Baby with Daoist Monarch System

It can enhance itself through these runes, or directly unleash the runes to form an attack.

In Xu Ran’s ”consciousness,” a rule emerged: learn and inscribe inscriptions on oneself or in space, using inscriptions to defeat opponents.

The surface of Xu Ran’s body also began to attempt to manifest runes. But his initial runes were dim, loosely structured, and quickly vanished.

Inscriptions are an ancient art, requiring the engraving of runes with special powers on a carrier to achieve various effects.

It needs precise control of energy and a deep understanding of rune structures.

The gray mark began to analyze the inscriptions on the bald creature’s body.

It analyzed the lines, structures, energy flows of the runes, and their methods of integration with the body or space.

[Analysis completion: 25%]

[Analysis completion: 50%]

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The runes on Xu Ran’s body became clearer and brighter.

He started to freely inscribe runes on various parts of his body, enhancing strength, speed, and defense, even able to unleash runes to create various attacks and effects.

The inscriptions on the bald creature’s body were powerful and strange, granting it various unimaginable abilities.

But Xu Ran’s learning speed plunged it into trouble once more. The inscriptions it crafted, Xu Ran could learn instantly, then inscribe onto himself in a stronger, more effective version.

”Oh my...he can even master inscriptions instantly?”

”This surpasses ’learning’...this is ’mimicry’!”

The residual souls trembled as they felt their souls shiver. Inscriptions are the crystallization of countless generations of sages’ wisdom, each rune containing profound mysteries.

Yet this ”container” seemed to possess a terrifying ability to instantly analyze and mimic all runes.

The number of runes on Xu Ran’s body increased, and their brilliance intensified.

He could even combine different inscriptions, forming more powerful compound effects. The rune attacks he unleashed carried astonishing power and varied greatly.

The inscriptions on the bald creature’s body no longer held any advantage. Its inscription effects were suppressed or nullified by Xu Ran’s stronger inscriptions.

Finally, on the fourth day, Xu Ran’s body surface was covered with countless radiant inscriptions, forming a powerful whole.

He delivered a punch, infused with the power of countless inscriptions, completely overwhelming the bald creature.

Boom!

The bald creature disintegrated.

[Trial completed, defeat count: 11]

[Reward: Ten Thousand Talismans Converge into One (Initial Tier)]

A gray light flashed, and the bald creature reappeared.

The twelfth trial is physical strength cultivation.

The rules had no sound, but in his ”consciousness,” it was clear: in a state of limit confrontation, whose physical body could withstand the other’s attacks and hold out would be the winner.

This was not merely a simple endurance test but a refining and enhancement of the physical body while withstanding attacks.

The bald creature’s body emitted an aura as heavy and indestructible as a mountain.

Its fists, legs, and body transformed into its most powerful weapons.

It didn’t use any technique, only relying on sheer physical strength to launch the most primal attack on Xu Ran.

Xu Ran’s body was hit hard by the bald creature’s attack, emitting a dull sound.

His bones, muscles, and internal organs trembled violently, as if they might collapse at any moment.

This time, the analysis method of the gray mark underwent immense changes.

It no longer analyzed the opponent’s ”technique” but analyzed the opponent’s ”physical body” structure, density, strength, recovery ability, and how to stimulate one’s own potential through enduring attacks.

[Analysis completion: 30%]

[Analysis completion: 60%]

[Analysis completion: 90%]

Xu Ran’s body began to undergo astonishing changes while withstanding attacks.

His skin became as hard as rock, and muscle fibers reorganized and enhanced visibly. Bones made cracking sounds, becoming denser.

Each hit, though accompanied by intense pain (if he could still feel pain), made his body tougher.

It was as if the bald creature’s attacks were not meant to defeat him but to help him undergo extreme refining!

For the first time, genuine, uncontrollable shock showed in the bald creature’s eyes (if it had eyes).

The cultivation of the physical body is the most basic, yet most arduous, in all cultivation systems.

It requires not just resources and cultivation techniques but immense willpower to withstand unimaginable pain.

But the ”container” before them, it had no will, yet its physical body, was crazily enhancing at a rate defying all common sense!

In the corner of the gray space, the residual souls let out unprecedented exclamations and screams!

”What...what is this?! His body...how could it grow this way?”

”This is not learning anymore! This is devouring! He is devouring the bald manifest’s physical law!”

”Physical strength...this is the core strength! It requires countless years of accumulation and refinement!”

”He has no will...but that ’seed’...it is pushing this body to the limit in the simplest, most brutal way!”

The bald creature’s attacks became increasingly frenzied, seemingly trying to halt Xu Ran’s physical enhancement.

But no matter how strong its attacks were, they couldn’t stop Xu Ran’s body from getting stronger.

Xu Ran’s body had become a sponge capable of infinitely absorbing strikes and converting them into his own strength.

On the surface of his skin, a faint gray glow began to appear, as if resonating with the mark on his forehead.

His strength grew increasingly terrifying, his speed became incredibly fast, and his defense became indestructible.

The bald creature’s fists hitting him no longer inflicted effective damage. Instead, Xu Ran’s body, every countershock, made the bald creature tremble.

Ultimately, on the seventh day, Xu Ran’s body had reached an unbelievable strength. Merely standing there, it exuded an oppressive presence like ancient gods and demons.

The bald creature’s attacks, to him, were like a tickle.

Under the control of the gray mark, Xu Ran’s body slowly raised its fist.

This punch had no flashy techniques, no overwhelming energy, only the purest, ultimate physical strength.

Boom!

This punch seemed to contain the essence of countless epochs of physical body cultivation, encompassing the results of surpassing-limit refining.

The bald creature’s indestructible body, under this punch, shattered like fragile glass!

It let out a silent roar full of endless shock and unwillingness, its body thoroughly dissipating into light spots.

[Trial completed, defeat count: 12]

[Reward: Taichu Undying Body (Initial Tier)]

[Congratulations on completing all Fourth Space trials.]

[Total trial count: 12]

[Defeat count within seven days: 12]

[Received highest-level trial reward.]

[Reward sent.]

The gray space began to ripple as if something was about to open.

Xu Ran’s body stood quietly, the gray mark on his forehead flickering with unprecedented intensity.

It absorbed all twelve trials’ rewards, the essence fragments of twelve techniques, and the final, most core physical source reward.

Its power received unimaginable enhancement.

Its container became unprecedentedly strong.

In Xu Ran’s eyes, there remained a deathly silent gray, hollow and cold.

He was no longer the unruly, proud young prodigy but a ”container” under complete control!

A perfect weapon meticulously forged for the arrival of darkness!

After accomplishing its mission, the gray space began to gently disintegrate into countless tiny gray light spots, gently surrounding Xu Ran’s quietly standing form like fireflies.

The residual souls confined in the corner now lost all their brilliance, like sculptures weathered through countless epochs, carrying eternal despair, vanishing with the final collapse of the space, leaving no trace.

Their existence was merely to witness the ”seed’s” growth, or to provide nutrients and contrast for the ”container.”

Xu Ran, or rather, the shell completely occupied by the ”seed,” the gray mark on its forehead at this moment seemed to have its own life, throbbing, exhaling indescribable eerie light.