Chapter 329: Chapter 274: Foreign Object in the Soul

He had at least checked the official websites of Evolutionary Technology and Life Pharmaceutical, but neither had any in stock.

"Okay, rest assured. I’ll get right on it," Xu Sheng readily agreed.

With Su Ze’s promotion to Saint-rank Overlord, Xu Sheng was now held in higher regard within the corporation. As long as he maintained his good working relationship with Su Ze, he would very likely move up another level in the company.

"One more thing," Su Ze said. "Ask your company if they have any high-grade Tier 5 extracts for sale suitable for close-combat evolvers. I can trade another vial of a psychic-type, high-grade Tier 5 extract for it. If there’s a price difference, I can make up the rest."

He had to start preparing for Tier 5 extracts early.

If he could absorb a suitable Tier 5 extract and gain a Tier 5 skill, his power would increase dramatically—far more than the boost he would get from upgrading his current skills.

Then, he would be more confident when facing King Mu.

"Of course!" Xu Sheng quickly agreed, inwardly thrilled. ’This is another huge deal.’

Su Ze put his Hundred-Change Mask back on, changed his face, and discreetly left the Evolutionary Technology store.

...

Back in his villa at Dongli University, Su Ze glanced around. No one was there.

Everyone was out, busy with their own affairs.

Right there in the living room, he poured out all the materials and began to absorb them one by one.

He started by absorbing the enhancement materials, saving the two upgrade materials for last.

It was just like a childhood habit of his—always saving the best part of the meal for last.

He absorbed the materials one after another, and his skills were continuously enhanced...

Each enhancement material would strengthen a specific aspect of one of his skills.

Su Ze had thought that thirteen enhancement materials would be enough to upgrade at least two or three of his skills, but reality turned out to be quite different from his expectations.

Some skills were enhanced in unexpected ways, and even his Tier 4 skills were strengthened.

Only then did Su Ze understand why Liou Wenxin had said that finding a superior skill to overwrite an existing one was the easiest and most straightforward method. When trying to upgrade skills with these piecemeal enhancement materials, he discovered that the direction of the enhancement—and even which skill was affected—was completely out of his control.

Sometimes, two enhancement materials would even conflict with each other. Immediately after absorbing one, he would lose his connection to another, making it impossible to absorb.

This meant that both materials enhanced the same aspect of the same skill.

In the end, out of the thirteen enhancement materials, Su Ze only managed to absorb eleven.

Only one skill was fully upgraded, though several others were enhanced to varying degrees.

Next, Su Ze began absorbing the two upgrade materials: the Magnetic Drill and the Eye of Insight.

The black Magnetic Drill was heavy. Upon closer inspection, its texture was peculiar; it seemed to be part metal, part stone, yet it shimmered with the luster of a crystal.

As Su Ze infused his evolutionary power into it, the hard Magnetic Drill melted into a mercury-like liquid and flowed into his body.

Su Ze could feel the mercury-like substance coursing through him. An energy separated from it, continuously fusing with his body. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

After circulating through his body, the Magnetic Drill surprisingly emerged from his other hand, reverting to its original black, stone-like appearance.

However, Su Ze could clearly feel it was lighter, and its luster was gone. It was as if it had become an ordinary black rock.

Clearly, Su Ze had absorbed something from within it, causing the Tier 4 ore to lose its original value.

Su Ze focused his senses for a moment, a satisfied expression spreading across his face. Just as he had expected, his Gravity Dust Sand skill had been upgraded!

Without pausing, Su Ze picked up the Eye of Insight, preparing to absorb this Tier 5 Wondrous Item as well.

However, neither holding it in his hand nor infusing it with his evolutionary power allowed him to absorb the Tier 5 Wondrous Item, which left Su Ze momentarily stumped.

He had never absorbed a Wondrous Item before.

Infusing it with evolutionary power was equivalent to using the Wondrous Item directly, not absorbing it.

Su Ze began to ponder possible methods. ’Bind it with my blood? Swallow it whole?’

’The first is impractical, and the second is a bit disgusting.’

Remembering this was considered a psychic-type Wondrous Item, Su Ze infused his own Spiritual Power into the Eye of Insight.

To his surprise, he had guessed correctly. He immediately felt a strange energy flow along his Spiritual Power and enter his body.

This peculiar energy existed somewhere between evolutionary power and Spiritual Power, seemingly a fusion of the two.

When Su Ze’s Spiritual Power merged with this energy, he immediately felt a throbbing pain in his brain as his Spiritual Power began to rise.

This was the first time his Spiritual Power had ever been enhanced during the process of upgrading a skill.

’Then again,’ he thought, ’if upgrading a skill can strengthen my physical constitution, it’s not so strange for it to enhance my Spiritual Power too.’

Within Su Ze’s body, a small portion of his evolutionary power began to merge uncontrollably with his Spiritual Power.

Ordinarily, these were two completely different things. Evolutionary power was a tangible form of energy, while Spiritual Power was ethereal and imperceptible; the two should have been unable to merge.

But, catalyzed by the peculiar energy from the Eye of Insight, Su Ze’s Spiritual Power actually began to fuse with his evolutionary power.

’The ethereal and the substantial aren’t impossible to fuse...’ Su Ze thought of his Unyielding Will skill. ’After all, doesn’t it fuse my Spiritual Power with my physical body?’