This is not mechanical ascension.

A few days later, in a slightly narrow cabin, Li Ming sat cross-legged under the cover of the gravity field. A layer of black energy particles slowly surged on the surface of his body, sometimes bright and sometimes dim.

The cells of the body are highly active under the promotion of the evolutionary source, like a ignited flame, swallowing energy particles and promoting the evolution inside the body.

Not long after, Li Ming slowly opened his eyes and spit out a mouthful of energy flow with black arc particles, which was quickly sucked back by him to avoid triggering an energy storm.

"Hmm..." He glanced at the control bar. The evolution system was finally completed, and the last A-level evolutionary essence became S.

class.

There is even more × level evolutionary source material, and the evolutionary blessing directly reaches 64 times. Under the promotion of [Sublimation Source Crystal], the overall evolutionary blessing has reached 576 times, which is almost an increase of more than a hundred times.

The development efficiency has improved a lot. He estimates that the time it takes to increase the development progress by 1% should be reduced to three months.

"Hmm - find seven more X-level life forms and bring all the evolutionary essences to level 1. I estimate that we can increase it by 1% within a month."

Li Ming thought to himself and couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. Seven X-level life forms are not so easy to find.

However, this matter is not that urgent. There are not many people who can threaten his life now, unless an X-level life form that has entered the ultimate path makes a sneak attack.

But there is Qinglong on top. Qinglong's leather is not broken, and almost no one will deal with him directly. The Holy Mother Cult is a special situation.

Thinking about it, Li Ming sighed again, "Unfortunately, the sublimation source crystal is a special control object and cannot be upgraded through normal methods.".

In the past half year, he had tried many things to increase development efficiency, but the evolutionary source of matter was already the most suitable thing to control.

Shaking his head, Li Ming closed his eyes and continued to develop gene seeds. It would take at least ten days to reach the nearest star gate.

Two or three days later, a communication request from the Black Hole Network interrupted his development process.

"The Holy Mother Cult?"

The name of the communication was only a series of code names, and there was no such note in his address book. After a quick glance, he discovered that at some point, the Holy Mother Church had approved his friend application.

"---They should have discovered it." Li Ming couldn't help but feel a little weird. According to the original situation,

He should have been taken to the lair of the radicals.

I don’t know what these two guys are thinking now.

According to conservative sources, both Mary and the Prophet were stronger than the Oath Keepers,

If he is really taken to the lair of the radicals, things will not go smoothly. With all the control objects in his hand and whether he is willing to do mental calculations or not, it is certainly no problem to sneak away, but it is not that simple to carry out a cleanup.

It can only be said that things are unpredictable, Li Ming thought in his heart, and chose to connect. A dark virtual screen popped up with only a white sound wave line.

It was not a video call, just an audio connection. Neither party spoke for the first time. Li Ming was not in a hurry and waited leisurely.

After a moment, the slender sound wave line on the screen trembled, and then the voice of the prophet came, "Your Excellency Qinglong, I wonder if you have any important news or transactions?"

Li Ming laughed silently. These guys could really pretend to be confused while still pretending to understand, and now they brought up important news.

He previously lacked the Stone of Terrax, so he contacted the Holy Mother Cult, but now he has cleared the conservative lair and has more than twenty Stones of Terrax, which is enough for him to use for a long time.

"The lair of your other faction has been wiped out. Do you think this is important news?" Li Ming said directly.

The prophet fell silent, as if he didn't expect Qinglong to be so direct.

Li Ming pretended to be solemn and said: "The previous transactions were all about you and me, each getting what he wanted. Why did you suddenly have a sudden idea and prepare to attack my students?"

The prophet didn't want to mention the previous cooperation, so he said: "I contacted you just for this matter. There may be a misunderstanding between us."

"Misunderstanding?" Li Ming said lightly: "What misunderstanding?"

"We have been separated from the conservatives for many years and have been on the same side for a long time. This plan was not our fault." The prophet explained. Li Ming was speechless after hearing this. Is this a lie to a fool?

"We guarantee that such a thing will never happen in the future." The prophet added: "At the same time, in order to thank you for helping us eradicate the conservatives, we are willing to give away two Stones of Terrax."

Li Ming's heart moved slightly. Was he spending money to buy Ping An?

