Awakening：The Infinite Evolution of My Talent as a Low-Level Awakener - Chapter 825

Chapter 825: Chapter 825: Enhancement and Distortion!
At the bottom of the Abyssal Prison, Sterl sat cross-legged, his expression serious.

Although his body had absorbed a total of 150,000 units of high-level soul power, this was the first time he had absorbed over ten thousand units all at once.

The high-level soul power was rapidly being absorbed and integrated into his body at a visible rate. The entire process lasted less than half a minute, and soon, all the high-level soul power had been absorbed.

Sterl’s body tightened slightly as he braced himself for the pain of soul power refinement.

However, he waited for half a minute and felt nothing.

Seeing this, Sterl didn’t feel relieved. Instead, he became more cautious and anxious, because he knew that the more tranquil the process, the more intense the backlash from the soul power refinement would be.

“This…”

Suddenly, Sterl’s body trembled, and a deep look of shock appeared on his face.

The next moment, with a loud bang, his chest exploded as if a nuclear bomb had been detonated inside his body. A large amount of blood and flesh splattered everywhere.

The terrifying, inexplicable explosion left his mind blank, but his master-tier swordsmanship instincts forced him into a meditative state.

The explosion in his chest acted as a starting point, and countless blood blossoms erupted from every part of his body. As his body collapsed, a powerful vitality, imbued with a mysterious force, began rapidly healing him.

He had thought that the backlash was about to end, but to his shock, the vitality completely lost control, causing his flesh to start multiplying uncontrollably.

Before long, Sterl’s human form was barely recognizable. He had turned into a twisted mass of flesh, with large amounts of fleshy growths slowly writhing on the surface of the flesh-ball, giving it a grotesque appearance.

Fortunately, during the previous process of consuming large amounts of high-level soul power, his resistance to it had already reached 30 points.

At this moment, that resistance was coming into play, gradually stabilizing his increasingly collapsing body. It began to construct, restore, and reinforce his form.

Five minutes later, the last twisted tendril slowly retracted from Sterl’s shoulder and disappeared, and he returned to his normal form.

“Finally, it’s over…”

Sterl’s confused eyes gradually regained focus. He looked at his now perfect, powerful body and couldn’t help but take a sharp breath.

“I almost thought I wouldn’t make it. If I had mutated like that, my reputation would have been completely ruined.”

He said with a touch of regret.

High-level soul power seemed to contain an extremely strong, radiative high-tier energy, with immense enhancement effects, but it also carried terrifying dangers.

Although Sterl had a strong desire for power, he didn’t want to become a grotesque, inhuman, monstrous being.

He believed it wasn’t just him—his women certainly wouldn’t want to face a monster’s output either.

Sterl rubbed his forehead.

Each time he absorbed and merged this kind of soul power, it was an immense mental strain. The feeling of time stretching endlessly was unbearable, and without a powerful will, it seemed like his mind could shatter at any moment.

So, even though he had a cheat, becoming stronger wasn’t as simple as lying in bed and wiggling his fingers.

The cheat was merely an opportunity. If he didn’t possess an Unyielding Immortal Heart, even the most powerful cheat would be reduced to nothing more than a decorative piece.

Next, Sterl checked the enhancement effects.

[Infused with large amounts of mysterious energy, your vitality has increased by 11%]

[Infused with large amounts of mysterious energy, your life force has increased by 12%]

[Infused with large amounts of mysterious energy, the basic effects of your strength, physique, agility, and spirit have increased by 9%]

[Infused with large amounts of mysterious energy, your overall recovery abilities (including vitality, life force, spirit…) have increased by 15%]

[Infused with large amounts of mysterious energy, your ability to comprehend all things (including formations, Laws, skills, talents…) has increased by 10%]

[Infused with large amounts of mysterious energy, your lifespan has increased by 1000 years!]

[Infused with large amounts of mysterious energy, your resistance to unknown forces has increased by 10 points!]

“Such strong effects?

My soul power resistance has increased by 10 points directly!”

Sterl was quite surprised, staring at the data in a daze.

This massive enhancement allowed him to clearly feel the immense increase in his strength!

The sudden jump in soul power resistance exceeded his expectations. Resistance was something that became harder and harder to increase as it went up.

He had previously absorbed 150,000 units of high-level soul power and only managed to increase his resistance to 30 points.

Now, he had increased his resistance by 10 points all at once, demonstrating just how significant this improvement was.

“Body Potential Tier still hasn’t increased. Could it be that the stimulation wasn’t strong enough?”

Sterl paused for a moment, looking at his 40 points of soul power resistance, and a certain resolve formed in his mind.

The earlier enhancement seemed dangerous, but it hadn’t reached the limit of his resistance—not even a tenth of it.

