Age of Evolution#

Chapter 996: Chapter 999: Acquiring the Crystal Nucleus_1 Chapter 996: Chapter 999: Acquiring the Crystal Nucleus_1 The long-haired man and the metallic lifeform began their pursuit of Lin Zhen’s tracks.

Both of them were tremendously powerful, and like the old ancestor Fierce Fire, they didn’t belong to the New World.

Had they been in the Original World, they would not have dared to provoke a Hall of Fame expert like Lin Zhen.

However, in the New World, everyone’s power was greatly restricted, giving them confidence that they could briefly duel with Lin Zhen.

As soon as the old ancestor Fierce Fire arrived, Lin Zhen would undoubtedly be dead.

The issue at hand was to find out where Lin Zhen was hiding.

They started to investigate all the Star Realms and World Kings on this planet, following the information they had.

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It was the fourth day of Lin Zhen’s presence in the Buddhist Light Zen Temple.

After entering the third courtyard, Lin Zhen finally started to encounter powerful zombies.

The Warrior Level zombies were impervious to swords and spears, difficult to deal with.

Each time Lin Zhen attacked, their bodies emitted a flash of gold, showing the extreme power of their Golden Body Decree.

Lin Zhen had to continuously attack to break through these monk zombies’ defenses and kill them.

Two tall monk zombies stood in a standoff with Lin Zhen.

They were the two strongest beings in the Prajna Hall, second only to the head zombie.

These two zombies seemed cleaner than the rest, their bodies even adorned with tattered kasaya robes.

Their faces were not ragged, only carrying an inhuman iron blue color.

Behind the two tall zombies was another paler looking zombie, resting with eyes closed.

This was the head zombie of Prajna Hall, a Star Realm Expert!

According to legends from the Napolet Star, there had only been two instances in history when this Star Realm zombie was killed, and even then it was when the martial artists greatly outnumbered it.

The leader of the Star Realm, along with the two Peak War Gods, constituted the strongest opposition in the third courtyard.

Lin Zhen’s arm, holding his long spear, shivered slightly.

The strength of these two Peak War Gods was too high, and the gap between Lin Zhen’s own strength and theirs was too wide, becoming almost insurmountable.

“Roar!”

A zombie roared and charged from the side.

With a flick of Lin Zhen’s long spear, three spear flowers darted towards the zombie’s eye sockets and mouth.

These three spots directly led to the zombie’s brain, and a hit there meant a deadly wound.

If Lin Zhen had been at the War General Level now, he could have easily killed this zombie, but his Warrior Level strength was too low.

The zombie raised its claws leisurely, blocking Lin Zhen’s attack.

Just as Lin Zhen was dodging an attack, the War God zombie from behind suddenly struck the one in front, turbocharging its speed and it instantly appeared in front of Lin Zhen.

An overwhelming force rolled over, and Lin Zhen felt a sweet taste in his chest, and a mouthful of fresh blood spouted out!

His body flew backward, suffering a moderate injury from this blow.

As he fell, Lin Zhen showed no concern for the effect the injury had caused.

It was a temporary pause in the zombie’s attack, an opportunity for a counterattack.

Liquid metal!

The first iteration of the liquid metal that had followed Lin Zhen and played a big part appeared.

High-end weapons had been sealed off, only low-level ones were usable.

Lin Zhen transformed the liquid metal into a shield, stepping on it to advance quickly.

He was not only a warrior but also a Spiritual Mind Master.

Although he was just an advanced warrior, he possessed an initial Golden Stage Realm!

This moment his arm was stretched to the limit, and Lin Zhen wielded his long spear.

The air was filled with the hustle and bustle of wind and thunder.

As he unleashed a lightning-fast spear strike, the zombie couldn’t evade it or counterattack as it was in a free fall.

“Puff!”

The long spear pierced through the zombie’s eye socket.

With a push and a pull, a Crystal Nucleus was secured in Lin Zhen’s palm!

This was the Peak War God zombie that Lin Zhen had killed for the first time!

However, Lin Zhen knew this was his limit.

Not keeping the Crystal Nucleus, he let it be absorbed by the origin in his body.

A surge of tremendous active energy was infused.

The Crystal Nucleus of a Peak War God increased the energy of the origin by 0.5%!

The efforts of these few days had brought the energy of the origin to 4%!

After killing a Peak War God zombie, Lin Zhen did not continue the attack.

Although he was confident that he could kill another Peak War God level zombie in a one-on-one situation, doing so was bound to provoke the Star Realm to intervene.

Lin Zhen knew that under no circumstances could he compete against a Star Realm now.

This was no longer a gap that could be bridged with skills.

A day later, the War God zombies in this place would still revive, but Lin Zhen was not in a hurry.

Stepping on the shield to escape another zombie, Lin Zhen left the battlefield.

