This is not mechanical ascension.

Ulrich no longer needed to follow the mechanical body, but he cherished every opportunity to meet Li Ming.

Seeing Li Ming coming out, Ulrich stepped forward and said, "The latest batch of purchased metal materials has been stored in the small warehouse of the core base."

Li Ming nodded when he heard this, and Ulrich reported all the way until he saw Li Ming walk into the core base, and then left reluctantly.

He looked down at the smart terminal, and his face suddenly changed, "There is an S-level mechanical body this time?"

...

The Damenles Star Gate Node, this is a small star gate transfer node belonging to the Barendit civilization. It has been running for more than three hundred years, and all kinds of facilities are seriously backward.

Buzz--

The unstable star gate spits out a dark dagger-shaped spacecraft.

"It's here..." In front of the porthole, the gray-haired old man held a crystal clear crystal ball, in which the energy was flowing, presenting a scene.

"Spiritual Master, this star field is quite amazing..." Behind him, two people were flipping through the virtual screen, secretly amazed.

"There can't be a weak civilization near the Eternal Silence River." The Spiritual Master reacted calmly, staring at the crystal ball in his hand, "According to the instructions, the blood of Saint King Terax should pass by here."

"The Eternal Holy Seat is fluctuating frequently. It is suspected that someone has started the trial of becoming a king. Only the blood of Saint King Terax can do it. Go down and arrange it."

"Yes!"

………

In a certain star gate node, in the inconspicuous queue for space coating, Clyde retracted his gaze from the porthole and asked puzzledly: "Teacher, where are we going?"

Florian, who was suspended in the air in the distance, said calmly: "Red River Star Stream."

"Red River Star Stream?" Clyde was at a loss, "Are we going to explore?"

"No, to a place that is very important to you." Florian's voice came, and Clyde became more and more confused. He asked further, but there was no response, so he could only look out the porthole helplessly.

………

After Li Ming returned to the core warehouse and absorbed the latest batch of metal energy, his metal energy accumulation has exceeded one billion again.

After returning to the room, he immediately upgraded the mechanical guards, this time it was King Tai, the four sturdy mechanical arms became six, and the functions were greatly improved.

With a wave of his hand, the four upgraded mechanical guards stood neatly in front of him, namely Zhen, Yu, Heng, and Tai.

They all exuded a fierce aura, and their functions were greatly improved.

That's right, King Tai was not the third mechanical guard he upgraded, but the fourth.

After the cooperation between the Mechanical Royal Court and Star Gate Company, the expansion of the Mechanical Royal Court was faster than he imagined, and the speed of capital reflux was greatly improved.

There were more resources that could be squeezed out, and the metal energy provided every month even reached nearly 500 million.

With four mechanical guards in hand, when armed with guards, the strength jumped to a new level again, the combat energy level was close to 500X, and the sense of security was greatly improved.

He put away the four mechanical guards with satisfaction.

He was preparing to develop gene seeds intensively. Four months, plus the scattered time before, allowed his development progress to climb to 8%. The normal energy level is close to 30S.

Buzz--

At this time, the smart terminal in the middle of the desktop suddenly rang. It was Qinglong's account.

The contact persons were two master craftsmen, who jointly initiated a communication request.

Well... the time is about right.

After clicking, Reynolds and Mikhail's big faces each occupied half of the screen.

Reynolds said familiarly: "Old Dragon, the time is almost right, it's time to set off."

"The star gate can only jump to the Kamendar node. If you want to go deep into the storm zone, you still need to sail for a long time."

Li Ming nodded, "I know."

Reynolds nodded and continued: "Then we will meet in Red River Star City. It's better to hurry up, so as not to lose the opportunity."

Red River Star City is located on the periphery of the Red River Star Stream. It is almost the largest gathering place and belongs to a certain X-level life form.

Li Ming's eyes flickered, and he said, "No problem, but I'm going to let Li Ming go first."

"Let Li Ming go first?"

His words surprised Reynolds and Mikhail.

Reynolds was even more outspoken, "Old Dragon, you let Li Ming go for such a big thing? Such a good precious seed, if something goes wrong, you will be heartbroken."

Mikhail couldn't figure it out either. Li Ming obviously didn't have the ability to participate in such a thing, and the risk was too high.

"Level 60 development potential, A-level life form in his twenties, you have to think clearly." Reynolds couldn't help but emphasize, "It's hard to guarantee that someone will do something dirty in the process."

