Chapter 195

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

He had no family backing him, but Lieutenant Helian Lie had naturally already contacted people for him.

It was a team composed entirely of Extraordinary-tier members!

For those below the Extraordinary tier, venturing out alone in the first year is very dangerous.

Generally, they follow a team and land on Planet 108 to perform some exploration missions.

As for Yun Duo?

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

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 have to 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-grade spaceships.

"Brother Lei Meng, Brother Zhang Yi." Zhao Xing looked at the two Extraordinary-tier Lords before him.

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

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

Following behind the two were 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 tall and sturdy, nearly three meters tall; wearing battle armor made him look even more exaggerated, and he carried a pair of battle axes on his back.

"My father has often mentioned you this past year." Zhang Yi was much more refined, fair-skinned and clean-looking. "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-tier Lord."

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

"The lifeforms on Planet 108 are no lower than the Extraordinary tier, and the danger level is not small. If you don't listen to 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, since that's the case, let's set off." Lei Meng said.

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Planet 108, within the atmosphere.

"Boom~"

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

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

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

"Captain, within a 3-kilometer radius, I've discovered four intense life fluctuations."

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

"Prepare for action." Lei Meng ordered.

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

"Junior Brother, follow me."

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

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

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

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

Zhao Xing nodded. He had given his younger sister a Heavenly Wolf, but it could only grow to the Extraordinary peak at most.

"That's because this Heavenly 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-tier pet beast?"

Ten thousand primary Origin Crystals—wouldn't it be better to spend them on a higher-level King-tier pet beast?

"King-tier?" Zhang Yi shook his head as he walked. "King-tier requires intermediate Origin Crystals to break the growth limit and reach the Emperor tier."

"And it takes at least 1 million intermediate Origin Crystals; primary Origin Crystals are useless."

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

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

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

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

"Combat power amplification coefficient?" Although Zhao Xing had looked at some information about the Origin Realm, his preparation time had been a bit 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 high intelligence after reaching the Extraordinary tier."

"Some King-tier pet beasts even possess intelligence not inferior to humans."

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

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"The simplest example."

"Your King-tier troop has been tempered in battle for decades, compared to a troop that just reached the King tier and has never been on a battlefield—of course, the former is stronger!"

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

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

"For the same King-tier 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-Devouring 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 at the same grade."

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

"My Heavenly 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 Heavenly Wolf pet beast walking beside him, also feeling a trace of pride.

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

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

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

Lords have different routes—the elite route, the swarm route; no one can say which is better.

One can only say that everyone has their own choices.

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

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

"Like Lei Meng, he is a Martial Dao Lord. He has absorbed quite a few Origin Crystals; although he is still mid-Extraordinary, 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 in a while, won't that be embarrassing?" Lei Meng turned back and laughed.

"Hahaha." The other team members also grinned.

The group sat on a mechanical hovercar and rushed toward the life activity location 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, so the Origin Crystals on the ground had been scavenged very cleanly.

It was only by killing indigenous lifeforms that one could still obtain them, because the planet was constantly gestating 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, it was already very rare for students below the Extraordinary tier to cultivate troops that reached the 'passing line'.