Chapter 256: The Creator Gods Take Turns, This Year It's My Family's Turn!

In reality, there are currently only three types of cultivation systems:

The Wizard World's self-cultivation.The Ancient World's absorption of sentient beings' incense and aspirations.And the Ancient Tree World, still in its nascent stage, which absorbs light and cosmic rays.

Light and cosmic rays are inherently a form of energy; otherwise, plants wouldn't perform photosynthesis. Moreover, the spirits within that world are inherently half-plant, half-animal, so a photosynthesis-based cultivation method is perfectly normal.

"My body is too large, and each realm increases geometrically. For me to break through to the Seventh Order, to become a Heavenly Emperor or an Epic Wizard, the energy required is clearly greater than that for all six previous realms combined. At the very least, it would require the extinction-level energy released when over a dozen Primordial Saints are born. Currently, only three Saints have been born, resulting in three instances of biological extinction energy feedback."

It will take more than ten biological extinctions to break through to the Seventh Order.

"And the Eighth-Order Mythical realm, after the Seventh Order, represents a qualitative change that is terrifying beyond measure! It would require the energy feedback from tens of thousands of Saints. In this regard, Medusa and I are similar."

"After all, her current body size is the same as mine. The larger the body, the more terrifying the life form, and the more terrifying the energy required for breakthroughs."

Perhaps ordinary Saints of the same size as Medusa and I wouldn't need so much power—five or six thousand Saints' worth of power would suffice. However, the Cthulhu Evil God's body is too defying of natural laws, requiring a terrifying amount of energy!

Xu Zhi understood that by cultivating both the Wizard system and the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art, he was cultivating two major systems simultaneously. Within his peer group, he was defying heaven's will and had no fear of the Cthulhu Evil God. The energy he required was frighteningly immense.

This is still temporary; once he cultivates a few more systems, he will likely need even more energy for breakthroughs.

"Now, I am increasingly understanding the intention of the previous generation's Zerg Overlord: the smaller the body, the stronger it is, and the easier it is to achieve qualitative change!"

Further down the line, fighting across ranks becomes increasingly impossible. What good is it if he, a giant, becomes a Seventh-Order Epic? Even if his body is tens of thousands of times larger than Ermin's, and his energy infinitely greater, he would still be instantly beaten to death by her!

No matter how large a Seventh-Order being is, it is still ultimately Seventh-Order and cannot be an opponent for an Eighth-Order Mythical life form. Eighth Order represents the compression and qualitative change of energy, even if that Eighth-Order Mythical being is only the size of an ant.

It would be enough to transform into a sharp sword and instantly stab you to death.

Then, this Eighth-Order deity could absorb the energy of a single Seventh-Order giant creature, which would be enough for her to achieve a significant breakthrough!

Of course, at the same rank and same body size, a larger life form would naturally have more life energy and superior combat power. However, the energy required for breakthroughs is too immense.

"This is the true meaning of the Zerg Overlord! She indeed made a mistake. If she sacrificed her body size and transformed into the smallest ant, her energy requirements would not be high. The energy used to cultivate one deity of my size could cultivate ten thousand small ant deities."

"Other races don't do this because they lack prodigious talents capable of breaking through to godhood! A single race might not produce many such individuals, so they opt for large body sizes, concentrating power in a single entity to become the strongest within their realm, and even continuously expanding their bodies to accommodate more energy."

"However, our Zerg race, with its terrifying reproductive capabilities, is destined not to lack geniuses."

"They can leverage the advantage of small body size to rapidly increase their cultivation realms! Then, standing at a higher realm, they can strike down opponents at lower realms, literally beating them to death!" Xu Zhi concluded, "Then they absorb the vast energy from the opponents' massive bodies. Even if the opponent's realm is lower than their own, that energy is immense and can allow them to break through. This way, they constantly use killing to fuel their battles. This is the bloody style of the Zerg!"

Xu Zhi was horrified.

Behind this statement lay a terrifying military strategy. No wonder the later Zerg Overlord began to regret her choices after her system had fully formed!

If Ermin were to kill him, who was only at the Sixth Order, the energy from his body might be enough for her to break through to a Mid-Tier God. This is the advantage of a tiny body size.

At this moment, Xu Zhi felt that after an initial period of rapid development, things had now slowed down. He would need countless years to accumulate energy.

His body was too large.

The Zerg Overlord might be able to wait, but he was too young and lacked that much patience.

"The other two developing transcendent systems cultivate too slowly, so what about stellar power?" Xu Zhi suddenly looked up slowly as he rode his electric scooter along the bustling street, gazing at the azure sky. "The universe contains infinite energy. If I plant hundreds or thousands of Ancient Life Trees to continuously absorb stellar power, then I can absorb it?"

His eyes gradually brightened.

"But it's impossible to plant them on Earth. Earth itself is located in a relatively quiet solar system; most of the radiation is blocked by the ozone layer, making it very barren, and there's no way to obtain it."

"However, the current ancient tree planet, 'Aquamarine,' constantly flies through harsh environments like asteroid belts. The radiation it receives, along with terrifying celestial light sources like solar-like hot plasma and magnetic fields, is naturally unimaginably immense. This is why the Ancient Tree World has a source for cultivation."

