Infinite Evolution: My Idle Evolution System

At the rate he was going, Necro would never collect enough EP to evolve to Rank 6 and break past the power bottleneck that prevented him from going beyond the Half-step Qi Condensation Realm.

With a steeled heart, Necro opened up his system interface, reminding himself how much longer he had to grind.

BLING!

{[Idle Evolution System (1st Ascended)]}

[Host: Necro]

[Lifespan: 0.6/236]

[Cultivation: Nonexistent]

[Spirit Roots: Nonexistent]

[Special Qualifications: Yggdrasil Fusion Entity (Allows for most basic of Spiritual and Lifespan Absorption)(Spiritual Energy is stored within the Host's various components)]

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{[Evolution Tree]}

[Rank: 5 (Elder Willow Tree)]

[Trunk (Lvl 3) (1/1)] – [25,000 EP to upgrade]

[Roots (Lvl 3) (60/60)] – [1,100 EP to upgrade, with same cost for each root of next level]

[Branches (Lvl 3) (100/100)] – [600 EP to upgrade, with same cost for each branch of next level]

[Evolution Points: 20,130]

"Hmm…" Necro pondered. "At the moment, the most useful thing to me are my Roots, because they expand my sphere of influence. Right now, I can only stretch out one-point-something thousand meters in every direction, but if I can get a third of my Roots to the next level, I should be able to at least double that distance."

He followed through with this train of thought but was more than pleasantly surprised to feel his Roots quadruple in length and double in width!

FWOOOSH—!

With just a simple slash from his Level 4 Roots, Necro left a decently sized gash in the side of a hill.

"This power…"

He started to wonder if he had already crossed over into the territory of Qi Condensation Realm Cultivators—the official beginning of the Cultivation of Immortals.

"If only I could move; then I could pay the Hundred-Eyed Sect a visit."

This was one of the worst parts about being him. After all, without the ability to travel, he was not only restricted to one area, he was also more susceptible to pincer attacks from enemies.

Fortunately, the mountains he hid between did well to conceal most of his large body, as well as make it extremely difficult to launch any sort of group attack on him.

Changing the subject away from something so depressing, Necro looked to a certain area within his 1,500-meter sphere of influence.

"I wonder how Lazy and Lang Qingyue are faring," he mused as he zoomed in on them, enhancing his nature vision in the same instant. "This…"

He was rendered speechless at what he saw.

There, in the middle of a wide-open field, were two figures.

One was a tree person, while the other was a beautiful woman wearing a euphoric look on her face.

But this situation was not what you thought it was…

"Get up!" Lang Qingyue shouted. "Do another 100 push-ups! 100 squats right after! Then follow up with a 10 km run! Repeat that thirty times!"

"Guh Guh!!? Guh—!!"

Lazy was whipped time and time again, being forced to do whatever Lang Qingyue told him to do. The level of betrayal in his heart was immense, for he had been tricked.

This woman was no pretty angel sent from above…

She was a devil who crawled out of Hell just to torment him!!

"Guh!! Guh!!"

Translation: 'Creator, please save me!!!'

Silence…

"Well, it seems like they're doing fine," said Necro as he redirected his attention elsewhere. "The other Shadow Tree Soldiers are working as efficiently as ever. But maybe I should upgrade a couple of my Branches so |Power Essence| can receive a boost."

That way, he could further buff the Shadow Tree Soldiers on top of the EP that went into improving their cultivation.

However, seeing as he was currently all out of EP, Necro had to let a bit of time pass.

— A week later —

Waking up from his slumber, Necro realized that Lazy and Lang Qingyue were still at it. But more importantly than that, his EP had stacked up again.

*Ding!*

[You spent 6000 Evolution Points to upgrade 10 of your Level 3 Branches to Level 4!]

[The effectiveness of all previous Branch-related Skills and newly acquired Skills have tremendously improved!]

[Branch (Lvl 4)]

—[Capable of attack, poison, control, buffing, laceration/bleeding effects, and healing.]

[Basic Skill 1: 'Cross-Slash']

[Basic Skill 2: 'Death Piercer']

[Basic Skill 3: 'Poisonous Spear']

[Special Skill 1: 'Life Essence']

[Special Skill 2: 'Power Essence']

[Special Skill 3: 'Control Essence']

[Life Essence (Mid-Mortal Grade)]

—[Can heal most common diseases and injuries of those below the Foundation Establishment Realm (Uses Spiritual Energy to form)]

[Power Essence (Mid-Mortal Grade)]

—[Can improve the Cultivation of anyone or anything in the Body Refinement Realm to the early stages of the Qi Condensation Realm (Limited effectiveness the more one takes/has subtle affection-increasing effects)(Uses Spiritual Energy to form)]

[Control Essence (Mid-Mortal Grade)]

—[One droplet to control the minds of any living being in or below the Early Stages of the Qi Condensation Realm (Only effective for a year before more doses need to be distributed)(Uses Spiritual Energy to form)]

"Control Essence now stays applied for a year?" Necro arched his brows. "It was only a third of a year with Level 3 Branches."

The 'Poisonous Halberd' Skill also interested him greatly.

FWIRL!

Activating the Skill, Necro watched as one of his Branches twisted and condensed. It went from a shiny, almost pearlescent purplish-black color to something infused with far more green.

This was the Poison Element. And it was not only deeply integrated into this Branch—it was also coated alongside its edges.

After finishing its twisting and condensation process, the Root ended up looking like a wickedly sharp spear. It was over ten meters in length and a couple of meters in width, with an appearance that would intimidate even normal Qi Condensation Realm Experts.

"Hurm…" Necro liked the look of this thing a lot; it gave off an air of sinister invincibility. "But appearance is secondary. I have to see how well it performs."

Rearing the |Poisonous Spear| back a few dozen meters like the pulling of a bow's string, Necro made sure the tension was at its maximum. Only then did he—

*Fwooop!*

—Let go.