Above The Sky-Chapter 1876 - 385: The Immortal Nature

"Isn’t this almost immortality?"

Upon hearing this, Yisen Gard exclaimed, immersed in the possibility: "And wait, Ian, this seems like the state you’re in now..."

"Yes, this is my current state."

Ian nodded, pointing to his body: "This is the Herald of Iron, the most powerful body I possess in the material world. But I also have the Glazed Emperor Dragon Body and the Lord’s Body in the Silverpeak Domain."

"And the Fairy Body, it is the incarnation of my soul in the Domain of Void."

"Each of these bodies, even if destroyed, does not affect the existence of the others, at most it just loses the resources to mold these bodies. But as long as I have enough time and resources, I can quickly regain my strength."

"But my true essence... is my Heart Light Body, the Guiding Star."

An ’I’ that transcends time and space.

"This is the limit of the Third Stage of the Arcane Pathway, which I have already surpassed."

"I have reached the Fourth Stage."

Speaking slowly, Ian raised his hand, holding a golden-red molten metal sphere in his palm. When the Prophet opened his palm, what appeared between his slender fingers was a roughly humanoid figure with dragon wings and dragon horns, crowned, but still human-like.

Although this figure’s appearance is quite different from Ian’s current form, its aura is as solemn and majestic as a god, but Yisen Gard could immediately recognize, this is ’Ian’.

"Is this... your Aether True Body?"

Yisen Gard guessed astutely, and Ian nodded slightly, yet shook his head: "This is just a hypothesis; I haven’t thought it through yet, just casually shaped a form."

"The Fourth Stage of the Arcane Pathway, like the Fourth Energy Level of the Terra Ascendants, also requires the condensation of the Aether True Body."

"However, this Aether True Body is unlike the primitive form of the Terra Ascendants imitating their Bloodline True Form, a form condensed into the most powerful combat form, but rather ’the true form of your unique self’."

Ian gazed at the palm of his hand, speaking slowly: "What exactly are humans?"

"Humans..." 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Yisen Gard was about to speak, but couldn’t help thinking of the Holy Mountain where he was, thinking of Embrace Light, and the ’humans’ as spoken of by Embrace Light—he hesitated for a second, momentarily failing to arrive at the answer of ’what exactly are humans’.

Humans should not be such a superficial thing; they are a more noble essence... at least, in this universe, it is so.

"Humans are merely a concept of bloodline and body. And this concept is transcended at the Third Stage of the Arcane Pathway."

Ian stood up, the metal humanoid in his hand took flight like a fae, flying around as if alive. With hands behind his back, he gazed at this construct temporarily shaped by himself, speaking calmly: "I have many bodies now; each body is truly me. I can be a True Dragon or a fae, naturally, I can also be a Crystal Dragon."

"I can even project myself into this small construct; this body entirely made of iron and stone is also me."

"Am I not a human in that case? If I wish, I can fashion myself a pure-blooded body of the pre-epoch human civilization from the DNA structure. I can also become a fae, a dwarf, a giant, a demihuman... I can be a cosmic battleship, or a mushroom, a sun, a Star God, or even a thinking reed."

"Yisen, precisely because we’ve reached this point, we’ve become immensely powerful, we can be any race, we can be anyone."

"So we are no one."

"We are merely ’myself’."

"And for this ’unique, the only self in all space and time’, the ’true body’ crafted, is our ’Aether True Body’."

This is the Fourth Stage of the Arcane Pathway. It’s not merely about crafting a sufficiently powerful Aetheric Body at the Fourth Energy Level, using a computer to smash people, but about designing entirely compatible hardware from beginning to end for one’s operating system and software, and then providing it with a sufficiently robust shell.

Perhaps, in a direct frontal combat, this Aether True Body might not crush the Fourth Energy Level. However, the Aether True Body of the Arcane Pathway is adept at martial arts, adept at utilizing various techniques.

Even if the physical abilities are the same, the Aether True Body of the Arcane Pathway can defeat ten of the Fourth Energy Level of the Sublimation Path.

Just like Ian’s Glazed Emperor Dragon Body, although both sides in the battle did not fight to the death, displaying their Aether True Body for life and death, the Abyssal Lord and Yulan definitely noticed that without using the Aether True Body, they might still be able to delay a bit, but once they revealed the Aether True Body, they would be instantly killed by Ian.

Moreover, the Aether True Body of the Arcane Pathway usually stays in subspace like the Heart Light Body for sleep, coordinating with various methods to reduce consumption and extend lifespan.

The Sublimators of the Sublimation Path compress the Heart Light Body and Aether True Body in the body, often keeping them in a power-on state—a computer without even a standby mode, always running without a corresponding cooling and repair system, of course, breaks quickly!

"Actually."

At this point, Ian turned around, looking at Yisen Gard, who was deep in thought: "In my view, the common definition of the Fifth Energy Level of Terra is merely the advanced stage of the Fourth Stage of the Arcane Pathway."

"The power of the Aether True Body, the field it generates, reaches an extreme, enough to greatly affect the material world and the Domain of Void, causing destructive damage."