79: Chapter 79 I'm Super

The defense tournament was in five days.

Gu Han calculated the time in his mind; five days in reality was more than enough for the Ant-men army to undergo a complete overhaul.

Disconnecting from the software, Gu Han returned directly to the Divine Kingdom.

Those few captured Tier 3 snipers had been fed some Ice Toad poison and were currently hog-tied by vines, wriggling on the lawn.

Now that he had Level 4 Sapiens, there was no point in keeping these guys.

Gu Han discovered that the "Abyss Arena" software also connected to a black market, so he decided to list these Tier 3 Sapiens with special professional skills to see what happened.

Snipers with firearms experience were quite valuable; within ten minutes, a buyer quickly approached him—it was actually [Peak Sharpness].

With ten million suddenly appearing in his account from this wave, Gu Han was in a great mood; war really was a quick way to make money.

Black market matches were great; he had to participate in more of them. If he had the chance in the future, he should capture more, then sell them back; the original Divine Lords would pay an even higher price.

After dealing with the Tier 3 Sapiens, Gu Han's attention fell upon the two male Level 4 Sapiens.

He directly pulled up the [Forced Breeding] panel.

He selected the two male Level 4 Sapiens and arranged for them to intermarry with the female War-Gods of the various Ant-men clans.

What followed was a long cultivation period.

When Ant-men combined with transcendent male Sapiens again, those advantageous traits were prone to degradation, and the Sapiens genes would dominate; the new generation of Ant-men would resemble Sapiens more.

Gu Han already had experience with this; he would continue to combine the new generation with the original Ant-men, iterating constantly until he forcibly regained the original advantageous traits.

Until the new generation of Ant-men roughly restored their original appearance suitable for battle.

This wave of iteration significantly increased their physical constitution; the excellent genes of the Level 4 Believer allowed for a significant boost in movement sensitivity, and they even inherited more of the Sapiens' intelligence, leading to a qualitative improvement in battle formation coordination.

The latest experimental low-spec version of the battle-mark grass had also been successfully cultivated. This battle-mark grass only needed ten years of Divine Kingdom time to mature, which converted to just one day in reality.

This meant that the battle-mark grass could be put into mass use, and all Ant-men would possess battle-marks.

Only the most core ace squads of Ant-fist Shrimp-men and the heavy-armored Shield-Armored Ant-Men would be allocated the original, more effective substitute version of the battle-mark grass.

During this five-day preparation period, Gu Han was confident that he could raise the overall strength of the Ant-man Race by several levels.

If he were to face that group of Tier 4 Archers from [Peak Sharpness] again, or that mass-weakening ability from [Tyrannosaurus Warrior], even if the opponent was prepared, the Ant-men army would absolutely win with a crushing posture.

This elimination tournament allowed him to see things he could never learn from books.

All sorts of bizarre Divine Lord skills, diverse and ingenious sentient races, and the sense of oppression brought by those terrain kills.

It felt like his horizons had been completely broadened.

No matter what fancy skills the opponent used or what strange races they had, he would break them all with his Ant-fist.

The feeling of watching the race he had painstakingly researched challenge opponents above their level and slaughter everyone was just incredibly satisfying.

Now, it was time to solve the most core problem.

A purple crystal appeared in Gu Han's palm.

This was the transcendent crystal he had traded from [Peak Sharpness].

Gu Han decided to find an Ant-man to test the waters.

With a thought, he summoned a War-Marked Ant-Fist Shrimp-Men to his side.

"Absorb it."

Gu Han tossed the purple transcendent crystal down.

The transcendent crystal was originally extremely hard, like a gemstone. The Ant-Fist Shrimp-Man rotated its compound eyes to observe it carefully; it had no idea what the Divine Lord intended.

But after the Ant-Fist Shrimp-Man had been in contact with it for a while, a strange change occurred.

The hard surface of the crystal suddenly softened, becoming as bouncy as jelly.

Immediately after, the crystal melted rapidly in the Shrimp-man's hand, sublimating into a ball of blue-purple light mist.

The light mist frantically burrowed into the body through the gaps in the Shrimp-man's carapace.

In that instant, Gu Han clearly felt that something was wrong.

It wasn't that the Shrimp-man was wrong, but the entire Divine Kingdom was wrong.

An extremely eerie sense of weightlessness washed over him; Gu Han felt as if the entire Divine Kingdom was tilting crazily in the direction of this Ant-Fist Shrimp-Man.

At the location of the Divine Kingdom Core, that massive core tree began to shake violently, its branches and leaves rustling loudly.

The Ant-Fist Shrimp-Man was completely enveloped by the blue-purple light; its size did not increase, but the aura it radiated was climbing steadily.

Violent power rampaged through its body; the light gradually dissipated, and the light mist drifted away in wisps.

The Shrimp-man stood blankly in place, with only an extra layer of blue-purple patterns on its carapace.

Gu Han immediately opened the smart assistant to check.

No level!

The transcendent aura radiating from this Shrimp-man was definitely not weaker than the Tier 2 Believers he had encountered before, and was even a few points stronger. However, the panel simply did not display its transcendence level.

It was still unranked.

"What's going on?"

Gu Han was somewhat puzzled.

Could it be that this Ant-Fist Shrimp-Man's constitution was too strong and its foundation too thick, so the energy of one transcendent crystal was not enough to help it break through that barrier?

transcendent crystals were extremely precious, and they were priceless on the market.

But if they couldn't be used to create transcendent life, they were just useless stones.

Gu Han looked at the remaining three transcendent crystals in his hand and gritted his teeth.

"Keep consuming!"

He threw the remaining three transcendent crystals down all at once.

The Ant-Fist Shrimp-Man caught them all and swallowed all three jelly-like transcendent crystals.

The blue-purple light mist erupted instantly, more than ten times more intense than before!

The entire Divine Kingdom ground began to tremble.

This time, the sense of anomaly was intense to the extreme.

The Divine Kingdom Core tree emitted a deafening roar; the massive trunk actually began to twist and collapse into blocks, eventually gradually crystallizing.

The light on the Ant-Fist Shrimp-Man shot straight into the sky, and its aura skyrocketed.

Surpassing Tier 3 Believers!

Comparable to Level 4 Believers!

The violent transcendent aura even forced the other surrounding Ant-men to retreat repeatedly.

But Gu Han stared fixedly at the panel, his eyes almost aching from staring.

Still no level!

No level meant it couldn't climb upwards.

Just then, the Divine Kingdom Core completely finished its transformation.

The originally vibrant core tree had disappeared, replaced by a massive crystal floating in mid-air.

This crystal emitted a light so dazzling that it illuminated the entire Divine Kingdom.

The temperature began to rise sharply.

The entire Divine Kingdom was lit as bright as day by this crystal.

Gu Han squinted against the intense light, watching the massive luminous body in mid-air, which resembled a scorching sun, finally sink slowly into the ground.

Then he looked at the Shrimp-man in front of him, whose aura was ridiculously strong but still had no level.

He felt a fit of frustration and couldn't help but curse out loud.

"Holy crap! I dumped four whole transcendent crystals into you, and you didn't give me a level up, you just planted a sun in my Divine Kingdom?!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the light of the Divine Kingdom Core extinguished, and instead, it suddenly pulsed once.

A visible circular shockwave spread out from inside the crystal, instantly sweeping across the entire Divine Kingdom, and the Divine Kingdom trembled violently again.

Gu Han clearly felt the boundaries of the world expanding.

This was the symbol of a believer entering transcendence!

Then a thin ray of light descended from the sky.