"KEUGH…!"


    As didn''t understand what happened. In one moment, he was trying to shatter the beast egg, and in the next, he was in a world of mes.


    The mes around him were like tails snapping from left to right. His consciousness awakened to the feeling of paining from his entire body.


    But, it also was not a paining from his body at all.


    It was searing, blistering pain. It felt like his skin and flesh were being melted away. He viscerally felt as his eyes and other parts of his body were heated beyond their limit and turned to liquid.


    However, he could still see, and if he just looked at his body within the mes, he could see that he waspletely unaffected.


    "This is…khhh! …a mental realm?!"


    His thoughts were confirmed when they were voiced as words despite him never opening his mouth. When hepared his pain to the world around him and the state of his body, the only thing As could think of was a mental realm.


    The inner world of a Divine Beast was something different, but in essence, the concept was the same. His spirit had been separated from his body and dragged into a metaphysical ne.


    If he died here, his body in the outside world would be left as a husk and would die off as it slowly lost its vitality. All of the damage he took was impacting his mind rather than his body. If it was allowed to shatter…


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    [Perfect Adaptability has activated.]


    [Perfect Adaptability has resisted the [Divine Mirage] status effect.]


    [Perfect Adaptability has resisted the [Divine Mirage] status effect.]


    [Due to repeated contact, Perfect Adaptability has analyzed the [Divine Mirage] status effect.]


    [You have developed a partial immunity to the [Divine Mirage] status effect.]


    As didn''t have to do anything. The pain in his body automatically disappeared after a certain period of time. After all, this kind of me that existed only in the mental world could also be considered a type of illusion.


    ''The Divine Mirage status effect…''


    It had a grandiose name, unlike the [Enchantment] he''d resisted from the Elder of the Feng n. More importantly, unlike that status effect, he was unable to develop aplete resistance to this one after contacting it for a simr amount of time.


    The Elder was also a Divine Beast; a Phoenix at that. But, unlike her techniques, this status effect was used by a beast who did not know anything about techniques. It was a trait that came directly from its bloodline, so its inherent potential and potency would be far beyond anything that a technique could be.


    [Perfect Adaptability] didn''t activate again, as if it was telling As that he would not receive any more aid in this situation.


    ''I can still feel the heat of the mes, but it is only warm. Now, if these mes are directly controlled…''


    He must have forgotten that his thoughts would always be vocalized in such a realm. The moment he said those words, the situation in question manifested itself.


    Boom!


    The tails of fire around As started to violentlysh from side to side. As they struck each other, they created massive waves of me that charged in every direction.


    Bang! Bang! Bang!


    As raised his arms in front of his body as the waves hit him one after another.


    "Khhh…!"


    He was pushed back each time with force rattling through his body.


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    As expected, [Perfect Adaptability] had only evened the ying field. If the beast tried hard enough and he did nothing to avoid or block, it could absolutely kill him.


    ''This is a mental realm or something simr.''


    He knew about mental realms. In fact, he''d fought in many of them in the past. Mental realms were not amon ce for battles to ur, but there were certain cultivators who specialized in techniques of the mind.


    As a high authority in the Mortal Realm of that time, As was, of course, going toe in contact with some of these highly specialized practitioners.


    ''There are benefits and detriments to mental realms.''


    On one hand, the one who manifested it had great power that others could not match without special means.


    On the other hand, people with special means could execute them to much higher levels in such realms where the limitations of one''s body were a nonissue.


    As was a person with special means. His means could even be considered more special than the majority of people.


    Because he was a reincarnator. His soul was that of someone who had already lived ten thousand years.


    That soul, that spirit had been sucked into this world.


    So, the current As was not just the man he was in this life, but he was also the man he was at the peak of his past life.


    Voom!


    As he looked at his own hands, the clothing on his body changed.


    He''d be ustomed to wearing white in this life. His usual attire matched his hair. Though he stood out a bit more in certain environments, that in itself provided him a type of camouge.


    Those white clothes were being shredded away and reced by an elegant ck and gold garb. His hair changed into the same inky ck color, but his face did not change. He was abination of his two selves.


    As could feel both the power of his current life and the power of his past life''s Dao of Fire.


    So, when he faced those mes again, he saw them differently.


    Voom!


    The beast attacked again. Its form had not been revealed yet. It hid itself behind the mes and shot attacks at As one after another, attempting to shatter his brain over and over and over again.


    ''I have be the representation of all evil in its mind.''


    As was now the face of the organization that had tormented this beast.


    ''I''ll have to change that to get anywhere.''


    He held his hand out to the approaching waves of fire.


    He closed his eyes. The qi in his body was different, but still familiar. It was much stronger, and more importantly, it had a depth that it didn''t possess before.


    As could feel that this beast was going to be born at the World Core Realm. It was a powerful entity indeed.


    However, it did not have delicate control over its mes.


    It had not even been born yet, nor had it been taught. The beast learned how to use raw power to its advantage and raw power alone.


    Boom!


    The waves of qi mmed into As'' palm and shattered one after another. The space in front of him kindled and zed with great heat.


    A slight smile appeared on his face.


    ''It has been a long time.''


    He didn''t realize how much he''d missed the qi of his past life until he met it again in this world.


    In order to calm the beast down and reveal its form, As had to fight and defeat it regardless of his own desires.


    What caused him agony just some moments ago had transformed in his mind into a much more positive thing.