I Arrived At Wizard World While Cultivating Immortality Chapter 623: Mutation

Right as he prepared to compress his figure, a fierce shudder abruptly exploded from deep within his body.

A mutation struck the Internal Circulation.

Jie Ming's face grew grave as he quickly shifted his focus inward.

The once-steady Internal Circulation system was now triggering a series of chain reactions.

The power that cycled without end and regenerated ceaselessly suddenly sped up, driven by an unseen force, its pace skyrocketing.

Simultaneously, the grotto-heaven inside his body started to swell uncontrollably.

This was an independent space housed within him, separate from the real world. It had settled at a fairly developed size before.

Yet at this moment, its borders were stretching outward visibly, akin to a balloon filling with air, with edges relentlessly extending farther.

The expansion rate was incredibly rapid. Jie Ming sensed the grotto-heaven's edges greedily absorbing the nearby boundless chaotic void, transforming the messy chaos into its own territory.

The spiritual power required for this was immense. His inner reserves of spiritual power drained almost completely in mere breaths.

“Good thing… the spiritual qi issue was solved long ago.”

With just a single thought, the Incense Fire Divine Dao's cross-spatial energy transfer activated at once.

Enormous quantities of spiritual power from the Infernal Sulfur Plane surged across, resembling an unseen pipeline endlessly flooding into his form. Spiritual power intake and output balanced perfectly right away.

Jie Ming let out a relieved breath and concentrated on keeping the Internal Circulation running smoothly.

Completing the grotto-heaven's growth wouldn't happen instantly. It demanded a considerable duration.

He needed to guarantee uninterrupted energy flow in his body while vigilantly watching the grotto-heaven's borders for stability, avoiding any collapse amid the swelling.

“It’s fine. It’s just the normal expansion after the life form advancement. There’s no danger.”

Jie Ming quietly assessed his condition before immersing fully into a cultivation state.

Time passed quietly in the chamber.

Jie Ming stayed cross-legged. His thousand-meter-tall dark golden form remained utterly motionless, save for sporadic bursts of energy glow on its surface, confirming his vitality.

Incense Fire Divine Dao's energy flow persisted without pause. Huge volumes of spiritual power kept streaming into him, fueling the grotto-heaven's continuous growth.

On day one, the grotto-heaven's size doubled.

By the third day, its borders reached three times the initial extent.

On the seventh day, though the pace eased, the borders kept advancing steadily.

After fifteen days and one last intense quake, the grotto-heaven inside him at last steadied.

Jie Ming's eyes snapped open. His divine sense scanned the newly vast grotto-heaven. Despite prior mental readiness, the figures he computed still stunned him.

The grotto-heaven's area had grown at least tenfold.

Volume-wise, the increase was even more massive.

This grotto-heaven had evolved from a mere “small world” scale to full “plane” status.

Furthermore, the grotto-heaven's self-development hadn't fully halted.

Post-expansion, its borders still crept outward, though at a snail's pace nearly imperceptible, yet detectable by Jie Ming's keen spiritual power.

After brief reflection, he grasped the cause: his true body's upgrade boosted his capacity, allowing the inner grotto-heaven far more growth potential.

Yet this wasn't his greatest thrill.

Jie Ming turned his focus to the spiritual qi materializing from nowhere within the grotto-heaven.

Prior to this breakthrough, the grotto-heaven's “from-nothing” spiritual qi production was woefully inadequate.

It scarcely supported its own functions, far from aiding his battle recovery.

But now…

Jie Ming computed meticulously, his pupils narrowing faintly.

The grotto-heaven produced enough spiritual qi each instant to restore his full spiritual power expenditure in just a quarter of an hour!

A quarter of an hour.

Jie Ming verified the figure thrice before accepting it as accurate.

Even with Incense Fire Divine Dao and a seventh-rank large elemental pool freeing him from spiritual power worries, this highlighted the grotto-heaven's absurdly high spiritual qi output efficiency.

Ultimately, this wasn't just transformed energy—it was real new power born from absolute nothingness!

Even more crucially… it highlighted the vast future promise of the grotto-heaven inside him.

Jie Ming drew a deep breath, compelling himself to settle from the thrill before he probed the remaining transformations.

Once the dharma body turned into the true body, the long-standing techniques that had followed him underwent fundamental shifts.

The first one was the 《Internal Circulation》.

Before, to make his inner grotto-heaven expand on its own, he had to intentionally run this body-refining technique, cycling spiritual power endlessly through his body while toughening his flesh and building up strength along the way.

Yet now, this technique had seamlessly blended into his innate reflexes, as effortless as breathing or the pulse of his heart.

No deliberate effort was needed. It just kept running, without pause.

