This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 678 A great harvest
"It's over..." Li Ming looked around the universe.

The starry sky that was almost destroyed was repaired in the blink of an eye, leaving only a few void gullies, with void storms gushing out, and the repair speed became slow.

"The main universe is really quite repulsive to Yongyuan..." Li Ming sighed in his heart, his eyes fell on Adam who was nearby.

Zhen, the two Heavenly Kings held the Holy Emperor of the Empire on the left and right.

All I can say is that it is worthy of being the ultimate life form. The speed at which it recovers from its injuries is quite amazing. Apart from the palms, chest, and the circular holes in the center of the forehead, there are almost no other injuries visible on the body.

Due to the severe damage to his brain, which affected his spiritual body, Adam's consciousness looked fuzzy, his eyes were unfocused, and his breath was still weak, but he was tearing at the energy of the universe, and even gradually formed a colorful vortex.

"What a pervert..." Li Ming couldn't help but be amazed. He stretched out his hand, and the Kashmir Spear appeared again, unceremoniously poking several big holes in his body and even on his limbs.

The little bit of vitality that Adam had gathered suddenly flowed away again. The vortex of energy surrounding his body also suddenly dissipated, and his body almost lost the last bit of self-repair ability.

It's not that he had any evil taste, he just wanted to make sure Adam had no ability to resist.

The power of the ultimate life form should not be underestimated.

Perhaps it was the severe physiological reaction caused by the worsening of his injuries that made Adam, who had been distracted, gradually wake up and his eyes slowly focus.

After seeing everything clearly in front of him, he was a little confused at first, and then he felt a severe headache that made it almost impossible for him to think.

But soon, the memories that followed made him forget the pain, and his eyes were filled with indescribable complex emotions: unwillingness, anger, resentment, helplessness...

Finally, it returned to silence.

It is difficult for ordinary people to interpret this process, and only the complex life experience of the Holy Emperor of the Empire could prevent him from becoming truly hysterical after experiencing the situation from "absolute confidence in mastering everything" to "miserable defeat and near death."

Li Ming had already floated in front of him, without saying anything, just holding his arm.

Feeling the familiar special substance being extracted from Adam's body, the ultimate level of genetic essence can be used to upgrade his evolutionary essence.

Naturally, he would not waste such precious material.

"You..." Adam clearly felt the abnormal changes in his body, but he did not resist, nor did he have the strength to resist. Instead, he was a little surprised: "You are draining my development potential..."

"Absorbing other people's development potential for your own use, is this your secret? I thought you used a special virus to erode other people's development potential."

Li Ming couldn't help but be surprised. You know, it is difficult for X-level life forms to detect their own extraction behavior during the process.

The ultimate life forms are indeed different, he sighed again.

"You can say that." Li Ming responded vaguely, but he felt a little disappointed.

He could feel the absorption of gene essence very clearly, but it was only gene essence.

What are the materials for upgrading to the ultimate control object?

He originally thought that he could find the materials on the ultimate life form.

But now it seems that the upgrade materials have nothing to do with the ultimate life form.

"It's really an incredible creation..." Adam murmured in a low voice, staring at Li Ming blankly, "The beauty of the universe is really hard to guess, how could a life form like you be born."

Li Ming glanced at him and was too lazy to pay attention to him. He couldn't respond to this.

Besides, Adam's eyes looked too much like a pervert, which made him feel a little disgusted.

"The ultimate life form that just attacked seems to be the King of the End." Adam's expression was restrained, and his mental fluctuations were extremely weak.

Li Ming's heart moved slightly, and he casually pinched out an air bubble to wrap the two of them.

"I just remembered that according to the records of Terrax, he is the ruler of the Eternal Abyss, holding a trident, and the king who spreads the end..." Adam lowered his head, and it was difficult for him to show his surprise.

"This is not the active period of Yongyuan. How can this dominant life form come out to attack and kill you? Why?"

"Guess." Li Ming was absorbing the genetic essence, but he didn't mind chatting with the fallen emperor.

"If I were Yongyuan, the only reason I did this is because you made me feel threatened." Adam guessed the truth easily. The blood vessels near his eyes were throbbing and blood was flowing from the hole in his forehead.

"There's a saying in the interstellar exploration community: if you accidentally take poison, there's bound to be an antidote nearby."

"Are you created by the universe to deal with the Eternal Abyss?"

