The cultivation technique optimized this time still follows the original system.

But it's more complete, and judging from the dream, the training effect is better, almost terrifying.

At least last time in the dream evolution, he wasn't injured at all.

"However, with my self-healing ability, as long as I don't die on the spot, I can reverse it." He thought to himself, somewhat exhilarated.

Feeling the damaged body rapidly self-healing, it returned to normal in a moment.

Chen Shouyi stood up, took off his shirt and shoes, revealing a body of well-defined strong muscles, then walked out of the ice cave barefoot and began to practice the five-times optimized cultivation technique.

...

His whole body was fiery red, densely covered with blood spots seeping from the skin, with steaming vapor mixed with blood, carrying a faint tint.

He suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, abruptly interrupting his movement.

The blood was faint but very viscous, seemingly mixed with something else, not pure blood, but also the viscera and muscles self-destructing unable to bear the annihilation information.

Most terrifyingly, his brain was the same.

His eyes, nostrils, ears, all seeping blood, making him look like a ghost crawling out of hell.

He could feel his thinking become sluggish, as if rusted, and his brain seemed to be dissolving.

For ordinary people, at this point, they'd be either barely breathing or turned into idiots, but at this moment he was still standing fine, without even a wobble.

"Truly terrifying... but..." Chen Shouyi closed his eyes, feeling he could still think normally, albeit somewhat stalled.

"Perhaps, my mind has already been able to exist like those powerful Natural Spirits, independent of the physical body."

Natural Spirits have no physical form and no memories from life, most muddled and driven by instinct. Their intelligence isn't much stronger than single-celled organisms, but there are powerful spirits beyond the ordinary ones, possessing considerable wisdom, and he was obviously the same.

The body was rapidly self-healing, the sluggishness of his mind lasted only a few seconds before becoming sharp and clear. Chen Shouyi took out a preservation box filled with mashed Powerful Divine Power from space and devoured it ravenously.

...

In the following days, Chen Shouyi began to train madly.

Except for going home once on the first day to explain the situation, he remained in isolation in the otherworld afterwards.

Despite the nourishment of the Powerful Divine Power, he grew thinner by the day, yet his attributes only increased instead of declining.

His skin grew tougher, muscles stronger, filled with terrifying power.

Under this kind of Demonic Path-like cultivation technique.

Weak cells self-destructed under annihilation information, leaving only the strong cells. These remaining cells quickly divided, undergoing selection in the next round, leaving only stronger cells...

Round after round, time and time again.

Survival of the fittest, eliminating the unfit.

The body was crazily evolving.

The whole process was like selective breeding, artificial interference in evolution, like how grain's ancestor was just the common grass, and rice's ancestor was just the weed accompanying it in the field.

No cultivation method is more efficient than this pure selective evolution.

As long as he doesn't die.

Fortunately, his powerful self-healing ability was tailored for such a cultivation technique.

Of course, that's indeed the case.

On the third day, he could already perform eighteen forms.

Strength, agility, constitution, and intelligence each increased by 0.2 points, even willpower increased by 0.2 points.

After the sixth day.

He could already perform twenty-nine forms.

His physical attributes increased by 0.2 points again, willpower still increased by 0.1 point.

...

On the fifteenth day.

The sky was swirling with auroras, with white clouds rapidly shifting and fleeting.

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

The ice layers of the snow mountain kept cracking, with fissures snaking like dragons and serpents on the ground.

Within a dozen kilometers around, invisible forces filled the area.

Chen Shouyi was enveloped in a blood mist, the high temperatures it emitted melting the ice underfoot into a small pit.

The thirty-fifth form.

He felt his body burning.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

Chen Shouyi could distinctly hear the sound of tough cells popping inside his body, he could even feel the desperation and wails transmitted by the cells on the verge of death.

Eerie and chilling.

An indescribable fear, like a great hand clutching at the heart.

Death was breathing down his neck.

This optimization of the thirty-six forms of Horizontal Training was countless times more terrifying than the previous one.

He let out an unconscious low growl, his face full of blood.

"Rumble..."

Some ice layers began to collapse, mixed with his roars, like muffled thunder rolling.

He clenched his teeth and immediately launched the thirty-sixth form, the final form.

An immense power scattered, countless ice blocks floated up, detached from gravity, and began to shatter.

A giant beast slumbering underground was awoken by the fear. After a tremor and rockfall, it burrowed out of the snow mountain, glanced from afar, and turned to flee without looking back.

The palpitation in its heart was telling it.

This tiny creature was extremely dangerous.

At this moment, Chen Shouyi also reached the final juncture.

His body seemed to begin melting, eyes became cloudy, skin ulcerated massively, revealing decayed muscles, sliding off like cream.

Through the gaps, one could vaguely see the internal organs, where the same thing was happening, even worse.

His body was rapidly collapsing, self-destructing.

Life was like a candle flame, seemingly about to extinguish at any moment.

His movements became slower and more laborious, yet Chen Shouyi seemed oblivious, his mind almost blank, relying on sheer willpower, he struggled through the last form.

The next moment, a turn for the better, all self-destruct information instantly dissipated, at the same time, endless Original Force surged in like a tide.

He opened his pus-seeping eyes, his body tottering.

"That's all it is!"

He clenched his fist hard, with a "pop" several finger bones cracked and fell off.

He glanced down

Perception revealed that apart from a few patches of skin and flesh, the entire hand was almost reduced to bone.

He willed it.

The fallen finger bones quickly flew up and rejoined with the hand, while the scattered flesh also exploded, with intact cells flying back like a blood fog, returning to their original positions.

Although these cells could heal quickly even if abandoned, with new cells replacing them.

But having accompanied him for so long, Chen Shouyi felt compelled to salvage them.

Moreover, who knows, some may be particularly strong and unique individuals.

He had to ensure cellular diversity for the next round of selection and elimination.

Due to the severe injuries this time, his body's nutrients were hard-pressed to support such massive consumption, making this self-healing process substantially long. It took more than a minute, and the body finally completed self-healing, leaving the whole person emaciated to skin and bones.

"Huh!"

He let out a slight exclamation, suddenly looking at the skin on his hand.

"Is this mutation?!!"

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