"I've broken through before even arriving at Claw Cliff..." Wang Linchi was a bit flustered for a moment. He had made the breakthrough in the middle of his journey due to the various buffs he had active.

The entire breakthrough process was silent. Wang Linchi had previously loaded an automatic breakthrough program onto Dragon Soul Saint Main. By the time he registered what had happened, he had already reached the Mithril Level.

He promptly activated all the Mithril Level techniques—the Taoist Embryo and Original Infant Spirit Aspect Secret Technique, the Clean Spirit Yin God Training Body Skill, the Positive Thought Yang God Origin Nourishing Secret Skill, and the latest Mind-Method Knowledge God Solid Fundament Mystique—on Dragon Soul Saint Main. Then, he allocated Experience Value to enhance them.

The Nine Revolutions Golden Core Soul Forging Skill can't be cultivated at this stage; the expansion of my spiritual power is too excessive.

The zero-revolution Mithril Level Golden Core with its illusory shadow, combined with my own spiritual power and the amplification from the Soul Seed·Spirit Corridor, has resulted in a spiritual power magnitude of 'eight sixes'.

My body is now in a precarious state.

Thankfully, the Mind-Method Knowledge God Solid Fundament Mystique helped to solidify my Spirit and Physique; otherwise, I would have exploded prematurely. However, it still can't solve the problem of my Physique. Even the Solid Fundament Mystique, which is supposed to balance Spirit and Physique, is useless to me. My spiritual power is too strong.

This is just the beginning. The ninth revolution of the Nine Revolutions Golden Core represents one hundred million points of spiritual power. This means my Mithril Level spiritual power breakthrough method yields a magnitude of 'nine ones'.

The stored Experience Value in my game character could indeed advance me to the peak of the Mithril Level in the shortest possible time, but I dare not break through to the Elite Gold Level. It was just a guess before, but now it's confirmed: my Physique and spiritual power are greatly imbalanced.

I've even achieved an alternative form of immortality. Even if my body decays, my Spirit and soul won't die. I could live for a very long time even without Elementalization.

"However, the initial version of the External Incarnation has been successfully birthed."

Wang Linchi looked at the Nascent Soul on the cover of the Book of Records. Although it was still in human form, if Wang Linchi died while the Book of Records still existed, he could be revived directly; resurrection could even be delayed.

He had laid the groundwork with three secret techniques, finally cultivating them into a new plug-in.

"There's still a little more to go. At present, I can only be resurrected after death. If I could break through to the Elite Gold Level and practice the Return-True Mystique, then this External Incarnation could be further improved."

The current External Incarnation is more like a scapegoat doll and a means of resurrection. But if I had the Return-True Mystique, combined with the Second Original Spirit, plus my game character and data rules, I could travel the world without leaving home.

So this plug-in isn't fully completed yet; it just meets my initial plan.

As I continue to grow stronger, my various previous plans will naturally change. At ten, you only want toys. At thirty, even if you want toys, you might not necessarily buy them.

"As for the Book of Records... sigh. You've made some progress, true, but what's the use of this?"

Due to the Soul Secret Technique, the Page of Memory in the Book of Records had progressed once more. At the Mountain Copper Level, it was VR; now, it had become a projection.

It went from something only one person could view at a time to something everyone can see. The downside is also obvious: what do I need a projection for? If I wanted one, I could just buy a projector, or even craft one myself.

Why should I consume a thousand points of my Mental Power Capacity Limit—my upper limit, at that—just to create a projection?

"But this does represent a qualitative change. If it continues to evolve, it might be able to materialize the memories sealed within the book's pages."

Wang Linchi could feel that the projected things suffered no reduction in potency.

Meaning, however strong something is in a memory, once released from the Page of Memory, it will be exactly that strong.

It's not without its drawbacks, though. Since the memories are mine, the strength of the released memory also depends on my cognitive understanding of that memory.

Of course, there must be an upper limit. Otherwise, if I could directly modify my memories in the future and create an overwhelmingly powerful subordinate, wouldn't that be incredible?

"This function, though... I'm afraid it would need to evolve to the Daylight Level to be achieved. Considering my current situation, whether I can even reach that is another matter entirely," Wang Linchi fretted.

He was already vexed about reaching the Elite Gold Level, let alone the Daylight Level.

"If those Awakeners found out about this, their jaws would probably drop."

"But with my current strength, a Daylight Level opponent shouldn't be my match." Wang Linchi glanced at his immense spiritual power. Even if I can't kill a Daylight Level entity, I can make their existence worse than death.

