The Growth of a God

Chapter 852 - 10: Mechanical Transformation

"Even an explosion on that level still couldn’t knock you out of the reactor?"

Completely ignoring the high-concentration radiation nearby, Li Hao walked slowly toward the core of the nuclear reactor.

The blue flame floating at its very center hadn’t chosen to stay here on its own, but was being forcibly bound in the middle of the reactor by an invisible force field.

This was a force field so powerful it exceeded imagination; it could not only forcibly collide and fuse two atoms, thus triggering a nuclear fusion reaction.

Even the already-sentient blue flame was unable to break free from the restraints of this invisible force field by its own strength.

"Do you want to be free?"

After thinking for a moment, Li Hao looked at the blue flame in the center of the force field and suddenly asked.

Faced with Li Hao’s question, the human face formed from the blue flame only blinked in confusion, as if it had not understood what he meant at all.

Although many years had already passed, the blue flame had never come into contact with the outside world, nor had it undergone any kind of learning.

This resulted in it possessing high-level Wisdom, yet its actual personality maturity might not even match that of an ordinary wild beast.

Written words, spoken language...

All of these were extremely unfamiliar concepts to the blue flame.

Only when the flesh-and-blood tissue outside started to run amok would the blue flame self-detonate out of a sense of crisis; that was the only thing it knew how to do besides observe.

"Alright then! Looks like I overestimated your IQ a bit."

Seeing this, Li Hao immediately understood his oversight.

So he didn’t bother asking the blue flame for its opinion anymore, and directly reached his hand toward it.

Zzzzzz...

In an instant, the invisible force field began to twist.

The terrifying Power that could warp atoms themselves acted upon Li Hao’s hand, yet did not cause him any substantial harm.

The ferocity of his Xuanhuang Immortal True Body was fully displayed in this moment.

Of course, that didn’t mean such a terrifying force field had literally no effect on Li Hao.

At the very least, from Li Hao’s personal sensation, every centimeter he pushed his hand forward caused the pressure he bore to rise geometrically.

It was as if one hand were bearing the weight of an entire mountain; one could well imagine the pressure on Li Hao right now.

"A purely physical body can actually reach this level?"

In Li Hao’s impression, a Qi Refiner was famous in the world for their profound Divine Techniques and Magic.

This kind of Power to overturn mountains and collapse peaks relying solely on the flesh was more like something only an Immortal in ancient Chinese mythology would possess.

"Since the Tao Ancestor has already appeared, Qi Refiners turning into Immortals isn’t all that hard to accept."

Muttering under his breath, a stream of Xuanhuang Qi surged out from Li Hao’s palm.

While the cluster of blue flame was still curious what Li Hao intended to do, he had already yanked it out from that sealed force field.

Whoosh!

In an instant, the blue flame swelled.

Having lost the suppression of the force field, the blue flame swept across the entire underground facility out of control.

Fortunately, Li Hao had prepared for this in advance; he formed a Dharma Seal with both hands the first chance he got, and unleashed another kind of Divine Technique outside the Qi Refiner system.

—Exorcism and Demon-Controlling Skill: Imperial Decree of Ghosts and Gods!

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Rumble...

Almost at the same time, the flesh-and-blood tissues on the surface began to surge frantically.

As if sensing that the blue flame had escaped, the flesh-and-blood tissues, aware of the approaching danger, proliferated and aggregated madly.

Like a slumbering giant awakened, the abnormally aggregated flesh didn’t form any biological shape, but instead began invading the nearby ecosystem like a real mycelial carpet.

The earth was corroded, steel was assimilated, even the air began to reek of blood...

Boom!

Right at this moment, a familiar-sounding explosion came again from deep underground.

Only this time, the explosion was no longer just a flash in the pan, but the beginning of a chain of blasts.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Every explosion made the flesh-and-blood tissue more frenzied and ferocious.

As though it had encountered its natural enemy, the flesh that was proliferating and mutating wildly tried to strangle that natural enemy in its cradle.

Unfortunately, the enemy’s rate of taking shape was even faster than it had imagined.

BOOM!!!

An explosion like the collapsing of heaven and earth tore open the ground, and terrifying blue flames gushed out from the fissures in the crust.

Any flesh-and-blood tissue that came into contact with this blue flame didn’t even have the slightest strength to resist before it was burned completely to ash.

However, this was only the beginning.

Whoosh!

Despite being such terrifying flames, they were not truly berserk in nature.

On the contrary, apart from burning specifically those flesh-and-blood tissues, this blue flame didn’t even harm the corpses wrapped by them.

It was like a pure flame that purified all things in the world.

Under the burning of the blue flame, those corpses that had been wrapped and entangled by the fleshy growths finally saw daylight again.

In this situation, the rampaging flesh-and-blood tissues could only avoid those crustal fissures and attempt to encircle and intercept the blue flame from other directions.

Unfortunately for them, the blue flame seemed to have long anticipated this.

While gushing out from the crustal fissures, it preemptively predicted the directions in which the fleshy masses would advance.

Not only that, besides the blue flame, liquefied metal was also seeping bit by bit out of those crustal fissures.

Those were the special metals that had once made up the nuclear reactor, and now had become carriers for the blue flame.

Part of the flame spread out to encircle and wipe out those fleshy tissues, but most of the flames began gathering in midair.

Zzzzzz...

As the blue flame gathered in midair, the liquefied metal naturally wrapped around it, then released a familiar invisible force field.

Blue flame, liquid metal, plus the invisible force field...

What was born from the combination of these three was a liquid sphere burning with blue flame inside.

"You don’t even understand the most basic ’Transformation’?"

Without a sound, Li Hao’s figure appeared directly in front of the liquid sphere.

The next moment, a faint Xuanhuang Qi poured out of his body and smoothly merged into the liquid sphere.

Buzz!

In an instant, countless pieces of knowledge surfaced within the liquid sphere’s sea of consciousness, allowing its personality to develop at an astonishing speed.

Because that wasn’t just knowledge about cultivation, but also about written language and morality.

In a certain sense, the Tao Ancestor who left behind the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda had fully considered every possibility.

Even if the one who obtained the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda was a mere dumb stone.

The knowledge and inheritance contained within the Xuanhuang Qi would still be enough for that stone to distinguish good from evil and understand right from wrong.

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