Chapter 151: Level Three Life Form (First Update)

In the gloomy night, the wind grew progressively stronger.

Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled across the sky, signaling an imminent torrential downpour.

Right then, at the heart of the circular forest, just seconds after Ji Yu confirmed he would accept the reward, he looked left and right, his expression filled with utter perplexity.

"Where is the transformation? Why is there still no movement?"

Normally, an avatar's breakthrough would manifest its special traits instantaneously. Yet, nearly ten seconds had passed, and the little deer’s body had not undergone the slightest change.

The only surrounding change seemed to be the increasingly fierce thunder and lightning above.

Ji Yu was utterly baffled.

However, just as twenty seconds or so elapsed, Ji Yu noticed the little deer’s body began to glow.

This sliver of light started to spread from within the deer, growing brighter and brighter.

The radiance was milky-white, expanding in a flash and transforming the deer into a source of milky-white light.

The light source was exceptionally intense, instantly illuminating the entire forest beneath the pitch-black night.

The dazzling glare forced all the sika deer nearby to close their eyes, including the little sprite.

The light source created by the deer dyed the entire forest white and continued to expand rapidly.

Ji Yu’s sensation at that moment was surreal, for he felt the little deer’s body dissolving.

It dissolved into light, transforming into speck after speck of radiance that radiated outward into the surroundings.

Amidst this process of dissolution and light-transformation, Ji Yu also felt a continuous stream of energy emerging from the void and pouring into the decomposed points of light belonging to the little deer.

Accompanied by the infusion of energy, the endless points of light into which the deer had transformed rapidly expanded like dividing and growing cells.

One divided into two, two into four, four into eight...

Endless, immense, and terrifying energy to Ji Yu's senses was converting the little deer into an alternative form.

The boundless light expanded toward the forest and the sky like a gigantic sphere of light.

Milky-white, blazing, and fierce.

In less than three full minutes, the entire milky-white light source enveloped the forest and sky within a three-kilometer radius.

Within this milky-white light source, the entire world seemed rendered in pure white.

The trees of the forest, the flowers of the forest, everything was illuminated and enveloped by it.

In the milky-white world, the little sprite once again fluttered her eyelashes and slowly opened her eyes.

Yet, what presented itself to the little sprite was a world of white.

The entire world was pure white, devoid of any impurities.

In this pure white world, there was no sound; the surroundings were chillingly quiet.

Yet, to Ji Yu, who had already perceived the deer's physical dissolution, the little deer was currently standing quietly at the center of the white world in the sprite's eyes.

The little deer’s massive body remained as it was, but its exterior was undergoing drastic changes.

Within the pure white world, the fur covering the deer's body—once blooming with the flowers of the dead—was shedding.

The bizarre and black-red flowers of the dead were being stained by pure white, and all traces of black and negative energy were rapidly dissolving.

The little deer’s body was being purified.

During this bodily purification, the little deer’s stature continued to grow step by step.

Body length: fifty-five meters.

Body length: seventy meters.

Body length: one hundred meters.

......

Shoulder height: thirty-five meters.

Shoulder height: fifty meters.

Shoulder height: seventy-five meters.

......

The little deer's physique was evolving toward an even more terrifying behemoth form.

However, as it grew into this behemoth shape, the heavy, fleshy substance of the deer's body gradually began to recede.

The little deer’s body was entirely pure white, with only its antlers still flashing with brilliant crystalline light.

——————

The little deer was undergoing a massive transformation, and this change naturally drew the attention of the hundred-man vanguard unit that remained stationed not far away.

For the encampment of the hundred-man unit had also long been invaded and enveloped by the white.

In the dead of night, most of the members of the hundred-man unit had already fallen asleep.

But the moment the milky-white light flashed and expanded from the center of the circular forest, these men were awakened by the on-duty soldiers.

Gazing at the pure white world before them, looking at the incomparably dead silence all around—

Amidst this bizarre scenario where even sound could not travel, everyone remained speechless for a long time.

"What on earth has happened to our world?"

At this moment, almost everyone in the hundred-man unit harbored such a thought.

These people looked at one another, their faces etched with shock.

They moved their lips, desperately trying to make their comrades understand their intentions, but in a world where sound could not be transmitted, many still could not comprehend what others were trying to say simply by reading lip movements.

Gradually, everyone stopped trying to speak.

