This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 479 A Little Reward and a Little Secret
"What is this place?"

Li Ming looked for it immediately, but did not find anyone else who had come in before him.

He also prepared many excuses to explain why he showed up so late. The biggest difference between S-level life forms and other people is that they have more excuses to use.

I squatted down and tried to touch the ground. Although it felt like metal, I couldn't absorb any metal energy.

"Mimicry?" Li Ming stood up and took a few steps forward tentatively.

"Another Titan branch..." A soft voice suddenly sounded, and Li Ming instantly perked up.

Not far from him, a blurry light gradually condensed.

It was a woman, very delicate looking, with white and gold lines all over her skin.

"Your Excellency is..." Li Ming remained calm, but very alert.

"You can call me Star Spirit..." The other party's voice was soft, but his eyes were filled with scrutiny and curiosity. "Your potential is so low, and your physical age is not high either. How can you become a lord-level life form?"

Li Ming was quite surprised at the other party's strong detection ability, as it could even tell his physiological age.

"Your Excellency Xingling, I wonder if this place..." he asked tentatively.

"Yes, it's just as you guessed." The figure of the star spirit dissipated, and the golden tassels passed through Li Ming's body and suddenly appeared beside him. "You can understand this as the last trace of the existence of the Holy Spirit Civilization."

She lowered her head and sniffed the scent of Li Ming, seeming to miss him a little, "Time will destroy everything, even the Titans will disappear."

"Okay, evolver of the new era, since you can come here, the Holy Spirit Civilization has prepared a little insignificant reward for you. Are you ready?" The Star Spirit appeared in front of him again.

"By the way, you happen to have Titan blood in your body, so it might be able to play a better role."

"Reward? What reward?" Li Ming was puzzled and wanted to ask clearly.

But the star spirit was not prepared to explain. He just pointed in the air, and the whole hall became dazzling in an instant.

All the patterns on the ground lit up, and Li Ming felt an invisible force coming from all directions.

He felt the air around him suddenly become thick and engulfed him.
Suffocating, heavy, and having difficulty walking, Li Ming's breathing became heavy, and he felt that his limbs and torso were shackled by an invisible force. It took a huge amount of strength to move.

Of course, considering his own strength, he did not blindly use the controlled objects to free himself from this shackles.

Then, he could feel a warm power slowly seeping into his body, penetrating the skin and stimulating the cells.

In an instant, his bones trembled violently, and beads of sweat the size of beans oozed out from his forehead, cheeks, and body, mixed with energy particles.

Li Ming's eyes were filled with astonishment. He felt that the cells in his body were highly active at an unprecedented speed, which stimulated his gene seed to move forward arduously but firmly.

"Is this... stimulating the gene seed?" Li Ming was surprised. He had never experienced this feeling before.

It is even several times faster than when he was developing at his highest rate.

"What kind of power is this?" Li Ming was shocked and felt his whole body getting hot.

The stimulation brought about by this forced development is quite intense, and the exhaled gas is mixed with various interwoven energy particles.

"What a strange evolutionary route... It's very similar to the evolutionary path of the Titans." Star Spirit exclaimed.

But she had seen it before, and she looked at the figure in front of her, which had already disappeared as she shook her head.

Li Ming was completely unaware of this. Feeling the highly active cells inside his body, an impulsive thought burst out in his mind: if the control system was turned into an evolutionary system, could it be superimposed?

When this thought came to his mind, he was a little hesitant, but then he gritted his teeth and switched.

When the evolutionary system was in place, as Li Ming had expected, the development rate of more than six hundred and thirty times, mixed with the invisible force, was like adding fuel to the fire, causing the highly active cells to completely boil.

In an instant, the capillaries under Li Ming's skin burst, blood gushed out of his pores, and the severe pain tore at his nerves.

The activity level of the cells in his body reached an unprecedented level. Every cell was going crazy, as if trying to break out of his body and tear his flesh apart.

