"I don't think it's possible."
Ian was startled by Isengard's guess, but after thinking about it carefully, he shook his head: "To be honest, none of the people on Terra, including me, are very clear about what the sixth energy level represents. What is."
"Even I don't know, and Axel certainly can't know either."
With that said, he and Isengard found a table and sat down together.
Ian stretched out his hand, and the surrounding iron sand gathered together to form an ever-changing model: "Actually, the current division of Terra's five energy levels is actually wrong in my opinion."
"Let's take the 'Arcane Path' of 'Everyone Has a Soul' as an example."
As he said this, the iron sand in Ian's hand condensed and turned into something resembling a humanoid shape.
"In the beginning, there were mortals. They had souls, but they could not perceive the essence or the soul. The human self was just succumbing to the stimulation of the body and the illusion of soul perception. Many times, people's actions were not what they wanted. Action', but the body started to act spontaneously."
"At this stage, people can't even control their physical bodies, let alone their souls. If something goes wrong with their body, they can't even feel it. They need to feel the condition of their body through feedback such as pain, inflammation, and dizziness."
As he said this, a small white dot lit up in the iron sand figure in Ian's hand. This small dot was located in the brain, but it was completely separated from the body. It just burned in the body like a candle, and the weak light could only shine. Very small location.
"Then, start practicing. Gather the source seeds, meditate to transform the soul, and practice the life energy refining method. You can sense the source and soul, and step into a new realm."
"At this step, even if you have initially entered the road of sublimation, you can better perceive and control your body. At this step, if there is a problem with the body, you can quickly detect it, and if there is disease or inflammation in the body, you can quickly identify it. "
The white light in the iron sand human form became a little bigger, and the light also illuminated most of the body.
"The next step is the first level."
The iron sand humanoid in Ian's hand, at this moment, part of the iron sand melted under the power of the electric current and condensed into iron blocks: "This is the sublimation organ. It is completely controlled by the 'self' of the sublimated person to reshape his body." organs. We can regulate the power of these organs according to our own wishes and have complete control. This is actually incredible."
"Think about it, can a mortal control his stomach to secrete acid at will? Can he control its peristalsis, grinding, contraction and expansion? Yes, we can't. Our 'self' cannot control our body. But at the first level, our bodies begin to obey our will, our 'self' due to sublimation."
"At this point, our thinking is difficult to be affected by simple physical hormones."
Isengard listened carefully to Ian's story, and he knew that this was Ian telling him about the world in his heart and the way to sublimation, and it was also the precursor to him telling about the 'sixth level' in his heart.
He is always willing to listen.
"It has reached the second energy level, which is the stage of Terra's current sublimation method of 'condensing souls'... This is actually wrong, because Terra's sublimation method has gone astray, and the mature sublimation civilization is not shaping at this time. The soul, but 'controlling the soul', just as we control the body, bring the soul under the control of our own will."
Wisps of electric arcs lit up in the little man made of iron sand and iron blocks in Ian's hand. These arcs were scattered and disorderly, but they could indeed accelerate the interlacing and signals between the iron sands, which was the soul.
Just as human beings cannot control the operation of their own internal organs and want the body to secrete dopamine and adrenaline hormones, the second energy level of Terra's sublimation method also cannot control their own souls and can only shape their own souls. A ball of ectoplasm thinking organ, speeding up one's thinking and enhancing the ability to control the ectoplasm.
But the arcane path is different - through long-term transformation through meditation, in the second stage, the soul has become a material that is completely subject to the control of self-will.
Practitioners of the arcane path can turn it into a computing device of their choice, an auxiliary organ of sefirot, or a balance instrument that coordinates the physical body.
In short, at the second energy level, the human body and soul are controlled by self-will, and can make any movements and perform any skills at will without making the slightest mistake.
The knife can cut wherever you want it to cut; you can squeeze out as much reagent as you want with the test tube.
