Chapter 702: The Limitless [Bloodsoaked War]!

He suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze as sharp as lightning. Thunderous surges coursed across the Symbiotic Colonization Armor, the Thunder Battle Armor opened, and the Infinity Gauntlet was in his hand.

His body gradually enlarged, and soon it reached the size of an ordinary life planet.

It was also at this time that he felt a tearing sensation from within his body, but it was not obvious, and he could still continue to swell.

Consequently, his body continued to expand. His terrifying mass made the surrounding cosmic space somewhat unable to bear it, and cobweb-like cracks began to surface.

It wasn't until his body size had expanded by another fold, and some dense cracks began to surface on his muscular skin, that he reached his limit. If he continued, he would face the risk of his body disintegrating.

He subconsciously clenched his fist, and then suddenly released it, muttering to himself, 'I always feel that for something like Creation of Heaven and Earth, it is only appropriate to use an axe.'

However, he obviously didn't have a suitable weapon right now and could only use the [Infinity Gauntlet] as a substitute for now.

The [Infinity Gauntlet], which had also been magnified countless times, bloomed with dazzling light. In the next moment, he raised his fist and abruptly punched out.

The fist, which should have been unstoppable, now seemed to hit an invisible barrier. This starry universe shattered like glass, as if touching a certain rule closer to the core.

A soundless roar seemed to ring in his soul. Li Yu felt the power in his body being extracted — not just his power, but his mental power, and even his life energy.

The space before his eyes fractured. Various elemental powers, such as thunder, fire, and storm, went out of control, only to be smoothed over by an invisible force.

According to the Symbiotic Colonization Armor's scanner, the space-time coefficient in this region was undergoing a subtle change, and the physical coefficient was also beginning to differ slightly.

Amidst the collision of various berserk elemental powers, a special color lit up and quickly expanded, drawing the surrounding elemental powers into it.

A new dimensional world was born!

It was Li Yu's first time witnessing the birth of a dimensional world. The dimensional wall was slowly taking shape.

The birth of many dimensional worlds was destroyed at this step. The initially weak dimensional walls found it difficult to resist the erosion of external forces.

However, this newly born dimensional world was very special. Before the raging void storm could even touch the dimensional wall, it was melted away by an invisible force.

"Interesting..." Li Yu stared at it for a long time, simultaneously able to feel a warm current surging within his body. It should be the feedback from opening up the dimensional world.

It was just that he felt a profound sense of exhaustion, as if an ordinary person had done a hundred push-ups, exhausted from the inside out.

He shrank back to his normal form, and the Tree of Life surfaced behind him, making up for his lack of life energy.

What Creation of Heaven and Earth cost was more than just life energy; in that instant, it felt as if everything in his body had been extracted.

Even the influx of life energy found it difficult to alleviate this.

This made Li Yu frown slightly, faintly sensing that this might not be a one-sided deficiency at the energy or mental power level.

Thinking of this, he took out the [Virtual Glasses]. After digitizing his body, he began to look for the status bar.

Sure enough, he found a special status.

[Enfeebled State — Opening up a dimensional world is not simple and requires an enormous price. Your body has fallen into a state of weakness, but it is currently adapting to this.]

Simply put, it wasn't the aftermath of opening a dimensional world.

This thing was actually a matter of probability, elevating what was originally an extremely slim probability to one hundred percent.

However, he had the [Nine Revolutions Golden Body]. As the number of times he opened up worlds increased, he himself should be able to adapt to this state, thus becoming completely immune to it.

Digging out the Tree of Life, he directly had it take root in this newly born dimensional world, swallowing it up swiftly and efficiently.

He roughly estimated the energy conversion and found that the energy brought by the Tree of Life devouring this dimensional world was far from enough to provide the energy needed to repair his body.

"It's still a loss-making business..." He shook his head, but he also understood that the dimensional world needed a period of time to grow. Only then would he receive a generous return; it belonged to a long-term investment business.

Having a general understanding of his newly acquired abilities, Li Yu returned to the Jade Void Palace to continue dealing with the rewards he had obtained earlier.

