Chapter 705: Space Stone

He tossed the two Broodmothers into the Ancient Starpath and let them develop on their own. Although the development time was short, with the initial assistance of the Transformers, they quickly passed the early accumulation phase.

Now they had stepped out of their primitive planets and begun cross-planet development, thanks to the inherent "Quantum Network" of the Wise Zerg.

Even after engaging in cross-planet development, the speed of development wasn't hindered in the slightest.

Within the Ancient Starpath, ordinary communication networks would be disrupted, but the Wise Zerg isolated this disruption.

Their cooperation with the Xenomorphs brought out the best in each other. Just as Li Yu expected, they made up for each other's shortcomings.

At the same time, due to the special nature of the Ancient Starpath, they also discovered some special creatures that were difficult to deal with, and even suffered heavy blows.

These were all incidentally brought back by the Transformers when they went to collect development information.

Among them were giant rusted mechanical creatures drifting aimlessly through the starry sky, which inflicted heavy losses upon encountering the Wise Zerg's spore spaceships.

They also discovered ancient civilization ruins on certain planets and touched certain authority settings, resulting in the self-destruction of entire planets.

It was a group of powerful creatures with giant black wings growing from their backs. Even through the picture, one could feel their astonishing aura.

That kind of feeling was something difficult to experience even when facing countless ordinary soldiers.

Of course, a legion composed of soldiers carrying energy cannons could also bring the same degree of oppression, but they and this square formation gave completely different feelings.

This was a picture taken by the Wise Zerg's biological camera. They hovered in mid-air in absolute neatness and silence.

They had uniform black hair, black close-fitting light armor, and giant black wings behind them.

This group of creatures collectively formed a black battle formation.

They hovered over a pitch-black flame burning in the vacuum of the universe. The wings behind them were still, while pitch-black flames extended from their edges.

"Why does it look so much like... Angels?" Li Yu stared fixedly at this picture.

According to the information sent back together with it, the Wise Zerg had also discovered this creature by accident. The scouting vanguard sent out was annihilated the very first instant it was discovered.

It was just that since the Wise Zerg naturally carried a Quantum Network, this news was still transmitted back.

He was no stranger to Angels. When he was bored with nothing to do, he would browse through classified documents regarding the Titan Civilization.

The Angel race was the Titan Civilization's proudest creation. They were loyal, powerful, reliable, and wouldn't betray. They were excellent cannon fodder and tools of war.

It was just that an Angel in the conventional sense was not this color; it should be pure white all over.

This current image of an Angel was closer to what Li Yu defined in his previous life as a "Fallen Angel"!

'How could there be this kind of thing in the Ancient Starpath?' Li Yu muttered to himself.

The Ancient Starpath was originally just an ordinary interstellar navigation route. It only became what it was now after receiving unknown influences at a certain point in time.

As for what specific influences it received, opinions varied in interstellar space. Some said it was a certain ancient civilization ruin, while others said it was due to the universe's natural magnetic field.

Of course, some also mentioned whether it was related to the Titans, but this portion wasn't very large.

'Could it be the Titan Sanctuary again?' Li Yu naturally thought of this, and then a burning fervor flashed across his eyes.

However, he immediately calmed down and became somewhat suspicious. 'It wouldn't be such a coincidence, would it?'

There was still no specific news yet, so he couldn't jump to conclusions on any guesses.

Subsequently, he rummaged through recent information regarding the Ancient Starpath and actually found some strange news.

"Mysterious Influence of the Ancient Starpath Expands Again? Death Toll Far Exceeds the Same Period Last Year by 70%!"

This was a certain news channel focused on interstellar exploration, quite famous within the adventurer circle.

According to their investigation, recently there had been very few spaceships with records of entering the Ancient Starpath to explore and safely returning.

Moreover, these were only the recorded interstellar adventurers, not counting those unrecorded interstellar marauders.

Otherwise, this number would have to be expanded several times over.

The comprehensive mortality rate far exceeded that of the same period in the past few years. They even issued a warning, advising against approaching the Ancient Starpath for the time being.

