The two innate divine abilities awakened at the Nascent Soul Stage were not so much an awakening as an integration of the laws Xiao himself had comprehended.
Although these two innate divine abilities did not substantially enhance Xiao's own power, they greatly improved his combat capabilities, even to the point of a qualitative leap.
Specifically, all innate divine abilities could be activated instantly.
Normally, if Xiao wanted to unleash powerful attacks on the level of Darkness's End and Heaven's Realm, he would need a certain degree of energy buffering, somewhat similar to the process a mage undergoes when channeling a forbidden spell.
Therefore, in many actual battles, this ability often could not be directly applied; Xiao could at most use simplified versions or employ deceptive tactics to buy himself time.
However, when these two abilities transformed into innate divine abilities, Xiao only needed to provide sufficient energy, and he could instantly activate skills through his Nascent Soul, throwing out once-devastating ultimate moves like ordinary attacks.
More importantly, with the successful condensation of his Nascent Soul, Xiao felt a deeper power—the power of subtlety.
The emergence of the Nascent Soul provided a central control hub for the Cyber Aura, which had previously been scattered throughout the body, allowing for more efficient control and allocation.
Through his Nascent Soul, Xiao's control over his body had reached an inconceivable level; he could even delve into every single cell, and even into the gene chain, to achieve subtle control over his power.
Xiao's current control over his physical body was akin to the breaking the void, seeing the immortal state in traditional martial arts.
In this realm, cultivators can perfectly control their bodies, knowing them inside and out, and can manipulate their bodies at will, reaching a near-divine state.
More importantly, this realm is not limited to enhancing physical abilities, but also encompasses a deep understanding and application of internal energy and spirit.
Now, Xiao only needed to activate his Nascent Soul, and almost instantaneously, he could easily strip and obliterate the souls of the weak.
The power of Soul Killer had even become an instinct for Xiao.
It can be said that the formation of the Nascent Soul caused all of Xiao's own powers to converge into a formidable force under the Nascent Soul's integration, leading to a qualitative leap in his overall strength.
This also made Xiao deeply feel that his original choice was incredibly correct—indeed, only a cultivation method that integrates essence, qi, and spirit into one can truly achieve comprehensive evolution.
Prior to this, whether it was matter representing essence or energy representing qi, no matter how powerful they were, they could not achieve perfect integration.
In battle, they often fought independently and went their own ways.
However, now that the Nascent Soul had emerged, essence and qi instantly unified; the three—essence, qi, and spirit—became a single entity, fused into one furnace, and their combat power surged by more than a hundredfold!
After carefully contemplating the benefits of the Nascent Soul, Xiao began to consider how to allow ordinary cultivators to also cultivate it.
Xiao was able to condense a Nascent Soul by relying on his absolute control over all Cyber Aura, and even the order of condensation was completely reversed.
For ordinary cultivators, achieving this is clearly not very realistic.
Therefore, Xiao needed to further refine and simplify the cultivation method for the Nascent Soul Stage.
To condense a Nascent Soul, the first step is naturally to refine a Digital Monster that integrates energy and data, which means transforming the internal furnace into a data Golden Core.
The essence of the Digital Monster is, in fact, data-type energy that has undergone a qualitative change after being transformed by the Cyber Dimension.
For Golden Core cultivators, this is not a difficult task; with their own strength, they can fully manage to draw in dimensional energy to condense their own Digital Monster.
Moreover, as cultivators continuously absorb dimensional energy, their connection with the Cyber Dimension will become increasingly close and profound, and this is precisely the result Xiao is pleased to see.
However, merely condensing the initial Digital Monster is far from enough.
A series of Nascent Soul condensation secret arts must also be embedded into the data core through engraving and programming; only then can the most basic data Golden Core be successfully condensed.
Once the data Golden Core is ready, the next step is to complete the fusion of the data Golden Core and the internal furnace.
This process is also a meticulous task, and any mistake could lead to the furnace becoming unstable and exploding.
However, a living person won't be suffocated by urine; clever people will always find a solution.
Even Xiao himself thought of it: just empty the energy from the furnace Golden Core beforehand and temporarily extinguish the furnace—wouldn't that solve it?
After completing all of this, the greatest hurdle to advancing to the Nascent Soul Stage arrives—the Heart-Questioning Tribulation!
If one can successfully pass this tribulation, then the great task is accomplished.
Conversely, if one fails the tribulation, then there is only death.
After successfully passing the Heart-Questioning Tribulation, the Nascent Soul will naturally form, and when it breaks out of the core, it will possess its initial Nascent Soul form.
At this moment, the Nascent Soul is actually equivalent to the larval stage of a Digital Monster; above this, there are three higher levels of existence: the Adult, Perfect, and Ultimate forms.
They correspond respectively to the four different realms of the Nascent Soul: Early, Middle, Late, and Great Perfection stages.
Not only that, but to allow the soul to better reside within the Nascent Soul and promote its growth,
Xiao also specifically added some brand-new conceptual terms to the Cyber Aura and integrated his own fused Mind's Eye superpower into it.
With this set of combinations, Xiao finally completed the design of the Nascent Soul Stage.
Although this combination appears extremely crude, as if it were haphazardly patched together, forcibly blending various powers, and even feeling a bit shoddy,
the actual effect it can produce is absolutely excellent.
After all, this is just a Nascent Soul; its fundamental purpose is to transform energy into soul, playing a crucial role in connecting the upper and lower stages.
Therefore, in the initial design phase, there was no need to excessively pursue a so-called perfect structural system.
All Xiao needed to do was make a good start.
As for various problems that might arise later, some learned individuals among the many cultivators will emerge to supplement and perfect it.
As long as many people use it, time will make everything perfect.
After all, Xiao is the boss.
The things he truly needs to do are to fully absorb the wisdom of all beings, while those busy and laborious tasks should be left to others to complete.
If he let his followers simply enjoy the fruits of his labor, why would he bother spreading his power for all beings to use?
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