I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature-Chapter 1360 - 969: Preservation Matters More
However, after returning here, Zheng Yichen discovered that there were quite a few people: "A Devouring Faction really makes this place lively."
Looking at the number of people here, Zheng Yichen shook his head, but there were relatively fewer people here, at least there is somewhere to sit down.
"This is just the beginning, later it will become even more lively here," Du Gang shook his head and said sincerely, "The Devouring Faction’s world will become chaotic later.
And communication between other worlds won’t be cut off."
The existence of voids links different worlds together, they saw those voids when they came back; the voids are gaps left after the world’s equilibrium.
Normally, such voids wouldn’t exist, but now they’re appearing; the voids are different from juncture points, they’re not due to the World Barrier cracking.
More like a ’database’ linked together, even if Zheng Yichen tries to use Sky Mending, it doesn’t help much.
Sky Mending is difficult to use, even if forcibly closed up, the void won’t heal, just like stitching eyelids together; once Sky Mending chains are dismantled, the voids will return to normal.
Sky Mending chains need sufficient strength to maintain.
"Chaotic? Not necessarily, for the Dusk Mercenary Group, it seems like a suitable area for development? Leaderless, plus abundant resources." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
Du Gang thought for a moment and nodded, "That’s true, not just that, the world of the Devouring Faction has many remnants, for the Dusk Mercenary Group, Hazy City is quite unique, they still need to guard against the remnants of Devourers’ trouble, might as well directly take over that world."
It’s not impossible for the Dusk Mercenary Group to take over a world, as Du Gang knows, some powerful Dusk Mercenary Groups have more than just one world.
Having one more now isn’t a loss, especially since the Devouring Faction is developing well enough to create artificial Celestial Beings, and they can use the resources of that world as a management fee.
As for the other worlds linked to the Devouring Faction’s world, even though they’re linked, they can’t bypass the world of the Devourers; just block that side and it’s easy to resolve.
"Hey? How to handle the voids in the sky?" Ahn Qi called over.
After switching to video communication through the Illusory Eye, Zheng Yichen thought for a moment and told her: "That’s the world of the Devourers, now the high-levels of the Devouring Faction have been cleared, if you can contact the Dusk mercenaries, go ahead."
"Got it." Ahn Qi immediately understood Zheng Yichen’s meaning.
Without the world of the Devourers now leaderless, the world controlled by the Devourers naturally doesn’t have nations in the usual sense, it’s more like that corporate replacement management.
Since the Devouring Organization over there is done for, naturally someone needs to wrap things up, the Dusk Mercenary Group can do it, and so can their people!
Although that world doesn’t have the environment of Hazy City, the territory there is large enough, and how much they can take depends on their ability.
Ahn Qi promptly reported this situation, Zheng Yichen isn’t planning to involve himself; however, the Ahn family can intervene, there’s too much at stake here.
Moreover, the Ahn family has long obtained complete magical knowledge; while comprehending it thoroughly is difficult, boosting overall combat power isn’t hard.
The voids are not phenomena, people without Dusk adaptability can go over too.
The information provided by Zheng Yichen is timely; she can get relevant detailed information here, while other families can get it through the Dusk Mercenaries as well.
"New mission? Withdraw the team." Upon receiving orders, Ahn Longling immediately ordered, abandoning the target they were pursuing, the Ahn family has more important missions now.
She naturally couldn’t miss such a mission.
An action to seize territory; it sounds somewhat absurd, but right now such an opportunity exists, and delaying will miss a lot.
That Devourers’ world linked with eight other worlds, not counting the world of Hazy City here, meaning those invaded worlds will also retaliate.
But upon discovering the uniqueness of the Devourers’ world, they will naturally change strategies.
"Are there any special creatures in that world?" Not long after, Ahn Ke also contacted Zheng Yichen, asking about what she was most interested in.
"Uh... They have artificial Celestial Beings, should I send you the information?"
"Thank you, I’ll be waiting for you tonight," the straightforward researcher said very directly, Zheng Yichen didn’t need anything else; what he could give her were daily leisure activities.
Zheng Yichen scratched his cheek, glossing over the matter of not focusing much on the species of that world. If talking about special creatures, it seemed there were none more special than artificial Celestial Beings.
Once, he used to long for Unity of Heaven and Man, now encountering a whole bunch of them.
He sent to Ahn Ke the files on artificial Celestial Beings collected by Lilith; he looked at them, found little interest, mainly because of the exorbitant costs. If the normal consumption for nurturing a Celestial Being is 10, then nurturing an artificial Celestial Being is 500...
