Xiao Han broke through the Earth's atmosphere, his black combat uniform silently fluttering in the vacuum.
He looked back at the gradually receding blue Planet, a smile playing on his lips.
"Stark Industries' satellite..."
A twinkling light spot appeared in his vision. Xiao Han adjusted his posture, and his super speed instantly erupted, leaving a faint trail in the dark space.
A few seconds later, he hovered beside a silver-gray artificial satellite.
The satellite's surface bore the striking Stark Industries logo, and its solar panels gleamed under the Sun's rays.
Xiao Han grinned, held up two fingers towards the satellite's surveillance camera, and made a V-sign.
"A souvenir."
Xiao Han turned, his gaze fixed on the giant fireball at the center of the solar System.
"Now, let's go see the real Sun."
His body leaned slightly forward, and a golden halo of Biofield formed around his body.
The next moment, Xiao Han transformed into a streak of light, flying towards the Sun at an astonishing speed.
As the distance shortened, the Sun in his vision gradually changed from a small light spot to a scorching fireball that filled his entire view.
Even with Xiao Han's current Steel Body, he began to feel the rapid increase in temperature.
"System, analyze my current energy absorption efficiency."
[Ding! Detected host is absorbing yellow Sun radiation, energy reserve is increasing... Current efficiency: 137%]
Xiao Han raised an eyebrow.
When he was on Earth, his maximum energy absorption efficiency was only 100%, but now it had exceeded the limit.
It seemed that close contact with the Sun could indeed bring about a qualitative leap.
When he was still a million kilometers from the Sun's surface, Xiao Han stopped.
Even he felt the immense heat pressing down at this moment. His skin began to turn red, like metal being roasted in a furnace.
"Not close enough yet." Xiao Han gritted his teeth and continued to push forward.
Five hundred thousand kilometers... three hundred thousand kilometers... one hundred thousand kilometers...
The temperature had risen to an unimaginable level.
However, Xiao Han's skin began to show a strange golden luster, as if adapting to this extreme environment.
[Energy absorption efficiency has broken through the critical value: 500%... 700%... 1000%...]
The System's prompts kept ringing in Xiao Han's mind, but he could no longer afford to be distracted.
All his attention was focused on resisting the most violent energy source in the Universe.
When there was only ten thousand kilometers left to the Sun's surface, Xiao Han finally stopped.
This distance was an absolute Death zone for human technology, but for him, it was the best breeding ground for evolution.
"This is it." Xiao Han spread his arms, allowing the Sun's plasma storm to wash over his entire body.
Every cell in him was cheering and leaping, greedily absorbing this nearly infinite energy.
[Energy reserve: 300%... 500%... 1000%...]
The numbers kept soaring, and Xiao Han felt an unprecedented power surging within him.
His eyes turned pure gold, the temperature of his Heat Vision soared, and the range of his Biofield expanded more than tenfold.
"Not enough, I want to go in." Xiao Han made a crazy decision.
He took a deep breath, even though there was no air in space.
Then, like a diver, he plunged headfirst into the Sun's surface.
In an instant, the World became pure light and heat.
The environment inside the Sun was beyond any human imagination. The temperature reached 15 million degrees Celsius, and the pressure was 250 billion times that of the Earth's surface.
Here, hydrogen nuclei fused into helium under extreme conditions, releasing immeasurable energy.
Xiao Han felt like he had fallen into a golden ocean, surrounded by boiling plasma.
Tiny cracks began to appear on his skin, but they were instantly repaired by the newly generated energy.
[Warning! Host's body is undergoing fundamental reorganization]
[Steel Body evolving... 1%... 5%... 15%...]
Comfortable, indescribably comfortable! As if in a hot spring.
Time passed minute by minute, and Xiao Han was completely immersed in the process of evolution.
His cellular structure was reorganizing, atomic arrangement was optimizing, and energy channels were expanding.
[Steel Body evolution completion: 100%]
[New ability unlocked: Matter Reorganization (Primary)]
On the other side
The lights in the Stark Industries laboratory had been on for 30 hours straight.
Tony Stark stood in front of the workbench, the dark circles under his eyes showing he hadn't rested in a long time.
Three holographic projectors were running simultaneously, displaying two completely different armor designs.
"Adjust the chest plate curve by another 0.5 degrees," Tony said to the air, his fingers swiping across the holographic image.
"Remove all facial coverings, I want his expression to be clearly visible."
The robotic arm immediately executed the command, adjusting the details of the pure black armor suspended in the center.
The armor's surface had no reflection, as if it could absorb all the surrounding light, only a simple golden S-shaped emblem on the chest broke this pure darkness.
"Sir, you have been working continuously for over 30 hours," Jarvis reminded. "Miss Potts has sent her 12th warning."
Tony gulped down a mouthful of concentrated coffee: "Tell her, I'll talk to her after I finish this work of art."
He reached out and stroked the armor's surface, "How are the alloy substitute layer test results?"
"Compatibility with Mr. Xiao's Biofield reached 99.2%," Jarvis replied.
"But the defense is only 15% of the Mark 3."
Tony grinned: "Enough. Anyway, that guy can't even be killed by high temperatures, this armor is purely for styling."
He stepped back two paces to admire his work, "Black is the color that suits Superman's temperament, powerful, mysterious, unstoppable."
"Sir, based on analysis, Mr. Xiao's defense does not seem to require armor. We are building armor, he might not need it."
"Jarvis, you don't understand, this is a man's happiness," Tony looked at the armor and muttered.
"He gave us a welcome gift, we have to give him a little surprise."
Deep inside the Sun
When the System's prompt finally sounded, Xiao Han opened his eyes.
He was surprised to find that he could actually see normally inside the Sun.
The violent plasma now appeared like docile streams in his eyes, and he could clearly distinguish the trajectory of each energy flow.
"Is this the Sun's perspective?"
Xiao Han reached out and gently touched an energy vortex.
To his shock, the high-temperature plasma actually changed its flow direction according to his will.
[Matter Reorganization ability allows the host to influence the state of matter at the atomic level, current applicable range: non-living matter, volume limit: 100 cubic meters]
Xiao Han smiled.
This ability was simply heaven-defying. Although there were still limitations now, given time, he might even be able to create things out of thin air.
"System, how long have I been in the Sun?"
[Calculated based on Earth time: 37 hours 42 minutes]
Xiao Han nodded.
He took one last look around this golden World, then pushed off with his legs, shooting towards the Sun's surface like a Rocket.
Leaving was a hundred times easier than entering.
The evolved Steel Body almost completely ignored the Sun's terrifying environment. Xiao Han passed through layers of plasma like a swimming fish, and in a few minutes, he rushed out of the Sun's surface.
On the way back to Earth, Xiao Han tested his new abilities.
His super speed could now reach 0.5 times the speed of light, the temperature of his Heat Vision increased rapidly, and his Biofield widened tenfold.
His perception became sharper. When he closed his eyes and concentrated, he could see the life energy of every person on Earth, like countless tiny light spots flickering on the Planet's surface.
When Xiao Han re-entered the atmosphere, his Biofield automatically avoided creating a sonic boom.