When you pick up a bow and arrow, you can know what movements to make and how hard to use to make the bow and arrow hit the target.
No need for any 'practice makes perfect', because it's just 'instinct'.
Even more than that.
The electric current inside the iron sand man in Ian's hand became uniform, and the resonance produced a greater power.
"At this point, the gap between the arcane path and Terra's ascension path has widened."
Ian raised his hand and pointed towards the grass in the courtyard. Immediately, a square 'cubic soil' with a length of one meter and a height of one meter was lifted up.
The next moment, the soil shrank inward and solidified, turning into rock. But soon, the rock expanded again and turned into a cloud of dust mist, but after an instant, the dust mist turned back into rock again.
Turn mud into stone, dust mist technique, gather dust into stone. The skills of the three earth elements were used by Ian at will.
It looked ordinary, but it made Isengard open his eyes, because he saw that Ian just used the calculation power of his soul to use a trace - even if he had just condensed the 'Original Seed', he had not yet become The 'a trace of power' that can be easily used by the apprentices of the first-level sublimators affects the natural source of the surrounding space and time, achieving this exquisite skill!
Use one point of strength to mobilize a hundred percent of your strength!
If Ian completely uses all the source matter of the second energy level to resonate with the natural source matter of the surrounding time and space, and even uses 'fighting energy', I am afraid that he can easily display a performance comparable to that of the second energy level when driving etheric weapons. Destructive power!
"At the second stage of the arcane path, this ability of 'self-control' will emerge. You can call it 'subtle' or 'complete state'. The general second energy level of Terra is just A block of soil is at best a rock, and the second stage of arcana that has reached the state of 'self-control' is an iron stone."
"What about phase three?"
Hearing this, Isengard concentrated his attention, because he was in this 'second stage'.
After practicing meditation for a long time, and with Ian's personal guidance, he had already reached the complete control of his 'body' and 'soul'. This is why he has been able to suppress the light-eclipse dragon and magic power in his body for such a long time. The reason for the power of the Sun Bird.
Because it is not the power that controls him, but him that controls the power.
And now, standing at the boundary between the second and third stages, Isengard is eager to know what to do next.
"Next, the third stage is to smelt the soul and body into one body."
The metal villain in Ian's hand completely turned into a piece of iron under the influence of the strong current. However, due to the strong current, the villain's body is extremely soft and can be freely posed in various poses, and even shaped into Various forms: "At this point, the dream is understood, governing the body and soul, and condensed into the light of the heart."
"At this step, it is no different from the third level of Terra, but here is the arcane path. There is another step. This step is a step that completely transcends the old system."
With that said, Ian raised his head and looked at Isengard with burning eyes: "Isengard, what do you think you are? Where does your 'self' reside?"
"Is it your brain and spinal cord? Or is it your soul? Or is it your memories?"
"this……"
Ethan was slightly startled, he was asked.
Ordinary humans, without brains and spinal cords, naturally die more completely, but if they have souls, they can still preserve their memories and even regenerate their brains and spinal cords. It seems that in the Terran universe, the brain and spinal cord are not the residence of the self.
And the soul is even more important. Ordinary humans have the ability to think without a soul. Losing the soul is nothing more than being severely injured and losing power, but it will not lead to death. Nor is it clearly a home for the ego.
So, memory?
If there is no memory, even if the body and soul are the same person, they will not be the same after all... But the memory is ethereal and cannot exist alone, so how can it be called a self...
"Heartlight."
Seemingly seeing Isengard's doubts, Ian emphasized his tone at this moment: "The heart light body is the condensation of the original ether, the product of the fusion of body and soul."
"It is our embodied 'self', the carrier of our memories, our unchanging and eternal 'heart'."
"Terra's path to sublimation has reached this stage during the pre-epochal civilization. They are still exploring the next path, but due to the disaster of falling from the sky, they have to shift to 'destructive power', so that they let themselves Sublimation has stalled.”
