Zhou Yi calmed down and thought for a while.

In Golden Elephant Valley, the golden elephants roam about, adults mate and breed calves. After their death, they evolve into the Golden Elephant Flag towards the Golden Branch; despite being Light Core Bodies as adults, they never step out from here...

If they are confined here, then everything makes sense.

He immediately asked, "Who is cutting the golden elephants?"

"I don't know."

Ice Pot said, "The golden elephants have never seen them. Once the golden elephants reach a certain size as adults, their bodies will be harvested. Or like this one, due to various reasons, if they're injured and unable to continue living, they will also be targeted for harvesting."

"Most of their power is stored in their bodies, and the transformed gold is concentrated there."

"Gold?"

Zhou Yi doubted his hearing: "You mean, they remove the golden elephants' bodies for gold?"

"In the understanding of the golden elephants, that's the case."

Ice Pot said, "Golden elephants are gold creatures; they assimilate various substances into gold and incorporate it into their bodies to strengthen themselves."

"They have only the Gold Touching Skill as an ability."

"Having ready-made gold is, of course, the best, but it seems not easy to find a large amount of gold in the outer world."

"The growth of golden elephants extremely depends on gold; their strength is highly related to the weight and concentration of gold in their bodies. Their whole life is a constant process of searching for and creating gold."

Zhou Yi vaguely remembered.

Gold is a heavy metal formed from star explosions and collisions, birthed under extremely harsh conditions, so, theoretically, it's also scarce on other planets.

So, are the golden elephant herders obtaining a large amount of gold through the golden elephants?

But raising Light Core Bodies to produce gold...

That sounds too extravagant.

"Transforming into gold is not an easy task either."

Ice Pot continued, "Metals similar to gold are the easiest to transform, like silver and lead are quality golden elephant food, capable of transforming quickly into gold. Like water, gas, wood, and ordinary stone materials, transformations are much more difficult, requiring years to fully assimilate and stabilize."

No wonder where they tread, gold briefly condenses.

Zhou Yi couldn't help but wonder: "They've never seen the reapers, why don't they run? Are they afraid or unable?"

"Chairman, they have nowhere to go."

Ice Pot's voice carried a hint of heaviness: "They were born here, unaware of the outside world, the places they can step onto are the invisible Golden Elephant Valley."

"All golden elephants are born blind, without hearing and smelling; they can only rely on the weak perception of external energy. They only have four legs that can move, their bodies in a narrow space they can't describe."

"In the awareness of the golden elephants, the world is only so big, cramped and hard to understand from birth."

"It's not that they haven't thought about going elsewhere, but they simply cannot comprehend that other places exist."

Zhou Yi roughly understood.

Many people mock the frog in the well, but some frogs simply have no choice; they were born at the bottom of the well, the only thing they own is the narrow patch of sky at the well's opening.

"They live in confusion, which gradually turns into numbness until their death."

Ice Pot said, "For the golden elephants, what they can do is just keep walking. But they don't know where to go, and can only circle around in this region."

Zhou Yi clearly felt that the atmosphere creature, having absorbed the Consciousness Fragments of the dead golden elephant, was also severely impacted emotionally.

"Are you alright?"

"Sorry, Chairman, although the shattered Consciousness of golden elephants is simple, it has immense capacity. I have inherited its cognition, memory, and strength, and I must also bear its suffering."

Ice Pot confessed honestly.

"However, I also gained its ability from these fragmented consciousnesses."

Zhou Yi was surprised: "Can atmosphere creatures gain abilities after absorbing a Consciousness?"

Ice Pot said: "Not really. However, when the golden elephant was dying, it released a strong desire to return to its birthplace in its consciousness, I consoled it because you had those two Weapon Princesses step aside, so it gifted me."

"The structure of atmosphere creatures is gaseous, and it is metallic; we are very different, incompatible. But this ability, I truly gained."

Zhou Yi felt a sense of relief in his heart.

Ice Pot demonstrated a demeanor fitting for the Wasteland Company.

But doing good deeds, ask not about futures.

This is good.

Yet, Ice Pot felt quite lost: "Chairman, now I'm also not sure what to do."

"The Gold Touching Skill gifted by the golden elephants can transform materials into gold, with the continuous increase in the amount of gold, using it as a carrier, it becomes stronger and stronger."

"By the stability of gold adhering and storing a vast amount of Consciousness Fragments, arranging them in order, it can evolve directly into a Light Core Body... This is a very unique and powerful gift."

"But this ability is incompatible with me."

Zhou Yi's eyes lit up: "What's incompatible. Methods are rigid, be flexible with your thinking!"

Now that there's a stable path to becoming a Light Core Body, what else is needed.

