In Lu Li's and Alice's dorms, the two walked in with a smile and saw Ying Ying watching cartoons on the couch. They immediately went over to hug her. "Ying Ying, senior is so amazing! He stopped a level-six planetary state dark metal demon all by himself," Alice said excitedly.
While they were training, they heard the soldiers discuss the news.
They were very happy to hear it. Ying Ying struggled within their arms since the two were covered in sweat. Only then did the two realize this and quickly let go.
Ying Ying nodded and said, "I saw it."
The two were taken aback. "You saw it?"
"Mhm." Ying Ying nodded expressionlessly and then looked at the two in confusion. "Is it strange that I saw it?"
Lu Li and Alice glanced at each other. During this time, all she did was watch cartoons or ask for food. They almost forgot she was actually a cosmic realm state.
However... they were really strong...
Could they see things more than 100,000 light-years away?
Was it only Ying Ying who could do this, or were all cosmic realm states this strong?
They shook their heads.
Lu Li smiled. "In a few days, we'll be going out to do missions. After that, we can leave." Missions weren't difficult for them now, especially with Ying Ying watching. Lu Li smiled. "Ying Ying, I'll be cooking good food tonight!"
Senior was so strong, it's time to celebrate!
Ying Ying's eyes immediately lit up. "Really?"
Lu Li rubbed her little face. "Lu Ze really taught you how to be a foodie!"
Three days later, the New Dawn left the warp dimension. Lu Ze and the others had just finished their morning cultivation and were sitting on the couch.
They looked outside and saw a large solar system. One star and 42 planets were there. A lot of asteroid belts could be seen too.
One planet was completely red and appeared very vibrant in the dark space.
Qiuyue Hesha narrowed her eyes. "That's planet Zhihuo, right? It does look like fire."
Lin Ling smiled. "Its environment is very special. It has a precious spirit material called Zhihuo Lotus. It can only be grown on this planet. It's said that the Zhihuo Lotus Sea is a rare beautiful scene in the entire controlled region."
Nangong Jing was curious. "Let's go and see it then."
Lu Ze also asked, "I wonder if it's tasty."
The other three: "..."
A beautiful scene was for people to enjoy, not eat!
Nangong Jing wanted to beat someone up.
Seeing this, Lu Ze quickly said, "Um... I quite like watching Lotus Seas too. Let's go together."
Qiuyue Hesha raised a brow. "The planet is at the border of our controlled region. It's no wonder that blade demons appeared. I just don't know what they're doing there." Nangong Jing guessed, "Perhaps they want to destroy planet Zhihuo?"
Zhihuo Lotus was a resource of the Federation.
Lu Ze smiled. "Who cares? If we find them, we'll capture them."
Capturing them alive gave much more Shenwu merit points. If possible, it was best to capture them alive.
Lin Ling smiled. "The mission said that there might be level-four planetary state blade demon. We best be careful."
The group nodded.
The ship soon entered the solar system and came to the planet.
The group looked curiously at this planet. There seemed to be burning seas all over it, and yet, there were plants growing.
They even saw a strange beast spew out flames.
"God art?"
Nangong Jing shook her head. "No, this is just ordinary means."
They all had fire god art and could tell this wasn't god art.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "If this planet could really allow people to acquire fire god art, it wouldn't be for humans to take."
Lu Ze nodded. "This is probably due to their special environment."
It was already strange that there was life on this blazing planet.
"But... perhaps there really might be some beast on here that knows fire god art." Nangong Jing smiled.
Lu Ze and others didn't refute her statement.
This scene really widened their horizons.
Suddenly, the group looked straight ahead.
It was a large sea of flames and then patches of red lotus were blossoming and swaying with the wind.
This sea of lotus spread boundlessly.
Even the Floating Light Forest didn't give Lu Ze this much of a shock.
"This is the Zhihuo Lotus Sea." Lin Ling was lost in thought.
While they were enjoying the view, six Shenwu Army soldiers flew over. There were 1 level-one planetary state and 5 mortal evolution states.
They came before the New Dawn and studied it. The design of the ship seemed to belong to a young duke, right? But the other ones seemed smaller.
The planetary state leader spoke seriously, "Come with us to check-in at the base first!"
Whether or not they were young dukes weren't important. Young dukes were only mortal evolution states now. They haven't even reached the planetary state. Did they come here just to do menial tasks?
Lu Ze smiled. "Let's go to the base first, or we'll be considered intruders."
It seemed the human race considered the Zhihuo Lotus very important. Otherwise, things wouldn't be so strict.
The other three nodded. Then, the New Dawn followed the soldiers' guidance into the base.
Ten minutes later, they arrived at a base. There were a lot of powerful spirit cannons there.
"Stop the ship here and enter the station to check-in. You can only move freely after checking in."
Hearing this, Lu Ze stopped the ship and came out.
When the squad saw Lu Ze and the rest, they felt stunned.
The captain studied Lu Ze and then Nangong Jing and the others. He spoke with uncertainty, "Monarch of the New Dawn Lu Ze?"
Lu Ze became dazed. Did this captain know him?
Lu Ze nodded.
With this confirmation, the stern-faced captain eased up.
He smiled. "So it's Monarch of the New Dawn, young duke Nangong, Qiuyue, and Lin Ling. Welcome to planet Zhihuo."
Lu Ze: "?"
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. "Captain, you know me?"
The captain smiled. "Of course, you stalling an entire dark metal demon squad all by yourself is shocking."
No wonder the captain's attitude changed so quickly. Those with power would be respected everywhere they went.
This is much truer for the Shenwu Army since all warriors respected the strong. However, Lu Ze was quite speechless. The news spread so fast. It had only been a few days.
Nangong Jing and the others looked at each other. Lu Ze was viral again.
Being viral inside and outside the Federation were completely different concepts. Here, there were thousands of planetary states and quite some star states too.
Lu Ze smiled. "So that's it, please take us to the check-in area then."
The captain smiled. "Not a problem. It's what I should do."
Although Monarch of the New Dawn was only a level-four mortal evolution state, his power was probably far beyond his. Yet, Lu Ze was still so polite.
He's indeed the Monarch of the New Dawn. What a nice person!
The captain took the squad to the check-in counter. The people there also gave them extra glances. Soon, the procedures were done. Then, they put away the New Dawn and entered the base.
Although the base here belonged to the Shang Yang Galaxy station, it was quite a decent resource point and was at the border. Therefore, there were more people in the base. Lu Ze wandered around the base. He saw quite a few level-three and level-four planetary states. He even saw a level-five planetary state. Those beings above level-five planetary state would often go outside the controlled region. Therefore, a level-five planetary state was at the top of the food chain in the controlled region.
Clearly, there were a lot of missions here, and the rewards were great, or there wouldn't be this many people in this place.
At this moment, they saw four familiar figures and familiar voices.
"When is this going to end?"
"What can we do? We can't do other missions. It's hard to find a mission with a good reward. Don't ask for so much."
"That's right. At least, the rewards are 50% higher than the controlled region's. We should be satisfied."
"Old Luo, why aren't you talking? Are you alright?" "... Nothing, there's too little ice element here. I don't feel used to it." "That's true... you're an ice-god-art user art after all. However, with our situation, this mission is the most valuable."
"Don't worry, I'm fine."
Lu Ze and the others were walking on the streets and came across Luo Bingqing, Lin Kuang, Derrick, and Jack.
What were they doing here?
This was near the outside of the controlled region. The missions here were pretty much all planetary states. It was very dangerous for them to be here.
Lin Ling walked straight up. "Brother, what are you guys doing here?" Lin Kuang immediately turned around. "Lin Ling, what are you doing here?"
He looked around and saw Lu Ze and the rest. His mouth twitched. Although he knew Lin Ling was in a team with them, he still didn't feel too happy.
His own little sister was going around with a playboy.
At this moment, Lu Ze and the others walked over too. Lu Ze greeted, "Brother Lin, teacher Luo, Derrick, and Jack. What a coincidence!"
Luo Bingqing and the others were also surprised. Derrick glanced at Qiuyue Hesha once and looked away.
He smiled. "Yeah, we're just here doing missions. Are you doing missions here? Which
ones?"
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. Derrick was still so talkative.
Nangong Jing grinned. "Let's find a place to sit and chat."
They had been to the void border for more than half a month. It was hard to meet up.
Everyone else had no objections.
The group came to the only spirit food restaurant here.
The Shenwu Army had its own spirit chefs.
This restaurant was called Zhihuo Little Restaurant. It had tens of tables. Only five tables can be seated right now.
There were quite some adventurers here, but not all of them would come to eat spirit food. High-level spirit food wasn't cheap.
Derrick and the others wanted to just go and chat where they stayed, but Lu Ze and the rest all wanted to eat.
What a joke, of course, they had to try the specialty dishes here!
Last time, at planet Nanlis, there was nothing as it was a non-inhabitable planet.
There weren't many people in the restaurant, but the group caught everyone's attention as soon as they arrived.
All those adventurers became dazed upon seeing Lu Ze.
Everyone looked at Lu Ze strangely.
Lu Ze sensed this and rubbed his face before asking Nangong Jing, "Is there something on my face?"
Nangong Jing: "No."
Qiuyue Hesha and Lin Ling were confused about why people looked at Lu Ze strangely.
At this moment, a bulky man with short red hair came out. He studied Lu Ze and grinned. "It's an honor to have Monarch of the New Dawn at my little shop."
Everyone laughed.
"Old Zhu, it is indeed an honor. Don't you reckon you should let us have this meal for free?"
Clearly, the people here were quite familiar with the shop owner.
"Bastard! My price is fixed, not anything less. Otherwise, don't blame me for reporting to the Shenwu Army!"
"Pfft, Scrooge!"
"So what if you have a general as your wife?" Then, Zhu looked at the group and grinned. "But, Monarch of the New Dawn is different, discount!"
Everyone was shocked.
"Oh my god! Zhu, you're giving a discount? This is the first time, right?" "In my 30 years of stay here, this is the first time I've heard scrooge Zhu give a discount!"
Lu Ze felt great.
Since when was he so popular?
This was the first time the shop owner gave a discount?
Lu Ze smiled and was going to thank this boss.
However, boss Zhu said, "Mhm, 5% discount!"
Lu Ze: "..."
His smile froze. "Thank you, boss Zhu!"
Boss Zhu laughed. "No problem!"
He stared at Lu Ze. "Since it's the Monarch of the New Dawn, I'll open the menu for Zhihuo Shooting Star. How about it? Want one?"
"What?!"
The others were truly shocked this time.
"Old Zhu, you're really going to cook Zhihuo Shooting Star?"
Quite some people who knew what's going on were red-eyed.
Meanwhile, Lu Ze and the others were confused.
Lu Ze asked, "Is it good? If it is, bring some extra servings."
Other people heard this and were speechless. If it was just as simple as being tasty, would they be this excited?
The boss stiffened but then grinned. "Good! Of course! However, you can only have one serving. I need to save the rest for my wife."
Lu Ze's expression turned strange.
Then, the boss smiled. "However, if you want to buy it, I have two requests here."
Lu Ze and the others raised a brow.
Derrick complained, "This is the first time I've heard the owner making requests when selling. Just what is your Zhihuo Shooting Star?"
A customer on the side smiled. "You're probably a noob who just came to planet Zhihuo, right?"
"I know Monarch of the New Dawn definitely just arrived at planet Zhihuo. The others are probably the young dukes of this generation. They're definitely here for the first time without a doubt."
Other than extremely talented young dukes like Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha, ordinary young dukes would only become famous among them after reaching the planetary state.
There were so many young dukes in each generation, so how could they know them all? Someone said, "You guys are benefiting from Monarch of the New Dawn. The Zhihuo Shooting Star is old Zhu's signature dish. He only sells it once every five years. Each time, there would be planetary states coming back from the depth of the void space just to fight over it. The last time was two years ago."
Lu Ze and the rest were dumbfounded. Just how good was this dish! Lu Ze's eyes lit up already.
Even the rest of the group were shocked.
The male young dukes were surprised that planetary states would come back from the void space just to fight over it. Those people would be at least level-five planetary states.
Just what grade of spirit food was this?
Only then did these guys realize they couldn't see the boss's cultivation level. Clearly, this boss was much stronger than they were. Lu Ze looked at this boss and smiled. "What is your request?"
The boss patted Lu Ze's shoulder. "You're decisive, I like it."
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. This boss's power was much stronger than the alcoholic's.
He was probably a level-five planetary state or higher.
Lu Ze smiled. "You compliment me too much, so what's the request? If I can do it, of course, I'll agree." The boss answered, "It's nothing much, the first request is to get me three Zhihuo Bird's eggs."
Immediately, everyone's face stiffened.
Lu Ze and the others were confused once more.
Why did everyone make a strange face?
Lu Ze asked, "Can someone explain what this bird is? We're noobs."
A person who was a level-three planetary state coughed. "Boss Zhu, this isn't too nice. The Zhihuo Bird's egg isn't so easy to get."
The boss said, "I'm making an exception to cook Zhihuo Shooting Star for Monarch of the New Dawn. You guys know it's hard to gather. I'm giving the stock to my wife. I have to save for the next five years."
Why was the dish only cooked every five years? It was because one of the main ingredients, Zhihuo Bird's egg, was too rare.
Boss Zhu explained, "I'm not being cocky, but this dish is my pride. It took me nearly 100 years on this planet to create it."
"Zhihuo Shooting Star is planetary state spirit food. The spirit force is very gentle. Even those mortal evolution state kids can eat them. Although ordinary level-four mortal evolution states can't handle this spirit force, Monarch of the New Dawn should be fine. Perhaps he might even breakthrough because of it."
"Of course, if that's all it could do, it wouldn't be his prided work. Most importantly, it could allow those without fire god art to have a small chance of learning it. Those with god art could improve it. Zhihuo Bird has fire god art. Its eggs contain the inheritance of this god art. However, I can refine this inheritance out. However, this food is useless for star state."
No one rebutted.
The group looked at the boss in shock. This was the first time they had heard of a spirit food that could help people learn god art.
No wonder people were fighting so hard over it.
Even a planetary state very rarely had god art. Of course, they would do anything to learn it.
He wondered if uncle Merlin could make such a dish.
Of course, to Lu Ze, this dish was less useful. He had fire god art orbs.
After the introduction, everyone fell into silence.
The other customers laughed. "How about it? Are you shocked? Old Zhu is really a prodigy!" Lu Ze smiled at the boss. "You're really amazing. This is the first time I've heard of spirit food that can give people god art." Then, Lu Ze asked, "By the way, why is it hard to get the egg?"
Just for this rare dish, he would go and find the egg.
Boss Zhu smiled. "It seems you've agreed. Zhihuo Bird is a beast that has fire god art. An adult one is usually around level one to level nine of the planetary state. Because it has fire god art, its combat power is far superior to martial artists of the same level. You know the cultivation level of the people here. Very few can beat the beast, much less obtain its egg."
"Of course, the bird is extremely ferocious. After it knows it can't defeat the intruder, it would destroy its egg and commit suicide. That's the hardest part about collecting the egg."
A man with a scar on his face smiled. "During the past five years, the maximum number of eggs one got was three. Sometimes there wasn't even one. I've long heard Monarch of the New Dawn is extremely talented and can stall a level-six planetary state dark metal demon as a level-four mortal evolution state. I wonder if you can get the Zhihuo Bird's egg?"
Quite some people laughed.
No wonder they looked at him strangely. They already knew about the news.
... So he was viral.
Lu Ze felt great. He should work harder and become renowned throughout the entire universe.
Lu Ze smiled. If it was just stealing eggs, he was very experienced. He just stole the silver hook beast's eggs a few days ago.
Lu Ze asked, "What's the second request?"
The boss continued, "1000 Shenwu merit points processing fee. 5% discount, so 950 Shenwu merit points."
Lu Ze: "..."
His mouth twitched. This was so expensive! He could buy more than three of those Black Shadow Leopard armor.
Derrick couldn't resist asking, "Isn't this a bit too expensive?"
950 Shenwu merit points!
They had worked so hard risking their lives doing missions, only to earn 300 Shenwu merit points. Yet, this dish was more than three times their current net worth.
"950 Shenwu merit points is expensive?"
The customers gasped. "This is spirit food giving you a chance to learn fire god art. It's also a planetary state spirit food. How is 950 Shenwu merit points expensive?"
"You guys haven't seen the auction for this, have you? Boss Zhu is giving you an opportunity on Monarch of the New Dawn's account. No one will fight over it with you. Otherwise, if those bosses from the depth of the void space came, you wouldn't be able to get it even for 10,000 Shenwu merit points!"
Derrick's mouth twitched.
This was rather cheap indeed, but where would they get that many Shenwu merit points? Even if they did, they didn't dare to splurge like that.
What if they didn't get god art?
Luo Bingqing and the others frowned.
Meanwhile, Lu Ze smiled. "950 Shenwu merit points, right? No problem." It really wasn't expensive for him. He had purple orbs. He wasn't scared that he wouldn't learn the god art. This was very worth it for him.
Most importantly, the boss said the dish was very tasty.
Seeing Lu Ze agree, Lin Kuang and the others were shaken. They looked at Lu Ze in shock. That was 950 Shenwu merit points! Lu Ze just spent it like that?
Just how much did he have?
The boss smiled. "You're indeed the Monarch of the New Dawn. Then, I'll wait for you to bring the egg over. But... those birds are fierce. Be careful."
Lu Ze nodded. "Thank you for your reminder."
The crowd went off again. "Monarch of the New Dawn has 1000 Shenwu merit points already, amazing!" "You should get a few level-five or level-six planetary state eggs over. The stronger they were, the better the god art."
It seemed he did need to get stronger eggs.
Lu Ze smiled and asked, "Where do I find the birds?"
The boss answered, "These birds are rather rare. They might even appear anywhere in the solar system. Perhaps there are some on this planet."
Lu Ze nodded. "I see."
He needed to gather clues about the blade demon squad anyway. He would do the two missions at the same time.
Because they didn't have the egg, the boss couldn't cook the dish for them on the spot. Thus, they found a place to sit and ordered the special dishes here for a taste. Meanwhile, the other customers went to do their own things.
On the table, Lu Ze looked at the aromatic charcoaled-pork and gulped. He then picked up the chopsticks. "Let's dig in!"
Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling ate very naturally like usual. As for the four male young dukes, they were speechless. Luo Bingqing said plainly, "Lu Ze, are you really going to buy that Zhihuo Shooting Star?"
Lu Ze nodded. "Of course! Didn't the boss say it was very tasty? You guys can try some."
The others: "..."
Very tasty?!
That was 950 Shenwu merit points!
Jack smiled bitterly and exclaimed, "Lu Ze, you're progressing too fast. I've just heard about you from my brother."
Lu Ze glanced at Jack and remembered that golden-haired general. He seemed to be called Youjin, right? "General Youjin is your brother? Last time I saw him use the move you used at my monarch celebration."
Jack smiled. "Yes, that's my brother."
They were originally planning to go do missions at Youjin's place, but he was still guarding that Four Symbol Crystal Mine. That was outside the controlled region. It was more dangerous than here.
Youjin thought his brother was too weak, so he wouldn't let Jack go. Thus, they could only do their own missions.
Nangong Jing said, "The missions here are rather rewarding but not too dangerous. What missions are you doing?"
Lin Kuang's mouth twitched. "Fertilizing the Zhihuo Lotus here."
"... What?"
Lu Ze and the others were dumbfounded.
Derrick coughed and spoke awkwardly, "Our race is planting the lotus here. We need to fertilize it, so it can ripen faster. However, it's not an ordinary fertilizer."
"But... it's not easy to fertilize," Luo Bingqing said plainly. "The flames in the Lotus Sea would cause some threat for level-nine mortal evolution states. Even we can't stay there for long." Especially Luo Bingqing, he felt he was being roasted there.
Lu Ze and the others nodded. Lu Ze smiled. "This is good. At least, there are Shenwu Army soldiers patrolling here. Your safety can be assured."
Jack said, "We thought that as well. When we reach the planetary state, we'll consider other missions."
They were very talented, but they had to be realistic.
Jack looked curiously at them. "What mission are you doing here?"
Lu Ze answered, "We got an investigation mission. It's said someone saw blade demons at this solar system."
Lin Kuang and the others were stunned. Lin Kuang looked at Lin Ling. "We saw that mission. It said there might be a level-four planetary state blade demon."
Lin Ling nodded. "Mhm, possibly."
If it was just level-four planetary state blade demons, even if they can't beat them, it wouldn't be hard for them to escape.
The atmosphere fell silent.
This difference became apparent real quick. They were still doing missions under the protection of the Shenwu Army while Lu Ze and the rest were already investigating blade demons involving level-four planetary states.
Moments later, Jack raised his cup. "I wish you will be successful in your mission."
Lu Ze and the group raised their cups as well. "Thanks, you too."
Thereafter, they chatted about other things. From what Derrick said, they had begun cooperating strategically based on their god arts.
Derrick also said that Mo Xie's group and Daphne's group might come to Shang Yang Galaxy too.
Lu Ze and the team were shocked. Those guys didn't even have a planetary state combat power, and yet, they dared to come here to do missions.
After chatting for another half an hour, the group left and split off.
Lin Kuang and his group were very tired from fertilizing. They needed to rest.
On the other hand, Lu Ze and his team decided to go straight for the Zhihuo Bird Egg.
In the New Dawn, Lu Ze and the rest of the group were resting on the couch. They pretty much searched the entire planet and didn't find a Zhihuo's bird nest.
At this moment, the ship was flying outside the planet.
Nangong Jing lay on the couch. "People are pretty active on planet Zhihuo. If there are birds, they would've been discovered already."
Lin Ling was looking online. "The local network has no information about Zhihuo Birds."
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "They are very rare after all. Perhaps people would want to take it for themselves."
Lu Ze stretched his back. "We'll go find one ourselves. Boss Zhu said it, didn't he? It's in this solar system. It probably wouldn't take long."
"By the way, where was the blade demon last seen?"
Lu Ze didn't forget that their most important mission was the Blade Demon Mission.
Lin Ling looked at the mission and said, "It's in the Yara Asteroid Belt, at the outskirts. The army checked it later on but didn't find anything. They are very busy, and that is why they published the mission."
Lu Ze thought about it and said, "In that case, we'll go over there then and see if there are any Zhihuo Birds on the way." The other three nodded. Lu Ze ordered the New Dawn to watch out for the surrounding energy and report to him if anything abnormal was detected.
Following that, the four began cultivating again.
A day later, Lu Ze and the others looked outside at a roaring beast on an asteroid. They were disappointed. This wasn't it!
The New Dawn had found quite a few special energy sources, but they were all strange void beasts. Some even chased their ship.
During this time, New Dawn's voice sounded again. "There is a special energy wave ahead."
Lu Ze and the group looked outside again. But soon, they saw an asteroid, which was tens of kilometers wide. It seemed to be glowing fiery red. Their eyes bulged.
Nangong Jing blinked. "That's...?"
"Perhaps Zhihuo Bird?"
Lu Ze immediately ordered, "New Dawn, stop here, turn off the engine."
"Yes!"
The New Dawn stopped and floated in space like a golden metal nugget.
Lu Ze said, "The Zhihuo Bird seems to be very vigilant. I'll go over alone."
Lu Ze had chi stealth god art and transformation god art. The others didn't have these god arts.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled seductively. "Then, be careful, little brother Lu Ze."
Lu Ze nodded. "Don't worry."
Lu Ze flew out of the ship and used chi stealth god art. Soon, he was near that asteroid. He sensed that there were two powerful chi on there.
Lu Ze's eyes lit up.
Two level-one planetary states!
There was pretty much no danger.
Despite this, Lu Ze didn't charge forward. He went around and came to the front side with fire.
Lu Ze used the body of darkness and chi stealth god art to conceal himself and approached within 1000 kilometers of this asteroid.
He looked at the location of the fire. It was a hive made of red stones. There were two four-meter long flaming birds lying there.
They had vibrant red plumage which was ablaze. Their necks were long and elegant. They seemed very regal and beautiful.
Without a doubt, they were the Zhihuo Birds.
Lu Ze exclaimed, 'They were really pretty!
He grinned and flashed with silver-white color. Thereafter, Lu Ze turned into a two-meter long flaming bird.
Lu Ze felt great. The size difference wasn't that big. He didn't seem like a malnourished one anymore.
Although he couldn't sense their chi close uprendering his transformation god art imperfect – Lu Ze still flared with red flames.
He had fire god art. With his chi and level-four mortal evolution state cultivation level, it shouldn't be hard to get close.
As soon as Lu Ze's flames blazed, those two resting Zhihuo Birds looked up in vigilance.
In turn, Lu Ze was shocked. They were indeed extremely vigilant. He just used a weak fire god art. However, Lu Ze wasn't worried at all. He just flew out from behind the rocks.
When the two Zhihuo Birds saw it was another smaller Zhihuo Bird, they were dumbfounded. Clearly, they didn't expect their kind to be nearby. Their vigilance didn't disappear. Something didn't feel right, but they weren't certain.
After all, this same creature seemed much weaker than they were.
Lu Ze was still a little nervous.
What if these two birds detested third-wheelers?
Luckily, what Lu Ze was worried about didn't happen. Soon, Lu Ze was only a few kilometers away from these birds. Then, he found an egg that seemed to be sculpted from rubies behind them.
It was only half a meter tall. It was glowing with a red light.
It seemed tasty! Just when Lu Ze was going to keep flying forward, those two Zhihuo Birds let out furious chirps. Their flames erupted, and their chi burst up.
Fire god art!
Their chi went from level one to level two, almost reaching level 3 of the planetary state. They were slightly stronger than Lu Ze.
Lu Ze raised a brow.
He was caught!
Without hesitation, Lu Ze used space god art. He disappeared from the spot and appeared behind the two birds.
"Ree!"
They didn't expect Lu Ze to know space god art.
Fire waves spread through all directions. Lu Ze's chest felt heavy. Luckily, he had fire god art, and his body was quite sturdy. His claws clutched the egg, and then, he used space god art to disappear from the spot.
The birds roared furiously, and they expanded their mental force to search for Lu Ze's position.
Back on the New Dawn, Lu Ze ordered, "Drive the ship."
Run!
New Dawn flew off. It wasn't that Lu Ze couldn't beat those two birds, but he already got the egg, and there was no point in fighting.
Inside, Nangong Jing and the other girls laughed at the flaming bird Lu Ze holding an egg. This was really a disastrous scene.
Lu Ze rolled his bird eyes and changed back to his original form.
Qiuyue Hesha looked happily at the bird egg. There seemed to be some mysterious runes on the egg
"So is this that Zhihuo Bird Egg? It does look extraordinary." Qiuyue Hesha felt the egg, and a scorching chi went into her hand.
Lu Ze looked at the egg and smiled. "Didn't they say that this egg was really tough to gather? That wasn't so hard though."
The three girls rolled their eyes.
Lin Ling said, "Do you think everyone has as many god arts as you do?"
Lu Ze laughed dryly, and then, he said, "Let's find some more. See if there are other Zhihuo Birds. Aren't the fire god arts in the eggs stronger, the stronger the birds are? The one just then was only a level-one planetary state."
The other three didn't agree. Following such, the New Dawn began searching slowly around the solar system.
This solar system was vast, and they searched every region, whether it was planets, asteroids, or other astral bodies.
Therefore, they were still quite a bit away from the Yara Asteroid Belt.
A day later.
A golden ship passed the 40th planet of the solar system. There was a faint red and purple huge planet spinning.
After a day's search, the New Dawn found another nest on a planet.
Lu Ze flew out from the ship and headed in the direction of the chi. This time, he transformed into the Zhihuo Bird again.
Last time, he was able to take a closer look, so Lu Ze's transformation achieved better perfection.
With his chi stealth god art and fire god art, Lu Ze was confident he wouldn't be caught. Of course, if the target was very powerful, then forget it.
The blazing wings flapped, and Lu Ze proceeded near that location.
Soon, he saw that at the peak of a steep cliff, there was a bird's nest made of red stones. It wasn't large as it was only six meters in diameter, and there was one four-meter long bird lying there. Lu Ze was disappointed. It was another level-one planetary state Zhihuo Bird.
Lu Ze wanted a level-six or level-seven planetary state.
Whatever, Lu Ze had no choice. He flew towards that resting Zhihuo bird.
When he approached within a 100-kilometer range, that bird suddenly looked up vigilantly at Lu Ze.
After seeing Lu Ze's appearance and chi, its vigilance slowly disappeared. Obviously, Lu Ze's perfect transformation made this Zhihuo bird think that Lu Ze belonged to its kind.
Lu Ze felt great. He was getting better and better at using his transformation god art. He could do many more things.
At this juncture, Lu Ze looked at the bird that stood up and suddenly had a bold idea.
Why should he only take the bird's egg?
This bird, by itself, should be quite valuable, right?
Shouldn't he take it all?
Boss Zhu said these birds would commit suicide and burn their own bodies if they met an unbeatable enemy. However, he was a traitor. He could take it by surprise.
Suddenly, Lu Ze felt he was so evil.
This bird clearly didn't expect Lu Ze to be a traitor. When he flew near this bird, his eyes suddenly beamed mental force out, which then pierced the bird.
The bird's mind went blank for an instant. Simultaneously, Lu Ze formed lightning spears around him while his right-wing formed a golden barrier.
This was his new body god art after his 1st body god art fused with the golden body god art.
Lu Ze gave it the name "First Golden Body" god art. Lu Ze used this with the star crippling punch and slapped the bird's head with his wings.
In that instant, it was knocked unconscious, and its fire-like blood flowed out.
Right then, tens of lightning spears struck the bird's body.
Lu Ze attacked its chest which had plenty of furs. The lightning spear penetrated the chest.
Lightning then damaged its body.
Its life force was gone. Lu Ze looked at the bird dropping to the ground. He relaxed.
If it unleashed its power, it would probably be stronger than he was.
He would also probably have to run if it recovered.
Wait...
Lu Ze suddenly wondered what would happen if he did this in the pocket hunting dimension?
Should he try?
Lu Ze was hopeful. Perhaps he could fight stronger beasts. Lu Ze pulled his attention back to the bird in front of him. He wondered how much Shenwu merit points the bird was worth.
Lu Ze happily put its body back in his storage ring. He would ask later. Subsequently, he changed back to his human form and grabbed the egg with both hands. He was laughed at before for holding an egg in bird form.
Lu Ze used space god art to return on the ship.
Back there, the girls saw Lu Ze smiling. Nangong Jing asked, "Ze, how is it? Why are you so happy?"
Lu Ze took out the Zhihuo Bird's body. Its flames have disappeared. Despite so, its body still had an extremely high temperature.
They stared at the body in shock. "Zhihuo Bird? Dead?"
Lin Ling said, "Didn't boss Zhu say that they would burn themselves if they can't beat their enemy?"
Lu Ze grinned. "Then, I won't give it a chance to burn?"
Lin Ling stopped breathing. This sounded about right.
But...
Who could do it?
Seeing Lu Ze so happy, Lin Ling was annoyed. This guy was getting stronger. Could she still even catch up? Nangong Jing patted Lu Ze's shoulder. "Hehe, you're indeed my prided student! Other people can't do this!"
Lu Ze slapped her hand away. "You're full of alcoholic smell. Can you drink less?"
Of course, that wasn't the most important reason. The main reason was that her chest didn't seem to be moving towards the right place. Qiuyue Hesha looked pitifully at the bird. "This bird is really pretty. Pity, it died like that. If possible, I want to get it as a pet."
At this moment, Qiuyue Hesha changed the subject. "Ze, are we still going to keep looking, or are we going straight to the Yara Belt?"
Lu Ze nodded without hesitation. "Of course, we're searching for more. The higher level, the better."
The New Dawn began searching again.
Four days later, they were almost near the Yara Asteroid Belt.
They hadn't found any Zhihuo Birds since then. They did encounter several powerful void beasts though. Some were even level-five planetary states.
Lin Ling looked at the star map. "It would take a day to reach the belt."
Lu Ze nodded in disappointment. "What a pity we didn't see more powerful Zhihuo Birds." Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "It's not bad. The eggs are very hard to get. Little brother Lu Ze is already amazing."
Lu Ze felt a little better upon hearing this.
He heard those people say that the most they got in five years were just three Zhihuo Bird Eggs?
How many days had it been for them?
He used eight days to procure two eggs. This was quite nice.
Lu Ze looked up. "But my power doesn't allow me to only get a level-one planetary state."
Lin Ling rolled her eyes.
At this moment, New Dawn's voice sounded. "There's a powerful energy wave 200,000 kilometers ahead."
Lu Ze and the girls were shocked.
200,000 kilometers?
This meant that the energy wave was quite powerful.
They looked at the dense cluster of asteroids. The environment was very complicated here. It was quite possible that Zhihuo Birds would appear here.
Lu Ze ordered, "New Dawn, stop the ship."
He turned to Nangong Jing and said, "I'll go have a look."
The three nodded.
Lu Ze had space god art. They didn't have anything to worry about.
Lu Ze flashed with black colors.
Body of darkness!
Thereafter, his chi suddenly receded. It was almost indiscernible if one didn't try to sense him specifically. He used chi stealth god art at full power and disappeared.
After flying half the distance, Lu Ze was overjoyed. It was the familiar chi of Zhihuo Birds. Moreover, it was a powerful one too!
Lady luck still loves me indeed!
As he flew, Lu Ze changed into a Zhihuo Bird. He flew towards the other Zhihuo Bird.
Soon, Lu Ze saw his target. On an ordinary small asteroid, there was a red glowing color. Lu Ze was excited upon seeing that familiar glow. He made sure his transformation god art was fine before flying to the other side of the asteroid.
There, Lu Ze saw a ten-meter long Zhihuo Bird lying in a huge bird's nest. Space seemed to be twisting under the flames of its body. There was a huge one-meter tall egg on the side.
This was only a level-four planetary state.
Too noob!
However...
The Zhihuo Birds were rare. They had searched half the solar system and only found the third one.
A level-four planetary state was quite nice.
Just when Lu Ze decided to fly over, he suddenly felt some coldness from the left side. Lu Ze looked vigilantly over there. There was nothing
Lu Ze sensed the surroundings with his mental force and discovered nothing. However, his sense of danger was extremely strong. That calm region of space seemed to contain some huge beast.
What was it?
This danger made Lu Ze feel he couldn't even take the egg now. During this time, Lu Ze sensed a few waves from the other direction.
What was going on?
Suddenly, that region of space rippled like it was water and a figure appeared.
This figure was covered in dark fur. Its face was also covered with the same material. It appeared to be a humanoid. It was two meters tall and had black leather armor. It had a white tail with black stripes as well.
This strange race seemed to have been here the whole time, but Lu Ze never noticed it.
Lu Ze was taken aback.
Wasn't this the Tiger Tail Thief?
Why was this guy here?
The photo in the mission didn't have the thief's face, but it had its body, and this figure matched it perfectly. Moreover, it had that concealing method that even he couldn't sense.
Lastly, it had a level-three planetary state cultivation level. This made Lu Ze almost certain that this was the fugitive.
Lu Ze was surprised that it would appear at the Zhihuo System and emerge openly in front of
him.
The Tiger Tail Race was staring at him with its vertical yellow eyes. It licked its sharp teeth with its tongue.
Lu Ze saw something very familiar in its eyes.
Gluttony!
Lu Ze didn't feel too good.
Did this guy want to eat him?
He was a human...
Wait!
Lu Ze remembered that he was in the form of a Zhihuo Bird.
No wonder it wanted to eat him. Even he wanted to eat it.
This explained why the Tiger Tail Race would reveal itself. The reason was that he was just a weak and timid level-four mortal evolution state bird.
Lu Ze acted like he was a scared little bird, but he was already thinking about how he should notify the alcoholic and the rest of the team.
He was indeed the man favored by Lady Luck.
Just when Lu Ze was wondering whether he should release his chi, he sensed weak ripples around him.
They were getting close.
Were there others?
Lu Ze glanced at the Tiger Tail Race and guessed that it was probably other humans who also accepted the mission. If he unleashed his chi, then the others would notice. Lu Ze was hesitant.
The thief also sensed the chi. It looked at Lu Ze unwillingly and was about to leave. He was going to commit one last theft here before leaving the human-controlled region. This bird looked tasty. He was confident he could kill it, but if he attacked now, he would risk being exposed.
Never mind, he would let this bird go.
The thief was about to leave.
Seeing this, Lu Ze became desperate. If it got away, there would be no chance of finding him.
Lu Ze remembered there was a level-four planetary state Zhihuo Bird over there. He had a bold idea.
He could pretend he was being bullied and ask his boss for help.
If he secretly attacked from behind, this was enough to heavily injure this thief before others arrived.
"Ree!"
Lu Ze suddenly heard this furious call and he ended up dazed.
Which boss was messing with the bird now?
His idea was done for before he could even enact it. It seemed he needed to resort to plan
Lu Ze didn't care if people would notice. This thief stole quite some things from the human race.
He was going to unleash his chi to alert the alcoholic and the others while he stalled him. However, the Tiger Tail Race turned around. Lu Ze saw a joyful smile on its face.
Beast
Lu Ze was quite speechless.
"Roar!"
A threatening wave of spirit chi spread across.
Lu Ze paused for a moment. This roar didn't sound like human language.
He looked in the direction of the Zhihuo Bird. Then, his eyes widened.
Near that asteroid, that huge Zhihuo Bird was shining brightly with red flames. Despite being this far, Lu Ze could still sense the searing heat.
The Zhihuo Bird just unleashed its full power, reaching level five of the planetary state. However, this wasn't the most crucial point.
More importantly, the Zhihuo Bird was facing two hideous-looking blade demons. Their cultivation levels were level four and level three of the planetary state.
They couldn't do anything against this level-five planetary state Zhihuo Bird. They were just getting chased around.
At this moment, another dark red light surged and a chi rapidly closed in.
Soon, another level-four planetary state and 3 level-three planetary state blade demons joined the battle.
Lu Ze was confused.
He thought that the chi pursuing the Tiger Tail Thief was a human, but instead, it was a blade demon?
Why were blade demons in this region?!
They seemed to be hunting the Tiger Tail Thief, weren't they?
Lu Ze really didn't expect to encounter them here.
At this moment, he thought of a possibility.
Could it be that the blade demons were also robbed by this thief?
... Amazing!
The distant battle was one-sided. The Zhihuo Bird expanded its tens of meters long wings and swept the space with waves of flame. The blade demons could only run around. In a short instant, a level-three planetary state blade demon didn't dodge in time and was engulfed by the flames and turned to ashes. The other two level-four planetary state blade demons roared furiously, but there was nothing they could do.
Clearly, they didn't expect to encounter a beast with fire god art here. It was just a level-four planetary state, but they couldn't even put up a fight.
Arghh!
A few seconds later, another howl could be heard.
A level-four planetary state blade demon was surrounded by the flames. This time, he only lasted a few seconds before turning to dust.
The other level-four planetary state's face changed rapidly. "Run!" he ordered.
Within an instant, only a level-four planetary state and 2 level-three planetary state blade demons remained. They were all injured. If they didn't run now, they probably wouldn't be able to later on.
Even now, it was hard for them to get away. Who could've thought this bird would be this strong?
However, even if they were to die, it wouldn't be without a struggle. Their mission was incomplete yet!
They didn't find that damned Tiger Tail Race bastard!
Meanwhile, the thief's face turned stiff. He had long seen that large red bird and thought it was just an ordinary level-four planetary state beast.
He was just hiding from the blade demon hunt in this place. However, he accidentally came across a secret base of the Blade Demon Race and stole something from it.
He didn't know what he stole that made the blade demons go this crazy. However, they were no different from humans. They were too stupid and got tricked by him.
He just finished having fun and was about to return. He didn't expect to see such a show here.
A big red bird with fire god art. It didn't seem ordinary.
During this time, he looked strangely at the bird trembling on the side.
Those two seemed to belong to the same race, didn't they?
Did the little bird know fire god art too?
Thinking about this, he became very hungry. However, he didn't dare to move right now. The big bird was clearly very angry. This small bird probably belonged to the same family as the big bird. If he touched the small bird now, he would probably get hunted, right?
This beast had massive AoE (area of effect) attacks. Even if he was good at running, it was still scary. It was best that he didn't mess with it.
He sneered at the blade demons, and then, his body rippled like water in space.
Time to run!
These blade demons definitely wouldn't be able to escape.
Lu Ze was watching. He thought about the situation. Then, his eyes gradually turned evil.
His body blazed with vibrant red flames, and his flames attacked the area where the thief was.
Just when the thief was about to leave, it felt Lu Ze's heaven-covering flames, and his skin crawled.
Oh shit?!
A level-one planetary state attack?
What little bird was this?
The big red bird's attack was already shocking enough, but it only went from level four to level five of the planetary state. This little bird was even scarier, having a planetary state attack while being a level-four mortal evolution state.
When concealing, he used large amounts of spirit force to maintain his god art. His speed and power became much weaker.
He might be a level-three planetary state, but his god art wasn't the combat type. It was very hard for him to dodge while his power and speed were reduced.
Therefore, he had no choice but to leave the concealed state and open up a spirit force shield to block the fire wave. This exposed him and Lu Ze.
Immediately, the other Zhihuo Bird sensed things and looked over.
Same race!
And more intruders!
Those two blade demons noticed that the Zhihuo Bird didn't continue to hunt them, so they ran in the opposite direction of the chi.
When the level-four planetary state blade demon saw the figure of the Tiger Tail, his body shook. "Damn it, it's you?!"
If they weren't hunting this bastard, would things be like this?
If this bastard didn't steal their belongings, would they need to hunt him?
Then, he saw the smaller bird unleash a planetary state attack while being a level-four mortal evolution state.
This made him shiver.
This race was too terrifying.
This little bird was more talented than those three who were appointed by the Advanced Demon Race.
They must return and get more powerful members here to see if they can capture this small bird.
If they could tame it, this bird could grow to be their guardian beast!
The blade demons ran even faster.
Meanwhile, Lu Ze realized that this thief probably really stole the blade demon's things. However, when he saw the blade demons running in a different direction, his expression became strange.
He went around the asteroid. Those blade demons were heading to where he came from.
They were quite injured. When they encountered Nangong Jing and the others, they would probably get beaten up.
At this moment, the gaze of that huge Zhihuo Bird gave the thief a massive pressure.
"Ree!"
The Zhihuo Bird ignored the two blade demons and flew towards him. Accordingly, the thief's body stiffened.
He took out a fist-sized ball. It was completely silver-white and seemed to have stars flowing inside.
How could he not have a running-away tool?
This random one-time-use teleporter was made by a boss with space god art. It was very expensive.
It transported the user to a random location.
Amidst space, the Zhihuo Bird was embroiled in flames. Explosive fire elements then gathered—burning despite being in vacuum space.
The thief saw the rapidly approaching Zhihuo Bird and crushed his silver-white ball. Then, he glared at the little red bird growling. "I will be back!"
If he could capture such a talented beast and sold it at an auction, he would earn a huge sum! Even if he didn't sell it, if he could get a powerful enslaving item, he could completely enslave this talented red bird himself. In the future, this red bird would be his right hand.
This was an investment!
Next time, he would be prepared to capture this little red bird alive!
The ball activated and flashed with silver-white light. The thief felt relieved upon seeing the flames sweep over.
He was a professional!
Lu Ze looked at the silver-white light. This space force was stronger than his, but that was just in terms of power. In terms of mastery, it was probably worse than his.
Looking at the thief's "I survived" face, Lu Ze felt complicated.
Would he be too cruel?
However, his eyes still flashed with silver light. Without the thief knowing, that space force was adjusted a little by Lu Ze.
For instance, delaying the teleportation a little bit.
Another instance, moving the location a little closer.
In addition, giving him a worse experience.
Also, setting a specific location, namely the New Dawn's living room...
He believed this thief would definitely be grateful, right? After all, there would be a place to rest right away.
The thief was waiting for the teleportation happily. This was his first time using it since he never needed to. He was quite excited. However, when the flames swept over and his fur was burnt a little, he wasn't too excited anymore.
Oh shit!
Where's the teleportation? Was this a faulty product? He could sense the space force, but it didn't do any work.
"What was going on?"
The flames swept over, and the thief could only roar.
Clearly, this device was faulty. He cursed the entire family of the merchant who sold him this. However, Kelly didn't give up struggling. He used all his spirit force to stop that terrifying flames.
Nevertheless, he knew he wasn't getting out of this.
That power was a level-five planetary state. This was only the tip of the attack. When the flames really surrounded him, he wouldn't be able to survive at all.
Soon, the water started to evaporate from his body. The flames entered him. He seemed to have felt the call of death.
Currently, the silver light finally completely engulfed him. Kelly almost cried out. Just when he thought he was going to die, he managed to survive.
Life was so good!
Nevertheless, he soon felt that he was grabbed by the feet and spun countless times in the warp dimension. After a while, he started doing irregular movements.
His mind went blank.
Were all random teleportations like this?
Who could handle it? Was this normal, or was he just too weak? That instant felt like long torture for him.
Finally, he left the teleportation. His body crashed heavily onto a metal floor. That sturdiness made him breathe easy.
Kelly made up his mind to never touch this teleportation device again!
Wait!
Solid ground?
Kelly looked at the metallic floor, and his heart skipped.
Where am I?
In the New Dawn's living room, the three girls were waiting for Lu Ze to return. They couldn't sense anything from here. Ten minutes later, a silver light flashed. The three girls smiled.
Nangong Jing grinned. "I wonder what level of egg Ze brought back this time?"
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "We'll know soon. It took a bit longer this time."
After the silver light disappeared, a charred body fell to the ground. Upon seeing this, their smiles froze.
It wasn't Lu Ze!
It wasn't from the human race at all. It had a black striped white tail...
Wait!
Black striped white tail?
At this juncture, Kelly struggled to look up and saw three human females staring at him. He felt disgusted by the furless human females.
Too ugly! They didn't have smooth fur. However, now wasn't the time for this. He had to run!
He was heavily injured, but still, he was a level-three planetary state. Two of these females were level-one planetary state. The other was a mortal evolution state.
He felt he could escape.
Yet, at this moment, he saw one female flash with pink light, and then, his blood rushed. The power he gathered dispersed. Before he could think, another female came and stood on his back, stomping on him into the ground.
All his spirit force was sealed. He couldn't even move now.
Kelly: "?"
What happened?
What species were these two females?
Why were they so scary?
Just what happened to the human-controlled region?
He encountered that demonic little red bird and now these two.
Were they really humans who could be considered average in the universe?
Did they hide their power?
Right then, the dominant power in his body shook, and he lost consciousness.
Nangong Jing immediately looked at Lin Ling excitedly. "Lin Ling, quickly go see if this is the thief. I didn't expect we were this lucky. We're sitting here and targets come to us. This idiot teleported right in front of us.
Qiuyue Hesha sneered, "T-Rex, your muscles are indeed in your brain. Do you think any random person has space god art? Little brother Lu Ze probably sent this person over."
Hearing this, Nangong Jing's smile froze. She thought about it. That really might be the case. After all, when this guy lifted up his face, he was really confused.
However, Nangong Jing still argued, "I was just saying one of the possibilities. I haven't even said the second possibility and you spoke already. Is that my fault?"
Qiuyue Hesha rolled her eyes.
She was afraid her IQ would drop when talking to Nangong Jing. At this moment, Lin Ling looked at the mission's information and then checked this unconscious being with her spirit eye god art.
She smiled. "This is indeed the Tiger Tail Thief."
Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling all smiled.
This was a huge earn!
They were just there to get some eggs, but they also caught the thief too.
During this time, the living room's alarm rang. "Warning! Warning! Two powerful energies are approaching closes rapidly."
The three immediately looked outside. They could even sense the two energies. It was very powerful.
Nangong Jing frowned. "Is it void beasts or humans?"
Qiuyue Hesha said with confusion, "These two chi don't seem very stable? They seem injured quite badly."
Lin Ling blinked her eyes. "Should we go out and see?"
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha nodded. These two chi were strong, but it wasn't much of a threat for them. The chi was flying towards their ship.
Nangong Jing glanced at the thief and then stomped on him heavily once more. A domineering force entered its body, and its chi grew even weaker.
Nangong Jing nodded. "I've sealed all his power and heavily injured him. This way, he won't run away when he wakes up."
Qiuyue Hesha nodded and swept him into a room with wind god art.
This room has locked a lot of people before, for example, the Terry Brothers. This is almost their personal prison cell.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Let's go out. If it's humans, we'll greet them. If it's void beasts, then send them away, and don't let them damage the New Dawn."
Lin Ling grinned. "If the New Dawn is damaged, Ze would be angry. He still wants to get his license and drive it."
There was a piloting class this semester, but they came to the void universe. Lu Ze's dream of becoming a pilot once again fled away from him.
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha laughed. They've heard Lu Ze complain many times.
The three came out of the New Dawn. Right then, two blood beams were nearing rapidly. In a few seconds, they came out of the asteroid belt and stopped.
The two groups stared at each other.
Nangong Jing and the rest of the girls were shocked upon seeing the roasted blade demons. They had never expected to see blade demons here.
The level-four planetary state glanced at the group and rejoiced. Luckily, it was just a level-one planetary state human. He said, "Kill them first and leave!"
The ship needed some distance to enter the warp dimension, or they would have entered the warp dimension in the asteroid belt already.
If a human damaged their ship, it would be really bad.
Near the Zhihuo Bird's nest, Lu Ze felt great upon seeing the silver light disappear. He hoped the thief would like this space travel.
Meanwhile, the Zhihuo Bird studied Lu Ze vigilantly. Clearly, it sensed that Lu Ze used space god art. Lu Ze smiled at this boss. It helped him out big this time. He wouldn't take its egg.
Moreover, the blade demons flew to his ship. Although they were injured, he still needed to go back and look.
Thinking about this, Lu Ze disappeared from the spot in a flash of silver light, leaving the boss very confused.
Moments later, it noticed that all the intruders had left, so it happily flew back to its nest.
Near the New Dawn.
The two blade demons were about to fight. They didn't know whether the beast behind would still pursue them. If it did, then they would have no chance to flee.
At this juncture, a silver light flashed and a blazing red bird appeared before them. Seeing this, the two blade demons stiffened.
"How is this possible? This type of beast knows space god art?"
Didn't that mean the big red bird would be coming over?
Nangong Jing's mouth twitched. "These two blade demons are at least level-three and level-four planetary states. Why do they look at Ze as though he's a ghost?"
Why were they fighting them head-on but were shivering when they saw Lu Ze?
Lin Ling asked, "What did Ze do to them? They're overreacting."
Qiuyue Hesha shook her head.
Lu Ze looked at these blade demons and was confused. He hadn't done anything to them, right?
However, this wasn't important.
He was going to capture these two, and then, he would probably be able to gather some information.
Thinking about this, Lu Ze glowed with silver light and returned to his original form. This was more suited for him in unleashing all his combat power. "?"
Seeing the red bird turn into a human, those two blade demons were completely dazed.
What happened? That extremely talented red bird turned into a human?
Then, they thought of something and glared at Lu Ze. "Level-four mortal evolution state with planetary state combat power, you're Monarch of the New Dawn Lu Ze!"
Lu Ze was taken aback. He didn't expect blade demons in the void space to recognize him. Was he this popular now?
"The number one prodigy of the human race! Kill him, capture him alive if possible!"
After the high levels of the Demon Palace knew that Lu Ze became Monarch of the New Dawn, they increased Lu Ze's bounty to a crazy extent.
If Lu Ze grew up, he would definitely be a huge threat to the blade demons. However, the high levels maintained a tight monitoring system. Meanwhile, Lu Ze had only been active inside the Federation. They couldn't do anything.
Now that Lu Ze appeared in the void space, it was a god-given gift!
These two blade demons didn't even hesitate to use all their spirit force and charge toward Lu Ze.
This was Lu Ze!
If they could capture him, the rewards were enough to raise their cultivation level by several levels!
Their status would also increase. Lu Ze was strong, but they didn't think he could be stronger than they were. Their blades slashed towards Lu Ze rapidly.
Lu Ze flashed with silver light and disappeared from the spot. That level-three planetary state blade demon was fine, but the level-four still wasn't someone Lu Ze could take on, despite being injured. That sword ray was so fast that he had to use space god art to dodge. Nangong Jing and the rest weren't going to stand by and watch. Her hair and eyes turned golden.
Qiuyue Hesha was shrouded in a pink mist.
Both of them used their god art at full power, and their chi rapidly soared.
Those two blade demons looked at the two in disbelief.
So strong! Who were these two female humans?
They had such chi at level one of the planetary state?
Qiuyue Hesha used seduction god art, and the two blade demons felt their minds buffer. It was as though the woman before them turned into a goddess, and they would do anything she said. However, the level-four blade demon's mental force was very strong, and he instantly recovered.
Simultaneously, a domineering force struck towards his back. Nangong Jing was punching him with golden first force.
The blade demon roared and turned around. He crossed his arms and cut out.
Rumble!
The sword ray and fist force clashed, releasing a tide of violent spirit force. They were evenly matched.
The blade demon sneered. This female was strong, but she didn't even reach the peak of level three of the planetary state. He was heavily injured but still stronger than she was.
Clearly, such a prodigy wouldn't be unknown. He would kill her too and obtain more rewards.
He disappeared from the spot and started attacking again. Yet at this moment, his mind became dazed for a moment.
Damn it!
Before he could react, Nangong Jing appeared on his side and used star crippling punch.
The blade demon could only defend once again.
Meanwhile, the level-three blade demon recovered from the seduction god art. Immediately, he saw the blood-haired and blood-eyed Lu Ze, shrouded in blood lightning, charging at him.
He grinned. This was indeed the strongest prodigy of the human race. He was unbelievably strong. However, he still only had a level-two planetary state combat power. This sort of power was not enough for him.
Even if he was heavily injured, he didn't feel he was weaker than Lu Ze.
Right at this time, his mind entered into a trance again. This only lasted an instant and disappeared.
The battle with the level-four blade demon was more intense. Even Qiuyue Hesha couldn't affect the level-four while still controlling the level-three blade demon.
She could only create opportunities for Lu Ze. Despite so, this was enough for Lu Ze.
A black cloud formed above his head. The blood lightning surrounding him formed a lightning spear while his First Golden Body god art formed a new shining armor, and Lu Ze charged up.
Rumble!
Tens of bolts of blood lightning struck down from the lightning cloud. By the time the level-three blade demon could react, he could only use his spirit force at full force to defend. Lu Ze flew towards the blade demon shrouded in wind. His golden armor was cracking a little due to the shockwave. Lu Ze's body appeared before the level-three planetary state blade demon. He launched his lightning spear while attacking with the star crippling punch. Body of darkness, Blue Bird 1 divine art, lightning cloud divine art, lightning spear divine art, star crippling punch divine art, golden armor divine art.
Lu Ze used six powerful divine arts and god arts at the same time. His instant power outburst was extremely terrifying.
Simultaneously, his bountiful spirit force was being rapidly depleted. Spirit force flowed so fast that even his body felt some pain. Despite so, Lu Ze kept using purple and red orbs to recover.
The lightning spears and star crippling punch struck the blood shield at the same time. The shield vibrated heavily and began to crack.
The remaining attacks heavily hit the blade demon's armor and body.
Rumble!
The blade demon was sent flying. He spat more blood.
In that instant, Lu Ze's body felt weak, but he didn't stop at all. He followed up with green wind.
"Damn it!"
The blade demon was writhing in pain, but his eyes flashed with disbelief. Before he could think, he stopped himself. His injuries were worse, but he could still counter-attack.
