Space and Soul

"Respected 4-star bank customer, we have completed the inquiry for Life Fruit resources within the surrounding 7 star regions. We can provide you with 102 Life Fruits in the shortest possible time, priced at 4.2 hunyuan units per piece."

Thanks to the permissions of Li Che, who was a newly promoted 4-star customer of the Universe Galaxy Bank, the bank's sub-intelligence spent a mere moment completing the mobilization of the Life Fruits in the nearby star regions.

This forced Li Che to marvel at the power of wealth.

For ordinary World Lords, things like Life Fruits were definitely treasures that could only be encountered by chance and never sought, obtainable only through a handful of channels such as primary-level auctions.

Yet for a 4-star customer of the Universe Galaxy Bank whose assets started at 10,000 hunyuan units, purchasing Life Fruits did not require such trouble at all.

Of course, such an efficient purchasing channel meant there would be quite a bit of a premium on the commodities.

Normally, the price of each Life Fruit at a primary-level auction was around 2.5 to 3.0 hunyuan units, yet Li Che had to pay the hefty price of 4.2 hunyuan units for each one.

Fortunately, in Li Che's eyes, this was mere pocket change.

"Buy them all. How long will it take to deliver them to Black Dragon Star?" he asked casually.

Since most of his legacy avatars within the Infinite Land inside his body had not yet completed the evolution of their genetic hierarchy, Li Che chose the instant-delivery service.

"Respected customer, because Life Fruits need to be mobilized across star regions, if they are to be delivered to the Black Dragon Star bank branch, it will take about 20 days at the fastest," the bank's sub-intelligence replied.

Li Che nodded in agreement.

As far as he knew, his own divine master and that Hu Feng Army Lord were currently conducting final negotiations before the war, and the struggle regarding the heritage of that Marquis-level Undying Deity might still take a few years before officially breaking out.

He did not leave Black Dragon Star, but instead casually bought a World Castle on this planet through the Universe Galaxy Bank to stay for a short while.

The World Castle was also a type of world item, accommodating a massive small world inside a castle two kilometers in radius. However, because of its huge volume, it was not convenient to carry, and thus its price was far lower than world belts, world rings, and the like.

Inside the World Castle, Li Che immediately began his cultivation.

To him, gradually inheriting and digesting the heritage of the Mountain Sea Realm Li Che was a deeply fascinating process.

As a spiritual reader who had once stood out within the human race, this person's achievements mainly lay in two aspects.

Space and soul!

In terms of space, perhaps due to the influence of the Earth Origin Law, the primary comprehension direction of the Mountain Sea Realm Li Che was Spatial Lockdown. By the time of his death, his comprehension in this direction was already more than half complete, lacking only the final two or three minor branches to fully master it.

Conversely, the Mountain Sea Realm Li Che's comprehension of the Spatial Annihilation and Instantaneous Movement directions could only be considered very average.

His self-created secret technique in space was centered around Spatial Lockdown methods, supplemented by secret techniques of the Earth Origin Law, and was named "Star Suppression".

As for the soul, the Mountain Sea Realm Li Che's achievements were also extremely high. After all, the earthling lineage had already undergone modification by Sitting Mountain Guest, making them exceptionally outstanding in willpower and soul.

To amplify this advantage, the talent secret technique avatar chosen by the Mountain Sea Realm Li Che was also a special life whose talent secret techniques leaned toward soul methods.

His self-created secret technique in the soul direction, "Eight Thousand Soul Lights", was a secret technique that integrated a wide variety of methods such as soul attack, soul defense, and soul enslavement, and its profundity entirely reached the King level.

Generally speaking, the Mountain Sea Realm Li Che's combat methods relied on the General Soul's terrifying enhancement of the soul, directly carrying out soul bombardment with "Eight Thousand Soul Lights". When encountering more tricky opponents, he would first use "Star Suppression" for locking, trapping, and consumption, and then use "Eight Thousand Soul Lights" for the soul bombardment.

Soul attack—this method was undoubtedly extremely efficient. Even facing those Marquis-level immortals who had already trained into immortal bodies, it possessed sufficiently powerful lethality.

