Endless Ocean: Survival Begins with a Dugout Canoe

After a series of maneuvers, Shi Ming completed the "W-Rank Commission: Find the Serial Number" twice, happily pocketing 400,000 Civilization Stones. He finally had his first massive sum of capital.

He'd gotten a taste of success.

He began to mull over the remaining commissions one by one, wondering if there were any other bugs he could exploit.

'In principle, I could also complete the "Slaughter the Calamity" commission. The problem is, the Colorful Insect is currently sealed inside my body, so it can't be killed. That means I have no way to hand over its residual energy.'

Shi Ming was quite disappointed.

As for the other indefinite commissions, he had no leads. Commissions like "Find the Infinite Secret Realm" and "Harvest the Azure Core" were virtually impossible to complete.

The Star Sea was simply too vast; a cosmic newcomer like him had no advantage.

After 120,000 years, only 11 commissions remained.

One A-Rank commission.

Nine W-Rank commissions.

One X-Rank commission.

The "A" and "Z" here didn't refer to random letters, but represented 26 different tiers. To make it easier to categorize, Shi Ming had mentally translated them into their corresponding English letters.

These were the only indefinite missions left on the mercenary terminal that could be settled. Some commissions could be settled repeatedly, while others could only be settled once. The reward for an A-Rank commission was 20 Civilization Stones, the rewards for W-Rank commissions averaged between 200,000 and 350,000, and the single X-Rank commission offered a reward of 3 million Civilization Stones.

[X-Rank Commission: Reach the End]

[In the Abyss of the End on Primordial Star, a legendary Z-Rank commission lies sealed. It was personally issued by a god. Activating it will be considered completion of this commission, granting a reward of three million Civilization Stones.]

[Indefinite.]

The only X-Rank commission was not only vague but also seemed utterly absurd. The objective was simply "to reveal another commission personally issued by a god." It felt like a way to build hype—like having a high-level boss introduce an even more powerful one, using an X-Rank commission to emphasize a god's supreme status...

But Shi Ming couldn't shake a sense of déjà vu.

The commissions ranged from A, the lowest, to Z, the highest.

The two commissions at the extremes of the spectrum were both related to Primordial Star. The first involved Ten Thousand People Square, and the Sword in the Stone was a flawless object born in the Star Sea, representing "Birth." The second involved the Abyss of the End, and though there was no extra information, the name itself suggested "The End."

'Pokémon Z-A, huh?'

'Could these two commissions be connected?'

Shi Ming accepted it.

A reward of 3 million Civilization Stones was enough for him to snag the second-most precious treasure in the Divine Treasure Vault, the Apocalypse Divine Artifact, at a seventy-percent discount! It was an irresistible temptation. Moreover, he was incredibly curious. What exactly *was* the Z-Rank commission personally issued by a god? And why was the simple act of revealing it worthy of an X-Rank commission that still remained uncompleted?

'Looks like I have to make a trip to Primordial Star.'

'I need to find a star chart. The Teleportation Vortexes are free, but the routes are a tangled mess, like a subway system but a million times more complex. Without a chart, trying to find Primordial Star in the vast Tomb Star Realm would be like blindly stumbling through an ant nest the size of an ocean.'

'Also, with this 400,000 windfall, I can think about what to redeem from the Divine Treasure Vault.'

'Money only truly becomes yours once you've converted it into strength.'

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Huang Ji gently stroked her belly, overflowing with a maternal glow.

She and the Secret Walker, Amonev, were currently walking through the primordial jungle of New God Star. With an air of detachment from reality, the two "gods" watched the "ants" below living their lives with vigor and joy.

This was the goddesses' "private time."

"I'm very curious, who is the child's father this time?"

For an ordinary person, such a question would certainly be impolite, if not downright offensive.

But Huang Ji was no ordinary person.

She didn't care.