At this moment, his mind ended up dazed again.
It was still a short instant, but it made his heart go cold.
Roar!
The moment he recovered, he unleashed his strongest power without hesitation and formed the red barrier.
That blood lightning and golden beam once again appeared before him.
The blood barrier cracked again. He was in disbelief.
This suppression was too terrifying!
The strongest human prodigy was this terrifying already?
Despite being a level-four mortal evolution state, his ability to grasp the opportunity and unleash explosive power was terrifying.
He was clearly stronger than Lu Ze, but he couldn't even counter-attack.
The barrier instantly shattered, and the attacks once again struck him. Rumble!
His chi became more unstable.
Lu Ze continued to pursue him and produced tens of bolts.
Rumble!
Quite some asteroids nearby were pulverized from the shockwave.
That asteroid with a thousand-kilometer diameter shattered into pieces.
"Argh!"
More than ten blood sword rays slashed out from the blood lightning towards Lu Ze.
Lu Ze used space god art to pass through the sword ray and appear before the blade demon.
The blade demon was going to run, but the seduction god art made his mind go blank.
The lightning spear and fist force once again hit the blade demon's chest.
His armor cracked, and his bones shattered. Blood poured out, and this blade demon was sent flying again. His chi rapidly weakened.
Lu Ze disappeared from the spot and appeared before the blade demon again.
Rumble!
Blood lightning formed into a lightning spear once more and penetrated the blade demon's body. Lightning ravaged him, and the blade demon's life force rapidly depleted. *Cough*
The blade demon's eyes were filled with fury. Just once! He just wanted to attack once!
Lu Ze didn't show any mercy and launched another lightning spear into the blade demon's chest.
The blade demon fell unconscious. Seeing this, Lu Ze felt relieved.
As soon as he relaxed, the pain manifested itself all over his body. It made him sweat.
His body was cracking a little. Every cell was wailing
He used super regeneration divine art, and his body started recovering.
He turned his head to look at Nangong Jing, who was still engaged in battle with the level-four planetary state blade demon in the distance. The corners of Lu Ze's mouth could not help but twitch.
It was not over yet!
He took advantage of the momentum from the force to retreat as he struck towards Lin Ling.
At this moment, Qiuyue Hesha grabbed Lin Ling, and the two of them moved aside a few hundred meters, dodging the strike.
Nangong Jing rejoiced after hearing Lin Ling's hint. She charged at the blade demon with a clear point of attack. Meanwhile, Qiuyue Hesha cooperated with her seduction god art.
Once more, the blade demon was in a dazed state, from which he broke free quickly. He hacked his blades towards the fist force aiming for his stomach.
Rumble!
The blade demon retreated. He spoke scornfully, "So what if you know the weakness? You guys think you can attack me?"
Despite his words, he was very shocked. These full-powered attacks were very taxing. Why could these 2 level-one planetary states last this long?
He was starting to feel drained due to his injuries.
As he spoke, he started to recover secretly. He still wanted to stall some time to recover when a black lightning cloud suddenly appeared, coupled with tens of blood lightning bolts striking at him.
His mouth twitched. These attacks were extremely weak to him, but he couldn't take it with his heavily injured body.
Blood spirit force surged once again. The blade demon disappeared from the spot, making all the lightning miss.
Before he could breathe out, his mind became dazed again, and Nangong Jing moved closer.
Just when the blade demon was going to stop Nangong Jing's fist, Lu Ze's eyes flashed with light.
Mental force spike!
Beams of mental force pierced into the blade demon's mind. He just removed the seduction god art, and his mental force hadn't recovered yet.
He didn't expect a second wave of mental force attack would occur. It was extremely weak, but he didn't have the mental force to stop it. His mind ached, and his movements halted.
He forcefully recovered and sensed the nearing golden fist force. He roared and quickly sliced towards them. However, he wasn't able to form an attack to stop it completely in this short period of time.
For the first time, the golden first force tore through the blood sword ray and struck his stomach heavily.
The blade demon's face changed. His body felt like a furnace, and his chi rapidly dropped.
"Damn it!"
When he fought that bird, this spot was injured the most. It looked normal but that terrifying fire god art went inside his body and was still burning. He was suppressing it with his powerful spirit force, but now that he was attacked from the outside, the balance was upset. His injuries grew more serious.
He spat a mouthful of blood which was burnt to smoke as soon as it came out.
Seeing this, the group sped up their attacks.
Rumble!
The fist force struck the left side of his stomach once again. The blade demon's stomach turned red. There seemed to be a fire burning inside.
His chi weakened again.
"You're asking to die!"
Sensing the lethal threat, the blade demon's eyes exploded with light. He gritted his teeth, and his body started to crack. His left hand turned to a bloody mist. Yet, his body released an extremely strong chi.
Nangong Jing retreated and left this blade demon whose chi had become very terrifying. "Self-harm secret technique?"
The blade demon looked furiously at the group. He was already heavily injured and that flame was still there. He might really die if he used this technique, but if he didn't, he would still die for certain. Even if he was to die, he would bring these humans with him.
Soon, his chi rose, approaching level five of the planetary state.
He immediately charged towards Qiuyue Hesha and Lin Ling.
Lu Ze had space god art. He wouldn't be able to kill Lu Ze even with his increased combat power. He could only choose Qiuyue Hesha and Lin Ling.
The two, gearing to run, tensed up, but a silver light flashed and appeared next to those two. Lu Ze grabbed them and said, "Hug me tightly."
It was much harder to teleport with people, but he didn't have time to care.
Qiuyue Hesha and Lin Ling hugged Lu Ze tightly without hesitation.
The blade demon's heart went cold.
Could Lu Ze's space god art bring people with him?
Without hesitation, he sliced out two sword rays.
When the sword rays arrived, Lu Ze and the rest had already disappeared from the spot.
Seeing this, the blade demon was so furious that he spat blood again.
He roared, "Lu Ze *****!"
Why did this bastard have this many god arts?
Despite so, he didn't give up and flew towards Nangong Jing. He was going to kill one... just one! Yet, a silver light flashed and Lu Ze and the others appeared next to Nangong Jing.
The blade demon's face became that of despair.
Lu Ze looked at the approaching blade demon and said, "Teacher Nangong, come over quickly."
He had people in both hands and couldn't hug her at this point.
Nangong Jing looked at the blade demon and then at Lin Ling who had an awkward expression and Qiuyue Hesha who wore a smile on her face.
Her mouth twitched.
Thereafter, without hesitation, she charged over, squeezed in between Lin Ling and Qiuyue Hesha, and grabbed Lu Ze's waist.
As soon as Nangong Jing joined, Lu Ze flashed with silver light and the three left.
Screech!
That thousand-meter long blood sword ray sliced past where Lu Ze was and missed.
"Argh!"
The blade demon roared furiously, but there was nothing he could do about Lu Ze. His power was much stronger, and he could use restrictions to bind the space around Lu Ze. However, Lu Ze's power seemed endless. He could still move freely after breaking his restriction.
A few thousand kilometers away, Lu Ze appeared with the girls.
Without hesitation, the blade demon charged over, attempting to land another cut once more.
Accordingly, Lu Ze moved without hesitation. He dodged the blade demon's strike with space god art every time. It was very exhausting having three additional people, but Lu Ze managed to hold on by using red and purple orbs.
After dodging more than ten times, the blade demon realized he probably couldn't kill Lu Ze and the girls. Meanwhile, the flames inside his body were like a brewing volcano. It could explode at any time.
At this juncture, the blade demon started to run.
Lu Ze and the group became dazed.
Lu Ze used space god art again to appear before the blade demon.
The blade demon seemed to have been expecting this and sliced out a sword ray.
When the sword ray neared, Lu Ze smiled and used space god art to dodge the strike again. At the same time, they maintained a distance of 2000 kilometers from the blade demon. At this distance, he could react in time.
The blade demon spat another mouthful of blood. He was going to pretend to run and suddenly ambush Lu Ze, but Lu Ze was so vigilant. He had no chance when Lu Ze kept this distance. Simultaneously, he felt that he couldn't seem to control the flames in his body. He was pretty much at his limit. Then, the blade demon felt his chi rapidly drop. His power was leaving him. Weakness was taking over.
His body was so torn apart that his life force was starting to dissipate.
"Lu Ze!"
The blade demon roared and forced his final attack and sliced a sword ray of a few thousand meters long
Lu Ze calmly dodged the attack. Seeing this, the blade demon's eyes flashed with despair.
Suddenly, the flames in his stomach burned and enveloped his entire body. In a few short seconds, only his broken armor remained. The blade demon had turned to dust.
Lu Ze and the group breathed easy. That blade demon was too terrifying after using that secret technique. Even though they were extremely far away, they could still feel that intense pressure.
ere
Nangong Jing sighed while looking at the armor. "What a pity."
Qiuyue Hesha nodded. "Mhm, we wanted to capture it alive. Perhaps we would've gotten some information from it."
Lin Ling's eyes still contained some fear. "However... this blade demon is really terrifying after using that secret technique."
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Luckily, we have little brother Lu Ze. Otherwise, he really would've killed us before he died."
Right at this time, Lu Ze suddenly spat out blood. His blood-red hair and eyes turned black again. Cracks appeared all over his body. His chi instantly weakened.
Seeing this, Nangong Jing and the others turned pale with worry. Nangong Jing quickly asked, "Ze, are you okay?"
Lu Ze shook his head and grinned. "Just used up too much."
He had been using his power non-stop in overdrive.
Lu Ze used super regeneration divine art and began to recover.
Seeing this, the three felt relieved. Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Let's clean up and go back. Little brother Lu Ze needs some rest." However, the atmosphere suddenly became awkward.
Lin Ling still felt Lu Ze's hand on her waist while her hand was on Lu Ze's waist. She could even feel sister Jing's and Hesha's hands on her side.
Lin Ling blushed and quickly let go and slipped away from Lu Ze's arms.
Nangong Jing felt more awkward and blushed too.
She just let go of her hand on Lu Ze's waist.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled and let go after the other two released their hold.
Qiuyue Hesha teases, "Little brother Lu Ze, we were all hugging you. How did it feel?"
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. She wanted to start trouble again.
Lu Ze rolled his eyes. "We're all wearing armors. It feels very rough. I can't feel anything."
Of course, he still felt accomplished on the inside. If others knew, they would probably be burning with jealousy. Thinking about this, the pain all over his body eased up. Qiuyue Hesha was dumbfounded. "Just like that?"
Even Lin Ling and Nangong Jing frowned.
They weren't happy with this answer.
This was the first time they took the initiative to hug a guy, and yet, he didn't like it?
Lu Ze's mouth twitched once more.
Suddenly, he had a constructive idea. "I feel that if we want to know how it feels, we should hug after taking off our armors." Hearing this, the three looked at him in disbelief.
He still wanted them to hug him again without the armor?
Nangong Jing's fists felt itchy, but seeing how weak Lu Ze was, she forced herself to give up the idea of beating him up.
Lin Ling was so angry that she didn't want to speak anymore. She wanted to help Lu Ze fly before, but now, he can fly himself.
Eventually, Lu Ze successfully enraged Nangong Jing and Lin Ling. Qiuyue Hesha just smiled and said nothing. She just brought the feeble Lu Ze back to the ship while Nangong Jing and Lin Ling cleaned up the battlefield. When they got on the ship, Lu Ze ordered the New Dawn to leave, and then, everyone went to their own rooms. All of them were very tired.
As for that level-three planetary state blade demon and the Tiger Tail Thief, they were also knocked out and sealed up before being locked up in the detention room.
Lu Ze sat on his bed. He swept his body with mental force and found it was covered with dense wounds. They were the product of him overdriving his body.
The planetary seeds in his cells were very dim too. His body was extremely weak.
Lu Ze opened his eyes and panted. He used up too much power this time, but the benefit was not small. He finished two missions in a row. That would be quite some Shenwu merit points.
Lu Ze shook his head. He should heal up first.
He used a special red and purple orb. The gentle energy flowed through his body and filled the planetary seeds. The clear purple energy entered his mind, soothing the exhaustion. Then, he used super regeneration again to rebuild his body.
As his cultivation level grew higher and his body stronger, super regeneration could no longer instantly heal him. After all, his regeneration learning only reached that level. He can improve his mastery of it, but that would consume far greater time than using god art orbs.
It was not worth it. He might as well learn other god art orbs.
He would have to wait until he went to the new map and see if there were beasts with regeneration god art.
His power slowly recovered. Two hours later, Lu Ze opened his eyes.
Fighting with his life did have its benefits. After this period of treatment, his cultivation level and body grew a lot stronger.
The biggest reward was that his mastery of the blood lightning grew even greater since he drew it into his body. Soon, he would be able to completely master it.
Lu Ze got off the bed and stretched. He looked at his body. It was full of bloodstains.
He was in such a rush to recover that he didn't even get to shower. He should go shower first.
ere
Thereafter, he came out and saw Lin Ling and Qiuyue Hesha sitting on the couch. They were wearing loose white robes. Their hairs were still wet. Clearly, they just washed them.
Lin Ling's eyes lit up after seeing Lu Ze. She asked, "You've recovered?"
Lu Ze nodded. "Mhm. Are your eyes fine?"
"It's fine," Lin Ling blinked and replied.
At this moment, the bathroom door opened, and Nangong Jing also came out with a loose white robe.
She studied Lu Ze and then smiled. "You've recovered? Go shower, you're really dirty."
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Lu Ze was confused by her expression, but he still nodded and walked in. The place smelled really nice and was wet.
Lu Ze showered off the bloodstains before going into the bathtub.
Half an hour later, Lu Ze came out and saw Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling all sitting on the couch while watching the screen with a smile.
Lu Ze came over and rolled his eyes. They were watching Ying Ying's cartoons. Seeing how happy they were, he was speechless.
Immature!
He sat next to Nangong Jing and watched it with them.
Just when he was enjoying it, he suddenly felt a dangerous stare.
He turned around and saw Nangong Jing glaring at him.
He asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
Nangong Jing didn't answer, but Qiuyue Hesha said, "Little brother Lu Ze, we're not wearing combat armors, do you want a hug?".
Lu Ze looked at her in disbelief. He explained with embarrassment, "I was just joking before, you don't need to take it seriously... Can we really?"
He felt no man could reject this. Subsequently, he felt this severe painful sensation on his head.
Half an hour later, Lu Ze lay on the couch and looked at the satisfied girls. He swore that he would never believe the words of the fox demon again.
Nangong Jing smiled. "Okay, let's get to business."
She had rested up and bashed up Lu Ze. She felt life was great.
Immediately, everyone became serious.
Lu Ze dragged out the unconscious blade demon and Tiger Tail Thief. The blade demon had stopped bleeding, and the thief was still alive.
Lu Ze used wood god art on them. Green energy entered their body. With this, their dying life force became stable. They woke up from being unconscious.
Immediately, Qiuyue Hesha's eyes flashed with pink light. They were immediately charmed.
Qiuyue Hesha looked at the blade demon. "What are you doing at Zhihuo System?"
Matters related to the Blade Demon Race were clearly more important. The blade demon answered, "We're at..."
During this time, the blade demon seemed to have flipped some switch. His mental force surged out, and his energy became very chaotic.
Seeing this, Lu Ze used space god art without hesitation and brought the blade demon 10,000 kilometers away from the ship. Then, he teleported back.
Rumble!
In the distance, the blood-colored beam shone bright like the sun. The violent power swept over like a tide.
The self-destruction power of a level-three planetary state was extremely shocking.
10,000 kilometers away from the explosion, a small asteroid was dismembered by the blood tide. The blood tide continued to surge towards the New Dawn.
In turn, Nangong Jing formed a golden barrier around the New Dawn. The barrier stood off with the blood tide for a while before dissipating Nangong Jing's face was a little pale. This wasn't easy for her to handle.
The group didn't expect this to happen at all.
Qiuyue Hesha frowned. "That blade demon had a restriction placed in his mind. If he mentioned anything important, he would self-destruct." Lin Ling said, "Good thing Ze reacted quickly. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to stop
that."
Nangong Jing nodded. "Indeed, that explosion is very powerful."
Lu Ze frowned. "Now that they're all dead, we won't have any clues."
The girls frowned. They could still get the rewards, but the intel from the blade demons was the most important.
This was a failure for them.
Suddenly, Lu Ze suddenly exclaimed, "There are still clues!"
He looked at the thief.
This guy stole something from the blade demons!
Nangong Jing and the others were confused.
What did this Tiger Tail Thief have to do with the blade demons?
Subsequently, Lu Ze told them about the blade demons hunting the thief. Hearing this, the three were surprised.
They thought it would be very difficult to find the base of the Blade Demon Race after those blade demons died. However, there was someone else who also knew about it.
Qiuyue Hesha looked at the thief. "Where is the blade demon base?"
The thief answered without hesitation, "It's on an asteroid outside the solar system. It's not too far from here."
Lu Ze and the girls were surprised. They thought the blade demon base would be inside the Zhihuo System.
Qiuyue Hesha continued, "What are their powers there?"
"There are 2 level-four planetary states, more than 10 level-three planetary states, and more than 10 level-two planetary states. I don't know what I stole but 2 level-four planetary states and 6 level-three planetary states chased me. The powers of those left to guard the base are very weak."
Lu Ze and the others: "..."
They really couldn't tell that this guy just stole from the blade demon's secret base. However, what did he steal that made the blade demons go this crazy and hunt him?
They were very curious, but now, wasn't the time to talk about this. Since they knew the base and there was no one strong there, they needed to head over first.
Then, Lu Ze let this thief point out the base on the star map. The New Dawn headed off towards it.
During the flight, the group had the time to ponder what this thief stole. Qiuyue Hesha looked at the thief. "Where is the stolen item?"
The thief took down the storage ring in his hand and a pendant on his neck without hesitation. "It's all inside."
If he was awake, he would never give his hard-earned treasure away. But now that he was controlled, he would commit suicide without hesitation if Qiuyue Hesha told him to.
Nangong Jing took the two items and smiled. "Let's see just how much this thief stole."
Lin Ling was rather curious too. "Our race had several things stolen too."
Thereafter, they looked inside the storage ring with their mental force. When they saw the stacks of materials, metals, spirit fruits, and even pieces of equipment, their eyes bulged.
"There's so much." Nangong Jing gasped.
The four looked strangely at the thief. This was so much more than they had expected.
This guy was quite amazing. Although it was just planetary state and mortal evolution state things, the quantity was large. If he really got away with it, it would be a substantial loss.
Following such, they looked at the pendant's storage. There were also quite a lot of treasures piled inside but not as much as the storage ring.
When they saw this many materials, the group was shocked.
It was a good thing they caught this guy.
Qiuyue Hesha continued to ask, "Where is the thing you stole from the blade demons?"
The thief replied, "Inside the storage pendant."
Qiuyue Hesha threw it to the thief. "Take it out."
The thief immediately started taking out the things he stole from the blade demons. There were some precious spirit fruits and metals, as well as a few Zhihuo Lotus.
Lu Ze and the others were speechless.
The blade demons could get Zhihuo Lotus?
How did they do it?
Eventually, a black metal box caught their attention.
Lu Ze asked, "What is this?"
The thief shook his head. "I don't know, but it's quite advanced. It's not made by blade demons. This seems to be a creation of the Advanced Demon Race."
Lu Ze and the rest were dumbfounded.
Advanced Demon Race?
Lin Ling frowned looking at the box. She was uncertain.
"Ze... does the material of the box similar to the box holding the order-weakening space bomb at Gracious System?".
Lu Ze raised a brow. He looked carefully at the box and found that they really did appear similar. However, he was looking at the box through the surveillance at the Eternal Life Palace's base back then.
He nodded. "It does seem similar."
Qiuyue Hesha and Nangong Jing hadn't seen it before, but they knew about it too.
They looked among each other.
"If this is a creation of the Advanced Demon Race, then that order-weakening space bomb is from them too? Why would that appear here?"
If something from the Elf Race appeared in the possession of the Human Race, that would be strange too.
The four were shocked.
"But... this box can be opened." Lin Ling frowned.
"Let's open it and see?" Lu Ze was curious.
Lin Ling rolled her eyes. "My spirit eye god art can't see through this box. What if there's some danger inside?".
The thief interjected, "I've opened it before."
Everyone stared right at him.
Qiuyue Hesha asked, "Is it dangerous? What's inside?"
The thief shook his head. "There are no dangers. There's a black metal ball inside with a diameter of 5 centimeters. I don't know its specific use." Lu Ze and the girls glanced among each other and opened the box. The box was filled with rows of semi-circle concaves. There were five rows and four columns.
The concaves held black metal balls, but at the last and second last row, the two concaves were empty.
Lu Ze said, "Six balls are missing." Qiuyue Hesha nodded. "Was it used? What is this?"
Lu Ze closed the box after a while. "Take it back first, perhaps the Shenwu Army would know."
"Mhm."
The three nodded.
It was best not to mess with things you didn't understand.
What if it really was a bomb?
Qiuyue Hesha glanced at the thief. "Knock yourself out."
Without hesitation, the thief punched his head.
Thud!
The thief fell heavily to the ground. The atmosphere was silent.
Lu Ze looked at the smiling Qiuyue Hesha and suddenly felt cold.
Lin Ling didn't know what to say.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "He's going to get knocked out anyway. What's the difference between us doing it and him?"
In the depth of the void space, there was an extremely large dark gray planet. There were all sorts of strange-looking but ferocious beasts present.
They all had sleek scales, sharp teeth and claws, and even blade-like tails or whiskers.
In the vacuum space extremely far from this planet, there was this huge dark cosmic fortress.
In a room within this fortress, a blade demon who was sitting while cultivating suddenly opened his eyes, which then flashed with a mysterious purple color.
Outside the Zhihuo System, there was a small asteroid made of completely dark gray rocks. Its diameter was a few hundred kilometers long. Inside, there was a black metal base.
There were several screens in the base's surveillance room. The footage not only showed scenes in the Zhihuo System but also places in Shangyang Galaxy and outside it.
There were 5 level-two planetary states and 1 level-three planetary states inside. They were busy recording all sorts of information about the Federation's stationed armies.
One of the level-two blade demons spoke with a bit of an angry tone. "That damned Tiger Tail Thief! When masters Bibi Liya and Chacha Lisi catches him, we're going to show him!"
The level-three planetary state frowned. "Don't say these useless things. Our actions in Zhihuo System have been discovered by humans. This time, the scouting balls have been taken away. If we don't find it back quickly, we'll be in big trouble."
Someone said, "After we install the scouting balls here, we'll leave quickly. We need to install some in other locations as well."
"True."
Then, someone laughed. "Those three masters were approved by the Advanced Demon Race and awarded with quite many good things."
"Yeah, they're indeed the three masters appointed as the Blades of Dawn by the Demon Palace. Their talent is so strong that even powerful figures from the Advanced Demon Race approves of them. The rise of the blade demons is on schedule."
Someone sneered, "I've heard the human race has some Monarch of the New Dawn? He seems to be appointed by the cosmic system state of the Federation, isn't he? He's nothing compared to the three masters."
Someone then argued, "You can't say that. Cosmic system states aren't blind. Didn't you see that the Demon Palace takes that Monarch of the New Dawn quite seriously? Perhaps he's not much weaker than the three masters."
"So what, if that's the case? There's only one of that Monarch of the New Dawn. How can he compare with our three masters? In a few thousand years, when the three masters mature, the human territory will be ours!"
"Hahaha, this feels quite good?"
The annoyance and dejection in the surveillance room dissipated.
They were all thinking about the future wherein those three masters have reached the cosmic system state. Then, they would be able to crush the humans.
At this moment, there was a piercing alarm. Those blade demons looked up nervously. The screen displayed the space near their base.
A warp dimension wormhole appeared and a golden ship flew out.
The ship flew over rapidly
Seeing this, all the blade demons were shocked.
"We're caught?"
"No... not necessarily. Perhaps it's just some flying ship passing by."
"Our disguise is fine. We can't be discovered."
During this time, the door to the surveillance room opened and ten more powerful blade demons came in. Clearly, they were startled by the alarm.
There were four more level-three planetary states, and the rest were level-two planetary states.
Seeing the ship on the screen, one level-three planetary state spoke. "What do we do? It seems to be coming for our asteroid."
"Should we leave?"
The other level-three planetary state spoke nervously. "Master Bibi Liya and Master Chacha Lisi took people to catch the Tiger Tail Thief. They're still not back yet, and the scouting balls aren't found."
The atmosphere fell silent.
If they weren't able to finish their mission, then they would be in huge trouble.
One level-three planetary state gritted his teeth. "Let's see who is coming. If we really can't beat them, we'll flee and find an opportunity to contact Master Bibi Liya and Master Chacha Lisi."
Everyone nodded. At this juncture, the ship suddenly stopped where it was, and four figures flew out.
Seeing this, everyone felt relieved.
The strongest was only a level-one planetary state. What were they scared of!
Just kill them!
One level-three planetary state said, "Leave behind two level-two planetary states. The rest of you will all come out. We must make sure they can't send any messages and disclose our location!"
"Yes!"
The New Dawn soon came to the location of the asteroid. There was nothing on there, just gray rocks.
New Dawn stopped the ship ten thousand kilometers away from the spot. Then, the four of them got out and flew towards the asteroid.
Soon, they came near.
Lin Ling's eyes flashed with glowing light. Then, she called out, "Careful, there are many powerful beings nearby..." Before she could finish, a powerful spirit force erupted from the asteroid. Five level-three planetary states and eleven level-two planetary states charged out.
Blood spirit light covered the asteroid. Violent spirit force gathered, forming tens of blood sword rays slashing towards the four of them.
Nangong Jing sneered. Her chi surged, making her golden hair fly.
She stepped forward. Golden light gathered around her hands, and she punched.
Rumble!
A series of clashes sounded.
Nangong Jing couldn't stop this large number of sword ray attacks all by herself. She just blocked it for a moment, and everyone dodged.
The blade demon ended up dazed upon seeing this.
"Impossible!"
How could a level-one planetary state be this strong?
They didn't hold back at all just, so they could instantly kill the group.
This wasn't right.
However, Lu Ze and the rest didn't stop.
Qiuyue Hesha flashed with pink light while a hundred-kilometer radius lightning cloud formed above Lu Ze's head.
Lin Ling started searching for their weakness.
Nangong Jing just charged up.
She appeared behind a level-three planetary state.
This time, the level-three planetary state was controlled by seduction god art. Nangong Jing kicked the blade demon's back with her long leg. Rumble!
The violent power penetrated the armor and surged into the blade demon's body, tearing his flesh and crushing his bones.
Instantly, that blade demon was heavily injured. This was the result of Nangong Jing controlling her power. After all, live blade demons were worth more reward points.
The remaining level-three planetary state woke up from the seduction. "Damned human, who are you?!" They were shocked that their level-three planetary state pal almost died instantly, and those level-two planetary state blade demons hadn't woken up yet.
For some reason, their subordinates seemed to be looking at them with killing intent?
Right then, a few hundred blood lightning surged in the lightning cloud and struck towards them.
They were just level-two planetary state attacks and didn't have much of a threat for these level-three planetary states.
They roared and formed a spirit force barrier that covered the level-two planetary state blade demons.
The lightning bolts could only create a ripple on the barrier.
Lu Ze gasped. His combat power wasn't strong enough against level-three planetary states. However, those two were strong enough.
Nangong Jing disappeared from the spot and appeared above the blood-colored barrier. "Break!"
She roared and stomped on the barrier.
Rumble...
The barrier shook vigorously, but it still didn't break.
Right at this point, Qiuyue Hesha used seduction god art again. Immediately, those level-three planetary states' spirit force halted and the barrier weakened. Nangong Jing stomped down once again.
Crack.
Finally, the barrier cracked.
Before the level-three blade demons could recover from the seduction god art, Nangong Jing appeared next to another one and kicked his chest. This blade demon was flung towards the asteroid. His body smashed a huge crater, and the asteroid was thrown off its orbit.
Lu Ze gasped. This alcoholic was so violent.
Only now could the next 3 level-three planetary states wake up from the seduction god art.
Without a level-four planetary state, Qiuyue Hesha just needed to use seduction god art at full power. It was all too easy to interfere with them.
Their faces were full of terror right now. Another level-three planetary state pal was gone. Was it their turn next?
As soon as they had that thought, that familiar feeling arose again. Then, the three felt a severe painful sensation at the same time. Their vision went dark, and they fainted.
As the blade demon numbers dwindled, the pressure on Qiuyue Hesha was relieved. Therefore, the blade demons were seduced for a longer period.
Just once, the three level-three planetary state blade demons were kicked over by Nangong Jing. The rest of the level-two planetary state ones betrayed the others without the interference of a level-three planetary state. They looked at Qiuyue Hesha like she was a goddess.
Blade Demon Base, Surveillance Room.
The two level-two planetary state blade demons who stayed behind looked at the screen while shivering.
In just half a minute, all their companions were gone?!
At this moment, a blade demon's eyes widened, and he thought of something. "Quick! Send the news about this back! It's Monarch of the New Dawn and human young dukes!"
"This is the void universe. We must not let them get back inside the Federation!"
Hearing this, the other blade demon quickly made up the message and put a detailed description of their combat power. That way, their race would send someone strong enough to assassinate them.
After this was done, the two blade demons looked at each other. "Destroy this room!" The contents in the screen weren't all in the Zhihuo System. At least, those scouting balls haven't been found. They could be used in the future.
During this time, a beam of silver light flashed. Lu Ze pulled Qiuyue Hesha into the surveillance room.
They just received news from the blade demons that there were two more blade demons inside. The two blade demons saw a man and woman come in and ended up dazed.
Qiuyue Hesha used seduction god art immediately. Thereafter, these two blade demons defected too.
Qiuyue Hesha ordered them to open the base and let Nangong Jing and Lin Ling in.
Meanwhile, those level-two planetary state blade demons were ordered to subjugate those unconscious level-three blade demons.
In the surveillance room, Lu Ze, Qiuyue Hesha, Nangong Jing, and Lin Ling looked at the level-two planetary state blade demon and then at the scenes on the screen and raised a brow.
Lu Ze said curiously, "These scenes seem to cover quite a range. How did the blade demons do it?"
Nangong Jing shook her head. "I don't know, and these blade demons have restrictions in them. We can't even ask."
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Never mind, we'll leave this problem to the Shenwu Army. Our mission is done."
Lu Ze and the group smiled and nodded.
Then, Lu Ze asked, "Do they have anyone else here?"
Qiuyue Hesha said, "This question has nothing to do with their purpose. They probably wouldn't self-destruct, right?"
Nangong Jing glanced at the blade demons. "Let's try asking?"
Lu Ze nodded. "If they self-destruct, I'll take them away. I'm experienced in this!"
Qiuyue Hesha looked at the blade demon and asked, "Do you have any others here?"
One demon answered, "Our base was robbed by that Tiger Tail Thief. The captain and vice-captain still haven't come back from hunting the thief."
Hearing this, the group relaxed. This wave of blade demons was all gone.
Lin Ling said, "I didn't expect this mission to be done this quickly! Three missions in a row."
Lu Ze rolled his eyes. "It's fast but very tiring,
okay?"
After all, there were level-four planetary state bosses. The mission went pretty successful, but there were still huge risks while fighting.
Nangong Jing smiled. "Indeed, a level-four planetary state is quite too risky for us. Next time, let's just accept level-three planetary state missions."
They were really lucky this time that the blade demons were heavily injured.
Then, they inspected the entire base. Although the treasury was robbed by the thief, there were still some remnants.
When they handed in the mission, they just needed to give back the treasures that belonged to the army.
This was very worth it.
They packed things up and planned to fly back with this blade demon base.
This time, Lu Ze contacted the personnel on planet Zhihuo that they would be bringing back an asteroid.
The people there were confused, but they didn't dare to ask much more. They just said there would be Shenwu Army to assist them.
Lu Ze smiled. "Okay, let's go back."
Thus, Qiuyue Hesha ordered the blade demons to fly back with them.
Meanwhile, they took the level-three planetary state blade demons to the New Dawn.
In the living room, Lu Ze and the others rested on the couch while they zoomed past in space.
During this time, New Dawn's voice sounded again. "There's a huge energy wave on the left."
Lu Ze and the group were stunned. Thereafter, they just realized that they were looking for Zhihuo Bird Eggs, so they told New Dawn to keep watch for energy waves.
They looked on the left. It was a planet covered in red and purple.
The four glanced at each other. Lin Ling asked, "Ze, want to go and see?"
Lu Ze nodded. "We've only gotten two level-one planetary state eggs and a body. Let's go see."
Lu Ze wasn't too satisfied with these results.
It would only be considered good if it was a high-level Zhihuo Bird. Perhaps those eggs would be tastier.
Subsequently, Lu Ze ordered the New Dawn to stop far away.
Silver light flashed and Lu Ze disappeared.
Nangong Jing said speechlessly, "I'm guessing that guy is wondering whether higher-level eggs are tastier."
Qiuyue Hesha and Lin Ling laughed.
Lin Ling said, "That's quite possible."
In space, Lu Ze sensed the familiar chi of a Zhihuo bird and smiled.
It didn't seem to be a low-level one!
Great!
Without hesitation, he used transformation god art, and Lu Ze turned into that flaming Zhihuo Bird and flew rapidly towards the chi.
Soon, on barren grounds made of red stones, he saw a Zhihuo Bird hive.
It was huge, and there were two 15-meter tall Zhihuo Birds. Their chi was at level five of the planetary state. Behind them were two huge red jade eggs.
Lu Ze was very hopeful.
He casually flew before the hive and landed next to the huge eggs. As for the two birds, they were just curious, but they didn't show any enmity. Following that, he pretended to accidentally touch the eggs and used space god art before the birds could react.
"Ree!"
The two birds were furious. Flames then swept by. Lu Ze felt he was almost melting.
Luckily, he also had fire god art and had a strong resistance to fire. Only then did he barely survive.
Lu Ze struggled into warp space and then appeared inside the New Dawn.
Lu Ze yelled, "New Dawn, quickly leave!"
Those two birds were so strong!
The New Dawn immediately shot off towards planet Zhihuo. The asteroid ship followed quickly.
He looked outside and saw that those two birds didn't pursue him anymore. Only then did he breathe easy.
At this moment, he sensed the girls' strange glances and asked, "Why are you looking at me like this?"
Eventually, Nangong Jing couldn't resist laughing while pointing at Lu Ze's head. "Haha... hahaha... Ze, is your head burnt?"
Lin Ling and Qiuyue Hesha laughed too.
Lu Ze: "?"
A mirror appeared in Qiuyue Hesha's hand. Lu Ze looked over. His hair was indeed gone.
His head was charred. In fact, looked roasted.
Lu Ze's mouth twitched.
Oh shit? Where did my dense hair go?
Why did my handsome face turn into this?
Lu Ze never had expected that he was almost cooked. He rejoiced that he wore his armor. Otherwise, his clothes would be burnt too. His naked body would be seen by these three?
What if they couldn't hold it and did something bestial to him?
Lu Ze rolled his eyes. "I'll go and wash up first."
Then, he went into the bathroom.
Ten minutes later, Lu Ze came out with a bathrobe. His hair had grown out now, and his face became handsome again. He had regeneration god art, after all, so this little injury didn't count.
In the living room, Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling were watching the eggs with shock.
Lin Ling asked, "Ze, what is the level of this egg?"
"Level-five planetary state." Lu Ze laughed. He also rejoiced that he only encountered a level-five planetary state.
He originally thought he could collect level-seven planetary state eggs.
Nangong Jing looked at the runes inside the egg and grinned. "This egg's fire god art is much stronger than the other two."
Lu Ze nodded.
In a region extremely far from the human-controlled region, quite some planets were spinning.
There was a black planet, and there were many sharp black metal structures. This was a blade demon stationing ground. In some spirit food restaurant, someone exclaimed, "Wanted mission, Human Race, Monarch of the New Dawn? Monarch of the New Dawn came to the void space? The minimum cultivation level requirement is level four of the planetary state?"
Blade demons looked up.
"Human Race, Monarch of the New Dawn, I seemed to have heard of him somewhere?"
"He seems to be the superior prodigy of the young generation. If he matures, he can perhaps cause some threat to us." "Pfft, there are too many prodigies. There are such rumors every few decades. Which of them actually became real?"
"True..."
"But... his reward is so bountiful. However, I'm not a level-four planetary state. I can't accept
it."
"However, this is in the human-controlled region... It's too dangerous. Even if we can complete the mission, we might not have the life to spend the rewards." "Who knows, it's the business of powerful beings. It doesn't concern us."
In a huge cosmic fortress, more than ten powerful blade demons were either sitting or standing. The one sitting in the center was extremely strong, and his cultivation level reached level nine of the planetary state.
Vas
He glanced at everyone and said with some anger, "Only six scouting balls were installed at the Shang Yang's border."
No one in the room spoke. The atmosphere was silent.
After a while, he said heavily, "This time, we're collaborating with the Dark Metal Demon and Black Smoke Race. However, it's a problem on our side... Hmph!"
A purple-eyed blade demon spoke. "General Duoduo Lisi, sorry... If we could notify the Shang Yang Galaxy base, this loss could have been avoided."
Duoduo Lisi looked plainly at the blade demon and shook his head. His voice was gentle for once. "Luoluoxisi, it's not your fault. You've reported the situation as soon as your mental force restriction was activated. Even if we were contacted immediately, it would take some time."
He sighed. "It's not your fault this time. No one expected that humans could find where the base was right away." One demon who was wearing blood armor spoke. "How did they find the base?"
Everyone looked among themselves. They didn't know too.
Luoluoxisi frowned. "The mental force restriction I received had too little information. I could only see Lu Ze use space transmission with the blade demon that was about to self-destruct."
Everyone frowned.
"Lu Ze..." The one wearing blood armor growled. Everyone glanced at him. They knew the reason. Kakaroya was his man. The loss at the northern border and Kakaroya's death was quite a big deal to him.
Lu Ze played an important role in that.
The blade demon got up and said, "General Duoduo Lisi, I want to go!"
Duoduo Lisi shook his head. "Guguyate, the mission at hand is more important."
Guguyate's chi halted. Then, there seemed to be some terrifying wave surging. Moments later, he let out a long breath and nodded. "Yes, General."
Duoduo Lisi then said, "Since we can't have perfect surveillance on the human side, then we can only speed things up."
"That ruin is more terrifying than we thought. It's probably a ruin left behind by a level-eight star state or even a level-nine. It's also related to the insectoids. Our three races have discussed and are requesting star state reinforcements."
"Level-eight and level-nine star states?"
The blade demons were shocked.
One blade demon wearing black armor sighed. "That's near the cosmic system state.'
Duoduo Lisi smiled. "Momoerde, you three were rewarded by the master of the Advanced Demon Race. This means you have the potential of reaching the cosmic system state. As long as nothing unexpected happens, you are destined to be the peak power in our race. Why be envious?"
Hearing this, Momoerde, Guguyate, and Luoluoxisi showed a confident look. They were the most talented demons in these few centuries of the blade demon race. They were certain to have a spot in the Blade Demon Palace in the future.
The other blade demons looked at the three with admiration and reverence.
Duoduo Lisi smiled. "This time, the star state coming will be Lala Nisi."
"Master Lala Nisi?!"
The blade demons rejoiced. She was the female prodigy of the blade demon. Which male blade demon didn't want to be her partner?
This was quite a good opportunity. Momoerde and the others were hopeful too.
S were
Two hours later, outside planet Zhihuo, the hundred meters long New Dawn sliced across space.
An asteroid followed behind it. Opposite them was a Shenwu Army ship.
A black-haired, middle-aged man who was a level-five planetary state on the ship saw the scene, and his mouth twitched.
When he was told that he needed to check an asteroid, he thought he heard it incorrectly. Yet, this Monarch of the New Dawn really brought back an asteroid?!
However, this was his job. He couldn't say much.
He looked at his assistant who was still dazed at the scene and spoke. "Contact Monarch of the New Dawn! We're checking!"
The assistant reacted and did as he was ordered.
Lu Ze and the group looked at the beautiful red planet and sighed.
Lu Ze said, "We're finally back. Let's rest a day before we do missions."
Lin Ling and the rest nodded.
Right then, New Dawn's voice sounded. "Master, Captain Zhang Yugang of the defense force is requesting for communication."
Lu Ze then said, "Accept."
Inside the New Dawn, a powerful middle-aged man appeared.
He looked at the group and said, "I'm the captain of the defense force at planet Zhihuo, Zhang Yugang. I will need to investigate the... asteroid you brought back."
Lu Ze smiled. "Sure, thank you, Captain Zhang. This asteroid is actually a blade demon base in disguise. There's still blade demon captives inside. They have been subjugated. Don't be alarmed when you see them."
Lu Ze's words made Zhang Yugang and the men on the side stunned.
Small blade demon base and blade demon captives?
Lu Ze explained further, "Aren't there signs of blade demons appearing in the Zhihuo System? We took that mission."
Zhang Yugang's eyes widened. It was that Blade Demon Mission? Damn it, they didn't tell him.
Before he could think much, his face turned serious. "Okay, Monarch of the New Dawn, young dukes. Thank you for your cooperation."
Lu Ze smiled and nodded.
Then, Zhang Yugang led the Shenwu Army into the base.
They were very shocked when they saw the subjugated level-two and level-three planetary state blade demons.
Zhang Yugang's assistant said in a dazed manner, "Weren't there people sent to find the blade demons? They didn't find it at the time. How long has the Monarch of the New Dawn been here? He found it already?"
Zhang Yugang shook his head. "How am I supposed to know? Hurry up and check if there are any problems here." "Yes!"
Half an hour later, Zhang Yugang checked the entire base thoroughly.
After ensuring there were no problems, the Shenwu Army went back to their own ship, and Zhang Yugang contacted Lu Ze again. He looked at the four in disbelief and said, "This asteroid is fine now. You're indeed the Monarch of the New Dawn and young dukes. You did such a huge mission as soon as you arrived."
"I'll take you guys back to the stationed grounds. And, the mission handover..."
Lu Ze said, "We'll do it immediately once we get back. This wave of blade demons seems to have some special purpose. I hope there's a high-level coming over for the handover."
Zhang Yugang thought for a moment and nodded. "I'll try to arrange that for you."
"Thank you, Captain Zhang."
On planet Zhihuo, Luo Bingqing, Lin Kuang, Jack, and Derrick just finished their fertilizing mission. Their chi was much better than a few days ago.
Jack sighed. "After all these days, we're finally used to those flames."
Derrick grinned. "In that case, we can do missions and earn rewards faster."
Luo Bingqing's face wasn't as pale as before. He nodded plainly. "Mhm, speed up. Merit points like these are hard to get."
Lin Kuang agreed. "Although it's tiring, it's not dangerous. Mo Xie and the others almost died from the mission yesterday, didn't they? Louisa and her team also encountered some danger." Everyone fell silent. During this time, their squad was the safest. The other two squads failed their missions and didn't even get enough Shenwu merit points as them.
Jack shook his head. "After seeing Lu Ze and his group a few days ago, I almost lost my confidence. But compared to Daphne and the rest, I feel that we're not bad."
Everyone's mouth twitched, including Luo Bingqing.
Everyone liked to compete. Without competition, there would be no improvement.
At this moment, an exclamation caught their attention.
"Oh shit, look in the sky. What is that? Asteroid?"
The four of them looked up. A dark-gray asteroid was nearing the planet.
Many adventurers came out to watch. Of course, they weren't worried at all. It was just an asteroid.
With most of them being planetary states, they could easily blow up such asteroids.
Even if the planet exploded, they wouldn't die as long as they fled fast enough.
Right now, they saw the Shenwu Army ship and a golden ship flying before the asteroid. Their faces looked strange.
"That's the Shenwu Army. Why did they bring an asteroid back?"
"Is there some rare mine in this asteroid, so they brought back the entire asteroid?"
"That's possible..."
"But... that golden ship looks familiar?"
"Who does it belong to?"
"Did this adventure squad find some rare resource? They would be earning huge!"
Everyone's eyes went red at this possibility.
If the mine was precious enough, it could be worth over 10,000 Shenwu merit points!
Derrick exclaimed, "Oh shit, isn't that Lu Ze's ship?"
The other three were dumbfounded. They had never expected Lu Ze's ship would be before this asteroid.
Jack was speechless. "Before I thought we were okay... but now..."
Lin Kuang's mouth twitched.
Derrick coughed. "I think we should just be happy. There's no point in competing, isn't
it?"
Those people heard Derrick's remarks. "So that's Monarch of the New Dawn's ship. No wonder it felt familiar. He only came here a few days ago. Then, he seemed to have gone to do missions."
"By the way, didn't Boss Zhu give Monarch of the New Dawn a Zhihuo Shooting Star spot? Do you think Monarch of the New Dawn got a Zhihuo Bird's egg these few days?"
Everyone became immediately interested in this.
The story between Boss Zhu and Lu Ze spread through the entire solar system. Actually, it even went beyond that.
After all, the Zhihuo Shooting Star spot every five years was intensely fought over in the entire human-controlled region.
"Are you dumb? Lu Ze is Monarch of the New Dawn. He's not some god. It hadn't even been ten days. Where would he get the egg from?"
A powerful level-five planetary state man made an analysis. "I feel it's not too likely as well. Perhaps three years later, when it's five years again, Lu Ze can buy the egg from somewhere else, or when he reaches the planetary state, I believe he can get the eggs. His cultivation level now is too low. His combat power is probably only on par with a level-one planetary state Zhihuo Bird?" "That's right."
Everyone sighed. "But if he brought back this asteroid, their earnings would be insane."
All the people were envious.
Luo Bingqing said plainly, "Let's go back first. If Lu Ze and the others are free, they would contact us."
Jack's eyes flashed with golden light. "Go back and cultivate!"
"Mhm."
They all felt pressured due to Lu Ze.
Lu Ze's New Dawn had come to planet Zhihuo. The asteroid was too large to be brought to the stationed grounds, so the ship took the two to a barren open field.
Qiuyue Hesha ordered the blade demons to remove the rock shell and only leave the base. Despite so, the base was still over ten kilometers long.
Zhang Yugang and the rest felt strange upon seeing blade demons work so joyously.
So when did blade demons do things for the human race so happily? They were probably fake blade demons.
The blade demons hadn't even finished organizing the rocks on the asteroid, and a squad of Shenwu soldiers came over.
The person leading was wearing black armor and had a level-seven planetary state cultivation level.
Behind him were a few level-five planetary state soldiers.
When they saw the working blade demons, they were dumbfounded. Their eyes narrowed after seeing that huge black base.
Zhang Yugang saluted the man. "Vice Commander Isiah!"
Isiah glanced at the blade demons and then at Lu Ze and the rest. He smiled. "I didn't expect you to find the blade demons that we couldn't find after turning over the entire Yara Asteroid Belt. Little brother Lu Ze's title, Monarch of the New Dawn, is indeed well deserved."
Lu Ze smiled with embarrassment. "You're too polite, Vice Commander Isiah. This is just luck."
Isiah and the others smiled but said nothing. Without power, you couldn't grasp luck. Isiah asked, "I heard Captain Zhang say that there's something wrong with these blade demons?"
These blade demons weren't strong and didn't need him to come personally. He was very busy. However, Lu Ze and his group were prodigies who had boundless future, and the incident with the Zhihuo Shooting Star got him curious, so he decided to come.
Now, it seemed he was right. There was such a huge base hidden. These blade demons weren't just adventurers or space pirates. Lu Ze nodded and handed over the black metal box that the Tiger Tail Thief stole.
Isiah looked at this curiously and took it. "What is this?"
Lu Ze shook his head. "I don't know, but it's their purpose."
He thought about the screens and said, "Perhaps it's a high-tech device used to survey our area."
Isiah and the soldiers were dazed, and their expressions turned serious.
Lu Ze nodded. "This seems to have the same material as the order-weakening space bomb we encountered at the Gracious System. It's said to be the creation of the Advanced Demon Race."
"Advanced Demon Race?!"
Isiah and the others were even more dazed.
What did this have to do with the Advanced Demon Race? They were countless times more powerful than blade demons. Their strongest power was the cosmic realm state.
Isiah's hands shook a little. He frowned and looked at Lu Ze. "Are you certain?"
Lu Ze and the rest of the group recounted what happened.
Hearing their statement, Isiah and the others fell into silence. They completely didn't expect the blade demons to do something this big.
They weren't sure if it was from the Advanced Demon Race, but it was quite possible they were state-of-the-art scouting device. It was enough to evade the scanning and jamming devices of the Federation and send information back to the blade demons.
Isiah spoke. "Little brother Lu Ze, the situation is quite serious. I need to report this to the commander. Can you report the specific details of the mission to Clarissa of the Intel Department?"
He pointed at an extremely beautiful blonde girl. She reached out her hand and smiled. "Hello Lu Ze, just call me Clarissa."
Lu Ze shook hands with her. "Hello, Clarissa."
Isiah said, "As for mission rewards, the part regarding capturing the blade demons alive and finding the base and metal balls will be calculated today. As for the blade demon intel, it will be calculated after their restrictions are removed."
Lu Ze and the group smiled. They thought it was only going to be rewards for capturing the blade demons alive.
Thereafter, Isiah went back alone. The rest of the Shenwu Army soldiers took back the blade demons.
The blade demon base was handed over. Lu Ze kept the treasure inside already. Even the base was recycled to the stationing grounds.
Clarissa had recorded the details of their mission. Half an hour later, the recording was done.
Clarissa smiled at the group and said, "The intel regarding your mission is very important. The rewards would probably be very ample. Congratulations!"
She knew that it would be a huge loss if the blade demons could really scout the information inside the controlled region.
Lu Ze and everyone said goodbye to Clarissa and went back towards the stationed grounds.
At the space station, the New Dawn stopped and Lu Ze and the girls got off. They took the Tiger Tail Thief with them. He was woken up by Qiuyue Hesha and told to walk himself.
This mission needed to be handed in at the Shang Yang System, so they could only take him with them.
As soon as they got off, they were met with the curious gazes of the surrounding people. Lu Ze was confused. "Why are they looking at us like this?"
Nangong Jing stretched, showing off her figure, and she laughed. "Who cares? Let's go book a room and relax."
Qiuyue Hesha and Lin Ling nodded. "Indeed, we need to get a good rest."
Hearing this, the surrounding people's eyes turned green. It was the middle of the day, and these three pretty girls asked to book a hotel room to relax. This guy probably saved the universe in his past life.
He put away the New Dawn and left the space station. They found a good hotel and booked a suite.
Qiuyue Hesha told the Tiger Tail Thief to knock himself out again before locking him in a room.
Lu Ze jumped onto the couch and sighed. "This place feels good."
Outside, they might encounter enemies at any time and had to stay alert. Here, it was different.
Lin Ling sat next to Lu Ze's couch and closed her eyes to relax. Qiuyue Hesha walked over and lay down on Lin Ling's legs.
Lin Ling felt this and immediately shot up. "Ze, you..." When she realized it was Qiuyue Hesha, she fell silent.
Lu Ze looked at Lin Ling with confusion.
"Huh?"
Lin Ling's mouth twitched, and she pushed Qiuyue Hesha awkwardly. "Don't sleep on my leg, sister Hesha."
Qiuyue Hesha grabbed Lin Ling's hand. "Your legs are really bouncy and soft. It's comfortable."
Nangong Jing was immediately interested. "Really? I'll try it too."
She squeezed over.
Lin Ling watched Qiuyue Hesha and Nangong Jing sleep on her two legs. Her hands were grabbed by them, so she couldn't even face was in despair.
She was the weakest here, so she would be bullied?
Lu Ze felt envious.
"Is it really that comfortable?" Qiuyue Hesha glanced seductively at Lu Ze. "Yes. Do you want to try?" Lu Ze was just about to agree, but then, he felt Lin Ling's murderous glance.
He coughed. "Am I that sort of person? I'm not the same as you two!"
Suddenly, Lu Ze recalled something. "By the way, since we're back, should we contact teacher Luo? Have they finished their mission?"
Nangong Jing smiled. "Ze, you want to treat them to Zhihuo Shooting Star?"
Lu Ze nodded. "To us, it's just tasting the flavor, but for them, it should be quite helpful." The three looked at Lu Ze and laughed. Lin Ling blinked her eyes. "You decide this."
The last time they encountered Luo Bingqing and the others, they exchanged contact details. Since he had decided to treat them to Zhihuo Shooting Star, Lu Ze contacted Lin Kuang. However, Lin Kuang didn't reply.
Nangong Jing asked, "They're probably cultivating, right?" Lu Ze looked outside. It was getting dark. "It's almost night anyway. We'll talk about it tomorrow. I'm hungry."
Lin Ling knew that her opportunity for freedom had come. She immediately looked at Qiuyue Hesha and Nangong Jing. "Sisters I need to go cook."
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha got up unwillingly. Lin Ling immediately dashed out.
After dinner, the four of them went to their own rooms.
Lu Ze sat on the bed and analyzed his situation. It had been 17 days since he reached level four of the mortal evolution state. His non-stop battles had allowed his cultivation level to improve faster.
In another half a month, he should be able to reach level five of the mortal evolution state. However, his cultivation level improvement speed was far from how fast his body was getting stronger. His body was already at level eight of the mortal evolution state and that was just a normal state. If he used the First Golden Body god art, it could barely reach the planetary state.
Moreover, his body would allow him to easily use special level-eight mortal evolution state red orbs to cultivate. Lu Ze was even confident to use level-nine mortal evolution state orbs. Nevertheless, Lu Ze couldn't beat a level-nine mortal evolution state beast yet.
As for god art, his mastery of the fire, metal, earth, lightning, body of darkness, wood, and chi stealth god art had all reached a rather deep mastery. The god art orbs he used now only contained knowledge he had already learned.
With the golden fruit wine, Lu Ze's body was steadily growing stronger every day. His cultivation level could increase one level a month. This was scarily fast already.
As for his god arts, it was almost at the limit of the third map.
Now, his target was to get the divine arts of the third map. Then, his combat power would have a huge improvement.
Lu Ze rapidly concluded his progress and soon entered the pocket hunting dimension. He reappeared in the familiar barren lands.
Roar!
Immediately, he sensed a growl behind him.
Lu Ze disappeared from the spot. A few golden sword rays sliced at where he was. He then reappeared above a 30-meter tall golden tiger.
It was a level-seven mortal evolution state golden needle tiger.
He looked calmly at the tiger while domineering golden rays flashed in his hand. He punched it.
Rumble!
The golden first force burst out and penetrated the tiger's body. A huge crater appeared where it stood.
The violent power crushed the tiger's body. Before it could even call out, it landed heavily in the crater.
He picked up the orbs and then disappeared from the spot.
As his cultivation level grew, Lu Ze was getting faster and faster.
Three hours later, a lightning cloud surged above a patch of grassland.
A few hundred fat possums were squeaking and fleeing
Purple lightning bolts roasted the possums, emitting this pleasant aroma. The strongest here was only a level-five mortal evolution state. Lu Ze felt quite excited.
Before, he couldn't even beat a level-four mortal evolution state possum. How long had it been since then?
In half a minute, Lu Ze killed all the possums. Lu Ze collected the orbs and flew off once again.
He felt like he had been paid generously. He attacked and a large wave of monsters was gone.
Roar!
A distant violent chi appeared. After sensing the chi, Lu Ze frowned. He flew towards the direction of it.
Soon, Lu Ze saw a red-scaled dragon that was a hundred meters tall.
Level-eight mortal evolution state fire scale dragon!
