Chapter 622 - 358: Absorbing a Divine-level Extract, Upgrading the Divine Grace of Evolution

This skill now compensated for his greatest weakness.

This ability to ignore all energy attacks only worked until he reached energy saturation. However, the skill’s maximum energy capacity was also tied to his body size.

"Sponge Body," as the name implied, granted the body sponge-like properties. The larger the sponge, the more water it could naturally absorb.

Therefore, this skill was a perfect match for "Expansion." When his body expanded to its limit, the amount of energy he could absorb would be absolutely astounding.

Correspondingly, when he released the energy after reaching saturation in his expanded state, the destructive power would be even more astonishing.

"A skill that suits me perfectly!"

Su Ze was very satisfied with the new skill, "Sponge Body," but he felt the name was a bit...

After mastering this divine skill, the "Knowledge is Power" skill performed its usual Cell Enhancement on him.

And Su Ze immediately felt that he had laid the foundation for his seventh evolution.

Next, he needed to completely digest the Beast King Sponge extract in his body and fuse his last three fifth-rank skills, upgrading them to sixth-rank or higher.

Once these two conditions were met, he could undergo his seventh evolution and achieve a perfect evolution!

But just then, Su Ze suddenly felt a warmth in his abdomen. He reached down and touched the spot below his navel, where a hot current was surging from his Dantian.

Within his Dantian was the Inheritance Crystal from Mr. Ao!

That Inheritance Crystal contained only two things: the Origin Gene of Mr. Ao’s race and the subsequent inheritance for the Divine Grace of Evolution.

’Could it be...’

Su Ze sank his Spiritual Power into his Dantian and, just as he suspected, saw the golden Inheritance Crystal emerge from the space it had carved out for itself.

Wisps of energy continuously emanated from the Inheritance Crystal, merging into Su Ze’s body and being absorbed.

A few minutes later, the Inheritance Crystal stopped emitting energy and retreated back into its self-made space, vanishing without a trace.

Even Su Ze couldn’t find it.

However, after absorbing that energy, Su Ze clearly felt a change in himself. His Divine Grace of Evolution skill had leveled up again!

It seemed that absorbing the final vial of extract from the Saint-level stage had triggered a certain condition, allowing the Divine Grace of Evolution to meet the requirements for an upgrade.

The upgraded Divine Grace of Evolution skill came with an unexpected new ability!

Su Ze couldn’t help but smile. This ability had come at the perfect time!

He was just about to fuse his skills, and with this ability, the process would be much more convenient. It would also allow him to combine all his skills more perfectly.

’The ability he had gained should be called "Skill Disassembly and Assembly."’

Most skills are composed of multiple combined effects, and the new ability of Divine Grace of Evolution was precisely to disassemble and reassemble these effects.

To put it simply, take the Flying Skill "Celestial Sea Wings" for example.

Celestial Sea Wings (Rank-6 S-Class): Condense the power of evolution into invisible wings, gaining the ability to fly at extreme speeds in the sky and travel through water (Water Escape).

The "Celestial Sea Wings" skill could be broken down into two parts: "extreme speed flight in the sky" and "extreme speed travel through water."

Su Ze could separate the "extreme speed travel through water" part, turning it into a standalone "Water Escape" skill.

But in doing so, both the "Celestial Sea Wings," left with only its flight ability, and the separated "Water Escape" skill would become weaker, and their skill ranks would also decrease accordingly.

However, Su Ze could integrate these two separated abilities into other skills to make those skills stronger.

For example, he could integrate "extreme speed travel through water" into his "Liquid Life" skill, granting him faster movement speed in water while in his liquid state.

However, this kind of fusion required a point of compatibility; not just any skills could be randomly merged.

For instance, integrating "extreme speed travel through water" with attack skills like "Needle Strike" or "Weak Point Attack" would be completely impossible.

The two were completely unrelated, with no points of compatibility.

The "assembly" part of "Skill Disassembly and Assembly" had its limits, and so, of course, did the "disassembly" part.

When detaching an effect from a skill, one had to consider causality. The entire effect had to be detached, not just a specific part of it.

It’s like dismantling a car. You can take off a door, the engine, or the hood.

But you can’t just saw off half a door or slice off half an engine.

Take the "Regeneration Body" skill, for example. Su Ze could detach its self-healing and recovery effects and fuse them with other constitution-type skills.

But he couldn’t detach only the self-healing effect while leaving the recovery effect, because the two were a single, integrated whole.

Furthermore, the "Regeneration Body" skill also had an effect that created Regeneration Fruits, which also couldn’t be detached on its own.

This was due to the causality of the "Regeneration Fruit." It required the Regeneration Core to provide energy, so an effect to create Regeneration Fruits, if detached by itself, couldn’t function.

Unless the Regeneration Core and the Regeneration Fruit creation were detached as a package deal.

But even with these limitations, this Skill Disassembly and Assembly was definitely a divine skill worthy of envy.

With this skill, Su Ze could fuse his skills with much more flexibility, unlike others who could only fuse entire skills at once—a difficult process that often resulted in many incompatible parts in the final fused skill.

Every skill was a gene chain within his DNA. In the end, this ability to disassemble and assemble skills was, at its core, the ability to disassemble and reassemble genes.