This was an unexpected gain. The few corpses left behind were indeed the right ones, and it seemed that they were quite shocked.

Li Ming muttered that his family knew about his affairs, and it would be difficult for him to find the Holy Mother Cult's home base in a short time, let alone knock on the door.

At the same time, he didn’t want to be watched by this perverted organization all the time. Leaving the body behind would be a threat.

If the other party really doesn't dare to care about him anymore, it would be best to wait until he has the strength to attack.

"It seems that there is a real misunderstanding." Li Ming said thoughtfully, "However, I don't need the Stone of Terrax. If you really want to thank me, just use metal materials.

Metal materials-Is there no shortage of the Stone of Terrax? It seems that Qinglong has gained a lot from this purge, so he is thinking ahead.

But in any case, it would be best if Qinglong was willing to put this matter aside for the time being, "No problem, we will provide a ton of Hipparion star marrow alloy and send it to the Mechanical King's Court."

"One ton of star marrow alloy?" Li Ming secretly estimated that this is a high-end material, estimated to be worth no less than 20 billion star coins.

After all, it's white, so it's already pretty good.

After confirming that this matter was a misunderstanding, the atmosphere between the two relaxed a lot. The prophet even said: "Your Excellency Qinglong, the Holy Mother Church originally split the conservatives and took away many important items. If you find out, we are willing to Spend a lot of money to redeem it.”

"Important items?" Li Ming's heart moved slightly, "What important items?"

"I have pictures here—" the prophet said, sending over several pictures.

Li Ming looked through them, and they were all strange-shaped things, like oval-shaped flesh proliferations and black busts—·

He hadn't seen any of them except—

Li Ming's eyes were fixed on a picture. The black circular symbol stone was almost exactly the same as the one in Tan Wei's hand.

There was an intuition in my heart that the ultimate purpose of the prophet's journey around such a large circle was this stone.

“Hmm”—What do these things do? Li Ming asked casually.

"This -" the prophet hesitated: "It's related to the organization's secrets, it's hard to say, but we are willing to pay a price that satisfies you.

Then, she added, euphemistically: "There are many things in them that are difficult to use without special methods, so they are just decorations in your hands."

"What you said makes sense." Li Ming nodded and changed his tone, "However, I didn't find anything you said."

The prophet was silent for a moment, and his tone was calm, "Really? That may have allowed the guardian to hide somewhere else."

After a few perfunctory words, the two ended the conversation. The prophet turned to look at the Virgin beside him and said, "He should be calmed down for the time being. He is not prepared to go to war with us."

"But - he pretended not to know about the oath-keeping stone."

"Our coordinates are top secret, and it will take a lot of effort for him to find them. Temporary reconciliation is the best option." The Virgin frowned, "As for the Oath Keeper, unless he doesn't kill the Oath Keeper, he will definitely find it. "

Her eyes flashed slightly: "However, even if he passes the test of the Kaleidoscope World, he will not be recognized. If not operated properly, perhaps the Oath Keeping Stone will help us eliminate this enemy."

"What exactly is this thing?"

After ending the communication, Li Ming also became interested and walked to Tan Wei in the corner.

It holds a black stone in its metal palm. The black symbol has spread to its entire palm, but it has not caused any damage.

Li Ming's heart moved slightly, and he placed his palm on the metal shell of Tanwei, and possessed him again.

However, this time, he had a completely different feeling. There was an unspeakable feeling in his entire palm, as if it didn't belong to him.

With a gentle squeeze, black symbols surged. Suddenly, the possessed Li Ming felt his mind tightening, and the vision in front of him suddenly blurred, as if he had fallen into a kaleidoscope, with various colors passing by in front of his eyes.

He had experienced similar scenes many times, but he was not panicked. After an unknown amount of time, everything in front of him suddenly became clear.

"This is -" Li Ming frowned and looked around, not knowing where he had come.

Wherever you look, there are lush and thick towering ancient trees, dense bushes of low shrubs, and even black translucent grass stems and wild flowers.

But they are all made of black translucent crystal texture, and the entire crystal jungle is filled with crystal clear ink black.

Even the ground beneath your feet is covered with fine sand that feels like soil but has a texture like crystals.

He was extremely vigilant. He checked his physical condition and found that he was still wearing a tanwei.

Then, for the first time, he sensed that the control system still existed, which made him slightly relieved.

