373: Chapter 373 Draining the High-Dimensional Origin Pool, Returning with a Full Load

The core ruins of the First Star Sector.

Lu Sheng stood on the ruins of the high tower, leaning over to look down.

The ground had been blasted into a bottomless pit by the previous battle, its walls covered in scorch marks and broken metal pipes.

At the bottom of the pit, an extremely dense five-colored light radiated.

Within the light was a pool of viscous liquid.

This liquid wasn't water, but High-Dimensional Origin Energy of the utmost purity. The Scavenger Alliance had plundered the Universe for hundreds of thousands of years, refining and compressing countless high-level life forms to save up this pool of assets. Out in the world, a single drop of this stuff could drive a low-dimensional planet into a frenzy.

Standing at the edge of this pit, Lu Sheng felt the spirit venerable nebula within his body cheer with joy just by taking a single breath; every pore opened up.

“Good stuff. Those old guys really knew how to save up their assets.”

Lu Sheng rubbed his hands together and, without a hint of hesitation, jumped straight down from the edge of the pit.

Plop.

His entire body plunged into the Origin pool.

The pool water was warm and as viscous as mercury, tightly wrapping around his body.

As soon as Lu Sheng entered, those High-Dimensional Origins were like sharks smelling blood, frantically drilling into his pores and desperately squeezing into his Meridians.

If an ordinary Cultivator dared to jump blindly into the Origin pool like this, they would be blown apart by this massive energy in half a second, leaving not even a fragment of bone behind.

But Lu Sheng was different.

He was a bottomless pit.

“heaven swallowing furnace, drink your fill! Today is an all-you-can-eat buffet!”

Lu Sheng sat cross-legged at the bottom of the pool and directly pushed the ancient desolate heaven swallowing furnace to its maximum power.

A death-gray phantom of a giant furnace expanded from his body, covering the entire Origin pool within it.

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle.

The pool water began to boil violently, giving off huge colored bubbles.

Massive energy poured into Lu Sheng's Dantian like a waterfall at a terrifying speed.

[Devouring Top-Grade High-Dimensional Origin Liquid.]

[spirit source reserves increasing frantically.]

[Physical Body strength undergoing continuous transformation.]

Lu Sheng closed his eyes comfortably.

This feeling of leveling up while soaking in an energy pool was simply too wonderful. No need for life-and-death battles; he could become stronger just by sitting here.

The spirit venerable nebula within him was expanding rapidly, and the prototype of the Small World at the center of the nebula was becoming clearer. The four Laws of wind, thunder, water, and fire intertwined within it, forming a unique System of rules.

Bones, muscles, and blood vessels were undergoing a qualitative transformation under the washing of this top-grade energy.

The black-gold Dragon scales became deeper in color, and even faint white rule-patterns appeared on the surface.

This was a sign that his Physical Body was beginning to transform into the 'elemental dao body' of the Spirit Saint Realm. Once the transformation was complete, he would truly step into the Spirit Saint Realm.

Time passed day by day.

Lu Sheng soaked at the bottom of the pool for a full half-month.

The water level of the Origin pool dropped at a speed visible to the naked eye, going from a full pool to a shallow layer.

Until the last drop of Origin liquid was sucked dry by the heaven swallowing furnace, not even the cracks between the bricks at the bottom were spared.

Lu Sheng slowly opened his eyes.

Two beams of materialized black light directly pierced through the crust of the First Star Sector, shooting into space and instantly vaporizing several passing meteorites.

He stood up.

At this moment, Lu Sheng's aura was restrained to the extreme.

There was no world-shaking pressure, nor any violent Law fluctuations.

He stood there like an ordinary person, with no spirit source fluctuations detectable from him.

But only he knew what terrifying power was hidden within this shell.

Peak Spirit Venerable Realm Great Perfection.

One foot had already stepped through the door of the Spirit Saint Realm.

As long as he wished, he could trigger the rules of heaven and earth at any time to condense his own Small World.

