Chapter 551 Insectoid Egg
Outside the Chiyun System, Lu Ze and the rest dragged the high-level members of the space pirates into the huge warship. This was the largest one in their fleet. It should be the main ship.
Although there were still pilots and workers, they couldn't stop Lu Ze and the others.
Nangong Jing easily tore open the defense barrier and pulled the metal doors open like a cosmic dinosaur. Everyone was trembling under her terrifying actions.
Lu Ze and the group followed behind Nangong Jing casually. Soon, they entered the main podium. They dumped the high-level pirates on the ground. These five people were covered in blood and wounds.
Bing Li was still unconscious.
Terry West was in the worst state. He fought Nangong Jing, and his right hand and left leg were gone. Dark blue blood kept flowing out of his wounds.
Lu Ze and the others were tired and bloodied, but their faces were excited. This was a special delivery for them.
Nangong Jing grinned and drank some wine. "Fox demon, you make them speak."
Terry West sneered. "Keep dreaming! Even if we, brothers, die, we'll take our treasures with us!"
Meanwhile, Terry East knew of Qiuyue Hesha's power. He just fought her recently, after all.
Thinking about this, he opened his mouth and was about to speak.
At this moment, Qiuyue Hesha looked at Terry East and smiled. "Where is your treasure?"
Terry East was covered in wounds, and his right hand was severed. His consciousness was fading.
Even though he tried to resist Qiuyue Hesha's charm god art, he only lasted a few seconds and looked at her with crazy eyes. Qiuyue Hesha frowned. She had gone through this countless times, but she still felt it was disgusting.
Terry East answered without hesitation, "We've placed all the stuff we have stolen in Deno Warehouse. I can take you there." "The rest of the treasures are hidden in a small planet in the void sea. I have the star map for the location and the entry method."
Terry West saw this and went crazy. "Terry East? Wake up?! What happened to you?"
He stared at Qiuyue Hesha. "Human, what evil craft have you used?!"
His eyes were full of fear. This human could make people lose their own will. This was too terrifying. Condra and Kuris were trembling too.
All these humans weren't normal.
That male human on the side was the most abnormal.
He defeated three planetary states, even though his cultivation was only level three mortal evolution state.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled but said nothing.
She looked at Terry East. "Lead the way."
Terry East quickly nodded and struggled up to the front.
After some twists and turns, they arrived at a black metal door. Terry East pressed on a small device and a sliver of spirit wave came out.
A dark blue rune appeared on the door, forming a whiskered head. Thereafter, the door split from the middle.
Behind it was a 20 square meters room. There was nothing inside, except for flat walls.
At this moment, Terry East knocked on the wall with some kind of rhythm, and soon, two spots sunk into the wall.
One notch contained a lot of storage rings, and the other notch contained a dark red-black ball.
There were complex runes on the ball, as well as dark red flashes.
Then, he smiled at Qiuyue Hesha. "Here is our harvest this time."
Qiuyue Hesha nodded with satisfaction. "Not bad."
Then, she blinked at Lu Ze and the rest and smiled. "Little brother Lu Ze, keep them for now. We'll divide them once we get back."
Lu Ze nodded and glanced at the notch. There were 18 storage rings of different styles. He took them and then looked at the black ball.
"What is this?"
The other girls were also confused.
Qiuyue Hesha looked at Terry East, and he immediately explained, "This is a sleeping insectoid queen egg." "What?!"
Lu Ze and the group stared at the object in disbelief.
They had heard about the queen egg a while ago. The Black Smoke Race wanted to control the insectoids and thus conducted experiments in human territory.
They seemed to have obtained a queen egg too?
Yet, they encountered one here? They were too lucky.
Lu Ze asked, "Are insectoids all over the void universe?"
Nangong Jing frowned. "How is that possible? This region of the void universe isn't very wealthy. It's very hard to encounter insectoids."
Lin Ling asked, "Then, what is this?"
Everyone was stunned.
Qiuyue Hesha asked Terry East, "How did you get this egg?" Terry East said, "We raided a small blade demon ship outside the human territory. The opponents were very strong. Our two brothers, Terry North and Terry South, died in battle."
Nangong Jing frowned. "Blade demon's insectoid egg? Where did they get it?"
Their greatest enemy right now was blade demons.
Everyone fell silent.
Moments later, Lu Ze spoke. "I heard Jack say that the Black Smoke Race is also a sub-race of the advanced Demon Race. Are they allies with the blade demons? Last time, the Black Smoke Race used an insectoid egg for an experiment. Did they give the egg to the blade demons?"
Qiuyue Hesha nodded. "That's possible."
Lin Ling asked in confusion, "But if it's a deal between the two races, how could the Terry Brother Pirates raid it?" These Terry Brothers were only level three planetary states.
For something like the insectoid queen, given its precious quality, it wasn't an overreaction to send a high-level planetary state to protect it.
Lin Ling's words made everyone fall silent again.
Moments later, Qiuyue Hesha looked at Terry East. "Where did you raid the blade demons? Point it out on the map."
Terry East took out a fist-sized black device and soon projected a map of the cosmos.
Lu Ze and the others recognized that this region was the void border. One corner was the human territory void border.
Terry East pointed to a place 500,000 light-years away from the human territory and said, "We found it there. We just left the warp dimension and saw a blade demon ship fly over."
"We wanted to avoid it at the time. It was deep in the void ocean, and it was perilous, but they fired without saying anything."
Couldn't they just pass by? Why did they have to fight?
Lu Ze and the rest felt great upon hearing this. Those blade demons were probably scared by their sudden appearance and just fought them. This was great.
But...
They looked at the position and frowned.
This region wasn't near the blade demon's nor Black Smoke Race's region. Neither was it in between the two races.
That region was in deep space. There was not a single cosmic body within ten thousand light-years. Why would they appear there?
Lu Ze and the others glanced at each other but said nothing
This region was outside of human control. It was too dangerous for them. It was best not to think about it.
Qiuyue Hesha looked at Terry East and asked once again, "Where are your previous loots?" The pirates couldn't have stored all their treasure on their ship.
Immediately, Terry East pointed out the location of their treasures. It was a region farther away than where they encountered the blade demons. It was 800,000 light-years away from the human race. That region was also dark and seemingly empty.
Terry East said, "This region has an asteroid that has a special orbit. Our treasures are on that asteroid."
Qiuyue Hesha nodded. Then, she asked about the precise information and how to open it.
After all that was cleared up, Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "In that case, follow us and drive your ship to the human race post."
These three ships were powerful planetary state ships. The Shenwu Army would recycle it for sure.
This was another bout of reward points.
At this moment, Lu Ze saw the other three look at him with complaints. Lu Ze, feeling confused, asked, "What's wrong?" Lin Ling answered, "You made three holes on that black ship..." Lu Ze felt stunned. He forgot about it!
He had completely mastered blood lightning. When he fused it, he felt the urge to be cruel. He just wanted to torment those three and forgot about this matter.
Thinking about this, Lu Ze's heart ached.
How many reward points would that be?
Nangong Jing patted his shoulder and comforted him. "It's fine. It's just three holes. We'll drive it back and let them fix it themselves."
Lu Ze looked at Nangong Jing gratefully. She was so nice!
Qiuyue Hesha sneered. "The gate of this ship is torn by you, right, T-Rex?"
Nangong Jing's smile froze, and she argued, "If I didn't tear the door open, how would we come in?"
Lin Ling said, "Sister Hesha can control them with her god art and order them to open it."
"What..." Nangong Jing looked at Lin Ling in shock.
How could this be?!
How could the cute innocent Lin Ling be this sharp with her words?
Nangong Jing's mood dropped instantly. She took out her bottles of alcohol and began drinking.
Subsequently, Qiuyue Hesha controlled the pilots on the ship to fly these three ships while they took the heavily injured high-level pirates back to the New Dawn. They were rather strong, and it would be troublesome if they recovered and ran.
Lu Ze didn't kill them directly. They raided humans and ate human flesh before. There might be a reward for bringing them back.
Soon, the fleet reached the inner area of the Chiyun Galaxy. This galaxy also had a diameter of 6000 light-years.
It took a day or so to go from the outer region to where the third army stayed. Lu Ze ordered New Dawn to activate the warp drive. Accordingly, the ships behind followed too.
After locking up the pirates, the group returned to the living room. Qiuyue Hesha looked at her bloodied body and smiled. "I'm going to shower first."
Nangong Jing agreed. "Me too."
Lin Ling spoke, "You two, shower first. I'll wait."
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Lin Ling, we're all girls. We can shower together. It's good to have a hot bath after a battle. It'll be a long while after we finish showering."
Nangong Jing smiled. "Yes, let's shower together."
Both of them walked over and grabbed a hand of Lin Ling's. They then dragged her to the bathroom.
Lin Ling struggled anxiously.
"I'll wait for you guys to finish. I can wait."
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Don't worry, I won't do anything to you." You have some self-realization?!
Lin Ling was speechless. She didn't believe this at all. She could only look pleadingly to Lu Ze after seeing that she couldn't break free.
Lu Ze looked at Lin Ling in admiration. He wanted to have a bath with them together too.
Why didn't they invite him?
Lu Ze sighed.
By the way, why did Lin Ling look at him?
Was it his invitation?
However, if he dared to say it, Nangong Jing and the fox demon would beat him up badly. Therefore, Lu Ze could only give her a strange look.
Lin Ling: "?"
What was this retard thinking again?!
Lin Ling was dragged away into the bathroom by Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha in despair, and then, the door shut.
Lu Ze sighed once more and took off his broken battle armor. The armor had recovery capabilities, and this level of damage can be automatically repaired by itself. He didn't need to spend money to fix it.
He looked at his torn clothes and shook his head. Lu Ze felt that as long as he fought powerful beings, his clothes would be ruined. This was such a waste, but there was nothing he could do about it.
He sat down on the couch and started to recount the battle.
In the previous battle, he used blood lightning again. This transformed his lightning a bit more to blood lightning. By the time his lightning god art was completely converted to blood lightning, his combat power could probably reach level two of the planetary state.
Were there special ways to evolve other god arts too?
Lu Ze thought of the yellow earth he saw in the range rabbit's hive.
Would that allow him to possess special earth god art?
The red fire wolf and level eight range rabbit both seemed to have divine arts, and their combat power reached the planetary state.
If it was during the day, Lu Ze didn't have body of darkness. As a consequence, his combat power would be a little weaker than the planetary state. However, Lu Ze felt that even if he was no match for that range rabbit boss, he wouldn't be defenseless. He could run whenever he wanted.
Perhaps he could try getting that earth blob again?
The last time he attempted to bring it out, it felt that the blob was connected to the ground and couldn't be taken away.
He didn't know whether it was because he was too weak or that he could only comprehend it in that place alone.
The third map was too vast, and Lu Ze hadn't encountered that range rabbit hive for a long time. He hoped he could see it again.
Moreover...
That golden echidna.
It probably had divine art too, but he never encountered it again.
Lu Ze thought for a long while. Up until now, his greatest chance of improvement stemmed from that golden echidna or that earth blob.
As for the other beasts, like the black and white pythons and golden monkeys, they were too strong
Lu Ze then thought about their encounter. They were targeted by pirates as soon as they left.
Other people wouldn't be this unlucky, right?
Their squad was definitely the strongest squad among the young dukes. Despite so, they still had a difficult time dealing with the pirates.
If other people encountered this, Ying Ying would have to interfere, right? She would be very tired then. Lu Ze smiled thinking about her chubby face. He would feed her some light orbs later on.
...
On some planet in a black bamboo forest, two male and two female young dukes were greatly weakened. Their combat armors were crushed.
Surrounding them were hundreds of meters long, black anacondas. Their eyes were filled with ice-cold killing intent.
One short-haired man spat some blood and said, "Damn it, I didn't expect there were so many beasts around this dark gold bamboo. We miscalculated this time!"
The other red-haired woman shook her head. "Let's think about how to get out of here first."
The bulky man smiled bitterly. "We can't. There's a very powerful anaconda outside. It's probably the leader. Its cultivation level might be level nine mortal evolution state."
Level nine of the mortal evolution state...
This was lethal to them.
Were they going to die on their first mission at the void border?
The short-haired man grinned. "Then, let's fight! I'll pave the way. We'll try to get as many as we can!"
Suddenly, the ground shook. Tens of kilometers away, a thousand-meter, long-horned black anaconda flew up into the sky and left.
The four stared at this scene in a daze. Before they could react, the two anacondas behind them, which were a thousand-meter long, also flew off in the direction of the first anaconda.
11?"
"Three creatures that were at level nine of the mortal evolution state? What happened to them?"
"I don't know. Did they find something?"
The other anacondas were also confused upon seeing their boss suddenly leave. "Good opportunity! Run!"
They were talented young dukes and weren't going to waste this slim opportunity. They immediately flew to the weakest defended area.
Rumble!
They used their most powerful attacks and paved an exit.
Hiss!
The anacondas hissed, but they were hesitant to chase after since their bosses had left.
That brief moment of hesitation allowed the four to fly off very far. The short-haired man took out his ship, and the four quickly got on and left the planet.
Inside, the four smiled and relaxed. That was too close.
In a particular region of space, a purple space ship flew across. Xuan Yuji and Daphne's eyes still had some fear.
Roar!
There were a lot of irregular flesh bodies chasing behind their ship. There were terrifying spirit waves everywhere they went.
The two were getting close.
Xuan Yuji said, "Planetary state! Not an ordinary one too!"
Daphne clearly didn't expect they would encounter this.
"What do we do?"
Xuan Yuji bit her teeth. "Fight with your life. The ship can't outrun it with its speed."
Just at this moment, a huge universal storm suddenly appeared and swept the monster in.
"Roar!"
The monster's tentacles writhed, but they were drawn deeper into the storm. Consequently, the two were stunned, but the ship didn't stop at all and soon flew off.
The monster was still unscathed, even though it faced such a universal storm. It was much stronger than they had imagined. They were too lucky this time.
Even Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha would have to run from that.
Most young dukes were rather successful with their missions.
On some border planet, the surface was filled with several metallic buildings and canon stands.
Ships landed and flew up non-stop.
In the military barracks, Ying Ying was sitting on the bed inside a double suite. She was happily watching cartoons.
Sometimes, the stars would speak to her, and she would easily save the young dukes. She remembered clearly to only intervene when the young dukes were about to die. This wasn't hard for her. Most of the time, she was watching her cartoons happily. At this moment, the doors opened. Lu Li and Alice came back to their dorms while covered in sweat. They had just finished their training.
This double suite was specially prepared for them.
Upon entering, they saw Ying Ying watching cartoons happily on the couch and smiled.
Alice asked, "Ying Ying, are you hungry? Big sister will cook food for you after a shower."
Ying Ying quickly nodded. "Yay!"
She hadn't eaten anything for an entire day since the two sisters left in the morning. The two quickly showered and soon cooked dinner.
Lu Li thought of something and asked, "Ying Ying, is brother fine?"
She knew Lu Ze was strong but the void border was unsafe. They had heard of all sorts of dangerous situations today already. Ying Ying ate and said, "They're fine. Sister Jing and they encountered some enemies, but they were no match for them." Hearing this, the two girls felt assured. Alice asked curiously, "What about the others?"
Ying Ying said with some pride, "They're all fine. I didn't let anyone see."
Alice hugged Ying Ying and gave her a big drumstick. "Here, eat this Ying Ying."
Ying Ying's eyes immediately lit up.
She loved this, and Lu Ze wasn't here to fight over it with her!
An hour later, Qiuyue Hesha, Nangong Jing, and Lin Ling came out of the bathroom wearing their bathrobes.
Their hair was still wet, and they had a satisfied smile on their faces.
Qiuyue Hesha looked at Lu Ze who was resting and said, "Little brother Lu Ze, have a bath too. We've made the hot water ready for you." Lu Ze nodded and got up. He walked in the bathroom and closed the door.
The place was filled with steam and some faint aroma. Lu Ze took off his clothes and washed the bloodstains before entering the bath.
The temperature was perfect. Accordingly, Lu Ze's tense body relaxed.
Half an hour later, the water grew cold, and Lu Ze came out. He used spirit force to dry the water on his body and put on a bathrobe before walking out. The three girls were chatting in the living room.
Nangong Jing patted the empty spot next to her and said, "Ze, come over. Let's count our loot."
Qiuyue Hesha and Lin Ling appeared to be looking forward to this moment.
Lu Ze walked over and took out the 18 storage rings. The group checked them one by one and smiled.
There were 12 Heaven Yang spirit fruits, two Planet Forge fruits, and three planetary state spirit herbs they didn't recognize. There were also tens of mortal evolution state spirit herbs. At the same time, there were many precious ores, which included the Chiyun ore they needed for their mission. On top of that, there were also powerful crystals and materials from powerful beasts. They even found a Blue Dragon's shell!
Lu Ze was speechless. These guys weren't Terry Brothers, they were Terry Amon. They had everything! They couldn't take out everything onto the ship, but they could sense with their mental force.
There were about 5 tonnes of Chiyun ores. Half a kilogram of this was equivalent to 10,000 federal contribution points. This meant that they had 100 million federal contribution points from just the ores alone.
Great!
There weren't a lot of Blue Shell Dragon. One of them was a level two planetary state while three of them were level one shells. Furthermore, twelve of them ranged from level seven to nine shells.
Nangong Jing frowned. "Why aren't there shells below level seven of the mortal evolution state?"
Qiuyue Hesha said, "I'll call Terry East over and ask."
Then, she brought Terry East out. Nangong Jing asked the question again. Terry East explained, "We found a small Blue Shell Dragon lair. We bombarded it with cannons, and only these dragons ran out. Then, we killed them all."
"Those low-level shells weren't too precious, so we didn't care. It's probably destroyed."
Everyone: "..."
That was Shenwu merits!
How was it not precious?!
Level one to level three mortal evolution state shells were worth half a Shenwu merit!
Level four to level six was worth one Shenwu merit!
This was hard to bear. They lost a few hundred Shenwu merits for no reason.
Level two planetary state shell was priced at 20 Shenwu merits while level one was priced at 10 Shenwu merits.
That was 50 Shenwu merits.
As for level six to level nine shells, they discussed it and decided to take out five to fulfill the Federal missions.
Each mission was worth 400,000 federal contribution points. That would be 2 million federal contribution points in total then.
The remaining seven would be 14 Shenwu merits.
Compared to the Chiyun ores, this was nothing.
They also took Terry Brother's weapons and armors. There was nothing suitable for them. Although they were damaged, there would still be some reward points if they were recycled.
After this, Qiuyue Hesha locked Terry East back in the room. The group deliberated and decided to give the Heaven Yang spirit fruit and Star Forge fruit to Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha.
They were already planetary states, after all.
As for the rest, they would be recycled, and the reward points would be given to Lu Ze and Lin Ling
Everyone smiled happily. This was a great start for them.
Nangong Jing thought of something and said, "By the way, the pirate's treasure is outside the human territory. Are we going to get it?" They acquired a lot of things here, but the real treasure was outside.
Lu Ze smiled. "Although we have Terry East's star map, it's outside the control of the Federation. It's too dangerous to go now. We'll wait for Li and the rest to join and then take Ying Ying with us."
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "We can also go check out where they found the blade demon ship."
Everyone nodded. It was too unusual for blade demons to appear there. Since it was abnormal, then something must be amiss there.
Lin Ling got up and smiled. "I'll go cook."
After dinner, the group returned to their own rooms to cultivate.
Lu Ze sat on his bed and entered the pocket hunting dimension.
He appeared on the barren lands and sensed his surroundings. There were tens of powerful chis not far away. He immediately flew towards them.
What a lucky start!
There were tens of golden-horned sheep happily grazing the grass. They had dual god arts-metal god art and earth god art.
The strongest in this pack was a level eight mortal evolution state.
With Lu Ze's current power, he was not weaker than it, even during the day. Thus, he proceeded above their location without hesitation.
Rumble...
Lightning and thunder reverberated. Lu Ze descended like the Thunder God.
In the pocket hunting dimension, lightning flashed and tens of golden-horned sheep fell to the ground in unison.
Those weaker than level seven mortal evolution state died on the spot. Meanwhile, those level seven sheep had their earth shield crushed by the lightning. They were heavily injured and kept writhing in the lightning.
Although they didn't die on the spot, they lost their combat power. The only one standing was that level eight mortal evolution state sheep.
The lightning could break its defenses, but the remaining power wasn't enough to pose a threat.
Upon seeing all his little pals get killed, the sheep was furious.
Dang!
With a metal clashing sound, the horns of the sheep shot out two eye-piercing golden blade rays. The blades proceeded to cut Lu Ze's black-gold battle armor. Upon making contact, clanking sounds could be heard. Lu Ze grinned. The green wind moved around his body, and he disappeared from his current spot.
Lu Ze dodged the blade rays and rapidly closed in on the sheep while lightning kept flashing in the air. Thunderbolts rained down.
Rumble!
Rumble!
Rumble!
The consecutive hits produced substantial cracks on the sheep's earth shield. Eventually, it shattered like glass.
At this moment, Lu Ze appeared on the sheep's side and clenched his right fist, which formed a bolt of terrifying purple-red lightning. He was just planning to crush it.
During this time, the sheep suddenly stood back on its hind legs as metallic and earth elements radiated from its body. Then, there was a slight tremor from the ground. Countless earth spears shot out from it. Golden blades flew around the sheep like a blade storm.
Sensing the danger coming from all directions, Lu Ze's hair stood up.
Oh shit!
This guy was waiting for him to get close. This sudden burst caught Lu Ze off guard. He didn't even have time to dodge.
There were too many blade rays and earth spears. Lu Ze could only attempt to avoid the lethal attacks while using his black-gold battle armor to take on the weaker hits.
Rumble!
The violent spirit force swept across all directions. The grass was pulverized, and a layer of the soil was plowed through.
When the shockwave dissipated, Lu Ze's body was revealed. His black-gold battle armor had been broken. All sorts of wounds appeared on his body. Some were deep to the bone. Blood kept dripping to the ground too.
His chi became extremely weak. This was really painful. If he didn't keep forming the black-gold battle armor and using super regeneration, he would've been half-dead already.
This wasn't a hit ordinary people could take.
After using such powerful attacks, the sheep's chi also weakened. However, its eyes were still blood-red as it glared at Lu Ze.
Lu Ze returned the gaze with equally cold eyes. Suddenly, Lu Ze disappeared from the spot. The previous carcass had turned to orbs. He quickly picked up the orbs and fled.
This wasn't worth it. He was heavily injured and exhausted. He still needed some time to recover. It really wasn't worth it to keep fighting now.
"Roar!"
The sheep didn't expect Lu Ze to suddenly run. It let out a roar and chased after Lu Ze. However, it wasn't too plausible to catch up to Lu Ze, who had Blue Bird 1 divine art.
Eventually, it could only watch Lu Ze disappear into the distance.
Lu Ze panted. It was quite hard to fight level eight mortal evolution state boss without the body of darkness. If he had the body of darkness, he could have dodged that wave of attack.
What a pity! Gray light flowed around him, and his deep wounds rapidly healed. He used chi stealth god art while he carefully flew in the air.
An hour later, Lu Ze grinned confidently and began hunting again. He was so heavily injured before that it took him nearly an hour to fully recover. Now, he could fight again.
Lu Ze sensed a chi not far away. He changed directions and flew to the left.
Moments later, Lu Ze appeared before a small forest. This sort of forest was, at most, considered a shrub in the pocket hunting dimension. The real ones were boundless.
At this moment, Lu Ze saw a figure that was only half a meter tall. It was round and golden. It had small dark eyes that were very cute. When Lu Ze figured out what this was, he was very excited.
It's that small thing?!
Great!
He was too lucky! But soon, Lu Ze found that this little thing was a level four mortal evolution state. He didn't expect that this little thing's power would increase!?
He had always thought that the beasts in the pocket hunting dimension retained the same power throughout their lifetime. This little thing was already so strong last time as a level three mortal evolution state. Now that it was a level four mortal evolution state, how strong would it be?
Lu Ze hesitated for a moment but still decided to fight it. However, another golden figure suddenly ran out of the forest. It was also another golden echidna.
Lu Ze thought that only one of these magical beasts existed.
The two echidnas seemed to have great fun playing together.
Lu Ze's eyes focused, and he charged up.
Rumble!
Lightning flashed. Lu Ze used large amounts of power and drew out hundreds of purple-red lightning bolts from the lightning clouds.
Just in case, he used his strongest power to attack. If he couldn't beat them, he would run straight away.
'Chit chit chit!" the two echidnas screeched furiously. Their bodies flashed with golden light and thick clusters of golden needles to try to block the lightning bolts.
Rumble!
In just a few seconds, the purple-red light suppressed the golden beams.
Lu Ze gritted his teeth and inserted more power into the lightning clouds.
The golden needles were gradually eradicated, and then, the lightning headed towards the two echidnas.
Yet, just when the lightning was about to strike them, a golden beam flashed and a five-meter tall echidna appeared before the two small ones.
Its sharp claws slapped the lightning, and the lightning clouds were easily suppressed.
Lu Ze: "?"
He looked dazedly at the huge echidna.
Emm...
What to do?
Could he still survive?
Suddenly, a golden beam flashed. Thereafter, Lu Ze died before he could react.
The sudden appearance of the creature disrupted Lu Ze's plan. He didn't expect that those small echidnas had a big boss supporting them.
This was very awkward.
Now, Lu Ze could only set his focus on the earth blob in the rabbit hive.
Indeed, rabbits were the easiest to abuse.
However...
Would the rabbits have a super boss in their hive?
Lu Ze shook his head. He had to go check it out himself.
Half an hour later, the painful sensation disappeared, and Lu Ze began cultivating on his bed.
A day later in the Chiyun Galaxy, there was a small solar system near the center of the galaxy. There was a star that was smaller than the sun. It was emitting red light. There were three planets revolving around this star.
The planet at the outermost orbit had many ships going in and out. Some of these ships were military warships, and some were private ships.
At this moment, a small wormhole appeared, and a ship, on which a sun was inscribed, flew out. There were three strange ships behind it.
One of the black ships had three huge holes.
This was Lu Ze's fleet.
After a day, they finally arrived at the place where the Third Army was stationed.
Lu Ze was sitting in his room. He was emitting a misty white light around him.
*Pant*
Lu Ze clenched his fists and smiled. His six bowels had completely formed planetary seeds. At most, the day after tomorrow, he would be able to reach level four of the mortal evolution state!
By then, his combat power would increase again.
At that point, he would be able to achieve a planetary state power even during the day.
If it was at night.. perhaps he could fight a level nine mortal evolution state dark wolf?
Lu Ze suppressed his bold thoughts. He should play it safe.
Ever since entering the third map, he never seemed to have made it out alive.
When he reached level four of the mortal evolution state, he must make it out of the pocket hunting dimension alive!
He went out of his room.
Nangong Jing also walked out too. Her face showed some joy. Clearly, she had made some considerable progress after using the fruits from yesterday. She saw Lu Ze and grinned. Thereafter, she put her arm around Lu Ze's neck. "Good morning Ze-"
Immediately, an aroma entered Lu Ze's nose, and a somewhat soft sensation came in contact around his neck.
Lu Ze: "..."
She really didn't consider him as a guy, did she?
He slapped off her claws and said, "Watch it, or I might transform!"
Nangong Jing waved her fists at Lu Ze. "I'll beat you up then. You can't beat me anyway."
Lu Ze was speechless. When they went into the living room, they found that Qiuyue Hesha and Lin Ling were already out.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "We're about to arrive." Lu Ze stretched his back. "Mhm, it's like arriving at home in this void space."
At this moment, the Third Army's stationing grounds rang the alarm. "Warning! Unknown spaceship approaching. Suspected space pirates!"
The alarm blared through the entire grounds. The people were stunned.
"Space pirates? Which space pirate is bold enough to come here?"
This region was controlled by humans, and there were star states guarding here!
Star state was considered extremely strong in this region.
"Would they be lost?"
"Should we go help them? There might be rewards..."
"Let's go! Free reward points. Only an idiot wouldn't want them!"
"Yeah, there's no danger anyway."
In this boring void space, these retarded pirates were quite the entertainment.
Meanwhile, the New Dawn brought the space ships closer to the stationing grounds.
During this time, New Dawn's robotic voice could be heard. "Master, a large number of ships are closing in."
Lu Ze and the others were surprised. They looked outside the window. There were indeed many ships approaching, and some were military ships of the Shenwu Army.
Some seemed to be ships of an adventure guild.
"?"
The group was confused.
Lu Ze said, "Even if this is a welcoming ceremony, it's a bit too grand."
Did they do something amazing?
Nangong Jing scratched her head. "We only annihilated a group of pirates. Is this something very amazing?"
New Dawn's voice sounded again. "Master, we're locked by a warship weapon's system. What should we do?"
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The four were completely stunned. The ships weren't here to welcome them back?!
At this point, a short-haired, middle-aged man on the main warship frowned. "Isn't that Monarch of the New Dawn's private ship?"
Then, he looked at the three ships behind it. Things didn't seem so simple.
Was Lu Ze abducted?
Lu Ze was accompanied by a few talented young dukes as well. Thinking about this, his face sunk. "Connect me to New Dawn!"
He was going to see which pirate dared to abduct their Federation prodigy and come to their station so boldly.
Did they think there was no one strong left in the human race?!
Even the people coming to watch the show realized that the ship at the front was Monarch of the New Dawn's private ship.
"I seem to have heard that the Four-Race Social Gathering is about to begin, so young dukes come to the void border to train."
"Could it be that... Monarch of the New Dawn encountered space pirates while they were doing missions and was caught alive?"
"This..."
They didn't know what to say.
Were the group too weak or unlucky?
If they encountered very powerful space pirates, they wouldn't be able to escape. Anything could happen in the void space.
New Dawn's voice came out, "Master, the vice commander of Third Army Jills Carey is requesting for communication and asking to release you."
Everyone: "..."
As it turned out, it was the vice commander of the Third Army, right? This was quite a scene. He would at least be a high-level planetary state, wouldn't he?!
What did he mean by "release Lu Ze"?!
Lu Ze wondered what he should do to release himself?
Lu Ze nodded. "Accept the communication."
He felt that there was some misunderstanding. They were good children.
As soon as Lu Ze answered, a short-haired, powerful middle-aged man appeared in the living room. He was surprised when he saw Lu Ze and the rest, and then, he looked around in confusion. When he didn't see anyone else, he studied Lu Ze and everyone. "Monarch of the New Dawn, young duke Nangong, Qiuyue, and Lin, what are you doing? Why are you with the pirates?"
Since they weren't captured, then did they willingly go with space pirates?
If it was other people, he would've captured them without asking anything, but Lu Ze and the others were young dukes. The situation might be different...
Wait...
Jills thought of a possibility.
Could it be...
He looked at them strangely while waiting for an explanation.
Lu Ze and the rest finally realized what went wrong.
Was it because there were pirate ships following behind them and they were misunderstood?
Lu Ze explained, "... We captured the high-level crew of that space pirates. We were going to see if you wanted to recycle those three ships..."
Jills: "..."
Moments later, Jill pulled the corner of his mouth. "Cough... haha...hahaha... you're indeed the Monarch of the New Dawn and the three young dukes. You annihilated a crew of space pirates as soon as you came to the void border. But... these space pirate ships are different from your private ships. They aren't registered. If you want to bring them back, you need to contact us first, or it would be considered an invasion."
Lu Ze and everyone felt embarrassed. No wonder so many ships came. It was all because of the alarm.
Lu Ze felt he lost all his face as the Monarch of the New Dawn. Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling looked outside speechlessly. Lu Ze nodded. "Um... Alright, we'll take note next time... We won't make such mistakes
again."
Jills nodded and smiled. "In that case, please allow us to send people to take over the three ships. Otherwise, they can't enter the station. This is for safety measure."
Jills was very polite. He was a young duke himself, albeit an ordinary one. He can't compare with Nangong Jing and the others.
Lu Ze nodded. "Sure, do as you wish."
Jills breathed easy. He feared that the talented young dukes like Lu Ze were difficult to talk to. It would be troublesome if that were true.
Jills cut the communication and ordered, "Send people to take over the three ships."
The officer heard the conversation and was very shocked. Those who could be space pirates had at least a few planetary states. Yet, Lu Ze and his group annihilated a crew as soon as they came, and they captured all the high-level pirates alive?
Jills shook his head and sighed. "They're indeed people that ordinary young dukes can't even compare with."
He knew what level of power an ordinary young duke would reach at this stage. If it were him, he would have been killed already.
The officer quickly sent out the orders. The other soldiers were also dazed upon hearing the situation. Despite being shocked, they were very well-trained and soon enacted their orders.
The ships flew over, and soldiers went in to search for potential threats.
Those people who were watching made some comments.
"Wasn't Monarch of the New Dawn captured alive by pirates? How are they sending people in to take the ships already?"
"... Or is it that the space pirates are actually captured by Monarch of the New Dawn and the rest?"
Everyone fell silent. This really might be the case.
"Oh shit, Monarch of the New Dawn is too strong! That's a space pirate crew! It would have at least four to five planetary states, right?"
"The strongest would, at the very least, be a level three or four planetary state!"
"Does this mean that Monarch of the New Dawn is strong enough to capture level three or four planetary state alive? This progress is too terrifying."
"Not necessarily... do you not know how close young dukes Jing and Hesha are with Monarch of the New Dawn? They're definitely on there too. Perhaps, they took on the strongest."
"I really admire him. Not just his power and talent, but even his love life is so successful. I want him to be my teacher."
"Don't think about it. You need to have his talent and his looks first."
"Ouch, that hurts..."
Soon, the interiors of the ships were checked by the soldiers. They reported after there were no threats found.
Jills then contact the New Dawn again.
Lu Ze and the rest felt this was quite awkward. There were so many people watching as well. Jills called them again and appeared in the living room. He smiled. "Monarch of the New Dawn, three young dukes, these three ships are fine. If you want to recycle it for the Shenwu Army, we gladly appreciate it. As for the Shenwu merits, We would have to tell you after an analysis. It would take about a day." Lu Ze smiled. "No problem."
