Chapter 324: Chapter 273: I Want an Installment Plan

The failure of his Divine Grace of Evolution skill confirmed for Su Ze that he had to make a trip to the Mu Country before his fifth evolution to complete it.

And this process would most likely lead to a conflict with the King of Mu.

Su Ze wasn’t sure how strong the King of Mu was, but he could be certain he was no weaker than established overlords like Gu Chengguang and Budi.

Having just broken through, Su Ze was still a bit weaker than the established Saint-level powerhouses, so he was no match for the King of Mu either.

However, he still had a great deal of room for improvement.

After completing his fourth evolution, he could upgrade his skills again. He could even absorb a tube of a fifth-order extract...

Su Ze planned to make himself as strong as possible before heading to the Mu Country.

’Tomorrow, I’ll go to the lab and have that fifth-order extract I got from Amida appraised. I need to see if it’s suitable for me to absorb, and then I’ll draw up a detailed plan for upgrading my skills...’ Su Ze had already packed his schedule for the next day.

...

Early the next morning, Su Ze went with Liou Wenxin to the laboratory.

He first handed Amida’s shattered body over to Liou Wenxin.

"As an overlord specializing in Spiritual Power, Amida’s most valuable part is his brain. It’s the source of his Spiritual Power," Liou Wenxin explained. "If we want to use his brain as a communication base station, we first need to erase his consciousness, but we can’t kill him."

In other words, they needed to turn him into one of the living dead, with no self-awareness.

Su Ze looked at Amida lying on the lab table. His body was shattered and charred black. Su Ze had removed all four of his limbs and poisoned him to prevent his body from healing itself.

However, as an overlord who specialized in Spiritual Power, his Spiritual Power was still quite formidable and had already recovered significantly.

To prevent him from hurting anyone, Su Ze would punch him in the head every now and then to ensure he remained unconscious.

Next, under Liou Wenxin’s guidance, Su Ze attempted to use his Spiritual Power to erase Amida’s consciousness for the first time.

But they had underestimated the tenacity of a Spiritual Power overlord’s consciousness, and their first attempt quickly failed.

There was still a slight gap between Su Ze’s Spiritual Power and Amida’s, which made the task incredibly difficult.

With no other choice, the two had to ask Zhou Wenshan for help, as he was also an overlord specializing in Spiritual Power.

When Zhou Wenshan arrived at the lab and saw Amida, he was taken aback.

"You caught him?" he asked, looking at Su Ze in astonishment.

"Mhm." Su Ze nodded.

"Then what about Ye Muni?"

"The two of them attacked me together. I killed Ye Muni. I figured Amida’s brain might still be useful, so I left him alive."

After hearing what Su Ze said, Zhou Wenshan suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

Moreover, he and Amida were both veteran overlords specializing in Spiritual Power, and their strength was comparable. If Su Ze could capture Amida alive, then he could also defeat him.

What was even more outrageous was that, if Zhou Wenshan remembered correctly, Su Ze was only at the Butterfly Stage when the incident with Amida and Ye Muni occurred!

’What kind of monster is he?!’

Su Ze just smiled and said humbly, "I just happen to be a good counter against evolvers who specialize in Spiritual Power."

’So you’re a good counter against me, is that it...’ Zhou Wenshan sighed and steered the conversation back to Amida.

After understanding what Su Ze wanted to do, he mulled it over for a moment, then nodded. "When the time comes, make a few extra phones. Give one to each of us old-timers as well."

A phone that relied on Spiritual Power for communication not only didn’t need a signal, but it was also completely secure and private.

Ever since learning about the potential alien conspiracy hidden within the Bloodline Crystals, Gu Chengguang and Zhou Wenshan had lost their former trust in the Sovereign Country and had become cautious about everything.

With Zhou Wenshan’s help, they successfully erased Amida’s consciousness. Afterward, Liou Wenxin displayed her precise dissection skills, and before long, she had extracted Amida’s pale brain matter from his skull and submerged it in a transparent glass vessel filled with an unknown liquid.

Su Ze could even see Amida’s brain still twitching faintly.

He gave the Spiritual Power-based phone that had originally belonged to Bai Guishou to Liou Wenxin, asking her to produce a batch of copies based on it. Zhou Wenshan also dispatched a team of experts from Dongli University to assist her.

This wasn’t a difficult task for them, and they would likely have results soon.

After Zhou Wenshan left, Su Ze handed the fifth-order extract to Liou Wenxin and asked her to appraise it.

"This is an extract from a fifth-order beast recorded in our database. It’s a Marine Beast called the ’Divine-Sundering Shark,’ which is rated as a fifth-order, A-level beast," Liou Wenxin said. "They specialize in spiritual attacks, so the skills in this extract are all Spiritual Power-based. They aren’t compatible with you."

"It seems this was the extract Amida had prepared for himself." Su Ze wasn’t particularly disappointed by this. The odds of randomly stumbling upon an extract that was a perfect fit for him were far too low.

It was fine that it wasn’t suitable for him. He could always trade it for something else.

As for giving it to someone else... the only Spiritual Power-based evolver he knew who was worthy of a fifth-order extract was Liou Wenxin. However, she was currently only at the Cocoon Stage. It would be ages before she could use it.

It would be better to convert his current resources into his own strength as much as possible. That way, when Liou Wenxin needed a fifth-order extract in the future, Su Ze might even be powerful enough to hunt a fifth-order beast for her.

Su Ze put away the Divine-Sundering Shark extract. Next, he and Liou Wenxin discussed the matter and formulated a skill upgrade plan tailored specifically for him.