Chapter 630 - 360: Seventh Evolution

’No wonder the field of evolution has always advocated for specializing in one direction instead of being a jack-of-all-trades. Is this also to account for future skill fusion?’

Skills of the same type naturally have higher compatibility and are easier to fuse.

For example, Mr. Ya’s set of defensive and survival skills were very easy to combine.

If you tried to cover all your bases and pick up a few skills of every type, fusing them in the future would be a real headache.

This wasn’t just about the hurdle of ascending to godhood. Even if you had god-tier extracts to absorb, skill fusion was still a necessary step to advance to higher life forms after completing the seventh evolution.

Of course, this first step was the hardest. Once the seventh evolution was complete, you’d get a massive, all-around boost, making it much easier to fuse other skills into divine skills later on.

Time ticked by. This time, Su Ze spent a full five days to complete the skill fusion!

After the fusion, "Strongest Fist" was directly upgraded into the Quasi-Divine Skill "Strongest Cannon."

To become a true divine skill, it would need to undergo at least one or two more fusions.

However, the higher a skill’s level, the greater the resistance and difficulty in fusing it.

Strongest Cannon (Quasi-Divine Skill): Absorbs surrounding energy and matter, compressing it within the body. Select and integrate the characteristics of four other mastered skills to unleash the Strongest Cannon. The larger the user’s body, the stronger the skill’s power.

On the surface, it seemed that "Strongest Cannon," which had fused with the Impact Cannon skill, hadn’t grown stronger than the previous "Strongest Fist." In fact, it seemed weaker.

This was because after the fusion, the number of skills it could integrate had dropped from five to four. In essence, the Impact Cannon skill now occupied a permanent slot.

Previously, Su Ze had more choices for this skill slot and could make different combinations depending on the situation. But now, it was permanently locked to the Impact Cannon skill.

In reality, however, with Impact Cannon occupying a permanent slot, its power was greatly enhanced.

The original Impact Cannon was only a Tier 5 skill. Now, as part of a Quasi-Divine Skill, its capacity for absorbing matter had doubled, and the power of the blast it unleashed was also strengthened.

He had locked in one skill slot, losing some flexibility and a few options for variation, but the skill’s power had increased. It was a great trade!

After all, upon reaching the divine level, the process became one of subtraction. From here on, the number of skills Su Ze possessed would only decrease.

Therefore, even if he hadn’t fused these two skills, he had almost no better offensive skill to replace Impact Cannon with anyway.

With the Impact Cannon fusion complete, the next on the list was the Liquid Life skill.

Liquid Life + Expansion.

The Expansion skill’s compatibility wasn’t as broad as "Strongest Fist’s," but it was a great fit for Liquid Life.

One altered body size, while the other altered body form.

The resulting resistance was greater than before, but not by much.

After a protracted battle lasting several days, the fusion finally succeeded.

After the fusion, the Expansion skill also successfully advanced to a Quasi-Divine Skill. Calling it "Expansion" was no longer appropriate; it needed a new name.

Su Ze agonized for a long time over names like "Ancient Sacred Body," "Undying Golden Body," and "Heaven and Earth," but in the end, he chose the unremarkable new name "Body Control."

After all, he still had to fuse many more skills into it, such as Unyielding Will and Regeneration Body. It was better to pick a simple name to make do with for now. Otherwise, having to come up with a new name after every fusion would be a pain.

Body Control (Quasi-Divine Skill): Freely control body size within a certain range, with all bodily attributes and abilities receiving bonuses adapted to the current size. The limit is determined by the user’s physical constitution and evolution level. Enables the Liquefaction of any part of the body and allows for the free alteration of its external appearance.

This fusion simply added the effects of the two skills together, but both effects were strengthened.

With "Expansion" as the base, the degree of enhancement was greater. Although it wasn’t obvious from the description, the skill’s improvement was an increase in the maximum body size.

The skill’s mechanics also dictated that the larger Su Ze’s body, the stronger he would be. He estimated that his maximum size would now allow him to transform into a giant tens of thousands of meters tall.

The Liquefaction component mainly enhanced the ability to change his physical appearance—in other words, his disguise ability.

Previously, he could only change the appearance of the parts that had undergone Liquefaction. Now, that restriction was gone. Su Ze could freely alter his body shape and facial features, allowing him to look like anyone or even create a new face from scratch.

This ability would be crucial for his future travels across the universe. After all, the Human Race was too conspicuous. Even if most beings didn’t recognize the Human Race, an unfamiliar species would naturally draw attention.

His previous disguise ability required the Liquefaction of his body to change its form. It couldn’t withstand inspection by others’ skills and was too easily exposed.

But now, by directly altering his flesh and blood, it was much easier to deceive others.

At this point, Su Ze no longer had any skills below Tier 6. The total number of his skills had also been reduced from 22 to 20.

He hadn’t even completed his seventh evolution, but he was already in the process of streamlining.

After a short rest, Su Ze took out a large chunk of golden ore—it was the Sands of Time.

He began to absorb the golden energy from the Sands of Time to help digest the Beast King Sponge extract in his body.

The golden energy was just as effective for digesting god-tier extracts, but they were clearly much harder to digest and would require a large amount of the Sands of Time.