Lin Xiaohe caught up with the three dimension-piercing ships.
One more step forward, and the drag force and damage they endured would increase exponentially.
Lin Xiaohe’s fiery red figure floated quietly there, coldly gazing at the exit ahead.
Scenes of previous eras’ civilizations breaking the cage surfaced in her mind one by one.
Lin Xiaohe gritted her teeth. No matter how powerful the enemy was, they couldn’t stop her from leaving this place!
Lin Xiaohe redirected the life essence within her body.
In an instant, the light pillars seemed to have triggered some kind of switch, frantically drawing out life essence.
At that moment, Lin Xiaohe suddenly felt the drag force on her body decrease by a portion.
She pushed hard with her legs and actually shot forward a great distance.
In a flash, Lin Xiaohe figured out many things.
So that was it!
…
Inside Chu Huaizhi’s silver warship, Nuwa’s emotionless voice rang out.
“According to detection, we have reached the critical point for dimension-piercing. We don’t have enough life essence in the ship. You can only choose one of two options: pierce through dimensions, or charge toward the exit ahead.”
Chu Huaizhi gazed at Lin Xiaohe’s figure ahead, no one knew what he was thinking: “Analyze the success rate of both options.”
Nuwa…
“Are you deliberately making things difficult for me? The Holy Stele’s power exceeds our estimates. The cosmic separation technology it displays is one of a Level 10 civilization’s creation technologies. The appearance of this light pillar has completely overturned our assumptions.”
Chu Huaizhi: “Continue your analysis.”
Nuwa: “I once saw a simplified version of cosmic separation technique on the battlefield of the God War.”
Chu Huaizhi’s eyes flickered. Could this really be the Land of God’s Fall?
“Who used it?”
“The God Sovereign.”
Both fell silent.
Even the God Sovereign could only use a simplified version of cosmic separation technique?! If the Holy Stele could use the complete technique, wouldn’t it be more powerful than the God Sovereign? Then how powerful must the civilization that created the Holy Stele be?
Chu Huaizhi knew he had made a mistake.
He never should have risked coming here for the Godhood.
Perhaps they were all pawns of some higher civilization.
At this point, overthinking was useless.
Chu Huaizhi: “The Holy Stele provided two things — the dimension-piercing ships and the light pillars. If we had enough life essence, we could pierce through dimensions within the light pillar. Unfortunately, we don’t.”
Nuwa: “Right. What do you decide to do?”
“Follow Lin Xiaohe. Overtake her!”
The silver warship’s cargo bay doors opened automatically.
Inside were cube-shaped objects arranged one after another, almost filling the entire cargo hold.
A round hole was exposed at the top of each cube.
Just then, the silver warship trembled slightly. The next second, as if breaking free from some restraining force, it shot forward with a whoosh.
At the same time, the Aola people’s ship that had fallen behind seemed to receive some kind of buff, racing forward all the way, overtaking the Adjudicator and landing in the top five.
Chu Huaizhi raised an eyebrow: “What’s going on?! Why are the Aola people suddenly catching up?”
Nuwa ran her calculations and nearly spat out a mouthful of blood: “It’s the cubes!”
Chu Huaizhi suppressed his anger and asked: “Aren’t those your Aola people’s special storage devices, inherited from your legacy, capable of storing spirit energy and life essence?”
Nuwa was beyond frustrated: “Yes. They must have cracked the cube-sharing technology back at the Holy Gate.”
Nuwa and the Aola people had never exchanged information, so naturally she didn’t know the Aola people had cracked the sharing technology.
How infuriating!
Those bastards had gotten a huge advantage for free.
What was worse, their dimension-piercing ship didn’t have enough life essence to begin with, and now they had to share half with the Aola people.
How annoying!
…
Jormungandr clicked his tongue twice and ordered the extraction of human life essence from the dimension-piercing ship.
He and Chang Qing had split the empire’s humans equally, but he had more Awakened humans in his hands than Chang Qing did.
The life essence of Awakened humans was dozens of times that of ordinary humans, and the key was that it was purer, uncontaminated.
The moment extraction began, his dimension-piercing ship, like a mad wild horse, pulled far ahead in a cloud of dust.
In an instant, Chang Qing actually fell to fourth place.
After the Lin family was brought onto his dimension-piercing ship, they received many privileges and were even allowed into the ship’s observation room.
Seeing this turn of events, Grandma Lin spoke up: “What’s going on here?”
Chang Qing glanced at her and pressed a button on the control panel: “They’re using life essence to accelerate.”
The Lin family’s hearts skipped a beat.
They had naturally heard Lin Xiaohe mention what life essence was.
“What are you trying to do?”
Chang Qing smiled ambiguously: “Extract the life essence from the ship, of course.”
The Lin family gasped: “You’re using humans as fuel?!”
“No,” Chang Qing corrected, “as identity verification codes.”
Lin Chiyang’s hot temper finally got the better of him. He swung his fist but was frozen in place: “We’re all civilizations from this star domain, and you’re helping the tyrant do evil!”
Chang Qing sneered: “You poor things. Even now, you don’t know who you are or where you came from. I am the true native. You, along with the Sui people and the Aola people, are all outsiders! And you’re worse! You’re the ones who made this star domain what it is now — this godforsaken mess!”
Chang Qing took a deep breath, not wanting anger to destroy his rationality.
“If you just want your civilization to continue, you should voluntarily offer up your life essence. As long as we can get out, we’ll definitely leave one or two humans behind.”
In the Singularity Reincarnation as well, only humans had life essence.
This thing was too extraordinary.
The Sui people and Aola people would definitely want to study it in depth. As long as conditions allowed, they would farm humans, just as he had done.
Hearing this, Grandpa Lin and Grandma Lin didn’t show any surprise.
Grandma Lin’s tone was very calm — not asking, but stating: “Our Awakened ones’ life essence is different from ordinary people’s, which is why you compete for Awakened ones.”
“Correct.”
“You set up religions not only to gain more humans, but also to study the relationship between life essence and faith. What results did you get?”
Chang Qing showed an expression of appreciation: “Indeed. You’re very clever — worthy of being an Awakened human from the First Era. No results at all.”
Life essence didn’t increase or decrease with more faith, nor would it be offered to someone just because one believed in them.
The religion experiment was a failure.
As streams of life essence were extracted, Chang Qing’s silver warship pulled abreast of Lin Xiaohe.
Chang Qing looked at Lin Xiaohe’s fiery red figure, a trace of nostalgia flickering in his eyes.
He said to the Lin family: “I can promise you that you will be the last people to have their life essence extracted.”
With that, the silver warship once again overtook Lin Xiaohe.
Lin Xiaohe gazed at the four ships ahead of her, her eyes darkening.
They were running so fast — how much life essence must they be extracting?!
The life essence within Lin Xiaohe’s mind was rapidly depleting. She could no longer maintain her human form and became a loose mass of white mist.
