Chapter 175 The Abyss of Stars

The Abyss of Stars, Wan Ying's territory, the ancestral land of shadows.

The pitch-black gaseous planet still hovered beside the ancestral land of shadows, like a black satellite, with rich black energy flowing on its surface, occasionally setting off tide-like fluctuations.

A spaceship hovered next to the pitch-black satellite, its hatch wide open. One by one, emotionless Calamity Grade shadow servants pushed prisoners of various races captured from different star systems down. Most were Calamity Grade, but there were also low-level Supers with special abilities.

These prisoners were all in restraints, extremely weak, their abilities suppressed, with almost no power to resist. The scene was like dropping dumplings into water. Each time someone landed on the surface of the pitch-black satellite, a wave of black energy would strike, engulfing them in its churning embrace, disappearing without a trace.

This feeding-like scene was how Wan Ying's servants replenished him with shadows. This batch of prisoners numbered nearly a thousand, all swallowed clean by the planet-sized Wan Ying.

Just then, the space next to the spaceship suddenly fluctuated, and a phantom suddenly appeared, wearing a hooded black robe that concealed its appearance and body. The edges of the phantom resembled flames, as if constantly dissipating mist, making it look like a black cloud. This was not a remote projection of the quantum network, but some kind of mental projection, only visible to Wan Ying and his shadow servants.

The next moment, the surface of Wan Ying's planet suddenly fluctuated violently, stirring up a black tsunami, outlining a shape. Soon, a face appeared on the planet's surface, using energy vortexes to form simple eyes, a nose, and a mouth, without any concept of appearance, and was opening its mouth wide as if in a silent roar.

Two invisible mental fluctuations were released from both sides, entangled with each other, forming a mental communication link.

"How is the progress? How much longer until the transformation is complete?" the phantom asked proactively.

"I don't know, Wan Ying is very tenacious."

"How much consciousness does he have left?"

"Not much. I have already seized control of his body and inherited all his memories. As long as I completely devour his last bit of consciousness, I can greatly accelerate the transformation process."

"Try to speed it up as much as possible. You are a core part of our plan. Over the years, we have tried various methods and finally discovered that we can only use abilities to unlock the Third Sanctum, so you are the foundation of our synthesis ritual, a vessel to accommodate other Original Ability Bodies."

"Don't worry, Wan Ying wanted eternal life and borrowed your technology to activate me. Hmph, that greedy guy brought about his own destruction. While he got rid of his physical limitations, he also suffered my backlash. You gave me life and consciousness. When I transform into a true Original Ability Body, I can help you."

"Yes, when the plan is complete, we promise you freedom."

After speaking, the phantom waved its sleeve and disappeared without a trace, as if it had never appeared.

The churning waves on the surface of the pitch-black planet subsided, the facial features disappeared, and the restless black energy returned to calm.

...

The news of the emergence of the Chaos Secret Energy only remained hot for a few days. In today's Shattered Star Ring, conflicts emerge endlessly, and news fades quickly. Soon, other news attracted the attention of interstellar citizens and major forces, replacing the Chaos Secret Energy at the top of the headlines.

As the final winner of the battle, the whereabouts of the Black Star Army also received some attention, but quickly disappeared, and their movements were not detected by the outside world.

At this moment, Han Xiao's stealth spaceship was located in a certain area of ​​space in the Emerald Star Cluster, not far from Hela's territory, and he was talking to Ames.

"...The situation is like this. I'm here to protect your student Hela, and I'm inviting you to be a guest. On the one hand, it's to pretend that my main body is still at the base camp, paralyzing the enemies in the dark, and on the other hand, it's to ask you to help guard the base camp and take care of Aurora... so I'm really not ditching you," Han Xiao said helplessly.

In the screen, Ames was playing with a ball of green force field, her eyelids lowered, and although her tone was calm, it was inexplicably filled with a dangerous aura.

"I would have helped you even if you had said it directly. Do you not trust me?"