However, compared to the massive interstellar space, this news wasn't very eye-catching.

Ordinary interstellar citizens couldn't even be bothered to pay attention to the Ancient Starpath. Wasn't it better to watch a video recapping Dragon Sovereign's life?

"Let's have the Broodmothers pay attention to it." After pondering for a moment, Li Yu still had Sinai record this matter in the backup logs, preparing to send a Transformer to notify them.

He didn't know what kind of subsequent developments there would be, but it was always right to pay attention to it.

Having roughly set a course of action, Li Yu then opened the System Space, rubbed his hands together, let out a long breath, and muttered to himself, "Space Stone, you're finally here."

He originally thought that Number Two heading to the [Captain America World] would slaughter effortlessly and complete the task very quickly.

He didn't expect it to drag on time and again until now.

However, it was finally completed.

[Captain America World — Task — Acquire the Infinity Stones — Completed — Time — 136 Days]

[...You arrived in this world. Having experienced multiple parallel universes, you were already thoroughly familiar with this world.

You didn't go directly to the Hydra headquarters to take the Cosmic Cube. Instead, you found Steve. You had come into contact with multiple Steves and didn't have much curiosity toward him.

It was just a certain interesting spark of thought that brought you here...]

Li Yu was somewhat speechless, but he had long been accustomed to the avatars' erratic behavior.

[...You hid in the dark and watched the plot develop. Almost no one discovered your existence; to them, your life tier was simply too high...

...Until Steve passed the selection to become a candidate for the Super Soldier. At the beginning of the experiment, you added some special substance into the Super Soldier Serum — your blood...

...This caused some unpredictable effects. However, to your surprise, Steve still survived the enhancement and gave birth to a monster that made even Professor Abraham feel unfamiliar...

...He didn't understand why the Steve born from the super serum could discharge electricity, fly, shoot lasers from his eyes, and have a body hardness surpassing diamond...]

Seeing this, Li Yu finally understood. So Number Two added some extra ingredients into the Super Soldier Serum.

The current Steve probably couldn't be called Captain America, but rather—Super-Powered Captain!

He glanced at the subsequent development. Steve, who was far stronger than originally, directly changed the script.

He was directly sent to the battlefield, sweeping across the entirety of World War II, directly turning it into a power fantasy novel.

And the Hydra organization was even more bewildered, not knowing where this monster suddenly popped out from.

Meanwhile, the Red Skull, who had also received the Super Soldier Serum, only wanted to go ask the dead Abraham whether what was used on him was a castrated version.

The subsequent development of this parallel universe was probably altered entirely by the avatar's insignificant little thought.

Yet Number Two never appeared from beginning to end, only silently watching from the dark. Finally, he took the Cosmic Cube ahead of time, obtained the Space Stone, and completed the task.

Thinking about it, Li Yu wasn't very surprised. As his life tier climbed higher and higher, completing tasks in the future would definitely not present the kind of myriad difficulties and dangers as before.

The avatars would probably act even more recklessly. However, for him, it was fine as long as the task was completed.

[Task completed — Avatar recovered. Cooldown Time — 365 Days. The host has undergone another life evolution, extending the cooldown time.]

[Obtained Special Item — Space Stone: One of the Infinity Stones, possessing inexhaustible energy and mastering the power of space!]

A translucent blue gemstone surfaced in Li Yu's hand, flashing with a light like a phantom bubble.

The [Infinity Gauntlet] surfaced, and Li Yu slowly inlaid it in the middle finger position.

With a click, the four gemstones bloomed with resplendent colors simultaneously. Blue, red, green, and purple flickered unsteadily, mutually reflecting each other.

Energy electric arcs of various colors extended over the [Infinity Gauntlet]. The [Infinity Gauntlet] began to tremble, but returned to calm a moment later.

Wearing the gauntlet, Li Yu carefully comprehended the new power within.

He raised his hand, and blue radiance flashed. The space not far away began to ripple. Like a shattered mirror, it split open from the center, revealing the profound void.

Then it turned into small spatial cubes, slowly rotating in the void, and finally condensing into a spatial portal.

