271: What we want is efficiency

After enjoying a pleasant post-war holiday at home, Yang Dian once again embarked on a journey to collect rare treasures.

However, compared to his previous treasure-hunting trips in Norway and Finland, which relied entirely on the four hooves of a Moose, this time Yang Dian chose to mobilize six aerospace fighters to shuttle him around 24 hours a day.

Time was tight, and the mission was critical.

No one knew when the next dimensional invasion would erupt.

Therefore, Yang Dian, who believed he carried the hopes of all humankind, naturally began to intensify his pursuit of heaven and earth treasures.

Transported by aerospace fighters at 15 times the speed of sound, Yang Dian began to collect rare treasures at a rate of one heaven and earth treasure every three minutes.

One item every 3 minutes, 20 items per hour, and 480 items in a 24-hour continuous cycle.

After half a month of continuous work, Yang Dian had collected a total of 7,237 heaven and earth treasures.

Over 80% of these rare treasures came from oceans and lakes, with less than 20% obtained from land.

Of course, not all rare treasures on Earth were taken by him alone.

In addition to these more than 7,000 rare treasures, there were still many rare treasures on Earth.

For example, hundreds of rare treasures were still buried under the polar glaciers and in deep-sea trenches.

There were also about a hundred rare treasures in the country that had not yet been collected.

And under famous mountains and great rivers, there were also many rare treasures similar to earth core milk.

However, for Yang Dian, these rare treasures were either too troublesome to excavate, too time-consuming to collect, or were simply Opportunities left for the Citizens.

So he did not collect all of them.

All in all, he would first digest the existing rare treasures.

If there was still an energy deficit after that, he would then take the time to look for more rare treasures.

Anyway, all the easy-to-obtain rare treasures abroad had been taken by him, and no one else had the ability to get the remaining ones.

“A total of 7,237 rare treasures, each calculated at 500 energy, is expected to yield over 3.6 million energy.”

What kind of concept was this?

“It seems it's only enough for me to cultivate the fifth trait of Grass Tread Flight and Heaven and Man Unity Skill?”

As soon as he returned home, Yang Dian, holding the Little Black Cat, did a quick calculation and immediately felt a toothache.

It felt a bit exaggerated.

This was even after his Physique had been sublimated.

If his Physique had not been sublimated, just the fifth trait of Heaven and Man Unity Skill would consume 20 million energy.

Calculating one rare treasure for every 10,000 square kilometers of land.

Even if he consumed all the rare treasures on the entire Earth, it would barely be enough to activate the fifth trait of Heaven and Man Unity Skill.

“Fortunately, I still have Dudu~”

Muttering to himself, Yang Dian calculated the energy required to sublimate his Physique and started scratching his head again.

Sublimating his Physique was also becoming increasingly difficult.

Last time, doubling his Physique consumed 200,000 energy.

This time, to double his basic Physique again, it would require 1 million energy.

“Then how much will it be next time? Five million? Ten million?”

“Can the Earth still yield that much energy?”

Yang Dian thought it was probably possible.

The Earth's pulse could store a lot of earth core milk every year.

As long as he took control of all the Earth's pulse, hoarded resources like a squirrel for a few years, and collected all the newly born rare treasures on Earth, this amount of resources could definitely be gathered.

But what about next time, and the time after that?

How many years would he have to hoard to get enough resources?

So he still had to attack the Alien Planet.

Preferably, he could directly reach the planet's core and consume it.

“So, when are you little thing coming out?”

Yang Dian took out the unknown creature's egg and squeezed it.

Three days ago, the unknown creature's egg had already digested the golden threads until only a tiny bit remained.

But it stubbornly refused to completely digest the remaining golden threads and hatch.

Instead, it turned to digest the silver threads.

Fortunately, the silver threads were digested relatively quickly.

It was estimated that it would be completely consumed in another three to five days.

“You little thing, don't give me any more trouble.”

The Little Black Cat meowed a few times at the unknown creature's egg, then looked at Yang Dian:

“Human, the egg didn't speak.”

