From the moment Lu Sheng devoured the World King's heart to when he used Deep Blue and the laws of this universe to temporarily suppress it, wrapping it up and slowly converting it, the entire process had taken no more than three hours.
Most of the time had been wasted hunting down Black Panther and slaughtering the other scattered strongholds.
Casting aside all restraints, the group's speed increased rather than decreased.
Just before noon, the four of them reached the first supply point on their route—Valjani City.
This city, once the nation's largest transportation hub, had now completely become a city of the dead.
After searching for supplies around the outskirts, Lu Sheng's group found a car, filled it with fuel, and continued onward.
This vehicle ran on a hybrid of solar power and gasoline. After smashing open a gas station, they would not need to worry about fuel for the next few days. By then, they would have long since reached their destination, so there was naturally even less reason to worry about such things.
With a car, everyone relaxed considerably.
Along the way, Lu Sheng carefully observed the World King's heart he had devoured and wrapped within his body. Strands of bizarre gray energy converted by the heart circulated endlessly through him, gradually strengthening his already immensely powerful flesh.
This strengthening did not seem to be limited to the material level. It carried a certain bizarre sense of insubstantiality.
Even Lu Sheng could not quite understand the cultivation art Deep Blue had deduced this time. Though he could recall the entire deduction process at any moment, it was so precise and exquisite that, even if he remembered it, he could not reproduce it with his own hands.
The converted gray energy seemed to combine the Power of Emptiness