Li Yu stepped inside and instantly appeared in the starry sky outside.

"Such high spatial priority; it can even forcibly pass through dimensional walls." Li Yu's gaze flickered.

The higher the spatial priority, the more it could shift a larger spatial coefficient with minimal power.

Subsequently, he began wantonly cutting and altering the void before him.

He could clearly feel the fluctuations of the spatial coefficient and then modify it.

After playing around for a while, Li Yu smoothed over this section of space, restoring it to its original appearance.

"I'd better pop it out and use it as an energy core first." Li Yu estimated for a moment and found that normally, using the Space Stone as an energy core was the correct way to utilize it.

It wouldn't be too late to put it back into the [Infinity Gauntlet] when preparing for battle.

Just as the Jade Void Palace developed, energy was becoming increasingly insufficient, mainly due to the Time Speed Controller. This thing was a massive energy consumer.

Even now, it wasn't running at full power. The Space Stone perfectly made up for this, directly pulling the differential speed to 1:10.

And due to his life tier evolution, the deployment time of the avatars was extended again, and the interval had reached one year.

Therefore, Number One, whose deployment time had already arrived, was forcibly delayed by half a year.

Only Number Three was unaffected, still messing around in DC. During this period, aside from some useless rewards, there were two rather peculiar ones.

[Obtained Special Item — Restart: Restart the time node of a certain area, reverting everything to twenty-four hours ago.]

This was a reward from The Flash. Looking at the description, it was quite interesting, sharing the same purpose but achieving it differently compared to the Time Stone.

However, if the Time Stone wanted to achieve this degree, it probably couldn't even if it drained the currently poorly-developed Tree of Life dry.

Not exactly; it might be possible in a small dimensional world, but in the Main Universe, it would probably be powerless.

These consumables produced by the system were truly awesome.

[Obtained Special Ability — Alien Language: You have an intuition for all languages and can vaguely understand their meaning.]

This thing was rather interesting. It seemed to have come from Aquaman. When Li Yu saw it, he was stunned for a moment.

The Flash could give out a heaven-defying item like [Restart], so why did Aquaman give such an outrageous reward?

Just because he could converse with marine life?

If the reward hadn't come from Aquaman, he probably wouldn't have even cared.

However, this thing wasn't completely useless either. It should come in handy at certain times, such as in some unexcavated civilization ruins.

Still, it was a far cry from the Aquaman reward he had been expecting.

After dealing with these matters, Li Yu's mood was fairly good, so he simply walked out of the room.

The current Jade Void Palace had undergone great changes. The original experimental bases and assembly lines had all disappeared, replaced solely by beautiful scenery.

Those experimental bases had all been transferred into the cabins to enjoy the bonus of the time differential speed.

Under the modular construction, once a cabin's service life was reached, it could be packaged and transferred entirely to another cabin.

Therefore, there was nothing left in the main dimensional world.

If it weren't for the need to contact the outside world, Li Yu would also stay in the time differential speed zone so his body could get through the "enfeebled state" brought about by opening up a dimensional world.

During this period, he had opened up another two dimensional worlds, and the overall gene chain development progress had reached around 1%.

He roughly estimated the time. Li Yu sighed somewhat at this time span; he too would eventually have to look down upon the passage of time in the outside world in units of years.

Mainly because of the influence of the "enfeebled state," he still needed time to adapt to the side effects brought about by opening up dimensional worlds.

Too many dimensional worlds would impose a burden on the Main Universe. Energy wouldn't be born out of thin air, nor would it disappear for no reason.

When a dimensional world extracted a portion, the Main Universe would lose a portion.

Li Yu suspected that his "enfeebled state" wasn't merely due to exerting his full strength; perhaps there was also the influence of cosmic rules.

However, the special ability of the gene chain would make him gradually adapt to this.

This was a step that advanced lifeforms had to face. With a slow evolution speed and a long lifespan, watching the turnover of ordinary lifeforms exceeding several generations, it was hard not to develop some high-and-mighty mindset.

It was just that Li Yu's previous evolution speed was too fast, resulting in him having no chance to experience this feeling at all.

(End of this chapter)