Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 135: Three Evolutions, Epochal Struggle, Pure Essence
In fact, for Lin Feng, who has already embarked on the evolutionary path of the rock wildebeest, whether he understands the different types of evolution is no longer that important.

Because the facts cannot be changed.

But Bai Ye saw that he was sincere and serious, and had a strong desire to learn. Moreover, even if his evolutionary limit was not high in the future, he would be a second-level firearms evolutionist, and he could unleash the firepower of a battalion alone...

His combat power is the strongest among the evolvers!
Enough to command and maintain a second-rate force!
Therefore, even if he cannot embark on the path of pure evolution, Lin Feng's descendants, apprentices and friends in the future will definitely be trained as the target customers of the Savior Army.

Thinking of this, Bai Ye sorted himself out and spoke slowly:
"During the frenzy of evolution on Old Earth, everyone evolved on their own, without any rules to follow. There was pure self-evolution, as well as evolution through the absorption of others or the dependence of mutant beasts...

"In short, during that turbulent era, no one knew the future of humanity or the direction of its evolution."

"Until the six thousand years of evolution in the wasteland, and all the research on evolution..."

"Today, three major evolutionary paths have been developed, referring to three promising paths for advancement to the third level, while also allowing the evolver to retain their sanity."

As he spoke, Bai Ye turned his head to look at the entrance of the shelter. Under the scorching sunlight, billowing white smoke and the painful roars of the deformed creatures drifted out.

"As for the mutants formed by the genetic radiation of the third-level king, although they also formed a step-by-step and orderly evolutionary path, strictly speaking, they hardly had self-awareness before being promoted to the third-level mutants, and they could only move within the ruins, so they were excluded."

After glancing away, Bai Ye turned back to look at the man in front of him:
"Of the three possible paths, the one with the most restricted evolutionary paths, but also the one that increases the speed and power the most rapidly, is the path you are currently on."

"By directly absorbing the life essence of the mutated wild beasts, their evolutionary genes are integrated with their own, forming a special mutant species."

"In the future, as long as you absorb the essence of the same desolate beast, you can achieve a second level of qualitative evolution and become a powerful second-level evolver."

"So this evolutionary path is very fast. Just like when you found the Rockhorn Horse migration gathering point, you were able to directly advance from a Level 9 Enhanced Human to Level 6 or 7, becoming a late-stage First Stage Evolver."

"In addition to the extremely fast evolution process of the first stage, when advancing to the second stage and consolidating the second stage body, the mutated wild beast genes absorbed into the body will also bring about a certain degree of alienation..."

"Not only will it enhance your own awakened superpowers, but also the characteristics of the wild beasts you absorb, such as the rockhorn horse's sturdy armor and the amazing physical strength for continuous combat."

"It's like gaining dual superpowers."

"And he can also control a biological armor cultivated from the flesh and blood of a second-order Patriarch-level rockhorn horse. It is a biological exoskeleton similar to power armor with self-repairing functions."

"Take the Li family, who control Farm Village, for example. Their patriarch, Li Hao, was once a powerful figure near the Holy City. He relied not only on his dual superpowers but also on a set of Rockhorn Horse armor he cultivated using second-level Rockhorn Horse cells."

"This suit of armor not only boasts performance improvements comparable to power armor, but its sustained combat time and wear resistance are far superior to those of power armor."

"The only limitation is that only those who have absorbed the life essence of the Rockhorn Horse and embarked on the Rockhorn Horse Path can control it."

"This type of evolutionary pathway, also known as xenogeneic evolution, is the fastest-growing of the three major pathways, but also the most restricted."

"Besides the Rockhorn Horse, there are some in the Holy City that use other mutated wild beasts as a path to evolution."

"This includes improvements to combat effectiveness, including more obvious carnivorous mutant wild beasts, such as the steppe wolf."

"But they have a big problem: carnivorous wildebeests are not only rare but also more difficult to capture. Unlike rock wildebeests, they can't be artificially bred."

"If we can't quickly achieve an improvement in evolutionary level, then xenoevolution will lose its greatest advantage."

