Mechanical Race Immortal Legacy!

After the War God Palace meeting ended, an invisible, silent storm began sweeping through Earth's upper ranks.

That short video was studied over and over, leading to a conclusion they found hardest to accept—there truly was a weapon capable of piercing the Black God Set!

It was a genuine Fast Blade hanging over every council member's head!

As the Fourth Chairman, Ister had impressed the might of a Psychic Master upon every martial artist's heart.

Yet even he could not pierce the Black God Set and could only rely on impact force to heavily injure his opponents.

Now, there was a Psychic Master whose cultivation rivaled—or even surpassed—Ister's, and he also held a sharp weapon capable of penetrating the Black God Set.

Without exaggeration, he could butcher nearly half of Earth's worthless council members like pigs!

From then on, their power would be restrained. They had to rein themselves in, lest they become the fire ignited by the implementation of new rules.

No matter how unwilling they were or what schemes they secretly harbored, no one dared act rashly.

The Jiang Family absolutely could not be provoked!

Besides the Two Great Martial Arts Academies, the HR Alliance, and the major foreign nations, another top-tier force had risen with brutal force.

In fact, if the Jiang Family wished, they could entirely establish Earth's third-largest martial arts academy. Countless martial artists and Psychic Masters would flock to the Jiang Family to join its school.

Even if the Jiang Family had no intention of expanding the Jiang Family Martial Hall, some council members and War Gods were already considering sending their descendants into the Jiang Family.

But... sending someone there to learn was nowhere near as fast as becoming one of the Jiang Family themselves.

The Jiang Family's third generation were all prime prospects. Marrying into the family, or marrying one of them, would save decades of detours.

This delighted Old Master Jiang immensely.

No Hanxia person could refuse the idea of "farming and developing."

My Jiang Family has too few descendants. The grandchildren of the third generation must work harder.

The Banner Mark between his brows emitted hazy mist that completely enveloped Jiang Zhe, making him look as though he were sitting in a pile of dry ice.

Strands of mist condensed into secret patterns that branded themselves onto his skin before merging into his body. As the patterns entered him, the structure of his Flesh and Blood quietly underwent subtle changes.

He was cultivating his "body."

Jiang Zhe had already undergone this process before and had reached 12% development, but there had been some flaws in the path he had taken.

They were all corrected and completed as these secret patterns merged into him!

From this moment onward, Jiang Zhe could truly call his own exertion Strength Amplification.

Strength Amplification, Body Amplification!

Psychic Power Amplitude, Soul Amplification!

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These were important mysteries that every cultivator in the universe, from the Planetary Level to the Venerable Level, pursued tirelessly.

1x! 2x!... 12x!

Because Jiang Zhe already had a foundation and the secret patterns merely corrected and completed his flaws, he soon perfectly achieved 12x Strength Amplification.

Even so, more than half of the mist transformed from the Essence of Source had been consumed.

He continued onward, reaching for the peak and struggling to push it to 13x...

As his body was transformed by the secret patterns, all kinds of exquisite applications of strength filled his mind, further improving his control over his body.

13%!

Once the percentage progress was complete, he would achieve Perfect Control over his body—100x Strength Amplification, one of the prerequisites for being Promoted to Immortal.

He continued. 14x!

At this point, the mist could no longer conceal Jiang Zhe's figure. As the secret patterns condensed, it gradually thinned until it became invisible.

In the end, it stopped at 14.2x!

Jiang Zhe opened his eyes and felt his utterly transformed body. At that moment, he truly wanted to laugh aloud, filled with the ease of a dragon breaking free from its golden shackles.

Wonderful!

Comfortable!

To put it crudely, it was like a constipated man finally being able to let everything out.

True 14x Strength Amplification—brute force, speed, defense... flawless in every aspect!

Jiang Zhe murmured inwardly, Does this mean I won't need to search for Power Emission Techniques or amplification manuals in the future? Can the Conqueror Talent Technique solve everything perfectly, directly consuming Essence of Source to transform my body and derive the amplification techniques best suited to me?

The previous process of "transforming the body" was not a one-time deal.

Jiang Zhe could completely compile the insights gained during the process into a secret manual. By practicing that manual step by step, one could achieve 14x Strength Amplification.

Oriana spoke through their mental connection. "Just as you expected, Master. However, in order to Maximize Interests, I still believe you need secret techniques, as they can reduce the consumption of Essence of Source."

"You must have noticed as well that there is a difference in both cultivation speed and difficulty between the first 12x amplification and the later 2.2x."

She even made a playful analogy. "It is like the difference between an assembly line and a handcraft workshop."

"Forgive my bluntness, but you possess exceptional comprehension. Essence of Source should not be spent on problems that can be solved through comprehension alone. It should be used in areas beyond the reach of comprehension."

