Starting with Growing Mushrooms

Chapter 763 - 611: The Critical Point

Cain watched the overwhelming Deep Sea Creators, and his whole body shivered, recalling the fear of being besieged by mortals in the past.Moreover, he noticed that his stamina was depleting rapidly.

"Ugh, I can’t beat them, my stamina isn’t enough..."

"Besides, I’m only at the 100 light-year level, how can I fight against 400 light-years..."

Before Cain finished his words, he saw the Divine Power of Transmission surging, diffusing across the scene.

A large number of bubble particles began to transform into light points, shooting behind Cain, converging into a vast, magnificent World Ring of Sanctity.

In the World Ring, countless native civilizations gathered, faces full of shock, fear, and awe... displaying the myriad forms of life.

"The power is rushing up!"

Before Cain could shout out in joy, he was violently knocked away.

"You’re courting death!" Cain, full of anger, also began to fight madly.

...

Inside the lantern fish, in the world of Heaven.

God, as a humanoid Deep Sea Creator, sat quietly on the throne watching this scene.

Beside him, Fortuna said, "Humph! That boy Cain is still a bit weak even with the halo of Transmission!"

God smiled and said, "This is normal. With 100 light-years of combat power, even with infinite mana... it’s still very challenging against these mindless giant beasts."

The gap in combat power can only be compensated by technology.

And Cain is not God, lacking that world-shocking wisdom... naturally, he’s at a loss when fighting.

However, this is exactly the test that Liu Jun wants.

After all, not everyone has their own world-shocking wisdom, so he plans to create a batch of generic combat experts...

As a guard, continuously diving deeper.

"How’s the data measurement?" God asked.

The Witchcraft Celestial Maiden beside him quickly said, "It has been transmitted to the research team at the back..."

The Witchcraft Celestial Maiden was taken in by Fortuna as a secretary.

After all, this muddlehead without a diligent assistant doesn’t know how much trouble he’d cause.

So Liu Jun used the assistant’s assistant naturally, "Prepare unit two, if Cain can’t hold it, open the hatch and let him intervene."

"Yes!"

The Witchcraft Celestial Maiden silently notified the Lord of Russia.

Soon, everyone continued to watch the battle.

As the battle continued, it was clear that Cain was starting to struggle.

Various data continued to stream in:

"The outer layer blood pressure circulation has ruptured to the seventh layer... with the blood pressure collapsing, Cain will lose wisdom and become a beast in 397 seconds."

"Unit two is being deployed."

"Ross has joined the battle."

"Preparing to retrieve Cain."

As the data was sent back, the heavily wounded Cain was brought back inside the lantern fish, while Ross donned the white halo bestowed by God and stepped out.

Bang!

"I’m here." Ross laughed heartily, feeling the endless mana and quickly made his move.

Liu Jun kept observing.

The multiple blood pressure circulation systems seemed to enable wisdom in the deep sea.

But the side effects were also significant.

This thousand-layered pancake was too fragile!

Once the extremely delicate blood pressure system was damaged, it would quickly devolve back into a beast creator...

"The cost of wisdom is a 80% reduction in combat power." The Witchcraft Celestial Maiden beside him obtained data from the team in the rear.

"Isn’t there a way to optimize it?" God asked.

"Theoretically, it can be optimized, but even with optimization, it will significantly decrease combat power."

Liu Jun thought to himself.

It seems everything in the world is fair.

Growing a brain and having wisdom comes at the cost of diminished strength.

It’s equivalent to splitting 100 skill points, allocating 50 points to wisdom.

"Boom!"

Ross fought furiously.

But he soon couldn’t withstand the battle anymore.

Unit three quickly took the stage, a peerless genius from the natives.

Following that, their lantern fish was like a supercarrier, launching ship after ship.

Even later, several of them, including Cain, took action together, starting to clear the surrounding Deep Sea Creators.

During the battle, they also collected more native civilizations through bubbles, integrating them into the lantern fish, joining this big family.

Half a month later.

The ground was littered with remnants, yet there wasn’t a single living creator left.

"We did it!"

"We withstood the tide of creators this time!"

"Hahaha, we won, we won!"

"This proves that our technology works."

The entire world cheered, feeling they had taken a historic step forward.

Liu Jun, however, was only slightly satisfied.

In his view, the reason these counterfeit creators could win was that he enhanced them with the Divine Power of Transmission, providing them with endless mana.

This was no different from him personally going into battle.

It was still using his power, his mana... the only advantage was that he was sitting at the command post, only needing to exert the mana.

The Witchcraft Celestial Maiden beside him said excitedly:

"Sir, we have now received 1,965 new civilizations... although not as many as in the previous battle you fought, it has greatly enriched our foundation!"

"Just take people to receive them."

"Ensure stability within three years, and inform them that three years later, selection for unit four will take place!"

The Witchcraft Celestial Maiden was immensely happy: "Yes!"

