Chapter 756: Sudden Developments Often Exceed Expectations

Yes.

After breaking through to godhood, he could truly unleash himself.

Previously, as the Heavenly Emperor, it was incredibly difficult for him to leave Earth and venture into space.

He had painstakingly established a Mercury power station, leveraging Caroline, a High God, to barely create a "mini-universe" world on an asteroid in the vast cosmos.

But now?

The Mercury power station could be completely phased out.

If he could expand throughout the vast universe, who would want to plant trees on a single planet, or greenify the solar system?

This feeling was exhilarating!

Being unrestricted, Xu Zhi could finally undertake grand endeavors.

"The Mercury power station was simply a low-level, confined area! Now, what's needed is to greenify much larger spaces – ten, hundred, or even thousand times larger – and build bigger power stations."

Breaking through to godhood meant he needed to harvest even vaster amounts of energy to advance his cultivation.

The Mercury power station could no longer satisfy him.

Its one-month lifespan had ended.

It had accompanied Xu Zhi through a third of his cultivation time, but he planned to destroy and abandon that nuclear power station on his next return.

This was to prevent Earth's burgeoning aerospace industry, specifically a "BepiColombo" type mission, from discovering ancient relics, an old Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva temple, or mythical ruins on Mercury, which would be impossible to explain.

Whoosh!

Xu Zhi waved his hand and lightly leaped. "Let's try another ultra-long-distance teleportation and see how far my maximum magical power can take me."

What followed was an astonishing scene in the vast universe.

The stellar space seemed to instantly blur, transforming into a misty, slide-show-like scene, shrouded in a hazy drizzle. He rapidly sped through it, as if entering a blurred spatial tunnel.

Rooooar!

The spacetime ahead was bending.

The surrounding vast planets appeared like bowling balls hurtling towards him, rapidly rolling past.

But this was only for an instant. The next moment, space subtly trembled, and Xu Zhi reappeared in the void.

Turning around, Xu Zhi looked towards the ancient wood planet behind him, but it was gone.

"I flew in the opposite direction from Emperor Qi's ancient wood planet; our trajectories are different, so there's no need to worry about him finding me. The distance between us will only increase."

Jumping further was also Xu Zhi's intention.

After all, it wouldn't be good if Emperor Qi saw him.

He had killed the giant octopus that Emperor Qi had spent thousands of years flying to discover. Emperor Qi might be spurred on to bravely continue his search for new life in the universe. If he saw Xu Zhi's "farming" and "greenification"...

...he might mistake him for the next giant octopus, and Xu Zhi might end up losing out.

"I need to fly even further, making at least ten more jumps."

Xu Zhi panted slightly, clearly feeling some exhaustion.

"Even with the endless sentient beings of the Six Paths of Reincarnation within the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art, my stamina is still insufficient. To be exhausted so quickly... it seems I really need to expand the entire inner world and the spiritual universe."

The Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art carries a massive universe within it, with billions of living beings whose power and incense-like energy pour into his body, forming an eternal world power furnace that quickly replenishes his strength.

However, for Xu Zhi, his foundation in this aspect was still shallow. Having just broken through, the vast lands expanded by his divine realm had not yet had time to be repopulated and multiply.

"Once the expanded land and the underworld of the spiritual universe are established, the population will increase tenfold, and my recovery speed will also be ten times faster than now," Xu Zhi silently calculated.

Only then did he clearly realize how incredibly potent the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art's recovery ability was; no wonder the Three Pillar Gods couldn't break through it.

After resting for a while, he directly entered high-thought spacetime to recover enough stamina.

Whoosh!

Space was torn open once more.

After a total of ten jumps, having traversed an unimaginable distance, Xu Zhi finally stopped in a galaxy.

"This is the place."

Xu Zhi's expression was calm; there was no particular place worth choosing.

By now, his development approach had become incredibly casual.

Was he to search for extremely rare natural life planets in the universe?

With air? Oxygen? Liquid water? An atmosphere?

None of that was needed!

After all, his evolved biological gene pool already contained vacuum-dwelling transcendent organisms, serving as native vacuum plants and animals that could be sown as biological seeds into many harsh environments.

"I'm going to deploy them in the nearby light-year region."

Xu Zhi's expression was serious as he gazed at the brilliant, vast galaxy, as if seeing his own dominion. The universe was so immense that any place he marked out became his territory.

"Sub-brain, initiate spore deployment!"

"First, let's set a small goal: the ten solar-system-sized star systems below! Every single planet within them will be greenified with plants, forming a massive galactic power plant."

Xu Zhi pointed at the colossal galaxy below.

The Sub-brain remained silent.

Seeing that the Zerg Sub-brain was silent, Xu Zhi said:

"The process might be very arduous. Sowing a single planet might already be exhausting, and the difficulty of countless thousands of seeds is hard to imagine, let alone ten solar systems? But your prolific reproduction and diligent efforts will contribute to the sudden and significant development of our Zerg race."

In fact, Xu Zhi suddenly had a realization at this moment.

No wonder the Zerg Mother Empress back then voluntarily shed her original body, transforming her physical form into the Zerg Sub-brain, a central control artifact. It was because giving birth herself was too dreadful and painful!

The previous orchard was fine.

But now, a massive Earth-sized planet?

How many spores would need to be deployed?

How many times would it be drained dry?

Moreover, ten solar systems composed of countless such massive planets?

Therefore, the Zerg Mother Empress back then shifted from draining herself to draining the Zerg Sub-brain. This was a transformation of the oppressive and exploitative class.

It was set up as a low-level AI.

Not only was it feared that it would rebel if it had emotions, but it was also known that if it had emotions, it would inevitably rebel, and no one could withstand it. Thus, it was directly turned into an emotionless reproductive machine.

"This is an inevitability in Zerg history," Xu Zhi muttered, feeling as if he was witnessing the long, unfolding history of ancient Zerg development sweeping over him.

However, according to Xu Zhi's super-speed magic core calculations, once ten solar-system-sized star systems developed into flourishing biospheric civilizations, they could generate an unimaginable amount of energy in just one day – enough to produce the massive energy equivalent of a thousand giant octopuses.

As for why he hadn't done this before?

Of course, Xu Zhi's cultivation level wasn't high enough.

As the Heavenly Emperor, he couldn't even leave the cosmic vacuum; donning a spacesuit and slowly drifting to Mercury to plant a small power station was already incredibly difficult.

Even the creation of the mini-universe world involved him tricking Caroline into helping while he merely watched.

But now that he had broken through to godhood, the sky was the limit. He naturally activated his "humanoid sower" mode, tirelessly planting and greenifying the entire universe.

"With an infinite sowing area, theoretical energy harvest is boundless if I cultivate intensely!" Xu Zhi took a deep breath. "I could even obtain the energy equivalent of ten thousand Ninth-tier beings in a single day, or even Tenth-tier? Eleventh-tier?"

With this idea, reaching the ultimate peak of the universe in a single day wasn't impossible!

The Zerg Sub-brain's voice came through, as if pouring cold water on him:

"The Zerg's deployed protective shield is not that vast... The Zerg's high-dimensional spacetime deployment speed cannot fully cover such a massive number of Zerg."

Xu Zhi asked, "Even as a ruthless sower, is there a limit to the number of seeds that can be sown?"

Xu Zhi had always naively believed that it could never be depleted.