The atmosphere creature argued: "But the Gold Touching Skill requires creating a huge golden body, I would become very heavy, completely losing the agility I had before."

Zhou Yi thought for a moment and made a suggestion: "How about creating a golden solid core? That is, use your existing atmospheric form as the outer layer, and turn the core into a gold structure."

"Chairman, the energy consumption would be much greater than it is now."

"Light Core Body, when has it ever been low in power?"

Zhou Yi asked, "How do the Golden Elephants absorb energy?"

"Gold, gold is energy."

Ice Pot explained, "At least for the Golden Elephants, it is. They can transform gold into energy for use, so the larger their body size, the more energy they can utilize."

"They can use the Gold Touching Skill to unlock the stable structure of gold and release the massive energy inside."

Zhou Yi was thrilled to hear this.

This system has great potential for exploration.

He immediately said, "Do you know about gaseous planets?"

"No."

So Zhou Yi told Ice Pot, "Gaseous planets, according to the old human's scientific observations, like Jupiter, have a very thick atmospheric layer on the outside. But as you go deeper into the planet, the pressure and temperature rise sharply, causing hydrogen to transition from gaseous to liquid, and even to solid states."

"There is a solid core inside them, maintaining a solid, liquid, and gas three-layer structure from inside to outside. This is a stable form that already exists in nature, which you can imitate."

He has been reading various books over the years, not for nothing.

After asking many details, Ice Pot couldn't help but marvel, "So there's such a substance that exists."

"You make me think of my own structure."

"Atmosphere creatures themselves also have internal layers; the closer to the inner region, the higher the density and the energy level, which is purely on an energy level."

It described, "So there are usually two ways, either to greatly compress oneself, just like now, transforming into a bracelet form, compressing the density to transform into a high-mass solid state."

"The advantage is that the single-point strength is very high, and the space occupancy rate is low, but if attacked, it will suffer high damage."

"There is also a way to continue to expand, maintaining a large area coverage at low density."

"The advantage is that by dispersing the structure this way, no matter how it is attacked, only a very small local area is damaged. The disadvantage is that it's hard to concentrate all the power at one point, making it inadequate in direct confrontation."

"The gaseous planets you mentioned give me a way to combine the advantages of both forms."

Immediately.

The atmosphere creature gradually transformed into a grey sphere.

It flew to the side of the Golden Elephant Flag.

"Chairman, I want to make it a part of my new body. It has very strong energy, and the gold density and purity are very high."

Zhou Yi was astonished: "You can move it?"

"Yes."

"Because I possess the Consciousness of its previous stage, the Golden Elephant, it belongs to the remains of the Golden Elephant and has not yet completed its thorough evolution. The connection between consciousness and matter still exists and remains tight."

The atmosphere creature said, "I want to try."

Although the Golden Elephant Flag might develop into a Gold Branch that enslaves lives.

But.

Zhou Yi chose to trust first: "Then give it a try."

The cloud-like Ice Pot suddenly stretched out, turning into a white mist covering the Golden Pillar.

A large amount of mist suddenly contracted into the gold.

The Golden Elephant Flag continued to contract and shrink, and flew in front of Zhou Yi from a lead block.

It became the size of a pen.

But no gases were seen around.

Zhou Yi was somewhat surprised: "Have you completely transformed into a gold state?"

"Yes, Chairman."

Ice Pot said, "I used the Gold Touching Skill to transform myself into a stable gold structure, and if necessary, I can transform back into a gas state. This is a combination application of me and the Gold Touching Skill."

"After transforming into a gold state, my whole body is highly stable. Even in an environment completely devoid of energy, there would be no body consumption or consciousness dissipation. This is a huge advantage."

"The Golden Elephant Flag is now dominated and controlled by me, just like humans use enhanced organs. It feels very strange. However, it is highly compatible with my Golden Elephant Consciousness, so it's convenient to use, and I am still gradually understanding it..."

"However, I feel that now I am very close to the Light Core Body. With a large amount of gold, or silver and lead, I can break through to that layer."

That indeed made things much more convenient.

Zhou Yi pinned the golden pen to his chest—it directly adhered to his clothes.

Seeing this, Bai Bi widened her eyes: "Mr. Zhou, you—you have controlled the Golden Elephant Flag?"

"Pretty much."

The rabbit-eared girl was overjoyed, "That's great! I was worried about how to contain this thing, we've already contained several Golden Elephant Flags, and there's no more space at home."

"They are very special themselves, requiring corresponding devices to suppress their development and growth, everyone is quite troubled."

Zhou Yi's eyelid twitched.

The lineage of the Warlord indeed had deep pockets; they even had several Golden Elephant Flags in their collection.

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