"So, evolvers who absorb the essence of carnivorous wild beasts are extremely rare. Even if they do exist, their evolutionary level is very low."

"But once they are promoted to the second-level evolvers, their strength will be quite formidable."

"Challenging higher-level players is commonplace for them."

Hearing this, a strange look appeared on Lin Feng's face. He roughly understood why the church had to mobilize such a large force to deal with the rebellion of the Li family in Nongzhuang Village.

Li Hao, the head of the Li family, is no less powerful than any ordinary late-stage second-order evolver when he bursts out with all his strength.

Even the bishop was not sure he could defeat Li Hao who was driving the Rock Horse armor.

That's why Father Su An wanted to use the life essence of the steppe wolf and the natural enemy relationship between the steppe wolf and the rockhorn horse to suppress the Li family's attack.

He is just an evolver from the church, can he change his course halfway, absorb the genes of the steppe wolf, and embark on the path of alien evolution?

Thinking of this, Lin Feng immediately asked this question:

"If I choose another evolutionary path, can I still absorb the essence of the wild beasts halfway through?"

"The church wants to use Steppenwolf's identity and genes to target the Li family's rebellion, but as I said, there was once a heteromorph who was facing limitations in his own evolution and tried to change his evolutionary path in the later stages to seek a breakthrough, but ended up exploding and dying..."

"Does the Church still possess the technology to change paths?"

Bai Ye smiled and shook his head:
"Impossible. Every evolver only has one chance to absorb alien essence and achieve a leapfrog evolution before advancing to the third level."

"Note that I'm talking about leapfrogging here. That means a Level 9 Enhanced Human becomes a Level 10 Evolver, and a Level 19 Late Stage 1 Evolver becomes a Level 20 Early Stage 2 Evolver, and so on."

"Because leapfrogging is a qualitative evolution, it requires the absorption of life essence to change the genetic sequence in the body, optimize cell strength, and elevate the level of life."

"So this stage is to qualitatively define the cumulative evolution in future stages, which is equivalent to imprinting the evolutionary path."

"As for the minor evolutions within this stage, as long as you don't directly use source materials with a lot of impurities, a little filtering won't have much of an impact."

"The evolved cells in the body can immune and decompose impure genes of the same level."

"As for what you said about changing the evolutionary path midway, for those who chose heterogeneous evolution during their first leap-level evolution, they have already used their opportunity to change their path in advance."

As he spoke, Bai Ye glanced at Lisa beside him:

"This is also why Lisa advised you not to use the Rockhorn Essence to advance beyond the rank. Although it's convenient at first, advancing to the second rank, and even further within the second rank, will be extremely difficult."

"And the church's approach to dealing with the Li family this time actually involves the second major evolutionary path, which is also the largest in the world today besides the first major alien evolution."

"Actually, at this point, you probably guessed it..."

Lin Feng took a deep breath, followed Bai Ye's words, and added:

"I know that, like what Shengquan taught them, they follow the proven evolutionary path of higher-level human life forms, relying on absorbing the advanced cells and life essence of the third-level king to achieve evolution."

"But I heard from the monks in the church that the Lord of the Holy Spring they believe in is actually a being above the third level, and can be called a god in the world..."

Bai Ye smiled, nodded and continued to introduce:

"What you said before is correct. As for the latter, I cannot agree with the statement of surpassing the third level..."

"Because since the beginning of historical records, including those of Old Earth and the Wasteland Calendar, no truly omnipotent god has ever appeared. If there were one, wouldn't He be able to change Sanri Lingkong's current predicament and the curse of the scorching sun behind him?"

"In comparison, the power of the Blazing Sun Curse can still suppress the power of the gods of these churches. This precisely proves that their so-called evolutionary path has deviated or gone astray."

"Even if one is immortal and possesses immense power, they are only gods to ordinary people, not the correct path to evolution..."

"It's almost the same as calling him a false god!"

After hearing Bai Ye's shocking words, Lin Feng was not shocked. Instead, he agreed with her opinion very much.

The meaning of evolution is to continue existence.

If we can't change the Three Days in the Sky and the curse that hangs over all higher life forms...

