"That is… impossible!" Xu Fu was completely shocked.
As the heir of the living statue timeline, aside from Negary who personally orchestrated this entire situation, no one else should understand living statues better than he did.
Living statues were a lifeform from a different timeline of this world; due to the difference in the environment, they faced constant rejection from the world itself, which was why their altered form, the undead, managed to adapt to this world came into existence. Even so, the undead must never let their nature be exposed to the world, otherwise, they faced the danger of being petrified.
And yet right now, Mi Ze had managed to absorb the blood aura from Xu Fu, then converted himself into a living statue from previously being a pure human.
Sure enough, that idea was possible.
In the distance, Mi Yi also noticed this as he fought against the Six Disasters and excitedly grinned.
The essence of Aura Summation was to infuse one's willpower into one's flesh and blood, completing synchronization within oneself. By doing this, a human's entire existence would become unified, their soul would become one with their body and allow them to exert the immense aura of a living person, using that to break through the undead's blood aura and expose their living statue nature.
The thousand-year period had allowed the Mi clan's understanding of Aura Summation to reach a certain peak: Since humanity was closely connected to the world, then if the synchronization of the human body and soul was possible, would it also be possible to achieve synchronization between a person and the world itself? Or at least, temporarily become unified with a portion of the world's power?
And so, the second stage of Aura Summation was gradually explored and perfected. They would find a part of the world's power that was suitable for them, then continuously train to synchronize with it like they would synchronize the human body and willpower. Some of the Mi clan's members who managed to achieve this were able to borrow the world's power to reach awakening; like the Flame Disaster, who was originally suitable with the power of fire and infused it into his own body.
The third stage of Aura Summation was currently nothing but a theory. Similar to how a person's willpower was able to infuse into their flesh and blood, and how the power of the world was able to infuse into the human body through their connection, would an individual human be able to infuse themselves into the world itself?
According to their assumptions, someone capable of reaching this third stage would be equivalent to a God. They would be capable of manifesting their body in any corner of the world and utilize natural disaster-level power through it. If they didn't cut off their connection to the world, they would never die.
In a certain parallel world where Mi Yi usurped Xu Fu, he managed to achieve this third stage: World – Man – Will triple synchronization.
When he was young, Mi Ze had once proposed a certain idea. In essence, the undeads were living statues that took on an appearance of flesh. They were the representation of another timeline, another world. The fact that the undead existed in this world meant that the principles of the living statues' world were actually being engraved into their world. In that case, the unnatural creature that they called the undead would essentially be an adverse reaction of the normal world to the living statues' world during this fusion.
This was the same as Aura Summation, as there was once a member of the Mi clan who unexpectedly infused a destructive power that was unfit for the world into his body. After this infusion, that Mi clan member began mutating before exploding into pieces and died.
If this were to be magnified infinitely bigger, this situation would turn out to be unexpectedly the same as the current world's circumstances. The forces of the living statues' world tried to borrow the stone demon mask in order to fuse with this current world but ended up being rejected and gave birth to the adverse reaction that was the undead.
The fact that Revelation had pronounced that the Sins of the undead would eventually lead to this world's future destruction further proved this to be true.
For that reason, the young Mi Ze proposed a nearly insane idea: If a person or a group were to adapt themselves to become the perfect conduit for the world to digest the living statues world's forces when they reached the peak of Aura Summation; then not only would they successfully achieve the mythical third stage, but they would also gain the complete power of the living statues' world as its only outlets.
This idea was so insane that Mi Ze was heavily punished by the Mi clan's Elders when he proposed it, but as Mi Ze's older cousin, Mi Yi had always kept this idea in his mind, resulting in his betrayal of the Mi Clan.
Mi Yi couldn't help but sigh. Mi Ze had terrific talents, but the more brilliant Mi Ze was, the emptier his inner world became, which was the opposite of how Mi Yi was. Mi Yi's ambitions granted him an almost unrivalled level of motivation, and if the two of them had cooperated, they would have definitely become the strongest people in the world.
What terrific power.
Mi Ze's statue body slowly changed until it eventually turned back into regular flesh and blood. In the end, his idea was only an idea, the fact that he managed to succeed this time was mostly thanks to the Fruit of Sin within his body.
While Revelation represented the destruction of this world, it also represented the world itself. And even though the DNA-shaped chains that carried the Fruits of Sin had disappeared after they fused into their bodies, the chains still existed and were very solidly attached to Mi Ze's body.
Thanks to this, Mi Ze succeeded and became the key for the living statues' world to fuse with their current world.
With blurred movement, Mi Ze appeared behind Xu Fu at a speed beyond Xu Fu's reaction and landed a single punch on him. Xu Fu's body became warped by the immense force and shot forward like a fleshy cannonball, crashing straight into the ruins of the royal palace while leaving a long trail of blood behind him.
Struggling a bit, Xu Fu stood up from inside the destroyed structure. He now looked like a demon from the depths of hell, a singed and burnt smell of flesh exuded from his body. The force at which he was struck caused him to fly through the air with enough speed for friction to not only burn away his skin but also grill the flesh beneath that.
My blood aura did nothing.
Xu Fu frightfully discovered this fact.
After becoming the center point for the two worlds' fusion, Mi Ze had stepped onto an absolute superior position compared to Xu Fu. If not for the fact that Mi Ze was still unaccustomed to the power of the living statues' world, Xu Fu would have probably died immediately.
Watching Xu Fu still struggling to stand up, Mi Ze's body suddenly crumbled into dust. At the same time, a large amount of dust converged in front of Xu Fu and manifested into Mi Ze's body again.
Having infused himself into the world, Mi Ze was able to manifest a body for himself anywhere that his consciousness was able to reach in this world by borrowing that place's natural material.
"It's over, Xu Fu!" Mi Ze tilted his head to look down on Xu Fu and declared honestly: "Your thousand-year ties with the Mi clan shall end today!"
"So that's how you did it, infusing yourself into the world and becoming the common ground for the two worlds, huh?" realizing what Mi Ze had done, Xu Fu grinned and started laughing maniacally: "Then you've sensed it, haven't you Mi Ze? That ultimate fear! You will definitely turn into another 'me', I am confident of this!"
"Or rather, did you become so empty because you had already sensed it? And because you were so brilliant, you realized that everything about 'you' was meaningless in front of 'him'?" Xu Fu continued to laugh without regard to his own situation: "If that is the case, then you aren't even an equal to me!"
Mi Ze silently stared at Xu Fu as the hole in his chest began to gradually widen, then he raised his hand, causing Xu Fu's blood aura to flutter. Clenching his hand, Xu Fu's body appeared as if it was being affected by an irresistible force and was squished into a twisted shape. Having become synchronized with the world, Mi Ze was able to use his willpower to control all matter and energy in this world.
Mi Yi's expressions continuously changed. Now that the stone demon mask had been destroyed, if the only Progenitor of the living statue's world in this world, Xu Fu, were to die, Mi Yi would never be able to reproduce Mi Ze's feat.
However, Mi Yi still managed to hold himself back, choosing to trust the Flames of Ambitions that he knew well.
It still isn't the chance for me to achieve my peak just yet.
He thought as he snuck an unnoticeable glance towards Rip.