But he was in no hurry to achieve a Breakthrough.

He wanted to make his Foundation even more solid and wait for the right opportunity to break through in one go.

“This pool of water was quite thirst-quenching. Just a bit small in quantity.”

Lu Sheng brushed off non-existent dust from his clothes, leaped up, and jumped straight out of the large pit.

The entire First Star Sector had now completely turned into a silent ruin.

The Scavenger Alliance, a behemoth that had run rampant in the Universe for hundreds of thousands of years and terrified countless civilizations...

Had been eaten clean by Lu Sheng alone, with not even a hair left behind.

Lu Sheng stood on the ruins and gave a long stretch.

“Number Ten.”

He called out over the communication line.

Soon, that tattered battleship descended from space and came to a steady halt beside Lu Sheng.

Number Ten War Puppet walked off the ship and knelt on one knee.

“Master.”

Lu Sheng pointed to the boundless ruins around them.

“Although I've smashed this place up, those building Materials are all top-tier Starry Sky Alloys. Also, the remains of those guards, their weapons, and equipment—they can all be recycled and reused.”

“Have Luo Tianfei bring people over. Empty this place out for me. Don't leave a single screw behind. We have a big family and business now; we have to learn to be frugal.”

Lu Sheng was an absolute pragmatist.

Stocking up had to be thorough; eating everything up was his style.

“As you command.” Number Ten War Puppet immediately began contacting Earth.

Lu Sheng walked into the battleship's command room, sat on that tattered leather chair, and propped his legs up on the control console.

He was in a great mood now.

This trip out had not only stuffed his stomach but also completely eliminated the greatest threat. From now on, Earth was completely safe.

“Back to Earth.”

The battleship's engines started, emitting a low roar.

A jump tunnel opened, and the battleship plunged into it, disappearing from the skies above the ruins of the First Star Sector.

Earth.

Dengxian Island.

After receiving the communication from Number Ten War Puppet, Luo Tianfei immediately organized all the Cultivators on Earth.

Dao Yi and Li Xiaoyao took the lead.

Thousands of Cultivators set out grandly in all sorts of tattered spaceships, following the coordinates left by Lu Sheng to head to the First Star Sector as porters.

When they saw the tragic ruins of the First Star Sector...

Everyone was dumbfounded.

That was the headquarters of the Scavenger Alliance! The most terrifying place in the entire Universe!

It had been flattened just like that by their Lord? He had even scraped off a layer of the ground!

Dao Yi swallowed his saliva, his legs trembling as he looked at that bottomless pit.

“The Lord is no longer human... He's an ancient giant beast that devours the starry sky. We have to work harder from now on, so we don't get disliked by the Lord.”

Over the next few months...

Earth entered a period of frantic development.

With the massive resources and top-tier metal Materials from the Scavenger Alliance headquarters, Luo Tianfei upgraded Earth's entire defense System by dozens of grades. Now, even if a Peak Spirit Venerable Realm came, they wouldn't easily be able to fight their way in.

Dengxian Island was transformed into a true interstellar fortress.

Relying on the High-Dimensional Origin Crystals distributed by Lu Sheng, the Cultivators' cultivation also advanced by leaps and bounds.

Cultivators of the Spirit King Realm and Spirit Emperor Realm began to appear in batches.

Earth, once a low-dimensional wasteland, was evolving toward a high-dimensional civilization at a terrifying speed.

And the creator of all this, Lu Sheng...

Was currently lying in the deepest secret room of Dengxian Island, legs crossed, browsing through the star chart he had scavenged from the Old Ancestor's memory.

“Although the Scavenger Alliance is destroyed, there seems to be quite a bit of delicious food left in this Universe.”

Lu Sheng's gaze fell on a red mark in the deepest part of the star chart.

There, three words were written.

“Old God Abyss”.

Lu Sheng grinned and smiled.

“It looks like the location for the next meal is settled. I hope the dishes over there are chewier than these old bones.”