Jiang Zhe nodded deeply in agreement.

He had just tested it. The Essence of Source retained the effects of the "light particles" and could combine with the mysterious substance fed back by visualizing the star map, becoming a force that advanced one's Genetic Level.

Overall, the Conqueror Technique condensed with the help of the Primal Universe was probably at the upper-middle tier.

Its primary purpose should be—breaking past the limits of 100x strength/psychic power amplification and entering the realm of Body/Soul Amplification.

Just like Cosmic Level Luo Feng, who directly pulled off a bug-like operation and achieved more than 3,000x Psychic Power Amplitude, equivalent to 30x Soul Amplification.

No matter what, the Conqueror Technique had opened the path toward the limits of universal amplification.

Jiang Zhe gathered his thoughts and asked, "Anna, we've arrived, right?"

"We arrived seventeen minutes ago. I did not disturb you and controlled the fighter to circle within several dozen kilometers of Mist Lake."

Oriana's tone carried a smile. "That Intelligent Life Form underground is about to die of impatience."

"We should advise it not to be so impatient. It'll be even more anxious later." Jiang Zhe teased, rising from the luxurious seat. "Anna, open the hatch. It's time to go down and harvest."

Click!

The hatch opened, and Jiang Zhe flew out atop the Sky-Escaping Shuttle.

The secret patterns on the shuttle's body caused the wind and waves to merge strangely together, forming a visible streamlined air shield around him that reduced the resistance he encountered in flight.

At an unbelievable speed, he flew straight toward the massive lake in the distance, shrouded in mist and spanning more than a hundred li.

"Anna, calculate my current flight speed."

"Master, your current speed has reached 1,687 meters per second."

Jiang Zhe revealed a satisfied expression. If he could further use a Micro-Planet to reduce his own gravity, he could definitely push his flight speed beyond 2,000 meters per second.

The journey of over thirty kilometers took less than half a minute. Jiang Zhe plunged directly into the mist, invading the airspace above the lake.

Though the lake was dangerous, a King Level Monster was the limit at this stage. Jiang Zhe was confident he could handle it.

As for the so-called first Emperor-Level Monster later killed by humanity, Barabata had created it by using Wood Essence Crystals to urge its growth in a short time, intending to lure humanity over for a second time.

If Jiang Zhe had not chosen to return to the Australian Continent just now, Barabata would probably have done something similar and completely exposed Wudao to humanity's sight.

Wherever Jiang Zhe passed, the lake below churned as violently as boiling water.

Sizzle!

Sizzle!

Thick blue bolts of lightning shot toward him.

The blue light illuminated the sky above the lake. Twisting electric serpents spread in all directions, weaving into an Electric Net that descended upon Jiang Zhe from all sides.

With Oriana and the Black God Set, Jiang Zhe remained unmoved.

The Sky-Escaping Shuttle beneath his feet fired dozens of thin blades. Like silver fish, they plunged beneath the lake's surface, and soon blood-red flowers blossomed under the water.

Jiang Zhe continued flying, controlling the throwing knives to plow through every stretch of water he passed.

Along the way, he provoked several massive creatures nearly a hundred meters long, their strength close to King Level. Every one of them had its skull pierced and Brain Tissue shredded by the flying knives.

One nearly hundred-meter-long flood dragon tempted Jiang Zhe somewhat, but when he thought of the nearly hundred Wood Spirits on the island, who would still care about Lord-Tier Dragon Blood?

After carving a bloody path, he forcefully landed on Lake Island.

It resembled a primeval forest, with thick towering trees and lush vegetation, yet the silence was eerily unnatural.

"Monsters surround the island outside, yet the island itself is abnormally quiet? Let's see what trick is hidden here!"

Jiang Zhe rode the Sky-Escaping Shuttle and brazenly entered the dense forest.

To be fair, he still had to put on a bit of an act. Otherwise, he might scare Barabata into not daring to come out.

After putting on a show and discovering the first Wood Spirit, Jiang Zhe completely dropped the pretense and began harvesting atop the Sky-Escaping Shuttle.

At this stage, there were eighty-two Wood Spirits growing on the island. Jiang Zhe only selected thirty of them.

Take the nine willow trees growing together, for example. Jiang Zhe only took one ten-thousand-year Willow Heart and three thousand-year Willow Hearts.

Wood Spirits could only be used up to the peak of Greater War God. The Jiang Family had fewer than twenty people in total who could use such things, so there was no need to sweep away all eighty-plus plants.

"So many Wood Spirits can grow on this island. There must be something unusual about the environment here. Perhaps there is an ancient civilization relic below, concealing the true treasure!"

