This is really not mechanical ascension Chapter 1348 - 690: Signs of Disturbance in the Sea of Stars

"Phew..." Li Ming exhaled a breath mixed with highly compressed energy fragnts, crackling in front of his eyes as it gradually dissipated.

Slowly opening his eyes, the energy particles surging on the surface of his skin gradually subsided, and feeling the power within his body, he couldn’t help but sigh, "Two years have passed, and the developnt progress has finally reached 30%."

He stood up and stretched his limbs, hearing a crackling sound from within, feeling the changes in his body, as the energy level skyrocketed from 20X at the ti of his evolution to 70X.

The Taigos Gene Seed, focused on physical enhancent. Every 1% progress brings a 1.5X energy level increase.

Just reaching the 30% milestone, no peculiar genetic abilities were born, but there was a slight enhancent to the body’s waves.

The improvent in strength brought him joy, and after a brief adaptation, he switched to the Eternal Abyss Mark for the first ti to gauge the activity of the Eternal Abyss.

During the continuous developnt of the genetic seed, only this and absorbing tal energy allowed him to detach himself from it.

He observed once a month to ensure the activity progress of the Eternal Abyss was always under his control.

But this ti...

As soon as Li Ming activated his ability, he felt sothing was wrong. Although the activity was still "slight," it had slightly increased compared to a month ago.

This change was far from turning the activity from "slight" to "weak," but it was a tangible increase.

"Why did the activity suddenly increase?"

Even if it was just a tiny bit, Li Ming was extrely vigilant about it, his brows furrowed.

He imdiately opened his smart terminal, first glancing at the Interstellar Network; the usual peace prevailed, and the trending headline was--

"A visit to the chanical Court, the core base of the universe’s only Ultimate Life Form."

It was a video released by "Chief Dragonblower."

He then opened the push notifications from the Black Hole Network, where all sorts of bizarre information flooded in, but none had any significant impact.

The lack of findings on both the Interstellar Network and Black Hole Network only deepened Li Ming’s frown.

The slight increase in activity seed insignificant, but when Adam was born and when he fought with Adam, the increase was perhaps only slightly more than this ti.

It was hard for such changes to go unnoticed in the interstellar space.

Thinking of this, he opened another custom-made software, and imdiately, a large amount of intelligence information popped up, waiting for examination.

Apart from the Interstellar Network and Black Hole Network, these overt information channels,

the information channels under his control now included the chanical Court, the High-level Life Form Union, the Empire’s intelligence organization, and the chanic Association, among others...

The intelligence collected daily was extrely vast and required multiple screenings; this software was specifically for receiving screened intelligence.

"The Federation is secretly selecting many citizens who have considerable potential and value in various fields."

"The Star Alliance Council is attempting to impeach Antigo, believing his attitude towards external affairs is too weak."

"..."

If these ssages were to spread, they would undoubtedly cause significant tremors, but clearly wouldn’t cause the Eternal Abyss’s activity increase.

"If it’s not on the open interstellar stage, then it must be in the shadows..." Li Ming’s expression flickered, "Perhaps the Eternal Abyss is actively stirring up things to expand its activity."

The three recorders were still in the chanical Court, where they had docunted everything they knew, and Li Ming had carefully reviewed it.

There was no description to prove that the Eternal Abyss had ever actively increased its activity; it mostly increased passively through events happening in the Main Universe.

But Li Ming believed that the Eternal Abyss must have this ability.

"However, the universe is so vast, unless there’s a specific event to guide it, otherwise..." Li Ming couldn’t help but feel a headache.

The trouble lay in the fact that the interstellar space was too large; perhaps there really were clues collected, yet they were discarded through layer upon layer of filtering chanisms.

Even though his filtering chanism had been ticulously adjusted and was managed by the Vermilion Bird, this problem was unavoidable.

After all, in the intelligence manifestation, related clues could very well be just a void fluctuation, a burst of energy, and no matter how intelligent the Vermilion Bird was, it couldn’t connect with the Eternal Abyss.

"But, it still needs to be found..." Li Ming’s eyes flickered as he began issuing instructions through various channels. The current intelligence collection and summary were in a passive state.

Once subjective initiative was brought into play, it would be another scene entirely.

Yet, the specific instructions on paper made him sowhat at a loss, as he couldn’t simply say, look for anything related to the Eternal Abyss.

The grassroots workers probably didn’t even know about the situation of the Eternal Abyss, and the induced impact could be enormous.

With brows furrowed, after much contemplation, he could only condense it into six words, "Look for anything unusual."

...

In the Sea of Stars, the Nelrost Civilization was a civilization discovered and incorporated into the interstellar map just over a hundred years ago.

It had not chosen to integrate with the interstellar, opting for a closed managent of its internal affairs, with over 95% of its citizens not even understanding the term "interstellar."

The boundary of the Sea of Stars has been expanding; there are many such civilizations, but Nelrost is sowhat different.

Because its coverage area includes six star clusters, possessing dostic X Level Life Forms, the strength is formidable.

When first discovered, there was even an intention to confront the Star Alliance, but upon realizing the absolute strength disparity, they could only obediently join.

Having joined for a short ti and being externally closed with relatively strong power,

this made the Nelrost civilization have a small reputation within the Sea of Stars, and many people wanted to explore its unique internal culture and hidden secrets.