Chapter 128

"Just me left now." Zhao Xing watched the geniuses who quickly dispersed into the crowd.

He didn't have a family behind him, but Lieutenant Helian Lie had naturally already contacted people for him long ago.

It was a team composed entirely of Transcendent-level members!

For those below the Transcendent level, venturing out alone in the first year is very dangerous.

Usually, one follows a team and lands on Planet 108 to perform some exploration missions.

As for Yun Duo?

Yun Duo had already helped enough; he wasn't a babysitter.

Matters like this were naturally for Lieutenant Helian Lie to arrange.

Zhao Xing first found an unoccupied room in the space city; after identification, this room became his exclusive room.

He didn't wait long before receiving a message from Lieutenant Helian Lie.

"Junior Brother, my good friends Li Fan and Zhang Yi have already arrived at Space City 108. You can just go find them."

At a landing flat in Space City 108.

Many mechanical spaceships were parked here.

Inside one of the B-class spaceships.

"Brother Lei Meng, Brother Zhang Yi." Zhao Xing looked at the two Transcendent Lords in front of him.

Lei Meng was a good friend Senior Brother had met in the military; he was a Transcendent mid-stage Martial Dao Lord.

Zhang Yi also served in the military department; furthermore, Zhang Yi was the son of the old principal of Anping Academy, Zhang Zhang Zhang Tianming, and was a Transcendent late-stage Exotic Beast Lord.

Behind the two of them followed seven or eight others, most of whom were Mechanical Lords.

This was also the most common type of Lord in the Empire; there were particularly many Mechanical Lords.

"Haha, Zhao Xing is here. We've finally met the number one genius of our Beihe Galaxy."

Lei Meng laughed heartily. He was big and tall, nearly three meters high; wearing battle armor made him look even more exaggerated, and he carried a pair of battle axes on his back.

"My father has also mentioned you often this year." Zhang Yi was much more refined, looking clean and fair. "I didn't expect Anping Academy to produce another formidable genius."

"You two brothers are too kind," Zhao Xing said modestly. "I'm just from this current batch, and besides, I'm only a High-level Lord."

Lei Meng nodded and said, "Brother Zhao, I, Lei Meng, speak plainly. Since Lieutenant Helian Lie introduced you to our team, for the sake of your safety, you must follow orders."

"The lifeforms on Planet 108 are none lower than the Transcendent level, and the danger level is not small. If you don't follow orders and run around, we can't take responsibility if something happens."

"I understand," Zhao Xing nodded. "I'll listen to Brother Lei."

Lei Meng looked rough, but he was actually the leader of this team.

"Good, in that case, let's set off," Lei Meng said.

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Planet 108, within the atmosphere.

"Rumble~"

A spaceship streaked across the sky like a meteor and quickly landed on a vast, open wasteland.

The cabin door opened, and Lei Meng, Zhang Yi, and the others jumped out.

Zhao Xing also followed and jumped down from this B-class spaceship.

"Captain, within a 3-kilometer radius, four intense life fluctuations have been detected."

"There should be quite a few indigenous lifeforms active," a Mechanical Lord reported.

"Prepare for action," Lei Meng ordered.

Subsequently, one after another, the Mechanical Lords summoned their own mechanical troops.

"Junior Brother, follow me."

Zhang Yi gave a word of advice, then also summoned a pet beast.

Zhao Xing looked at this pet beast, the Sky Wolf, and couldn't help but be stunned.

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"Senior Brother, this Sky Wolf of yours..."

"Why is it King-level, right?" Zhang Yi smiled.

Zhao Xing nodded. He had given his younger sister a Sky Wolf, but it could only grow to the peak of the Transcendent level at most.

"That's because this Sky Wolf absorbed 10,000 Primary Origin Crystals," Zhang Yi said, "so it broke through its growth limit."

"10,000?" Zhao Xing asked in confusion, "Senior Brother, why didn't you spend that on a King-level pet beast?"

Ten thousand Primary Origin Crystals spent on a higher-level King-level pet beast—wouldn't that be better?

