Grinding to Become the Master of the Universe

’A growable weapon?’

Qin Feng’s interest was piqued.

"Yes, Master. This type of equipment can grow along with your power, eliminating the hassle and resource cost of frequently replacing your gear. However, these materials are too large. Your current Subspace Storage Unit doesn’t have enough capacity to contain them."

Hammer quickly offered a solution. "I recommend you immediately redeem a 1000km³ Subspace Storage Unit, valued at one million Contribution Points, from the Imperial Mall."

’One million Contribution Points...’

Qin Feng glanced at his balance of just over 1.3 million Contribution Points and gave the order without hesitation.

"Redeem."

To the current him, Contribution Points were just a string of numbers. The most important thing was to trade them for truly valuable, strategic-level resources.

He held out his hand, aiming at the colossal beast’s corpse, which resembled an undersea mountain range.

HUMMM—

An invisible gravitational field enveloped the giant beast’s remains. Acted upon by the Power of Space, the massive corpse transformed into a streak of light and vanished into the storage seal on his palm.

After stowing away his prize, Qin Feng didn’t linger for a moment.

"Hammer, project the coordinates of all threatening targets on Blue Star with a life force index of eighty thousand points or higher."

"Yes, Master."

The next moment, a precise, globe-spanning 3D map of the oceans was projected onto Qin Feng’s retina.

On the map, several prominent red dots were moving slowly.

Qin Feng shot forward, leaving a long white wake through the deep sea. Like a deep-water torpedo, he rocketed toward the nearest target.

The next few hours were nothing short of a divine purge for Blue Star’s marine ecosystem.

A colossal deep-sea octopus, its body the size of an island, was entrenched in a ten-thousand-meter trench. With a life force index of eighty-seven thousand, it had just awakened from its slumber when a spear of light descended from above, piercing through and vaporizing both it and its lair.

A school of vicious, saber-toothed fish, each over a hundred meters long and with life force indexes around eighty thousand, was hunting one of Blue Star’s nuclear-powered submarines. The next second, a figure crashed into their midst.

His spear struck like a dragon. Within minutes, the entire school was slaughtered, their cold corpses sinking to the seabed.

Like the most efficient of Cleaners, Qin Feng followed the map’s guidance, eliminating every top-tier "beast" that posed a fatal threat to the nascent civilization.

"Master, a rare alloy has been detected."

Just as Qin Feng was passing through a stretch of blood-red sea on his way to the next target, Hammer’s voice chimed in again without warning.

"Hm?"

Qin Feng stopped short.

"At your twelve o’clock, approximately three thousand kilometers away in the deep ocean, an extremely precious piece of ’Celestial Derivation Alloy’ has been scanned."

Immediately, a detailed file appeared in Qin Feng’s vision.

[Celestial Derivation Alloy: A transcendent metal with biological properties.

Possesses the highest Mental Power and Spiritual Energy conductivity of any known material.

Its internal structure can record the user’s Life Brand and Martial Dao Will, enabling it to undergo adaptive evolution. It possesses a special ’growth’ property.

It is a top-tier material for forging planetary-grade or higher weapons, power armor, and even starship cores.

It is currently known to be found, with an extremely low probability, only in the specific chaotic environments of the ’Battlefield of Ten Thousand Races’.

There are no stable sources within the territory of the Human Empire.]

’Only found on the Battlefield of Ten Thousand Races...’

Qin Feng’s gaze sharpened as he immediately grasped the key point. ’Then it must have been brought over unintentionally by the Creatures of Ten Thousand Races through the Subspace Rift.’

Without further hesitation, his form flickered, and he became a streak of light, advancing at full speed toward the coordinates marked by Hammer.

At his current speed, a distance of three thousand kilometers was a matter of moments.

He quickly arrived at the target area.

With Hammer’s precise guidance, he found a peculiar piece of metal deep within a gloomy undersea canyon, emitting a faint, iridescent halo.

The metal was a little taller than a man and extremely irregular in shape, like a randomly kneaded lump of clay, yet its surface was as smooth as a mirror.

It lay quietly in the mud and sand of the seabed. If not for Hammer’s specific alert, even if Qin Feng had conducted a blanket search of the area with his Mental Power for ten years, he would have been extremely unlikely to find it.

Its aura blended perfectly with the surrounding environment.

’Hammer, is this scanning and appraisal ability one of your built-in functions?’

Qin Feng asked in his mind as he approached.

"Yes, Master."

Hammer’s Little Flying Dragon avatar bobbed on his retina. "Item scanning and value assessment are among Hammer’s core functions, and they are enabled by default. However, you had never previously encountered an item in the database marked as ’Rare’ or higher, which is why the function never triggered an alert."

’I see.’

Qin Feng nodded and carefully stowed the incredibly precious "Celestial Derivation Alloy" in his Subspace Storage Unit.

’This mission has had some pleasant surprises.’

Afterward, Qin Feng spent another half a day thoroughly patrolling and clearing Blue Star’s oceans, ensuring no apex Predators remained that could threaten the civilization’s survival.

He then shot out from the surface of the sea, got his bearings, and headed toward the location of the Subspace Rift—a desolate region on the edge of a continental plate, known by the people of Blue Star as the "Cursed Land."