"How could that be? Didn't you mainly want to see Aurora after her advancement? Now you've seen her. Besides, when I invited you, I don't think I ever said that I wanted to see you." Han Xiao scratched his head and joked, "Not being direct is mainly to be more tactful. I know that if I ask, you would definitely agree. After all, I'm so strong now, I'm afraid you'll think I'm ordering you."

"Heh, you didn't order me, but I feel like you're taking advantage of me, which seems even worse, right?" Ames narrowed her eyes, and a green light flashed in her eyes.

"Hey, you can't say that. With our relationship, what's mine is yours and what's yours is mine. Saying 'taking advantage' is too harsh." Han Xiao waved his hand.

"Is that so? You've taken advantage of me quite a few times before," Ames said with a half-smile.

"The past is the past, now things are different. Our two forces have each other in us, and we have each other in you. We have become a loving family. For family, it's normal to joke around occasionally..."

"Tsk, who's family with you, shameless," Ames frowned and spat lightly.

Seeing this, Han Xiao laughed and teased, "Hehe, do you really want to see me that much? Do you want me to go back and be with you?"

"...Don't be so sentimental, who wants to see you."

Ames paused, put away the force field, waved her hand, and said casually, "Just stay there and protect my student. Do you need me to go over and help?"

"No need."

"Do you think I'm too weak?" Ames raised her eyebrows slightly.

"Cough cough, what are you talking about? I mainly have another matter I need your help with. You stay in Black Star Palace and pretend that my main body is there."

"Since it's for my student, I'll continue to cooperate with your acting... but don't rush to thank me. One thing is one thing, I haven't settled the matter of you tricking me."

"Then after I go back, I'll accompany you on a trip to a secondary dimension?" Han Xiao raised his eyebrows, "Just the two of us."

It just so happens that I have to go to the secondary dimension to capture Holy Light particles in the future, so this won't delay official business... I'm so smart!

"Okay, then it's settled."

Ames had no objection.

Although she had run all the way over just to be tricked, her anger had already dissipated after playing with Aurora every day these past few days.

If someone else had tricked and taken advantage of her like this, Ames would definitely be furious, but if the person playing tricks was Black Star, she didn't care much. Only close people could do this kind of thing to her.

Besides, it reminded her of the black history when Black Star was weak and constantly taking advantage of her, and she couldn't help but feel nostalgic.

After chatting for a few words, Han Xiao hung up the phone and turned to look at the workbench next to him.

He was currently in the spaceship's mechanical workshop, using machinery to control various manufacturing equipment, building the Tyrant mechanical suit. Next to him, there were already several failed products piled up.

Although they were called failed products, they were actually all orange equipment, which would be considered rare and good equipment if taken out. However, they did not reach the level of a Cosmic Treasure according to the blueprint, not only was their performance much weaker, but they also did not have those magical effects, and the cost was terribly expensive, so in his opinion, they were all failures.

After putting away the communicator, Han Xiao finally didn't have to be distracted and focused on building the Tyrant in front of him. The [Divine Craftsman] special ability on the attribute panel had been shining all the time. Only when building a Cosmic Treasure would this special ability be activated.

However, after building more than half of it, Phillip suddenly popped up and said that several Mechanical Soldiers who had been sent out had secretly brought Evans onto the ship.

"Then bring him over," Han Xiao's eyes lit up.

After a while, the door of the mechanical workshop opened, and several Mechanical Soldiers escorted a man in, who was Evans.

As soon as Evans entered the door, he saw a handsome and domineering man in black looking at him with a smile that was not a smile, and immediately became nervous.

"You are His Excellency Black Star?"

"That's me."

Han Xiao smiled and nodded, looking Evans up and down. His first impression was ordinary, too ordinary.

Evans only felt that Han Xiao's eyes could see through him, making him have nowhere to hide, and he immediately became uneasy.

Although he was usually relatively calm, he couldn't stay calm when facing a top-notch figure in the universe like Black Star.

Evans took a deep breath and summoned up the courage to ask, "Your Excellency Black Star, I'm just an ordinary person without any ability genes. I don't know what you see in me."

Hearing this, Han Xiao smiled playfully, "Your physique is quite special, and I'm very interested."

"Special physique?"