However, instead of leaving the Buddhist Light Zen Temple, he continued to wander around, instantly killing any lone zombies he encountered and collecting their crystal cores.

In the Dharma Hall of the temple, rays of light kept shooting out, reviving the dead zombies.

This revival offered many opportunities for people, allowing them a continuous source of crystal cores to collect.

Lin Zhen suspected that the Buddhist Light Zen Temple had not been destroyed after all these years was probably due to people intentionally indulging, treating it as an endless source of crystal cores.

On the fifth day, Lin Zhen’s origin point activity increased to six percent.

On the seventh day, it rose to nine percent.

On the tenth day, Lin Zhen achieved a twelve percent increase!

After calculating the time, Lin Zhen felt that in at most three months, he would definitely be able to increase the activity to one hundred percent.

At that time, he would be able to break into the Time Law successfully and open the Divine Domain.

During this time, Lin Zhen gradually became familiar with some people in the Buddhist Light Zen Temple.

Lin Zhen was always alone and acted alone.

Although people didn’t know his exact location, seeing Lin Zhen surviving effortlessly here, they gradually recognized his strength.

Every day, some people greeted Lin Zhen as he entered and exited the temple.

Half a month later, Lin Zhen left the temple.

“Hey!

Isn’t this the berserker Lin Mu?

Where have you been hiding and killing zombies today?”

“Yeah, I’m curious too.

I move around in the novice disciple area every day, but I haven’t seen you.”

“I didn’t see you when I was in the Arhat Hall.

You didn’t go to the Prajna Hall, did you?”

Some martial artists teased him, but no one believed that Lin Zhen would actually go to Prajna Hall.

It was the War God’s activity zone, Lin Zhen couldn’t possibly have the strength for it.

Lin Zhen also smiled and set up a stand in front of the crowd.

“Everyone, for today, I will buy monk zombie crystal cores here.

Anyone with goods on hand can sell them to me.

I can buy with money or exchange with medicine.”

Saying this, Lin Zhen put some medicine on the stand.

After these relentless efforts over the past few days, Lin Zhen realized that relying on his own strength was too time-consuming to meet the requirements of activation.

Therefore, he decided to buy.

Buying things from the New World wasn’t a big deal for Lin Zhen, but buying with money might not have a good effect.

Other people might not need money that much.

But some medicines were different.

As a God-level alchemist, the things that Lin Zhen could produce casually were treasures in the New World.

So, during these five days, Lin Zhen prepared a large batch of medicine for a big purchase.

Initially, not many people took Lin Zhen seriously when they heard he was going to buy.

Because so many people were buying crystal cores, everyone was hoarding them, and no one was short of the money.

But when Lin Zhen put the medicines out, they immediately attracted everyone’s attention.

“Ah!

Am I seeing things, is this actually a Spiritual Power awakening potion?”

“No mistake…this color…concentration…this is a top-quality product!”

“Damn!

No one is allowed to compete with me for this Power Berserk Potion.

Brother Lin Mu, just name your price, whether you want cash or crystal cores, it’s one word from you.”

“Little brother, I didn’t expect that you could refine medicine.

I haven’t heard of anyone on Napolet Star who is this talented.

Who did you learn it from?”

Lin Zhen didn’t respond.

On this small planet, there was no concept of alchemy.

The profession of refining medicine was seen as very advanced.

However, this level of medicine refinement wouldn’t count as an Alchemist Apprentice in the Original World.

Of course, Lin Zhen didn’t have the concept of the Original World in his mind.

He didn’t know how to explain these things.

As long as he could make it and it would be useful, that was enough.

What started as a whim turned into a competition.

All the medicines in his stall were snatched up by people.

No matter the price Lin Zhen asked for, people didn’t tend to haggle.

Lin Zhen did not overprice.

Every medicine was reasonably priced and fair for all.

Soon, all the medicines were sold out, and he harvested a large amount of crystal cores.

About half of them were Warrior Level crystal cores, the remaining majority were War General Level, and there were quite a few War God Level too.

Two radiant Star Realm crystal cores were brought by a War God Level Spiritual Mind Master.

It brought a huge gain to Lin Zhen.

So many crystal cores, Lin Zhen might not have been able to collect them all in two months!

Packing up his stall, Lin Zhen quickly entered the temple under everyone’s gaze.

He needed to find a safe place to absorb the crystal cores.

The temple was filled with dangers, but it could effectively isolate people.

For Lin Zhen, this place was safer.

Seeing Lin Zhen enter the temple, the martial artists who had some ideas gave up.

Lin Zhen’s movements were mysterious, and he never got found in the temple.

Everyone assumed that Lin Zhen operated in the first courtyard, but they couldn’t find any trace of him in the second courtyard either.

However, no one doubted that Lin Zhen could proceed to the third courtyard.