Hearing the response from Nightmare Space, and confirming that fusing this thing wouldn't lead to Tathagata forcibly dragging him back home for punishment, Qin Ming finally let out a sigh of relief.
Then he frowned slightly, still a bit uneasy, and asked another question.
"Uh, he's not going to suddenly barge in and beat me up just because he's in a bad mood one day, right?"
Upon hearing the question, the voice of Nightmare Space sounded again.
"No, he wouldn't dare."
"Oh? You can beat him?"
"No, but someone above me can. They could kill him outright."
"Kill him? The person above you must be pretty strong! That guy's insanely powerful and they could still kill him? I thought it was already impressive that you could slice off his arm!"
"First of all, the one above me has power far beyond your imagination. Second, cutting off his arm isn't that big of a deal. If he dares stick his head in here, I could take his life on the spot. Because who told you that the Tathagata you saw was his true body? I could kill a thousand of those false bodies without breaking a sweat. I just can't beat his real body, that's all."
"That wasn't his true body?!"
"Enough chit-chat. Hurry up and fuse. Then go through the process. Whether you aim to become a top-tier adventurer or a Transcendent, once you're officially on board, I'll make you a general."
Hearing the urging voice from Nightmare Space, Qin Ming nodded vigorously. Just as he was about to fuse the arm into his body, he suddenly remembered something and looked up to ask softly:
"One last question. Nightmare, why are you training so many people?"
"What else? To fight, obviously. I'm not running a charity banquet here."
"Oh. Fight who, exactly?"
"Other spaces."
"Other?!"
"Yeah. Once you officially join, you'll be an official employee under Nightmare Space. An immortal employee. Of course, if that sounds too weird to you, you can also call yourself... a Heavenly General."
With a buzzing sound, the voice of Nightmare Space completely disappeared after giving its answer.
The fact that it had shown up personally to answer questions clearly meant it valued Qin Ming highly—extraordinarily so.
As Qin Ming's brain was suddenly flooded with a massive influx of information, he stood frozen on the spot, dumbfounded.
It was a long while before he finally shrugged slightly and pursed his lips.
"Well damn... so all of this was just military training? I thought there was some big conspiracy going on. Wait, does this mean I've joined Heaven's forces? No, that doesn't sound right... If I'm with Heaven, then who do those other spaces belong to? The underworld?"
Muttering to himself, Qin Ming quickly activated the arm in his hand.
In the next second, as the arm transformed into light and flew into his chest, an intense golden light suddenly burst from his body.
Then, with a deafening explosion, he blew up on the spot!
A powerful shockwave tore through the room, spreading outward rapidly!
Many adventurers who had been resting in their private rooms were caught in the blast before they even understood what was happening—and were killed on the spot.
They had actually died inside what was supposed to be their absolutely safe personal spaces!
Qin Ming's terrifying physical strength, combined with the newly mutated S-rank skill—undoubtedly the strongest of its tier—had caused his body to shatter the moment the arm fused with it. He didn't even have a chance to resist!
This wasn't some misty blood dispersal—it was a real, physical explosion.
In the words of top-tier adventurers, his body couldn't withstand the massive backlash, and he self-destructed! The kind of death even Nightmare Space couldn't revive!
But before Qin Ming's blood could even hit the ground, it suddenly froze in midair. The next moment, it began rapidly gathering toward the center again—as if time in that area was flowing backward.
A beam of light descended from the sky, forcefully enveloping Qin Ming's blood and beginning to repair his completely destroyed physical body.
There was one thing the top-tier adventurers had gotten wrong. After suffering bodily explosion and death, it wasn't that Nightmare Space couldn't save them—it simply didn't want to.
The reason it didn't intervene was purely because it deemed them unworthy. They just weren't worth the effort.
After all, so-called prodigies were never in short supply within Nightmare Space.
If one died, there would always be countless others. Someone would eventually survive and pledge loyalty to Nightmare Space. Death was no big deal—it wasn't worth wasting energy. Just train up a new one.
But Qin Ming was different. Not just anyone could obtain the arm of Tathagata Buddha.
That arm alone was enough to make Nightmare Space take him seriously—and focus on cultivating him.
Which was why, the moment Qin Ming's body exploded, the space immediately took action.
Or rather, it had never expected Qin Ming to endure the fusion process by himself in the first place.
The guy could barely survive fusing an SS-rank skill without dying! And this arm was something even the space itself couldn't assess the level of! Survive? Survive his ass! If he had managed to fuse it alone, that would've been the real miracle!
From the very beginning, the space had planned for Qin Ming to explode! Then step in and assist with the fusion!
Inside the space, the tens of thousands of adventurers and structures that had been obliterated by the shockwave began to reverse themselves in the very next second—restoring to their original states in a strange rewind.
The space reversed. Time flowed backward. Countless lives were revived. Buildings swiftly returned to normal.
Everyone who had been standing dumbfounded in their rooms looked around at the unchanged surroundings, nearly convinced they'd just experienced some sort of hallucination.
Time passed, second by second. When a soft ding sounded and the golden light from above fully faded, Qin Ming's naked body fell heavily to the ground.
His body, now covered in intricate golden patterns, struggled to push itself up with both hands. The moment he stood, he suddenly felt that everything around him had changed.
Raising both hands and staring at his body, Qin Ming's pupils shrank violently.
Because his stats... had changed!
[Name: Qin Ming]
[Identity: Specially Selected Candidate (Key Cultivation Target of the Space)]
[Strength: 38]
[Constitution: 38]
[Agility: 36]
[Spirit: 31]
[Skills: Arhat Golden Body (S-rank), Flesh Manipulation (S-rank), Wave of Qi (A-rank), Heavenly Glide (A-rank), Mutated Arm (A-rank)]
[Description: Specially marked individual of Nightmare Space, reserve general in the Nightmare Multiverse Crusade Army]
Qin Ming's base stats were still the same, but the energy within his body had undergone a transformation. One of them was his bloodline—his bloodline had evolved!
[Bloodline: Blood Buddha (SSS-rank)]
[Effect: The body becomes a vessel; the blood becomes Buddha. Can forcibly balance internal power conflicts, but can only balance one conflict at a time, and balancing requires time.]
[Bloodline Description: A humanoid innate spiritual treasure with unique abilities. Can devour all forms of power to strengthen itself. Has high cultivation potential, but remember to avoid people from the Buddhist sect—and absolutely do not let them find out where this bloodline came from. Otherwise, be ready for a fight to the death.]
SSS-rank bloodline? Humanoid innate spiritual treasure? What kind of insane thing was this?
Staring at his newly gained bloodline, Qin Ming looked utterly stunned—but then, his eyes shifted to another mutated ability that caught his attention even more.
Compared to the mutated bloodline, what he actually cared about more was this—
A talent!
[Name: Refine the Postnatal into the Innate]
[Effect: Allows the fusion of two items, extracting the essence of both to enhance one of them. Can fuse objects—or people.]
[Description: Please be mindful of your identity. Do not falsely claim connection to the Innate Heaven and Earth Cauldron. Thank you.]
(End of Chapter)