"..." Oriana cautiously asked, "Master, shall I help you block the influence of the psychic waves?"

"Haha, this sudden strange thought of mine is indeed interesting." Jiang Zhe chuckled inwardly. "No need. Let it do as it wishes."

Four throwing knives broke through the soil, and Jiang Zhe followed them underground. Following the thought that had just arisen, he released his Psychic Power and began searching below.

Two to three thousand meters underground, Jiang Zhe traveled through an underground river, following a fragrance of rice as he picked up a white crystal that aquatic monsters were fighting to devour.

Drawn by both the psychic waves and the Wood Essence Crystal, Jiang Zhe gradually descended deeper underground.

6,000 meters!

8,000 meters!

15,000 meters!

"Go this way."

As though on a whim, another strange thought arose in his mind.

Jiang Zhe followed its prompting, smashing through a boulder and vaguely glimpsing the outline of metal. He hurriedly used Psychic Power to push aside the surrounding rocks, opening a passage.

At its end stood a half-closed "door" resembling the hatch of an intelligent fighter.

Jiang Zhe approached and saw a pile of white crystals on the floor of the entrance passage beyond the hatch. A delighted expression appeared on his face as he placed each Wood Essence Crystal into the backpack behind him.

The "greed" in his heart drove him into the starship.

A Brass Core quietly appeared on his chest, like a breastplate mirror set into armor. The eye-like gemstone embedded in it emitted a hazy red glow.

It seemed to be illuminating the surroundings, but the scattered red light strangely merged seamlessly with the starship's metal.

"Master, in eighty-seven seconds, I will seize control of the starship, alter its internal programs, and obtain first-priority authority."

"The Sub-core I left within it is expected to fully analyze the technology contained in this Class F Starship in 248 hours."

Jiang Zhe continued deeper into the starship without changing expression. He saw a huge fist mark on the corridor wall and an enormous corpse leaning against the passage...

Its blood-red eyes were wide open in fury. It wore Armor containing secret patterns, and special gloves covered both fists.

Jiang Zhe rubbed his chin, unaffected by the residual might of the corpse as he thought inwardly—

These are weapons and equipment used by an Immortal Expert. Even if they are ordinary goods, they should be priced in Hunyuan Units, right?

An Impoverished Immortal has assets of around 1,000 Hunyuan Units, while Huyan Bo had more than three million in savings... His Immortal slaves' equipment should have a total value of at least nearly ten thousand Hunyuan Units, shouldn't it?

Soul Enslavement servants are the most loyal. It would be impossible to let them go into battle wearing "tattered rags."

But how to sell what I strip off them is an extremely, extremely, extremely troublesome problem...

When I need money, I don't dare sell them. Once I dare sell them, I won't care about this tiny amount anymore. What a vicious cycle!

"Master, hurry up. Stop thinking about making money," Oriana reminded him.

Jiang Zhe came back to his senses, bypassed the tall corpse, and followed the widest passage forward until he finally saw a towering doorway.

Beyond it was a magnificent super-large semicircular hall, two hundred meters in both length and width, with six conspicuous corpses laid out inside.

"Anna, I promised you a Mechanical Race Corpse. Come take a look."

Communicating mentally, Jiang Zhe walked directly toward the purple-bronze Metallic Lifeform over five meters tall, letting the red light emitted by the Brass Core on his chest fall upon the corpse.

"Ding!"

A prompt sounded, and lights lit up in the dim hall.

An unusual radiance shone down from above, converging at the center of the hall to form a black virtual figure.

Demon Barabata had appeared!

Barabata spoke with a wistful tone, telling him about the universe and the past... then led him to pay respects to its master, Huyan Bo.

After the worship, it continued speaking of the vastness of the universe, Huyan Bo's strength, Earth's insignificance... and what an enormous opportunity it was for him to encounter Barabata, before threatening him with his life to make him take a master.

Jiang Zhe did not say a word. He accepted Huyan Bo as his master and kowtowed!

Barabata was very satisfied. "Jiang Zhe, Master is dead and cannot teach you personally, so—"

Its voice abruptly stopped.

Barabata seemed to have been struck by a freezing spell. Its one-meter-forty-five body was immobilized in midair, its astonished expression frozen as it stared in disbelief at Jiang Zhe, who was kneeling on the ground.

The crystal coffin suddenly began sinking slowly. Moments later, it sank underground, and the starship's floor closed over it.

Only then did Jiang Zhe climb to his feet. "I've kowtowed and accepted a master. I am now a member of the Yunmo Star Lineage, but as for what comes next, let this 'Young Star Lord' decide for himself."

"Anna, come out and greet our friend."