He thought of the high-level crew. "By the way, we captured five planetary state high-levels. Two of them are level three planetary states, one is a level two planetary state while the other two are level one planetary states. Do you want them?"
Jills nodded. "Of course."
Powerful people were needed to explore dangerous parts of the void space, but they couldn't waste human lives like that. This was when these captives come into play. Many powerful beings would be sold like slaves. If the human race was annihilated, perhaps humans would be sold too.
This was very bloody, but compared to the lives of your own race, this was nothing.
Jills smiled. "One quantity of a level three planetary state is worth 600 Shenwu merits. A level two is worth 300 Shenwu merits. Meanwhile, a level one is worth 100 Shenwu merits. This comes to a total of 1700 Shenwu merits."
Lu Ze and the others smiled. This trip was too worth it! They didn't expect space pirates to be worth that much.
Jills smiled. "If you've acquired things you don't need from the space pirates, you can also recycle them at the resource building." Lu Ze and everyone nodded.
The three ships were taken away by the Shenwu Army and so were those high-level pirates. As for Shenwu merits, they would be notified after they were calculated.
Lu Ze and everyone didn't need to worry about being targeted and given less than what they deserve. If the Shenwu Army was really that corrupt, the human race would've been annihilated already.
The audience left upon seeing there was nothing to watch, but what happened today was quite a good conversation topic for them. Soon, the ships surrounding the New Dawn cleared up.
Inside the living room of the New Dawn, Lu Ze smiled. "Next time, we should notify the army about bringing ships back. This is our first time after all."
Lin Ling and the rest nodded.
Nangong Jing smiled. "Let's go back to the stationing ground first."
"Mhm."
The ship soon reached the outermost planet in the solar system. There was a medium-sized city there. The New Dawn stopped at the space station.
Lu Ze, along with everyone, alighted and placed the ship in the storage ring. There were quite some people present there at the moment, and they looked over.
After all, Lu Ze annihilated a space pirate crew. This feat was rather outstanding.
Only those adventurers who weren't strong enough would stay in the human-controlled region to accomplish missions. Those who were confident in their power all left to find more resources.
The power to annihilate a pirate crew was quite strong for the people who stayed here.
Lu Ze and the others were already immune to these curious glances. The four left the space station and entered the city. Compared to Shenwu City, this city was smaller but still had what was necessary. Lu Ze and the rest went ahead to get a suite first. This place was more expensive than Shenwu City. It cost 300,000 star coins.
Then, they went to the resource hall. This was also smaller than the one in Shenwu City. It was a 10-meter tall, huge square structure with a radius of 300 meters. They recycled all the armor and treasure they got from the pirates there.
In total, they received 1100 Shenwu merits. This was quite a decent amount, especially considering it was only their first time. They definitely earned more than the other young dukes.
As for the Blue Shell Dragon and Chiyun ores, they didn't recycle them since it would be worth more to redeem the rewards from the missions.
When all their loot was converted to reward points, Lu Ze got 700 and Lin Ling got 400. Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha got the spirit fruits before, so they didn't take any.
Lu Ze was very confident now. He had 700 Shenwu merits. He could even buy two of those shadow leopard armor.
He was confident to go look at the shops to see what was good. However, Lu Ze knew that he could probably only afford ordinary things. Still, that didn't matter. He would take it slow.
Once they saved up enough merits, they would be able to acquire many good things.
After leaving the resource hall, Lu Ze looked around and said, "I'm hungry."
The other three smiled. "Me too, let's go eat."
They weren't hungry at all, but they still wanted to eat. They ate spirit food, and this was beneficial for their cultivation, so it wasn't a time-waster.
They went around the streets and found a spirit food restaurant. Upon coming in, Lu Ze and everyone looked around and found there were very few people in here. There were only a few tables filled with people. They were drinking spirit fruit wine and spirit food.
They seemed to be celebrating a mission?
Lu Ze and his group found a corner and sat down to order food.
During this time, the conversation on the other table made their expressions turn strange.
"What was that alarm? Old Wang, did you go see? What was the situation?"
"It was just a misunderstanding. I was even thinking about whether I could get some freebies, but it wasn't an invasion at all."
"Then, what is it?"
"This should soon spread. You know Lu Ze, right?"
"Yes, of course, Monarch of the New Dawn Lu Ze. Who doesn't know him?"
"It was Lu Ze and his female friends."
"They came here? But even if they came, the alarm shouldn't sound."
Then, old Wang explained what happened.
Lu Ze and the others shook their heads. They just came to eat and still encountered this. This news spread too fast.
Another person said, "The young dukes came here now to train themselves?"
"The Four-Race Social Gathering is about to begin. They're the prodigies of the young generation. They need to perform well."
"But... the results of these recent few social gatherings haven't been good for the human race."
"... There's nothing we can do about that. The Barbaric and Winged Race are old races in the Elf Cosmic Realm. Round Race... has had much more time to develop than the human race. Their foundation is much greater than the human race."
"But... this year will really be exciting."
"Yes, we have Monarch of the New Dawn. There should be no prodigy that's a match for him among those who had the same cultivation level as him, right?"
"Not just him, young duke Nangong, Qiuyue, and Lin are all very strong among those with the same cultivation level."
"By the way, Green, haven't you been out of the galaxy. How do you think they compare with the prodigies of other races?"
Green sat up. He ate some food slowly before saying, "Um... I actually didn't see any prodigies when I went out." "Pfft!"
The others rolled their eyes at him.
Green immediately said, "I haven't, but the boss I followed last time has! We talked a lot."
The other people were immediately interested. "What happened?"
Green said, "It's said... that the number one prodigy of the elf race, their sacred girl, is a prodigy who was born as star state. She reached the cosmic system state in less than 100 years. Now, it's said her power is beyond the cosmic system state. According to ordinary Elf Race age, she's only about 20."
Everyone fell silent.
Lu Ze and his group looked among themselves cloud state before 20?!
She must be the devil.
Lu Ze made some calculations. He was 19 now. A year later...
He was confident that he could reach the planetary state.
Her starting point was the endpoint that most humans don't even dare to dream of.
How could they compare?
However, Ying Ying was born a cosmic realm state. Nevertheless, she was too cute. Lu Ze thought of the girl watching cartoons and asking to be fed.
She's probably a fake boss.
The atmosphere in the restaurant was silent. Lu Ze and his group were still shocked regarding the news of the Elf Race prodigy.
Nevertheless, when they thought about Ying Ying, they felt better. Worst comes to worst, they'll just rely on Ying Ying.
But...
Lu Ze's eyes flashed with light. The bosses in the pocket hunting dimension were very strong. He felt he could be able to struggle.
Perhaps there was some invincible boss in there, which would become crazy and commit suicide in front of him. Then, he would become invincible.
Lu Ze grinned and smiled. The three girls saw this strange smile and looked worriedly at Lu
Ze.
Nangong Jing said, "Ze, are you defeated?"
Lu Ze's talent was the strongest in the Federation. He had never suffered any defeats. They were concerned.
Qiuyue Hesha rubbed Lu Ze's hair and said gently, "Little brother Lu Ze, our foundation isn't great enough. We don't need to compare with those monsters in the short term."
"If you really feel a lot of pressure, how about I help you release some?" Lu Ze: "?"
Release pressure?
How?
Should he agree?
Lu Ze smelled the aroma coming from Qiuyue Hesha, and his heartbeat quickened. Nangong Jing gripped her fists and said, "I feel I can help you release some pressure too." Sensing the killing intent from Nangong Jing, Lu Ze's heart stopped beating.
He quickly coughed. "Teacher Qiuyue and Nangong, what are you talking about? Am I that sort of weak-minded person? I'm just thinking about other things."
Lin Ling rolled her eyes.
At this moment, that Green spoke again, "The Demonic Prince of the advanced Demon Race is also born a star state. He's as strong as the Elf Sacred Girl..."
Old Wang interrupted, "Tell us something we can compare with."
The Elf and advanced Demon Race had enormous territory. Even in the entire universe, they had some status.
How could the human race compare with them?
Green coughed. "To be honest, Monarch of the New Dawn's talent is already top-notch, except for a few rare prodigies of the Elf Cosmic Realm Races.
"We'll go and see in the Four-Race Social Gathering. This is the one wherein the human race will perform the best."
Lu Ze and the others were also excited. What they could do now was just cultivate and improve their power.
Right then, a beautiful aperture opening state waiter walked over with the food.
Time to eat!
After the meal, Lu Ze and everyone returned to the suite.
The group sat on the couch and opened the void border communicator immediately. They looked at the list of items up for the exchange.
They were all very hopeful. They wanted to see what could be exchanged and work towards it.
The things up for exchange were spirit fruits, spirit material, metals, special material, armors, weapons, equipment, serum, martial technique, secret technique, divine arts, and so forth.
They ignored spirit fruit and serums due to the existence of red and purple orbs.
As for spirit material...
They received quite some of them from the celebration, so they didn't need to worry about it for now.
Metals and special materials...
Lu Ze and the others didn't need to forge any pieces of equipment, so they didn't need this either.
They looked towards equipment, divine arts, and secret techniques.
Lu Ze had enough divine art to use for now, but Lin Ling and the rest had very little compared to him.
Lu Ze only had one divine art rune for each divine art, so he didn't have any surplus to give them.
Lu Ze smiled. "Let's look at the equipment first."
The three nodded.
They opened the section. At the front was mortal evolution state equipment. There were armors, weapons, and specially inscribed rings to increase one's power.
They just had a glance and stopped. Mortal evolution state pieces of equipment were useless to them.
Lu Ze selected a piece of planetary state equipment. As for star state equipment, it was best not to look at them. It would be too painful.
The one listed at the top was a black huge sword.
This sword was called "Black Cleaver".
Wait?!
Lu Ze thought of something.
That seemed to be an ax?
The Black Cleaver sword cost 55,000 Shenwu merits.
If it was converted to federal contribution points... it would be 5.5 billion federal contribution points.
This disappointed the group. This was too expensive!
It was just planetary state equipment.
Nangong Jing scratched her head and smiled. "Luckily, none of us uses huge swords."
Qiuyue Hesha smiled and nodded. "She's right."
The second piece of equipment was dark black armor. Lu Ze and the rest couldn't even look away after seeing it.
The armor was called "Martial God Set".
It was a special armor of the Shenwu Army. Once you wore it, your use of spirit force would increase a level. This was a huge help for battle.
Moreover, the armor had powerful runes that could recycle spirit force back to the body. This would greatly increase power and speed.
This armor was suitable for everyone.
No matter if a person had god art or not, speed, power, and agility, spirit force will always be the foundation. Anyone wearing this would have those attributes increased.
The information provided that this was a simplified version of the combat armor belonging to the God Martial Saint. It was the top-level armor for a planetary state.
The materials used were very rare so only 12 remained.
Lu Ze and the rest loved this. Their personal armor could no longer increase their powers by one level at planetary state. This would only decrease as time went on.
Still, the price was unbearable. 50,000 Shenwu merits...
Who could handle it?!
Even the mortal evolution state shadow leopard armor was only 300!
If all of them would get one, they would need 300,000 Shenwu merits...
After a moment of silence, Nangong Jing said firmly, "We'll work hard on missions during this period. When Li and the rest come back, we'll go to that treasure!"
The other three agreed in unison.
Lu Ze and the others continued to look down.
They found that Zuoqiu Xunshuang was right.
There were so many more treasures they could trade here than in the Dawn System. Their grade was much higher too.
Most importantly, these treasures can only be exchanged through merit points. This was probably an incentive for the powerful beings in the Federation. Accordingly, they would be encouraged to visit the void border to improve themselves and search for more resources for the Federation.
This was why there were far stronger people at the void border than inside the Federation.
Whether it was Lu Ze, Qiuyue Hesha, Nangong Jing, or Lin Ling, they all saw pieces of equipment that would greatly improve their power.
However, they couldn't even afford the Martial God Set. They shouldn't even think about other things.
They were too poor.
Too poor.
Extreme poverty made the four feel dejected.
After looking through gears, they moved onto divine arts, secret techniques, and martial techniques.
They were much cheaper compared to gears. After all, these knowledge-type things could be given repetitively.
Meanwhile, gears required precious resources to forge. In some cases, the Federation couldn't forge them at all. Therefore, their prices were naturally much higher.
There were a lot more divine arts in the treasure depot of Shenwu Army than the Dawn System. Their prices were about the same.
Divine arts stronger than the fire clone only cost 10,000 merit points here. This was about 100 million federal contribution points.
Lu Ze didn't lack divine arts, so he didn't feel anything. However, the three girls naturally had a longing look in their eyes.
Now that they had Lu Ze's purple orbs and the help of the dao enlightenment room, their learning speed for divine art was unimaginably fast. Compared to gears, divine arts were much more cost-effective to them.
However...
They didn't have merit points.
Their eyes were filled with firm resolve. They were determined to work hard and save up merit points.
Everyone breathed out to calm down. The atmosphere remained silent for a long while, and then, Lu Ze said, "Let's find if there is any news related to Blue Shell Dragon or Chiyun rock ores."
Lu Ze opened the information hotspot and chose the local network. He started to scan through it.
There were already several reports regarding the misunderstanding just then. Lu Ze and everyone ignored these reports and focused on what they needed. Soon, they found a piece of news.
This was a group forum. The person who posted the information found a large Blue Shell Dragon cave. There were a few level-five planetary state Blue Shell Dragons. Most were below level four of the planetary state too.
Their squad couldn't take this alone, so they wanted to find a few squads to go annihilate that hive.
Seeing this, Lu Ze and the rest looked among each other. Lu Ze asked, "Should we contact them?"
Nangong Jing nodded. "Mhm, it's hard to find one. Let's contact them and see."
Qiuyue Hesha and Nangong Jing nodded in agreement.
Seeing this, Lu Ze messaged the person. Soon, the other party called, and a projection appeared.
It was a kind-looking, bald-headed man. When he saw Lu Ze and the group, he was stunned. Clearly, he didn't expect them to contact him.
But soon, he smiled. "So it's Nangong and Qiuyue, you two little girls."
Then, he studied Lu Ze. "Monarch of the New Dawn Lu Ze, I've heard so much about you lately. You started trouble as soon as you came over."
Lu Ze was shocked. By the looks of it, this bald-headed dude knew the alcoholic and everyone?
Nangong Jing was dazed due to the statement of the man, and then, she smiled. "So it's senior Yan Gu. I didn't expect you to be at Chiyun System too."
Qiuyue Hesha also nodded. Subsequently, she introduced him to Lu Ze and Lin Ling. "This is senior Yan Gu. He's a young duke from the same period as Elliot. He's also a graduate of Federal University. He's very strong and nice." Lu Ze was surprised. This person was previously a young duke from the same period as Elliot?
Elliot was a bad person. Lu Ze took note of this.
That guy seems to be a level-five planetary state.
How strong was this Yan Gu?
They were both young dukes, so they should be about the same, right? Yan Gu waved his hand. "You guys don't need to talk about my strength. With your talents, you would probably soon surpass me." He also heard about the matter regarding Lu Ze and his group annihilating a pirate crew as soon as they arrived.
This meant that Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha had a combat power reaching level three or even level four of the planetary state. This power was shocking to him.
As for Lu Ze's combat power, he couldn't guess yet, but it shouldn't be bad.
Thereafter, Yan Gu said, "In that case, we'll rendezvous at the entrance of Resource Building tomorrow morning. There are some things we need to be clear about." Lu Ze nodded. Following that, the communication was cut.
Nangong Jing smiled. "I didn't expect senior Yan Gu to be here."
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "I heard he was invited by many powerful adventure guilds outside the galaxy. He rejected them all and chose to stay in the void border. I didn't expect him to not have joined the Shenwu Army. It seemed that he chose to join an adventure squad here or made his own."
Lu Ze smiled. "We can go and ask tomorrow." He was quite interested in this previous young duke too.
Lin Ling nodded. "Perhaps we can learn more about the void universe from him. I wonder if he has been out of the human-controlled region."
They were about to go there soon, and of course, it was best that they learned something about it.
"Okay, go cultivate. We'll probably be experiencing a lot of battles after tomorrow," Nangong Jing said. She drank some wine before returning to her room. Lu Ze and the rest also chose to go back to their rooms.
Lu Ze sat on his bed. It was just afternoon. He began to use red orbs to cultivate.
He was about to reach level four of the mortal evolution state. It was best that he could break through before going to the dragon hive. That way, his combat power would increase, and he would gain more.
Lu Ze dived into cultivation.
The next morning, the warm sunlight enveloped the entire city.
Although it was morning, it didn't matter much for powerful beings. They weren't affected by biological clocks anymore. Cultivation was sleep. Therefore, the entire camp was still busy with the traffic of ships.
Lu Ze slowly opened his eyes. He was really close to breaking through. He felt his seeping spirit force and smiled. The steady progress every day made him feel great. His mood was as beautiful as the sunlight.
He got off the bed and left the room. He saw that the other three had finished cultivating and were sitting on the couch. They all had happy smiles.
Nangong Jing said, "Ze, the merit points from yesterday have arrived."
Lu Ze's eyes lit up and looked hopefully at Nangong Jing. "How much?"
"The only damage to one of the three largest ships was the broken door. It's worth 3000 points. That rock ship is completely fine, but it is less valuable than the big ship, so it's worth 2000 points. As for that black ship..."
Everyone looked strangely at Lu Ze. Lu Ze's mouth twitched. He had a bad feeling.
"That black ship has about the same value as the rock ship, but because it's damaged heavily, it was only worth 1000 points."
Lu Ze's heart ached. He complained, "There are only three holes. If they patch it up, it can still be used. Do they need to deduct that much?"
Lin Ling rolled her eyes. "Do you think it's sewing a hole? That ship was already heavily damaged due to the long time spent in warp travel. This 1000-point reward is already a friendly price."
Lu Ze: "..."
He wanted to beat himself up. That 1000 points were worth more than 100 million federal contribution points.
Lu Ze felt that his heart was bleeding.
Seeing how miserable Lu Ze was, the other three didn't want to criticize him further. Qiuyue Hesha comforted, "Who knows about these sort of things during battle? Little brother Lu Ze, you don't need to blame yourself."
Lin Ling smiled. "Including those high-level space pirate crew, we have 7700 points. This is quite a lot."
Lu Ze could only choose to accept.
The group divided the merit points. Lin Ling got 500, Lu Ze got 1200, and Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha each got 3000.
Now, Lu Ze had 1900 in total while Lin Ling had 900.
They could buy some low-grade planetary state gear.
Of course, they were saving up to buy divine art and higher-grade pieces of equipment.
Lu Ze smiled. "Let's go rendezvous."
The group checked out of their room and flew towards the resource building. They soon reached the place and saw the bald-headed man Yan Gu.
Beside him were a cold-looking, golden-haired woman and a bulky, tall, golden-haired man.
There were also two squads on the side. One squad had five, and the other squad had six people.
They were small adventure guilds.
When they saw Lu Ze and the others come over, they all looked over with curiosity.
While they were studying Lu Ze and everyone, Lu Ze and his group were also studying them.
Other than Yan Gu's group of three, the other two squads each had a level-four planetary state as the strongest. The rest were level-one to level-three planetary states.
This power was rather terrifying.
Yan Gu and the rest could only be stronger. However, Lu Ze saw that Yan Gu's group had pale faces and weak chi.
Were they injured?
It was not just Lu Ze. Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling also noticed Yan Gu's weak chi.
They didn't expect that the three were injured, but it wasn't a good time to ask now.
Yan Gu saw Lu Ze and everyone. He showed a smile. "Alright, everyone has arrived. Let's go discuss this collaboration."
In fact, different adventure squads at the void border would often team up together because some missions were rather hard. One squad would be risky.
The method of collaboration was discussed prior to the mission. Their requests for the division of loot would be discussed.
For Lu Ze and the others, it would be their first time coming to the void space, but they knew about this.
They came to a restaurant not far away and ordered a private room. Everyone sat down and went through the introductions.
The blonde beauty next to Yan Gu was Shadora Clive. She became a young duke at the same time as Yan Gu.
The blonde man was Shaz Warren. He was also a prodigy of Yan Gu's generation.
Shadora and Yan Gu were both level-five planetary states. Shaz was a level-four planetary state.
As for the other two guilds, the one with six members had a leader with some white hair. His face was cold, and he was a middle-aged man. His name was Hu Xiang, and he was a level-four planetary state.
The squad with five members had a leader who had wine-red wavy hair and a curvaceous body. Her name was Leona Beck. She was also a level-four planetary state.
As for the other members, Lu Ze knew each of them.
After the greetings, Yan Gu said, "I believe everyone knows about the Blue Shell Dragon mission. I won't speak much about it here. Our target this time is a large hive. According to our intel, this hive has tens of planetary state dragons. There might be multiple level-five planetary states."
"I believe you guys can tell that we're injured. If we were at our prime, we can annihilate that hive ourselves, but now, we need some time to recover. If someone else discovers that hive in the meantime, it would be a huge loss."
"This is why we want to find people to annihilate the hive with us."
Hu Xiang thought about it and asked, "Brother Yan Gu. We don't have an issue with other things, but how should we divide things up?"
Yan Gu smiled. "Regarding this, because we found the hive, we'll take 10% first from the final loot. Is this fine?"
The rest of them thought about it, and it seemed fine. After all, only he knew where the hive was. This was like an information fee.
Lu Ze and the others glanced among each other. Lu Ze nodded. "We're fine with it."
Hu Xiang and Leona also nodded.
Yan Gu smiled. "Other than that, we'll divide things up based on contribution. Is there a problem with this arrangement?"
Lu Ze and the rest assented with a nod. That was the fairest way to divide things.
At this moment, Leona spoke. "Yan Gu, if possible, can you tell us how you got your injuries? Were you injured by the level-five planetary state Blue Shell Dragons?"
This was very important. If Yan Gu and the others were no match, then the risk would be too high.
Hearing this, Yan Gu's face tensed up.
After a while, he let out a sigh and smiled. "We were injured outside our controlled region. It has nothing to do with the dragons. We're injured, and we don't want to waste time, so we came back to the region in order to rest up while taking a few missions. Don't worry, even though we're injured, we can still take on level-five planetary state void beasts."
Yan Gu's words were filled with great confidence.
After all, Yan Gu and the others could fight beyond their level. The void beasts were only on par with them.
The eyes of Lu Ze and his group flashed. It seemed they needed to have a chat.
Leona and Hu Xiang also breathed easy. Going beyond the region was too far for them. They didn't think about it much. Even if they reached level five of the planetary state, they didn't dare to go out.
They weren't prodigies like Yan Gu. They were not too confident. At the least, they would need to be level six or higher to explore outside.
Leona said, "In that case, we're fine. I've already worked with Hu a few times, so we're familiar. As for Lu Ze..."
She studied Lu Ze with intense interest, and she smiled. "As for Monarch of the New Dawn Lu Ze and the rest, they annihilated a space pirate crew as soon as they came. This power is adequate."
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. "I'm fine too."
To be honest, their powers were probably the weakest in the group. They were just relying on them.
It was quite nice to get some merit points with them.
The only problem was, could this woman stop looking at him?
Hu Xiang's cold face also revealed a smile. "Me too."
Seeing that everyone was fine with the arrangement, Yan Gu smiled. "In that case then, let's hope we can work well together and benefit from this." "Time is limited. If we don't need to prepare anything, let's head off now?"
Hu Xiang said, "As an adventure squad, we're ready at any time."
Leona nodded. "Us too."
However, she looked at Lu Ze. "But it's brother Lu Ze's first time here. Do you need to prepare? You can tell us if you have any difficulties."
Lu Ze smiled. "Thank you, we're prepared."
Yan Gu nodded. "In that case, let's head off."
The group left the restaurant and headed to the space station.
Yan Gu took out his space ship there. It was a dark gray 300-meter long spaceship. It looked very premium.
Hu Xiang and Leona also took out their own squad ships. Usually, they wouldn't go on the ships of other squads.
One had to be careful.
Lu Ze also took out the New Dawn.
He looked around, and his mouth twitched. His New Dawn was the smallest ship here.
Lu Ze had made up his mind to change New Dawn to the strongest ship and blind people's eyes with it. Then, he could enjoy people's shocked expressions.
After they entered their respective ships, the fleet soon established communication.
Yan Gu said, "Next, I'll take you to the location of the hive. It's about a day's journey from the settlement. Keep up."
Lu Ze, Hu Xiang, and Leona nodded.
Thereafter, Lu Ze ordered New Dawn to follow Yan Gu's ship.
The four ships flew off from the planet and entered the warp tunnel. Inside, their communication was cut.
In the living room, Qiuyue Hesha looked at Lu Ze. "Little brother Lu Ze is really popular. That old woman looked at you like she was going to eat you."
Lu Ze coughed dryly. If Leona heard this, she would probably explode.
Lu Ze felt good about himself inside, but he sighed. "I don't want this too, but my handsome appearance doesn't allow it. Wherever I stand, I'm like the brightest star in the night sky. My charm is emanating uncontrollably. This is really a headache..."
Nangong Jing: *Puke*
She couldn't hold it and sprayed her wine all over Lu Ze's face.
Lu Ze: "?"
This was the second time.
Nangong Jing glanced at Lu Ze and said, "It's your fault. You made me laugh!"
Lu Ze: "..."
The perpetrator made the accusation first?!
Nangong Jing still took out a handkerchief and moved over saying, "Don't move."
Then, she gently wiped off the alcohol from Lu Ze's face. Lu Ze: "..."
He smelled the aroma from Nangong Jing. He felt her actions were clumsy, and this thing was unreal. This was his first time seeing her this gentle. Was she really that violent alcoholic?
He opened his mouth and wanted to ask if she was possessed by something, but considering his safety, he didn't ask.
Qiuyue Hesha and Lin Ling also looked at Nangong Jing in disbelief.
This wasn't real!
Soon, Lu Ze's face was cleaned, and Nangong Jing moved aside. Seeing everyone stare at her strangely, she said with some awkwardness, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "I'm wondering if the muscles in your brain were eaten by the brain-eating insect." Nangong Jing just realized what she did and felt a little awkward.
She still said, "I did it, so that's why I wiped it for this kid!"
Lin Ling looked at the two and got up. "There's one more day before we arrive. I'm going to cultivate first. Hopefully, I can reach level three of the mortal evolution state before I get there."
Thereafter, Lin Ling left.
Likewise, Qiuyue Hesha got up too. "I'm going to cultivate."
"Me too."
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha left. Only Lu Ze remained on the couch.
He was still thinking about Nangong Jing's gentle side and scratched his head.
Cultivation.
He got up and returned to his room.
A day later.
In the warp travel.
Lu Ze was covered in this strange shield.
This was Lu Ze intentionally using the pocket hunting dimension special shield. It could reduce his breakthrough commotion to minimal fluctuations.
He frowned. Countless spirit force surged into his body from the void.
His six bowels were emitting this white glow. It appeared like crystal jade and looked beautiful.
All the spirit force was surging into his heart.
Lu Ze's blood jade-like heart was beating steadily as countless spirit forces surged in before flowing into the cell in the center.
The spirit force attached to the surface of the cell and started to slowly seep in. He was beginning to break through to level four of the mortal evolution state.
At the border of Chiyun Galaxy, there was a region shrouded in Chiyun stardust.
There weren't many stars around. Several black blocks of ice were floating all over the area.
At this moment, a wormhole appeared, and four ships came out of it.
Inside the New Dawn living room, Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling were all there but not Lu Ze.
During this time, New Dawn's voice sounded, "Yan Gu, requesting for communication."
Lin Ling said, "Accept."
Immediately, three projections appeared in there. It was Yan Gu, Hu Xiang, and Leona.
Yan Gu said, "It will take about an hour to arrive at the hive. We've left someone there to watch it. No one has found it yet. We can start killing them as soon as we get there." Only now did Yan Gu realize that there were only three people in the room. He was stunned. "Where is Lu Ze? Still cultivating?"
The three looked among each other helplessly.
They didn't expect Lu Ze to choose this time to breakthrough. They were cooperating with the other squads. This would seem a bit inappropriate.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled apologetically. "Yes, sorry. Please wait for a little more time. He needs some time, but he will be done soon."
Hearing this, the three squad leaders were speechless. The Monarch of the New Dawn didn't seem reliable.
They were collaborating, and before they even got to work, he was already dragging them behind?
However, they had no choice but to wait for Lu Ze.
Hu Xiang frowned. "Why did Lu Ze have to choose this time to cultivate? What if someone else finds the hive?"
If they were to fight over it, it would be more trouble.
Nangong Jing scratched her head. "Um... just wait a little. That kid will be fast."
She didn't tell them Lu Ze was breaking through.
What if someone interfered?
Nangong Jing bit her teeth. After this was done, she was going to beat him up. Since when did she talk to someone like that? Hu Xiang was annoyed, but considering both Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha were as strong as him and far surpassed him in talent, he eventually shut his mouth. It wasn't worth it to offend them for this.
If the dragons were really stolen by someone, then Lu Ze owed them a favor. That would be worth much more than a few thousand merit points.
After all, he's the first monarch.
Thinking about this, Hu Xiang even wanted someone to steal the hive. It was very worth it for them.
Leona had the same idea too.
She kept a smile on her face without a sense of urgency at all.
Yan Gu saw this and sighed. If one really thought that Hu Xiang and Leona were easy-going, then he would be too naïve. Only the face of the first monarch was the only worthy thing that could make them wait. He was the same.
Therefore, the four ships just stopped there and floated in space waiting for Lu Ze.
Two hours later, Lu Ze's chi calmed down.
His heart flashed with starlight. It was a planetary seed. His five bowels were forming planetary seeds. This meant that Lu Ze had reached level four of the mortal evolution spirit force and body had greatly improved.
Lu Ze opened his eyes and clenched his fist. Space twisted a little. He grinned happily feeling his power.
At last, he was finally a level-four mortal evolution state.
He would definitely be able to get quite some dragon shells.
Thinking about this, he just remembered that they were almost there. He quickly got off the bed and darted out.
In the living room, the other three were looking speechlessly at him. There was also the projection of Yan Gu, Leona, and Hu Xiang. They were also looking at him speechlessly.
Lu Ze immediately felt embarrassed.
He scratched his head and waved his hand to them awkwardly. "Good... good morning?"
The atmosphere was silent inside the New Dawn.
Yan Gu coughed. "Since Lu Ze is done cultivating, let's head off then."
He looked at Lu Ze, and his eyes flashed with confusion.
Why did it feel like there were some little changes to Lu Ze?
This was only a holographic projection though, so he wasn't too sure.
Then, the call ended, and the New Dawn followed Yan Gu's ship.
Lu Ze was a little worried. The eyes of the people in the ship made his heart feel cold. He looked at the three and asked, "What's wrong?"
The three rolled their eyes at him.
Lin Ling asked, "Broke through?"
"Mhm."
Seeing that the three didn't do anything, Lu Ze immediately put his hands on his waist and smiled. "Look at who I am. Of course, I broke through. I'm a level-four mortal evolution state now!"
He looked at Lin Ling and smiled. "You broke through too."
Lin Ling was a level-three mortal evolution state.
Lin Ling nodded and grinned. She was in a good mood to reach level three of the mortal evolution state so quickly. Qiuyue Hesha leaned on the couch. "Little brother Lu Ze and Lin Ling are getting stronger and stronger. You will be able to catch up to us soon."
Nangong Jing drank some wine and nodded.
After all, Lu Ze's red orbs were now much more useful to Lu Ze and Lin Ling than to them.
Unless Lu Ze got stronger orbs, their cultivation speed wouldn't improve.
"When Lu Ze reaches the planetary state, we can probably go outside the Milky Way galaxy."
"It wouldn't be too long, right? We can probably go after the East Realm Gathering."
The group was keen. They wanted to see the powerful races in the Elf Cosmic Realm.
An hour later, the four ships came to a region with a lot of dark ice floating.
Yan Gu's ship stopped on one. The New Dawn stopped too, and Lu Ze and the rest came out.
The other squads also came out. They put away their ships, and Yan Gu said, "That hive is in this region. It's not too far, we..." Yan Gu suddenly stopped.
Then, his eyes widened as he looked at Lu Ze in disbelief. It was as though he saw something strange.
When Shadora, Shaz, Hu Xiang, Leona, and the others sensed Lu Ze's cultivation level, their eyes bulged.
"Level-four mortal evolution state? How is this possible?" Shadora barely spoke at all on the trip, but she now exclaimed.
It was only a day, and yet, Lu Ze reached level four of the mortal evolution state from level three. This was too insane. They also found Lin Ling went from level two to level three.
They were dazed.
Were the levels within the mortal evolution state really easy to breakthrough?
A one-day breakthrough was just normal?
But how long did they take?
Yan Gu remembered that he took an entire ten days to break through, and his heart ached.
He realized that he might not be a prodigy.
No... he was dumb...
Yan Gu began to self-doubt.
Other people were lifeless too. Yan Gu's talent was the best in this bunch. Other people might take months to breakthrough.
How could they compare at all? Were they not cultivating the same thing?!
Hu Xiang and Leona glanced at each other, rejoicing that they didn't offend Lu Ze over that small thing.
Their progress was too absurd.
If they really offended Lu Ze just then, they would even begin considering if they could assassinate Lu Ze.
But now, getting on Lu Ze's good side was the best choice.
Lu Ze was used to this shock.
He smiled humbly. "This is not worth mentioning. I was just lucky."
Yan Gu and the rest rolled their eyes. How long has it been since Lu Ze reached the mortal evolution state? He was already a level-four mortal evolution state now.
Yan Gu smiled bitterly. "I finally understand why the saints appointed you as Monarch of the New Dawn."
With this talent and combat power, he was indeed much stronger than young dukes.
They weren't on the same level.
He just didn't expect that Lin Ling was also progressing as fast.
Was Lin Ling also really talented?
Lin Ling's status went straight up in his mind.
