In its place was a fresh and sweet aroma, reminiscent of the vitality one feels while strolling through the woods in spring.
The fragrance brought a sense of comfort and ease to one’s heart.
However, as the refinent continued, the Essence of Flesh and Blood drastically reduced in size during the process, with the parts that the ship could not absorb being evaporated and discarded.
It shrank from one kilogram to about 200 grams.
The remaining portion had little to do with flesh and blood, devoid of the bloody sll, leaving only a faint fresh scent.
It was as if... the Essence of Flesh and Blood had been further refined into the primordial substance for life’s growth.
These substances were akin to the fertilizers, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium that plants need.
They are the most fundantal state of nutrition required by the human body and the ship.
At this mont, Fang Yu once again sensed the ship’s yearning emotions coming through.
While in its Essence of Flesh and Blood form, the ship despised it, not even sparing it a glance.
Yet, as soon as Fang Yu refined it into the most primitive nutritional state, the ship instead developed a yearning emotion.
After sensing this emotion, Fang Yu smiled slightly and, without hesitation, scattered the 200 grams of refined material onto the deck.
As soon as the material was sprinkled onto the deck, it quickly infiltrated as if soaking into the deck, swiftly absorbed by the ship.
"Gulp..."
A swallowing sound seed to echo in Fang Yu’s soul, and in the next mont, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.
He looked towards the ship’s deck and soon noticed a light white layer of keratin seed to form on the deck.
This layer of keratin was akin to the newly molted shell of a crab, still soft and relatively weak.
But according to Cheng Peng, with a large infusion of the Essence of Flesh and Blood, these keratin layers would gradually mature, becoming hard and strong.
Once mature, they may transform into thick scales, akin to dragon armor, possessing terrifying defensive and impact capabilities.
By that ti, the ship often develops an ability allowing it to use its own armor to ram enemies, enhancing its combat power to a higher level.
Gazing at the changes happening to the ship, Fang Yu felt a trace of joy in his heart.
He glanced at his dashboard, and indeed, there appeared a new attribute section under the Soul Transformation category:
[Ship Body Transformation]: Progress: Awakening (6%)
Ability: Not Unlocked
Ship Body Transformation?
Fang Yu showed a thoughtful expression, his understanding of the ship’s future enhancent path gradually becoming clearer.
Soul Transformation, Body Transformation, which ans... once the ship upgrades to Warship Level, it has reached the limit at the "modification" level. After all, strengthening and enchanting of ship components is an augntation but also a burden to the ship.
An overly weak hull cannot withstand overly powerful enhancents and enchantnts, much like a cargo-grade ship can only undergo basic enchantnts and cannot engrave interdiate or advanced enchantnts.
And any material has an upper limit, beyond which it cannot further improve.
This upper limit is Warship Level, beyond which, no matter how strong the materials, it’s challenging to break through and enhance further.
So, beyond the Warship Level, the evolution path of an Extraordinary Ship is essentially to "personify" the ship.
Endowing the ship with life, whether it’s the physical body, Soul Transformation spirit, Extraordinary Ability’s spirituality, or socialization at power levels, it’s about turning the ship into a lifeform.
Materials have limits, but lifeforms can continue evolving, possessing more possibilities.
Of course...
This lifeform greatly differs from ordinary lifeforms.
Because ordinary lifeforms have brains, organizational structures, know how to think, how to seek advantages and avoid dangers, and how to evolve.
But the ship doesn’t have organs like a brain, nor does it know to seek advantage and avoid danger, only considered "alive," yet it doesn’t possess self-thinking.
Or rather... the Captain is the ship’s mind, the Captain is the ship’s brain, and the two are essentially one.
Future promotion to Extraordinary transforms the ship truly into the Captain’s body, feeding back power, soul, and spirituality to enhance the Captain’s combat power anew.
At this mont... Fang Yu had progressed in Soul Transformation, resulting in so primal yearning emotions from the ship, akin to the human genetic craving for food.
Later, if Fang Yu continues to make progress in the other two paths, the ship will gradually have its own body and Extraordinary Ability.
Thinking of this, Fang Yu, without hesitation, continued using the Blood Refining Skill, refining the remaining 7 kilograms of Essence of Flesh and Blood in his dashboard space, integrating it into the ship.
A total of 7 kilograms of Essence of Flesh and Blood was refined into 1.4 kilograms of life substrate.
Introducing it into the ship directly increased the Body Transformation progress from 6% to 48%.
The total of 8 kilograms of Essence of Flesh and Blood was thus entirely consud, converting to 48% progress.
Fang Yu estimated that ultimately completing the awakening and moving into the first stage might require a total of 17 kilograms of Essence of Flesh and Blood, aning Fang Yu still needs to acquire 9 more kilograms.
"9 kilograms..."
Fang Yu nodded, finding it acceptable.
While 9 kilograms is not a small amount, attending carefully to collecting, or even purchasing from the market, it’s possible to gather it together.
However... this is only the first stage, and to promote the ship to an Extraordinary Ship, the chosen path must et the second stage conditions to successfully advance.
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