Zongman: Evolution Paradise

This diversified development is inseparable from the non-players who climb the path.

Their numbers far exceed those of the players, yet they don't have the same worries as players being chased by the amusement park with whips. As a result, while players must pursue their chosen path and have sufficient combat capabilities, non-players can choose a path that is less lethal but more stable.

For example, crafting weapons, making medicine, and farming.

Of course, this only means that non-player groups have made outstanding contributions to expanding the branches and schools of the path. It does not mean that players cannot learn some side professions. Players who are backed by the Paradise can easily reach the top level of their skills with Paradise coins and skill talents, even if they do not become masters. Non-players can only take one step at a time.

Jolyne asked Ace about crafting equipment, which is a secondary profession collectively known as artisan. Anyone who strives to improve their forging skills can be called an artisan, skilled at forging various materials into equipment and items.

Including the crude martial arts system, each path has its own methods for crafting equipment and items. Medea, who possesses [Item Creation], can also be a craftswoman of the arithmetic magic system.

Many artisans even united to establish the [Artisan Association], which had a very wide sphere of influence.

"will not."

Ace shook his head. "I was just thinking that the pollution of the abyss can even corrupt machinery. Could machinery, in turn, wield the power of gods and monsters? As a biochemist, my research focuses on biomechanical modification, and this hand axe is a very interesting piece of material."

“A great research direction.”

Jolyne wholeheartedly agreed with this idea.

Looking to the future, isn't this the Kanoko who combines martial arts and mythology?

"Go for it, Ace!"

"...Let's not try anymore." Ace put down her hand axe somewhat embarrassedly. She was well aware of her own abilities and tried to lower the captain's expectations. "If it were that easy, the mechanical engineering seniors would have already created a separate school of thought for it."

"Don't give up so easily."

Jolyne patted her head. “Great adventures give birth to countless legends. Everyone on this ship will be heading towards a bright future. A mere founder of a school of thought won’t even be able to sit at a table in a few years.”

[Job Placement Completion Rate: 13%]

After the battle with Yuan Tianlu Mo, the job application progress has finally improved a bit.

Yuan Tianlu remained silent. She was a prisoner and bystander on the Human-Faced Dog, and even Hanako was more qualified to be moved by these words. But at this moment, Yuan Tianlu's heart was pounding on its own, as if it wanted to break free from its body and dance a Viennese waltz on the deck.

Then, in a daze, she realized that Jolyne had suddenly turned around and looked at her, saying, "Of course, the crew I'm talking about doesn't include Egg. Egg, you can just go find a cardboard box under a bridge and rot away."

[Level Three Evil Deed: Yuan Tianlu Demon swears she will never let you go, even in her next life and the life after that. As for this life, she swears she will stay far away from you and never see you again!]

"Pfft~ I'll try my best."

Ace laughed and pushed Jolyne's hand away, as the human-faced dog was about to bite her.

"Master, master! The human-faced dog will try its best!"

"Then open your learning assignment! Have you turned to page two of the Introductory Principles of Mechanical Engineering?"

Jolun angrily rubbed the human-faced dog's head, and the human-faced dog stammered in defense, "I am learning! It's just that I've never been to school, so I can't understand it at all! The knowledge transmission of mechanical spirit roots also needs time to digest!"

Fortunately, the mechanical spirit root is not in this book, otherwise, as an illiterate person who has never been to school, the human-faced dog would probably be completely clueless about how to use it. Jolyne can only hope that the human-faced dog can make up for its innate intelligence through hard work.

Hmm... The day after tomorrow, the ability seeds from the workshop will try their best to cover the knowledge points that I can't learn.

Although she certainly won't reach the high realm, the human-faced dog wasn't supposed to be able to break through to the high realm anyway. Even if she gets stuck at the fourth or fifth realm in the future, she'll still be good enough to be a maid.

As for the choice of a mechanical-type guardian spirit?

Jolyne needs to consider this carefully.

Regardless of the path one takes, reaching the advanced level is not something that can be easily achieved through resources and talent alone; it requires being a true young dragon in the making!

"Captain, we'll reach the location marked on the treasure map in about a day. The island there will require us to deviate from the normal course."

