Chapter 18 Space and Time

To stay undisturbed, Chen Luo had specially dug a well-ventilated underground cave.

Unless something major happened, no one would bother Chen Luo.

Chen Luo sat cross-legged on a cushion and closed his eyes to ponder.

It was boring and tedious, something Chen Luo didn't enjoy, but to become stronger, he had no choice.

Chen Luo began to sort things out.

First, space.

Measuring strength was basically divided into defense and offense.

For defense, there was Void Walk, which was better than any other defensive ability.

*I won't even accept your move, so you can't possibly hit me.*

Was there any defense more powerful than Void Walk?

Chen Luo skipped defense and began to study offense.

He didn't need too many fancy moves, just one or two signature offensive abilities would do.

High lethality and low consumption were king.

When solving a problem, there were many methods, but the goal was to find the answer, so one should definitely choose the simplest approach.

Chen Luo's strongest move was currently Dimensional Blade, which could instantly kill a King-level being, but it also consumed a lot of energy, draining most of Chen Luo's current psionic power.

What Chen Luo needed to do now was to reduce the consumption of Dimensional Blade and develop an ability that was more efficient than Dimensional Blade.

Space Cage, Energy Pulse, there was no need to waste energy on those at all.

A stone was suddenly crushed into powder.

Chen Luo compressed space and crushed it.

Chen Luo shook his head. This move was not bad, but its power was still not as good as Dimensional Blade.

He should try to improve Dimensional Blade first.

Yin Ling's spatial storm was also good, with a subtle force that could move a thousand pounds.

Chen Luo had a realization that the best way to reduce consumption was not to use all of one's own psionic power, but to use psionic power to trigger the power of space itself.

In a pretentious way, it was to use one's own power as a medium to harness the power of heaven and earth.

In this way, only a small amount of psionic power was needed to unleash a very powerful move.

In fact, the consumption of Chen Luo's Void Walk could be reduced many times because it also borrowed the power of space itself.

Chen Luo muttered to himself, "If I can succeed, my psionic energy will increase tenfold, and that's a conservative estimate."

But it was a bit difficult. Chen Luo had spent nearly ten years improving Void Walk to achieve its current level.

To master it perfectly by the time the monsters descended seemed unrealistic.

Without any immediate clues, Chen Luo didn't dwell on it and began to think about time.

The time abilities he currently possessed were Time Acceleration and Time Slow.

Time Slow was not the same as Time Reversal.

Like the hands of a clock, even if the speed of the hands slowed down, they would still move forward clockwise, not stop or move counterclockwise.

Time Stop and Time Reversal.

These two were a bit difficult.

But having mastered both Time Acceleration and Time Slow, Chen Luo felt that he should now be able to defeat an Emperor-level being.

Slowing down time for the opponent and accelerating time for himself would make Chen Luo's speed much faster than that of an Emperor-level being.

With speed, Void Walk, and the sharpness of Dimensional Blade, he could theoretically even crush an Emperor-level being.

However, because there was no practical target, he didn't know what the actual effect would be.

Chen Luo decided to put Time Stop and Time Reversal aside for the time being and focus on improving what he had already learned. Perhaps he would gain some insights during the improvement process.

In the blink of an eye, three days had passed.

While Chen Luo was in seclusion, the others were not idle either.

In the days after Chen Luo's crystal recovered, Mili's crystal also recovered. She was absorbing that Light-type King-level crystal, but the speed of absorption was far slower than Chen Luo's.

It took Chen Luo a week, but it would take Mili at least twenty days to absorb a King-level crystal.

With Er Gou's Thunder-type King-level crystal, Fa Wang's advancement to the King-level was only a matter of time.

It remained to be seen who would be faster, him or Mili.

With the crystal, Fa Wang temporarily did not go out, and stayed at home to take care of the children.

Fa Wang knew that once he reached the King-level, he would definitely go out and have fun, so he might as well take advantage of the present time, while the children were still young, to spend more time with them.

