Chapter 684 - 378: Encountering Danger 2

"Then how did they end up as Star Pirates?"

"It’s not that strange for a third-rate race to become Star Pirates. But normally, the Dou Race wouldn’t be active in this Star Realm. Something must have happened."

Su Ze didn’t care what happened to others, as long as it didn’t affect him.

But the Dou Race joining the nearby Star Pirates was good news for Su Ze. He had yet to plunder the Origin Gene of the Dou Race.

Unfortunately, their current strength was not yet enough to take on that group of Dou Race pirates.

’I have to become a Moon God as soon as possible. Once I do, I’ll be more than a match for that group of Dou Race pirates.’

After this incident, Su Ze was no longer in the mood to continue raiding other Star Pirates and headed straight back to Zexing.

...

As soon as he returned to Zexing, Su Ze heard good news. Many of the people he had brought from Blue Star had made breakthroughs.

Basically, anyone with decent talent had seen their strength increase by one level after arriving on Zexing.

The former Overlords had become Sovereigns, and the Sovereigns had become Legends.

But so far, no new Star Gods had emerged.

But that was to be expected. After all, it had been too short a time.

Previously, Lin Hua and the others had already been Legends when they arrived on Zexing, yet the fastest among them, Uur Hogan, still took nearly three years to become a Star God.

Right now, it seemed Mr. Ya had the best chance of becoming a Star God. After all, in terms of both talent and resources, Mr. Ya was the best among them.

As for the others, Su Ze believed that if they were given another two or three years, a large number of Star Gods would emerge.

After all, with Su Ze around now, the evolutionary resources available to everyone were far more abundant than what Uur Hogan had enjoyed back then.

But Su Ze was still not satisfied with this progress. He thought it was too slow. He hadn’t had so many resources supplied to him back then, yet it had only taken him a little over a year to go from a mortal rank to a god.

How could he speed things up?

The only way was to burn money—to throw more resources at the problem!

Su Ze summoned the Pope and asked him about "high-grade energy."

To be honest, high-grade energy had played an indispensable role in Su Ze’s rapid growth.

On Blue Star, he had absorbed a total of three types of high-grade energy:

A golden energy that could directly digest Evolutionary Material;

A Silver-gray Energy that could enhance his physique and increase his body size;

And the power of faith, which could enhance Spiritual Power.

Of these three energies, the golden energy came from the eyeball of the Creation Dream Butterfly. It involved the power of time and was of an extremely high level, so Su Ze had no hope of replicating it.

The power of faith was also very troublesome. The Pope might be able to produce the Silver-gray Energy, but it didn’t directly help with increasing one’s evolution level.

However, Su Ze thought that there were surely more than just these three types of high-grade energy. Perhaps there were other high-grade energies in the universe that could increase the evolutionary speed of Zexing’s people.

After understanding Su Ze’s thoughts, the Pope said respectfully, "The high-grade energy you speak of, my Lord, is actually any energy that has a strengthening or auxiliary effect on life and is rank seven or higher.

"Among the three energies you mentioned, the golden energy is undoubtedly of an extremely high level. It’s possibly an Ancestral God-level energy. As for the Silver-gray Energy I researched that strengthens the body, it’s actually only rank seven, so it’s of little use to Star God-level lifeforms.

"The power of faith is a rather special type of high-grade energy. Depending on the number and strength of the believers at its source, even an Ancestral God can benefit from it.

"If you wish to accelerate the evolutionary speed of lifeforms below the god level, there are of course such high-grade energies in the universe. However, they are not cheap. If you want to purchase them in large quantities for many people to consume, I’m afraid Zexing cannot afford it."

"Then we’ll purchase a smaller amount and prioritize supplying it to a small group of people to cultivate a batch of Star Gods as quickly as possible," Su Ze said.

He didn’t mind spending a bit more money. Once the Starry Sky Justice Team was formed, they could quickly earn back the spent resources.

The current priority was to assemble the Starry Sky Justice Team as quickly as possible.

"There is a rank-seven energy called ’Green Spirit Ability.’ It is a specialty of the Tree Spirit Race and can be purchased on any major Public Planet. You could have someone procure a supply and prioritize giving it to those who are on the verge of becoming gods.

"Besides that, if you want to increase the overall evolutionary speed of everyone on Zexing, there is one thing that is actually very cost-effective."

"What is it?" Su Ze asked.

"Evolutionary Liquid!" the Pope said. "For evolvers below god-level, the boost from taking Evolutionary Liquid for the first time is quite significant, and they only need to take a single drop."

Su Ze had a sudden realization. He had actually forgotten about that.

The first time he took Evolutionary Liquid, the boost had been quite significant for him as well. And although Evolutionary Liquid wasn’t cheap, it was much, much cheaper compared to high-grade energy. Zexing’s current financial situation could completely afford it.

Zexing had thirty thousand people. One drop per person was only thirty thousand drops. Besides, many of them were family members who had followed along and weren’t evolvers at all.

With a plan in mind, Su Ze instructed Lin Hua to rest for a while and then pilot the Nebula to the nearest planet, Thousand Illusion Star, to procure supplies.

It was a good opportunity to sell off the resources they had acquired from their recent raiding trip.

While he was there, he was also to purchase as many Dark Element and Shadow Element Evolution Crystals as possible to forge rank-seven hidden weapons. If a Disguise Divine Artifact was available, he was to acquire that as well.

Furthermore, he was to purchase large quantities of both Green Spirit Ability and Evolutionary Liquid.

Fearing they wouldn’t have enough money, Su Ze told Lin Hua to sell all three of the Star God-level Spaceships they had acquired from their raid.

To avoid attracting attention, he specifically instructed Lin Hua to take Old Waller and Tano with him. The three of them were to split up and sell the resources separately.