287: Chapter 287 Bad luck or someone sabotaging it? A god-level star core comparable to a nine-star level!

Under Drew's reckless cultivation, Professionals with planet-level strength were appearing one after another.

With Catherine leading the team and the outflow of a large number of experience orbs, level 99 third job change was no longer the end for Water Blue Planet Professionals.

It was merely a milestone—a mark of being able to enter Lord Drew's key cultivation sequence.

Yes.

Even though many Professionals who reached Ninth-stage Planet Level failed their Breakthrough to the Transcendence Realm, both openly and covertly, having such an opportunity remained the dream of countless Professionals.

They had no chance to come into contact with extraterrestrial visitors like Blood Shadow, so Drew was the god in their hearts.

Therefore, even though Drew had declared that there was only a very small chance of successfully breaking through to the Transcendence Realm, and that there was a risk of death upon failure...

...once they reached planet-level strength and saw the bizarre monsters in the corresponding Dungeons, and learned that the Transcendence Realm existed beyond the planet-level, the temptation to roam the Universe was simply yearning-inducing.

After Blood Shadow brought out hundreds of divine substances, Divine-Grade classes were no longer rare.

Almost any Professional who could absorb two portions of divine substances, find a decent team, farm a few times to get the Heavenly Dao reward, and buy some passive skills to increase their attributes...

...would have at least 20,000 total attributes by the time they reached level 99 third job change.

After continuing to level 199, with a 5% increase in destructive power per level, they could basically reach 26,000 points of destructive power, just enough to reach the threshold of Ninth-stage Planet Level to attempt a Breakthrough to the Transcendence Realm.

Especially when Drew discovered that the few potential seeds he had carefully cultivated, after learning a large number of passive skills and raising their total attributes to nearly 50,000 points, were almost at the limit of what a Professional could reach, lacking only the star core fragment.

They could be called absolute heaven-favored children.

At level 180, they could reach the strength of Ninth-stage Planet Level.

After reaching level 199, they possessed over 65,000 points of destructive power—a full twice the destructive power of an ordinary Ninth-stage Planet Level.

But even with such foundations, they still failed.

And it was not just one or two.

After several months of cultivation, there were a dozen such seedlings, but not a single one could succeed.

Fortunately, compared to ordinary Ninth-stage Planet Level individuals, the damage to their bodies after failing was not significant.

Bringing them together to Blood Shadow to cast a group Star Art could heal them.

Although the people were fine, the star core consumed in the failed Breakthrough was gone completely.

Even with over 20 teams farming Materials day and night in the three public planet-level Dungeons, and occasionally exchanging for complete synthesis vouchers and one-star star cores from Wang Fei, the continuous failures made Drew lose confidence.

After Catherine failed her third Breakthrough under his careful supervision, Drew went to find Blood Shadow, dejected.

"Lord, can the Professionals of our planet really break through to the Transcendence Realm?"

His question made even Blood Shadow lose confidence.

He began to feel uneasy.

This should not be happening.

The expendable resources with ordinary strength were one thing, but those people with over 60,000 destructive power were rare talents, even among his own race.

Even if the energy of a one-star star core was limited and lacked extra bonuses, there should at least be a 20% to 30% Breakthrough probability.

Dozens of people had failed in succession, and some had even broken through twice.

Counting it up, there had been over 20 failed Breakthroughs in total, and not a single person had succeeded.

This was simply unreasonable!

He gazed deeply at the sky, his confidence wavering.

Could it be that the Will of this planet had not developed enough to withstand the Spiritual Qi fluctuations of a Transcendence Realm Breakthrough?

...

At the planet's core.

The Will of the Heavenly Dao [Water Blue] seemed to see the doubts of Blood Shadow and Drew across an endless distance, secretly chuckling in its heart.

"With me interfering, you still want to break through?"

As the Will of the Heavenly Dao, its abilities were truly powerful.

Although it could not directly interfere to make someone fail a Transcendence Realm Breakthrough, it could lower their Luck.

During this time, it had learned a lot of knowledge from Ming Kai.

It understood that the probability of breaking through to the Transcendence Realm with an ordinary star core was not high to begin with.

If one lacked Luck, failure would easily occur.

Therefore, under its control, the probability that left Drew helpless and made Blood Shadow doubt his life appeared.

But Water Blue also knew this was just a stopgap measure.

Once Drew and Blood Shadow realized something was wrong, they would certainly not keep banging their heads against the wall like this.

Once they tried [Heaven-Chosen Synthesis] and synthesized an Advanced star core—even if it was just the lowest four-star one—the Breakthrough probability itself would increase significantly.

By then, no matter how much it cursed them with bad Luck, it might not be able to stop their Breakthrough.

It only hoped that if anyone on Water Blue Planet broke through to the Transcendence Realm, it would ideally be on Zhang Jian's side.

Especially after knowing the conditions for establishing a free planet, it hoped even more that Zhang Jian could cultivate over ten Transcendence Realm experts in one go.

By then, the powerful Zhang Jian would inevitably lead this group to develop rapidly and head towards the starry Universe.

As Zhang Jian grew, it would certainly be able to strengthen itself as well.

Looking in the direction where Zhang Jian was, Water Blue couldn't help but secretly cheer in its heart.

"Come on, Zhang Jian!"

...

In Zhang Jian's eyes, seven stars could be seen constantly rotating.

He had been sitting there blankly for a full half hour, simply because he was completely shocked by the attributes of this star core.

Star Power range increased by 30% (+54%) Star Power limit increased by 75% (+135%) Star Power recovery speed increased by 100% (+180%) Fusion absorption Star Power base speed increased by 1000%

The basic attributes alone were already nearly three times that of a five-star star core.

Coupled with the superposition of the two major affixes, +6 [Helping Others] and +6 [Heavenly Dao Reduction], after the consumption reduction exceeded the 90% cap, there was an additional 40%.

This portion was converted into a 20% extra boost effect.

Furthermore, during this time, because he frequently synthesized the highest-grade five-star star cores through [Heaven-Chosen Synthesis], he leapt past the 32 and 64 progress marks for the [Excessive Creation] affix, raising it to the +7 level.

It could even boost the extra improvement effect of [Helping Others] by a full nine times!

And this boost, reflected on this seven-star star core, was a terrifying 180% extra boost.

This caused the already powerful seven-star star core to directly improve by another level or two!

Zhang Jian was even thinking, "An ordinary Nine-star Level star core probably only reaches this level, right?"

He even had an impulse: "How about I just use this star core to break through?"

With his foundation of basic attributes, if he raised his level further, plus what the Will of the Heavenly Dao said about the high success probability boost of top-grade star cores for a Transcendence Realm Breakthrough, his own Breakthrough should certainly succeed.

But this thought only flashed through his mind before Zhang Jian rejected it.

With such Heaven-Defying talent, how could he be satisfied with this?

"Nine-star star core, wait for me!"