Chapter 2124 - 2117: The Role of the Supreme Crystal
The battle for supremacy among the myriad tribes had ended, ushering in a new era on the battlefield. With Zhang Menglong’s assistance, the Great City of Aiville for humans returned to its original region, a place where they felt most familiar.
Relying on substantial resource investment, Zhang Menglong began expanding Aiville City and significantly enhanced its defense level. He handed over all the ancient relics he possessed to Ying Zheng, including the Chimera.
"Menglong, have you made your decision?" Ying Zheng appeared somewhat reluctant, as he had almost considered Zhang Menglong as his own family during this period.
"Yeah," Zhang Menglong nodded, "I’ve pretty much grown tired of this and plan to play elsewhere."
"With your abilities, you’ll surely thrive in the Supreme World," Ying Zheng said.
Zhang Menglong smiled. Even in the Supreme World, he probably wouldn’t need to venture much. After all, many of his elders were already established there, having built considerable fortunes, laying down a solid foundation for him. Even if he arrived there, he might still be a second-generation wealthy kid.
After bidding farewell to everyone, Zhang Menglong stepped into the light pillar leading to the Supreme World.
He felt a gentle force enveloping him, his entire body becoming lighter, ascending slowly into the sky.
During this process, 100 Supreme Crystals naturally floated out from Zhang Menglong’s body. The surface of these Supreme Crystals slowly shattered, releasing an exceptionally unique power!
"These Supreme Crystals actually have such a function?" Zhang Menglong exclaimed in surprise. Yet clearly, the Supreme Crystals could only be activated under certain conditions. Despite having tried various methods before, he had never managed to break them.
Supreme Crystals were enough to elevate a person’s life levels to the Dao Realm’s limit, and the remaining energy began forging an ultimate soul for him! This ultimate soul was the foundation for every ultimate life form!
However, 100 Supreme Crystals were far from sufficient for Zhang Menglong; it was almost a drop in the bucket. It could help a person complete the transformation from the early stage of the Dao Realm to an ultimate life form, yet not enough to increase Zhang Menglong’s energy several times over!
"Then absorb them all!" Zhang Menglong pulled out all the Supreme Crystals from his body, and suddenly an energy torrent surged into his body.
His life levels rapidly elevated, reaching Dao Realm limit, 500 times, 1000 times, 10,000 times, 100,000 times!
Within mere seconds, Zhang Menglong completed the long process of elevating his realm, and his soul began to transform.
As a brand new soul was born and completed its merger with the original soul, another unique aura emerged on Zhang Menglong’s body, the aura of an ultimate life form!
Yet this stage was not over, as Zhang Menglong had far too many Supreme Crystals. Even though his energy consumption was millions of times that of ordinary people, he still couldn’t consume all the Supreme Crystals.
Zhang Menglong’s soul began transforming once again, and he vaguely sensed he was evolving towards another level of life form.
[Dean, I understand now, no wonder your parents asked you to collect as many Supreme Crystals as possible; it turns out Supreme Crystals enhance the soul grade!]
"Soul grade?"
[According to the data I have, the soul grade for each ultimate life form varies, and it can be changed postnatally, though the conditions are extremely demanding and the channels are rare. A higher soul grade endows one with stronger comprehension and power. That’s why your parents were able to travel freely across different tier worlds and pulled in so many high-grade life form level teachers for you, because their soul grade is very high, at least reaching the eighth grade!]
"What does eighth grade mean?" Zhang Menglong asked curiously.
[To put it metaphorically, the Super God Academy’s teacher, Kakakarotto, is about four grade quality, Beerus the God of Destruction is fifth grade, the Three Pure Ones ancestors are probably sixth grade, gods like Pangu and Fuxi are around seventh grade.]
"My parents’ soul grade surpassing beings like Pangu God is incredible, no wonder they captured so many powerful figures as teachers," Zhang Menglong marveled.
But clearly, their soul grade was not enhanced on this battlefield but through other means long before.
Zhang Menglong’s soul grade continued to soar, although his power realm remained static. Yet the strength gap brought by each soul grade was extremely frightening; unlike most who entered the Supreme World needing to climb back step-by-step, Zhang Menglong had powerful foundational strength allowing him to stride horizontally unless facing exceedingly high-grade ultimate life forms!
Zhang Menglong wasn’t sure how much time had passed until the last Supreme Crystal on him was depleted, elevating his soul grade to an unbelievable extent.
[Dean, your soul grade has reached the pinnacle of eighth grade!]
"Oh, not bad!" Zhang Menglong was glad he had scavenged so many Supreme Crystals on the battlefield. If he only gathered tens or hundreds of thousands, even elevating his life levels to the Dao Realm limit might not be enough!
"Now I understand why my parents wanted me to amass Supreme Crystals; they must have known their function!"
With an eighth-grade soul, Zhang Menglong laid a deep foundation for future survival in the Supreme World.
Though Zhang Menglong wasn’t very clear what the Supreme World was like, with this level of soul rank, it’s likely to be exceedingly rare there.
"Having a good bloodline is indeed great!" Zhang Menglong felt the renewed power within him, which gradually became less intense as he traversed an invisible membrane.
This sensation was familiar to Zhang Menglong, having experienced it countless times when traveling from lower-grade worlds to higher-grade ones, causing some changes with the increased world force.
For instance, in low-level worlds, one punch can shatter a mountain; in high-grade worlds, perhaps only a stone breaks.
In low-level worlds, one might freely fly, but in high-grade worlds, one might only run and jump.
Some can easily tear the void apart in low-level worlds but find it difficult in high-grade worlds.
In this Supreme World, the firmness of space and laws elevated to another level compared to the battlefield experiences.
"This time, I shouldn’t drop like a meteor accidentally killing someone, right?" Zhang Menglong recalled the incident of earlier inadvertently killing Gu Xiao; another accidental death would mean debt for a while.
But Zhang Menglong suddenly sensed himself plummeting downwards.
He mumbled helplessly, "Darn it! This familiar feeling again."