Chapter 1062
Chapter 1062 - 148: Gone Too Far?
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The snow had sculpted an insurmountable hardship; before Lu Ping’an, nature had transformed into an enemy trying to kill him.
Becoming one with the ice and snow cloaking the entire Snow Mountain, he harnessed the rampaging storm and blizzard as means to strike at his foe, akin to the miracles in mythological tales. That moment was unfolding right before Lu Ping’an’s eyes.
"This, it’s still just an arena, a fight..."
Lu Ping’an had initially thought to himself whether this was a bit too far-fetched, but then he remembered that everyone involved was a Decree-level life form, long since non-human.
Wolf-men, Dragon men, Firemen, Snowmen... this seemed like everything was as it should be.
Having determined the principle behind it was definitely a good thing, but hypothermia was already beginning to claim Lu Ping’an’s reason.
The problem always came back to square one: how to respond swiftly?
"Ordinary attacks, utterly pointless..."
Unable to even sense the target, let alone counterattack, and his time was clearly running out... Lu Ping’an’s body was already showing clear symptoms of "frostbite," as the malicious Curse of the Snowman began to freeze his life.
"... The most likely effective counter-tactics are two."
Lu Ping’an assessed the resources at hand. What others saw as an absolute dead end, he not only had a solution but multiple options.
But now, merely in the fifth match, Lu Ping’an did not want to reveal more valuable trump card information...
"... Little Flame, let me borrow your power."
The Codex at his waist flickered, and Lu Ping’an completed the switch and shared characteristics with his Magic Pet.
[Boiling Blood Passion (Silver Lower Passive): This creature is bloodthirsty and bellicose and never tires. Its unique physical structure allows it almost infinite physical and stamina recovery capabilities until the exhaustion of blood.]
This was Little Flame’s initial characteristic power.
Endless blood, undying fire, inexhaustible strength, immortal beast.
But why blood? That’s because, as a "Flaming element life-form," Little Flame’s blood was the source of its power, its essence... Ultimately, it was the essence of the "Blood Essence" Lu Ping’an had shaped at its birth with "Volcano" and the "Flaming element creature bloodline."
In the world of the Silent Mountain Range, having acquired the Holy Fire, it kept evolving... It absorbed the unique Profession rules of the "Holy Fire Knight," a subordinate of the Sun God, using that Holy Fire elemental creature form template to gradually transform its own Flame into the "Holy Flame."
After a long period of transformation, its essence had already become a bundle of Holy Flame, a sacred flame in the shape of a beast continually bound... It had long since been an Elemental Creature.
[Holy Flame Blood (Lower Gold Passive): This life is a pure ’Holy Fire life-form,’ born of the true fire of the Sun. It can switch between flame and solid states as a true Elemental Creature, without vital points, without stamina, without parts that can be destroyed...]
A lengthy list detailed the essence of this creature; it had long since become a high-level Elemental Creature, and now, Lu Ping’an was borrowing its lineage.
"Ugh... uncomfortable..."
Immediately, Lu Ping’an’s "blood" was replaced.
He felt magma flowing within him, an infinite surge of heat filling his being, as if he were a volcano about to break through the earth’s constraints, readying for the ultimate eruption...
But still, something wasn’t quite right with Lu Ping’an’s state.
Though in theory, the Life Encyclopedia could share the characteristics of a Magic Pet with Lu Ping’an without limit or consequence, and tweak his life form, the transformation of a material life-form into an Elemental Creature brought various discomforts, making his entire body ache.
It seemed he had overdone it; the species barrier was not so easily crossed... The basic unit of life was the "cell," while the base unit of Elemental Creatures was "energy particles." As Lu Ping’an attempted to transform into an Elemental life-form, many of his bodily cells began to self-combust.
Life was fading; this "evolution" seemed to have spiraled out of control...
And under everyone’s gaze, Lu Ping’an spontaneously combusted, turning into a Fireman... and not just any Flaming element!
The golden flames carried a terrifying power, a divine oppression that intimidated the crowd, and the golden human-shaped life-form released shattering, world-ending golden blazes... That wasn’t hyperbole; it was a "little sun" working hard to maintain stability.
Clearly, Little Flame was incapable of articulating the nature of its own essence, and Lu Ping’an, who had not used its power for a long time, was also unclear about what its current form signified.
When it transformed into the "True Sun Blaze," in a sense, it became the closest "Divine" to that fallen Sun God!
Lu Ping’an attempted to rise, and the mere act of movement itself was an unstable eruption.
Centered around him, a ring of blazing fire suddenly burst forth.
The earth turned to ashes, and the colossal explosion of power whipped everything around.
The only reason Lu Ping’an hadn’t instantly become a "nova" was that his flesh now was the "Sun Vine," a miraculous plant that could withstand the Sun Holy Fire.
These "plant cells" provided him with the endurance to withstand the transformation into the True Sun Blaze, but even this was still unstable... Lu Ping’an had only the "bloodline" and the "flesh," yet lacked the "soul" to drive it all.
He had flesh but not the "shell" to make it operate, a stable form that could truly wield it....
"... Soul Binding!"
At this moment, Lu Ping’an sprang into action.
Crisis is always an opportunity to unleash potential, and at this moment, the plan, which was still in its infancy, was instantaneously completed by Lu Ping’an.
The restless Little Flame, the eerie and powerful corpse of the Son of the Beast God, the primordial sun in space, the mythological Golden Crow... all these thoughts converged under Lu Ping’an’s focus, ultimately taking the shape of a flower.
Yes, a flower, an outcome not even Lu Ping’an himself had anticipated...
A plant, ordinary and forever turned towards the sun of the mortal realm.
A Sunflower.
But that restlessness and agitation stabilized miraculously at the moment the golden flower’s smile appeared.
The phantom of the golden sunflower, covering Lu Ping’an’s fiery form, also revealed the dazzling scene of a garden to all.
This bizarre spectacle was beyond comprehension, but the gold-flamed sunflower gradually moved towards reality.
"Blossom... Sunflower."
Thus, everyone beheld that vision-like "reality."
Behind the youth, a sunflower smiled, slowly unfolding its petals upon the earth, completing its own bloom with a smile.
And then, the sun set.
It exploded upon the earth!
In an instant, a solar storm swept across the entire world.
"Hum!" The whole world, in that instant, went silent.
Snow Mountain? Turned into a Volcano.
Snowfield? Only seared wasteland persisted.
Everything, be it ice and snow or the earth itself, all transformed into burning flames.
In the midst of the world, there was only that ordinary sunflower, smiling, blooming, destroying.
— End of Chapter 1062 —