Then this kind of evolution is meaningless, and he still has to escape the attack of the scorching sun behind him.

In comparison, the Fiery Sun worshipped by the Fiery Sun Cult is more in line with the existence and definition of God.

"So is it possible that Lieyang is a god?"

Thinking of this, Lin Feng slowly asked the question in his heart:

"After all, the Fiery Sun Cult exists. Perhaps Yang Xie is the product of another evolutionary path, just like the evolution of alien species."

Hearing Lin Feng's guess, Bai Ye frowned slightly:

"This question involves a consensus that has yet to be definitively determined. It's also the truth that we in the Salvation Army have dedicated our lives to verify..."

Bai Ye's expression gradually became serious, and he continued in a deep voice:

"In fact, ever since the first survivors walked out of the ruins, a mystery that once plagued Earth's astronomical history has continued for thousands of years."

"That was the century-long dispute between geocentrism and heliocentrism, which has now evolved into a battle of the ages."

"If we can solve the problem of the Earth's motion, then the mystery that has troubled everyone will also be solved."

"Supporting geocentrism means supporting the existence of God. This is also the consensus of all major churches. They believe that we live under the shadow of God."

"Those who support heliocentrism are naturally us, the descendants of the Old Earth who have received a scientific education. We don't believe in the so-called gods above the third level, nor do we believe in the church's talk of atonement in this world."

"Of course, the Cult of the Blazing Sun also supports heliocentrism, but that's because the god they believe in is the blazing sun above their heads. As for the Earth, they believe it depends on the existence of the god."

"Today, the wasteland situation is controlled by the major churches, and geocentrism is naturally prevalent. However, countless martyrs have also sacrificed their lives in an attempt to prove the correctness of heliocentrism and thus tear apart the hypocritical masks of those gods..."

Lin Feng frowned. As he had received modern education, he naturally believed in the heliocentric theory.

Unless you wander the earth, travel directly to another world, and become the center of a certain dimension.

But this is impossible to think about, after all, migrating human settlements have already achieved a global escape.

So the Earth is still round, but there are three suns of different sizes above it. Is it the Earth that revolves around them, or are they revolving around the Earth?

Thinking of this, Lin Feng sighed:

"So, these people who believed in heliocentrism were also expelled and became wanderers in the wasteland?"

Bai Ye hummed, and said with a hint of pride:
"Today, geocentrism has become a consensus. When the two sides fought, the loser was exiled from the gathering place and became the first wanderers."

"And our Salvation Army was one of the few forces that openly supported heliocentrism over the past millennium. This was one of the reasons we were targeted back then."

"If Captain Lin has no interest in this matter and will be going to the Holy City to develop in the future, just follow the crowd and agree with the geocentric theory. Don't express such opinions lightly." Lin Fengzheng nodded.
"Thank you."

"So the third path of evolution is what Liza mentioned as pure evolution?"

Hearing Lin Feng bring up this matter again, Bai Ye changed his previous solemn attitude and raised the corner of his mouth slightly:
"That's right, it's the most orthodox pure evolution!"

"It was also the true path of individual evolution during the Old Earth era!"

"If the beginning of evolution means that genes no longer need to rely on reproduction to survive, and instead pursue individual strength and immortality, then the aforementioned heterogeneous evolution, as well as the fusion evolution that the church holds as orthodox, are actually just following the old path."

"Because I became a vassal of the pioneer of evolution..."

"In a sense, the evolution of alien species is the offspring of the mutated wild beast ancestors. Absorbing the essence of the Lord of the Holy Spring is also the continuation of His existence."

"It's actually not difficult to understand. It's just like how life on Earth once needed to reproduce to continue its genes. However, after evolution began, it continued to exist in a different way."

"Using humans and evolutionists as vessels, we continue their genes and use evolutionary methods to produce offspring."

"This fundamentally contradicts the underlying logic of evolution. It's ridiculous that the church still claims to be orthodox, constantly turning the descendants of humanity, and even the entire civilization, into slaves at the feet of those false gods..."

"And Immaculate Evolution is about not relying on any known evolutionary path, but forging a path of its own."

