The armament touched his life seed and the reaction was instant. There was a burst of blue and green light as his life seed melted into a sac of life energy and let the artificial wonder sink into it.
For the first time in his life, he felt complete. His existence felt full and whole and complete.
It was as if he had always had an empty hole in his life that he didn't know about. It wasn't until this empty hole became occupied that he discovered its existence.
It was as if he had eaten a large meal to end all of his future hunger. So in that moment, he felt that he would never go hungry again.
The feeling of being full was pleasant and exhilarating beyond words. Unfortunately, it didn't last long because his entire existence was changing and it was changing painfully.
The blue and silver artificial wonder fused with the green life seed to create a new life seed with a lot of potential. The potential of this new life seed was much higher than his body, so it began changing his body.
His life seed began very active after the fusion. It began producing a lot of vessels and connective tissues, which spread all over its body. These vessels and connective tissues were actually taking over his body.
He had once likened the life seed to that of a tumor or a benign cancerous organ. Now that the life seed had received a large boost in potential, its identity shifted closer to being a malignant cancerous organ.
His heart was the first organ to be subsumed and assimilated. His life seed absorbed it and took over its function.
His two lungs were next. They too melted into the life seed and became history.
The life seed continued to extend its grubby hands into his other organs. His liver and accompanying organs disappeared completely. His stomach was still there, but it had been forced to change too.
The changes to his stomach turned it into a reactive furnace. It became a pouch with the function of the stomach, small intestine, and large intestine. That is, it became capable of breaking down food, absorbing the nutrients, absorbing water, and much more.
Now that his stomach had become more efficient, his small intestine and large intestine were no longer of use. They too disappeared and became history.
Next came his kidneys. Then his testicles were lost too. He didn't need them anymore.
They and many other irrelevant organs were eliminated and consumed as his existence shifted from relying on mundane food to relying on mana for sustenance. The space they occupied before became occupied with the blood vessels and connective tissues of the life seed now.
He didn't need food and water to live anymore when he reached the second mortal coil. Now it had become official.
In essence, his internal energy and life energy were fusing and becoming one. They were no longer separate energies that would be used for different things. Now his internal energy would be used for casting spells as well as replenishing his stamina.
The changes to existence were good because the activity of the life seed was limited by the foundation and the technique he was cultivating. If not for the restrictions, his life seed would consume all of his existence and take over everything until there was nothing left.
For example, the loss of some of his organs, like his testicles, was because plants don't need them. The Everlasting Wood Art that he had cultivated and the rank 6 blood essence of a wood element-based entity that he used to transcend the first mortal coil caused this.
The restrictions and directions from his cultivation techs also caused the life seed to change as it assimilated so many organs. It gained a lot of functions that it didn't have before because it was replacing the organs it absorbed.
The color of his life seed also changed from green to violet. This was due to many reasons.
The appearance of the violet color was due to a fundamental change in the elemental balance of his body. His organs used to be red before, and his life seed used to be green. But now that his organs, his life seed, and the lightning element had fused, none of them could remain the same.
Red life energy fused with green internal energy and blue lightning element to create a violet energy. This violet energy then spread out from his life seed into every part of his body.
The violet color permeated every part of his body like dye. His eyes, hair, and skin didn't escape from it. Then the formations he had engraved in the artificial wonder began to appear all over his body.
The formations were being engraved all over his body through his blood. His eye, hair, and skin had them. But they were most obvious on his skin.
Tje arrays he engraved appeared as silver tattoos on his skin and turned it blue so that his skin now looked like the original armament that he made before he fused it with his life seed.
The appearance of the silver tattoos on his skin marked the beginning of the last change. This change was in his life seed, and it signified that he had officially reached the third mortal coil.
After absorbing so much blood and flesh from the other organs, his life seed had changed both in terms of energy and appearance. In terms of appearance, it had become a violet crystal humming with lightning, and it had become swollen.
Its size had increased by at least three times. This was after it had removed the water from all the organs that it consumed.
It had now become an engine capable of capturing mana from the environment, converting the mana into the wood element, storing the wood element mana, and then converting that wood element into lightning when needed.
Unfortunately, the life seed has limited storage. It couldn't store more energy because it had reached its limit when he reached the peak of the second mortal coil.