Chapter 561 - 338: Quasi-Divine Skill
Watching Chen Suifeng and the others leave, Su Ze became the highest-ranking officer on site. The local officials and garrison commanders all came to him for direction.
"Prioritize treating the wounded and reassure the civilians. Also, continue organizing an orderly evacuation in case the beast tide returns. Soldiers, remain on high alert and don’t let your guard down!"
Su Ze laid out the general strategy, and the rest would naturally be handled by his subordinates.
After taking care of the matters at hand, Su Ze took out his customized High-Level Extractor and began extracting the Evolutionary Material from the Golden Falcon’s body.
After extracting from all parts of its body, he obtained a vial of extract that emanated a blue evolutionary glow.
He could even faintly see a wisp of purple light within the vial!
’Was this Golden Falcon already starting to evolve toward the divine level?’ Su Ze thought with a hint of surprise.
Although Su Ze had wanted to challenge himself by absorbing a divine-level extract for his next evolution—jumping a whole tier—they were incredibly rare. Besides, the Weak Point Attack skill was just too good to pass up.
Su Ze was willing to lower his standards for the sake of the Weak Point Attack skill.
Moreover, he had just discovered that the Golden Falcon extract actually contained a trace of purple evolutionary light. Although he wasn’t entirely sure what this represented, purple was undoubtedly linked to the divine level.
Next, Su Ze processed the Golden Falcon’s corpse, harvesting all the valuable materials from it. He prepared to enter the Magic Cube and absorb the Golden Falcon extract.
Just then, the door of the Magic Cube, which had been cloaked, opened, and Mr. Ya flew out from within.
"Boss, I did it! I evolved!" Mr. Ya exclaimed, unable to hide his excitement.
"I’m a Venerable Powerhouse now!"
His joy was palpable. A year ago, he wouldn’t have dared to dream that he could become a Venerable Powerhouse.
A Venerable Powerhouse!
A big shot anywhere on Blue Star!
A year ago, he was just an unsuccessful streamer from Luofan Country, feeling stuck in a rut. Ever since leaving Luofan with Su Ze, his life had been turned completely upside down!
"Calm down. It’s only the Venerable level," Su Ze said with a smile, pointing to the Golden Falcon’s corpse on the ground. "This is a top-tier, Tier 6 mutated beast I just killed."
Mr. Ya’s mouth fell open, but no words came out.
’He’d forgotten the number one rule: no showing off in front of the boss.’
"Your timing is perfect. I’ll leave this place in your care. I’m heading back to the Magic Cube to absorb the extract. I’m preparing to break through to the Legendary level!" Su Ze patted Mr. Ya’s shoulder.
Mr. Ya’s expression froze. ’Seriously? I *just* became a Venerable Powerhouse, and you’re already pushing for Legendary?’
’I finally managed to catch up!’
’Is it that shameful to be at the same evolutionary level as me?’
Mr. Ya had always felt his evolutionary speed was too slow. His strength was being left in the dust by Su Ze, leading to him gradually becoming less and less helpful.
When he first met Su Ze, his evolutionary level had been one tier higher. Back then, he had been Su Ze’s personal bodyguard.
Now, he just wanted to become stronger so he could help shoulder more of Su Ze’s burdens. Su Ze always refused to play the role of a savior, but with the Nian Race in the picture, certain pressures inevitably fell on his shoulders.
When the sky falls, the tallest person holds it up. Su Ze had inadvertently become that person. Whether he liked it or not, he would be the first one crushed when it came down.
In truth, Mr. Ya’s evolutionary speed was already absurdly fast. The problem was, he was trying to catch up to Su Ze—the fastest person to ever evolve in the history of Blue Star.
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Su Ze returned to the Magic Cube. He first took out several pieces of the Sands of Time.
The Mirage King Extract in his system hadn’t been fully assimilated. Before he could absorb the next extract, he had to use the Sands of Time to completely process the evolutionary material already inside him.
Among the pieces was a huge, circular slab of the Sands of Time. Su Ze chipped away the surface layer, revealing a massive spherical object within.
The object wasn’t a perfect sphere; it was slightly oblate and gleamed with a jet-black luster.
Su Ze remained cautious. He had dug this sphere out of the Beast King Sponge’s lair, where it had been situated in the very center of a Sands of Time vein.
He suspected that the formation of the Sands of Time might be related to this sphere.
As he gazed at the black sphere, he felt an unfathomable depth within it, as if the sphere itself were gazing back at him.
’This thing... it feels a bit like an eye, doesn’t it?’
The black sphere was like an eye, its gaze fixed on Su Ze.
He extended his Spiritual Power, probing the black sphere to peer inside...
He was stunned by what he found the very next second. The sphere’s interior contained countless, layered spaces!
This was way bigger than any Storage Ring!
A single one of these spaces was far larger than that of a Storage Ring, to say nothing of the fact that there were at least tens of millions of them!
All Storage Rings on Blue Star were crafted from the fruit of the Qiankun Wood, a Tier 5 Spiritual Plant. It was the only known spatial-type Spiritual Plant on the planet, which meant everyone’s storage devices had extremely limited space. Anyone with a lot of possessions had to use multiple storage devices to hold everything.
The Bean Pod Tree that served as a warehouse and the Big-Mouth Flower used as a cultivation chamber, both of which Su Ze had seen aboard the Tree Spirit Race’s ship, had considerable internal space.
But the space inside this black sphere was even larger.
’If I modify this thing a bit, I could install it on the ship as a warehouse or a vault.’
The Magic Cube had a warehouse, but the space was average. Since it hadn’t been retrofitted with any upgrades, it wasn’t even as useful as the Bean Pod Tree warehouse on the Tree Spirit Race’s ship.
’Don’t tell me this is a storage device? A high-level one from another planet?’