Chapter 652 — The Superpower Photo

After that, once Shi Jin and the others had gotten the information they needed, they simply turned around and cut down the three supergod invaders on the spot.

One slash apiece, a clean job. Painless deaths.

"Tell me, which one of you was the dead weight?"

At that moment, Shi Jin held the black Book of Origin Plunder and stared at the single Transcendence Source floating in the air, his voice savage.

"Three supergods, sure, all of them trash who'd only transcended once, but with that many buffs stacked up, this is all we get? One?"

Shi Jue believed it.

The Book of Origin Plunder raised the drop rate of Transcendence Sources. Add Lin's power of fortune, plus Little Violet's summons of Teacher Gemcat and Teacher Foresight Owl alongside the wish-fueled fate lock, all those buffs piled together—Shi Jin had expected to reap three Transcendence Sources. In the end, only the Broodmother had dropped one.

The Cosmic Behemoth and the Abyssal Evil God were simply dead. Nothing left behind.

Useless in life, useless in death. Good for nothing, the lot of them.

"By my calculations, with our abilities stacked like that, it's impossible for only one Transcendence Source to drop..." Lin said.

"The odds of that are vanishingly small. Practically nonexistent."

"Mew mew mew." Little Violet put on an innocent face too, as though it had done nothing to drag them down.

It had already done everything it could to replicate the powers of Teacher Gemcat and Teacher Foresight Owl.

"Awoo, awoo." Eleven and the others squabbled noisily and turned to look at the little monkey, who was already backing away. Could it be Bulu's fault? This beast's luck was pitifully bad. Perhaps it was dragging down the whole team's fortune?

Even if the others' luck had been heaven-defying before, once neutralized by its presence, it all evened out to something perfectly ordinary.

Shi Qi's gaze shifted to Bulu.

"Waaah!" Bulu wailed. "Don't go accusing innocent beasts! I wasn't the one who landed the final blow!"

"So what you're saying is, it's my fault." Qi, who had landed that final blow, could not help but speak up. "My luck is amazing, thank you very much."

"It's definitely because all three of you beasts are too weak."

Two Transcendence Sources lost for nothing—plus the two lost in the Transcendence Duel—four gone in total.

Heaven only knew how badly Shi Jin's little crew had been fleeced this time. Boo hoo hoo... Shi Huan could not hold back. "Forget it. One's enough. We wouldn't have used more than one anyway."

Not that they could just hang on to this Transcendence Source either. Shi Jin and the others planned to use it as a bribe.

The thing was worth at least a "cosmic treasure-class" resource. When they reached the Sixth Universe level, they could use it to clear the way, and it ought to smooth their approach to the Sixth Universe level a bit.

And if it turned out useless in the end, they could just toss it to the Lan Yanzhi of this time and space.

After stowing the resource away, Shi Jin said:

"So next, we head for the place called the Hundred Flowers Stellar Region, correct?"

"Lin, about how long will it take to get there?" Shi Tang asked.

"That region's also on the edge of the Cosmic Sea. It's a fair distance from us, but about seven days should do it. With the energy Your Majesty the Realm King gave us, we'll travel fast," Lin said. "And besides, there's Bulu's... cosmic... thing." Lin looked at Bulu.

...I just remembered—why did we kill that beast so early? Its labor power, we could've gotten it for free... squeeze it dry first, then kill it." Bulu recalled the Cosmic Behemoth they had just cut down and felt a wave of regret.

With that beast around, they would not have had to do the manual labor themselves, and it would have made the Cosmic Behemoth seem not entirely useless.

Nothing like now. Shi Jin and the others must have been absolutely sick of the Cosmic Behemoth and the Abyssal Evil God.

Shi Li: "...You've all made quite the progress. Take a page from Bulu, everyone—so good at economizing."

"We'll let it slide this time. We'll be more careful next time."

"Right? Right?" Bulu was delighted at the praise.

Who would have thought that in so short a time, this beast would already have been assimilated by Shi Jin.

Too terrifying. They absolutely had to hold firm within their hearts.

Once the business was done, Shi Jin and the others headed out into the wider world. In this era, it seemed, Itha-Tela did not yet exist, and the World Tree had not even been born.

But there was no need for Shi Jin and the others to go looking for Lan Yanzhi—Lan Yanzhi appeared on her own.

Compared to the humanoid will of their own time and space, the Lan Yanzhi of this era took the form of a little blue sprite, something like a Qi, and appeared before Shi Jin and the others.

This era's Lan Yanzhi had not yet lived through the full Mythic War. Next to the mature, steady, and formidable Lan Yanzhi of later ages, she still seemed like a young girl—calling her "Mom" would have been a bit of a stretch.

"Thank you all."

Lan Yanzhi said in thanks to Qi and Shi Li.

"No need to thank us, it's what I ought to do!" Qi hovered in midair, enormously pleased with herself. Who would have thought that one day she could bring a mighty reinforcement army to save Blue Star and end the Mythic War? Now Lan Yanzhi would surely see her in a new light, and everyone would surely look at the Spirit of Time with new eyes.

"You didn't come to this time and space specifically to save Blue Star, did you?" Lan Yanzhi looked toward Cen Yu and the others. "I can sense that you too are lives born of Blue Star."

"Which means, following the normal course of history, Blue Star also won the Mythic War."

Shi Li: "As expected of Mother Blue Star." Still, the old name came out smoother.

Lan Yanzhi, now transformed into a little blue sprite, fell silent. Though it was true that these lives born of Blue Star were not wrong to call her, their mother planet, "Mother."

Even so, suddenly having a whole brood of powerful children still made her a little uneasy.

After all, she hadn't watched them grow up herself.

"In the future, Blue Star did indeed win the war, but at a devastating cost. Mother Blue Star, you slept for a very, very long time before Blue Star could recover."

"After the war, Blue Star was no longer suited for god-level life. Nearly all the divine beasts departed for the starry skies in search of a new home. A small number remained in slumber on Blue Star, or chose reincarnation, waiting for the mythic era to revive."

Blue Star said, "From the looks of you, it seems Blue Star flourished greatly in the future."

Shi Li: "You could say that. And much of it is thanks to a life that emerged from Blue Star... Would you mind if I borrowed Blue Star's power to search for her?"

"Not at all," Blue Star said.

Next, Lan Yanzhi shared her power with Shi Jin. In that instant, Shi Jin felt as though he had become the lord of Blue Star, perceiving with perfect clarity the circumstances of every life upon it.

He discovered a demigod-level metal-element great bull savagely pounding the corpse of a void bug.

"Moo!!!" The Golden Ink God was still a rookie at this point—though in the future, he would remain a rookie.

He also found some bewildered wind qilins, newly resurrected and reappearing in their own wind territory.

This time, the qilin clan of this spacetime had a bearer of fortune, and finally need not be so unlucky.

But none of these were the one Shi Jin sought. What he sought...

"Ah." On a certain island, Shi Jin finally discovered traces of the Wa God. This Wa God of the current spacetime was only a mid-tier god...

Not yet grown to Jinshuang Peak. Although the Wa God was one of the few supreme gods of Blue Star in the mythic era, she had slowly

grown into that role during the war, rather than being a supreme god from the start.