"The current ascendants of Terra regard the mind-light body as the source of their new life energy and the center of the future etheric body, but they have never thought about why the mind-light body can become the 'real body' of the etheric body. Center?"
"Because it is our true heart! It transcends the brain and spinal cord, transcends the body and soul, coordinates our memories, dreams and obsessions, and breaks the inner demons of the 'mind' itself!"
"Our memories will therefore be engraved in the ether, and our will will be able to affect both the virtual world and the material world!"
Saying this, the steel man fused into one in Ian's hand melted in the extreme heat. The golden-red molten iron suspended in the air, and the shining light penetrated the two worlds.
"This is the principle that I have recently realized. If I hadn't traveled to the New World and experienced it with the body of a crystal dragon, I still wouldn't be able to understand it all."
Staring at the golden molten ball in his hand, Ian sighed: "At this point, every practitioner of the arcane path in the third stage should open up a part of his own 'subspace'. This subspace is Our inner light body is where the true essence should reside.”
"Our souls and bodies are just the 'body' of our true body, the light body, that walks in the material world and virtual realm!"
"From now on, neither the destruction of the body nor the shattering of the soul is a fatal injury - as long as one of the two still exists, we can quickly restore the other. Only when the body and soul are destroyed at the same time can our mind light body It will be unable to perceive the virtual world and the material world due to the loss of its 'anchor', and will be 'exiled'. But this is not death. If it is prepared before, the mind-light body can also control other bodies that it has prepared long ago and continue to act. "
"Isn't this almost immortal?"
Hearing this, Isengard, immersed in the possibility, exclaimed: "And wait, Ian, this seems to be your current state..."
"Yeah, that's where I am now."
Ian nodded and pointed at his body: "This is the body of the Steel Pioneer, the most powerful body I have walking in the material world. But I also have the body of the Glazed Emperor Dragon and the lord of the Silver Peak Territory. body."
"And the body of the fairy is the incarnation of my soul in the virtual realm."
"The destruction of each of these bodies will not affect the existence of other bodies. At most, the resources to shape these bodies will be lost. But as long as I am given enough time and resources, I can quickly regain my strength."
"But my true essence... is my heart light body, the guiding star."
A 'self' that transcends time and space.
"This is the limit of the third stage of the Arcane Path, and I have already passed it."
"I've reached stage four."
Speaking slowly, Ian raised his hand and held the golden-red metal molten ball in his palm. And when the prophet unfolded his palm, what emerged between the slender fingers was a roughly humanoid figure, but with dragon wings, horns, and a crown on his head.
Although the appearance of this human figure was very different from the current Ian, and his temperament was as solemn as a god, Isengard could tell at a glance that this was 'Ian'.
"This is...your etheric true body?"
Isengard guessed keenly, while Ian nodded slightly and shook his head: "This is just a guess. I haven't thought about it clearly, I just made a random shape."
"The fourth stage of the arcane path, just like Terra's sublimation to the fourth energy level, also requires the concentration of the etheric true body."
"But this etheric true form is different from the original form in which the Ascendant of Terra imitates the true form of his bloodline and uses ether to condense the most powerful fighting form. It is the 'form of your true self'."
Ian stared at the palm of his hand and said slowly: "What exactly is a human being?"
"Humanity……"
Isengard was just about to speak, but he couldn't help but think of the holy mountain where he was, Huaiguang, and the "human beings" in Huaiguang's words - he hesitated for a moment, so that he couldn't figure out for a moment, "What are human beings?" What's the answer.
Human beings should not be that superficial thing, but a more sublime essence... at least, in this universe, that is the case.
"Humanity is just a concept of blood and flesh. And this concept is transcended in the third stage of the arcane path."
Ian stood up, and the metal figure in his hand took off like a fairy, flying around as if it were alive. He stared at the construct that he had temporarily created with his hands behind his hands, and said calmly: "I have many bodies now. Every body is the real me, I can be a real dragon or a fairy, and naturally I can also be a crystal dragon."
