33: Chapter 33: Zero-Cost Evolution, Packaging the Most Powerful Source of Pollution

Underground in Jiangcheng, the Abyss Containment Vault.

In front of a massive bronze gate stood four heavily armed military guards.

They wore full-coverage tactical helmets, with the totem of the Spark Legion engraved on their shoulder armor.

The divine power fluctuations emitted by each guard remained steadily at the level of a Lesser True God.

At this moment, these four True God-level officers were sizing up the youth before them with an extremely strange look.

Lin Yuan, wearing a washed-out school uniform, stood beneath the fifty-meter-high gate, his figure appearing extremely frail.

"Kid, although General Xiao gave you an S-rank special approval slip, I still want to give you a word of warning."

The lead guard officer stepped forward. Looking at Lin Yuan through his mask, he said with a serious tone: "Everything stored inside is spoils of war brought back from the deepest part of the Abyss's seventh defense line."

"They might have once been divine objects, but now, they all contain lethal demonic energy and unknown curses."

The officer raised his hand, pointing at the bronze door covered in blade marks.

"Even for a True God, if one were to accidentally touch even one item with their own Divine Domain, it could cause their Divine Domain laws to collapse instantly, leading to death by explosion."

"You are just a high school student who awakened a month ago, so don't be greedy. Just pick a few pieces of scrap metal with low contamination levels from the periphery, and that will be enough."

"Understood." Lin Yuan nodded repeatedly, his shoulders shrinking slightly, and a look of fear and caution appearing on his face at the right moment.

"Rest assured, Officer. I awakened the Wasteland Divine Domain, so my foundation is already rotten. I just want to find some scraps containing radiation to use as fertilizer; I will never touch those high-risk items."

Seeing his obedient manner, the officer felt slightly relieved.

In previous years, there had been reckless geniuses who used connections to get in, only to end up taking cursed Divinity fragments.

They mutated into monsters on the spot and were beaten to death by them.

"Open the gate." The officer waved his hand.

"Rumble—"

Twelve enchanted chains, each three meters in diameter, shook violently as the massive bronze door, engraved with countless sealing arrays, slowly pulled open to both sides.

Extremely violent, chaotic, and foul-smelling Abyss laws, reeking of blood, whistled out from the gap in the door.

The nearby True God guards simultaneously lit up divine power shields on their bodies to resist the erosion of this aura.

Lin Yuan did not put up a shield.

The black wind blew against him, but the laws of his Wasteland Divine Domain operated automatically, assimilating this pollution into meaningless air.

"Go in. You only have four hours."

Lin Yuan nodded and stepped into the darkness.

The bronze door slammed shut behind him.

When the door was completely closed.

Lin Yuan's previously slightly hunched back instantly straightened, and the fear and caution on his face vanished.

"Scraps?" Lin Yuan chuckled. "Time to stock up."

He raised his head and looked at the vast underground treasure vault.

The alloy shelves, which stretched as far as the eye could see, were piled with strange objects.

Broken weapons, shriveled monster corpses, and unknown ores emitting eerie lights.

Each item was isolated by an individual energy force field.

To others, this was a nuclear waste treatment plant that could kill them at any moment.

But in Lin Yuan's eyes, this was Jiangcheng's largest free entry extraction library.

"Activate."

Lin Yuan whispered in his heart.

Hidden SSS-rank talent, [Creation Extraction] fully activated!

In an instant, a faint dark golden light shone in the depths of Lin Yuan's eyes.

The whole world changed appearance in his eyes.

Those pollution sources, twisted in appearance and emitting stench and curses, all decomposed into floating, semi-transparent entry tags.

[Bronze-rank Damaged Bone Blade (contains weak Armor Penetration entry)]

[Silver-rank Incomplete Staff (contains Fire Element Chaos entry)]

[Gold-rank Abyss Ghoul Head (contains Low-level Regeneration entry)]

Lin Yuan shuttled between the shelves.

He didn't even look at the low-tier items on the periphery.

Since the military was paying the bill, if he was going to pick, he would pick the most poisonous, the fiercest, and the ones impossible for conventional gods to control.

Lin Yuan's goal was extremely clear.

