Transcending Godhood: I Extract Keywords and Crush the Gods

After the introduction of the virtual course.

Fatty Wang wiggled his round body as he squeezed through the crowd, grabbed Lin Yuan's shoulder, and raised his eyebrows incessantly.

"Yuanzi, let's go! A new succubus tavern has opened in the fifth district of StarNet."

"I heard that it's full of high-level succubus holographic projections, one-to-one replicas. Their waistlines are amazing!"

"Today it's my treat. I'll take you to see the sights and relax your tense nerves."

Lin Yuan looked at the fat man's expectant expression and decisively shook his head.

"I'm not going."

"Are you out of your mind?" the fat man stared wide-eyed. "The newbie protection period is almost over, and everyone is trying to relieve the pressure."

"You've started in a wasteland environment, staring at that scorched earth all day. You're going to drive yourself crazy sooner or later!"

"The Abyss won't give us a break." Lin Yuan said calmly, pushing the fat man's arm away. "Instead of wasting time at the tavern, you might as well let the believers wield their swords a few more times."

The fat man's lips twitched, and after a long pause, he managed to stammer, "Serves you right for being single! I'm going to go have some fun myself, while you can just play in the mud in your wasteland!"

A flash of white light, and the fat man logged off.

Lin Yuan's expression remained unchanged as he exited the virtual lobby.

Lin Yuan removed the holographic access device and opened the terminal trading network on his wrist.

He is well aware of the current limitations.

One hundred petrified goblins, relying on [Rough Body Tempering] to fight each other, have reached a bottleneck in their progress.

It's a case of people fighting each other, lacking genuine pressure and the threat of death.

Without the threat of death, one cannot be forced to unleash greater potential, nor can one cultivate a "war creed".

The way conventional deities enhance the power of their followers is quite simple.

Spend tens of thousands of Faith Points to buy a "Basic Marrow Cleansing Potion" or a "Silver-level Combat Skill Card" to forcibly infuse the skill.

Lin Yuan only had a few hundred faith points in his account, not even enough to buy medicine dregs.

He can only solve problems using the rules of the wasteland.

Open the Black Market channel and enter the "Invasive Species Zone".

Search criteria: extremely fast reproduction, highly aggressive, adaptable to highly toxic substances, and inexpensive.

The system's aperture rotates, automatically filtering out 99% of normal organisms.

Eventually, more than a dozen messages with red skull warning icons popped up.

Lin Yuan scrolled directly to the bottom of the list and locked onto an F-level ecological disaster species.

【Abyssal Corrupted Cockroach Egg Case】.

Description: A companion species on the edge of the abyss. Omnivorous with an extremely high reproductive rate. It will devour any visible plant, and its excrement contains strong acid, severely damaging the soil structure.

Warning: It is strictly forbidden to release it into normal divine realms! Once it spreads, the cleanup cost will be more than ten thousand times the purchase price!

Price: 10 Faith Points/kg.

The forum is full of insults and abuse directed at this trashy species.

A few months ago, a commoner deity, disbelieving in superstition, bought a kilogram of it and threw it into his grassland divine realm.

Three days later, the once-proud centaur clan was reduced to skeletons by the insect swarm.

Lin Yuan looked at the ugly egg sheath on the holographic projection, a strange light flashing in his eyes.

What others see as an ecological disaster, Lin Yuan sees as a perfect whetstone.

The Wasteland God Realm has no pure water source to protect, the soil has long been dry, cracked, and carbonized, and the only plant is the equally poisonous Ash Spore Mushroom.

The strong acid in cockroach excrement can even further neutralize the toxicity of the scorched earth.

Lin Yuan allocated 200 faith points to buy a full 20 kilograms of egg cases.

Ripples spread across the bedroom floor.

A black sealed bag fell to the floor.

Lin Yuan closed his eyes, and his consciousness left his body.

Piercing through the astral plane, it descended upon the vast scorched earth.

Below, the ash spore mushroom has spread into a dark gray carpet covering tens of acres.

The petrified goblins, having eaten and drunk their fill, were wrestling and sparring with each other in twos and threes.

Lin Yuan opened the storage space and poured out all twenty kilograms of Abyss Corrupted Cockroach Egg Cases.

Countless black egg sheaths fell densely onto the scorched earth at the edge of the fungal carpet, carried by the embers falling from the sky.

Lin Yuan communicated with the core of the divine realm with his thoughts, consuming three hundred faith points to manipulate the flow of time.

What took a few days in the main world was stretched to three months in the divine realm.

Lin Yuan looked down from his vantage point, observing the ecological evolution below.

Less than three days after the egg cases fell to the ground, the first batch of decaying cockroaches hatched.

They are entirely black, over half a meter long, with hard, rotting carapaces covering their backs and serrated mouthparts.

They followed the scent to find the ash spore mushroom.

The swarm of insects rushed toward the fungal carpet and began to devour it voraciously.

The neurotoxins naturally present in spore mushrooms have almost no effect on them.

After eating their fill, cockroaches quickly mate and lay eggs.

