Chapter 673 - 374: Plundering the Moon God (Part 3)

The Female Bag Race member didn’t back down. Just as the two were about to collide, she raised her Bone Shield, and a torrent of energy surged from it, engulfing Su Ze.

It was all the energy from Su Ze’s "strongest attack" moments ago. The Bone Shield had absorbed it completely, and now it was shockingly returned at double the strength!

Su Ze was prepared. His "Sponge" ability once again absorbed all this energy, instantly reaching saturation.

But the Female Bag Race member gave Su Ze no time to breathe. From another direction, the surging purple flames swept in again as the torch-like Divine Artifact materialized in her hand once more.

Su Ze immediately felt a searing pain, but he gritted his teeth and held on, continuously controlling his "Sponge" ability to absorb as much of the purple flame as he could.

’Absorb more... just a little more!’

He was trying to push past the capacity limit of his "Sponge" ability.

Finally, he felt his body had truly reached its limit. It seemed that absorbing even a sliver more energy would cause him to explode.

At this point, he was not far from the Female Bag Race member.

Detonate!

With a single thought, the berserk energy accumulated in his body erupted violently, achieving its most cathartic release in that instant.

This was the "Sponge" ability’s only attack method: Energy Release.

It unleashed all the absorbed energy at once. The more energy stored and the higher its quality, the greater the power of the release.

After the energy was released, the "Sponge" ability would also enter a cooldown period.

This ability was Su Ze’s only defense against the purple flames. Therefore, after using Energy Release, he had to end the fight as quickly as possible, or he would be at a disadvantage.

A mixture of various energies swept out from Su Ze, like a furious tide, like a tsunami, devouring and pulverizing everything in its path.

Under the onslaught of the energy torrent, the Female Bag Race member’s newly regenerated body was like a leaf in the wind, teetering on the verge of collapse. Her skin cracked inch by inch, but she was still struggling to hold on.

But at that moment, one Shadowless Needle after another pierced her body silently. A massive amount of shadow power was frantically injected, instantly flooding her system.

As a top-quality Tier-8 Divine Artifact, the Shadowless Needle’s direct killing power wasn’t actually that strong.

But it was insidious!

It came and went without a trace, making it impossible to guard against.

Even though the Female Bag Race member had long known Su Ze possessed this weapon, she was powerless to defend against it and fell for it time and time again.

This sudden burst from the Shadowless Needle was the straw that broke the camel’s back. The Female Bag Race member’s focus faltered, and she was instantly engulfed by the energy torrent. Her body, invaded by the various energies, began to rapidly disintegrate.

Seizing the opportunity, Su Ze shot forward. His hand descended, grabbing the Female Bag Race member and crushing her into a bloody pulp with a single, powerful squeeze.

Devour!

Following the pull from within his body, he began to plunder the Female Bag Race member.

The Female Bag Race member tried to struggle and fight back, but the evolutionary power within Su Ze was like a cat that had scented blood. It bored into her body and began to plunder frantically.

It extracted and swept away all the Evolutionary Material and Origin Genes that Su Ze required.

The sensation was more agonizing than death by a thousand cuts. It was as if the target of the plunder was being diced into cell-sized fragments, from which the desired parts were being extracted.

The Female Bag Race member let out a bloodcurdling scream laced with curses, but she soon fell silent.

She wasn’t completely dead, however. A Moon God’s vitality was tenacious, their life energy immensely powerful. Even if their physical body disintegrated, their soul could survive for a long time.

Adhering to the principle of "waste not, want not," Su Ze took out his Weapon Seed, shaped it into a dagger, and plunged it into the Female Bag Race member’s body to extract her remaining energy.

After just a second or two of absorption, the Weapon Seed upgraded directly. It finally ascended from Tier 6 to Tier 7, completing its transformation from a Tier-6 Wondrous Item into a Tier-7 Divine Artifact.

But it wasn’t over. A large amount of residual energy remained within the Female Bag Race member’s body, and the Weapon Seed continued to absorb it.

’Upgrading the Weapon Seed really is energy-intensive,’ Su Ze had to admit. He had killed so many enemies and fed it so much energy before, yet the Weapon Seed had never upgraded.

Only after devouring the residual energy from the corpse of a Moon God expert did it finally break through.

’No wonder the Mother Tree’s master gave up on cultivating it. He was a researcher who dealt with flowers and plants all day and rarely fought. The resources required to cultivate and upgrade the Weapon Seed must have been astronomical.’

’The Weapon Seed is a weapon of slaughter. It must be constantly used in battle, constantly killing enemies, in order to be sustained.’

A moment later, the Weapon Seed finished its absorption. The Female Bag Race member was completely annihilated, not even a speck of dust remaining.

The violent energy in the area had long since subsided, and everything returned to tranquility.

Su Ze picked up the Weapon Seed and weighed it in his hand. He changed its shape and swung it a few times, immediately sensing a fundamental improvement in every aspect of the weapon.

Now, after completely devouring the Female Bag Race member, the Weapon Seed was no longer a common-grade Tier-7 Divine Artifact. It was likely equivalent to one of the more powerful ones within that tier.

For the current Su Ze, it was more than enough.

As for Su Ze himself, his strength had also clearly increased after plundering the Female Bag Race member.

This was the first time he had plundered an alien race. Firstly, in terms of Origin Genes, he had never before absorbed any from the Bag Race.

In the legacy left by Mr. Ao, the Bag Race Origin Gene had a completeness of over 20%, so Su Ze couldn’t absorb it yet.

But surprisingly, this Female Bag Race member’s Origin Gene completeness was only around 15%. She did, however, possess quite a few Origin Genes from various other races.

This was a common phenomenon in the current universe.

Normally, one needed to have an Origin Gene completeness of 20% for their own race to advance to the rank of Moon God. If that completeness was insufficient, one had to plunder a large amount of Origin Genes from other races to make up the difference.

In the current universe, aside from the Tainted Ones, no one could meet this standard, so everyone plundered other races en masse.

Whenever a target was plundered, any Origin Genes they had previously plundered would naturally be absorbed as well.

Since Su Ze’s first time plundering another race was a Moon God, the number of Origin Genes he could obtain was quite substantial.

This rate of power increase was much faster than what he could achieve through secluded cultivation.

Additionally, after absorbing some of the Evolutionary Material from the Female Bag Race member’s body, Su Ze’s "Space Jump" ability upgraded as expected.