72: Opening up wasteland, golden legend

Nangong Old Geezer has three clones, and Jin Instructor also has three clones.

Although there is no limit to the number of clones, most people maintain three to five, because maintaining the existence of clones involves a certain consumption and puts pressure on the soul.

Clones that prioritize quantity are not included; those are at most energy clones and do not possess many characteristics of true clones. They also require the main body to control them personally, and their autonomy is too low.

Even though the instructors had many clones, the pioneering team did not split up. Instead, they concentrated their strength, clearing one anomalous area after another according to the numbered sequence.

No one knew what was inside the anomalous areas before entering, so they concentrated their forces to prevent insufficient pioneering strength, which could lead to failure and subsequent problems.

Leaving the Academy, Nangong Old Geezer waved his hand, leading everyone to traverse the starry sky. In just 10 minutes, they crossed a distance of 50,000 light-years, arriving at Area A6. With a single step, he reached the edge of Anomalous Area No. 1.

Anomalous Area No. 1 spans about eighty light-years. human luck detected active life signatures within it, possibly indicating hostile forces or perhaps native races.

"Little ones, spread out and investigate. If you encounter any problems you can't handle, send me a message immediately, and I will deal with it. I've briefly explored this area; it's relatively safe and suitable for you to practice."

The six instructor clones spread out, surrounding the anomalous area.

Students were responsible for exploring anomalous areas, determining the problems they contained, and whether to destroy the area.

Academy pioneering was essentially instructors taking students to level up in the wild. Students could also get a share of the spoils from leveling up, and there was no actual difference whether students participated or not.

Therefore, Academy pioneering was a carnival for the Academy students, as they were essentially just hangers-on for these safe pioneering missions, getting free food and drinks, and gaining experience.

The Ascension to God Instructor's investigation would always be clearer and more detailed than a student's investigation. During the investigation, he could easily solve problems without needing an extra step.

Including Lin Chen, everyone tacitly split up. Their respective clone teams advanced in different directions, not forming a group, but their internal communication was open for easy information exchange at any time.

Unless they encountered a situation like a raid dungeon, lone wolves remained lone wolves; this habit couldn't be changed.

With six instructor clones guarding nearby, Lin Chen's courage didn't swell significantly. With Spiritual Stealth activated, reducing his presence by 99%, he cared about no one.

Lin Chen and the Sanbao Clone were like ghosts, performing random teleports repeatedly, relying on their luck to find anomalous points within the area.

When there's no specific target, random teleportation provides the answer.

Currently, Lin Chen can teleport a distance of 1 billion kilometers in a single teleportation.

However, 1 billion kilometers is a very short distance within a light-year scale area, equivalent to only 0.000106 light-years. The order of magnitude needs to increase by 4 levels to reach light-year scale teleportation.

However, Lin Chen can teleport continuously. The consumption of a single teleportation is not significant for him; the energy consumption and recovery ratio is 1:1, so it can be used as a regular movement method.

After more than nine thousand teleports, Lin Chen had moved nearly one light-year before finally landing on a planet.

The guidance of human luck would inevitably lead him to discover something.

"A life-transformed planet, with a diameter of about eight thousand kilometers. Life forms differentiated from the planet itself live on it. The strongest individual has reached Eighth Order, and the planet itself should be equivalent to Ninth Order or Tenth Order life forms."

Lin Chen's mental power enveloped the entire planet, rapidly collecting various information and finally summarizing a conclusion.

"This is just the outermost planet. There must be life planets comparable to God Ascension Realm Experts inside, and the source that caused the planet's life transformation might be close to the divine level."

Lin Chen's conjecture was not without basis; life is always a domain only gods can touch upon.

A life-transformed planet could not have been born naturally; there must be a source.

Without hesitation, Lin Chen took out a small warship and began to move towards the central area of the region.

He had been teleporting before because there was no target. Now that he had a target, he naturally had to use the faster small warship to travel.

The small warship can traverse 0.2 light-years per second. This speed is much faster than Lin Chen's own teleportation. The normal speed of a God Ascension First Order is also about this, while Lin Chen's teleportation speed per second is only 0.000106 light-years.

After only one minute of travel, covering a distance of 12 light-years, Lin Chen encountered an attack.

Near the unavoidable path, a massive planet released a green beam of light.

The green light broke through space and struck the small warship.

