Chapter 665: Elemental Manifestation (II)
As the tornado of the four elements revolved with increasing power, Cain entered Elemental Resonance and began to absorb natural energy. Once his body was saturated with this power, he trained in the next phase of the Foundation Stage of the Primordial Path: Elemental Manifestation.
During Elemental Resonance, Cain needed to resonate with the natural elements, allowing his body to contain the power of natural energy. Although his body gained certain physical characteristics related to the elements during this phase, they were minor and did not have a significant effect on his battle power. However, things changed once he took the next step and achieved Elemental Manifestation.
Elemental Manifestation required Cain to infuse his body with the forces of the four elements. Unlike natural energy, which would circulate through his body and energy pool, making him temporarily stronger, this process would permanently infuse the power of the elements into his flesh, blood, and energy pools.
To attain Elemental Manifestation, one would normally need to explore different environments charged with the essence of the four elements and slowly draw them into their bodies. Using treasures was not recommended, as assimilating them would add foreign components other than the elemental essence into your body, leading to pollution of your foundation.
However, Cain harbored not a single shred of worry. After natural energy had flooded his body, he opened his eyes. The power of his Ego Wave burst as the Concept of Gluttony flooded it, making its power skyrocket and, in the process, slowly degrading the treasures inside the red tornado.
Although some of these treasures were meant for Apotheosis Realm Masters and were as hard as a Platinum Artifact, Cain's Ego Wave was able to deploy such a mighty devouring force they could not resist and shattered.
It didn't take long for streams of different essences to flood into Cain's body. Some were green, blue, red, and brown, related to the four elements, while others were gray, dark, and so on. They were all mixed, and trying to separate them was nearly impossible, but Cain didn't care and absorbed everything.
The elemental essences flawlessly merged with his flesh, blood, and energy according to the guidance and principles described in the Primordial Path. However, the other essences were not so smooth.
Some began to infiltrate Cain's tissues and bloodstream, contaminating them. Trying to determine the affected areas would be challenging, and not even Cain's Ego Wave could do it, or at least not fast enough to prevent the corruption from spreading. Luckily, the [A.I. Chip Module] had the [Pseudo Atomic Analysis] tool, which could mark the contaminated areas without a fraction of a second.
Of course, locating them was just part of the problem since Cain still needed to stop the corruption from spreading and eliminating it, and that was where the Gluttony Concept came into play once more. He sent streams of his Ego Wave with the power of the Gluttony Concept and devoured everything contaminated.