Yan Gu calmed down his shock and then smiled. "Let's go. We just contacted the pals watching here. No one has come yet."
"Mhm."
The other people didn't want to compare with Lu Ze anymore.
Subsequently, the group started flying inside the floating ice cluster.
After flying for half an hour inside, Lu Ze and the others saw an extremely huge astral body.
It was a piece of black floating ice with a diameter of over ten thousand kilometers. It was almost the same size as Earth.
The surface of the body was filled with holes. There were long snake-like things going in and out of these holes.
They had one horn on their head and looked ferocious. There were four claws under their bellies. Their body ranged from tens of meters to hundreds of meters.
At the same time, their bodies were covered in faint black scales, and there was a piece of dark scale under their chin that was very obvious.
They were all Blue Shell Dragons. Seeing this, everyone was excited.
"That many?" Leona exclaimed.
There were more than a thousand just on the surface of the planet. There would only be more inside.
There were smaller blocks of floating ice outside the hive. Lu Ze and the others were hiding behind one. At this moment, a white beam flew over their location.
Soon, a black-haired man wearing white armor appeared beside Lu Ze and the rest.
His face was a little pale. He was probably injured outside the controlled region too.
Yan Gu smiled at him and said, "This is my pal, Ji Cheng."
Lu Ze and the others noticed that Ji Cheng was also a level-four planetary state.
Then, Yan Gu introduced everyone to Ji Cheng. After that was done, Yan Gu asked, "How is it?"
Ji Cheng smiled. "There are no adventure squads coming nearby. However, there are quite some dragons in this hive. Get ready for a long battle. We need to prepare recovery serums."
If a battle was drawn out and one's spirit force recovery couldn't keep up with spirit force consumption, then serums were needed to recover spirit force. However, Lu Ze didn't need to worry about it at all.
His own recovery speed could handle ordinary intense battles. If he consumed all his energy, he had red and purple orbs.
As for Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling, their recovery speeds were also much faster than ordinary people after using red orbs.
Hu Xiang and Leona, along with the rest, were different. They looked at the hive and then nodded. Their eyes flashed with pain. "We're fine."
Serums were very expensive!
However, the loot from here was enough for them to use a serum.
After ensuring that everyone was fine, Yan Gu divided the tasks.
Yan Gu and Shadora would draw away level-five planetary state dragons. Shaz, Ji Cheng, Hu Xiang, and Leona would deal with level-four planetary state dragons. Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and the other two squads level-three planetary states would deal with level-three planetary state dragons.
The rest of the dragons were left to Lu Ze and the rest.
After this was done, Yan Gu smiled. "We'll go up first."
Yan Gu and Shadora flew towards the hive. As he flew, Yan Gu turned golden. His chi suddenly rose and started a storm.
Shadora held a long sword in her right hand. The sword surged with sharp sword rays.
Their chi immediately startled the Blue Shell Dragons. Roar!
Roar!
Five extremely powerful chi shot out of these hives.
With a violent roar, 5 Blue Shell Dragons, which were hundreds of meters long, shot out of the hive and flew towards Yan Gu and Shadora.
Those were 5 level-five planetary state dragons!
Seeing that they drew out the bosses in the hive, Yan Gu and Shadora immediately flew away from where Lu Ze and the rest were.
Then, Shaz and the others flew out. This time, 13 level-four planetary state Blue Shell Dragons were drawn out.
Seeing so many flying out, Hu Xiang and Leona, who were just ordinary planetary states, were shocked.
"So many."
They were no longer excited.
Could the four of them even hold off this many?
Meanwhile, Shaz's and Ji Cheng's face didn't change at all. The two looked at Hu Xiang and Leona, and then Shaz said plainly, "You don't have to kill them. Just hold them off. Wait until brother Yan and Shadora kill those level-five planetary state dragons. Your merit points will not be reduced"
Hearing this, Hu Xiang's and Leona's face looked better.
If it was just holding them off, they could do it. After all, void beasts were weaker than martial artists. They felt they could run fast enough.
Those who couldn't run fast wouldn't survive long in the universe.
Nangong Jing's and Qiuyue Hesha's eyes were heating up with fighting spirit. For level-three planetary state dragons, they could beat five, no, ten, no, twenty!
The level-three planetary states from the two adventure guilds were two middle-aged men. Their faces didn't seem too good.
There were 13 level-four dragons, how many level-three dragons would there be?
They were worried. At this moment, Nangong Jing smiled excitedly. "Let's go fight a wave of monsters!"
Her black hair turned golden as her dominant chi expanded. With her personal golden armor, she once again changed from a female alcoholic to a female martial god.
Qiuyue Hesha's chi also surged, and the two charged out. Witnessing this, the other two men had no choice but to follow.
They had no other options.
When the hive sensed more chi, they went into a frenzied state.
They just kept coming wave after wave. Who could handle this?
Powerful chi burst out. The level-three planetary state dragons came charging out.
Behind them were level-one and level-two planetary state dragons that were eager to move out too.
Sensing a few hundred dragons from level one to level three, the remaining people of the other two squads had purple faces.
Wasn't there just around a hundred dragons?
Who taught Yan Gu's math?!
The two middle-aged men at the front were scared by the chi. They weren't even confident they could run away anymore!
At this moment, Nangong Jing grinned and clenched her right fist, proceeding to punch a roaring level-three dragon.
Rumble!
The fist force was about to hit the dragon.
The dragon then tensed up, sensing the lethal threat. Subsequently, a black spirit force flashed, forming a shield before the fist force.
Rumble!
Spirit light exploded, sweeping across a distance of a few thousand kilometers.
The level-one and level-two dragons on the side were sent flying by the shockwave. Some level-one dragons were even injured a little by the wave.
Only the tens of level-three dragons remained sturdy on the ground.
At this moment, one of them suddenly opened its mouth and shot out black energy cannon towards a dragon on its right. Rumble! The dragon clearly didn't expect its pal to fire at it. As a result, it ended up being shot.
Roar!
Its body flew out a few hundred kilometers. Black blood splattered everywhere as it howled pitifully. Oh shit?
Why?
Weren't they the same team?
It would never believe its comrades again. At this moment, the dragon that shot the cannon suddenly recovered. It looked at its friend and the others who were flying away from it.
Its heart ached.
That wasn't his fault.
He looked at four small figures in the distance. He was innocent. He was framed up.
Roar!
The other pals seemed to understand its words. The tens of level-three dragons came charging at the four small beings.
"Go quickly!" Nangong Jing grinned upon seeing this. That was quite a lot. She would take these black dragons away first. Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "We'll leave the remaining ones to little brother Lu Ze." "?"
The middle-aged men wondered if they heard it incorrectly. There were still a few hundred level-one and level-two dragons left. There were even more mortal evolution state dragons. How many people were left? Only nine, including Lu Ze and Lin Ling. All these would be left to Lu Ze?
Did the two really hate Lu Ze and wanted him to die?
Seeing the dazed expressions of the two men, Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha frowned.
Nangong Jing said, "Aren't you going? If you're surrounded, I can't save you." Qiuyue Hesha could determine what they were thinking and smiled. "You two underestimate little brother Lu Ze too much. Don't worry. It's fine."
The two men looked deeply at the two girls and then flew off.
Lu Ze's life or death wasn't something they could decide. Most importantly, they had to live first.
Now, only seven people remained from the two squads. Three of them were level-two planetary states while four were level-one planetary states. They immediately felt weak and vulnerable in the wake of the few hundred Blue Shell Dragons.
Mhm.
If they survive this time, they would leave the squad.
Lu Ze's eyes lit up, seeing the crowd of Blue Shell Dragons coming. He looked at Lin Ling. "How's your power now?"
Lin Ling frowned. "I can barely take on a planetary state level-one dragon."
After all, there was still a huge difference between her and Lu Ze.
Lu Ze smiled. "Then, you go behind and deal with those mortal evolution state dragons."
Lin Ling's eyes flashed with dissatisfaction, but she still nodded.
The other members heard their conversation and felt confused.
A handsome man pointed at the dragons and said dryly, "Lu Ze... you're not going up to fight, are you?"
Lu Ze looked back and scratched his head. "Is there a problem? If I don't fight them, they're not going to kill themselves."
Everyone: "..."
They looked at the few hundred dragons and then at Lu Ze. There seemed to be a communication gap between them.
Lu Ze saw their hesitation and smiled. "Don't worry. Leave most of them to me. Just kill a few as you see fit."
Lu Ze looked at Lin Ling. "I'm going up. Be careful yourself."
Lin Ling rolled her eyes. "I'm not a kid."
Why did this guy keep treating her like a kid?
Lu Ze smiled and said nothing. His body flashed with silver light, and he instantly appeared above those few hundred planetary state dragons.
The blood-colored lightning entered his body, and immediately, blood lightning flashed around him. His hair and eyes also turned blood-red.
A trace of brutality flashed in his eyes. There were many more dragons than he had expected. If he didn't break through to level four of the mortal evolution state, he would have to fight and run at the same time. Only when those stronger people have finished dealing with the dragons could they help him.
That was the plan of Yan Gu and the others.
After all, Yan Gu and the rest wanted to get more loot, especially since their arrangement was contribution-based. The lesser people the
better.
Lu Ze broke through to level four of the mortal evolution state, and after blood lightning entered his body, his combat power was definitely strong, even among level-two planetary states.
His opponent was a group of void beasts.
Rumble...
With Lu Ze as the center, the spirit force shot out. A lightning cloud patch with a range of thousands of kilometers appeared above him. All of the dragons were underneath him.
Sensing the violent chi from the clouds, these dragons immediately tensed up.
Lethal threat!
Roar!
The dragons roared and gathered their spirit force. They wanted to destroy the lightning cloud in the sky.
Lu Ze grinned as his blood-red eyes flashed with killing intent.
Too late!
"Die!"
Rumble!
He inserted most of his power into the lightning cloud while the clouds were also sucking spirit force from the void. Immediately, a few hundred blood lightning poured down.
Roar!
The dragons weren't just going to sit there. Sensing the lightning, all of them attacked, whether it was mouth cannons or claw attacks. Hundreds of powerful attacks greeted the lightning
Rumble...
The clash made the surrounding thousand kilometers look like doomsday. A terrifying storm swept across in all directions.
Those remaining members watched this scene, and their minds went black.
Too terrifying!
Level-four mortal evolution state Lu Ze could really take on a few hundred level-one and level-two planetary state dragons all by himself.
Although void beasts had no martial techniques and divine arts and were at the bottom of their state, the difference in their cultivation levels was huge.
They were completely silent. "Am I dreaming?"
"What a coincidence! I feel I'm dreaming too."
Can a human really be this strong?
They were in deep shock.
Lin Ling also looked at Lu Ze with gleaming eyes. This guy was an idiot and always made her angry, but he was a bit handsome.
Lin Ling retracted her glance after a while and flew towards the mortal evolution state dragons.
She had to work hard too.
Lu Ze's power had been drastically depleted. The severe pain and pressure of using the blood lightning made his body spray blood. His blood also seemed to contain pieces of blood lightning
This was so painful!
Lu Ze's mouth twitched.
He wanted to cry, but he had to hold on. There were so many merit points here!
He still wanted to buy a Martial God Set.
He used his mental force to draw in red and purple orbs. Upon entering his body, they immediately turned into a gentle power that replenished his consumption.
When the two attacks clashed, most of the level-one dragons were heavily struck and died on the spot. The remaining ones were heavily injured and extremely weak.
While a hundred or so level-two planetary state dragons had powerful attacks, the blood lightning still managed to crush such attacks, but the remaining power of the blood lightning could only give them light injuries.
After this wave of lightning, only a hundred or so dragons remained. In that instant, more than two-thirds of the group was gone.
"Roar!"
The level-two planetary state dragons roared furiously.
Rumble!
But before they could finish roaring, the second wave of blood lightning hacked down. Therefore, they could only get ready to defend against the lightning again.
Lu Ze could hold on for now as both his spirit force and body were much stronger than level three of the mortal evolution state.
After the second wave, the level-two dragons had quite some ample injuries. They wanted to retreat while the stronger ones still wanted to charge up furiously.
During this time, the third wave struck down.
Then, the fourth wave. The fifth wave ensued, along with the sixth wave.
After nine waves of lightning, there were only three dragons remaining in the lightning clouds.
They were the strongest of the level-two dragons. Before the blood lightning, they could stay untouched and even counter-attack.
However, their counter-attack was a joke to Lu Ze who had a black-gold battle armor and extreme speed.
Eventually, they could only watch their friends die one by one.
Those squad members outside watched the floating few hundred Blue Shell Dragons and couldn't speak for a long time.
He really annihilated a few hundred dragons all by himself.
A level-four mortal evolution state human annihilated a few level-one and level-two hundred planetary state all by himself.
They felt that they were watching a legend.
It seemed too unreal.
Right then, the howls made them regain their senses. The range of the lightning cloud was limited. There were still more than ten dragons who escaped.
They were heavily injured and wanted to run back to their base.
Seeing this, everyone looked among each other. The handsome man's mouth twitched. "Cough... um... these dragons seem like they want to run... how about we..."
His face turned red. Compared to Lu Ze, they were like a new kid being helped by the boss. Their feelings were extremely complicated.
Lu Ze didn't seem to notice this, but they still flew towards those heavily injured dragons.
Those dragons never expected that they would be surrounded as soon as they came out.
Meanwhile, Lu Ze was dodging while attacking furiously at the heads of the two bosses.
Lu Ze suddenly felt immense pain all over his body. His body had become very brittle due to long-time use.
Lu Ze didn't use more power to attack them. He just let the lightning cloud suck his power to stop the dragons from chasing after him while he used super regeneration to recover.
He consumed purple and red orbs, but they were very gentle.
Lu Ze slowly started to recover while being chased by these 3 level-two dragons. He felt great. These dragons didn't have martial techniques to catch up to him.
But... it was so painful. If possible, Lu Ze didn't want to use blood lightning. It was too painful.
At this moment, the other team members killed more than ten fleeing dragons and watched Lu Ze dodge the three dragon's attacks.
They were shocked.
"Did Lu Ze use too much power?"
"Probably... after all, the power he just used was enough to drain a level-four planetary state."
That nine waves of attack were too terrifying. They probably couldn't even use one. The group looked among each other, and then, one person said, "How about... We go help Mr. Lu Ze?"
"Sure!"
The seven people flew towards Lu Ze. "Mr. Lu Ze, we're here to help you!" Lu Ze looked around and just realized he still had teammates. He accidentally annihilated pretty much all the dragons. Now, his teammates didn't seem to have anything to do...
This was awkward.
He smiled. "It's you guys. I accidentally killed all the dragons. Did you guys get anything?"
Hearing Lu Ze's question, their faces went awkward.
Then, the handsome man smiled. "Hahaha... there were a few dragons who escaped out of your divine art's range. We went and killed them..."
Lu Ze stiffened. He had only been watching the inner area of the lightning cloud. He didn't expect there were few dragons that slipped away.
Nevertheless, Lu Ze didn't mind. "In that case, I'll leave these three dragons to you." "Sure, have a rest first, Mr. Lu Ze."
The group showed a warm smile to Lu Ze. He was stronger than they were, and his talent was too scary. This naturally made them fawn over him.
Lu Ze nodded and left the battle. He looked towards Lin Ling who was still fighting.
Mortal evolution state dragons kept flying out of the hive and attacked Lin Ling.
They surrounded her and wanted to kill her, but clearly, they thought too much. Lin Ling's spirit eye god art had terrifying dodge and attack rate. Moreover, she wore her personal combat armor and had power reaching the planetary state.
She could kill a dragon with every spear. Not a single one of them could dodge her attacks. Although she didn't use large-area attacks, Lin Ling had already killed a few hundred mortal evolution state dragons. Hundreds of their bodies just floated silently outside their lair. Lu Ze didn't go help. He just watched Lin Ling fight.
If he went to help, she would complain.
A few minutes later, a wail sounded not far away.
Those 3 level-two planetary state dragons were very strong among those that were level-two, but upon facing 7 level-one and level-two people attacking them, they only lasted a few minutes before dying. At this moment, a golden and pink beam sliced across the air from the distance and flew towards this location.
There were also two faint white lights behind them.
The four beams soon passed, revealing Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and the two other middle-aged men who were level-three planetary states.
Seeing the few hundred bodies floating in the air, the two men were shocked. Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha expected this.
Just then, Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha killed tens of level-three planetary state dragons, and the two men already felt astounded. But now, seeing the dense cluster of bodies, they felt like they were living in a dream.
They thought they were the fastest, so they wanted to come back and help. However, right now, only these dragons remained?
They looked at Lu Ze and then at their own squad members. They flew up to them and asked about the situation.
After knowing that Lu Ze single-handedly killed almost all of them, their face twitched.
Even they would take quite some time to accomplish that.
Did this mean that Lu Ze's combat power was on par with them or even stronger?
Naturally, they overestimated Lu Ze in their hearts.
Lu Ze had red and purple orbs, giving him far superior recovery ability. His combat power wasn't as strong, but his team combat skills wouldn't be far from theirs.
The two middle-aged men looked at Lu Ze like he was a monster. Meanwhile, Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha flew to Lu Ze.
Nangong Jing grinned and patted Lu Ze's back. "You did very well, Ze."
Lu Ze rolled his eyes and didn't say anything.
No shit. Look at who he is!
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "I'll go help Lin Ling."
Although with Lin Ling's power, it would only be a matter of time before she killed all the mortal evolution state dragons. Still, her speed won't be quite fast.
She appeared next to Lin Ling.
Lin Ling was sweating a little and panting.
Seeing Qiuyue Hesha here, she breathed easy. "Sister Hesha, you guys are done?"
Qiuyue Hesha nodded. "I'll help you."
Lin Ling looked at the dense cluster of dragons. She was dissatisfied, but she still nodded.
A pink ray shone in Qiuyue Hesha's eyes. Immediately, those thousand dragons stopped moving. The entire region fell silent. In this eerie silence, their life force slowly dissipated. Their bodies turned to corpses.
Seeing this, the members of the two other squads were shocked again. This was too scary. These few people were all monsters. No more dragons flew out from the hive.
Lu Ze looked at the quiet hive and said, "There's no more?"
This astral body was quite big. It was the size of the Earth. It would take them a long time to go inside and search.
Nangong Jing shook her head. "We'll wait for senior Yan Gu to return before we can investigate."
Suddenly, six more beams flew over.
It was Yan Gu and the others. They soon stopped before the location of Lu Ze and the rest.
Yan Gu's and Shadora's faces were paler. Their chi was weaker than before. If they were at their peak state, they would easily be able to face 5 level-five planetary state dragons. But they were injured, and thus, it was a bit difficult. Otherwise, they wouldn't be teaming up.
Despite so, they still killed all of the dragons.
Shaz's and Ji Cheng's chi was also weaker. Even Hu Xiang's and Leona's body was a little bloodied.
Hu Xiang and Leona were weaker and were hunted by the dragons. Luckily, Yan Gu and Shadora helped them right after they were done with their enemies.
They were desperate to return immediately, in order to help the rest of the people. However, what came before them were these bodies instead.
Their eyes widened. All these Blue Shell Dragons were dead.
How was that possible?
Seeing them come back, Nangong Jing grinned. "Senior Yan Gu, you guys are back. The dragons above mortal evolution state should be all dead."
Yan Gu's mouth twitched. He looked at Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha and smiled. "You two are stronger than I imagined."
He thought they helped with things after killing the level-three dragons.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "You've misunderstood. When we came back, these Blue Shell Dragons were already dead. Little brother Lu Ze killed them personally."
"Lu Ze?!"
They looked among each other in disbelief. Although they knew that Lu Ze was extremely strong, he was still only a level-four mortal evolution state after all. If he could hold off against these dragons, they wouldn't doubt it, but to say that he killed all of the level-one and level-two dragons... This joke was a bit great.
Those people, who witnessed it, still felt like it was a dream.
Then, that handsome man said to Leona, "Squad Leader, it's true... We saw it with our own eyes."
Seeing their squad members nod at them, Leona and Hu Xiang didn't feel too good.
They looked strangely at Lu Ze.
Lu Ze scratched his head. It's not like he did anything amazing.
Before the Blue Shell Dragon hive, the atmosphere was extremely silent.
During this time, Nangong Jing said, "Senior Yan Gu, are there more dragons inside the hive? Do we need to go in and check?"
Nangong Jing's words made Yan Gu and the others come back to their senses. He glanced at Lu Ze once more before smiling. "No need. There are probably some young dragons below mortal evolution state. Their shells aren't good for materials. Wait for a hundred years until they grow up, and people will naturally come here to collect their shells."
The universe was boundless, but there was only so much region that humans could control. They couldn't deplete the resources here. Sustainable harvesting was the way.
Lu Ze's face was strange. This was akin to raising livestock. However, Yan Gu was right. Yan Gu smiled. "Okay, let's collect the materials here."
The most precious area of the dragon shells was that deep black shell under its chin. The mission required the collection of those.
There were too many bodies, and they couldn't take all of it away, so they would only gather that black shell piece.
After working for two hours, everyone harvested the materials.
There were 5 level-five planetary state shells, with a total worth of 300 merit points. 13 level-four planetary state shells, with a total worth of 520 merit points. 46 level-three planetary state shells, with a total worth of 1380 merit points. 114 level-two planetary state shells, with a total worth of 2280 merit points. 282 level-one planetary state shells, with a total worth of 2820 merit points.
Coupled with the mortal evolution state shells, there was a sum of around 12,000 merit points.
Calculating this, Lu Ze and the rest smiled. Even Yan Gu and the others seemed surprised and joyful. Clearly, what they got this time went beyond their expectations.
Leona and Hu Xiang looked at Yan Gu, waiting for his division.
Yan Gu knew that if they didn't divide things up now, these two would be unhappy, so he said, "As per agreement prior to the mission, we'll take 10% first. The two of us killed the 5 level-five planetary state dragons. On top of that, Shaz and Ji Cheng made contributions too. Originally, we should be able to take another 40%, but considering that the dragons below level three of the planetary state were far greater than we described and brought you quite some danger, we'll only take a total of 40%. Is that fine?"
Hu Xiang and Leona looked at each other and nodded. "That's fine."
Then, he continued, "Other than us, if those few hundred level-one and level-two planetary state dragons weren't killed, it would be highly risky to go after the level-three planetary states. Plus, Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha pretty much killed most of the level-three planetary state Blue Shell Dragons, so this time, they get 30%. Is that fine?"
Hu Xiang's and Leona's heart ached. Their two teams didn't do much on this mission. The only people who really did anything were the leaders. Most of the level-three planetary state dragons were killed by Qiuyue Hesha and Nangong Jing while the level-one and level-two planetary state dragons... their team members were pretty much just watching the show.
However, they still nodded. "We're fine with
it."
Yan Gu said, "This time, Mr. Hu Xiang and Ms. Leona held off the level-four planetary state dragons. The rest of the people had little contribution comparatively, so the two remaining squads will split the remaining 30%. Is that okay?"
Eventually, the four members of Yan Gu's squad got 4800 points, Lu Ze and his group got 3600 points. Hu Xiang's and Leona's squad each got 1800 points. They got the least amount of points, but they still got far more than what they expected.
Each planetary state mission was worth around 100 to 1000 merit points. For an adventure squad like them, they could get about 400 to 500 points each mission.
This time, they got 1800. They were rather happy.
Even the stern-faced Hu Xiang smiled a bit. Meanwhile, other people smiled even more.
Lu Ze and his team didn't react. After all, they got 10,000 merit points from the space pirates.
Their goal was the Martial God Set. That was 50,000. They still needed to do at least ten of these missions to obtain a set.
This sort of opportunity wasn't plenty.
After dividing the rewards, Yan Gu said, "Since the mission is done, we'll be going back to rest."
Leona and Hu Xiang said, "In that case, let's go back to the station first."
They could rest for a while and digest these earnings before doing another mission.
Lu Ze and his group also agreed to return together. They had things they wanted to ask from Yan Gu.
Yan Gu smiled. "Okay, let's go back together then."
Thereafter, everyone went back to their own ships and left the lair.
As for the remaining bodies, the dragons inside the hive would soon devour them to the point of leaving no remains.
Inside the New Dawn, Lu Ze and the rest sat in the living room. Nangong Jing drank some wine and laughed. "This mission is more successful than we imagined."
After taking a bit of rest, the group took their showers and proceeded to their rooms to cultivate.
A day later, Lu Ze and everyone came out of the wormhole and appeared before the station.
The fleet got off their ships and exchanged contacts. They could team up again for missions in the future. This cooperation was rather pleasant after all.
After this, Hu Xiang and Leona left with their squad members.
Before leaving, Leona turned around and raised a brow at Lu Ze. "I know quite some things about the void universe. If Mr. Lu needs anything, you can come to me at any time."
Lu Ze: "..."
Watching her leave, Lu Ze felt some coldness at the back of his head. His mouth twitched, and he didn't dare to respond at all. Yan Gu had a cheeky smile. "Junior Lu Ze is quite well-received."Lu Ze said seriously, "Not my fault, this is natural. After all, I do believe I'm a little bit more handsome than senior."
Yan Gu's smile froze.
Shadora and the others laughed.
Nangong Jing said, "By the way, senior Yan Gu, do you guys usually do missions outside the human-controlled region?"
Yan Gu and the others were dazed for a moment. Then, he frowned and looked seriously at Nangong Jing. "You guys want to go outside?"
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "You misunderstand us. We're just curious. We don't plan to go now. We just want to know about it."
Yan Gu nodded, and then, he laughed. "I forgot. You guys just annihilated a space pirate crew. You probably know their treasure, right?"
Lu Ze and his team didn't respond, but Yan Gu didn't mind. "Don't worry, I won't be greedy and go after junior's things. Since you want to know, let's go find a place, and we can talk about it."
The group of people proceeded to the city and found a restaurant. They booked a private room.
Inside, Lu Ze and the others waited for Yan Gu to tell them about the situation outside the controlled region.
Yan Gu looked at them and said, "Theoretically, it's too dangerous to go outside with your current power. It's almost certain death if you go out."
"I know your talents are very strong, much stronger than mine, but talent doesn't mean combat power."
He glanced at Lu Ze.
This monster was only a level-four mortal evolution state, but he could kill a few hundred level-one and level-two planetary state dragons.
This combat power wasn't something that humans should have. Even the prodigies from the other races were a far cry from Lu Ze. Still, Lu Ze was still too young.
Lu Ze and the rest didn't argue. They had some understanding of themselves. There were too many powerful beings.
Seeing that their attitudes were good, Yan Gu spoke again. "If Lu Ze's cultivation level reaches the planetary state, or Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha can reach level three of the planetary state, then you can go out to see." "There are too many beings above level five of the planetary state outside the controlled region. Even star states would appear there."
"Of course, the regions where star states appear are highly dangerous but are resource-rich. As long as you don't go to those areas, you won't encounter them."
"... At least, I've never heard anyone encounter a star state and just get casually killed. If you do, then that's just unlucky."
"But... other than star states, level-five planetary state beings can appear anywhere. If it's the same race, it's fine, but if it's an alien race, there can be a life-and-death brawl at any time."
Lu Ze and the rest frowned. Yan Gu was telling them things, more exaggerated things than they expected.
At this moment, Nangong Jing asked curiously, "Senior Yan Gu, how did you get injured?"
Yan Gu and the others were stunned for a moment, and then, their faces fell.
Moments later, Yan Gu said calmly, "We encountered a few old opponents."
"Old opponents?"
"Mhm, Blade Demons, Dark Metal Demons, and Black Smoke Race prodigies. I just didn't expect they would act together. This is very rare."
Yan Gu's eyes turned cold. "It was a good thing we ran fast, or else, we would probably all be dead."
Then, he frowned. "We didn't expect to encounter those bastards in that region with no astral bodies. We were a bit careless."
"Black Smoke Race and Blade Demon Race?". Lu Ze and the others frowned.
They had some conflict with the Black Smoke Race, but they didn't expect to hear it from Yan
Gu.
As for the Dark Metal Demon Race...
Lu Ze and the rest had never heard of it, but they were probably a race under the Advanced Demon Race.
Then, they thought back to the Terry Brothers. They also encountered the blade demons in a region with no astral bodies.
Did these guys like to go places where there were no people? Seeing their expressions, Yan Gu asked, "Do you guys know Black Smoke Race?"
Lu Ze recounted to them the incident about the evolved insectoid.
Hearing this, Yan Gu and everyone frowned.
"I didn't expect the Black Smoke Race dares to do an experiment inside the Federation?!"
The powerful beings involved with the insectoids were too terrifying. If some insectoid boss found that someone wanted to control them and came to the human race, then they would be over.
Subsequently, they looked at Lu Ze and his team with even more surprise.
Yan Gu smiled. "With your current power, if you really want to go and fight alien races, you can go to the border. There would be conflicts with alien races from time to time. The missions would be harder and more dangerous. However, you would be earning more too."
Hearing this, Lu Ze and his group widened their eyes in interest.
"There would be more mission rewards?"
Yan Gu explained further, "According to military rule, all missions related to the stability of the border would have increased rewards from 10% to 50%."
"You guys can go to Shang Yang System. That region is the poorest, and the missions are easier. However, it will still be quite dangerous for you guys. It's up to you." Hearing this, Lu Ze smiled. "Thank you for your reminder, senior Yan Gu."
If they did missions slowly by themselves, it would take them some time to understand the border. Now, they saved a lot of time.
Yan Gu smiled. "You're too polite, junior Lu Ze. Perhaps soon, my power would be weaker than yours. I might need help with missions by then."
Lu Ze grinned "If you need anything, just tell us. We won't reject it."
"Hahaha, I was waiting for that line."
Lu Ze's promise was far more valuable than the merit points from this mission.
Yan Gu subsequently told Lu Ze and the rest things about the void space. They chatted for an hour and had enough food before leaving.
Yan Gu and his squad needed to recover. It would take them half a month to heal. Then, they would be able to leave the controlled region again.
Meanwhile, Lu Ze and his group planned to go to Shang Yang System. After they returned to their suite, Lu Ze and everyone sat on the couch. Following such, Lu Ze immediately opened his communicator while Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling came over to look at the screen.
According to Yan Gu, every settlement had a mission tab. Some missions were unique to the local settlement and even had military contribution requirements. People couldn't see such missions at Shenwu City.
Shenwu City released some missions, but they could be accepted and handed over at the local settlement.
Most of these sorts of missions were materialand resource-searching missions.
Local settlements had their own army craftsmen and concocters.
Soon, Lu Ze found the missions in the local net.
Chiyun System had many more missions than Shenwu City. There were tens of missions.
Soon, Nangong Jing pointed to one and said, "Chiyun System is also gathering Blue Shell Dragons!" However, Qiuyue Hesha soon frowned. "They're only collecting a limited amount. They only take in 3000 and already have 2865." Lin Ling frowned. "We have more than this number, right?"
Lu Ze smiled. "It seems we need to return to Shenwu City to hand in this mission."
Nangong Jing asked, "Then, should we go back first or go straight to Shang Yang System?"
Lu Ze thought about it and said, "There's no quantity limit on the number of shells that Shenwu City takes. We're not in a rush to hand in the mission. The reward is only 3800 points. It's not enough to buy anything. We might as well just go straight to Shang Yang System." It will take three days to go to Shenwu City from here. It would be much further to go to Shang Yang System from Shenwu City than here.
The others had no objections. Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Let's go now then?"
Lu Ze nodded. "Let's go now!"
Time went by like crazy. They had been at the void border for almost a month. They didn't have much time left. Naturally, they had to make each day count.
Lu Ze and the others checked out of their room and then left the city. They got on the New Dawn and headed towards Shang Yang System.
It took six days to get there. Inside the ship, Lu Ze's and everyone's routine were similar to how their lives were at school.
In the morning, they sparred in the virtual reality while in the afternoon and at night, they cultivated on their own.
Lu Ze worked on his cultivation level in the afternoon and devoured the god art orbs he got from the pocket hunting dimension at night.
Lu Ze was a level-four mortal evolution state and thus could now barely face a level-nine mortal evolution state dark wolf boss.
Although he couldn't kill them, he could instant-kill level-eight mortal evolution state dark wolves. Therefore, he had quite a nice life in the pocket hunting dimension recently. As long as he was careful, night time was better than day time.
As his cultivation level kept increasing, the time he could stay in the pocket hunting dimension was extended. Though, he couldn't even survive until the end.
Today, Lu Ze made the longest survival record in the pocket hunting dimension. He survived for seven days, and when he was happily waiting for the sun to come for the eighth day, he died strangely. He didn't even know what happened. He had already experienced this so many times that he wasn't even fazed when leaving the pocket hunting dimension.
Lu Ze lay on the bed like a dead fish. Sweat trickled down his forehead and onto the bedsheets. His back was sweaty too.
He wondered how long he could stay in the pocket hunting dimension in total now.
A month or two?
One day, he will come out of the pocket hunting dimension alive again!
Half an hour later, the pain stopped, and he sat up to learn the body of darkness god art.
As his cultivation level grew, his choice of targets grew too. He could hunt level-seven mortal evolution state bosses in the day and kill level-eight mortal evolution state bosses at night.
This greatly increased his efficiency in acquiring god art orbs.
Lu Ze found that his metal, fire, lightning, earth, and chi stealth god art, as well as the body of darkness, had all reached a rather high level on the third map.
The secrets in the god art orbs were starting to repeat. Soon, he would be able to fully master these god arts. He just lacked the divine art of the third map.
However, Lu Ze couldn't beat bosses with divine arts yet. He had an abundance of god art orbs, and thus, he gave them to Nangong Jing and the rest. Their combat powers would improve substantially, especially after using the body of darkness orbs. Naturally, he saved this god art for Lu Li too, as it was the most suitable for her.
When would they be able to come out?
Then, they could leave with Ying Ying.
Six days later.
Lu Ze and the others came out of the virtual reality pod. Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha didn't even look at each other.
They were evenly matched as usual.
Nangong Jing frowned. "Fox demon, just you wait! I will beat you tomorrow for sure!"
