Chapter 432: A New Way to Add Skill Points

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

In the silent dark space, this time, things had really calmed down. Densely packed space debris could be seen with the naked eye. They were all fragments of the warships, which completely covered the planet below.

The mechanical life forms behaved as though their spaceships had malfunctioned, and they floated quietly between the fragments of the warship. They did not run or try to counterattack.

Their spaceships did not have the ability to jump through space. In theory, it was impossible for them to escape from a spaceship with the ability to jump through space.

This was especially true for all the warships. They had been destroyed almost instantly. If they ran, they might be destroyed in the next moment.

On the tower’s observation platform.

“How is this possible? How can his main body’s physical strength be so powerful?”

One old sorcerer after another knelt down in disbelief.

To the sorcerers, cultivation was all about the bloodline and spiritual power. The physical training methods had already been eliminated at the sorcerer realm, which was the realm of extraordinary power.

The strength of a sorcerer’s body mainly depended on the type of bloodline flowing through their body. Or rather, the battles on this planet mainly relied on extraordinary power.

This was not only the case for sorcerers, but also for the other creatures. In the past thousands of years, there had never been an example of someone going against this rule.

Otherwise, the physical cultivation technique would not be lost when one transitioned from ordinary people to sorcerers. Instead, it would be a path of cultivation that led straight to the god level like the sorcerers.

“So the physical cultivation technique is just not complete. It’s not that there’s no way up on the path of physical cultivation, but that it’s because of this planet. A powerful spiritual power is more suitable for developing one’s bloodline power.”

There was a grand knight beside the sorcerer who was trembling with excitement.

How many years had it been? Although the knights on this planet had mastered more extraordinary power compared to ordinary people, they were still vassals of the sorcerers.

The strongest knights might not be able to defeat the weakest sorcerer in a head-on battle. In front of a powerful sorcerer, they were not much different from ordinary people.

Therefore, those who were outstanding could only rely on their resistance to abnormal energy to work for the sorcerers.

In the tower, the status of a grand knight was on the same level as that of a servant. Every day, the corpses of those who had died in various accidents would be thrown out of the tower. Then, new grand knights would be brought in.

…

Not long after.

Chen Yiming and Gao Shuai stepped into the spaceship containing the mechanical life forms.

They were greeted by a computer-like machine, a flying mechanical bug, and a robotic vehicle.

The core of the mechanical life forms was the spark. It did not matter what their appearance was like. The spark was equivalent to a human’s consciousness. As long as the spark was not destroyed, it would not really die.

The mechanical bug paused for a moment and said, “Welcome, Young Master Gao and your friend. We are the three mechanical life forms from the G8 nebula.”

A human figure appeared on the screen of the computer-like machine. When it saw Chen Yiming, it was a little nervous and hesitated.

The robotic vehicle took on the form of a man. It cracked open its mouth, which was filled with metal teeth, and said, “I’ve long heard that there’s a human clan dealing with trade in the Hidden Dragon Galaxy that does business in many galaxies. I didn’t expect to be lucky enough to meet them today.”

Chen Yiming swept his gaze across the three mechanical life forms and realized that they were all very respectful. Even though they had been beaten into submission, they were behaving this way out of their respect for the stronger party.

However, he didn’t care about any of this. He revealed his fake identity. “My name is Chen Yiming, and I’m from the Peacekeeping Alliance in the central galaxy. The three of you, hand over the misappropriated essence energy.”

The three mechanical life forms were stunned when they heard this.

Unexpectedly, the three of them happened to encounter members of an organization that maintained order in the universe.

Their luck was too bad, but where was the central galaxy? They had never heard of it before, and they did not dare to ask further. Perhaps it was the name for a powerful galaxy.

Gao Shuai almost lost his composure when he heard Chen Yiming reveal his identity.

Central galaxy? Why don’t I know about it?

When I saw you in the prophecy, you hadn’t even left the most ordinary living planet. You really know how to brag. Aren’t you afraid that you’ll be exposed?

However, as long as they did not get exposed, it would indeed be quite intimidating. It would be even more convenient for them to openly take advantage of others.

Soon, the mechanical bug was the first to come back to its senses. It said, “We don’t have much essence energy with us. There are a total of 10 units, and only seven of them were stolen.”

Chen Yiming nodded and said, “I’ll verify it and deal with it according to the rules. It’s not up to you to decide how many units were stolen.”

When the mechanical bug heard this, it was clearly hesitant.

