Technological advancement begins with devouring.

Chapter 167 A Century of Remarkable Gains (2 Updates)

A century has passed in the blink of an eye.

Inside the base outside the ruins of the ancient god, Jiang Chen lay on the bed, seemingly fast asleep.

In reality, Jiang Chen's consciousness was inside the system library.

Another book finished.

Jiang Chen put the book "Destruction: The End Between Order and Chaos" back on the bookshelf.

"I've also finished reading the rules of destruction, and I've mastered the entire law section of the fifth-level library."

"Judging by the time, the hundred-year deadline is almost up."

"The improvement over the past century has been considerable. Unfortunately, the upgrade speed is still too slow."

Jiang Chen stretched. Although he was a consciousness, he always felt like he had a 'physical body' inside the system library.

Jiang Chen glanced at the rows of bookshelves, but didn't linger. He immediately exited the system library and returned to reality.

The hundred years in the Blood Luo World was the longest Jiang Chen had ever spent in one place in his life.

It was so long that Jiang Chen felt a sense of 'things have changed'.

The only thing that Jiang Chen felt was a little regretful was that his clone went in the wrong direction in researching blueprints. Although it researched a lot of new blueprints that were recognized by the system, they were not of much value to the mechanical legion as a whole. The only gain was just some expertise points.

After a century, I barely managed to scrape together 200,000 skill points to redeem the [Mechanical Life Creator].

It's quite common for research to go in the wrong direction in the field of science and technology. Although it's a bit of a pity, it's not entirely a complete loss as it has developed a new expertise.

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Decades ago, Luo Feng had already fused three 'Blood Luo Crystals' and become a 'Blood Warrior' before leaving the Blood Luo World to train in other mission worlds.

Under Jiang Chen's guidance, Luo Feng also went to the 'Demon Mountain' world and obtained the inheritance of the 'Demon Sound God General'.

However, perhaps due to the butterfly effect brought about by Jiang Chen, Hong and Ji Qing did not end up together. Naturally, the Illusionary Spirit King would not cause trouble for Hong anymore, and Luo Feng did not leave the Cosmic Secret Realm ahead of time to return to the Qianwu Cosmic Kingdom.

Instead, they remained within the secret realm, constantly venturing into different mission worlds to adventure and hone their skills, waiting for the next round of 'qualification battles' to begin.

The cosmic-level qualifying battle takes place once every hundred years.

In the last qualifying battle, Jiang Chen's appearance made the competition for the Primal Secret Realm spots even more intense, and Luo Feng failed to enter the Primal Secret Realm.

After a century of arduous cultivation, Luo Feng believed he had made great progress and was determined to enter the Primal Secret Realm, and even attempt to break through to the 'Primal Tongtian Mountain'. Naturally, he was unwilling to break through too early.

However, none of this has anything to do with Jiang Chen.

According to Jiang Chen's plan, after the resources of the Blood Luo World are developed, he will carry out the last cultivation task. After completing the test of the Giant Axe Founder, he should break through to the Domain Lord level and leave the Primal Secret Realm.

It wasn't that Jiang Chen didn't want to continue plundering resources within the mission world; it was simply that the higher-ups at the Virtual Universe Company disagreed with his decision.

Every time he arrives in a mission world, he causes chaos and greatly affects the adventures and training of other geniuses. Who can stand that?

Blood Luo World was also the last world Jiang Chen would plunder for resources.

The next 'Extreme' mission world is, in part, to complete the test of the Giant Axe Founder.

On the other hand, it was also to seek some special 'opportunities'.

As for the world's choice, Jiang Chen had already made up his mind.

It's not the number one ranked 'Purgatory Abyss', but the 'Death Star', a desperate-level mission world located in the 'Glory Realm' of the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance.

According to the information provided by the Phantom King, Jiang Chen believes that the 'opportunity' in this mission world is the most suitable for him.

While the quality of opportunities is important, the best opportunity is the one that suits you.

Jiang Chen had absolutely no interest in opportunities like inheriting the legacy of a divine general.

Not only is it difficult to seize, but even if you do obtain it, it won't significantly improve your strength.

It's better to scavenge more resources in some ordinary mission worlds.

After letting his mind wander for a while, Jiang Chen pulled himself out of his rambling thoughts and summoned Jarvis.

"Jarvis, how much resource have you collected?" Jiang Chen asked.

Jarvis immediately reported, "Currently, our mechanical legion controls approximately 18% of the entire Bloodlust Continent. However, due to time constraints, the mining rate has not reached its maximum. The total value of the various resources accumulated so far is approximately 1887 billion Chaos Units. This figure is the remaining amount after deducting the consumption of manufacturing modules, engineering machinery, and other mechanical units. The detailed list is here."