Nami greeted them, holding up the treasure map.

This Devil Fruit, worth 100 million Berries, tempted her to reveal her identity and join the crew. Nami felt both eager and nervous. She had only been on the crew for a few days and obviously couldn't have developed any feelings for them. She was still struggling with whether or not to reveal the existence of the Arlong Pirates, but she kept rejecting the idea due to various concerns.

"no problem."

Signing to Nami that she was free to decide the route, Jolyne glanced at the empty mast and asked, "Isn't our pirate flag ready yet?"

The townspeople of Shells were enthusiastic not only because Morgan had been defeated, but also largely because the Hound of the Human didn't even have a pirate flag. Since they weren't pirates, what was there to be afraid of? Seeing such an extravagant flagship, they even thought it was an army.

Although not flying the pirate flag gives Jolyne a friendly buff, and the job application doesn't require Jolyne to be a pirate, since he's already in the pirate world, how can he not experience the local culture? Being a pirate would also help him accumulate more bad karma.

Jolyne didn't even need to do anything; just by flying the pirate flag and circling the island, countless people whose families had been destroyed by pirates would equally hate him. Although the quality of that evil karma was poor, the quantity was also large!

Joan of Arc raised her hand, "I drew it!"

Princess Goldfish: "I drew one too!"

"Me! Me! Me! The master chose my painting!"

The human-faced dog broke free of its restraints.

It turns out that it wasn't that they weren't prepared, but rather that Jolyne had gone to the main world, so the pirate flag they had drawn could only be temporarily put aside and couldn't be selected.

The midday sun was blinding. Everyone returned to the ship's living room. Jolyne coldly and decisively retreated from the skull with a human-faced dog leading a dog and the skull with a crown on her head and a trident in her hand, Ponyo. Although Ponyo insisted that it was the trident of Poseidon, Jolyne still did not like the trident. In the end, Jeanne's black dragon pirate flag stood out from the crowd of works.

However, the pirate flag drawn by Joan of Arc was actually based on the Cursed Flag, with some additions of skull pirate elements. But Joan of Arc's Cursed Flag was already an incredibly cool and creative design.

Chapter 508 Black Sun Becomes a Spirit

As the sea breeze swept by, the pirate flag depicting a black dragon devouring a skull fluttered in the wind.

The Man-faced Dog, like a steel behemoth, plunged its bow into the azure sea, causing gray and white waves to surge up on both sides. The long, deep wake left by the stern churned with snow-white foam, attracting a large number of sea creatures to chase after it.

A large bird resembling a seagull with a pink banana on its chin swooped down from the sky, skimming across the sea for several meters before dissipating its momentum. When it took flight again, a thrashing fish was now in its talons.

It eagerly looked down, wanting to savor the deliciousness of its prey, but was completely bewildered to find a purple, spherical, unidentified creature on its paw, and this creature's paw was reaching towards the pink banana under its chin.

But those were its unhatched offspring!

The bird's eyes bulged instantly, and it performed a high-difficulty spin in the sky in terror. Soon after, Gastly saw stars and fell dizzily into the sea. The habitual Black Sun Crow stood indifferently on the figurehead, watching the bird circle back, pooped, and landed directly on Gastly before leaving while cursing.

"...the age when people and dogs hate you."

Black Sun sighed, spread its wings and chased after the big bird like a ghost, quietly picking a bunch of pink bananas. The Gastly, now soaked to the bone, floated back to the ship and was immediately moved by Black Sun, waving its tongue and pouncing on him. Two or three seconds later, Gastly lost its ability to battle, leaning back and slumping on the deck, revealing its mosquito coil eyes. Black Sun also placed the pink bananas, which it used to restore Pokémon status, next to it.

才被舌舔困扰了两天，心境不稳的黑日便已经忍不住用物理方法来帮助鬼斯通戒除不良习惯，现在只要鬼斯通敢舔它就要挨揍，而宝可梦这种生物的恢复速度极快，只要有充足的食物和治疗就能一直战斗下去，于是短短一天时间鬼斯通就被揍出了好几次蚊香眼。

Now, even Black Sun is actively enticing Gastly to lick him before beating him up. In a few more days, Gastly might even evolve.