A suitable Fire-type King-level crystal was almost enough for the level nine Mi Ling to advance to the King-level.

But the speed could not be faster than Fa Wang and Mili.

Mi Fan's advancement to the King-level was also a matter of time.

Hai Ji ate a piece of shredded meat every day, and her strength was also constantly increasing.

Everyone was getting stronger.

The members' exploration was not going smoothly, not because the creatures on Kangaroo Island were strong.

Mutated creatures were generally around level four, and stronger ones were at level five. What threat could they pose to level seven members?

The problem was that there were too many of them. Just after killing a group of hundreds of wild rabbits, another group would come in the next second.

They would just run into you.

It was like they were lined up to be killed by the members, and they could not be killed completely.

One member said regretfully, "Ah, what plump rabbits, but the meat doesn't taste good."

The plumpness of these wild rabbits was no joke. They could easily reach a weight of seventy to eighty *jin* (approximately 35-40 kg), and those exceeding a hundred *jin* were everywhere.

The number of kangaroos was less than the number of wild rabbits, but their weight was higher and their muscles were more developed.

In the evening, eleven puppies, including Fa Wang, were all staring at Ma Yu cooking with wide eyes.

In the big iron pot, a rabbit that had been cut into sections was being cooked.

The tantalizing aroma of meat wafted through the air.

Ma Yu took a sniff, "It smells so good."

Ma Yu was very excited. After her tireless efforts, it seemed that she had finally reversed the taste of the mutated meat.

She would know for sure when it was completely cooked.

The greatest contributor was the black leaves that Ma Yu had specially gone out to find.

Ma Yu would change the black leaves every two minutes.

Ma Yu had studied it and found that the black leaves could absorb the stench in the mutated meat, but after absorbing a certain amount, they could no longer absorb it, so new black leaves had to be used.

Putting too many black leaves at once would also not work, as the black leaves cooked at high temperatures could not absorb the stench, so they could only be changed every two minutes.

In the pot, there was Ma Yu's own hot pot seasoning, and the red and tempting rabbit meat looked very enticing.

Finally, the rabbit meat was ready.

Ma Yu took a piece first to taste it.

This taste...

The always dignified Ma Yu jumped up excitedly.

"I succeeded."

The puppies barked, *Woof, woof, I want to eat too.*

Ma Yu only cooked thirty *jin* of rabbit meat, which was not enough for the eleven puppies to eat. Fa Wang could only watch, letting the children eat first, secretly drooling.

Even Fa Wang wanted to eat it, which showed how fragrant the rabbit meat was.

Ma Yu then realized that there could be as much rabbit meat as they wanted, but there were not many black leaves, so she had to get the nature-type members to plant them on a large scale.

Once they were planted, the members would all have meat to eat.

The only downside to cooking wild rabbit was that it could not be made with barbecue, but it could be made into jerky for easy carrying.

Even if it was boiled in plain water, it would be a supreme delicacy for others, right?

When Ma Yu told Mi Ling and Mili about it, they immediately agreed that the nature-type members should start planting black leaves on a large scale.

Two-thirds of the members were used to plant black leaves.

...

Wan Jiangui was brought back by Da Zhuang. The fresh meat made all the zombies stare at Wan Jiangui hungrily.

Wan Jiangui shivered.

At night, the zombie horde dispersed.

Little Mantou was secretly staring at Wan Jiangui with wide eyes.

Little Mantou was being controlled by You Li, and You Li and Wan Jiangui were friends with a mental connection, often chatting with each other.

But You Li was too cunning.

Little Mantou slowly approached Wan Jiangui.

Wan Jiangui swallowed and asked, "What are you going to do?"

Little Mantou grinned, "Come on, let's have fun."

If the other party was a normal person, even if they were a bit ugly, Wan Jiangui would have accepted it.

But this was a zombie.

Wan Jiangui resisted desperately.

The commotion was heard by Da Zhuang, who asked, "What are you doing?"

Little Mantou pointed, "He touched me."