Li Ming was speechless. Tanus seemed to have guessed the same thing. This universe had a subtle self-awareness.

Seeing that Li Ming didn't answer, Adam didn't care, but said sadly: "If I had remembered the other party's identity just now, I might have joined forces with you to suppress him first."

"Unfortunately, time was too short, and the records about the other party were seen a long time ago, so I can't remember them."

Li Ming paused and frowned slightly, "The Holy Emperor said this, are you trying to beg for mercy? Don't do this, it will damage your great image in my heart."

He would definitely not let Adam go. Although the level of evolution would inevitably degenerate after the genetic essence was extracted, it would still take some time.

During this process, he had no method to imprison the ultimate life form, let alone guard it closely and shoot it every once in a while.

The best way is to kill it directly to prevent future troubles.

Adam wanted to laugh, but he didn't have the energy to do so. "You won't let me go. I'm just sighing..."

"After becoming the Ultimate Life Form, I deeply felt the horror of the Eternal Abyss."

Li Ming had no doubt about this statement. Adam's thinking was basically free of personal emotions and he acted purely for the sake of pros and cons.

At that time, Adam was already unable to do anything to him. If he was sure that Tanus was the master of the Eternal Abyss, it would be normal for him to join forces with him.

"Unfortunately, there is no if..." Li Ming shook his head, and Adam seemed to agree with him.

The two fell into silence. After a while, Li Ming released his hand on Adam, and the genetic source had been extracted.

The control system could no longer obtain anything from the opponent's body, which made him reluctantly accept the reality that the upgrade materials indeed had nothing to do with the ultimate life form.

"Next, will you support Abel as the Holy Emperor?" Adam's voice was hoarse.

"Yes, he is a very suitable puppet." Li Ming nodded without hiding anything.

"Indeed, he has been working with you for a long time, and he has taken in all the people left by the Holy Mother Church..." Adam nodded in agreement, but then asked, "What will happen to the Empire?"

"I am not a tyrant, nor a dictator. I only regard the empire as my resource library." Li Ming said lightly.

Adam was silent, as if relieved, as if choked, as if he had predicted what would happen next, and said quietly: "Yongyuan will not let you go."

Li Ming raised his eyebrows, and then heard Adam say in a low voice: "I hope you can defeat it."

There was a moment of astonishment in Li Ming's eyes, and then he saw the Holy Emperor of the Empire slowly close his eyes, and his life breath completely disappeared.

"My self is destroyed..." Li Ming was silent, but he couldn't help but feel a little emotional. He and Adam didn't have any purely personal grudges, they were all conflicts of interest.

As he just said, if he were Adam, he would also try his best to control himself when he saw such a monster.

Of course, the prerequisite is to have the strength in your hands.

After feeling emotional for a while, Li Ming quickly put away his emotions and looked at the two mechanical guards beside him, or more precisely, at the Titan relics in their hands.

There was a gleam in his eyes, and he stretched out his hand impatiently.

The first thing that was touched was the Eternal Throne, which was covered with cracks, as if it was made up of countless cracked dark gold bone plates. A lava-like glow surged between the cracks. It looked like it was made of metal, but after touching it, it felt quite warm.

Rays of golden light lit up and lingered around Li Ming on their own, making him feel as if he were soaking in a hot spring. Even the mental fatigue from the recent series of battles gradually disappeared.

"Is the effect so significant?" Li Ming looked at the control page carefully.

[Eternal Throne - Sub-Ultimate (Damaged): This throne was forged with all the strength of the Titans. It has the power to maintain eternity.

Control conditions: 20 billion metal energies.

Control effect: [Super Vitality]

Control ability - Eternity: When seriously injured, the body can be forcibly restored to its original state, and abnormal physical states can be suppressed. 】

as predicted!

Li Ming's eyes lit up. It was pretty much as he expected. The Eternal Holy Throne was mainly used as an auxiliary.

In the battle just now, although he showed great power, it was actually gained by using four times the [Source of Immortality].

There are very few times when he can fight at full capacity, because he simply cannot withstand the consumption.

With the Eternal Throne, the battery life will probably be able to keep up.

The effect of [Eternity] overlaps with that of [Source of Immortality], but is more controllable. After being completely repaired, it is estimated that it will undergo a transformation and can replace the [Life Power Core].