Its thick legs stood on the ground and spider net cracks spread out from where it was. Flames spurred from the cracks, shooting tens of meters high. In turn, the surrounding space was twisted by the high temperature of the dragon.
Lu Ze's eyes flashed with purple runes. He pursued the creature without hesitation. With a flash of silver light, his body disappeared from his position, and he appeared above the fire dragon's head.
That fire jade-like horn emitting a searing glow made Lu Ze's mouth feel dry.
Purple-red lightning swam around him, and black lightning cloud gathered above his head.
Tens of lightning bolts shot out towards the dragon. Simultaneously, lightning spears formed around Lu Ze, which tore space open heading towards the fire dragon.
Roar!
The dragon's eyes burned with fire, and it suddenly opened its mouth and roared. Then, it stomped on the ground. Fire pillars shot out and enveloped it. At the same time, two flame pillars shot towards Lu Ze.
Runes started forming in Lu Ze's eyes. He clenched with his right hand. Tens of lightning bolts were fused together and smashed onto the fire pillar, like divine punishment.
Rumble!
Fire and lightning shot out in all directions, plowing the land and spreading over a thousand kilometers.
All the weak beasts in this area fled.
The fire and lightning were in a stalemate.
Lu Ze flashed with silver light and appeared inside the fire pillar above the red dragon's head. Then, he punched the dragon's head with his golden fist force.
Rumble!
It seemed like the world was rattled by war drums. The earth trembled.
The dragon's body landed with a thud on the ground with its head first, creating a deep crater that was over ten kilometers wide.
Fire splashed around in the deep crater. The dragon's tough scales cracked a little, and blood burning with fire dripped down.
The dragon became dazed due to the heavy strike. Lu Ze stomped on the dragon's huge head and then barraged its head with his fists.
With every punch, the ground shook, and the crater became deeper and wider.
The dragon's bones soon cracked. The domineering fist force penetrated its brain and wiped its life force away. Lu Ze breathed and nodded happily.
Eventually, the dragon disappeared, leaving behind 8 special level-eight mortal evolution state red and 7 purple orbs, as well as a burning fire god art orb.
Lu Ze proceeded with his hunt.
...
Ten hours later, Lu Ze looked at the sun. It was about to set. His combat power would only be stronger in the dark.
Thereafter, he would see if he could change into a dark wolf and sneak up on a level-nine mortal evolution state dark wolf.
Suddenly, the sky dimmed down.
Lu Ze tensed up immediately. Every time the sky suddenly turned dark, there was a super boss passing by. Usually, he just died. However, he didn't feel any pain.
He scanned the surroundings and looked at the sky.
What was going on?
Where was the super boss?
At this time, a beam of white light descended and penetrated the world. The world seemed to have sunk into silence.
This just lasted a brief instant and countless roars filled the place.
The spirit light everywhere lit up the place again. Lu Ze sensed a few powerful chis that made him shudder. This was stronger than the alcoholic and fox demon!
That powerful chi made people shiver, but that couldn't stop Lu Ze from remaining dazed.
This white pillar landed just a hundred kilometers from Lu Ze. He could even see there was a crystal white flow descending from the sky.
He thought of the pillar on the second map, as well as the lightning cloud divine art runes inside.
That was a treasure!
He wasn't dreaming, was he? Happiness came so quickly that he felt it was unreal. During this time, Lu Ze sensed there was a terrifying chi from the distance coming close rapidly. There was more than one of them.
Lu Ze used space god art without hesitation. He appeared in the white pillar. Immediately, he felt this immense pressure bearing down on him.
His bones were cracking, and his body was shaking
Those people who weren't yet planetary state would probably die just from the pressure. Luckily, his body was quite sturdy, and he had First Golden Body god art. That's how he was able to withstand this pressure.
Lu Ze looked up and saw there was this baby's fist-sized crystal floating not far in front of
him.
Lu Ze was stunned. This wasn't a divine art
rune?
"Roar!"
Just when Lu Ze was confused, another roar sounded. He could feel the powerful chi approaching. Without much time to think, he just grabbed the white crystal.
Immediately, Lu Ze's face changed. There was a terrifying repelling force from this crystal. As a result, cracks appeared over his body, and blood mist was discharged. It turned the white pillar pink.
Lu Ze gritted his teeth. He was used to this level of pain already. He resisted it and wrapped the crystal with his mental force, sending it into his mental dimension.
With that, the repelling force disappeared. At the same time, the white pillar flickered and started to disappear.
Lu Ze could feel the pain and pressure ease.
Pant...
This was bloody worth it!
He didn't know what the crystal was yet, but it was definitely something good. He would study it once he went out.
"Roar!"
Just when Lu Ze was excited, furious roars sounded from all directions and surrounded him.
Lu Ze's excitement disappeared. It was bosses he couldn't beat at all!
They were too fast and was already near the pillar. They were within 1000 kilometers at this point. Lu Ze looked at the surrounding beasts. There was the familiar white and black snake, the ten-meter tall golden ape, huge golden echidna, winged flaming dragon, and quite a few beasts he hadn't seen before. They had all sorts of god arts, and their terrifying chi twisted the space. Lu Ze's mouth twitched, and his forehead sweated. He was besieged.
Looking at their furious chi, Lu Ze's heart went cold. He felt he should still try.
During this moment, the white pillar completely disappeared. Lu Ze was planning to use space god art. "Roar!"
That ten-meter tall golden ape slammed its hands down. The sky seemed to have collapsed as the golden fists descended. The terrifying pressure was many times stronger than the white pillar. Lu Ze was crushed into the ground before he could even think.
He slowly opened his eyes back in his room. It was painful, but he was excited.
Lu Ze closed his eyes and immediately looked at the floating crystal in his mental dimension. This crystal was emitting a gentle spirit force wave. He studied it. Its surface energy wasn't strong, but it was very gentle.
Lu Ze thought about it and tried to use mental force to touch this crystal. However, Lu Ze didn't expect that as soon as his mental force touched the crystal, the crystal dissipated and turned into a milky white mist and entered his
body.
Immediately, Lu Ze felt this gentle power filling up his body and spreading in all directions. At the same time, the milky white mist's flickering rune also fused into every corner of Lu Ze's body.
He could feel that his body went through some magical transformation. His planetary seeds started to glow milky white and become more sturdy.
Lu Ze's spirit force quality was rapidly improving. As the white mist entered his cells, spirit force from space rushed into Lu Ze's body. He didn't even need to form the planetary seeds himself. Spirit force mixed with white mist instantly formed the planetary seeds.
These new planetary seeds were like milky white balls.
Lu Ze was quite shocked to feel that his cultivation level shot up like crazy. He only formed half the planetary seeds for his five bowels, but in a few short hours, he rapidly finished the remaining ones.
When the last planetary seed was formed, Lu Ze glowed with milky white color. All his meridians and organs glowed with that white color. It was as though he was carved with white jade.
An invisible wave spread out in his body. He could feel both his spirit force cultivation level and body power increase by quite a bit.
He only used a few hours to reach the perfect stage of level-four mortal evolution state.
Lu Ze saw that there was still half of the white mist remaining. He kept cultivating without hesitation. For level five of the mortal evolution state, he needed to form the seeds in his bones.
The white mist fused into the bones and started forming new seeds rapidly. Simultaneously, those intricate runes kept fusing into his body.
It was gradually daylight. The warm sunlight shone towards Lu Ze's room.
Lu Ze opened his eyes slowly. His face was very excited.
He was halfway through level five of the mortal evolution state!
Most importantly, Lu Ze stretched out his hand, and strands of milky white spirit force circulated around his fingers. At the same time, the spirit force in the void seemed to resonate with his own, increasing the power of his spirit force.
Lu Ze thought wrong. That crystal wasn't a divine art rune, but it contained a special god art. He didn't know what this god art was, but those white mists and runes turned his body into a special spirit body.
Lu Ze could feel his affinity with spirit force in the void.
As long as he used spirit force, the spirit force in the void would amplify his power. This meant that both his divine art and god art would be much stronger than before! His spirit force recovery and quality both increased significantly. Lu Ze could use five or six divine arts or god arts at the same time. Ordinary people couldn't do this at all. Even Lu Ze would consume all his spirit force after doing that and resort to red orbs.
But now, Lu Ze was confident he could last half a minute doing that. With the help of red and purple orbs, Lu Ze felt he would never overdo himself again. Lu Ze looked at the white spirit force on his palm. Then, his eyes flashed with purple-red light.
The white spirit force was replaced by purple-red lightning. The chi was growing stronger. Lu Ze smiled.
Just using lightning god art, his combat power would be extremely strong in level one of the planetary state.
If he used lightning cloud divine art, his combat power would definitely not be considered weak in level two of the planetary state. With the buff of his combat armor and blood lightning, his combat power should reach level three of the planetary state.
The difference in power between one level wasn't as simple as the difference among the levels in the mortal evolution state.
A few days ago, a level-three planetary state blade demon could easily crush his full-powered lightning spear.
Suddenly, there was somebody knocking at the door.
"Ze, what are you doing inside?" Nangong Jing's confused voice sounded.
Lu Ze had suppressed his chi, but it was just a few doors away. She could naturally sense the energy wave inside the room.
Lu Ze's eyes suddenly lit up.
He remembered something. The alcoholic's and fox demon's combat power was only at level three of the planetary state?
Wasn't he about to catch up to them then?
Great! Lu Ze smiled. He had always been bullied by these two. Once he surpassed them, he would bully them back! He put away the lightning and got off the bed. Then, he opened the door and saw Nangong Jing there. Qiuyue Hesha and Lin Ling were also looking over curiously. Nangong Jing asked, "Are you okay?" Lu Ze smiled. "It's nothing, I just had a little sudden enlightenment. My cultivation level accidentally reached level five of the mortal evolution state."
Their mouths twitched.
Lin Ling's heart got pierced. She was still a level-three mortal evolution state, but Lu Ze was already a level-five mortal evolution state. Could she still catch up to him?
Meanwhile, Qiuyue Hesha's and Nangong Jing's heart skipped a beat. Their progress hadn't been slow, but Lu Ze's regular cultivation speed was already terrifying. Now that his cultivation level made a breakthrough, his combat power wouldn't just be increasing by one level. Nangong Jing was a little worried. Was this guy catching up to her? During this time, Lu Ze's phone rang. It was Lin Kuang's message. This guy had been cultivating the entire time until now.
He was cultivating with his life too.
Tas
Lu Ze smiled. "Their cultivation has ended. I told them to wait for us at Boss Zhu's place. Let's go over. I wonder just how tasty the Zhihuo Shooting Star is?"
Lin Ling and the others rolled their eyes.
In a suite of some hotel, Luo Bingqing and his group were sitting in the foyer. Lin Kuang placed his phone down and said, "Lu Ze told us to go to Boss Zhu's place."
The others glanced at each other. Jack asked, "Don't tell me that kid already got the Zhihuo Bird's egg?"
Derrick gulped his saliva. "... No way. How many days has it been?"
Luo Bingqing answered, "Let's go see. Today can be a rest day." The others nodded. "We've been doing missions for ten days in a row. We should take a rest, indeed."
"Let's go then." The four of them left accordingly.
Zhihuo Little Restaurant.
Lu Ze and his team happened to see Luo Bingqing's group at the same time. In turn, Luo Bingqing and the rest became dumbfounded due to Lu Ze. For some reason, they felt Lu Ze got stronger again. They greeted each other and went into the restaurant.
Boss Zhu saw people coming in. He glanced at them and felt stunned when he saw it was Lu Ze.
He didn't get up and just smiled. "Yo, Lu Ze, I heard you got quite some rewards from your recent mission. Are you here to have a good meal?"
All the other customers looked over. Lu Ze bringing back an asteroid yesterday had already gone viral. Plus, if Lu Ze brought back a Zhihuo Egg, he could eat the Zhihuo Shooting Star.
Everyone was curious.
Lu Ze smiled. "Boss Zhu, I came to ask you to cook Zhihuo Shooting Star." "Oh, that's easy..." Boss Zhu smiled. He didn't react in time. Then, he fell silent. Not just him, everyone else was dazed too.
All the people looked at Lu Ze like he was a ghost.
Lu Ze wanted to laugh. Nangong Jing and the others saw how happy Lu Ze was and rolled their eyes.
They were expecting this sort of reaction.
Lu Ze coughed and said, "Boss Zhu, your promise still counts, right?"
Boss Zhu recovered from his shock and got up from his chair. He looked deeply at Lu Ze and then nodded. "My, Zhu Xinyi's, words always count."
Thereafter, he laughed. "You're indeed the Monarch of the New Dawn. Amazing! You got Zhihuo Bird Egg with your cultivation level being just a mortal evolution state. You're the first. Is it a level-one planetary state? That would be quite nice for you guys but not as good for young duke Nangong and Qiuyue." At this juncture, Lu Ze took out three eggs, one large and two small.
The red jade eggs carried this scorching chi. As soon as it was taken out, the restaurant's temperature soared up.
"Oh shit?! Three?" someone exclaimed.
"It's not just three! Look at that big egg! That's definitely a high-level Zhihuo Bird Egg!"
"How did Monarch of the New Dawn do it?" Everyone looked strangely at Lu Ze.
Was this guy really a god? Boss Zhu's eyes almost popped out by looking at that large egg. "Level-five planetary state egg? How did you get it, kid?" "Level-five planetary state?!" "What a joke! A level-five planetary state Zhihuo Bird's combat power should be near level seven of the planetary state."
This egg was rare even considering all the previous times of the Zhihuo Shooting Star event.
Lu Ze smiled. "Secret."
Boss Zhu knew he asked too much. Everyone had their secrets after all. He was just too shocked. That's why he asked.
He smiled. "Just wait, I'll cook it now." Lu Ze showed a hopeful look.
Suddenly, he thought of something and said, "Oh, and this too. Do you think you can cook this?"
He took out a few meter tall body. It was the level-one planetary state Zhihuo Bird's body.
Boss Zhu was completely dazed upon seeing this Zhihuo Bird's body. "Oh shit?! Zhi... Zhihuo Bird!" "He could even get the body of Zhihuo Bird? This is a monster?!"
"This is the third time that a Zhihuo Body appeared, isn't it?"
"Seems to be. The previous two times were acquired by a level-nine planetary state."
"Zhi... Zhihuo Bird?" Boss Zhu's face shook. He never asked Lu Ze to kill a Zhihuo Bird. It was much harder than getting the egg after all. Yet, he saw the Zhihuo Bird's body here?!
He looked at Lu Ze and then at Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha. "You two killed it?"
Qiuyue Hesha shook her head. "Little brother Lu Ze did it."
Boss Zhu's eyes bulged. "Him? How is that possible?!"
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. He felt he was looked down on.
So what if he was the one who killed it? Lu Ze asked again, "Can this be cooked?"
Boss Zhu grinned. "Yes! Spirit food made with Zhihuo Bird's body would provide a sliver of a higher chance of acquiring fire god art."
Boss Zhu left with the body and all the eggs. He was preparing to make Zhihuo Shooting Star.
Meanwhile, everyone in the foyer looked at Lu Ze with envy. This was Zhihuo Shooting Star. They might never get a chance to taste it in their entire life.
Lu Ze didn't mind everyone's gaze. He looked at Lin Kuang and his group and said, "Let's find a place to sit." Luo Bingqing was a bit hesitant. "Lu Ze, you're really going to treat us to eat Zhihuo Shooting Star?" Lin Kuang nodded. "Yeah, that's spirit food which can give people a chance to learn fire god art." Of course, they wanted to eat it, but all their reward points were used to buy cultivation resources. They couldn't afford it.
Lu Ze smiled. "I got three eggs. I already have fire god art, so I just want to try the flavor."
Hearing this, Luo Bingqing and the rest, as well as the onlookers, felt their hearts were stabbed again.
So many people wanted the Zhihuo Shooting Star with their lives, all just for the fire god art.
This guy clearly had fire god art and still got three eggs and even a body. Yet, he just said he only wanted to try the flavor.
Lin Kuang and the others gritted their teeth and nodded.
If they could learn fire god art, it would be very beneficial to them. Moreover, this spirit food was a planetary state. It was quite useful for mortal evolution states like them.
Lin Kuang said, "Then, we won't be too
polite."
He was still a little annoyed at Lu Ze because of Lin Ling, but now, he was still receiving benefits from Lu Ze. This was very awkward. He felt like he was getting bought. Was that the kid's real purpose?
Lin Kuang looked at Lu Ze strangely.
Lu Ze sensed something was amiss and asked, "What's wrong brother Lin Kuang?"
"... Nothing."
The group found a far off place to sit. Luo Bingqing's group asked Lu Ze about their missions.
When they reached the planetary state, they would need to think about doing some simple planetary state missions outside the stationed grounds.
Lu Ze and his group hid nothing from them and told them about everything. Consequently, Luo Bingqing's group was stunned. Their mission targets were level-three and level-four planetary states. Who could handle that?
Lin Kuang looked at Lin Ling who was calm-faced. He felt quite complicated. Did this girl grow up already? She was stronger than him now. At this moment, Lu Ze's phone rang. Everyone looked over.
Nangong Jing asked, "What is it?"
Lu Ze shook his head. He didn't know.
He took out his phone and looked at the message. Immediately, his eyes widened. "The reward points are here."
The message showed the Blade Demon Mission's rewards.
Capturing the blade demons alive gave them 1200, locating the base left them with 5000, discovering the blade demon scouting activity was 5000, and bringing back that black ball was 10,000 merit points!
The others seemed reasonable but that black ball was worth 10000 points. That surprised Lu Ze.
Those black balls were probably some extremely high-tech. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth that much.
They were given 21,200 points just for this mission. This was so much more than Lu Ze expected. The girls smiled and looked at Lu Ze's phone. They were shocked to see this many reward points too. Lin Kuang and the others were confused upon seeing how shocked they were. Jack frowned. "What happened? Are your rewards deducted? The Shenwu Army wouldn't do something like that, right?" His brother was an officer in the Shenwu Army after all. He had quite a nice impression of them. Lu Ze coughed. "Of course, they wouldn't take away our points. It's just that the rewards were more than what we expected." Luo Bingqing and the rest rolled their eyes.
Derrick said with admiration, "So it's something good. You got a few hundred extra reward points?".
Lu Ze and the girls: "..."
They didn't know how to answer this. Could they say they got extra 20,000 points?
Seeing how Lu Ze and the others were hesitant to talk, Derrick's smile disappeared. His mouth twitched. "Come on, tell us, we're young dukes too. What scene we haven't seen yet? How many Shenwu merit points is it?"
They were the young dukes of this generation. Their mental strength was quite good. Lu Ze's mouth twitched. "Then, I'll say it?"
Lin Kuang rolled his eyes. "Don't be hesitant like a girl..."
Before he could finish, he sensed three terrifying chi lock onto him. His mouth twitched, and he immediately stopped talking.
Lu Ze smiled. "It's not that much, just an extra 20,000."
The atmosphere instantly became quiet. Derrick's smile completely froze.
Lin Kuang accidentally crushed the cup. Even Luo Bingqing stared at Lu Ze in disbelief.
The entire group combined hadn't even earned 1000 for these past ten days. Yet, Lu Ze's mission was counted in units of 10,000.
This was too absurd!
Lu Ze looked at the four and coughed. "This mission is a bit special. Not every mission is like this."
The four recovered a little after hearing this.
That was true. How could every mission reward that much?
Lin Ling nodded. "During our last mission, we only got 1000 each."
The group's heart got crushed again. Lin Kuang looked at Lin Ling in disbelief. Was this still his sister?
Since when did she become like this. She must have learned it from Lu Ze.
Lin Kuang's face changed, and he made up his mind. Even if he were to die and not eat the Zhihuo Shooting Star, he couldn't let Lin Ling fall into Lu Ze's hand!
During this moment, an intense aroma came.
All the guests put down their chopsticks and looked in the direction of the kitchen.
Even Luo Bingqing shifted his gaze towards the kitchen.
Lin Kuang gulped some saliva. "So this is the smell of the Zhihuo Shooting Star? It smells so good. When do we eat?" Lu Ze said, "Soon? Have some more later."
Lin Kuang sneered, "What a joke! I'm not going to hold back." As the aroma wafted in the air, the sky outside the restaurant burned with red flames. The intense aroma spread through the entire stationed grounds and even reached the outside area.
The planetary state spirit food's aroma drifted for over 100 kilometers.
The adventurers and Shenwu Army soldiers all looked over.
When they saw the flames in the sky, their eyes bulged. "Zhihuo Shooting Star? Old Zhu is making this?" "How is this possible? It has not been five years yet, right?" "Wait... didn't he agree to make it for Monarch of the New Dawn Lu Ze a few days ago?" "But that would be after he gets the eggs? He doesn't have it now..."
"Could it be that he already got the eggs?"
Right now, another huge flaming bird appeared in the flames. Everyone was dumbfounded. "Zhihuo Bird?! Lu Ze killed one?!"
The holographic image of the Zhihuo Shooting Star changed. The flaming royal bird's appearance took everyone by surprise. With this, the aroma grew more intense. It drifted over a thousand kilometers.
"Zhihuo Bird... this really is it! It has only ever appeared three times, right?"
"How did Lu Ze do it? He could even kill a Zhihuo Bird."
"I don't know. That kid is too terrifying." "They should be at Zhihuo Little Restaurant, right? Let's go see if they can learn fire god art!"
"Yes, let's go see!"
Many adventurers were flying towards the restaurant out of curiosity. As for the Shenwu Army soldiers, they had to stand their ground. They were very curious but couldn't go. Isiah who was thinking about how to remove the blade demon's mental force restrictions saw the holographic image in the air and was stunned.
In less than ten days, Lu Ze not only got the Zhihuo eggs, but he also killed a Zhihuo Bird, captured blade demons alive, and caught the Tiger Tail Thief.
"He's really amazing..." Isiah sighed and continued flying towards the meeting room.
The blade demon issue was very urgent.
Zhihuo Little Restaurant.
Lu Ze and the rest were full of anticipation. It smelled too good.
Nangong Jing gulped some wine. "It smells very tasty."
Qiuyue Hesha nodded. "It should be ready soon, right?"
Lin Ling looked around and frowned. "Many people came over."
Lu Ze glanced at them and smiled. "So what if they come? We'll just eat our food."
Luo Bingqing and the rest were also anticipating it.
Derrick was shocked. "Just by smelling this aroma, I could feel my cultivation level improving a little. This Zhihuo Shooting Star's effect would be very terrifying."
Jack nodded. "I've heard my brother mention that many powerful beings would come for the five-year Zhihuo Shooting Star event. Most of them came for the fire god art, but the spirit food clearly had a great effect on cultivation."
He glanced at Lu Ze and smiled. "This time, we owe it to Lu Ze."
Lu Ze answered with a smile, "You're too polite, teacher Jack."
During this time, a sharp chirp sounded. Ree! "The call of Zhihuo Bird?"
Luo Bingqing and the rest hadn't seen a real Zhihuo Bird yet. They were shocked.
Derrick said in surprise, "Isn't that Zhihuo Bird dead? How can it still call?".
Luo Bingqing said, "I believe it's Boss Zhu's means. He's no ordinary spirit chef to be able to cook the Zhihuo Shooting Star."
The group nodded.
Those people in the crowd who knew more exclaimed, "The Zhihuo Shooting Star is about to be ready. Apparently, there's a bird chirp before completion if the bird is added to the dish."
Everyone looked towards the kitchen.
Right then, the door opened, and Boss Zhu carried a three-meter long dish and walked out.
On the dish was a white hemisphere lid covering the plate, but there was still an intense aroma coming out. Other than that, there was also a warm chi surging. Boss Zhu wasn't surprised that so many people came to his restaurant.
He grinned. "Move over, don't damage it. You can't afford to pay for it."
Thereafter, his invisible chi surged and pushed everyone away. When Lu Ze and the others sensed boss Zhu's chi, their skin crawled.
Derrick exclaimed, "So strong!"
Nangong Jing raised a brow. "Boss Zhu is probably a level-eight or level-nine planetary state."
Luo Bingqing said plainly, "That's expected. Didn't someone say last time that his wife is the general here?"
Lin Kuang laughed. "That's right, to be able to create such spirit food, it's no wonder that he has such power."
At this juncture, Boss Zhu walked over. "It's not too good for you kids to be discussing my power in front of my face, is it?"
Everyone laughed dryly in embarrassment. Boss Zhu didn't really mind and laughed. "Okay, move over a little, I'm putting it down."
Lu Ze and everyone retreated a few steps as the three-meter long plate was rested on the table.
Subsequently, he smiled. "Careful."
Boss Zhu flicked his hand, and a purple flame hand lifted the cover-up. Immediately, a red flame shot up from the plate, turning into a beautiful blue bird.
The bird chirped and flapped its wings. A terrifying fire wave swept by. The temperature of the fire startled Luo Bingqing's group. They quickly used their god arts and formed a barrier to block this fire.
Meanwhile, it was much simpler for Lu Ze and the girls. They didn't even move and watched the fire wave brush past like it was nothing.
Seeing this, both Luo Bingqing's group and the audience took a deep breath.
Boss Zhu couldn't resist saying, "You four already have fire god art and have quite a degree of mastery over it, right? Then, this Zhihuo Shooting Star probably wouldn't be that helpful to you guys."
Nangong Jing grinned. "It's okay, we just want to see if it's tasty."
Everyone was speechless. The spirit food they couldn't get even with their life was just a tasty meal to these guys?
This hurt!
Luo Bingqing's group had a strange expression. They knew that Lu Ze knew fire god art, but since when did Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling learn it?
Especially Lin Kuang, Lin Ling was his sister after all. He never knew when this girl acquired fire god art.
When the fire wave disappeared, the bird chirped and also disappeared.
The dish was finally revealed. It was a lively red fire bird flying in the plate. There were 12 flames around it with tails of shooting stars.
Lu Ze looked at this bird in amazement. It seemed alive. And it looked very tasty!
The audience also wanted to eat this. Their eyes were green with envy. Boss Zhu's face shook when he saw Lu Ze holding back his saliva. He said, "Okay, you can eat it now!"
He thought of something. "By the way, because there's a level-five planetary state egg, you mortal evolution states should be careful when eating it. Don't get blown up."
Luo Bingqing and the others woke up to this reality. A level-five planetary state ingredient was indeed too strong for them.
Lu Ze didn't mind. A green wind cut through the air, and a drumstick was sliced off.
A meter-long drumstick was placed in Lu Ze's hand. He bit into the meat, and immediately, the taste spread in his mouth. It was so tasty he almost cried.
At this moment, as the meat entered his stomach, he felt a powerful spirit force emanate in his body.
Immediately, it was digested by his body. Lu Ze was a little surprised.
So the special spirit body he got yesterday was this useful?
He digested spirit force so well that it was beyond his imagination. At the same time, fire god art knowledge appeared in his mind.
Some of it, he already knew, but some of them, he didn't.
Lu Ze used a purple god art and kept eating while learning fire god art.
Soon, Lu Ze almost finished the entire drumstick. Simultaneously, his spirit force rippled and flames started to appear around him. It wasn't strong, but the pressure was increasing rapidly. Seeing this, Boss Zhu and the audience were completely shocked. What was this?
Eating this could really increase one's power like that?
The cultivation level was understandable, but improving fire god art like that just by eating was a bit over the top.
Since when did god art learning become this simple?
Were they really cultivating the same martial arts?
Right now, a lot of people felt they were doing fake cultivation.
Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling had already consumed purple orbs before coming. Their bodies were also circulating with flames, and their fire god art was growing stronger.
Everyone was dazed.
They thought only Lu Ze was extremely talented, but these three were also this talented?
Or was this just what usually happens when you eat spirit food?
They fell into self-doubt.
Qiuyue Hesha and Nangong Jing were already planetary states. They had been using red orbs to cultivate, so they devoured the spirit force extremely fast. They could eat spirit food nonstop while progressing.
Lin Ling used red orbs too, but her cultivation level was low. Her digestion speed was only about the same as Luo Bingqing and the rest. However, because her cultivation level was only level three of the mortal evolution state, her spirit force cultivation level grew faster than Lu Ze even.
Luo Bingqing had finished their dish, and at the same time, they felt some extra knowledge appeared in their brain.
This knowledge was chaotic and complicated, but they knew that if they could learn it, then they would learn the fire god art.
However, there were too few of these right now. They would need some time to learn it.
At this very moment, they saw the fire circulating around Lu Ze and the girls, and their mouths twitched.
They even ate slower.
These guys were demons, right?!
The four of them only ate one Zhihuo Shooting Star and some Zhihuo Bird's meat. They felt they were at their limit. Their body was filled with spirit force. If they ate more, they might explode. As such, they put down their chopsticks and sat down to learn immediately.
Everyone sensed that the four of them had a sliver of fire chi. They were learning the fire god art. If they could make it, they would truly grasp the fire god art. Lin Ling soon placed her chopsticks down too. She was pretty much at her limit too.
Even Boss Zhu's mouth twitched when he looked at Lin Ling. This level-three mortal evolution state was too strange. She ate the same as these four level-nine mortal evolution state kids.
Was everyone around Lu Ze a monster?
Seeing how fast Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha were learning the fire god art, Boss Zhu began to doubt life.
His mastery of the fire god art definitely exceeded theirs, but he already lived for a few hundred years. How old were these girls?
As for Lu Ze, he didn't know what to say. He was clearly a level-five mortal evolution state, but Lu Ze ate as though he was a level-five planetary state.
He couldn't see Lu Ze's digestion limit at all.
Lu Ze smiled at Lin Ling, seeing that she stopped eating. In return, Lin Ling glared at him. She lost again. She closed her eyes and began to cultivate, digesting the spirit force.
On the other hand, Lu Ze, Nangong Jing, and Qiuyue Hesha kept eating.
As the meat and Zhihuo Shooting Star diminished, the three didn't seem satisfied at all. Boss Zhu and the audience's skin crawled.
There was a level-five planetary state Zhihuo
egg.
What monsters were these three people?
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha were rather acceptable, but Lu Ze was only a level-five mortal evolution state. Wasn't he afraid of exploding?
Lu Ze looked at the Zhihuo Shooting Star. Eight of them were gone, only four remained. Half of the meat was gone too. He sensed his cultivation level. It already progressed quite a lot already. It was only halfway before, but now it was around 60%.
Of course, this spirit force wasn't perfect. He would need to purify it with red orbs after he returned.
He thought about it and put the chopsticks down. He spoke telepathically to Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha. "Let's stop? We should leave some for Li and Alice. They hadn't had it
yet."
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha were a little annoyed.
Qiuyue Hesha replied, "Little brother Lu Ze really cares about Li and Alice. You're even saying this for them."
Seeing their glares, Lu Ze didn't know what to say. He felt he would get beaten up no matter what he said.
Nangong Jing pouted her lips and said, "Ying Ying hadn't tried it too. She would definitely like it. We'll stop eating. We've learned enough fire god art from it already."
Meanwhile, everyone else thought that these guys were finally at their limit. If they kept on eating, they would be wondering if they were suitable for cultivation at all.
Boss Zhu smiled "You're not eating anymore?"
Lu Ze nodded "Can we take it away?"
Boss Zhu answered, "Of course."
Lu Ze put the dish into his storage ring. He glanced at the others, and they were still cultivating, so they planned to wait here for a while.
Five hours later, none of the audience left.
Five hours was just an instant for planetary states.
At this juncture, Lin Ling's eyelashes moved. She opened her eyes. Her cultivation level improved quite a bit. She would soon be able to reach level four of the mortal evolution state.
Then, she saw that Luo Bingqing's group was still cultivating.
Currently, Luo Bingqing's eyes suddenly opened. His plain eyes flashed with red beams.
He got up and saluted with his fists. "I've learned something about fire god art. I would probably need to go into solitary cultivation for a few days."
Lu Ze smiled and nodded. "Congratulations, teacher Luo. Perhaps you will learn the fire god art once you're done."
Luo Bingqing smiled plainly. "Thank you for your wishes."
He looked at the other three and said, "I'll leave those three to you for now."
Then, he disappeared from the spot.
Everyone watching was stronger than Luo Bingqing.
"This kid probably caught on. He has a higher chance of learning fire god art."
"I heard this kid is one of the top young dukes of this generation."
"Although this kid benefited from Monarch of the New Dawn, if he wasn't talented enough, how can he learn fire god art?"
"There's still three more."
Lin Kuang opened his eyes suddenly. It was also burning with fire. He looked around and raised a brow. "Old Luo left?!
Lin Ling nodded. "Brother, go back and train first. We'll keep watch here."
Lin Kuang was immediately touched. "Thank you so much."
His sister was too caring.
"Oh! Shit? Another one? The young dukes in this generation are quite amazing." "Indeed, two in a row are this talented."
"What about the other two?"
As they discussed, Jack and Derrick opened their eyes at the same time. They looked around and saw that Luo Bingqing and Lin Kuang were all gone.
They saluted Lu Ze with their fists.
Jack grinned. "Lu Ze, I'll owe this one for now. We're going back for solitary cultivation." Derrick glanced at Qiuyue Hesha and then at Lu Ze. "Lu Ze, you're quite a nice match for Qiuyue Hesha."
Subsequently, the two left at the same time. Lu Ze: "?"
He felt Derrick was trying to get him into trouble. He already sensed three strange glances, but they were outside, so those three said nothing.
Boss Zhu narrowed his eyes. "These four kids are all quite talented. The standard of this generation of young dukes isn't bad."
He looked at Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling. These three girls were monsters amongst young dukes.
As for Lu Ze, he was a monster amongst monsters.
He did deserve the title Monarch of the New Dawn.
After the dish was finished, Lu Ze and the others gave the Shenwu merit points to Boss Zhu for cooking the dish. Thereafter, they left.
Although someone wanted to buy their take-away Zhihuo Shooting Star and even bid over 20,000 Shenwu merit points, Lu Ze didn't choose to sell it.
This was for Lu Li and the rest. As for Shenwu merit points, they could do missions and earn them.
Back at the suite, Lu Ze and the team went back to their own rooms and began to refine the spirit force they got from the Zhihuo Shooting Star.
When they came out again, it was already late at night.
In the living room, the four of them sat on the couch.
Lu Ze laughed. "I wonder when will Li and the rest come out? They would definitely like this."
Nangong Jing said, "Probably soon?" Lin Ling rolled her eyes. "Spirit food won't decay in the storage ring. What are you worried about?"
At this time, a wormhole suddenly appeared, and Ying Ying flew out of it with a computer.
Seeing this, everyone stared right at her. Nangong Jing exclaimed, "Ying Ying?!" Her round face was all too familiar, but they were still surprised to see her here.
She blinked her blue eyes and said with hopefulness, "I heard there was good food, so I came here!"
Everyone: "..."
Lu Ze finally felt what it was like to get his heart pierced
The distance was this far, and yet, she came and went as she pleased.
Qiuyue Hesha pulled Ying Ying into her arms and rubbed her little face. "I haven't seen Ying Ying for so long. Did you miss me?"
Ying Ying nodded unwillingly. "Mhm, yes." Nangong Jing reproached, "Fox demon, don't be so mean. Ying Ying's face will be ruined by
you!"
Then, she took Ying Ying over and started rubbing her face.
Lu Ze and Lin Ling: "..."
Ying Ying didn't beat these two shameless girls up. She was too nice. However, Lu Ze took out the remaining Zhihuo Shooting Star. Immediately, an intense aroma came over. Ying Ying's eyes lit up. "Tasty food!"
She looked in Lu Ze's direction and broke free of Nangong Jing's arms. Lu Ze smiled and pinched Ying Ying's face. "Where is your sister Li and Alice?"
Ying Ying reached out her hand and grabbed a shooting star that was larger than her head and started munching.
She mumbled, "They're training outside."
Seeing Ying Ying's face covered in oil, Lin Ling took out a paper and wiped it for her. "Eat slowly, no one will fight over it with you." "Oh." Ying Ying slowed down but still looked at Lu Ze vigilantly. Lu Ze's mouth twitched. What did this little kid mean? Was he the type to fight over food with her?
However...
Half of the Zhihuo Bird's meat remained. It should be fine if he had some, right?
Under Ying Ying's gaze, Lu Ze sliced a piece and put it in his mouth. Tasty!
Nangong Jing and the others looked at Lu Ze with disdain.
After watching Ying Ying finish two shooting stars and quite some meat, Lu Ze thought of something. "By the way, Ying Ying, bring the rest back for your sister Li and Alice. They would like it too."
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Ying Ying was a little unwilling to stop, but she still nodded. She waved her hand and the Zhihuo Shooting Stars disappeared.
Lin Ling smiled. "Ying Ying, sister will take you to a shower."
Following such, she carried Ying Ying into the bath. After the bath, Ying Ying opened a wormhole and left.
Lu Ze and the group looked at this in admiration. This was a distance of 200,000 light-years. She could move so freely.
Cosmic realm states were too terrifying!
Perhaps a small place like the Milky Way could be destroyed with just the turn of a hand.
In the military camp, a wormhole appeared, and Ying Ying flew out.
She saw that the place was empty. Lu Li and Alice weren't back yet. She immediately bit her fingers in hesitation.
That bird was so tasty. She wanted some more, but Lu Ze said to leave some for sister Li and Alice.
She wanted to eat it so much, but she couldn't...
Right at this time, the doors opened. Lu Li and Alice walked in with fatigue.
They saw her and felt confused. She wasn't watching cartoons?
Alice rubbed Ying Ying's head. "Are you hungry? Sister will go cook for you." Ying Ying shook her head and said, "Sister Alice, I have good food here."
She took out the Zhihuo Shooting Star. Immediately, an aroma filled the room.
Alice and Lu Li looked at this in shock.
Alice: "This is... planetary state spirit food and not an ordinary one. Where did you find it, Ying Ying?" Ying Ying: "Lu Ze gave it to me and told me to bring it back." Lu Li was stunned. "Brother?"
The two looked at Ying Ying in shock. Lu Li asked, "You just went to brother's place? How did you go?"
Ying Ying said calmly, "Just using space ability." Lu Li's and Alice's mouth twitched. Lu Ze and his group were at Shang Yang Galaxy. That was 200,000 light-years from her, not 20 kilometers.
Lu Li shook her head.
She looked at the dish. "Brother told you to bring it to us?"
"Mhm."
"Hmph, he still has conscience left." Lu Li grinned.
Alice smiled. "Let's eat dinner first. Ying Ying went to pick up this spirit food. She did a lot of work. Have some more."
Ying Ying's eyes lit up immediately. As a good kid, she felt she can't reject this. "Mhm!"
She sat on the table instantly, waiting to eat.
The next morning, Lu Ze opened his eyes. He had finished refining the spirit force, and his cultivation level progressed more.
Within ten days, he would be able to increase another cultivation level.
He clenched his fists and felt great.
He went out of his room. Nangong Jing and the girls were already on the couch. They were all smiling. Their cultivation level probably progressed quite well too.
Lu Ze sat next to Nangong Jing. She turned around and spoke. "Ze, what are we doing next?"
Lu Ze thought about it and said, "Our three missions are finished. That thief is still with us. Let's go hand in the mission at Shang Yang's stationing grounds and then accept a new mission."
The other three nodded.
Lin Ling smiled. "Let's head off then."
The four checked out and left.
Luo Bingqing and his team were still cultivating, so they didn't say goodbye.
Shang Yang System.
On some unknown planet, Mo Xie's squad of three just boarded their ship and left the planet.
The three of them were panting and covered in wounds.
Mo Xie smiled after a while. "The mission is finally done. It's about 400 Shenwu merit points."
Both Chi Xiaomo and Bernie had smiles on their faces. This was a rather rewarding mission.
Bernie smiled gently. "After I recover a little, I'll heal you guys. Everyone is injured quite a bit this time."
Chi Xiaomo nodded.
She opened the phone. "Let's see if there's another mission suitable for us."
They had a few choices.
Suddenly, her eyes widened. "Look at this!"
She projected the screen in the air.
The other two looked over and soon widened their eyes.
It was a clip of the Shooting Star and Zhihuo Bird.
Monarch of the New Dawn Lu Ze just used ten days to acquire a level-five planetary state Zhihuo Bird Egg.
This dish could perhaps let the four young dukes of this generation gain fire god art!
Seeing Luo Bingqing and the others, the three felt their hearts were pierced.
They fought with their lives to do missions, and yet, Luo Bingqing and the rest just ate a meal and could potentially get the fire god art?
Shang Yang Galaxy Stationing Grounds.
Daphne, Xuan Yuji, and Louisa were watching the screen on the couch of a hotel. Their expressions were extremely strange. Xuan Yuji gritted her teeth. "Old Luo and his group are too lucky." Daphne rubbed her head in disbelief. "Is Lu Ze already this powerful? That's a level-five planetary state Zhihuo Bird's egg..."
Xuan Yuji asked, "Should we get another mission now?"
Lousia shook her head. "You guys haven't recovered yet. Let's rest for a few days."
Daphne frowned. "But if this continues, Luo and the others would surpass us."
Lousia said adamantly, "Regardless of whether they can surpass us, it's too dangerous to accept a mission now. If you're not in your prime, anything can happen. We won't be as lucky as last time every time."
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Daphne and Xuan Yuji nodded.
"Then, let's rest for a few more days. How about we go to planet Zhihuo too and see what mission Luo and the rest are doing?" "Sure, let's go and see."
Two days later, the New Dawn came to the stationing grounds.
Many people looked over as soon as Lu Ze's group got off the ship. They were quite famous since Lu Ze held off dark metal demons all by himself.
They took the unconscious Tiger Tail Thief to the stationing grounds. They wanted the thief to walk by himself, but perhaps they played with him too much. He was so injured that he could barely walk.
People started discussing things. "That's Lu Ze and his team. Who is that alien?"
"I don't know, it doesn't seem like a blade demon."
"It's probably their mission. It's only been two days, and they finished another mission?"
"They are really insane. Soon, they would probably be leaving the controlled region."
In the mission hall, Lu Ze and the girls proceeded to the second floor.
They saw three familiar figures here already. It was Mo Xie, Chi Xiaomo, and Bernie. They just finished handing in their missions and were planning to go downstairs.
They got dazed after seeing Lu Ze and the rest.
Mo Xie smiled. "Lu Ze, I thought you were at the Zhihuo System. Why did you come back?"
Lu Ze smiled. "Came back to hand in a mission." He then pointed at the Tiger Tail Thief.
Chi Xiaomo asked curiously, "Wanted mission?"
Nangong Jing nodded. "Yes, the Tiger Tail Thief. We didn't expect to be so lucky to encounter him."
If they didn't encounter this thief, they would still be looking for the blade demons.
Mo Xie and their eyes narrowed. Bernie rubbed his stiff face. "The level-three planetary state
one?"
Lu Ze looked at Bernie in surprise. "Yes, so you guys know."
They looked through all the planetary state missions in order to find one suitable for them. Of course, they had an impression of this thief.
Just what did the thief go through to look like this?
Mo Xie smiled awkwardly. "You guys go hand in your mission first. We'll wait for you."
They wanted to chat with Lu Ze and the girls too.
Lu Ze took the thief in and handed it to the workers there. As for the treasures the thief stole, all that belonged to the humans were returned. Lu Ze kept the rest himself.
As such, they received 1500 Shenwu merit points for the mission. Then, they went downstairs with Mo Xie's group. As soon as they left the mission hall, they saw three more familiar faces. It was Daphne's group.
Nangong Jing grinned. "Daphne, what are you doing here?"
Daphne rolled her eyes and spoke with envy. "It's quite satisfying for you guys that you're so strong. We almost died in the last mission."
Nangong Jing smiled. "It's very hard for us too. We even encountered a level-four planetary state blade demon. We almost got killed." The others were dumbfounded. They thought with Lu Ze's group's power, they would be able to accomplish missions without difficulty.
It seemed everyone didn't have it easy. Although Nangong Jing's group was stronger, they took more dangerous missions.
The group found a place to chat.
These two groups found missions that fitted them, but it was different from Luo Bingqing's situation. Luo Bingqing's mission was inside the stationed ground. It was safe. Their missions, on the other hand, were located outside.
They were very envious after hearing about Luo Bingqing's mission. They wanted to go over too.
The group chatted for a while and split off. Lu Ze and the girls recycled the thief's treasures. It was another 5000 Shenwu merit points.
They felt rather good. Just these three missions gave them 30,000 Shenwu merit points.
They went back to the hotel and started looking for a new suitable mission.
A month later, in the hotel, Lu Ze was sitting on the bed with blood lightning flickering around him.
His chi surged, forming ripples in the air. Then, he opened his eyes and reached out his hand. Blood lightning swirled around his fingers.
His hair and eyes were still black, not red.
After this long, Lu Ze finally completely mastered the blood lightning god art. Now, he could use blood lightning without any side effects.
He went out of the room. Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha were watching the news on the couch while Lin Ling was cooking.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Little brother Lu Ze, did you get the mission reward?"
Lu Ze checked his phone and replied, "Yes, 2000 Shenwu merit points."
Nangong Jing spoke, "In that case, we're just 2000 Shenwu merit points away from the first set of Martial God Set."
During the past month, they had been accepting ordinary missions, and they didn't give many rewards. They only got 10,000 Shenwu merit points within a month.
Qiuyue Hesha nodded. "Then, let's buy one first and give it to little brother Lu Ze."
Lu Ze felt dazed. "Aren't we buying our own?"
Nangong Jing laughed. "There's still three months and a half before we go back. The stronger we got, the more rewards we will earn. We'll all get one."
Lu Ze felt great. "I wonder how good the set is?"
If it would provide a huge improvement, he might be able to catch up to the two. Then, he would be able to...
During this month, Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha finally reached level two of the planetary state. This was three months after they reached the planetary state.
Their combat power finally reached level four of the planetary state. If they teamed up, ordinary level-four planetary states would be no match for them.
Lin Ling was almost a level-five mortal evolution state. Her spirit eye god art also grew stronger. Her god art had been rather useful in missions. For a few missions, she earned the most.
Lu Ze also reached level six of the mortal evolution state and fully mastered blood lightning. If he wore combat armor, he wouldn't be weak, even against a level-three planetary state. Of course, if he could get the Martial God Set, his combat power might reach level four of the planetary state.
After breakfast, Lu Ze and the group kept searching for missions.
The missions at Shang Yang Galaxy were usually planetary states. The highest level was a level-six planetary state. However, these missions were rather rare as level-six planetary state people would usually go outside the controlled region.
Most of the missions were level-two to level-five planetary states.
Due to Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha's power-up, they could accept level-four planetary state missions. Several options were available to them.
At this moment, they found that there were quite a few missions about clearing space pirates.
Nangong Jing frowned. "Why are there suddenly so many space pirate crews in the controlled region?"
Qiuyue Hesha shook her head. "I don't know. Did something happen in the depth of the void space, so a lot of them ran over here?"
The region beyond was much more chaotic than the controlled region. Lu Ze looked at these missions and said, "But, these space pirate crews are good."
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The Terry Brothers crew gave them plenty of reward points. Perhaps they might be lucky enough to find another space pirate treasure. That would be a huge earning.
The others smiled.
Lin Ling pointed to one. "How about this? Ketu Cosmic Cloud. There space pirates there. The energy signal shows a level-four planetary state. 1000 merit points."
Nangong Jing grinned. "If it's a level-four planetary state, then it's acceptable. Let's do this mission."
Lin Ling opened the star map and looked at the location of Ketu Cosmic Cloud. She said in shock, "This isn't far from the Zhihuo System."
Lu Ze smiled. "Mo Xie and Daphne all went to the Zhihuo System. I wonder if brother Lin Kuang and the rest have learned fire god art."
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "They're probably still in solitary cultivation. Ordinary people would need a long time to learn god art."
Nangong Jing sighed. "Without your god art orbs and purple orbs, it took us a lot of effort to learn god art. It wasn't as easy as this. It's very ordinary for people to take months up to years to learn god art."
Lu Ze nodded in understanding.
Lin Ling smiled. "Then, should we head off now?"
Lu Ze nodded. The four got up and planned to leave.
At this moment, a wave rippled in the living room, and a small wormhole appeared. Three small figures appeared. Upon seeing them, Lu Ze's group got dazed. It was Ying Ying, Alice, and Lu Li!
They weren't surprised upon seeing Ying Ying as they already knew of her teleporting ability, but they were surprised to see Lu Li and Alice.
Lu Ze looked at the two in shock. "Li? Alice? You guys came too?"
Lu Li grinned. "Of course, it's because we finished Aunty Xunshuang's missions and ended our cultivation in the Shenwu Army."
Alice jumped over to Lu Ze. "Senior, now, we can do missions together."
Nangong Jing looked at Alice with some embarrassment and then laughed drily. "Alice, you guys finished your missions already? My mom was pretty strict, right?" Alice nodded. "Yes, she's very strict. It's almost been two months before we reached her standards."
Lu Li looked at the surprised Lu Ze and said, "You're so surprised seeing us. Did you not want us to come?"
Lu Ze spoke seriously. "How can that be? I miss Li so much. I've long wanted to see you. By the way, did you eat the Zhihuo Shooting Star that Ying Ying brought back?" Alice giggled. "Do you only miss Li?"
Lu Ze's mouth twitched, and he continued, "Of course, I miss Alice too. I haven't eaten your spirit food for a long time. I really want it!"
Lin Ling narrowed her eyes, saying in a dangerous tone, "Do you mean that my cooking doesn't taste good?"
Lu Ze: "?"
When did he even say this?
He quickly answered, "How can that be?! Lin Ling has been working so hard to cook good food for me. I've been used to it. How can I feel it's not good enough? If I don't have it anymore, I will feel bad."
Qiuyue Hesha said, "Sorry, little brother Lu Ze, I don't know how to cook."
Nangong Jing stared at Lu Ze. "Me neither. I'm really sorry?" Lu Ze: "..." For some reason, he felt he was on the border of getting bashed.
During this time, Lu Ze looked towards Ying Ying. His savior!
He quickly hugged Ying Ying and rubbed her face. "Ying Ying, long time no see. Did you miss..."
Before Lu Ze could finish, he was glared at by five unkind glances.
Lu Li said, "Lu Ze, death penalty."
Nangong Jing rubbed her fists. "What do you want to do to Ying Ying? Let her go!"
Lu Ze: "?"
Currently, Ying Ying looked hopefully at Lu Ze and opened her mouth. "Lu Ze, ahh"
Seeing this, their eyes softened.
Lu Ze took out some red and purple orbs before feeding them into Ying Ying's mouth. He said, "You guys came back at the perfect time. We're going to go do missions now. After this mission, we'll go outside the controlled region."
Lu Li frowned. "Outside? It's very dangerous, isn't it? Why are we going?"
Lu Ze pinched Ying Ying's face and smiled. "We have a boss here, okay?"
They completely forgot that Ying Ying was a boss and treated her like a pet.
Lu Ze said, "Let's go and do missions first."
They went downstairs and checked out.
After this, they went into the space station and left the planet through the New Dawn.
Aboard the ship, Lu Li looked at Lu Ze. "Lu Ze had done quite some things lately?"
Alice's eyes lit up. "Yeah, we've even heard about it in the military camp. Tell us, senior-"
Lu Ze felt quite proud of hearing this and began recounting
After the chat, everyone went back to their rooms to cultivate.
It took two days to reach the Ketu Cosmic Cloud.
Lu Ze said, "By the way, I got new god art orbs before."
He took out the body of darkness orbs and gave them to Lu Li and Alice.
Lu Li looked at this with surprise and joy. "A branch of darkness god art?"
Lu Ze smiled and nodded.
Lu Li tried to suppress her smile but still grinned. This was too useful to her.
Alice also took it and giggled. "Thank you, senior-"
Two days later in the Ketu Cosmic Cloud.
In the deep space, a white beam flashed, and a wormhole appeared. Thereafter, New Dawn flew out of the wormhole.
Inside the ship, Lu Ze, Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Ying Ying were sitting on the couch. Lu Li, Lin Ling, and Alice were cooking.
Smelling the aroma from the kitchen, Lu Ze and the others drooled at the same time.
Qiuyue Hesha hugged Ying Ying and rubbed her face. "The Ketu Cosmic Cloud is ahead."
She looked at the colorful dreamlike starlight and narrowed her eyes. This region was filled with asteroids and space dust.
The region was extremely wide. It was a few hundred light-years. It was very suitable for hiding. With the natural magnetic field and energy storms inside, it's very difficult to use scouting devices inside.
It would probably take some time to find that pirate crew.
Nangong Jing drank some wine and smiled. "We'll look for it slowly once inside. After all, a space pirate crew can't hide forever. They need to go out and rob someone."
Lu Ze nodded. "Teacher Nangong is right. Perhaps we would be their target?"
Their strongest cultivation level was only a level-two planetary state. This was a very good target for robbery. Of course, Ying Ying didn't count. They wouldn't be able to see what was special about Ying Ying after all.
Of course, they didn't plan to use Ying Ying straight up, unless it was someone too powerful. Moreover, Ying Ying was still a kid. These guys wouldn't agree to rely on Ying Ying to do everything During this time, the kitchen doors opened, and intense aromas drifted out. Lu Ze and Ying Ying's eyes lit up simultaneously.
They charged to the kitchen table and entered the battle mode.
Lu Ze looked at Ying Ying seriously. She was a kid but that made no difference on the table. She was his biggest enemy!
After a full-blown resistance, Lu Ze still lost to Ying Ying's little hands. He watched as Ying Ying put the last drumstick in her mouth and gritted his teeth.
Cultivate hard. He will rob the drumsticks back!
Seeing this, Lu Li and the other girls felt annoyed. Nevertheless, they still found it funny.
Lu Li, Alice, and Lin Ling still felt very satisfied that Lu Ze and Ying Ying liked their food so much.
After breakfast, Lu Ze was sent to wash the dishes. Then, he ordered the New Dawn to fly around the cosmic cloud and try to fish out the space pirates.
A day later, Nangong Jing gasped. "Are these pirates fake? They're so scared. We've over here, and they're not taking the bait."
Qiuyue Hesha frowned. "Did they see through our purpose?"
Lu Ze said, "Never mind, we'll go inside and look. It just takes a few extra days."
Everyone nodded.
On the surface of some asteroid, a five-meter long black ship was parked. It seemed to have fused with the rocks.
There was a room inside the ship filled with surveillance screens and more than ten aliens working Right then, an alien that looked like a standing dog spoke in coarse universal common language. "Target has entered the cloud, contact the boss!"
"Yes!" a green-scaled alien replied.
In another room in the ship, the floor was sunken in and filled with dark green liquid. There was an alien floating there comfortably.
It was a strange-looking alien, which had dark green skin and gel-like liquid oozing out of its skin. Its head, hands, and legs all had tentacles.
Beep beep. It spoke in a sharp voice. "Accept." A screen appeared before him, and it was of that dark-furred dog.
He looked at the green alien with fear. "Boss, the target you spoke of has entered the cloud."
It narrowed its eyes. "Keep watching, don't startle them. Get ready for battle at any time."
He thought about it and continued, "Get ready to retreat!" The dog answered, "Yes, boss!"
The communications cut off.
The alien flew out of the pool and proceeded to another room. It took a deep breath and opened his communications device, changing his expression to one of respect.
Beep beep.
A blade demon figure appeared in the screen. It looked calmly at the tentacle monster but felt disgusted. This gooey thing was too disgusting. "Honored Master Bibi Deer... your target has taken the bait. When do we pull the net?"
Hearing this, Bibi Deer's calm eyes finally had some emotion. He grinned. "Very well... take them out of the controlled region. At the appointed location, we will meet you there." Following such, it looked at the monster again. "Remember, don't do anything stupid. If it fails, you know the consequences."