"I can even project myself into this little construct. This body made entirely of iron and stone is also me."
"Do I count as not a human being? As long as I think about it, I can make myself a pure-blood pre-era civilization human body from the DNA structure. I can also become an elf, a dwarf, a giant, a demi-human... I can It can be a space battleship, a mushroom, the sun, a star god, or even a reed that can think."
"Ethan, just because we have reached this point, we have become extremely powerful. We can be all races and all people."
"So none of us are."
"We're just 'me'."
"And the 'real body' shaped for this 'unique, the only me in all universe, time and space' is our 'etheric true body'."
This is the fourth stage of the arcane path. The fourth energy level does not simply create an etheric body that is powerful enough to hit people with computers, but designs a completely suitable system for your own running programs and software from the beginning to the end. Equipped with hardware and give it a sturdy enough casing.
Perhaps, in terms of head-on confrontation with the enemy, this etheric true body cannot crush the fourth energy level. However, the etheric true form of the arcane path knows martial arts and can use various techniques.
Even with the same physical fitness, the etheric true body of the arcane path can fight ten fourth levels of the sublimation path.
Just like Ian's glazed emperor dragon body, although the two sides in the battle did not try their best to fight to the death and reveal their etheric identities, the Lord of the Great Abyss and Youlan must have noticed it. They might be able to delay it for a while without using the etheric body. , but once the true form of the ether is revealed, he will be instantly killed by Ian.
Moreover, the etheric true body of the arcane path usually stays and sleeps in the subspace like the heart light body, and cooperates with various means to reduce losses and extend lifespan.
For sublimators of the way of sublimation, the heart light body and the etheric true body are compressed in the physical body, and they are even turned on for a long time - a computer does not sleep, it is always on, and there is no supporting refrigeration and repair system. Of course it is broken. quick!
"Actually."
Having said this, Ian turned his head and looked at Isengard, who was deep in thought: "Terra's fifth energy level, its universal definition, in my opinion, is nothing more than the high level of the fourth stage of the arcane path."
"The power of the etheric true body has reached a limit in the field it generates, which is enough to greatly affect the material world and the virtual realm, causing devastating damage."
"This is just a simple difference in strength, not an essential sublimation, so in my opinion, Terra's fifth energy level is not the true fifth energy level."
"They, just because of the 'blood of the top' or various coincidences, have obtained the 'peak of the fourth energy level' that far exceeds the limit power of the ordinary fourth energy level!"
"...I can barely understand it."
Isengard was shocked by Ian's arrogant announcement and couldn't help but take a deep breath. However, he calmed down and asked seriously: "The fifth energy level requires the blood of the top, or the fifth energy level." The organ aspect is a bit strange and abnormal to begin with.”
"This is obviously the result of not fully meeting the conditions, so I need to use external forces, the power of other beings, to forcibly promote myself."
"But in this case, what about the fifth stage of the arcane path?"
"Actually, the Terran people have done very well. The best in Terra's way of sublimation actually used their own power to form the foundation of the true fifth level after receiving the blood of the Supreme Leader."
Ian answered Isengard's question seriously: "Isengard, didn't we see it in the Capital of Knowledge? Even after death, the light of the heart dissipates, transcending time and space, and is almost eternal power."
"Immortal!" Isengard thought of it, and he subconsciously exclaimed: "It's immortal!"
"Yes."
Ian smiled and nodded: "I call it 'immortal nature'. Simply put, it is immortality."
"This is the symbol of the fifth stage of the arcane path: our inner light, the etheric true body, has completely engraved itself in the ether, becoming an eternal and immortal nature in the long river of time."
"In the way of sublimation in Terra, there are sublimators who are talented enough to realize this immortal power through the fifth-level organs and rare objects of other creatures. They are those who have the blood of the throne, or can Compared with the blood of the throne, the strongest person of an era, for example, my teacher, Hilliard."