A brass sphere flew out from Jiang Zhe's chest. A virtual figure woven from light solidified into a Brass Lady Doll.

"Mr. Barabata, it is a pleasure to meet you. Please guide me in the future!" Oriana gave an elegant bow and softly informed him, "I will guide Master on your behalf."

This was... the Mechanical Race!

Barabata's connection to the starship had been severed, leaving it with only the ability to think. It screamed hysterically inwardly.

"Not the Mechanical Race. I am an affiliated machine or Metallic Lifeform. My purpose is to carry out the will of my master, Jiang Zhe!" Oriana learned what Barabata was thinking and corrected it.

"Barabata."

Under the fiery gaze of the "little Demon," Jiang Zhe spoke.

"First, I will always be a member of Yunmo Star. I will abide by all Yunmo Star regulations and never reveal the Yunmo Star Secret Technique to outsiders."

"If I survive in the future and have the chance to become a King Immortal, I will exhaust every means to kill Demon Hand King and repay Yunmo Star for aiding me in my humble beginnings."

At that point, Jiang Zhe suddenly fell silent, ending awkwardly before turning to walk toward the outer hall.

The remaining words were actually relayed silently to Barabata by Oriana through their mental connection.

"Second, my master has another inheritance. We merely lack its most fundamental part, and now we are using the inheritance of your Yunmo Star Lineage to complete it. Your Yunmo Star's core Legacy Soul Imprint should not be wasted on my master."

"In the future, my master guarantees that he will find you a Psychic Master with a Brain Domain Capacity above 20 to bear that Legacy Soul Imprint and continue the Yunmo Star Lineage."

This was what Jiang Zhe had asked Oriana to convey.

The rest were instructions for Oriana to carry out.

"Mr. Barabata, next, I will copy your Yunmo Star Secret Technique, then take the World Ring you treasure from that Mechanical Race Immortal, 100 Wood Essence Crystals, 100 Ganwu Coins, and temporarily borrow the Third-Rank Psychic Weapon, the Arc Blade Disc."

"These are all things my master requires."

"Leave the rest for the future core successor of our Yunmo Star Lineage. My master promises to find one for you within fifty years."

After saying that, Oriana began taking the items she had just requested.

Jiang Zhe stood before the Mechanical Race Immortal Corpse in the hall. After waiting three to five minutes, Oriana finally caught up and joined him.

"Where's Barabata?"

"He went back to sulk."

Jiang Zhe shook his head and smiled helplessly. "I really have wronged him, but this is the best way to handle things. We aren't suited to be partners."

It seemed as though he was saying it to Oriana, but he was actually explaining it to Barabata, who was hiding aboard the ship.

Then Jiang Zhe asked about the important matter. "The Mechanical Race's treasure is indeed with Barabata, right?"

"It is. It's a World Bracelet."

The corners of Jiang Zhe's lips curved upward.

A World Master might not have a World Ring. They might be too lazy to make one, and since they had an Inner World, storing things there was safer.

But it was impossible for an Immortal Expert not to have one.

Their Inner Worlds became divine kingdoms. Did that mean they had to teleport back to their divine kingdoms every time they wanted to retrieve an everyday item?

As for Huyan Bo's few Immortal slaves, one could say they had no rights at all, and their World Rings had been confiscated.

But the Mechanical Race Immortal that had come in pursuit definitely had a World Ring. Otherwise, what would it use to store its puppets?

A Mechanical Race expert's combat strength rested entirely on their ships and the Puppet Legions inside their World Rings!

Did the intelligent AI of this violet-gold Immortal get a virus or something? How had it dared to enter Huyan Bo's ship alone, abandoning its own ship and not even letting its Puppet Legion lead the way?

Oriana reminded him, "Master, although the Mechanical Race Immortal is dead, its Life Imprint still remains on the bracelet. At our current stage, we have no way to deal with it."

Jiang Zhe nodded. "I know, but take it first. Once we can erase the Life Imprint in the future, the things inside will be of considerable benefit to you."

Oriana gave a light bow in thanks and presented him with a bracelet and a ring. "Master, there was an unexpected gain this time as well. It had quite a few spatial rings."

Jiang Zhe raised an eyebrow. He took the dark-blue metal ring and put it on, then sent his Psychic Power into it and left behind a Spiritual Imprint. He immediately sensed the vast, empty space within.

Using Earth's units of measurement, it was roughly 412 meters long, 238 meters wide, and 121 meters high.

Oriana had probably not taken the largest one, but this ring was already sufficient for him.

After putting away the Mechanical Race Corpse, master and servant left the Yunmo Starship.

Note 1: This is from Tomato's original text. I'll post two images later. Exertion means Strength Amplification, yet people keep saying it isn't.