I became a god by treasure hunting after arriving 500 years early

Without an eternal body, things get a lot more troublesome.

"Maybe ’complete spiritification’ is a prerequisite for some powerful ability?"

After pondering for a long time, he still couldn’t make heads or tails of it.

"Sigh, there’s too little information, I still need to go to Sky City to find more clues."

Lu Yuan, who had taken advantage of the situation, shook his head and gazed into the distance.

He had lingered too long on Rize Civilization’s turf.

When he left the Meida Civilization, it was roughly the 1500th day of the Ninth Epoch.

But now, it was almost the 5000th day.

This place was good, the Rize Civilization was warm and hospitable, he could contact human civilization through the communicator, and he could even tease his sister. Even though he was in a foreign land, he felt quite happy.

No, he had to think about the more distant future...

Lu Yuan let out a soft sigh, gathered his companions, and they returned to the speedboat, heading off into the distance.

...

In the following months, Lu Yuan went from south to north, investigating the wreckage of a few more flying ships left by the Rize Civilization.

Having a helicopter indeed made things a lot easier.

Shuttling back and forth across a city would only take a few days...

However, once inside the Safe Zone, time seemed to pass a bit more.

In the wreckage of the other four ships, there were indeed hidden "Great Lai Empire Laboratories," where they held two legs, a torso, and an arm of the ’Ghost.’

The vitality of these parts was clearly not as strong as the head, and the likelihood of breaking out of the Sealing quickly was slim.

Meanwhile, in each laboratory, there was the corpse of the strongest anomaly...

They were what remained after competing with their own kind.

They all looked like mummies, having died of exhaustion over the endless stretch of time. Continue reading at empire

[Anomaly·Blood-colored Tai Sui, also known as Blood-colored Ganoderma, is said to be medicinal, and long-term consumption can strengthen the body and extend life. Only by devouring the flesh and soul of intelligent life can the Blood-colored Tai Sui grow to this size.]

[Pity, time has passed for too long, the value of extending life is no longer there, and even the Ideal Energy is almost gone.]

[Ability: Unknown.]

"This mass of a corpse is so big... even bigger than the other three combined." Lu Yuan pinched his nose and poked at it with a dagger, feeling its hardness.

He sawed open this rotten wood-like thing with a saw, and bits and pieces flew everywhere.

He spent half an hour sweeping with a broom and dustpan, not letting even the dust escape, thoroughly packing it into the Storage Space.

Just this mass of a corpse was going to take up 20 cubic meters!

All right, in the past few months, he had indeed picked up the corpses of 4 anomalies... and could only feed them to the Tree of Life; there was no other use.

But that use was enough!

The Tree of Life was growing visibly quickly, reaching a height of 6 meters in just three months, and its body kept thickening. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

If it consumed this large lump, reaching a height of 10 meters would be more than enough—this tree was truly a Great Demon!

Besides that, he had also picked up four things that looked like big turds.

In an environment of resource scarcity, these anomalies had all adopted the same survival method as the Undying Giant Turtle.

They had devoured everything in the laboratories, and even ate their own feces a few times. Lastly, they truly had no nutrients left and died of starvation due to energy deficiency in the labs.

As such, hardly any data was left; only cursed piles of crap remained...

Lu Yuan brandished the shovel, enjoying the pleasure of being a cat litter box cleaner.

After finishing the load, he glanced at the ’Ghost’s’ room, confirmed there was nothing important, and took off at once.

...

"Whoosh!"

After he had instantly teleported outside the ship, the usual cheering, greeting, exchanging courtesies, and then meetings followed.

Interacting with the Rize people mostly felt invigorating as a spring breeze, but occasionally, he would feel a faint sense of alienation in the depths of his heart.

It took Lu Yuan a long time to understand what this "sense of alienation" truly was—he was always being flattered, never joked with, never critiqued, let alone angered by anyone.

This feeling is actually quite strange, it’s hard to experience the true heart-to-heart connection.

Even if he were to return to human civilization, he might still be treated this way... perhaps this is what they call the loneliness at the top.

Maybe, he still liked to be a commoner, one who joked, cursed, and acted recklessly.

Everyone encounters a small philosophical question in their life, Lu Yuan shook his head, casting aside the slight annoyance.

After all, people are just isolated islands to one another, what true connection is there to speak of? Thinking too much about it is just being sentimental.

…

After completing the inspection of the spaceship, Lu Yuan went to the First Branch to return the Communicator and took back all the Idealistic elements he had separated out.

"I’ve checked your spaceship thoroughly, the sealing of the ’Ghost’ will last for a while longer."

"I must go now, I need to journey far," Lu Yuan recited his own catchphrase.

But this time, he was truly determined to leave.

"We are already immensely grateful for your concern in this matter."

"Bring out everything Mr. Lu has requested," the Governor clapped his hands, and a team of soldiers brought out several large boxes.

The essential elements extracted from the excretion of the four great beasts were abundant.

Lu Yuan quickly took stock of them.

Black Iron weighed 853 kilograms, Oliha Steel 278.2 kilograms, Mithril 119.7 kilograms, and even the precious Refined gold amounted to 66.4 kilograms!

Oliha Steel and Mithril are Idealistic affinity materials.

Black Iron and Refined gold are Idealistic isolation materials.

They are the most common materials in the forging of Extraordinary Items.

[Refined gold: Formed due to its stable Idealistic nature, it can block out most Ideal Energy abilities. It is said to be even rarer than Mithril and is a common trade material among advanced civilizations.]

[Ability: Stability, its isolating capabilities against supernatural powers are 23 times that of Black Iron, making it an exceptionally good material for defense and sealing.]

The metal ingots, glittering under the sunlight, were irresistibly attractive.

Lu Yuan couldn’t help but remember a famous quote: "Here are two gold bars, one dug from a mine, the other extracted from feces, which one is noble? Which one is filthy?"

Of course, hugging the gold bar and licking it a few times, that was something he definitely couldn’t do.

Besides that, the Rize people had prepared several boxes of spare parts, along with a multifunctional machine tool, a small smelter, a large telegraph machine, a diesel generator, and more.

All of these were technological products, such great stuff!

And with that... surely he had to bring along the metal materials?

Including steel rolls, aluminum ingots, tungsten ingots, and so on. Without these, the machine tool would be useless.

Preparation for a long journey should naturally be as thorough as possible.

Oh, right, and there were also two small high guns!

Two sniper rifles and several boxes of ammunition!

As well as grenades and landmines!

All these odds and ends added up, taking up no small amount of space.

Lu Yuan weighed his options, struck by choice paralysis.

"The power of the cannon, even if I were hit directly, would either kill or injure me, bring it," he decided.

"The sniper rifle can hit a target over a kilometer away. The Crossbow Cannon I made definitely won’t do, bring it!"

"I want the telegraph machine, I want the cannon! I can do without the rest!" Old Cat excitedly jumped onto the cannon, undeniably claiming these items for itself.

Its fluffy tail was held high with pride.

With the cannon, Orange Cat also now possessed top-tier firepower!

Lu Yuan’s Extraordinary Spark, since evolving into the Eternal Spark, had enhanced all of his Divine Skills somewhat, and his Storage Space was opened up to a side length of 4 meters, which is 64 cubic meters of space.

He was somewhat troubled: "There’s so much stuff, it will take up at least 30 cubic meters."

"The bodies of Anomalies take up about 20 cubic meters... I can’t possibly abandon the bodies, the Tree of Life will feed on them for years."

"The remaining 16 cubic meters have to hold food, water, clothes, and other necessities of life."

"There won’t be much space left for the helicopter’s fuel..."