Above The Sky
Chapter 144 - 144 133 Origin Structure Transfer 33

144: Chapter 133 Origin Structure Transfer (3/3) 144: Chapter 133 Origin Structure Transfer (3/3) The first time I saw the silver light flashing in Hiliard’s eyes was, I think, two years ago.

It was the day my Foresight View went out of control, and I felt as if I were truly prophesying the future.

That day, my master immediately realized something was wrong with me and quickly returned home to adjust the Primordial Essence within me, ensuring I awoke at the earliest possible moment.

Back then, I, Ian, had no particular feelings about it because I was completely absorbed in the grand Prophecy, lost in an uncontrollable wander and confusion.

But my memory of the second and third times is much clearer.

The second and third times, if I recall correctly, both occurred on the day I consumed the Primordial Essence and truly became a Sand Armor Apprentice.

Hiliard’s eyes were flashing with a silver halo as if he was searching for something on Sigh Cliff, while I, using Foresight View, found the central balance point of the Spirit Energy Field, like the eye of a hurricane.

I believed that even if I didn’t help, Hiliard would definitely be able to find it…

But on the other hand, my master, whose strength had severely declined at that time, should not have been capable of observing the entire Spirit Energy Field of Sigh Cliff and finding that balance point.

In this case, it could be called ‘experience’—even without his strength, Hiliard still had the vision of someone from the Fifth Energy Level, perhaps he could find the point simply based on experience and instinct.

However, the third time, when Hiliard used the power of the Spirit Energy Field to refine the Sand Armor Apprentice Magic Potion, the skills he displayed were nothing short of those of an Alchemy Master, certainly not something a Knight was supposed to be capable of.

Uninstrumented Refinement…

an act that requires more than just the ability to manipulate Primordial Essence, but also extreme familiarity with the composition and materials of Alchemical Potions and Magic Potions.

Otherwise, even a slight mistake could completely ruin the entire concoction.

Hiliard did not have that level of Alchemy skills, and he certainly wouldn’t joke with Ian’s Magic Potion— in other words, he did this because, apart from truly having no instruments and no other choice, he had absolute confidence.

Now, the question arises, where did Hiliard’s confidence come from?

The original Ian didn’t care about this and was indifferent to the answer.

But now, it seems the answer is almost within reach.

The legacy of Inega II…

the most precious treasure in this world.

The Silver Chip that has merged with me…

“So that’s it…

It was the chip that enhanced the master’s observational abilities and provided the data on Alchemy and Magic Potions, guiding him…”

After a whole afternoon of testing and research, Ian generally understood the effects of the Silver Chip.

Whenever I wanted to know something, it would display various observational data, some of which were results of my own observation and knowledge in my memory, and some I did not know, but the chip still displayed complete information.

It seems the chip came with its own information archive, not comprehensive or detailed, but still encyclopedic, like the information on Unicorn Deer and the wetland seagulls.

It’s not totally true to say I didn’t know those basics, but I was indeed unaware that the antlers of the Unicorn Deer are not combat tools for competing for mates but rather a kind of hollow sonar receiver, and I also didn’t know that one of the migration sites for the seagulls near my home was actually the Northwest Tundra.

That’s half a continent away!

In any case, this information is enough to give me a deeper understanding of all aspects of Terra Continent.

Besides, I could observe scattered information like wind speed, light levels, humidity, temperature, and more in the environment around me.

But strangely, when I focused on myself, the chip did not provide any analysis of my physical condition.

Theoretically, the chip should have done so, since the first thing it did when it connected to my nerves was to check my physical condition, but it did not offer attributes like strength X, endurance X, perception X.

In contrast, it faithfully displayed a series of rather strange messages.

[Terra Star bilateral symmetrical carbon-based Sublimation life form (a variety of Chalk People)]

[First Power Level·Juvenile Form·Excellent·Innate Intelligent Organism·Main Intelligent Organism of the Starfield·Spirit Energy Awakening individual]

[Body material…

Sublimation changes…

Metal-based transformation into Sublimation in progress]

[Strength Level: Ordinary]

[Contained Primordial Essence: 375.9617 basic units]

[…]

Strength Level is a curious standard, one that I also saw in the descriptions of other objects, most of which did not surpass Ordinary but were ‘waiting’.

Yes, ‘waiting.’

Why does “ordinary” lie below waiting?

It’s completely unclear, but the highest strength level item in Ian’s possession is undoubtedly the Heavy Abyss Iron Sword left by Hilliard.

Its strength level is ‘keystone’.

Ian didn’t bother trying to understand what keystone standard was, as it was clearly a rating system he didn’t comprehend, but as long as there was a way to differentiate between higher and lower rankings, that was enough.

It was merely a matter of using different terms, which he didn’t care about.

What he was more concerned about was the scale of the contained primordial essence.

