The breakthrough was not a spiritual epiphany.
It carried no scent of lotus blossoms, no sky music, and no smiling ancestors dropping on golden cranes to bestow the blessings of heaven.
It was full-body, high-voltage physical reconstruction under maximum heavy-duty load.
Lin Ke confirmed the live merge. Then, his Nascent Soul uncoiled inside his dantian like a tightly packed spring of white-hot liquid steel.
The eight test model threads didn’t remain in his brain. They swelled outward through his central nervous system, attempting to seize control of his living hardware to compile the Sandboxed Domain engine.
CRACK.
Under the huge throughput of the compilation pipeline, Lin Ke’s congenital glassy glass spirit veins began to fail.
The rigid, non-elastic waveguides were designed for low-latency signal, not for carrying the petabyte-scale data bus throughput of a full Soul Formation sovereign runtime.
