Starting with Growing Mushrooms

Chapter 749 - 598: Xibo, It’s My Turn to Rise

Soon, dropping the discussion, Xibo and Bal began working.They started studying the structure of these gods and optimizing it!

They began modifying the interior of this artificial puppet Creator, piling on all kinds of Divine Objects.

But Xibo was instantly speechless as well,

"These guys are way too primitive. In their empire, noble clans stand everywhere. The inheritance of a big family is just relying on instinct to memorize one Divine Object series..."

"Tens of thousands of clans, passing down experience generation after generation, memorizing tens of thousands of Divine Object series..."

"Then they use these tens of thousands of Divine Object series for mass production, treating them as parts to modify their Creators..."

Too primitive, too low-level.

No wonder they’d been modifying for so long and only managed to optimize this pile of useless trash mountain to a 96% garbage-code standard.

It made Xibo start to miss the convenience of a certain Number Divine Object.

"If only we had numbers, properly labeled, for scientific classification and research."

He missed the Divine Objects that symbolized numerical values intensely.

"We’re so short on stats."

"Right now, we’re Creators who only have technique but no numbers."

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"We’re so short on technique."

"Right now, we’re Creators who only have numbers but no technique."

Lanternfish Creator, Heaven World. Fortuna sat in the Divine Hall and couldn’t help roasting.

Now, as the Lanternfish Creator’s Divine Objects were digitally sorted and categorized one by one, encoded, the atlas of Divine Objects was completely established.

People could now trigger explosions of specific Divine Object series more scientifically, instead of like in the old days where Divine Objects were randomly generated, and they roughly locked onto a Divine Object series’ changes purely by instinct.

Now they had already reached 100% trash-mountain optimization.

Tens of thousands of Divine Objects had been perfectly assembled into a sacred, elegant lanternfish, covered in beautiful scales.

Among a bunch of bizarre deep-sea trash creatures, it was completely out of tune with the rest of the art style!

But that 100% optimization was actually only relative.

As more brand-new trash Divine Objects were discovered, as more junk components were added in... after their body scaled up, the optimization rate would continue to drop.

"Optimization made the stats of this one fish totally break the charts!"

"Its strength is a hundred times that of others in the same waters."

Fortuna’s eyes were full of exasperation. "But... this fish doesn’t have a brain, it doesn’t listen to commands... it’s purely a big dumb brute."

Over these years, Fortuna and the others had begun a whole new project of research.

Researching how to make this fish obey orders.

But clearly, the other party was too dumb.

It just thrashed around on pure beast instinct; even the most veteran Beast Tamer would cry on seeing such a stupid animal.

Just then.

Off in the distance, a patch of lights suddenly came into view.

A report quickly fell into Fortuna’s hands. "Eh, there’s a school of fish in the distance? A group of natives controlling a bunch of Creators, surrounding us?"

Fortuna was overjoyed and shot to her feet. "Perfect timing! Crush them, then learn their Tamed Beast methods, see how they control these blockhead giants."

With Fortuna’s order, terrifying power erupted, fiercely charging toward the opposing school of fish.

How big is a hundredfold gap in strength?

Put it this way: an adult hitting a baby—no matter how he hits, an adult is absolutely not ten times stronger than a baby, and that’s already exaggerated enough.

Now this ferocious lanternfish rushing over was simply a massacre.

In just a few moments, chunks of flesh and blood dyed a swathe of sea red, debris scattered everywhere.

Compared to Xibo’s group dealing with a fish school next door and still going all flashy with Martial Dao, this side was just fast, accurate, and ruthless.

Soon, a massive amount of resources was absorbed, countless fleeing refugees were captured, and all kinds of information belonging to the deep sea were obtained by Fortuna.

"So that’s how it is. Then let’s set a target: go a thousand light-years into the deep sea!"

...

In the palace, Liu Jun slowly opened his eyes and stretched lazily.

"Finally done."

He looked at the results of his years of seclusion.

"Completed a brand-new form update for the Deep Sea Creator God. Not bad at all."

Now this body of his was constructed from forty-five Divine Object series, completely surpassing the previous version of nine Divine Object series.

You have to know.

A Number Divine Object can only be used once.

Previously he used Number 9, so his body could have Divine Objects nine times that of an ordinary person.

But it was still far too little.

He tried to possess multiple numbers at once but failed. A person really can only receive amplification from one numerical model...

But how could he be willing to accept that?

This lanternfish was getting more and more fierce.