Although the pure white world was bizarre, shocking, and incomprehensible, at least it had not yet revealed any harmful effects.

Furthermore, these people soon witnessed a scene they would never forget for the rest of their lives.

That was, five kilometers away at the center of the primary forest, atop the canopy surrounded by giant trees, a gigantic beast slowly emerged into view.

The behemoth was none other than the little deer in the process of breaking through.

Its shoulder height had already surpassed the treetops and was still growing wildly in a manner hard for humans to comprehend and unforgettable to witness.

The moment they saw the giant form of the little deer, many members of the hundred-man unit even forgot to fetch their protective goggles.

They stood dumbfounded, staring in disbelief at the white deer behemoth before them.

As everyone watched the little deer grow to colossal size, outside the hundred-man unit's camp, countless ordinary deer that had long since been awakened dropped flat onto all fours, raising their heads in a pilgrimage-like posture to quietly gaze at the little deer.

At this moment, the little deer’s transformation continued.

Its pure white body kept growing, and after a dozen minutes, its shoulder height surged to nearly one hundred and fifty meters.

Its height resembled that of a fifty-story skyscraper.

Yet, compared to an ordinary skyscraper, this white deer possessed a far more magnificent and imposing presence due to its body length of nearly three hundred meters.

By now, the little deer’s body finally ceased changing.

At the same time, perhaps because its growth had reached its limit, the little deer’s body began to trace back to its origin.

The little deer’s pure white fur began to manifest color.

The pure white slowly receded, and a variety of vibrant colors began to appear on its body.

Atop these vibrant colors, the first to manifest was the appearance of flowers.

The original flowers of the dead shed all their black and red, transforming entirely into countless colorful floral patterns covering the deer's body.

Red, purple, blue.......

The endless riot of vibrant colors made the little deer's body seem transformed into an ocean of blossoms.

Concurrently, during the colorful transformation of its body, the little deer's antlers also began to shed their crystalline hue, slowly reverting to an appearance resembling those of ordinary deer herds.

At this point, the little deer, which had been keeping its eyes slightly closed, began to slowly open them.

The instant it opened its eyes, the little deer's pupils were momentarily vacant, manifesting countless swirling streaks of color.

These colored rays shifted constantly within the deer's pupils, as if selecting the final color for its eyes.

This phenomenon lasted for only a few fleeting seconds upon opening its eyes.

Then, the little deer's pupils completely solidified and ceased to be vacant.

The whites of the eyes remained, but the pupils had turned azure blue.

The massive pupils focused, and finally, it began to survey its surroundings, gazing at the entire pure white world.

At that exact moment, the endless light of the pure white world began to contract.

The milky-white light turned into one sphere of light after another, drifting continuously and plunging rapidly into the little deer's body before disappearing.

As these milky-white light spheres plunged into the little deer's body, the deer's colossal form began to shrink.

Its body and shoulder height continuously diminished at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Thus, as the milky-white world slowly receded and the blackness of night revealed itself once more, the little deer at the center of the circular forest had actually reverted to the appearance of an ordinary sika deer.

Body length nearly one and a half meters, shoulder height eighty centimeters.

The little deer's appearance completely transformed back into that of an ordinary sika deer; its body was no longer colorful, and all anomalies and distinct traits had vanished.

At this juncture, even if someone stood right in front of the little deer, it would be difficult for them to associate it with the behemoth that had previously appeared.

"Returning to simplicity through sophistication?"

Ji Yu had such an epiphany.

He wanted to open the data panel immediately to check the little deer's status.

Because the little deer's current state was profoundly miraculous; Ji Yu could even sense the terrifying energy contained within that tiny body, far surpassing anything before.

This energy seemed compressed, tucked away into an invisible void. As long as Ji Yu exercised a thought of control, this energy could be instantly manifested.

However, just as Ji Yu intended to open the data panel, he discovered that the disappearance of the endless white light did not mean the end of the anomalies triggered by the breakthrough.

For the exact moment the little deer reverted to the appearance of an ordinary sika deer, Ji Yu's spiritual awareness enveloping the deer was suddenly dragged into a void.

In this void, everything was dead silent, and darkness was omnipresent.

Yet, right amidst this darkness, Ji Yu suddenly noticed a faint light beginning to flicker before his eyes.

