Chapter 648 - 366: Secluded Cultivation (Part 2)

So, it turned out that what he wanted to do and what Mr. Ao wanted him to do were actually the same thing.

It was conceivable that if he didn’t enter closed-door cultivation to boost his strength, he would become the most idle person on Zexing. Everyone else would have things to do, while he, the Star Lord, would be left twiddling his thumbs.

Because there was nothing that required him, the Star Lord, to personally handle. Everyone had only one expectation of him—to become as strong as possible, to protect Zexing, and to protect the Human Race!

So, Su Ze’s plan was to first use all the resources at his disposal to improve his strength as much as possible.

Once he could no longer improve, he would then venture out to find new opportunities.

He still hadn’t acquired a new skill for his Star God stage, which he would need to seize for himself. Moreover, at the Star God stage, he could absorb Moon God-level skills, meaning he had to defeat a Moon God-level target, someone of a higher tier.

With his current strength, that was definitely impossible, but fortunately, he still had a lot of room for improvement.

’I wonder how much my strength will have improved by the time I come out of seclusion.’

For this period of closed-door cultivation, Su Ze planned to first upgrade and organize his skills, then begin trying to absorb the other races’ Origin Genes from the inheritance.

Fusing skills and absorbing and assimilating Origin Genes were both time-consuming tasks, so he had a feeling this session of closed-door cultivation might be quite long.

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Su Ze returned to his room, locked the door, and began his closed-door cultivation.

The first order of business was to upgrade and strengthen his skills.

By absorbing enhancement materials and dismantling and reassembling skills, he would gradually upgrade all of his skills into Divine Skills.

Among the vast resources Mr. Ao had left behind, there were a few materials compatible with him, which he took.

There was also the subsequent inheritance for Meteor Impact.

He first accepted the subsequent inheritance for Meteor Impact, causing this Ancestral God-level Divine Skill Prototype to upgrade directly into a proper Divine Skill.

Meteor Impact (Tier 7 Divine Skill): Allows the user to capture and compress asteroids to store within their body. Can store up to five asteroids and throw them to attack targets.

After upgrading to a Divine Skill, Meteor Impact’s improvement was obvious. First, the spheres originally condensed from energy had become bona fide asteroids. Su Ze could now experience the feeling of plucking stars from the sky with his own hands.

Additionally, the storage capacity increased from three to five.

Asteroids were commonplace in the universe, and Su Ze planned to find five to compress and store within his body after he came out of seclusion.

This skill had immense potential. Su Ze had seen its previous owner toss stars around like scattering candy, even refining a sun to use as a fireball to smash people.

Next, Su Ze absorbed the few enhancement materials, successfully upgrading his Bloodthirsty skill to a Tier 7 Divine Skill.

As a prototype of a Sun God-level skill, Bloodthirsty was already of a very high quality, close to that of a Quasi-Divine Skill, so it was no surprise that it upgraded directly into a Divine Skill after absorbing a few suitable enhancement materials.

Bloodthirsty (Tier 7 Divine Skill): When activated, taking a life allows the user to devour its flesh and blood for energy. This energy is first used to heal injuries and replenish stamina. Any remaining energy is stored in the body to temporarily enhance strength. If no new flesh and blood energy is devoured within five minutes, the skill will automatically deactivate.

The most significant improvement to the skill was its duration, which increased from ten seconds to five minutes. This was an epic-level enhancement.

From now on, he wouldn’t need to constantly farm kills to keep the skill active. Five minutes was more than enough time; most battles were decided in less than five minutes anyway.

Furthermore, the upper limit of the strength boost provided by the Bloodthirsty skill was also greatly increased. This would be one of the cornerstones of his ability to fight opponents of a higher tier.

In addition, his Flying Skill, Celestial Sea Wings, upgraded into a Quasi-Divine Skill.

Celestial Sea Wings (Quasi-Divine Skill): Grants the ability to move rapidly while ignoring terrain.

After upgrading to a Quasi-Divine Skill, Celestial Sea Wings no longer distinguished between flying in the sky and swimming in the water. It simply provided unimpeded movement, whether in the air or underwater.

Of course, it also allowed him to burrow into the earth, which was like gaining an Earth Escape Skill in a roundabout way. However, the principle behind it was different from a proper Earth Escape Skill.

Also, "ignoring terrain" here didn’t mean ignoring *all* terrain, but rather common, natural terrain.

He could ascend to the heavens, burrow into the earth, and dive into the sea, but that didn’t mean he could ignore the imprisoning abilities of other powerful experts, nor could he phase through high-tier evolution materials.

Moreover, while moving, Su Ze still had to resist the pressure and damage from the terrain himself.

For example, Su Ze could use this skill to travel through magma, but only on the condition that he wasn’t worried about being cooked alive.

Of course, with Su Ze’s current constitution, soaking in magma was no different from soaking in a hot spring.

His other skills, however, remained unchanged.

Having absorbed all the suitable materials, his only remaining path to upgrade his skills was through dismantling, reassembling, and fusing them.

The effects of each skill surfaced in Su Ze’s mind. Recalling his previous discussions with Liou Wenxin and the Pope, a plan had already formed.

The plan they had settled on before was to use three skills as a foundation to eventually fuse a powerful Divine Skill, or perhaps even an Ancestral God-level skill.

The first was to use Gravity Domain as a base, continually strengthening it into a powerful domain-type skill.

The second was to use "Ultimate Shot" as a base, fusing it into a super-powerful offensive Divine Skill.

The third was to use "Body Control" as a base, fusing it into a status-type Divine Skill.

This core strategy remained the same. Now, based on his other skills, he could add some with clear classifications to the list of candidates for fusion.

His clear-cut, purely offensive skills were "Needle Strike," "Weak Point Attack," and Meteor Impact. Logically, these three could be fused into "Ultimate Shot" without a second thought.