Li Ming's cheeks were twisted and an extremely suppressed sound came out of his throat. The unprecedented pain and transformation in his body made him almost crazy, but he still suppressed his thoughts tightly.

During this period, three external X-level source substances were absorbed and used for upgrading and evolving source substances.

At this moment, the 740-fold development blessing was added again, making the transformation even more drastic.

Like a madly howling engine, it bursts out unprecedented power, regardless of whether the car body can withstand it.

The red skin was like a ball of paper wrapped in a high-temperature flame, which could be torn at any time.

Li Ming's [Field Doctor] profession plays an important role, converting 70% of the evolutionary blessing into recovery blessing.

His body was in a state of oscillation between being torn apart and being restored, like a flame swaying in the wind, seemingly in danger but always tenacious and resilient.

boom!
The energy particles that erupted from his body were even more powerful, with flames, thunder, and quantum light roaring non-stop.

“That’s only 1%?”

Even in extreme pain, Li Ming could still feel the genetic seed in his body moving forward firmly.

In just a few minutes, the development progress increased by 1%. Scarlet mist gushed out of his nasal cavity, and he shouted hoarsely but firmly from his throat: "Keep going!"

.........

"This is a really great place..." Costat's eyes flickered slightly, and the energy surrounding him was quickly subsiding.

He was about to call out to the star spirit that had appeared earlier, but suddenly he discovered that the scene in the palace had changed.

Figures appeared before him one after another, and Costat's expression became restrained: "Deus... Cedric..."

"Kostat..."

Everyone seemed surprised as well. They looked at each other but no one spoke.

"Gonzalez, when did you come in?" Cedric was surprised to find Gonzalez standing in the corner. "Aren't you not allowed to come in?"

"I have my own way." Gonzalez responded indifferently.

"Looking at the uneasy breath of life in everyone, what we just experienced should be the same, right?" Lancaster spoke first.

"Star Spirit?" Dius asked tentatively.

"Reward?" Costat also said.

Everyone nodded silently. After listening to the Star Spirit's words, they also understood that everyone who came in had this.

Reynolds shouted, "This is too incredible. What kind of power can even transform metal?"

Everyone raised their eyebrows and turned around, only to see Reynolds' body opening and closing, and the color seemed to be a little different, as if some kind of transformation had indeed occurred.

Mikhail was also surprised and clenched his palms. The improvement was not low. Due to the shackles of materials, their original combat capability was difficult to reach 200X, unless they were engaged in load combat, which would cause irreversible damage to body parts and would cost a lot to repair later.

Now, he feels that without any load, his normal energy level can jump to 200X.

Even metal can be transformed?
Everyone was also surprised, and their hearts were excited. It seemed that this place was truly important, and the rewards for admission alone were so good.

"Reward, what reward?" Gonzalez sensed something was wrong and spoke quickly.

"You don't have it?" Cedric looked over and said in surprise: "After entering, you will appear in a palace. There will be a manager named Xingling, and then he will call on some kind of power to promote the progress of development..."

His words were vague, but Gonzalez was struck by lightning and said in astonishment: "What star spirits, what rewards, I was here when I first appeared, and then you showed up."

Everyone looked around in surprise and found that this place was almost exactly the same as the palace they were in, and it might be a projection.

"It's surprising that you don't have any..." Cedric was surprised, and then grinned, "Then you are just unlucky."

“What bad luck…” Gonzalez was shaking all over, his eyes filled with anger, and he gritted his teeth and shouted, “Li Ming!”

The possible existence of the virus had a greater impact than he had expected. Seeing that everyone else had gained something but he had gained nothing, his anger was almost devouring him.

"What does this have to do with Li Ming?" Reynolds looked over and said unhappily, "Why blame others for your own bad luck?"

Gonzalez glanced at him gloomily, but had no intention of explaining. This was not a good thing, and speaking it out would lead to ridicule.

But Costat frowned and said, "By the way, where is Li Ming?"

Only then did everyone realize that Li Ming was not here.

"We should wait a while. We didn't show up together." Dius said.