It seemed to be naturally born within the void, rapidly growing into a brilliant radiance.

The dazzling brilliance was countless times stronger than the little deer's previous breakthrough.

Countless streams of light appeared out of thin air from the darkness, then rapidly flew and revolved around the faint light.

In a split second, the faint light began to expand and grow at a speed unimaginable even to Ji Yu.

The size of an apple.

The size of a basketball.

In the blink of an eye, it finally expanded to resemble a blazing sun.

Ji Yu's consciousness was gently pushed very, very far away by this colossal sphere of light.

The light sphere was neither scorching nor dazzling; instead, it was brilliantly colorful, resembling a magnificent gemstone.

Unlike traditional gemstones, however, the gemstone before him was alive.

And it was pulsating rhythmically, contracting and expanding like a heart.

Surrounding this heart-pulsing gemstone, massive quantities of colorful radiance flowed ceaselessly at all times.

Standing before this colorful gemstone, Ji Yu's conscious body by comparison was like an ant facing a basketball.

Ji Yu's conscious body was the ant, while the gemstone was the basketball.

"What on earth is going on?"

Ji Yu truly harbored too many doubts.

Looking at the colorful, beating sphere of light before him, Ji Yu felt momentarily bewildered.

Yet this bewilderment was answered almost immediately.

Because the formed light sphere before him generated an immense gravitational pull.

Ji Yu's conscious body was swallowed up before it even had time to react.

Then, before Ji Yu could feel any panic, a wave of warmth and comfort flooded his entire consciousness.

Ji Yu could not put this feeling into words, but in his soul, he felt an incomparable sense of peace.

This peace felt just like sleeping in a mother's arms when he was a child—deeply reassuring and warm.

It was an instinctive sensation originating from the depths of his heart.

Enveloped by the light sphere, Ji Yu even fell asleep.

During this slumber, an inexplicable mark began to manifest simultaneously upon the conscious bodies of both Ji Yu and the little deer enclosed within the light sphere.

This mark was not a traditional pattern or text, but a profound imprint originating from the very origin of life.

The light sphere did not bestow anything upon the little deer or Ji Yu; it merely enveloped them, and the imprint naturally appeared.

Then, an inexplicable connection was forged.

This connection was very faint, or perhaps it could be described as the manifestation of a rule.

Invisible and intangible, much like the familial, romantic, or platonic bonds maintaining human relationships, this mark was a similar embodiment.

Ji Yu's conscious body was countless times stronger than the little deer's.

This was a change produced under the game's amplification, but this strength was limited to enabling Ji Yu to successfully control and descend into his avatar.

This was not true power, nor could it bring about any qualitative transformation for Ji Yu.

Therefore, when the light sphere enveloped the consciousness of Ji Yu and the little deer, it gently separated them.

Yet even with their consciousness separated, a strong illusionary bond remained between the little deer's consciousness and Ji Yu's.

This bond was the foundation of the little deer's strength.

All of its attributes had been bestowed upon it by Ji Yu.

Its growth and its entire existence could no longer break away from this connection.

Ji Yu commanded everything about the little deer; indeed, under certain circumstances unknown to Ji Yu, he could determine the deer's life or death with a single word.

The little deer's power came at a price.

And that price was that it could never extricate itself from this bond.

Its soul and everything it was had long been homogenized by Ji Yu's soul during its powerful growth. It acted like an extension of Ji Yu's consciousness—an independent individual, yet unable to completely master its own destiny.

The light sphere seemed unaware of this, or perhaps it knew and simply didn't care.

Having separated their consciousnesses, the light sphere instinctively bestowed the life reward that caused the qualitative transformation of the world.

Shortly after, during the brief moment when the consciousness of Ji Yu and the little deer was pulled into this illusionary space and enveloped by the light sphere, the entire Blue Star began to exhibit a colossal anomaly visible to the entire world.

At the location of the circular forest, a seven-colored beam of light suddenly erupted from the little deer's body.

The light beam was less than a meter in diameter, yet like an ultra-high-powered laser, it violently pierced through the thick, dark thunderclouds pregnant with impending rain.

The beam punched through the clouds, broke through the stratospheric atmosphere, and finally burst apart like fireworks.

The instant the beam burst open, centered around the place of its origin, ripples of flowing light spread outward across the horizon, rippling through the atmosphere of the entire Blue Star.