Ning Guochang's revenge had finally been brought to a satisfactory close, and he had helped settle everything.
After all, this had been a matter of opposing factions, not right and wrong.
"However, just like Atabia, after Ning Guochang's death, he also left behind the legacy of an entire world, countless technological foundations, and life-construction projects waiting for me to inherit."
Li Qing felt like he was living off inheritances.
He also knew very clearly that once the King was dead, no one could resist his Church of Light anymore.
All the beings within it would become his subjects, and it would become the kingdom under his control.
And at this moment.
After more than half a month, he had finally cleaned up most of the mess Ning Guochang had left behind.
"The remaining remnants only need to be swept away. They're no threat. I no longer need to lie awake worrying. It's time for me to use this superpower to create a world."
After dinner, when he returned home, Li Qing was still thinking about that World Tree and the shock brought to him by the tall, handsome elf who had been on the verge of death in the laboratory.
He suddenly felt that this was the budding starting point of the next civilization:
"In the next era, they'll be unable to resist me. I'll manipulate civilization from behind the scenes. Perhaps I can go with the flow and try to make them create an Elf World within that Elven Ancient Tree."
Li Qing kept thinking.
"His plant structure is very interesting."
Previously, that fellow had clearly invented a black-pigment organism capable of absorbing Ultraviolet Radiation and carrying out radiation synthesis, using Ultraviolet Radiation to obtain the energy needed for survival.
But what about the one before him?
He had transformed himself into a photosynthetic plant that absorbed Red Light and Blue-Violet Light.
Put together, that made a super-photosynthetic plant capable of absorbing [Ultraviolet Light], [Red Light], and [Blue-Violet Light].
What did this mean?
This plant person was an incomplete prototype, but if a complete version could be created, it would be a humanoid solar panel!
Now that was truly clean energy!
Modern solar panels had to face the sun and slowly adjust their angles. His solar panels could walk beneath the sunlight on their own and charge themselves.
And what if these batteries were paired with the biological cars from before?
The other one had still needed to eat two and a half pounds of cabbage. This one didn't need to eat at all. When the car ran out of power, he could plug an elf battery into a charging station on the expressway.
That would complete the era of new electric vehicles.
The image was quite amusing.
But this was no joke. Energy was the foundation from which civilization arose.
Looking across all of history, every revolution in basic energy had brought about a sweeping revolution in the civilizational era.
"The plant-energy era will inevitably be the starting point of an evolutionary biological civilization. It's an indispensable piece of the ecological puzzle!"
Li Qing laid out his plans mentally. "No matter what technology develops in the future, or what kind of world cells evolve into, basic energy will always be needed! Plants are the foundation of the ecological chain."
Nine o'clock that night.
Li Qing discovered a cockroach crawling in through the window, so before going to bed, he stared at it to check his ability's progress.
After his strength stabilized, he had basically grown stronger bit by bit every day over the past week.
Originally, it had taken seventy seconds of staring to trigger [Awakening]. Now it only took a little over sixty seconds.
He was probably still gradually getting stronger.
"The bacteria have already awakened on the cockroach. Now it only takes fifty-seven seconds!" After burning the cockroach to ash with the flamethrower kept in the room, he confirmed that no bacteria had survived with it before returning to his room to sleep.
It looked as though he had solved one problem, but a new one was already looming before him:
"For now, I can still look around recklessly. After some time, I'll be able to awaken microorganisms in just a few seconds. That's far too dangerous. I'll have to become completely blind."
Ning Guochang had been in the three-second [Awakening] period. He had accidentally looked at his own body for three seconds and ended up dead, which showed how terrifying it was.
"The more advanced the stage, the more dangerous it'll be. Once I reach ten seconds, three seconds, and finally instant [Awakening] at zero seconds, I should enter the next stage."
Li Qing had a premonition.
Once the Zombie Crystal Core advanced, he would be able to freely control the switch for this superpower and open his eyes whenever he wanted, without having to live in fear.
The next morning.
Li Qing did not go to exterminate the remnants, allowing civilization to ferment for a while.
He believed that as long as they were not fools, after Judgment Day, the common people who had survived the disaster would completely submit to the Church of Light, unless they wanted to suffer another great extinction.
He would let them panic for a while first.
His church's survivors would surely go and spread their faith to them again. Going now would instead accomplish nothing and fail to maximize the effect.
After breakfast, because he felt much more relaxed, he rarely went out for a morning run.
Looking at the large, varied carpet-like bacterial life forms lining the streets, he was surprisingly beginning to get used to them.
He felt that soon even these would disappear from his sight, leaving him able to do nothing but keep his eyes closed. The psychological pressure would truly be immense then.
After his morning run, he called a friend.
"Yes, I want alloy steel."
"You know someone who sells tungsten steel? No, do I look like some tycoon? I want plates with a high cost-performance ratio. Ordinary laboratory-grade ones will do. Ask if you can get in touch with a supplier."
"Yes, yes, plates like that will do."
The suburban house Ning Guochang had left behind had three rooms and one hall.
He planned to weld a layer of alloy steel directly onto the inner walls of the entire house. Even if the other party broke through the first room and smashed the Tempered Glass, there would still be the second layer—the barrier of the house's living-room walls.
As for the expensive steel, he truly could not afford it.
In any case, nothing could blow it apart for now. Did they think they were the Hulk?
He would worry about the rest after he had money.
"Yes, yes, ask about Tempered Glass too. Just ask for now. The main issue is that I don't have much money. I'm planning to replace it with a large pane of glass. I need bulletproof glass, military-grade. The quality has to be high—very high." Li Qing kept talking.
Once he settled things with them, Li Qing planned to have them enter the bottle themselves to "pray," while he took the opportunity to modify the laboratory and replace Ning Guochang's Pinduoduo glass.
He always felt that it was unsafe, since glass had always been the breakthrough point.
He even wanted more steel plates so that he could renovate the two rooms next door.
Each room could correspond to a world where a civilization evolved from a single cell, allowing him to create a Multiverse Crystal Wall world.
He could also use them as laboratories first, filling them with all kinds of instruments.
In short, he would strengthen the security measures of the entire house, turning the Three Rooms and One Hall into a private research institute.
For an area of this size, it would be enough for now. An area that was too large would instead weaken his control and produce another Atabia—a mortal who spent all day trying to defy Heaven.
However, the moment he thought about renovations, he got a headache.
Even if he had the money, would he dare hire people to remodel the place?
He would still have to do it himself.
Fortunately, his physical condition was extraordinary. Carrying a sheet of alloy steel by himself was no problem, and working as a construction laborer would not be too difficult.
"Ah, everything is difficult at the beginning." Li Qing sighed. After putting down the phone, he looked at the giant dragon around his neck and discovered that some new changes had appeared.
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