Li Ming casually perfunctorily said: "Don't worry, I know my limits, and it's not a bad thing to hone my skills."

Seeing this, Reynolds smacked his lips a few times, "If you don't want this student, you might as well give it to me."

Some people need to hone their skills, and some don't.

He had paid attention to Li Ming during the incident of ruling the Holy Elephant. He was calm and steady, neither arrogant nor impatient, and clearly had the style of Qinglong.

He didn't need to hone anything, just develop gene seeds and learn technology honestly.

Li Ming was too lazy to pay attention to him, and Mikhail added at the right time: "This time the situation is special. I'm afraid we need to bring out some of our foundation in case of emergency."

"Hmm..." Li Ming seemed to be thinking about something, and Reynolds added quite directly: "To put it bluntly, it is possible to fight with the three major civilizations."

In such a similar exploration of ruins, there is no lack of mutual attacks. The various civilizations have long reached a consensus that the frictions that occur in it will not be brought to the outside world unless some respected figures die.

"How many mechanical bodies are you going to bring?" Li Ming asked tentatively with a flicker in his eyes.

Reynolds glanced at him and estimated: "Not to mention the top mechanical bodies, ordinary combat machines, at least 300 to 400 million."

Li Ming's heart twitched, and he said 300 to 400 million... It's really generous.

"Don't worry, the scale of the battle will be controlled at a certain level, and the loss will not be much." Reynolds also comforted him specially.

"Don't worry." Li Ming said calmly. Although he didn't have so many mechanical bodies under his command, he was good at bragging.

After briefly informing him, the two ended the communication. Reynolds finally urged him to set off as soon as possible.

Li Ming put down the smart terminal and counted the number of mechanical bodies under his command. It has initially exceeded the five million mark.

The starting point is the D-class mechanical body, the C-class mechanical body exceeds 200,000, the B-class mechanical body also has nearly 10,000, the A-class mechanical body has 13, and the S-class mechanical body is one.

To be honest, the overall number is not large, but the mid-to-high-end combat power is not small.

With this old foundation, he doesn't plan to move any of them, and it will be painful to die.

"Well... Let's take some..." After thinking about it, he lightly selected a thousand B-class mechanical bodies and two A-class mechanical bodies. As for the newly evolved S-class mechanical bodies, it's better to guard the house first.

After waiting for two or three days, Anduin hurriedly came and took a small spaceship. He was cautious and did not attract anyone's attention.

It is worth mentioning that he was not the only one who came, but also followed a girl, who was also an interstellar human.

"My youngest student-Lux."

Li Ming led him into the reception room, and Anduin introduced him casually.

Lux nodded slightly to Li Ming, with a small face and short hair to the ears, refreshing and capable.

Li Ming simply said hello, and then the tank guard possessed him and smoothly switched to the Azure Dragon vest.

"Sorry, Lord Anduin, I'm on my way and can't greet you in person." Li Ming apologized.

Lux's eyes were curious, and he looked at the mecha obscurely.

"It's okay..." Anduin didn't care, and said meaningfully, "Are you going to the Red River Star Stream?"

"There is really no impenetrable wall in this interstellar space." Li Ming couldn't help shaking his head.

"A little more informed..." Anduin smiled. He just knew that something might happen in the Red River Star Stream, but the specific situation was not clear. "Then I wish Lord Azure Dragon a victory."

Look at the correct version one by one!

He didn't want to get involved, because there were already enough people involved.

As far as he knew, the three major civilizations had taken action, including the Mechanic Association, and it seemed that they were targeting a civilization ruin that had always been controlled by the Mechanic Association. He was not very interested in this.

Li Ming smiled faintly, but saw Anduin's face moved slightly, his eyes fell on the display case on the wall of the room, and he couldn't help but say: "You also received it."

"Dusk Banquet?" Li Ming followed his gaze and saw the box containing Anatoly's invitation. "The Dusk believers personally sent it. This Lord Anatoly is quite unique."

"Dusk Hermit is famous." Anduin also sighed, and then asked, "So, are you going?"

Under normal circumstances, Li Ming must first ask the other party whether he is going or not.

However, Anduin came to help him sit in charge, Li Ming felt that he should be more sincere, so he said: "I am not very willing to go to that tasting meeting. As for the Dusk Banquet, we will talk about it later."

"Tasting meeting? What tasting meeting?" Anduin's expression moved slightly, and his tone was puzzled.