The cost difference is too great, of course, the ridiculous cost is due to improper methods; if there were a normal way, who would choose to stack resources for nurturing?
Having found Tia, Zheng Yichen inquired about the cost to reinforce his Unity of Heaven and Man, and now it only requires 444 merit points for the corresponding enhancement.
Originally when dealing with artificial Celestial Beings, Zheng Yichen had sliced one, obtaining some of its blood; although the blood of artificial Celestial Beings metamorphoses and disappears outside the body, the speed of disappearance doesn’t match Zheng Yichen’s blood absorption rate.
Zheng Yichen was somewhat conflicted, knowing he shouldn’t have let Lilith disassemble so many used artificial Celestial Beings.
"By the way, doesn’t Unity of Heaven and Man help me much now?" Zheng Yichen pondered and asked Tia.
"Depends on the situation."
"What do you mean?" Zheng Yichen sat down, like a well-behaved student in class.
"An open network can obtain more information resources, but it’s also easily influenced by those information resources and interfered with by others," Tia said calmly.
It was a bit intimidating, but Zheng Yichen thought for a moment and asked, "What if the individual’s firewall is strong enough?"
He thought of those artificial Celestial Beings; dealing with them wasn’t particularly easy, regarding the open network statement.
If it were that easy to interfere and invade, Zheng Yichen would have taken down those artificial Celestial Beings instantly, but during battles, his method mostly involved unplugging the network cable.
However, he didn’t deny that the interference method worked, only that such a method was deeply embedded by the Devouring Faction’s higher-ups, and wasn’t usable by others.
That method was equivalent to embedding virus code into the firewall during its creation, effective for specific interference but otherwise targeted back.
"Then use a stronger interference method."
"..." Tia’s reasoning was so solid that Zheng Yichen couldn’t argue, so he simply stopped talking about it. After all, the strength of his individual firewall was still sufficient.
As for the characteristics of Unity of Heaven and Man, his isn’t complete, but that’s okay. Malicious Erosion combined with an incomplete Unity of Heaven and Man trait sometimes works better than the normal version.
Referring to what Tia said, Zheng Yichen somewhat experienced it in the hell of the Misty City World.
This world’s hell had its eyes on him, wanting to make him a special Hell domain master. At that time, because of the incomplete Unity of Heaven and Man trait, it almost forcibly crowned him, nearly turning him into a Hell creature.
If it were a complete Unity of Heaven and Man, the trouble it would bring would be even greater.
"I have now obtained a complete set of Devouring Sky Pillar data, might use it sometimes; that’s not against the rules, right?" Zheng Yichen thought he should mention this in advance.
"As long as you don’t destroy the world, it’s not against the rules."
"What about world environment degradation?"
"Your consumption level doesn’t reach that extent, compared to degradation, preservation is more important."
"Got it!" Zheng Yichen nodded knowingly, Tia’s words essentially giving him authorization.
If unavoidable circumstances arise, causing massive consumption of World Origin and degrading the world environment, as long as the world’s integrity can be preserved, degradation would be a non-issue.
As for previously letting the Virtual World core obtain a portion of Zhong Yan and the Savage World’s environment, that was through legitimate means, not forcibly taken.
Can’t he earn a little extra while ensuring the work is complete?
If the world facing execution has severe problems, Zheng Yichen’s execution authority is quite high.
He never intended to mess with the Devouring Sky Pillar at other times; does he really think extracted World Origin is easy to use?
After every intense usage, Zheng Yichen inevitably comes here to Dusk for treatment, spending money but not getting effective cures.
"I can still be here for two or three more days." Du Gang returned from the storage cabinet there, holding a piece of animal skin in his hand.
"What’s going on?"
"Chun Xi is about to give birth."
"...so soon?" Zheng Yichen was a bit surprised, the timing seemed off.
Du Gang, anxious and tense about the impending event: "The Wild Ancient native has a special physique, so I have to go over in advance and keep an eye on things."
Seeing this, Zheng Yichen said no more, pulling out a small bottle of Spring Water of Life: "Take this as my gift, there won’t be any issues with me here, you should head over there quickly."
Knowing this was a good thing, Du Gang didn’t refuse, took it, and nodded: "This will do, but if anything unexpected happens here, notify me immediately."
"Hahaha, go on!" Zheng Yichen patted Du Gang’s shoulder. The burly man swiftly left, hurrying, obviously anxious about the matter.
"I haven’t seen a human being born before." Tanshia Firlo tugged on Zheng Yichen’s clothes, her big eyes filled with curiosity.
"...what’s so interesting about that, let’s head back!" Zheng Yichen knocked on the small white dragon’s head, picked her up, and walked home.