Now that his resistance had again risen significantly, perhaps he could push it even further.

“Continue. Increase the absorption rate by ten times! Let me see just how extreme the backlash from 100,000 high-level soul power will be!”

Sterl gritted his teeth. For some reason, the feeling of dancing on the edge of death brought an unusual sense of exhilaration to his heart.

No wonder, on Earth in his previous life, there were always people who seemed determined to seek death in various ways—there was an undeniable thrill to it.

Moreover, if his dangerous gamble paid off, he would gain tremendous rewards and improvements.

After preparing himself, Sterl immediately activated the Soul Devourer Sphere, and the high-level soul power stored within it turned into a torrent, flooding into his body.

One thousand… ten thousand… a hundred thousand!

A full hundred thousand soul power poured into him.

“This… doesn’t seem to be my limit yet.”

Sterl instinctively felt that he could endure more.

“Star-Bone Body, activate!”

He muttered under his breath. Torrents of vitality surged from deep within his body as the Power of Star-Bone was slowly consumed. With the activation of Star-Bone Body, he followed his instincts and continued to channel the Soul Devourer Sphere, absorbing even more high-level soul power.

One hundred thousand… one hundred fifty thousand… two hundred thousand… three hundred thousand!

When the amount of high-level soul power that had poured into his body reached a terrifying three hundred thousand, Sterl finally sensed a faint but undeniable feeling of danger.

He quickly cut off the continuous flow from the Soul Devourer Sphere, severing the incoming torrent of soul power.

Sterl focused, not daring to be careless.

Three hundred thousand high-level soul power filled his body, and the slightest disturbance could obliterate him into dust.

He couldn’t help but feel a pang of regret. He shouldn’t have been so impulsive in flooding his body with such an overwhelming amount of high-level soul power.

But his instincts told him that this intense refinement with high-level soul power was likely necessary. Perhaps the third breakthrough of his limits, the emergence of a new talent, lay in his soul power resistance!

“Life and death are fated. What I must do is give it my all!”

“Come on! Let me see my true limit!”

With a thought, every cell in his body instantly activated, like vicious, hungry beasts devouring the vast amounts of high-level soul power within him.

Under the full force of absorption, it only took a few minutes for the three hundred thousand units of high-level soul power to be completely consumed by his body!

Just as he was fully focused, waiting for the backlash of the refining process to hit, a deafening explosion suddenly rang out.

Before Sterl could even react, his vision went black, and his consciousness and soul descended into silence.

In the moment of losing consciousness, the body that had been standing in place exploded with a deafening roar, turning into a mass of shattered flesh.

These fleshy remnants fell to the ground, but to his surprise, they began to move as though they were alive, writhing rapidly. Fleshy growths slowly extended and grew, transforming into numerous bloody, fleshy tendrils.

In just one moment, the scattered flesh fragments transformed into tens of thousands of tendrils.

These tendrils spread across the ground like a writhing blanket of fungi, extending outward in all directions.

Where the fungal blanket spread, it was as though an invisible giant beast was devouring everything in its path, consuming all existing matter around it.

The ground gradually collapsed, and the surrounding prison cells quickly disappeared. The indestructible prison and sealing stone pillars, which Sterl had only managed to destroy using Dream Power, dissolved at a visible speed.

As large amounts of matter were devoured and absorbed by the fleshy fungal blanket, its reach expanded rapidly.

Within half a day, this strange blood-and-flesh blanket had completely covered the entire Abyssal Prison’s fifth level, a forbidden zone that resembled an underground fortress!

Looking around, Sterl could hardly see any recognizable material; even the once indestructible walls of the Abyssal Prison had been scraped away layer by layer.

After consuming vast amounts of material, the flesh and blood blanket finally seemed satisfied, beginning to contract and condense under the influence of some mysterious force.

An hour later, the blood-and-flesh blanket that had covered the entire underground fortress had condensed into a mass with a diameter of ten meters.

Two hours later, the mass shrank to a two-meter radius, its surface changing from blood-red to a dark red tinged with black.

After a while, the mass rapidly began to take shape, slowly forming a humanoid figure. Then, as though it were out of control, it began to expand and blossom.

If the expansion reached its peak and the mass exploded in space-time, it would mean that the refinement had failed, and Sterl would perish on the spot.

Fortunately, his 40 points of soul power resistance began to take effect. Under the strength of his powerful resistance, the mass, nearing the space-time threshold, once again began to take on a humanoid shape.

After about half an hour of struggle, the top of the fleshy mass finally began to reveal Sterl’s face.

This seemed to signal something. As Sterl’s face took form, his distorted body began to recover at an incredible speed. The deformed flesh gradually smoothed out.

A few minutes later, Sterl lay on the ground, in the exact same state as before, as though he were in a deep sleep.