I became a god by treasure hunting after arriving 500 years early

He touched it with his fingertip.

A cold force transferred to his body.

It was just for a moment, but Lu Yuan's heart experienced a severe, wrenching pain, and his blood almost boiled.

"Damn it, is a [Ghost] drawing my blood?!"

"No good, I can't put it into the Storage Space." His heart was struck with terror, a fear surged up from the base of his spine. Just having been resurrected, was he about to die again?

The Extraordinary Spark flickered suddenly.

It was only then that Lu Yuan broke free from this force and escaped the predicament.

He immediately threw the ball of resin back onto the ground.

"Damn it, this thing already shows signs of breaking its seal." Lu Yuan rubbed the red patch on his palm as big drops of sweat rolled down his cheeks.

It was just from that fleeting moment, yet his arm felt as if it had been scalded by boiling water.

Many capillaries ruptured, and streams of fresh blood seeped from his pores.

"Moreover, its ability appears to be related to blood. It consumed my blood and is extremely sensitive to me, which makes this very troublesome."

In the past, to combat the spiritual attack of the [Monster], he had embedded the resin into his body, and indeed there were consequences.

He just didn't know how severe these consequences were.

[Ghost] is really too powerful, a drop of blood that hasn't even broken the seal almost killed him.

Lu Yuan felt a deep wariness, and he had no desire to confront [Ghost] head-on.

"Should I just find some place to bury it? It surely won't come after me, right?"

"Rather than hoping for fortune, better to trust oneself, get a Black Iron Box, and lock it up for now," Old Cat said. "You have to know, this thing in its sealed state is very valuable. Any sealed anomaly is worth more than you can imagine."

"Sigh, that's also true." Lu Yuan sighed helplessly.

There are [Demons] ahead, [Ghosts] behind.

And in the middle, a [Monster] died.

But Lu Yuan felt like a dead pig not afraid of boiling water.

From the Storage Space, he took out the Black Iron Box.

With chopsticks, he picked up the resin... as long as he didn't touch it with his flesh, there seemed to be no big problem.

Covered the lid.

That cold force could still penetrate it.

After nesting several Black Iron Boxes, he finally couldn't feel that extremely sinister presence anymore.

"Temporary measure for now..."

Lu Yuan mocked himself: "In the future, I'll be a walking nuclear bomb, anyone who dares attack me will break the [Demon], the [Ghost] seals and trigger a world-level disaster."

"You'd better find some sealing material stronger than Black Iron," Old Cat suggested.

"If only I could find it, my dear Cat lord."

Afterward, Lu Yuan assembled a new body for Old Cat.

The new body was even worse than the old one, making "creak creak" noises whenever it moved.

But there was no helping it, the conditions weren't great, so it had to do.

...

Apart from that small incident with the resin sealed with [Ghost] blood, the rewards this time truly satisfied Lu Yuan.

Here, he enjoyed the first great meal of his life: Golden Spicy Chicken with Grilled Corn Burger.

The environment in the Sky Pit was quite wonderful, the surroundings lush and full of life, and looking up at the sky from the bottom of the pit offered a unique experience like observing the sun at midday, giving one a sense of nature's splendor and wonder.

With his new body, Old Cat started tinkering with his radio device: "The Rize people have been transmitting electromagnetic waves for a while now."

Lu Yuan began to study the ancient architecture in the Sky Pit.

Yes, there was a piece of ancient architecture here... During the fight with the [Monster], he had already noticed it, but at that time, there was no time to investigate.

The ancient city walls, the decayed pillars, at the end of time, were completely forgotten.

The thick moss, the perennial humidity, had nearly buried everything.

With every stone turned over, the smell of rot and mold could be detected.

"It's really too old, much older than the Meida Civilization... Perhaps tens of thousands of years, or even over a hundred thousand years old, when humans might have still been in the Old Stone Age?" Lu Yuan rummaged through the rubble for a while.

The powerful technological civilization, and the weakest primitive civilization, share the same method of data preservation in the face of time: stone carvings.

If you want to preserve data for one hundred million, or even ten billion years, the simplest and most reliable way is carving, and then sending those carvings into space...

Under the guidance of the Explorer's Eye, Lu Yuan, after much effort and hardship, uncovered a wall plated with gold, which was pitted likely due to impurities in the gold.

He then took a brush made of wolf hair and scrubbed off all the mud before he saw the patterns beneath.

A human-shaped creature was fighting with an eyeball.

This eyeball must be the true form of the [Monster], ferocious and bizarre.

And this human-shaped creature, likely a hero from that unknown civilization, had many eyes on his body but still maintained his self.

Lu Yuan didn't quite understand just how many levels he had...

"Can't you stop thinking about levels all day." Old Cat said, "I don't remember there being anything about levels before."

Moreover, the [Monster] from that time was much stronger than it is now, with just its size being more than ten times larger than the human-shaped creature.

"Could it be that the [Monster] from that time was in its mature phase? Are the current [Monsters] still in their juvenile phase?" Lu Yuan stroked his chin.

But no matter what, this painting was drawn just like that.

The second painting was even more bloody, depicting many creatures from Alien civilizations, scenes of decapitations and rivers of blood... The true form of the [Monster] was placed right in the center, the scene resembling a large-scale heretical sacrificial ritual.

Lu Yuan had no idea what the painter was trying to express, was it just for the sake of killing?

"It might be... the ability to control..." Old Cat, touched by the scene, let out a thought as those Cat's Eye Stones stared at the mural.

"What do you mean?"

"Lu Yuan, you're indeed powerful, but think about it, how did other civilizations survive when faced with anomalies? Some Divine Skills are stronger and more domineering than you imagine."

"Their existence protected many civilizations."

"That includes the ability to 'control'."

It went silent in the Sky Pit.

Lu Yuan suddenly thought of something, "It requires a price to be paid, right? Just like that Governor from the Rize Civilization, who with foreknowledge, had to pay with his life force... the ability to control..."

"Exactly." Old Cat said, "Anomalies use abilities without a price. But intelligent life, the more domineering the ability used, the more extra price needs to be paid."

"The Extraordinary Spark's ability does not exist in every Epoch... I even feel that the previous Epochs might not have had an Extraordinary Spark."

Old Cat explained, "It was only after contacting you that I obtained knowledge of the Extraordinary Spark. In the original database, there isn't a single fragment of memory related to it."

"So you're saying that, as long as one possesses the ability to control, it's possible to enslave this [Monster] in return?" Lu Yuan was shocked, were the powerhouses of previous Epochs so ruthless?

In that case, isn't the Extraordinary Spark of the Ninth Epoch nothing more than the lowest tier?

"That's not the way to put it, the Extraordinary Spark not only doesn't require a price to be paid, but it also enhances your personal attributes, I think it's a very good ability."

"Look at the mural, this heavy price, can you afford it?" Old Cat raised its paw, pointing to the pile of Alien creatures, the scene of heads rolling on the ground.

"Enough blood? Would pig's blood work?" Lu Yuan's imagination ran wild, "It's the era of technology after all, running a pig farm, culling a million pigs a year."

Old Cat shrugged and muttered, "All beings are born with a spirit, which can be replaced by another term, divine."

"Creatures that don't meet the divine attribute standards are like making a nuclear bomb with a bit of dirt mixed in, tell me if that works."

"Of course, if you cull a million Rize people a year, I think that would work."