The tentacle monster shivered and spoke even more humbly. "Yes, Lord. I won't fail!"
Bibi Deer nodded. "After this is done, you will have plenty of rewards." The monster said, "It's my honor to serve you."
"Mhm, go."
Bibi Deer ended the communication.
A few seconds later, the monster looked up and panted. The blade demon was too strong. Even across the screen, he felt a huge pressure from the gaze. He didn't even dare to secrete goo. He rubbed his dry skin and went back to the pool.
Outside the controlled region, a few hundred meters long small blade demon warship floated in space.
Bibi Deer's eyes flashed with excitement.
"Hahahaha! After sending out that many baits, he finally took it! Monarch of the New Dawn Lu Ze, you will be my stepping stone towards a higher level!"
He felt great.
He didn't know why the Demon Palace went crazy and raised Lu Ze's bounty rewards. Even as a level-seven planetary state, he was interested.
He believed he wouldn't be the only one. There might even be a level-eight planetary state.
But...
Those idiots weren't as smart as he was.
Since Lu Ze came to the void space, he needed to do missions. In that case, create the perfect mission for him!
He purposely brought quite some space pirates over. They were a problem for every race's controlled region, and thus, they were considered a mission.
He didn't know Lu Ze's power, so he chose pirates of a few levels from level-two to level-five planetary states. Accordingly, he was surprised that Lu Ze chose a level-four planetary state. According to the intel from his race, Lu Ze wasn't even a planetary state yet.
Was his combat power this terrifying?
He began to understand why Lu Ze was wanted so much.
Even those three Blades of Dawn couldn't compare to Lu Ze.
Bibi Deer snarled.
Lu Ze definitely didn't expect someone as strong as him to be waiting for him.
A day later in Ketu Cosmic Cloud, the New Dawn was navigating carefully between asteroids and cosmic dust.
There was a faint blue barrier around the New Dawn. It was their defense barrier.
Despite the ship being small, there were small bumps here and there that gave Lu Ze heartache. Because they hadn't found the target yet, Lu Ze and the girls kept cultivating and eating
Lu Li and Alice were back, so there were two more people for sparring practice in the morning
Their cultivation level was level-2 mortal evolution state and would soon be able to reach level-3 mortal evolution state.
Just in terms of combat power, Alice surpassed Lu Li. The source flame hadn't fully awakened yet, but it was still the top-grade god art.
Lu Li's dark god art was eerier, and the body of darkness helped her greatly.
Despite so, the two teaming up couldn't even beat Lin Ling, who was a level-4 mortal evolution state. This didn't make them feel too
good.
After the morning cultivation ended, everyone returned to the living room. Lu Li bit her lips. However, Alice smiled innocently.
She said, "Li, sister Lin Ling, let's go cook lunch."
Lu Li and Lin Ling nodded. They were the only ones who knew how to cook here. The rest of the team was lazy.
Suddenly, there was an emergency alarm. A vibrant white beam shot out from a dark gray asteroid. It shattered an asteroid along the way and shot towards the New Dawn. Lu Ze frowned and disappeared from the spot. He appeared outside the New Dawn. The power of the white beam was near level-3 planetary state.
Lu Ze punched with golden fist force.
Rumble!
The two clashed and rocks of a few thousand kilometers radii were pulverized.
Dark-gray Space Pirate Ship, Surveillance Room.
The tentacle monster and his crew were dumbfounded.
The black-furred dog stuttered. "Boss, did we find the wrong person?"
"That's space god art. That's a prodigy with space god art!"
"Not just that, his cultivation level seems to be level-6 mortal evolution state only. That spirit cannon was level-2 planetary state." Even an idiot knew that Lu Ze was the top prodigy of the human race. If they really dared to attack such a prodigy, they were scared of dying. They would definitely be hunted by star states and maybe even the cosmic system states of the human race if something happened to this prodigy.
Thinking about this, everyone shivered. The boss felt dazed too. Although Master Bibi Deer told him to bait a human prodigy, he never expected it would be a prodigy of this sort!
At this moment, a pale-skinned space pirate carefully spoke. "How about we apologize and run?"
Hearing this, the tentacle boss grabbed the pale-skinned pirate and tightened his tentacles.
Crack...
The pirate struggled with his hands but couldn't break free. Eventually, this pirate died. The other pirates then immediately became too scared to talk. The tentacle monster spoke with a sharp voice. "Don't forget that I'm the boss here! You do as I say!"
The black-furred dog shivered. "Yes, Boss!"
The others nodded. "Boss, we'll do as you say!"
The boss said, "Our target is to just bait him out of the controlled region. We don't need to worry about the rest. After we do this, we leave this region of the void sea and go further away. As long as we're far enough, I don't believe the humans can find us!"
Bibi Deer, that bastard, was setting him up. If he knew what sort of prodigy Lu Ze was, he would definitely not accept this mission. But now, if he didn't complete it, he would die.
He gritted his teeth. "Prepare for battle!"
"Act, pretend to lose, and then retreat! Remember, we're just drawing them out of the controlled region!"
He was scared that they were too strong and Lu Ze would get scared.
"Yes!"
Lu Ze looked coldly at the asteroid ahead. Do these bastards dare to ambush his New Dawn? He won't let them go!
At this moment, Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, Lin Ling, Lu Li, and Alice all flew out.
Nangong Jing glared at the pirate ship. "Finally found them."
At this moment, tens of figures flew out from the ship. Their chi was all above the planetary state.
Nangong Jing said, "I'll fight first, back me up, Fox Demon."
Lin Ling looked at Lu Li and Alice. "You guys watch from here. Your combat power isn't at the planetary state yet."
Lu Li and Alice didn't want to, but they still nodded.
Those two didn't have their personal armor after all.
Lu Ze looked at Lin Ling. "You stay here too. Take care of them. These pirates are probably no match for us."
Lin Ling's mouth twitched. "Oh."
Lu Ze saw these strange looking pirates, and his mouth twitched. These aliens are all so ugly. Was the one in front of them an octopus?
Oh my, green tentacled monster!
However, this pirate was a level-4 planetary state, Lu Ze didn't dare to underestimate it. He couldn't beat it anyway.
Nangong Jing and their faces were stiff too. Those aliens inside the Federation were decent-looking. Even the blade demons didn't look this abstract.
The boss squeaked, "Kill!"
With this order, tens of pirates all rushed towards Lu Ze and the girls. Meanwhile, the boss flew towards Lu Ze. To him, Lu Ze was the strongest here.
During this juncture, a golden beam flashed, and he tensed up.
Danger! Someone strong!
Nangong Jing appeared on the side and punched. The boss flung two tentacles like a whip.
Rumble!
So strong!
The boss was shocked. She was clearly only a level-2 planetary state. Why was she so strong? Rumble... Rumble... Rumble...
Thunder sounded and blood lightning flashed across space. Then, a few chis disappeared.
The boss was stunned. His subordinates seemed to have been controlled by something. They didn't even try to dodge the blood lightning
After this short wave, ten of his men died instantly. The rest were heavily injured.
"?"
This was completely different from what he imagined!
He didn't even need to pretend to lose now!
He couldn't beat them regardless.
His heart ached to see his loyal men getting harvested.
He took out a green paper and inserted a spirit force. Immediately, green smoke rose, and he yelled, "Retreat!"
Those space pirates turned to run immediately.
Dark green smoke spread throughout and covered everyone.
Lu Ze frowned. He discovered that his mental force couldn't penetrate this smoke nor could he see his surroundings.
The smoke had a strong corrosive property. His spirit force was sizzling and being rapidly depleted. In just a few seconds, his spirit force would be drained.
Lu Ze used space god art to leave a few thousand kilometers away. He found that the tentacle monster went back into the black ship. Their ship seemed to be prepared to leave at any time. As soon as they went inside, it flew off.
Lu Ze frowned. His eyes went cold. Blood lightning flashed around him, which then formed into a ten-meter long blood lightning spear.
The spear instantly shot towards the ship.
At this moment, a dark green spirit barrier appeared on the surface of the ship. The spear struck the barrier and only created a ripple.
Lu Ze frowned. That tentacle monster was a level-4 planetary state, he couldn't beat it. It was rather hard to break through this defense.
The ship was clearly ready to retreat. It dashed off immediately after blocking the attack, crushing countless asteroids along its way before disappearing from Lu Ze's sight.
During this time, Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha charged out of the smoke. Their chi was weak, but their faces were cold.
Nangong Jing gritted her teeth. "They actually got away! I didn't expect them to have such means!"
Qiuyue Hesha frowned. "Should we chase after them?"
Lu Ze nodded. "Yes! They're pirates. They might have treasures!"
Then, he dragged the two inside the ship. Lin Ling, Lu Li, and Alice already went back before.
Lu Ze ordered, "New Dawn, find the energy wave and pursue it!"
"Yes, Master!"
The New Dawn instantly followed the trail of the other ship. Soon, the ship left the cosmic cloud. As soon as they left, Lu Ze and the girls saw a slowly disappearing wormhole.
New Dawn's voice came out. "Space jump trace detected. Confirming jump location... location confirmed. It's outside the Federal-controlled region. Master, should we keep chasing?".
Lu Li asked, "Are we going to keep chasing them?"
Lu Ze nodded. "Yes!"
Without Ying Ying, Lu Ze would've given up since they were too weak to go outside. But now, they didn't need to fear anything.
"Yes!" the New Dawn answered.
A white beam flashed, and the New Dawn entered warp dimension.
Back at the surveillance room of the pirate ship. Those henchmen were still scared.
The tentacle monster's face was purple. He took out tens of pirates and only ten came back. On the other hand, that black dog was still charred while flashing with blood lightning
It was so painful!
Just what god art was that?
If he wasn't scared of annoying his boss, he would've cried already.
Others were also charred and flashing with sparks. They would shiver in unison.
The tentacle monster saw this, and he growled, "Shake! Try shaking again?"
Immediately, the blood lightning flashed, and everyone shivered simultaneously.
The atmosphere became very awkward.
He was so angry that his goo was drying up. However, he couldn't kill all his henchmen. These were all level-3 planetary state subordinates. If he did that, they would resist.
The monster took a deep breath. "Didn't expect those other humans to be this strong. But, our target isn't to fight them. We just need to draw them out of the controlled region, and we win. That master will get revenge for the fallen brothers!"
The pirates' eyes flashed with enmity. Since when did they lose like this, getting beaten up by a level-2 planetary state and a mortal evolution state.
The monster looked at the shaking surveillance watcher. "Did they follow?"
The worker answered, "Yes, they did boss! I've intentionally left our warp travel location!"
The monster nodded happily. "Very well!"
This was finally a piece of good news.
"Next, we will wait for Lu Ze and the rest of his team to get dealt with by that boss. We'll take our payment and leave this area!"
Six hours later, outside the controlled region, a white light flashed. After the light disappeared, a huge black ship appeared. Inside, the tentacle monster immediately contacted Bibi Deer.
Bibi Deer's emotionless face appeared in the light. "How is the mission?" The monster bowed. "Our honorable master, the target has been drawn out of the controlled region. He's about to chase over immediately."
Bibi Deer's bloody eyes sparked. "Very well! You did very well! There will be plenty of rewards. Take them to the appointed location!"
"Yes, Master!"
The communications ended. Bibi Deer sneered, "Pfft, what Monarch of the New Dawn, the number one prodigy. He's still too young."
"He's so easily drawn out of the controlled region. Does he know that the controlled region is the best protection for these immature humans? But if he's not dumb enough... how can I succeed? Hahaha..."
He ordered his ship to leave the hiding spot and fly towards the target location.
He grinned. It was a beautiful time of harvest!
Another white light flashed, and the New Dawn returned to the physical universe. Inside the living room, everyone was enjoying cartoons together.
Nangong Jing's eyes even went red at some
parts.
Suddenly, the light outside turned to starlight. Alice looked out and said, "Senior, are we still hunting pirates?"
Lu Ze and the others got dazed. They just remembered what they were doing. Lu Ze coughed. "Alice, you're right. We're getting ready for the battle!"
Nangong Jing felt a little awkward. She found her face was far from being as shameless as this guy...
Qiuyue Hesha put Ying Ying down and looked outside. "How long will it take?"
New Dawn answered, "About ten hours."
Lu Ze nodded. "Continue."
However, not long after, the New Dawn warned, "Master, the target stopped ahead!" Lu Ze and the girls were surprised. They looked outside and could only see a few asteroids floating. Not far from there, that black space ship was just waiting there. Lu Ze raised a brow. "This isn't right."
Nangong Jing and the others nodded too.
It was at this point that a black ship flew out from the shadows of an asteroid.
Lu Ze and the girls frowned after seeing the other black ship fly out. Nangong Jing looked into it. "Blade demon warship?"
Qiuyue Hesha asked, "Since when did space pirates and blade demons team up?"
At this moment, Ying Ying glanced at the black ship and said, "There's a guy much stronger than sister Jing and Hesha inside."
Lu Ze and the rest were dazed. Then, Lu Ze asked, "How much stronger?"
Ying Ying bit her fingers. Her little face was distraught. "Hmm... about level seven of the planetary state?"
It was very hard for her to compare people that were much weaker than her.
Alice's eyes widened, and she exclaimed, "Level-7 planetary state? Why would it be here?"
The others were shocked too, not expecting that there would be a level-7 planetary state being ambushing them.
Right then, a figure flew out from the black ship and sped towards the New Dawn rapidly. He was surging with terrifying chi. He had locked onto the New Dawn. Even inside the ship, Lu Ze and the others felt a powerful pressure. Only Ying Ying didn't seem to feel anything
Lu Ze gasped, "So strong!" Nangong Jing frowned. "He's probably coming for us.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "He's probably coming for little brother Lu Ze."
Lu Li rubbed Ying Ying's face and smiled gently. "Ying Ying, if that blade demon is going to bully us, you need to protect us?"
Ying Ying nodded and raised her fist. "Don't worry, sister Li, I'm very strong!" Lu Ze looked at Ying Ying and then at the blade demon. His mouth twitched.
On the pirate ship, the pirates saw Bibi Deer close in on the New Dawn and breathed easy.
That dog grinned. "Those humans are really strong. We almost couldn't come back, but no matter what, they couldn't be stronger than a level-7 planetary state blade demon."
"Hahaha, Little Black is right. We just need to watch the show here. Soon, they will die. Although we couldn't get revenge personally, the death of the culprit is enough to appease those brothers."
Bibi Deer was near the New Dawn. At this juncture, Lu Ze, Qiuyue Hesha, and Nangong Jing flew out.
When Bibi Deer saw Lu Ze, his face became very excited.
Today, Monarch of the New Dawn Lu Ze will fall into his hands!
Without hesitation, blood light surged around him as his chi rushed towards the three. He clasped his hands and grabbed at the trio. Spirit force surged and a few kilometer wide blood spirit force hand grabbed towards them.
He was going to capture them alive. A live one was much more valuable than a dead one. In addition, he was certain no accidents would happen. After all, no one was following them. He confirmed this before coming out. Otherwise, he wouldn't dare to show himself.
Lu Ze and the group felt they were completely bound by the terrifying pressure. They couldn't break free no matter what and could only watch that spirit force palm reach for them.
Right at this juncture, a starlight flashed, and they could move again. Bibi Deer laughed. "Monarch of the New Dawn? You're the top prodigy of the human race, and yet, you're so stupid! The human race will be over sooner or later! Hahaha?" Before he could finish laughing, his spirit force hand suddenly disappeared. Bibi Deer stopped laughing at this eerie scene.
Where did my spirit force palm go?
He tensed up and looked around. Even a star state couldn't make his spirit force disappear like that!?
A cosmic system state shouldn't be able to either, right?
He looked around carefully but didn't sense any danger. He used a professional energy detector before and found nothing here.
He looked at the trio who were smiling and suddenly felt a little cold.
Those pirates saw the sequence of events. The tentacle monster screamed, "Impossible!" The other pirates were confused as they didn't know what happened.
Lu Ze and the group knew the best. They could feel that this spirit force palm was devoured by Ying Ying. It was devoured so fast that it seemed to have disappeared.
She could even eat spirit force attacks?
Bibi Deer kept trembling. Then, his blade arms extended, and violent energy surged. Sharp blood sword ray reached for Lu Ze and the girls.
More than a hundred of them slid across, creating a sharp storm but when they neared the trio, they disappeared again.
Oh shit!
Without hesitation, he turned to run. This definitely wasn't something an ordinary planetary state could do. He suspected there was a boss following Lu Ze and the rest, but he had no evidence.
He didn't understand why he wasn't able to notice the boss with Lu Ze, despite being so careful. However, he suddenly felt all his spirit force disappear. Bibi Deer: "?"
Where is my spirit force?
It was full, wasn't it?
Suddenly, he felt that all his physical power was gone instantly too.
"1?!
Bibi Deer's blood-red eyes were full of shock. Now, only his life force remained. He felt very weak.
Just who was here?
Suddenly, a silver light flashed, and terrifying energy shot out.
Lu Ze saw Bibi Deer's state and teleported next to him. Before Bibi Deer could turn around, Lu Ze smashed a fist into his head.
Thud!
Bibi Deer fainted before he could make a sound.
The pirate ship fell silent. "?"
What is going on?
Was this a fake level-7 planetary state?
It was only at this moment that the tentacle monster reacted. "Quick! Run!" Bibi Deer, that idiot!
He regretted listening to this idiot so much.
During this time, a worried voice sounded. "Boss! Our ship's energy is gone..." "?"
What was this?
Before he could roar, he suddenly felt his own power disappear, and he fell to the ground.
Everyone else fell to the ground too.
Ying Ying was too powerful. Lu Ze took Qiuyue Hesha and Nangong Jing into the pirate ship and saw all the pirates lying on the ground. He laughed rather happily.
Then, Qiuyue Hesha used seduction god art to control all the pirates and made them drive the ship to follow the New Dawn.
Lu Ze and the group took the tentacle monster and the unconscious Bibi Deer into the New Dawn. Back there, Nangong Jing locked the two up and then went to hug Ying Ying, kissing her at the same time. "Ying Ying is so amazing!"
Ying Ying rubbed the saliva from her face.
Lu Ze smiled and took out red orbs. "All thanks to Ying Ying this time. Have some food."
Ying Ying's face lit up immediately.
"Ahh~~"
Seeing Ying Ying open her little mouth, Lu Ze began throwing the red orbs inside.
Everyone was speechless. Ying Ying now looked like a pet. She would feel happy as long as she was fed.
They couldn't tell she was a boss at all.
Lin Ling said excitedly, "Our harvest this time should be very big!" Everyone just realized that a live level-7 planetary state blade demon should be worth a lot of points no matter what, right?
Plus, there were his treasures and ship. This was definitely a huge earning!
Moreover, there was also that space pirate crew. They might not be as wealthy as the blade demons, but they definitely wouldn't be poor.
Everyone smiled.
Lu Ze spoke seriously. "Although this battle wasn't very tiring, I still feel we need a celebratory feast."
Lu Li smiled. "Ying Ying did the biggest work this time. Even if there was one, it should be for her."
Lu Ze looked at Lu Li in disbelief.
She was this cold-hearted?
She would cook for Ying Ying but not him? Alice smiled. "Senior, just wait for a bit, I'll go cook for you now."
Then, she happily dragged Lu Li into the kitchen.
Seeing this, Lu Ze's eyes turned red. Alice was indeed an angel.
After the feast, the group rested on the couch.
Nangong Jing brought that tentacle monster out. It had awoken already.
Qiuyue Hesha used seduction god art without hesitation. "Why are you in the human-controlled region?".
The tentacle monster revealed Bibi Deer's fishing plan. In turn, the group looked among themselves.
Lin Ling said, "So the reason there were suddenly so many pirates at the border of the controlled region is also due to that blade demon?"
Everyone looked strangely at the tentacle monster and then at Lu Ze.
Lu Ze couldn't resist saying, "It's not my fault."
Qiuyue Hesha grinned. "little brother Lu Ze is probably famous among blade demons now. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a level-7 planetary state risking the danger to hunt
you."
Nangong Jing nodded. "She's right. The stronger you are, the easier you are to get caught. That blade demon made quite a tough decision."
Lu Li narrowed her eyes. "So, that blade demon made a tough decision to kill himself?"
This was right, but it hurt. Good thing that the blade demon was out cold.
Following such, Qiuyue Hesha asked about the pirate's treasure.
The tentacle monster reported the location of his treasures. It was in a place similar to Terry Brother's treasure. It was rather far away.
They remembered the location and then threw the monster back. Then, they brought out that level-7 planetary state blade demon.
Nangong Jing shook the blade demon before it slowly opened its eyes.
Bibi Deer ended up dazed when he saw everyone watching him. His eyes flashed with ferocity, and he was going to gather power to strike. However, he soon found his power was still extremely weak. As soon as a sliver of power was formed, it would disappear immediately. He was dumbfounded. He might not even be able to beat a mortal evolution state now. It was just that his body was stronger and could take a beating
How did Lu Ze and the others do it?
He glanced across the living room and even saw a child?
Child?
This Monarch of the New Dawn was indeed too young. He even brought out a little kid. If it wasn't for that unknown power, how could this Monarch of the New Dawn be a match for him?
He was still very unsatisfied.
Suddenly, his mental force entered into a trance. He looked at this woman like she was his goddess. But soon, he recovered his senses.
Bibi Deer sneered, "Mental force god art? What a joke! How can your weak power influence me? You underestimate me too much, don't
you?"
At this juncture, his expression returned to being dazed. He found that his mental force was slipping away too. Thus, Lu Ze and the girls heard Bibi Deer curse at them using his mother language.
Before he could finish, Qiuyue Hesha used seduction god art again, and then, Bibi Deer looked at Qiuyue Hesha fawningly.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Why did you come to hunt little brother Lu Ze?"
Bibi Deer told them about the Demon Palace's sudden increase for Lu Ze's bounty. Not just him, several other blade demons would be interested in him.
Immediately, their eyes lit up. Lu Ze couldn't even stop smiling. "More people are coming to deliver themselves? This is great!"
Nangong Jing said, "I wonder how many would come. If we finish them all, we would all have enough points for the Martial God Set. Lu Li smiled. "How about Lu Ze venturing outside the controlled region for a trip? That way, more blade demons would come."
Alice was worried. "Would that be too dangerous?"
Lin Ling frowned, feeling it was a bit risky too. However, seeing how eager Lu Ze was in trying it, Lin Ling didn't want to say anything else.
Through their questions, they found out that the time Lu Ze's bounty was raised was when Lu Ze and the others brought that blade demon base back to planet Zhihuo.
Lin Ling remarked, "It seems the blade demons know about it."
Qiuyue Hesha said, "I believe that the mental force restriction can also transmit information."
Nangong Jing frowned. "I wonder if the restrictions are removed. If so, we can get more news."
Lu Ze looked at Bibi Deer. "Ask this guy, he might know."
Qiuyue Hesha asked, "Do you know the blade demon soldiers implanting surveillance devices in the human-controlled region?"
Bibi Deer was confused.
Seeing this, everyone was disappointed.
Lu Ze gasped. "This guy is so useless."
Everyone nodded.
Lu Li asked, "He still has his treasure and ship?"
Everyone's eyes lit up again.
Lu Ze smiled. "This guy has some use."
They made Bibi Deer hand over all his treasures before putting him back. Lu Ze smiled. "Let's go back and hand the mission in. Then, we'll see if we can draw out more blade demons."
With Ying Ying here, it was all too easy to capture them.
Two days later, in the Shang Yang Galaxy, the New Dawn took a huge space pirate ship and a blade demon ship-appearing at the border of the galaxy. Lu Ze looked at the familiar place and stretched his back. "We're back."
Nangong Jing nodded. "Contact the army."
They were very careful about this, ever since the misunderstanding at the Chiyun System.
Lu Ze nodded and made contact with the army there, notifying them of the two ships he brought. Consequently, they responded and would send a fleet to check.
Lu Ze smiled. "We'll just go back slowly."
The group nodded. They weren't in a rush. As such, they sat on the couch looking for missions suitable for them.
At this moment, Lin Ling said, "Ze, brother and the others are finished with their solitary cultivation."
Everyone looked at Lin Ling.
Lu Ze asked curiously, "How is it? Did they learn fire god art?"
Lin Ling smiled and projected the report in the
air.
Everyone read the report and then smiled. Before the lapse of five years, Monarch of the New Dawn Lu Ze got a Zhihuo Shooting Star. The four young dukes of the new generation all learned fire god art after eating it. There were plenty of people commenting on the report. After all, acquiring god art was too rare. Up until now, the only stable method of getting god art in this patch of void space was the Zhihuo Shooting Star.
"Since when was the Zhihuo Shooting Star this effective? Four young dukes all got the fire god art?"
"What do you know? This time, the dish contains a Zhihuo Bird. It's easier to learn it."
"Even so... all of them acquiring the fire god art is quite absurd."
"Indeed, the young dukes of this generation are quite first-class. Even these four are rather talented."
"Lu Ze doesn't even count as a young duke. He's appointed as monarch."
"These four young dukes benefited from Lu Ze. After all, Lu Ze got the Zhihuo Shooting
Star."
"But it's true that the young dukes of this generation are excellent."
"The human race is about to have a golden period."
"Haha, I hope I can live to see us beat the blade demons back to their ancestral grounds. I'll be very happy."
There were plenty of comments. Some were jealous while some were amazed.
Alice smiled. "Senior is so amazing. So many people are saying you're strong."
Lu Ze felt great.
Lu Li glanced at Lu Ze and said, "Alice, if you keep complimenting him, he will get cocky."
Lu Ze argued back. "Bullshit! Am I that sort of person?"
Seeing the way everyone looked at him, Lu Ze felt awkward and lowered his voice.
Zhihuo Stationing Grounds.
Luo Bingqing, Lin Kuang, Derrick, and Jack were in Zhihuo Little Restaurant. Around them were Mo Xie, Chi Xiaomo, Bernie, Daphne, Louisa, and Xuan Yuji.
Luo Bingqing still had a bland expression, as though nothing happened, but Derrick was full of smiles. Lin Kuang and Jack seemed confident too.
With the fire god art, their combat power would improve, and they would have more choices regarding divine arts.
The other two groups' eyes were green. Lin Kuang grinned. "The spirit force from the Zhihuo Shooting Star made me improve my build up. I feel like I'm almost about to breakthrough."
He already used a Heaven Yang spirit fruit before. And with the Zhihuo Shooting Star, it saved him a lot of time.
Before it was always Lu Ze damaging people's confidence, but, now it was his turn. This feeling was great.
Jack nodded. "Same as Lin Kuang."
Their situation was very similar.
Daphne and the others stopped breathing. They were taking turns to damage their heart.
Daphne said, "You guys are very lucky. I just want to have some peace."
Xuan Yuji nodded. "I want to go find Jing Jing. They have to get us something good too..."
Everyone: "..."
Xuan Yuji was so entitled to utter such a remark. They didn't even know what to say.
Luo Bingqing spoke plainly. "I might go into solitary cultivation again."
Everyone was dazed. Derrick asked, "You still haven't finished digesting?" Luo Bingqing shook his head. "I learned something from evolving my ice god art before. Now that I got the fire god art, I'm going to try to breakthrough." Mo Xie's evil smile froze. He felt his heart was pierced, so was Derrick. "Then, am I the slowest one?" He didn't get the Heaven Yang spirit fruit from Lu Ze's celebration nor did his god art evolve. He just ate the Zhihuo Shooting Star.
Chi Xiaomo smiled awkwardly. "Let's go do missions."
Mo Xie took a deep breath and got up. "Go do missions."
Luo Bingqing and the others were about to surpass them. They could feel the intensity of the pressure. During this time, they also accepted the fertilizing mission here and had a great time.
Outside planet Shang Yang, New Dawn reminded, "Master, Captain Zhu Ya of the defense force is requesting for communications."
"Accept." A dark-haired, middle-aged man appeared. He nodded to Lu Ze and the others and said, "Hello Lu Ze, I'm Zhu Ya, from the Shenwu Army, coming here to inspect." Then, Zhu Ya brought people in to check the two ships. Seeing those hard-working pirates on the ship, they became dazed for a moment, but they also knew that Qiuyue Hesha had seduction god art.
After the inspection was over, Zhu Ya contacted Lu Ze and the girls again. "If Monarch of the New Dawn is going to hand in the mission, we'll take away the pirates in the two ships."
Lu Ze nodded. "Sure, I was just about to hand in the mission. By the way, I have a level-4 planetary state space pirate captain and a level-7 planetary state blade demon. They're all alive. Take them back too."
Zhu Ya "?!"
A live level-7 planetary state blade demon?
How could one be in the controlled region?
Lu Ze and the others wouldn't even be able to run from him, much less capture him alive.
He laughed dryly. "Lu Ze, what is the level of the blade demon you just said?" He felt he must have been too tired lately and heard wrong.
Lu Ze looked at Zhu Ya with confusion. This guy was a level-4 planetary state.
Did he cultivate his ears incorrectly?
Given such, he spoke again. "Level-7 planetary state blade demon."
Zhu Ya's eyes bulged. He was only a level-4 planetary state. How was he going to send back a level-7 planetary state?
He was very worried.
Lu Ze noticed this and asked, "Are you okay?"
Zhu Ya: "..."
"Wait a moment Lu Ze, a level-7 planetary state is too serious. I'll notify the higher-ups now."
Lu Ze nodded. He didn't care as long as he got the reward.
In just ten minutes, a small ship came over.
A handsome brown-haired man appeared. He looked at Lu Ze and smiled. "I've long heard of you, Monarch of the New Dawn. I'm the vice commander of the Shang Yang defense force, Michael. Did you really capture a level-7 planetary state blade demon alive?"
Lu Ze nodded. "Yes, come pick him up."
Michael and Zhu Ya looked at each other and flew outside their ships.
The New Dawn doors opened, and Lu Ze carried out an unconscious blade demon and tentacle monster.
Seeing this, Michael's eyes narrowed. It really was a level-7 planetary state blade demon!
Shang Yang System.
Michael looked at the unconscious blade demon and then at Lu Ze. He was full of shock. Moments later, he asked, "How... how did you capture him alive?"
He felt that if he didn't ask, he would die from curiosity. Lu Ze scratched his head. "When we saw him, he was suddenly out of stamina. I think he might be having a heatstroke. That's why we picked him up."
Michael and Zhu Ya: "?"
Heatstroke?
A level-7 planetary state blade demon would get heatstroke?!
Lu Ze retained an innocent face while being scrutinized. He couldn't spill Ying Ying's secrets.
As for whether a level-7 planetary state blade demon would get a heatstroke, perhaps it was possible due to the sun?
Following such, he passed the blade demon and tentacle monster over as though they were chickens. "I'll leave them to you. Is the mission handover done then?" Lu Ze asked.
Zhu Ya quickly nodded. "Yes, it's done. The rewards will be distributed in the following two days."
Lu Ze smiled and nodded. "In that case, we'll be going back first."
Michael saluted Lu Ze, "Thank you for your contribution to the Shang Yang Shenwu Army during this time!"
A level-7 planetary state was a rare tactical resource, whether in the Human Race or Blade Demon Race. Lu Ze saluted back and smiled. "Since I'm the Monarch of the New Dawn, this is just what I should be doing."
Michael laughed. "You're right. Only with younger generations like you can the human race grow stronger."
Lu Ze returned to the New Dawn.
Eyeing the fleet off, Lin Ling asked, "Ze, are we going back first?".
Lu Ze nodded. "Let's wait until the Shenwu merit points arrive, and then, we'll go buy the Martial God Set."
Nangong Jing's eyes lit up. "Let's test how good it is. If it's bad, then we'll switch it with something else."
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. So he was only a lab rat?!
Back at the stationing grounds, the group booked a suite. Alice, Lu Li, and Lin Ling cooked. Everyone proceeded to their rooms for cultivation afterward.
Lu Ze sat on the bed and entered the pocket hunting dimension. In the barren lands, yellow sand blew.
Lu Ze looked around and headed off in a random direction.
Half an hour later, in a patch of cracked barren lands, blood lightning flashed. With an exploding thunder, a spirit force wave swept the entire surroundings.
Lu Ze was facing off a 70-meter tall golden needle tiger.
There were multiple craters between the two. All those pits were flashing with blood lightning Lu Ze's combat power was now at level two of the planetary state. On the other hand, this golden needle tiger was a level-9 mortal evolution state, and its combat power was closer to level two of the planetary state by a narrow margin.
The tiger roared, and it stood on its hind legs while swiping with his front claws, launching sharp golden spirit force claws towards Lu Ze.
Lu Ze was wearing golden armor. The sharp chi clanked on this armor.
Right then, Lu Ze flashed with silver light and disappeared from the spot. When he appeared again, he was already above the tiger's head.
He clenched his fist and punched with golden fist force. His fist landed heavily on the tiger.
Rumble!
The tiger's spirit force barrier was easily shattered. Its head crashed heavily toward the ground.
Before the tiger could pull its head out, Lu Ze stomped on its head and barraged it with punches.
The heavy blows fractured the earth. After ten consecutive strikes, the enormous beast's chi disappeared, and its body landed on the ground with a thud.
Lu Ze jumped off, as though nothing had happened. Ever since he had that spirit body, Lu Ze's stamina was longer-lasting, and he could attack with full power for a long time.
The body disappeared, leaving behind orbs. The special level-9 mortal evolution state red orbs increased his cultivation speed once more. In about two weeks, he would soon become a level-7 mortal evolution state. After picking up his loot, Lu Ze left the place.
Two days later, Lu Ze had been hunting for a long while. With the growth of his power, his loot was more and more bountiful. Even those level-9 mortal evolution state beasts with god art were no match for him now. Other than the rare few bosses, he could do whatever he wanted in here.
Currently, Lu Ze suddenly sensed a chi surge from his left. A roaring sound followed, and the force of the roar spread across a thousand-kilometer radius. Stones and sand were swept into the air.
It was a boss!
The cracked barren lands suddenly turned to lava. Huge bubbles began appearing. The scorching temperature twisted the air, including space as well.
A hundred-meter tall red wolf appeared. It was covered with tough exquisite red scales. It had a pair of ruby flame horns on its forehead.
The red wolf was surrounded by complex red runes that slowly flowed into its body. As this happened, its chi grew more terrifying.
At this point, the red wolf looked up and glared at Lu Ze. As a result, Lu Ze's skin crawled.
This boss seemed to hate him?
Why?
Lu Ze was full of questions.
During this time, the red wolf growled, and a terrifying wave of flame headed over Lu Ze's position.
Lu Ze had fire god art, but he still had the feeling he would be roasted.
He instantly tried to use space god art. However, he felt a powerful space restriction.
Lu Ze glanced at the red wolf. Suddenly, he realized something. He stole the treasure in the white pillar at that time. Those bosses were probably rather angry.
The wolf was clearly one of those bosses. It must have remembered his chi.
Damn, he offended all the boss on this third map in one go!
Luckily, this boss didn't seem to intend to let its underlings help.
Lu Ze forced open the space restriction and disappeared from the spot.] He reappeared ten thousand kilometers away.
Before he could breathe, he heard that shocking roar again, and the terrifying chi followed suit.
Lu Ze frowned. What a clingy monster!
He used space god art again. This time, Lu Ze easily teleported away without the restriction. Then, he used chi stealth god art and carefully teleported in different directions before shaking off the wolf pursuing him.
He felt quite proud. He only had level-2 planetary state power, but he could escape from a being with level-4 planetary state power.
As long as he ran fast enough, even bosses couldn't catch up with him.
Didn't this mean he was invincible on this map?
Lu Ze happily continued his jungling job.
Three days later, Lu Ze had remained inside the pocket hunting dimension for five days. This was rather long.
Right at this moment, he saw an obscure figure ahead in the mountains.
Lu Ze rejoiced upon seeing this mountain range. He sped up, and soon, a yellow and green grass plain appeared. It was indeed this grass plain!
He had been here twice. This was the hive of the range rabbits. Most importantly, these were range rabbits with divine art.
Lu Ze saw the battle between the range rabbit and the fire wolf.
The range rabbit definitely wasn't as strong as he was. If he could kill the rabbit, he might be able to get that divine art rune.
Great!
Moreover, he was very interested in the floating earth blob in the hive. Thinking about this, Lu Ze concealed his chi and disappeared from the spot.
Inside the grass plain, Lu Ze saw a lot of range rabbits happily grazing. They were weak and didn't sense Lu Ze at all. At the same time, Lu Ze didn't attack them either. It was best not to startle them.
Soon, he was closer to the mountain range.
Many range rabbits were hopping among the stones. Lu Ze's eyes flashed. Silver light wrapped around him, and then, he turned into a small range rabbit. Thereafter, Lu Ze ran towards one of the caves.
Soon, Lu Ze crossed through twisted tunnels and arrived at the depth of the mountain range.
During this time, Lu Ze appeared in a cave where several rabbits were resting.
Their powers ranged from level-1 mortal evolution state to level-7 mortal evolution state. They were like cotton lying on the ground.
Lu Ze didn't see the special earth blob in here and didn't startle these rabbits. When he passed by the rabbits, most of them looked up but soon lay back down.
Lu Ze proceeded to the other side of the tunnel and kept moving down.
Half an hour later, Lu Ze passed quite a few hives. There was a wide space before him. It was glowing with yellow light.
Lu Ze looked down. There were six huge range rabbits resting on the ground, and there was the familiar earth blob floating in the middle.
Lu Ze didn't move. He sensed the power of the rabbits. Five of them were level-7 mortal evolution states, and one was a level-8 mortal evolution state.
Those five were the five ones that Lu Ze encountered last time. That level-8 one was the rabbit that seemed to know divine art.
Lu Ze looked at that level-8 rabbit, and his eyes gradually turned evil.
He instantly appeared above the rabbit's head. Power surged, and blood lightning swirled around his fist.
Lu Ze was still in the body of a range rabbit. His claws glowed with golden spirit light while the blood-colored lightning formed a lightning spear.
Those six rabbits were just about to look up when suddenly, lightning spears were making their way towards all of them. On the other hand, Lu Ze's fist force proceeded to strike the rabbit boss.
"Gugu!"
The boss immediately formed a yellow shield above its head. It looked indestructible. This was the divine art he saw last time.
Seeing the earth shield, Lu Ze didn't avoid it at all. He clawed at the shield.
Rumble!
Earth and golden rays filled the cave with thunderous sounds. However, the earth blob in the middle still emanated a yellow glow.
Such a terrifying spirit force only shook the wall a little. Not even a crack appeared. Nevertheless, the spirit force wave went out of the cave and into other hives.
Many rabbits sensed the terrifying force at the bottom and ran out without hesitation.
The shield cracked a little, but the earth light instantly repaired it. Lu Ze raised a brow. This defense was stronger than he thought. He thought this rabbit only had level-1 planetary state power, but now, it seemed to be level 2.
As for the other range rabbits, they had no divine art, and their cultivation level was only level-7 mortal evolution state. They were instantly penetrated by the lightning spear and died.
Roar!
The boss was furious after seeing the death of the other rabbits. It glowed with earth colors, and then, earth spears shot out towards Lu Ze. These spears weren't very strong as they didn't have the buff of divine art.
Lu Ze dodged all the spears and then appeared behind the rabbit.
Rumble!
He aimed the golden fist force towards the rabbit boss again.
Before the fist force could reach the rabbit, an earth shield appeared again, blocking the incoming attacks.
Lu Ze still wasn't able to get past the shield.
This rabbit wasn't good at other things, but his defense was exceptionally strong.
Lu Ze disappeared from the spot once again.
Rumble... Rumble...
He went around the rabbit, attacking from different positions and using different divine arts.
This attack lasted a few minutes. Still, this rabbit wasn't injured at all. The rabbit couldn't keep up with Lu Ze's speed, so it just didn't move and used the divine art to block Lu Ze's attacks.
Lu Ze was soon out of breath. Seeing the rabbit look at him, Lu Ze's mouth twitched.
This was no range rabbit, this was a range turtle!
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The defenses are too strong. His spirit force recovered quickly. Despite attacking with full power for a few minutes, he just panted a little. However, the range rabbit still remained at full power.
They couldn't do anything to each other.
Right then, Lu Ze suddenly thought of something. He couldn't do anything to the turtle's shell, but he could go grab that blob. Accordingly, Lu Ze did it. He reached before the earth blob and grabbed it.
Immediately, earth god art secrets rushed into his head. Last time, he almost fainted from this, but now, it just hurt his head a little.
Lu Ze wasn't worried since he had mental force god art.
Roar!
That rabbit's eyes turned red upon seeing Lu Ze grab the blob.
Earth spears shot over immediately.
Lu Ze rejoiced. A golden set of armor appeared on him.
This was the evolved version of the black gold battle armor. It was on par with the blood lightning Now, his defenses also reached level two of the planetary state. It was enough to stop the spears.
Rumble...
These earth spears collided with the combat armor, creating rumbling sounds, but they didn't manage to leave a mark. The pushing force of the earth spears acted on Lu Ze, but he didn't budge at all.
Lu Ze rejoiced. He attacked for so long before, and it didn't do anything. Now, the tables have turned. The rabbit was the one attacking him currently.
The earth spears didn't stop as long as Lu Ze held the earth blob.
Lu Ze tried to put the earth blob away, but he couldn't do it. The earth blob still seemed to be connected to this entire land. Thus, Lu Ze could only digest the earth god art knowledge from inside while maintaining his golden armor.
One minute...
Two minutes...
Three minutes...
Ten minutes...
Lu Ze felt his head was starting to ache. He took in too much knowledge but didn't have the time to digest it yet. Meanwhile, maintaining the golden armor didn't cost much energy. At this point, Lu Ze felt the attacks on him weaken.
He looked at the range rabbit. Its power rave was indeed weaker than before. Lu Ze smiled.
Since he couldn't devour it anymore, he let go of the earth blob.
Seeing this, the rabbit stopped roaring. At this moment, Lu Ze appeared on the rabbit's back.
mon
Try again!
His right claw flashed with golden light while blood lightning circulated around his body. Dark lightning clouds formed above his head.
Rumble...
Sensing the terrifying power on his back, the rabbit formed the earth shield without hesitation.
Star crippling punch, lightning spear, and lightning cloud all struck the shield.
There was an instance of silence, and then, a terrifying sound struck through the entire cave. Pebbles started falling off the walls.
The shield cracked a little but didn't crumble.
Seeing this, Lu Ze hacked down tens more bolts of lightning from above his head.
The shield shattered even more.
Without hesitation, Lu Ze formed star crippling punch again and hit the shield consecutively with his fists.
Rumble!
Rumble!
Rumble!
The sounds rang like a drum and traversed throughout the cave. The stone walls trembled. The cracks on the shield grew larger and larger.
The rabbit already consumed a lot of power while attacking nonstop. In the end, the repair of the shield couldn't keep up with the damages.
Lu Ze rejoiced. This could work!
All his planetary seeds glowed with white light. Spirit force was used up like crazy and converted into combat power.
Blood lightning flashed around him. The golden fist force flickered too.
Lightning spear, lightning cloud, and star crippling punch-Lu Ze's full-powered attacks were employed.
The cracks on the shield grew denser. The shield started to shake.
After a minute of incessant attacks, it finally cracked!
A crisp sound came, and then, the last lightning spear shattered the shield.
The rabbit roared in worry.
Earth colors surged around it. It wanted to continue forming the shield. However, ten blood lightning bolts shot at him, turning its soft yellow fur to black.
As lightning flashed, violent electricity surged into its body. Its body paused for a moment, and its chi grew weaker.
Lu Ze didn't stop at all. His claws surged with golden fist force, and he punched towards the charred fur.
Rumble!
A heavy thud sounded. The force of the star crippling punch poured into its body and made its chi increasingly weaker.
"Roar!"
The severe pain scared the rabbit boss. It roared and still tried to form the earth shield while trying to dodge attacks. However, its speed was no match for Lu Ze. Lightning spears and bolts struck where it was injured. Before it could even form its shield, it was heavily injured.
Its chi kept dropping, but it finally managed to form the light shield. However, how long could it last?
In just a few seconds, the shield crumbled, and Lu Ze's heavy strikes hit the wounded areas of the rabbit.
The force of the star crippling punch penetrated its body. Its chi slowly disappeared before its life force was completely gone.
Lu Ze panted. He soothed the sense of fatigue derived from the half an hour battle. His eyes flashed with joy.
The first divine art boss!
He got the first divine art on this map!
Luckily, he got the spirit body a while ago, or he wouldn't be able to last until now.
He could only rely on his own recovery ability in the pocket hunting dimension. He couldn't use red and purple orbs.
Lu Ze looked at the rabbit boss turning to dust. Soon, the body disappeared, leaving behind his loot-twelve special red and purple orbs. Unlike the orbs of other beasts, these two types of orbs had a sliver of golden energy inside, which seemed very mysterious and dazzling. There was also a strand of white energy. Lu Ze had encountered such energy strands on the other two maps. This was a treasure only overlord bosses dropped.
There was also another earth god art orb and an earth-colored rune. This rune was very complicated, more complicated than the ones from the overlord bosses on the second map.
Clearly, this divine art had a higher level than the lightning spear divine art.
Lu Ze excitedly collected all of this. Then, he looked at the earth blob.
He had a bold guess. The first map's fire lion was guarding a fire tree that had some kind of flame. He could take the flame then after he killed the lion. Perhaps the earth blob was the same.
Lu Ze placed his claw on the earth blob once again. Now, it didn't feel indomitable anymore.
It was still extremely heavy, but Lu Ze could finally move it.
Lu Ze rejoiced and put the earth blob in his mental force dimension.
The other five level-7 mortal evolution state range rabbits also turned to dust, leaving behind orbs.
Lu Ze felt relieved. This loot was huge!
After picking it all up, Lu Ze started to head out.
Not a single range rabbit remained in the caves. Clearly, they were scared by the boss battle.
Lu Ze didn't mind. He soon came outside. Looking at the sun and fresh air, he sighed.
Now, the sky dimmed down. He saw a huge pillar land on the mountain range.
Oh shit!
Lu Ze tensed up, but before he could react he was pressed into the ground. He then woke up back in his room. He sweated cold after sensing the immense power over his body.
Other than the pain, Lu Ze also felt his head was bursting. It was as though his head was stuffed full. Lu Ze rested for a while until the pain was gone. Then, he sat on the bed and used a purple orb from the rabbit overlord.
That purple orb with some golden hue fused into his brain. The soreness was soothed, and his mind cleared up.
Lu Ze was surprised. It was very potent. This golden purple orb was much better than the other purple orbs.
His brain activity greatly increased, and he began to learn the earth god art secrets.
Three hours later, Lu Ze opened his eyes. He had digested all the knowledge from the earth blob. His brain was relaxed now, and Lu Ze exhaled. He finally had the time to check his loot. He sent his mental force into his mental dimension and smiled brightly.
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This wave of harvest was huge. If he digested them all, his power would increase quite significantly!
There were so many choices that Lu Ze didn't know which to use first. After some thought, Lu Ze decided on the white energy strand. Then, he felt that familiar powerful white energy surge into his body.
It was warm and thick. Accordingly, he began to digest it.
Six hours later, Lu Ze opened his eyes with some excitement.
This strand of energy had more quantity than both the first and second maps. This energy made his cultivation level rise up even more. He could feel that his bone marrows were glowing with white rays.
Lu Ze looked outside. It wasn't daytime yet. The reward points were going to take two days to arrive, so he might as well cultivate.
Lu Ze looked into his mental dimension again. This time, he chose the earth divine art. This was what he wanted to learn the most!
The range rabbit's defense left a deep impression on him.
Although the range rabbit's cultivation level was only two levels higher than his, Lu Ze almost couldn't do anything to its defenses.
This was the first time Lu Ze encountered such a situation.
He drew the divine art rune into his body. Immediately, complicated knowledge flowed into his mind. There was so much knowledge that Lu Ze's head ached, as though it would explode at any time.
His face went pale, and sweat trickled down. Luckily, his mental force was strong enough, and his brains didn't explode.
In just a few short seconds, knowledge flowed from the divine art rune into his mind. Lu Ze resisted the pain and used a golden purple orb. The knowledge of the shield was being separated and dissected by Lu Ze.
Time passed by.
In the morning, Nangong Jing came out of her room in a nightgown while carrying a bottle of wine.
She saw Ying Ying and Lin Ling sitting on the couch. Lin Ling was meditating while Ying Ying was still watching cartoons.
Nangong Jing squeezed next to Ying Ying and placed her on her lap, so they could watch together.
Lin Ling's mouth twitched, but she said nothing.
Soon, the other rooms also opened. Lu Li, Alice, and Qiuyue Hesha all came out.
Lu Li, Alice, and Lin Ling went to cook breakfast while Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha kept watching cartoons with Ying Ying. Later on, breakfast was ready.
Aroma spread across the entire suite.
Lin Ling said, "Time to eat." Lu Li looked around. "Where's Lu Ze?"
Nangong Jing drank some wine. "This doesn't make sense. Such aroma didn't draw Lu Ze out?"
Lu Ze should have jumped at the food like a ravenous tiger.
Alice blinked her eyes with disappointment. "Is the cooking today not good?"
Lu Li pouted her lips. "No way. It must be because that idiot's nose malfunctioned, and he didn't smell it."
She cooked a portion of the food. She didn't want to admit that her cooking couldn't appeal to Lu Ze.
Ying Ying blinked her eyes and said, "Lu Ze is cultivating. He seems to be in solitary cultivation."
Everyone was dazed.
Nangong Jing almost spat her wine. "Solitary cultivation? That bastard is in solitary cultivation again?!"
He improved a lot a few days ago. Now, he was in solitary cultivation again. Did this mean his power was going to rise even more? Everyone's body stiffened. Moments later, Lin Ling grabbed two pieces of bread and ran back into her room mumbling, "I'm going to cultivate first."
Everyone else also finished their food rapidly and flew back into their rooms.
...
Two days later, Lu Ze was glowing with earth colors. There seemed to be runic particles inside the light. Then, the light started to recede.
Lu Ze opened his eyes. An earth-colored light shield appeared before him. The shield seemed a little ethereal, but it felt dense.
Lu Ze smiled.
He had a beginner mastery over this! This divine art rune was rather hard. Despite using special purple orbs, Lu Ze still took two days to learn it.
He only had five of the 12 purple orbs now. Lu Ze's heart ached. However, it was time to give this divine art a good name!
Since this divine art formed a light shield derived from earth god art, he would call it "Earth Shield". It was simple and easy to understand.
The Earth Shield was about the same level as the lightning cloud. However, this divine art consumed his own spirit force.
If he cultivated the Earth Shield to perfect mastery, then his defense would become extremely scary. Even now, if he used Earth Shield and golden armor together, his defenses would be the strongest. At this point, he wouldn't be afraid of getting beaten up.
Lu Ze stretched and got off the bed. His bones cracked, and he relaxed.
He walked out of the room and proceeded to the living room. He saw that only Ying Ying was in the living room watching cartoons.
It was daylight, and not a single person was here.
He walked towards Ying Ying and rubbed her little head. "Ying Ying, where are you sisters?" Ying Ying looked at Lu Ze and replied with her crisp voice, "They're all cultivating in their rooms." Lu Ze was dumbfounded. "Then, where's breakfast?"
Ying Ying patted her little stomach. "I'm full!"
Lu Ze: "..."
He hadn't eaten yet.
He went to the kitchen and saw that all the food had been cleaned up.
Lu Ze's face became lifeless.
Lu Ze took out noodles and thought about how Lin Ling cooked and copied her.
Lu Ze smelled it and nodded happily. It didn't smell nice, but it would definitely taste good!
Lu Ze carried the pot to the table. Ying Ying noticed Lu Ze's actions and approached Lu Ze.
Lu Ze rubbed her head. "Ying Ying, do you want to eat? I made it myself." Ying Ying glanced at the noodles and smelled the food. Thereafter, she shook her head with disgust. "No."
Lu Ze: "..."
Lu Ze soon recovered and said, "That's fine. You don't know the secrets to going back to the basics."
Lu Ze put a strand of noodles in his mouth. His face froze for a while before he recovered. He slowly consumed the noodles. At least, it was edible.
Lu Ze was quite happy. This was countless times better than Lu Li's dark dishes.
He finished his noodles and went back to his room. Since they were all in solitary cultivation, he might as well do it too.
Lu Ze suddenly found that solitary cultivation might be addictive.
The next morning, Lu Ze opened his eyes.
Last night, he digested all of the earth god art orbs of the range rabbit overlord. His earth god art had already reached the pinnacle. After devouring the special earth blob and the earth god art orbs today, Lu Ze could only improve his earth god art through that earth blob again.
The earth blob was similar to the blood lightning. It constantly released earth god art knowledge. Lu Ze could slowly digest this.
Lu Ze's mental force looked inside the mental dimension. Now, only the special red and purple orbs remained.
Lu Ze nodded happily. He opened his eyes and went out of the door.
This time, Nangong Jing and the rest were all sitting in the living room.
Both Lu Ze and the girls were dazed. "Have you finished your solitary cultivation?"
They said nothing and just looked at Lu Ze, wanting to see what was different about Lu Ze this time.
Moments later, these people chose to give up.
Nangong Jing smiled. "Ying Ying said you came out before, so we stopped solitary cultivation."
Lu Li asked, "Lu Ze, did that reward arrive?"
Lu Ze just remembered that they still had incoming rewards!
Lu Ze took out his phone. Nangong Jing and the others came over curiously.
The message regarding the reward was already there. Capturing those space pirates got them 1300 Shenwu merit points, the pirate ship was worth 3000 Shenwu merit points. Most importantly, 4000 points were given for the level-7 planetary state blade demon and 4000 points for the blade demon ship.
There were 12,300 Shenwu merit points altogether!
This was almost as much as all the missions done in the last month! Out of all the rewards, the highest one was the Blade Demon reward. This further made Lu Ze more determined to go fishing
Now, those blade demon bounty hunters looked like walking Shenwu merit points to him.
Lu Ze's account had 60,000 Shenwu merit points now. These were the reward points for the entire team placed in his hands.
Lu Ze said, "Come, come, come, I'm going to buy the Martial God Set!"
Qiuyue Hesha and the others were all hopeful. They weren't wearing it, but they were still very curious.
Lu Ze opened the Shenwu Army Treasure Depot and proceeded to that familiar black armor. After placing the order, 50,000 was immediately deducted from his account, and only 10,000 remained.
Seeing this, everyone's eyes flashed with pain.
At the void border, Shenwu City, Military Treasure Depot.
This place had the most abundant resource at the void border. Many rare materials could only be found here.
The Martial God Set was here too.
All the dealings relevant to the treasure depot were handled by special departments.
Right now, the department before them was not far from the treasure depot. Suddenly, someone exclaiming could be heard in the building. "Someone bought the Martial God
Set!"
Everyone looked over immediately.
Martial God Set was just below the Black Cleaver in planetary state treasures. Very few people bought the set after it was acquired. It cost too much merit points.
Planetary states earned quite some reward points, but this equipment was just one means of equipping themselves with more power. There were other things that cost Shenwu merit points too.
"Oh, shit? Which wealthy person bought it? That's 50,000 Shenwu merit points!"
One level-2 planetary state bulky man sighed.
There was a black-haired man looking at the dealer's information. His eyes widened with disbelief.
Everyone saw his expression and asked, "Old Wang, what's wrong? Why are you like that?" "You're a planetary state. Be more mature. Which wealthy guy bought it? Did some powerful being come back from the depth of the void space?" someone urged.
