Zachary was very interested in this item, as if he were able to refine and produce it himself, its usefulness in his hands would become even greater.

After all, Zachary wouldn’t necessarily have to shoot it into the prey’s head in the form of bullets.

He could casually place it into items like flying needles and attack using the Art of Controlling Objects, which is much more convenient and covert than using a sniper rifle.

As for the durability of the controlled objects, as long as they can penetrate the defense, the more fragile the carrier, the better. After all, when the time comes, it won’t be the object controlled by the Art of Controlling Objects that matters, but the special concoction embedded within it.

Zachary looked at the tiny amount of substance in his hand and thought that since he didn’t have the technology to do it himself for now, he could only store it in his Storage space temporarily.

Since that day when the airdrop box arrived, the development of the camp in Saxon County had been visibly booming at a rapid pace.

The once-vanished mobile phones were no longer rare in the eyes of ordinary survivors in the camp of Saxon County, though they hadn’t yet reached the pre-disaster level of one per person.

However, the communication range of most mobile phones in the camp, just like that of the ubiquitously visible ’internet cafes,’ was limited to only the various camps in Pengcheng and the camp here in Saxon County.

As time passed, the camp in Saxon County once again expanded, as the area covered by the second wall could no longer accommodate the growing population within the camp.

Therefore, after committee deliberation, the camp in Saxon County began its third round of expansion.

In contrast to Saxon County, where survivors were concentrated in a single camp, the survivors in Pengcheng still lived in the camps built initially due to the earthquake, due to the giant tree in Pengville Plaza.

Moreover, with the continuous growth of the central giant tree, the area within the Third Ring Road of Pengcheng was no longer suitable for survivors to live in, and the Bugs Clan that coexisted with the giant tree would not easily leave the shadow of the canopy.

For this reason, most of the camps in Pengcheng were now stationed with several Bug Hunting Squads, which usually hunted small ancient creatures around the camp and then took them to the shadow below the canopy to bait the "Bugs Clan."

Thus, the temporary camps built around the city due to the earthquake did not disappear after the quake but continued to be used as they are now.

With time, survivors had adapted to this way of life, with ordinary survivors rarely venturing out of the camp into the wild for no good reason.

After all, the wilderness now harbored a variety of ancient creatures, both large and small, as well as dangerous plants that had learned to ambush and stealthily attack.

However, at this stage, the frequency of ordinary survivors going online had begun to steadily decrease.

This was in part due to the gradually increasing number of Martial Artists, but also because survivors were beginning to adapt to the environment, and mainly because communication had now been restored. Kyoto had been transmitting some scientific research findings back to Pengcheng via satellite phone.

Moreover, as Kyoto continued to manufacture airplanes to expand flight routes, both the camps in Pengcheng and in Saxon County had grown accustomed to the periodic appearance of airdrop boxes.

After spending so much time in Kyoto, Old Luo didn’t take a transport from Pengcheng but directly arrived above the camp in a transport plane during an airdrop delivery and then leaped down, assisted by a parachute, landing directly in the camp.

The peaceful life didn’t cause Zachary to grow weary; on the contrary, it made his life exceedingly comfortable.

With his wholehearted devotion to cultivation, Zachary’s Cultivation Level had begun to rise steadily. Although he had not yet broken through to the Golden Core Stage, his Cultivation Level had already reached the peak of Foundation Establishment.

Before long, Zachary would be able to condense a Golden Core, stepping onto the Golden Core Path, truly taking on the form of an immortal. By then, he wouldn’t be able to turn seas into mulberry fields, but he could easily perform various spells.

This round of calamities had lasted longer than any previous one.

From the initial appearance of ancient creatures to various ancient plants, and now to the presence of new materials imbued with Spirit Energy in the outside world.

All these discoveries unequivocally revealed the gradual emergence of energy in the atmosphere of Blue Star.

This energy has different names in different places: Spirit Energy, Chakra, Magic Power, Battle Energy...

Although there might be differences between energies with different names, the relationships between them are like the old saying: "From chaos comes Taiji, Taiji creates the two principles (Yin and Yang), two principles give rise to the four symbols, the four symbols produce the eight trigrams, and the eight trigrams generate all things."

Plainly put, the energy in the air is collectively known as chaos energy. Utilizing different Cultivation Techniques, one can absorb corresponding energy from the chaos energy. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

If that’s still unclear, perhaps a comparison to the common air we breathe is apt.

The air we encounter in daily life is composed of oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, trace amounts of rare gases (neon, helium, krypton, xenon), methane, and other gases.

Cultivation Techniques can be likened to devices that specialize in absorbing a specific gas. In contrast to reality, the worse the Cultivation Technique is, the more it can only absorb one particular type of gas dictated by that technique.