Qiuyue Hesha said with contempt, "Hehe, you? I will be the winner tomorrow!"
Lu Ze and Lin Ling looked at each other and were speechless. At this moment, New Dawn's voice sounded. "The ship is about to leave warp travel. It is still six light-years away from Shang Yang System." This stopped the two from arguing. Lu Ze and Lin Ling looked out the window. It was a twisted warp tunnel, but after a flash of white light, they arrived at a dark space. This region of space was much more vibrant than the stillness of the Chiyun System.
"This space is really beautiful." Qiuyue Hesha sighed.
Lu Ze and the rest nodded. This didn't seem like a place of death. In fact, it was more like a utopia.
Lu Ze smiled. "I feel this place is much prettier than Chiyun System. We probably won't encounter space pirates this time, right?"
As soon as Lu Ze said this, New Dawn alerted them. "There's an energy charge approaching, New Dawn will be evading automatically."
"?"
Before he could think, a dark red sword light went past the ship. It almost succeeded in cutting the vehicle. The New Dawn wobbled.
Lu Ze didn't feel too good.
Which bastard was it?
He was waiting to enter the settlement safely, and now, he was slapped in the face.
Nangong Jing stared vigilantly outside and said, "Ze, is your mouth blessed?"
Qiuyue Hesha asked, "Reversely blessed?" Lin Ling laughed, but she still reminded, "We're being attacked right now!"
Lu Ze's face blushed.
Rumble! Rumble!
There was a fit of a violent clash in the space. All sorts of spirit light flashed in the darkness.
The New Dawn was like a rocky boat in this space storm.
"Beep... the ship is being attacked. 99% energy remaining on shield... 93%... 91%..."
Who was fighting?
Why couldn't they fight farther away? There were innocent bypassers here.
At this moment, another dark red sword ray was headed towards the New Dawn. Lu Ze's face was green.
Without hesitation, a silver light covered his body, and he disappeared, emerging once more outside.
Lu Ze raised a brow. This was a level-one planetary state chi.
So noob?
He originally thought that it was definitely a big boss fighting here. Instead, it was someone weaker than he was.
Thinking about this, Lu Ze wore his personal combat armor and pushed forward. A huge black metal palm slapped the sword ray away. Instantly, the sword ray was instantly crushed.
Lu Ze grinned. He was going to see which bastard dared to cut his New Dawn!
He teleported once again.
6000 kilometers away from the New Dawn, four Shenwu Army soldiers were being hunted by a three-meter tall, dark red-skinned huge humanoid.
Its skin was reflecting light like metal. It had one vertical eye on its huge head. Below it was a mouth filled with sharp teeth.
He held a dark red huge sword. Each hack of the sword would release dark red sword beams. Those Shenwu Army soldiers didn't even dare to block it.
Their battle had lasted quite long. Most of their armors were broken, and they were bloodied.
Despite so, they still kept fighting the giant.
"Haha, hahahaha! Weak! Humans! You are too weak!"
As he laughed, he sent four sword rays towards the soldiers.
They desperately dodged while counter-attacking.
At this moment, one skinny man suddenly closed in on the giant. His eyes flashed with killing intent as his long sword cut towards the giant's left ribs.
The giant was holding his sword with two hands. His left hand released the handle and formed a fist, proceeding to meet the sword of the skinny man.
Rumble!
The giant's gauntlet was cut, leaving a deep mark. As such, blood flowed out of it.
Meanwhile, the skinny man's bones cracked as he flew back. He spitted blood.
The other two soldiers wanted to stop the giant who wanted to pursue the man. On the other hand, the last one flew directly to the location of the skinny man.
The giant stopped his pursuit and looked at the two soldiers. "Weak humans, you can't stop me! You will all die!" "Argh!"
He roared, and his chi surged.
At this moment, a silver light flashed before him, and a handsome youth appeared simultaneously.
He smiled at the giant. "So it's you... I found you!"
Lu Ze extended his two palms and proceeded to smack the red giant.
Two spirit force palms, which were bigger than the dark red giant, were formed.
The dark red giant was confused.
Why did someone suddenly appear before him?
Who was the person?
He didn't even have time to think before he felt the terrifying pressure from those spirit force palms. He began to shiver.
So strong!
"Argh! Stop!"
He roared as he gathered power before him. He clutched his huge sword while his muscles expanded drastically. He aimed the gigantic sword towards the two terrifying spirit force
palm.
Screech!
The spirit force wave echoed in the void as the sword ray and the black metal palms clashed. Then, the giant's eyes narrowed. His prided powerful sword ray was crushed by the palms like bubbles. Then, the two palms struck the sides of his body.
Dominant force entered his body, and he could feel his entire body was being crushed. His bones broke and his flesh was bloodied. His prided dark metal skin was also torn like paper. Arghh! The severe pain made him howl.
When the two spirit force palms disappeared, the red giant looked terrible.
His battle armor was shattered. His chi became extremely weak. His singular eye was very dim. The giant lost his combat power almost instantly.
The battlefield returned to being calm. The Shenwu Army soldiers were dumbfounded upon seeing the powerful warrior in such a pitiful state.
That entire process only took an instant. It happened so fast that they couldn't even react.
Those two soldiers before the red giant were ready to die, but suddenly, a powerful being appeared and defeated the demon.
This calmed their minds. Who would want to die?
But... who was this person? They looked at Lu Ze's back.
Wait...
Their eyes widened in disbelief.
Level-four mortal evolution state?
This powerful being was only a level-four mortal evolution state?!
Did they sense it incorrectly?
Thus, they attempted it again, and when they were certain of this person's cultivation level, they didn't feel too good.
Oh shit?
It really was level four of the mortal evolution state?
Since when did the human race have such a person?
At this moment, they seemed to have remembered something. Perhaps one person could reach this level. They thought of the prodigy who was appointed as the first monarch of the Federation.
Lu Ze.
He could kill level-one planetary state void beast at the aperture opening state. Being a level-four mortal evolution state would be the logical reason why he could kill this level-one planetary state so easily. The two didn't talk. They haven't seen Lu Ze's front face yet and weren't sure. By the looks of it, this person had a conflict with the Dark Metal Demon Race.
Was he here to kill this demon?
That shouldn't be the case... this demon had been hunting them non-stop. He had the perfect alibi.
How could he offend this person?
They looked at the pitiful state the demon was in and remembered that Lu Ze used to like planting blade demons upside down.
Did he change his hobby now?
Lu Ze nodded happily at the red giant he flattened. How dare this demon attack his New Dawn?
But... he seemed to be hunting humans?
He looked at those humans. He was curious why they were being hunted by this demon.
"Are you guys okay?" Lu Ze asked.
When Lu Ze turned around, those two before him thought that it was indeed Monarch of the New Dawn Lu Ze!
How was he here?
At this moment, three more beams flew over and stopped next to Lu Ze. Nangong Jing and the others were worried about Lu Ze and followed suit.
When they saw the flattened red giant, they were dazed. Thereafter, they looked at the Shenwu Army soldiers.
Qiuyue Hesha frowned. "What is this?"
Lu Ze shook his head. "I don't know yet. I just asked them, then you guys came."
At this moment, the soldier looked at the group and provided an explanation. "We're the Shenwu Army in the Shang Yang unit. We were ordered to guard the Four Symbol Crystal Mine, but we were ambushed by Dark Metal Demon Race..."
Lu Ze nodded as they explained the situation.
The void space had bountiful resources, and they found a Four Symbol Crystal Mine. Four Symbol Crystal is an extremely precious planetary state crystal mine. It had several uses for the human race. When they were mining the crystals, they were ambushed by a bunch of Dark Metal Demons. The mining team and the army guarding the place all died. Only a small squad of planetary state soldiers managed to flee.
After the hunt, only the four of them remained.
As for the Dark Metal Demon Race main forces, they were moving the Four Symbol Crystals. Only one Dark Metal Demon Race hunted them. They thought one was enough, but Lu Ze came.
Everyone frowned.
They encountered such things as soon as they came.
Dark Metal Demon Race...
This was the race that had an alliance with the Black Smoke and Blade Demon races.
Lu Ze frowned at the almost dead giant. "Are all Dark Metal Demon Race this strong?"They had similar cultivation levels, but this demon could fight four by itself?
The two soldiers smiled bitterly. "Some of the Dark Metal Demons would awaken the dark metal body god art. It's not some powerful god art, but it provided people an advantage in defense and power."
Lu Ze and the others frowned. It seemed this Dark Metal Demon Race was much stronger than the Blade Demon Race.
This was a race god art. The humans and blade demons didn't have their own race god art. Nangong Jing asked, "What's the strongest Dark Metal Demon Race that attacked?"
The soldier replied, "The strongest is a level-six planetary state." Lu Ze and the rest: "..."
Can't beat that.
One soldier looked at the demon and said desperately, "This demon has a signal jamming device. Our comms aren't working We need to destroy that device and contact the settlement."
"We had dug out a lot of Four Symbol Crystals. Now, it's probably all shipped away by them, but there's a part not dug yet. If we contact the settlement now, we might be able to save some!"
Hearing the words of the Shenwu Army soldiers, Qiuyue Hesha looked at that heavily injured demon, and her eyes flashed with pink light.
Immediately, the Dark Metal Demon was charmed. "Where is the signal jamming device?"
The demon's bones were crushed, but his mouth could still move. He spoke, "Inside my combat armor."
Lu Ze's eyes flashed with a green beam, and the wind searched inside the demon's armor and soon took out a fingernail-sized red device.
"Is this it?"
Every race had different technology. Lu Ze didn't know if this thing was the device. He didn't even know what a human race version of the device looked like.
The demon nodded.
With this, Lu Ze blasted a bolt of lightning onto the device. The device lit up in sparks and exploded.
Seeing this, the two warriors rejoiced, and the man on the left took out his communication device without hesitation. Then, they made contact with the settlement and reported the situation.
Lu Ze and the others waited, and soon, the soldiers were in touch.
The man looked at Lu Ze and the rest and smiled. "Thank you for your help. Otherwise, by the time the settlement acts, all the Four Symbol Crystals would've been taken away. There will be Shenwu merit points for you guys."
Hearing this, Lu Ze and his group smiled. They could get merit points even from this? They were quite lucky.
But...
Lu Ze frowned and asked, "Where is the crystal mine?"
Everyone was stunned for a moment. Nangong Jing frowned. "Ze, you're not thinking of stopping those Dark Metal Demons, are you? I disagree!"
What a joke! There were level-six planetary state beings there. They were stronger than ordinary ones. How could she agree to let Lu Ze take the risk?
Qiuyue Hesha's smile receded too. "I agree with her. Don't think about going."
Lin Ling nodded. "Same. Since the military has moved out, then we've done what we could!"
Lu Ze scratched his head upon seeing how worked up they were. He wasn't going to commit suicide.
He smiled apologetically to the two soldiers and dragged the three girls away.
Nangong Jing glared at Lu Ze. "Don't think you can convince me!"
She clenched her fists. "I think your skin is itchy. You dare to mess with even a level-six planetary state. I can help you scratch it."
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. He coughed. "Umm... I'm not going to commit suicide. I can do it."
He looked at Lin Ling. "Lin Ling, remember that time when we went to the Gracious System? The time I transformed."
Hearing this, Lin Ling blushed, but she still nodded. "Mhm, I remember."
Then, her eyes widened. "Are you thinking of..."
Lu Ze grinned. "Smart!"
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha were very confused. Lu Ze was thinking about changing into Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha to kid with them, but he got scared of getting beaten up. Therefore, the two didn't know about his transformation god art.
Qiuyue Hesha narrowed her eyes. "Little brother Lu Ze, did you hid something from me? I will be sad."
Lu Ze smiled. "Wait a moment."
He flashed with silver-white light, and soon, when the light receded, a figure was revealed. Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha were in shock. Meanwhile, Lin Ling took a step back.
Lu Ze had Qiuyue Hesha's appearance. However, Lu Ze wasn't Qiuyue Hesha after all, so he couldn't imitate her charming temperament.
He grinned. "What do you think? You like the surprise?"
Nangong Jing was stunned, and then, she suddenly started laughing. "Haha... Hahahaha! Ze is really amazing!"
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Can you change into other people?"
Lu Ze said pridefully, "Of course." Then, he transformed into Nangong Jing. Nangong Jing's laugh suddenly halted.
Lu Ze smiled. "Look, I can even imitate your chi. If I transform into that Dark Metal Demon and survey the place, it should be fine, right?"
Nangong Jing smiled. "Ze, how many times have you used this god art? Who have you changed into?"
Lu Ze was confused. He answered, "The first time it was Lin Ling, and the second time, I transformed to save people on planet Gracious. I've never used it since."
Of course, the pocket hunting dimension didn't count.
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha narrowed their eyes. Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "So it's your first time transforming into us?"
Mhm.
Nangong Jing smiled. "Change back first."
This guy still had her appearance, so she really couldn't do anything.
Lu Ze changed back into himself and smiled. "The transformation god art, plus my space god art, how about it? You guys wouldn't need to worry about me going, right?"
"Haha... let's not talk about this first... let's talk about something else." Nangong Jing gritted her teeth.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled too.
Lin Ling looked speechlessly at Lu Ze and had zero sympathies. Lu Ze's heart dropped. He quickly explained, "Teachers, I just wanted you to know that I have this god art. You must believe me!""There's no way I will believe you!" Nangong Jing rushed forward without even thinking about it. Qiuyue Hesha also used her charm god art.
"Argh!"
Lu Ze's howl made the Shenwu Army soldiers shiver. So Monarch of the New Dawn Lu Ze was finally judged for his four-cornered love?
They weren't sympathetic at all and were instead a little happy.
This time, Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha didn't deal with Lu Ze for long. After all, there was still the issue of Four Symbol Crystals. Immediately, the two let go of Lu Ze.
Then, Nangong Jing frowned. "Ze, are you really going?"
No one would say anything even if he didn't go. After all, the opponents were far beyond what he could handle. Nangong Jing was still worried.
Lu Ze smiled. "Why should we give them what belongs to the human race?"
Seeing that Lu Ze was adamant, the three girls didn't say anything.
Although they really want to go with Lu Ze, they didn't have all those god arts and would be burdensome instead.
After a moment of silence, Qiuyue Hesha said, "The military is ready to head off too. We'll take these soldiers back and then come with the military."
Lu Ze smiled. "Sure."
Then, he contemplated for a while and asked, "By the way teacher Qiuyue, can you help me get some information about that Dark Metal Demon Race?"
He still needed to know the basic profile of the dark metal demons. He couldn't tell other dark metal demons that he suddenly lost his memories or something.
Qiuyue Hesha nodded.
Subsequently, Lu Ze flew back with the other three to the Shenwu Army soldiers. Lu Ze noticed that the two looked at him with a little strange expression. He then touched his face. Were they overwhelmed by his looks?
He didn't think much while Qiuyue Hesha used her charm god art on the dark metal demon again. Soon, they got the demon's basic information.
It's a powerful adventure guild that came to ambush them this time. They weren't from the Dark Metal Demon Military. The strongest was a level-six planetary state demon, and there were 3 level-five planetary states, 4 level-four planetary states, and tens of planetary states. Although he was a formal member, his power was at the bottom of these tens of people.
Hearing this, Lu Ze and others realized that this guild was much stronger than they had imagined.
Tens of planetary states! Military or not, it was no wonder they dared to start trouble.
The dark metal demon also said his name, Luce. Lu Ze listened intently to all the information.
The Shenwu Army soldiers didn't know why Lu Ze was asking about this, but they didn't dare to ask.
Soon, Luce finished, and Lu Ze nodded. He looked at Nangong Jing and the rest. "I'll be leaving first. I'll leave this dark metal demon with you guys."
Nangong Jing nodded. "Mhm, we'll be going back with him." Lin Ling's eyes flashed with worry. "Be careful."
Lu Ze grinned. "Don't worry."
He also felt he was very slick.
Lu Ze went on the New Dawn and headed towards the mine as described by the Shenwu Army soldiers.
It was outside the controlled region, but the controlled region was only 600 light-years away. It only took four hours from his current location.
Nangong Jing took out her Golden Whirl and looked at the soldiers. "Okay, we'll take you guys back."
They were heavily injured, and their ships were destroyed.
The middle-aged man said, "Is it really fine to let Monarch of the New Dawn go to the mine alone?"
Even though Lu Ze's combat power was very strong, the difference was too huge compared with a level-six planetary state.
Nangong Jing and the others frowned. Thereafter, Nangong Jing said with impatience, "Hurry up, you don't need to worry about them."
After sending them back, they would go to the mine with the military. They were quite annoyed that they couldn't help much. Seeing this, the other Shenwu Army soldiers didn't say anything. Everyone, including the dark metal demon, went to the Golden Whirl and headed off towards the Shang Yang System.
Four hours later, New Dawn left the wormhole. It was outside the human-controlled region now. It looked the same as the controlled region, but the Federation had limited posts. They couldn't control all the areas.
Even the controlled region wasn't completely controlled, it was just safer.
Monarch of the New Dawn looked at a distant dark star from inside the New Dawn. It was just ahead. He flashed with silver-white light and transformed into a three-meter tall dark metal demon.
As his cultivation level grew, Lu Ze found that he could change his body size to some degree. Five meters was fine.
Lu Ze stopped the New Dawn, and then, he put the ship away.
Luce's ship was damaged by the Shenwu Army soldiers too during the pursuit. Otherwise, it would be better for Lu Ze to ride their ship over.
That was a very barren planet. There were no astral bodies revolving around it. It was just floating in the vast empty space. There was no life on the planet, but vast winds were blowing. There were also volcanoes erupting. Earthquakes were occurring from time to time as well. Dark ice covered some areas.
This planet's environment was very harsh. Beings couldn't survive here unless they were mortal evolution states or above.
In some part of this planet, there was a round valley. The valley was surrounded by fire, fierce winds, and sturdy ice. It was the harshest environment on the planet. However, the inside of the valley was very quiet. Dark gray stones were scattered everywhere. There were blue, yellow, red, and black beams shooting out from the crystals in the earth.
The crystals illuminated the valley in all sorts of wonderful light. It was like a dream realm. But in this valley, there was an extremely deep ditch filled with blood. Human bodies were everywhere, and there were a few broken spaceships.
The dream realm turned into a nightmare.
In the middle, there was a huge round ditch with a lot of traces of battle. There were more human bodies here too.
At this moment, there was a few thousand meters long, dark red space ship that stopped there. Many armored dark red giants were busy carrying luminous crystals onto the ship.
At the top of the ship were tens of powerful dark red giants watching. Their eyes flashed with greed when they looked at the crystals.
One giant said, "Luce is still not back?"
His voice was coarse, but it carried a powerful will.
The other dark red giant replied, "He's probably playing too much."
Another giant laughed. "Luce is still young, and it's his first time coming out with us to take resources.""Don't worry boss, it's rather distant from the human settlements. There won't be powerful beings passing by. Even if there is, Luce can run in time."
The boss nodded. "We're at the border of the human territory. Once Luce comes back, we'll leave. We won't take the remaining Four Symbol Crystals."
Excessive greed would only cost you your life.
"Of course, but even if we don't take it, we can't give it to humans. Before we leave, let's ruin this planet." "Hahaha, Boss, you are very wise!" "I've long disliked those humans!"
At this moment, a dark beam flew over.
The giants sensed the chi and looked over.
"Hey, that kid Luce is back. He played for quite a while."
The leader nodded. "Let the brothers get ready. We can take the Four Symbol Crystal and get ready to leave." "Yes!"
Lu Ze frowned a little upon seeing the bodies and ruined ships along the way, but he soon recovered.
After using chi stealth god art and transformation god art, Lu Ze's chi was no different from the original dark metal demon.
He flew towards the mine quickly. On the way, he saw a lot of mortal evolution state dark metal demons carrying out crystals that were shining with four colors. He also saw tens of dark metal demons on the ship. These dark metal demons were all planetary states.
According to the information given by Luce, he soon came to a conclusion.
There were many people in this adventure guild. Among them, tens of dark metal demons were official members. Their powers were all at the planetary state. The remaining dark metal demons had mortal evolution state powers. They were like the working personnel.
It hadn't even been a day since this adventure guild annihilated the human defense army and excavation team. Moreover, Luce hadn't come back, so they hadn't left yet.
Lu Ze felt great. This time was rather perfect. He looked at the huge ships and then at the powerful dark metal demons. A bold idea came upon him.
Lu Ze neared the ship soon and landed on it. As soon as Lu Ze landed, the other dark metal demons saw his body covered in wounds, and they grinned. "Hahaha, Luce, you took so long to hunt a few weak humans, and was this heavily injured? Is your dark metal body fake? It seems you're not much different from those weak humans?"
Several of their companions laughed.
The dark metal demons admired the strong. Although Luce learned the dark metal body, he had only joined the guild recently and was rather weak. He had quite some potential but was still a little brother type.
Moreover, Lu Ze was heavily injured. This made the grumpy dark metal demons feel ashamed.
Lu Ze had no choice. His cultivation level was only at level four of the mortal evolution state. If he didn't make himself seem heavily injured, he was scared he couldn't hide it from the level-six planetary state.
He was heavily injured, and his chi became weak. If this still couldn't hide it, he would use space god art to run immediately.
Luckily, that strongest dark metal demon only glanced at Lu Ze once and didn't notice anything
He asked, "What's going on?"
Luce's power was sufficient to take on 4 level-one planetary state humans.
Why was he heavily injured?
Luce replied angrily, "Just after I killed those weak humans, I encountered a fleet. My ship was broken by them. Good thing, I ran fast, or I would've died outside."
The leader's eyes flashed with doubt. "Did you see who it was?"
"It was three ships. The largest one is blue and has many spikes. One was completely black and one was a rock-like ship. It didn't look like a human fleet."
Lu Ze just described the Terry Brother's fleet. Their strongest member was only a level-three planetary state. Luce would be able to get away from them.
One dark metal demon who was a level-five planetary state said with killing intent, "I seem to have seen this fleet. It's probably a weak space pirate crew."
"Weak space pirate crew?"
Hearing his lieutenant say this, the leader didn't doubt it anymore. His vertical eye flashed with blood light. "A weak space pirate crew dares to attack the dark metal demon? Let's go find them and annihilate them."
"Yes!"
Everyone's eyes flashed with killing intent. They loved killing and robbing.
The leader looked at the feeble Lu Ze and said, "Go inside to heal first, we're going to leave immediately."
Although they considered humans weak, humans have a lot of strong people. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to fight so intensely with the blade demons. Nevertheless, the Blade Demons were a weak race.
Only the great Dark Metal Demon Race was the true descendants of the Advanced Demon Race!
Lu Ze replied feebly, "Yes, boss..." Then, he flew towards the entrance.
This was more successful than he imagined. He was originally thinking about how to get out of here. In this case, he could execute his bold idea.
The dark metal demon ship was extremely huge. Lu Ze stopped at a crossroad and was very confused while looking at the complicated tunnels.
He was lost.
This ship was too big!
Every room looked pretty much the same.
Who could tell which was which?
He got a lot of information from Luce, but he didn't get a map for this ship. This was awkward.
Lu Ze calmed himself down quickly. Not a big problem.
He looked at the mortal evolution state dark metal demon standing on the side and patted his shoulder. "Kid, good job. I look favorably on you!"
Lu Ze's force was so big that the dark metal demon kept trembling. He didn't know what exactly he did well, but he still looked joyful hearing Lu Ze's praise. "Thank you, Master Luce, for your praise. This is what I should do!"
Although Master Luce is weaker than the other masters, his talent can be ranked among the top five here!
It was an honor to be praised by Master Luce!
But... his force was so powerful!
No wonder he's Master Luce!
Lu Ze wanted to laugh on the inside, seeing this dark metal demon's expression.
This kid really liked it?
He grinned and said, "Not bad, not bad... Once I make it, you can follow me, and I will take you flying!" This mortal evolution state grinned naively. "Thank you, Master Luce, but I can fly myself..."
Is Master Luce underestimating him?
He was a mortal evolution state. He could fly. Nonetheless, he still felt very honored. Lu Ze's smile stiffened. He meant to fly to
glory.
Was this demon's mind dull?
Nevertheless, Lu Ze still smiled. "By the way, the ship is about to take off. The boss asked me to go and do a routine check at the motor room. I'm injured and I need a helper, you can follow me."
The dark metal demon was a little hesitant. "Isn't it usually Master Dada who checks the motor room? Why is it you today?" Luce's eyes flashed with ferocity. "Hmm? This is the boss's order. Are you doubting his words?"
"Little kid, there's something wrong with your thoughts. How about I tell the boss about it..."
The dark metal demon trembled. He knew how the boss treated those who doubted him. He was not a formal member. He didn't have the right to doubt Master Maomao.
He quickly smiled with intent to bootlick. "Master Luce, you misunderstood. I know your future is boundless. It must be that Master Maomao favors you more. That's why he wants you to check the motor room! I was just too shocked!"
Lu Ze: "..."
He looked at the fawning dark metal demon with a strange look.
Such a person was a dark metal demon? Didn't seem like it. This stupid-looking dude was so good at talking
However, since he was acting so diligently, then, of course, Lu Ze had to cooperate. He looked up with his hideous head and kept a calm face while waving his hand. "What are you saying this for? I'm just enacting Boss's orders seriously. Look at you kid. Sometimes, you haven't got your head around."
"But... it's not your fault. It's okay, I'll teach you more in the future."
Then... he patted this dark metal demon's shoulder with far less force.
Lu Ze gave himself 101% for his acting skills. It was perfect! He should get an Oscar!
The dark metal demon saw Lu Ze react like this and felt joyful. It seemed Master Luce had forgiven him!
With Master Luce taking care of him, his rise to the peak could be foreseen!
He quickly said, "Master Luce, I'll go with you to the motor room!"
Lu Ze nodded and put his hands behind his back while saying calmly, "You go in front."
Although Qiangqiang didn't know why he had to lead the way, Master Luce still had the final say.
Right then, Qiangqiang walked ahead, leading the way.
Every time he walked past other mortal evolution state guards, he looked up, enjoying their admiring glances.
Maomao Adventure Guild had more than a thousand mortal evolution state members. Few had the luck, like Qiangqiang, to hold the thighs of a formal member.
Lu Ze didn't care about this dark metal demon showing off. His techniques were too immature. He followed this mortal evolution state across quite some twists and corners, giving him a headache. Lu Ze felt quite proud. Luckily, he was quick and smart, tricking this kid to lead him the way.
He wasn't sure if he would be caught if he used mental force, so he had to avoid it.
The two walked for a few minutes and finally came to a narrow path. At the end was a black metal door with 2 level-one planetary state guards there.
As the core of the ship, of course, there were official members stationed there.
The two guards were dazed upon seeing Lu Ze and a mortal evolution state coming here.
Then, one of the dark metal demons, who had a knife scar on his face, said, "Luce, what are you doing here?"
Lu Ze grinned. "Boss asked me to patrol the mountain."
The two demons were startled.
Patrol the mountain?
Where was the mountain?
Even Qiangqiang was slightly taken aback. Master Luce didn't say that before.
Just when the two of them were stunned for a while, a crystal light flashed in Lu Ze's eyes. Invisible needles instantly shot at the three dark metal demons, and his body disappeared quickly from the spot.
Qiangqiang instantly felt his consciousness being wiped away.
Those 2 level-one planetary states just felt some slight pain and then lost all senses.
Lu Ze's mental force god art wasn't too strong. It was a god art from the second map and had no divine art, so how strong could it get? However, that was enough for these 2 level-one planetary states.
He just needed them to pause for that slight moment.
Lu Ze instantly appeared next to these 2 level-one planetary states and struck them with purple-red lightning. Rumble!
Lu Ze's powerful lightning spear shook the tunnel. The powerful force blasted bloody holes on their chests.
The two died on the spot, and the overwhelming power slammed them against the wall. Yet, not a single dent could be found on the wall.
Lu Ze frowned and looked at the other areas. This powerful force only gave the walls minimal damage. Such a powerful metal! Even if he used his full power, he probably couldn't damage the ship.
Meanwhile, tens of other chi rose somewhere else. A few of them made Lu Ze shudder.
Was he caught?
If he faced them head-on, he wouldn't be able to run.
But...
Lu Ze looked at the door and grinned. He flashed in silver light and traveled inside.
Outside the ship, those dark metal demons were grinning at the Four Symbol Crystal being moved in.
The guild leader smiled. "Sell these when we get back, and we'll have a lot of resources for cultivation. We need to thank the human race."
"Hahaha... yes, we should. After we digest these resources, we should come back and thank them well?"
"Good point. Hopefully, they still have nice things to treat us with."
"This time... should we leave those bodies behind? Although they aren't complete bodies, at least, they wouldn't be completely destroyed like this planet."
"Kuku's idea is good. We'll put them in..."
Suddenly, there was a thud coming from the ship.
Everyone was stunned, and the discussion stopped. Those mortal evolution state dark metal demons also stopped moving.
There seemed to be an explosion in the ship?
Why would there be one?
Maomao's eyes widened. "Damn it! Motor room!"
Maomao roared and charged towards the motor room.
Other people's faces changed.
"How is that possible?"
"Who would infiltrate our ship?"
"How could we not notice it?"
The ship cost them 100 years of savings to buy!
Which bastard dares to attack it?!
They roared and charged over.
Inside the ship, Lu Ze appeared in a silver flash.
He saw that the motor room was set up with dark red machines with strange connecting lines.
This system was drawing in spirit force from space and emitting a dark red glow.
This was the motor device powered by spirit force.
Lu Ze's eyes flashed. He once again had a bold idea.
A few hundred green jade slash appeared in the air and cut in all the connections.
Screech...
Clearly, due to the spirit force conduction, the connections weren't as tough as the metal outside.
They were easily severed. Thereafter, mini explosions occurred, and the motor device stopped operating, but Lu Ze didn't stop.
Almost instantly, Lu Ze cut all the connections, and then, he put the entire device into his storage ring
Perhaps, he could exchange them for Shenwu merit points.
Lu Ze !
At this moment, the powerful spirit force was extremely close. Lu Ze grinned and purple-red runes flashed in his eyes. A lightning cloud gathered, and lightning filled the entire room. Lu Ze did take away the motor device, but what if they had a few more and could fix the ship quickly?
Lu Ze was going to do his job thoroughly!
Still want to leave after taking something from the human race?
Rumble!
During this time, the people outside sensed the chi inside and tore through the door without waiting for it to open.
Seeing this, Lu Ze grinned and flashed in silver-white light, disappearing instantly from the spot.
The boss was here. Time to run.
Maomao, who just dashed into the motor room, saw an obscure figure disappear in silver light. Then, the empty motor room came before his eyes.
After all the lightning disappeared, what remained was just the broken circuits. Maomao was dumbfounded.
All his motor devices were gone?!
"Arghhh!" He roared furiously.
Terrifying spirit force swept in all directions.
Even the hurricane around the valley seemed to have encountered something terrifying and disappeared for an instant. The entire planet was shaking
A high-level planetary state's fury was enough to shake the planet.
Those official members who just arrived shuddered.
Maomao was no ordinary level-six planetary state. His dark metal body god art was at a high level. He could almost keep up with a level-seven planetary state.
Most importantly, things were worst when he was angry.
Maomao wasn't just their strongest but also smartest. That's why they were willing to follow him.
They had a bad feeling upon seeing him this angry. Soon, they saw the empty motor room, and they all roared furiously.
"Who was it?!"
This person disappeared?!
Who slid into their ship right under their eyes?
At this moment, Maomao said, "All of you shut up!"
His voice was suppressing his killing intent. Everyone immediately didn't dare to talk anymore.
Maomao said, "The person has space transmission god art. He used that to leave when I just came."
Then, his powerful mental force swept the entire planet and spread out nearly 100,000 kilometers.
Maomao's guild members didn't dare to disturb him at all.
More than 100,000 kilometers away, a silver light flashed, and Lu Ze appeared.
He was no longer in Luce's form. Luce was too ugly and incompatible with his handsome figure. Lu Ze looked back at the dark planet, and his eyes flashed.
Although he destroyed their ship, surely this adventure guild had more than one ship.
Perhaps they would take out another ship and flee?
At this moment, his eyes flashed with shock. Not far away, an extremely powerful mental force swept past.
Ordinary people wouldn't be able to sense it if they weren't swept by it, but Lu Ze had mental force god art.
Lu Ze could also sense the fury and killing intent of this mental force. He loved to see the frustration of people wanting to kill him but being unable to. Great!
He even wanted to laugh.
However, there still was some problem. He couldn't let them run. If they did, they would take away a portion of the Four Symbol Crystal.
Lu Ze couldn't accept it.
Several people already saw him letting that kid take him to the motor room. He couldn't kill them at the time, so he left a trace.
Therefore, he couldn't stay aboard the ship as Luce.
When those dark metal demons couldn't find him, they would go investigate the ship. If they just asked the guards, they would know about Luce.
Lu Ze's eyes flashed. He wondered what that leader would think. It was certain that his transformation god art had no flaws. Therefore, there was a very small chance that people would think he was a fake.
Lu Ze felt he could play some more. He was a little excited.
Then, if it was that dark metal demon leader, what would he most likely guess?
First, Lu Ze came to destroy the motor room and was caught by Luce. Luce wanted to stop Lu Ze's deeds, but he couldn't stand up against Lu Ze, thereby sacrificing his life instead... Bullshit!
This would've worked before, but after discovering Luce went to the motor room, it would be unlikely.
The high-level members of the ship weren't idiots. How could Luce have the ability to predict things?
Following that, the remaining choices were simple. One was that Luce was controlled by someone, and the other was that Luce betrayed them.
Regardless of which, as long as one person knew space transmission, things would work. It was immaterial whether Luce was controlled or had betrayed them. Both situations meant that the previous hunt went wrong. This would only make the dark metal demons more alert.
Perhaps they would be leaving immediately.
Lu Ze looked at the dim planet and had another crazy idea.
