Chapter 674 - 375: Returning Fully Loaded

The Female Bag Race possessed a full set of space-type skills, so Su Ze had guessed it would be his Space Jump skill that got upgraded. However, the sheer magnitude of the enhancement still astonished him.

Space Jump had leaped directly from a sixth-rank skill to an eighth-rank divine skill!

It had jumped two ranks at once.

Su Ze speculated there were a couple of reasons for this. First, the Space Jump skill had originally come from the Shepherd King; it was a Divine Skill Prototype from a Moon God-level Bloodline Crystal and already had the potential to become an eighth-rank divine skill.

Second, the Female Bag Race had mastered more than one space-type skill, and many of them were already high-rank. She possessed far more than a single eighth-rank space skill, so it was possible he had plundered more than just one from her.

Using two or more eighth-rank divine space skills to enhance and upgrade a sixth-rank Space Jump made its promotion to eighth-rank perfectly understandable.

The effects of the eighth-rank Space Jump were also incredibly powerful.

Space Jump (Eighth-Rank Divine Skill): Allows for spatial jumps within a certain range. Can swap positions with clones or active body parts.

First, the jump distance had increased dramatically. Previously, he could only perform short-range jumps, but now Su Ze could easily leap several hundred meters.

Next was the number of jumps. Before the upgrade, he only had one chance to jump before the skill entered its cooldown period.

Although the cooldown wasn’t long, he still had to wait.

Most battles were decided in a short amount of time, making it difficult to find an opportunity to use Space Jump a second time in a single fight.

But now, there was no limit on the number of uses—only a limit based on the skill’s consumption.

The more times it was used in a short period, the greater the consumption. Likewise, a longer jump distance would also increase the cost.

Additionally, his body size would also affect the consumption. The larger his form, the more evolutionary power a Space Jump would consume.

What interested Su Ze even more was the newly added "swap" effect.

’The ability to swap positions with a clone or an active body part... That’s very interesting.’

This effect was clearly an upgrade that came from absorbing the Female Bag Race’s item-swapping skill.

The skill’s true power lay in its lack of a distance limit!

No matter how far apart they were, he could swap positions.

However, after using it, the skill had a cooldown of a full month!

But that was understandable, as this could be considered an incredibly powerful life-saving skill. When faced with danger, he could directly swap with a distant clone or body part to escape a perilous situation.

The eligible targets for the swap were what Su Ze found a bit hard to understand.

He had no trouble understanding the "clone" part. Any of the clones he had separated from himself could be used for the swap.

’It’s just that it’s rather pointless. My clones can’t stray too far from my main body, so it would just be a short-range swap. In that case, I might as well just use Space Jump to get there directly.’

Therefore, if Su Ze wanted to make good use of this skill, he had to give up on the clone option.

What Su Ze couldn’t comprehend at the moment was the phrase "active body parts." ’What in the world does that mean?’

Taken literally, it meant a living part of his body.

A severed leg or a chopped-off finger were dead things. Even if they remained active for a short while after being cut off, they would inevitably lose their vitality over time.

’How can a body part that has been separated from the body be kept active?’

Su Ze thought of his previous headless clone—the one the Pope had parasitized. It had stayed alive even without a head. ’Doesn’t that perfectly fit the requirement?’

And since the Pope was now under his control, it was theoretically possible to try and mass-produce these headless clones.

’But it would require me to self-mutilate every time...’

Strictly speaking, that headless body had already lost its activity when it was severed. It was the Pope’s Blood and Flesh Parasite Skill that had restored its vitality. That body didn’t contain Su Ze’s consciousness; instead, the Pope’s consciousness lay dormant within it.

So, it was still unknown whether a replicated headless clone could actually be used as a target for the swap.

Su Ze decided to try using the position-swapping ability, carefully sensing for any eligible targets.

In an instant, he felt something. It was as if he had established a fleeting, mystical connection with three different locations.

There were three targets he could swap positions with!

This was completely unexpected. What surprised him even more was that one of them was extremely close—right in front of him, in fact.

The Pope!

He could swap positions with the Pope.

After a moment of thought, Su Ze understood. He had used a simulated version of the Blood and Flesh Parasite on the Pope, which meant the Pope effectively had a piece of Su Ze’s flesh inside him, imbued with Su Ze’s consciousness, which was constantly controlling him.

This naturally met the conditions.

’However...’

Su Ze considered it: if he encountered danger in the future, he could just swap the Pope over to die in his place...

The thought wasn’t without merit.

He was just a bit reluctant, since the Pope was still quite valuable at the moment.

If the Pope was a valid target, then Pulamon, who was also controlled by Su Ze’s Blood and Flesh Parasite, would naturally work as well.

Su Ze now knew who the most distant of the three connections was. It had to be Pulamon, who was far away on Blue Star.

Relatively speaking, Pulamon wasn’t as important. As a sacrificial pawn, he was a higher priority than the Pope.

Su Ze could even use this method to make a quick trip back to Blue Star.

’But who is the last swap target?’

That connection wasn’t close, but it wasn’t too far either. Su Ze focused his senses for a moment and instantly understood.

This final swap target was on Zexing, inside the Emerald Spaceship.

On this trip, Su Ze had only brought the scepter that was the Mother Tree’s main body; he hadn’t brought the Emerald Spaceship.

Inside that spaceship was a Flesh Statue.