Within a ball of flame, Ye Yun's body was continuously torn apart by energy and then reassembled. In the end, he was even reduced to ashes by the fire, leaving only a faint human-shaped phantom.
"What's going on? This is the fourth time his physical body has been reshaped, right? Why can his True Yuan attribute awakening reconstruct his physical body so many times? This has already surpassed Lord Yao Die." After a quarter of an hour, Commander Tie couldn't help but ask, looking at the phantom that was still reshaping its physical body.
During awakening, the reshaping of the physical body in the game world significantly improved the strength of the physical body in the real world. The word "significantly" was used because it was an improvement based on a certain percentage of the player's real-world physical body strength. According to years of experience, each physical body reconstruction for a player would strengthen their real-world physique by about ten percent.
Normally, players would undergo one physical body reconstruction during their awakening at level seventy. Even the strongest player back then, Yao Die, only reconstructed three times. Yet, Ye Yun had already reconstructed his fourth time and was undergoing the fifth.
"Yo, Commander Tie, you've gotten so used to calling someone 'Lord' so quickly? As expected of the commander of the Iron Fist Mercenary Group, you certainly know how to bend and stretch."
"Besides, what was your Lord's talent at level seventy? What was our City Lord's talent? There's no comparison at all, is there?"
Commander Tie, whose real name was Tie Quan, was the commander of a massive mercenary group in the Third Cosmic Plane. He had over five hundred thousand subordinates. However, when Yao Die launched his campaign to eliminate dissidents, this man was the first to be pacified and became a subject of the Fu Tian Empire.
"Hmph, how would a bunch of guys without flesh and blood understand the power of our Great Emperor Fu Tian? What? Are you, a block of ice, trying to join the ranks of City Lord Yun Tian? Do you think he would even look at you?" Tie Quan sneered at the person who was mocking him.
If one didn't look closely, the newcomer wouldn't even seem like a living being, as his entire body was composed of ice crystals. In the dead of night, the reflections of the flickering firelight on him appeared extremely bizarre, especially the black cracks that seemed like they could shatter at any moment, adding a sinister touch to this strangeness.
The Ice Clan, also known as the Snow Clan, was a race that lived in a world of ice and snow. Legend had it that they were born in the depths of the snow plains. The initial state of every Ice Clan member was a body composed of snowflakes. Then, as they absorbed the cold energy of the ice and snow world, their bodies gradually solidified into blocks and transformed into ice. Once the Ice Clan's bodies solidified into ice blocks, their strength was comparable to the Void Return Realm.
Ice blocks transformed into ice crystals, and their strength reached the Mahayana Realm.
When ice crystals further evolved into diamond-like structures, their strength would vary. This difference lay in the number of cracks on their bodies when they transformed from ice blocks into ice crystals.
The more cracks on their bodies, the lower their strength would be after their bodies evolved into diamond-like structures, requiring more time and energy to repair their own cracks. In other words, the cracks on their bodies were a manifestation of their innate talent.
However, as long as their bodies solidified into diamond-like structures, their minimum strength was comparable to a Solar Realm mighty being. If they were exceptionally talented with few cracks, their strength could even reach the Saint Realm upon solidification into diamond-like structures!
"Commander Tie doesn't need to worry about that. However, one thing is for sure: no matter what, we, the Snow Sect, will not be like you, serving as nameless dogs." The diamond-like person glanced at Tie Quan, then tilted his head back and looked at the figure formed by flames in the sky, seemingly lost in thought.
"Xue Hen, you're just all talk. When our Fu Tian army marches into the Fifth Cosmic Plane and arrives at your Snow Sect, let's see if you can still speak so defiantly." As the commander of a well-known mercenary group on the New Mortal Continent, his foresight was exceptionally deep, and he wouldn't be overly emotional about the diamond-like person's words.
However, he knew in his heart that a mercenary group with only half a million members like his would be considered at most a cannon fodder squad in the eyes of Great Emperor Fu Tian. Who among the chess pieces held by Great Emperor Fu Tian didn't command armies of hundreds of millions of powerful beings? He didn't even have the qualification to be her chess piece.
"Commander Tie speaks wisely. For millions of years, all worlds have respected sects. In any force, how have our small groups not walked on thin ice in the cracks? It was Great Emperor Fu Tian who broke these heavenly restraints, swept through the cosmos with invincible might, and achieved the great unification of the Four Cosmic Planes. Xue Hen, your words just now were a bit much." At this moment, a person covered in barbs also stepped forward, angrily scolding the Ice Clan member named Xue Hen.
The Four Cosmic Planes, with countless beings. Xue Hen was courting death. One must know that the Imperial Army had already unified the Fourth Cosmic Plane, and the next step was the Fifth Cosmic Plane, where the Ice Clan resided. With Great Emperor Fu Tian's temperament, if she learned of Xue Hen's remarks, the Ice Clan would surely face annihilation.
"I don't care if you are Yao Die's people or not. In my Cloud Heaven City, even she would have to behave herself!" a clear and cold voice echoed from the city wall. Yue Di, with hundreds of Moon Shadow race members, stood on the city wall, on guard.
"Greetings, Deputy City Lord Yue."
Yue Di usually managed the entire Cloud Heaven City, so various factions within the city were familiar with him. Even Yao Die's clansmen would bow their heads upon seeing Yue Di here, unless they no longer wished to operate on the New Mortal Continent.
Although the Ten Great City Guardians were protecting Ye Yun, Yue Di was still uneasy, so he led his clansmen to observe the crowd below. With Yue Di's appearance, the players below all fell silent, their gazes fixed on Ye Yun's nirvana.
With Cloud Heaven City at his back, Yue Di's combat power was second to none on the entire New Mortal Continent. Even his talent had appeared in the top twenty of the Cosmic Ranking. Although the Seven Races had been severely crippled by Yao Die, their strength in the game had expanded the fastest. Their overall strength in reality was also rapidly increasing, which could be considered a rebirth after destruction.
"Eight physical body reconstructions. Master is truly defying the heavens." Yue Di looked at the ball of flame in the sky. Even though he was knowledgeable, he couldn't help but marvel. This was double the number of nirvana cycles compared to the greatest prodigy Yao Die back then.
Ninth time...
Tenth time...