"It's time too."
Hilliard nodded slightly. He knew very well that this was inevitable: "Next, you will officially embark on the path of the Ascendant. There will inevitably be many dangers and obstacles on the road, and even life and death crises."
"But on this land, it is better to become an ascendant than to be an ordinary person."
"……yes."
Ian was silent for a while. He could still recall those hesitant inquiries, the laughter after the disaster, and the crying of the children.
The white-haired boy turned his head and looked out the window.
In the starless dark night, only the moonlight shines brightly, making the sky appear deep and dark, as if it can swallow everything.
He stared at the sky and whispered: "I must have power 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 looked at his body, he nodded and said: "The choice is made."
"I choose liver."
What stands between ordinary people and sublime apprentices are virtual source seeds and source seeds.
Transforming from an apprentice to a true ascendant does not happen overnight.
Before taking various magic potions and supplements, conducting various specific trainings and learning targeted guidance, it still needs to go through a long period of precipitation and tempering as a foundation.
For example, from scratch, you can strengthen an organ in your body into a 'sublimated organ' that is more powerful than ordinary people and even unimaginable.
Immediately after condensing the source seed, the sublimator apprentice needs to determine the first organ that he will sublime.
Of course, the first sublimated organ will determine the future direction of the sublimated person.
Although, no matter which organ is chosen as the initial target, after all the organs in the body are sublimated in the future, the overall effect will be very different.
But as the first organ of cultivation, the field it represents is definitely the field that the sublimator is most familiar with and is better at.
After all, even if they inherit the same bloodline, such as the 'Sea Dragon Bloodline', different sublimators who specialize in 'tail', 'claws' and 'breath organ' will definitely have different specialized development directions in the future. The way of fighting is definitely different.
Now, Ian has chosen 'liver'.
The field it represents is 'activity'.
For ordinary humans, the main function of the liver is metabolism, producing various vitamins, storing sugar, and producing bile, which can promote the digestion of fat.
The liver is also responsible for 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 to specialize in the abilities of [detoxification], [enhancing sugar reserves], [enhancing body metabolic activity] and [absorption of calories].
So called 'endurance'.
This is a carefully considered choice.
In Nanling, the indigenous people are good at using poisons and often use poisons. Various mosquito toxins, plant poisons and biological poisons are their weapons.
Apart from anything else, the sleeping powder Ian used himself was originally a hunting product commonly used by indigenous people.
Not only that, even if it is not Nanling, on the continent of Terra, if you want to walk in the outside world, you need to be careful of ambushes and traps from other adventurers, robbers and shady shopkeepers, and you must deal with all kinds of strange poisons.
Most of the various emergency foods in the wild contain certain toxins, more or less.
As for other things, such as glycogen reserves, enhanced metabolism and physical strength enhancement, they are all incidental.
"My psychic ability predicts vision and also mobilizes blood to transport nutrients. Although it is not clear whether retinol is related to my psychic ability, it is always good to strengthen the liver."
Ian felt his choice was perfect, and Hilliard agreed.
“Good choice.”
The old knight nodded and agreed: "In Fudo Castle's system, the liver is responsible for secreting 'lithification fluid', a sublimated substance that circulates along the blood and precipitates at the ends 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 your heart, whole body blood circulation system, and skin, you will be able to gain an extremely powerful sublimation ability." Rock armor', no fear of swords or even crossbows."
"This is also the core ability of the Rockcast Knight at the second level. The earlier you sublimate, the faster you can master it when you advance."
When he said this, he seemed to recall fragments from the past, with some emotion: "The liver is the basis of the physiological circulatory system. Before your adolescence, it is more suitable for strengthening than the heart and lungs, not to mention that it is better to wait until adulthood to strengthen. of muscles, bones and skin.”
When the age is too young, strengthening the musculoskeletal skin will cause the body to be unable to continue to grow and maintain the body shape of a child.
Although some inheritances do this deliberately to save resources and speed up the time of advancement. As long as you practice to the third level, you can control your body shape at will. Whether you grow taller or smaller, it is only a matter of time.
But now, this path has been abandoned. After all, sublimators who can really hit the third level do not lack this resource.
"let's start."
After Hilliard's inspection, Ian will be in the most perfect state to condense the source species.
The five levels of sublimation are said to originate from the seven-level ladder in ancient Terra mythology. Its first level is called [Initiation of Spirit], which means 'activating the original spirituality', that is, the 'source seed'. Gradually sublimate itself.
After sublimating to a certain level, the whole body is already filled with sublimated organs, until even the brain is upgraded and begins to condense spiritual radiance in the mind and body, then you can try to advance to the second energy level [Condensing Glory].
At this stage, human beings will begin to initially possess a soul, and try to sharpen it and condense their own brilliance - the existence of the soul is the core of the later stage of the road to sublimation, and it also allows those who are not born with psychic powers to gradually awaken to their own psychic powers. key.
The realm called [Heart Light], the third level of the ladder to heaven, the unity of soul and body, is the most critical sublimation in the noble self-improvement.
Now Ian is just the first step on the ladder to heaven.
But it is also the most critical first step.
Ian has rehearsed countless times in his mind, and he is very familiar with both the mobilization of the essence and the structure of the source seed. If it were not for safety reasons, lest he would be too weak to replenish his physical strength immediately after he advanced to the source seed. He fainted from hunger, he didn't even need Hilliard, 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 humming sound, the source essence in the virtual source seed was extracted, passed through the whole body, and finally gathered in the heart again. Light blue light patterns lit up all over the white-haired boy.
These fine and regular lines are criss-crossed, and eventually intertwined into rings, condensing in the heart, forming a precise and complex pattern.
The fine Seiran chips are arranged and combined to build their own structure in the blood circulation throughout Ian's body. It can be vaguely seen that this complex pattern greatly overlaps with the distribution of blood vessels in the human body.
The light flickered in the dark room. As the golden virtual source seed structure originated from Hilliard was gradually dismantled, a brand new light cyan source seed that belonged exclusively to Ian was taking shape.
Although it is light green, if viewed from the perspective of precognitive vision, there is still a certain amount of Hilliard's power around the source seed, and there is a green-gold mist that is unique to it.
"Ian, you must remember what I am going to say next."
As Ian's condensation of source seeds gradually got on the right track and began to enter the extremely energy-consuming water grinding time, Hilliard suddenly said: "You continue to condense, don't stop, but at the same time, listen to me."
"Um."
Even though he was condensing the source seeds, Ian still had the energy to respond distractedly.
He had personally experienced Hilliard's knowledge and power, and he knew very well that his words were concise and powerful, without a word of nonsense, and he was an unexpectedly good teacher.
The old knight had slowly laid out his knowledge of the entire continent of Terra for him within a few days. Naturally, he had to remember the knowledge points he emphasized carefully.
However, even if he was mentally prepared, what Hilliard said next moment still shocked Ian.
It even feels like I might be hallucinating.
"Actually, the source species does not exist."