Evans was stunned and looked down at himself, feeling that he was the opposite of the word "special."

"Anyway, rest assured, I'm a dignified Beyond Grade A, and I wouldn't go to great lengths to make things difficult for an ordinary person like you. You're not in any danger here. At most, I need you to cooperate with my experiments. After that, you can do clerical work in the legion, and the salary and benefits are much better than the consortium you worked for before. What do you think?"

"...You've already brought me here, can I refuse?" Evans smiled wryly.

He hadn't been out of prison for long, and he came to the Shattered Star Ring to broaden his horizons and find a job to make a living. He didn't care about working for the Black Star Army, anyway, the salary was much higher.

Seeing that he had no objections, Han Xiao picked up a needle and walked to Evans's side, motioning him to stand still, and then drew a tube of blood from him.

Han Xiao wasn't lying. Finding Evans did mean doing experiments.

Evans was the common host of the Chaos Secret Energy and the Holy Light particles, so his physique was naturally special. And Han Xiao wanted to build a mechanical carrier for the Original Ability, so extracting Evans's cells for research could figure out the principle of adaptation and speed up the research and development process.

On the other hand, Han Xiao also caused damage by pricking him with a needle, triggering battle information.

Opening the panel and looking at Evans's attributes, Grand Technician Han's eyes suddenly lit up.

The attribute panel of an ordinary person was very simple and clear at a glance. Only two special talents caught Han Xiao's attention. One of them was [Intermediate Lucky Aura], proving that he was a protagonist-type character. The reason why it was intermediate, Han Xiao guessed that it was because Evans had an enemy like Yi Shen (Different God) while obtaining power.

Another special talent was called [Top-Level Ability Affinity Physique]. The effects were all related to the ability system, which could greatly improve the compatibility of the Original Ability Body. At the same time, when attacked by an ability user, there was a chance to recover a certain amount of health and stamina, and the difficulty of developing abilities was greatly reduced, and the power of using abilities was greatly increased, and even passively increased the potential of abilities by one level.

"No wonder he can embrace two Original Abilities. This talent is simply the 'Perfect Mechanical Sense' of the ability system, and the effect is too domineering."

Han Xiao marveled.

Generally, with this talent, one should be able to awaken into an ability user, but Evans was an ordinary person, wasting this talent...

Wait a minute!

That's not right, how could there be no ability genes with this talent? Something must be wrong!

Han Xiao turned his head sharply, his eyes burning.

Under Evans's unwilling expression, Han Xiao asked him to take off his clothes and obediently cooperate with a detailed full-body examination - Evans used to be a poor guy, so naturally he couldn't find any high-end institutions to check his ability genes, so maybe something was missed.

This check really found a problem!

Han Xiao frowned as he looked at the examination report.

"W-what's wrong?" Evans put on his clothes, a little nervous.

"It's not that you don't have ability genes. I don't know who you asked to check, but their examination wasn't detailed enough."

As soon as he finished speaking, Evans was stunned.

He had always thought that he was an ordinary person without talent, but he didn't expect that today someone would suddenly tell him that he actually had talent. Even though he had long been used to being an ordinary person, he was still shocked at this time.

"But don't be too happy too soon." Han Xiao changed the subject, waved his hand, and said slowly, "There's something wrong with your ability genes. It seems that they have been suppressed by some kind of drug. After so many years, the ability genes have shrunk so much that they can hardly be detected. It's basically impossible to awaken them. This is a human thing. Have you had any enemies since you were a child?"

Evans barely suppressed the surging emotions in his heart and recalled seriously. He wasn't sure, "I was ten years old when I accepted the ability gene test. If someone did this to me, it must have been before I was ten years old, but how could I have provoked any enemies when I was a child... Unless it's because of my family, but I'm just an ordinary family, how could it be..."

His face kept changing. It would have been fine if he didn't have talent, but today he learned that he originally had talent, but it was ruined by someone since he was a child!

What was ruined was not only his talent but also his decades of life!

Evans had already resigned himself to his fate, but at this time, anger was burning in his heart.

Clap clap.

