The moment that clump of blended Evolutionary Energy and Evolutionary Material entered Su Ze’s body, it gave him a familiar sensation.

It was the exact same feeling as when he absorbed extracts!

’So, did I just absorb a vial of extract?’

’The reward for the fourth trial is a vial of extract?’

’And it’s the kind that’s forcibly absorbed on the spot, with no option to refuse.’

’But... I still have undigested extract in my body!’

’Can I really absorb another vial of extract like this?’

It wasn’t just Su Ze. Among the Trialists present, quite a few had incompletely digested extracts in their bodies. Mr. Ya, for example, had just absorbed a vial of Tier Four extract and hadn’t even had time to digest it.

Normally, it’s impossible to absorb another vial of extract if you have some that’s still undigested.

But the Evolutionary Energy and Material fused directly into Su Ze’s body. He felt his entire body swell, under immense pressure.

The feeling was similar to when he had absorbed the Tier Four S-Class Liquid Turbellaria Extract.

The power that entered him was in the process of remodeling his body.

His physical attributes were also improving at an absurd rate.

A moment later, Su Ze shuddered. The transformation of his body by the Evolutionary Energy stopped, and the improvement of his physical attributes ceased as well.

’This level of physical enhancement is no less than when I absorbed the Liquid Turbellaria Extract. So, this is equivalent to absorbing another vial of a Tier Four S-Class extract!’

Absorbing an extract should grant a new skill. Before Su Ze could check, he suddenly felt a surge of heat, and his physique began to improve rapidly once more.

This was his "Knowledge is Power" skill taking effect, performing Cell Enhancement.

Needless to say, "Knowledge is Power" must have activated Cell Enhancement because it sensed Su Ze had gained a new skill.

After the Cell Enhancement was complete, Su Ze carefully assessed his condition and confirmed that he had indeed gained another new skill.

’It just shoves it into your body whether you want it or not... I have to say, this reward is really forceful.’

’If a Trialist at the Peak of Butterfly Transformation Stage made it this far, I wonder what the reward would be. After all, evolvers at that peak no longer have any empty skill slots.’

However, Su Ze’s question was destined to go unanswered, because among all thirteen Trialists, not a single one had absorbed the full three vials of Tier Four extracts.

Su Ze reined in his thoughts and focused his attention on the new skill he had just acquired.

This skill had appeared directly within Su Ze’s body, skipping the usual skill-selection phase that came with absorbing extracts.

Fortunately, however, this skill was a perfect fit for Su Ze.

The skill was the very same punching ability the Kangaroo Beast had used earlier. It was simple, brutal, and powerful—a choice that could never be wrong for a melee-type evolver.

Su Ze had been thinking about adding a powerful output skill during his Butterfly Stage, and now he had one.

Su Ze decided to name this skill "The Strongest Punch."

The reason for this name wasn’t that Su Ze was having a bout of eighth-grade syndrome, but because of the skill’s effect—to deliver the strongest punch.

This "strongest," of course, didn’t mean the strongest in the world, but rather the user’s "strongest punch."

The Strongest Punch: Allows the user to select and integrate the traits of three other mastered skills to deliver the strongest punch.

Simply put, Su Ze could choose three of his other mastered skills and fuse their effects into "The Strongest Punch" in a relatively logical manner.

For example, if Su Ze chose the three skills "Ant Power," "Needle Strike," and "Thunder God Body," then even without activating the "Ant Power" skill, a blow from "The Strongest Punch" would carry the strength bonus and "Crushing" trait of "Ant Power."

It would also simultaneously carry the piercing trait, explosive effect, and Plague Poison of "Needle Strike," as well as the electric shock effect of the "Thunder God Body."

The power unleashed by such a punch would absolutely be Su Ze’s current strongest attack, so calling it "The Strongest Punch" was very reasonable.

It was equivalent to unleashing a full skill combination with a single punch.

The skill’s ceiling was very high, but its actual power depended on how well his other mastered skills could be integrated with it; not every skill could be fused into "The Strongest Punch."

For instance, the Flying Skill, as well as Su Ze’s "Regeneration Body" and "Knowledge is Power" skills, could not be integrated.

Generally speaking, Output Skills were easier to fuse.

"This skill is pretty good!"

Su Ze was quite satisfied with this new skill. Its power lay in the fact that the stronger his other Output Skills became, the stronger "The Strongest Punch" would become. No matter how his skills were upgraded or replaced, it would forever remain his most powerful output skill.

Because it stood on the shoulders of giants—three giants, at that.

Su Ze then recalled the series of tests conducted at the beginning of the fourth trial. He now understood that those tests were meant to analyze everyone’s skill combinations and assign them the most suitable skills.

Su Ze was a melee-type evolver focused on output, so he was assigned a powerful melee output skill.

As long as the other Trialists defeated the beasts they faced and completed the fourth trial, they should also receive skills that were highly suitable for them.