Li Ming's eyes flickered slightly: "It's the advance tasting of the Dusk Banquet. They said there were some rare cosmic ingredients that were hard to come by for hundreds of years, so I went there to taste them first."

"I didn't receive an invitation." Anduin took the initiative and said, looking quite emotional: "It seems that His Excellency Qinglong has a very high status in Anatoly's heart."

"Who knows what the other party is thinking." Li Ming's words were inexplicable.

Anduin thought that Qinglong was cautious and said with a smile: "Before the establishment of the Higher Life Forms United Organization, the Lord of the Black Hole Hall and the Dusk Hermit should have the most powerful power when they gathered together."

"Do you know why this Dusk Banquet is so popular with so many people?"

"Hmm?" Li Ming asked, "Is there anything else besides those exotic ingredients?"

"X-level gene seeds..." Anduin uttered a few words, "There must be a set of X-level gene seeds at the Dusk Banquet."

X-level gene seeds? Li Ming was stunned when he heard this.

In the known universe, S-class star beasts occasionally appear in the wild, but X-class star beasts are extremely rare.

Therefore, at the level of X-class life forms, genetic evolution is not the mainstream.

People like Barbaro basically have inextricable connections with the three major civilizations to get X-class gene seeds.

Otherwise, like Anduin, they are not on the path of genetic evolution.

Anatoly can take out a gene seed every hundred years, and you can imagine how tempting it is.

"It is currently known that the Dusk Banquet has been held for twenty-two sessions. Through his hands, are there twenty-two people who have become X-class life forms?"

Li Ming couldn't help but be surprised. This number is close to the number of X-class life forms on the surface of the empire.

"Of course there are not that many people." Anduin explained: "Currently, there are only nine people who have become X-level life forms through Anatoly's gene seeds, and the other thirteen have all died in the process of evolution."

"More than 50% mortality rate? There is something wrong with his seeds." Li Ming immediately noticed something was wrong.

Evolving to an X-level life form is bound to be accompanied by an extremely violent transformation.

However, the genetic evolution system is almost the most complete one with the most parameter data. There are many ways to reduce mortality.

"Yes, but there are still many S-class life forms flocking to them." Anduin nodded and sighed:

"Even if someone like Barbarol, who has become an X-level life form, intends to go further on the ultimate path, he still needs more X-level gene seeds.

Anatoly's methods are quite attractive, and the momentum becomes more and more terrifying.

No wonder they are jointly suppressed. If this continues, it will be held forty or fifty times. It will be more terrifying than the United Organization of Higher Life Forms.

"But even if he is suppressed, if he can steadily take out gene seeds and cultivate them secretly, it seems to be okay, right?" Li Ming asked doubtfully.

Anduin's eyes deepened a lot, "This involves another thing, the Law of Twilight. In the hundred years between the Twilight Banquet, an X-level genetic evolution will inevitably die."

Li Ming's heart moved slightly, "His gene seeds were extracted from those dead X-level life forms?"

"This is very likely." Anduin nodded. Gene seeds cannot be reused, but there is always a chance, especially when the benefits are huge.

"That's why the death rate of his gene seeds is so high." Li Ming couldn't help but sigh. Each of these old guys who have been famous for a long time has their own signature.

The two briefly communicated for a moment, and Anduin told a lot of interstellar secrets, mentioning a person - the Black Emperor.

It is said that this person's level of evolution and the "Superpower Alliance" under his command are almost as powerful as Gust and Anatoly.

But it was so weird that he died without a burial place. It is said that it was the joint work of three major civilizations.

After arranging the two of them, Anduin secretly asked Li Ming to take Lux around.

Only then did Li Ming understand what Anduin meant, and couldn't help but be speechless and declined.

In the corridor, Li Ming's thoughts intertwined in his mind, and finally settled on the X-level gene seed.

He definitely needs X-level gene-seed, though.

Don’t worry yet, after all, the development progress is only 8%. Even if you plan ahead, it’s still too early.

With his strength, as long as he finds an X-level star beast, he can easily defeat it.

But when he thought about it, he secretly murmured in his heart that he didn't know if the X-level star beast would have any way to explore the level.

He really didn't know much about it, and it was almost impossible to find relevant information at this level.

He had just forgotten to ask Anduin. He thought about it and put the matter aside for the time being.

The meal must be eaten one bite at a time, and the road must be walked step by step. The most important thing at the moment is the ruins of the Holy Spirit Civilization that are right in front of us.