This Is Truly Not Mechanical Ascension

Upon opening his eyes, Li Ming found himself in a turbulent interstellar era. Countless civilizations wielded their hunting rifles, eyeing everything in the universe with predatory gazes, and his m...

Chapter 710: The Magical Uses of the Black Book and the Unexpected Gains (Sorry, I had something urgent to do yesterday, so I’ll only have one chapter today)

The Black Book belongs to the Titan Lord, Terravic, and can exert powerful abilities by controlling various cosmic parameters.

It can even control time and space parameters, but it is far from the strength of the Void Anchor and the Star of Eternal Silence.

According to the records in the chronicles, Li Ming can simply summarize it as - a complete collection of supernatural powers.

He stretched out his hand, and the Black Book seemed to be summoned by something. The energy shield on the surface slowly faded away and then fell in front of Li Ming.

The cover was covered with spider-web-like cracks, and a faint blue light seeped through each gap.

When fingers brush against the metal surface, the cracks shrink and expand like living things, revealing a slowly flowing liquid light beneath.

The pages are thicker than armor plates, and when they are turned, there is a crisp metallic sound like gears turning.

Li Ming took a closer look and found that there was no obvious hinge structure inside. It should be the owner's unique aesthetic taste that caused this sound.

The edges of each page bear wavy burn marks from being melted by high temperatures, and the pages are engraved with complex symbols and patterns.

There were not many pages. Li Ming counted them carefully and found that there were thirteen pages in total, with no missing pages.

[Black Book - Sub-Ultimate (Damaged): The ultimate weapon created by the Titan civilization with all its strength, it has the powerful power to control the parameters of the universe.

Control conditions: 40 billion metal energy

Control Effect: Sage

Control Ability - Encyclopedia of Superpowers: Can control the parameters of the universe to a certain extent in order to use various abilities and obtain energy intensity blessings equivalent to spiritual blessings.

Note: In damaged state, strength is limited.

Li Ming examined it carefully and found that the degree of damage was not serious, perhaps because it was basically difficult for this thing to fight against people head-on.

The ability was pretty much what he imagined, but the second half of the sentence was a little unexpected.

"An energy blessing with the same intensity as spiritual blessing..." Li Ming's eyes moved slightly, it sounded good.

His current fighting style is quite simple. The fundamental reason is that his own energy intensity cannot keep up at all. It is still at the X-level and is not pleasing to the eye.

If the energy intensity is also improved, it would be good.

"I guess the wise man is the spiritual blessing..." Li Ming speculated in his heart, immediately took control, and then checked the effect.

[Wise: Gain 500 times the spiritual blessing and have extremely high resistance to mental interference.]

Sure enough... Li Ming looked not surprised, and then tried to put it into the main control column.

In an instant, Li Ming shuddered and then took a breath of cold air. He felt as if he had just woken up and a basin of ice water was poured over his head.

The whole person woke up instantly and felt extremely refreshed.

The vision in front of me became extremely clear, a kind of abstract clarity, as if I could see the laws governing the deep operation of the universe.

A slight thought could easily influence him, and without him making any movement, a constant stream of energy gathered from all directions.

Aggregation, fission, from a flame to an ice cone, then to metal, and even to a simple living form, this is a change in the material level.

"It's really a completely different feeling..." Li Ming was quite surprised, and he became playful and kept trying.

Spiritual blessing has another benefit, which is reaction speed.

"Finally, the problem has been solved..." Li Ming was in a good mood.

He now has extremely strong overall strength, but correspondingly, his reaction speed cannot keep up with the ultimate level of combat, and it is basically the Spear of Kashmir that drags him along every time.

Such limitations are too great. Once the advantage is no longer there, it is easy to fall into a passive position and be beaten.

He had long known that his reaction speed was limited by his spiritual power, but raising his spiritual power to the ultimate level was not an easy task.

The Black Book fills this gap. While gaining spiritual blessing, it also increases energy intensity, killing two birds with one stone.

After glancing at the control page, there were still 20 billion left, which was not enough for the 30 billion needed for repairs.

Li Ming didn't care. He left a mark here and went straight back to the Mechanical Royal Court, where he immediately drew away nearly 2 billion pieces of metal energy.

During this period, the Mechanical Royal Court accumulated a large amount of metal materials. After absorbing all of them, it obtained nearly 40 billion metal energies.

It cost 30 billion to completely repair the [Book of Black].

The cracks on the surface of the restored Black Book have disappeared without a trace, and it has become a complete piece.

Since the degree of damage itself is not high, there is not much change in its capabilities, only the strength is increased.

The spiritual blessing of [Sage] increased from five hundred times to one thousand times, and the annotation in the ability also disappeared.

"Superpowers..."