The man took a deep breath. "No, it's not."
"It's not?" Everyone was very surprised.
"Which military high-level official is it?"
The Shenwu Army would give armor to its soldiers, but it was incomparable to the Martial God Set.
Old Wang shook his head. "No." A pretty-looking lady asked, "Hurry up and tell us who it is!"
Old Wang opened his mouth. "It's Lu Ze." "Lu Ze?"
Everyone couldn't react in time.
The air fell silent.
The bulky man couldn't speak for a long time. "Really? Lu Ze? That Lu Ze?"
Old Wang nodded bitterly. "Which other Lu Ze could it be?"
Everyone took in a cold breath.
"Impossible!"
"He only came to the void border for two months! He earned 50,000 Shenwu merit points in two months?!"
"... and, this seems to be his first time here?"
"... he's still a mortal evolution state..."
Everyone felt they were dreaming.
The bulky man asked, "Shouldn't the number one goal of a mortal evolution state at the void space is to survive and earn points through some not so dangerous missions?"
"So what's the situation with Lu Ze? Who can explain this?"
"This is probably a fake mortal evolution state?"
The pretty lady said, "Is he still human?"
It felt bad. She would love to have Lu Ze, but Nangong Jing and the other girls were around him. She didn't want to die.
Old Wang slapped his head. "Go do your own things. I'll send Lu Ze's request to the depot and send the Martial God Set over."
Seeing Old Wang leave, everyone returned to their own business.
Shang Yang stationing Grounds Suite.
Lu Ze looked at the notification.
So the Martial God Armor was made to order?!
It would take ten days to arrive?
Lu Ze didn't feel good. He thought he would receive it immediately. Following such, he would wear it and see if he could bully the female alcoholic or the fox demon.
His tiny wish was mercilessly crushed. Nangong Jing and the girls were also disappointed.
Nangong Jing suggested, "There are still ten days, so why don't we go outside and take care of the blade demons who are after Lu Ze?"
Everyone's eyes lit up.
Lu Ze smiled. "I feel it's rare that teacher Nangong has a good idea. Let's go!"
Nangong Jing: "?"
She gritted her teeth. "What's do you mean 'rare to have a good idea'?!"
Did this guy think she was stupid?!
Lu Ze sweated cold.
Seeing this, Lu Li rejoiced.
Qiuyue Hesha and the others also watched the scene with joy.
Lu Ze quickly said, "I mean that teacher Nangong is so smart. Usually, you have amazing ideas. It is only this time that you have a good one."
Then, he looked seriously at Nangong Jing. "I have to reproach you teacher Nangong. Are you not in the right state today?" Nangong Jing: "?"
Her face blushed. She almost believed it herself.
Lu Ze and the group didn't leave right away after checking out. They went to the resource building first.
They recycled all the treasures from the pirate crew and blade demon. They couldn't use any of them after all.
They were able to earn 3000 Shenwu merit points from the pirates. As for the blade demons, they were able to gather 6000 Shenwu merit points. Meaning, everything would add up to 10,000 altogether. When they were finished, they started heading out of the controlled region.
Lu Ze didn't know if there were blade demon bosses waiting for him outside, but he had nothing to do right now anyway.
Two days later, the New Dawn flew out of the human-controlled region.
Lu Ze and the girls were eating lunch. They went back to sparring during the morning and practiced self-cultivation at noon and night.
In the afternoon, Lu Ze used those golden-red orbs to improve his cultivation level while at night, he learned the Earth Shield divine art.
The Earth Shield divine art was much harder than the lightning spear. However, Lu Ze used those special purple orbs. There might be a bit of difficulty in learning it, but it was not impossible.
In two days' time, Lu Ze's cultivation level improved quite a bit. He used four of the twelve golden-red orbs, maintaining a rate of one every four hours.
At this rate, he would be able to reach level-7 mortal evolution state in a week. On the other hand, he would probably need time to reach familiar mastery for the Earth Shield.
After leaving the controlled region, there were very few cosmic bodies. The entire space was extremely dead silent.
Alice asked, "Would we really see blade demons?"
Lu Ze shook his head. "Not necessarily, but if we do, we would be profiting. If not, just think of it as a trip."
Lin Ling felt things were boring, so she said, "I'm going back to cultivate."
Lu Li smiled. "Me too."
Right now, those two were the most diligent when it came to cultivation.
Meanwhile, Alice was quite chill. She was a chef. She originally was working hard on cultivation, but after a while, she found that she couldn't catch up to Lu Ze no matter what, so she chose to take it easy.
She would study spirit cooking techniques while slowly cultivating. Due to her extreme talent and all sorts of orbs, her cultivation speed wasn't slow at all. Nangong Jing said, "Let's go back to cultivate." Everyone nodded and left Ying Ying to play on the couch.
Two days later, a few hundred-meter long black ship was flying in space. It seemed to have fused with the darkness of space.
Three powerful blade demons were looking at each other.
The strongest said, "Kuku Haer, Saisai Like, tell your subordinates to enter the controlled region and draw Lu Ze out."
The purple-armored and red-armored blade demon were reluctant, but facing the pressing gaze of that blade demon, Kuku Haer, who wore purple armor said, "Master Momo Wenge, Lu Ze is in the controlled region. My subordinates don't know where he is... It would be very dangerous if they are caught."
Momo Wenge's eyes sunk. "I don't have that much time to waste here! Five days! If you can't draw Lu Ze out, then I'm leaving."
Momo Wenge was a reputable powerful blade demon. His cultivation level was level-8 planetary state, and he knows a sliver of darkness god art. This enabled his combat power to be very strong among level-8 planetary states.
He just left that star state ruin and came here to do a mission. Now, he already finished that mission and happened to encounter this squad. After some talks, he found out they were doing Lu Ze's bounty mission.
He had heard about Lu Ze, the number one prodigy of the human race. He was appointed as Monarch of the New Dawn by the saints. Lu Ze had sabotaged quite a few blade demon missions.
Since he had some time, he might as well try his luck with this mission. Of course, he only dared to stay outside the controlled region. He didn't even dare to go near it.
These few days, he didn't see Lu Ze at all.
Five days was all he had until he had to go back to the star state ruin.
At this time, there was someone knocking on the door. A blade demon stood excitedly outside.
Seeing the door open, he rushed in and said, "Master Kuku Haer, we found Lu Ze's New Dawn outside the controlled region!"
The three blade demons were dazed for a moment. Lu Ze was the top prodigy of the Federation, so why would he suddenly be outside the controlled region? Why did he dare to come out alone? Momo Wenge said, "Are you certain it's Lu Ze's New Dawn?!"
The blade demon trembled. "Yes... Master! I'm certain it's Lu Ze's New Dawn!"
"That's the only one there?"
"Yes!"
Hearing this, the three blade demons all rejoiced.
Momo Wenge exclaimed, "Chase after them!"
"Yes!"
New Dawn drifted slowly. They didn't encounter any powerful void beasts in these two days.
Lu Ze was sitting on his bed with powerful golden-red energy flowing inside his body. The power pained Lu Ze's body a bit.
His cultivation level was rapidly increasing.
Soon, the red energy dwindled, and the pressure on his body eased up. He then frowned.
During this time, an urgent alarm blared. "Beep! The New Dawn is surrounded by high fluctuations of energy!"
Lu Ze stopped cultivating and immediately opened his eyes. He instantly disappeared from the spot.
In the living room, Lu Ze saw Ying Ying look around dazedly as though being scared by the alarm.
After seeing there was nothing, she kept watching her cartoon.
Lu Ze rubbed her head. At this juncture, the others also came out of their room.
They were quite annoyed. Nangong Jing gasped. "Which bastard surrounded the New Dawn?!" She was in a rather bad mood!
Right then, a powerful chi surged. The terrifying energy wave made everyone's body tense up.
A super-powerful being! One who far surpassed them.
Alice asked, "Who is it?"
Suddenly, another two powerful chi bore down on everyone.
Qiuyue Hesha frowned. "These two chis are as strong as the level-7 planetary state last time."
Lu Li frowned. "Is it the Blade Demon Race?"
At this moment, a coarse voice sounded, "Lu Ze, surrender!"
Lu Ze smiled. "I'll go out and see them with teacher Nangong and Qiuyue."
He rubbed Ying Ying's head. "Ying Ying, if they attack, then do what you did last time. I'll give you tasty food later."
Ying Ying nodded seriously. "Yes!"
There will be good food. She will treat it seriously!
In space, Momo Wenge, Kuku Haer, and Saisai Like surrounded the New Dawn. The latter two also had a lot of subordinates.
At this moment, the New Dawn's doors opened. Lu Ze, Nangong Jing, and Qiuyue Hesha flew out.
Seeing this, the blade demons' eyes lit up. They didn't really expect Lu Ze to be dumb enough to run out of the controlled region himself.
"Attack!" Momo Wenge said without hesitation. He used all his spirit force and was going to capture Lu Ze and the girls personally.
This place was rather close to the controlled region. It was best to end things fast. Meanwhile, the other two blade demons were also planning to attack.
Lu Ze was a sea of rewards to them.
The three released violent spirit force waves. The New Dawn was shaking due to them. During this time, their chi suddenly disappeared like they never existed. The blade demon's snarl froze.
Momo Wenge suddenly felt that his body became extremely week. His terrifying spirit force was completely gone.
"My spirit force disappeared!"
"What happened? So did mine!" Soon, he found that all the blade demons had lost their spirit chi.
The blade demons looked among themselves in terror. They didn't know how their spirit force disappeared at all.
How could this be? Who did it?
What level of being had it been to be able to do this?
There couldn't be such being in this region. Momo Wenge looked at Lu Ze but saw him smiling. He roared, "What did you do?"
There was only Lu Ze and the girls here.
Lu Ze smiled innocently. "I didn't do anything. Don't wrong me!"
This was all Ying Ying's work. It had nothing to do with him.
Momo Wenge snarled. "Lu Ze, I underestimated you. I didn't expect you to have spirit force-devouring means. But... other than spirit force, my body also has enough combat power to take care of you! Plus..."
Suddenly, black smoke rose around Momo Wenge.
Lu Ze was stunned. "Darkness god art?"
Momo Wenge said proudly, "Even without spirit force, I can take care of you guys!"
The other two blade demon bosses breathed easy. After all, they were level-7 planetary states. Even their body's combat power was past level-5 planetary state.
At this juncture, their eyes suddenly widened again. Fear took over. They found that their physical power was disappearing too!
"My body's power!" "Impossible!"
A wave of weakness struck them. Many blade demons could only float in space. They couldn't even move around.
Momo Wenge gritted his teeth. "I'm not scared! I still have mental force!"
God art could be used with mental force. As soon as he said this, all of their mental force disappeared too.
Momo Wenge: "?"
He felt his mental force sea was empty. Right then, all the blade demons looked strangely at Momo Wenge. This guy was the main culprit.
Why did their physical power and mental force all disappear when he said so?!
Momo Wenge wanted to explain, but Saisai Like pleaded, "Master Momo Wenge, please stop talking."
What if he said life force, and all their life force disappeared!?
Lu Ze felt great after seeing this. Ying Ying was a good kid!
Lu Ze's eyes turned evil.
Momo Wenge looked vigilantly at them. "What do you want to do?!"
Lu Ze smiled. "That's a boring way to talk."
They wanted to capture him. He could capture them back too, right?
He looked at Qiuyue Hesha and Nangong Jing. They both had a smile.
"Let's do it." Nangong Jing grinned.
Lu Ze appeared behind Momo Wenge and punched at Momo Wenge's head.
Momo Wenge couldn't even dodge.
Rumble!
There was a shocking clash.
Momo Wenge felt his eyes were starry from the concussion. Then, he heard Lu Ze suck in some breath. Lu Ze's face was pale as he flung his fist. "Boss, your head is so tough. My fist is hurting."
Momo Wenge: "?"
His dazed head cleared up due to anger. He was the one getting beaten up, and yet, Lu Ze was complaining
Just when he tried to gather his last sliver of power to counter-attack, he felt more pain from the back of his head.
His mind was in a trance again. Lu Ze didn't hold back and punched once more. Then, this level-8 planetary state finally fell unconscious.
At this point, the other two level-7 planetary state blade demons were knocked out by Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha.
There were also three level-6 planetary states, five level-5, and some level-4 and below blade demons. The level-5 and level-6 blade demons were knocked out while those level-4 and below were controlled by Qiuyue Hesha's seduction god art.
Thereafter, they found the blade demon ships. There were three ships. Two of them were the same type, and the other one looked more advanced.
Qiuyue Hesha ordered the blade demons to pilot the three ships while Lu Ze and the rest brought back the knocked out blade demons onto the New Dawn. In the living room, Lin Ling, Alice, and Lu Li were looking at the scene outside.
They weren't worried at all with Ying Ying here.
They greeted Lu Ze and the other two when they came back.
Lin Ling grinned. "This is quite a nice harvest."
Lu Ze grinned. "Indeed."
This was a successful catch. All these blade demons were captured alive.
Nangong Jing grinned. "Are we going to continue? It's only been four days."
Alice frowned. "Are we going to bring these blade demon ships with us? Wouldn't it alert the other blade demons when they see the ships?"
They could put the ships away like the New Dawn.
Everyone was dumbfounded. They didn't think of this.
Lu Li smiled. "To be honest, we can use these blade demon ships too. We just need to make it look like the New Dawn is captured. Perhaps this might draw out other blade demons."
Lu Ze and the rest thought this might really work.
After finalizing their fishing plan, Qiuyue Hesha ordered the three blade demon ships to fly overtly while the New Dawn was surrounded by them.
It was obvious they were captured.
Lu Ze and the others didn't know if this could draw out other blade demons, but there was nothing wrong with trying. All of them then returned to their original routine.
Three days later, In the Pocket Hunting Dimension.
"Roar!"
Sand and wind ravaged the barren lands. Lu Ze looked at the red-scaled dragon in the air.
A level-9 mortal evolution state! It was very powerful. Its chi even reached level-2 planetary state. However, this was no threat to Lu Ze at all.
The creature glared at Lu Ze while forming fire spears around it as it launched attacks towards Lu Ze.
The searing temperature dried Lu Ze's mouth. A complex earth rune flashed in his eyes, and an Earth Shield formed before him, blocking the spears in turn.
Rumble!
There was a shocking sound with the clash. The fire wave spread in all directions. Spirit force wreaked havoc everywhere like it was doomsday.
Lu Ze saw the Earth Shield crack a little under such a powerful attack. As the cracks expanded, the Earth Shield eventually shattered.
The remaining power of the fire spear wasn't powerful enough. It couldn't cause any damage to Lu Ze's golden armor.
Lu Ze smiled. The Earth Shield was rather powerful in terms of defense. He could easily block level-2 planetary state attacks now.
The red dragon roared upon seeing this. Its chi became more violent as it roared. The barren lands melted, and flame rivers flowed. The terrifying temperature twisted the air.
Lu Ze was emotionless. He disappeared from the spot and appeared above the dragon's head.
Looking at the huge head, Lu Ze's eyes flashed with coldness as his right leg flashed with golden light and stomped down.
Rumble!
Lu Ze crushed the fire defense barrier around the dragon's head and stomped heavily onto its red scales. The dragon's bones started to make cracking sounds as its chi suddenly dropped.
Before the dragon could react, Lu Ze stomped heavily again on the same location. Two consecutive heavy attacks and the golden force penetrated the dragon's head and wiped its life force away.
Watching the body fall to the ground heavily, Lu Ze felt relieved.
This was easier than killing a level-9 mortal evolution state last time. His progress had been rather fast during this period.
His current defenses should be able to block level-3 planetary state attacks.
If he wore his combat armor, even level-3 planetary state beings couldn't pose a threat to his defenses.
The dragon's body turned to ash, leaving behind orbs and god art orbs. Lu Ze swept them away and disappeared from the spot.
In the room, Lu Ze suddenly opened his eyes. His forehead was covered in sweat. He took a few deep breaths and calmed himself down.
He was beaten by a boss again. This time, he stayed five days in the pocket hunting dimension.
He didn't even know when he would leave the pocket hunting dimension. He just stayed for five days and still didn't feel it.
Lu Ze rested for half an hour and sat back up to cultivate.
He had been progressing so fast lately that he felt he was in love with cultivation.
The planetary seeds in his bone marrows were pretty much done. In about two days, he could try to break through to level-7 mortal evolution state.
The night was time for learning Earth Shield divine art. As the golden purple orb entered Lu Ze's head, his mind cleared up and was in an enlightened state.
Thereafter, he began to learn the secrets of the Earth Shield
In the morning, Lu Ze and the girls just came out of the virtual reality pods.
Alice smiled. "I'll go cook."
Then, she dragged away Lu Li and Lin Ling.
Lu Ze and the rest sat down on the couch, watching cartoons with Ying Ying.
At this moment, New Dawn's voice sounded. "Master, Blade Demon Ship One is requesting for communications."
Ship One was the most luxurious-looking out of the three ships.
Lu Ze answered, "Accept."
A blade demon was projected in the living room and reported to Qiuyue Hesha, "A blade demon fleet has contacted us. They're not far away."
Lu Ze and everyone smiled.
Nangong Jing said, "We were going to go back tomorrow. Didn't expect a big fish to take the bait before returning!" Lu Ze smiled. "Let's go over." Qiuyue Hesha nodded and said to the blade demon, "Lead the way." "Yes."
Soon, the three blade demon ships turned around. After flying for ten minutes, three ships smaller than Ship Two and Three appeared.
Five powerful blade demons looked at the screen from the three ships.
One blade demon said, "That's Lu Ze's New Dawn?"
Another blade demon was unsatisfied. "We've waited here for many days, but someone else got in on it first. Damn it!"
The leading blade demon narrowed his eyes. "Contact that fleet."
The other blade demon was stunned. "Why contact them?"
The leading blade demon grinned. "To protect them of course."
"If this squad is stronger than us, we'll protect them. If they're weaker than us..."
The other blade demons understood what he meant.
"Yes, let's go protect them!"
New Dawn: "Ship One, asking for communications."
Lu Ze answered, "Accept."
The blade demon appeared again. "They're requesting to meet up with us. What should we do?"
Qiuyue Hesha looked at Lu Ze. Meanwhile, Lu Ze smiled. "They want to merge their fleet with ours. They're really nice. Allow them."
He originally would have to subjugate those blade demons first before they would come close. However, they instead took the initiative to come over. How nice! Soon, the two fleets met.
Five figures left the fleet and flew towards Ship One.
The closer they got, the more Baba Huasi and the others were shocked. This ship had definitely much higher quality than theirs. The owner of this ship definitely wasn't ordinary.
Baba Huasi and the rest glanced at each other and decided to give up on the scheme.
The door opened, and Baba Huasi and everyone entered.
They were greeted by a few level-4 planetary state blade demons.
The leading one said, "Welcome! Welcome!"
Baba Huasi smiled politely. "You're too polite."
For some reason, he felt they were a bit weak?
Why didn't the owner of the ship greet them?
So rude.
At this juncture, they suddenly found all their power, spirit force, and mental force disappear. They dropped to the ground out of weakness. Simultaneously, the others dropped down too.
Before Baba Huasi could react, the level-4 blade demons came over and carried them up.
11?!
Baba Huasi was frantic. "What are you guys doing?"
The leading blade demon smiled. "Taking you to see our master."
Their master?
The master of this ship?
They long suspected the owner of this ship to be extremely strong. However, he didn't expect the owner to be this strong. They were of the same race. Why suck their power and subjugate them before bringing them over?
Did this owner possess mind-reading abilities and have seen through their schemes?
How could that be? Their ship was that far away!?
They acted very politely ever since coming here.
The group was extremely confused.
Baba Huasi and the others were carried by the level-4 planetary state blade demons to the New Dawn.
They weren't too confused about this as the New Dawn was Lu Ze's ship. After all, Lu Ze was a walking reward. There was nothing strange that the owner was personally guarding Lu Ze.
The New Dawn opened up. Lu Ze, Qiuyue Hesha, and Nangong Jing flew out.
Seeing this, Baba Huasi and the rest of the blade demons were confused.
Lu Ze? He was captivated and could still move freely?
At this moment, the four blade demons bowed to Qiuyue Hesha. "Master, we've captured them."
Baba Huasi's group: "?"
They thought they heard it incorrectly. "Master?"
Their race was calling this woman "Master"?
Is this a joke?!
"You... you guys!?"
This was treason! Every race had zero tolerance for treason.
Lu Ze gasped. "There's only one level-6 planetary state and a few level-5 planetary states."
Nangong Jing nodded. "There's not even a level-7 planetary state."
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Regardless, let's take them back first."
Lu Ze and Nangong Jing nodded. Then, they knocked the blade demons out and took them back to their ship.
Thereafter, Qiuyue Hesha controlled the other blade demons and ordered them to follow the New Dawn with their ships.
Back on the ship, Lu Ze and the group decided to go back. It would take about three days to return and that would be when the Martial God Set would arrive.
Three days later at the Shang Yang System, the vice commander of the army, Michael, was working in his office. During this time, someone knocked on his door.
He didn't look up and just said, "Come in."
A Shenwu Army soldier soon came in. Michael looked up and asked, "What is the matter?"
The Shenwu Army soldier saluted, "General, Monarch of the New Dawn Lu Ze sent news that he brought a fleet of blade demon ships and captives back. He hopes you can go personally for the handover."
Michael's hands shook, and he almost dropped his teacup.
Michael rubbed his head. "He asked me to go personally?"
"Yes, General!"
"Did he say the power level of the blade demons?"
"No, General!"
Michael felt a headache. It had only been a few days since he brought back a level-7 planetary state.
Now, he brought another one?! Last time that bastard said the blade demon had a heatstroke. Did another blade demon get heatstroke again?
He nodded. "Okay, tell me the time and location."
The soldier quickly relayed the information to Michael. Thereafter, Michael waved his hand. "I know. Go, do your thing." The soldier saluted before leaving.
Outside the Shang Yang System, the New Dawn brought six blade demon ships and headed towards the stationing grounds. A few federal ships were following on the side. These ships weren't of the Shenwu Army but adventure squads. Lu Ze scratched his head. "What are these ships following us for?"
Lin Ling rolled her eyes. "We're carrying six blade demon ships. Which adventure squad in the void space doesn't know blade demon ships?"
Blade demon ships were very distinguishable.
Lu Li smiled. "Your New Dawn is pretty famous. These people probably want to see what's going on?"
Nangong Jing grinned. "She's right. Ze has been too famous lately. Of course, people would be curious."
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Lu Ze's mouth twitched. "That shouldn't mean more and more ships are coming to see us, right?"
One ship happened to see them when it was flying out. Now, there were six ships.
Lu Ze became very speechless.
At this moment, a Shenwu Army ship flew over, and New Dawn's voice sounded. "Master, Vice Commander Michael is requesting for communications."
Lu Ze accepted it, and Michael's figure appeared in the living room. "Lu Ze, it seems your trip was quite fruitful this time. You need me to come to the handover."
Lu Ze smiled. "It's not bad indeed."
Michael asked, "Tell me, what level is the captive?"
Lu Ze replied, "There's quite a bit of them this time. There's a level-8 planetary state blade demon... He seems to know a bit of darkness god art, and..."
"Wait!"
Michael cut Lu Ze off. "What did you say? Level-8 planetary state blade demon? And knows darkness god art?"
Lu Ze nodded. "Yeah, is there a problem?"
Michael: "..."
There was a huge problem, alright?!
He was stunned. He glared at Lu Ze and squeezed out the words, "Don't tell me he had a heat stroke too."
Lu Ze quickly nodded. "You're smart indeed, General Micahel."
Michael: "..."
He looked at Lu Ze in disbelief. This guy must have thought he was an idiot.
He did report to the higher levels about the previous blade demon, but they said not to mind Lu Ze. But now, this kid was getting stronger and stronger. He even brought back a level-8 planetary state with god art.
He was very curious, but he couldn't ask in the end. What could he do?
He took a deep breath. "Come, continue, what else?"
Lu Ze continued, "Two level-7 planetary states, four level-6 planetary states..."
Just when Lu Ze wanted to continue, Michael smiled. "Okay, Lu Ze. We'll come over to pick up these blade demons. The other ships will be checked too."
Lu Ze nodded. "Thank you, General Michael."
Then, the Shenwu Army soldiers went in to check the six blade demon ships while Michael brought a few powerful people outside the New Dawn. Lu Ze, Nangong Jing, and Qiuyue Hesha brought out those blade demons.
Michael looked at the unconscious blade demons, and his mouth twitched. "Are they fine?"
He was quite worried as there was a level-8 planetary state blade demon. He was only a level-7 planetary state.
Lu Ze smiled. "They won't wake up for a while."
Michael nodded.
Meanwhile, the audience was very curious. "The Monarch of the New Dawn brought out a lot of blade demons."
"That seems to be General Michael? He came personally. This must mean Lu Ze earned quite a bit."
"I wonder what are the levels of the blade demons?"
"Perhaps level-5 planetary state. He got a level-5 planetary state Zhihuo Bird Egg last time."
"That's true. There are so many of them. There are probably over 10,000 Shenwu merit points there."
Soon, the handover was over.
Michael said, "The rewards will be handed out in the following two days."
Lu Ze smiled. "Thank you, General Michael."
Michael shook his head. "It's my job. I'm going back first."
He made a calculation. The reward Lu Ze would be getting was more than what he earned in two years.
This hurt him quite a bit. He was scared he would rob the kid if he stayed any longer.
The next morning, there were light spirit force waves spreading out in all directions from Lu Ze's body. He was about to breakthrough.
The breakthrough came a day later than he expected because he ran out of those golden-red orbs. That didn't matter though.
At this time, Lu Ze's 5 viscera and 6 bowels, 12 proper meridians, Ren and Du meridians, bones, and bone marrows all glowed white.
Every cell in those parts had planetary seeds.
At this moment, a void spirit force was drawn into his body. Red energy equal to level-9 mortal evolution state flowed inside and constantly strengthened his body and spirit force. Soon, the spirit force started to flow to his tendons.
The spirit force easily formed the first planetary seed on the tendon. With this, an invisible wave spread, and Lu Ze's spirit force and body both grew much stronger. He reached level-7 mortal evolution state!
Lu Ze's combat power had another buff. He could now narrowly fight a level-3 planetary state.
Level-7 mortal evolution state with level-3 planetary state power. This was rather terrifying. With Earth Shield, Lu Ze's defense should be even stronger.
Subsequently, the other planetary seeds started to form, and Lu Ze's cultivation level stabilized.
There were still three months left before they could return. At this rate, perhaps he really might be able to reach the planetary state before he went back? Lu Ze felt great thinking about this.
The time he would be returning would be at the end of his first academic year. He was a prodigy indeed!
Lu Ze got out of bed and went out.
Ying Ying was still watching cartoons on the couch.
She looked at Lu Ze with her deep blue eyes. "Cartoons are so fun, but why is it boring?"
Lu Ze: "..."
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. Just because cartoons were fun, did it mean they could be watched forever?
This kid hadn't seemed to have played anything else?
Lu Ze rubbed his chin. Should he let her try games?
He heard about some Star Ship game back in high school, which was pay-to-win and depended on appearance? Lu Ze gave up such an idea. What if she blew up the company out of frustration. Who could stop her?
Lu Ze nodded. Ying Ying watching cartoons was good.
At this juncture, Alice came out with an angelic smile. When she saw Lu Ze and Ying Ying on the couch, her eyes lit up, and she ran over rubbing Ying Ying with her face.
"Good morning, Ying Ying-"
Then, she looked at Lu Ze. "Good morning, senior, I'll go cook for you."
Lu Ze nodded. "Thank you, Alice."
She cooked for him every time.
Alice happily went into the kitchen. Soon, Lu Li, Lin Ling, Nangong Jing, and Qiuyue Hesha all came out. Lu Li and Lin Ling went to help in the kitchen while Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha waited for food like Lu Ze.
During this time, Lu Ze's phone rang.
Nangong Jing asked, "Who's contacting you?"
Lu Ze took out his phone and saw it was an unfamiliar number. He picked up, and a deep voice sounded. "Is this Lu Ze? I'm the delivery man for the Shenwu Treasure Depot. Your Martial God Set has arrived. Is it convenient for you to receive it now?"
Lu Ze's eyes lit up. He quickly agreed and reported his location. After the call ended, Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha smiled.
"The Martial God Set arrived?"
"Mhm."
A few minutes later, someone knocked on his door. Lu Ze quickly went to open it. Thereafter, a short-haired middle-aged man was there. He studied Lu Ze and smiled. "Monarch of the New Dawn Lu Ze?"
Lu Ze nodded. "Hello?"
He was surprised. He couldn't see this man's cultivation level at all. He should be at least level-8 planetary state, right?
Were delivery men these days this strong?
The delivery man sighed. "You're probably the first one capable of buying the Martial God Set after coming to the void space for two months. Heroes indeed come from the youths."
Lu Ze smiled in embarrassment. "You compliment me too much."
The delivery man took out a black storage ring. "Use mental force to imprint your mark. It's like your previous personal armor."
"You can ask me if you don't understand anything."
Lu Ze put the storage ring on his finger and then imprinted his mental force mark. He was used to it. Then, a dark ray flashed, and a handsome black armor set appeared on him. It covered his entire body.
The delivery man smiled. "How does it feel?"
Lu Ze's chi surged. All sorts of god arts started appearing on his hand.
He sensed the differences.
When the delivery man saw all of Lu Ze's god arts, his mouth twitched. He had heard quite a few times that Lu Ze's god art was abundant, but he was still shocked when he saw it himself.
This kid really had a lot of god arts! Right then, Lu Ze's voice sounded. "No wonder this is the Martial God Set. There was a bit of reduction in my spirit force usage, and the god art is much more powerful."
The delivery man smiled. "Since it's sold for 50,000 Shenwu merit points, it's worth this price."
"Since there are no problems, I'll be leaving first. If the armor is damaged, you can go and have it repaired at Shenwu City."
Lu Ze nodded. "Thank you, uncle."
Lu Ze wore the armor back into the living room.
Nangong Jing looked at Lu Ze. "How is it?"
Lu Ze grinned. "After wearing this, I'm confident in fighting a level-4 planetary state!"
"Really?!"
Nangong Jing and the other girls were in disbelief.
Among the planetary state, every level of difference was huge. Lu Ze could reach level-4 planetary state when wearing the armor. This was on par with Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha.
Nangong Jing spoke with some envy. "When I get the Martial God Set, my combat power can reach level-five planetary state!"
Lu Ze's full-powered state was almost the same as her. Nangong Jing was beginning to get worried. She was afraid to get beaten up. Lu Ze thought he would surpass the alcoholic when he wore this armor. However, she just reached level-2 planetary state, and her combat powers increased again. At most, they were even, or he still might not be a match for her.
Outside the controlled region, on the Four Symbol Crystal Mine planet, there was a base erected at the mine currently. The place was very busy.
In the surveillance room of the base, there was a series of alarms. All the Shenwu Army soldiers looked up.
The screens showed a large wave of red dots. Seeing this, these soldiers were in shock. "So many! What is that?!"
"Don't know!"
"Bring out the surveillance screen!"
It was vacuum space. It should be empty, but there were countless void beasts roaring and charging forward. Their bodies were huge and all covered in black sleek armor.
Everywhere they passed, terrifying spirit force flowed.
"What is that?"
"New breed of the void beast? So many?! Is this a beast tide migration?!"
"Quick... predict their path!" The AI calculated and soon saw that their planet was at the border of their path. They were moving towards the controlled region!
One soldier roared, "Oh shit! We're going to get caught here! Quick, report to General Youjin!"
"Notify the relevant people that they're headed inside!"
Lu Ze and the others just finished breakfast and were currently resting on the couch. Although the fishing missions were all Ying Ying's work, they still felt they were tired. They planned to rest a day before considering doing new missions.
At this moment, all their phones rang with urgency. Everyone took out their phones, and when they saw the message, their eyes bulged. It was a red warning message: (Large scales of void beasts are nearing the controlled region. It seems to be a beast pack migration. The Shenwu Army soldiers will be going to reinforce the border immediately. Adventurers need to help slay void beasts. There will be rewards.)
Nangong Jing's mouth widened in disbelief. "Large scale void beasts migration? Will enter the controlled region?"
Qiuyue Hesha frowned. "This is the same situation as the silver hook beasts last time?"
Lin Ling shook her head. "It's probably not the same. Looking at this alert, the scale of the void beasts wouldn't be small..."
Last time, the silver hook beasts only affected one planet. Now, the situation was clearly different.
Lu Li and Alice were dazed. They hadn't been on a mission before.
Lu Ze said, "The situation seems pretty serious."
Lu Li looked at Lu Ze. "What should we do?"
Lin Ling said, "Missions have come out already."
She projected the mission in the air. Everyone looked over curiously.
The beast tide crossed the border. The Shenwu Army would set up a defense line first outside the controlled region. However, the Shang Yang region was too vast. It's implausible to defend the entire border. The human race didn't have that many powerful beings. So if the void beasts went inside, the local stationed army and adventurers would be responsible for clearing them.
All the rewards would be determined based on the number of void beasts killed. After reading the mission, Lu Ze and the group sunk into silence.
Moments later, Lu Ze smiled. "Should we go outside or stay inside."
To be honest, Ying Ying can easily deal with this beast tide, right? But this thing had gotten so serious. If the beast tide suddenly disappeared, there would be several speculations.
Most importantly, this beast tide might be absurd, but it's not like the human race can't stop it. Lu Ze didn't want Ying Ying to help. A jade stone needed to be polished to become a beautiful jade.
If the human race truly wanted to grow, they should trial themselves in blood and fire.
Ying Ying was the last resort. Lin Ling smiled. "Let's go to planet Zhihuo? I'm worried about my brother."
Lu Ze nodded. "Mhm, let's go there."
The beast tide wasn't ordinary. Lin Kuang and the rest were too weak. It was best to check upon them.
After making the decision, Lu Ze and the girls left their hotel. Outside, several adventurers were flying to the space station.
They showed a friendly smile to Lu Ze and the girls on the way. They already heard of the news that Lu Ze captured a large wave of blade demons somehow. There were hums of warships in the air nonstop.
Qiuyue Hesha looked at this and narrowed her eyes. "These Shenwu Army are going to reinforce the defense line outside the border,
right?"
Lu Ze nodded. "That should be right."
Lin Ling's face was serious. "If that's the case, wouldn't the local force be lacking in power?"
Lu Li smiled. "I believe the high levels want to stop most of the void beasts outside, right? The region inside has a lot of resources. If they are damaged by the void beasts, it would be a huge loss.
Nangong Jing said, "Okay, let's stop discussing. Let's head off first. Zhihuo System is at the border of the controlled region."
Everyone nodded and flew towards the space station.
From there, the New Dawn headed off towards the Zhihuo System.
In the surveillance room of the Four Symbol Crystal Mine base, Youjin looked at the surveillance screen. Countless void beasts ravaged the cosmos. Everywhere they passed, planets crumbled, space became chaotic, and destruction spread throughout. Youjin's face was bad. "What does the internal region say?"
One officer answered, "General Chen Feng said he will go personally to set up the defense line. Other than that, every stationing ground will send half their forces to come and defend against the void beast's tide. Our reinforcements would arrive in three hours."
Youjin's tense face relaxed. "General Chen Feng is coming personally?" Chen Feng was the head commander of the Shang Yang galaxy region. His cultivation level reached the star state.
Beep.
A series of alarms rang.
A huge wormhole formed outside the planet. Tens to hundreds of meters long void beasts roared and flew out of the wormhole.
When they saw the planet not far away, their eyes flashed with chaos as they flew over. Youjin's face darkened. "Prepare for battle!"
Zhihuo Planet Stationing Grounds.
The atmosphere in the planet was more tense than usual.
Dense clusters of ships flew past, all heading to support the outside portion of the controlled region.
Many adventurers here, who weren't strong enough, chose to leave Zhihuo System for now.
Of course, level-5 planetary state adventurers and above chose to charge out with the Shenwu Army to form the defense line. They would earn more outside as well. The danger was lethal for weaker people, but for the strong, it was an opportunity.
In one suite, Luo Bingqing and the others were sitting on the couch with serious expressions.
Mo Xie smiled. "Are you guys planning to stay or leave?"
Xuan Yuji also smiled. "What about you guys?"
Luo Bingqing said plainly, "I'm staying. I will need some time to breakthrough just by solitary cultivation. I need a life-and-death battle to help me breakthrough quickly."
Lin Kuang grinned. "Of course, I'm staying!"
He had bloodthirsty god art. He would never be afraid of battle. Death was a home for him.
Jack said, "I'm staying too."
Derrick looked at them and said, "You guys are all staying, so I'm staying too, of course."
Seeing this, Mo Xie smiled. "You guys didn't disappoint me indeed."
Chi Xiaomo smiled sweetly. "We're staying too."
Bernie just smiled and nodded. They had been to more dangerous regions. Although staying here was walking on the edge of death, it wasn't going to make them quit.
Daphne's group looked among each other, and Daphne gritted her teeth. "We'll be staying too, but this situation is dangerous. We need to work together." Lin Kuang grinned. "I thought the same." If they worked together well, they could potentially kill level-1 planetary state void beasts.
In five short hours, several bases rose up on barren planets. Large numbers of Shenwu soldiers were stationed there.
Those regions without planets had powerful galactic motherships flying there as a temporary combat base.
The first line of defense was set up within five short hours.
At the center of the defense line was a huge metal planet. There were a lot of powerful cannons erected on the planet and countless warships going in and out.
In the command room, a bald-headed bulky man was sitting at the top. He looked at the clustered red dots on the screen and then at the screen on the side which contained void beasts.
He frowned. "What breed are these void beasts? Did you find out? Why are they migrating towards us?"
A purple-haired beautiful woman shook her head. "They seem to be a new breed. However... they appear to be from the same source. Their traits might be related to the insectoids, and that's why their habits are so strange. They would move out together but not fight each other."
Many soldiers frowned upon hearing this. Anything that was related to the insectoids meant trouble. This was common sense.
The bulky man bared his teeth. "I don't care if they're related to the insectoids or not. They will die since they want to enter our land! They have great numbers and span over a few hundred light-years. Every one of you, guard a post and try to stop these animals. If you really can't stop them, then leave it. Just notify the people inside."
"Yes!" all the warriors got up and answered.
They were all level-8 planetary state or even level-9 warriors.
The bulky man nodded. "If you fight star state void beasts, notify me immediately!"
"Yes!"
The man nodded. "Go."
All the warriors disappeared from the spot instantly.
The bulky man looked outside and narrowed his eyes.
If insectoids really appeared in this region, it would be trouble.
If there were star states, it would be a tough battle.
Four Symbol Crystal Mine Planet.
The huge planet was covered in craters, as though few layers of it had been sliced off.
Terrifying cracks stretched across the entire planet. The spirit force around the planet was unstable, as though it would explode at any time.
The low land regions were still fine, but there were quite some cannons and artillery stations around the base.
In the space outside the planet, the battle waged on. Planetary state soldiers were fighting void beasts. Mortal evolution state soldiers were fighting void beasts with warships.
There were ships exploding and void beasts being killed constantly. Beast blood sprayed across the entire region, and explosions painted the surrounding region red.
Youjin's armor was broken. Blood covered his body, but he still held onto his long sword and slew void beasts around him.
There were a few Shenwu Army warriors on par with him around him. They were all reinforcements.
The void beasts can endlessly spawn, but the Shenwu Army managed to defend this resource point
"Youjin! Go rest, time for a change of shift." A beautiful woman wearing red armor arrived.
Youjin nodded and flew back to the base.
The level-7 planetary state void beasts fighting Youjin roared and chased after him. A red sword ray cut across and stopped its pursuit.
Currently, this entire region of the universe was lit up in the fire of battle.
Flashy spirit force glimmered across the whole space.
Most of the void beasts were stopped, but still, a small portion of them got through into the controlled region. There were too many of them after all.
The defense line was even hundreds of light-years away.
Two days later, in the warp tunnel, Lu Ze and the girls were sitting on the couch of the New Dawn.
Lu Ze looked outside. "I wonder how the situation is now?"
There was no signal in the warp tunnel. Nangong Jing shook her head. "I don't know, but they've probably started fighting."
At this moment, New Dawn's voice sounded. "Five seconds before departing warp tunnel. Five, four, three, two, one..."
A silver light flashed, and the deep tunnel outside turned into space.
As soon as they came out, they frowned. There was a huge force striking towards the New Dawn.
Lu Ze instantly came out into space and put on the Martial God Set. He clenched his fist and looked at the gray beam shooting towards the New Dawn.
The spirit force around the pillar was near level-4 planetary state.
He raised a brow and formed a hundred-meter radius Earth Shield.
Rumble!
The gray pillar struck the Earth Shield.
Crack...
The Earth Shield began to crack, and eventually, it shattered. The gray pillar became extremely dim after this too.
Lu Ze waved his hand, and a golden palm print dispersed the gray pillar.
His Earth Shield had reached familiar mastery, but it was barely not enough to stop a level-4 planetary state attack.
Meanwhile, the others raised their brows. They were shocked that Lu Ze stopped such a powerful attack so easily.
Alice's eyes were full of admiration. "Senior is so amazing!" Qiuyue Hesha praised, "Little brother Lu Ze is getting stronger and stronger." Nangong Jing said with some insecurity, "I'm stronger than him."
Lu Li looked at Lu Ze with pride and yet dissatisfaction.
Lin Ling bit her lips.
Only Ying Ying looked at Lu Ze and then chose to go back to her cartoons. Lu Ze's fights were boring.
Roar! Roar! Roar!
A violent chi appeared.
Lu Ze looked in the direction of the roar. There were three strange void beasts there. They had sleek deep armor and sharp claws. Their tails split into two at the end with spikes.
Lu Ze was shocked. "Silver hook beasts?" They looked similar to the silver hook beasts but seemed more ferocious.
The others were shocked too. Lu Ze frowned. Since there were void beasts here, there would probably be more of them on planet Zhihuo. They needed to end the battle fast and go see the situation in the other area.
Blood lightning surged around him as lightning spears formed. He shot tens of lightning spears at the void beasts. The beasts tried to form gray shields to stop the spears. Lu Ze shouted, "Die!"
He waved his hand, and the tens of lightning spears formed into three waves and struck the shields. The shields were torn like paper as the lightning spear struck the beasts' armor and penetrated their body.
At this moment, a white beam flashed, and a ship suddenly came out of the warp tunnel and saw the lightning spear piercing the three void beasts.
The ship stopped quickly.
Outside the Zhihuo System, Lu Ze looked at the ship that suddenly stopped. He seemed to have seen it somewhere.
At this moment, another white light flashed, and another ship came out of the warp tunnel.
This ship also stopped on its tracks.
Right then, Lu Ze finally remembered where he had seen these two ships before. They were the ships of the two other adventure squads when they went to annihilate the Blue Shell Dragon with Yan Gu.
The doors opened, and a middle-aged man and beautiful woman came out. The man smiled. "I didn't expect to encounter Monarch of the New Dawn here."
Lu Ze smiled. "Guild leader Hu Xiang, long time no see. Guild leader Leona, likewise."
Hu Xiang smiled and nodded. He looked at the void beasts' bodies and was shocked.
His ship came out first, and he saw the blood lightning spears kill these void beasts. He was in disbelief since even he would need some time to take care of these void beasts.
Yet, Lu Ze killed them instantly?
It had only been two months, and his power reached this level?
Hu Xiang was completely dazed.
Leona didn't see the previous battle, but looking around, she had some guesses. She smiled seductively. "I didn't expect to see little brother Lu Ze here. What a coincidence." During this time, Nangong Jing and the others flew out and came next to Lu Ze. Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Leona, long time no see."
Leona: "..."
Her smile stiffened. "Young duke Qiuyue, long time no see."
Then, she glanced at Lu Li and Alice. She hadn't seen these two before. One had to admit that Lu Ze's luck with ladies was really amazing
Hu Xiang smiled. "Little brother Lu Ze, are you going to provide back-up for the Zhihuo System?"
Lu Ze nodded. "Yes, I didn't expect you guys to come too."
Hu Xiang answered, "The Zhihuo Lotus is a rather precious resource. The Shenwu Army released missions to protect this resource point, so we came."
"Zhihuo System should be quite dangerous right now. Since we've met up, why don't we head over together?"
Leona smiled. "I'm fine with it, of course."
Lu Ze smiled and nodded. "No problem."
Leona and Hu Xiang were level-4 planetary states. Their squad members were also planetary states. This was not bad after all.
The group went back to their own ships and flew towards the system together.
Inside Hu Xiang's ship, a handsome dark-haired man looked at the void beasts outside and was still shocked. He personally saw Lu Ze fight a few hundred planetary state void beasts before. But at that time, those void beasts were just level-1 and level-2 planetary states.
Now, he killed three void beasts approaching level-4 planetary state so easily. Was he dreaming?
This progress was too fast.
The other guild members were in disbelief too.
Hu Xiang sighed. "He's indeed the Monarch of the New Dawn."
Before, he even felt threatened by Lu Ze. This meant Lu Ze wasn't far from him.
At this moment, Leona's call reached Hu
Xiang.
Leona appeared. "Are those three void beasts killed by little brother Lu Ze?"
She had some guesses, but she still wanted to confirm them.
Hu Xiang nodded. Leona's eyes widened. She took a deep breath before nodding.
Back on the New Dawn, Nangong Jing gasped. "Didn't expect to see these two squads here."
Lin Ling said, "The rewards for the defense missions are rather bountiful. Leona and Hu Xiang are both level-4 planetary states. It's pretty normal."
"I wonder how senior Yan Gu and the others are doing?"
Nangong Jing asked, "Probably went out again?"
At this time, Lu Li looked outside. "There are void beasts outside the system. Perhaps there are a lot more inside as well."
Lu Li's words made everyone turn serious. They put on their combat armors and got ready for battle.
Zhihuo System.
In the asteroid belt and barren planets, there were thousands of void beasts positioned there.
Large fleets of ships, powerful warriors, and adventurers were fighting with them in every corner of the system.
Violent spirit force shone more brightly than the star.
Planets were shaking during such battles. Outside planet Zhihuo, tens of thousands of void beasts circled around the planet engaged in battle.
The planet was shaking from the shockwaves. Storms and earthquakes occurred non-stop. The organisms on the planet were fleeing like it was doomsday.
On the stationed grounds, a huge spirit force barrier covered the city and the ocean of Zhihuo Lotus.
This was one of the few regions not yet affected by the battle.
Luo Bingqing and the others were cleaning up the void beasts that got through the defenses. There were also other adventurers and Shenwu Army soldiers.
Everyone was engaged in battle.
Roar!
A void beasts with three pairs of sharp claws attacked Luo Bingqing and the rest.
Its cultivation level was level-1 planetary state, but its tough armor and agile tail made it rather hard to deal with.
Its front claws flashed with gray light as it attacked Louisa.
During this time, a purple light flashed. Xuan Yuji blocked the paw with a huge sword taller than her.
Rumble!
Xuan Yuji was forced a few hundred meters back. The purple crystal around her cracked a little. Blood even came out of her mouth.
Roar!
The void beasts waved their paws to attack Xuan Yuji again.
At this juncture, Bernie appeared before the spirit paw and blocked it with his vines. Warm white flashed across Louisa and landed on Xuan Yuji. Her injuries instantly recovered.
She charged back at the void beasts again.
Xuan Yuji and Bernie blocked most of the frontal attacks.
Luo Bingqing was covered in frost, but outside the frost, there were faint red flames burning. Fire and ice fused together. The ice spears struck the joints of the claw and the void beasts' weaknesses heavily.
As time went on, the void beast's movement slowed a little under the frost. This greatly relieved the pressure on everyone.
Lin Kuang was surrounded in blood mist as he launched strikes towards the beast.
Chi Xiaomo's dark red flames formed fire clones and went to self destruct.
Mo Xie was shrouded in dark sword rays which were dreamlike. They attacked the weaknesses of the void beast non-stop.
Jack, Daphne, Derrick all used their own divine arts and attacked the void beast.
As the battle progressed, the wounds piled up on the void beast. Its chi weakened.
Eventually, Jack swung a vibrant few hundred-meter long sword ray into its body. The sword intent surged, and its life force was wiped away.
Everyone breathed easy upon watching the body fall from the sky.
Xuan Yuji asked, "This void beast wouldn't be weak amongst level-1 planetary states, right?"
Lin Kuang grinned. "Of course. Its defenses are really crazy. I attacked the same spot a hundred times to create an opening. If it was just me, I would've been killed already."
Everyone nodded.
Unity was power.
Luo Bingqing looked at the body. "This is the fifth."
Mo Xie looked up at the sky. His eyes penetrated the atmosphere and saw into space.
The battle there was more terrifying but not something they could participate in.
"More and more void beasts are coming in. The pressure up there isn't small."
Louisa bit her lips. "This is at the border. The pressure is huge, but there should be a lot of adventurers coming, right?"
Jack nodded. "Looking at the time, it's been two days since the missions have been posted. Powerful adventurers should be arriving soon."
Lin Kuang asked, "Would Lu Ze and his team come?"
Even if they did, they would be at the battlefield above.
Daphne rubbed her head. "Let's continue and see if there are prey suitable for us."
Lu Ze's and the other's ships entered the Zhihuo System.
They sensed waves from all directions. Nangong Jing frowned. "There are many void beasts in this solar system."
Lu Ze nodded and looked at planet Zhihuo. "But the most intense battle is located there."
Other places were rather minor. Qiuyue Hesha asked, "Should we go straight to planet Zhihuo?"
"Let's go there first." Lu Ze nodded.
Soon, the three ships arrived on planet Zhihuo.
When they saw the dense cluster of void beasts there, Lu Ze and the others were dazed.
Everyone was fighting. The Shenwu Army warships were spurring spirit force beams while the warriors were fighting with all their might.
Lu Ze frowned.
Those who could fight in space were the middle-power of the human race, and yet, they were dying here. Could he really not let Ying Ying intervene? Lu Ze looked at Ying Ying who was looking outside and wondered if that was the right thing to do. Those humans, who were fighting, deserved respect. If Ying Ying intervened, she could save many people and easily turn the tides, but what about next time and the time after that?
What if Ying Ying fell asleep or left?
What if there was a being that Ying Ying couldn't stop?
If they relied on Ying Ying every time and lost the sense of urgency, could the humans still maintain such bravery and unity?
Lu Ze didn't know what to choose. Lu Li and Qiuyue Hesha saw this and grabbed Lu Ze's hands.
Lu Ze was startled and looked up at these two and finally realized everyone was waiting for them.
Lin Ling carried Ying Ying. "We made this decision together. These past two thousand years, with the 12 saints leading our race until now, we've relied on ourselves. This was the case before and will be the case in the future."
Qiuyue Hesha rubbed Lu Ze's forehead gently. "You're thinking too much, little brother Lu Ze. We can't only rely on Ying Ying."
Alice looked at Lu Ze and didn't talk. She would support Lu Ze regardless. Nangong Jing grinned. "Kid, this is my first time seeing you like this. It doesn't suit you."
She passed her wine bottle to his mouth. "Have a sip, then we're going to fight."
Lu Ze wanted to stop this, but Nangong Jing already stuffed it into his mouth.
"?"
Lu Ze looked at Nangong Jing in disbelief. Did she know what she was doing? However, since she did this, he didn't reject it either.
He had been drinking so much golden fruit wine that his alcohol tolerance became good. He guzzled half a bottle.
Nangong Jing took the bottle back and looked at Lu Ze in surprise. "Little kid, your alcohol tolerance became quite good. Last time, your face went red with just one sip."
Lu Li: "?"
There was a previous time?!
Lu Li narrowed her eyes. When the beast tide was over, Lu Ze would be over too.
Lu Ze thought of something. He should find an opportunity to give them golden fruit wine. It would benefit them quite a bit.
He smiled. "I know. Let's go help too."
He looked at Lu Li and Alice. "Stay with Lin Ling."
He looked at Ying Ying and rubbed her head. "Ying Ying, protect your sisters. If humans are about to die, save them. Don't let them find out."
However, there were so many people this time. Ying Ying might not be able to take care of everybody. She could only try her best. "I'll feed you good things after this ends." Ying Ying's eyes lit up. "Ying Ying promises to finish the mission!"
Nangong Jing and the rest smiled. If possible, who would like to see their own race die in battle like that?
Nangong Jing smiled. "Let's go."
Lu Ze nodded and contacted Hu Xiang and Leona. Everyone left the New Dawn.
Ying Ying then disappeared from the spot.
Lu Ze put away the New Dawn, and the other two squads came.
Hu Xiang said, "Let's head off. Find a point of entry with weakness in the planet first." Some void beasts were terrifying. Despite being a few hundred thousand kilometers away, the terrifying pressure was shocking.
Thereafter, everyone glanced at the battlefield and flew in one direction. There were nearly a hundred Shenwu Army soldiers fighting a few hundred void beasts there.
There were more void beasts than soldiers, but the soldiers cooperated well together and barely stopped the creatures. However, there were still void beasts crossing over from time to time.
The leader was a black-haired middle-aged man. He was a level-5 planetary state.
He held a black long sword. His face was a little fatigued, and he was fighting two level-5 planetary state void beasts. "Piss off!"
He hacked down with two hands, but it only made a clank on their armor. Seeing this, his face turned bad.
"Damn, these bastards' defenses are really strong!"
He panted and said, "When are the adventurer squad reinforcements coming? We can't hold on much longer."
Another soldier panted. "The mission has been released. It's been two days now. They should be here soon."
The middle-aged man cursed. "Damn it, are they snails? Brothers! Hold on!"
"Yes!"
Lu Ze frowned. "These void beasts don't seem like ordinary void beasts."
Leona nodded. "I have this feeling too. Let's be careful. Contact the Shenwu Army over there. Tell them to hold off the large group. We'll slowly finish off this wave of void beasts."
Lu Ze nodded. "In that case, I'll draw a wave over."
As he spoke, a black lightning cloud formed, and the blood lightning shot towards the void beasts crowd like sharp swords.
Tens of blood lightning bolts struck their armor, and those below level-4 planetary state were instantly killed.
Those level-4 planetary states stopped the blood lightning with their armor. The severe pain, which was unique to the blood lightning, made them look towards their attacker.
Roar!
After the lightning, the space fell silent for an instant. Then, sixteen level-4 planetary states void beasts turned and charged at Lu Ze.
Tens of void beasts below level-4 planetary state also followed.
This made the middle-aged man stunned for a moment. Thereafter, his eyes flashed with surprise and joy. He even hacked his sword with more power. "Heh, I take back my words."
The other soldiers smiled.
After that wave of void beasts left, the pressure on them was greatly reduced.
The middle-aged man roared, "Brothers, we're the Shenwu Army. Don't get outdone by those adventurers. Take care of these bastards quickly, and then, go help!"
"Yes!"
Meanwhile, Hu Xiang and Leona's team were dumbfounded.
Oh, shit!?
Sixteen level-4 planetary state void beasts? Hu Xiang looked at Lu Ze in disbelief. "Little brother Lu Ze...?"
If this person wasn't Lu Ze, he would want to kill him.
Leona also looked at Lu Ze with a pale pretty face.
Lu Ze looked at the two in disbelief. "You feel it's not enough? I think we should play it a little safer. They're quite strong after all."
If it was just ordinary level-4 planetary state void beasts, Lu Ze felt like he could take on 100 all by himself, but these creatures before them weren't. He didn't expect these two guild leaders to be tougher than him.