A large number of Divine Object remnants were absorbed by the lantern fish, with various brand-new Divine Object codes registered by numerous mathematicians.

Countless newly-joined strong ones also hoped to become Tier Eleven.

The whole world was like a clockwork, spinning madly.

In just three short years.

God had the lantern fish move to another 400 light-year sea area.

A large number of Creators swiftly flew back.

"Slaughter, it’s begun!"

One by one, strong individuals under the halo blessed by God emerged from the deep sea and began fighting crazily.

Although they shared the mana halo, they still possessed an extremely high battle endurance.

Thirty years have passed.

The Genesis civilization has undergone seven major updates.

A massive influx of talents, these Cain and others successfully destroyed twelve waves of Creator beast tides in a row.

And the eleventh-tier Creator powerhouses have also reached their theoretical limit:

Twelve.

Yes, this is the limit.

No more dilution of God’s mana halo, or there will be insufficient mana supply.

"We have honed ourselves to the limit at 400 light-years, sir, we should head to 500 light-years."

On this day, a radiant Cain reported to God.

"Do you have confidence?" God looked at them.

Throughout the years, it wasn’t that they didn’t want to go to 500 light-years, but they couldn’t.

Because they were merely 100 light-years worth of Creator battle strength, even with infinite mana... they couldn’t defeat a group of 500-light-year Giant Beasts.

Their battle skills and infinite mana could not bridge the 400 light-year numerical gap.

This was the problem they’ve faced over the years.

"We’ve discovered a brand new method!"

Cain said, "The twelve of us have mastered excellent merging techniques, forming a Giant Beast together! We are the new Twelve Constellations!"

God nodded slightly, "Then go ahead."

Quickly, they dove into the 500-light-year waters, and the battle began.

Twelve 100-light-year Giant Beasts merged into a 200-light-year Creator, and then burst into battle relying on God’s halo.

This battle was extremely fierce.

Yet ultimately, they won.

So they eagerly continued to recruit new natives and collected remnants of Divine Objects.

"Next, we must devise ways to conquer the 600-light-year sea region!"

A hundred years later, with continuous optimization of various techniques.

"Pressure-temperature change technology," "Vascular cycle method," "Vascular transplant surgery"...

A new civilization centered around blood vessels thrived.

Countless precise blood vessels consolidated from Chaos blood turned into intricate blueprints in their hands.

Even Liu Jun’s God mode received abundant structural optimization, and they stepped into 600 light-years.

That is when,

"We reached 700 light-years."

Liu Jun was struck by a trace of surprise upon receiving this news.

Too fast.

Underestimated these imprisoned individuals.

Every battle collected vast remnants and talents, forming a perfect cycle of nurturing warriors with warfare.

"Looks like I can muster a temporary tier-eleven army... straight into 1000 light-years."

Eight hundred years later.

The entire lantern fish had been optimized into a super deep-sea carrier, with a size 1075 times larger than a similar-type Creator.

It’s like a super giant whale among a group of small fish.

On this carrier lived countless fervent prisoners who released their accumulated strength and technology perfectly.

On this day, they took a new step.

"Eight hundred light-years!"

But this couldn’t stop them.

For they spent merely another 100 years to approach the final threshold at 900 light-years.

By then, countless strong individuals reported to God:

"We’ve reached the last moment because 1000 light-years will be a qualitative change... Chances are we won’t beat them."

1000-light-year grade perfected Creators are truly terrifying monsters.

Not conquerable with skills alone.

Now, through optimizing twelve strong individuals merging, they created a 600-light-year grade Creator.

This tier-eleven Creator has battle skills, intelligence, and infinite mana.

But they’re absolutely no match for an instantly teleporting 1000-light-year grade Deep Sea Giant Beast!

"Additionally, we have a bold conjecture."

"When we enter the 1000-light-year waters, all Creators in the deep sea might teleport over..."

"The beast tide we’ll face isn’t a hundred, nor a thousand..."

"It’s all!"

"All perfected Creators of 1000-light-years could instantly converge and besiege us."

The Witchcraft Celestial Maiden’s face flashed with a touch of despair as she spoke.

They had been advancing triumphantly, now once again facing an insurmountable barrier.

There’s simply no force that can win against interminable tier-eleven perfected Creators...

Dragon gate leap for carp?

Sorry!

Can’t leap even an inch.

God’s expression softened slightly, "Your journey to 900 light-years has already been very grueling..."

"Next, your task is to fortify where you are, begin defense."

"Repel the approaching 900-light-year Giant Beasts..."

"Leave the rest to me."

In Liu Jun’s perspective, their mission was actually already half completed.

Bringing along this motley crew was about protecting him all the way down, opening his pathway.

For the final barrier, of course, he doesn’t rely on them.

Having them safeguard him to the boss room doorstep was already fulfilling their duty.

Moreover, their descent and constant optimization indeed provided Liu Jun with enormous technical accumulation.

"So, God, you mean..."

"You stay here suspended, I’ll go down to 1000 light-years to take a look."