The black sun continued to fly to the mast to stand guard.

Because of its solitary nature, and the constant noise from the people in the cabin, Black Raven rarely appeared in front of them except when eating, and even Jolyne often forgot about its existence.

Hmm... For example, when fighting against Yuan Tianlu Mo, Nan Lixiang forgot about this combat power.

However, Jolyne, who was also dragging Jeanne and Saeko Busujima to their room on the third floor to handle some serious business because everyone was making too much noise, happened to see it.

"Hey, Black Sun, didn't you bring the kids today?"

In the Ghost Story Association, the aloof Black Sun is undoubtedly a breath of fresh air. Jolyne, who gets annoyed by everyone's excessive noise, suddenly finds herself unable to resist the urge to tease Black Sun.

"Black Sun has a child?!"

Saeko Busujima asked in surprise. In some ways, she was actually a bit dull, just like Shizuka Marikawa, after all, she was a rich young lady with a strange personality.

How many eggs did it lay?

Joan of Arc asked curiously as well.

Joan of Arc was different; Joan of Arc was genuinely naive.

Black Sun, who didn't want to talk to anyone: "..."

"The child refers to Gastly."

Jolyne explained to them that she was wondering why Ghoststone wasn't bothering Sun, and then she noticed a Pokémon on the deck with mosquito coil-like eyes. "Sun, how could you secretly attack your companion?"

Although the crow's expression was unreadable, Black Sun was indeed embarrassed by being criticized by its owner.

Jolyne reached out the window, and the Black Sun spread its wings and flew over, landing on his arm. Joan of Arc couldn't resist touching its feathers, feeling a sense of closeness emanating from them.

"I just realized that the sun has become... um..."

Joan of Arc pondered, "Beautiful? My Dragon Witch talent is reacting to it. When did this raven transform from demon blood to dragon blood?"

"It's a transformation that's only recently been completed."

Jolyne quipped, "You only realized it now because you've only seen it a few times in the first place."

The Black Sun is indeed exceptionally handsome now.

It has six claws, and its dark wings gleam with beautiful arcs like dragon scales in the sunlight. One eye is a narrow and lively crimson, while the other eye is a hollow and eerie pure black.

The reason it turned out this way is because after Black Sun became the spirit of the Underworld Emperor, it directly devoured the black dragon that originally existed inside the Underworld Emperor.

The six-clawed, alien black dragon in the Underworld was originally a half-spirit prepared by the craftsman. Stripped of its intelligence, it only needed to be nurtured by the user. When the black dragon half-spirit was reborn and regained its integrity, the newly born intelligence was naturally stained with the user's color.

Unfortunately, Jolyne did not choose to continue nurturing the black dragon's spirit. Instead, he made Black Sun the spirit and gave the black dragon a quick death. After Black Sun fused with the alien black dragon, he felt as if he had been reborn from the ashes. All the impurities in his original Demon Slayer blood were burned away.

During the workshop's testing, Black Sun's bloodline had been transformed into a high-purity Ghost Dragon.

Jolyne named it: Crow Dance Dragon.

[Yin Tianzi] is a divine and mysterious type of equipment, and its power level has reached the fourth realm of divine and mysterious. As the spirit of the weapon, Black Sun can also exert the power of the pseudo-fourth realm of divine and mysterious, making it the strongest on this ship.

This is the unique characteristic of [Spirit Vessel].

Unlike players who cannot fully utilize the effects of high-level equipment due to insufficient strength, the spirit has become an integral part of the equipment. The idea that the spirit complements and grows together with the equipment is not a joke; it represents the most closely connected relationship between the body and soul in the world.

If we compare equipment to a physical body, then the spirit of the equipment is its soul. Since the power level of the Yin Emperor has reached the level of the Divine and Deceptive Realm, the Black Sun, as the spirit of the Yin Emperor, has naturally also reached the level of the Divine and Deceptive Realm.

However, neither Yin Tianzi nor Hei Ri is a true Divine Demon Realm Four Realm. Hei Ri's strength can only be considered a pseudo Divine Demon Realm Four Realm. Moreover, becoming the spirit of powerful equipment, which seems like a shortcut to quickly gain great power, actually has many flaws and drawbacks.