In the room, Li Ming experienced the Black Book's increased strength.

It can be said that the upper limit of the Black Book is much higher than he imagined, and it depends entirely on the user's imagination.

According to the records in the Titan Chronicles, it can be used to predict the future, curse, resurrect... and other things that are difficult to do with common sense.

Of course, this is all relative. For example, it is definitely impossible to resurrect a life form at the dominant level.

"Let me think about it..." Li Ming thought in his heart, and then he had an idea. Ripples appeared in the void in front of him, and silver lights intertwined.

Like cracks in ice that suddenly solidified, silver light poured into the cracks like liquid mercury, and these streams of light rapidly wove into a neural network-like matrix.

Quantum sparks burst out at every intersection, extracting all kinds of information from the void.

The metal energy was consumed rapidly, and the captured quantum information became visible in the optical network. The information spectrum in this area had become completely disordered.

The quantum fragments automatically pieced together under the traction of the magnetic field, gradually constructing a translucent humanoid hologram. It was not tall, but rather short, like a child.

The edge of the matrix suddenly lit up, all the silver light gathered together, and suddenly disappeared into the void.

Li Ming's eyes flickered slightly, and a coordinate information emerged in his mind. He couldn't help but feel a little surprised, "I really found it, so amazing?"

Thinking in his mind, based on this coordinate information, the matrix in front of him changed again, from a quantum anchored light network to a mirror composed of circles of symbols.

The scene gradually became clear. It seemed to be a spaceship, where two girls who looked not too old were sitting opposite each other and seemed to be communicating.

It was the Prophet and the Virgin Mary, their eyes closed, energy flowing around them, as if they were absorbing energy.

"It's really them..." Li Ming stared at the mirror in front of him. In the past, he always won by force, and this rather complicated method was rarely used.

That’s right, Li Ming was just using the Black Book to try to predict the locations of the Prophet and the Virgin Mary.

He did not save the information status of the two people, but only used a series of general words such as faces and titles for prediction.

The universe records everything that happens at all times and is a natural witness.

But there must be a certain method to read the desired information from it, and the Black Book can be said to be the key.

In the spaceship room, the prophet who was absorbing external energy to restore to peak condition as soon as possible suddenly opened her eyes. Her mental strength was extremely high, and she had a vague feeling that something was wrong.

"What's wrong?" The Virgin Mary noticed the prophet's reaction and opened her eyes to ask.

"I feel like something is staring at us." The prophet looked around with a frown.

"What is it?" The Virgin Mary's face changed slightly. She immediately stood up and looked around cautiously.

The prophet's young face was extremely solemn, with silver light in his pupils. Waves of spiritual energy gradually emanated from his eyes, but to no avail.

"Not here..." The prophet's expression became more serious.

"Is it Yongyuan?" The Virgin Mary's face turned pale and she couldn't help asking.

"No, it's not that..." The prophet shook his head, "The gaze of the Eternal Abyss is too terrifying."

"It's not Yongyuan?" The Virgin Mary's expression softened, but she continued, "If it's not Yongyuan, who else could it be? We've long since escaped the boundaries of the known galaxy. We're so far away. Who else could have done that?"

At this point, she whispered, "Could it be that your body is still too weak to withstand your spiritual body? It's too sensitive."

"No, no..." The prophet was very sure. When he was about to speak again, his eyes narrowed slightly. He saw in the void not far from the two of them, silver lights intertwined and gradually outlined a figure.

In an instant, the prophet's pupils contracted and he cried out in a lost voice: "Qing, Qinglong!?"

The Virgin Mary also stood there in a daze, a chill running to the back of her head.

Not long ago, I was confident that the other party could not find me, but just a few months later, the other party appeared before me.

"It's been a long time, you two." Li Ming's shadow said with a smile, then pondered, "That's not right, it seems like we've never really met..."

This is certainly not his real body. It is just a shadow that descended remotely with the help of the Black Book's various abilities. It has no killing power.

The two were horrified to the extreme. They stared at the guy in front of them with extreme vigilance, but secretly they couldn't help gritting their teeth. How vengeful was this guy? Even with Yongyuan being the enemy, he still wanted to find them.

"I said last time that we should have a face-to-face chat. What do you two think?" Li Ming asked.

"Your Excellency Qinglong, we are facing the powerful enemy of Yongyuan, why do you keep chasing us?" The prophet pleaded helplessly.

"I'm chasing you guys?" Li Ming rubbed his chin. He originally just wanted to test the power of the Black Book, but he didn't want to explain. He said:

"I need to make sure that what you said last time is correct. You can't just walk away and say you believe it or not."

The Virgin Mary took a deep breath and couldn't help but say, "We are reminding you because we are life forms from the same evolutionary era. You can't repay kindness with enmity."

