Chapter 2721 - 16: Target for Capture
The star core, naturally, is best at the very center of the planet.
But it’s impossible to reach the very center, and gathering at the closest place still presents a certain opportunity.
However, the core material has completely changed, and the effect is far from the same.
Unfortunately, this attempt at gathering ended in failure.
Soon after, Jia Yan crawled out of this planet, feeling deeply regretful.
"It seems I can only look for smaller frozen stars to gather. Otherwise, it’s useless with such large ones; after all the effort to gather, it turns out to have no effect at all."
Jia Yan sighed in disappointment, having wasted much time, strength, and energy, to no avail, this time it’s a loss.
However, learning from this experience was somewhat beneficial.
Therefore, this Big Mosquito continued searching for massive celestial bodies in this desolate region.
Too big ones were abandoned, too small ones couldn’t be used, only those around two thousand kilometers might be tried.
Time slowly passed.
Over a year, in fact, took even longer than he anticipated.
During this period, Jia Yan not only had to compress the star cores but also to find planets.
The time wasn’t long, considering another strong one would surely not accomplish this.
Of course, much of the wasted time was spent digesting.
"Finally reached it! My body can no longer be contained, about to mutate!"
Jia Yan silently took refuge in a vast expanse of starry sky.
In fact, he circled around a field of interstellar matter for quite a while before reaching the required amount of mutating energy.
All the suitable planets in this vicinity had been thoroughly devoured by him.
Thus, Jia Yan was barely stuck at this minor threshold in cultivation, suddenly experiencing a release.
The sign of release caused his body to occasionally ooze condensation fluid on its own.
These oozing condensation fluids indicated his preparation for mutation.
At the same time, Jia Yan gradually mastered the techniques of star core extraction and compression, so if future similar work is needed, he could easily manage it again.
Of course, such operations aren’t really worthwhile; this time it was for a breakthrough, and if the breakthrough didn’t require star core level power, Jia Yan thought, he’d rather use slightly lower-level energy material for cultivation, why spend so much time on star core compression.
Effort-some with no reward.
A Galaxy Level Powerhouse can achieve many things, like contending, researching advanced cultivation methods, and discussing with other strong ones, all of which are more meaningful than this more than a year’s time.
Still, Jia Yan’s choice of this method signifies he knows it’s suitable for himself.
"Alright, now... let’s begin the mutation, the last mutation took several months, this time though..."
Jia Yan hesitated a bit, as spending a year here compressing and devouring star cores means adding mutation time might exceed two years in total, during which the Insect Clan Queen might think he either died or fled.
Submitting a breach claim of Jia Yan’s escape to Orion Arm would embarrass him, even potentially causing some disaster to Orion Arm, because the debt collectors won’t be friendly.
"Forget it, mutation is imminent, let’s see if the Insect Clan Queen is so narrow-minded; I feel she’s above that."
Jia Yan thought the Insect Clan Queen based on what he’s seen wouldn’t resort to such petty acts.
Moreover, having already spent a year, this mutation might take a few months, definitely not a whole year, no need to give up.
Jia Yan made up his mind and proceeded directly inside the subspace.
The chosen place for this cultivation was once again inside the subspace.
Boom!
Soon, inside the subspace Jia Yan entered, a massive amount of material was suddenly scattered.
But these scattered materials were soon reabsorbed by the condensation fluid.
These condensation fluids acted as the best recyclers, recovering nearly all of Jia Yan’s dissipating mutational power, greatly enhancing the power utilization rate.
Countless liquid substances continuously coalesced in this subspace, turning into a giant circular cocoon-like object.
Crack, crack, crack.
The cocoon-like object gradually swelled inside the subspace.
It continued to devour the interstellar material Jia Yan had already prepared within the subspace, though these materials were mere minerals, while the energy contained wasn’t low, it couldn’t compare to a star core, overall, only providing power for the condensation fluid breakthrough.
With much preparation, his cocoon condensation process was extremely smooth.
During this entire process, Jia Yan gradually transformed into what he frequently experienced before, morphing into a ’protozoa’ waiting for mutation inside the cocoon.
"This time’s mutation should allow my legs to regrow, perhaps even doubling my body’s strength, and with my middle-level brainwave power, the future me will probably be more than twice as strong as in recent times."
Jia Yan silently felt his own body.