On the shattered granite crag of the Seventh Peak, Supreme Sword Saint Du Cang was experiencing the complete and total failure of his mortal biology.
Fighters of the sky realm believed that reaching the Nascent Soul stage raised the human vessel into a state of semi-divine transcendence. They believed that by refining spiritual Qi through their spirit veins, they had shed the frailties of mortal flesh.
Yet no amount of spiritual refinement could alter the foundational physics of human neurology.
Du Cang’s Sea of Mind—the living neural network centered within his frontal cortex and time lobes—was currently acting as the central processing unit for an infinite looping loop running at over twenty thousand cycles per second.
His skull was literally cooking from within.
Lin Tao raised his left eye, focusing the sight test filter upon the Sword Saint’s trembling figure across the deep gap. The heat tracking data was horrifying.
Forty-one point eight degrees.
At that heat, human brain proteins began to denature. The myelin sheaths insulating his neural pathways were unraveling, causing massive, uncontrolled spark cross-talk across his brain hemispheres.
