288: Promotion! The timing is right for me!

Gong Li confirmed it immediately.

The trust between the two was constantly increasing.

Once they were out, they would take the heavens will oath.

The two of them now had a foundation for greater trust.

After all.

Ye Su had already revealed his cards to him, hadn't he?

Calamity Mercenary Group.

So that was it.

The Calamity Mercenary Group liked to cultivate geniuses within Mutated Planets for their own use.

Ye Su, who lacked common knowledge, fit this condition perfectly.

Coupled with the never-shared Calamity Power.

Was there any other possibility?

Since Ye Su had already been open and honest.

Then he had to show some real stuff too.

Hey.

Don't look down on my Tiangong Clan!

Even if we aren't that highly regarded, we still have our own unique skills!

"Vital Energy Locker!"

Gong Li pulled out something resembling glasses from his spatial bag.

Then, he surged his vital energy.

Instantly.

The vital energy of over 130,000 Ascenders was locked on.

For a more direct perception, he even added health bars—"Filter for Ghost Clan and Star Spirit Clan!"

Suddenly.

The 130,000 Ascenders decreased by more than 90%.

Only a little over ten thousand people remained.

Then filtering for the exceptionally strong ones.

With that.

Only a little over 3,000 people were left!

Nearly two thousand from the Ghost Clan, and over a thousand from the Star Spirit Clan.

"Basically locked on!"

"Found... found an unlucky fellow."

"Let's go!"

The battlefield at this moment had reached an unimaginable level of chaos.

But Gong Li led Ye Su through many twists and turns.

Passing through the weakest group of people.

Immediately after, he locked onto a Star Spirit Clan member ahead.

"I'm retrieving his data."

Gong Li began to spend money.

At least, he felt this money was well spent!

"An extremely ordinary Star Spirit Clan member; no particularly powerful background detected."

"spirit net information is transparent; that's roughly his background."

"Hmm... I'm starting to retrieve the members of his Bloodline for the past five generations—"

"OK, he's trash, we can strike!"

He turned his head to look at Ye Su.

Ye Su was completely dumbfounded.

Wait.

Is this how you use Universe Big Data?

Is there no privacy at all!

"You can even play it like this? Try retrieving mine."

"I tried that long ago. You have no Universe data. Either you're transparent, or your background is extremely special. Otherwise, why would I seek you out for cooperation?"

"Impressive!"

There are no fools in the Universe.

The fools are all dead.

Ye Su stopped dwelling on it.

"Prepare to strike!"

The two of them crept over sinisterly.

Before the Star Spirit Clan member could react, his head was chopped off unknowingly.

Then the two of them and the corpse descended rapidly, hiding among the Ruined World natives, where Ye Su extracted his star spirit.

Heaven Extraction Art...

You Star Spirit Clan members are really ruthless.

Besides extracting heavens will, this thing can even extract the star spirits of the Star Spirit Clan.

It seems the Star Spirit Clan internally adheres to the principle of no waste.

If someone is executed.

Both the heavens will and the star spirit are extracted.

"Got it, let's change locations."

"No problem."

Gong Li began to search for members of the Ghost Clan.

However, searching for the Ghost Clan required more time.

Because the Ghost Clan was numerous, and there was less recorded personal information.

To find clues within a massive amount of information, even the spirit net would lag a bit.

Taking advantage of this time.

Ye Su began to feed the star spirit to his equipment.

Star spirit.

It was the core of the Star Spirit Clan.

It was said that the Star Spirit Clan was birthed from within planets.

They were born with Innate Spirit.

And this Innate Spirit was the key to giving dead objects vitality and even generating consciousness.

Doesn't the birth of the Star Spirit Clan seem very similar to the planetary will?

Some speculated.

The reason planetary wills cannot generate consciousness is that for every planet, at the moment of its birth, its consciousness has already slipped away. This consciousness is the origin of today's Star Spirit Clan.

The remaining planets, naturally, can no longer give birth to consciousness.

Leaving behind only an unconscious shell that acts on instinct!

A terrifying speculation.

The ashes of the person who came up with this speculation were scattered by the Star Spirit Clan.

However, this viewpoint was passed down.

equipment absorbs star spirits for a trace of vitality, allowing it to give birth to some form of consciousness.

Just like the artifact spirit of a Magic Treasure.

Soon.

The Heaven-Devouring Equipment completely devoured the star spirit.

"This... an embryo!"

"The equipment really is going to come to life!"

Ye Su was shocked.

The Universe is really interesting; one can see new things every day.

Under this mode of cultivation, the equipment would indeed undergo a massive transformation.

"Now, I still need a soul spirit!"

"How is it? Have you found a target?"

Ye Su asked.

The battlefield was very chaotic.

All sorts of attacks were flying around—various Secret Arts, Secret Techniques, secret methods, and so on...

The fluctuations caused were too great.

It was fine for Ye Su to keep his eyes on one person.

But to pay attention to the entire battlefield and lock onto someone at any time...

That was very difficult.

He had to rely on the abilities of tools.

That was why he told Gong Li about the cataclysm.

Of course, the Calamity Mercenary Group could serve as a perfect cover.

If after going out, Gong Li was unwilling to take the heavens will oath with Ye Su, Ye Su could also throw mud at the Calamity Mercenary Group.

In the worst-case scenario.

He could just muddle through with a mercenary title from the Calamity Mercenary Group.

It wasn't a big problem.

His spirit net information was blank; even if they chased him to the death, they could only trace him back to the Mutated Planet.

Have ideas?

Go talk to the Ghost Clan.

Under the four stars aligned, the Ghost Clan would fight whoever came!

As for after the mutation.

We'll worry about that when the time comes.

"Found a target,"

Gong Li said.

"Hurry!"

"Someone is already preparing to open a Light Array!"

The two moved quickly.

In the chaotic battle situation, everyone was fighting for the gaze of timing; they wouldn't just randomly pick someone to kill.

So by defending and dodging, the two could still smoothly reach their target's side.

Suddenly.

A pillar of light soared into the sky.

But it was quickly extinguished.

One was invincible within the light pillar, but unfortunately, the people from the Calamity Mercenary Group knew how to turn it off!

"I knew it wouldn't be that simple!"

Ye Su muttered.

At the same time, Heavens Will Strike was already prepared.

Taking advantage of the Ghost Clan member being distracted by the light pillar.

He slashed down fiercely.

Killing him instantly.

Repeating the same trick.

The two hid among the Ruined World natives below, and Ye Su again used the Heaven Extraction Art to extract the soul spirit.

He fed it to the equipment immediately.

Crunch.

With the equipment's first bite of the soul spirit.

A special fluctuation spread out directly.

Traits.

Began to radiate unconsciously.

This was an unavoidable situation during the rank-up process of equipment.

"Trait radiation! Ye Su, your equipment is a special rare equipment!"

Gong Li almost shouted, cold sweat instantly breaking out on his forehead.

"Holy crap!"

"Look above your head!"

Ye Su looked up.

Sure enough, a huge vortex had appeared above Ye Su's head.

Dense and terrifying timing was gathering frantically above him.

The promotion of a special trait equipment.

Actually attracted timing in this instant.

At this moment.

Ye Su.

timing is on my side!