“Although it’s not an easy path, it allows you to be free from any constraints and restrictions, and represents a future of infinite possibilities.”

"Besides, even if it doesn't work, there are still two chances to make changes. One is to undergo a fusion evolution with the church and other large forces, and the other is to absorb the essence of mutated wild beasts and evolve into a different species."

"After just the second use, my evolutionary path has basically reached its peak, and it will be difficult to make further progress in this lifetime."

"For example, the Oasis Church's response strategy. Those who underwent surgery to directly integrate the blood of the Steppe Wolves will suffer from genetic contamination. If the rejection reaction is severe, they will spend the rest of their lives tormented by schizophrenia and physical deformities..."

“The cost is extremely high.”

"As for those who have adopted heterogeneous evolution from the beginning, if they were to integrate other wild beast essences, they would either become monsters without self-awareness like the deformed ones in the ruins, or they would disintegrate on the spot and begin to disintegrate at the cellular level."

"So, Immaculate Evolution, as a path of evolution with two more chances, is highly sought after in the wasteland. However, it is prohibited within the Church's sphere of influence."

"And the wasteland hunters and hunters in large guilds all dream of obtaining a pure evolution potion."

After finishing speaking, Bai Ye immediately began to promote:

"Actually, obtaining clean life essence is quite simple. Ready-made life essence will do. Use a molecular sieve to absorb the impurities, then use a nano-scale screen to filter out the genetic pheromones, chromosomes, and the like."

"But before that, we need to use a centrifuge to break down the cells of the evolved cells that contain the life essence, and then extract the cell fluid rich in the life essence."

"In fact, organizations like the Holy Spring Cult and other large forces that have existed for thousands of years have long since recovered a complete set of source material extractors from the remains of the refuge, including large centrifuges and filters."

"It is entirely possible to extract an endless supply of pure essence, helping future generations achieve pure evolution..."

As he spoke, Bai Ye changed the subject and began to recount the crimes of the major forces in a cold tone:

"But in order to protect their own interests and their own ruling order, they directly destroyed the extraction machine, including the related filtering technology and data, completely severing the future of human evolution."

"When the Salvation Army was attacked by various parties, it was because they discovered a set of relevant filtering equipment and information."

Hearing this, Lin Feng thought of his upgraded source filter, a ninth-level purification and extraction filter. He only needed to manually squeeze it to obtain pure life source and achieve pure evolution.

So how did Lisa do it?
Team Duncan did so much for the Saviors just to get pure source material from Bai Ye.

Seeing Lin Feng looking at Lisa beside him, Bai Ye kept smiling and continued:

"Although the items are destroyed, don't worry. Before the data and filters were destroyed, I had already mastered the relevant filtering technology. Now I can produce a nano-scale screen that will perfectly intercept genetic impurities in the cell fluid."

As he said this, fearing that Lin Feng might not understand, Bai Ye waved his hands to demonstrate his powerful abilities.

I saw that the equipment belt around her waist was filled with bottles and jars. One of the thermoses suddenly pulled out by itself and floated above her palm.

Just like low-temperature superconducting magnetic levitation.

If Lin Feng had not felt the energy fluctuations, he would even have thought that this was a very sci-fi telekinesis.

Seeing Lin Feng's expression change slightly, his pupils shrank...

Bai Ye nodded slightly:

"This is the meaning of pure evolution. You can develop your own superpowers infinitely without being affected by other superpower genes."

"Especially after being promoted to a third-level king, superpowers will be developed to the extreme, and you will become the master of this power."

"Currently, I can use my spatial ability to produce a nano-scale screen every day, also known as a nano-carbon film, formerly known as graphene material."

"Within a week, we can conduct a secondary screening and filtration of the evolutionary fluid filled with source essence or squeezed out."

"Obtain extremely precious and pure life essence."

Lin Feng's eyes suddenly lit up.

It wasn't because of the stainless steel thermos cup in Bai Ye's hand that was suspended by the power of space, nor was it because of the self-promotional introduction, but rather a reminder that surfaced in Lin Feng's peripheral vision:
"Has acquired relevant pure source material filtering technology"

"Updated data: The size of chromosomes, which contain genetic information in the cell nucleus, is micron-sized, with a minimum of one thousandth of a millimeter. A hundred-nanometer filter screen can be used to perform secondary purification on first-order source materials. A ten-nanometer filter screen can be used to filter and purify second-order source materials."

