I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 972 - 699: They All Want to Come Together

Chapter 972: Chapter 699: They All Want to Come Together

When I initially used the energy of the Sky Pillar to strengthen the equipment, it only cost 50 merit points, but now just one weapon is consuming 60 points—it’s not just expensive, it must include a "smelting fee," making the subsequent add-ons seem much "cheaper"...

That’s nonsense, it’s not cheaper. Besides the items that need to be created, everything else merely involves processing the finished products!

The highest—100—could be said to be the most merit points I’ve ever spent.

Facing such high expenses, Zheng Yichen was calm. He had already experienced the great terror between life and death, so whatever remained didn’t matter much. Enhancing his combat power was the most important thing, as facing the quadruped extraterrestrial beings hadn’t brought him any substantial enhancement.

The improvements that those two Quadruped Dragon Hominids brought him were just so-so; after all, they are modified beings, and what made the Quadruped Dragon Hominids formidable was their innate energy, rather than their bodies, which were relatively ordinary.

Fighting these quadruped extraterrestrial beings brought the greatest benefit to Zheng Yichen, mainly the restoration of his Essence of Life.

The rest didn’t really matter; after all, they were just add-ons, and the galactic warship couldn’t be moved and had to stay here. We’ll see about utilizing it in the future.

However, the overall strength of these galactic warships was just so-so... Well, at least to Zheng Yichen, these things, when matched against the City of Machines in the Great World, would definitely be utterly crushed.

But these things couldn’t be abandoned. What if he went to a world with a lower environment and encountered extraterrestrial beings? Wouldn’t he have to pull out a fleet to contend?

Thus, the existence of the Firmament Wheel was quite necessary.

The quadruped extraterrestrial beings mastered very little magic power; the fleet was purely a product of technology. Let the world of the Firmament Wheel research it thoroughly, especially the engines of the warships. If done well, they could also be functional in lower-environment worlds and not just act like a Godhead or something similar.

Gone to a lower environment, it would become a rock brimming with energy, unable to wield the power to command wind and summon rain like it did in higher environments.

"What if I first strengthen the weapon?"

"Subsequent strengthening and manufacturing are expected to consume 60-70 merit points."

"It’s fine," Zheng Yichen knew he shouldn’t have asked that question out loud, as it turned out that just like before, there was a "smelting fee" on the Dusk side, especially noticeable when handling high-end items.

As for why, he didn’t know, and Tia wouldn’t allow Zheng Yichen to watch while she was strengthening weapons.

Better follow the normal procedure.

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"Brother Chang Qing has new information," Qi Xiangyun said, holding a tablet computer towards Liu Hongzhao and the others.

Liu Hongzhao’s gaze fell on a wooden stick in Qi Xiangyun’s hand: "What is that?"

"It’s wood, I saw Brother Chang Qing put it in, so I took it out."

"I know it’s wood, but Brother Chang Qing wouldn’t just put something so ordinary."

Even though this stick was straight, something that children would really enjoy playing with.

"I’m not sure either, let me see..."

Qi Xiangyun opened the document on the tablet, and the relevant information popped up: "Is this... a branch of the World Tree?"

"The World Tree? That’s a big name," Liu Hongzhao couldn’t help saying. After seeing many worlds, they realized how vast a real world could be. Now, Zheng Yichen had sent them a branch of the World Tree, which sounded quite preposterous.

Lin Yaoyao couldn’t wait to take the branch. It was indeed very straight for a branch. She touched its somewhat rough surface, which wasn’t a big issue.

What was key was the innate properties of the World Tree’s branch; she could feel a strong attraction to it, and her Inner Strength became active. The World Tree’s branch matched her Constitution Attribute very well.

"Hmm... This is raw material processed by ’Senluo,’ suitable for being fashioned into something else. This is for us to play with until later when Chang Qing plans to use this material to make us a scabbard and strengthen our weapons."

"We can’t let Brother Chang Qing spend merit points anymore," Lin Yaoyao immediately said. They had been Dusk mercenaries for a while, though they hadn’t encountered more than ten worlds.

But they had accumulated a decent amount, along with weapons supplied by Zheng Yichen that they could continue using. They didn’t have many places where they needed to use merit points, now each holding an average of forty merit points.

This wasn’t really because they were slow at earning merit points, rather the pace of gaining merit points for typical Dusk mercenaries was also similar, and achieving over five per mission was already considered a high yield for them.

Not many mercenaries could operate like Proxy Agents, since Proxy Agents could earn a large chunk of their merit points primarily through eliminating Boundary Breaking cores.

Furthermore, at that time, there were practically no Dusk mercenaries left in the world about to be broken, and the rewards were monopolized by the Proxy Agents, so their benefits were ten times or even more than those of the Dusk mercenaries.

