Starting with Growing Mushrooms

Chapter 715 - 570: Ascending and Returning

Watching Fortuna happily delve into her studies, Liu Jun sat cross-legged, beginning to restore his cultivation.This cost was heavy, to say the least.

Material is conserved; energy doesn’t appear out of thin air.

His original body has already fallen, transformed into a batch of Divine Objects.

Even now, coming back from death, Liu Jun lacks combat strength; all his essence has become that batch of Divine Objects.

It’s akin to the reset and rebuilding of levels seen in the rebirth of novel protagonists.

Normally, one might have to start from tier 0, beginning the road of cultivation anew, breaking through each realm!

But Liu Jun is different.

He begins his second bug exploit.

"Time Reversal..."

In the next moment, the time around Liu Jun begins to flow backward, rearranging his timeline, restoring the state before his death.

Low Time.

Mid Time.

High Immortal.

Terminal Destiny.

Deploying Destiny Divine Power, mastering time!

In an instant, four Divine Objects converged into an astonishing term.

[Proven Eternal]: If life is a film of ups and downs, you can freely slide the progress bar back to a period you desire.

Extending his hand.

Swish—

He begins to manipulate the track of his life, revealing a life curve in his eyes.

Childhood, youth, mature age... various shadows of himself slowly emerge.

He pulls the progress bar inch by inch... rapidly restoring to the peak moment of his life.

Here he stood before the figure of himself at the breakthrough of Tier Ten Peak.

Selected!

Cultivation, realm, began to refill his empty body...

However, energy is ultimately conserved.

Liu Jun’s body now is hollow, he needs to absorb enough energy to fully restore his complete realm.

And his original energy level is incredibly monstrous, thousands of times that of other strong ones at the same level.

It will likely take a considerably long period to restore the depleted body.

"I’ll have to consume Chaos."

"Luckily, Chaos is originally a high-energy aggregate."

Liu Jun repeatedly cleaves through Chaos, savoring it slowly,

"The energy of the Sea of Chaos is virtually endless..."

"Why are there so many Divine Objects here? Because there are many strong ones, where do these strong ones get their cultivating resources from? Eating the cleaved seawater."

"Life here originates from the seawater, and also returns to the seawater."

Sighing softly, Liu Jun silently started estimating his body.

Restoring to the peak, it seems it will take quite a long time.

Estimated to be ten hours.

This is considerably longer compared to after his previous battle with Bal, where his body almost drained dry, yet required only ten minutes to recover from the deficit!

Fortunately, he is a tank-type God.

His various recovery Divine Powers are maxed out, recovering health by percentage.

If it were any other god, it would have to be done step by step.

With a sigh of emotion, Liu Jun didn’t waste time; alongside restoring cultivation, he began researching these cells,

"It’s a pity, the cooldown for high destiny resurrection has intervals, otherwise I would slaughter myself as breeding stock."

However, both he and Fortuna have resurrection cooldowns, so Fortuna’s side could open another production line.

Utilizing the resurrection mechanism, they can periodically blow out the fallen equipment on themselves.

In the ageless deep sea.

Ten years later.

Finally approached his mental limit of boredom and tediousness, Liu Jun finally completed the last experiment.

During this period, he committed suicide three more times.

Utilizing the resurrection countdown center for himself and Fortuna, they managed to create a series of four cellular Divine Objects.

"A total of 450 cells, three control groups, the research of anticipated outcomes is nearly completed."

Fortuna bent down and observed the various seaweeds and plankton in their zoo,

"We have to leave you."

These plankton achieved a ten-year-old intelligence by forming their Divine Object bodies through consuming waste.

"No!"

"God, we cannot bear to part with you..."

"Loneliness, loneliness..."

The kids chattered away.

Fortuna also developed some emotional ties during their constant companionship, but she pined more for the prosperous world on the coast,

"Next up, you’ll be the first batch of ocean life."

"Go dive, go seek, go grow strong..."

"The infinite deep sea, ten million meters, a billion meters, even a light-year... theoretically, no depth can hinder you."

"The ocean is your new home; you will be the ancestors of an ocean civilization, the beginning of a great era!"

Fortuna said with a smile.

She strongly believed these lives would be a new kind of diving robot, equipped with an evolution mechanism, and even already capable of self-reproduction.

As long as there are tier nine beings continually falling, laying fish eggs on the sea surface...

They will crazily expand their population!

Time will provide the answers.

In the past, why did Akusu, despite the passage of countless ages, still show no progress?

Because a five-year-old impulsive child could never study himself?

He was so irritable that he couldn’t advance civilization at all.