Jie Ming shifted his focus away from the Internal Circulation and found it still operated steadily, its pace actually boosted by three-tenths compared to his manual control.

This was beyond a mere “technique.”

It had become an inherent divine ability, a built-in instinct.

The 《Body Forging Art》 followed the same pattern.

This body-refining method, which let him shrug off countless wounds in fights and develop all sorts of resistances over time, had likewise turned into pure instinct.

Jie Ming sensed his body undergoing constant tiny self-corrections. Every aspect of his physique was optimizing itself live, adapting to environmental shifts.

What's more, these two now-instinctual techniques appeared to have merged somehow.

Through careful perception, Jie Ming realized the nonstop regenerating power from the Internal Circulation was flowing naturally into the Body Forging Art’s adaptive growth process.

In return, the Body Forging Art’s enhancements to his bodily framework greatly boosted the Internal Circulation's effectiveness.

They bolstered one another, creating an ideal cycle of mutual reinforcement.

After their integration, the direct influence on his inner grotto-heaven wasn't obvious yet, but in another area, the effects hit right away.

He sensed the 《Body Forging Art》 gaining the power to “create from nothing.”

Similar to how the grotto-heaven produced spiritual qi from empty air, his very body now generated spiritual qi, albeit at a glacial pace.

The rate was truly minuscule.

Picture his body's total spiritual power as a vast ocean; the spiritual qi from the Body Forging Art each instant amounted to just one droplet.

So tiny it was practically unnoticeable.

But Jie Ming paid it no mind.

What mattered to him was the “potential.”

The Body Forging Art's ability to produce spiritual qi from nothing proved this direction was spot on.

As his power grew and his true body advanced, that generation rate would accelerate steadily.

One day ahead, his flesh alone might generate ample spiritual power for fierce battles.

By then, no dependence on surroundings or Incense Fire Divine Dao energy transfer—he'd be a standalone, endless energy engine.

Jie Ming reined in his inner thrill and chose to test his true body's might first.

He lifted his right arm. Under the chamber's faint glow, the dark golden limb shone with a cozy sheen.

His fingers fanned out, then gradually balled into a fist.

Such a basic move compressed the chamber's air, sparking crackling booms.

Jie Ming arched a brow faintly and ramped up the force.

Now, space visibly warped beneath his grip.

Furthermore, the bent space held steady without snapping back at once.

This revealed that, without focused effort, Jie Ming could instinctively wield fine-tuned spatial control through raw physical prowess.

His fist acted like a tiny gravity well, dragging nearby space inward.

Jie Ming unclenched, and space snapped back to normal.

He gave a pleased nod.

Then, a issue dawned on him.

Gazing downward, his dark golden skin gleamed metallically in the light. Muscles stood out sharply, brimming with vigor. As a dharma body, this form was flawless.

Yet the issue was…

He was completely bare.

The garb from his dharma body state had been an energy illusion, vanishing naturally upon true body manifestation.

Jie Ming mulled it over and deemed it logical.

The dharma body was never actual flesh and blood. Those garments were just condensed energy for show.

Since the dharma body transformed into the true body, such adornments had naturally dissipated.

Yet, his present condition felt quite improper.

With a mere thought, the true body gradually dissolved into nothingness.

The enormous dark golden form appeared to be wiped from existence itself, fading to transparency inch by inch before vanishing entirely within the chamber.

Right away, tiny points of starlight converged at the chamber's heart, swiftly shaping into a regular human-sized figure.

Jie Ming tested his fresh body, bending his fingers, twisting his wrists, and rolling his shoulders to ensure everything worked fine.

He glanced down at his palms.

The skin showed a natural hue, subtle veins and sinews faintly traceable underneath. It matched genuine flesh and blood perfectly.

He attempted to run the Internal Circulation. Infinite regenerative force surged through him instantly, flowing as effortlessly as breath.

All seemed in order.

More precisely, it was superior to what came before.

Though this ordinary human-sized form possessed far less raw power than the thousand-meter true body, it excelled in agility and energy efficiency.

Imagine transplanting a colossal machine's power source into a delicate tool.

Overall output may have dropped, yet unit power density and manipulation accuracy both leaped to new heights.

Jie Ming rose from the stone platform, paced a bit, and once assured of no glitches, a pleased grin spread across his face.

He approached the chamber's boundary, placed his palm on the wall, and slid the door aside.

The reinforced chamber door thudded shut behind him with a deep rumble.

In the hallway, Jie Ming sensed the recognizable energy pulses of the Infernal Sulfur Plane and started plotting his future moves.

Void Refinement had reached its peak.

Now, the path led to the Dao Integration Realm.