Their daily expenses didn’t usually involve merit points, but occasionally they would use some, and Xi Xiangyun had used quite a few, almost all of which were spent on the construction of Qi Family Town.

Lin Yaoyao held a branch of the World Tree and asked an alien demon maidservant within Dusk Territory. The maidservant told her that the starting merit points for processing such a branch were three points, and it would require even more if other substances were added.

They had managed to obtain so many merit points because the recent missions had high returns; they, along with other Dusk mercenaries, teamed up to tackle Breakworld elements and ended up killing an enemy’s God Descender...

The technology of God Descenders in the Great World was becoming more generally applicable. Simply put, the conditions for its use were being reduced; it was no longer exclusive to certain powerhouses from the Great World. Now, some mid-tier powerhouses could also use it, and other changes to the technology were appearing.

The Boundary Breaking Organization of the Great World was continually expanding their advantage.

"We’ll give the merit points to Brother Chang Qing, and I’ll go over," Liu Hongzhao said. They couldn’t always let Brother Chang Qing pay; given the favors they owed Zheng Yichen, this issue now...

"Why have you all come?" Zheng Yichen put down Tanshia Firlo, upon seeing the three little ones approaching in person.

"Of course, we missed Brother Chang Qing," Lin Yaoyao ran over enthusiastically. "Initially, we wanted one person to come, but nobody wanted to step aside, so we ended up coming together."

The development at Qi Family Town was now very stable, and they hardly needed to pay attention to it. Leaving for a month or two wouldn’t pose a problem; the native residents there were all submissive, and those princes and nobility didn’t dare provoke Qi Family Town.

They didn’t dare harbor any ulterior motives, not to mention fearing Qi Xiangyun; the people who created the Daughter of Heaven’s Mandate were even more intimidating to them.

"Aren’t you still looking for the ’Immortal Realm’?"

"It’s hard to find. Although we’ve tracked some clues, those old things seem intentionally elusive, using very mysterious methods to hide, causing Yi Nan and others to lose hair in clumps."

Qi Xiangyun said with some trouble. The Compass was useful, but it was more intended for Supreme Demons rather than places like the Immortal Realm.

With people insisting on hiding when the world was recovering its order, that’s just infuriating!" Liu Hongzhao coldly snorted, harboring no fond feelings toward places like the Immortal Realm.

It’s fine to hide during prosperous times, as long as it doesn’t affect the prosperity or leech off it. But hiding during chaotic times makes them nothing more than cowardly.

Since they chose to hide, they might as well keep hiding. However, after the chaos ended, traces of the Immortal Realm appeared again. They found these traces because the people of the Immortal Realm had secret contacts with some of the princes and nobility.

They planned to support certain princes.

Yi Nan analyzed that the people of the Immortal Realm might be preparing to compete for ’Qi Yun’ after the chaotic era, a unique commodity in their world, with the resulting change in fate being even more crucial.

Like Yi Nan’s ten generations of carefree fate; as long as they didn’t court death, ten peaceful reincarnations, each life blessed with good fortune, this was akin to an indirect form of extended life, as peaceful reincarnation required not experiencing the tribulations of reincarnation.

From human in the past life to human in the next.

Besides interacting with those princes and nobility, the people of the Immortal Realm had contacts with alien demons, which was not hard to understand. In their world, with the human race in decline, alien demons were more prevalent, essentially becoming the predominant force of the era.

Had it not been for Zheng Yichen’s existence, who accomplished ’Defying the Heavens and Altering Fate’ in their world, alien demons would have become the primary force of their era long ago.

The heritage of the Immortal Realm wasn’t low; otherwise, they wouldn’t have been able to hide until now. They mightn’t have even been able to find traces of the Immortal Realm had they not possessed the fate of the Daughter of Heaven’s Mandate in their own world.

"Brother Chang Qing, our merit points aren’t being used much, so why don’t we handle the weapon strengthening this time?" Qi Xiangyun said, her gaze finally resting on Zheng Yichen’s white hair.

She had seen such changes in Zheng Yichen before. Knowing the uniqueness of Dusk and that Zheng Yichen was standing here in good condition, she thought the white-haired Brother Chang Qing wasn’t bad...

If he had long hair, that would be even better.

Seeing the serious expressions on the faces of the three little ones, Zheng Yichen smiled, "Then you must keep at least twenty merit points as a safety net."

Twenty merit points, based on his own experiences in the Great World, was the bottom line for bringing someone back from Dusk, assuming the brain was still alive; in fact, bringing someone back didn’t even require that many.

"We don’t need that many..."

"No, you must keep that many," Zheng Yichen didn’t refuse Liu Hongzhao and their goodwill but was not intending to change his mind.

As Dusk mercenaries, they had to save some merit points, not for crafting anything, but for survival.

"Let’s do that then," Qi Xiangyun said somewhat helplessly, believing that keeping about ten merit points would have been more than enough.

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