Yang Dian chuckled, rubbed the Little Black Cat, then took out a rare treasure and scraped some powder for it.

Amidst the Little Black Cat's happy purrs, he tossed the rest of the rare treasure into his mouth.

'Over seven thousand rare treasures, I wonder how long it will take to digest them...'

Two more days passed.

The unknown creature's egg still hadn't hatched.

There was still a lot of time before the Bodhi Tree on the China-India border would bear fruit.

Digesting rare treasures, reading Daoist scriptures and Martial Arts Secret Manuals at home every day, a bored Yang Dian went to the Special Administration Bureau.

After discovering that the Special Administration Bureau was operating well without him, he wandered to Fuda University.

After playing with the long-unseen Little Orca for a while, Yang Dian used his influence to enter the Research Institute and found Professor Shen Fei, who was examining a Mutated Cockroach.

“Professor, still researching cockroaches?”

Hearing the movement, Professor Shen Fei turned to look at Yang Dian:

“Just checking the growth data.”

“Specific research is handled by specialists; I'm just checking if there are any problems with the Mutated Cockroach.”

After answering Yang Dian's question, Professor Shen Fei carefully examined the growth data again.

Once he confirmed everything was in order, he looked at Yang Dian again:

“Why do you have time to come to school today?”

Yang Dian stretched:

“My strength is in a period of accumulation; it will take several months of accumulation this time to achieve a major Breakthrough.”

“I had nothing to do, so I came to school to wander around.”

Professor Shen Fei raised an eyebrow:

“Accumulate for a few months, and then achieve a major Breakthrough?”

“After the Breakthrough, will your strength be comparable to the Lizardman God?”

Yang Dian thought for a moment, then nodded:

“Probably, right?”

“But I haven't directly fought him, so I'm not very sure.”

Professor Shen Fei became interested:

“Can you also be like the Lizardman God, not dying even if your head is vaporized?”

Yang Dian felt a bit awkward:

“That should not be possible.”

“I'm still quite a distance away from Rebirth from severed limbs.”

Thinking of the Lizardman God's almost immortal ability, Yang Dian frowned again:

“Professor, you've studied the Lizardman God, haven't you?”

“Is the Lizardman God's nearly immortal ability his innate talent, or an ability naturally acquired after his strength reached that level?”

After his strength increased, Yang Dian realized that the Lizardman God was not so invincible.

Perhaps soon, he would be able to fight the Lizardman God one-on-one.

But to achieve what the Lizardman God did—maintaining life activity even without a head, possessing Divine Thought, and constantly recovering—seemed very difficult for him.

“It is an ability unique to the Lizardmen race.”

Professor Shen Fei took out his phone and sent a data file to Yang Dian:

“The Lizardmen's gene sequence has a 25% similarity with lizards on Earth.”

“Even the most ordinary Four-Armed Lizardmen, as long as they are not parasitized by the thalamus core, can achieve tail Rebirth.”

“Six-Armed Lizardmen can achieve finger Rebirth.”

“Eight-Armed Lizardmen can achieve limb Rebirth.”

“The Ten-Armed Lizardman was killed by Dao Ba, so the extent of his self-healing ability is unknown.”

“You have personally seen the Twelve-Armed Lizardman God; he can activate his body's regenerative cells and gradually recover from injuries even without a head.”

At this point, Professor Shen Fei, who had walked out of the underground laboratory with Yang Dian and changed into casual clothes, added:

“By the way, you haven't forgotten your identity as a student, have you?”

Yang Dian had just nodded when he heard Professor Shen Fei speak again:

“Good that you remember.”

“I have a biology class later; you're coming with me.”

Yang Dian was dumbfounded.

He, the Interstellar Pioneer, Martial Arts Grandmaster, the strongest creature on Earth's surface, the subjugator of the underground overlords, Deputy Director of the Fuzhou Paranormal Management Bureau, going to class?

He didn't even know what a university textbook looked like!

'But then again...'

'It seems I should indeed study biology to prepare for replicating the abilities of other Awakened in the future...'