Jarvis projected a screen displaying a long list.

The list is divided into three parts.

First, it includes the types and quantities of various mechanical units, including production and processing modules.

Second, the types and quantities of mineral resources.

The third factor is the scale of energy reserves.

—The mechanical legion has an astonishing demand for energy, and a considerable portion of its resources are used to manufacture [Space Furnaces] to accumulate energy blocks.

After several upgrades, the latest generation of the Space Furnace can now produce energy blocks worth tens of thousands of Chaos Units every year it operates.

Jiang Chen possesses over ten thousand such spatial furnaces within his world ring.

Of course, this level of space furnace has higher environmental requirements and cannot be activated just anywhere.

During these years in the Blood Luo World, these tens of thousands of space furnaces were able to operate at full power to their limit, greatly enhancing Jiang Chen's energy reserves.

Of the nearly 200 billion mixed units of resources that Jiang Chen possesses, half are various types of ultra-high-quality energy blocks.

What remains are various metals, ores, and other resources.

"Nearly two hundred billion Mixed Yuan Units, that's truly astonishing!"

Jiang Chen couldn't help but marvel at the abundance of resources on the Blood Luo Continent.

It should be noted that in a century, Jiang Chen has only occupied less than one-fifth of the Blood Luo Continent, and the 'shallow mineral veins' in this area have not yet been fully mined.

It could even be said that only a small portion has been mined.

If the entire Blood Luo Continent were developed, the profits would increase by at least several thousand times, or even more.

The value of a world at this level cannot be measured in 'mixed units'.

It should at least be a 'major treasure point' or even a 'supreme treasure point'.

If we take into account the production of 'Blood Crystal' and 'Beast God's Blood', then the value of the Blood Continent should definitely be calculated in 'Treasure Points'.

After a rough inventory, the energy of 100 billion Chaos Units, if about 20% is retained, would be enough to wage a very high-intensity war.

Considering reserves, keeping a maximum of 40% is enough; the rest can be sold.

The remaining 80 billion-plus mixed units of various ores and metals will mostly be kept.

The portion that one can choose to sell if one doesn't need it is probably less than one billion Mixed Yuan Units, which is a very low percentage.

As the mechanical legions developed, their types became increasingly diverse, and their demand for various resources became extremely staggering.

Even Grade A ores can be used to synthesize higher-grade alloys; there will never be a situation where they are not used.

"Let's keep these resources for now. Three million mechanical legions will be enough for a long time. At least the 'Death Star' mission won't require more mechanical legions."

A thought flashed through Jiang Chen's mind, and he ordered Jarvis, "Jarvis, recall all mechanical legions and prepare to evacuate the Blood Luo World."

“Yes, Master,” Jarvis replied immediately. “It is estimated that it will take about twelve years to recall the entire mechanical legion.”

The mechanical legion was too large in number, especially the satellites, which were widely dispersed.

It will take a long time to recover all of them.

Upon hearing the number 'twelve years', Jiang Chen frowned slightly, but quickly recovered and nodded, saying, 'Notify me after the recall is complete.'

To save time, why not just dump a large number of mechanical units into the Bloodlust World?

Jiang Chen would never do something so wasteful.

While those engineering machines and satellites are not as expensive as combat units, they are certainly not cheap.

In addition to the sheer number of items, the total value is still quite high.

It's such a waste to just leave it here.

Even if you're rich, you can't be this wasteful.

Twelve years later, Jiang Chen finally 'recycled' all the mechanical units and stored them in various world rings.

"The World Ring is about to overflow." Jiang Chen revealed a strange expression.

Previously, multiple world rings were used to store the mechanical legion and various supplies for classification and organization.

Different world rings, containing different things.

But the reason for doing this now is simply because the world ring is not big enough to hold a large number of mechanical legions and a massive amount of resources.

However, Jiang Chen only sighed for a while. After confirming that all the mechanical units had been 'recovered', Jiang Chen boarded the spaceship and left the Blood Luo World directly.

Jiang Chen has already submitted his application through the Virtual Universe System, but it will still take some time before the Virtual Universe Company's spaceship arrives to pick him up.

Inside the Palace of Eclipse.

Jiang Chen was summoned by the 'Palace Master of Heavenly Eclipse' once again.

"Your Majesty the Palace Master." Jiang Chen bowed slightly in greeting.

Having gained so much in the past century, Jiang Chen was naturally filled with gratitude towards the Palace Master of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace.

Although, if Jiang Chen hadn't been the Palace Master of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace, he might have been able to obtain even more resources and treasures by taking matters into his own hands.

However, given the unknown combat strength of the Immortal Temple's higher-ups, there is still a certain degree of risk involved.

