Chapter 676 - 375: Returning Fully Loaded

Cold sweat broke out on the male Bag Race member’s forehead. He let out a muffled grunt, gritting his teeth to endure.

However, when Su Ze inserted the third Shadowless Needle, a bloodcurdling scream echoed in his ears.

"Ah! Spare me! I’ll do anything you ask! Ahhh..."

Watching the male Bag Race member writhing on the ground, Su Ze sneered.

’I didn’t expect these Shadowless Needles could be used for torture. They’re surprisingly effective.’

’This male Bag Race member was surprisingly tough. I didn’t expect him to break after only three needles. His wife, after all, took a full 299 without ever begging for mercy.’

"Didn’t you say that pain is no different from any other sensation, just one feeling among many? Why beg for mercy now?"

"Pain is life’s warning bell," the male Bag Race member corrected himself.

...

Under the threat of the Shadowless Needles, the male Bag Race member obediently complied. He not only used his authority to open the Moon God-level Spaceship but also transferred his pilot privileges to Mr. Ya.

Mr. Ya officially took control of the spaceship. Although he didn’t have captain-level clearance, his pilot privileges were sufficient to operate the ship normally in the absence of a captain.

’Anyway, the first step is to get the ship back. We can figure out how to crack the captain’s clearance later.’

The spaceship also held a considerable amount of resources, all acquired by the pair through scams and deceit. This included the treasures the male Bag Race member used for his stall, which even contained Tier Eight materials and Evolution Crystals. Su Ze took it all.

Once all this was done, the male Bag Race member was of no further use. Su Ze didn’t torture him anymore; he ended his life cleanly and plundered his Origin Gene.

The male Bag Race member’s Bag Race Origin Gene was only about 7% complete.

Previously, Su Ze had absorbed the Origin Gene of the Female Bag Race member, bringing his collection progress for the Bag Race Origin Gene to 15%. Now, after absorbing the male’s, the completion percentage increased to 18%...

This meant that only 3% of their Origin Genes did not overlap.

This was normal. The Origin Genes possessed by each individual were never identical; there were always parts that didn’t overlap.

But the more of a race’s Origin Gene Su Ze collected, and the higher his completion percentage grew, the greater the probability of overlap became.

If he already had over 90% of the Bag Race’s Origin Gene, he could kill thousands, even tens of thousands, of Bag Race gods, and it would still be nearly impossible to complete the final 10%...

After becoming the pilot of the Moon God-level Spaceship, Mr. Ya finally learned its name: the Nebula.

He shrank the Nebula to the size of his palm and brought it aboard the Magic Cube.

The Magic Cube accelerated, vanishing in an instant.

Their next stop was the nearby Bag Race stronghold.

Taking out the Bag Race couple and then plundering their stronghold—this had been Su Ze’s plan from the start.

Before making his move, Su Ze piloted the cloaked Magic Cube to perform a reconnaissance sweep of the entire planet. He confirmed that no Moon God-level experts remained, only a few Star Gods.

And so, the plunder began!

Su Ze immediately blockaded the entire planet and began to frantically pillage its resources.

The first thing he looked for was the upgrade material that had drawn his attention. When he finally located the item, he discovered it was a Tier Seven Divine Artifact Mirror.

He put the mirror away, planning to absorb it later, and refocused on looting the planet.

After maximizing his size, he created over a thousand clones. Like a swarm of locusts, they swept across the planet, stripping away all evolutionary resources in their path.

The Bag Race members were naturally timid when faced with a powerful being, and they all obediently offered up their wealth to spare their lives.

A few defiant Bag Race Star Gods, seeing that Su Ze was also merely a Star God, tried to resist. Su Ze killed and plundered them all, which brought his collection progress for the Bag Race Origin Gene up to 24%.

The higher his progress, the more the genes overlapped. This made Su Ze realize just how difficult it was to collect another race’s complete set of genes.

Now, when he plundered a Bag Race Star God, if he were unlucky, their Origin Genes might overlap completely, yielding no progress whatsoever.

At this stage, the fastest way to collect more Bag Race genes was to hunt high-tier experts of their race directly. Plundering a Bag Race Sun God, for instance, might be enough to boost his collection progress past 50%.

Of course, plundering the "defiled ones" from various races was also an excellent option, as those individuals possessed an absurdly high completion percentage of their own race’s Origin Gene.

Su Ze looted the Bag Race stronghold with maximum speed, acquiring a massive haul of resources. The entire process was smoother than he could have imagined.

It was a truly massive haul. Although it was all low-tier resources, the sheer quantity meant it would fetch a considerable price.

He only managed to find a tiny amount of Tier Seven resources, and not a single Tier Eight resource.

Once the looting was complete, Su Ze made a swift departure. He did not engage in a wholesale slaughter of the planet’s Bag Race population.

He was only after their wealth, not their lives—although, in his mind, he never considered the Bag Race "people" anyway. He just saw them as a type of special animal, not unlike exotic beasts.

With a ship full of resources, Su Ze set a course for Zexing.

He was returning from this trip fully loaded.

On the way back, Su Ze absorbed the Tier Seven Divine Artifact Mirror he had just acquired, and his "Instant Simulation" skill completed its upgrade.

Instant Simulation (Tier Seven Divine Skill): Simulate and immediately use a skill seen within the last three days. When attempting to simulate a skill of a higher tier, its effects will be weakened, or the simulation will fail.

Su Ze was pleasantly surprised to see that this was the skill that had been upgraded.

’This skill has a very high ceiling, but it’s heavily dependent on its tier. If it hadn’t been upgraded soon, it would have gradually become useless.’

The most obvious change after the upgrade was the significant extension of its time frame, from simulating a skill seen within ten seconds to one seen within three days.

Additionally, the skill’s cooldown was further reduced. It could now be used again just over ten minutes after each activation.

But Su Ze knew these changes were secondary. The greatest enhancement was the increase in the skill’s tier itself.

The higher the tier of "Instant Simulation," the stronger the skills it could replicate. At Tier Six, it could only exert a maximum of Tier Six power, regardless of the skill being simulated. But now, at Tier Seven, the power ceiling of the simulated skills was also raised to Tier Seven.

Su Ze checked the navigation and saw that he was still several days away from Zexing. He began to wonder if he should try to heal the Mother Tree’s master.

Su Ze didn’t dare attempt the treatment on Zexing. If he actually succeeded, Zexing’s coordinates would be exposed.

Out here in space, however, he could make the attempt without any such worries.

He discussed it with the Mother Tree, who readily agreed and released her master.

Seeing the Tree Spirit Race Moon God again, Su Ze no longer felt his previous awe. After all, he had just killed a Moon God himself.

’Let’s try the Regeneration Fruit first.’

Su Ze materialized a Regeneration Fruit and guided it toward the mouth of the Mother Tree’s master...