Suddenly, Han Xiao clapped his hands, interrupting his memory.

"Okay, don't think about it if you can't figure it out. You can check it yourself later. Let's talk about something serious. I may have a way to help you awaken."

Evans's body trembled suddenly, and suppressing his excitement, he asked in a deep voice, "What do I have to give?"

"It's very simple. I originally thought you were just an ordinary person. If you can awaken your abilities, it will be enough for you to fight for me."

Han Xiao paused, smiled, and said slowly, "I've investigated your information. When you were still an ordinary person, you tried to kill a low-level ability user in a fit of anger to protect your friend. Not every ordinary person has this kind of courage. You have combat talent and have never resigned yourself to fate. Perhaps years of prison life have cooled your blood... And now, you may have a chance for a new life. I just hope you don't waste it."

"Okay," Evans replied decisively.

At this moment, his eyes were full of determination, and his temperament was completely different from his previous resigned appearance. He was like a dusty sharp sword, which had now faded away from rust and dust, revealing its sharpness!

Seeing this, Han Xiao took out a bottle of life potion made by Aurora.

Evans's symptom was that his ability genes had atrophied and lost all activity. As long as enough life energy was injected, they could be restored to life, and the life potion was the most suitable antidote.

Taking out an injection gun, Han Xiao injected one-tenth of the golden potion into Evans's body, for fear that he would not be able to handle it.

Buzz!

The next moment, Evans's whole body glowed, filled with a rich vitality.

This light lasted for a full few minutes before dissipating. Evans stood in place with his eyes closed, and his complexion was completely different. He was so healthy that he couldn't be healthier. The wear and tear and hidden injuries left by his prison life had completely disappeared.

"How do you feel?"

"Like a new life."

Evans opened his eyes, and the golden light in his eyes slowly dissipated. He looked at Han Xiao, his eyes full of gratitude.

"Have you sensed your abilities?" Han Xiao nodded in satisfaction and asked again.

Hearing this, Evans frowned, carefully feeling the changes, a little hesitant.

"...It seems to be a little different, it seems that there is a new sense, it should be an ability, right?"

"Use it and let me see," Han Xiao said curiously.

Evans nodded and tried hard for a long time, but found that nothing changed. He wasn't sure, "It seems that I can't control it. Did my ability really awaken?"

Those who have just awakened are all Grade E ability users, but even if they are very weak, ability users will not be unable to control their abilities... Han Xiao frowned, feeling that things were not simple, and gave Evans another shot to check the battle information.

However, after only one glance, Han Xiao froze, rubbed his eyes, and almost thought he was seeing things.

After looking at it for more than ten seconds, he came back to his senses, looked at Evans with a very strange expression, and muttered to himself:

"No wonder... no wonder..."

"Do you know my ability?" Evans couldn't help asking.

Han Xiao let out a sigh, patted Evans on the shoulder with a complicated expression, pursed his lips, and said earnestly:

"You have to be a good person in the future..."

After saying that, he turned his back to Evans, ignoring Evans's confused expression, and his mouth twitched non-stop, roaring in his heart.

Damn it!

This kid's ability... is also to absorb abilities!

Exactly the same as Yi Shen (Different God)!!

No wonder... those special things about this guy in his previous life can be explained all of a sudden!

You really deserve to be Yi Shen's (Different God's) nemesis! Is this the choice of the Gate of Destiny?!

He had seized the Chaos Secret Energy, causing Evans to lose the opportunity to change his destiny. Han Xiao was originally a little sorry and planned to give him some compensation.

But now it seems...

Original Ability, you don't deserve it!

You are my biggest gain on this trip!

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(Recommend a book, the title is: "The Era of Advent of the Heavens")

(Introduction: At the end of the era, the Primordial World was shattered, the Immortal World collapsed, the Heavenly Court fell, and the Heavens were shattered into hundreds of millions of fragments scattered in the chaotic void. After the shattered end of the era, the Era of Great Navigation of the Heavens opened, descending on hundreds of millions of fragments of the Heavens World, plundering resources and ancient inheritance, step by step ascending to the sky, recasting the Immortal World.)