Note: 1mm = 1000μm, 1μm = 1000nm

"Note: The current level 9 purification and extraction filter has a minimum mesh size of nanometers. You can upgrade it at the cost of five health points."

After reading the reminder, Lin Feng realized that the power of the upgrade system can directly transform known knowledge and technology into reality.

So Lin Feng immediately asked:
"How much is that first-level pure life essence worth? Based on the guild's price, one kilogram of ordinary horse meat is worth one point, nine-level enhanced meat is worth five points, ten-level early evolution meat is worth twenty points, eleven-level meat is worth thirty points, and so on."

"So, using guild points as a measure, a regular Rockhorn Evolution Potency is worth about 1,000 to 1,500 points per potion, equivalent to 100 kilograms of Evolution Meat."

"I wonder what Chief Bai's price is?"

The smile on Bai Ye's lips was beyond words.

She gave such a long introduction just for this moment, when Lin Feng took the initiative to mention this matter.

If Lin Feng grows up and develops his own power in the future, he will become her stable client and partner.

Bai Ye has used this method many times over the years to win over a large number of wanderer forces, including many first-class regular forces with third-level kings.

Under the pressure and coercion of the top forces, they are unable to obtain stable access to the path of pure evolution, and the upper limit of their power development is limited. There can only be one third-level king forever.

Therefore, they would secretly obtain the filtered pure life essence during the daytime.

Now that Lin Feng is interested, he will be able to obtain the help of a second-level firearms ability user in the future. This is comparable to the firepower of a battalion, and even first-class forces rarely have such powerful firepower.

Thinking of this, Bai Ye immediately said:

"Even for me, the weekly output of pure evolutionary essence is extremely limited. Currently, most of it comes from the output within the ruins."

"Back then, all the major shelters basically had reserves of pure life essence. However, each time a ruin appeared, the amount of life essence produced was random, not as stable as my place."

"The current market price here is about 5,000 points for a tenth-level standard pure life essence. As for the second-level standard pure life essence, reservations must be made one year in advance."

"Right now, the price of an ordinary second-level life essence is about 200,000 points, but my price is one million!"

After hearing Bai Ye's words, Lin Feng took a breath.

Isn't this just a money grab?
Five times the price, it's simply terrifying.

Seeing that Lin Feng was frightened by the price, Bai Ye, who had succeeded, immediately added:

"Of course, five times the price is actually the official price, which is the transaction price between hunters and the standard provided by the general guild for hunters."

"But I can also exchange it for other things. The lowest price is twice as much. Tenth-level clean essence is only 2,000 points, and twenty-level second-level essence is only 400,000 or 500,000..."

What a good word!
Lin Feng just felt dry mouth and tongue, and felt that staying in Oasis Town, staying here, was simply a waste of money and life.

With the help of the filter, he could become rich overnight and become the richest man in the wasteland.

However, he soon realized that in order to cash in on the pure source material he had, he needed not only the source material itself, but also the qualifications to trade it.

Large-scale shipments will definitely be suspected, and even a third-level king cannot protect it.

The demise of the Salvation Army is the best example.

But if it is only used in exchange for certain evolutionary resources, there is definitely no problem.

However, the problem now is that Lin Feng is not strong enough to face the pressure from top forces such as the church, unless he wants to become a wanderer like the Savior Army.

Wandering in the gray area of ​​the wasteland all his life.

So before that, he had to find an endorsement to help him share the pressure of shipping.

Thinking of this, when Lin Feng's distracted pupils focused on the silver-haired beauty in front of him again, he felt that she was even more beautiful...

It's gradually becoming very cute!

　There is a new anime recently, which tells the story of the dispute between geocentrism and heliocentrism, and the struggle between religious theocracy and science.

　　Another person who was burned at the stake by religion was not Copernicus, but the Italian astronomer, Cecco d'Ascoli.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)