For example, Black Sun was able to easily devour Black Dragon and replace it as the equipment spirit because of the workshop's help; otherwise, it wouldn't have been so easy to do. Also, Black Sun's future growth is already bound to the equipment, similar to the Dao artifact and its spirit in immortality. If Yin Tianzi damages Black Sun, its strength will also decline or even perish. At the same time, Black Sun, which is no longer an independent life form, must help the equipment advance together if it wants to continue to break through its realm.

Or, to put it another way, equipment is like Black Sun. If you want to become stronger, you can't just become stronger in one part; if you want to lose weight, you can't just lose belly fat without changing your chest.

Fortunately, the flaws do not outweigh the merits. Even an incomplete Divine Realm Four Realms can easily kill an ordinary Three Realms, so becoming a weapon spirit is not necessarily a bad path.

Chapter 509 Professional Book: Dragon Shepherd Witch

And that goes without saying.

If the spirit is useless, why should Jolun find a second master for his equipment? Doesn't Black Sun deserve to grow as an independent life form?

Rumor has it that many powerful individuals in the main world choose to become the spirits of equipment before they are on the verge of death or lose control, thus surviving for a few more years. To put it more seriously, this is called a different way of protecting the younger generation of the family.

Joan of Arc sensed something amiss after a moment, realizing through her innate talent. She picked up the little raven and examined it incredulously from all sides, then said with certainty to the two beside her, "Its aura has already reached the strength of our Martial God Body after fusion!"

"Eh???"

Saeko Busujima was somewhat surprised. The strength of the Martial God Body after fusion was at the third realm, but Saeko Busujima did not feel any pressure from Kurohi at all.

This is because Black Sun possesses the Blood Demon Art [Eye Concealment] from Yushiro in Demon Slayer. The initial version could conceal Mushu Kibutsuji, and later even Aki Tomoya's tools could not detect it. Not to mention now, after undergoing a huge transformation, Black Sun's Eye Concealment ability has been renamed [Hidden Feather], which has an extremely powerful aura concealment effect.

That's why, apart from Jolyne and the workshop researchers, no one else knew the Black Sun's strength. Jeanne only discovered the clues through the special effects of the Dragon Witch's talent on dragons after getting close to the Black Sun.

"Black Sun is now the strongest on the ship..."

Jolyne pulled them aside to explain the reason. Saeko Busujima couldn't help but feel a little envious after hearing it, while Jeanne d'Arc, because of her own potential, didn't care about the little raven at all.

Let alone the pseudo-god of the four realms, if she hadn't signed the guardian spirit contract, she would have already broken through to the proper four realms like Medea and the others. She's just a mere artifact spirit who traded future possibilities for present strength.

Ok……

Anyone who has read fantasy novels knows that it is much more difficult for Dao artifacts to advance than for cultivators.

"I hope Egg finds out about this later," Saeko Busujima said cheerfully. "If she knew that she had no chance of winning from beginning to end, and that you only used the fusion of the Martial God Body and didn't even wear the equipment of the fourth realm, she would probably be so angry that she would break her defenses."

"I remember."

Xu Lun rubbed his chin. "I'll tell Black Sun that she has the strength of the fourth realm later."

"Ahahaha~"

Joan of Arc couldn't help but smile, and Saeko Busujima also looked at Jolyne with a helpless smile. They both knew about the special effects of the Duke of Evil, and among the people on the ship, only Genten Lumo could farm evil points. Even if Jolyne wanted to farm evil points, it would be difficult for the others. Moreover, he had no need to do evil for evil points that were no more than level one. Jolyne farmed small amounts of evil points more to obtain information.

In the exceptionally pleasant atmosphere, the cold-eyed Black Sun didn't blend in at all; if its owner hadn't been there, it would have wanted to fly back to the top of the mast.

“鬼斯通是宝可梦，你想揍它可以先给它找个训练家，然后让训练家指挥鬼斯通与你对战，这样你就可以名正言顺地揍鬼斯通，当鬼斯通等级提高进化成耿鬼没准就不舔你了。”

Jolyne gave it advice.

Gastly is too young; it might be more mature after evolving into Gengar.