Infinite Paradise
Chapter 115 - 88 Transformation~~~(4000 words, subscribe please)

Chapter 115: 88 Transformation~~~(4000 words, subscribe please)

It must be said, even in Le Cheng’s view, Sigma’s operation this time is extremely against the natural order.

Having a Prince learn soul visualization while enduring the immense pressure of the Dragon Soul, without any prior experience with the Rising Dragon Transformation—and all of this done while deciphering the obscure chants, is this really a selection for a new Emperor? It’s more like the search for a Chosen Son... Le Cheng even doubted, without himself, could Caster really pass today’s test?

Even he only mastered the Rising Dragon Transformation by a sheer coincidence.

If it weren’t for Morgan’s accidental prophecy about that future, he himself might not have climbed into her bed, and if he hadn’t done so, Morgan would likely not have allowed him to observe such an important thing as the Rising Dragon Transformation. If he hadn’t seen the Rising Dragon Transformation, he wouldn’t have realized Sigma’s true intentions, and today’s King Selection Ceremony would most likely end with no one passing.

But, looking at the situation of the entire Empire and even this world as a whole, Le Cheng could understand Sigma’s thoughts.

After all, Sigma had spent two hundred years and still couldn’t completely repel the Heavenly Palace Legion. With such external worries ahead, he clearly didn’t wish his successor to merely be excellent, but like himself, or even surpassing himself, to be a super strong man who could pioneer an era.

Only such a person could potentially realize his uncompleted ideals.

And indeed, Sigma paid a tremendous price for this, he turned his soul completely into a Half-Dragon, merging into the Demon Sword Apophis. Without the resolution to sacrifice everything for his ideals, no one could take such a step.

In Le Cheng’s field of vision, at this moment, Sigma’s soul stood erect above the graveyard.

It was a Half-Dragon soul, with a body of approximately one cubit in length, covered with thick red Scale Armor from the head down, the limbs were particularly robust, even the feet had transformed into dragon-shaped claws, with only the facial features still maintaining that of a human. However, one could still see red scales fading in color near the roots of the ears. Besides that, he had a pair of dragon horns and a nearly two meters long dragon tail.

Perhaps just preserving this soul had exhausted all of Sigma’s strength, at least Le Cheng couldn’t feel any consciousness within this soul. So it merely stood there.

This... is this Emperor Sigma?

When Caster opened his "eyes" and saw that soul, he was completely stunned.

He had indeed heard in the past that Sigma would occasionally transform into a form similar to that of dragons during battles, but he never thought he would have the fortune to witness it in his lifetime. His surprise was accompanied by immense excitement.

[Let’s save the sentiments for later, we must make good use of our time now, you should know what I’m talking about.]

[Mr. Le Cheng!]

After entering the state of soul visualization, Caster finally understood why Le Cheng could speak inside his head, and he also saw Le Cheng’s soul in the distance, looking like a lump of glutinous rice. Although they were extremely far apart, via the vision of visualization, the two souls could still be tightly connected.

Once, due to the language of the Dragon Clan being different from other races, in order to facilitate communication, the Dragon Clan developed a unique ability... or rather, it might be an inherent instinct, they could connect their souls with the souls of others, communicating at the soul level. In this way, even if the languages were incomprehensible to each other, they could still understand what the other party wanted to convey.

Ascenders in a state of visualization could also do this, as long as they could observe the other’s soul.

[I know, now I need to visualize Emperor Sigma’s soul and then reshape my soul and body into that form, right?]

[Correct, the mantra has been given to you, whether you succeed now depends on yourself.]

[I understand, I will work hard!]

Caster’s soul nodded forcefully, and then gazed silently at Sigma’s soul, while reshaping his own soul.

For Caster, this was a very painful process, because shaping the soul was just like shaping one’s personality. From childhood to adolescence to adulthood, it takes an extremely long period of time for a person’s view of life, moral compass, and worldview to gradually build up and form a complete personality.

And for many people with twisted personalities—apart from a few who are innately bad—most of them have an incomplete set of values because they encountered some trauma during their development, which caused their personality to grow crooked or even twisted beyond repair.

The shaping of the soul is the same; it requires a complete and lengthy process.

But this is where the power of the Rising Dragon Transformation lies.

For people like Le Cheng and Caster, their souls have long since finished shaping. The first step of the Rising Dragon Transformation is to break this shaping, to bring the soul back to an initial malleable state. This is why the success rate of soul visualization is only one percent, and even ten percent of the people might suffer a soul collapse—because it is a damage to the soul itself. Just a slight mishandling could lead to irreversible consequences.

And even this is only half the success, because after destruction, one must reshape again.

As is well known, creation is much more difficult than destruction.

Just like a vase, smashing it is easy, even an infant can do it, but to make a vase, probably 99% of people cannot achieve it.