But in such a beautiful environment, the surroundings were full of ubiquitous hostility and oppression. Li Ming didn't know where that sense of oppression came from. He stayed in the same place for a long time before he tried to move forward and fell one step further. , the world changes in an instant.

The black plants disappeared, replaced by a vast and chaotic sky, as dim as dusk, surrounded by layers of strange black shadows, and black-purple mist floating in the air.

The surrounding pressure was stronger, but it was unable to cause any harm to the tank guards.

"One step for a world?" Li Ming frowned and tried to take a step forward. The surroundings changed again, as if it had become a fragmented world. Gray fragments were floating around, and the spiral staircase was red in front of his eyes. Then it disappeared into a place where he couldn't see it.

"What the hell is this place?" Li Ming looked around and then walked forward. The endless interstellar battlefield stretched as far as the eye could see.

The floating Gobi desert and even the underwater scenes of unknown meters deep have all appeared.

The pressure was getting stronger and stronger, and I don’t know how long we had been walking. In the end, the pressure coming from the four surroundings made Tanwei a little unable to bear it.

A voice suddenly appeared in Li Ming's mind, "Mechanical bodies cannot be inherited—."

The sound came out of nowhere, and Li Ming didn't know what happened.

But the next moment, he returned to the cabin. At the same time, Tan Wei's metal palm wrapped in black symbols also returned to its original state.

It was as if nothing had happened, but the black round stone began to emit slight fluctuations, very slightly.

"Inherit? Inherit what? Inherit the identity of the Oath Keeper?" Li Ming could only speculate based on existing clues.

"Mechanical bodies are not good. It seems that only living bodies are qualified."

He looked at the black stone and knew he wouldn't risk it himself.

But I don't know if it is stimulating this thing. It has been emitting energy fluctuations vaguely, which is very strange, as if it is some kind of wave frequency.

Li Ming took out the only detection equipment he had, but he didn't find any clues, nor any signals.

"Strange-" He hesitated. This thing obviously has a secret, but he didn't know what the secret was.

He couldn't figure it out for the time being, so he could only leave it alone. On the way back, there was no change. This thing was still very calm, but it released energy fluctuations in a special pattern. The interval was 1.58 seconds.

And a piece of news almost arrived at the star gate at the same time as him--

[The Empire announced that it would establish an internal review agency of the Mechanic Association to check the mechanics in the country. If any violation of the imperial law is found, they will be dealt with severely and severely! 】

It finally came, Li Ming looked at the statement.

The second the imperial announcement came out, it caused an uproar in the interstellar space.

"The wording is quite intense--" Li Ming pondered. As the saying goes, one cannot blame the masses. The group of mechanics is quite large, and the benefits of unity are not small.

If it really has to be dealt with severely and severely, let alone small civilizations, even advanced civilizations, and even star cluster-level civilizations will be severely injured.

But the Empire had already severed ties with the Mechanic Association two years ago because of the Hammer Godsmith incident, and had already gone through the first round of cleansing.

It didn't cause much of a stir, and the mechanics of other civilizations all cast their eyes on it, not knowing what had happened.

But three days later, the situation changed. As if it had been agreed upon, the Star Cluster Republic Alliance and the Yongyao Federation quoted the Empire's announcement and also announced a joint review of the mechanics within their territory.

And many mechanics were still in a state of confusion. Wasn't it the Empire's internal self-examination? Why did they suddenly agree?

What frightened them even more was that just one day later, countless civilizations across the galaxy responded, announcing that they would conduct an investigation and deal with them severely and severely.

If a civilization did this, it would inevitably cause strong resistance. Even low-level mechanics have considerable power in the local civilization, and their connections are even more complicated.

These people are basically the backbone of the civilization, providing considerable tax revenue, GDP, and jobs. Touching them is equivalent to killing one thousand enemies and injuring eight hundred of their own.

But this situation where almost the entire galaxy united to exert pressure is frightening, and no one is not afraid.

Even the most notorious plunderers and terrorist organizations in the interstellar space have never experienced such a situation of "everyone shouting and beating them".

More life forms cheered loudly, saying that these mechanics have occupied a lot of resources and can be called local tyrants in many small civilizations.

For a moment, there was a feeling that "the interstellar mechanics association has suffered for a long time".