Leona opened her mouth. "Safer?"
She felt Lu Ze had a wrong understanding of "safer".
Lu Ze's power was about the same as theirs. They only had five level-4 planetary states in total. Bringing over sixteen level-4 planetary states was called safe?
Then, what wasn't safe?
Going to fight a level-5 planetary state? The void beasts already charged over.
Qiuyue Hesha's eyes flashed with pink light. The four void beasts at the front suddenly turned around and attacked their pals.
Those furious void beasts clearly didn't expect this. Blood splattered, but they were just lightly injured.
Those conscious void beasts saw that those four were still going to attack them, so they counter-attacked without hesitation.
The void beasts fell into chaos.
Lin Ling's eyes glimmered, and her spirit force was rapidly depleted as her face went pale. Luckily, her cultivation level improved, and she didn't get exhausted like last time with the silver hook beasts.
She smiled. "At the stomach, the center of the middle pair of claws."
Lu Ze and Nangong Jing left at the same time.
Lu Ze used space god art and was much faster than Nangong Jing. He appeared at the stomach of one of the level 4 void beasts. He saw an extremely small crack at the location.
"Die!"
Lu Ze formed a hundred-meter long lightning spear and attacked the crack.
Screech!
The void beasts tried to dodge, but its body suddenly stiffened, and the lightning spear penetrated the crack. The explosion of blood lightning instantly killed the beast.
Lu Ze's combat power was level-4 planetary state. It was all too easy to kill them while knowing their weakness.
Nangong Jing's golden fist force also pierced through a void beasts.
The other void beasts reacted and planned to attack Lu Ze and Nangong Jing.
Lu Ze grinned and disappeared from the spot, appearing in the middle of all the void beasts.
The void beasts attacked him with gray energy balls and spirit force claws.
Lu Ze easily dodged them while a lightning cloud formed above his head.
He pressed down, and tens of lightning bolts attacked the void beasts that weren't controlled.
Rumble...
Roar!
The beasts flickered with gray spirit light, wanting to block the lightning. Simultaneously, they shot out gray spirit balls and spirit force claws. Rumble! The explosion spread over thousands of kilometers.
The lightning tore through the attacks of level-1 planetary states and level-2 beasts, killing them in the end. The level-3 planetary states lasted longer but were still crushed. Only the level-4 void beasts could completely defend against Lu Ze's attack.
Furious roars sounded. The void beasts were planning to gather spirit force and attack once more.
Seeing this, Lu Ze's eyes flashed with lightning again as tens of lightning bolts formed and assaulted the surviving void beasts.
After this second wave, all the level-3 planetary state void beasts died. Only level-4 void beasts remained, but Lu Ze wasn't fighting alone.
Nangong Jing had appeared below other level-4 void beasts. Her golden fist force surged again and easily penetrated the void beasts.
With the chaos created by Qiuyue Hesha's void beasts and the suppression from Lu Ze's lightning, Nangong Jing easily killed all the void beasts.
The entire process lasted only ten seconds. All those void beasts charging at them had turned to dead bodies.
Lu Ze and Nangong Jing looked at each other and smiled before returning to the crowd.
The atmosphere was very quiet right now. Hu Xiang, Leona, and their crew still looked dazedly at the three.
Lu Ze turned to them and said with embarrassment, "You're right, I was too careful indeed. The rewards are based on the void beasts we kill. You guys didn't get anything from this wave."
Hu Xiang and Leona felt their hearts throb with pain.
They smiled awkwardly. "It's fine, little brother Lu Ze. Do as you see fit..."
What could they say?
If they said that they felt Lu Ze brought too many void beasts over before, they would lose all their faces.
Who would have imagined how insane these three were?
They thought Lu Ze, Nangong Jing, and Qiuyue Hesha were on par with them, but now, it seemed they overestimated themselves.
Thinking about how the three were weaker than them a month ago, they felt even sourer.
They wanted to retire.
The Shenwu Army soldiers also looked over.
When they saw the floating bodies, they ended up dazed, almost getting attacked by the void beasts.
The middle-aged man looked at this in disbelief. "How is that possible?"
That was sixteen level-4 planetary state void beasts! And many more lower-level ones!
They knew how tough their defenses were.
How could they all be gone in ten seconds?
Just what happened?
At this moment, the black-haired middle-aged man saw Lu Ze and the others on the side and felt stunned.
"Lu Ze?!"
He had seen Lu Ze before due to Blade Demon Missions. At that time, were they this strong?
"Roar!"
A ferocious howl interrupted his thoughts. He once again defended against the charging void beasts.
Lu Ze looked at the battlefield and smiled. "There aren't many void beasts left. Let's draw over another wave."
Before Hu Xiang and Leona could react, the lightning cloud above Lu Ze's head flashed again. This time, more than a hundred void beasts were attracted.
Lu Ze smiled. "This time, leader Hu Xiang and Leona can have your prey too."
Lu Ze felt bad that they didn't get a share last time.
The two looked at the void beasts pack, and their mouth twitched. They laughed it out. "Hahaha, that's right."
"Let's go!"
Lu Ze and Nangong Jing charged up first. With Qiuyue Hesha's seduction god art controlling the scene, Lu Ze's lightning cloud god art suppression, Nangong Jing's dominant fighting force, Hu Xiang, Leona, and the other planetary states, this wave of void beasts were soon killed too.
Hu Xiang and Leona stared at the void beast bodies. This was the first time that they realized combat was actually so easy. They just needed to do their thing. They didn't need to worry about danger.
He looked at the calm-faced Lu Ze and admired him. Prodigies with god arts were too terrifying
With this wave of void beasts being cleared, the Shenwu Army had an easier time.
Lu Ze and the rest didn't need to draw more void beasts over. Everyone flew towards the battlefield.
The Shenwu Army soldiers breathed easy. They had been defending for two entire days. Although there were shifts, it was still very tough.
Lu Ze, Nangong Jing, and Qiuyue Hesha moved to the battlefield where the middle-aged man was. Their targets were the level-5 planetary state void beasts.
Lu Ze said, "Captain Zhang, I didn't expect to see you here."
This man was the captain who handed over the Blade Demon Mission, Zhang Yugang.
The middle-aged man struck back the two void beasts and gave Lu Ze a complicated look. "I didn't expect to see Monarch of the New Dawn here. Your power... is much stronger than last time."
He looked at Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha. "You two as well."
The three smiled and said nothing. Their progress was unimaginable to ordinary planetary states. Lu Ze said, "Let's go help." Zhang Yugang nodded. "Thank you."
"Their weakness is on the stomach, at the center of the middle pair of claws."
Zhang Yugang's eyes widened in disbelief. "These void beasts have weaknesses?"
Now, he finally realized why Lu Ze and the others were able to kill them so quickly.
At this moment, another void beasts charged up.
Nangong Jing said, "Ze and I will help you stop one. Qiuyue will help you as well. Are you confident you can hit its weakness?"
Zhang Yugang frowned. "Their attacks aren't weak, can you stop it?"
Lu Ze nodded. "For a while, yes."
His Earth Shield was quite strong.
Lu Ze and Nangong Jing appeared before a void beast. A golden armor formed around Lu Ze, and the thick Earth Shield emerged in front of him.
Meanwhile, Nangong Jing's golden hair danced.
The void beasts formed an energy ball that was a few meters in diameter in its mouth.
During this time, Qiuyue Hesha's eyes flashed with pink light, and its chi immediately fluctuated. The energy ball weakened a lot. However, it still shot out towards Lu Ze and Nangong Jing. The two still felt a huge threat.
Nangong Jing gritted her teeth. "Stop it with full power!"
All of Lu Ze's spirit force surged, and the Earth Shield grew thicker.
Rumble!
The two clashed, and the Earth Shield soon cracked.
Lu Ze was flashing with blood light. Tens of lightning spears formed and struck towards the gray ball. At the same time, a golden fist force surged on his hand. He punched at the gray orb.
On the other hand, Zhang Yugang flew towards the other void beast. Qiuyue Hesha was using her full power to control this beast. It stopped on the spot.
Zhang Yugang appeared below it and pierced his sword into the weakness.
The void beast just struggled a little and died. Sensing this, Zhang Yugang was dumbfounded. Did it die that easily?
Meanwhile, the spirit force ball was about to cripple Lu Ze's and Nangong Jing's combined attack.
Lu Ze exclaimed, "Can't hold on much longer!" Then, he dragged Nangong Jing away and appeared next to Zhang Yugang. Despite using space god art to dodge the attack, their chi was still weak.
The attack of a level-5 planetary state was hard for them to stop, even together.
Lu Ze looked at the stunned Zhang Yugang. "Captain Zhang, there's still one more."
Zhang Yugang smiled. "Leave it to me."
Qiuyue Hesha rested briefly and used her seduction god art at full power again. Zhang Yugang easily killed the other one. With this, the remaining void beasts were soon all killed.
Zhang Yugang looked gratefully at Lu Ze and everyone. "Thank you so much this time."
Lu Ze smiled. "You're welcome."
Hu Xiang said, "We took the mission after all."
Zhang Yugang said, "The situation isn't getting better yet. There are void beasts entering the controlled region non-stop..."
Leona said, "Don't worry captain Zhang, we know what to do."
They came here to kill void beasts.
Zhang Yugang nodded. "Thank you."
Subsequently, the squads split off. It was safe staying with Lu Ze and his team but hard to earn rewards at the same time.
Lu Ze and the others were searching for void beasts to kill.
There would be wormholes appearing from time to time and strange void beasts joining the battle.
Even boss Zhu came to the battlefield. He was burning with purple flames. His opponent was a level-9 planetary state void beast.
A day later, some people went back to recover and rest.
Lu Ze and the girls didn't rest yet. They weren't tired up till now, and even if they were injured, they had regeneration god art. Two days later, Lu Ze and the others had slightly pale faces, but they still didn't go to rest.
Three days later, they didn't even know how many void beasts they had slain.
Their armors were cracking up. Even Lin Ling, Lu Li, and Alice were exhausted.
The nearby adventurers and Shenwu Army looked at Lu Ze's group like they were monsters. In such intense battles, they lasted three days. Were they still humans?
Usually, it was those who were level-5 planetary states or above who could last longer in battles.
But... they were just level-2 planetary states and a few were mortal evolution states.
After another wave of void beasts, Lu Ze panted. He asked, "Will you guys get some rest?" His rate of recovery was extremely fast, and yet, he already felt some fatigue now. They were probably struggling quite a bit too.
Nangong Jing shook her head. "Continue."
Lin Ling's eyes were red, and she said tiredly, "Did you notice? There are fewer wormholes and fewer void beasts."
Everyone became dazed. Lu Li, who was covered in blood, looked around. "There really does seem to be fewer of them. We haven't seen a wormhole for a long time."
There were wormholes appearing anytime when they first came!
At this moment, a coarse female voice sounded. "The defense line has been guarded. The beast tide outside the controlled region has ended. These will be the last few waves of void beasts here. Everyone hold on!"
Hearing this, everyone's morale was raised a bit. It was finally going to be over. However compared to them, the defense line would be presumably more tired.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled feebly. "Continue."
Another day later, lightning clouds gathered above Lu Ze's head. "Die!"
Rumble! Rumble! rumble!
Tens of lightning bolts penetrated the void beasts' bodies and annihilated them.
Pant.
Lu Ze felt a wave of fatigue. He had been fighting for four days non-stop. This really wasn't humane. He then looked at Lu Li and the rest.
Lu Li's and Alice's pretty faces were pale. Their chi was weak as well. Right now, they were recovering
Lin Ling's eyes were red like a rabbit's.
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha were slightly faring better, but their armors were shattered, and their bodies were covered in blood. Their chi was also weak.
They all fought non-stop these four days without rest.
Zhang Yugang and the soldiers looked at Lu Ze and the girls with respect. They rested a few times already, but Lu Ze and the others didn't take a break at all. Such a firm will and terrifying recovery were shocking.
Zhang Yugang said, "Little brother Lu Ze, young dukes, there aren't many void beasts left. We can handle it ourselves now. How about you guys go back to rest first?". "Yeah, Monarch of the New Dawn, go take a break. You guys have killed enough void beasts."
"Except for the boss, General Mabel, and the other generals, you are the only ones who have been fighting non-stop these four days." Of course, the others were all level-7 planetary states and above.
Lu Ze looked at Nangong Jing and the rest. Subsequently, he nodded. "Okay, we'll go rest then."
Hearing this, they felt relieved. They were really scared that Lu Ze and the girls would die from exhaustion.
In reality, Lu Ze was tired, but he could still fight, but Nangong Jing and the others probably couldn't. They didn't have a spirit body like him, and their recovery ability wasn't as good as Lu Ze's.
Lu Ze said, "Come over, we'll use space transmission to go to the stationed grounds."
Lu Li looked at Lu Ze with worry. "Would you be too tired?"
Lu Ze smiled. "My recovery is much stronger than you guys." Hearing this, Lu Li didn't hesitate any longer and grabbed Lu Ze's hand. The others also came over.
When Lu Ze and the girls reappeared, they were inside the stationed grounds.
Lin Ling could barely keep her eyes open. She said tiredly, "Let's go find a room to rest?"
Lu Ze nodded. They went to a hotel and walked in.
Several people in the foyer looked over.
A lot of adventurer squads came over, and even those squads saw Lu Ze and the rest in the battle. Fighting for four days non-stop was scary to them.
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Seeing how tired they were, everyone felt complicated. The scary thing was that they were outmatched in both talent and hard work. This feeling was the worst.
Lu Ze didn't mind their glances. He came to the reception. "I'll book a suite."
The worker operated the machine and then looked apologetically. "Monarch of the New Dawn, I'm really sorry. All the suites have been booked."
Lu Ze frowned. The beast tide was nearly finished. A lot of adventure squads came to rest up. Clearly, there weren't enough rooms to accommodate everyone.
Just when Lu Ze was about to leave, an old voice sounded. "I'll give my squads' room to Monarch of the New Dawn and the rest."
Lu Ze turned around. It was a six-man squad. The leader was a white-haired yet bulky old man. His chi was very powerful. He was a level-6 planetary state.
Despite this, his armor was all tattered. He smiled. "You must be very tired after fighting non-stop for four days. Go rest first."
Another level-5 planetary state middle-aged man smiled. "Use our teams'. Old man Ding Chen hasn't rested at all. Our cultivation level is weaker, and we got two periods of breaks. We're not too tired."
Hearing this, Ding Chen didn't reject it. Lu Ze smiled gratefully at the man. "Thank you, uncle. Thank you, old man Ding Chen."
These were good people. Lu Ze was very touched.
Thereafter, the group went into the room. Despite being very tired, the girls still insisted on showering before resting. They went into the bath all together to save time.
After showering, they went towards their own rooms.
Lu Ze didn't cultivate. He just lay on the bed and fell asleep. His mind had been very tense these past four days. He was exhausted. When he opened his eyes again, dim light shot into the room.
Lu Ze got up and stretched. He felt great.
He looked outside. The ground was covered with cracks. It was a disaster. However, the Zhihuo Lotus Region was fine. This was all the destruction caused by the battle.
In the distance, the sun was setting. Lu Ze looked at the time and just realized he had slept for more than a day. It was almost the second night.
He walked out of the room, and immediately, the door on the room to the side opened. Nangong Jing's black hair was messy. She wore a loose white robe and carried a bottle of alcohol.
She grinned at Lu Ze. "Recovered?"
Lu Ze rolled his eyes. "I should be asking you this. Your situation was worse than mine."
Nangong Jing was immediately unsatisfied. "I'm clearly stronger than you!"
Lu Ze was speechless. "Okay, you're stronger now."
When he completely surpassed her, he was going to make her know his power.
Qiuyue Hesha walked out at this moment.
She smiled seductively. "I saw little brother Lu Ze as soon as I came out. Today must be a beautiful day."
Nangong Jing sneered and pointed outside. "Today is almost over."
Qiuyue Hesha pouted her lips. "Hmm, I saw the female T-Rex as soon as I came out. I'm really unlucky."
Nangong Jing glared at her. "If you want to fight, just say it!"
Lu Ze rolled his eyes and walked into the living room. Ying Ying was still watching cartoons on the couch.
He carried Ying Ying in his arms and rubbed her head. "Ying Ying, did you do your mission well these few days?"
Ying Ying said with some pride, "Yes!"
"There were two-star state big monsters outside. I ate them before they came." Ying Ying groaned. "They didn't taste good." Hearing this, Lu Ze, Nangong Jing, and Qiuyue Hesha were shocked.
"Star states?"
Nangong Jing frowned. "They didn't mention star state void beasts coming to the defense line."
If there were really two star state void beasts, then things definitely wouldn't be as easy as now.
The defense line might end up crippled, and large waves of void beasts would enter the controlled region. The damage would be rather serious.
Qiuyue Hesha rubbed Ying Ying's face. "Ying Ying did the most work this time. Ying Ying is really amazing!"
Ying Ying's little face showed some pride. Then, she looked at Lu Ze. "Lu Ze, good food."
Lu Ze smiled and took out red and purple orbs to feed her. After all, god art orbs were useless to her.
Seeing Ying Ying eat happily, Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha grinned.
At this moment, Lin Ling, Lu Li, and Alice all came out.
Lu Ze looked at the three. "Recovered?"
Lu Li smiled and nodded. Seeing Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha sit on both sides of Lu Ze, her smile stiffened for a moment. Meanwhile, Alice dragged Lin Ling and Lu Li to the kitchen. "Everyone is hungry, right? We'll go cook."
Lu Ze felt touched. Alice was an angel indeed.
Dinner was finished amidst Lu Ze's and Ying Ying's fight over food. Lu Ze still lost tragically to Ying Ying
After packing things up, he squeezed in next to Lu Li.
Nangong Jing asked, "Why would there be void beasts tide appearing suddenly?"
It happened so unexpectedly. There was no way to anticipate it at all. Lin Ling frowned. "Those void beasts had different breeds, but they seemed to be silver hook beasts. They all appeared to be related to the Insectoid Race."
Lu Ze nodded. "We could tell from its appearance before."
Qiuyue Hesha said, "Silver hook beasts were a breed that the Federation hadn't discovered before. These void beasts are never seen before breeds too. They are all related to the insectoids..."
Lu Li was curious. "So, where are they from? How did they come here?"
Everyone was confused.
During this time, Lu Ze's phone rang. He picked it up and checked the message. Afterward, his face lit up with a smile immediately.
Nangong Jing asked, "What's up?"
Lu Ze grinned. "The rewards are here. The rewards for defending planet Zhihuo and capturing the blade demons have arrived at the same time."
Following such, he projected the information in the air. They had acquired a total of 35,000 Shenwu merit points for defending planet Zhihuo.
Just that alone was a huge surprise. They managed to earn that in just four days. Before, they could only get 10,000 after a month.
One could imagine how many void beasts they killed during this time.
As for the blade demons, that level – 8 planetary state with darkness god art was worth 8000. The level-7 planetary state blade demons were each worth 4000.
As for the level-6 planetary state blade demons, the reward was 2500. There was a total of four, so that would be 10,000 altogether.
The other blade demons totaled up to 13,000.
Meanwhile, the level-8 blade demon's ship was worth 5000. The two level-7 blade demon ships were worth 3000. There were also another three, worth 2000.
Just the ships alone gave them 17,000. For the grand total, Lu Ze nearly had 120,000 Shenwu merit points!
That was enough to buy two more Martial God Sets.
Lu Ze smiled. "It seems teacher Nangong and Qiuyue will both have the Martial God Set."
Nangong Jing grinned. "With this, my combat power can reach level-5 planetary state. Ze, you would be much weaker than I am."
Lu Ze rolled his eyes. At this moment, he thought of something. "By the way, we haven't recycled the treasures we got from the blade demons."
Nangong Jing smiled. "Then, let's go recycle them first. Perhaps we can get enough for Lin Ling's Martial God Set."
Lin Ling was hopeful too. Although there were still two months left at the void border and they would all get Martial God Set, it was still better to obtain it earlier.
Lu Ze nodded and said, "Let's organize their treasures first. We didn't even look last time."
Everyone nodded.
Lu Ze took out a stack of storage rings. They were all left behind by blade demons. It was very easy to organize them as they could just leave inside whatever wasn't useful to them. The Shenwu Army would go recycle it later and estimate their worth.
Moments later, all the storage rings were finished. Lu Li said, "These blade demons are actually very poor. Other than some cultivation serum and ordinary types of equipment, there was nothing special."
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "They're just ordinary blade demons after all. Don't have too much expectation."
Lu Ze and the girls found many one-time-use things. However, these were completely useless against Ying Ying.
They must have been in much despair. These things were useless to Lu Ze and the rest as well, so they might as well exchange them for reward points.
Soon, only that level-8 planetary state blade demon's storage ring remained.
Everyone sent in their mental force and found quite some rare spirit materials and fruits. There were also crystal emitting dense spirit forces. These were probably for cultivation, but it was not useful to them either.
At this juncture, Lu Li used her mental force to take out a black long sword. Her eyes flashed with surprise and joy. "This long sword can amplify darkness god art."
Lu Ze and the other girls looked at Lu Li in admiration.
Alice said, "Li is really lucky. Only you found a weapon suitable for yourself."
Lin Ling said, "But that blade demon had darkness god art. It's expected to find such a sword."
Nangong Jing added, "That blade demon probably didn't expect himself to get captured before he could even use his weapon?"
Lu Ze found this hilarious. "He's just too unlucky."
During this moment, Qiuyue Hesha raised a brow. "What is this?"
Her mental force surged, and she took out a black metal box.
Lu Ze and the rest frowned.
"This metal box..."
They had seen it twice already. Once at the northern border, and once with the blade demons not long ago. Each time, this styled box contained something very high-tech, perhaps something from the Advanced Demon Race.
Lu Ze rubbed his head. "Each time I see this, nothing good happens." Lin Ling asked, "Can you open the box?"
Qiuyue Hesha tried it, and what surprised everyone was that the box opened easily. However, when they looked inside, they frowned. It was empty.
Lu Ze asked, "Has it been used already?"
In the living room, everyone looked at the empty box and fell into contemplation.
Nangong Jing frowned. "A few days after using the high-tech item and catching the blade demon, there's a beast tide. Isn't this too much of a coincidence?"
Lin Ling speculated, "Perhaps their original target wasn't Lu Ze?"
Lu Ze smiled. "We can ask." Then, he took out his phone and called Michael.
Michael picked up, and his fatigued figure appeared. Thereafter, Michael's mouth twitched. "Lu Ze, don't tell me you found another heat-stroked blade demon!"
Lu Ze smiled. "You're kidding, General Michael. How can I be that lucky? The beast tide just passed, where would I find one?"
Michael rolled his eyes. "You know that too? I'm still at the defense line. I'm very busy. If you didn't call me, I definitely wouldn't have picked up."
Lu Ze smiled. "Thank you, General Michael. I wanted to ask how the defense line is doing?"
Michael was speechless. "That's what you called me for? Our losses are far less than we imagined. We just lost a few warships. There are close to zero casualties. This is a miracle!"
"Not just us but the other officers don't dare to believe this mortality rate. We were ready for a huge loss."
Everyone looked at Ying Ying gently. They knew this was Ying Ying's work. However, they couldn't tell this to Michael.
Lu Ze responded, "That's great."
Michael felt that Lu Ze wasn't surprised enough, but he wasn't dumb enough to think that Lu Ze did something.
The defense line stretched a few hundred light-years. Even the saints couldn't handle that, let alone Lu Ze.
"You're not just calling me for this, are you? If there's nothing else, I'm hanging up." Lu Ze asked, "Do you know the reason for this beast tide?" Michael's face became serious. He frowned and stared at Lu Ze. "You know?"
Lu Ze answered, "I don't know."
"Then, why are you asking?"
Lu Ze provided, "I might have some clues here."
"What?!" Michael stared at Lu Ze in disbelief.
"General Cheng Feng has sent elite squads to investigate many times, and they have found nothing. How did you find it?"
Lu Ze inquired, "Remember that level-8 planetary state blade demon?"
Michael nodded. "The one that knows darkness god art? Of course."
"Good, we found something that doesn't belong to the blade demons in his storage ring. It seems to be something from a more advanced race."
Lu Ze explained to Michael about the previous two black boxes. "... Now, this box is empty."
Michael sunk into contemplation. "Lu Ze, you're suspecting that this blade demon did it?"
Lu Ze nodded. "Where is that captive? Can you ask anything from him?"
Michael frowned. "His cultivation level is too high. None of us have god art to control his mind. We've locked him up. The commander was planning to bring him back to Shenwu City, but we haven't gone back yet, and the beast tide appeared."
"He's still locked in the prison at the stationed grounds."
Level eight of the planetary state was too high.
People with mental force god art were extremely rare. Qiuyue Hesha was probably the strongest one with mental control god art in the human race.
Qiuyue Hesha frowned. "That blade demon is too strong. I can't control him yet." Lu Ze exhaled. "Then, we have to think of another way."
Michael said, "I'll report this to General Cheng Feng and send a notification at the base for them to monitor that blade demon."
Lu Ze nodded.
Michael cut the call and breathed out. He looked at his second-in-command with a serious face. "Notify the stationing grounds to keep a close watch on that blade demon."
The man nodded. Michael also started contacting HQ.
On an asteroid base inside an office, the bald-headed Cheng Feng looked at the star map and frowned.
The beast tide came so suddenly, but they weren't able to locate the source.
He rubbed his forehead and sighed. They had searched the surrounding thousand light-year region. They didn't find a beast pack this large, meaning this was really over.
Time to go back.
At this time, the sound of someone knocking on the door could be heard.
"Come in."
The door opened, and a brown-haired man came in. "General Cheng Feng, the vice commander of the Shang Yang Stationing Ground, Michael, wants to speak to you. He says it's an emergency report."
"Michael? Accept it," Cheng Feng replied.
The man nodded.
Michael's image appeared in the living room. He saluted, "General Cheng Feng!"
Cheng Feng nodded. "What is it?"
Michael took a deep breath. "I might have a clue about the beast tide." "What?!" Cheng Feng glared at Michael. "You're saying you found clues of the beast tide?"
Michael shook his head. "I didn't, Lu Ze did."
"Lu Ze?"
Cheng Feng was confused. Lu Ze was only a mortal evolution state and was inside the controlled region during the beast tide. How could he know?
Seeing that even the powerful general was surprised, his heart was comforted. Cheng Feng ordered, "Explain."
"Yes!"
Michael relayed, "I'll start from Lu Ze capturing a level-8 planetary state blade demon who knows darkness god art..."
"Wait!"
"Captured a level-8 planetary state blade demon?"
Michael nodded. "Lu Ze said that blade demon had a heatstroke, and Lu Ze found him."
Cheng Feng: "...' "Continue." Then, Michael reported everything Lu Ze told him. Cheng Feng's office fell silent. Moments later, Cheng Feng ordered, "Disperse the defense line, I'll go to Shang Yang Stationing Ground. I'll bring that blade demon to Shenwu City this time." Michael smiled. "Yes, General."
At this juncture, Michael's man ran over with a pale face. "General, something happened!"
Michael quickly asked, "What happened?"
The young officer gulped his saliva and said drily, "That blade demon is dead."
Hearing this, Michael's body stiffened. His expression became extremely bad. In some distant asteroid base, Cheng Feng's expression fell. Michael gritted his teeth. "Dead? How is he dead?! We clearly sealed his power and mental force. There are people watching him too. There should be no possibility for him to commit suicide!"
The young officer said, "The stationing ground was attacked by a legion of void beasts. Vice Commander August, who was responsible for watching him, went out to defend against the void beasts. When he came back, that blade demon's mental force sea had been destroyed."
"Damn it! August, that idiot!" Michael cursed.
In reality, Michael knew that August couldn't be blamed. When the void beasts attacked, August had to go kill the void beasts. Cheng Feng frowned. "Okay, Michael, compared to the safety of the entire base, what August did was reasonable. Notify them to keep watch of the blade demon's body. We'll go back to Shang Yang Stationing Grounds to go see that body. Perhaps we can discover something"
Michael breathed easy. "Yes, General. I'll notify August now."
In the depth of the void universe, a vast cosmic fortress was flying in space exceptionally far from a massive planet.
Within one room of the fortress, Luoluoxisi's purple eyes flashed. "Master Momo Wenge is dead."
The blade demons in the room were stunned to hear the information.
"Impossible! Momo Wenge's power is near level nine of the planetary state. He had darkness god art. He just went to a region located outside the human territory. He finished the mission as well. How did he die?!"
Momoerde frowned. "Luoluoxisi, did you sense it incorrectly? Master Momo Wenge is so strong. How could anything happen to him at the human border?"
Luoluoxisi smiled bitterly. "I hope I was mistaken in sensing it too. Master Momo Wenge activated the means I left behind. He probably committed suicide."
All the blade demons were dazed.
Duoduo Lisi asked with a heavy tone, "Suicide?! Why?"
"Not sure, no message was sent back." Luoluoxisi shook his head.
"Since he was forced to commit suicide, this meant that his opponent was unbeatable. It's quite possible that he was up against a star state. He knew he couldn't run away, so he made such a decision."
"Perhaps he had been caught alive and in the risk of disclosing our information. That's what made him do so."
"If he was captured alive, Momo Wenge probably wouldn't' have the opportunity to commit suicide, right? The person watching over him wouldn't be weak." Duoduo Lisi furrowed his brows.
Luoluoxisi smiled. "What if they went to fight those beasts? This is our present for the human race. Looking at the time, that present should have arrived."
Duoduo Lisi sighed. "If that's the case, then Momo Wenge is just unlucky. He went to do a mission and encountered a star state. That's fate."
The other blade demons were speechless. It was his fault for being unlucky.
Luoluoxisi continued, "But, his space location marker is still useable. This means our business hasn't been discovered."
At this moment, the sound of someone knocking on the door could be heard.
Duoduo Lisi urged, "Come in."
A blade demon warrior entered with excitement. "Master Duoduo Lisi, Masters, the reinforcements have arrived. Master Lala Nisi is here."
The other blade demons looked surprised and joyful.
Duoduo Lisi got up. "Let's go greet Master Lala Nisi!"
Everyone was excited. Her beauty was out of the world among the demons. Which demon didn't want to be her partner?
Planet Zhihuo.
Lu Ze and the others came to the Recycling Hall. Other than the black metal box, they recycled everything.
They got more than 30,000 Shenwu merit points in return. Now, Lu Ze had more than 150,000 Shenwu merit points. This meant that Qiuyue Hesha, Nangong Jing, and Lin Ling's Martial God Set could be bought.
Nangong Jing said, "Let's go back now and buy it right away!"
Lu Ze smiled and nodded.
When they got back to their room, Nangong Jing snatched Lu Ze's phone over and went to the page.
Qiuyue Hesha and Lin Ling weren't this excited, but they were still delighted.
Lu Li and Alice peeped over curiously.
Moments later, Nangong Jing and the girls made the order.
Nangong Jing frowned. "It still takes ten days for the armor to arrive. So slow."
Qiuyue Hesha added, "The Shenwu Army's efficiency is so low."
Lin Ling nodded. "I feel so too. They need to make some changes. These sort of deals should be made in three days!"
Lu Li and Alice looked at the three with admiration.
Alice said, "I really want to buy one too."
Lu Li didn't say anything, but one could see her thoughts from her expression.
...
On the first floor of the Shenwu Army Treasure Depot. Old Wang called, "There's another Martial God Set sold out!"
Everyone looked over again.
Suddenly, old Wang exclaimed, "Oh shit! Another one is sold!"
Everyone's eyes bulged. Why were there two armors sold in a row?
Since when did Martial God Sets sell so easily?
During this time, old Wang called again, "Oh shit! Another one is sold!"
A beautiful woman on the side rolled her eyes. "We're not deaf. You said another one was sold twice."
Old Wang turned around and clarified, "I said three were sold. Three were sold in a row!"
The beautiful woman's eyes dropped. "Three armors sold in a row? This time it's definitely someone strong buying it! Look at who it is!"
Everyone looked curiously at old Wang.
Old Wang looked at the order information, and his eyes became dazed once again.
The woman asked curiously, "Who is it this time, old Wang?"
Old Wang looked strangely at the woman. "Um... it's Lu Ze as well this time... He bought all three..."
Everyone looked among themselves.
"Didn't he buy one already? Why did he buy three more?"
Old Wang answered, "This time, he bought a female-styled armor."
Everyone immediately understood what was going on.
The pretty woman didn't feel too good. Why was it so hard to find a wealthy man suitable for her?
Old Wang coughed. "I'll go notify the Military Depot..."
Planet Zhihuo.
Nangong Jing and the others just finished buying the Martial God Armor Set when Lu Ze's phone suddenly rang. Nangong Jing threw it to Lu Ze. Thereafter, Lu Ze realized it was Michael calling. He accepted and projected Michael's figure in the living room.
Lu Ze looked at Michael in surprise. "You've found the source of the beast tide? Your efficiency is very high."
Michael's face turned awkward after hearing the praise. He laughed drily. "Actually, that blade demon died."
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The atmosphere instantly became uncomfortable. Moments later, Michael couldn't handle it and smiled bitterly. "It's our negligence. We didn't expect that blade demon to commit suicide while the void beasts attacked and the guardians went to defend."
Lu Ze smiled helplessly in return. "This beast tide is indeed unexpected."
Michael continued, "We actually wanted to ask you where you caught this blade demon." He then expanded some sort of star map in front of the others. "We want to see if there are any marks left there."
Lu Ze smiled and pointed out the location. "Here, it's not far from the border. The beast tide passed through there too. Have a look."
Lu Ze felt it was very unlikely they could find clues there. After all, that blade demon came to catch him. Even if he used that advanced creation, it wouldn't be in that region.
Michael knew this too, but this was the only clue left right now. They had to go check it first.
He nodded to Lu Ze. "I understand. It's really our negligence this time. Lu Ze you won't lose any of your rewards. You will receive it within two days."
Lu Ze smiled and nodded. "Alright."
The communications were cut. Qiuyue Hesha frowned. "I didn't expect that blade demon to commit suicide."
Nangong Jing shook her head. "Now, the last clue has disappeared."
Lu Ze shook his head. "The Shenwu Army would take care of this. There's nothing we can do. The beast tide has ended. It's not a big problem, just do what we need to do.
Everyone nodded. Then, Lu Ze said, "There are still ten days until your Martial God Armor Sets arrive. Let's go see if there are any suitable nearby missions. Once your Martial God Armor Sets arrive, we'll head out of the controlled region."
Everyone assented.
At this juncture, Lin Ling's phone rang. She checked the message and smiled. "It's my brother. He joined the battle, defending against the void beast tide. He's just finished resting up. He heard we're at the stationing grounds, so he contacted me. He said he wants to treat us to Zhihuo Little Restaurant."
Lu Ze's eyes lit up. "Brother Lin Kuang is treating us? Great! Let's go get free food." Although Lin Kuang and the others didn't have enough money to treat them to good food, free food always felt great. Nangong Jing said, "It's rare for those guys to treat people. We need to eat well."
Qiuyue Hesha glanced at Nangong Jing. "T-Rex, don't make people poor."
Therefore, the two glared at each other again.
Lu Li, Alice, and Lin Ling were speechless. Was their cooking not as good as the restaurant food? They didn't want to cook anymore.
The group left the suite and came to the restaurant.
As soon as they entered, they felt a lot of gazes upon them.
The battle just finished, and several people came to the restaurant now. The place was filled.
The kitchen door opened, and Boss Zhu came out with dishes. When he saw Lu Ze's group, he smiled. "So it's you guys, you haven't been here for a while."
He walked up to Lu Ze and the rest. When he saw Lu Li and Alice, he became dumbfounded, but when he saw Ying Ying in Lu Li's arms, his mouth twitched.
He pointed at Ying Ying. "Little bastard, you have a baby now? You're still young, take it easy." Lu Ze: "?"
The girls: "?"
Lu Ze could feel all sorts of glances being thrown at their group.
Lu Ze smiled drily. "Ying Ying isn't our kid. She's my little sister."
Boss Zhu maintained his expression, but he didn't pursue the matter any longer. He patted Lu Ze's shoulder. "I heard you slew void beasts non-stop for four days. Not bad, just like me back in the days."
Some customers talked back. "Old Zhu, that's not being honest. You're very strong now, but when you were at Monarch of the New Dawn's age, you probably weren't as strong as they
were."
A bulky man grinned. "Yeah, you're a bad old man."
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Boss Zhu glared at the man. "Knife Scar, your dishes will be cooked last!"
"Huh!" The man's smile froze, and his expression fell.
Knife Scar grinned. "To be honest, I truly admire what Monarch of the New Dawn did during the beast tide."
Everyone else smiled.
Lu Ze felt embarrassed. So he was that excellent? He was going to get cocky.
At this moment, Boss Zhu smiled. "Okay, you guys came to find those kids?" He pointed at Lin Kuang and the rest in the corner.
"Go over first, I'm going to work. I'll cook for you guys first. I'll give you 5% off for this meal."
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. "Thank you, Boss Zhu."
Then, Boss Zhu went into the kitchen. Lin Kuang and his team looked at Lu Ze's group with complicated expressions.
They were respected by the powerful beings here. Although they belonged to the same generation, Lin Kuang and the others were still noobs.
Lu Ze saw that Lin Kuang and his team still had pale faces. Their battles were very intense too, and they still haven't completely recovered.
During this time, Luo Bingqing said, "Lu Ze, Nangong, Qiuyuee, are you guys leaving the controlled region afterward?"
Lu Ze answered, "We will consider it after a while."
Luo Bingqing and the rest stopped breathing.
Jack sighed. "What a pity, we probably won't be able to leave the controlled region these few months."
Lin Kuang added, "I heard it's very chaotic outside the controlled region. We probably can't this time. Next time, I must go see it." Luo Bingqing smiled. "Count me in."
Mo Xie grinned. "Make a breakthrough to the planetary state first. After this meal, I'm going back to solitary cultivation. I won't come out until I reach the planetary state."
The others also had determined looks. They had accumulated enough after this life-and-death battle.
Xuan Yuji said, "Breakthrough to the planetary state before this trial."
Nangong Jing grinned. "Good luck to all of you."
Soon, Boss Zhu brought up the dishes.
Boss Zhu's spirit chef-grade was much higher than Alice's. Lu Li had to admit that the three of them couldn't compare to Boss Zhu right now.
Ying Ying had a rather great time eating. Her little face was very satisfied.
Soon, everyone was well fed. Luo Bingqing and the others paid, and everyone split off.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "The next time we see them, they would be planetary states, right?"
Lu Ze nodded.
Two days later, on the stationing grounds of planet Zhihuo, a beautiful woman was busy doing something in an office. During this time, someone knocked on the door. She then spoke with a hoarse voice, "Come in."
The door opened, and Vice Commander Isiah entered with some excitement in his tone. "General Meyber, we removed the mental force restriction in those captives, and we have some intel!"
Meyber looked up and stared at Isiah. "What intel?"
Isiah answered, "We got the location of six scouting metal balls. At the same time, their scouting mission was due to the high-level blade demons finding something in the void space. Dark Metal Demon and Black Smoke Race are involved too."
Meyber frowned. "What exactly did they find?"
Isiah shook his head. "These blade demons' authority isn't high enough. They don't know the specific situation." Meyber fell silent. After a while, she suddenly widened her eyes as though she thought of something. Then, she contacted Shang Yang Stationing Grounds immediately.
Michael was bringing Cheng Feng to the prison cells of the captives. There was also another golden-haired bulky man and a feminine looking brown-haired man. Before them was Momo Wenge's body.
There was not a trace of any wound on his body. His eyes were tightly shut as though he was just asleep.
Cheng Feng frowned. "He committed suicide so resolutely. For what?" The bulky man shook his head. "This captive was too strong. We couldn't get any intel from him."
The brown-haired man gritted his teeth. "It's my fault for not watching over him this time. I'm willing to accept punishment."
Cheng Feng waved his hand. "The post was surrounded by beasts. You bathed in blood to fight the beast tide. That's contribution. You guys are not to blame."
At this moment, the bulky man's phone rang. He looked at Cheng Feng. Cheng Feng said, "Have a look, you're the commander of the post. There might be something important."
The bulky man nodded. "Yes!"
Thereafter, he took out his phone. When he saw the person, he accepted the call. Meyber's holographic projection emerged. When she saw Cheng Feng, she quickly saluted.
"General!"
Cheng Feng waved his hand. "Meyber, what is up?"
Meyber spoke seriously, "Monarch of the New Dawn Lu Ze captured a group of blade demons at Zhihuo System. We've been interrogating them, and we have some results."
Michael's and Cheng Feng's heart ached. It was Lu Ze again?! This guy was a professional at picking up blade demons. Cheng Feng frowned. "This is your Zhihuo System mission. Why are you contacting Julian?"
Meyber responded, "We acquired news that the blade demons have found something in the void space. Dark Metal Demon and Black Smoke race are involved. I heard a blade demon captive of General Julian's committed suicide. I was wondering if it would be related to this."
Everyone felt stunned and contemplated.
Cheng Feng let out a breath. "Something that would make a level-8 planetary state commit suicide without hesitation is definitely not ordinary. I will contact the Shenwu Saint about this."
"Yes!"
Ten days later. The delivery man contacted Lu Ze and sent over three Martial God Armor Sets. Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lin Ling were very excited.
Lu Ze smiled, seeing how they reacted. "Your Martial God Armor Sets have arrived. Let's head off now."
Everyone nodded.
Lin Ling asked, "We have two treasure coves. Which should we go first?"
Qiuyue Hesha opened the holographic map. "Both of them are pretty far."
Lu Ze smiled. "Let's start with the Terry Brothers. Didn't they take an insectoid queen egg from the blade demons? It's along the way to the treasure. Let's go see it."
Lu Li asked, "Do you reckon that insectoid egg is related to the void beast tide?"
Lin Ling replied, "That really might be possible. Those void beasts looked very similar to the insectoids. This region of void space isn't vast. There shouldn't be a lot of insectoids. Perhaps the queen egg and the void beasts came from the same place." Nangong Jing grinned. "In that case, let's go there first."
The group left Zhihuo System. From this place to where the Terry Brothers encountered the blade demons, ten days would be spent. Therefore, Lu Ze and the girls returned to their usual training schedule.
In the pocket hunting dimension, a silver light flashed, and Lu Ze appeared in the sky. He was covered in wounds. He looked behind with some fear in his eyes. He didn't expect to encounter that pair of black and white anacondas. He almost died.
Lu Ze ran fast. When he could no longer sense their chi, he proceeded to land on the ground. He used regeneration god art to recover. Soon, Lu Ze returned to his peak condition. When he didn't have the Martial God Armor Set, his combat power wasn't high among level-3 planetary states. Meanwhile, those top overlords have reached the planetary state, and their combat power was around level-4 planetary state.
He just wanted to find a few weak overlords to fight. Other than the range rabbits, Lu Ze hadn't seen such overlords.
Two hours later, Lu Ze looked at a forest not far ahead. He seemed to have seen it somewhere before.
At this juncture, he sensed two familiar chis. Then, he saw two golden beams land from the forest, turning into two five-meter tall golden echidnas.
Lu Ze's eyes widened in surprise and joy. He didn't expect to encounter their hive. He then quickly concealed his chi. The big echidna hated him, and if he was caught, it would chase him around.
But...
Those two small golden echidnas.
Lu Ze's eyes turned evil. They were the weak overlords he was looking for.
Great!
However, Lu Ze became dazed for a moment as the two small echidnas were level-8 mortal evolution states. This progress speed was faster than his. However, in terms of combat power, they were no match for Lu Ze.
Lu Ze exhaled and prepared himself. Subsequently, he disappeared from the spot. He appeared again above the two echidnas, flashing with blood lightning which formed into lightning spears. Golden armor formed over his body as his fists glowed with the color of gold.
Immediately, the two echidna's spikes shot out like needles and struck Lu Ze's armor.
"Die!" Lu Ze ignored his armor as he used tens of lightning spear and star crippling punch towards the two small animals.
"Growl!"
Dense clusters of golden needles tried to stop the lightning spear and star crippling punch. However, the needles were just level-2 planetary states. They were still much weaker than Lu Ze's attacks. Lu Ze could kill level-8 mortal evolution state range rabbit overlord with Earth Shield at level-6 mortal evolution state. Now, he was a level-8 mortal evolution state, and his opponent was an echidna who wasn't good at defense.
In a short instant, the needles were torn apart by Lu Ze's attacks. The remnant lightning spear and star crippling punch sped up towards the two echidnas.
Rumble!
Their spirit force defense was torn apart, and the attacks struck them heavily. Their erected spikes were crushed, and their bodies were charred. Thin blood lightning crackled around their body.
"Growl!" "Growl!"
Two furious roars could be heard.
Two terrifying chi rapidly neared from the forest.
Lu Ze's expression changed. Two bosses! He thought there was only one big echidna here. But there were actually two!
Lu Ze didn't have time to think. Blood lightning formed once again and shot at the two small golden echidnas.
They were quite injured already and didn't have enough time to dodge. They could only shoot more golden needles towards the lightning spears. Nevertheless, they couldn't even stop Lu Ze at their peak condition, much less when they were injured.
Rumble!
With a thunderous clash, the lightning spear crushed the golden needles and struck the small golden echidnas.
The lightning spear penetrated their bodies, and blood poured out.
The two small golden echidnas just growled once again before finally dying.
Before Lu Ze could breathe, he sensed the dangerous chi behind him.
He used space transmission to leave immediately.
When he appeared tens of kilometers away, he saw the place where he stood being penetrated by a golden flow. The overflowing spirit force made it hard to breathe.
Lu Ze's face was pale. Before he could move, he saw countless golden needles appear out of nowhere around him. They were all shooting at him.
Lu Ze's body was aching a little under its sharp chi. He quickly used space transmission once again, but this time, he felt space was restricted.
Screech.
Lu Ze used more spirit force and forced his way into the warp dimension.
Tens of kilometers away, Lu Ze appeared again covered in blood.
Growl!
Golden needles once more appeared around and shot at him.
He glanced at the bodies of the two small golden echidnas. They had just begun to turn to dust.
He gritted his teeth and used space transmission again. As soon as he did, two furious figures charged at him.
Lu Ze's face was pale. He didn't have time to recover at all. However, he had no choice.
Although he was used to death, he had to stall it until he picked up the orbs.
Lu Ze used space transmission again. Two few hundred meter wide huge spirit claws sliced past where he was previously and landed heavily into the ground. Consequently, the ground cracked up. Simultaneously, countless golden needles penetrated the ground.
Lu Ze was just struck by the shockwave, and he couldn't even breathe. Then, he felt another wave of terrifying attacks coming.
Damn it!
He used space transmission again. The sky was painted golden by all these attacks.
Lu Ze jumped a few hundred times in just a few seconds. Every time he appeared, he couldn't even stop, and he had to dodge the next wave of attacks.
This was done under constant space restrictions. Lu Ze's face was pale. His body felt drained. Even with his spirit body, he was pretty much at his limit.
He didn't have a moment to recover. At this juncture, he glanced at the bodies. They finally turned to orbs.
Lu Ze used his remnant spirit force to activate space transmission again. He appeared at the orbs and quickly grabbed them all. Thereafter, countless golden needles pierced him.
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A wave of pain struck Lu Ze, and his consciousness soon dissipated.
Lu Ze woke up in his room. That pain made him sweat cold. He lay on the bed to recover.
After an hour, Lu Ze finally recovered. He couldn't wait to check his mental dimension.
The two small golden echidnas gave him 26 golden red and purple orbs each. There were two strands of white energy and two metal god art orbs. Most importantly, Lu Ze saw two golden divine art runes.
So there could be more than one of the same divine art runes?
He studied the runes and found they looked exactly the same.
He was planning to wait until his cultivation level was stronger, and he would write his useless divine arts into books and give them to the saints, so the prodigies of the Federation can learn.
There were too few divine arts in the Federation, and their quality wasn't high.
He didn't expect the divine art runes to be similar. There were still two more golden echidnas in the pocket hunting dimension. That would be four of the same divine art rune.
Lu Ze thought about it and planned to give them to the girls, so they could learn them. Best to give them one each, or they would explode.
Lu Ze got a headache just thinking about this.
Following such, he happily used the divine art rune and a purple orb.
The next morning in the living room, Nangong Jing and the girls looked at Lu Ze's room. There was no motion.
Lu Li asked, "He's not in solitary cultivation again, is he?"
Lin Ling's mouth twitched. "I've made breakfast, and he's still not out. He's definitely in solitary cultivation."
Moments later, Nangong Jing said "Okay, leave him be. Let's eat breakfast and go cultivate."
Lu Ze was immersed in the knowledge of divine art.
Four days later, Lu Ze slowly opened his eyes. Dense clusters of golden needles appeared around and spun around him, forming like a golden flow of water.
Lu Ze smiled. This was a beginner mastery of divine art. It wasn't too strong, but if he reached experienced mastery, this divine art would probably surpass the lightning spear.
If it reached perfect mastery, then it would have the same power as the lightning cloud.
The golden needle divine art had its pros and cons compared to the lightning cloud divine art. The pro was that it was faster to activate and wouldn't be stopped if the lightning cloud was destroyed. Meanwhile, the con was that lightning cloud could suck spirit force from the void to attack while he had to use his own power for the golden needle divine art. Of course, Lu Ze had enough spirit force for recovery now. In most situations, the golden needle divine art would probably be more advantageous. Only when he didn't have enough power of his own would the lightning cloud perform better.
Lu Ze got out of bed and went out of his room.
Nangong Jing and the other girls were having breakfast. They immediately looked over, glaring at Lu Ze.
Lu Ze took two steps back. "... What do you want to do?"
Nangong Jing exclaimed, "You went into solitary cultivation again!"
Lu Ze nodded. "Yes."
Qiuyue Hesha narrowed her eyes. "How much did you improve?"
thinking about. He then smiled. "Not that much actually."
After all, he had just learned his golden needle divine art. His combat power didn't improve much at all these four days.
The others rolled their eyes, clearly not believing him.
Lu Ze came to the table. "Let's eat."
After breakfast, they began their usual cultivation.
Six days later, Lu Ze felt the power in his body and smiled. Those two white strands of energy gave his cultivation level a huge boost.
He was at the peak of level-7 mortal evolution state now. In a few days, he would be able to reach level-8 mortal evolution state.
It had been 26 days since he reached level-7 mortal evolution state. This speed was rather fast, but time was still tight for Lu Ze. He wanted to reach the planetary state before going back.
However, there were still quite some powerful overlords in the pocket hunting dimension. Every overlord would have that white energy. He still had his chances.
Lu Ze got out of bed and left his room.
In the living room, Nangong Jing and the rest just finished their cultivation and were resting on the couch.
Lu Li's and Alice's cultivation levels were at level-3 mortal evolution state now, which was near level-4 mortal evolution state.
Lin Ling reached level-5 mortal evolution state too.
Only Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha didn't progress, but they were planetary states after all.
Lu Ze sat down and heard New Dawn's voice. "We're about to arrive at our location. Leaving the warp tunnel, please get ready."
Hearing this, Lu Ze and the others became serious.
Nangong Jing frowned. "It's said that it's very chaotic outside the controlled region. We need to stay vigilant at all times."
Qiuyue Hesha glanced at Nangong Jing. "It's not credible at all when you're saying this with a wine bottle in your hand."
Lu Li, Alice, and Lin Ling laughed. Lu Ze grinned too.
Nangong Jing glared at Qiuyue Hesha. Suddenly, there was a flash of white light in the window.
The ship went back into the physical universe.
Lu Ze and everyone looked outside the window, wanting to see what was different. There were several space storms surging nearby. Other than that, there didn't seem to be any danger.
The cosmos appeared the same as the inner portion of the controlled region. Alice giggled. "It seems that the outer and inner areas of the controlled region are the same. I thought there were a lot of dangers here."
Lu Li rolled her eyes. "We just came out, so how can we encounter danger so quickly?"
Nangong Jing looked outside. "It's said we can encounter all civilizations connected by this region of the void sea. There are Dark Metal Demons, Black Smoke Race, Blade Demons, and other races. The beings we encounter here will be much stronger than the ones we encountered in the controlled region."
Lu Ze nodded. "Let's be careful."
Lin Ling's eyes glowed. "So this is where the Terry Brothers encountered the blade demons?"
Lu Ze nodded. "Yes, here, but even with the location marker, this range is quite vast. Let's go out and see if we can find any clues." The group left the ship and went into space to check. This region of space wasn't completely empty. They could occasionally find ruins of ships.
A day later, Lu Ze and the girls were sitting in the living room with a frown. Nangong Jing asked, "What do we do? We've searched all of the surrounding regions of the marker. We didn't even find a shard of blade demon ship."
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Perhaps it was eaten by some void beast?"
Lin Ling said, "What do we do now?"
Lu Ze smiled. "What else can we do? Of course, we go looking for treasure."
Lu Li opened the star map. "There are still five days of time from the location of the treasure." "Let's head off." Lu Ze nodded.
Suddenly, there was a terrifying spirit force wave from the distance.
Lu Ze and the rest looked over in surprise. There was golden, blue, white, and all sorts of spirit force flashing. It was like a planet exploding. Clearly, there were intense battles occurring there.
Nangong Jing looked at Lu Ze and asked, "Should we go over and look?"
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. Clearly, Nangong Jing wanted to go see the fun, but he was pretty curious too.
Lu Ze nodded. "Let's go see it."
In the deep space, Yan Gu, Shadora, Xia Zhi, and Ji Cheng were floating in space. Behind them was a broken ship. Obviously, it couldn't be used for travel anymore.
Their faces were bad. Surrounding them were six figures—two of them were Blade Demons while the others were two Dark Metal Demons and two beings from the Black Smoke Race.
Their chi was extremely strong.
The leader was a level-5 planetary state dark metal demon.
He snarled. "Yan Gu, last time you guys got away, and yet, you still dare to leave the controlled region? You really think we're going to be unprepared like last time?" He glanced at the four. "This time, you will all die!"
A level-5 planetary state black smoke race said, "Hurry up and finish them. Don't draw others over."
A blade demon nodded and looked coldly at Yan Gu. "Yan Gu, you sliced off my arm last time. I used five years to recover. This time, I'm going to slice your head off."
Yan Gu sneered, "Abony, Jiji Miya, Yin En... Other than Abony, whose cultivation level is higher than mine, which of you haven't had your ass handed by me? Which of you didn't run? You're all garbage. If you dare, come fight me one-on-one."
Abony grinned. "This is the last time you'll be speaking, enjoy it."
A huge sword appeared in Abony's hands as he snarled. "Die!"
His body glowed with metal light as he sliced towards Yan Gu.
The six of them were prodigies of their race. Some of their combat power could even reach level-6 planetary state.
Yan Gu frowned. "I'll stop them, you guys leave!"
Shadora's long sword blossomed with ice flowers. "The ship is gone. We can't run. And, I'm not much weaker than you."
Ji Cheng smiled. "Brother Yan Gu, we're not going to run. Let's kill them."
Xia Zhi exclaimed, "Kill as many as we can!"
Yan Gu took a deep breath. "Alright!"
Yan Gu was a level-5 planetary state. When he used his full power, he could reach level-6 planetary state. But those six aliens were also prodigies with god art.
The leader Abony was about to break through level five of the planetary state. His combat power was a sliver stronger than Yan Gu.
During this time, Yan Gu was bathed in golden light. He wore a pair of bronze gauntlets and clashed with Abony.