He raised an eyebrow.

If he planted a bunch of ancient trees, greened the environment, and installed a bunch of solar power stations, wouldn't that be wonderful?

"But I need to find a high-radiation life planet that can sustain trees. Aquamarine, this long-distance spaceship, was meant for me to find a life planet." Xu Zhi suddenly realized that his goals were starting to overlap.

While Ancient Life Trees can survive under high radiation, that doesn't mean they can survive in the vacuum of space or other uninhabitable conditions.

The reason it can survive is that Emperor Qi created an atmosphere, air, and water for his artificial planet—a simulated life-bearing world.

Perhaps he could wait for Emperor Qi's side to proliferate and develop, continuing to advance their rudimentary civilization. Once Seventh-Order Epic beings and Heavenly Emperors appear, they would inevitably cover the sky with leaves, venture out of their planet, and enter the "Wandering Earth" era Xu Zhi envisioned.

Their world would truly get on track, transforming into an explorer vessel, venturing to scout various barren planets they passed by, collecting resources, obtaining diverse treasures, and perhaps discovering such a planet.

He silently pondered the ideal environment for himself: "The environment should preferably have high radiation, be close to an energy source like a sun, with the planet's temperature ranging from ten to eighty degrees Celsius, and possess water, an atmosphere, and air..."

As he thought, he rode his electric scooter to a secluded corner, cast a wind-element shielding spell, lifted the scooter, and flew back to the orchard.

As soon as he entered the main courtyard gate, the voice of the Zerg Sub-brain announced, "A pseudo-Zerg hero is evolving!"

A pseudo-Zerg hero?

One must know that currently, the only pseudo-Zerg heroes are the Phoenix and the Cthulhu Evil God—two heaven-defying existences!

Xu Zhi was stunned, feeling that happiness had come too suddenly. "When did this happen?"

The mechanical voice replied, "Sometime after the Zerg Overlord carried the electric scooter, flew out of the orchard, and went to the city to watch a movie."

Xu Zhi strode into the courtyard, placed the electric scooter from his shoulder near the entrance of the storage room, and approached the sandbox, asking the intelligent sub-brain for details.

"It has failed countless times, but it is nearing success."

"Is that bald man, who poured his heart and soul into this, giving me a huge surprise? Let me take a look." Xu Zhi pulled up a stool, sat down, and looked towards the small sandbox, where a plant was propagating.

This plant was very peculiar: its trunk was emerald green and bare, with only a few round, coin-like leaves hanging from it.

"It's really ugly," Xu Zhi muttered after a few seconds, "It looks like a crooked-necked tree covered with copper coins."

Most importantly, as the hanging coins clinked together pleasantly in the wind, they emitted a metallic luster, as if they were made of some kind of ironwood.

At this moment, Qiu Mingshan Che Su had experimented numerous times through failure, constantly refining and improving, finally reaching a near-complete state.

He had manifested as a plant.

"In the Wizard World, I never stayed in the Church of Light. Instead, I roamed the world for hundreds of years, using microscopes to study the structures of countless life forms. I even grafted countless plants to create new species and hybridized two animals, overcoming reproductive isolation, nurturing them with witchcraft to birth new species."

"That Wizard World called these 'demonic beasts.'"

In that era, while witches were creating various gene-fusion potions to enhance human integration with aberrant genes, he had already reached new heights.

His expression turned strange. "Those idiots thought it was because they had parasitic demonic beasts on them, and after death, their organ populations instinctively continued to parasitize the giant beast species."

He was extremely smug!

But he wouldn't tell them, lest they discover his schemes and beat him to death for deceiving them!

"At that time, I constantly researched biological evolution and molecular cell structures, pondering what the strongest species in this world could be. Finally, after hundreds of years, I developed an invincible species with infinite evolutionary potential, a permanent solution. It can create life, continuously integrate into the opponent's body cells, replicate their life, then form in massive numbers, swarm and overwhelm them, striking them down."

"It can create life, just like the Ancient Life Tree." The coin-tree continuously swayed, clinking rhythmically, and Qiu Mingshan Che Su nodded his head. "I finally understand that only an evolving species capable of creating life is the strongest species I wish to evolve!"

"It's like another Emperor Qi; it can constantly secretly learn and replicate the opponent's genes, and even clone them."

Qiu Mingshan Che Su was triumphant. "Furthermore, it unleashes my strongest talent! It's like a biological factory. Using my knowledge of species evolution, I can create various forms of life through it to fight for me. I want to call this troop type, which can infinitely proliferate, the Zerg Hive."

"Hahahahaha!!! With this, I am another Creator! I no longer have to look at that giant sitting on a chair eating apples!" He defiantly raised his middle finger at Xu Zhi, who was sitting on a chair eating an apple. "Creator God, I no longer have to defer to you! Creator Gods take turns; this year, it's my turn!" He burst into laughter. "I am simply a genius!!!"

Xu Zhi: ???

He was utterly dumbfounded by this guy on the spot!

"You're really something," Xu Zhi finally exhaled after a long pause.