[Super Vitality] is probably a physical boost, and we can only wait and see after we have mastered it.

In a good mood, he took over the [Anchor of the Void] again.

[Void Anchor - Sub-Ultimate (Damaged): A space-controlling weapon forged with all the strength of the Titan race.

Control conditions: 17 billion metal energies
Control ability: [Space Immunity]

Control Effect - Void Lord: Gain the ability to control space, can mark a location and descend directly.]

It was almost a mirror version of the Star of Eternal Silence, but what concerned him more was the additional ability of the [Lord of the Void].

Traveling across the stars is an extremely time-consuming process, and the Void Anchor can obviously significantly shorten this time.

It would take an estimated 100 billion metal energies to completely repair both, but that was no problem at all for him.

It would be safer to temporarily transfer the Titan Relic to the hands of the two kings Zhen and Yu.

"In this way, the goal has been achieved. The Eternal Holy Throne and the Void Anchor have also been obtained. The only thing that is not perfect is Tanus." Li Ming frowned.
"This guy's injuries healed too quickly. It must have been done by Yongyuan. And I don't know what the black substance that just appeared is. Why does it feel like Yongyuan can gradually influence the main universe? Is it because of the birth of Adam?"

He still hasn't figured out the logic behind Yongyuan's activities, but the ultimate life form must be an extremely critical factor.

"We can't make estimates based on Titan's records." Li Ming pondered, "The appearance of Tanus has proved that Yongyuan can completely break the shackles of the main universe if he pays a price. I didn't do that before because I didn't make him feel threatened, but now that he has discovered me, the situation is different..."

"The best way is to temporarily prevent the birth of the ultimate life form and lock down one possibility first. The key to evolution only exists in the hands of the Empire, the Star Alliance, and the Federation. I hope they will be wiser..."

Ok?
While he was thinking about how to isolate the path of evolution, his peripheral vision caught a glimpse of a strange light. Li Ming could not help but turn his head to look, his face slightly grim.

However, a strange energy glow was seen lingering around Adam's body. Under the strange force, his flesh and blood body gradually condensed into a colorful crystal, and then began to disintegrate from the edges.

"This..." Li Ming couldn't help but be surprised. He didn't expect that the corpse would have such a change.

But then, an even more intense light burst out from his eyes, and he grabbed it.

Sure enough, a familiar feeling of energy extraction came from the fingers.

But at the same time, its edges seem to be disintegrating into the universe.

How could Li Ming allow this to happen? The time distortion field was immediately deployed, slowing down the outer time and speeding up the inner time.

But in just a moment, he absorbed the crystal, and an energy called [Ultimate Core] appeared on the control page.

[Ultimate Core: Auxiliary materials necessary for upgrading to the Ultimate Control Object. ]

"Ha..." Li Ming couldn't help but get excited. There's always a silver lining. He thought he couldn't find the upgrade materials, but they appeared again when he turned around.

"The upgrade material is made from the corpse of the Ultimate Lifeform?" He couldn't help but think, but a wave of suspicion arose, "But why didn't the corpse of the Overlord become like this? Is it because of Yongyuan's interference?"

Without enough samples, Li Ming could not get an answer and could only put it aside for the time being.

But he couldn't help grinning. In this way, this harvest can be said to be very fruitful.

"Next, it's time to wrap up..."

……

After Tanus left and the fighting subsided, Anatoly and the others gradually found their true selves.

"The battle is over?"

"There won't be any more Ultimate Lifeforms appearing, right?"

"It's so horrifying. The Holy Emperor of the Empire, the ultimate life form, was pierced through the void. I will never forget this scene."

"Qinglong... No, Li Ming's secret has been exposed, he won't kill people to silence them..."

Whether amazed or confused, questions emerged in everyone's mind. Some suspected that the battle was not over yet and that there would be a reversal.

From the appearance of Tandin, the manifestation of the strengthening effect of the gene source, the appearance of the Domination Armor, to Tandin being killed instantly, and the appearance of Qinglong's mechanical body.

Adam reappeared and became the ultimate life form, but was shot through by Li Ming, and then another ultimate life form attacked.

Despite being attacked from both sides, Adam was still pierced by Li Ming, as if he was turning endlessly, leaving a strong psychological trauma on everyone.

When the ultimate life forms fight, they also have to walk on thin ice.

(End of this chapter)