In the warp tunnel, six few hundred-meter long black ships were traveling. They were the border defense soldiers of the Shenwu Army. They were the best of the best in terms of equipment and power in the Federation.
At the head of one ship stood Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling. Their eyes contained a trace of worry.
Lu Ze was facing a level-six planetary state by himself, and there were tens of other planetary states.
A handsome golden-haired man wearing pale blue armor stood next to them. He smiled. "You three don't need to worry. The Shenwu ship is the fastest ship of the human race. Perhaps Monarch of the New Dawn wouldn't even get there before us."
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However, deep inside, he felt that Lu Ze was just trying to get attention. It's not that he was looking down on Lu Ze, but how could a normal person go fight a level-six planetary state when he was only a level-four mortal evolution state? Even if that person was Lu Ze. He didn't believe Lu Ze would do something this stupid.
Perhaps Lu Ze would be driving slowly, and by the time he got there, they would've dealt with everything
Then, he could say regretfully that he came late.
He didn't expect that Monarch of The New Dawn was this sort of person. He shook his head.
But...
He looked at the three girls with some slight amazement. Even he hadn't seen three girls as excellent as them in two hundred years.
The three girls could sense what he was trying to imply. They frowned. If possible, they would've hoped that Lu Ze would do that, but since that guy said it, he would definitely go do it.
They were still annoyed at this person berating Lu Ze.
Four Symbol Crystal Mine.
Maomao Ship's Motor Room.
Currently, Maomao was full of killing intent. If he could find the bastard who did this, he would let the person know how serious of a mistake it was for him to be born into this world.
He expanded his mental force into every corner. Despite this, he didn't find anything abnormal.
Using mental force at this degree was too exhausting. In a few minutes, sweat trickled down. He felt his head bursting with pain, but he didn't stop.
Damned thief!
Damned space transmission god art!
This type of god art was too unfair. As long as space wasn't locked, one could go wherever he wanted.
If not for that, even a level-five planetary state would take quite some time to damage the door of the motor room.
He didn't find this person anywhere!
Nowhere!
Maomao's chest felt heavy. This fury was raging
He knew little about space transmission god art. Such god arts were too rare.
He only saw an obscure figure of that thief and knew nothing else. He didn't even know how strong the thief was and how great his mastery of the space god art was.
Perhaps that damned thief already went out of his sensory range?
In a few short minutes, his dark red skin turned purple. He could no longer sustain his use of mental force and took it back suddenly.
Everyone looked hopefully at him. They believed in him to find that thief!
However, upon seeing their boss's furious face, they shut up.
Not found!
Dark metal demons were hot-tempered. Maomao was considered rather chill but that was just for a dark metal demon's standard.
He roared, "Arghhh! Damned thief! Don't let me catch you!"
Then, the ground shook again and cracked under such pressure. The entire planet was shaking. Those mortal evolution state members were shaking too.
Maomao's force was too strong. They didn't know what caused Master Maomao to be this furious.
After letting out his emotions, Maomao calmed down and said slowly, "Investigate the entire ship! See if that kid left any marks!"
There was no need for discussion about how the thief got in. He had space god art, and they weren't prepared.
The problem was that his chi would be sensed as soon as he appeared.
But why did he appear in the motor room?
Was that his target?
How would he know where it was?
They could only look from inside the ship, but he didn't have much hope.
He lost 2 level-one planetary state formal members and a motor device, but he couldn't even find the person to get revenge on. "Yes!"
The trembling members felt relieved and left.
Only Maomao and another powerful dark metal demon remained. He was the level-five planetary state who pointed out Lu Ze was attacked by a small space pirate crew.
Maomao looked at this dark metal demon. "Dada, can you repair the motor room?"
Dada was Maomao's vice commander. He joined when the guild was founded. He had great knowledge in mechanics.
Dada looked around at the purple-lightning on the ground and said, "The motor device is fine. After all, we have a few backup ones, but the circuits in the motor room are damaged. By the looks of things, a large route of the lines needs to be changed... It can be repaired, but it would take at least two days."
Maomao immediately shook his head. "No, too long."
"We're right next to the human race. They're weak, but they still have powerful people. If they found out we killed their soldiers and took their resources, we would be in grave danger."
"Even if we killed all people who are aware of the situation, these two days are enough for them to react."
They were planning to retreat today.
After some silence, Dada looked at Maomao. "What should we do then boss? Our emergency ship can't seat this many people."
Of course, they didn't just have one ship, but they spent a lot of resources on this ship. The materials were extremely strong. Maomao sunk into contemplation. Then, the two looked at each other and read each other's minds.
Abandon the mortal evolution state members and take the official members with them. The leftover dark metal demons would be annihilated by the humans.
This was unavoidable.
NO
At this moment, one person charged in and spoke with confusion and worry. "Boss! A few guards said that they saw one guard take Luce towards the motor room. Then, the guard died outside. I went inside the treatment chamber. Luce wasn't there."
"What?!"
Maomao and Dada widened their eyes in disbelief.
Moments later, Maomao's eye grew hideous. "Luce had betrayed us, or someone controlled him!"
Although Luce might be killed and his body could be destroyed, that was unlikely. They just sensed battle near the motor room. This meant the thief didn't fight with Luce.
One possibility was that Luce wasn't the real Luce, but that was even less of a possibility.
What a joke!He was a level-six planetary state. How could he not tell who was the real Luce?
It was possible, as long as that person wasn't weaker than he was. But if that was the case, then he might not even be able to beat the person. That person didn't need to do things like that then. He could just kill them all.
Although Luce was heavily injured, he was 99.9% certain that it was indeed Luce!
It was mostly that Luce was controlled.
And, he might be lying about his injuries!
Luce didn't know space god art, but if he betrayed them and worked together with someone who had space transmission, then everything would make sense.
Dada frowned. "It's more likely that he's controlled. He has no reason to betray us. But why did they do this?"
Maomao shook his head. "That's not important. We need to leave quickly!"
Although he couldn't grasp the entire situation yet, problems started occurring when Luce returned.
Who knew if he really killed those humans? Perhaps those humans went back, or he was controlled by humans. If that was the case, they would be in serious danger.
Maomao's eyes flashed with decisiveness.
"Tell all the formal members to come over and gather all the Four Symbol Crystals."
In space, Lu Ze looked at the dim planet.
They were about to leave, right?
He grinned. He should delay them a little longer. If he couldn't, then pretend he said nothing.
What a joke!
He wasn't going to fight a level-six planetary state head-on. That would have to wait until he was at the peak stage of the mortal evolution state and wearing the Martial God Set, right?
Lu Ze flashed with silver light again. This time, he changed into a blade demon. He didn't hide his cultivation level-level four of the mortal evolution state.
Mhm, very weak.
Lu Ze grinned and flew towards the dark planet.
He didn't conceal his chi and approached the planet.
Four Symbol Crystal Mine. Tens of dark metal demon planetary states came out of the ship and surrounded the mine. The mortal evolution states looked at them. "What happened to Master Maomao?" "I don't know."
"What happened in the ship?".
"Should we keep moving the Four Symbol Crystals?"
"I don't know."
The mortal evolution states whispered among themselves. From their perspectives, there were all too many mortal evolution states. No one cared about their lives. Plenty more could be hired.
Just when Maomao was going to take out his ship, he suddenly looked at the sky.
The other people sensed it too and looked there.
Some people's eyes flashed with immense cruelty.
"Is it him?" Dada asked uncertainly.
"No." Maomao was also confused.
The other planetary states were dazed.
Oh shit. What did they sense?
Level-four mortal evolution state?
This idiot is so weak and dares to fly so cockily?
Did he live life too well?
Although there were mortal evolution states in space, they were usually in the military or logistic personnel for the adventure squad.
The planetary state was the true combat power here. Even low-level planetary states could be cannon fodder at any time.
Yet, they encountered a level-four mortal evolution state idiot wandering around.
Someone said, "I'm amazed. I've been in the void space for a few decades. This is the first time I've met an idiot like this."
Everyone's mouth twitched.
Someone asked, "Is it the human race?"
Humans were the closest to here after all.
"Impossible! The only mortal evolution state humans appearing here would be Shenwu Army soldiers!"
"The humans are weak, but they're not dumb. How can they be this dumb?" "Which race did this idiot come from?" "Don't know..."
"Perhaps he has friends nearby?"
With this, everyone immediately became vigilant.
At this moment, a faint dark beam cut across the air. He seemed to have noticed these people and flew over without hesitation.
Seeing this, the dark metal demons had even stranger faces. Oh shit?
Who was this mortal evolution state?
This guy definitely sensed their chi and flew over to them without hesitation?
What did he want to do?
Even the smart Maomao was dumbfounded.
Screech!
A violent wave of spirit force surged. The storm ravaged the outside portion of the valley. Volcanoes erupted. Even the mortal evolution states had to be careful here, but this figure just sneered, and then, tens of dark sword rays sliced the volcano in half.
The ground trembled. Those dark metal demons were stunned. Dada's mouth opened, and he said, "That strike had a power that almost reached the planetary state."
The others could tell as well, but they were still in disbelief.
"A level-four mortal evolution state cultivation level unleashing a planetary state attack?!"
"Which race is this prodigy from?"
If it was an enemy race prodigy, they must not let this person get back alive!
The stronger the enemy, the more powerful they will be to invade them.
Every race hoped their race would get stronger. There was no good in being a lone wolf. You would be ganged up on.
This was why there were alliances too.
Right now, they were burning with killing intent. That dark beam soon flew into the valley and stopped a few hundred kilometers before the dark metal demons.
Blade Demon Lu Ze looked pridefully at the dark metal demons and spoke with a coarse voice, "Dark Metal Demon? What are you doing here?"
The dark metal demons were shocked upon seeing Lu Ze, but their killing intent receded. However, their faces were filled with curiosity with a mixture of confusion.
Blade demon?!
Since when did such a noob race have a prodigy like this?
Unleashing a planetary state attack while only being a level-four mortal evolution state! Even their race only had a few of such prodigies.
Maomao looked dubiously at Lu Ze and said, "I've long heard that Blade Demon's three Blades of Dawn have come to the void universe. I didn't expect to meet one here. Are you Guguyate, Momoerde, or Luoluoxisi?" Before Lu Ze could react, the other people looked at Lu Ze like he was some kind of a rare species. The three Blades of Dawn?! Lu Ze: "?"
These guys recognized him as some blade demon?
What was going on?
Were those three guys famous? Why did they look at him strangely?
Wait...
Blades of Dawn?
Guguyate?
Momoerde? Luoluoxisi?
He seemed to have heard of them somewhere?
Suddenly, Lu Ze recalled it. They were the three people ranked at the top of the One-Star Demon Hunting list.
Did they come to the void border?
No wonder he didn't have any news about them.
Wait!
Lu Ze remembered he was on the assassination list too.
He heard he was on the Black Blade Assassination List?
Why has no one assassinated him yet?
Wait!Lu Ze just realized that he didn't hide his cultivation level. Yet, they still thought he was one of the three Blades of Dawn. This meant that they really did have a planetary state power while only being a mortal evolution state, isn't it? Lu Ze raised a brow. Their power was a little absurd.
They should be at the peak stage of the aperture opening state.
Even if they broke through, why did they progress so fast?
And why were they at the void universe?
However, Lu Ze couldn't ask this. He was a blade demon right now.
Lu Ze grinned. "Blades of Dawn? Those three imbeciles dare compare with me?"
He raised his head in contempt.
He perfectly acted out the arrogance of an unparalleled prodigy of the Blade Demon Race.
Hearing Lu Ze's prideful words, Maomao and the others were a bit dazed.
Those three blade demons weren't as strong as they were, but they had made a name for themselves in the void. They had a much bigger reputation than they did. They were blessed by the Advanced Demon Race.
Regardless of the dealings between their races, the only thing that didn't change was that they were all subjects of the Advanced Demon Race.
The blessings of the Advanced Demon Race only went to those prodigies they considered worthy.
In the recent century, only those three demons from the entire Blade Demon Race were blessed.
Their cultivation level wasn't strong, but it's said that their combat power reached the planetary state. Yet, such prodigies were looked down upon by this blade demon?
They were confused. Who was this blade demon?
Was he just blindly cocky or really powerful?
But then, they remembered the power his casual strike contained just now. Could he really have the power to back it up?
It was so shocking that they forgot they had to leave immediately.
Maomao stared at Lu Ze. "Then, who are you?"
Lu Ze smiled pridefully. "I, Blade Demon, Kakarrot. I'm destined to be the strongest in the Blade Demon Race!" "Kakarrot?"
Everyone was taken aback after hearing his name. They had never heard of such a name.
Was it…
A prodigy who was kept hidden?
They were dark metal demons after all, how could they completely know what was going on inside the Blade Demon Race?
They looked at the prideful Kakarrot. He seemed like a prodigy who was very confident in his power but hadn't seen the world.
Lu Ze didn't bother to explain while the dark metal demons were shocked. It was best that they remained shocked. That way, he didn't need to use any other means to delay them.
Was the Shenwu Army almost here yet?
It had only been half an hour since he ruined their ship. Those soldiers from the Shenwu Army said their station wasn't far from here. They should be almost here.
If not, he would really have to run.
However, Lu Ze didn't cease his performance.
That overwhelming cockiness made Lu Ze almost want to beat himself up.
The more fearless one acted at this moment, the more people thought you were the real
thing.
Lu Ze wasn't really this stupid. Everyone in the Federation knew this. He was handsome, but he kept a low profile. However, he could only act right now.
The dark metal demons looked at him with different expressions. Some were shocked, but some were dubious.
The leading dark metal demons looked at Lu Ze with flashing eyes.
The thief who damaged their motor room didn't disappear for long and this blade demon prodigy came.
Were they connected?
Maomao grinned and showed what he thought was a kind smile. "So it's a prodigy from the Blade Demon Race, Little brother Kakarrot. But… you're a level-four mortal evolution state. Why don't you stay in the safety region of the Blade Demon Race? Why did you come to the territory of humans?"
Lu Ze smiled. He had already prepared his answer. He could use this opportunity to test some things.
His eyes flashed with killing intent. "I came here to do missions, of course. A small pirate crew dares to rob the belongings of the Blade Demon Race. We found that this pirate crew might have come to the human territory, so I came over."
He glanced at these dark metal demons and spoke rather impolitely. "Did you see that space pirate fleet? A dark blue ship, a black ship, and a rock ship."
Those planetary states didn't even have time to think about Lu Ze's attitude. They looked among themselves.
Was it the one Luce spoke of? Otherwise, how could the three ships be exactly the same? Maomao was very vigilant with Lu Ze's sudden appearance, but hearing Lu Ze's explanation, half of it was gone.
He didn't answer Lu Ze's question and looked at him with confusion. "Why are you alone
here?"
Lu Ze frowned and looked at Maomao like he was an idiot. "We don't have a location device to track those pirates, of course, we have to split off to look for them. If we don't go and look for them, are they going to come over themselves?"
He studied Maomao and the rest before saying, "There are blade demons nearby, even a level-nine planetary state."
Lu Ze gave them a warning. It was very normal to do this. Otherwise, if he appeared alone here, who would care if he was a prodigy?
With this, more of Maomao's suspicion was dismissed. However… this blade demon's attitude was so disastrous. He was spoiled too much. Was that why his elders sent him out?
Even a level-nine planetary state came. Just what did those pirates steal?
He was curious. The other blade demons were curious too.
This was the territory of humans. It was too easy for a level-nine planetary state to be caught here because their strong power source was extremely noticeable. It was very dangerous for them since they would be hunted upon being noticed.
A level-nine planetary state was a mid-range power in the void universe. If the human race noticed it, of course, they would take it out.
To make blade demons risk that much, they were naturally curious about what was taken. However, they couldn't really ask directly.
They did laugh at the blade demon's calamity though.
Lu Ze spoke with annoyance, "I asked you a question. Did you see those space pirates?"
Those dark metal demons didn't feel great either, but thinking about Lu Ze's talent and the nearby blade demon bosses, they didn't act
up.
They sneered, but they really didn't know. Even if they did, they weren't going to tell him, given his attitude.
Maomao smiled. "We've never heard of it."
Lu Ze was watching their expressions. He didn't see any changes. The only pity was that they didn't know anything about why the blade demon ships would suddenly appear.
Perhaps their levels weren't high enough, or it was the secret of the Blade Demon Race.
What a pity! If only he could find out how those blade demons got insectoid queen eggs. These people were too noob. At the same time, Lu Ze was a little worried. He said everything that should be said. Other things weren't suitable to his current identity. After all, although he learned about Blade Demon Race's language and culture, he knew nothing about blade demons in the void space. The more he said, the more likely he was going to make a mistake.
According to the situation, he should be leaving now. Otherwise, someone as prideful as him would be doubted if he remained and played with them.
He was desperate, but he didn't show any expression.
He glanced at the dark metal demons and sneered. "I see."
Suddenly, Lu Ze had another idea.
Lu Ze glanced at the dark metal demons and asked, "You guys haven't said it yet, why are you outside the human territory?"
Hearing this, Maomao and the others immediately stiffened. They just remembered they were supposed to run.
He didn't know if the human race had caught onto them, but it was better to stay safe. You could survive longer in the void space like that.
However, Kakarrot's sudden appearance and his talent shocked them.
Now, they remembered their original plan. Maomao planned to take his men and leave, but suddenly, he froze.
Wait!
Why should he run?
Although their two races were superficially brothers, they were still brothers!
If they encounter humans, of course, they would take on them together.
There was a level-nine planetary state blade demon. He didn't believe that the human race would send out a star state straight up. They were extremely rare even in void space. They could join up to excavate the Four Symbol Crystal
If the humans didn't come, then they would leave after excavating. If they did come, then they would slaughter them and run.
As for the division of the Four Symbol Crystals... Maomao's eyes flashed. The two races had an alliance. The dark metal demons were quite stronger than blade demons. They didn't need to fear for their lives just over these Four Symbol Crystals.
The only issue was how much they would get.
However...
They've already collected a part of the mine. They had the primary gains.
Maomao quickly judged the pros and cons. He didn't think much and looked up at Kakarrot.
"Hahaha, little brother Kakarrot, you came at the perfect time. We followed a human excavation team here and found a Four Symbol Crystal Mine. We were planning to excavate it. Since the blade demon brothers are here, of course, we need to give you a share."
Seeing this, Lu Ze smiled. Indeed, these dark metal demons were planning to leave before.
Lu Ze was certain that these dark metal demons weren't sure if the humans received the news, but they still acted so vigilantly. They would rather abandon a portion of the resources and leave. Just as he expected.
Even for the defense force at the Shang Yang System, only the commander was a star state. One could see that star states were rare in the void space too.
He said there was a level-nine planetary state nearby. Indeed, this dark metal demon chose to have a small sip of the soup rather than having nothing.
If it were him, he would make the same decision too.
Lu Ze felt great. He was indeed a handsome and smart youth.
However, Lu Ze's blood-red eyes narrowed. His chi fluctuated a little.
Lu Ze showed a surprised expression. "Four Symbol Crystal Mine?"
They were planetary state mine. They weren't cheap. A little bit of surprise was good enough for Lu Ze's current identity.
"That's right, Four Symbol Crystal Mine." Maomao smiled and pointed at the broken ships and bodies.
"See, we've killed the humans. However, we suspect that their stationed armies have received the news, so we're planning to leave after just digging a little.
We didn't want to do that, but we didn't expect allies to be here. Now, things are easier. With powerful beings from the Blade Demon Race here, even if the human reinforcements are here, we can kill them and leave easily."
Lu Ze's eyes flashed with bloody intent. "I was wondering why there are human ships and bodies here. So you guys did it. Good job! They deserve to die! How dare they fight over resources with the Blade Demon Race. When I reach the cosmic system state, I'm going to annihilate them!"
His expression was very genuine and hot-blooded.
Maomao and the others sneered inside. Whether or not you could reach the cosmic system state was debatable, but even if you can, how can you annihilate the human race?
The Elf Race was backing them up? But... this idiot was really hot-blooded.
Maomao smiled. "Great! You're indeed a prodigy of the Blade Demon Race! Your great aspirations have inspired us!" Lu Ze smiled pridefully. "That's because I have the talent!"
Maomao and the rest: "..."
They were getting annoyed with how cocky Lu Ze was, but they were scared of getting killed by the boss behind him.
Never mind, why care about an idiot? Perhaps he would die randomly at some point?
Maomao showed another smile. "Of course, your Blade Demon Race has level-nine planetary state power. You guys can get an extra share. You 60%, us 40%. How about it?"
Lu Ze's face immediately became unhappy. "Do you think I'm dumb? Without us, you guys wouldn't even dare to excavate it. You wouldn't get anything. You guys will only get something with us here. Yet, you still want
40%?"
The dark metal demons almost went up to beat this Kakarrot up.
The atmosphere fell silent for a while before Maomao revealed a difficult smile. "You're right, little brother Kakarrot.
But... We found the Four Symbol Crystal Mine after all.
Without us, you guys can't even find the mine?
How about this... We take 30 and you take 70?"
Lu Ze crossed his arms. He wanted to laugh, but he still kept a contemptuous face and sneered. "We take 80, you take 20."
Maomao gritted his teeth. "Little brother Kakarrot, this division isn't fair."
Then, he spoke nicely, "How about you invite your elders to come over to talk?"
The two races were allies. This sort of division didn't take them seriously at all. He felt that this Kakarrot was too greedy. His elders would be more reasonable.
Lu Ze glared at Maomao. "What? Do you look down on me? Are my words useless? I'm destined to be the strongest man in the blade demon race!"
Maomao almost cursed upon seeing Kakarrot look up pridefully. Where did this guy get his confidence from?
Even those three Blades of Dawn didn't dare to say such a thing. Or was this guy an idiot?
The other dark metal demons almost exploded with anger.
Maomao took a deep breath and smiled. "What are you talking about, little brother Kakarrot? How can we look down on you? But... your elders are going to come sooner or later. How about you invite them over?"
He had no elders. Well, he did, but they were humans!
How could he keep the act up?
If he kept doing this, they would definitely eat him.
Just when Lu Ze was wondering whether he should flee, a huge wormhole suddenly appeared. Six few hundred meters long black warships this, Lu Ze rejoiced.
The dark metal demons couldn't bargain with Lu Ze anymore. They tensed up.
They didn't expect humans to come this quickly.
However, they remembered they still had a blade demon boss here. They didn't need to worry. As for the sharing ratio, 80-20 was fine. It was better than nothing.
Just when Maomao was going to look at Lu Ze to express his agreement, his eyes became dazed. Kakarrot glowed in the same silver light as the one in the motor room!
"It's you?! ... How is it possible?!"
Maomao had never been this shocked before.
The thief he was searching so hard for was this level-four mortal evolution state blade demon prodigy?!
Maomao was completely dumbfounded. After all, this blade demon prodigy was only a level-four mortal evolution state, and his chi was completely different from before.
Besides, what right did he have?
He was so weak, and yet, he dared to show off in front of them after stealing their engine.
Moreover, they were allies. Did he need to do this?
However, the important thing was that they were discovered by humans. All those tricked planetary state dark metal demons roared in fury.
Countless dark red energy shot at Lu Ze. He was prepared for this.
Actually, he wanted to let them hold on, and then, he will pretend to go and find his elders to come and assist. However, it was the cosmic era. Who needed to personally go and bring someone over?
There were communication devices after all. Therefore, the best opportunity to leave was when they were all distracted by the human ships.
Just when he was about to enter the warp dimension, he felt pressure from the surrounding spirit force. But, it was too late.
Lu Ze entered the warp dimension almost instantly.
They had missed the perfect timing.
Lu Ze grinned at the dark metal demons. "Just wait a moment, I'll call my elders to come and help you. You must hold on!"
Then, Lu Ze disappeared. All the spirit force attacks passed through where Lu Ze was before.
"Damned blade demon!" All the dark metal demons roared furiously.
No one believed that Lu Ze was calling for help. If he was, he wouldn't run away using space transmission nor ruin their motor room.
"Why?!" Maomao roared.
He didn't understand why the blade demon prodigy would target them like that and why Luce would betray and join the human race?
He was full of questions, but the humans were coming over.
On the main ship's control center, the golden-haired man stared at the screen. It was intel scouted by the ships-harsh environment and glamorous valley.
There were broken ships and human bodies. Blood covered the entire place.
All of the people onboard frowned.
Dark Metal Demons!
Even though they had seen their fellow humans die countless times in the void space, they were still burning with killing intent. But when they saw the remaining blade demons, they were stunned.
The golden-haired man asked, "They haven't left?"
They still dared to stay.
At this moment, the ship captured that the tens of blade demons were attacking a silver beam a few hundred kilometers away.
The attack shook the planet but that silver light disappeared and all the attacks missed.
"What is that?" someone exclaimed. Then, some people caught on. "Silver light, space god art, Monarch of the New Dawn?"
"How is it possible?"
Everyone was dazed. Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling looked among themselves. This guy really stalled the demons until they came?
Qiuyue Hesha looked at the dark metal demons with amazement. "How did little brother Lu Ze do it?"
Lin Ling and Nangong Jing looked at each other before shaking their heads. Then, the three looked at the golden-haired man with scorn.
Nangong Jing smiled. "It seemed Ze really stalled these dark metal demons. It's a different story from what General Youjin said."
Youjin's face looked worse. He looked at the dark metal demons and wondered if they were idiots?! How could they be stalled like that?
How did Lu Ze do it?
His combat power was only at level four of the mortal evolution state. There was no way he was a match for that level-six planetary state.
He felt a little envious upon seeing their scornful looks, but he soon took a deep breath. "Lock onto those dark metal demons, don't let them escape! Prepare for battle!"
"Don't let a single one of them leave!"
"Planetary state warriors, follow me. Let's kill them!" he ordered with killing intent.
"Yes!"
Nangong Jing and the others didn't speak anymore. They were just annoyed that Youjin looked down on Lu Ze. They weren't going to mess with the situation now.
In the valley, the mortal evolution state dark metal demons were distressed after seeing the human ships approach them.
After all, they didn't know the reason why Master Maomao and the others were so furious after seeing that Kakarrot use space god art.
Why?
He said he was going to bring his elders to come and help fight the humans.
Now, it was over.
That blade demon would be fine even if didn't bring his elders to get revenge on them, much less help them.
They could only save themselves now, but they were just mortal evolution states! "Master Maomao, what do we do?"
"The humans are here! Let's leave quickly, Master Maomao!"
"Yes... get on the flying ship! Let's leave!" The Maomao was their pride. It could stop level-six planetary state attacks with its shield. It flew super fast too. They had escaped many dangers in the void space with the and the others no longer had the time to care about their mortal evolution state subordinates' distress.
They looked tensely at the ships. They could feel they were locked on. There was no way these ships were just passing by!
These humans were prepared!
Staying here meant certain death.
Maomao said without hesitation, "Split off and run!"
It was implausible to leave on a spaceship now. As soon as they took it out, it would be blasted.
In space, a planetary state's speed was no lesser than spaceships. Some were even faster, but they just couldn't enter the warp dimension.
As for those mortal evolution states, who cared about them?
All the planetary state dark metal demons had no questions about Maomao's decision. In such a situation, wealth and Four Symbol Crystals were no longer important.
Surviving was the most crucial thing. Mortal evolution state Dark Metal Demons: "?"
How could they run? Who should they follow?
At this moment, tens of figures came out of the human ship and flew over.
Rumble!
They attacked at the same time. More than a hundred spirit force attacks shot towards the dark metal demons. It formed a huge spirit force storm. It was too powerful. The entire planet was shaking.
Maomao and the others immediately roared. "Run!"
Youjin said coldly, "Do you want to run? Don't even think about it!"
"Die!"
Just when the battle was about to start, a silver light flashed tens of thousands of kilometers away. Lu Ze appeared.
His body was covered with lacerations and blood splattered out of his wounds. He was like a human fountain.
He had no choice. Even though he used space transmission instantly, there were high-level planetary states present, and all of them attacked him simultaneously. Even though they didn't hit him directly, he felt he was almost crushed.
Luckily he was good at taking a beating. Thinking about this, Lu Ze grinned.
This was a talent.
Lu Ze coughed some more before returning to his original appearance. Then, he devoured the red and purple orbs in his mental dimension and recovered his energy.
With this, Lu Ze flashed with gray light.
Super regeneration!
Lu Ze started to heal extremely rapidly.
Rumble!
At this moment, spirit light flashed in the distance. Even at this distance, Lu Ze felt a bit of the shockwave.
Lu Ze frowned.
So they have begun to fight. That meant his mission was over.
He couldn't beat those bosses head-on, but he could still sneak back to watch. Thinking about this, Lu Ze happily flew towards the battlefield while recovering
In a few minutes, Lu Ze was near the warship.
On board the ship, the mortal evolution state humans were watching an intense battle.
At this moment, someone exclaimed while pointing at the screen, "Isn't that Monarch of the New Dawn?"
Everyone looked over immediately at the screen. Right there, Lu Ze was flying towards the battlefield while covered in blood. "It's Monarch of the New Dawn! He's heavily injured!"
"That was the combined attack of all the planetary state dark metal demons. I felt scared even watching from the ship."
"It seemed that he did indeed stall them."
"He's too hard-working. He's already so heavily injured, but he still wants to go to the battle?"
Most of the eyes of the girls inside the ship reddened.
"Yeah, Monarch of the New Dawn is so hard-working. He really stalled these dark metal demons. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to catch up to them, right?"
"Monarch of the New Dawn is so handsome. I wonder what sort of girls he likes?"
"Pfft... don't think about it. Didn't you see how protective those three young dukes were of him?"
"I'm just thinking about it. So what? You deserve to be single for the rest of your life!"
Lu Ze didn't know about the discussion. The blood on him wasn't a recent one. He had long recovered already. Soon, he was near that dim planet.
Many people were fighting above the planet and in space. The dark metal demons didn't have a lot of fighting will. They just wanted to run.
After knowing the powers of these dark metal demons, of course, the stationed army would send out people stronger than they were.
Lu Ze watched these dark metal demons attempt to run but get subjugated. The humans were cold and full of killing intent. The dark metal demons couldn't even stop them.
Lu Ze scanned across the battlefield. He couldn't even find a place for him to intervene.
If he attacked, it would be robbing someone's work.
Lu Ze even saw Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling. The former two were facing level-three planetary state dark metal demons while Lin Ling was facing a level-one planetary state dark metal demon. They all had the upper hand and would soon be able to kill the dark metal demon.
Lu Ze looked over at the most intense battle.
A golden-haired man held a long sword while fighting that dark metal demon boss.
The boss had a decent god art. His skin glowed in metallic-red color. His cultivation level was at level six of the planetary state, but his chi was far stronger.
The golden-haired man was also a level-six planetary state, but his chi was stronger than the boss.
Youjin stared at the dark metal demon and said nothing. He wasn't interested in talking to someone who was going to die. He waved his right hand as golden light gathered. He lifted his hand and hacked down.
Lu Ze saw this and became stunned. This move seemed familiar. It seemed to be the move that teacher Jack used last time?
It was Golden Sword something?
Suddenly, Lu Ze recalled that Jack had an elder brother here?
Was this guy Jack's brother?
What a coincidence!
Maomao tensed, and his dark red skin glowed even more. He waved his huge four-meter long red sword and sliced at the golden sword.
The two swords clashed, erupting a huge spirit force wave.
Beams shot in all directions. The nearby people had to dodge.
Screech!
Youjin disappeared and reappeared behind Maomao.
Maomao was just about to turn around, but a sword ray had cut heavily on his back.
Clank!
The sword ray struck the dark red beam, and another wave of force erupted. Such a ray sliced apart the dark red ray and cut open the battle armor. The dark red skin was cut open, and a deep mark was left on his back.
Blood splashed out.
"Go die!"
nao
Maomao was injured and furious. He clutched his sword with both hands and sliced at Youjin's waist.
The dark red sword beam had a sharp chi. When it neared Youjin's body, he remained very calm. His body turned into sword light once again and dodged the attack. Then, he appeared behind Maomao and attacked!
More blood poured out.
"Roar!"
Maomao started spinning, turning into a dark red vortex.
Amidst the storm, sword rays shot out in all directions, covering the skies.
With this move, this boss had no weaknesses. Before, his speed couldn't compare with the golden-haired man.
Youjin frowned at this. He dodged the sword rays and gathered more golden light on his sword.
It grew more and more intense. Sweat dripped from Youjin's head.
In a few short seconds, the golden light became so intense that it was like a miniature sun.
Youjin's eyes beamed with golden light as he slowly lifted his sword up. Then, he cut down heavily at Maomao, who was chasing him while spinning The lightning sound spread through the entire space. Even Lu Ze took a few steps back.
These two were level-six planetary states, but their combat power was at level seven.
After the clash, the sword light shattered, and the vortex stopped.
Maomao's huge body was blasted away. His armor was crushed, and his body was covered in sword marks.
During this time, his chi had become extremely weak.
However, Lu Ze was a little dazed at the moment. Maomao's body was flying towards him.
Seeing that comet-like body crashing before him, Lu Ze's mouth twitched.
There was no resistance in vacuum space. Unless Maomao stopped himself or he gave Maomao some help, Maomao would fly to the end of time.
Lu Ze didn't want to get smashed to smithereens.
A lightning spear gathered on his hand and pierced heavily onto Maomao.
Rumble!
The heavily injured Maomao could no longer withstand the lightning spear with just his body. The lightning wrapped around his body and entered inside.
The severe pain made Maomao tremble and roused him from his dizziness. He spat a mouthful of blood and became even weaker. At the same time, his body stopped not far from Lu Ze.
At this juncture, he clearly felt that the purple-red lightning inside him was the same lightning as the one in the motor room.
He turned around with difficulty and looked at Lu Ze.
Level-four mortal evolution state...
But from the human race!
His eyes bulged as though he suddenly understood something. He made an ear screeching roar, "Argh, it's you! Kakarrot! Damn you, Kakarrot!" Lu Ze said seriously, "Wrong person, I'm Lu Ze, not Kakarrot!" Lu Ze was calm and couldn't resist wondering what he was going to eat next. Meanwhile, the dark metal demon's morale dropped straight down upon seeing their boss get beaten.
