Unfortunately, the place he now occupied was the Endless Chaotic Void—and more specifically, the Shattered Bone Corridor, a region so turbulent it was chaotic even by that realm's standards. As he crossed this expanse, countless spatial fluctuations merged with chaotic elements and finally erupted all at once within the Inner World of his body.
The fact that Jie Ming's Inner World had not collapsed on the spot was already thanks to his true body's considerable resistance and the sturdiness of the formations inside the Inner World.
Sensing that the Inner World was rapidly healing itself by sharing the traits of his true body, a gray-white glow slowly surfaced in Jie Ming's palm. As long as he used Embers of Nihility - Reversal Palm, all the damage before him could be restored to its original state.
But in the end, Jie Ming dispelled that power.
"Now is not the time."
The mountains, rivers, and seas would be simple to restore, but repairing those automated factories would be far too difficult.
The difficulty of using Embers of Nihility - Reversal Palm soared sharply depending on the complexity of the target.
The automated factories were packed with countless alchemical arrays, runic circuits, precise mechanical structures, and elemental energy compositions—all of which had to be accurately traced back. That would raise the difficulty considerably.
Jie Ming estimated that with his computational power, completing all the reversals would take several minutes.
Although it wouldn't actually consume too much time, if he had to do this every single time, the accumulated time lost would be considerable. Right now, the thing he needed most was to press forward without delay.
In comparison, temporarily losing a few factories meant nothing.
On the other hand, and more importantly... his body-tempering art needed this destruction!
If all damage were immediately reset by Embers of Nihility - Reversal Palm, then the body-tempering art would never truly adapt to spatial storms.
With this in mind, Jie Ming mobilized every defensive formation inside his Inner World. A great tide of power converged toward the central area, concentrating mainly on the Incense Fire Divine Dao forum, the core laboratories, and the important sample vaults.
As for everything else, he had no choice but to abandon it for now.
After making these preparations, Jie Ming did not hesitate. He activated coordinate reset once more.
Boom!!!
The second coordinate reset completed, and the spatial storm that erupted inside the Inner World was even more violent than the first. It directly formed a devastating storm that swept across tens of thousands of kilometers within the Inner World.
Feeling the stabbing pain from his body, Jie Ming rapidly pushed his true body to heal his injuries, then continued changing coordinates.
Every time he modified his own coordinates, it was like forcefully tearing open a new wound.
Spatial storms kept surging into the Inner World, and the entire continent approached destruction again and again.
Yet as the number of times increased, Jie Ming gradually noticed a change.
A spatial storm of the same scale had been able to tear apart ten thousand li of mountains and rivers the first time, but later it could only destroy a range of several thousand li.
In the end, it could only leave a crack on the ground.
That was the body-tempering art running madly; his Inner World and true body were rapidly adapting to the power of spatial storms.
Not only that, the inner circulation, which had always remained quiet, was also accelerating wildly, continuously restructuring the spatial framework.
The entire world seemed to have become alive, undergoing transformation again and again through destruction.
Each collapse made it tougher.
Relying on this mode of travel that far exceeded the speed of light, Jie Ming crossed the entire Shattered Bone Corridor in less than a day.
After arriving at the predetermined area, he did not reveal himself right away. Instead, he retreated some distance and deliberately plunged into a region where spatial turbulence was most violent.
Then Jie Ming withdrew the outer puppet back into his Inner World, completely concealing his information.
With the violent spatial fluctuations outside, even a Rank 8 powerhouse would find it very difficult to precisely lock onto his existence through such disordered elemental currents and chaotic space without deliberately searching.
After confirming that he was safe, Jie Ming turned his attention back to his Inner World.
What met his eyes was a scene of apocalypse. Aside from the tightly protected incense altar and the core experimental zone, which remained intact, almost all other areas had been reduced to ruins.
The entire Inner World could be described as broken rivers and mountains, with the earth cracked and gaping. Unhealed spatial fissures floated everywhere in the air, as if the whole Inner World would completely collapse at any moment.
Yet from Jie Ming's perception, this world that looked on the verge of destruction actually felt more stable than before.
Though unceasing elemental currents and spatial distortions still raged, they could no longer easily tear heaven and earth apart.
The entire Inner World was like a piece of divine iron that had been hammered countless times—scarred all over, but now indestructible.
Seeing this scene, a satisfied expression appeared in Jie Ming's eyes.
He could clearly feel that his true body had also been greatly strengthened.
"What a pity..."
He could not help but let out a sigh, which stirred up a new burst of spatial turbulence in his Inner World.
Jie Ming slowly executed Embers of Nihility - Reversal Palm, and a gray-white radiance spread out like a tide.
Hummm...
And so, time in the entire Inner World began to flow backward.
The shattered earth gathered together again, the broken mountain ranges rejoined, and the overturned rivers flowed back upstream.
The scattered wreckage of buildings flew back all around, and countless precise alchemical devices automatically returned to their places.
In a short moment, as the formation runes lit up once more, the entire Inner World was again restored to its original appearance.
Jie Ming frowned slightly, silently sensing the changes in the Inner World.
But after a moment, his knitted brows relaxed again.
Originally, he had expected that after using Embers of Nihility - Reversal Palm to restore things, because it was a rewind in time, the resistance that his true body and Inner World had tempered would definitely decline.
But in fact, while the spatial stability of the Inner World had indeed decreased somewhat, the previous enhancement had not completely disappeared.
Likewise, the spatial turbulence resistance of his main body, evolved through the body-tempering art, had not vanished entirely; a small portion remained. This meant that his body-tempering art had already begun adapting to the effect of Embers of Nihility - Reversal Palm itself.
Moreover, it could already distinguish which effects were positive and which were negative, selectively preserving them.
In that case, as long as he continued cultivating, this preserved proportion would only grow higher and higher.
One day, he would be able to rewind all injuries while none of his evolution was diminished in the slightest!
Nearly a day later, Jie Ming's puppet reappeared in the outside world.
"Based on the time... it should be about right. An ordinary sixth-rank wizard should be able to reach this place by now."
Jie Ming flexed the puppet's limbs, and then a wide gray-black robe slipped down over it, covering the entire body, leaving only half of a calm face exposed.
This was the most common attire in the Endless Chaotic Void.
Every day, large numbers of wizards traveled back and forth between the various junction points, and no one was willing to reveal their identity easily.
After doing all this, Jie Ming finally left his hiding place and flew toward the junction point.