This is not mechanical ascension.

In another palace, Li Ming was still in the midst of a painful evolution, with huge pressure coming from all directions.

Like a high-speed steel forging hammer, it kept hitting his piece of iron, as if to crush him completely.

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The invisible pressure acted on the outside, and the special energy acted on the inside. The whole process was extremely painful.

During the high-speed evolution, his body was undergoing a metamorphosis from deep in the cells every moment.

If it was just to promote metamorphosis, it would be an extremely painful process. Without the support of sufficient nutrients, this evolution would only drain him dry.

Even if the [Field Doctor] could speed up recovery, his own nutrients would not appear out of thin air.

But the special energy that penetrated into his body continuously replenished the consumption required for his evolution and filled the gap.

"What kind of power is this? It's too abnormal." In the pain that surged like a wave, Li Ming could barely keep thinking, thanks to the experience of the Holy Castle.

It was difficult for him to feel the passage of time, but he could clearly perceive that his development progress had increased by about 10% during this period, reaching 16%.

If he followed the normal development speed, he would need at least two or three years to develop 10%.

Although it was extremely painful, it was a great benefit that the genetic evolution body wanted.

Li Ming gritted his teeth, and the surface of his skin was actually wriggling like waves, and there were bulges from time to time, as if something was about to grow out.

Without the defense blessing, his body had already shown signs of distortion at this terrifying evolution speed.

But Li Ming didn't care and didn't suppress it. The low-level gene seeds had long been developed and were in a stable state. The only unstable one was the Star Devouring Prison Dragon gene seed.

As time passed, Li Ming felt more and more that the level of his body's evolution had reached a limit.

There was a faint feeling of swelling in his body, but at the same time, the energy particles gushing out of his body became more and more violent, and were tightly imprisoned on the surface of his skin by the surrounding pressure.

"Just a little bit more..." Li Ming gritted his teeth, only the thunderous sound of his heartbeat in his ears, the blood flow speed has reached an incredible level, and the skin temperature even makes the surrounding space appear distorted.

At a certain moment, his skin suddenly tore, blood spurted out, and pieces of black scales grew out of his muscles at an astonishing speed visible to the naked eye.

Flashing with a cold luster, the edges are as sharp as blades, covering his whole body like a layer of solid armor.

Each piece is closely connected and fits perfectly. At the same time, a surge of life breath gushed out of his body, powerful and hot.

"30%..."

Li Ming couldn't help but let out a long sigh, as if he had crossed a boundary. He felt the pressure around him suddenly reduced, and the terrifying development rate in his body was also slower than one level.

But even so, it is still advancing at a high speed.

This energy should not last long. For some reason, this idea suddenly emerged in Li Ming's mind.

As he expected, after a few more breaths, the energy in his body that drove his rapid evolution left like the ebb tide, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

The external pressure also disappeared at the same time. Li Ming took a deep breath, and the energy particles scattered around rolled in, and as he exhaled, they gushed out from his mouth and nose, interweaving black and red.

When he stood up, the black scales on the surface of his body had disappeared without a trace. This was the ability awakened after the Star Devouring Prison Dragon gene seed reached 30%.

His gene seed was not a standard, and there was no record of what ability it would awaken.

Raising his hand, a black diamond-shaped scale appeared on the back of his hand, which felt metallic to the touch.

Li Ming tried it a little and found that it had excellent defensive properties. The seemingly inconspicuous scales had a very special internal structure.

The tiny energy pipelines were crisscrossed like capillaries, and after calling the energy, they would turn scarlet.

It could play a good weakening role against external physical attacks and energy attacks.

Of course, for him, it is of no great use, just a symbol.

Because the development progress has been improved, the awakened ability is useless, but the strength improvement it brings is quite useful.

Li Ming stretched his limbs and experienced the surge in strength that can only be felt when the life level jumps.

With the development progress reaching 30%, he estimated that the conventional combat level can reach 70S.

This means that under the main combat system, the conventional energy level has exceeded 200X, and the hammer is 400X. The peak attack with all means has exceeded 800X!

The overall strength has increased dramatically. At this moment, with the addition of [Guards Armed], the conventional energy level is close to 800X, and the power burst has exceeded Lancaster.