He took out the [Ability Fusion & Sublimation Device]. This thing was not a card, but a wheel-like instrument.

After using it, a screen also popped up before his eyes.

[Please select the abilities to fuse. Please try to choose abilities with similar affinities, otherwise, unexpected situations may arise during fusion.]

Below was a list that laid out all the abilities Li Yu currently possessed, including [Energy Manipulation], [Crimson Lotus Form], [Growing Stronger with Each Battle], [Hunger], and a series of other abilities.

Even [Law of Heaven and Earth] and [Creation of Heaven and Earth] were among them.

Li Yu already had a choice in his heart. The main thing was to fuse his series of combat power amplification methods.

As for the rest, he didn't have any intention of making a hodgepodge.

The system had already prompted that it was best to use abilities with similar affinities. Some abilities were fundamentally going south to reach the north; if a chimera was fused, it would be a massive loss.

However, he singled out the [Law of Heaven and Earth]. This thing required enlarging oneself to obtain a combat power buff, which was sometimes still very conspicuous.

[Ability selection complete, please select the fusion and sublimation route —]

[Amplification level is limited, cost is small]

[Amplification level is immense, cost is huge]

It was actually this considerate. Li Yu was quite surprised; he didn't expect there to be a route selection.

As expected of a reward given by an SSS-tier rating.

Pondering for a moment, he definitely chose the second path.

If he chose the first path, why would he bother with fusion and sublimation?

[Fusing abilities...]

The wheel-like instrument activated, extracting multiple clumps of light from Li Yu's body, and then kneading them together. The scene looked simple and crude.

The duration was not short. After about three hours, a crimson clump of light integrated into Li Yu's body.

[Ability fusion and sublimation complete, acquired special ability — Unnamed]

[Unnamed Ability — A powerful combat form activated at the cost of burning life force. In addition to its own amplification, the longer it is activated, the greater the life force consumption, and the stronger the strength amplification.]

The explanation was not complicated. It basically did a fusion of Li Yu's previous main combat forms.

It was also similar to what Li Yu expected, basically using the burning of life force as the price.

For a normal lifeform, this was already an enormous price.

Although current technology was extremely developed, life force was still an extremely precious energy involving lifespan.

But for Li Yu, this wasn't an unacceptable price because he had the Tree of Life as support.

Furthermore, this ability had the most crucial point: the longer it lasted, the more powerful it became.

This meant that he could activate this state long in advance, constantly consuming life force, continuously increasing the combat power amplification brought by this ability.

A burning fervor flashed through his eyes, but the cost of doing so was also very high. The Tree of Life, as his mobile blood spring, had not yet grown to the point of being inexhaustible.

In case he drained it dry, Li Yu himself wouldn't be able to bear it when the time came.

Calming down slightly in his heart, Li Yu let out a long breath. This harvest had greatly improved his strength.

Fusing the fifth gene chain, even without using the ability he had just named [Bloodsoaked War], his own combat power level had reached around one billion.

And if he used [Bloodsoaked War], just the basic amplification should allow him to reach a state similar to the Third Forerunner's ascension.

But he should still be a distance away from a super lifeform.

Unless he activated [Bloodsoaked War] in advance and used life force to build up the ultimate gauge.

However, he still had room to grow. His fifth gene chain still had gene chain progress that could be developed.

Having just opened up a dimensional world, his gene chain progress... was still 0%.

It definitely wasn't without any progress; he had felt the power of the feedback at that time, but it was just that with the accuracy of the gene detector, it was difficult to detect.

Although he knew that the development of the fifth gene chain would be a long and arduous journey, this situation still made him sigh lamentably.

However, compared to the A5 level evolvers who evolved normally, he was already much better off.

Sorting out his mood slightly, some information regarding super lifeforms surfaced in his mind.

Super lifeforms were existences that surpassed A-tier lifeforms.

For ordinary interstellar citizens, they didn't even know of the existence of this life level.

Let alone ordinary interstellar citizens, even low-grade A-tier lifeforms didn't know.

At this level, it was already difficult to measure with pure energy indices.