"We two were the first to appear, and Prince Kostat was the last." Mikhail said, speculating, "This may represent the length of time that he was immersed in that special power."

"Why has Costa been around the longest?" Dius was puzzled. "In terms of strength and development potential, it should be Lancaster."

"You'll have to ask Prince Kostat about this," said Mikhail.

"I don't know either..." Costat shook his head, but in his heart he was thinking about the name the Protoss called him - "Titan Branch".

Is it because of this?

Will this identity be helpful in what happens next?
"Doesn't this mean that Li Ming possesses some potential that is higher than any of us?" Cedric muttered.

Everyone's face changed slightly, and they immediately thought of some bad memories.

Could this place be Li Ming's home ground again?

"Hello, fellow evolvers of the new era." A voice suddenly sounded, and everyone focused their minds and looked towards the center. The star spirit had emerged at some point.

"Your Excellency..." Everyone greeted him, and even Cedric, who had never met him before, did not dare to neglect him.

"The welcome gifts to everyone have been distributed." Xing Ling said with a smile.

"Thank you, sir." Dius nodded, "Then next..."

"That's what I want to say. As you all expected, there is a little secret hidden here. According to my idea, it needs to go through some tests before I can decide who to give this secret to." Xing Ling looked a little helpless.

"However, there have obviously been some accidents in the outside world. This place cannot be maintained for too long and will collapse."

"So, I can only use a simpler method to choose the target."

Everyone held their breath and listened to the Star Spirit slowly say: "The strongest..."

"The strongest among you will gain access to a little secret I keep."

duel?

Everyone's faces changed, some breathed a sigh of relief, while others felt nervous.

"Sir..." Cedric suddenly spoke up, and said with embarrassment: "I didn't get any reward."

"It's useless even if you get it." Xingling shook his head. Cedric was confused and wanted to ask more questions, but was interrupted by Mikhail: "Sir, are there any other restrictions and conditions? If there are no restrictions, then the strongest one is Lancaster."

"Of course, I will maintain your strength to the same level." Xing Ling smiled, "At the same level, the strongest one will be determined."

At this point, Dius and Costat's expressions eased slightly.

But the prince of the empire seemed to have thought of something, and his heart tightened. He asked, "Will everyone participate? One of our companions is an S-level life form. Are they going to suppress us to an S-level life form?"

After hearing his question, everyone's faces turned ugly, and they all suppressed themselves to the same level as Li Ming. Who could beat him?
This kid is just like his teacher, he likes to hide things.

"No..." Xing Ling shook his head, "I don't have much strength left. I can't suppress you to a lower level. He can't participate."

so far so good…

Both Costat and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

Even Cedric, who had been looking gloomy, softened a little.

Only Reynolds was dissatisfied and said: "That's too unfair."

"Fair?" The Star Spirit still kept smiling, "There is no fairness."

"Yes, it's just his bad luck." Cedric added indifferently, and his depressed mood finally eased a little.

"Sir, may I ask what little secret you are keeping?" Dius asked hesitantly.

The expressions of the others flickered. Only one of the four forces present could obtain it, and no one could be sure of winning.

The winner certainly does not want the information to be leaked, but no one can guarantee that they will win.

It's better to get some information now than to know nothing in the end.

Star Spirit looked around at everyone and said calmly, "There is only a ruin here, so it is not something too precious. It is just a little hope for rebuilding the Holy Spirit civilization."

She said it lightly, but everyone's heart seemed to stop for a moment.

The hope of rebuilding the Holy Spirit civilization?
What level is the Holy Spirit Civilization? Is there any need to say more?
The upper limit is there, and even if there is only a glimmer of hope, the potential contained is immeasurable.

Everyone's hearts were filled with excitement, and they were ready to fight.

Costat even urged, "Sir, we are ready and can start at any time."

Xing Ling smiled, stretched out his hand, and was about to point at the air, but then he paused.

"How could this happen?" She seemed to have discovered something puzzling, her expression became very interesting, and she retracted her finger, "Wait..."

(End of this chapter)