He needed core entries that could cause a qualitative change in the Mutant Goblins legion.

He continued deeper along the main path of the treasure vault, until the surrounding isolation force fields turned from transparent to deep red.

Lin Yuan stopped in his tracks.

His gaze fell on an alloy platform on the left, locked by seven layers of divine power seals.

There lay a dark green heart.

The heart was the size of a millstone, and even though it had separated from the main body, it was still beating at an extremely slow frequency: "Thump, thump."

Every time it beat, it would spew out dark green thick fog, corroding the surrounding isolation force field.

The golden light in Lin Yuan's eyes swept across it.

[Diamond-rank Heart of the Abyss Plague Behemoth].

[Status: Extremely dangerous. Those who come into contact will be infected by ultra-high-concentration Abyss corpse poison, causing the whole body to fester and liquefy within three seconds.]

[Extractable concept entries: Highly Effective Plague Aura (Diamond-rank), [Super-speed Toxin Metabolism] (Platinum-rank)]

"Good stuff." Lin Yuan's eyes lit up.

The Mutant Goblins legion's current melee ability was brutal enough, but it lacked large-scale biochemical AOE strike capabilities.

If this [Highly Effective Plague Aura] were extracted and directly bestowed upon the Tyrant or the entire legion.

Wherever fifty thousand goblins walked, that place would become a mobile toxic disaster!

Moreover, Wasteland Mutant Goblins already had resistance to toxins, and paired with [Super-speed Toxin Metabolism], they could completely treat the enemy's toxins as food.

Lin Yuan did not hesitate; using his special approval authority, he turned off the isolation force field of the alloy platform.

The dark green toxic fog rushed towards him, enveloping Lin Yuan's body.

Lin Yuan did not care in the least and stuffed the beating giant heart into the special spatial lead box provided by the military.

He continued forward.

To select the second item.

In the northeast corner of the vault, Lin Yuan discovered a dilapidated bone altar.

The altar was only half a meter high, constructed entirely from the skulls of various unknown creatures.

The moment he approached it, countless crazy whispers suddenly rang in Lin Yuan's ears.

It was as if countless steel needles were stabbing directly into his cerebral cortex, inducing him to pick up a weapon and slit his own throat.

[Remains of an Unknown Evil God Sacrificial Altar].

[Status: Mental pollution source. Those who come into contact will lose their sense of pain and fall into indiscriminate crazy self-mutilation and slaughter until the last drop of blood is drained.]

[Extractable concept entry: [Endless Slaughter] (Diamond-rank)]

Effect description: In battle, for every enemy killed by a believer, basic attributes increase by 1%. No cap; effect resets after leaving combat.

Lin Yuan's breathing paused slightly.

An stacking entry with no cap.

Although it could only be used in battle, its terrifying nature could not be underestimated.

"Take it."

Lin Yuan was not polite at all; he uprooted the bone altar and stuffed it into the lead box.

Two items acquired.

Lin Yuan looked toward the deepest part of the vault.

There were no shelves there, only a giant glass column suspended in mid-air by thick alloy chains.

Inside the glass column was a pool of black liquid metal that was constantly writhing and rolling.

This pool of metal did not reflect light at all; it was like a small black hole, even swallowing the surrounding line of sight.

Lin Yuan walked to the glass column, the golden light in his eyes operating to the limit.

[Abyss Star Meteor Liquid Gold].

[Status: Uncontrollable living metal. Possesses extremely terrifying assimilation and devouring properties; cannot be destroyed by any known means, cannot be forged by any flame. All matter that touches it will be swallowed by it.]

Lin Yuan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his heartbeat accelerating slightly.

This thing was definitely the most hardcore pollution source in the entire containment vault.

Even the military was helpless and could only hang it here to gather dust because it could not be forged into a weapon at all.

"Cannot be forged?"

Lin Yuan pressed his hands on the glass column and muttered, "I don't need to forge it; I only need your concept."

"This is it."

Lin Yuan entered the authorization password.

The highest-level seal of the glass column was lifted.

Lin Yuan, along with the entire special glass container, stored it into his spatial folding backpack.

Three items selected.

It took less than an hour.

Lin Yuan turned around and returned the way he came.