However, I do have a weakness: my own Physique. If I were to confront a Daylight Level opponent, there are two possibilities.

One is that I control them until they die; with my spiritual power, augmented by Fanciful and Fickle, the opponent would absolutely be unable to break free from my control. The other, naturally, is that my body gets destroyed by the Daylight Level opponent, after which I then control them to death.

As for the Bright Moon Level, that's no longer within my considerations. With my spiritual power, crushing them would be no problem at all.

What? Only a Bright Moon Level can harm another Bright Moon Level? Where in the world are there such absolutes? If that were true, then the Great Ruins shouldn't have been able to destroy them either. Yet, in reality, the world was shattered into fragments by the Great Ruins.

I'm currently only at the recognized level of an Awakener; the nine-rank system of the Great View no longer applies to me.

Next were two Soul Seed Pages. One, the Innate Taoist Body page, strengthened his Physique. It also integrated effects related to the Mountain Copper Level, such as 'Nine bulls and two tigers' and 'Copper Skin and Iron Bones', and increased Cultivation speed.

The other page was more modest, named Resistance Enhancement; it increased various resistances.

Both were passive Soul Seed Pages.

"If the Soul Seed Pages continue to develop this way, it's going to be a problem," Wang Linchi remarked. Although having two pages per level isn't an issue now, while the Book of Records' Page of Memory is still useless, it will become problematic when it evolves to a usable state. I can't just not use it then.

My idea is to convert them into my Passive Skills or plug-ins for the Book of Records, so they no longer affect the Book of Records itself.

The idea is good, but implementation is extremely difficult. Soul Seed Pages are, in essence, also Pages of Memory—just mutated versions that take up a lot of space.

"If the Soul Seed Pages can't be touched, then I'll have to work on the Book of Records itself."

Wang Linchi couldn't help but recall his previous idea of remodeling his Soul Resemblance. That plan had been shelved due to multiple ongoing projects and the Book of Records being too subpar at the time.

Now that I see a glimmer of hope for its rise, I have to make arrangements for it.

"The Book of Records has a limited capacity, so I'll make the number of pages it can hold unlimited," Wang Linchi narrowed his eyes, quickly settling on the idea.

"First, I'll note this down, create a new folder, and then toss it into the depths of the Thought Mirror to gather dust."

After recording the plan, Wang Linchi didn't dwell on it.

It can't be completed now anyway. Besides, this matter will have to wait until I've resolved my Physique problem.

"By the time I reach Claw Cliff, I should have all four secret techniques fully prepared on Dragon Soul Saint Main." Wang Linchi glanced at Dragon Soul Saint Main's Hang Up progress bar.

Whether it's the Soul Forging Method or the secret techniques, they are all my own creations. Estimating the time to Fulfillment based on my own Cultivation efficiency is relatively simple.

"As for the Soul Forging Method reaching the peak of the Mithril Level, if my luck is bad, it should take about a year."

"If my luck is good, maybe half a year will be enough."

Bad luck meant normal Cultivation; good luck naturally meant finding some Natural Treasures.

"With fallback options and power, life is indeed good. It would be even better without the apocalypse." Wang Linchi had originally been thinking about bidding farewell to his single status in this world. It seems that won't be possible here. I'll have to wait for the next world. Hopefully, it'll be a feudal society with no Transcendents. I want three wives and four concubines!

"Before that, though, I still need to cash in on my Elemental Bloodline and Magic Enchantment Technique."

Previously, Wang Linchi had planned to undergo Elementalization once his body could no longer keep up with his Spirit. However, this plan had fallen through. By the time I reach the peak of the Mithril Level, my spiritual power, without any amplification, will be at a magnitude of 'eight ones'; with amplification, it will be even more.

The current amount of Elemental Bloodline Potion is genuinely insufficient. Unless I could obtain an amount of Elemental Bloodline Potion as large as the Titan King, submerge myself in it, and absorb it all, it would be completely useless to me.

Therefore, I can only try to make it into a plug-in for the Book of Records. However, this plug-in won't be easy; I need more raw materials.

"When you're too strong, many things you once considered treasures now seem worse than useless," Wang Linchi sighed. I'm starting to understand a bit of how Yan Ming King felt. As soon as you break through, everything from the previous level becomes obsolete. Fortunately, my Experience Value is substantial enough that it hasn't been devalued by this inflation.