Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 957: Chapter 63: Collective Ascension

Gao Gong held an SS-level seed in his mouth, and the unlucky ones were the Xie Family members.

Not to mention, this kind of Tier 3 Mechanical Zombie species, which came with the ’Mechanical Contamination’ attribute, even in a Level 3 Civilization, would be considered a strategic-level existence—if it could be cultivated in large quantities, that is.

However, these thousands of Mechanical Zombies, illuminated by a green light, all stood frozen in place and rapidly disintegrated before the naked eye.

On the system panel, various experience bars popped up like water flowing, with each Tier 3 Mechanical Zombie providing 5 to 8 million experience. Very soon, Gao Gong accumulated over 8 billion personal experience points.

With such a vast accumulation of experience, it was enough for Gao Gong to reach Level 10.

After all, once you hit Tier 3, leveling up requires 200-300 million experience points per level.

The reason for such an exaggerated amount is due to the heaven-defying strength of the SS-level species spores.

The SS-level species have already surpassed the concept of species and are the kind that cannot be mass-produced.

Some rare Space Giant Beasts and planet-level Monster Sovereigns are of this tier at best.

Imagine, the unrestrained eruption of a complete Brain-in-a-Vat, the damage it could inflict, that’s the performance of the species spores now.

The Xie Family’s ability to annihilate a Civilization Fleet, the so-called Nightmare Level power, hadn’t even fully manifested before being completely suppressed.

SS-level species spores, according to the standards of the Mirta Federation, have already reached ’Death God Level.’

Gao Gong used six Death Gods against the Xie Family!

This kind of exaggerated combat power has already surpassed the technology tree of a Level 2 Civilization and is a product of ’Fusion Technology,’ similar to Gao Gong’s Fusion Transformation, with Biological Energy reaching the billions.

Gao Gong slowly sauntered into the Xie Family Ancestral Hall, facing Xie Daowen’s ashen face with a sly grin.

”Surprised?”

”You are not Cybertron!” Xie Daowen stated calmly.

”Why not?”

”If Cybertron possessed your kind of power, then it wouldn’t have been just the Xie Family that was exiled back then; the Planet Host would have been as well.”

Gao Gong raised an eyebrow. So, was there another hidden story about the Xie Family’s betrayal of the Cyber Test Field back then?

Unfortunately, Cybertron’s database had been destroyed by the Cyber Tide, and as a disguised ’General Cybertron,’ it wasn’t easy to extract information.

However, he remained confident that he wouldn’t be exposed. With a personal endorsement from the Tier 5 Mechanical Sovereign Purple Giant Star, who dared to claim it was fake?

So he casually said, ”Times have changed. What was impossible back then isn’t necessarily impossible now. You probably don’t know the reason for the Cyber Test Field’s dismantling.”

Xie Daowen’s face indeed changed, and he said, ”The experiment succeeded? No, even if it did, it couldn’t be used on you. Back then, when our Xie Family merely touched upon the power of mutation, we were driven out. Even if you are the guardian of that experimental planet, you couldn’t possibly touch such creation power, absolutely impossible!”

Gao Gong started to understand a bit.

The so-called mutation power was likely ’Cosmic Relics’ or, let’s say, the power of the thirteen Destruction Forms. The Xie Family probably activated some kind of mutation technology from one or several Destruction Forms, and this technology affected the synthesis of relics, becoming a variable in the experiment, which is why they were expelled.

’No wonder the Xie Family could blatantly do business in the Mechanical Serpent Constellation. This is probably compensation from the Purple Giant Star, or rather, waste utilization, which is quite similar to my current state. Wait, no!’

Gao Gong suddenly looked up, his gaze passing through Xie Daowen and falling on the spiritual tablets behind him. At some unknown point, the numerical codes flickering on those tokens had all disappeared.

”Well, well, stalling for time, huh?”

Xie Daowen ignored him and withdrew into a coffin behind him. The circuits inside the coffin lit up quickly, and a pungent corpse stench wafted through the air.

Directly electrocuting a zombie.

And his mouth continued to ramble incessantly.

”Machines aren’t fully efficient, carbon-based beings aren’t fully capable, and nothing is completely useful. Hence, Heaven has its shortcomings, hence the Ascension Tribulation is unavoidable...”

’Huh?’

Though Gao Gong didn’t fully understand this guy’s mysterious utterances, the mention of the Ascension Tribulation made his eyes twitch. My goodness! You’ve gone and managed an ascension!

Ascension is a civilization-level affair. No non-civilization existence, not even a Tier 9 powerhouse, could accomplish it. However, just because true ascension is difficult doesn’t mean pseudo ascension doesn’t exist. At least Gao Gong knew of one called Electronic Ascension, a pseudo ascension, a method to break the blockade of a Planet Host and ascend from Tier 2 to Tier 3 through information leap.

’Although I don’t know what other unexpected measures the Xie Family has, avoiding such surprises is definitely for the best.’

It’s not as if Gao Gong had to force the opponent into the role of a villain who reveals their ultimate move, especially knowing that the ’Xie Family Ancestral Hall’ can mass-produce Tier 3 Species, he didn’t want to complicate matters any further.

A flash of data in his eyes, the Xie Family Ancestral Hall on Satellite No. 10 suddenly vanished mysteriously.

While in space, ’Little Collector No. 0019’ suddenly let out a surprised sound.

Just that instant, it sensed an extremely strong fluctuation, a kind of fluctuation that typically only appears when its main body ’creates a new dimension.’

”Strange, has a new world appeared? Where has the Xie Family Ancestral Hall leaped to?”

In the interstellar society, the conversion laws between matter, information, space, and energy have been studied very thoroughly, so not only is the act of a spaceship entering superluminal mode called ’leap,’ but the conversion of certain substances can also be called ’leap.’

And ’Little Collector No. 0019’ was very aware that just then, this peculiar family server had been transferred to another dimension.

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Rampant data currents surged, forming a skyful of abandoned code.

Amidst the rolling dark clouds contained countless binary changes.

As thunder and lightning flashed, numerous virtual servers were generated from thin air, only to be extinguished soon after. Between their birth and demise, higher-level spatial code was generated from binary code.

And the Xie Family Ancestral Hall, much like a lone boat amidst the vast sea, drifted in this storm, at constant risk of submersion.

Although Xie Daowen’s body had mostly been zombified, with only his head still able to move, he had a clear view of the situation outside the ancestral hall, displaying a look of both shock and sudden realization.

”The means of the Planet Host’s Deep Net, so it really is Cybertron!”

”Heh, whether it’s the Deep Net or Cybertron, he’s done an incredibly foolish thing!”

An inexplicable voice rang out, layered upon itself, both arrogant and bizarre.

”Ha ha ha ha, now I can dominate an entire Virtual Realm! Wonderful! Finally, I, the Daoist Master, can ascend!”

This voice was not hidden, and it probably wasn’t intended to be hidden from Gao Gong.

As Gao Gong, transformed into the Rich Lady Love Prototype, emerged from the sea, he looked up at the sky, his expression shifting from solemnity to astonishment. He saw the sky brighten, breaking through the dark clouds as the Charming Fairy danced gracefully.

The entire sea surface was enveloped by an inexplicable white immortal mist, so vast that it soon covered the water.

Despite walking the second-dimensional recluse route before his transmigration, Gao Gong had read a few novels about immortals, and seeing such a scene, he’d be hard-pressed not to believe it was ascension.

”Good lord, it really is ascension, seems to even have a hint of collective ascension!”