Ten days later.
Humming a little tune, Sha Sha drifted all the way here on magnetic fields and arrived at the heart of the New Continent, the region where the Heavenly Ladder Tree stood.
Recently, Sha Sha had been living well on the New Continent. Every day, it ate and drank the finest fare: chewing premium refined ore, drinking pure heavy-mercury water, swallowing gold and crunching silver all day long. What bliss.
Compared to the New Continent's incomparably rich mineral veins, its old home in the South Sea might have been peaceful and comfortable, but resources there truly were somewhat scarce—or rather, difficult to exploit. It was nothing like this place, where nearly all minerals lay exposed in open pits.
As it devoured these rare ores in great quantities, Sha Sha cultivated Magnetic-Field Battle Aura while using its Meditation Method to fine-tune the Origin Matter Structure within its body.
This was an ability gained after the Meditation Method reached its second stage. With powerful computational ability, an Ascender could actively adjust the structure of the ascension organs within their body, avoiding aberration while also laying a solid foundation for future advancement.
To be honest, the advancement path of Ironclad Sharks, Steel-Armored Sharks, and Ship-Island Whale Sharks was already terribly outdated. As underwater mining equipment created by the Pre-Epoch Civilization, the limits of the Ironclad Shark race had long been predetermined. If one wanted to surpass the limits of a shark, there was only one answer: stop being a shark!
At this moment, Sha Sha was attempting exactly that. Through Magnetic-Field Battle Aura and the Meditation Method, it was gradually replacing the many earth-element Origin Matter organs within its body with highly magnetic metals, converting them into "lightning-element" organs, then imitating the low-energy-level version of the Steel Pioneer cultivation method Ian