Mr. Ya, for example, would surely receive another life-saving skill.

The skill was great, but the side effects of having the undigested Evolutionary Material from two vials of Tier Four S-Class extracts accumulating in his body were beginning to show.

He felt as if two forces were using his body as a battlefield, probing each other and engaging in small-scale conflicts, with a major battle liable to break out at any moment.

Just then, streams of blue energy suddenly surged from the ground beneath his feet, completely enveloping Su Ze.

Afterward, Su Ze felt his heart begin to race, his blood flow accelerate, his breathing quicken, and his metabolism increase by an unknown number of times!

He had a similar sensation before, back when he had consumed the "Acceleration Fruit" to speed up the digestion of an extract by accelerating his body’s metabolism.

He was now in this "accelerated" state again, but the effect was hundreds of times better than the Acceleration Fruit.

Su Ze didn’t even need to perform the Swan Dance; the Evolutionary Material in his body began to digest on its own at a rapid pace.

He "looked inward" for a moment and discovered that the Evolutionary Material being digested was from the Purple-skinned Kangaroo Extract. As for the previously accumulated Evolutionary Material from the Liquid Turbellaria Extract, it remained completely inert.

’The fourth trial doesn’t just reward you with an extract, it even helps you digest it completely?’

’How thoughtful!’

The reward from this fourth trial alone not only saved Su Ze a vial of Tier Four S-Class extract but also several months of time!

Previously, Su Ze had some negative suspicions about the creator of the Divine Dice, feeling that it wasn’t friendly toward humanity.

Lin Hua Country had always called for humanity to reduce internal conflict, yet after entering the Divine Dice, human geniuses were constantly killing each other. Over sixty elite human Butterfly Stage evolvers were thrown in, facing constant elimination and competition, as if they were raising Gu.

And now, upon entering the fourth trial, the Divine Dice had given such a generous reward. This made Su Ze change his opinion of the Divine Dice... He was no longer just suspicious; he was now certain that there was something wrong with it!

’What kind of saint was the creator of the Divine Dice? To just hand out all sorts of rewards for free? Giving out an extract was one thing, but they were also afraid the skills wouldn’t be suitable, so they picked the most appropriate ones for everyone, and then even helped digest the extract?’

’Even if they wanted to give a reward, couldn’t they just toss us a vial of extract and be done with it?’

It would only make sense if the creator of the Divine Dice was also a human predecessor, a high-level human evolver, a god-tier expert, to harbor such immense goodwill toward humanity.

But for one, no human that powerful had emerged since the Era of Evolution began on Blue Star. Even the strongest, Lin Hua’s Legend, didn’t seem to possess the ability to create the Divine Dice.

And for another, throughout his journey, Su Ze hadn’t seen a single trace of anything related to humans in any of the trial stages.

He had only seen Crystal People, Purple-skinned People, and all sorts of beasts unheard of on Blue Star, but there was no sign of any humans.

Regarding the Divine Dice, some believed it was not something Blue Star’s civilization could have created, but that it came from the distant Cosmic Starry Sky.

Now, Su Ze was also inclined to agree with this speculation.

Since life in this world could evolve, the existence of other life in the universe wasn’t that difficult to accept.

Judging from the content of the first few trials, the creator of the Divine Dice seemed to really hate the "Crystal People." Whenever the Crystal People appeared in a trial, they were always targets to be defeated and killed.

This was especially true in the third trial, where Su Ze became part of the Purple-skinned People’s army to slaughter the army of Crystal People... From this, it wasn’t hard to see that the creator of the Divine Dice identified with the Purple-skinned People and was hostile toward the Crystal People.

Su Ze even guessed that the Divine Dice was created by the Purple-skinned People, or at least by someone with close ties to them.

If the Divine Dice really did come from the Cosmic Starry Sky, then the Purple-skinned People and the Crystal People might both be actual, existing alien life forms.

...

No matter what suspicions Su Ze had about the Divine Dice, and regardless of whether there was truly something wrong with it, he was definitely going to take the benefits being offered.

Perhaps every gift from fate has its price secretly marked, but that was a matter for the future.

Since others had taken benefits from the Divine Dice and left, Su Ze felt that he could too.

He sat quietly cross-legged, surrounded by the blue energy, allowing the Purple-skinned Kangaroo Extract in his body to digest at an astonishing speed.

At this rate, it would probably only take a few hours for him to completely digest the Purple-skinned Kangaroo Extract.

During this period, however, Su Ze couldn’t do anything or go anywhere. He could only remain obediently within the small area enveloped by the blue energy.

Since his body couldn’t move, he could only use his mind to pass the boring time.

Aliens and the like were too distant a concept for Su Ze, so he didn’t dwell on it.

He thought about what Mr. Ya had said—about the living beast beneath their feet.

Su Ze had a bold idea!

’All beasts can have extracts drawn from them, right?’