Chapter 2203: Allspark

Zhao Hai couldn’t help but stare when he saw the item that the cultivator took out. In his hand was a black rock. It didn’t look anything special. It was like any other rock picked up on the side of the road.

Seeing Zhao Hai’s confused expression, the cultivator looked around and said, “This is a piece of a meteorite I discovered in a cave. It might not look special, but it is very hard. Most importantly, this rock can absorb jade essence. As long as a jade essence is placed beside it, the energy inside the jade essence will be consumed. I didn’t know this when I acquired it. As a result, all of the jade essences in my bag were absorbed.” A look of distress was seen on the cultivator’s face.

It wasn’t weird for the cultivator to be sad. Rogue cultivators didn’t have much jade essences to begin with. Although they could make money in the underground world, cultivation was an endless money pit. If one wanted to become the strongest, they needed to have more cultivation resources than the others.

Because of this, although rogue cultivators have a fixed income, they don’t have a lot of money to purchase resources. After all, the things that red goblins could grow were ordinary things. They weren’t worth much.

Hearing this, Zhao Hai became interested as he looked at the black rock. He said, “Let me take a look.” After that, Zhao Hai placed a jade essence beside the black rock. To Zhao Hai’s surprise, the energy in the jade essence was visibly being absorbed by the black rock. Before long, the jade essence has completely lost its energy.

Looking at this, Zhao Hai’s eyes couldn’t help but shine, “Good! I want this thing. Go and choose whatever talisman from my stall. You can choose 50 of them. What do you think?”

As soon as he heard Zhao Hai, the cultivator stared for a moment. Then his eyes shone as he agreed, “Fifty talismans? Good. Then I’ll take 50.” Fifty talismans was quite a lot of a rogue cultivator. Naturally, he would agree.

The man happily left after choosing 50 talismans. In the meantime, Zhao Hai threw the black rock to the Space to have it analyzed by the Universal Scanner. He wanted to see what the rock was.

Unfortunately, when the rock entered the Universal Scanner, a prompt was immediately issued, “Suspicious material detected. Material’s level is too high. Unable to analyze. The material is in a state of self-repair. A large amount of energy will be needed to complete it. Primary estimates show that the material needs a million units of energy.”

Hearing the Universal Scanner, Zhao Hai couldn’t help but be surprised. It must be known that a million units of energy wasn’t small. Energy units in the Space are approximately equal to ten jade essences. In other words, if the rock was to be restored, one would need ten million jade essences. And that was only the primary estimate. It might need much more than that.

However, what the Space lacked the least were jade essences. Not to mention a million energy units, Zhao Hai could even afford ten million energy units. Therefore, Zhao Hai immediately agreed, “Provide the energy.”

The Space issued another prompt, “Asking for permission to provide more energy if the material requires it.”

“Yes.” Zhao Hai firmly agreed. Just as his words came out, a white light surrounded the black rock. A massive amount of energy was directly infused into it. Zhao Hai was also paying attention to the rock.

At this time, another cultivator arrived in front of Zhao Hai’s stall. He glanced at Zhao Hai whose eyes were closed and then to the list shown on the beast skin. Seeing that the exchange rate was appropriate, the cultivator immediately took out some materials and placed it on the stall before saying, “Mister, I want to exchange for ten talismans.”

Zhao Hai opened his eyes and looked at the materials that the cultivator took out. He looked at the cultivator and nodded, “Go take what you want.”

The cultivator nodded and chose ten talismans from Zhao Hai’s stall. After completing the trade, the cultivator left.

Zhao Hai closed his eyes and focused on the black rock. At this time, the Space issued a prompt, “Charging finished.” As the prompt came, the rock seemed to have come alive and began to shake. Then the rock began to unravel as pieces shattered from the main body. Before long, a metallic object appeared.

But this wasn’t the end, the object began to enlarge and transform. Finally, the rock became a cube-like object.

Zhao Hai stared at the cube in shock. He discovered that this wasn’t like any other cube. The cube looked similar to something he’d seen in the movies, an Allspark.

Zhao Hai couldn’t help but compare the cube in front of him with the Allspark he saw in the Transformers movie.

At this time, another prompt was heard, “Hostile programming detected. Subjugation protocol has been initiated. Subjugation begins. Subjugation failed. Using the Laws of the Space. Law of Space succeeds in subjugation. Special form of energy has been detected. Accessing the host’s memory, the object has been named Allspark. It can provide intelligent life to machinery. All machinery given life by the Allspark will be obedient towards the host.”

Zhao Hai was completely shocked. He didn’t expect to obtain an object similar to the Allspark. He now understood that he had obtained an incomplete Allspark. Then after giving it a massive amount of energy, he was able to repair it. Normally, the amount of energy required to repair the Allspark would be impossible for a normal person. But now that Zhao Hai succeeded, he was able to gain an invaluable treasure.

It was clear that the Allspark was a very advanced item. After being repaired, the Space’s subjugation function failed to subjugate it. Fortunately, the Laws of the Space were able to restrain it. Finally, the Allspark was repaired and became another ace in Zhao Hai’s hand.

Zhao Hai didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. The Allspark was practically useless to him. This was because he’s currently in a Cultivator World. In this world, cultivation was everything. It was unlike back on Earth where there was machinery everywhere. This reduced the uses of the Allspark to the minimum. At this point, there was no difference between Zhao Hai obtaining it and not.

However, Zhao Hai was still satisfied, “Good. Although I can’t use it outside, I can still create machine lifeforms in the Space. I want to see how powerful these machine lifeforms can become.”

After that, Zhao Hai ordered the Space to create machines. Meanwhile, he opened his eyes and returned his focus to his stall.

But when Zhao Hai opened his eyes, he couldn’t help but stare. What’s in front of his stall wasn’t just a person, but a person and a ghost.

There was a female cultivator who looked around 15 or 16 years old. And beside this female cultivator was a ghost. Moreover, the ghost looked more bizarre. The ghost looked to be in their fifties. Their head was gray but he looked clean. If it weren’t for the fact that their lower body was smoke, he would have been seen as a normal cultivator. 

This was also what made Zhao Hai feel strange. Zhao Hai has seen multiple ghosts in the underground world. But almost all of the ghosts he saw didn’t have any intelligence. They were wearing armor and looked fierce and evil. However, the ghost in front of him was unlike the other ghosts.

Zhao Hai immediately asked the Ghost Cultivators in the Space to understand more about the ghost in front of him. Seeing the ghost, the Ghost Cultivators in the Space immediately answered. The ghost in front of Zhao Hai was a special kind of ghost in the underground world called the Willing Ghosts.

Willing Ghosts were ghosts that volunteered to be turned into ghosts by cultivators. Nobody forced them to become ghosts.

Cultivators couldn’t live forever and would die. Because of this reason, when they are at the end of their lives, some cultivators would choose to become ghosts. However, not many people make this choice. 

Willing Ghosts were the best helper for a Ghost Cultivator’s cultivation. If a ghost cultivator can subdue a Willing Ghost, then they could make the Willing Ghost their natal ghost. Then they could achieve double the effect with half the effort in their cultivation. Therefore, plenty of people wished to have Willing Ghosts.

It was also because of this that Ghost Cultivators rarely became Willing Ghosts. This was because they didn’t want to become slaves when they died.

And now, in front of Zhao Hai, there was a little girl with a Willing Ghost beside her. No wonder the cultivators around them were looking at the little girl with envy. And looking at the Willing Ghosts, it was as if they couldn’t wait to swallow it alive.

However, Zhao Hai wasn’t interested in the Willing Ghost. This was because he knew that the Willing Ghost was something he couldn’t afford to provoke.