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"I hope they can study it more thoroughly."

Jiucai Rong complained.

There's no denying, the Yin Yang Creation Furnace was indeed useful; it was only after losing it that they learned to cherish it.

They had to adapt their own system to the world, integrating it into the local metal stone system.

Otherwise, once they left the Chronicles of Time, its power would greatly diminish, and the ubiquitous Metal Ancestral Tombs would drain their Three Flowers, Dharma Aspect, and all sorts of techniques that burst with spiritual power...

This negative mana-draining buff was something they couldn't accept.

"How's the Number 5 Giant Shrimp Civilization Laboratory doing?" Night Mad Cultivator couldn't help but ask.

"It's okay."

The Medical Fairy said, "However, there hasn't been much progress; over there we're taking the mechanical armor route, trying to compare with some Autobots, but it doesn't seem to be working well."

"Whether it works or not is not up to us to decide."

Night Mad Cultivator shook his head and said, "Our technology and foundation simply don't allow us to develop the civilization system we want. Mechanical armor... it's just for show."

It must be said, their self-awareness is still so clear.

They are very weak.

In these seven hundred years, part of their embers fully awakened, but most are half-awakened.

Why didn't they use all the blood and flesh of Xian to fully awaken everyone?

Because they believe that after awakening as Ghost King, even if they barely fill in some of the Metal Ancestral Tomb's foundations, the cornerstone of their system would still be embers and Three Flowers.

After all, Ghost King is not just a name for show.

It belongs entirely to the beings of the Nine-State; the body of a Ghost King is a spirit body, naturally restrained here by the Metal Ancestral Tombs.

Moreover, one of the Ghost King's powerful traits is to grow by consuming ghosts and to exert pressure over the Ghost Race.

But where here is there any ghosts to eat? Or to govern?

It's wasted.

Perhaps truly powerful Nine-State powerhouses can resist the pervasive Metal Ancestral Tombs' suction, but that's definitely not something they can achieve now.

So, as a Ghost King, it's quite unsuited for the current version here.

After becoming a Ghost King, and using that opportunity during foundation completion to fill the metal foundation, it still focuses on embers and secondary metal.

These half-awakened ones want to research if they can take another path and live out a second life by another means.

The goal is: to primarily cultivate metal and supplement with embers.

By focusing on this world's system, they wouldn't be repelled. Therefore, by taking advantage of this Sacrificial Era, they're attempting a biological explosion to create a new species to complete themselves.

"I hope they can do it well."

Jiucai Rong thought to himself, "Mixing metal shrimps and ember shrimps."

But facts prove that the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.

A year passed, and nothing happened.

Based on Jiucai Rong's understanding, those blacksmiths all acted like dare-to-die squads. How could there be no reaction after a year?

He suspected he was being scammed!

They discussed for several days, and even began to argue, continuing to develop the civilization laboratory without much hope.

Additionally, the disputes between Night Mad Cultivator and Jiucai Rong intensified, gradually showing division.

In fact, this division had been gradually starting over the seven hundred years.

When the game turned to reality, and friends fell one by one. Back then, their friend Su Yuniang died, Dizzy and several others died... Shrimp Catcher, Shao Chaikun, Food God...

None of these friends survived the crossing.

A 50% survival rate was too cruel.

Their fear and uncertainty about the future, their reluctance to leave the tombs, all were enough to drive one to despair.

Three years later.

There was still no news from Sword Casting Manor.

The leadership conflict between the two leaders managing the manor grew increasingly severe.

And in the neutral profession area, the four giants, Sword Fairy, Daojiu, Lin Meimei, and Mudworker, wanted to quell their disputes and reconcile.

Unfortunately, none of the four could achieve it.

Yet the four of them had no internal conflicts because they were very clear about their roles: non-combat professionals, Physician, Blacksmith, Hairpin Lady, Spirit Farmer.

After all, one's heart power is limited.

Unless one is like Xin Xichen, who burns intensely, almost everyone has to choose between combat and non-combat.

These four have not waited for the half-awakening experiments; they are all Ghost Kings by now.

Although their upper limit in combat might be low, even after completing the foundation, they can only focus on embers and supplement with metal... but they don't mind, being restrained in this world is just being restrained.

Resurrect earlier, research earlier.

With continuous refining of their skills over the seven hundred years, they are all truly divine-level professionals, though still just beginners.

There is a vast difference even within divine-level titles.

At most, they are only low-tier divine-level professionals with some fame in the Nine-State, nowhere near the top giants like Xinyi Baisan, renowned worldwide.

At that time, several thousand divine-level professionals were summoned in the Nine-State Capital City. Although it included an exaggerated number that could only be found near ancestral tombs, their level was just among the end of the spectrum in the Capital City back then.

But they are striving!

Another fifty years passed.

Disputes and disagreements were completely uncontrollable.