"There is a huge gap in strength between the fifth energy level with immortality and the fifth energy level without immortality. This is why there are many fifth energy levels, but Terra only has eleven major forces. Archduke Thorin is defeated by Axel because he has not yet mastered immortality.”
"I haven't thoroughly studied this immortality yet, so I plan to use Mikael's advancement to observe it. However, as a guess, I think it is reflected in time and space."
"Ether is an existence that transcends time and space. It is an ascendant with immortality. Just like the complete true dragon, it is a primary super-time and space life form that inscribes itself into the ether flow and exists in the past and future at the same time."
"With their own ether furnace, which has the fifth level of immortality, I am afraid that I can draw ether from the past and future in a short time, greatly increasing their output in an instant."
"Even if they are both at the fifth energy level, one party can mobilize all their power within a few years, and the other party can only use it for a few months, and then there is a difference - and it cannot mobilize the power of the past and the future, it only has the fifth energy level The 'fifth energy level' of the sublimated organ is essentially just a higher level of the fourth energy level with the power of the fifth energy level."
"That's the essential difference."
"I see..." Isengard fully understood at this moment that Terra's way of sublimation was indeed full of flaws. It even relied on the power of other civilizations to gain strength first, then slowly replenish its realm, and even sacrificed it for the sake of destructive power. An unbalanced system that destroyed the balance of his own life.
The arcane path reshapes all the distorted branches and explains the essence of sublimation in a simpler and more direct way.
They are both strong men. One of them was injected with hormones, replaced with the limbs of other creatures, and even used metal prosthetics to support them, while the other relied on pure flesh to do it.
It is clear at a glance which of the two is higher and which has greater potential.
"so."
Isengard whispered: "Even you can't imagine what the sixth level is?"
"Yes."
Ian nodded slightly: "The fifth energy level has already involved immortality, so the real sixth energy level should theoretically be the real immortality."
"The fifth energy level with immortality, mobilizing the power of the past and future, will also lose its own essence, just like Corizon uses the immortality of others to build a road, there will be losses. And the sixth energy level , there should be no loss.”
"Then maybe..." After saying this, Ian looked in the direction of the New World: "It's a kind of 'perpetual motion machine?'"
"Or is it that perpetual motion is one of the necessary conditions for the sixth energy level?"
"But my guess ends here. It is a completely sublimated super life form, beyond our knowledge, a pure etheric time and space life. With Terra's background, at least within a few hundred years, I don’t think it can be cultivated.”
"You can't do it either?" Isengard asked reluctantly.
"I……"
Ian closed his eyes and looked back at the many paths and past possibilities in his mind. He said calmly: "Maybe it's possible for me."
"But among countless possibilities, they all failed."
"only."
The white-haired prophet opened his eyes and smiled gently and confidently: "This time, I think I can succeed."
After the words fell, Ian turned his head and looked in the direction of the Silver Peak Leader: "I have told Mikael all these thoughts before. I hope he can succeed and become the fifth level with immortality."
"As long as I can figure out how to use my mental light body and etheric true body to condense 'immortality', I will be confident that I can become the most powerful fifth energy level in all of Terra."
"Look, he's starting now."
"Success or failure depends on this."
at the same time.
Imperial capital.
On the planetary shield control center, the defender Axel also turned his head and looked towards the south of the empire.
"Really? Now we're starting to advance."
Behind the emperor alone was the shield of light that shot straight into the sky to compete with the mighty disaster of light. He stared at the south of the continent: "Sure enough, I found Ian Silver Peak as an ally... This is your only one." opportunity."
"What a contradiction. I hope you can come a little later, and I hope you can come a little faster."
Chuckling softly, Axel turned around.
He stepped into the beam of the Imperial City's planetary shield generator.
The most powerful sun bird chooses to melt into the light.
And Nanling.
The second most powerful sun bird, Mikael Setar, is leading the Silver Peak and has begun to advance to the fifth level.
(End of chapter)