But estimating based on the two times Li Yu had previously grasped that kind of power, he was still far off.

Although the power he grasped at the time wasn't the power of a super lifeform in this universe, different routes led to the same destination, so the difference shouldn't be too big.

The matters were basically taken care of, and Li Yu's mind relaxed slightly. Only then did he review the intelligence that Secretary Sinai had compiled during this period.

The interstellar society's reaction to his live broadcast was intense, mainly because most people did not expect him to execute Lyman in that manner.

Most mainstream interstellar civilizations basically adhered to painless slumber.

Only when dealing with A-tier lifeforms would they carry out cannon executions. This was because their vitality was robust and could only be annihilated with high-intensity energy.

Yet the method Li Yu chose was completely different. Decapitation not only signified that the executed person was guilty but was also extremely bloody and cruel.

This aroused strong dissatisfaction among a portion of interstellar citizens, but at the same time, even more people became more fanatical towards Li Yu, and he even gained the title "Emperor Slayer."

This title maxed out his aggro.

It was just that the major civilizations and organizations remained silent about this because the Star Glory Empire had not yet stated their position.

They acted as if they hadn't seen this live broadcast, completely ignoring it.

It was just that six or seven days had already passed since that live broadcast, and the heat was gradually decaying. After a while longer, probably no one would be discussing it.

This was the interstellar society. Saying it was an information explosion was an understatement; there were no eternal topics.

Previously, if Li Yu hadn't controlled the timing nodes, connecting them timely every time the discussion heat was about to die down, and even bringing jaw-dropping plot twists, he probably wouldn't have been able to grind out an SSS-tier rating.

"Hmm? The Claptrap's minion lurking in the Black Hole Network was eradicated?" Li Yu flipped to a piece of news.

"Yes, just two days after the live broadcast ended." Sinai nodded and said, "It's just that at that time, you were temporarily not here."

At that time, he was busy evolving... Li Yu frowned slightly and continued reading.

The Claptrap's minion lurking in the Black Hole Network sneakily used the Black Hole Network as a live broadcast relay point, avoiding the risk of the live broadcast crashing and the signal being traced.

However, the Black Hole Network wasn't to be trifled with, and it was quickly discovered that the number of core server loads was growing exponentially.

As a sentient AI lurking in the Black Hole Network, Claptrap wasn't discovered in the first instance.

But with such large-scale actions, it was also difficult to continue hiding its whereabouts.

The Black Hole Network discovered its existence and dispatched digital phantoms to encircle and suppress it.

Since Claptrap hadn't polluted the network nodes of the Black Hole Network on a large scale to hide itself previously, it quickly fell into dire straits.

In order to avoid its identity as a sentient AI being discovered, Claptrap's minion directly initiated self-destruction and sent out an encrypted message at the final moment.

This mainly recorded the course of events, as well as the location of the Black Hole Network's core server.

"As expected of my Claptrap, well done." Li Yu chuckled. It was just a minion; even if it was lost, it was no big deal.

However, it had sent back crucial information at the last moment. The location of the Black Hole Network's core server had always been a secret that the major civilizations wanted to know, but it was just very difficult to find out.

"This is what I should do..."

An empty voice rang out; it was the controller of the Jade Void Palace, Claptrap's minion.

Li Yu couldn't help but laugh and shook his head. The Black Hole Network was a huge treasure; it could make up for Li Yu's most important lack of intelligence.

He could use the Jade Void Palace to churn out troops and develop the technology tree, but it was very difficult to lay down his own intelligence network in the outside world.

Because judging from the current situation, the Star Glory Empire would launch even stricter searches next, and even the major civilizations would cooperate.

But the Black Hole Network could perfectly make up for this point, and it itself was a living fossil of the interstellar space, knowing many secret documents.

"Also, Your Highness Loyd has contacted you multiple times, wishing to discuss the issue of the A-Tier Alliance in depth," Sinai reported.

A-Tier Alliance... Li Yu raised an eyebrow.

He naturally couldn't forget this matter.

The development of the [Justice League] couldn't be left behind either. In any case, he could be a hands-off manager now.

(End of this chapter)