In the first week, there were several thousand.

In the first month, tens of thousands of them.

In the third month, the number of cockroaches reached an astonishing hundreds of thousands.

A massive swarm of black insects surged across the wasteland.

They not only eat mushrooms, but when they are extremely hungry, they even gnaw deep pits into the charred rocks on the ground.

The petrified goblins' peaceful days are over.

Mushroom farms are their lifeline.

On the day the cockroach swarm invaded the farm, the goblin tribe was forced to fight back.

War broke out.

There was no formation, no tactics.

One hundred petrified goblins, wielding petrified flails, charged into the black swarm of insects.

On the first day, the goblins were engaged in a fierce battle.

Cockroaches have extremely hard exoskeletons, and their mouthparts can bite through the rocky skin of goblins.

Several weaker goblins were overwhelmed by the swarm of insects, leaving not even bones behind.

An extreme sense of crisis completely activated the [Boiling Blood] attribute.

The goblins' eyes were bloodshot, and the dark red blood vessels in the cracks of their rocky skin bulged out.

The power explodes twice over.

The flail smashed the cockroach's shell, and green, acidic fluid splattered everywhere.

The injured goblin grabbed the dead cockroaches, tore off their limbs, and gnawed on their flesh.

Amidst the continuous life-or-death battles, the [Rough Body Forging] technique began operating around the clock.

The weak fall in the swarm of insects, turning into fertilizer for the scorched earth.

The surviving goblins underwent a dramatic physical transformation.

His height was increased from 130 centimeters to over 160 centimeters.

Their gray-black rock armor became thicker, and sharp rock spikes grew from their shoulders and elbows.

The timidity inherent in goblins was no longer in their eyes, but replaced by bloodlust and madness.

Three months later, today.

Lin Yuan looked down at the earth.

Of the original one hundred petrified goblins, only sixty remain.

But these sixty survivors have undergone a complete transformation.

They are no longer scattered, individual soldiers fighting their own battles.

In the wasteland basin, a goblin hunting party of thirty people is moving silently forward.

They strung together the cockroach's hardest carapace with insect tendons and tied it to its chest to make a makeshift armor.

What he held in his hand was no longer a flail evolved from a wooden stick, but a pale bone blade honed from the forelegs of a giant cockroach.

The hunting party's target was a huge creature ahead.

A giant cockroach king mutated from consuming too much of the spore mushroom toxin.

It is over five meters long, with a dark green metallic sheen on its back, and venom that corrodes scorched earth drips from its mouthparts.

The cockroach king sensed the approaching creatures, let out a piercing screech, crushed rocks with its body, and charged straight at the hunting party.

The goblins did not back down.

The leading goblin captain was nearly 1.8 meters tall and covered in dark red scars.

It let out a furious battle roar and was the first to activate [Boiling Blood].

Thirty goblins simultaneously went berserk.

They quickly dispersed and launched a pincer attack from both sides.

The bone blade struck the cockroach king's carapace, sending out blinding sparks.

The cockroach king swept its thick forelimbs across, knocking two goblins flying through the chest.

The goblin rolled more than ten meters on the ground, and a large area of ​​the rocky skin on his chest was shattered.

But they rolled over and got up, ignoring their injuries, and continued to pounce on the giant insect's flanks.

The captain seized the opportunity.

It stepped on the cockroach king's hind legs and used the momentum to leap high into the air.

Gripping the bone blade tightly with both hands, and using the force of gravity as he fell, he plunged it deep into the vulnerable neck of the cockroach king through the gap in its carapace.

Dark green poisonous blood gushed out and poured onto the captain's head.

The poisonous blood hissed and corroded, but it could not penetrate its hardened stone skin after its advancement.

The cockroach king rolled and struggled wildly, crushing large sections of rock, and finally died completely.

The intense hand-to-hand combat came to an end.

The hunting team, at the cost of several members sustaining minor injuries, successfully killed a king-level mutant, a feat achieved despite being of a higher level.

The captain drew his bone blade and cleanly sliced ​​open the cockroach king's abdomen, pulling out a huge venom gland.

It walked to the center of the basin.

There was a simple altar made of charred rock, on which was placed a huge stone that resembled the face of Lin Yuan's consciousness.

The captain placed the venom gland and the most intact piece of carapace flat on the altar.

Thirty goblins knelt down on one knee in unison.

"The battle will continue indefinitely!"

Glory to our Lord!

The frenzied shouts tore through the wasteland like a storm, soaring straight into the sky.

Lin Yuan floated in the clouds.

[Log: Your followers have endured a bloody battle, and their minds and bodies have been elevated!]

[Log: Your followers have generated a high-level faith resource – [War Faith]!]

[Note: Your divine realm's ecosystem has initially formed a closed loop, and the stability of the Wasteland Law has increased by 10%!]

Dark golden faith power rose from the heads of the goblins, crossing space and converging into Lin Yuan's body.

In reality, Lin Yuan's physical body emitted a booming sound as his bones were remodeled, and his sense of power expanded exponentially.