Before Lin Chen could react, the small warship disintegrated after neutralizing ninety-nine percent of the attack. The remaining zero point one percent of the attack landed on Lin Chen and the Sanbao Clone, leaving all four of them severely wounded and on the verge of death.

It was an attack between God Ascension First Order and Second Order. If the small warship hadn't absorbed most of the power, and if the four of them hadn't constantly activated the Spiritual Stealth Technique, reducing their presence by 99% and neutralizing 99% of the attack, they would have died instantly, not just been severely wounded and on the verge of death.

The energy level gap between them was too great. Lin Chen survived because he was sufficiently monstrous.

If any other students in the team had encountered it, they would have instantly disintegrated into ash.

"Lao Deng, save me!"

Summoning help, he absolutely had to summon help fiercely.

Damn it, they hadn't even entered the core of the area yet and were already encountering a God Ascension Realm attack. It was likely that there truly was a Ninth Order Gods enemy at the core.

Nangong Old Geezer's No. 1 clone silently appeared beside Lin Chen and the other three, casually stabilizing their injuries. In just a moment, the four would recover as before.

This was the advantage of clones: as long as they were willing to consume their existential foundation, their injuries would recover quickly. The main body only needed to replenish the consumed existential foundation afterward.

"What a stroke of luck!"

"Little Lao Deng, Area A6 was randomly drawn after I pulled you into the team. I didn't know what was in this area before; it was a complete blind box."

"It seems there truly is a golden legend. The Expeditionary Force probably didn't pass through this area during their first sweep, which is why a region of this level remains. I really hit the jackpot."

Lin Chen could deduce some information about the core of the area based on known information. Nangong Old Geezer, knowing much more, could naturally deduce even more.

"............"

Hearing Lao Deng say that, Lin Chen somewhat doubted whether he truly had some special something about him.

At the same time, the other students' clone teams also encountered attacks and were all wiped out. They were all attacked when they had penetrated 10 to 12 light-years into the anomalous area.

Clearly, the core of this area had intelligent life forms coordinating to precisely eliminate invaders, using just the right amount of power, only miscalculating the ability of Lin Chen, who was a fish that slipped through the net.

This area was clearly not suitable for students to explore, and not even for Jin Instructor to enter.

Thus, one of Jin Instructor's clones returned to the Academy to pick up the second batch of student clones. It might take some time for the student clones to return.

For the first pioneering mission, the other students could only get some scraps; they couldn't get any meat, as they were instantly killed, and it would take time to re-condense their clones.

Pioneering couldn't stop. Nangong Old Geezer's three clones, along with Lin Chen and the other three, directly delved into the core of the anomalous area, preparing to see what was inside.

Nangong Old Geezer also couldn't detect the situation at the core; the interference was quite severe, requiring him to delve deep inside for on-site investigation.

Nangong Old Geezer took a single step and arrived at the edge of the regional core. He couldn't reach it in one step; there were various energy force fields interfering, and he had to break through the interference step by step to enter.

"A natural cosmic life rule wielder, with nascent consciousness, Ninth Order Gods strength. It unconsciously created a large number of life planets, and these life planets are growing rapidly. One planet already possesses a complete consciousness."

"This life planet with complete consciousness is an Eighth Order, following its instincts, blocking any invaders from discovering the secret of its birth, and even wanting to replace the source of its birth."

"My opportunity to become a god has arrived."

Nangong Old Geezer excitedly explained the current situation to Lin Chen. The way he looked at Lin Chen was completely off.

Before, he was just joking, mostly to help Lin Chen and let him enjoy some benefits.

Now he didn't think that way anymore. Lin Chen truly had something special about him, truly capable of helping him take off.

This trip, no accidents occurred whatsoever.

Recalling the hard days before, he wanted to cry. Forget opportunities; simply not stepping in dung and nothing happening was a sign of good luck.

He was a typical example of a 'Heavenly Fiend Lone Star' fate, with an incredibly tough destiny. If he hadn't hidden in the Sixth Academy, being cautious enough not to go out for no reason, he would have probably been taken away by bad luck long ago.

"Little Lao Deng, wait here. I'll be right back."

The tough-fated Nangong Old Geezer, with all three of his clones, began to eliminate the life planet's consciousness, severing its erosion of the life rule wielder and protecting the life rule wielder.

If he handed over the life rule wielder to the Academy, the Academy would surely find the most suitable opportunity for him to ascend to God, just like the highly compatible opportunities for becoming a god, such as the Virtual Singer and Projection Divine Spark.

This opportunity truly was a godsend.