Chapter 326: Crazy Expansion, One Family, One Tree

Ling Jiu did not stay long on the planet of lightning. He left not long after.

Electric life forms were magical, but that was just about them. They were not worth his while.

Even if the core of these electric beings was useful to the Thunder-type arcanists, he would not capture them.

He would leave these electric life forms to the young talents from Earth.

As humans continued to grow, and would inevitably occupy and develop the planets around these wormholes one day, these electric life forms would become the stepping stone for the rise of humans, eventually. So he thought he had better leave them to future generations.

“Ling Jiu, there are four moons orbiting this planet of electricity, each with diameters of one thousand hundred kilometers, one thousand nine hundred kilometers, two thousand two hundred kilometers, and two thousand nine hundred kilometers,” Leoux said.

“Start devouring the smallest moon first!”

After devouring all four moons, the diameter of the Floating Island expanded to an astonishing 3,300 kilometers.

The expansion was going at a slower rate compared to when he devoured the two previous moons. This was entirely logical since the larger the Floating Island got, the slower the expansion rate would be.

Just like that, Ling Jiu was devouring moons as if locusts ate everything in their path.

Devour. Devour. Devour.

A week had passed without him realizing it.

He could not recall how many moons he had devoured, but he knew that the diameter of the Floating Island had reached an astonishing 8,000 kilometers.

He did some number crunching in his mind. That meant it was 50 million square kilometers, which was even more massive than his own Floating Island.

So he stopped devouring. It was time to plant super arcana trees.

He sent over 30,000 gods that he captured to the Floating Island and ordered them to plant super arcana trees.

A 50-million-square-kilometer Floating Island was large enough.

After that, Ling Jiu started to expand the Floating Island in his body.

His Floating Island was only 15 million square kilometers, which was far punier than that of the Saiyan Golden Ape avatar. It was high time to expand his own.

A new round of expansion started on his Floating Island in the following few days.

A week later, his Floating Island of the deity reached a diameter of 80,000 kilometers and an area of 50 million square kilometers, which was absolutely amazing.

But everything had its pros and cons. The Floating Island had expanded, but the concentration of dark bio-energy had decreased.

Before the expansion, the concentration of dark bio-energy was so high that it had condensed into fog, lakes, and rivers.

But with the crazy rate of expansion of the Floating Island, the dark bio-energy was diluted relative to the size of the Floating Island.

So the next thing to do was simple: plant super arcana trees.

As soon as the Floating Island was fully planted with super arcana trees, the dark bio-energy produced would reach an astonishing level.

Before long, the concentration of dark bio-energy would rise again.

“I can finally take a break.”

After being busy for several days, Ling Jiu was exhausted—especially mentally. He was not in a hurry to return to Earth, but found a place to rest.

While he rested, Leoux mentioned something.

“The souls of the eleven super-clustered beings have been ground into soul fragments. When do you plan to absorb them?”

“I will do it now,” Ling Jiu said after thinking for a second. He had not forgotten the eleven super-clustered beings and the 4,000 gods who he captured from Auguland.

The soul of super-clustered beings was the best nourishment for expanding the soul nebula. His current soul nebula’s dark psionic energy was at ten soul stellar units only. It urgently needed expansion.

So he was not going to let go of the eleven super-clustered beings.

But he might spare the life of the 4,000 gods and turn them into his puppets to work in the arcana tree forest in his Inner World.

The Floating Islands had expanded so much that both he and the Saiyan Golden Ape avatar needed more gardeners to plant super arcana trees.

1,000 Kryptonians and 30,000 gods were barely enough.

“Leoux, turn the four thousand gods of Auguland into puppets, and send them to plant super arcana trees, too.”

“You got it,” Leoux responded. “I will send you the soul fragments now. get ready to receive them.”

“OK.” Ling Jiu nodded.

The next moment, a steady stream of soul fragments flowed out of the Leoux. Ling Jiu just took anything that came to him, devouring the soul fragments into his Inner World (Flame Astral Behemoth). He then refined them into the purest dark psionic energy before sending it to the sea of consciousness.

The eleven super-clustered beings such as the god of magic might not be as potent as the Evogod, but they were still super-clustered beings; they were not weaklings. They could be converted into a massive amount of dark psionic energy.

The Soul Nebula in the Sea of Consciousness started a new round of expansion.

11 soul stellar units.

12 soul stellar units.

13 soul stellar units.

When refining the soul fragments of the 11 super-clustered beings, Ling Jiu’s soul nebula rose to 20 soul stellar units.

But he did not stop there, as he felt it was not enough; he wanted more.

“Leoux, break up the souls of the twelve kings of the gods, including Zeus and Poseidon, and the souls of twelve Caius Titans, including Uranus.”

He only had so many super-clustered beings in hands. Since he wanted to devour them, he might as well devour them all to avoid trouble later.

Sometime later, when the souls of Zeus and others had been converted to dark psionic energy and poured into Ling Jiu’s sea of consciousness, his soul nebula increased to an astonishing 40 soul stellar units.

Ling Jiu could enter the second stage of the Eight Laws of Black Hole Evolution: forming the Soul Primordial Stars.

But Ling Jiu was not satisfied with this. He remembered Leoux had told him previously that once the Eight Laws of Black Hole Evolution entered the second stage, it would be difficult for the Soul Nebula to keep expanding in the future.

So he wanted to expand the Soul Nebula as much as possible while he still could to avoid regret in the future.

“I need more super-clustered beings,” Ling Jiu sighed. “How long have we been here, Leoux?”

“Eighty five says. Considering the difference in time flow rate, it is about five days on Earth,” said Leoux.

“Five days? It’s time to go home.”

An hour later, Ling Jiu had arrived back in Chang’an Base City. It surprised him to see the residents from his neighborhood were lining up at the neighborhood entrance, seemingly waiting for something. Ling Jiu was puzzled.

This was an upscale neighborhood where the rich and the powerful lived. Why were they lining up at the neighborhood entrance?

He asked one of them, who told him they were lining up for the arcana trees.

The government had launched a campaign, requiring every family to plant at least one arcana tree.

So everyone came to pick up the saplings.

“I didn’t expect the government to be so quick.” Ling Jiu was astonished.

The summit had just decided on the policy of large-scale arcana trees planting a few days ago. The government had started implementing it in just five days.

Now that was quick.