Nuclear-powered Sword Immortal
Chapter 716 - 654: Matter, Energy, Spirit, Space

Chapter 716: Chapter 654: Matter, Energy, Spirit, Space

Thousands of beams of Qingguang were infused, and Gu Jinlai seemed immersed in the laborious process of refining the Great Sun Core, measured in millennia.

Bit by bit, drop by drop, he continuously absorbed the elemental dust wandering through the vast cosmos, enriching himself and steadily enhancing his control over the Great Sun Core, stabilizing its internal structure.

A stable structure could bear more material elements.

More material elements could fuse to release more energy.

The process was simple, like a common person building an ever-larger boat, but the myriad of issues that needed to be overcome during this period were difficult to articulate.

Both made of wood, even if the material remained unchanged.

Yet, a wooden boat with a diameter of one meter and one of ten thousand meters involved technical craftsmanship as different as heaven and earth.

This series of enhancements was what occurred to the Great Sun Core of Gu Jinlai.

After a long while...

Gu Jinlai completed a newfound mastery over the Great Sun Core within his body.

Great Sun Eternal Method: Perfect First Layer→Perfect Second Layer.

"Quantity, quality..."

Gu Jinlai murmured to himself.

He stepped out of his cultivation room, took a step into the void, his form soaring with the wind, ascending into the clouds.

Ten thousand meters, thirty thousand meters, one hundred thousand meters, three hundred thousand meters...

When he reached a sufficient altitude, the air gradually thinned, and the temperature plummeted.

Once he completely burst out of the atmosphere, he could clearly feel the brilliant Great Sun above his head and various cosmic energy rays piercing through his body, rapidly transforming them through the Great Sun Eternal Method.

The Great Sun Core within him, which was already emitting terrifying energy, visibly swelled at breakneck speed, doubling once again.

During this escalation, the size of Gu Jinlai’s body also surged rapidly, reaching the size of the Burst Form of the Chaotic Star Light Body of the Eternal Furnace when it was at Perfection—four hundred ninety meters.

Upon reaching this size, he felt no difficulty and surged again, growing to six hundred sixty meters.

And this was still not his limit.

As his size continued to climb, in the blink of an eye, he had soared to an astounding nine hundred ninety meters.

And this was seemingly his limit before he began cultivating through the Great Sun Eternal Method.

"Immortal Masters usually can only consolidate their bodies to between eight hundred and nine hundred meters. Those with a body of nine hundred ninety meters, without exception, are those who know there is no hope ahead and choose to build a Thousand-mile Cave Heaven—yet even for those Immortal Masters, a nine hundred ninety meter Immortal Body is only a Burst Form used during a life-or-death battle, not sustainable, and under normal circumstances, they maintain a size of about six hundred meters."

Gu Jinlai murmured to himself.

And yet, he was at nine hundred ninety meters!

And he didn’t feel any significant strain.

In other words, he could maintain the nine hundred ninety meters state just as easily as he had maintained four hundred ninety meters initially.

In the next moment, Gu Jinlai’s size inflated again, directly breaking past the one thousand meter mark.

One thousand one hundred meters, one thousand two hundred meters, one thousand three hundred meters...

His Immortal Body exploded in size to one thousand three hundred meters before it just barely stopped growing.

"This is my Burst Form."

The enormous size limited a cultivator’s speed.

But...

It allowed the cultivator’s energy release to encounter no obstructions whatsoever.

Just like a warship, smaller ones are agile, but the firepower, defensive power won’t be strong.

Whereas a large warship, despite its agility not comparing with smaller ships, the weapons platforms and defensive systems they can carry, the final output they produce, far surpass that of smaller warships.

Like Gu Jinlai, originally, in one breath he could condense a South Fire Divine Light with a diameter of a hundred meters.

Now, in the same one breath, and still condensing the South Fire Divine Light, the diameter could reach three hundred meters.

The increase in lethality and the range of destruction was more than just trifling!

"Next, the ultimate form..."

Inside Gu Jinlai, the Great Sun Core spun to its limits, countless energies, bright lights released from the core, the light even piercing his body, shooting out from the cracks, making him look as though he had become an actual Incarnation of the Fierce Sun.

Endless radiance entwined his body, making him almost no longer of a normal material or even energy form.

He appeared like a Light Giant.

Only, this Light Giant was colossal, close to two thousand meters.

Especially now, as he was above the atmosphere, those in the Chen Domain looking upwards saw as if a second sun had truly appeared in the sky, intense to the point of being unbearable to look directly.

This scene, as if two suns shared the sky, immediately caught the attention of Liu Feiyun, Duanmu Chengyun, Su Xin, Zhang Tianye, and others in the Chen Domain.

Staring upwards at the fiercely radiant, endlessly powerful Great Sun, Duanmu Chengyun’s eyes widened, "What... what terrifying power is this!?"

Not just him, even Zhang Tianye, a Peak True Immortal, felt a soul-shaking awe.

In his eyes at this moment, Gu Jinlai no longer seemed human, but had incarnated into a true Fierce Sun, that kind of endless Divine Power, even if only a tenth...

No!

Just one percent would be enough to easily turn him, a Peak True Immortal, to ash."

"Immortal Master Gu... how strong is he really!?"

Not just them.

The disturbance Gu Jinlai created in the Void as he unrestrainedly released his power didn’t just startle the people of Chen Domain.

Far in the Immortal Country, several Heavenly Immortals, including Zhao Xi who had completed the refining of the Transforming Spirit Heavenly Dao, were also shocked, looking up and gazing towards the direction of Chen Domain.