A lot of them were instantly killed or heavily injured.
When they heard the name Kakarrot, all the remaining dark metal demons looked in Lu Ze's direction.
When they saw the lightning, they puked blood at the same time.
It was an extreme sight.
They were so angry. Some of them died from anger.
"Kakarrot!"
Youjin and the other humans were confused.
Who was Kakarrot?
Why were they looking at Lu Ze and saying that?
What did Lu Ze do to them?
The humans felt a chill. Just what did Lu Ze do to the dark metal demons for them to act like that?
They looked at the innocent-faced Lu Ze, and their mouth twitched.
Just what demon was this Lu Ze?
They even felt some sympathy for the dark metal demons.
Lu Ze was speechless. He just acted cool in front of them. Lin Ling and Qiuyue Hesha looked curiously at Lu Ze.
Nangong Jing's body froze when she heard the name Kakarrot. She loved hot-blooded anime. It reminded her of an ancient one.
She knew without a doubt that Ze used this name.
Wait!
Why did this guy use that name?
Kakarrot's transformation was very similar to her god art.
Could it be...
Her heart jumped. The first person he thought of was her when he came up with a name.
Did he like her?
For some reason, Nangong Jing found her heart beating fast.
No!
Alice liked this guy! What was she thinking? She didn't like this retard at all.
On the ship, the young girls looked at Lu Ze with starry eyes.
"He's indeed the Monarch of the New Dawn. As a level-four mortal evolution state, he scared tens of planetary states like that, including a level-six planetary state as well. He's too amazing!"
Meanwhile, the guys thought about how these dark metal demons were scared. They hated Lu Ze to death.
Despite so, they still looked at him with admiration.
Monarch of the New Dawn was too amazing regardless.
Just what did he do?
They were very curious. Soon, the roaring stopped. These dark metal demons were too heavily injured and tired. However, they still stared deadly at Lu Ze.
They were going to die, but they still had to express their hatred!
Youjin took a deep look at Lu Ze, and he hurled the heavily injured Maomao before saying, "We've won!"
However, no one rejoiced. The atmosphere was heavy.
Moments later, Youjin said, "Let's pay our respects to them."
Everyone knew 'them' referred to those who made sacrifices.
Despite the intense battle, the valley wasn't damaged at all. Clearly, the human side was much stronger than these dark metal demons. It was a crushing victory. The remains and wreckage of the ships were all collected. The bodies were placed into coffins and laid on the ground. They would be shipped back to the station. Their ashes would be delivered to their kins.
Under the cosmic soul-soothing tune, it was hoped their souls would return to their families and rest in peace.
The soldiers carried the heavily injured dark metal demons and stopped here.
Youjin carried a huge half-dead body. It was Maomao.
He threw Maomao on the ground, and the rest of the soldiers did the same.
Everyone stared at the few hundred coffins in silence.
Death wasn't rare in the void space. People were dying constantly. This was like a meat grinder that devoured countless lives. Despite so, they still felt sad while gathering the bodies of their fellow comrades.
This was the fate of a 're either weak so others had to protect you, or you were strong enough to crush the world. The people in between were often the most tragic. Youjin spoke, "Farewell comrades, we've avenged you."
"Those who invade our human borders and kill our soldiers will pay with blood!"
"Execute!"
With Youjin's order, all the dark metal demons were killed.
Blood filled the valley.
Youjin didn't even look at the bodies and said, "Your will shall be passed down by the Shenwu Army forever!"
"The territory of the Federation will never be lost!"
"The light of the human race will shine the cosmic sea!"
Youjin and the others collected the storage rings of the dark metal demons and found a lot of Four Symbol Crystals inside. They were going to take it and leave, but Lu Ze stopped them. Thereafter, Youjin and the others went to check the dark metal demon's ship. When they saw its defenses, they were amazed.
They were confused why the dark metal demons didn't leave on this ship. Perhaps they would've gotten away with it?
However, when they entered the motor room and saw the remnants of purple-red lightning, their faces became strange.
Clearly, Lu Ze sabotaged this place. How did he do it?
Everyone looked strangely at Lu Ze, but Lu Ze said nothing
Youjin felt extremely complicated emotions. Obviously, Lu Ze really stalled these dark metal demons. They might not be able to annihilate this group of dark metal demons without him. He had to admit that Lu Ze did amazing work.
His eyes flashed, and he nodded to Lu Ze. "Thanks to you this time, Monarch of the New Dawn. I will report your contribution to the commander. He will decide on the reward."
Lu Ze smiled and nodded. There should be quite some reward this time. Lu Ze felt great as he was even closer to buying the Martial God Set.
Subsequently, Youjin reported the situation to the basecamp. They would be guarding here as they wait for people who will excavate the mine fully before leaving. Lu Ze, Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling finished their mission. They weren't members of the Shenwu Army, so they didn't need to wait here.
They went back on the ship, sending the bodies back.
On-board, Lu Ze met with the fervent gazes of people. He scratched his head in embarrassment.
At this time, a pretty woman wearing a black military uniform walked over and looked at Lu Ze shyly before saying, "Monarch of the New Dawn must be very tired stalling the dark metal demons for us? Please come this way, we've prepared a room for you to rest."
Nangong Jing and the others were speechless. They were very tired too. Why did the girl only look at Lu Ze?
They were completely ignored. Nevertheless, they still followed Lu Ze to the room.
"This is the room prepared for you. I hope you get a good rest. You can call me anytime for anything."
Anything?
Lu Ze looked at her red face and thought of something inappropriate. He coughed and quickly suppressed the thought.
Lu Ze smiled and nodded. "Okay, thank you."
"You're welcome." The girl blushed even more.
Monarch of the New Dawn smiled at me!
His smile was so pretty.
Nangong Jing spoke impatiently, "Okay, we're going in. Go do your business."
Then, she dragged Lu Ze into the room. Qiuyue Hesha and Lin Ling entered too and closed the door, leaving the girl outside stunned.
She gritted her teeth, but she could only leave.
Inside, Lu Ze was leaning against the wall while Nangong Jing pressed her hands to the wall on his two sides. Her dark eyes stared right at him. Qiuyue Hesha and Lin Ling glared at Lu Ze too.
Lu Ze's mouth twitched.
"What are you three doing? I'm just a kid."
Should he resist or accept? But... he couldn't beat Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha.
The three of them were coming together for the first time?
Wasn't that a bit too fast?
His mouth twitched. "Cough... how about... one by one?"
The three girls: "..."
They felt awkward and annoyed.
What was this guy saying?! Nangong Jing knocked Lu Ze's head.
"Kid, what are you thinking about? I'll beat you
up!"
Then, she took a few steps back.
Lu Ze: "..."
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Little brother Lu Ze, how did you do it? I'm very curious!"
Lin Ling nodded and looked at Lu Ze. They still couldn't imagine it, despite knowing Lu Ze had transformation god art.
Lu Ze felt disappointed. He thought they were going to do something to him. Then, he recounted what happened earlier.
Lu Ze said regretfully, "Senior Yan Gu said that the Dark Metal Demon Race, Black Smoke Race, and Blade Demons are allies. Blade demons and black smoke got the insectoid queen egg. I was wondering if I could scout some information from the dark metal demons."
"What a pity..."
Lin Ling and the rest were speechless. Lu Ze was too bold. He dared to stall time after ruining the motor room. He dared to be that cocky... Their skin crawled. If it were them, they wouldn't dare to do that.
But... Lu Ze succeeded.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Perhaps the level of these dark metal demons aren't high enough?"
Lin Ling said, "Of course, it's possible that the dark metal demons aren't involved."
They began discussing seriously. They were very curious about this matter but had too little information.
Nangong sing drank some wine and said, "Wait until Ying Ying comes. Then, we'll go to the region that the Terry Brothers spoke of."
"Mhm."
The group nodded.
Lin Ling looked at Lu Ze's blood and said, "Go take a shower, you're covered in blood."
They weren't worried since they knew Lu Ze had regeneration god art.
Lu Ze nodded. They all took a shower and began discussing cultivation.
As Lu Ze's and Lin Ling's cultivation level grew, the differences between them shrunk. Within the same cultivation level, Lu Ze was definitely the strongest, but the others weren't weak.
Four hours later, the ship returned to Shang Yang Galaxy. It was a dwarf galaxy and only had 3000 light-years in diameter.
But this was at the border of the human territory and thus had stronger forces stationed here than Chiyun Galaxy.
The soldiers here were mortal evolution state. Planetary states were the middle power, and the commander was a star state.
Lu Ze and the others went straight to the city instead of the base of Shenwu Army.
The city here was about the same as the one in Chiyun Galaxy, but the adventure squads were much stronger.
There were very few planetary states in the cities of Chiyun Galaxy, but here, there were plenty. Lu Ze went to the resource hall to recycle the motor device he got. He couldn't use it, so the best choice was to sell it.
Clearly, it was very good as he got 3000 Shenwu merit points for it.
The entire main ship of the Terry Brothers only fetched an amount of 3000 Shenwu merit points. Yet, one spirit force device cost 3000 Shenwu merit points. How much was that entire ship worth?
What a pity, he couldn't take it.
Right now, he had 4900 Shenwu merit points. This was 10% of the Martial God Set.
Lu Ze and the others booked a suite in a hotel. He felt bad about this since the suites were expensive, and they didn't stay inside for long. However, they had to wait for the rewards to come out, so they had no choice.
Shang Yang Galaxy Station.
Inside the Suite.
Lu Ze, Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling were lying on the couch while watching their own phones. They weren't playing. They were searching for missions-local missions.
Local missions were usually published by the stationed army or adventure squads. Most of the missions here were planetary states. There were mortal evolution state missions, but there were few of them. After all, this was at the very border of human territory.
Some missions can be done inside, and some were outside the territory.
"The military has quite a lot of missions." Lu Ze sighed. He lifted up his leg and put it on Lin Ling's leg on the other couch.
Mhm, it was soft and bouncy. Comfortable!
Lin Ling expressionlessly slapped Lu Ze's leg away. In turn, Lu Ze silently took his leg back.
Qiuyue Hesha said, "What can we do? There aren't a lot of planetary state humans. The military has the most planetary states, but the territory is so large. They don't have enough people."
Nangong Jing nodded. "The missions outside the territory are much more numerous than the ones inside. The army ensures the safety of the territory first."
Lu Ze nodded. It wasn't too plausible for the stationed army and planetary states to guard this region that had an area of tens of thousands of light-years. That's why they needed help from the adventure guilds.
"No wonder senior Yan Gu said there would be more missions here." Lin Ling scanned the missions and sighed.
There were indeed a lot of missions, and most were suitable for them. From hunting foreign beings inside the territory to guarding resource planets, there was everything.
A few hundred missions!
Everyone flicked through the missions and discussed them.
"This mission is good. Hunt a being from the Tiger Tail Race, who comes inside the territory to steal resources. Cultivation level is level three of the planetary state, but he seems to possess a god art to hide himself... 1500 Shenwu merit points! Just how much did this guy steal?"
"This mission isn't bad. They found a small squad of blade demons near the Chihuo Star Region. The strongest is estimated to be a level-three planetary state. However, they may also have a level-four planetary state. If we kill them, we get 750 Shenwu merit points. If we capture them alive 1200... Hmm... do we have the power?"
The strongest was only a level-four planetary state, but the reward reached over a thousand merits. Clearly, this could be attributed to the difference in the race.
"Never mind, let's just take it first! If we can't finish it, we'll just pay 5% of the reward as compensation. Let's try it?"
"Okay!"
Tens of Shenwu merit points were probably the reward of a few missions for mortal evolution states, but it wasn't much for them.
"This mission isn't bad too. A group of silver hook beasts appeared on planet Nanlis. It seems the Shenwu Army stationed there finds it hard to defend the area. They need to be cleared out. Silver hook beasts' tail was a planetary state material. There's a recycle mission for that. It's like getting two rewards for one mission. Should we try it?"
There were too many missions, but most of them would be safe if a level-five planetary state accepted it. Their squad was a noob team. The strongest among them, Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha, only had a combat power near level four of the planetary state. Lu Ze could be considered high at level two, and Lin Ling was merely level one.
They could only get middle-to-low missions. Despite this, the rewards were quite plenty.
After accepting the missions, three hours had passed.
Nangong Jing exclaimed on the couch. "Pity that each team can only accept three missions at once. The other missions have to wait until the accepted missions are completed."
Qiuyue Hesha replied, "This is just what it is. Some missions can't be accepted after others accept them. If you take it and don't complete it, it's wasting time."
Nangong Jing didn't argue back. She was just complaining
Lu Ze lay on the couch. They were waiting for his reward before going to do the missions again. How much would he get? Lu Ze was quite hopeful.
Lu Ze looked at Lin Ling and said fawningly, "Lin Ling, I'm hungry. I want roast pork!"
Lin Ling: "..."
She rolled her eyes and got up. "I'll go cook."
After dinner, they went back to their own rooms.
Lu Ze sat on the bed and closed his eyes, entering the pocket hunting dimension. He looked around and saw the huge forest in the distance. His eyes lit up immediately.
Forest!
He hadn't been near here for a long time! Lu Ze remembered those golden monkeys!
He still had half of the golden fruit wine left after a month, but Lu Ze cared more about their god art.
It was probably a body god art, right?
Lu Ze was keen. Last time, he was still a noob, but now, he was a boss!
Even during the day, he could kill level-seven mortal evolution states and be on par with level-eight mortal evolution states.
There were level-seven mortal evolution state monkeys.
Lu Ze flew towards the forest. As soon as he came in, his vision dimmed. It was rather dark here, but Lu Ze didn't mind.
He already had night vision from the body of darkness. He started to conceal his chi and scan around carefully. Soon, he found his target and disappeared from the spot.
A few minutes later, Lu Ze looked at the animals below the tree, and his mouth twitched.
It was a strange animal with gray fur and sharp claws. It was five meters tall and looked like a rat. It had triangular ears and a fluffy tail. Its appearance was quite cute.
The only strange thing was that the hair on its head was green. This was the first time Lu Ze saw such an animal. The rat was only a level-four mortal evolution state and was a safe choice for Lu Ze. It didn't notice him at all as it was happily gnawing away at the tree roots.
Lu Ze appeared above the rat's head, and his hand struck down.
Rumble!
A huge black golden palm flattened the rat into the ground.
Chit! Chit!
The rat's four legs convulsed before dying. Its body then turned to ashes, leaving five red and purple orbs, as well as a green orb.
Lu Ze had never seen this before. New god art orb?
Green?
Was this a wood element?
Lu Ze took it happily.
Wood god art was the Elf Race's racial god art. Other than water, he gathered all five elements of god art. Even if there was no water god art on this map, there was probably one on the next map.
Lu Ze happily picked up the orbs and left.
In the next ten hours, he found more beasts. They were mostly stronger than the beasts outside the forest. The weakest was a level-three mortal evolution state. Lu Ze even saw a huge anaconda that was a level-nine mortal evolution state.
Lu Ze didn't even dare to breathe upon seeing its crisp green body. Luckily, he had chi stealth god art. The anaconda didn't notice him. Lu Ze was at the top of the food chain on the third map now. He couldn't beat those bosses, but he could deal with the ordinary beasts rather easily.
After spending more than ten hours in the forest, Lu Ze once again saw the golden light ahead.
Lu Ze rejoiced. He found it! The Golden Fruit Forest!
The potential body god art on those golden apes was Lu Ze's target this time. He rapidly sped towards it. When he arrived, he smiled at the golden fruit trees in front of him.
Lu Ze once again turned into a small golden ape. There were bosses here. He couldn't just waltz in.
He stepped inside the forest. The last time he came in, the apes had already collected the golden fruits.
Now, as Lu Ze kept going forward within the trees, he saw that the trees were blossoming with golden flowers, which smelled satisfying.
"Ough! Ough! Ough!"
Distant roars sounded from all directions, and there were trees wobbling from time to time.
Lu Ze had some guesses.
The harvest season was over, and those golden apes had nothing to do, so they're playing here?
The roars gradually became more prominent, but Lu Ze felt that the sounds were strange.
Soon, he neared two apes who had left the group. Then, he saw an eye-piercing situation.
One golden ape was standing on the tree and shaking its body while making strange noises. In front of him was a smaller ape that also called back.
They were moving back and forth rhythmically.
Were they singing?
Did the apes have such a method to entertain themselves?
At this moment, the ape that was squatting suddenly stopped roaring and turned around, facing away from the ape.
The other ape that was jumping and singing suddenly became desperate. However, the ape ignored the other ape.
Lu Ze's face became stranger.
How could they have conflict while singing?
Was it some competition?
He didn't understand.
The desperate ape saw this and stopped calling the other ape's attention. However, it suddenly appeared behind the ape and then slammed its huge fist at the latter's head.
Dong!
The ape fell down.
Lu Ze: "?"
From singing to murder, what was going on?
At this moment, he realized that the fallen ape was still alive, it was just dazed. Then, what happened next completely dumbfounded him.
The huge ape grinned and crawled onto the fallen ape.
Lu Ze: "..."
He felt his eyes were ruined.
This was a male and female?
Wait!
That singing competition was mating?
Lu Ze's eyes widened.
This large ape couldn't make it, so he knocked the female ape out to rape it? Lu Ze's mouth twitched. He didn't feel too good. He was single, and yet, he encountered such a flexing male ape. He felt he needed to do something
Lu Ze disappeared from the spot. A lightning spear formed around his hand.
The male ape was only a level-seven mortal evolution state. It was having a great time and couldn't react in time.
When the lightning spear was near it, it was too late for it to turn around.
Rumble!
The lightning spear pierced its body, including the female ape below it.
Killing two birds with one stone!
Lu Ze had no shame. Instead, he laughed merrily.
The two bodies soon turned to ash, leaving behind 11 red and 9 purple orbs, as well as 2 golden god art orbs.
Lu Ze's eyes flashed with joy. There was indeed god art orbs!
He wondered whether it was body god art. It was quite likely.
He could sense it. When he used the lightning spear, this ape's body had reached the planetary state.
This was rather terrifying, but he was stronger. During this time, a furious ape roar could be heard and was rapidly closing in.
Lu Ze sensed the chi and instantly picked up the orbs and disappeared.
Time to run!
Level-nine mortal evolution state boss!
He couldn't beat it.
After gaining some distance, Lu Ze felt that the furious chi was rapidly closing in. Lu Ze concealed his chi and hid on a fruit tree, acting as a weak and pitiful golden ape.
A golden light flashed and a ten-meter tall ape appeared before Lu Ze. It became stunned when it saw that Lu Ze was only two meters tall.
It stared at Lu Ze for a moment and left.
Lu Ze breathed easy.
This ape was really strong!
Lu Ze felt it wouldn't be weaker than when he wore his personal armor or used the body of darkness.
This ape's power might be at level two of the planetary state!
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. He was in the pocket hunting dimension. He couldn't use his personal armor nor use the body of darkness in the Golden Fruit Forest.
Luckily, he survived by using his transformation god art and chi stealth god art.
After some time, he flew off in another direction. Afterward, Lu Ze looked for lone apes or a pair of them.
Lone apes were very rare. They were more likely to be in twos.
It seemed to be spring right now for the apes. The forest was filled with love.
Lu Ze's mind was scarred by those scenes. He really couldn't take it anymore.
A few hours later, 13 apes had died in Lu Ze's merciless hands.
Other than one lone ape, all the others were pairs.
At this moment, all the apes suddenly flew towards the mountain ranges. Lu Ze wondered if they were going back to rest. The rabbits had such habits too.
Lu Ze thought about it and also followed.
It was hard to encounter this forest again. He should go and get some more golden fruit wine. Otherwise, his supplies might not last long enough. He felt he should find an opportunity for the girls to drink this. The female alcoholic would love this especially.
Soon, Lu Ze arrived at the cave he went to last time. After going through some tunnels, he reached that golden wine lake. On the side were vases filled with wine.
Many golden apes were coming back. They would take one and return to the caves on the wall.
Lu Ze also went there and carried a vase bigger than he was and planned to run.
Right then, Lu Ze saw that 12-meter tall golden ape come out of the room.
Lu Ze: "..."
It was the same location, same position. Lu Ze met someone he shouldn't have.
Without hesitation, he wrapped the wine with his mental force and sent it to his mental dimension.
Thereafter, that familiar feeling of being crushed by a planet came.
When he woke up, he was already back in his room.
Lu Ze's face turned blue, and his whole body curled up, trembling constantly in pain.
After a while, he lay back and looked at the ceiling with tears.
This was the second time.
Sigh...
When could he come out of the pocket hunting dimension alive?
After being in a dazed state for about half an hour, the pain stopped. Lu Ze started feeling good again. He harvested quite a lot this time! He had never gotten the green and golden god art orbs before.
He sat on the bed and looked at them in his mental dimension. He had 17 of those green orbs. They seemed to be teeming with life.
The golden god art orbs were emitting domineering chi. They were flashing gold, and there were 13 in total.
He also got plenty of red, purple, and earth god art orbs.
Lu Ze took out a green orb and devoured it. Immediately, Lu Ze felt he seemed to have taken root on the bed and couldn't be separated from it.
Wood god art knowledge started to appear in his mind.
Indeed!
This really was wood god art.
Lu Ze used another level-eight mortal evolution state purple orb and began learning.
Four hours later, he finished comprehending the knowledge. Lu Ze opened his eyes and spread out his hands. Green vines crawled around his hands. This was the most basic wood god art.
He could control plants and had healing energy, though it was not very strong. As he learned more, perhaps there would be other effects. But without divine art, this god art wasn't very strong for Lu Ze. When would he be able to get a suitable divine art for it?
Lu Ze took back the vines. Then, he looked at the golden orbs with anticipation. This was the main point! This golden orb was different from the metal god art orb. It was more vibrant and dominant.
Lu Ze devoured one. As the orb entered his body, the violent power charged into him like an unstoppable beast. His body shook with pain. However, this pain was tolerable to Lu Ze.
He used another purple orb and started learning this god art.
As he learned, Lu Ze found that the golden light he had inside from the golden fruit wine started to fuse with the god art knowledge.
Every part of his body started to be painted in golden color.
His body was rapidly getting stronger. At the same time, Lu Ze found that his 1st body god art had some connection with this new god art.
All body god arts made one's body stronger. Perhaps they strengthened different areas, but there would always be similarities.
Lu Ze became immersed in learning god art.
The next morning, Nangong Jing walked out of her room with a bottle of wine. She noticed that Qiuyue Hesha and Lin Ling had already come out.
"Good morning, fox demon, Lin Ling," Nangong Jing greeted.
Then, she sensed something and looked at Lu Ze's room in disbelief.
Seeing this, Qiuyue Hesha asked in confusion, "What happened?".
Nangong Jing spoke with uncertainty, "I feel that Ze's room has similar god art chi with my golden battle blood."
Hearing this, Qiuyue Hesha's and Lin Ling's eyes widened in shock.
Lin Ling blinked her eyes. "Ze's new god art?"
They were used to Lu Ze learning new god art from time to time.
"Wait!" Qiuyue Hesha spoke in shock. "If that's the case, then if there's a god art orb, then the female T-rex would benefit from it the most?"
Nangong Jing clearly thought of this too and laughed happily. "Hahaha, fox demon, soon you will be no match for me!"
Qiuyue Hesha said with dissatisfaction, "We can use this god art orb too. Plus, it's not your own handwork. What are you proud of?"
Nangong Jing replied, "What is mine is Ze's, what is Ze's is mine."
"Shameless!" Qiuyue Hesha looked at Nangong Jing with contempt.
She wasn't like this before. The first time Lu Ze gave her orbs, she was very embarrassed. Now, she was getting more and more shameless.
Nangong Jing rebuked, "Are you not the same?"
Qiuyue Hesha was at a loss for words. Lin Ling looked down in embarrassment too. Their cultivation now was pretty much dependent on Lu Ze.
Nangong Jing said, "Ze is improving too fast. He's almost catching up to me. In this case, I can last longer."
Body god art was her strongest god art. If it could get stronger, then her combat power would improve quite a bit. Now, she wouldn't worry about being surpassed in the short run.
Thinking about how that guy might want revenge, she was quite nervous.
Would her head get flicked?
Nangong Jing was scared. She drank some wine and said, "Going back to cultivation!"
Right after, she returned to her room. Qiuyue Hesha and Lin Ling did the same.
Another eight hours later, Lu Ze was sitting on the bed, gleaming with golden and black rays. The two rays were fusing together. The black ray seemed to be merging into the golden ray.
Lu Ze was excited.
He didn't expect that these two body god arts would fuse together so well!
Lu Ze felt that if the golden body god art reached perfection on the third map and fused with the 1st body god art, then his body god art would not be weaker than the evolved lightning god art.
As his body god art progressed, his body was also getting stronger. Soon, Lu Ze used another purple orb to learn the golden body god art even more.
Time passed quickly. Once again, it was night time, but only then did Lu Ze slowly open his eyes.
Pant...
Lu Ze didn't use spirit force nor god art. He just clutched his fists.
Rumble!
There was a deep sound in the air.
Lu Ze smiled.
He used four golden god art orbs. Now, with just his body, his combat power could reach level eight of the mortal evolution state.
This didn't include god art and divine art!
Yet, his combat power went four levels beyond. This was stronger than most young dukes. What would they think upon hearing this? Lu Ze grinned. He was indeed a prodigy.
Lu Ze came out of his room and saw that the living room was empty. Were they still cultivating?
Lu Ze felt hungry, but no one could cook for this time, Lu Ze took out his phone. There was news from the military. It was about his reward for the dark metal demons.
He protected the Four Symbol Crystal Mine and stalled the dark metal demons, helping the sacrificed soldiers get revenge. He even got a share of the remaining ship.
This time, he got 6000 Shenwu merit points!
This was more than all his previous missions combined!
He had 10,900 Shenwu merit points now! Just when Lu Ze was happy, the other three doors opened at the same time. When he saw their phones in their hands, he realized they received the rewards.
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha asked at the same time, "How much did you get?"
Lu Ze and Lin Ling: "..."
They were speechless.
"600!" Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha spoke at the same time.
It was the same again.
Clearly, they were expecting this and didn't say anything else.
Lu Ze looked curiously at Lin Ling. "How much did you get?"
Lin Ling smiled. "Less than the two sisters. I only got 300. What about you?"
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha looked over immediately. Lu Ze's contribution was huge. It would definitely be a substantial reward.
Lu Ze waved his hand. "Nothing much, just 6000."
Lin Ling, Nangong Jing, and Qiuyue Hesha: II 11
Seeing how Lu Ze tried to act cool, they wanted to eat him.
Nangong Jing spoke lifelessly, "This kid has ten times more than I have! So envious!"
Lu Ze silently took a step back, fearing he would get beaten up.
Qiuyue Hesha looked at Lu Ze. "Not just that, Lu Ze recycled the motor device which was worth 3000. In total, he got 9000." Lu Ze felt great upon seeing the three girls being so envious.
Perhaps he would be the first one to buy the Martial God Set.
Once he put the set on, perhaps his combat power would be close to the alcoholic and fox demon.
Nangong Jing finished her alcohol and said, "Let's go and do missions now!"
Lu Ze said, "Huh? We haven't even had dinner yet. How about we leave after dinner?"
Lin Ling dragged Lu Ze outside. "Get on the ship first before eating!"
Qiuyue Hesha nodded. "I'm not super happy that little brother Lu Ze surpassed me."
Then, Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling dragged Lu Ze out of the suite.
After checking out, the four came outside the city and left the planet through the New Dawn.
They accepted three missions. It was the Blade Demon Squad mission, Tiger Tail Race Hunt, and Silver Hook Beast mission.
The Tiger Tail Race thief mission could be accepted repeatedly while the Silver Hook Beast mission had a time limit. Therefore, they had decided to accomplish that mission first.
Planet Nanlis was situated in a small solar system. It's inside the Federal-controlled territory.
That planet had a rare metal called Nanlis alloy. It can be used to forge equipment and flying ships.
Like the Four Symbol Crystal Mines, there was also an excavation team and Shenwu Army soldiers guarding there.
Now, a group of silver hook beasts appeared on that planet. The Shenwu Army was having difficulty defending it.
Lu Ze and the rest were going over there to clear out the silver hook beasts.
Planet Nanlis, Nanlis Alloy Mine.
This was the largest mining area in the planet.
The mine was a mountain range that was thousands of kilometers long. In one corner, there was a small base located there, spanning ten kilometers long. The base was surrounded by a dark blue spirit light. Outside the barrier were a few hundred strange beasts that ranged from tens of meters to hundreds of meters long. These beasts had black tough scales and silver runes mixed within them.
Their tails were almost as long as their bodies. The tail was entirely silver and glowing with metallic color. It was like a sharp scythe.
These beasts surrounded the base. They either used spirit force attacks or attacked with their body. Each strike they made created a ripple on the barrier.
There weren't many constructions inside the base, but there were several mining carts and AI mining robots.
Now, they were all useless. They might not even be able to defend the base, much less the mine.
At the border of the base, most of the soldiers were watching those beasts with pale faces.
At one side of the city wall, there were tens of Shenwu Army warriors who had powerful chi. They were all planetary states.
Their leader was a black-haired female warrior wearing silver armor. Her cultivation level had reached level four of the planetary state.
These soldiers, more or less, all had injuries. Their armors had cracked quite a bit.
The strongest warrior's chi wasn't very stable.
One middle-aged man frowned. "The defense barrier would last two more days at most."
Another blonde youth nodded, "Should we go out and fight another wave?"
They would often go out to send these beasts away, but soon, they would return.
Their injuries were accumulated by going out, again and again. They didn't even have time to recover.
During this time, a mortal evolution state warrior came out with joy. "General! The rescue mission has been accepted. People are coming over now!"
Hearing this, those soldiers relaxed a little.
A bulky man with a severed arm snarled, "When the reinforcements come, I'm going to slaughter all of them!"
His arm was cut off by the silver hook beast's tail.
It could be recovered with modern technology, but he would need to re-cultivate his hand again. Even the dark-haired female smiled. "Who are the reinforcements?"
The soldier answered, "It's Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, Lu Ze, and Lin Ling."
The bulky man laughed. "Why do I feel their names are familiar? Lu Ze?..."
Then, his eyes suddenly bulged.
Wasn't that Monarch of the New Dawn?!
Everyone fell silent. The middle-aged man frowned. "Why is it them? Those beasts aren't weak. There's a level-four planetary state! Can they do it?"
"Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha just recently reached the planetary state, right? Are their combat power at level four of the planetary state?"
They were in shock.
The leader sighed. "I believe they're confident. That's why they accepted this mission. If it's too dangerous for them, there would be punishment, and it would endanger their safety. They're not this dumb."
"If their power isn't enough, at least, they can help clear the beasts around the base. We can ignore the cave mines they've taken over. Once we break free and return to the station, we can bring an army to annihilate them."
The others nodded.
The bulky man frowned. "I was waiting for the army to come and annihilate them all. Instead, a few noobs came."
The blonde youth smiled. "Haha. You can't say they're noobs. They're very talented."
The bulky man disagreed. "Talent isn't equivalent to power! They might be powerful in the future, but now, they're only so-so."
The female frowned. "Okay, stop complaining. It's good that we have reinforcements. Just wait for them first."
A day later, the New Dawn came out of the warp tunnel. This was a star much larger than the Sun with more than ten planets circulating it.
Lu Ze looked at the mission. "Sixth planet... let's go over."
Half an hour later, the ship neared the destination.
Planet Nanlis was gray-white. The gravity was much greater than Earth. The metal content of the planet was pretty high, and there was a very large reserve of Nanlis alloy.
The storms and natural disasters on the surface were rather serious. There are no ordinary life forms there. Only those aperture opening states and above could survive.
Of course, the excavation team and soldiers here were at least mortal evolution state.
Lin Ling pointed at one part of the planet. "Look, there's a battle over there."
Lu Ze and the others looked over. The spirit force shot out into the sky. The battle seemed intense.
Qiuyue Hesha flicked her hair. "There is a level-four planetary state beast. Their numbers are also quite many. Be careful."
Lu Ze nodded. "Let's go land first. We'll get off the ship and fly over."
The New Dawn couldn't stop the attacks of a level-four planetary state.
The New Dawn entered the atmosphere and stopped above the gray barren lands. The four came out of the ship, and Lu Ze put the ship away. Searing winds blew over. Lu Ze looked and could see the flashing spirit light. He smiled. "Let's go over."
The four started flying. A few minutes later, Lu Ze and the others crossed tens of thousands of kilometers and were very close to the battle region.
Rumble! Rumble... Rumble... Rumble...
Thunderous clashing sounds were accompanied by the storm and spirit force wave.
A small black base came before Lu Ze and the rest.
There was a blue spirit force defense barrier. Outside it was tens of Shenwu Army soldiers fighting a few hundred strange-looking beasts.
Watching their waving scythe tails, Qiuyue Hesha narrowed her eyes, "Are these silver hook beasts?"
This was the first time they had seen such beasts.
They had sleek bodies, sharp teeth and claws. Their terrifying tails were full of lethality.
At this moment, Lin Ling looked at the endless mountain range with her glowing eyes.
"There are a lot of silver hook beasts in the mountains. They seem to be startled by the battle and are keen to move... but for some reason, they didn't come out."
Nangong Jing raised a brow. "Let's go over to help first." "Mhm."
The four had put on their special armors and unleashed all their chi.
There were quite some of these beasts. They had to use full power.
Outside the base, the silver hook beasts had attacked the barriers non-stop during the past day. The energy in the barrier was running out.
The dark-haired female warrior led planetary states out to fight the silver hook beasts, allowing the spirit force barrier to rest and charge.
Not all the silver hook beasts were planetary states, but there were more than a hundred planetary states. They could fight evenly for a short while.
The female warrior held a long sword and faced 2 level-four planetary state beasts. With a sweep of her sword, a sharp golden sword ray surged out and forced them back.