Rumble!
Space was twisted, and the movement was shocking
Their clash faded in an instant. Their figures flashed within a few hundred kilometers range. In a few seconds, they had clashed more than a few hundred times.
At this juncture, Jiji Miya also joined the battle. He held two long swords. Immediately, Yan Gu was at a disadvantage.
Unfortunately, the others didn't have a chance to go and help Yan Gu. Shadora was stopped by Yin En and another black smoke race, Yin Duo.
Yin Duo was only a level-4 planetary state, but he also had god art.
The two beings from the Black Smoke Race were formed by black smoke. This black smoke was corrosive.
Shadora had ice armor around her, which sizzled upon contact with the black smoke.
On the other hand, Xia Zhi and Ji Cheng fought a blade demon and dark metal demon respectively. The surrounding tens of thousands of kilometers of space were their battlefield. If this battle occurred on the surface of a planet, it was enough to destroy such a planet.
Luckily, this was a barren region.
Rumble!
Another clash and Xia Zhi was flung away by a dark metal demon. His face was pale, and blood poured out of his mouth. He was a prodigy but was weaker compared to the dark metal demon who had a dark metal body.
Ji Cheng was struck by a sword light. His spirit force barrier crumbled, and his armor cracked. It left a deep mark in his chest, and blood gushed out.
Yan Gu was covered in wounds. He was trying his best.
Shadora's pretty face was pale. Her chi was weak.
Seeing this, Abony sneered, "Yan Gu, I said that was the last time you spoke, die!"
At this point, a golden fist force appeared and struck towards Abony's back. The terrifying spirit force made Abony tense up. He didn't expect someone to suddenly appear. He could only give up on Yan Gu and turned around to block.
He blocked it. The fist force was only a level-5 planetary state, but he was forced a few hundred kilometers back.
Right at this moment, Jiji Miya suddenly roared, "Abony, Yan Gu!"
As he exclaimed, he charged at Yan Gu, but his figure suddenly stopped. He recovered in a brief instant, but Yan Gu had already disappeared.
This made Abony's face sink. Lu Ze dragged the injured Yan Gu a few thousand kilometers away.
Yan Gu was dumbfounded when he saw Lu Ze, Nangong Jing, and Qiuyue Hesha.
Lu Ze pressed his hand against his back. Green spirit light flowed into his body. He could feel his injuries rapidly recovering.
"Junior Lu Ze, Nangong, and Qiuyue?! What are you three doing here?"
Lu Ze smiled. "We came out looking for treasure. Didn't expect to see you guys."
Yan Gu's fate was quite tragic. Every time they saw them, they were heavily injured. If they didn't encounter Yan Gu's team this time, they would probably die. Nangong Jing warned, "Ze, they're here!" Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha both grabbed Lu Ze's arm.
Without hesitation, Lu Ze used space transmission and disappeared from the spot.
A dark red sword ray and a golden sword ray sliced past where they were. Lu Ze appeared a few thousand kilometers away.
The green light poured into Yan Gu's body from his hands and rapidly repaired his injuries. Although he couldn't completely repair it within a short time, Lu Ze still needed Yan Gu to regain some combat power first.
Abony spoke in shock, "Space god art?" Jiji Miya stared at Lu Ze and said, "Human with space god art... That's Lu Ze!"
Abony said, "Lu Ze?"
Jiji Miya's eyes contained some greed. "Mhm! Our Demon Palace has put great attention on this human lately. It's said he's the strongest prodigy in human history. The ransom for him is enough to make a level-7 and level-8 planetary state enticed."
"Strongest prodigy?" Abony sneered and didn't care. He felt it wasn't important if prodigies were strong. Rather than that, it was more significant whether they were good enough to live. The stronger they were, the easier they were to be targeted.
Look at this Lu Ze. Any random blade demon recognized him. How could he come out?
He glared at Lu Ze and grinned. "Let's not waste time. Work together to bind space. His power is very weak. If we work together, he can't get away!"
Jiji Miya grinned. "I thought the same. Best we capture him alive and split the rewards!"
"Heh, you said it!"
Thereafter, the two chased after Lu Ze and the rest. They suppressed space with all their spirit force.
At this juncture, they suddenly felt a ruckus in their mental force sea. The spirit force binding immediately dispersed. It was just an instant, but Lu Ze and the others had already disappeared.
Abony's tone was cold. "Jiji Miya, you didn't say Lu Ze had someone who has a mental force god art with this level!"
Jiji Miya's expression was bad. He was hit before, but now, he still couldn't stop it.
He took out a crystal rune. "This mental force guard rune can block all planetary state mental force attacks within half an hour of activation. We can't make a mistake this time!"
Subsequently, he clenched his fist. The rune cracked and light shot into his head. Following such, he bound the space around Lu Ze again.
Abony charged up immediately.
Yan Gu suddenly grinned and charged towards Abony.
"How is that possible?!" Abony became dazed upon seeing how much Yan Gu recovered. Jiji Miya didn't feel too good. His mental force guard rune was extremely precious. Now, it was pointless.
Yan Gu still had some injuries, but at least, he recovered a lot of combat power.
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha said, "Senior Yan Gu, we'll stall this dark metal demon for
you."
Lu Ze said, "I'll go help senior Xia Zhi and Ji Cheng."
Xia Zhi and Ji Cheng were still level-4 planetary states. Their opponents were stronger than they were but were also level-4 planetary states.
Lu Ze's combat power was level-4 planetary state when he put on the Martial God Armor Set.
Yan Gu nodded and charged at Jiji Miya again. This time, he was going to hang this blade demon bastard up and beat him to death!
Jiji Miya sneered, "You think you're at your prime?!" He then charged up towards Yan Gu. "Today, you must die!"
The two clashed. It was an intense battle right from the beginning.
Abony was planning to go help, but suddenly, he felt his mind enter into a trance. At the same time, a dominant golden fist force struck towards him.
He forcefully removed the negative mental status and hacked with his huge sword, dispersing the golden fist force. He looked coldly at Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha.
If it weren't for Lu Ze and the girls, Yan Gu would have been dead already. Yet, these two females dare to pester him.
"Die!"
Abony's body surged with dark red spirit light. His huge body shot towards Qiuyue Hesha like a cannon. He was going to take care of them first!
Under Abony's furious chi, Qiuyue Hesha's face turned pale. She used wind god art and sped up. Simultaneously, she still used seduction god art to distract Abony. Abony's dark metal body didn't bring much improvement to speed.
Using wind god art and seduction god art while Nangong Jing kept attacking the side, it wasn't hard for Qiuyue Hesha to dodge.
Their target wasn't to kill Abony. It was just to stall them for as long as possible.
Abony was furious, seeing how Qiuyue Hesha kept dodging his attacks.
Every time he wanted to give up chasing the two girls and attack Yan Gu, these two would attack him with full power. Under such interference, his attacks could no longer pose a threat to Yan Gu.
He became furious.
On the other side, Lu Ze suddenly appeared with Ji Cheng and Xia Zhi. Immediately, a lightning cloud started to form above Lu Ze's head.
Rumble...
Bolts of blood lightning shot towards the blade demon and dark metal demon.
The two alien prodigies tensed up after sensing the power of the lightning. The dark metal demon glowed in dark red as he waved around his huge sword, blocking the lightning.
The blade demon sliced his sword intent towards the lightning. While the two were blocking the lightning, Lu Ze flew towards Ji Cheng and Xia Zhi with wood god art. His wood god art was much stronger than when he used it on planet Nanlis. Moreover, his cultivation level was stronger too now. He healed the two rapidly. "Damn it! this bastard knows wood god art! The curative effect is that good?!"
"He cured Yan Gu like that just then, right?!"
They were confused before why Yan Gu suddenly recovered. Now, they finally understood why.
Xia Zhi and Ji Cheng were stunned. They couldn't believe they just recovered like that. Since when did junior Lu Ze have such god art.
Wait...
They looked at the distance. Lu Ze stopped two aliens stronger than they were with just lightning clouds.
Since when was junior Lu Ze this strong?!
The last time they met, his combat power was only at the level-2 planetary state. It was only a month, and his power climbed up two levels?! They couldn't believe this. However, the situation still wasn't too bright now. Ji Cheng grinned. "Junior Lu Ze, we'll help you!"
Then, the two charged towards the two aliens.
The blade demon's and dark metal demon's faces weren't too good. Even if Ji Cheng and Xia Zhi recovered, it was no big deal for them, but now, Lu Ze was here.
Lu Ze looked towards the two aliens. His body flashed in blood lightning. Spirit force dispersed. He infused all his spirit force into the lightning cloud. A few hundred blood lightning struck towards those two aliens.
The terrifying power made their skin crawl.
Ji Cheng and Xia Zhi were shocked. Such a powerful attack would consume a lot of power, even if they were the ones to launch it.
Why did junior have so much power reserve? He was only a mortal evolution state!
While the two aliens were blocking the blood lightning, Ji Cheng and Xia Zhi charged at them.
Screech.
In an instant, the aliens were struck by a few blood lightning bolts.
Rumble...
The blood lightning flowed around their body like lightning snakes. Their chi immediately weakened.
During this time, there was a hideous howl. The blade demon was attacked by both blood lightning and spirit force sword ray. He blocked the sword ray but was struck by multiple blood lightning bolts. His defenses weren't as strong as the dark metal demon. His body was bloodied and trembling. Lu Ze was merciless. Another set of bolts shot towards the blade demon prodigy.
The blade demon wanted to dodge, but Xia Zhi blocked his exit with tens of white sword light.
The blade demon could only unleash blood spirit light that surrounded him like the eye of a storm.
There was a huge explosion. When the rubbles settled, the blade demon's chi became extremely weak. He finally blocked this attack.
Lu Ze gathered more blood lightning. How long could the blade demon stop this for?
The blade demon roared, "Help! Jiji Miiya, save
me!"
Jiji Miya was fighting evenly with Yan Gu. Hearing this howl, he looked at the terrified blade demon prodigy. It had only been a few seconds and he was already in such a pitiful state?
Jiji Miya didn't want a prodigy of his own race to die naturally.
He glared at Lu Ze. "Lu Ze, how dare you!"
He tried to break free from Yan Gu and go help. Yan Gu grinned. "Want to leave? Did you ask me? Stay here and don't move!"
He barraged Jiji Miya with punches, leaving him no opportunity to aid his comrade.
Jiji Miya roared, "Abony, you can't even deal with two level-2 planetary state humans? Yin En, Yin Duo! Shadora is heavily injured, do you want to see our blade demon prodigy die?"
Abony's mouth twitched. He felt wronged. Although he was furious, there was nothing he could do.
When Jiji Miya yelled at him, his annoyance erupted.
"Roar!"
His skin flashed with dark red runes, and his chi suddenly skyrocketed. Thereafter, he grabbed his sword and began spinning into a dark red tornado.
Sharp sword ray shot in all directions. Most of them shot towards the blood lightning.
The blood lightning was torn apart, and the remaining sword ray struck the lightning cloud. The lightning clouds soon dissipated too.
The blade demon prodigy felt relieved. Simultaneously, Yin Duo gave up on Shadora and charged towards Lu Ze. Meanwhile, Lu Ze disappeared when the lightning cloud dissipated. He appeared behind the blade demon prodigy. Golden spirit force surged, and he punched towards the feeble blade demon.
"Lu Ze, you're asking to die!" Yin Duo's furious voice sounded. A black smoke spear shot out of his arm towards Lu Ze's back.
Lu Ze sensed this but grinned. A thick Earth Shield formed behind him while a golden armor encased his body. At the same time, his golden fist force collided into the blade demon prodigy's back. "Arghhh!" The blade demon prodigy roared and gathered his remaining spirit force into a spirit force barrier. Rumble!
In a short instant, the fist force tore open the barrier and struck the blade demon prodigy's armor. The armor cracked a little, but the fist force penetrated the armor already.
The massive power sent the blade demon flying as he spat out blood. His chi slid down, and his life force became extremely feeble. During this time, the spear also struck the Earth Shield.
Screech!
The Earth Shield was eroded by the smoke and cracked. Then, the spear struck the golden armor, and a deep mark appeared.
Just when the armor was about to break, Lu Ze used space transmission and disappeared.
Lu Ze emerged once again in front of the blade demon.
That spear was very powerful. It had level-5 planetary state power. Lu Ze's face was a little pale, but it was just some light injuries.
Lu Ze used super regeneration to recover. Then, he looked down at the blade demon prodigy before him. Without hesitation, he stomped on the blade demon's chest, wiping away his feeble life force. "Lala Guli! Yin Duo, you're useless! You watched my blade demon prodigy die!"
Jiji Miya's eyes went red and roared.
Yin Duo looked at Lu Ze with shock. He was just a level-4 planetary state but was stronger than Lala Guli. His combat power was barely reaching level-4 planetary state. Yet, his full-powered attack didn't even work? Lu Ze's defenses were too terrifying, and in addition, he had space transmission.
Yin Duo's eyes flashed with annoyance. He tried his best already. It wasn't his fault. Still, Jiji Miya was stronger than him. There was nothing he could say. However, Yin En wasn't having it and spoke with contempt, "If Yin Duo is useless, then what are you? You can't even handle an injured Yan Gu. You can't even save your own race and you dare to blame a prodigy of the Black Smoke Race?"
"What?" Jiji Miya's eyes bulged. "Shadora is heavily injured, but you couldn't take her either!"
Seeing how they were about to have internal conflicts, Abony said, "Stop arguing! Do you want them to get away?".
Yin En and Jiji Miya both stopped talking.
Abony roared, "Shadora and Yan Gu are already injured. Hold on! We'll win if we stall it out!"
Yin En said, "Yin Duo, you and Arlow just need to stop Lu Ze. Don't let him cure Shadora and Yan Gu."
Yin Duo nodded. "No problem."
Lu Ze frowned. He looked at Yan Gu and Shadora. He was fine with drawing the battle out but not those two.
Thinking about this, Lu Ze looked at Yin Duo and the injured dark metal demon prodigy, Arlow. The best method was to kill those two.
Yin Duo's cultivation level was still level-4 planetary state after all. If he teamed up with Ji Cheng and Xia Zhi, there was a chance to kill him. As for Arlow, he was already heavily injured.
At this juncture, Abony looked at the New Dawn. His eyes bulged. "Is that your ship?"
He snarled, "If I destroy your ship, what would you do?"
Lu Ze, Nangong Jing, and Qiuyue Hesha's expressions changed. They weren't worried about the safety of the New Dawn. They were worried about Abony! Ying Ying was there! After Abony was bashed by Ying Ying, how would they explain things to Yan Gu and his group? Seeing their faces, Abony thought he found their weakness. They had no backup space ship. "Hahahaha! Looks like you only have this ship. Then... you guys can stay here too!"
Nangong Jing warned, "You will regret it!"
Her spirit force boiled. Qiuyue Hesha also wanted to stop Abony.
Abony laughed hysterically. "I will regret it? You will be the ones regretting it today! If you minded your own business, would this happen? You're all going to die today!"
Yan Gu's face changed. He roared, "Lu Ze! Take Shadora, Ji Cheng, and Xia Zhi! I can stop them for a few seconds!"
Jiji Miya sneered, "You want to leave after killing a blade demon prodigy?"
Yin Duo and Arlow also sneered at Lu Ze, which prevented him from leaving. Lu Ze's mouth twitched.
Ji Cheng and Xia Zhi said, "Junior Lu Ze, leave with juniors Nangong and Qiuyue. We already killed a blade demon prodigy. We might be able to kill one more!"
Lu Ze smiled. "Seniors, we won't give you up."
Abony had already gone near the New Dawn. He laughed. "I wonder if your space ship can withstand my attack?"
He held his huge sword and was about to attack. At this moment, all his power suddenly disappeared. His spirit force, physical power, and mental force were all gone.
Abony felt extremely weak and couldn't even move.
Abony: "?"
What happened? Where is my power?
Meanwhile, Ying Ying's little face showed a satisfied smile. She ate something tasty. but it wasn't enough.
This region of space fell into silence. All the aliens looked at the feeble Abony in shock.
Even Yan Gu, Shadora, Ji Cheng, and Xia Zhi were confused.
Lu Ze's, Nangong Jing's, and Qiuyue Hesha's mouth twitched. So this dark metal demon prodigy played himself? They warned him, before but he didn't listen.
Jiji Miya screamed, "Abony! What is going on?!"
The other aliens tensed up too.
Yan Gu and the rest looked at Lu Ze in shock.
Lu Ze pointed at himself and spoke innocently, "Why are you all looking at me? Do you think I did it? If I had that power, I would've dropped them all already."
They definitely couldn't unveil Ying Ying. Yan Gu and the others were suspicious, but they said nothing. They didn't feel like it was Lu Ze.
However, why did something happen to Abony when he tried to destroy the New Dawn?
They suspected that there was some powerful being following Lu Ze, but they had no evidence to back it up.
Yan Gu and the rest looked at the aliens with different expressions. Abony was their strongest, and he fell for a strange reason.
Now, there was only Jiji Miya, Yin En, Yin Duo and Arlow left.
The hunters and prey have switched positions. The aliens sensed this too. Yin En exclaimed, "Take Arlow and retreat!"
He was going to give up Shadora and take back Abony. At this juncture, he suddenly felt his mind enter into a trance.
Shadora's frosty long sword shot at Yin En. This was such a good opportunity, how could they let them get away?! Meanwhile, Nangong Jing charged at Yin Duo and Arlow. She raised a brow, "Leave these two to me!"
Lu Ze smiled. "Then, I'll go heal senior Shadora."
Shadora had the most serious injury. Luckily, she had ice god art and had a defensive divine art. That's how she was able to survive Yin En's attacks.
Lu Ze appeared next to Shadora, and the green wood god art on his hand connected to Shadora as the life force spirit force entered her body. Yin En roared, "Don't even think about it!"
The smoke around him expanded and loomed towards Lu Ze.
Qiuyue Hesha used seduction god art at full power. Yin En ended up dazed and the black smoke thinned a little.
Shadora blocked in front of Lu Ze. She weaved out an ice wall in front of them.
When the black smoke reached the wall, it started to corrode the wall.
As Lu Ze healed her, Shadora's chi started to recover. She finally had some extra power. She then said, "Junior Lu Ze focus on healing. I will stop all the attacks for you."
Lu Ze nodded.
Yin En planned to take Abony and leave. During this moment, his mind became dazed again. The ice wall shattered and turned into ice spikes shooting at him.
Yin En roared as he blocked the attack. "Retreat! Immediately!"
Abony heard this and shook his anger. This bastard was planning to abandon him. Damn it!
At this time, another howl sounded. Yin En looked in Yin Duo's direction. He saw that Yin Duo flew out. The smoke around him was about to disperse.
That golden female had chased after Yin Duo. Yin En watched Nangong Jing's leg slice down like a battle-ax, completely dispersing the smoke around Yin Duo. A small black figure flew out and died.
Yin En roared, "Damn it!"
Just when everyone thought he was going to fight Nangong Jing with his life, he suddenly turned and fled.
Everyone was dumbfounded for a moment before realizing it. This guy had a future!
He ran so fast. Usually, these people would live long. But... this was just usually.
Qiuyue Hesha used seduction god art at full power. Yin En stopped for a moment, and during that moment, Shadora's ice spikes surrounded him.
Yin En could feel that Shadora's chi was getting stronger and stronger.
His face looked bad.
Jiji Miya sweated cold. He could feel Yan Gu's chi was weakening, but he still couldn't beat Yan Gu. Yan Gu just needed to stall him until Shadora recovered. Then, Lu Ze would heal him.
If Yan Gu recovered to his prime...
Jiji Miya unleashed his full power, trying to break free and run.
It was hard for Yan Gu to stop him. Yin En was stopped mainly due to Qiuyue Hesha's god art. But Jiji Miya used that precious mental force guard rune. Qiuyue Hesha's seduction god art was useless towards him.
Jiji Miya was confident he could get away. However, a dominant fist force suddenly struck towards him.
Nangong Jing chose to help stop Jiji Miya as soon as she killed Yin Duo.
Jiji Miya could only stop to take the fist force.
Yan Gu chased after him again.
"Damned humans!"
Yan Gu wiped the blood from his mouth and grinned. "You want to run? I'll give what you said back to you. You all have to die today!" On the other side, Ji Cheng and Xia Zhi had full advantage fighting the injured dark metal demon Arlow.
In a few seconds, the three clashed more than a few hundred times. Blood gushed out, most of it was Arlow's. Then, a few hundred-meter white sword rays sliced towards him. While Arlow was blocking this, another beam penetrated his chest.
Arlow opened his mouth, but the inside of his body was ground to nothing by the sword intent. He couldn't even speak.
Now, only Yin En and Jiji Miya remained.
Their victory was only a matter of time.
After healing Shadora, Lu Ze used a space god art to get to Yan Gu and heal him.
Seeing this, Jiji Miya's face went green. He roared and charged at Lu Ze, but with Yan Gu and Nangong Jing there, how could Lu Ze get attacked.
Lu Ze enjoyed the special treatment of a healer for the first time. Everyone did their best to protect him.
A few minutes later, Jiji Miya watched Lu Ze cure Yan Gu.
"I thought I was dead for sure this time, Jiji Miya. Didn't expect it, did you?" Yan Gu charged towards Jiji Miya.
Rumble!
Just one strike and Jiji Miya was struck back.
Nangong Jing chased up and punched heavily.
Jiji Miya immediately spat out blood and flew back towards Yan Gu.
Then, he was kicked in the stomach. This strike made Jiji Miya faint on the spot.
At this juncture, Yan Gu and Nangong Jing chased after Yin En.
Yin En only lasted one bout and was penetrated by Shadora's ice.
As the smoke dissipated, that small black body was revealed. After the black smoke was gone, the Black Smoke Race looked like a stick figure that was fat.
To be honest, Lu Ze felt that the Black Smoke Race looked quite cute, but their god art wasn't cute at all.
Yan Gu pressed his hand on Yin En and sealed his power. Thereafter, everyone proceeded to Abony's location. Yan Gu sealed him as well.
Now, three of the alien prodigies were dead. The rest were captured.
They actually won.
Yan Gu's group was in disbelief. They thought they were going to die after their ship was ruined.
Yes, with Nangong Jing, Qiuyue Hesha, and Lu Ze's reinforcements, they killed the aliens instead.
Yan Gu and his team looked seriously at Lu Ze's group. "Junior Lu Ze, Nangong, and Qiuyue thank you so much this time."
Shadora, who was always cold-faced, also grinned. "If it wasn't for you guys, we would probably be gone."
Ji Cheng and Xia Zhi nodded.
Ji Cheng said, "Your powers are too strong."
"Even junior Lu Ze has surpassed me now. It's so tiring being a senior," Ji Cheng sighed.
Lu Ze smiled. "You're overcomplimenting me, senior."
Yan Gu and the others rolled their eyes. Being too humble was the same as being cocky. They didn't know what to say anymore.
Lu Ze then asked, "By the way, why are you guys here?"
Yan Gu replied, "A few days ago, the Shenwu Army published a search mission for Blade Demon's, Dark Metal Demon's, and Black Smoke Race's special activities. The rewards were very high, with more than 20,000 Shenwu merit points. We accepted this mission and came here."
Lu Ze was surprised. "20,000-points mission? Just for investigating what the three races are doing?"
Ever since leaving the controlled region, they didn't look for missions.
The rewards were a bit too bountiful.
Yan Gu was confused upon seeing how shocked they were. "You guys didn't know? I thought you accepted this mission too."
Lu Ze and the others laughed. They were here for treasure hunting. But, they didn't know if the treasures of the two pirates combined would be worth 20,000.
Nangong Jing asked, "We didn't accept this mission. Can you tell us more about it?" Yan Gu nodded. "It's said that they got some secret intel from the blade demon captive at planet Zhihuo about the three races. We don't know the exact details, so this scout mission was released."
Shadora said, "Last time when you saw us, our injuries were due from Abony's group. We were curious why the prodigies of the three races suddenly teamed up. Therefore, we came to see if there was something special in this region. Yet, they haven't even left yet, and the ship was destroyed."
Lu Ze and the girls had the look of realization. No wonder Yan Gu and his team were here.
But...
This was also the region the Terry Brothers encountered the blade demon's transportation ship. There were also more blade demon beings roaming here. Something didn't add up at all.
Lu Ze looked at the distant sparks and the broken ship. "Senior Yan Gu, can your ship be repaired? What are you planning to do next?" Yan Gu and the rest looked at their ship and said, "The motor system of the ship is broken. We probably need to do extensive repair. We've brought our help device, we just need to wait for the Shenwu Army rescue team here."
Lu Ze and the girls looked at each other and smiled. "In that case, why don't you come on the New Dawn first? We'll leave this battle region and interrogate the three alien prodigies while waiting for the Shenwu Army rescue."
Yan Gu and the rest were dazed. Thereafter, Yan Gu rubbed his head with embarrassment. "Is that alright with you? Would it be too troublesome?"
Ji Cheng added, "If it weren't for you guys, we would've died already. These captives belong to you."
Lu Ze said, "We can't deal with them alone. Also, it was you guys who reminded us to go to Shang Yang System. You took care of us during the last mission."
Yan Gu and the others nodded. "Thank you, junior Lu Ze."
Subsequently, they went back to the New Dawn with everyone.
Lu Ze brought them to the living room.
Lin Ling, Lu Li, and Alice greeted the rest.
Yan Gu and the rest knew Lin Ling, but they became stunned when they saw Lu Li and Alice. It was their first time, and their cultivation levels were already at level-3 mortal evolution state. Since when did level-3 mortal evolution state noobs dare to leave the controlled region? They were surprised, but they said nothing. This was Lu Ze's personal matters.
They also exclaimed how at how talented and popular Lu Ze was with girls.
When they came to the couch and saw Ying Ying casually watching cartoons, they felt confused.
Yan Gu's mouth twitched. He looked strangely at Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha before saying, "Junior Lu Ze, Nangong, and Qiuyue, although it's not too good for me to say this... but it's very dangerous outside the controlled region. Bringing a child here is a bit over the top."
Shadora frowned, and her tone became serious. "This is bad for both you and the child."
Lu Ze and the girls didn't know what to say. This kid was the one who turned Abony into a weakling. She was the real boss.
Lu Ze could only laugh and nod. "Okay, we will be careful senior."
However, they all knew that Lu Ze didn't take it in. Nevertheless, they weren't Lu Ze's close friends or family. If they spoke out too much about it, it would just annoy people.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled and changed the topic. "Let's see why Abony and the others would be here?"
Then, Qiuyue Hesha looked at the feeble Abony.
His cultivation level was level-5 planetary state. If he was in his prime, Qiuyue Hesha could only interfere with him lightly. But now that his mental force was devoured by Ying Ying, he couldn't stop Qiuyue Hesha's seduction god art.
Watching Abony being controlled by Qiuyue Hesha, Yan Gu and the others exclaimed, "Junior Qiuyue's seduction god art is really powerful and scary. You're probably the only one in the human race with such powerful mental force god art." Qiuyue Hesha smiled and said nothing. She was also proud of her god art. She then looked at Abony and smiled. "Why are you guys here?"
Abony answered, "We were ordered to survey this region and stop people from coming in." Everyone was shocked.
Why?
"Why are you surveilling this region?" Qiuyue Hesha asked the question everyone was curious about.
Abony replied, "We don't know the exact reasons. It's said an accident occurred to a spaceship here, so we were sent here."
Lu Ze and the rest: "..."
He was not talking about the Terry Brothers, was he? Ever since that accident occurred, were they guarding here?
Was this place part of some route that they had to cross?
Perhaps this place was near the location which the Blade Demons, Dark Metal Demons, and Black Smoke Race discovered?
Qiuyue Hesha frowned. "What's special about this region?"
Abony answered, "For some reason, there would be very strange void beasts appearing here. Those void beasts are very strong and agitated. Even we are no match for some of them."
Lin Ling asked, "Was it those void beasts from before?"
Yan Gu grinned. "We might've found the place."
Those types of void beast tides were too special. They were really close to discovering the truth.
Qiuyue Hesha opened the star map and asked, "Where do those void beasts appear? Are there still any now?"
Abony pointed to a region on the map. "Those void beasts appeared here."
Everyone smiled. With a precise location, things would be much easier.
Lu Ze grinned. "Let's go verify it first, and then, when the Shenwu Army comes, we'll report the situation."
Ji Cheng was dazed. "Aren't we going to investigate that place?" Yan Gu frowned. "Cheng! You're being greedy! Since the three races can send three prodigies here, it shows how important the things inside are. Do you have any idea? With our power, can we make it back out if we go deeper?"
Ji Cheng felt a little awkward. He said, "I understand brother Yan Gu. I didn't think too much. I just thought that if we get more intel now, we would get more reward points."
Yan Gu nodded. "Stay vigilant outside the controlled region. Junior Lu Ze is so young, and he knows what to do. Don't lose face." Ji Cheng felt more awkward and nodded.
Lu Ze scratched his head.
Nangong Jing asked, "How long does the Shenwu Army need to come over?"
Yan Gu answered, "About two days."
Hearing this, Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Then, we'll go to the location Abony said and wait. Let's see if those void beasts are the same as the ones from the beast tide."
Everyone nodded in agreement. They weren't going to go deep, but they still needed to verify things. Following such, the New Dawn headed off towards the location.
They locked up Abony and the others in the room and then sat on the couch, listening to Yan Gu tell them about the situation outside the controlled region.
There were many neutral races and friendly races too like the Barbarian Race.
Sometimes, they could cooperate with friendly races.
Sometimes, they would go to the central position in this region of void space. It was a neutral planet formed by an alliance of neutral races.
There you can see Blade Demons, Dark Metal Demons, Black Smoke Race, as well as Barbarian Race, Tiger Tail Race, and so forth. There were several powerful beings engaged in trade there.
War was not allowed on this planet, particularly within a 20 light-year radius. It was a large exchange platform.
Yan Gu and the others had been there a few times.
It was still a bit dangerous for them, even if fighting was not allowed there, but that was the best place to get what they wanted.
They also recounted the fortunes and dangers they had encountered. They had to admit it was dangerous but exciting.
Lu Ze wanted to go see the neutral planet.
Time passed quickly. Ying Ying dragged Alice's sleeve. "Sister Alice, I'm hungry." Alice smiled. "Mhm, I'll go and cook for you now."
Alice, Lu Li, and Lin Ling went to the kitchen.
Yan Gu and his team were dazed for a moment, not expecting to eat.
Lu Ze smiled. "Alice's cooking is great."
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha nodded.
After the meal, they started discussing knowledge about martial arts. Yan Gu's group thought that despite having a lot of god arts, Lu Ze wasn't experienced in all of them. However, they discovered they were wrong.
Lu Ze could even give them great inspiration about god art.
He was only a level-7 mortal evolution state! They were level-4 and level-5 planetary states. Still, their combat experience was equally useful to Lu Ze and the girls.
Na
They had been fighting for decades after all.
Thirteen hours later, the New Dawn arrived at the location.
It looked like a small mark on the map but was actually huge.
This place looked extremely normal.
Lin Ling looked around. "Are those void beasts really present here?"
Lu Ze smiled. "Abony just said special void beasts. They're not necessarily the ones we encountered."
Yan Gu said, "It would be great if they were the same type."
Everyone smiled. That would mean a lot of reward points.
The group waited. A day later, there was suddenly a roar, and spirit force flowed like the tide.
Moments later, gray light flashed in space. As the roars and spirit force traveled, the figure grew bigger. Lu Ze and everyone watched the void beasts appear.
A beast with dark gray sleek armor, with sharp teeth and spiked tail, appeared.
"It really is those void beasts!"
Lu Ze grinned.
Everyone smiled.
They didn't exactly know what the clue was, but they wouldn't be able to check it. There would probably be star states involved.
Lu Ze was very curious about what these three races were doing too.
He felt he could go see when the Shenwu Army arrived.
The void beasts didn't mind the New Dawn and just flew off in a random direction.
They didn't go kill those void beasts either. They didn't want to cause any commotion.
Six hours later, Yan Gu's phone rang again.
Yan Gu looked at it and smiled. "The Shenwu Army is here. They have a piece of equipment that can connect to the entire void space. They just need to report the intel here, and there would be powerful beings to back us up.
Lu Ze and the rest felt relieved.
Soon, a completely black Shenwu Army warship appeared behind the New Dawn.
New Dawn's voice came out. "Shenwu Army, Third Platoon Fifth Squad Captain Lang Zheng is requesting for communications."
Lu Ze said, "Accept."
A short-haired youth appeared in the living room. He looked around. "I'm Lang Zheng. Who sent the help signal?"
Yan Gu answered, "It's me. Our squad encountered Blade Demons, Dark Metal Demons, and Black Smoke Race prodigies. They proceeded to attack us. Our ship was damaged, and we couldn't go back."
Lang Zheng's eyes lit up. "You were besieged by the prodigies of all three races?"
Yan Gu nodded. "Yes, and we have found clues of them working together."
Lang Zheng's face contained some excitement now. "Our ship will join you guys. Tell me the details once I come over!"
Yan Gu looked at Lu Ze. "What do you think junior Lu Ze?"
Lu Ze answered, "I'm fine with it."
Thereafter, the ship neared New Dawn and connected. Lang Zheng and a beautiful dark-haired woman came over. It was just those two people.
Lang Zheng's cultivation level was level-8 planetary state, and the woman was a level-7 planetary state. The reinforcement squad was this strong? He was just a captain and he already had such power.
Lang Zheng and the woman also glared at Lu Ze and his friends. When they saw Ying Ying, their hearts shook.
Lu Ze felt that the atmosphere was quite awkward.
After a while, Lang Zheng questioned, "Lu Ze? Why did you leave the controlled region?!" He was in disbelief. Monarch of the New Dawn Lu Ze, the greatest prodigy in the history of Federation came outside of the controlled region?!
What was this guy thinking?
He was only a mortal evolution state, and he dared to venture out.
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha were equally top prodigies, but they also came out too?
If anyone of them died, it would be a huge loss to the Federation!
They didn't even care about the clues before. These few people were the future of the Federation. They must be kept safe!
He had to send them back safely!
Lu Ze scratched his head. "I came out like this. We can go leave the controlled region any time, right? No one is stopping us."
Yan Gu: "..."
Lang Zheng: "..."
They were speechless. That was true, but did they not know how dangerous it was outside?
If they didn't see Lu Ze's combat power before, Yan Gu's group would be reacting the same way as Lang Zheng.
Yan Gu knew what Lang Zheng was thinking too.
He smiled bitterly. "Captain Lang Zheng, it's actually junior Lu Ze and the girls who saved us this time. Otherwise, we wouldn't even have time to send the distress signal."
"What?!"
Lang Zheng and the woman looked at Lu Ze and the others in disbelief.
Yan Gu had a bit of a reputation in the controlled region. He had never expected that Yan Gu and the others were saved by Lu Ze's group. If that was the case, how strong was Lu Ze's group?
Lang Zheng's skin crawled. This was too terrifying He took a deep breath and said, "I'm Lang Zheng, and this is Vice Captain Sangyuan Qiumei. Let's talk business first."
He looked at Yan Gu.
Yan Gu recounted what happened before.
Lang Zheng listened quietly. Near the end, his breath grew desperate. Power seeped out around him.
He spoke with a serious expression, "I will notify the HQ immediately. They will send someone strong to back us up!" He looked at Sangyuan Qiumei. She nodded and disappeared from the spot.
Seeing this, Lu Ze and the others breathed easy. They just needed to wait for reinforcements now.
Soon, Sangyuan Qiumei came back and said, "I've reported the matter. HQ has received it. They told us to retreat and not to startle them. We'll wait until the reinforcements arrive."
Lu Ze and the rest nodded.
Then, Sangyuan Qiumei said, "Lu Ze, you guys have control of the alien prodigies. How about asking them what we need to be careful of here? It takes ten days for reinforcements to arrive. Let's not make any mistakes during this time."
Lu Ze and everyone felt this was right. Therefore, they brought out the powerless Abony.
Qiuyue Hesha controlled him and asked, "What do you usually do here while surveilling?"
Abony answered, "This region is very barren, so there are usually no people here. The six of us take turns to watch. Usually, even if someone comes, we won't show ourselves and will just let them leave. But if there are ships from the three races passing here, the high levels will notify us to clear the path. if we're no match for them, we would ask for reinforcements from HQ."
Yan Gu was shocked. "Was there a ship passing here last time?"
Otherwise, Abony probably wouldn't attack them.
Abony shook his head. "No, it was just that Jiji Miya and the others hated you and wanted to kill you."
Yan Gu:"..."
Qiuyue Hesha continued asking, "Usually, how long will it be until a ship passes?"
Abony shook his head. "Not sure, sometimes three to five days, sometimes more than ten days. Sometimes a month. These past few days, there have been no ships."
If the higher levels notified them, and no one was on the receiving end, the three races would be suspicious.
Lu Ze said, "We'll stay here for now then. If there are ships passing, we can let Abony act with them."
Everyone agreed to this. Yan Gu looked at Lang Zheng. "Captain Lang Zheng, our ship's motor systems are damaged. Do you have repairmen here?"
Lang Zheng smiled. "Of course, we can repair
it."
The repair wasn't for free, and the reinforcements would use this to earn some side money.
Yan Gu nodded and smiled at Lu Ze and the others. "Then, junior Lu Ze, we'll go to Shenwu Army's ship. If there's anything you need, just contact us."
Lu Ze nodded.
Subsequently, the Shenwu Army and New Dawn found a small asteroid cluster and waited for reinforcements.
Lu Ze said, "There are still ten days remaining, so let's go cultivate."
Everyone nodded.
Lu Ze couldn't wait to begin. He felt he was about to breakthrough after that intense battle.
A day later, planetary seeds had formed through all of Lu Ze's tendons. Simultaneously, there were also some planetary seeds forming in his flesh and blood.
His cultivation level reached level-8 mortal evolution state, and his combat power received a huge boost.
Lu Ze smiled upon sensing his current state. If he didn't wear combat armor, his combat power would be as high as a level-3 planetary state.
Lu Ze estimated that for every two cultivation levels, his combat power would increase by one planetary state level. It might be a little less, but the difference was not much.
If he wore combat armor, his combat power should be very close to level-5 planetary state or barely there.
Lu Ze felt great. It wouldn't take long until he surpassed the female alcoholic and fox demon. After breaking through, Lu Ze planned to learn Earth Shield and golden needle divine art.
If both of these two divine arts reached perfect mastery, his combat power would have another huge rise.
Lu Ze planned to learn Earth Shield divine art first. He wasn't really lacking in offense.
Moreover, if his defenses were strong, he would a bit more resistant to the beating, right?
His Earth Shield had remained at a familiar mastery for many days. In the following fortnight, he should be able to bring it to experienced mastery.
The experienced mastery Earth Shield should be slightly stronger than his perfection mastery golden armor. Most importantly, these two could be stacked.
By then, he should be able to deal with level-5 planetary state attacks easily.
Lu Ze used a purple orb and started learning Earth Shield.
The following days were very quiet. There were no ships flying by nor anyone contacting Abony.
This was good for Lu Ze and the rest.
Lu Ze finally improved the Earth Shield divine art to experienced mastery.
Now, his defense was the strongest. Even if he didn't wear the combat armor, he could stop level-4 planetary state attacks with Earth Shield and golden armor.
This was a huge improvement. His cultivation level had quite some advancements as well.
In about twenty or so days, he could break through to level-9 mortal evolution state.
This was slightly slower than before since the overlord-level red orbs were used up and so were the purple ones.
It was implausible for Lu Ze to take on those powerful overlord beasts now.
The strong overlords were usually level-4 planetary states.
Nangong Jing and the girls also progressed quite a bit.
Yan Gu's ship was soon fixed. He and Lang Zheng, as well as the others, watched the progress of Lu Ze's group.
Everyone was dazed. Who could handle this? Their confidence was beaten down.
14 days later, the reinforcements had arrived. Lu Ze and everyone looked at the ship and asked, "Why did only one ship arrive?"
Lang Zheng smiled mysteriously. "You'll know soon enough."
Moments later, the ships docked, and more than 20 Shenwu Army warriors came out.
Lu Ze's eyes widened in return.
Nangong Jing's face was spooked. "Mom?"
There were three warriors standing at the front, and one of them was Nangong Jing's mother, Zuoqiu Xunshuang.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang smiled and waved her hand at Nangong Jing. "Jing Jing, is it a surprise seeing me?" Lu Ze: "..."
Aunty Xunshuang was a few hundred years old, and she still acted like a young girl.
Lang Zheng and Sangyuan Qiumei saluted, "General Carol! General Cheng Feng! General Zuoqiu!"
The leading bulky blonde man nodded and smiled at Lu Ze. "Lu Ze?"
Lu Ze quickly saluted back. "Hello, General Carol!"
His chi was so frightening. He was definitely a star state. This time, three star states came!
The people behind them were all level-8 or level-9 planetary states.
Lu Ze was shocked.
Carol waved his hand. "No need to be nervous, I've heard quite a lot about you lately. I just want to get to know you."
He studied Lu Ze, but as he did, his eyes widened more.
Cheng Feng and Zuoqiu Xunshuang reacted the same way.
Lu Ze felt embarrassed being stared at by them like this.
Carol said with uncertainty, "Mortal evolution state... level 8?"
Zuoqiu Xunshuang appeared before Lu Ze and studied him. "How can you improve that fast?! The last time I saw you, you were just a level-2 mortal evolution state."
"What pills did you eat?"
Nangong Jing pulled Zuoqiu Xunshuang's hands away. "Mom, what are you doing? Don't get so close!"
Zuoqiu Xunshuang giggled. "I feel like I can have a son like you."
Everyone was speechless. Veins were popping out of Nangong Jing's head. Lu Ze laughed drily. Cheng Feng said, "Okay, let's talk business."
Lang Zheng quickly reported the situation. Carol frowned. "It seems they've discovered some fortune that they're going to excavate quietly alone."
Zuoqiu Xunshuang smiled. "However, they were caught by my Jing Jing and Ze."
Lu Li and the others were speechless. Since when was Lu Ze yours?
Cheng Feng nodded. "Then, we shall take over for them! Let's head out now!"
Everyone agreed and went back to their own ships.
Lu Ze and his group returned to the New Dawn. As the discoverer, they had the right to follow and obtain some reward points.
In addition, Zuoqiu Xunshuang knew about Ying Ying. She went with Nangong Jing to the New Dawn.
Back in the living room, Zuoqiu Xunshuang stared at Lu Ze for a long time and giggled. "All of your progress has been big. Jing Jing is already a level-2 planetary state."
Lu Ze and the rest smiled awkwardly.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang added, "This time, at the Four-Race Social Gathering, you will bring surprises for us. The people of the other three races will see the future of the human race."
She looked at Lu Ze. "Do what you want to do. The old saints and us will forever be your shield."
Lu Ze nodded.
Once he returns from the void space, he would pretty much be at the planetary state. By then, he would be able to give those weaker red orbs to old man Nangong.
Thereafter, the human young dukes would be able to perfect their foundation more.
The human race will have prodigies every generation.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang smiled and patted Lu Ze. "By the way, when are you and Jing Jing planning to get married?"
Lu Ze and everyone: "?"
The atmosphere became very awkward.
Lu Ze and the rest didn't expect Zuoqiu Xunshuang to suddenly ask this question.
Nangong Jing glanced at Lu Ze and then at Alice. Her mouth twitched.
To be honest, she did have a good impression of him. Otherwise, why would she be this close with Lu Ze and drink from the same bottle as him and play around like that with him? However, she knew that Alice liked this guy too.
She knew long before this too.
How could she fight with Alice?
At the same time, there were Lu Li and Lin Ling. She knew how they felt too.
As for that fox demon, she didn't care.
Now, she didn't know what to do either.
Alice looked around and felt complicated. Lu Li and Lin Ling did the same.
Even Qiuyue Hesha's seductive smile contained some other emotions.
If they really competed, could they still cultivate together like this?
They liked Lu Ze, but they were also friends.
Some things wouldn't be the same once said out loud.
Then, all of them looked at Lu Ze while gritting their teeth. It was this bastard's fault.
Lu Ze saw their actions, and his mouth twitched as well. He didn't really understand it completely, but he knew a little bit. They all seemed to like him, isn't it? Then... could he have them all?
Would he get beaten to death if he said that?
Zuoqiu Xunshuang looked around and rubbed her head.
How could she not see what everyone was thinking?
She glared at Lu Ze. This kid was good at everything else, however, he was just a bit of a playboy.
If it wasn't that his talent was absurd, she would definitely break his leg.
The more Zuoqiu Xunshuang thought about it, the angrier she became. These girls were all so good, but they all liked this kid.
She could not help but gnash her teeth until, finally, she said, "Alright, while I still have some time, I'll train you in cultivation."
No, she had to beat this kid up!
When Lu Ze saw Zuoqiu Xunshuang's eyes, his heart went cold. He felt like he would get beaten up.
However, he also thought about how she was a star state. His progress had been immense lately, it would be very beneficial for her to train him.
As for getting beaten up, since when did he lack that? He had died countless times. Would he still be scared of getting beaten up?
Never.
Lu Li smiled gently. Stupid Lu Ze, he deserved a beating. What a pity that she wasn't strong enough.
Eventually, Lu Ze and the others followed Zuoqiu Xunshuang into the virtual reality pods.
Two Shenwu Army ships and the New Dawn were flying towards the place where void beasts appeared.
New Dawn followed at the back.
If the Federation mobilized a mass army, it would be noticed by the three races. Therefore, they chose to let three star states lead the way and commence a sudden attack.
Even the ships they used were very ordinary looking
...
Two days later, the three ships had gone pretty deep. This region of space was still dead silent, but there would be powerful space storms from time to time.
This made piloting very difficult.
Carol looked at the countless vacuum storms hidden in the dark and frowned. "Why would the environment here be this bad? There are space storms everyone. You can't even see an ordinary planet."
It's very dangerous to fly in an environment this bad. Even star states would die if they were caught in a powerful space storm.
Cheng Feng frowned. "If there aren't those types of void beasts flying out from this direction, I would want to leave." Carol nodded. At this moment, roars sounded in the distance. Three void beasts flew out and charged at the three ships when they saw it.
"Hmph!" Spirit force surged around the void beasts and formed three huge spirit-force hands.
The spirit-force hand grabbed the void beasts and pinched them. Then, the three hands flew towards a huge space vortex and went inside.
This was done extremely fluently.
Suddenly, there were ear-piercing alarms.
Six gruesome-looking black space ships appeared. Clearly, they discovered the presence of the three ships.
There were blood spirit lights flashing on the ships.
One worker said, "General, we're locked on! It a ship from the Blade Demon Race!"
Cheng Feng touched his bald head and grinned, "It's not a waste of time, we finally found it!"
In the distance, a powerful blade demon looked at the three ships in the screen and frowned. "These are human ships? Why would they appear here?"
A blade demon on the side said, "Just ordinary warships. Are they lost? General Nuonuo Bili, what do we do?"
Nuonuo Bili sneered, "What else? We're discovered, so we need to capture them all. If something happens, Lord Lala Nisi will take our heads."
"Yes! Prepare the cannons, annihilate them! Don't let them escape!"
Just as the ship was charging, a white beam appeared in the space before them and formed a wormhole.
A bald man walked out and grinned.
The blade demons watched this scene and were dumbfounded.
Nuonuo Bili roared, "Creating wormhole! It's a star state being?! Quick! Notify the lords!"
During this time, the ship shook, and under the chaos of spirit force, white light surrounded the six ships. Thereafter, the ships began to twist under the white light.
Instantly, the six ships became waste metal.
There was a powerful blood light exploding from the metal. A figure flew off into the distance.
Cheng Feng sneered, "You saw me, and you still want to run? Did you not know I let you live on purpose?"
He clenched his hands, and a huge white palm appeared, grasping the blade demon tightly.
The white palm brought the blade demon to Cheng Feng.
Cheng Feng grinned at the extremely weakened blade demon after using the secret technique. "Don't worry, you won't die now."
He waved with his hand, and a wormhole appeared. He then left with the blade demon.
Subsequently, six white palms appeared and carried the six piles of metal into a space storm.
Inside the ship, Cheng Feng appeared with the blade demon. Carol glanced at the blade demon and said, "Level-7 planetary state, hehe, such a powerful blade demon is responsible for patrol? It seems that whatever is in here is quite good."
Cheng Feng grinned. "I heard Qiuyue knows mental force god art? I've left him alive to see if we can get anything out of him."
ee
Carol's eyes lit up. "We should ask."
Cheng Feng contacted the New Dawn.
Inside, Lu Ze was distraught. Ever since two days ago, aunty Xunshuang used the excuse of training him to beat him up.
However, he also benefited greatly. He couldn't even be angry. Following such, they saw General Cheng Feng's acts of dominance.
Lu Ze admired this quite a lot. When would he be able to do that?
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Those are blade demon ships? It seems we went the right way." Zuoqiu Xunshuang spoke with a serious face, "It seems not far away."
New Dawn: "Master, General Cheng Feng is requesting for communications."
"Accept."
Cheng Feng appeared and said, "I caught a level-7 planetary state captive. I heard Qiuyue knows mental force control god art. Can she control a level-7 planetary state?"
Qiuyue Hesha frowned and said, "I can try, but it might not necessarily succeed."
Her cultivation level was too low. Even with the Martial God Armor Set, she can only lightly influence a level-6 planetary state. However, she had zero confidence against a level-7 planetary state.
Cheng Feng complimented, "Haha, no wonder you're one of the most talented younger generations. I'll bring him over now!"
Then, he cut the communications.
A white beam flashed, and a wormhole consequently appeared. Cheng Feng and Carol walked in. There was a half-dead blade demon in Cheng Feng's hands.
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. With just that one strike, the entire fleet was annihilated. This level-7 planetary state was carried like a little chicken.
Cheng Feng threw the blade demon on the ground and said, "Qiuyue, it depends on you now."
Qiuyue Hesha nodded. This blade demon was Nuonuo Bili. He looked at the people in the living room. His eyes were full of despair.
Ever since he saw the star state, he knew he was probably done for.
Because the star state appeared so suddenly, he didn't even have time to send the news back.
After hearing there was a mental-force-control god art user here, his heart went cold.
His status wasn't low in the Blade Demon Race. Like the humans, his race was always the last shelter for him in the universe. Other than a few rare people who betrayed their race, most species would think for their race.
Nuonuo Bili was the same.
If he could commit suicide right now, he definitely would do so, but it was impractical to attempt dying in front of a star state.
He just hoped that mental force god art wouldn't do anything to him.
Qiuyue Hesha used all her spirit force which rippled towards Nuonuo Bili. Her eyes flashed with an obscure pink glow.
Nuonuo Bili's body shook. He gritted his teeth and resisted the control with everything he had.
Qiuyue Hesha's face turned pale. Sweat trickled down her forehead.
The two were in a stalemate.
During this time, Lu Ze suddenly thought of something. He used the mental force spike into Nuonuo Bili's mental force sea. Immediately, this sudden attack created chaos in Nuonuo Bili's mental force sea.
Qiuyue Hesha's seduction god art successfully went in and controlled Nuonuo Bili.
Qiuyue Hesha said desperately, "I can't control him for long. Ask questions now." Carol went straight ahead. "Are the three races teaming up here, and what did you find?" Nuonuo Bili replied, "We found a high-level star state's tomb. The three races are working together to excavate it. We've pretty much cleared the void beasts packs at the outer skirts. We can almost enter the tomb."
The eyes of Carol and the rest lit up.
Cheng Feng grinned. "No wonder there are such powerful beings guarding outside. So it's a star state tomb."
Carol asked, "How many powerful beings are there?"
Nuonuo Bili answered, "We're scared of being discovered, so every race sent a star state. There are also more than ten level-8 and level-9 planetary states..."
Suddenly, his mental force recovered.
He looked at the pinked-haired woman with despair.
He screamed, "Sly humans!"
Who said there was just one mental-force-control user? There was another mental-force-attack user! He thought he could stop it and not end up a sinner for his race. Yet, he was still ambushed.
That short-haired man launched a sneak attack on him when he had no other power left.
The mental force attack wasn't strong, but it was what broke him.
He glared with killing intent at Lu Ze. "Even if I die! Even if I'm thrown into the space storm, even if my body and soul are destroyed, I will remember you!"
Lu Ze smiled. "Different races shouldn't be together, so it's best not to remember me."
Everyone: "..."
Nuonuo Bili opened his mouth, but before he could swear, Zuoqiu Xunshuang's body flashed with silver light, and his life force dissipated.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang waved her hand, and a wormhole formed. She threw the dead Nuonuo Bili out.
Carol and Cheng Feng smiled. "Luckily, Qiuyue has this god art."
Qiuyue Hesha smiled and looked at Lu Ze. "Without little brother Lu Ze's last attack, I might not be able to control him."
Cheng Feng laughed. "This kid is indeed not bad."
"Both of you have made contributions, you will be rewarded."
If they didn't know the enemy's power, they would end up besieged in battle, but now, it was different.
There were only three star states in total. On the other hand, they had three star states too. At least, against those with high-level powers, they wouldn't be at a disadvantage.
As for those low-leveled ones, they brought near 20 level-8 and level-9 planetary states.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang smiled. "We came at the perfect timing. They helped us clear the void beasts."
Cheng Feng and Carol smiled. This was the perfect time for them to take over.
Cheng Feng said, "It seems we need to speed up. If we find more patrol, just execute them immediately. We can't be caught."
Carol nodded. "We'll go back first then."
He waved out some purple-red lightning, which then formed a wormhole.
The two entered and disappeared.
Zuogiu Xunshuang looked at Lu Ze and others, then she frowned. "There will be a star-state battle. Take care of yourselves."
Lu Ze and everyone nodded. Nangong Jing waved her hand. "We're not weak. We can kill all those below level-6 planetary state."
Zuoqiu Xunshuang shook her head helplessly, but she looked at Ying Ying, who stared at her curiously, and said, "But with Ying Ying here, I don't need to worry."
In the next three days, the three ships resumed flying. They found a few more patrol squads, but they were all annihilated rapidly.
It's said this tomb belonged to a level-8 or even level-9 star state, but it also seemed to be related to the insectoids.
Hearing this, the three star states discussed and decided to ask for more reinforcements from the Shenwu Army.
Level-8 and level-9 star states were approaching the cosmic system state. The Human Race only had four of those now.
If they could get the treasures left in the tomb, it would be very useful to the Human Race.
In the deep space, there was a huge space fortress floating.
At this moment, there were alarms blaring inside. All the workers looked at one screen. "Report this quickly! Three ships have entered within a one million kilometer radius!" "Yes!"
A huge dark gray planet was floating in space. The surface environment was extremely harsh and terrible. Even a low-level planetary state would be in danger.
There was nothing but dark gray rocks on there.
However, in terms of living beings, there were terrifying void beasts, but that was already the case before.
At the surface, there were a few hundred planetary states from the three races present there. They all had injuries on them.
Nevertheless, they still looked at the ground with crazed joy. There were few kilometers deep craters everywhere. Inside were countless bodies of void beasts.
The most terrifying one was completely black and nearly 1000 meters long. Despite being dead, it still emitted a terrifying chi.
Chaotic storms formed around it.
It was a star state void beasts.
A five-meter tall dark metal demon grinned. "Heh, the last star state! It's finally done!"
Someone from the Black Smoke Race said, "This star state void beast is too terrifying. If we didn't send two away, at least one or two of us would die."