The water pressure was getting deeper and deeper. Once he left the lanternfish... his Deep Sea Giant Beast form would be squeezed to death by this water pressure.

This made the usually steady him extremely alert inside.

Relying on a single Giant Beast to survive, and dying the moment he left it...

This kind of parasitic lifestyle made him feel extremely unsafe.

So he used his World-shocking Wisdom to think up a solution, and actually did find a brand-new Divine Object combo technique.

Parallel!

Use the Parallel Divine Object to create multiple parallel selves... then let the other selves each hold one number.

Thus, 1–9 became forty-five Divine Object series.

He also tried stacking more by increasing the number of parallel clones, but it was useless. The forty-five obtained from the Number Divine Objects was the limit.

And merging the other eight parallel selves into armor, perfectly overlapping with himself to become a Deep Sea Creator again, was another huge engineering project.

"Luckily, it’s finally finished now."

Liu Jun took a deep breath, his face full of excitement.

Without any hesitation, he instantly flashed out into the surrounding sea region.

By now, they had already sailed down to a depth of fifteen light-years.

Gulp—gulu—

The terrifying water pressure around him kept crashing down.

Liu Jun actually felt very relaxed. He couldn’t help swimming freely around the ocean. "Not bad, really not bad, obviously several times stronger."

"This level of water pressure can’t hold me anymore."

The joy in his eyes gradually faded, replaced by a hint of worry. "But I’m afraid it’ll be hard for me to keep growing. I’ll eventually be unable to withstand deeper water pressures."

"Yet these Giant Beasts can keep growing along with the water pressure."

Liu Jun envied the special traits of these Deep Sea Giant Beasts.

They kept eating, using deeper water pressure to compress their bodies. This mechanism was too perfect.

"If only I could control this Giant Beast..."

Liu Jun sighed.

How could he not want to modify a Giant Beast into his own Mecha and command it perfectly?

But that was impossible.

The Giant Beast’s body was riddled with blood vessels—Chaos blood, and this Chaos would grind away all powers.

No one could control this Giant Beast whose magic immunity was maxed out and which was immune to all forms of control.

"Unless... the God of Chaos Bal?" Liu Jun felt that if Bal were here, there might be a chance to control a Giant Beast.

Letting out a sigh, Liu Jun couldn’t be bothered to think about it anymore.

He continued voyaging in the deep sea.

Big fish eat small fish, it was that simple.

Because he held the version of the era, the Number Divine Objects, all other fish at the same water-pressure tier were just noob-stomp snacks, without any ability to resist.

Just Fortuna alone could handle the water’s descent operations.

Liu Jun only needed to cultivate.

"It’s about time. Let’s see what the next Divine Object is."

All these years, all kinds of big and small events had happened. He’d fought Magaras again and gone down to the seabed. Only now had things stabilized, and Liu Jun finally planned to check out the new Divine Objects.

[Current progress bar: 100%]

Liu Jun’s gaze slid past the progress bar and landed on Mushroom Soup.

Whoosh—

As Mushroom Soup churned, three brand-new Divine Objects slowly surfaced.

And a scene that shocked Liu Jun appeared.

These three Divine Objects all exuded the same origin aura, radiating a stunning momentum.

In an instant, Liu Jun realized what series these three mushrooms belonged to.

Three Cause and Effect Terminal Divine Objects...

Liu Jun’s lips curled slightly, revealing a hint of surprise.

"Three Terminal Divine Objects of the phone-scam series?"

"Other Divine Object series all have multiple Low-Rank Divine Objects and one Terminal Divine Object... and you’re the other way around?"

"You only have a single Low-, mid-, and High Divine Object, but you have three Terminal Divine Objects?"

Liu Jun had always known that the Introductions of these Divine Objects often exceeded his imagination.

But this time really was a bit abstract.

Then again, the potential and strength of this calling-phone Divine Object series seemed to surpass his imagination.

Without hesitation, Liu Jun’s gaze fell on the first Cause and Effect Terminal Divine Object.

[Make Falsehood Become Reality]: A lie told enough times becomes the truth.

Introduction:

I, Xibo, said there is a Creator God, and thus the Creator God was born.

I, Xibo, said there is an Old Gods’ forbidden zone in the void, and thus the forbidden zone appeared.

I, Xibo, said let there be light, and thus I replaced God.

Liu Jun just glanced at it and instantly fell silent for a moment. His eyelids twitched slightly as he sighed, "That brat Xibo is secretly stirring up trouble again?"