A phantom explosion tore Lin Ke’s virtual chest cavity open from collarbone to groin.
In the cold dark of the cellar, his physical body remained cross-legged on the dirt floor. But his head snapped back wildly. A mouthful of phantom bile rose into his throat. At the same time, his real pulse spiked to one hundred and sixty beats per minute.
Lin Ke gripped his knees, forcing air in through flared nostrils until his oxygen saturation steadied.
Post-mortem analysis, he ordered coldly, suppressing the lingering phantom nausea. Stack trace.
The data was brutal.
The three training systems had fully incompatible runtime requirements.
The Crimson Yang was an aggressive, high-spreading heat-powered process. Its heat output spiked toward eight hundred degrees. Then, it demanded that the central dantian expand its physical volume by forty percent to prevent explosive excess pressure.
The Abyssal Ashen Bone Lattice was an unbending load-bearing chassis. To resist moving warping, its gut response to rising internal pressure was to contract the chest cage. It locked the ribs and spine bones into a rigid, stone-hard vault. It actively clamped down on the dantian, reducing volume by fifteen percent.