She panted and frowned. "How long does the recharge need?"
"It's at 40% now. It still needs half an hour."
"Roar!"
Before she could answer, the two silver hook beasts rushed toward her again.
She gritted her teeth and charged up once more as well.
Her cultivation talent was quite good. She even learned a weak metal god art. But these silver hook beasts were much stronger than ordinary void beasts. Their bodies seemed to be made of special alloy and were extremely tough.
Facing such powerful defenses, even she could barely kill them.
At this moment, there was another furious roar. The bulky man with the severed hand was surrounded by 3 level-three planetary state silver hook beasts. Their tails kept slicing at the man, giving him quite a hard time.
His armor was getting cut up, and blood poured out. His injuries were getting worse. Despite this, the man didn't retreat. He just kept blocking their attacks.
Seeing this, the female warrior gritted her teeth. "Jeffry, go inside the barrier first. I'll stop these three!"
Jeffry hacked down his long sword, which clashed with a silver tail.
Clank!
The shock wave spread in all directions, and his body was forced back. At this moment, two more silver beams were incoming.
He barely dodged the lethal spots.
Screech!
Two deep marks were left in the armor.
"No! General! I'm not going back!"
These beasts' tails were unstoppable and eerier. They were enough to create a threat for a level-four planetary state.
Two level-four planetary states and three level-three ones ganging up on the general will be a bit riskier for her.
The female warrior looked around the battle. Everyone was struggling to see more than a hundred planetary state silver hook beasts and more mortal evolution state ones.
Their injuries hadn't healed yet. They weren't at their peak.
She spoke firmly, "Retreat! Go back! The charge is at 40%. That's enough to last until help arrives."
At this moment, four beams rapidly neared the battlefield.
A pink mist loomed over the entire battlefield. In that instant, all the silver hook beasts stopped.
Those 2 level-four planetary state silver hook beasts had a very strong mental force and broke free almost instantly. They remained attacking the female warrior.
The other silver hook beasts weren't strong. Those three silver hook beasts attacking the bulky man paused completely.
The man quickly flew out of their range. His eyes still had some fear.
The other warriors also found that their opponents had suddenly frozen.
Right then, all the mortal evolution states and level-one planetary state silver hook beasts lost their life force. Their bodies fell to the ground, carving out small ditches in the sturdy land.
These thudding sounds struck into the hearts of these warriors.
Dead?
How?
"Roar!"
Just when everyone was dazed, these 3 level-three planetary states finally broke free. They roared in fury and set their gaze on the bulky man again.
Suddenly, a golden beam flashed above the heads of these three silver hook beasts.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
Three golden fist forces landed heavily on their back, smashing them into the ground. A crater of a three-kilometer radius was created.
Inside the crater, the scales on their backs were crushed. Blood gushed out. Then, roars could be heard again. The golden beam turned into Nangong Jing. She looked at the three silver hook beasts and frowned. "Their defenses are so strong. They're not dead?"
Her attack should have killed ordinary level-three planetary state beasts.
Rumble...
At this juncture, the sky turned black. A few hundred kilometers wide black lightning cloud covered the battlefield.
Bolts of purple-red lightning surged and struck the tens of level-two planetary state beasts that were resisting Qiuyue Hesha's charm god art.
They were all crushed into the ground.
Lu Ze saw that they still had remaining life force and raised a brow. "They're a bit tough. Let's do it again."
Then, another wave of lightning struck down. The ditches exploded with lightning, and blood poured out.
"Still not dead? Quite sturdy. Let's do it again."
After three waves of lightning, all these beasts finally died.
Lu Ze looked at the bodies in surprise. "These silver hook beasts are really something."
Lin Ling smiled. "Let me have a look."
Lin Ling ignited all her spirit force into her eyes. Using this divine art past her full power made Lin Ling's face go instantly pale At this moment, she stared at the 2 level-four planetary state beasts attacking the female warrior.
In a short second, the light in her eyes dimmed, and Lin Ling fell down.
Lu Ze quickly grabbed her and asked, "Are you okay? You're trying too hard. You dare to look at a level-four planetary state?"
Lu Ze remembered that was what she did back at the entrance test.
Lin Ling was very feeble, but she smiled. "I'm fine. Sister Jing, Hesha, and you can all do something. I'm not strong enough, so I can only do supplementary work."
Lu Ze replied speechlessly, "You don't need to do it with your life."
Last time, she almost lost her eyes, and yet, she still dares to do this.
Lin Ling looked at Lu Ze's face and smiled. "Are you worried about me?"
Before Lu Ze could reply, Lin Ling became stunned first. She had never expected herself to say such things.
They were in battle right now. What was she thinking?
A pink beam stopped by the two. Qiuyue Hesha's face was a little pale too. She used her charm god art at full power to control the situation. After all, there were too many enemies.
Only when all the low-level silver hook beasts died could she relax a little and fly over.
Seeing Lin Ling's pale face, she asked worriedly, "Lin Ling, are you okay?"
Lin Ling felt more awkward and struggled out of Lu Ze's arms. It was just a brief moment's rest, but she could continue flying.
She shook her head and smiled. "I'm fine. These silver hook beasts are far stronger than I am, so I couldn't get much information, but I found one weakness."
Lu Ze was a little hesitant. He still hadn't answered Lin Ling's question before, and now, she changed the topic.
He was going to reply that he was worried about her. If she was happy, perhaps he could get a big meal at night.
Regardless, Lu Ze asked curiously, "What weakness?"
Lin Ling answered, "The scales of the silver
ook beasts are very strong, but those silver runes seem to be some natural rune. It can greatly amplify their body. The connection point between the silver tail and their backs is crucial. Attack there, and it would damage them a lot.
Lu Ze and Qiuyue Hesha looked at each other.
This weakness wasn't a weakness for normal warriors. Their tails were the strongest body part. How was it easy to attack the joint?
However, this could save them quite some effort.
They looked at the battlefield.
Only 2 level-four planetary states remained. They were attacking a woman. She was probably the commander here.
There were also seven more level-three planetary state silver hook beasts. Three of them were injured and getting beaten up by the alcoholic.
Despite so, they still viciously tried to counter-attack.
The other four were attacking 3 level-three planetary state Shenwu Army soldiers. One blonde youth, a middle-aged man, and a bulky man.
Lu Ze remembered that the bulky man only rested for a brief moment and went to help his comrades.
The three were covered in wounds, but the fight was rather stable.
These silver hook beasts were really good at fighting, but they don't seem very smart.
They seemed even dumber than the ordinary void beasts.
Now that he knew their weakness, it was easier to deal with them.
Lu Ze grinned and spread his voice across the entire battlefield. "The weakness of the silver hook beasts is the joint between its tail and its back!"
Hearing this, everyone became dazed.
Many of them got a chance to rest after all the low-level beasts were killed.
They were very shocked by the reinforcements that suddenly killed large amounts of silver hook beasts.
That pink mist and violent purple-red lightning shook their hearts.
Too strong!
Didn't Monarch of the New Dawn only reach the mortal evolution state not long ago?
Didn't young duke Nangong and Qiuyue recently break through the planetary state?
What was with their combat power? Why was it so terrifying? This didn't make sense.
Then, they heard Lu Ze's words.
Weakness!
These silver hook beasts had a weakness?
They had been fighting here for ten days. They took the bodies back for research and didn't find any weakness. Yet, as soon as they came, they found a weakness?
How did they do it?
The bulky man grinned. "Let's try! I'll stop three!"
The other two nodded.
"Hiyahh!" The bulky man roared, and his sword flashed with purple spirit force.
He executed nine purple sword rays. He didn't have god art nor divine art, but he had martial techniques. The three silver hook beasts charged at the sword rays.
Currently, the middle-aged man disappeared from the spot and appeared before the remaining level-three planetary state beast. His hands clutched a huge sword, which exploded with powerful spirit light and hacked down.
Screech!
The silver hook beast's tail went to strike the sword and so did its front claws.
Rumble!
During this moment, the blonde youth disappeared from the spot. He held a spear with a sharp yellow beam at the tip.
"Hiyah!" The spear shot out like a roaring dragon and penetrated the joint.
Clank!
He felt he struck a hard metal, but the spear ray surged and soon fractured the joint there.
It seemed to work!
He surged with more spirit force, and the spear ray grew even stronger, hitting the joint with massive strength.
Screech!
The scale cracked open, and the spear tip entered the body.
Violent spirit force surged inside the silver hook beast's body, and in a short second, the beast's chi rapidly dropped.
"It worked!" the youth rejoiced.
Roar!
The silver hook beast reacted and aimed its tail at the youth. However, it was much weaker. The power and speed of the tail were incomparable from before.
The youth easily dodged it and stabbed his spear in the wound again, inserting more power to damage its internals. Roar!
The silver hook beast was heavily injured and became even weaker.
Every time it tried to turn, it would be stopped by the middle-aged man.
Eventually, the youth's spear ray penetrated through its body and killed it.
"It really died!"
The two landed in disbelief.
This was the first time they had killed them since their peak.
"The weakness is true!"
These silver hook beasts had strong fighting instincts but zero intelligence. If they worked together, they could kill them without much difficulty.
Then, they looked at Lu Ze. He was indeed the Monarch of the New Dawn.
He found their weakness as soon as he arrived!
This was too amazing!
Lu Ze felt awkward. He wasn't the one who discovered this. Lin Ling found it. He was just spreading the message for her.
Just when everyone was a little shocked, a desperate cry could be heard. "You two, look over at my situation!"
Lu Ze and Lin Ling looked at the bulky man. He was still being attacked by the three silver hook beasts. Those beasts ignored the death of their pal and just kept on fighting him.
He had even more injuries now. He had no choice. Two of his teammates clearly killed a silver hook beasts, but they didn't come over to help. Instead, they were looking at Lu Ze.
He felt he was abandoned.
Hearing the man's call, the blonde youth and middle-aged man returned to their senses and charged over at the three silver hook beasts with their weapons.
On the other side, Nangong Jing was beating down the 3 level-three planetary state silver hook beasts.
She had reached the planetary state for nearly two months. Although she hadn't been receiving red orbs of her level, she had still acquired several Heaven Yang spirit fruit and Planet Forge fruits.
Her cultivation level increased very rapidly compared to others. Such a level was very high in level one of the planetary state, and soon, she would be able to reach level two.
After she learned the 1st body god art and other god arts, her combat power was extremely strong in level three of the planetary state. However, she couldn't kill these beasts quickly. Their defenses were strong.
Hearing Lu Ze's words, she smiled and exploded in golden light. She appeared behind one silver hook beast and punched at the tail joint.
Rumble!
Her attack was stronger than the blonde youth and instantly crushed the scales. The fist force penetrated the body, and the silver hook beast was sent flying. Its chi became extremely weak.
Heavy injury!
At this moment, two more silver lights flashed. The other two silver hook beasts attacked without hesitation.
Nangong Jing flickered and disappeared from the spot. The scythe tails ended up slicing the air.
Nangong Jing appeared behind another beast and punched. Golden fist force surged and struck the joint again.
Heavy injury once more!
The remaining one couldn't last long alone and was soon heavily injured by Nangong Jing. The three silver hook beasts were still ferocious and wanted to charge up. Eventually, they were easily killed by Nangong Jing. Meanwhile, for the black-haired woman's battle, it was extremely hard for her to attack those spots.
During this time, a pink light flashed, and Qiuyue Hesha appeared next to her. "General Yue Wenya, I'll help you."
Her eyes flashed with pink light, and she used charm god art again.
Now that she focused it purely on two targets, those two silver hook beasts paused. Yue Wenya wasn't going to let such an opportunity pass.
Her long sword let out a sharp golden light. Despite not learning a metal divine art yet and the insufficient strength of her metal god art, her attacks were still stronger than an ordinary level-four planetary state.
Screech! The sword ray shot out from the sword and struck the tail of one silver hook beast. With this full-powered attack, the silver hook beast died on the spot.
Only then did the other beast break free from Qiuyue Hesha's charm.
Qiuyue Hesha grinned and used her god art again. That roaring beast stopped once more.
Yue Wenya's glance was a little strange, but she charged behind the beast again and pierced the beast with her sword.
Seeing the two silver hook beasts drop to the ground, Yue Wenya let out a sigh of relief. She looked at Qiuyue Hesha with disbelief.
She knew how strong these beasts were. She could only fight evenly with them, but when Qiuyue Hesha came over, killing them became this simple.
If she wasn't wrong, Qiuyue Hesha was only a level-one planetary state. Yet, she could easily control level-four planetary state beasts.
Just up to what level did she learn her charm god art? Yue Wenya didn't dare to imagine.
She wasn't a young duke, but she was still a prodigy. Ordinary young dukes weren't this strong
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "What's wrong, General Yue?"
Yue Wenya realized her glance wasn't too polite and shook her head. "Nothing."
At this moment, there were rejoices from the other side.
The two looked around and saw that the last level-three planetary state beast was killed by the blonde youth. All the silver hook beasts attacking the base had been annihilated.
Everyone rejoiced. Even Yue Wenya smiled. She had the greatest pressure. If the defense barrier couldn't hold up, they would have to escape. Then, people would be sacrificed.
At this moment, Lu Ze, Lin Ling, and Nangong Jing flew over.
"Hello, General Yue." Lu Ze smiled.
Yue Wenya looked at the four and smiled. "Thank you so much this time. The younger generation is really amazing. Your combat powers make me feel ashamed"
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "We were just doing support work."
She could control the level-four planetary state beasts with her charm god art, but when using it at full power, she couldn't unleash powerful attacks.
"Even for support, you're probably the only prodigy to support a level-four planetary state while being a level-one planetary state." Yue Wenya smiled bitterly.
Did Qiuyue Hesha have to kill a level-four planetary state herself to be satisfied?
Then, she looked at Lu Ze. She sensed how powerful the lightning cloud god art was.
Even she felt it was terrifying that a level-four mortal evolution state was slaughtering level-two planetary state beasts on a large scale.
As for Lin Ling, she didn't know what she did. Just looking at Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lu Ze, she felt this squad was too powerful.
God art and divine art...
Thinking about this, Yue Wenya felt a little dejected.
When she first broke through the planetary state, she learned a weak metal god art. However, she wasn't talented enough and couldn't learn more. Otherwise, she would've become a prodigy at a young duke level.
Yue Wenya said, "Let's go in the base first. I'll tell you about the situation here."
Everyone flew back towards the base. All the planetary states were looking at Lu Ze and the rest. The tide of silver hook beasts they had so much trouble defending against the past two weeks was annihilated as soon as the group came.
The strongest of them was only a level-one planetary state. They even had a level-three and level-four mortal evolution states. Yet, with that cultivation level, they were able to unleash such power. This was unfathomable for them.
They were indeed Monarch of the New Dawn and the strongest young dukes.
Yue Wenya ordered, "Keep charging the defense barrier. Ready the ships, be prepared to leave at any time."
"Yes!"
She looked at the planetary state soldiers and said, "Everyone, return and receive treatment. Jeffry, Dandon, Joseph, you three, follow me!" The bulky man, blonde youth, and middle-aged man came over and expressed their assent to the order. Then, Yue Wenya left with them and Lu Ze's group.
After they disappeared, the other soldiers started discussing.
"Oh shit! I've long heard that Monarch of the New Dawn's talent is astounding. I didn't expect it was this absurd!"
"That wave of lightning struck my heart. A level-two planetary state silver hook beasts died with three strikes!"
"I feel the strongest is still Qiuyue Hesha. That wave of charm god art was too absurd. If it wasn't for her, I would be heavily injured."
"She even helped the general kill the 2 level-four planetary state silver hook beasts. It's too scary." "Most importantly, she's so pretty." "Agreed."
"Nangong Jing is also very pretty. She killed 3 level-three planetary state silver hook beasts with her fists. Why don't you guys talk about it?"
"Mhm... she's good-looking and strong, but her fists are too powerful... Only Monarch of the New Dawn can stand up against it." "This makes me think of something... If the young duke likes domestic violence, would Monarch of the New Dawn be able to withstand it?"
Everyone shuddered.
*Cries for Monarch of the New Dawn...*
"But... young duke Lin Ling is very strong. You might have not noticed, but she found the weakness."
"Really?!"
"Yes! I saw her use some divine art, and after she did, she lost her power. Monarch of the New Dawn caught her, or she would have fallen out of the sky."
"Amazing!"
Yue Wenya took the group into a building and then a meeting room. After sitting down, Yue Wenya smiled. "Thank you for coming this time. Otherwise, our situation would be much worse."
Lu Ze smiled. "You're too polite."
Yue Wenya smiled and continued, "Although you've helped us clear the silver hook beasts, the mining caves are pretty much all taken over. If we don't clear the beasts inside, we won't be able to keep mining. I hope you can continue to help."
Lu Ze nodded. "Since we accepted the mission, we will help to the end." Lin Ling said there were silver hook beasts in the mountains before. They were probably the ones in the mining cave.
These silver hook beasts were strange. They were much stronger than the void beasts but less intelligent
Qiuyue Hesha asked, "By the way, General Yue, do you know where their hive is? We can also try to clear out that place too." After all, if there was some hive, they wouldn't clear the root of the problem unless they emptied the hive too.
Yue Wenya smiled bitterly. "We haven't found a hive."
The bulky man explained, "When we found this planet, the station sent a scout team that scanned the entire solar system and regions in the nearby light-years. They only sent in the mining team after all the threats had been cleared. Our mission was to protect the mining team, but we didn't expect this large number of beasts."
The blonde youth said, "This is the first time we've seen such beasts. The general named them silver hook beasts based on their tail. However, their tail is a very good material."
Lu Ze looked strangely at Yue Wenya. He thought this was a special breed of void beasts.
Her naming talent was too stupid. Lu Ze felt that even "Silver Tail Beast" was better than the "Silver Hook Beast"!
Lu Ze and the others weren't shocked that this was a newly discovered beast. There were too many unknown things in the universe. The Federation's resources couldn't be wasted on exploring and studying strange beasts.
Each region might have unknown beasts. They might be discovered for the first time or came over from wormholes.
Although the surrounding regions have been cleared, void beasts can open wormholes to escape. Mass migration was nothing uncommon.
Lu Ze felt it was more likely that they came from another region of space. These silver hook beasts were much more aggressive than void beasts.
Yue Wenya said, "Thank you for your concern. It will be good as long as we clear the beasts in the mining caves. Later, we will send scouting ships to see if there are silver hook beasts nearby."
Qiuyue Hesha nodded.
Yue Wenya continued, "There are about 2000 silver hook beasts we encountered before. 1000 of them entered the mining caves. The rest were annihilated just then."
"There are still 3 level-four planetary state silver hook beasts in the caves and more level-three planetary states..."
She looked at Lu Ze. "Are you guys confident? If not, you can leave first and wait until the post can send an army over."
Lu Ze answered, "We'll go have a look first."
Those beast tails were Shenwu merit points. How could he give it up easily?
Yue Wenya nodded. "Okay, I'll take you to see the situation."
Lu Ze shook his head. "No need, I can go alone."
"Alone?"
The Shenwu Army people looked at Lu Ze in shock.
A level-four mortal evolution state going alone was a bit too risky.
Lu Ze nodded. "Mhm, your people should get treated first. By the way..."
Lu Ze just remembered he gained a wood god art. It could heal others. His regeneration god art was extremely potent, but he couldn't use it on others. The wood god art was different.
"I'll treat you guys first."
"You?"Yue Wenya and the rest were stunned. Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling were shocked too.
Since when did this guy was able to heal others?
Then, they remembered the chi they sensed at the hotel.
Was that a newly learned god art?
Wasn't that a body god art though? Nangong Jing was a little disappointed. She was looking forward to that.
Meanwhile, Qiuyue Hesha felt great.
Yue Wenya nodded dazedly. "Oh... okay."
They had no healing god art here. After this period of battles, their injuries were quite serious. It was affecting their combat power.
Inside the meeting room, Yue Wenya, Jeffry, Dandon, and Joseph looked hopefully at Lu Ze. If Lu Ze could really heal them, their combat power would greatly increase, and it would give them more confidence to deal with accidents.
Lu Ze smiled. "Let's begin." He looked at Jeffry. "How about you first? Your injuries are the worst."
He was a tough guy. He was covered in wounds but didn't even make a sound.
Jeffry grinned. "Sure."
He got up and sat next to Lu Ze. "What do you need me to do?"
Lu Ze answered, "Just stay seated."
Jeffry nodded.
Subsequently, everyone looked at Lu Ze curiously. Lu Ze reached out his right hand. A vibrant green light flashed. There was a bit of life force in the light, and it seemed to contain the chi of spring. "Wood god art!"
Everyone exclaimed. They didn't know Lu Ze too well, but they've heard of his name. They didn't know he had wood god art!
Clearly, this was recently learned? Thinking about this, their hearts ached again. Why did this guy keep getting god art after god art while they couldn't learn a single one? This was painful.
Yue Wenya felt the blow the most.
Meanwhile, Nangong Jing and the others didn't react much.
Qiuyue Hesha: "Mhm... Nangong Jing is right, what is mine is Lu Ze's, what is Lu Ze's is mine." Lin Ling: "Sister Jing's words are right... Ze will definitely give it to us... By the way, what are we eating at night... No, I can't get infected by that idiot!"
Lin Ling quickly suppressed her thoughts. Lu Ze slowly pressed his hand on Jeffry's shoulder. The green light spread onto Jeffry from Lu Ze's hand. Jeffry's body trembled. He felt his body was covered by some kind of life force, and his wounds began to heal. His tired body felt nourished. Lu Ze frowned. This was quite taxing. Jeffry was a level-three planetary state, much higher than Lu Ze. Lu Ze had an estimate after starting the treatment. It would take a lot of spirit force to cure his wounds. It was a good thing that Lu Ze's spirit force recovered rather rapidly.
He kept a steady flow of output. This would take longer to treat, but it was sustainable. Everyone saw that Jeffry's wounds were covered in a hazy green light. Then, the wounds writhed and recovered. This wasn't an instant recovery, but it was extremely fast. The people felt more envious. Planetary state healing serum was extremely precious, and it was far less effective than Lu Ze's wood god art.
They wanted to cry. Ten minutes later, all of Jeffry's wounds had recovered, other than the broken arm. Even his fatigue from the battles was gone. He sensed his state. He felt great. His mouth twitched. "I have completely recovered, even internal injuries." He felt great that he could fight again, but he couldn't stop the envy.
Lu Ze: "?"
He looked at Jeffry speechlessly. What was with this guy?
He cured him, and yet, this guy seemed like he wanted to cry. However, Lu Ze was still a little excited upon seeing Jeffry had recovered. He had wanted to become a doctor when he was young, but studying medicine was too hard. Now, he fulfilled his childhood dream.
However, this god art was too weak compared to his regeneration god art. Perhaps he could use it to save people during emergencies. Lu Ze asked, "Who's next?" Yue Wenya said, "Dandon, you go." Lu Ze nodded.
The blonde youth walked toward Jeffry's seat. "Thank you, brother Lu Ze."
Lu Ze smiled. "You're welcome." He then patted Dandon's shoulder and used his wood god art.
Dandon's injuries were much lighter than Jeffry's, so he only used ten minutes to cure them. Then, Lu Ze cured the middle-aged man in less than ten minutes.
The hardest was Yue Wenya.
Her cultivation level was level four of the planetary state. Even though her injuries were similar to Dandon and the others, Lu Ze still took half an hour to cure her.
Lu Ze breathed out. He had used his wood god art non-stop for an hour. Although it didn't exhaust his energy, he was still mentally drained.
Seeing this, Qiuyue Hesha asked worriedly, "Are you okay?" She knew that Lu Ze just learned the wood god art, so it was quite arduous using it like that. Lu Ze smiled and shook his head. "Just a little tired, I'm fine."
Yue Wenya and the others were touched. They weren't as jealous as before now. Lu Ze could've done it slowly, but he didn't rest at all to treat them.
Yue Wenya had recovered and asked worriedly, "Are you okay? How about you go rest first? It should be fine tonight." Lu Ze shook his head. "General Yue, call the other soldiers over too. I'll cure them all. If we have some other battle, things wouldn't be too passive." He saw that many soldiers had some injuries. After healing them, it would make things easier to clear out the mine caves. Lu Ze was a little speechless. Instead of a jungler, he became a healer.
This wasn't too good. Nangong Jing frowned. She didn't want Lu Ze to exhaust himself like that, but since he already said it, she couldn't really stop him. Men still needed their faces.
Yue Wenya saw the firm look on Lu Ze's face and nodded. Jeffry reached out his hand and patted Lu Ze. "Brother Lu Ze, I need to apologize to you."
Lu Ze: "?"
He took a step back in vigilance and asked, "What's wrong?" Jeffry grinned. "Before you came, I called you a noob. Now, I need to apologize to you." He bowed seriously to Lu Ze and said, "You're a strong warrior with a big heart. You're a great prodigy! I'm sorry!" Lu Ze scratched his head and smiled. "It's what I should be doing." Qiuyue Hesha, Nangong Jing, and Lin Ling smiled.
At this moment, Yue Wenya said, "I've notified the other soldiers. They'll be here soon."
Lu Ze smiled. "Okay."
A few minutes later, those planetary state soldiers came inside. After hearing Yue Wenya's explanation, they all stared at Lu Ze with wide eyes. Did this guy know how to cure people? Just how many god arts did he have? Lu Ze didn't mind their strange glances and smiled. "I'll be healing you guys." He glanced at a pale-faced middle-aged man who seemed the most seriously wounded and said, "You first."
The middle-aged man was a level-two planetary state. He took off his armor. On the inside were white long robes. His injuries couldn't be seen, but his chi was weak.
He immediately got up and sat down on the chair. However, he was still quite nervous.
Lu Ze smiled. "Don't worry, I'm healing you. Don't treat me like a demon." The middle-aged man laughed dryly and relaxed. Seeing this, Lu Ze's right hand flashed with a green light. Everyone looked at this scene with bewilderment. Wood god art! Healing-type god arts were far scarcer than fighting god arts. They rarely saw them. This also made them think about Lu Ze's other god arts.
Lightning god art, space god art, body god art, wind god art...
After counting, they felt quite crushed.
Lu Ze placed his hand on the man's shoulder and started healing him.
During this time, Lu Ze was a little surprised. He used up very little spirit force, much less compared to the previous ones.
Lu Ze focused on healing, and then, in a short minute, the man had recovered. The room fell silent. It was the first time the others saw Lu Ze using wood god art to heal people. Watching their comrade go from being pale-faced and weak to being back in prime within just a minute, they felt things were absurd. People didn't even react in time, and the middle-aged man didn't even realize he was healed.
He sensed his body and asked uncertainly, "I've... recovered?"
This was so quick. He felt like he was in a spa, and it was very comfortable. Lu Ze smiled. "I've already cured you. You're not thinking about staying here and not leaving, right?" The man's eyes looked disappointed. If possible, he really wanted to have it again. Even without injuries, it felt great. But, his comrades were waiting for their turn.
He got up reluctantly and bowed to Lu Ze. "You're indeed the Monarch of the New Dawn. Not only your combat power was shocking, but you even have healing techniques as well. It's really the luck of humanity to have you."
Lu Ze's mouth twitched.
Did they all want him to get cocky?
No way!
He was never going to become cocky. Lu Ze smiled. "You praise me too much!"
Seeing Lu Ze being so humble, the middle-aged man had an even greater impression of him. He even wanted to introduce his daughter to Lu Ze, but after glancing at Nangong Jing and the rest, he gave up on the thought. Seeing everyone looking at him eagerly, Lu Ze felt like they were children who wanted candy. He thought about things and said, "All the level-two planetary state people can come over." There were still ten of them. Lu Ze calculated his spirit force expenditure. He could heal ten of them simultaneously.
Most importantly, it would save time.
The other people were stunned once again.
Lu Ze urged, "What are you doing in a dazed state? Time is precious. All the level-two planetary state, come over."
Yue Wenya was dumbfounded and ordered, "Listen to Monarch of the New Dawn's order. All level-two planetary states, stand out and accept treatment!" With this, they walked next to Lu Ze and sat around
him.
Just when Lu Ze was going to start, a seductive voice suddenly popped into his head. "You're really amazing, little brother Lu Ze. One isn't enough for you now? You need ten to satisfy you?" Lu Ze glanced at Qiuyue Hesha and found her smiling at him. His mouth twitched. This fox demon!
Why did she have to put it in such a strange way? Lin Ling saw Lu Ze's face was strange and asked worriedly, "What's wrong? Are you tired?"
Everyone looked at Lu Ze.
Lu Ze shook his head. "Nothing, it's just a level-two planetary state. I won't get tired." He couldn't tell them he just got teased. After calming down, Lu Ze's eyes emitted a vibrant green light, which shot into the bodies of the people around him.
He had become quite good at it now. Five minutes later, all of the level-two planetary state people got up in joy. Their wounds had recovered. They bowed to Lu Ze. "Thank you, Monarch of the New Dawn! It's really the fortune of the human race to have you!"
Lu Ze: "..."
He laughed dryly. "Thank you, the remaining wounded can all come up." The rest were 32 level-one planetary state people. They came up without hesitation and sat around Lu Ze.
Lu Ze began the treatment immediately. Six minutes later, all of them were healed. They also got up and bowed to Lu Ze. "Monarch of the New Dawn's talent is insane. The saints are right."
All sorts of compliments came out. Lu Ze's face went red. If this continued, he really would get cocky. Qiuyue Hesha, Nangong Jing, and Lin Ling grinned after seeing Lu Ze being embarrassed.
What a rare sight!
Right at this moment, Yue Wenya got up. "Okay, everyone has seen Monarch of the New Dawn's talent and character. No need to compliment him more. You have all recovered. There might be a big battle soon. Go back and prepare." Hearing this, the soldiers glared with battle intent. They were keen on getting revenge. "Yes!"
They all retreated, leaving the meeting room empty again. Yue Wenya smiled at Lu Ze. "Thank you again, Lu Ze."
Lu Ze shook his head. "I'm just doing my mission."
The four of them weren't enough to clear out the beasts. Healing others was helping himself.
At this moment, Lu Ze said, "I'm going to go check out the situation at the mine now." Everyone was shocked again. Jeffry frowned. "Lu Ze, isn't it a bit too dangerous to go alone? I'll come with you."
Lu Ze smiled. "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."
Nangong sing also said, "Let him go."
Nangong Jing and the rest of the group weren't worried about Lu Ze going to investigate the mines alone. Even a level-six planetary state dark metal demon couldn't notice Lu Ze, much less a level-four planetary state silver hook beast.
Nangong Jing didn't even want to go with Lu Ze due to the fear that she would only obstruct him.
She didn't have Lu Ze's strange god arts.
Thinking about how Lu Ze changed into her, her fists began to itch.
Yue Wenya and the others saw that Lu Ze's closest friends were confident with him going alone, so they couldn't say much.
Yue Wenya smiled. "In that case, be careful, Lu Ze. We won't join you."
Lu Ze smiled and nodded. "Mhm, I'll be back soon."
Yue Wenya replied, "Then, we'll walk you out of the base."
She was the commander of the base. Opening the barrier would require her permission.
The group returned to the city walls, and immediately, many soldiers looked over curiously. They were already shocked with what Lu Ze accomplished here, and yet just then, their injured commanders had all recovered. They heard that Lu Ze healed them. This made them respect Lu Ze even more.
Yue Wenya said to a soldier, "Open the barrier a little."
This soldier was the one that Lu Ze treated recently. He was just looking at Lu Ze as well. Hearing the command, he immediately nodded. "Yes!"
Thereafter, the soldier disappeared from the spot.
A few minutes later, the blue barrier buzzed, and a two-meter long and wide opening appeared.
Yue Wenya said to Lu Ze, "Okay, Lu Ze you can go out. Be careful."
Lu Ze nodded and flew out.
Seeing this, those people who were watching became dazed again.
Why did Monarch of the New Dawn fly out alone?
Where was he going? There are plenty of silver hook beasts outside.
Yue Wenya and the rest didn't explain. They just watched on the city wall.
Outside the base, Lu Ze flew towards the mountain ranges. As he neared, he sensed countless threatening chi inside. They were mixed together, making the spirit force inside quite chaotic.
Lu Ze stopped. Then, he flashed with silver light and turned into a five-meter long silver hook beast. This included his tail length. His body length was only two meters long.
Lu Ze looked at this and became speechless.
He still couldn't change too much. Those beasts attacking him were at least tens of meters long, and they were mortal evolution states.
Was he a newborn? Lu Ze dashed into the mountain ranges. It was extremely massive and boundless. There were different sized mining caves within. This mountain range seemed to be the largest mining range for Nanlis metal. He saw a lot of minefields and robots, but they were just stationary on the ground.
Lu Ze started looking at the mining caves for silver hook beasts. Soon, when he passed before a tall mountain with more than a hundred mining caves, a low growl sounded.
It was the sound of silver hook beasts.
Lu Ze approached the cave, and soon, he felt the threatening chi coming from inside. Clearly, there were quite some silver hook beasts within.
Lu Ze used chi stealth god art and flew in without hesitation. The cave tunnels were very dark. They twisted and turned like a maze, but Lu Ze only needed to sense the chi of the silver hook beasts.
Soon, he arrived at a half-open space. It was a few kilometers wide. There were strange silver ores glowing on the wall. These ores were Nanlis alloy.
Lu Ze then looked at the ground. There was more than a hundred silver hook beast resting there.
The smallest was only ten meters, but the largest was a few hundred meters long.
Lu Ze saw a lot of silver hook beast digging out Nanlis alloy and throwing it on the ground.
There were already quite some piled together.
What were they doing?
Lu Ze watched those silver hook beast dig out the metal and throw it in piles. He was stunned.
Were these guys mining?
Did they find their conscience?
They took over someone else's mining cave, so they're going to mine out the ores and send it out?
But soon, Lu Ze saw that there were many black huge eggs around the metal piles.
The eggs were in the center, and they sucked the silver lights from the piles. Subsequently, the silver runes on the eggs started to become clearer.