Pity, I am not suited to the combat habits of a spiritual reader...

Inside the World Castle, Li Che continuously deduced the self-created secret technique "Star Suppression" of the Mountain Sea Realm in his mind, only letting out a sigh a moment later.

As the main body that perfectly inherited all the memories of the Mountain Sea Realm Li Che, he could of course execute the "Star Suppression" secret technique without any pressure, and even display the power of this self-created secret technique to one hundred percent.

After all, upon reaching the World Lord level, World Force replaced Gene Origin Force and spiritual force, causing the distinction between martial artists and spiritual readers to gradually blur.

Yet taking martial artist methods as the core combat style was a mindset Li Che never thought of changing.

After all, the two paths of martial artists and spiritual readers represented two combat ideologies, either of which required spending a massive amount of time and experience to immerse oneself in, enough for a powerhouse to study for a lifetime.

Just like the Universe Overlord Hirodo of the Golden-Horned Race in Li Che's memory, who used the combat style of a spiritual reader, whereas the Universe Overlord Star Prison Demon Lord of the human race used the combat style of a martial artist.

At the level of those two entities, the energy within their bodies had already transformed into divine power, yet they still persisted in the combat habits of their low-level days.

Li Che had a clear plan: his strategy was to analyze the law-application mindset of "Star Suppression", translating spatial laws and other Spatial Lockdown methods into his own martial artist self-created secret techniques.

As for the soul aspect, Li Che was indeed prepared to carefully study the Mountain Sea Realm Li Che's secret technique "Eight Thousand Soul Lights".

After all, the higher the level of a powerhouse, the more they needed to guard against soul methods from enemies.

In the tens of thousands of years on the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, Li Che had indeed suffered a few powerful soul attacks, and at the World Lord level he had also once purchased a general-level immortal secret technique concerning soul defense.

Soul attacks, soul enslavement, soul disturbance...

This universe was never short of powerhouses proficient in soul methods, just like another peak race in the universe-the Zerg race. The majority of hive mothers among them were soul masters after they matured.

Among the methods used by the major peak races in the universe to annihilate the geniuses of hostile races, the most reliable was first to enslave the soul and later to annihilate the soul, so as to thoroughly cut off the genius's hope of resurrection.

For quite a long time in the future, soul-type methods would be extremely mainstream and powerful techniques. For those life forms possessing souls, this was forever a point that had to be considered.

Even if he would not devote most of his time and energy to intensively studying the Dao of the soul, after inheriting the heritage of the Mountain Sea Realm Li Che, Li Che was very willing to understand and cultivate soul methods.

After reorganizing this portion of the Mountain Sea Realm Li Che's heritage once more, Li Che continued his cultivation.

First, he considered integrating the Spatial Lockdown method into his own self-created secret technique "Guixu".

"Guixu" was the result of Li Che's analysis of the celestial body laws of black holes. Its main characteristics were the irresistible mass brought by ultra-high density and overbearing gravitational pull. Li Che applied this ultra-high density to himself, which brought forth peerless destructive power.

Gravity, tearing space!

He had a realization: if he continued to deeply analyze the characteristics of black holes, there was a high probability he could comprehend Spatial Annihilation, one of the three major directions of spatial laws.

And if the Spatial Lockdown method were integrated into "Guixu", it could completely pioneer a brand-new direction for the "Guixu" secret technique, vastly improving the attack efficiency of Li Che's martial artist methods.

He studied the Spatial Lockdown method with rapt attention, and time passed almost unconsciously until, over twenty days later, Li Che was awakened by the voice of the optical brain intelligence Bai Yue.

"Sir, the Universe Galaxy Bank has sent a message. The Life Fruits you purchased have arrived at Black Dragon Star. Please collect them in a timely manner."

"The message also mentions that since you once expressed the intention to join the Universe Galaxy Bank, that Undying Deity responsible for escorting the Life Fruits wishes to meet with you."

Bai Yue's voice was crisp and melodious, and its content gradually brought a trace of a smile to Li Che's face.