The ten units of essence energy not only belonged to it, but also to its two companions. What if its other companions did not agree with it after handing them over?

Gao Shuai added, “Hand it over first. If you take the initiative to hand it over, we’ll consider letting you off lightly.”

He was spouting nonsense. He had already discussed with Chen Yiming that they would search for everything, not to mention that their status as people who were keeping order was just to trick others.

At this moment, they were only trying to calm down the three mechanical life forms because they were worried that if they were forced into a corner, the other party would blow up the essence energy storages. At that time, losses would be inevitable.

Chen Yiming and Gao Shuai didn’t say anything else and just waited.

However, Chen Yiming was already putting a lot of pressure on the three mechanical life forms just by standing there. Previously, he had easily defeated the warships which formed most of their strength.

The three mechanical life forms looked at each other.

Whether they felt helpless or unwilling, they all knew the value of essence energy. However, their opponent’s fist was too strong, so open resistance was the worst option.

In the end, they were forced to hand over the 10 units of essence energy in their hands.

…

Not long after, the silence in space was broken.

The three mechanical life forms piloted their spaceships and quickly left. They did not even bother to retrieve the device that they had used to seal the star spirit in the core of the planet.

Two streams of light fell from the sky towards the planet. They were Chen Yiming and Gao Shuai.

The essence energy was stored in special crystals to begin with, so they split it 50-50 as originally agreed. Each of them took five special crystals.

“Boom!”

With a loud bang like an asteroid crashing into the planet, the two of them landed on the ground.

A terrifying sandstorm blew up like a magnitude 12 storm, sweeping up countless obstacles along the way and spreading out in all directions.

“The cultivation environment is at least 100 times better than the dark forest world.”

Chen Yiming could feel the difference.

At this moment, Gao Shuai smiled and said, “You let those three mechanical life forms go. Are you planning to continue using your identity as a member of the Peacekeeping Alliance from the central galaxy?”

Chen Yiming said calmly, “Of course we have to keep using it. After all, snatching things openly will anger everyone. On the Flying Cloud Planet, we were forced to counterattack.”

When Gao Shuai heard this, he smiled and did not say anything.

Indeed, when one was strong enough, they only needed to find an acceptable reason to take action.

The first thing the three mechanical life forms had to consider was not to expose Chen Yiming’s fake identity, but to consider if they would be targeted by this spatial ability user again.

Perhaps the first thing they would do after this was to pool their resources and think of all kinds of ways to build a spaceship with the ability to jump through space.

However, the materials required for this type of spaceship could not be obtained by ordinary trade. Even if one wanted to exchange their essence energy for it, it would cost an astronomical amount. Gao Shuai had a special prophecy ability, which was why he could own one.

It was clear that such spaceships were not commonplace. There were not many of them in the Hidden Dragon Galaxy, and each of them was equivalent to a life-saving divine artifact. In fact, there were fewer such spaceships in the entire galaxy than there were creatures with spatial abilities.

Just as the two of them were chatting and laughing, a large number of sorcerers set off from the towers all over the world and gathered at the landing point. Some of those who were close by had already arrived.

The first to arrive was a level-6 breaking dawn sorcerer, whose level was equivalent to the fusion realm. He was only one level below the level of a god among sorcerers, which was the level-7 law-defying sorcerer.

The means by which this breaking dawn sorcerer traveled around was a floating city. It was nearly 10 kilometers long and wide, and there were seven towers built on it.

The tallest of the seven towers was the laboratory of this sorcerer, while the others were the laboratories of the powerful sorcerers under him.

At the same time, the distribution of the seven towers was also specially designed. They could be connected to form an energy barrier, providing a stable defense for the floating city as it moved.

The floating city landed not far away. An old man in a long robe, followed by six elders, as well as a group of middle-aged people and young people, quickly ran over.

As the rulers of Sun City, the seven powerful sorcerers had always been high and mighty, treating all living creatures as their test subjects. However, at this moment, they had humble expressions on their faces and were just short of kneeling down.

“How showy. It’s not as good as a spaceship of the suitable size,” Chen Yiming glanced at the floating city and said calmly.

As someone who had left a living planet and traveled to the Flying Cloud Planet, he naturally understood that the main means of transportation were still spaceships. The structure of the spaceships had a strong advantage.

For example, the lizardmen civilization, which did not use spaceships, controlled a huge planet that could move through space. Its speed and energy consumption far exceeded that of a spaceship.

