My skill in becoming a god is landmine mastery.

Achoo... Achoo!

Yang Yao sneezed several times in a row, touched his nose, and looked up, puzzled.

Which little cutie is thinking of me? It's so powerful!

Qi Lin? Could it be that she misses me? Honestly, I guess I need to speed things up so I can prepare my strength and go back to see her sooner.

Yang Yao only thought about it for a moment, then immediately returned to his research.

Over the past few days, the merchants had gradually delivered the materials Yang Yao wanted to him.

The moment Yang Yao received the materials, he began selecting items to complete the modification of the magical metal.

The saplings in front of him now are the fruit plants of the Devouring Landmine-Evolution Fruit that Yang Yao is almost finished developing.

The fruit-bearing plants are only a few tens of centimeters tall, and in the middle of each plant grows a small, oval-shaped fruit, no more than a few inches in size, with a very bright color.

Cultivating these plants also required considerable effort from Yang Yao. Despite having the blueprints, cultivating these things was still quite troublesome.

Mass production isn't out of the question, but it would probably require sacrificing one of his own, and there aren't enough materials available for him.

Modifying magical materials and cultivating plants both require a great deal of Yang Yao's effort, and the process of turning ordinary materials into magical materials involves significant losses.

It's considered good if half a pound of magical materials can be extracted from one ton of matter, not even including the extraction of psionic energy.

Psychic energy must be extracted through the soul. Although it's a method of using mental power, the soul is the reservoir of the mind, bearing all the emotions a life generates.

So this thing can only be obtained by killing people. The good news is that everyone has a soul, and fortunately, there are quite a few people on this planet who deserve to die, so mental power is not scarce here.

Even killing small animals can yield souls, though they contain relatively little spiritual power.

But animals are so cute, how can he kill them? Wouldn't killing people be better for him?

Despite having sufficient resources in all aspects, it still took Yang Yao three days to manufacture just these few small plants, along with hundreds of tons of materials and the lives of many people—no, the lives of animals.

It's not bad, though. At least with some effort, this output is enough for our own people.

The manufacturing principle of this thing is easy to explain: it involves extracting psionic energy to create a seed of the mind, which is then implanted into magical materials that have already been inscribed with runes.

The magic circle formed by the inscriptions is the cradle of the seed of the mind. From this, a seed of an evolution fruit plant can be obtained. Plant it in the soil, and once it sprouts, it can absorb spiritual energy to catalyze the growth of an evolution fruit.

The cultivation process is rather random; the abilities of an evolved fruit can only be known after it has matured.

Yang Yao had cultivated five fruit-bearing plants, which should at least grant him a decent ability.

Once the plant has grown, it doesn't have any other needs and is very easy to survive. All Yang Yao needs to do is invest spiritual energy to accelerate the fruit's ripening process, and then they can simply wait for the harvest.

Yang Yao felt the only downside was that the plant was a one-time thing, only able to produce fruit once. Otherwise, Yang Yao would have planned to open a Devil Fruit plantation to wholesale these evolution fruits.

Of course, Yang Yao didn't just make these few small things during this period; he also made other things.

His gaze swept to the experimental table beside him, where two round beads were fixed to the table, their surfaces receiving beams of psionic energy emitted from above.

As the two beads were illuminated by this beam of light, two incomplete runes inside were gradually being inscribed into them by the psionic beam.

One of the beads contained an inscription of a seven-colored gene chain, while the other contained a pink rune with nine angular edges.

These two items are actually a set, prepared by Yang Yao for Qi Lin on Blue Star. After all, she's his girlfriend, and although he hasn't had sex with her yet, Yang Yao still went to great lengths to make it happen.

Having analyzed psionic technology and created the Devil Evolution Fruit, Yang Yao gradually understood the power of this ability.

The power of the mind is full of miracles—well, not the fragments of Elmanra's body. He has already grasped this power of illusion and can perform some basic manipulations by altering magical runes.

These two beads represent a new weapon that Yang Yao developed by deviating from blueprints.

No, it shouldn't be called a weapon, but rather a Mega Key Stone. However, it's not the kind of Mega Key Stone given to Pokémon, but rather Angewomon's Mega Key Stone!

That's right, it's Angewomon from Digimon.

Although Yang Yao doesn't understand digital power, and humans probably don't possess the ability to digitize,

But that's okay. Since we can't digitize it, we'll use the power of bonds to replace the power of digitalization and achieve bond evolution!

Doesn't the power of the mind include bonds?

Of course it includes that. After all, was that line, "Don't underestimate our bond," just a joke?

Yang Yao felt that the power of bonds was almost like unleashing a burst of power, a standard feature of protagonists. What kind of protagonist could you be without bonds?

Bond Evolution is a new path that Yang Yao deduced by drawing on the ideas of Greninja and the idiot.

While transforming from a beast form into a human is difficult, Angewomon's Mega Evolution, which at least results in a human form, is still significantly easier than evolving from a beast form.

Yang Yao will wear the Key Stone, and Qi Lin will wear the Mega Evolution Stone. Using the mental power stored within the Mega Evolution Stone and Key Stone, they will achieve a super evolution of their life form.

In retrospect, this approach may not have been wrong; the inscription fluctuations on the Mega Evolution Keystone are very stable, and it looks like the inscription is almost complete.

The only drawback is that this Mega Evolution Keystone requires far too much mental energy; it would take collecting the souls of at least several thousand people to fill the runes on the keystone.

That's damn expensive!

Even if Yang Yao now controls this planet, it's still a bit unreasonable for him to kill so many people at once.

Fortunately, there are quite a few space pirates outside, so sending Thornton and Little One out to loot will basically gather them all.

Recently, it seems that the space pirates in this area have been keeping their distance from Makkapakka because of this incident, and dare not land at Makkapakka's shipyards and ports.

This reduced Yang Yao's methods of collecting souls considerably. Tch, what cowards! Without sufficient energy and supplies, the spaceship will starve you bunch of bastards! Angewomon herself!