Mechanical Evolution

"Block out its memories unrelated to cultivation!"

Realizing the gravity of the situation, Li Xin immediately reacted, instructing the Eternal Divine Brain to package those memories into a compressed archive and store them so he could browse through them later.

He also had the memories useful for cultivation extracted separately and organized into individual folders. These would serve as resources for Li Xin's growth.

[Fusion successful. Acquired talent: "Mechanical Evolution"]

"Whew. Even with Eternal Divine Brain No. 1's current processing speed, it took seven whole days and nights to receive and organize all this information. There was just so much of it!"

Once all the information had been received, Li Xin rubbed his temples and sighed.

The gains were immense. With this Machine Race Immortal's cultivation experience, he no longer had to worry about Eternal Divine Brain No. 2's advancement until it reached the Immortal Level.

More importantly, among this Machine Race Immortal's cultivation memories, he found many secret cultivation techniques and insights concerning humans.

The Machine Race and humanity were enemies to begin with. As the saying went, know yourself and your enemy, and you would never lose a battle. Before heading to the Outer Domain Battlefield to fight humans, nearly every member of the Machine Race would acquire a general understanding of human cultivation methods.

However, the secret cultivation techniques this Machine Race Immortal had collected were relatively simple. They were all for stages below the Immortal Level; there were none for the Immortal Level itself.

Clearly, this Machine Race Immortal had merely collected some basic cultivation methods to gain a cursory understanding, without studying them in depth.

"I finally have a proper cultivation inheritance!"

Although the secret cultivation techniques collected by this Machine Race Immortal were not profound, they were already an enormous surprise for Li Xin as he was now.

After all, despite having already reached the Planetary Level, the only methods he had practiced so far were the initial "Genetic Origin Energy Cultivation Method" and the "Heaven-Breaking Sword Technique."

He had originally planned to visit Mist Island and see whether he could obtain the Yunmo Star Ship's inheritance. Now that he had the secret cultivation techniques collected by the Machine Race Immortal, he would no longer have to worry about lacking a proper inheritance even if he failed to obtain the Yunmo Star Ship's.

"The 'Basic 312 Forms for Mental Master Controllers' and the 'Basic 312 Forms for Warriors' are the basic inheritances best suited to me. They can improve mental power amplitude and a warrior's force amplitude. I'll use these two for my foundational cultivation from now on, then find other secret techniques once my amplitudes have increased."

Among the many cultivation inheritances, Li Xin quickly found the most fundamental secret cultivation techniques in the universe.

He had never practiced the universe's orthodox cultivation methods before. Naturally, to start with, he chose the most basic yet also the most effective methods.

"Open the door!"

However, now was not the time to cultivate. With a thought, a passage opened in the spaceship before him, where there had originally been no entrance.

Once Li Xin entered, the passage closed again, as though it had never existed.

This spaceship had already become his avatar. He knew everything within it as intimately as he knew his own body.

"An E9-class spaceship, fully intact, with ample energy. Its energy shield can withstand all physical attacks below the Immortal Level."

"The hull stands 1,200 meters tall, with two-thirds of it occupied by the propulsion system. Its instantaneous acceleration, evasive capabilities, and overall maneuverability rival those of an F-class spaceship."

"Its weapons systems are equipped with three Planet-Destroying Main Cannons and nine E3 Laser Cannons. A single shot from a Planet-Destroying Main Cannon can destroy a planet. Its firepower is maxed out."

"But its material is still a little lacking. Although it's an E9-class alloy, it falls far short of F-grade alloy. That can be a starting point for future upgrades."

All the spaceship's specifications, strengths, and weaknesses quickly surfaced in his mind. The highest grade of alloy humanity could manufacture was only E9-class.

Machine Race Immortals, however, could manufacture F-grade alloy. This was a talent unique to the Machine Race, though the F-grade alloy they produced could only be used on their own bodies.

They created F-grade alloy by using their bodies to fuse various pure F-class metals, so those F-grade alloys could not be used to manufacture anything else.

"There's a laboratory left behind by the Machine Race Immortal here. Its equipment is state of the art. I can use it to upgrade Eternal Divine Brain No. 1 and manufacture subsidiary furnaces for the Eternal Divine Furnace."

The moment he saw the laboratory, Li Xin's eyes lit up. This was like being handed a pillow just when he felt sleepy.

He immediately decided to keep Eternal Divine Brain No. 1 here for the long term. After all, it was no exaggeration to call this the safest place available.

"Hmm? There's also a Space Ring with 3,000 cubic meters of storage? It contains some miscellaneous items and a mid-grade, fourth-tier telekinetic weapon, the Starry Ring."

Aside from the laboratory, Li Xin also found a robot. Its internal programming had completely collapsed, but it wore a Space Ring on its hand.

Although this Space Ring had not been mentioned in the original story, perhaps Luo Feng had been so wealthy at the time that these few items were beneath his notice, so they had been left out.

"Next, I'll leave Earth for Mars. There's plenty of black iron ore there for me to use, and I can test out my newly acquired avatar along the way."

The spaceship's open doors closed, and its propulsion system powered up.

"Activate stealth and concealment mode. Destination: Mars!"

At Li Xin's mental command, his mechanical spaceship avatar swiftly rose from the deep waters of Bermuda, broke through the surface, and accelerated instantly in the air. In less than two seconds, it had already left Earth.

He had chosen Mars rather than heading straight out into the wider universe mainly because he felt he was still too weak. He had no intention of venturing into the universe so soon.

"So fast!"

Since the entire spaceship was his body, Li Xin could sense with perfect clarity just how fast he was now-fast, incredibly fast, fast to the extreme.

In just a few seconds, the spaceship had accelerated to nearly the speed of light.

"Earth is so beautiful!"

After leaving Earth, he looked back at it. The planet, mostly covered in blue, left him momentarily entranced.

Soon, however, Earth disappeared from his view. Traveling through the starry expanse, he reached Mars from Earth in just five minutes!

Earth:

"What's going on? No. 1 Ruins actually moved! It even flew away on its own! Could No. 1 Ruins be a spaceship?"

The powerful warriors stationed at No. 1 Ruins were utterly stunned when they discovered what had happened.

"Get the satellite footage, now! Find out what happened!"

Soon, every faction on Earth learned that No. 1 Ruins was suspected to be a spaceship and had suddenly flown away after someone took control of it.

Almost everyone was searching for information about the incident. They all wanted to know who had taken the spaceship.

Yet no matter how they investigated, even with satellite footage, they could not discover who had obtained it.