This is really not mechanical ascension-Chapter 852 - 441: Finally Taking Action Against the Mechanic Association

A few days later, in a somewhat cramped cabin, Li Ming sat cross-legged under the coverage of the gravity field, with a layer of black energy particles slowly flowing over his body surface, sometimes bright, sometimes dim.

Under the impetus of evolutionary source material, his body cells were highly active, like ignited flames, inhaling energy particles and promoting internal evolution.

After a while, Li Ming slowly opened his eyes, exhaled an energy stream containing black arc particles, and quickly inhaled it back to avoid triggering an energy storm.

"Hmm..." He glanced at the control bar; the evolution system was finally complete, and the last portion of A-Level evolutionary source material had transformed into S-Level.

There was even an extra portion of X-Level evolutionary source material, with the evolution buff directly reaching 64 times, and overall evolution buff surged to 576 times under the Ascension Source Crystal’s stimulation, nearly increasing by over a hundredfold.

Development efficiency improved significantly; he estimated the time to improve development progress by 1% could be reduced within three months.

"Hmm... Find seven X-Level life forms and pull all the evolutionary source material up to X-Level; it should improve by 1% within a month..."

Li Ming thought to himself, his mouth twitching involuntarily; seven X-Level life forms were not easy to find.

However, this matter was not urgent; currently, few people could threaten his life unless an X-Level life form on the ultimate path launched a sneak attack.

Yet, the Azure Dragon was above to shield him; the Azure Dragon’s hide was impenetrable, and almost no one would directly target him, except for the Holy Mother Church, which was a special case.

Sighing, Li Ming exhaled again, "It’s a pity; Ascension Source Crystal is a special type controlled object, unable to upgrade through normal means."

Over the past half year, he tried many methods to increase development efficiency, but evolutionary source material was already the most suitable controlled object.

Shaking his head, Li Ming closed his eyes again, continuing to develop the genetic seed, which required at least ten more days to reach the nearest Star Gate.

Two or three days later, a communication request from the Black Hole Network interrupted his development process.

"Holy Mother Church?"

The communication name was just a string of codes, and his contact list did not have such a remark; a glance revealed that, at some unknown time, the Holy Mother Church had passed his friend request.

"Tsk... They must have figured it out." Li Ming felt somewhat strange, as under normal circumstances, he should have been taken to the radical faction’s lair.

No idea what these two now intend to do.

According to conservative faction news, both Holy Mother and Prophet are stronger than the Swearer.

If he were indeed taken to the radical faction’s lair, it would not be smooth. Although he had controlled objects in hand, with calculated plans, sneaking away without a trace was achievable, but conducting a cleanup was not that simple.

Just proves how unpredictable the world is, Li Ming mused, choosing to connect, a black virtual screen popped up, displaying only a white soundwave line.

It was not a video call, just an audio connection, and neither side spoke immediately; Li Ming wasn’t in a hurry, leisurely waiting.

Moments later, the slender soundwave line trembled on screen, followed by Prophet’s voice, "Lord Azure Dragon, perhaps you have some important news for exchange?"

Li Ming smiled silently; these folks sure knew how to play dumb, now bringing up important news again.

Previously lacking Terrax Stone, he contacted the Holy Mother Church, but now having cleared the conservative faction’s lair, twenty-some Terrax Stones were enough to last him a long time.

"Your other faction’s lair was exterminated; do you consider this important news?" Li Ming stated directly.

Prophet fell silent, seemingly unprepared for such directness from the Azure Dragon Association.

Li Ming then purposefully spoke sternly, "Previous deals were mutually beneficial, each gained what they needed; how come you suddenly thought of targeting my students?"

As for the previous cooperation, Prophet didn’t want to mention it, then said, "I contacted you specifically for this matter; perhaps there’s some misunderstanding between us."

"Misunderstanding?" Li Ming said flatly, "What misunderstanding?"

"We’ve been divided from the conservative faction for years, already at daggers drawn; this plan wasn’t ours," explained Prophet, and Li Ming remained silent, feeling it was a futile attempt to fool a fool.

"We assure that such events won’t occur again," Prophet continued, "Also, to thank you for helping us eliminate the conservative faction, we’re willing to offer two Terrax Stones."

Li Ming’s interest piqued, was this spending money for peace?

This was an unexpected gain; indeed, leaving those corpses behind was a wise choice, it seems it startled them significantly.

Mumbling to himself, Li Ming acknowledged his own situation; he couldn’t easily find the Holy Mother Church’s lair, let alone attack it.

Simultaneously, he didn’t wish for this psychotic organization to keep targeting him, leaving corpses was sheer intimidation.

If they truly dared not harbor any thoughts against him, it would be ideal; wait until strength is amassed and then attack, better late than never.

"Seems, it indeed was a misunderstanding." Li Ming pondered, "But, I don’t need Terrax Stone; if you genuinely want to express gratitude, exchange it for metal materials."

Metal materials... not in need of Terrax Stone anymore? This recent cleanup yielded significant gains for Azure Dragon, contemplated knowingly.

Regardless, if Azure Dragon wanted to temporarily put this matter aside, it was for the best, "No problem, we’ll provide a ton of Hipponeil Star Marrow Alloy, sending it to the Mechanical Court."

"A ton of Star Marrow Alloy?" Li Ming estimated inwardly, this was a high-end material, likely valuing no less than twenty billion Star Coins.

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