Because of the marginal effect, the higher the level, the blessing provided by the Guards Armed is also slightly attenuated.

"Unfortunately, the power of the infinite heavy hammer cannot act on the Mechanical King, and can only be used as a weapon..." Li Ming still shook his head with some regret.

The Guards Armed bless him himself, and the infinite heavy hammer also blesses him himself, and the two cannot be superimposed.

However, Li Ming was in a good mood as he easily obtained such a benefit. At least it saved him five years of sleepless time.

After a slight adjustment, he couldn't help but speculate: "From what the star spirit said, every life form that comes here will receive a similar reward."

Others are probably the same, they just don’t know what the form of expression is.

"Your Excellency Xingling?" He tried to shout, but in the empty palace, there was only his own echo.

Then, what to do next? Li Ming frowned slightly and walked forward step by step.

It was basically certain that the guy called the Star Spirit had no murderous intention towards them, so he felt much more confident and bold.

"Your Excellency Xingling..." He called again. Before he finished speaking, his eyes moved slightly, and the scene around him suddenly began to change.

"Are you going to change places?" Li Ming pondered in his heart and waited intently.

…

What are you waiting for?

After the Star Spirit finished speaking, everyone's hearts were in their throats. Looking at the Star Spirit who seemed to be down, they were most afraid of such an unexpected situation.

"Your Excellency Xingling?" Costat tried to call, but the other party did not respond, looking in a certain direction with slightly fiery eyes.

A bad premonition brewed in everyone's mind. Looking along, not far from them, a space began to distort.

Immediately, a figure walked out.

"Li Ming?" Dius's voice suddenly became high-pitched.

"Everyone..." Li Ming's heart skipped a beat. He looked around and saw that everyone he had seen before was here, staring at him with different expressions.

"Why is your potential like this? Why wasn't it detected?" Star Spirit seemed to have discovered something puzzling, and floated in front of Li Ming with a puzzled expression.

"Uh..." Li Ming didn't respond immediately. He glanced around and looked at everyone's reactions. They seemed not to care that he appeared so late.

But their expressions were strange, as if they were a little worried and uneasy.

He didn't know what happened, so he remained silent.

It's him again...Costat couldn't help but feel a little impatient, "Your Excellency, the duel can begin, we are all ready."

"Duel? What duel?" Li Ming was keenly aware that he seemed to have missed something.

He couldn't help but look at the star spirit in front of him, but the other party just stared at him with blazing eyes, seeming to be thinking about something.

"It's a duel to determine the ownership of the secret..." Reynolds roughly explained what happened before.

Li Ming's eyes flickered. Sure enough, everyone has that kind of benefit, but Gonzalez doesn't, because he doesn't have any potential?

"...The hope for the revival of the Holy Spirit Civilization is that everyone is pushed to level X. What foreign objects are not allowed to be used?"

Li Ming thought about it, feeling a little troubled.

With his current strength and the control of objects, almost no one can defeat him except Lancaster, even in a head-on confrontation.

Not to mention suppressing X-level standards to the lowest level, but it is difficult to explain after winning.

No, it can’t even be said that it’s difficult to explain, it’s impossible to explain at all.

"Well, Lord Xingling, can't you really suppress it to S level?" He tried to ask.

Everyone's expressions changed slightly, and Cedric immediately scolded: "Your Excellency the Star Spirit has already said that he has no extra power to suppress it. The rules have been set, how can they be changed."

"Your Excellency Xingling..." Dius also urged: "We are ready."

"Can't you just suppress yourself? As long as you don't exert power beyond S-class." Li Ming took the initiative to suggest.

"Shut up!"

"Nonsense!"

“How can we ensure fairness by suppressing it ourselves?”

Everyone opened their mouths and glared angrily. Being at the same life level as Li Ming, they really had no confidence in defeating him.

Only then did the Star Spirit come back to his senses, "Suppress each other?"

Hearing these words, the surroundings fell silent, and different eyes gathered, but Xing Ling shook his head and said: "Forget it, there is no need."

No?

Li Ming frowned slightly, still hesitant to join this group of people in the duel.

However, just as everyone took a breath, they heard Xing Ling say: "However, the rules do have to change."