With the intervention of the Palace Master of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace, an agreement was reached between the two parties. Jiang Chen would take fewer resources and cause less damage to the Blood Luo World, while the Palace Master of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace would guarantee that the natives of the Blood Luo World would not be able to threaten Jiang Chen. From Jiang Chen's perspective, this was a good thing.

"Looks like you've had a good haul." The Palace Master of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace glanced at Jiang Chen, his gaze piercing through the spatial equipment on Jiang Chen's body.

"I must thank you for your help, Palace Master," Jiang Chen said sincerely.

"This is your own skill, no need to thank me." The Palace Master of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace shook his head, looked at Jiang Chen with a strange gaze, and sighed, "A prodigy like you has never appeared since the birth of the primordial universe."

What the Palace Master of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace was talking about was not strength or talent.

Rather, it refers to the scale of the mechanical legion controlled by Jiang Chen.

It should be noted that although Jiang Chen's combat mechanical units numbered only over three million, the number of engineering mechanical units responsible for logistics was in the hundreds of millions.

Apart from the technologically advanced mechanical race, no other intelligent race in the entire universe can control this number of mechanical units without causing trouble.

Of course, Jarvis deserves most of the credit for this.

During the more than one hundred years in the Blood Luo World, besides his main body cultivating, Jiang Chen's clone, who acted alongside him, had one of the most important tasks: upgrading Jarvis's core code to improve its computing efficiency.

A significant portion of the various ores mined were used to manufacture computing modules for optical computers, which provided Jarvis with a massive amount of computing power to control these vast mechanical units.

Of course, in terms of strength and talent alone, Jiang Chen's performance can definitely be described as 'monster'.

Moreover, it is a monstrous talent unprecedented in the endless ages.

"I noticed that you received the recognition of the fundamental laws during your cultivation in the Blood Luo World?" The Heavenly Eclipse Palace Master looked at the mark between Jiang Chen's eyebrows.

If it is a law mark of a single system, then the color of the mark will be consistent with the 'symbol' of that system of laws.

For example, the gold of the metal element, the cyan of the wind element, and the blue and white of the lightning element.

However, if one obtains multiple law imprints, the colors of the law imprints will change due to their mutual influence.

The mark between Jiang Chen's eyebrows, however, was a deep black.

This color of law imprint is something that the Lord of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace has rarely seen in his long life.

Having seen it before, the Palace Master of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace naturally understood what this meant and couldn't help but ask, "Have you gained the approval of all eight lower-level laws?"

"Yes, I must thank the Palace Master for his help, which allowed me to cultivate without any worries and fortunately achieve some success." Jiang Chen smiled.

The hundred years Jiang Chen spent in the Blood Luo World was indeed the longest period of continuous seclusion and cultivation.

Completely unaffected by external influences, focusing solely on the various knowledge within the system library.

Although the process is tedious and boring, the sense of accomplishment when you successfully master new knowledge is incomparable to any form of entertainment or enjoyment.

"It's your own talent that's good. Even without me, it wouldn't have a big impact." The Palace Master of Heavenly Eclipse shook his head.

Having reached his level of status, he no longer bothered with self-aggrandizement.

It's my own contribution, and no one can take it away from me.

The Palace Master of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace wouldn't bother fighting over something that wasn't his.

Changing the subject, the Palace Master of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace continued, "The quality of this year's Genius Battle is quite good. Besides you, there is also Rong Jun, who is destined to become a super strong person of our human race. In addition, there is Bo Lan, as well as Luo Feng, who comes from the same planet as you, who also have a chance."

Hearing the words of the Palace Master of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace, Jiang Chen was speechless.

The higher-ups in the human race seemed to favor Rong Jun more than Bo Lan and Luo Feng.

Jiang Chen wasn't quite sure what they had based their judgment on either.

The original novel never mentioned anything special about Rong Jun, and he eventually disappeared without a trace.

On the contrary, Luo Feng soared to the heavens, leading the human race to transcend reincarnation, and even to transcend this source world in the end, stepping into a higher level.

"Leaving aside others, let's just talk about you." The Palace Master of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace looked at Jiang Chen and asked, "You cultivate the Ten Great Laws and the Nineteen Chaos Steles. Is there a distinction between primary and secondary ones?"

The "nineteen Chaos Steles" mentioned by the Palace Master of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace clearly refer to "Law-type Chaos Steles".

The Ten Laws, the Eight Great Beast God Laws, and the "Cosmic Chaos Monument" which explains the laws of spacetime.

It is extremely rare in the entire history of the primordial universe to comprehend so many systems of laws and achieve success in each of them.