Just because Amonev was known as the Secret Walker didn't mean she lacked curiosity. When chatting with a mother, what better topic was there than her child?

"Heh heh heh, who knows?"

A glint appeared in Huang Ji's eyes.

The light in her bright pupils shimmered like a sunlit lake, her smile inscrutable.

"Those men who prostrate themselves beneath me have only one value: to provide me with pleasure. As for those qualified to be called the child's father, they are few and far between. Candela could barely be considered one, but we haven't had relations for a long time. These past few tens of thousands of years have been very pure. Bertutan... no, he's too old, and he gives me the feeling he'd start lecturing midway through, which would be quite a buzzkill.

"Tsk tsk.

"That junior Candela brought over, the one with six arms... he wasn't half bad..."

From beneath the mist swirling around her face, Amonev deliberately revealed a subtle "I know what you mean" expression.

As fellow New Gods, the concealing mist was merely symbolic and had no real effect. Thus, Huang Ji keenly caught her micro-expression. They exchanged a look and a smile, an entire conversation passing between them without a word.

Among the five New Gods, there was also Creator Uncle Tian.

But everyone knew that Creator Uncle Tian and the Withered Queen were mortal enemies. One embodied life, the other desolation; one creation, the other decay. They were polar opposites. If this operation hadn't required their cooperation, they would never have appeared in the same place, to say nothing of Huang Ji helping him modify that lifeless creation.

The two goddesses chatted.

Their conversation drifted from recent plans to the secrets of the Star Sea.

"'Lust'? Heh heh heh... Relying on a skill to control pleasure is like prizing the box over the jewel inside. It deviates from the essence of love. The true realm isn't about conquest, nor is it about bestowal. It's about..."

"...bearing bountiful fruit."

She shivered slightly, her expression growing even more tender. It seemed the child had just given her a gentle kick.

Amonev was noncommittal about this.

With a bit of prodding, she guided the conversation toward business.

"Your authority in the Cosmic Country is W-Rank, Sister?"

W-Rank was the tier just below X-Rank, second only to an "Heir of the Gods." But even that wasn't enough to gain the practical authority needed to traverse the current Tomb Star Realm unscathed.

Huang Ji nodded.

This was not a secret.

Amonev pressed on.

"I heard that before the god fell, he personally issued two commissions. For a god to do so... those tasks must hide a great deal of information."

Huang Ji understood what she wanted to ask.

"I already checked last time. No new commissions appeared on the mercenary terminal."

"???"

"This means that those are commissions that only a true Heir of the Gods can accept."

"But, all the Heirs of the Gods have already fallen."

"Yes. So, little sister, no one can complete that dead bastard's commissions anymore... His final tasks have become a total secret. And to be frank, even if you and I could learn of and complete them, we wouldn't be able to claim the rewards from the Tomb Star Realm—unless the rewards are authority and titles."

Huang Ji paused, then continued,

"Instead of digging into all that, we'd be better off focusing our attention on the will of the nascent Cosmic Country. Civilization Stones taken outside the borders of the First Civilization Cosmic Country dissipate automatically. The mercenary terminal and the Divine Treasure Vault are completely meaningless to us."

"That's true."

The two gods continued walking.

Then they began to comment on the fruits of Bertutan's "enlightenment" efforts on this planet.

"I heard that six thousand years ago, Bertutan found a peculiar planet and even paid a great price to leave one of his great treasures there, all to cultivate high-quality seeds?"

"That's right. Mr. Bertutan has always been secretive in his work. Even I can only confirm that it happened, but I can't see any clues."

"High-quality seeds... the fruit they bear must taste incredibly delicious."

"When Mr. Bertutan makes a move, it's always a grand one. When the fruit ripens, you and I will surely be able to catch a glimpse of it."

'Catch a glimpse?'

A year and a half ago, Amonev had already seen the prototype of the fruit and made an expensive Angel investment.

Now, all that was left was to poach Mr. Bertutan's fruit.

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