Before everyone's hanging hearts could settle down, they seemed to be clenched tightly by someone and sank involuntarily. They glanced at Li Ming and felt in their hearts that something unexpected had happened.

oh? Any transfers? Li Ming looked forward to it.

"His potential is amazing..." Star Spirit looked at Li Ming, "He even said that even before the Holy Spirit Civilization Era was destroyed, I had never seen a life form with such a high potential level."

Everyone is already immune to this kind of sigh. Li Ming is already an S-class life form at this age. Need to say more?

He couldn't help but curse secretly, this star spirit can change the rules he said.

Several people exchanged cryptic glances, and Costart felt that it was a tricky situation. If he really had to fight Li Ming, no one would be sure of victory.

But now it seemed like a foregone conclusion that I had to give it a try.

On their respective evolutionary paths, the resources they used were all top-notch. Even if they were suppressed to the same life level, their experience would still be there, which was already a big advantage.

"In this case, do we need to suppress ourselves to S level?" Dius asked.

"No..." Star Spirit shook his head, his body suddenly collapsed, and he gathered not far away, his voice drifting, "There is no need for a duel."

"No need for a duel, what do you mean?"

Everyone was stunned.

"The duel is cancelled. I will hand over the secrets I keep directly to him."

The voice of the star spirit came, although it was as calm as water, but it fell on everyone's ears no less than dark matter annihilation bombs, blowing them up directly!

"Ah?" Li Ming was stunned.

"Give it to him directly!?" Dius lost his composure and looked stunned, "No... no more duel?"

"The reason I asked you to duel is because I haven't decided who to give the things to, but now I have decided, so naturally you don't need to duel." Xingling was very calm.

"But... why is it him?" Costat said with difficulty, "Just because he has high potential?"

"His potential is not very high, it is very high..." Xingling emphasized.

But everyone still couldn't accept it, Lancaster and Cedric frowned.

The worst result they could accept was to compete with Li Ming on the same stage. Although there was no guarantee of winning, they could still give it a try.

As a result, it was directly decided now?

Mikhail remained silent, his eyes frequently swept over Li Ming, Reynolds tutted twice, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"We are willing to suppress ourselves to S-level." Lancaster took the initiative to speak, and others ordered to echo.

"No need anymore." Xingling still refused.

"We don't accept it!" Gonzalez suddenly shouted, his expression cold.

After finally squeezing in here with great difficulty, it was fine that he didn't get the initial benefits. He thought Li Ming had no chance to get the so-called secret.

In the end, there was no need to compete, and it was directly assigned to Li Ming. How could he accept this?

The successive failures made him almost out of control, and he said in a deep voice: "This is unfair to us. You have already agreed."

"I said, there is no fairness." The star spirit's reaction was still calm, "Whether you accept it or not, the result is the same."

"Li Ming, aren't you going to say a few words? It will be very hot if you take it in your hands like this." Costat said in a deep voice, and everyone looked at him, and invisible pressure fell.

"Uh, thank you all?" Li Ming narrowed his eyes and nodded.

Everyone's eyes fell on him, but Li Ming was not afraid and had no expression.

"Good boy." Reynolds couldn't help but say.

"Come with me." Xing Ling ignored them and just waved his hand. The palaces around him suddenly collapsed. Kostat and others disappeared, leaving only Li Ming.

Li Ming looked around and couldn't help but said, "Sir Xing Ling, I have a question."

"Ask." A soft voice came, and Xing Ling didn't know what he was doing, with his back to him.

"What is the Guixu period?" He asked. He had been curious about this question for a long time. The Xing Ling in front of him should not be like the giant.

"The Guixu period..." Xing Ling paused, and then slowly said, "It is the period when Yongyuan is highly active. During this period, the universe's suppression of Yongyuan reaches its lowest point."

"The Yuan Clan can be active freely in the main universe without any restrictions."

Li Ming nodded, which was similar to his guess. "How long will this Guixu period last?"

"There is no specific time." Xing Ling shook his head, "It may be hundreds of thousands of years, or it may be a million years or even longer."

"Then in this process, the civilization of the entire universe cannot escape the Guixu?"