"Repaying kindness with enmity?" Li Ming almost burst out laughing. After thinking for a moment, he said, "If this counts as repaying kindness with enmity, then what does this count as?"

Having said that, he suddenly broke into a strange smile.

Immediately afterwards, a dark green light suddenly appeared in front of the two of them, and the invisible force outlined a pentagram mark.

Then it split into two, floating towards the Prophet and the Virgin Mary respectively.

The Prophet and the Virgin Mary were both alarmed and subconsciously took action to stop it. The purple light in front of the Virgin Mary intertwined into an energy shield.

But the dark green pentagram seemed to have no substance and easily broke through the energy shield.

The prophet used mental defense, and an invisible mental shield surrounded her, but it only blocked the attack for a moment, and she watched helplessly as the dark green pentagram was imprinted on her forehead.

The moment it fell, the pentagram symbol spread out a dark green network, instantly covering the entire body of the two people. A chilling feeling that penetrated deep into their bones made them feel as if they were falling into an icy cave.

Li Ming smiled and said, "This is a curse that will gradually erode your consciousness and bodies. The closer you are to me, the weaker it will be, and the farther away you are from me, the stronger it will be. I hope you two will return soon."

The two men glared at each other immediately, but they didn't seem threatening at all. Li Ming tutted and shook his head, saying, "Appearances can be deceiving, what a pity."

The next moment, his shadow dissipated here.

The Virgin Mary's face was grim. It was not until long after Li Ming disappeared that she cautiously asked, "Is he gone?"

"It's time to go." The prophet sighed.

"Hurry, quickly use the black goat egg to reshape the beef body again." The Virgin Mary said hurriedly.

The prophet smiled bitterly, "It's useless. Azure Dragon is merely casting another curse. The more bodies we exchange, the greater the damage we suffer. The end result will remain the same."

"Isn't he a genetically evolved being? How could he be proficient in this method..." The prophet couldn't figure it out.

"His true form must be extremely far away from us. This kind of long-distance communication and curse is not so easy to achieve, even for the ultimate life forms at the corresponding evolutionary level."

"Then we can only go back?" The Virgin Mary couldn't help but said, feeling dejected. Going back to face Qinglong directly was a risk, and at the same time, she might also face Yongyuan, which was an even greater risk.

Then he gritted his teeth and said, "I really shouldn't have reminded him!"

The prophet sighed, "Let's go back. He probably doesn't want to kill us. He just wants to confirm our information. It's nothing more than letting him remember it at a glance."

Take a look at the memory? The Virgin Mary's face turned pale, then red, and she said hatefully: "It's better to die!"

No matter how harsh their words were, no matter how much they valued their lives, even if they were unwilling, they had no choice but to turn the spacecraft around and return.

"Interesting..." Li Ming didn't expect that after some operations, he would force the Prophet and the Virgin Mary back.

To be honest, he had no such idea at first, so it was an unexpected gain.

After taking a look at the metal energy balance, he found that the operation just now consumed nearly 3 billion metal energies.

The main thing is that searching for two people consumes a lot of energy. If there is an information state, it will save a lot.

He actually wanted to search the memories of the two people directly, but unfortunately he couldn't do it for the time being. It involved another form of pheromone exchange, and cursing at a very long distance was already at its limit.

After dealing with this matter, Li Ming glanced at the smart terminal again. A battle report came from the deep dimensional world. Holmes was corroded and then died in battle.

Li Ming remembered the former anchor bearer of the Federation. The two had once clashed.

He shook his head. This was not the first X-level life form to die.

He only has eight mechanical guards, and it is impossible for them to take care of all the battlefields, so casualties are inevitable.

In addition to the mechanical guards, he also invested most of his high-end mechanical bodies.

"27%, the increase in activity has indeed been curbed." Li Ming felt it.

He glanced at the route of the other Star Gate team and realized they were still some time away from the coordinates. He pondered for a moment and continued to develop.

Holmes' death seemed to be a sign that the war in the deep dimensional world had completely entered a white-hot stage.

In the following period, high-intensity wars continued to occur, the intensity of which left Charles and others dumbfounded. Even in the Titan era, wars of this intensity would only occur in the later stages.

A steady stream of X-level life forms rushed out from the abyss of fog.

The number of dead higher interstellar life forms is also increasing. Defense nodes are constantly being breached and the defense line is shrinking. Fortunately, the existence of the eight mechanical guards has greatly reduced the pressure on the line.

However, this also greatly delayed Li Ming's development speed, which seemed like a dead end with him blocked from both ends, making Li Ming quite uncomfortable.

This situation lasted for a while, and the star gate team heading to another holy castle finally arrived at the designated coordinates.

(End of this chapter)