"King-level?" Zhang Yi shook his head while walking. "King-level requires Intermediate Origin Crystals to break through the growth ceiling and reach Emperor-level."

"And it takes at least 1 million Intermediate Origin Crystals; Primary Origin Crystals are completely useless."

"Emperor-level troops are even more exaggerated; they need at least 100 million Advanced Origin Crystals."

"100 million?" Zhao Xing gasped inwardly; this was too exaggerated.

But thinking about the terror of Emperor-level troops, he understood that this quantity was completely reasonable.

"I cultivate the Sky Wolf," Zhang Yi continued, "because it also relates to the troop's combat power amplification coefficient."

"Combat power amplification coefficient?" Although Zhao Xing had checked some information about the Origin Realm, his preparation time had been slightly short, and he didn't understand many things.

He had only truly stepped onto the path of cultivation for a little over a year.

Zhang Yi patiently explained: "All troops will develop extremely high intelligence after reaching the Transcendent level."

"Some King-level pet beasts are even not inferior to human wisdom."

"They also learn, absorb cultivation, and accumulate combat experience..."

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"The simplest example."

"If your King-level troop has been tempered and fighting on the battlefield for decades, compared to a troop that just reached the King-level and has never been on a battlefield, the former is of course stronger!"

"In terms of innate reasons, some King-level pet beasts are innately stronger than others of the same clan."

"Combining all these factors... it leads to a huge gap in combat power even between King-level lifeforms of the same clan and species!"

"For the same King-level lifeform, the gap in combat power can even be a hundred or a thousand times!"

"A hundred or a thousand times?" Zhao Xing blinked.

It seemed so; the Soul-Eater Tree he had strengthened with his talent was indeed stronger than one that hadn't been strengthened.

"The so-called combat power amplification coefficient refers to the difference in actual combat power under the same grade."

"If one above the passing line can exert two times the combat power, then the combat power amplification coefficient is 2."

"My Sky Wolf pet beast has been fighting on the battlefield with me for decades; its combat power amplification coefficient was 5.7 before entering the Origin Realm!"

Zhang Yi looked at the Sky Wolf pet beast walking beside him, also feeling a trace of pride.

"Therefore, I will spare no cost to let it grow to a higher realm."

"I understand," Zhao Xing also looked at that exceptionally mighty Sky Wolf. No wonder he felt this Sky Wolf's life force fluctuation was extraordinary.

"It seems Senior Brother Zhang is following the elite path."

Lords have different paths—the elite path, the swarm path—no one can say which is better.

It can only be said that everyone has their own choices.

"Absorbing Origin Crystals, even if you fail to break through, will greatly increase your combat power; it's not just the breakthrough that is the benefit."

"It's the same for Lords. Origin Crystals can enhance rule comprehension, making your augmentation of troops stronger, and there is also a combat power amplification coefficient."

"Like Lei Meng, he is a Martial Dao Lord and has absorbed quite a few Origin Crystals. Although he is still at the Transcendent mid-stage, he can beat 10 Lords of the same level because he can maintain high-intensity bursts."

"Hahaha, Old Zhang, don't praise me like that. If I can't beat 10 of them later, that would be embarrassing," Lei Meng said, turning his head and laughing.

"Hahaha." The other team members also grinned.

The group sat on a mechanical hovercar and rushed toward the life activity locations on the detector.

Planet 108 was still quite safe because the planet itself hadn't been born long ago, and secondly, many people had been here, and the Origin Crystals on the ground had been scavenged very cleanly.

That is, killing indigenous lifeforms can still yield them, because the planet is constantly giving birth to life.

"I wonder what the combat power amplification coefficient of my plant troops is," Zhao Xing thought to himself.

He had never tested it either.

After all, he had been busy grinding points in the Primordial Realm.

The Primordial Realm didn't provide these either; after all, for students below the Transcendent level, being able to cultivate troops that meet the 'passing line' was already very rare.

— Author's Notes —

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