Based on the primordial essence contained in the dried deer meat, roughly six or seven hundred pounds of venison equated to one basic unit of primordial essence, valued at around a dozen or so Talle.

And a Sublimation material of the pale blue mist level was worth seventy to eighty Talle, possibly more expensive, depending primarily on where it came from and which creature it originated from.

Although this comparison between the two was fundamentally incorrect, Ian could roughly gauge that the basic unit of primordial essence contained in the pale blue material was at the very least in the range of 7 to 15.

Taking the median of 11 made the calculation much easier.

“In ordinary creatures, the primordial essence is counted in ten thousandths, thousandths, but the weakest Sublimation materials possess 10, tens of thousands of times more than ordinary creatures.”

In Ian’s eyes, the glow of spirit energy flickered like fireflies as he pondered, “Of course, this is just a ratio I’ve forcibly calculated using Foresight View.

Not to mention that both unicorn deer and seagulls are mid-tier consumers in the food chain; humans, as top predators, definitely accumulate more primordial essence than these herbivores and avians.”

“Grasses, sheep, and grains that are specially cultivated by humans are certainly not inferior to the vast majority of their wild counterparts in terms of primordial essence.

Only dominant magical beasts and strong entities, such as the wild Bison Giant Cow, may possess a significant amount of primordial essence.”

“I’ve come to understand why the Path of Sublimation is so difficult to tread—apart from the energy provided by food, the accumulation of primordial essence is also a major challenge.”

It’s not about nutritional value or energy.

The meat of the Reef-eater Otter has its advantages in this respect, but it can’t completely overshadow ordinary beef or mutton; what’s really important is the thousands of times more primordial essence accumulated compared to ordinary creatures, and in the case of Sublimation materials, it could even reach tens of thousands of times more.

If it’s just about replenishing primordial essence, Sublimators with a Primordial Seed can easily extract it from ordinary food—but if one wishes to rapidly accumulate a large amount of primordial essence sufficient to shape a Sublimation organ, demonic beast materials are the clear choice.

The entire afternoon, Ian spent in the marketplace, purchasing a large amount of high-quality food through the different observations provided by switching between spirit energy and the Silver Chip.

The effectiveness of Foresight View and the Silver Chip in determining whether an object was rare overlapped perfectly, but Foresight View could not provide more detailed information and explanations, whereas the Silver Chip couldn’t foresee future trends.

The effects of both overlapped, but they could complement each other, with distinct core functions.

After buying the food and returning home, Ian could sense that the Silver Chip had fully coexisted with him—the chip was connected to his entire nervous system and obeyed signals from his brain.

He even found an ‘uninstall’ button, which was probably why Hilliard was able to receive the legacy from the Emperor and then transfer it to Ian.

Incidentally, the ‘uninstall’ button was labeled in two languages, and there was a warning beside it indicating that pressing ‘confirm’ a second time was necessary to uninstall it.

Under the scan of the Silver Chip, Ian also found the Heart Core information left by Hilliard.

It was an ‘Authority’ level active metallic core, currently in a dormant state due to lack of primordial essence, but even so, over five hundred units of baseline primordial essence still remained in the Heart Core, more than all the primordial essence in Ian’s body at the moment.

Of course, this was also because Ian had just finished a fight to the death and had not replenished his primordial essence.

But the disparity was evident.

If it weren’t for Hilliard’s own physical strength, the modified muscles and bones that required a tremendous amount of primordial essence support, just a normal old man would be able to live quite a long time on that amount of essence.

The effect of the Ancient Dragon Heart Core was not currently noticeable, as it was still asleep without sufficient primordial essence; even at the First Energy Level, Ian was unable to activate it.

Yet even so, the youth could still utilize some of its traits—when Ian’s own primordial essence storage reached its limit, he could transfer his essence to the Heart Core…

It was a super-gigantic primordial essence storage organ; to the First Energy Level, its storage capacity was almost infinite.

Besides that, while investigating the Ancient Dragon Heart Core, Ian also noticed that the Silver Chip needed energy to function.

It used primordial essence as fuel, consuming about 0.7 basic units in half a day—not much, but certainly not insignificant, a burden only Sublimators could bear, and most Sublimators would be spending more than they could afford.

And the Silver Chip drew its energy from the Ancient Dragon Heart Core, Ian’s largest primordial essence reservoir within his body.

Because Ian used Foresight View to inspect his own body and discovered the Ancient Dragon Heart Core, which had not yet fully merged with his own body and could be considered an external Sublimation organ, he was able to find this out.

Also, precisely because of this, Ian noticed another effect of the Silver Chip.

Perhaps it was the most important effect.

In the youth’s vision, the origin structure within the Ancient Dragon Heart Core was slowly spreading along an invisible pathway, proliferating and evolving.

But upon closer inspection, it became evident that the imprinting and transfer of the origin structures were based on a faint rainbow-colored band of light!

“It can transfer, carry origin structures?!”