged on their own, giving birth to amplifications even stronger than expected, and even the forms of his skills were improved.

The biggest change was the Star Abyss Beast Body, which fused special constitutions, Power of a Hundred Beasts, self-healing, and other traits.

Precisely because of the Star Abyss Beast Body and Elemental Star Source, his originally lagging knight cultivation exerted immense force, directly matching his wizard cultivation without any extra training.

His crystal core was now like an engine, constantly converting overflowing magic power into blood energy, while the Star Abyss Beast Body converted that blood energy into battle qi, forming a cycle.

Corruption, an ability that had completely evolved into a trait, allowed Nie Ning to switch between the real world and Corruption without restrictions.

As long as Nie Ning was willing, he could directly convert most living beings into Corrupted Puppets, with a chance to convert them into Corruptors.

Of course, unless he was bored out of his mind, he would certainly not use this ability lightly.

Compared to the world of Corruptors, Nie Ning still preferred the current environment.

Moreover, with the lesson of the Jerky Bear Head, Corruption would be permanently sealed away, and would likely only be used when facing Corruptors.

As for using it on Transcendent beings...

There was no need to use it on those of the same level, and the conversion efficiency for those of higher levels was low, as their powerful Spiritual Power was enough to resist Corruption in the short term.

But what if a high-level Transcendent being escaped while in the process of being corrupted...

Nie Ning dared not imagine how "wonderful" that would be.

Because even in the Belvis World, high-level Corruptors were extremely rare, but if one appeared, it would definitely be at an overwhelming level.

Even top-tier figures like the Fire Dragon Lady could probably only hold their own against Corruptors of the same level.

However, aside from raw strength, cunning wizards had plenty of ways to deal with brainless Corruptors.

Elemental Blood Spirit Avatar was an advanced version of the Light-Shadow Fox Spirit Avatar.

It could strip away Nie Ning's own talents to evolve clones of the same level; for example, stripping away the fire element could form a Fire Elemental Blood Spirit Avatar.

It could also be used for operations like giantization, just like the Light-Shadow Fox Spirit Avatar.

For Nie Ning, it was better than nothing.

Because he could at most use one elemental clone and one life clone, otherwise he would be unable to use fusion techniques, which would significantly weaken his own strength.

And the soul attribute was a special attribute; the clones split from it were almost useless.

After all, being at the same level as him didn't mean they were strong; without fusion techniques, they were just roadkill, only slightly stronger than regular Transcendents.

The Shadow-Shaking Sky Technique was an advanced version of the Earth-Splitting Force, considered a very powerful skill, which had miraculous effects in breaking shields.

If he ever encountered a "turtle-shell" type opponent, this move alone would be enough to give them a headache.

Absolute Zero Dragon Breath came from the frost dragon blood given by Louisa; its intensity was very high, similar to the Mystic Yang Thunder Aura—the stronger his strength, the stronger the skill.

And in the cultivation techniques column, there was now an extra Golden Scale Dragon Transformation Art.

A technique that made Nie Ning somewhat embarrassed.

When he was fusing the frost dragon bloodline, his own essence, energy, and spirit suddenly went berserk, almost causing him to enter a secondary state of Corruption.

After barely managing to control his Spiritual Power, he suppressed the rampaging Power of Corruption, and immediately afterward, he obtained the Golden Scale Dragon Transformation Art.

The Golden Scale Dragon Transformation Art wasn't about turning into a dragon in the pure sense, but a technique that could purify bloodlines.

The embarrassment lay right there: the genes he absorbed had already perfectly fused with his own body, so there was no such thing as a bloodline.

Or rather, he himself was the source of the bloodline, so naturally, there was no talk of purification.

As for the bloodline column...

Nie Ning still hadn't found where the so-called bloodline was; even after researching for such a long time, he hadn't discovered anything special, so even if he wanted to purify his bloodline, he couldn't.

However, he could purify human bloodlines.

But the moment Nie Ning thought about the possibility of turning into an ape, or some other strange creature, he ultimately gave up on this idea.

With Supernatural Adaptability, there was no need to take such a big risk.

The Golden Scale Dragon Transformation Art wasn't entirely useless, though.

After these few days of research, Nie Ning discovered that the Golden Scale Dragon Transformation Art could be used in conjunction with the upgraded Advanced Shapeshifting trait, allowing him to transform into any creature from whose genes he had acquired.

This included the frost dragon.

Of course, very embarrassingly, except for the size, this transformation was a pure debuff for Nie Ning.

After all, he was a sword user; wielding a toothpick to fight was a bit underwhelming, and the Star Abyss Beast Body had no extra amplification for this form.

In other words, no matter what he did, his current self was already in his strongest form.

So, in summary, the Golden Scale Dragon Transformation Art was just a toy.

The only advantage was that this technique, like the Stairway to Godhood, could be taught to others.

In other words, after all this effort, he had gotten Xiao Guang a super technique, which wasn't even as good as the god-forbidden ring that he had already started to despise as a hindrance.