The spaceship flew through space for one or two months, and they finally arrived at that planet.
The entire planet was filled with desolation, with no signs of life.
After a scan, they found the colonial exploration spaceship that Krypton had sent out earlier.
That colonial spaceship was several times larger than the transport ship they were currently on, but unfortunately, it seemed to have suffered a severe attack and crashed on this planet. Many parts of the ship appeared to be damaged.
Inside the ship, they saw the bodies of their compatriots who had died in their stasis pods.
"General, both the main engine and the backup engine of the ship are damaged, but many of its parts are intact. I can try to dismantle and refit them onto our current ship, which could greatly increase our flight speed, but this will take some time," Leto said to Zod after inspecting the colonial ship with his people.
"Do your best to modify it. We still have time. Strive to find an intact warp drive next time," Zod waved his hand, not overly concerned.
Then he began searching alone inside the ship. Finally, he found a cultivation room in the colonial ship. All the facilities inside were intact, with the soil and water he needed most.
As he reactivated the cultivation room with his authority as a Kryptonian commander, a surge of vitality immediately began to spread.
With a thought, he took the sunflower seed from the roulette space and planted it in the soil.
Instantly, the seed began to sprout rapidly, growing into a sunflower swaying with a smiling face in just over ten minutes.
However, while this smiling sunflower looked normal and even cute in the game, appearing in reality, it had an eerie feeling to it.
But none of that mattered. Zod stared intently at the sunflower, feeling a rich vitality emanating from it, and a primal attraction to his body.
"As expected of a product from a fantasy world. Although its abilities differ slightly from those in the game, it's still no ordinary item!"
Zod gazed longingly at the sunflower as time passed minute by minute.
Finally, after half an hour, the flower head at the top of the sunflower began to emit a bright yellow light.
Immediately following, an egg-sized ball of light ascended from the flower head. That was the solar essence it produced.
Zod felt his body radiating a craving. Without any hesitation, he grabbed the ball of light.
The moment he touched it, the solar essence directly merged into his body.
Zod's body trembled violently. He felt as if his body had transformed into an activated steel beast, and a continuous surge of power began to emerge.
The next moment, his vision blurred. Looking at his palm, he could directly see through his armor and flesh to the bones within.
Afterward, a cacophony of sounds reached his ears: the friction of people moving heavy objects, breathing, and even heartbeats—he heard them all with incredible clarity.
Facing such a sight, Zod's heart was ecstatic.
He understood that he had already activated the bloodline power of a Kryptonian!
He then calmed his mind, quietly sensing the changes happening in his body.
When he opened his eyes again, a scorching ray shot out from them, directly cutting through the wall of the cultivation room.
This commotion immediately attracted the attention of Fiora and the others. Everyone put down what they were doing and rushed over, fearing that something had happened to him.
"General, what happened? Are you alright?" Fiora stepped forward and asked with concern.
"Nothing. I have merely awakened the true power belonging to us Kryptonians. This will be the cornerstone for us to rebuild the glory of Krypton."
As he spoke, Zod's body slowly floated up under the effect of a bio-force field, and another heat vision beam condensed in his eyes and shot towards another spot.
Seeing Zod display such power, everyone showed astonished expressions.
"General, what exactly is this?" As the only scientist among those present, Leto was the most curious. He urgently wanted to know what had happened to Zod!
"Leto, I believe you must have seen ancient mythological legends about Krypton in Krypton's central database, right?" Zod did not answer directly but instead asked Leto.
Leto thought for a moment and replied earnestly, "Yes, General, I did see them. Is your change related to the myths and legends?"
"That's right. In the myths, the ancient Sun God created and guided the Kryptonians to develop the brilliant Kryptonian civilization based on himself, and our genes contain the physiological functions of that deity. That is, bathing under a healthy yellow sun can grant us extraordinary power."
Zod no longer beat around the bush and directly explained the origin of Krypton and why he had changed.
Even as a Kryptonian scientist, Leto found this somewhat unbelievable.
Only Fiora, because of her previous conversation with Zod, had no doubt about this statement.
At the same time, she also thought about what Zod had said before: Jor-El had gone to great lengths to send his child to that place called Earth. Had he discovered this secret long ago?
But none of that seemed to matter anymore. After all, he was already dead, and Krypton was destroyed along with him, so there was no point in thinking about it further!
However, she also had some doubts: there was no trace of a yellow sun here, so how did her general activate his talent?
Thinking this, she directly asked, "General, but there is no yellow sun here?"
As a female warrior, she did not have so many convoluted thoughts.
Upon hearing this, Zod pointed his hand towards the swaying sunflower and said calmly, "All my changes originated from it."
At this point, everyone's attention turned to the sunflower. Leto stepped forward and observed it carefully, then seemed to search for relevant information in his mind, nodding and shaking his head.
Then he asked with some confusion, "General, as far as I know, a sunflower is just an ordinary plant. It doesn't seem to have any other special qualities, does it?"
"It is not an ordinary sunflower, and its sole purpose is to produce a solar essence every half hour. I awakened precisely by absorbing the solar essence it just produced."
"Next, all of you will have the opportunity to activate your talents. In the future, you will also join me as the cornerstones and pioneers of New Krypton, recreating Krypton's former glory."
Upon hearing this, everyone's eyes became fervent. They all looked at Zod with the demeanor of pilgrims.
In the time that followed, as the sunflower produced ten more solar essences, everyone activated their talents.
Although Zod shared the solar essence produced by the sunflower with his loyal subordinates, he was not yet ready to reveal the True Sun Scripture.