But these fish, already endowed with mature wisdom, will continually evolve their civilization, possessing infinite possibilities.

"Go, the deep sea is your true haven." Fortuna sighed softly.

"Let’s go."

God turned around and quietly left, showing no sign of reluctance.

He had seen too many mortals, strong men, and geniuses over the years.

Merely one of the specks of dust in history, and now it should be no different.

"Yes!" Fortuna waved goodbye to these first-generation sea creatures and turned to leave.

They began to ascend steadily.

Ascending requires repeated decompressions and is a very time-consuming task.

Having bid farewell to those divine objects of the sea and moved some distance away, Fortuna suddenly said, "Come to think of it, on this trip, we seem to have created something extraordinary."

"We were supposed to explore the ruins of the Akusu civilization, but we ended up creating an upscale mastermind, an evolved version of Akusu..."

"In the future, it might really turn out the way Akusu depicted it, with the ocean floor becoming a grand era for marine life, keeping the upper-layer civilized beings in captivity?"

Fortuna pondered such a future, hesitating as she spoke:

"Do you think that in the future, these ancestors of the fish will remember us, will they remember our kindness?"

"Who knows?" God said calmly.

"If they don’t remember, would they turn against us and kill us?"

Because of creating them, Fortuna deeply understood how terrifying this deep-sea fish species was.

Their potential is limitless!

Combining various trash divine objects, continually evolving... Who knows what new forms of life they might become?

Moreover, they have the ability to explore the deep sea, who knows what’s in the deep sea?

Many people speculate.

The breakthrough to the eleventh tier lies in the inconceivably high water pressures deeper in the lightyears scale!

This group of fish might dive into the endless deep sea, and the next time they meet, they could have already become the legendary eleventh tier.

Then.

Would we still be a match for them?

Fortuna felt that with this ocean adventure, bizarre and eccentric, "Perhaps we did create a monster, aren’t you afraid, God?"

"I hope they grow stronger."

God responded softly, "If they have the ability to threaten me in the future, let them show me."

Fortuna asked, "How long do you think it would take?"

"I don’t know."

God pondered and answered:

"Time in the ocean is distorted, chaos is unquantifiable... The deeper the pressure, the more distorted time, space, and all things become."

"The chaos distortion is more terrifying than a black hole."

"Our time scales are different, if it’s faster, perhaps we haven’t even surfaced... while they have already completed an oceanic creature explosion several lightyears deep in the ocean."

"And then, swiftly surpassing us with incredible diving speed, intercepting us as we ascend."

"Can such a thing happen?" Fortuna rubbed her temples.

"Nature, infinite possibilities."

God said no more, quickly diving up, "Even if we are the gods, we are merely spokespeople for one of the powers of nature."

The next ascent, 1.2 million meters, would normally take twenty to thirty years of decompression for a strong individual.

But Liu Jun is different; with the help of immortality and rebirth, he locked in the state... swiftly adapted to the water pressure, significantly reducing the ascent time.

If it weren’t for Fortuna’s realm only having reached tier ten, seventh layer, and needing to take care of her frail body like that of a mortal, the ascent would have been faster.

"Oh, my body is too weak." Fortuna realized her shortcomings here, as the side effects of destiny left her nearly powerless in battle.

A year later.

Liu Jun and others successfully ascended to the 50,000-meter mark.

This made Liu Jun completely relieved, diving truly drains one’s mental strength.

And for these civilizations, a large-scale deep dive could take decades, which truly gives one a headache.

In the short term, Liu Jun absolutely didn’t want to dive again.

Physiological aversion.

However, as they were planning to ascend, they saw a great city floating in this sea region, the city’s majestic edifice was surrounded by a protective shield isolating the surrounding seawater.

Fortuna was surprised and delighted, "Hahaha, during the decades we were away, our 50,000-meter grand city has already been built?"

It seemed that many people had gathered here, establishing an underwater city.

Centered around this city, many divers appeared, floating everywhere, exploring, showing a lively scene.

Soon.

Liu Jun and Fortuna entered the city.

There were no guards stopping them; instead, strong figures associated with the Twelve Constellations, the Twelve Zodiac were coming out, looking radiant.

Clearly, over the years, they made the most of name-dropping the gods to grow stronger and had already become major players.

The leading Rabbit had already achieved tier ten, sixth layer strength.

It showed how much trash he had been eating over the years and had probably hired some strong individuals to dive down for training.

"Master, you have returned." As they were escorted, Liu Jun arrived in the city.

"What has happened over the years?" Just after sitting down, Liu Jun asked directly.