Were they hatching eggs here?
Nanlis alloys were planetary state alloys. Of course, they contained special energy, but this was his first time seeing living organisms use mineral energy to hatch eggs.
Lu Ze looked at the eggs and felt they looked like insectoid eggs.
The queen egg he got from the Terry Brothers also had several complicated runes on it. This egg also had runes, but it was not as complicated as the queen egg.
Thinking about their flexible silver tails, Lu Ze remembered the insectoids he encountered at his graduation trial. He encountered an elite insectoid infant. It had tens of whiskers that were extremely agile like the silver tail.
Lu Ze felt that these silver hook beasts seemed like low-grade elite insectoids.
If he went to steal a few eggs, it should be fine, right?
The strongest one here was only a level-three planetary state. It was not a threat to him. However, Lu Ze didn't do it immediately. He had decided to check the rest of the caves first. There were plenty of them.
Lu Ze remembered this place and secretly flew towards another tunnel.
The silver hook beast pretty much had no intelligence, and with how Lu Ze's chi became one of the silver hook beasts', he was able to go through caves very easily.
Soon, he had surveyed all the caves in the entire mountain range. He had some idea regarding the numbers and powers of the silver hook beasts.
There were over 1400 silver hook beasts. Among them, 5 were level-four planetary states, 66 were level-three planetary states, and a few hundred were level-two and level-one planetary states. The rest were all mortal evolution states.
This power was overwhelming. If they teamed up, the base wouldn't probably last long. However, perhaps due to the need to raise their children, all these beasts stayed within caves.
He wondered whether annihilating the beasts here would cause the other ones to come out and help?
It was most likely.
If only he could separate them...
Lu Ze didn't have any ideas at the moment.
Then, he set his gaze on the black eggs.
Although there were several caves, not all the caves in the mountain range had silver hook beasts.
Only the eight largest caves had silver hook beasts. Five of the caves had level-four planetary state silver hook beasts, and the other three only had level-three planetary state silver hook beasts.
All of the caves were filled with Nanlis alloy on the ground with eggs around it.
At this moment, Lu Ze was in a cave that only had level-three planetary state silver hook beasts. There were more than a hundred silver hook beasts.
Lu Ze then transformed into a silver hook beast. He looked at the other silver hook beasts and just walked over.
Many silver hook beast glanced at him but didn't find anything unusual, so they got back to what they were doing. Lu Ze smiled. He snuck over to a Nanlis alloy pile. There were five black eggs there. They were about the height of a half-human, with faint runes. When they had absorbed the energy from the metal, these runes would probably light up. Lu Ze looked around. No silver hook beast was watching him. He quickly grabbed an egg in front of him and then started walking towards the tunnel. Lu Ze chose this pile as it was the closest to the exit.
Soon, Lu Ze was near the tunnel.
"Roar?"
A suspicious growl sounded behind Lu Ze. Lu Ze stiffened up. He was still caught. He wanted to sneak out without using space god art. Otherwise, it might enrage the entire hive.
But...
He still had the appearance of a silver hook beast right now. Perhaps he could get away with it?
A level-two planetary state silver hook beast chased after Lu Ze. He looked at the huge egg in Lu Ze's hands.
Lu Ze looked back innocently at the silver hook beast. The atmosphere was awkward.
Then, the beast reached out its claw towards Lu Ze. Lu Ze tensed up, but he didn't use space god art since the claw moved very slowly. It had no spirit force on it too.
The claw touched Lu Ze and brushed him back into the pile of Nanlis alloy.
Lu Ze didn't resist at all. Thereafter, it growled and slowly went back to where it was resting.
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. These silver hook beasts weren't dumb. They had a negative IQ, right? They still didn't notice anything unusual about him.
After waiting for a while, Lu Ze made sure there was no silver hook beast looking over and subsequently grabbed two eggs.
He was very careful this time and didn't startle any other silver hook beast.
He grinned and soon ran out of the tunnels and came outside.
During this time, he heard chaotic growls from inside.
Clearly, these silver hook beasts finally realized their egg was gone.
But...
Lu Ze suddenly had a bold idea upon sensing that chaotic chi. He was thinking about how to annihilate these silver hook beasts. Their numbers were overwhelming. Fighting head-on wouldn't be good for them.
Now, it was different.
Lu Ze was planning to go back to the base. However, now...
Lu Ze looked at the tunnel and waved some spirit force on his two paws. This spread the chi of the egg. It was weak, but it was still dispersed. In an instant, the chaotic chi inside the tunnels stopped. Clearly, they sensed the egg's chi.
"Roar!"
Beams of chi started to rapidly close in on Lu Ze.
Lu Ze grinned. They were out.
There was still some distance between different caves. Lu Ze carefully controlled his spirit force so that the egg's chi wouldn't spread to other caves.
Lu Ze flew off into the distance. On the way, Lu Ze changed back to his human form.
Right now, a nearly two-meter long figure flew out of the cave. There were huge figures behind it. They looked ferociously at Lu Ze.
Lu Ze's mouth twitched.
There were 14 level-three planetary states and many more level-two planetary state silver hook beasts. The entire hive came out.
Lu Ze rejoiced that he checked the situation before and only drew out one cave. Otherwise, the entire mountain range would be startled.
The current situation was the best for them.
The distant silver hook beasts saw the egg in Lu Ze's hand and roared while charging at him.
The level-three planetary state was extremely quick and closed in rapidly.
Lu Ze grinned and flashed with silver light, disappearing from the spot. He reappeared a hundred kilometers away.
The silver hook beast missed and sensed Lu Ze's chi again. Then, it continued chasing Lu Ze.
As such, Lu Ze started to draw them towards the base.
At the Base.
Several people were standing on the city walls. Some of them were worried.
"General, are we really not going over to look?"
"Yeah, Monarch of the New Dawn is powerful and talented, but there were quite a few level-four planetary state silver hook beasts."
Even Yue Wenya could only fight two of them evenly.
Hearing this, Yue Wenya and the others were hesitant. They wanted to help, but Lu Ze said he would be fine.
Moreover, Nangong Jing and the other girls were completely calm.
Lin Ling saw their glances and smiled. "General Yue, don't worry. Ze is very strong. Last time, he even managed to stall a level-six planetary state dark metal demon. A dumb level-four planetary state beast won't put him in danger."
"Level-six planetary state dark metal demon?" Yue Wenya and the others were stunned.
Jeffry gulped and said in disbelief, "Young duke Lin Ling, are you saying that Monarch of the New Dawn stopped a level-six planetary state dark metal demon all by himself?"
His tone was shaky. This was a level-six planetary state! This was a dark metal demon who had naturally more advantage than humans!
Wasn't Lu Ze just a level-four mortal evolution state?
How could he stop it?
Were they living in a dream?
Was Lu Ze actually a level-four planetary state and not a level-four mortal evolution state?
"Yes," Lin Ling confirmed.
Everyone: "..." Yue Wenya smiled bitterly. "It seems we are far from knowing the Monarch of New Dawn's real power. It should be fine."
The others breathed easy too.
These silver hook beasts were nothing compared to a level-six planetary state dark metal demon.
Roar!
Suddenly, the distant mountain ranges were flooded with shocking roars. Even from a faraway distance, they could still sense how angry the beasts were.
With the roars, the base instantly became quiet. After some silence, Yue Wenya gritted her teeth and yelled, "Get ready for battle!"
Lu Ze must be protected, or she would die from guilt.
If all of the silver hook beasts came out, they definitely wouldn't be able to stop them, but they needed to help Lu Ze first and then think about escaping after.
Nangong Jing's, Qiuyue Hesha's, and Lin Ling's faces slightly changed, but they knew that Lu Ze had space transmission god art, so they weren't too worried.
However, the base might not be able to hold off.
"Roar!"
The silver hook beasts chased Lu Ze like crazy. These planetary state silver hook beasts could keep up with his speed and still launch attacks. Waves of violent spirit force kept striking at Lu Ze. However, they couldn't pose much of a threat to him.
As for mortal evolution state silver hook beasts, they could only roar and cheer their bosses on.
Soon, Lu Ze flipped over mountains and flew out of the mountain range. He was only ten kilometers away from the base.
As soon as he saw the base, he saw an opening in the barrier. Planetary state soldiers were coming out from there. Lu Ze was dazed. They reacted so quickly. He just wanted to let them come out and kill monsters, and yet, they came out.
Lu Ze smiled, and he quickly flashed before everyone and spoke excitedly, "Quick, I drew out a wave of monsters. Let's beat them up first."
Everyone: "Huh?"
At this moment, Yue Wenya saw that Lu Ze had two giant eggs in his hands and asked, "What's in your hands, Lu Ze?" These two eggs almost covered his head. It was quite eerie holding two eggs. Lu Ze answered, "I took it from the caves. It's a silver hook beast egg. You guys can study one. I'll let Lin Ling cook the other one." Lin Ling: "?"
She stared at that pitch-black egg, and her expression seemed terrified.
"Don't even think about it! I won't do it!"
What a joke! Was that even edible? What if someone dies?
Even Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha stared at this egg in terror. They definitely didn't want to eat this.
Lu Ze's face was disappointed. "Huh? Why? What if it's very tasty?"
Some things don't look really nice, but they taste delicious. For example, snakes. They look scary, but it was rather delectable.
Just when Lu Ze decided to persuade Lin Ling, a wave of roars behind him could be heard.
In a few short seconds, the silver hook beasts charged over.
Lu Ze gasped. He could only talk about that later. He said, "Not all the silver hook beasts are together. I've drawn out a wave. We can beat them."
They had all realized by now. Yue Wenya and the others seemed happy.
There wasn't even a level-four planetary state!
They didn't expect Lu Ze to not only find out the situation inside the mountain range but also separate the silver hook beasts.
This was the best situation for them.
Looking at the 14 level-three planetary state silver hook beasts at the front, everyone smiled.
"Soldiers! Prepare for battle! Let these animals know our power!"
Immediately, all the planetary state soldiers charged up towards the silver hook beasts.
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha looked speechlessly at Lu Ze and said, "Let's go help."
Without their help, this wave would be very hard for these soldiers.
Lu Ze nodded. He looked at the barrier that remained open and said, "Go up and put my egg inside."
This was a live creature after all. If he put it into his storage ring, it would die. Thereafter, the three girls flew up to help join the battle.
With Qiuyue Hesha's god art controlling the situation, the battle became very easy.
Soon, the silver hook beasts were rapidly killed.
Meanwhile, Lu Ze placed the two eggs on the city walls and then smiled at the soldiers. "Please help me take care of it."
The soldiers didn't expect Lu Ze to be this easy-going and didn't know what to do. "OOkay! Don't worry, Monarch of the New Dawn!"
Lu Ze nodded and flew back out.
When he joined the battle, the mortal evolution state silver hook beasts just flew over. Only 6 level-three planetary state silver hook beasts remained in the air. The other silver hook beasts were all dead.
With Qiuyue Hesha here, they couldn't even organize a proper attack.
In addition, there was a level-four planetary state being. These silver hook beasts were slaughtered, almost without resistance.
Lu Ze pulled back his hand. This was really easy.
"Roar!"
During this time, three 20-meter long silver hook beasts charged out.
They were only level-two and level-three mortal evolution states. They were at the bottom of the pack.
When they saw the bodies on the ground, they charged at the planetary state enemies without hesitation.
Lu Ze: "..."
For some reason, Lu Ze felt they were a bit cute. But soon, Lu Ze put a stop to this idea. This aesthetic view wasn't right.
Qiuyue Hesha just glanced at three of them, and they exploded on the spot.
All the level-three planetary state silver hook beasts were killed, and this entire wave of nearly 200 silver hook beasts was all dead.
The world finally became peaceful.
No one got hurt in this battle.
Such an easy victory almost seemed unbelievable to them.
Their memories of the past two weeks were still vivid after all.
Looking at the ground full of bodies, Yue Wenya blinked and smiled. "We've won!"
All the soldiers smiled.
"Young duke Qiuyue is invincible!"
"Monarch of the New Dawn is invincible!"
Hearing the rejoices, Nangong Jing glanced at Qiuyue Hesha with dissatisfaction.
She just killed three level-three planetary state silver hook beasts.
In terms of combat power, she was on par with Qiuyue Hesha, but in this situation, Qiuyue Hesha was indeed more useful than she was.
She was annoyed.
Yue Wenya arranged for people to clear the battlefield while they returned to the base.
The soldiers looked curiously at Lu Ze. They really wanted to know how Lu Ze did it, but this was his secret, so they couldn't really ask directly.
Yue Wenya smiled. "Lu Ze, how is the situation there?"
Lu Ze recounted the situation. After hearing this, everyone frowned.
"They're using the Nanlis alloy to hatch eggs? In that case, if the energy inside the metals is sucked, then it would just be normal metal."
They originally thought the silver hook beasts just wanted to find a cave to use as a home. They didn't expect the situation to be like this.
Nanlis alloy was very precious to the human race, and it couldn't be given up easily.
Lu Ze understood this.
He smiled. "I'll draw the silver hook beasts out wave by wave."
Hearing this, Yue Wenya felt relieved. "Thank you, Lu Ze. It is a good thing you came this time, or the Nanlis alloy would be ruined by those animals."
Jeffry added, "Yeah, otherwise, even if the reinforcements are powerful, they probably wouldn't be able to do it as well as Monarch of the New Dawn."
His impression of Lu Ze greatly improved since he healed him. The others nodded too.
Jeffry was right. Those martial artists with god art can often do things that those without can't do.
Lu Ze didn't like their compliments because it would make him become arrogant, but he couldn't just say it out. Thus, he could only accept all their compliments.
Then, Lu Ze smiled. "By the way, take an egg for research. We'll take one for research too."
Everyone: "..."
Lin Ling and the rest held their breath. They would definitely not eat this!
Jeffry laughed dryly. "I didn't expect Monarch of the New Dawn to have such expertise in
eggs."
Everyone was speechless. They didn't know what to say.
Lu Ze was dazed too. He had no expertise in eggs.
Yue Wenya smiled. "Okay, we will research this egg." It was very rare that an egg could use the energy inside the metals to hatch. It indeed had research value.
Lu Ze smiled and nodded. "But I still need to use this egg to attract the other silver hook beasts."
The most important thing now was to clear all the silver hook beasts and receive their mission rewards.
Yue Wenya and the others had no objections to this. Accordingly, Lu Ze left the base again with an egg.
Lu Ze used the chi of the egg to repeatedly draw out the silver hook beasts in the caves and slaughter them at the base.
It was a very successful process.
Three hours later, with the death of the last level-four planetary state silver hook beast, all the silver hook beasts were cleared.
Everyone gazed at each other for a while.
The situation now was like a dream compared to when they were guarding the base before.
It was all too easy! This was due to Lu Ze.
Lu Ze could feel everyone's glances, which seemed to contain more fervor.
What could he do? He was just this excellent.
Lu Ze sighed, he was indeed not just handsome...
At this moment, Yue Wenya flew over. "Lu Ze, has all the silver hook beasts been cleared?"
Lu Ze nodded. "I've drawn out all that I've noticed, but... We should still go over and see. Lin Ling can check if I missed any."
Compared to his senses, Lin Ling's god art was the most convenient and accurate.
Lin Ling nodded.
Therefore, Yue Wenya arranged for some people to guard the base while the rest of the soldiers followed Lu Ze and the rest into the mountain ranges.
Upon reaching their destination, Lin Ling started looking around. Everyone went inside and collected all the eggs.
Seeing the Nanlis metals that were already dim, Yue Wenya and the others felt quite upset. However, it was a good thing that there weren't many metals that were devoured.
To prevent any accidents, Lin Ling searched the entire mountain range carefully. Finally, they collected all the silver hook beast eggs and made sure there were none left out.
Returning to the base, everyone breathed easy.
Yue Wenya bowed to them. "Thank you for this time."
She was still shocked even now.
In just half a day, those extremely annoying silver hook beast tide was so easily dealt with. She would have never imagined this.
She was quite disappointed when she first knew that Lu Ze and the girls were the reinforcements. Yet, a team of 2 level-one planetary states, 1 level-four mortal evolution state, and 1 level-three mortal evolution state solved the silver hook beast crisis so easily.
Lu Ze smiled. "You're too polite, General Yue. This is what we should be doing."
They would get rewards for this. Because this mission involved a pack of silver hook beast, with more than 2000 in numbers, they will receive 3000 Shenwu merit points!
This didn't count the tails which could be sold for more points.
Yue Wenya nodded.
At this juncture, a soldier ran over and reported, "General, all the bodies have been dealt with!"
Yue Wenya said, "You four mainly contributed this time. The silver hook beast tails can be exchanged for merit points. The four of you can take 80%. The remaining 20% will go to the army. What do you think?" Lu Ze and the others were stunned. They didn't expect Yue Wenya to be this generous.
Although they made great contributions, Yue Wenya was a level-four planetary state.
Was her contribution little?
Were those tens of planetary states' contributions little?
Yet, Yue Wenya still gave them 80%. This pretty much meant that the Shenwu Army earned nothing.
Jeffry and the rest nodded. "I agree with the general!"
"Me too!"
"Without them, we would suffer quite some losses."
Seeing this, Lu Ze smiled. "In that case, we won't reject it."
This was a huge gain. Yue Wenya nodded and let the soldiers bring the tails over.
Taking the storage ring, Lu Ze was quite excited.
This was probably worth more than 10,000 Shenwu merit points, right?
Just this mission alone gave them this much.
Other young dukes might not get this amount from doing missions non-stop for half a year. The border of the controlled region was indeed too rewarding.
Yue Wenya said, "By the way, there are a lot of eggs. We don't need that many for research. Do you want it?"
Lu Ze was just about to agree, but he felt three gloomy glances.
Lin Ling smiled. "Thank you, General Yue. We only need one."
If possible, she wanted to throw that one out.
Lu Ze: "..."
He gave up.
Yue Wenya spoke again, "I will report the mission's situation to the HQ."
Lu Ze smiled. "Thank you, General Yue."
Mission complete, 3000 Shenwu merit points achieved!
Feels great! Lu Ze continued, "We'll be leaving since the mission is complete."
Yue Wenya stiffened a bit upon hearing his words. "Already? It's pretty late now. How about you take a night's rest at the base?"
Jeffry and the others asked for Lu Ze's group to stay as well. They still wanted to show them some hospitality.
Lu Ze smiled and shook his head. "We still have two more missions. It's urgent."
Yue Wenya felt regretful, but she still said, "Mhm, in that case, I wish you success in your mission."
Lu Ze nodded and bid the soldiers farewell, along with Nangong Jing and the rest. He then grabbed an egg and rode the New Dawn.
The ship took off and left planet Nanlis.
In the base, Yue Wenya and the others watched the ship disappear into the clouds.
Moments later, Yue Wenya sighed. "I've long heard that the saints have appointed the first monarch. Now that I've seen him, he's indeed worthy."
The other soldiers nodded.
"Doing something that not even a level-four planetary state can do as a level-four mortal evolution state, only the Monarch of the New Dawn can do this among everyone in the Federation."
"Young duke Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling are also very excellent." "It's indeed the fortune of the Federation to have them." "Is this the dawn of a new era?"
Everyone looked at the spaceship in awe.
On the New Dawn, the group lay on the couch, not wanting to move at all.
Although this mission only took half a day, they were still tired. That was a large wave of planetary state silver hook beasts. There was even a level-four planetary state.
Now that the mission was finished, they just wanted some rest.
Lu Ze thought of something and waved with his hand. The wind carried the black egg over.
Seeing this, Nangong Jing's face changed. She almost spat her wine out.
Lin Ling and Qiuyue Hesha also looked at this vigilantly. "Ze, you're not thinking of eating it are you?" Lin Ling asked. Lu Ze smiled. "How is that possible? Did you really think I brought this egg back just to eat it? Am I that sort of person?"
Hearing this, everyone looked at Lu Ze questionably.
Did they not know what sort of person he was?
Lu Ze didn't feel good. Their expressions revealed that they didn't believe him one bit.
He didn't come on this spaceship to taste the flavor!
Lu Ze said seriously, "You can't frame me like that! I have serious business!"
They looked at Lu Ze incredulously.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "What is the serious business, little brother Lu Ze?"
Lu Ze smiled in return. "You guys still remember the queen insectoid egg we got from the Terry Brothers?"
Everyone was taken aback. The egg was right on their ship.
Lu Ze got up and took out a black orb that was flashing dark red.
Its diameter was about 20 centimeters and was smaller than the egg. However, this insectoid egg had extremely complicated runes and seemed more advanced. They had studied the egg before after getting it. Lin Ling used her spirit eye god art on it too.
The result they got was that this insectoid egg was in a death-like state. Otherwise, they wouldn't' be able to put this in the spaceship and put the spaceship in a storage ring. Lu Ze placed the two eggs together "Don't you reckon they look quite similar?"
Hearing this, the three girls immediately looked at the two eggs. The eggshells were all black but that was very common in the universe. However, those runes did seem quite similar. At this moment, Lin Ling's eyes glowed up and looked at the two eggs.
After a few minutes, Lin Ling stopped using her god art. She closed her eyes and rested for a brief moment. Then, she said with shock and uncertainty, "The runes on the black egg seems to be a part of the insectoid egg. It seems... like the runes on the black egg was inherited from the insectoid egg."
Hearing this, everyone was surprised.
Qiuyue Hesha frowned. "The source of the silver hook beasts is uncertain." Yue Wenya said before that this beast seemed to come from somewhere else.
Nangong Jing frowned. "Did these beasts come from the same place as the insectoid egg?"
Lu Ze nodded. "This is possible."
They had gone through quite a few natural wormholes.
The group didn't expect they had this much connection with the insectoid race.
Lu Ze said helplessly, "However, before we can know the source of these silver hook beasts, we wouldn't be able to find out the exact situation."
"I believe General Yue will report everything about the silver hook beasts. There will be people investigating it. We'll just keep watch," Lin Ling said.
"Mhm, that's all we can do now." While the three girls were trying to discover something about the egg, Lu Ze smiled. "Lin Ling, how do you think we should cook this egg?"
Lin Ling's body froze. She turned around and saw Lu Ze smiling. Her mouth twitched.
Seeing how ferocious the silver hook beasts were, she already didn't want to eat this. Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha were speechless too.
Nangong Jing pointed her finger at Lu Ze. "Ze, I'm telling you, I'm definitely not eating this!"
Qiuyue Hesha sat on the couch and smiled. "I won't be eating this too."
Lu Ze rolled his eyes. "If it's tasty, you better not ask me for it!"
Lu Ze turned to Lin Ling and asked, "Lin Ling, help me cook it."
Lin Ling was helpless. Seeing how excited Lu Ze was, she didn't want to deter him.
She sighed and said seriously, "I'm saying this first, I'm not eating it too!"
Then, she took the egg and headed to the kitchen.
Lu Ze followed her curiously into the kitchen. Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha glanced at each other and also tagged along.
Lu Ze raised a brow and started to poke at the eggs. Then, cracks appeared, and the liquid came out.
After a hole was made, beams of silver light shot out.
Lu Ze and the others were surprised. Nangong Jing said, "This egg had already devoured the special energy in Nanlis metal."
The white of the black egg was clear, and the yolk was silver-white. It didn't seem as dark as its shell.
Following that, Lin Ling began to get busy in the kitchen.
Lu Ze, Nangong Jing, and Qiuyue Hesha, who can't cook, just walked in shamelessly.
Lu Ze couldn't help but sigh. Lin Ling was really nice. She will be a good wife.
Unlike these two...
Did they not feel guilty at all?
Sensing Lu Ze's gaze, Nangong Jing looked up and asked, "What's wrong?" Lu Ze: "... Nothing." She was beyond help. Lin Ling had been learning cooking with Alice this whole time. She was very fast at dealing with ingredients. Moments later, an intense aroma permeated the air. Lu Ze's, Nangong Jing's, and Qiuyue Hesha's eyes immediately lit up.
vas
Lu Ze wasn't sure before, but upon smelling this, it was clear that this would taste good.
He was indeed a prodigy to have discovered the egg's tastiness beforehand!
Soon, Lin Ling carried out a plate of green-peppered scrambled eggs.
The egg was glowing with silver light.
Spirit light?
Spirit food?
This was the first time that Lin Ling cooked a dish that was shining. Did Lin Ling cook spirit food?
Lin Ling didn't expect this either. Seeing how eager Lu Ze was, she smiled. "This seems edible, but it's best that you consume a few first."
Lu Ze had all sorts of god arts. Even if it was poisonous, he would still be fine.
Lu Ze nodded. He placed a piece of the scrambled eggs inside his mouth, and immediately, Lu Ze's eyes lit up.
The aroma was intense and had a slightly sweet taste.
It was amazing!
Although this cooking wasn't as good as Alice's, it was definitely the best that Lin Ling had ever done.
Seeing how immersed Lu Ze was, Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha looked curiously at the dish.
Was it really tasty?
Even Lin Ling was curious herself.
Lu Ze didn't sense any poison. Perhaps due to devouring the Nanlis alloy, it could even increase spirit force by a little.
Of course, it was far from being as beneficial as Lu Ze's red orbs.
Lu Ze began to eat again. Finally, Nangong Jing couldn't resist it. She got some chopsticks and wanted to try a piece.
At this moment, Lu Ze slapped her chopsticks away and protected the dish. He glared at Nangong Jing "What do you want? You said you weren't going to eat it before! Honor your own words!"
Nangong sing argued back, "I'm a woman, not a man."
Lu Ze: "..."
'She was getting more and more shameless.'
Lu Ze smiled. "It's fine if you want to eat."
Nangong Jing's eyes lit up. "Really?" Lu Ze smiled. "Compliment me. If I like it, I'll let you have it."
Nangong Jing: "..."
Her smile froze.
This kid!
Her pretty face was distraught. She took out a bottle of wine and guzzled it before saying, "Lu Ze is the most handsome in the world!"
Lin Ling said this last time, so she said it too. After saying it, she felt her face redden.
She must've drunk too much.
Lu Ze nodded happily.
During this time, Qiuyue Hesha looked at Nangong Jing and smiled. "Little brother Lu Ze, I want some too."
Then, she slid her fingers across Lu Ze's face. "Little brother Lu Ze is the most handsome. I like little brother Lu Ze the most."
Lu Ze: "?!"
Oh shit?
Was this a confession?
Just when Lu Ze didn't know what to say, Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Okay, I've complimented you, so can I have some too now?"
Lu Ze was speechless. He was played by this fox demon again. He thought it was her confession, but she only said it for food.
As for Lin Ling, she came and sat on the side saying, "I'm the chef."
Lu Ze had nothing to say about that. If he annoyed the chef, he would have no food.
Only now did Nangong Jing's face return to normal. She laughed and started fighting over the eggs with Qiuyue Hesha.
As soon as she ate it, Nangong Jing said, "This is really amazing!"
Lu Ze: "..."
After they finished the rest of the food, Nangong Jing called for the remaining egg to be cooked.
Lu Ze nodded in agreement. In the end, they finished the entire giant black egg. Thereafter, Lu Ze placed all the dishes in the dishwasher before lying down next to Qiuyue Hesha in the living room.
They were all very satisfied. It was a delicacy they hadn't tasted before.
At this moment, Lu Ze gasped. "We should've taken all those eggs."
Hearing this, the three girls felt a little embarrassed. They didn't want it, and yet, it was so delicious.
The ship had entered the warp dimension already. Too much time would be wasted if they return and collect them.
Moments later, Lu Ze's phone rang. He took it out and checked.
"The rewards are here. 3000 Shenwu merit
points."
Everyone smiled.
Nangong Jing asked, "How many points do we get for those silver tails?"
Lu Ze took out his storage ring and scanned it. There were 5 level-four planetary states, 50 level-three planetary states, 200 level-two planetary states, and 300 level-one planetary states. The rest were mortal evolution states. After calculating them, there would be 10,050.5 Shenwu merit points!
The 0.5 came from the odd level-one mortal evolution state beast.
In total, it would be 13,050.5 points!
It was a huge reward.
This was enough to buy a divine art more powerful than the flame clone.
This was just one mission.
In this silver hook beast mission, all of them made great contributions.
If Lin Ling didn't find out their weakness, it would be much harder to kill them. Qiuyue Hesha's charm god art was very useful as well. On the other hand, Nangong Jing stopped many level-three planetary state beasts. As for Lu Ze, he killed large numbers of low-level ones and drew them over in batches.
As such, they split the mission rewards evenly. Each person got 4200 Shenwu merit points. Lu Ze looked at his total. He had more than 12,000 Shenwu merit points now.
Another step closer to the Martial God Set!
Then, the group began discussing their next mission.
They still had two missions they accepted. It was the Blade Demon Squad and the tiger Tail Race Thief.
Many people probably accepted the Thief Mission. This thief seemed to have his own stealth god art. It was rather difficult to find him.
After the discussion, the group decided to go and check out the Blade Demon Squad first.
Lu Ze changed the direction of New Dawn's flight and headed for planet Zhihuo. The four of them went back to their own rooms for cultivation. It would take nearly three days to reach their destination.
In the human-controlled region, on some unknown green planet, there was a stationed ground for Shenwu Army.
Luo Bingqing, Derrick, Jack, and Lin Kuang were eating spirit food in a restaurant.
Their faces were pale but joyful.
Jack smiled. "Indeed, doing missions is only efficient if we work together. We've more than doubled our Shenwu merit points acquisition rate after joining up."
Lin Kuang, Jack, and even Luo Bingqing smiled.
Jack said, "I've been used to solo battles. This is the first time."
They had a very easy life inside the Federation and worked mostly alone. Now that they came to the void border, they experienced some hardship. The missions were far difficult than they had imagined.
Therefore, they decided to join forces. They could easily finish level-nine mortal evolution state missions. They even struggled and finished a planetary state mission.
This made them quite confident.
Lin Kuang grinned. "With this speed, I can reach the planetary state in three months." This was much faster than he had imagined. He had quite a build-up at level-nine mortal evolution state already. Despite so, he was estimating he needed a year to breakthrough. Yet at the void border, it was so much faster.
Derrick smiled. "The resources here are too abundant. It's dangerous but much quicker than inside the Federation."
At this moment, a discussion caught their attention.
"Did you guys hear?"
"What?"
"What happened at Shang Yang Galaxy a few days ago, the dark metal demon one."
"Dark metal demon? What happened?" Several people looked over curiously.
Luo Bingqing and the others were curious too. They had heard about this race at the border.
"You know Monarch of the New Dawn, right?"
Lu Ze?
Luo Bingqing and the rest looked among each other in confusion. What did dark metal demons have to do with Lu Ze? "Monarch of the New Dawn? That Lu Ze?"
"Yes, him."
"What's the dark metal demon got to do with him? I heard he's only a mortal evolution state."
"Haha, the news over there is going crazy."
"The army there found a Four Symbol Crystal Mine outside the controlled region. They were caught and annihilated by the dark metal demon squad."
Everyone exclaimed, "What? How dare they!"
"Let me finish. In that situation, that squad was definitely going to run. But do you know what happened?"
"What? Wait... don't tell me this is related to Lu Ze?"
Everyone was in disbelief.
"It really is. The strongest in that squad is a level-six planetary state, and there were tens of planetary states. But guess what happened? Monarch of the New Dawn stalled them all until the reinforcements arrived. Then, the entire squad was annihilated!"
The place fell dead silent. Everyone couldn't process what they had heard.
Moments later, someone said, "Isn't he only a mortal evolution state. How did he stop a level-six planetary state dark metal demon?"
The middle-aged man shook his head. "How am I supposed to know? I heard this news from the Shang Yang Army."
"What if it is fake?"
The middle-aged man was annoyed. "Do I need to lie to you? Check your own devices. The news is definitely out now."
Quite some people checked their phones.
"It's real!"
"How did he do it?"
Luo Bingqing and the others also saw the news on their phones.
Moments later, Luo Bingqing said, "Let's go Shang Yang Galaxy." Jack grinned. "I'm thinking about the same thing."
Perfect, he could go visit his brother.
The other two nodded. "It's dangerous there, but the mission rewards are better."
"Let's leave now."
On a barren planet, at the door of the mission hall, Mo Xie, Chi Xiaomo, and Bernie looked among each other in shock.
They just handed in a level-one planetary state mission, and they heard about Lu Ze's news.
Mo Xie smirked. "Lu Ze is much stronger than we imagined. Let's go to Shang Yang Galaxy." Chi Xiaomo said, "It seems we have fallen behind them."
Bernie nodded. "Level-six planetary state... how did he do it? What a monster!"
Mo Xie shook his head. "He can't beat it on a head-on battle. He probably used some special way. We've been out before and worked together better than others. Our efficiency is much faster than others. We can still catch up."
The three people had firm eyes. They had been outside the Milky Way Galaxy and had seen more than other young dukes.
The three didn't stop for long and left the planet for Shang Yang Galaxy.
...
On a purple ship, Daphne, Xuan Yuji, and Louisa were sitting on the couch. Xuan Yuji was covered in blood. Louisa was next to her. Her hands sent warm white light into her body, curing her wounds. Moments later, Louisa stopped. "You're alright now."
Daphne breathed easy. "That mission was too dangerous, but it was a good thing we finished it."
Xuan Yuji smiled. "Our god art works together perfectly. We can barely take planetary state missions.
"Mhm, you're right. With Louisa's healing ability, we'll be safe. We can do missions better! Perhaps we can surpass Jingjing and the rest."
The other two smiled. They didn't want to lose.
They quickly went into the stationed grounds and handed in their mission.
Half an hour later, they came out in a daze.
Xuan Yuji gritted her teeth. "Let's go to Shang Yang Galaxy! We'll fight with them!"
Daphne nodded. "Let's go!"
Louisa smiled gently. "I'll go where you guys go. I'll heal you guys."
Xuan Yuji hugged Louisa. "Wow, you're too gentle, marry me!" Daphne: "Go away! Louisa is mine!"
Louisa pushed the two away with a red face. "Okay, let's go."
