above the sky

Chapter 60
"It's about time."

Hilliard nodded slightly, he knew it was inevitable: "Next, you will formally embark on the road of ascension, and there will inevitably be many dangers and obstacles on the road, even life and death crises."

"But in this land, it is better to be a sublimator than an ordinary person."

"……yes."

Ian was silent for a while, and he could still recall those hesitant inquiries, the laughter of the survivors after the catastrophe, and the crying of the child.

The white-haired boy turned his head and looked out the window.

In the starless night, only the moonlight shines brightly, making the sky deep and dark, as if it can swallow everything.

He stared at the sky and said in a low voice, "I need strength to fulfill my wish."

The old knight nodded slowly, and said softly, "Have you chosen the first organ to be strengthened?"

Lowering his head, Ian stared at his body, nodded and said, "I've chosen."

"I choose the liver."

What stands between ordinary people and sublimation apprentices is the virtual source seed and the source seed.

From an apprentice to a real sublimator does not happen overnight.

Before taking various potions and supplements, conducting various specific trainings and learning targeted channeling techniques, one still needs to go through quite a long period of precipitation and honing as a foundational foundation.

For example, from scratch, strengthen an organ in one's body into a "sublimated organ" that is more powerful than ordinary people, even unimaginable.

Immediately after condensing the source seed, the sublimator apprentice needs to determine the first organ that will be sublimated.

Of course, the first sublimated organ will determine the direction of the sublimated person's future path.

Although, no matter which organ is chosen as the initial target, after all the organs of the whole body are sublimated in the future, the overall effect will be quite similar.

But as the organ of initial practice, the field it represents must be the field that the ascendant is most familiar with and better at.

After all, even if it is the same bloodline inheritance, such as the 'sea dragon bloodline', different sublimators who specialize in 'tail', 'claw' and 'breathing organ' respectively, they will definitely have different specialized development directions in the future, and they are good at The way of fighting is definitely different.

And now, Ian's chosen 'liver'.

The domain it represents is 'Activity'.

For ordinary humans, the main function of the liver is to metabolize, produce various vitamins, store sugar, and produce bile, which can promote the digestion of fat.

The liver is also responsible for the detoxification and detoxification in the human body - most of the various toxins that humans eat and come into contact with are transported to the liver, detoxified and then metabolized and excreted.

To put it simply, what Ian chose was the specialization of [Detoxification] [Enhance Sugar Storage] [Enhance Body Metabolic Activity] and [Absorption of Calories].

So-called 'stamina'.

This is a deliberate choice.

In Nanling, the aborigines are good at using poison, and often use poison. Various mosquito toxins, plant poisons and biological poisons are their weapons.

Among other things, the sleeping powder that Ian himself used was originally a hunting product commonly used by the aborigines.

Not only that, even if it is not the South Ridge, if you want to travel in the outside world on the Terra continent, you need to be careful of other adventurers, robbers and unscrupulous shopkeepers in ambushes and traps, and you must deal with all kinds of strange poisons.

Most of the various emergency foods in the wild also contain certain toxins, more or less.

As for others, such as glycogen storage, strengthening metabolism and strengthening physical strength, they are all incidental.

"My psychic power can predict the horizon and also mobilize the blood to deliver nutrients. Although I don't know if retinol has anything to do with my psychic power, it's always right to strengthen the liver."

Ian felt his choice was perfect, and Hilliard agreed.

“Nice choice.”

The old knight nodded and agreed: "In the system of Fudo Fortified City, the liver is responsible for secreting 'lithification fluid', a sublimation substance that will circulate along the blood and deposit at the end of the capillary network."

"In the sand armor apprenticeship stage, your skin will be tougher, and after you complete the sublimation of the three parts of the 'heart', 'body blood circulation system' and 'skin', you will be able to obtain an extremely powerful sublimation ability' Rock armor', no fear of swords or even bows."

"This is also the core ability of the rock-forged knight at the second energy level. The earlier you sublimate, the faster you can master it when you advance."

When he said this, he seemed to recall the past episodes, with some emotion: "The liver is the basis of the physiological circulatory system. Before your puberty, it is more suitable for strengthening than the heart and lungs, not to mention that it is best to wait until adulthood to strengthen muscles, bones and skin."

When the age is too young, the strengthening of the musculoskeletal skin will prevent the body from continuing to grow and maintain the body shape of a child.

Although there are also some inheritances deliberately doing this, it can save resources and speed up the time of advancement.As long as you practice to the third energy level, you can control your own body shape at will. It is only a matter of time before you grow taller or become smaller.

But now, this kind of path has been abandoned. After all, those who can really hit the third level of sublimation do not lack this resource.

"let's start."

After Hilliard's inspection, Ian will be in the most perfect state, condensing the source seed.

The five energy levels of the sublimator, according to legend, originated from the seven-story ladder in the ancient Terra mythology. Gradually sublimated itself.

After sublimating to a certain level, the whole body is sublimated organs, until even the brain is promoted, and when the spiritual aura begins to condense in the mind and body, you can try to advance to the second energy level [Condensation].

At this stage, human beings will begin to have a soul initially, and try to sharpen it to condense their own brilliance—the existence of the soul is the core of the later stage of the road to ascension, and it is also the way for those who are not born with psychics to gradually awaken their psychic powers. key.

The realm called [Heart Light], the third energy level of the ladder, the unity of soul and body, is the most critical sublimation in the lofty self-improvement.

The current Ian is just the first step on the ladder.

But it is also the most crucial first step.

Ian has already rehearsed countless times in his heart, whether it is the mobilization of the source quality or the structure of the source seed, he is very familiar with it. If it is not for the sake of insurance, lest he is too weak after advancing to the source seed, and cannot replenish his physical strength in the first place He fainted from hunger, he didn't even need Hilliard, and he could complete this sublimation by himself.

But obviously, he still ignored the importance of a good teacher in an ancient inheritance.

With the regular heartbeat accompanied by a slight buzzing sound, the source quality in the virtual source seed was extracted, passed through the whole body, and finally gathered in the heart again, the white-haired boy lit up with light blue light patterns all over his body.

These fine and regular lines are criss-crossed, and finally intertwined into a ring, condensed in the heart, forming a precise and complicated line.

The fine source quality chips are arranged and combined to build their own structure in the blood circulation of Ian's whole body. It can be vaguely seen that this complex texture map has a great overlap with the distribution of human blood vessels.

Light flickered in the dark room, and as the golden virtual source-seed structure from Hilliard was gradually disassembled, a brand new light cyan source-seed that belonged exclusively to Ian was taking shape.

Although it is light blue, if you look at it from the perspective of the prophetic horizon, there is still a certain amount of Hilliard's power around the source seed, and there is a blue-gold mist that belongs to you.

"Ian, you must remember what I'm going to say next."

As Ian's condensing of the source seeds gradually got on the right track, and he began to enter the extremely physical-intensive water grinding time, Hilliard suddenly said: "You continue to condense, don't stop, but at the same time listen to me."

"Ah."

Even though he was condensing the source seeds, Ian still had enough energy to distract and respond.

For Hilliard's knowledge and strength, he has personally experienced it, and he is very clear that he is a good teacher unexpectedly with concise and powerful words in the direction, without a word of nonsense.

The old knight gradually spread his understanding of the entire Terra continent for him in a few days, and the knowledge points he emphasized should naturally be carefully memorized.

However, even if he was mentally prepared, what Hilliard said next moment still stunned Ian.

Even, I feel that I may be hallucinating.

"Actually, the source seed does not exist."

(End of this chapter)