Night Mad Cultivator and Jiucai Rong were originally the heads of the two Sword Casting Manors.

Jiucai Rong managed the internal commercial operations and task distribution of the manor, serving as a finance minister.

Night Mad Cultivator was considered the minister of military, overseeing the manor's wars, attacking dungeons, studying enemies, and strategizing.

Ultimately, Night Mad Cultivator and Jiucai Rong realized this was no solution.

Night Mad Cultivator said, "We need someone to completely defeat another! Fair governance is the most foolish thing; we do not want to repeat the statue era."

"The victor is king." Jiucai Rong nodded, "We should compare combat levels, talent, ability... comprehensive scores, and accept the results."

"No problem! The Sword Casting Manor can only have one true leader!"

Night Mad Cultivator said, "Then we won't wait for the neighbors' experimental outcomes. We'll directly awaken... the body structure, main Embers, secondary Metal."

"Good."

Jiucai Rong coldly nodded.

Both of them were smart, previously half-awakened, not yet revived, waiting for a wave of experiments, mastering the system of this world, secondary Embers... then living a powerful second life!

After all, they understood planning future upgrade systems.

But now, with the neighboring Sword Casting Manor having lost contact for over fifty years, they couldn't wait for the emergence of the Giant Shrimp Race; if they waited any longer, their group of over four hundred would be totally divided, causing major issues.

The current strategy was to forcibly awaken and revive as traditional Ghost Kings.

Although the main Embers might be suppressed in this world, hopefully not too much.

With a crashing sound!

On this day, Jiucai Rong and Night Mad Cultivator fully awakened, revived, possessing true selves, and began a fair competition.

Without the Divine Artifact Sun Moon Su Yuniang to help adjust the Spiritual Root attributes, both could only choose the best Yin Yang Spiritual Root pairing: Yin Attribute Mask + Yang Attribute Human God Flower.

The Yin Yang Spiritual Root formed!

Even their foundation was lacking, without the skills and background of the Five Elements Spirit Root, they could only follow the Yin Yang Cycle.

The competition time was: five hundred years, then a final battle,

With equal Spiritual Roots, the same foundation, they began racing.

They ran to various professional zones, reasonably requesting help to study Spiritual Roots, systems, and weapons, and began their individual cultivation.

The entire cemetery of the Divine Statue Era had eighty million Ember captives.

Unleashed by the two Ghost Kings, freely harvested, consumed for cultivation, then grown again, and harvested again.

The entire statue cemetery became their massive cultivation ground.

Mask, copying statues all along the way and cultivating upwards, along with consuming ghosts, greatly accelerated their realm improvement.

In the first year of formal cultivation, the two Ghost Kings of the Four Viscera Realm broke through to the Three Elements Realm.

In the tenth year, they reached the Two-Phase Realm at an incredible speed.

In fifty years, reached the One Heart Realm, beginning to unlock the cycle.

Sixty years, One Heart Three Apertures.

Eighty years, One Heart Five Apertures.

In the first hundred years, to achieve the Seven-orifice Exquisite Heart, they suppressed their realm and did not break through.

In three hundred years, the seventh cycle—the Yin Yang Spiritual Root cycle—was completely finished, One Heart Seven Apertures Perfection, successfully breaking through to the Self-Transformation Realm.

The fastest historical Spiritual Root + the fastest historical Ghost Kings, carrying vast inherited wealth, creating a three-hundred-year cultivation world miracle on this spaceship.

Even Ning Zheng exclaimed in amazement.

These two guys were faster than me.

Ning Zheng was only at the One Heart Realm, still pondering over the final Seven Colors Spiritual Root.

However, the three-hundred-year cultivation period was just the beginning.

Not content with being mere people with realms, they began cultivating various moves, spells, perfecting their Cultivation Techniques, adding to their combat power to become powerful Self-Transformation Realm combatants.

In the five hundredth year, which was the twelve hundredth year of this world.

Their final battle began.

The victor would rule the Sword Casting Manor, becoming a king, potentially even an extraordinary emperor governing a world in the future.

Meanwhile, the Giant Shrimp Civilization once again ushered in the second civilization explosion; the crowded Shrimp Nation Civilization Laboratory was again swelling with ambition, trying to reach the outer world.

They roared: we must break out! No one can control our fate; what god? There are no gods in this world!

Night Mad Cultivator's expression was icy.

"Perfect, they can serve as our opening act."

"The first test, let's see who kills more."

A true powerhouse should be decisive in killing.

Compassion doesn't govern soldiers, righteousness doesn't govern wealth.

Their aim was to emulate the emperors in Nine-State history, where each mythical emperor grew through mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

They had to control this spaceship, ensuring never to lead their companions into a desperate situation, and they needed to be ruthless enough.

"Kill!"

The two of them bore the weariness and coldness of powerhouses and leaped into the Giant Shrimp Realm.