This was a method that the lower-level civilizations would choose in order to maximize the amount of resources they could gather. They were cumbersome, so when they encountered dangers they could not withstand, they often could not avoid it.

Another example was the floating city in front of him. In terms of the amount of supplies it could carry, it could not compare to the moving planet of the lizardmen civilization, and its speed could not compare to that of spaceships.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that a layer of energy barrier provided only a limited amount of defense and it would be torn to pieces when it faced any kind of accident in the universe.

“Did we take the wrong path in our research?”

The breaking dawn sorcerer at the front had an awkward expression on his face as he asked in his heart.

It was not that he felt that what the other party said was wrong. On second thought, it was actually true. The fragments of warships scattered throughout space were evidence of this. If the quality was not high enough, no matter how many there were, they would be destroyed in one strike.

Compared to the warships that filled the sky, the floating city was as weak as a toy.

The reason why it remained intact was that it had not been targeted. Otherwise, a single cannon blast could wipe out the entire floating city along with all the sorcerers inside.

“It’s not to the extent that the floating city is worthless!”

The young genius sorcerers at the back of the group were not convinced.

This floating city could be said to be the result of the accumulated research this planet had conducted. It made use of countless precious technical knowledge.

Every year, countless sorcerers on the continent had to pay a huge price to enter the towers in Sun City to further their studies.

The sorcerers who had been staying in the towers of Sun City for a long time were either talented in spiritual power or had outstanding research achievements. There were also seven breaking dawn sorcerers guarding Sun City.

In their minds, it was just that the level of the sorcerers was not high enough. One day, the floating city would become a war fortress that could dominate the galaxy.

The sorcerers would also follow their research philosophy and travel throughout the galaxy to study the truth of the natural laws and investigate the essence of the universe.

“Everyone, what’s the matter?” Gao Shuai broke the silence and asked directly.

It was obvious why they had come. If not for the fact that the two of them had chatted for a while, they would have already appeared in the planet’s core to gather the essence energy gathered by the star spirit.

The old sorcerer in the lead bowed and said, “We from Sun City admire the two of you from the bottom of our hearts. We want to erect two statues for you in the city.”

“We want to interact with you and hope to receive some pointers on our cultivation. If the two of you have any requests, if Sun City can do it, we will do our best to fulfill them.”

Hearing this, Chen Yiming immediately lost interest.

Gao Shuai was the same. When he looked at this group of sorcerers, it was the same attitude as a rich person who saw a few yuan by the roadside. He was not even interested in bending down to pick it up.

The sorcerers also sensed what the two of them felt.

Seeing this, the leading breaking dawn sorcerer immediately did not know what to say. He was afraid that if he said anything wrong, they would kill them with a single move.

Just as the scene fell silent, Gao Shuai’s spaceship landed on the ground.

The old butler and the bull-headed bodyguards walked out of the cabin door one after another. Their powerful auras suppressed the breaths of every sorcerer present.

The bull-headed men’s powerful physical talent caused the leader of the breaking dawn sorcerers to pale in comparison. In front of the bull-headed men, he was like a weak ordinary person.

He even felt that if he fought the bull-headed men one-on-one, he would be defeated and die in a few moves.

In reality, this was also the case. The bodyguards that the Gao clan had arranged for Gao Shuai were naturally not weak among those of the same level. If not for the fact that Gao Shuai was only at the fusion realm, the level of the bodyguards would have increased by a level.

The old butler came to Gao Shuai’s side and said, “Young Master, in recent years, the activities of the black tide have become more and more intense. This place is really too far from the center of the Hidden Dragon Galaxy.”

Although he did not say it explicitly, the meaning was clear. He did not even care about this world, let alone Sun City.

The deeper reason was that if they occupied this inhabited world, they had to send enough forces to guard it. However, the current situation in the Hidden Dragon Galaxy made it not worth it for the Gao clan to do this.

When the sorcerers heard this, their expressions darkened.

They had many ideals. They were all humans, and although it was unknown how many years ago it might have been, they could be related by blood. However, reality was cruel. When they were of no value, others would not want them even if they delivered themselves to their door.

Soon, Chen Yiming was about to send the sorcerers away. More and more sorcerers had gathered from all over the planet.

Suddenly, he frowned.

“What’s going on?”

The talent panel that no one could see automatically appeared in front of him.

The Skill Points on it were increasing rapidly. Although the increase was very slow relative to the amount required for upgrading to the next level, the speed at which it was increasing was faster than before.