Chapter 1469: Chapter 1469

1469: Chapter 1465: The Threshold of the Eighth-Tier 1469: Chapter 1465: The Threshold of the Eighth-Tier “For my goal, I need to become stronger…”

Upon entering the seventh-tier world, Lu Ping’an was surprised to discover that the gap between him and other professionals of the same tier had significantly narrowed.

Previously, Lu could easily take on 2-tiers without any problems, even when he was at fourth-fifth tier, he had experiences of clashing to the death with those at the sixth and even seventh-tiers.

Killing equivalently tiered third or fourth-tiers was like slaughtering chickens for him, presenting no difficulty whatsoever.

But now, even when facing a seventh-tier, he had to be extremely cautious, and against any eighth-tier, he had to be mentally prepared for the possibility of a full-out battle ending in defeat.

None of the old eighth-tiers were easy to deal with…

Advantages in various hardwares and softwares became less obvious, and what troubled him was that it still seemed difficult to gain short-term advantages in rule-level internal battles.

“Besides the fact that you are more inclined towards the Life system (logistics), more importantly, every professional who has reached this step is a once-in-a-decade or once-in-a-century genius in the eyes of others, a legend in their own hometown…”

Those who could become seventh-tiers, finding a way out of nowhere, were no longer weak.

Thus, the big shots one step further up from those beings in the Cloud Realm, the eighth-tiers, were definitely not weak.

Ordinary battle-professions were somewhat weaker, while Lu Ping’an was now mostly encountering seventh-tier and eighth-tier Life system professionals in this world…

Their strength often depended on their “production chains” and “warehouse reserves”, casually pulling out multiple rule-level combat powers with ease, with hardly any rubbish rule-level presence to be found.

“…I actually feel that my power is not enough.”

Now, Lu could probably be considered by the people of this world as a pseudo eighth-tier combat power, but in fact, he was still some distance away from a true eighth-tier.

“What is an eighth-tier?”

Even though he had triumphed over an eighth-tier, Lu was somewhat at a loss.

Tier was a measure of an individual’s degree of evolution, and the “tiers” of different life forms varied greatly.

When Lu Ping’an entered the seventh-tier, it also meant that he had lost his path forward.

“Each person’s eighth-tier is different…”

If being a seventh-tier was to become completely non-human, then the eighth-tier was to reach a state of “even beyond human.” The advice offered by Big Cat at this time was quite subtle.

The only commonality is ‘scalability’, that is, clustered multiple rules…

But this is already inferring process from results.

Most people only advance because it represents a ‘qualitative change’.”

There were still vaguely some “standard professions” at seventh-tier, but eighth-tier professionals were all trailblazers who forged their own paths.

It is worth mentioning that eighth-tier professionals and eighth-tier life forms are two different things.

There are far too many professionals who only possess one or two Mid-Level Golden (eighth-tier) abilities.

This is the fundamental reason why Lu Ping’an felt that the gap in high-level battles could not be widened.

Both sides had extremely powerful attacks, and their life bars were thick to the point of absurdity, naturally turning fights into wars of attrition and losing the past sense of exhilaration.

“My evolutionary chain seems to be moving…”

In this past half year, Lu Ping’an had in fact been playing catch-up or perhaps laying the foundation, but his progress was always quite delicate.

Without finding the right direction, he could only faithfully consolidate and “review.”

Lu Ping’an could understand what Big Cat meant; to his Eye of Truth, the eighth-tier was not on the same level as the seventh-tier…

“They are all independent ‘planets,’ with astounding mass, capable of distorting the surrounding gravity, almost High-dimensional existences…

If the seventh-tier is the Moon, the eighth-tier is the Sun.”

Although the two are always listed side by side, the actual “data gap” between them is outrageously wide.

Lu Ping’an had some conjectures that perhaps the Strongman of the eighth-tier was the one who found how to Fuse multiple “rules.”

More accurately said, those multiple rules formed a complete self-circulating and internally fitting mechanism, making all gears work towards one goal.

Those ninth-order Quasi-God beings were the most obvious evolved forms.

“If a seventh-tier is a person, the eighth-tier is a village, and the ninth-tier is a ‘nation’ made up of countless villages, cities, and population.”

This was the closest understanding that Lu Ping’an had found, but despite having enough chips in hand, he didn’t know how to form his own village, let alone a nation.

“Don’t rush, Lu Ping’an.

You’d better lay a solid foundation first, you are considering this too early…” Big Cat’s previous advice was correct.

Because whether it was forming a village or a nation, adequate “components” were needed, and at that time, Lu, being merely a bare seventh-tier, was too premature to consider anything else.

Reconstructing “trade” and “industrial chains” in this world was Lu Ping’an’s way of expanding and trying out his own rules, but the results were quite delicate.

Although that’s what Big Cat said, considering the constantly upgrading battlefield and the increasingly powerful enemies…

“They won’t wait for me to grow up, my wealth and status are laid out on the table…

I’m unlikely to be able to hide, I’m too big now, I can no longer stay concealed.”

Lu Ping’an certainly didn’t want to wait until Quasi-Gods were knocking at his door before finding reasons to explain…

The few traits and abilities he now possessed were enough to make even Quasi-Gods covet them.

The instinct for evolution will reveal it to you, and when you touch a certain opportunity, you will feel ‘this is it.'”

Big Cat’s past persuasion became a reality today.

When Lu Ping’an once again fused with Little Flame to become the “Fireman,” and looked down at the busy battlefield sweepers below, he could feel countless gazes.

“He has become stronger…”

Can one evolve from a single battle?”

Both of the eighth-tiers who were still clearing up the spoils were astonished at his progress…

This was not simply an increase in strength, but an evolution at the biological level.

Lu Ping’an responded with a smile, but said nothing more.

He began to understand what he needed…

“To establish a village, first you need a village chief, don’t you…”

In Lu Ping’an’s journey of evolution, the “rules of communication and trade” were of the utmost priority.

Administrative level, or biological level, was the foundation of everything.

As a human, Lu Ping’an was at the top of the biological chain, but among rule-level creatures, he was just a cub.

The premise of being a rule-level professional was to be a rule-level life form…

Lu Ping’an’s own body (human interface) was too weak to sustain his evolution.

When he shared the biological level Life-points with Little Fire, the evolutionary gears began to move once more.

He began to understand that perhaps the first step of his advancement path was to evolve all his Magic Pets to rule-level and above, sharing their evolutionary achievements, and accomplishing his leap in life hierarchy.

“Isn’t this the traditional Beast Tamer’s approach?”

This step seemed already to be determining that Lu Ping’an was moving further away from the Traditional Gardener.

Perhaps from the start, he was never able to embark on Elder Liu’s path of discarding the physical body as a Traditional Gardener.

But neither could he rely purely on physical strength like Big Cat or King Kui…

The entire Courtyard, no, every area where Life-points circulated, would be his “body.”

“Take it one step at a time.

Let’s start by upgrading the babies and complete the foundational transformation.”