A ruby-scaled blade demon said, "I wonder what surprises those two star state void beasts brought for the humans."
Two free star state henchmen and a large wave of planetary states!
If it wasn't that the blade demons provided the large-scale set location space door, they would definitely release the beasts at the borders of their enemies.
However, there was nothing they could say.
The beings from the three races looked at their star state with awe.
The battle when they killed the last star state void beast was too shocking.
Star states were too strong.
Especially on the blade demon side, all the male blade demons stared at the fiery figure.
"No wonder she's Lord Lala Nisi. She's so powerful and that beautiful."
"Yeah, look at her pretty edges, that fiery red armor, those sharp fangs. I want to get bitten by her..."
Even Guguyate, Momoerde, and Luoluoxisi stared straight at Lala Nisi. They saw some enmity within each other's eyes. Only a powerful being deserved beautiful demons.
In the future, they would be the greatest competitors!
Lala Nisi didn't care about the discussions behind her. After all, it was natural instinct for beings to search for partners. She never minded powerful beings showing interest in her.
She looked at the deep hole and frowned. "Do we go in now?"
The being from the Black Smoke Race shook his head. "We just had a huge battle. We're not in our prime condition. Let's rest for a day in the base and go in tomorrow."
The dark metal demon star state nodded. "I agree with Yin Xian. Although the being died quickly, he still might have left something behind. We should rest until we're in our prime condition."
Lala Nisi nodded. "Then, tomorrow it is!"
At this juncture, a level-9 planetary state dark metal demon flew over.
Everyone was confused, seeing how disrupted his chi and expression were.
The dark metal demon star state saw this and frowned. "Yarick, what are you so anxious about? Watch your composure."
He felt Dark Metal Demons were stronger than the Black Smoke Race, much less the Blade Demon Race. It would mean dark metal demons losing their face if his subordinate acted like this. Yarick relayed worriedly, "Lord Avit, there are three ships nearing us. They're less than one million kilometers from us. These are human ships, and we can't confirm how strong the people inside are."
The scene fell silent. Everyone stared at him in disbelief.
Avit clarified, "Human ship? How can it be here?" Yin Xian frowned. "What happened to the patrol squads? What are they doing?" Lala Nisi also stared at this dark metal demon.
Sensing the furious chi of three star states, the dark metal demon sweated.
Even a level-9 planetary state couldn't handle such pressure.
He answered, "We contacted them, but we couldn't reach them!"
Avit roared, "Not good! We're discovered! Go back quickly! Stop them!" Lala Nisi looked at her race. "The strong ones, follow me! Luoluoxisi, return to the base and notify our race that we need backup!"
Luoluoxisi's eyes flashed with some joy. She sent him to do a mission alone. This meant that he was different from others.
How could he not be happy? Nevertheless, he quickly controlled his emotions.
Guguyate and Momoerde glanced at Luoluoxisi with envy.
At the same time, Avit and Yin Xian also sent out the same orders.
They were most likely found. In that case, even if they killed the humans, there was no assurance that the news wouldn't spread out.
Yin Xian said, "Hopefully, the humans aren't very strong. If we kill them, we still have time to excavate this tomb and leave!"
Accordingly, the three races all headed towards the direction where Yarick pointed at.
The three ships flew towards the location marker they got from the captives they found later on.
However, their ship was only an ordinary ship, and therefore, its scouting ability was weaker than the space fortress.
After flying out a while, their alarms blared.
The three star states looked at the screen. There were a few hundred dots.
Cheng Feng frowned. "There's quite a lot of them."
Zuoqiu Xunshuang smiled. "There's just three star states, six level-9 planetary states, and fourteen level-8 planetary states. The rest are all below level-8 planetary state. We can fight them."
Cheng Feng and Carol looked at each other. Carol laughed. "In this case, let's fight!"
Cheng Feng grinned. "Win and we have at least one week time to explore this tomb. All they've done will have been for our benefit!"
As they spoke, the blade demons were nearing their ship.
Cheng Feng's voice spread through the three ships. "Those demon bastards are here. Prepare for battle! Win and we get the treasure! Lose and we die here!"
Hearing this, Lu Ze smiled. "General Cheng Feng is really rough, but I like it."
Lu Li narrowed her eyes. "Lu Ze, you like men now?"
Lu Ze: "..."
Lu Ze then said, "We're about to engage in battle, be serious!"
Nangong Jing suppressed her curiosity, but clearly, she would still ask when they got back.
Lu Ze felt a headache.
Lu Ze looked at Lu Li and Alice. "You two, stay -11
"We want to participate in the battle!" Lu Li interrupted him before he could finish.
Alice looked firmly at Lu Ze. "Senior, we have a planetary state combat power too."
Their cultivation level reached level-4 mortal evolution state, nearing level-5 mortal evolution state, and they do, indeed, have a level-1 planetary state combat power.
Lu Ze smiled helplessly. "Okay."
With Ying Ying protecting them, he didn't need to worry about their safety. Then, he looked at Ying Ying, who was looking outside the window. Clearly, she sensed those murderous chis.
He smiled and pinched her face. This wasn't a fair battle.
With Ying Ying here, this tomb belonged to the Federation already.
"Ying Ying, take care of your sisters, okay?"
Ying Ying then asked, "Lu Ze, those guys outside are so ferocious, should I eat them? They don't seem very tasty..."
Lu Ze and the others shook their heads. Ying Ying was addicted to eating.
Lu Ze coughed. "You don't need to do anything at first. Just protect your sisters. If they can't win, then intervene."
They promised to not use Ying Ying at first, but if they couldn't beat the enemy, then this promise didn't count.
Ying Ying said regretfully, "Oh."
Lu Ze smiled and took out a red orb. Immediately, Ying Ying's eyes lit up, and she opened her mouth.
Lu Ze threw the orb in Ying Ying's mouth. Seeing how satisfied Ying Ying was, everyone smiled and left the New Dawn.
Everyone had come out already.
They all looked at the aliens from the three races.
Cheng Feng said, "Kid Lu, you guys are going to join the battle too?" Lu Ze smiled and nodded. "We're humans too, and we're not weak."
Carol laughed, "Hahaha! Good! Since you're also humans and outside the controlled region, then participating in the battle is necessary!"
They looked at Lu Ze and the girls with approval.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang controlled her playful character, and her face became extremely serious. "Lu Ze, your opponents are those below level-5 planetary state. Kill them without hesitation!"
"Yes!" Lu Ze nodded instinctively.
The reinforcements who came had a total number of around tens.
The star states and high-level planetary states stood in the middle while Yan Gu and the others stood on the side. They couldn't join the core battle.
Lu Ze and the rest proceeded next to Yan Gu and the others.
Ji Cheng smiled and patted Lu Ze's shoulder. "Junior Lu Ze, great! I approve of you!"
Yan Gu glanced at Ji Cheng and said seriously, "Juniors, don't worry, with us here, we won't let anything happen to you."
A level-6 planetary state glanced at them and said, "What are you talking about? The Shenwu Army is still here. How can anything happen to you guys?"
He was a level-6 planetary state. He wasn't the weakest of the bunch outside the controlled region, but there were too many powerful beings here. He could only stay at the border.
Lu Ze and the others were speechless. Why did it seem like they were all feeble?
Lu Ze even suspected that Yan Gu had memory loss. Did he forget who saved them?
They were clearly very strong, okay?
At this juncture, the aliens were less than 100,000 kilometers from them.
A few hundred powerful chis surged, and the space storms became more chaotic.
Everywhere the three figures at the front passed, space distorted and spirit force went chaotic.
They were star states.
Lu Ze looked at them with curiosity.
Boss.
He couldn't beat them yet.
However, why did that blade demon's skin look so different from the other blade demons?
Lu Ze was curious. Perhaps it was a genetic mutation.
As the blade demons approached, the pressure in the atmosphere became intense.
The killing intent could make those people below mortal evolution state cry.
Carol looked at the distant planetary states. A purple-red light flashed in his eyes as he roared, "Attack!"
Tens of humans charged towards those few hundred aliens.
The difference in numbers was huge, but the Shenwu Army warriors didn't hesitate at all. Yan Gu, Lu Ze, and the rest didn't hesitate either.
Wormholes appeared before Carol, Cheng Feng, and Zuoqiu Xunshuang. They entered it and appeared tens of thousands of kilometers away. The three star state aliens also used the same method to appear on the battlefield.
Rumble!
Cheng Feng fought Avit, Carol fought Yin Xian, and Zuoqiu Xunshuang fought Lala Nisi. The three pairs of star states created a heaven-shocking clash.
Space crumbled, revealing the twisting warp dimension. Violent spirit force spread in all directions like a tsunami. Some small universal storms were wiped out.
Lu Ze and the others felt that it got a bit difficult to breathe. Alice and Lu Li even got injured.
However, they had regeneration god art, so this injury didn't mean anything serious.
Lu Ze looked at the sun-like spirit force ripples, and his skin crawled.
Despite being this far away, the shockwaves alone gave him such immense pressure. It was all too easy for them to destroy a planet.
They could do it with the wave of a hand.
But even star states were only considered "not-too-weak" in the universe.
Luckily, the universe was vast enough, or it wouldn't be enough for these powerful beings to play with.
The six star states were extremely fast. After the clash began, Lu Ze and the others couldn't even see their figures anymore.
As the shockwave spread, this region of space became harsher.
The six star states quickly shifted away from the battlefield as they knew how damaging their combat power was.
Finally, the rest of the people started their confrontation.
The level-8 and level-9 planetary states were Shenwu Army reinforcements.
The level-6 and level-7 planetary states were Lang Zheng's reinforcements.
The three races had more than a few hundred level-5 planetary states and below. These were left for Lu Ze and the rest, as well as Yan Gu.
Yan Gu's expression changed. He was only a level-5 planetary state. He had a level-6 planetary state combat power, but who knew if the opposite party had prodigies too?
Even if there wasn't, he couldn't stop this overwhelming number of powerful beings. Despite this, he still charged up.
Lu Ze looked at Lin Ling, Lu Li, and Alice. "You guys, find some low-level planetary states at the border and leave the rest to us."
Lu Ze appeared on the battlefield with Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha. All the enemies surrounding them were level-5 planetary states and below. In estimation, there were tens of them.
There were even quite a few level-5 planetary states.
Seeing the three of them suddenly appear amongst them, the three races felt dazed, but when they sensed the trio's cultivation level, they became even more dazed.
Level-2 planetary state...
Level-2 planetary state...
... Level-8 mortal evolution state?!
Where did these idiots come from?
During this moment, one blade demon roared, "Lu Ze, it's you?!"
Several blade demon's eyes widened. "Lu Ze? He's that Lu Ze?!"
"He just used space transmission. The only human prodigy that knows it is him. It's probably him!"
"Hehe, the strongest prodigy of the human race appears here? The heavens are really helping our Blade Demon Race!"
The killing intent of the blade demons intensified.
It didn't benefit the Blade Demon Race if the human prodigy matured so, of course, countless blade demons wanted to kill Lu Ze. The Dark Metal Demons and Black Smoke Race looked among each other. They didn't know Lu Ze well. After all, their borders didn't connect with the human race.
But...
They were still looking at Lu Ze with shock.
"This level-8 mortal evolution state human is very famous?"
"Why are the blade demons acting like that?"
They didn't dare to believe that so many blade demons had such intense killing intent for just a level-8 mortal evolution state. Lu Ze looked at the blade demon calling out to him, and he was stunned.
Level-8 mortal evolution state? Why were they on the same level?
He thought there were only planetary states here.
There was even another level-8 mortal evolution state blade demon on the side.
Lu Ze was dumbfounded and asked, "Who are you guys? Do we know each other?"
He didn't know a single blade demon. The other beings: "..."
Everyone was speechless. The Dark Metal Demons and Black Smoke Race looked strangely at Guguyate and Momoerde.
Of course, they knew that these two were the strongest prodigies in the Blade Demon Race. They weren't much weaker than the strongest prodigies of their races. Yet, Lu Ze didn't even know them. This was a bit awkward.
Guguyate's eyes flashed. Thereafter, a 3D object in the depth of his eyes started to spin rapidly. He grinned. "I am one of the Blades of Dawn of the Blade Demon Race, Guguyate. You will die by my hands today!"
They had made some progress during this time. The resources given to them by the Advanced Demon Race was sufficient for them to achieve substantial improvement within a short time.
Although Lu Ze was very strong, he had the invincible faith in himself that he would win.
He would get revenge for Kakaroya and the loss at the Northern Border!
Lu Ze would pay with his blood!
Thinking about the previous matters, his killing intent intensified.
Lu Ze was stunned. He knew about the Blades of Dawn, of course. They were the three strongest prodigies of the young generation in the Blade Demon Race. He didn't expect to encounter them here. However, how did their cultivation level advance so fast?
Lu Ze already felt he was fast, but they were the same as he was?
And...
He looked at the other blade demon glowing in dream-like light. This guy was probably another member of the Blades of Dawn.
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha looked strangely at this blade demon. He had the same cultivation level as Lu Ze. Where did he get the courage to say such things?
Was he dumb?
Lu Ze smiled. "So it's you. Sorry, I've seen your picture before, but to me you blade demons all look the same, so I wasn't able to recognize you."
He really didn't recognize them. However, Guguyate didn't think like that. He felt Lu Ze was insulting him.
He was one of the top prodigies of the Blade Demon Race. How could he be like other ordinary blade demons?
His fury burned and an intense dark light mixed with runes merged into his body. A terrifying chi surged.
Lu Ze looked at Guguyate in shock.
This guy's chi was much stronger than his cultivation level. It was at level two of the planetary state.
Guguyate's information provided that he had a natural demonic body and space field god art.
His talent was really not bad. Lu Ze glanced at the complex runes on his black armor. Clearly, this was no ordinary thing and might be even stronger than the Martial God Armor Set. Lu Ze could see that rune multiply many times under the effects of the combat armor.
Despite so, it was still just a level-2 planetary state.
This guy couldn't even beat Lin Ling, much less Lu Ze.
Guguyate unleashed his full power. The blade demon on the side stared deadly at Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha, preventing the two from intervening. One blade demon even took out a black device and snarled, "If the strongest human prodigy is killed by the strongest prodigy from our race, how devastating to the humans would this be if released?"
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha glanced at each other strangely. Then, they both took out their phones.
What a great idea!
These blade demons were really smart. The battle between races didn't just represent their current combat power but also their future potential as well.
The two would send this off. As for being stared at, they never intended to intervene, alright?
Guguyate heard the statement earlier and laughed.
An invisible field was erected. It seemed to have covered him like a battle armor. Then, he turned into a black stream, rushing over Lu Ze. "Lu Ze! Die!"
The violent power surged, and the other aliens' eyes widened.
"He's probably invincible amongst level-2 planetary states." "That's space field god art. At least, no one among level-2 planetary states can break it."
"This blade demon is quite amazing."
To be able to have such combat power in level eight of the mortal evolution state, this was definitely the very best in their races.
At this point, Momoerde suddenly yelled, "Not good! Guguyate, retreat quickly! Quick!"
Momoerde's eyes were glowing with dream-like light, but his body was stiff, and his face was filled with terror.
The other beings were dumbfounded. Momoerde had a premonition talent, and he could see what would happen a few seconds later.
What could make Momoerde this terrified?
Lu Ze smiled. "Still want to leave?"
A golden light surged out of his body and struck a space storm.
Looking at this shocking chi, Guguyate quickly stopped and looked at Lu Ze in shock.
How is this possible?
How could he be this strong!
He would die!
Just when he decided to retreat, Lu Ze's body had already appeared before him.
Lu Ze indifferently stared at the horrified Guguyate and punched.
Rumble!
The terrifying star crippling punch was launched, and Guguyate's prided space field was torn apart. The fist force struck his armor.
The armor was very strong. Even though Lu Ze's punch approached level five of the planetary state, he couldn't shatter it. However, that terrifying force still managed to enter inside and pulverized Guguyate's body.
Now, only the armor remained. His body had dissipated.
The battle was raging elsewhere, but in Lu Ze's region, it was very dead silent.
The other races looked at Lu Ze and the floating armor in disbelief.
This happened so quickly that they weren't prepared at all, especially the blade demons.
Guguyate was part of the Blades of Dawn, the top prodigy of the Blade Demon Race!
He had great chances of reaching the cosmic system state!
Yet, he was killed with one punch from Lu Ze.
Lu Ze's space transmission was so fast, and his attack was so fast that they didn't even have time to save him.
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha weren't surprised at all.
Lu Ze at full power was near level five of the planetary state. A mere level-2 planetary state blade demon prodigy really wasn't enough.
Lu Ze felt great-not about killing Guguyate, but the things he left behind.
Lu Ze saw the combat armor and storage ring floating in the air and happily grabbed it. This armor was better than the Martial God Set. Although he might not be able to use it, he could exchange it for reward points or give it to someone else. As for that storage ring, there would be quite some nice things in there too, right?
When Lu Ze did this, the eyes of the blade demons especially reddened. Guguyate's storage ring carried a lot of treasures given by the Advanced Demon Race. If this fell into Lu Ze's hands, wouldn't he progress even fast?
Plus, he just killed a blade demon prodigy just then. He must not get away no matter what!
"He dares to kill Guguyate!"
"Kill this bastard and get revenge for Guguyate!" The Blade Demon Race charged up. At the same time, the Dark Metal Demons and Black Smoke Race also charged up.
"Kill this human!"
"This talent is too terrifying! We must not let him mature!"
The Dark Metal Demons and Black Smoke Race originally thought that the blade demons took Lu Ze too seriously. However, they now realized the blade demons were far from taking Lu Ze seriously enough.
Such a talent would be ranked ahead even in the Elf Cosmic Realm and the Demon Realm. If he reached the cosmic system state, then the cosmic system state prodigy ladder would have a spot for him.
Those prodigies on the ladder were either race with cosmic realm state or cosmic cloud state. Races like them, who only had a cosmic system state, couldn't provide for such a prodigy.
How could they allow such a prodigy to live?
If Lu Ze matured, the cosmic system state was definitely fine for him. He even had a great chance of becoming a cosmic cloud state. By then, their territory would probably be reduced by fifty percent, or they might even have to retreat to their mother planet and seek shelter from the Advanced Demon Race!
Who could tolerate this?!
They wanted to kill Lu Ze right here. If they let him go back to the human territory, it would be too hard to kill him.
They rejoiced that this human ran out, or they wouldn't dare to imagine what the future would be like.
Sensing tens of planetary states coming at him, with a few of them being level-5 planetary states, Lu Ze raised a brow and felt some pressure.
He couldn't beat a level-5 planetary state right now, but he wasn't worried. He wasn't alone after all.
Nangong Jing roared, "Hmph! Want to fight! You're asking to die!" She disappeared from the spot as green wind circulated around her body.
Qiuyue Hesha grinned as pink light flashed from her eyes. "Don't hurt little brother Lu Ze."
The tens of powerful beings ended up dazed. Nangong Jing appeared before a level-5 planetary state blade demon and punched. The terrifying power just penetrated the armor and his body.
Qiuyue Hesha who had a level-5 planetary state power could affect tens of planetary states at once, and that even included those of the same power level as her. She could even influence a level-6 planetary state if they didn't have mental force god art or defense methods.
The aliens saw a level-5 planetary state die on the spot, and their eyes bulged. "How is that
possible?!"
"What monsters are these?"
These two humans were just level-2 planetary states, but one could instant-kill a level-5 planetary state wearing combat armor while the other could control tens of planetary states, including a few level-5 planetary state beings?
They weren't humans at all!
The level-6 and level-7 planetary states noticed the situation here. They were in disbelief.
One level-7 planetary state dark metal demon roared, "Surround them and kill! Send all the beings who could free up to kill them!"
A level-6 planetary state blade demon wanted to go over and kill Lu Ze, but a bulky Shenwu Army soldier sliced at him.
The soldier grinned. "How is our human prodigy? He hit one of your bullshit Blades of Dawn to dust with a single punch. Your prodigy isn't good enough?"
"Arghhh! Damned you, humans! You're asking to die!"
At this moment, level-7 planetary state Sangyuan Qiumei blocked the dark red beam from one dark metal demon and said, "Shenwu Army! Block all level-6 planetary states and above with your life!"
Lang Zheng was a level-8 planetary state and was in a more distant battlefield. As such, she was in charge of commanding this region.
She finally saw Lu Ze's and the others' combat power.
Those below level-5 planetary states didn't pose much threat to them. They naturally had to stop level-6 planetary states. "Yes!" All the Shenwu Army soldiers were fervent and had high morale.
All those level-6 planetary states were stopped, but not those who were below such level.
More than three hundred beings charged at Lu Ze's group of three. There were forty level-5 planetary states rushing over.
Nangong Jing grinned and licked her lips. "I can enjoy the slaughter this time."
Subsequently, she charged up with golden light.
Qiuyue Hesha narrowed her eyes. Her expression was seductive as pink light surged all over her. "These aliens are really fierce. They scared me."
She could control all the aliens at once, but there were too many, and it would consume too much of her power. She just chose to control those around Nangong Jing and Lu Ze.
Meanwhile, Lu Ze looked at the other level-8 mortal evolution state blade demons. There was another moving treasure cove.
Sensing Lu Ze's eyes, Momoerde felt his entire body turn cold. He retreated slowly.
He was a bit scared.
One Blade of Dawn was already dead. The remaining two must be saved!
Looking at the two level-5 planetary states, who protected Momoerde like a hen protecting its chicks, Lu Ze felt this scene was comical.
Lu Ze instantly appeared before Momoerde and punched at his chest.
In return, Momoerde tensed up and used his premonition god art at full power.
He wanted to dodge Lu Ze's attack, but soon, his eyes flashed with despair. He could barely predict Lu Ze's attack, but so what if he did?
In the end, there was nothing that could be done to make up for the difference in speed.
Lu Ze didn't just have one god art. He wasn't just strong in one aspect. He was strong in all aspects. Even in speed, he was far superior to Momoerde.
Momoerde could only watch the attack get closer and closer to his chest.
The two level-5 planetary states quickly turned around and roared, "Lu Ze, how dare you!"
This was Momoerde! He must not die here!
The blade demons were shocked. There were two level-5 planetary states there. How did Lu Ze dare to rush forward like that?
The two level-5 planetary states growled with fury and formed sharp sword rays that sliced at Lu Ze's back.
However, Lu Ze didn't even turn around nor attempt to block his attack. A dense Earth Shield formed behind him.
As a consequence, the sharp sword ray struck the Earth Shield, creating a deafening sound.
The sharp sword ray collided with the Earth Shield, and the earth-colored light of the barrier flickered.
Lu Ze's fist already landed on Momoerde's chest. The terrifying power just turned him to dust, leaving only the armor and storage ring.
Clearly, the two armors were of the same quality. He didn't expect their combat armors' quality to be this high.
But now, both were all his.
Lu Ze felt great.
At this moment, his Earth Shield started to crack. Then, the cracks grew larger and larger before the shield eventually crumbled.
By this time, Lu Ze turned around and used the lightning spear and star crippling punch on the sword ray. Rumble!
The sword ray broke Lu Ze's attacks, but it was extremely weakened already. It only left a faint mark on his golden armor in the end.
Lu Ze wasn't even injured.
The aliens widened their eyes again.
"He stopped it?!"
That was two level-5 planetary state attacks. It was a bit rushed, but it was still unleashed by a level-5 planetary state.
Lu Ze wasn't even injured.
Just what kind of defenses did he have?
A level-8 mortal evolution state could stop a level-5 planetary state attack?
Lu Ze happily collected the armor and storage ring. This was a bountiful harvest. The blade demon eyes turned red.
Guguyate and Momoerde, two extremely talented prodigies, just died in Lu Ze's hands like that. This was a huge loss for their race.
Momoerde's death made them especially furious. Lu Ze was already surrounded by many powerful beings, but he still managed to kill Momoerde while being attacked by two level-5 planetary states.
How could they not feel angry?
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "I've recorded everything before. Haha, a blade demon prodigy was easily killed by little brother Lu Ze while being protected by others."
One level-5 planetary state blade demon roared furiously, "We must not let them return alive. We must kill them!"
The tens of level-5 planetary state blade demons charged towards Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha like crazy and launched their attacks.
Lu Ze raised a brow. He squeezed away from the restriction on space and easily dodged the attack.
The strongest was just a level-5 planetary state. It was all too easy for him to dodge these attacks.
Even while he was dodging, Lu Ze would appear before weak planetary states and take away one with each blow.
No one could stop him. The aliens wanted to kill Lu Ze fervently, but they couldn't even bind space. How would they be able to stop Lu Ze then?
They could only watch their men being slaughtered by Lu Ze one by one.
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha worked together rather well too.
Although they were besieged by tens of level-5 planetary states, they could carry on with the battle and even suppress them.
In just a few seconds, there were several level-5 planetary states heavily injured. If it wasn't that Qiuyue Hesha's seduction god art had to control numerous people, there would be people dead now already.
These three people's combat powers were too terrifying. They could each fight a hundred. One level-7 planetary state being from the Black Smoke Race shouted, "All those who can free themselves go! We must kill these three!"
Immediately, tens of those who were ganging up on Yan Gu and his team left and changed their targets.
At this point, the pressure on the Shenwu soldiers was lifted. As such, their defensive and stalling strategy had to change accordingly. Yan Gu snarled, "Kill them all!"
Everyone charged at their opponents, full of killing intent.
Lin Ling, Alice, and Lu Li covertly killed a group of level-1 and level-2 planetary states.
Lin Ling bit her lips. "Ze attracted all of them."
Alice and Lu Li couldn't help but bit their lips as well.
Soon, all their enemies were dead. Within a short ten minutes, Lu Ze and the team killed more than a hundred aliens.
Nangong Jing's and Qiuyue Hesha's chi weakened slightly. Fortunately, only a little more than ten level-5 planetary states remained. The rest had turned to corpses.
Lu Ze was still very lively and energetic, but those attacking him were already tired. They could only watch with disbelief as Lu Ze used space transmission to appear next to a level-4 planetary state dark metal demon and then kill him with two full-powered punches.
"Why… why does he still have that much power! Why can he last this long?!"
"Why doesn't he feel fatigued at all?"
No one could answer their questions. During this point, Lu Ze appeared in front of another level-4 planetary state. Blood lightning surged, and tens of lightning spears pierced the other party. The creature from the Black Smoke Race could only howl once before dying on the spot.
At the other battlefield, Zuoqiu Xunshuang was holding a silver long spear. Her entire body was glowing with silver light. With the flick of her wrists, each strike had a terrifying power that was enough to penetrate stars.
In front of her was Lala Nisi, who was burning with red flames. The temperature had even distorted space itself.
Every time they moved, it spanned a few thousand kilometers. Each clash was like the explosion of planets. Fire and silver light flashed. This entire region was quivering.
A star state's combat power was extremely terrifying. Given enough time, they can destroy an entire solar system.
After another clash, Zuoqiu Xunshuang glanced in Lu Ze's direction and said, "Lala Nisi, your blade demon's Blades of Dawn aren't good enough. You can switch a few more." Lala Nisi's flames flared even more. She glanced at Lu Ze with killing intent "Your human prodigy is strong, but... only ones that are alive could be powerful. Don't let us find the chance."
She sneered, "How much longer can those old peeps protect you? A thousand years? Two thousand years? Hopefully, you can get a few more cosmic system states with the resources of your race in two thousand years."
Lala Nisi didn't believe this at all.
The Blade Demon Race had a much greater foundation than the Human Race.
Even if Lu Ze became a cosmic system state, those old saints would be dead by then. Could he support the entire human race by himself?
That was just wishful thinking!
Zuoqiu Xunshuang smiled. "I don't know about the future, but I know that right now, don't even think about getting the star state tomb."
Lala Nisi's smile froze. Her flames turned into a terrifying infernal beast.
"Then, try me!"
In the cosmic fortress, Luoluoxisi contacted the Blade Demon Race as soon as he returned. Thereafter, he saw Lu Ze turn Guguyate into dust with one punch. His purple eyes were extremely shocked. "No way! How can Lu Ze be this strong?!"
They received cultivation resources from the Advanced Demon Race. Their spirit force quality and cultivation speed should be far stronger than other prodigies.
With their powerful god art and divine art, the human prodigy should have been obliterated.
However, why was Lu Ze this strong?
"Did he receive things from the Elf Race?"
The Elf Race and Advanced Demon Race opposed each other.
Then, he saw Lu Ze kill Momoerde as well while taking attacks from two level-5 planetary states.
Luoluoxisi: "..."
His skin crawled. He was no match for Lu Ze. He didn't want to join the battlefield at all now.
Lu Ze was too strong-strong in all aspects. At least in the short term, he would be no match for Lu Ze.
But...
If he digested the treasures given to him, he had the chance to suppress Lu Ze! Thinking about this, he regained his confidence.
On the battlefield, those few hundred planetary states were scared.
Lu Ze was too terrifying, and his power was endless. He was very agile too.
This put him in a position of invulnerability.
Even a level-5 planetary state couldn't stop him. How could they win?
Perhaps they could fight if a level-6 planetary state came and restrict the space. However, this was impracticable.
Lu Ze just killed a level-3 planetary state from the Black Smoke Race and disappeared from the spot.
Everyone else, other than those five level-5 planetary states, tensed up.
Lu Ze was like the god of death. Wherever he looked, people died. There was no exception.
A level-3 planetary state dark metal demon saw Lu Ze appear before him and was scared to death.
He roared and turbo-charged his dark metal body, hoping that he could defend for an instant and wait for help. Nevertheless, Lu Ze's punch penetrated his defenses. When his life force dissipated, the two level-5 planetary state blade demons' attacks finally arrived.
Lu Ze disappeared from the spot again.
"Lu Ze! You coward! Don't run!" a level-5 planetary state dark metal demon roared.
Lu Ze looked at him as though the other party was an idiot. "How old are you?"
The dark metal demon was more furious, but there was nothing he could do after all.
At this juncture, someone from the Black Smoke Race said, "Everyone, get together, we'll hold up a defense together."
They came here to surround and kill Lu Ze, but now, they were forced to rely on a levelo5 planetary state to survive.
Lu Ze was just a level-8 mortal evolution state human.
Where was their honor?
Lu Ze appeared before another level-4 planetary state being from the Black Smoke Race and buried him with lightning spears and star crippling punch.
Seeing this, the aliens finally overcame their pride and herded towards the five level-5 planetary states.
The five level-5 planetary states used all their spirit force to form a shield and enclosed everyone.
Lu Ze was dumbfounded by this development.
He looked at them and said, "Aren't you all here to kill me? Don't be like this. How can you be so timid? Come attack me!"
His defenses were strong, but his attacks weren't strong enough to break a level-5 planetary state's barriers.
What should he do?
There were so many enemies still alive.
Those aliens wanted to go out and kill Lu Ze, but they knew that if they did, they would die.
Lu Ze gasped. "Pfft, so this is the sort of planetary state you are? I overestimated you."
Since he couldn't do anything here, Lu Ze looked at Nangong Jing's and Qiuyue Hesha's battlefield.
They had an easy time against the remaining level-5 planetary states.
Their chi was slightly weaker. It should be fine for them to kill these aliens, but they would be injured a little.
Lu Ze appeared in their battlefield. A complex blood rune flashed in his eyes as a few hundred kilometers wide lightning cloud formed.
Rumble...
Spirit force surged and blood lightning swam around the lightning clouds like snakes.
Lu Ze inserted his own spirit force into the clouds. Immediately, more than a hundred blood lightning bolts shot towards the few over ten level-5 planetary states.
They ended up dazed.
Why did Lu Ze appear here?
What happened to the people hunting him?
"Damn it! Why is Lu Ze here?" A level-5 planetary state blade demon roared in fury. All the remaining aliens squeezed out some power to form a shield above their heads.
During this time, Qiuyue Hesha maxed out her seduction god art, and immediately, their chi weakened.
Nangong Jing charged forward and appeared before a dark metal demon. Her long leg flashed with golden light and swept towards the dark metal demon's chest.
Roar!
The dark metal demon gathered all his power and swung his huge hammer towards Nangong Jing's legs. Before the two clashed, more than ten bolts of blood lightning struck the barrier above his head.
The lightning swam around the dark metal demon's tall body like snakes. His chi immediately dropped a level. Then, his hammer finally collided with Nangong Jing's
leg.
Previously, he could only barely stop Nangong Jing. But now, he was completely crushed. His hammer was flung away by the kick, and the leg proceeded to smash his chest.
Immediately, this dark metal demon was thrown back and coughed quite some blood along the way.
Nangong Jing wasn't going to give up on this opportunity. The wind glided around her, and she disappeared from the spot. She soon appeared before the dark metal demon.
Her leg struck his chest again. The dark metal demon couldn't resist at all as the force wiped away his life.
Seeing this, the other aliens roared in fury, "Why is Lu Ze here? What are those idiots doing? Why did they let Lu Ze come?!"
They looked towards the battlefield where Lu Ze was before and saw a few hundred planetary states cowering inside a defense barrier.
"?"
These level-5 planetary states were shocked. They felt they were dreaming.
Why did this illogical scene appear?
Didn't they go hunt Lu Ze?
Why did it look like they were the ones being hunted?!
Those few hundred aliens also looked back, and thus, the two sides had an awkward staring session.
However, Nangong Jing and her group didn't stop at all. Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha always had full trust towards Lu Ze.
They never expected anything to happen to Lu Ze despite seeing a few hundred planetary states hunting him.
When Lu Ze came over, they worked together perfectly. Now, the three had another opportunity while the enemies were dazed.
Lu Ze's spirit force surged as blood lightning poured out. Qiuyue Hesha used large amounts of stamina, but she still used her seduction god art at full power.
Nangong Jing appeared before a blade demon. "Die!"
She punched and unleashed her terrifying power. The fist force penetrated the blade demon's chest and killed him instantly.
Only now did the level-5 planetary states unleash all their power and block Lu Ze's lightning suppression.
"Argh! Idiots! Why do we have such dumb teammates?!"
"Useless garbage!"
They were cursing while blocking Lu Ze's attack.
With such retarded teammates, even gods can't win.
They were in despair.
Hearing these curses, those aliens were burning with fury.
One level-5 planetary state dark metal demon roared, "Let's go over too! Lu Ze has space transmission god art, and we can't do anything about it, but we can go kill those two females!"
Everyone else nodded. "Yes, we must kill them!"
They didn't believe that they couldn't kill even one!
Therefore, a few hundred of them flew towards Lu Ze's group.
Nevertheless, even if they decided to come over, they still maintained the shield, just in case Lu Ze would suddenly appear and kill someone.
Lu Ze killed a hundred like that. They were truly traumatized.
The other level-5 planetary states saw their teammates cower in the shield while charging over slowly and didn't even want to say anything
Why didn't they realize earlier their teammates were this stupid?
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha were panting. Their faces were slightly pale. They used too much power. Although they weren't injured, they were quite exhausted.
Lu Ze looked at the two. "Are you two fine?"
Nangong Jing grinned. "I'm fine! There's no problem in killing them all!"
Qiuyue Hesha watched the group of aliens come over in a shield and grinned. "Why didn't I realize they were this interesting?"
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. "I'm rather disappointed in them. They're too timid." Thereafter, he drew another wave of blood lightning. Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha needed to recover some energy, but he didn't. His recovery rate was so fast that he had no pressure facing those few hundred aliens.
While Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha recovered, he couldn't let those level-5 planetary states recover too. He would suppress them with his attacks.
Lightning scattered out, and those level-5 planetary states roared, but they couldn't do anything to Lu Ze in the end.
They consumed too much power. They were already trying their best just to stop the blood lightning
In a few seconds, those few hundred planetary states finally joined this battlefield.
At the same time, Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha recovered some power as well.
Qiuyue Hesha grinned. "Little brother Lu Ze, I'll break that shield."
Following such, she used the seduction god art again. This time, it was aimed towards those level-5 planetary states holding up the barrier.
The spirit force barrier couldn't stop Qiuyue Hesha's seduction god art. With the targets being only five level-5 planetary states, the seduction god art was more effective.
In an instant, those five planetary states' mental forces were stunned. They were almost straight-up controlled.
Their barrier broke like a bottle.
Seeing this, Lu Ze smiled. He didn't even use space transmission and just inserted more power into the lightning cloud. A few hundred blood lightning bolts shot towards that group.
Nangong Jing grinned and punched. The violent golden fist force struck towards that same area with terrifying power too. All those people, who just came, ended up dazed and freaked out. "Arghh! Block it! We must block it!"
A level-4 planetary state dark metal demon gathered all his power and cut towards the lightning above his head.
The others just recovered from their terror and used full force to defend.
A huge clash could be heard.
Nangong Jing's attack was very strong among level-5 planetary states.
In addition, there were a few hundred level-4 planetary state blood lightning at peak power. How could a level-4 planetary state and below stop it?
In a short instant, the power pierced through their formation. When the explosion calmed, only five level-5 planetary states and three level-4 planetary state dark metal demons were alive.
The rest of them turned to corpses.
The weaker ones didn't even have a body left.
Meanwhile, the surviving three dark metal demons were heavily injured and bloodied.
The region, where Lu Ze and the girls were, was deadly silent.
The surviving level-4 planetary state dark metal demons and the other five level-5 planetary states, who just regained consciousness, looked at each other in a daze.
So, why did they come over? To contribute to the number of kills?
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Meanwhile, the other level-5 planetary states were suppressed by Lu Ze's blood lightning. By the time they reacted, their retarded teammates were pretty much wiped out. Their mind went blank.
They were still their teammates after all, despite being retarded. It was such a shock to them that a few hundred of them died when their opponent was just two level-2 planetary state and one level-8 mortal evolution state humans
The huge loss even made the level-8 and level-9 planetary states, including the star states, stop fighting.
Avit looked at the floating dark metal demon bodies. "How can he be this strong?!"
Cheng Feng also gawked at the situation with widened eyes. He never expected Lu Ze and his team to accomplish this in such a short while. But soon, his eyes flashed with surprise and joy.
Lu Ze's group of three was much stronger than he imagined.
He laughed hysterically at Avit. "Hahaha, he's indeed a prodigy of the Human Race! The people from your race has no right to be his opponent!"
Avit's killing intent surged. This was the same for Yin Xian and Lala Nisi.
These three were too talented, especially Lu Ze.
If they missed this opportunity, they would probably never get the chance to take care of these three people.
Earlier, their purpose in the battle was for the star state tomb, but now, it was for Lu Ze's group of three.
Even the star state tomb was far less important than they were.
Everyone knew that their future would definitely not just be star state. Especially Lu Ze, he might even break through the cosmic system state in the coming years and reach the cosmic cloud state.
Thinking about this possibility, the three pairs of star states clashed together even more intensely than before. Avit roared, "Dark metal demons, listen! Kill those three human prodigies at all costs!"
Lala Nisi and Yin Xian made the same orders.
They must not let Lu Ze live!
Carol grinned. "Shenwu Army, listen. Stop your opponents. They must not attack Lu Ze's group of three!"
"Yes!"
Lu Ze and the other two girls heard the roar too. They didn't expect the three races to take them this seriously.
Nangong Jing grinned. "We seemed to have played too much?"
Those level-5 planetary states heard their commander and charged towards the three humans again. Lu Ze said, "Let's deal with them first."
The three launched another wave of attack.
Qiuyue Hesha used seduction god art at full power.
Lu Ze's blood lightning hummed non-stop.
Nangong Jing flew towards the aliens.
The battlefield was so intense that even a distant huge planet was affected to the point of shaking.
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha did use the red orbs to cultivate after all. Their recovery speed was far superior to the aliens.
As for Lu Ze, he just needed to take an instant break to recover his power.
The battle continued on for a few minutes longer. The aliens used up more power and felt the battle slipping away from them.
They started getting killed one by one.
A few minutes later. Rumble!
A level-5 planetary state dark metal demon paused under Qiuyue Hesha's seduction. Nangong Jing appeared before him and punched out with her star crippling punch, heavily injuring him, and then killing him with the subsequent strike.
Now, only two level-5 planetary state blade demons remained.
They looked around at the bodies in terror.
Tens of level-5 planetary states! A few hundred planetary states couldn't even heavily injure the trio.
How could they not be terrified of the tremendous difference?
Lu Ze smiled at the trembling blade demons. He was finally about to be done.
When they saw his smile, they finally couldn't hold it anymore and ran towards the fortress while screaming. But as Qiuyue Hesha's eyes glowed with pink light, those two blade demons halted in their tracks.
Then, their life force just dissipated like that.
Qiuyue Hesha and Nangong Jing panted. Their faces were pale. Even they felt the difficulty of fighting that many at once, but Lu Ze looked like he was completely fine. Lu Ze asked, "Are you guys okay?"
Qiuyue Hesha rolled her eyes and spoke seductively, "Little brother Lu Ze is too amazing, you last so long."
Lu Ze's heart skipped.
Nangong Jing glanced strangely at Qiuyue Hesha. She felt this was dirty talk, but she had no evidence. She then drank a bottle of alcohol.
"It's fine, we recover really fast. We can go help others!"
Lu Ze nodded.
They turned to Yan Gu's group, including the level-4 and level-5 planetary state Shenwu Army soldiers.
Sensing this, the aliens on that side began to worry while Yan Gu and the rest got a boost in morale.
"Brothers! Kill them all!"
A level-5 planetary state Shenwu Army warrior roared.
The aliens were terrified, but they weren't ordered to retreat, so they couldn't.
With the addition of Lu Ze, Nangong Jing, and Qiuyue Hesha, those aliens were soon all killed. Thereafter, Yan Gu and the rest were freed to help others.
This was the crumbling of a thousand-meter dam by ants' nests. As long as one weakness appeared, this weakness would be the breakthrough point that would continually get enlarged.
Soon, all those level-5 planetary states and below were killed.
Yan Gu and the Shenwu Army glared at Lu Ze and the girls. Lu Ze smiled. "What's wrong?"
Yan Gu sighed. "You guys are too strong." That was three against three hundred.
Lu Ze rolled his eyes. "The battle isn't over yet. Don't compliment me now."
He saw that they received several injuries.
Lu Ze smiled. "I'll heal you guys first, and then, we'll go help the commanders."
"Monarch of the New Dawn, you can heal too?"
Just what didn't this Monarch of the New Dawn know?
Ji Cheng said proudly, "My junior can do everything and is good at everything." Shadora nodded. She approved of Lu Ze's healing abilities.
One heavily injured level-5 planetary state Shenwu Army soldier nodded at Lu Ze. "In that case, thank you, Monarch of the New Dawn."
Lu Ze shook his head. "Let us begin."
Subsequently, a green light circulated around his body. These green lines connected with the injured, managing to cover even Yan Gu and Shadora. Upon recovering, they could join the level-6 planetary state battlefield. By then, it would be a huge help to level-6 planetary state battles.
Not everyone was Lu Ze. Lu Ze had space transmission and could easily avoid the stalling of equal powered people, but the aliens of the other three races couldn't do this.
To them, a few extra level-5 planetary states, especially those like Yan Gu and Shadora, would be lethal.
Lu Ze easily healed the others.
In a few short minutes, a few rather heavily injured level-5 planetary states were cured by Lu Ze. They nodded at Lu Ze and then went to help the level-6 planetary states.
Lu Ze healed all the injured in waves, and they all rejoined the battlefield.
By now, Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha had recovered too and thus also joined the battlefield.
Qiuyue Hesha's seduction god art could even affect level-6 planetary states for an instant.
This single instance greatly influenced the level-6 planetary state battle. The level-6 planetary state beings of the three races were constantly injured and killed.
Seeing this, the three star-state aliens' expressions changed.
For civilizations whose strongest power was the cosmic system state, level-6 planetary states were considered the middle power in the hierarchy.
Watching the level-6 planetary states die, their hearts were bleeding. Each death meant the weakening of the race.
As more beings died, the level-6 planetary states started to join level-7 planetary state battles, and those level-7 planetary state aliens started to have a difficult time.
Seeing this, the three star-states glanced at each other. Avit roared, "Retreat!"
If they didn't retreat now, all their subordinates would die. The difference between planetary states and star states was too huge. They didn't need to worry about being besieged by planetary states.
After him, Yin Xian ordered retreat too.
Lala Nisi's eyes flashed with fury. This time, the blade demons lost the most.
They had two prodigies, who had cosmic system state potential, die here, but she couldn't get revenge. How could she be satisfied?
However, when she saw another level-6 planetary state blade demon getting killed, she gritted her teeth and roared, "Blade demons! Retreat!"
Hearing this, the aliens felt relieved. No one wanted to die meaninglessly.
They defended against the attacks while retreating towards the space fortress.
The space fortress started to use spirit force cannons to suppress the fire. At the same time, an extremely powerful barrier was formed. With the three star states also helping in the defense, they barely held up to the human side's attack.
After retreating to the space fortress, they activated warp travel and disappeared.
Seeing this, Cheng Feng and the rest of the humans breathed easy.
Cheng Feng turned around to the vigilant Shenwu Army soldiers and grinned. "We won!" Hearing this, all the planetary states smiled. They won. This meant that they had quite a few days to explore that star state tomb. During this time, Lin Ling, Lu Li, and Alice proceeded to Lu Ze's side.
They had been fighting level-1 and level-2 planetary states on the side. After all, the rest were killed by Lu Ze, they could only watch the show.
Lu Li smiled. "Is it over?"
Lu Ze nodded "General Cheng Feng and the others said so. They probably truly left. This battle was easier than we imagined."
To be honest, Lu Ze wasn't even injured in this battle.
Lin Ling rolled her eyes. "Judging from your tone, you are still not satisfied? Is it not good to have it easy?"
She felt this foodie might have a BDSM fetish.
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. "I didn't say it wasn't good to have it easy." At this moment, Cheng Feng and the rest flew to Lu Ze's side. They all glared at Lu Ze, Nangong Jing, and Qiuyue Hesha.
Their contribution in this battle was the greatest.
Lu Ze was embarrassed being stared at like that by everyone.
Cheng Feng laughed and patted Lu Ze's shoulder "Not bad, not bad! You're about as strong as I am when I was young."
Everyone looked at Cheng Feng in disbelief. How shameless did he have to be to say this?
Carol was speechless. "Old Cheng, your ability to spout bullshit has improved." Lu Ze's mouth twitched. They had always thought Cheng Feng was a serious person. But they knew that this depended on the other person as well. For an ordinary person, Cheng Feng wouldn't joke around like this. Zuoqiu Xunshuang smiled. "This time, the contribution of the three of you is very big, especially Lu Ze..."
She looked at Lu Ze with amazement. "I didn't expect you to get those two blade demons with cosmic system state seed killed. This is a massive gain."
Carol nodded. "Although the star state tomb is very valuable, those two cosmic system state seeds aren't worth less. The loss this time will make the blade demons bleed."
Everyone laughed. The blade demons were their most direct enemy.
Cheng Feng grinned. "After this is over, Lu Ze, you and your group can come to my army after graduation. How about it? The incentives are definitely good."
Carol was immediately annoyed. "With their talent, it's definitely better for them to join my reinforcement army. That's not too nice, old Cheng."
Zuoqiu Xunshuang rolled her eyes. "Are you two still asleep? With their talent, their future stage would be the entire Elf Cosmic Realm."
What a joke! Nangong Jing was her daughter. If they really had to go, it would be her army. However, the waters were too shallow for them in the Human Race.
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Cheng Feng said excitedly, "With Lu's talent, he should be able to get a place on the Elf Realm Prodigy Ranking." Carol nodded. "Yes! He has a very high chance actually. Nangong and Qiuyue have a small chance too."
Lu Ze asked, "Elf Cosmic Realm Prodigy Ranking?"
He wasn't too familiar with this name.
The others were also confused.
Lin Ling, Lu Li, and Alice were annoyed. "They wouldn't even be ranked?"
Zuoqiu Xunshuang explained further, "It's a ranking set up by the Elf Race. All those who were on there are the prodigies of the Elf Race and their subject races."
She smiled. "There is one year remaining until the East Region Social Gathering. There should be people from the Prodigy Ranking going. You guys can go and see."
Lu Ze and the other's eyes lit up.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang and the others didn't stay on the topic of prodigy ranking for too long. This matter was out of their grasp at this moment.
Cheng Feng said, "Okay, we don't have much time now. We need to hurry and check that star state tomb." The three races had left, but, of course, they weren't going to give up just like that. Once their reinforcements arrive, they would definitely return.
The Human Race called for back-up, but they wouldn't go that hard and fight three races head-on.
The best course of action was to take the things away before the reinforcements of the three races arrive.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang said, "I'll guard here. Cheng and Carol, lead some people in to check it out." Cheng Feng nodded. "We don't know the situation inside. Level-9 planetary state, follow me inside."
Lu Ze and the rest were dazed. They thought they would be able to enter this archaeological expedition, but instead, the two states were only bringing a few level-9 planetary states?
However, this was normal. This was a star state tomb after all. If you were too weak, it was dangerous to go inside. Plus, people needed to guard outside because who knew if those three races would retaliate soon?
As though noticing Lu Ze's eyes, Zuoqiu Xunshuang said, "Don't think about going. It's a high-level star state tomb. If something happens, they might not be able to protect you."
Lu Ze laughed drily. "Aunty Xunshuang, you think too much. I'm not the type to get myself killed."
Lu Li and the others didn't believe this at all.
He was the type of person who dared to fight level-1 planetary state void beasts when he was only an aperture opening state.
He even dared to leave the human-controlled region.
Not long after Cheng Feng and Carol went in, there was a rumbling sound from the distant dark gray planet.
Subsequently, an extremely terrifying spirit force wave spread across all directions. Lu Ze and the others looked at the planet. Then, Lu Ze's eyes widened. The planet was covered in cracks that spread across the entirety of it.
Rumble!
The planet exploded.
Huge rocks and dust flew everywhere. The terrifying force of the explosion brought a powerful spirit force wave sweeping across the space.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang raised a brow and formed a silver barrier, protecting everyone.
When the shockwave was gone, that huge planet had disappeared. Only a broken crystal ship remained.
The ship was glowing white. It was broken but still looked very luxurious. It floated in the air, emitting gentle energy in all directions.
On the side of the ship, Cheng Feng and Carol were holding up a defense barrier. Inside were the level-9 planetary state Shenwu Army soldiers.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang raised a brow. "I didn't expect the ship to have such a powerful defense mechanism."
Lu Ze's sweat trickled down. A huge planet disappeared like that. Luckily, he didn't go in before. However, the Shenwu Army seemed very excited.
Lu Ze and the others were confused. Why were they this happy?
Even Zuoqiu Xunshuang smiled. "The power of the defense mechanism was star state. This means that the ship can release star state attacks. This was much more advanced technology than what the Human Race had. The civilization level of this star state being shouldn't be low."
Moreover...
Lu Ze thought of the pyramid-shaped spirit force cannon at Shenwu City.
That was star state spirit force cannon. The human race didn't have such technology, but the ship could unleash such a powerful attack. No wonder everyone was so happy.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang smiled. "Let's go over and
see."
Everyone flew towards the ship.
When they were near, Cheng Feng and Carol put down the defense barrier. The level-9 planetary state soldiers inside had pale faces. Clearly, they were injured during that ripple.
Cheng Feng grinned. "This is a huge earn. This should be a crystal race ship!"
Everyone was shocked, and they rejoiced even more.
"It's crystal race ship? We're so lucky this time!"
"Crystal race? This is a massive gain!"
"Hahaha! The blade demons would be spitting blood!"
Lu Ze had heard of them before.
In the first semester, they were learning the environment and races in the Elf Cosmic Realm. This included a simple introduction to the Crystal Race.
The Crystal Race's power was extremely strong. It could be ranked among the top three. They had cosmic cloud state super-bosses. Their cultivation and technology power far exceeded the Human Race's.
It was said that they had existed for a few hundred million years. Compared to them, the Human Race's 2000 galactic age was like an infant. However, that was only the simplest introduction in the course.
Usually, there would be no contact between the two races as the difference was too great.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang frowned. "Indeed, it's a crystal race ship, but why would it appear here?"
Cheng Feng shook his head. "I don't know, but they're also in the east region. Perhaps an adventurer encountered danger?"
Half the ship was gone, and the remaining half was still 300 meters long.
The entire ship was made of some unknown crystal. There were complex runes inscribed in the crystal.
Carol and Cheng Feng flew towards the inside. That was probably the ship's last defense mechanism.
It's very terrifying that it could unleash such an attack, despite being this broken.
They easily went in through the crack.
Moments later, Cheng Feng's voice sounded. "There's no danger, come in."
Everyone flew inside, including Lu Ze and his group.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang followed them.
Nangong Jing asked, "Mom, why are you following us?"
Zuoqiu Xunshuang replied, "Girl, I'm scared something would happen to you guys. It's a star state ship after all, who knows what dangers are lurking inside?"
Nangong Jing was a little annoyed. They weren't kids after all.
Lu Ze felt this scene was very satisfying. For the first time, he found out that the alcoholic was scared of her mother.
Seeing this, Nangong Jing was more annoyed and glared at Lu Ze.
Lu Ze stopped smiling and looked away.
The internal space of the ship was vast. It was made of unknown crystals.
Each room was completely empty and had nothing inside.
Everyone checked and found with disappointment that the rooms had nothing in them.
They spent a considerable amount of time driving away the other three races. If there was only this broken ship, wouldn't it be a loss?
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Soon, they arrived at the head of the ship. There was one last room there.
Everyone walked in, and when they saw what was inside, their eyes became dazed.
The room wasn't big. It was about 100 square meters. In the center, there were a few faint white crystal pillars. The pillars had intricate silver runes. Right now, the runes seemed very dim.
Everyone was shocked that on the side of the pillar, there was a unique body.
It was different from the human body. It was a half-transparent crystal humanoid body.
The crystal was very dim. It looked like a lifeless rock, but it was still emitting weak pressure.
Cheng Feng's eyes widened. "A body of a being from the Crystal Race?" Simultaneously, Carol saw there was a crystal storage ring on the body's hand. He spoke excitedly, "Storage ring!" Everyone got thrilled. There should be treasures inside.
At this moment, the pillar suddenly lit up with yellow light.
Everyone tensed up, especially Zuoqiu Xunshuang, Cheng Feng, and Carol. They immediately stood in front of Lu Ze and the others.
If any accidents occurred, they had to ensure Lu Ze and the rest were fine.
The pillar flashed for a few seconds before a white light formed a figure.
It was a crystal person about two meters tall.
The body was made of orderly crystals. There were no facial features on the head, but there were two deep blue lights.
Lu Ze looked at the holographic projection and the body. The two looked very similar.
At this moment, the figure spoke. "Hello..." He spoke using the common universal language. "By the time you enter here, I believe I'm already dead."
Lu Ze didn't know if he sensed wrong, but he seemed to hear some joy from this figure's tone?
The others were confused too.
"I'll introduce myself. I'm Yi Lei of the Crystal Race. I'm 353 years old today, a level-9 star state, single, looking for a partner..."
Everyone: "?"
This guy didn't seem reliable at all. He was dead and still said he was single?!
The being continued, "I died about 100 years ago. It's because I encountered a level-5 cosmic system state Advanced Insectoid."
He sighed. "I didn't expect my luck would be this bad as the top prodigy of the Crystal Race. The insectoid was not only a level-5 cosmic system state but also a prodigy. I used all means possible to run away, but my injuries were still too heavy to change anything."
Everyone's expressions changed.
Cheng Feng said in shock, "A level-9 star state can escape from a level-5 cosmic system state prodigy insectoid?"
Carol's mouth twitched. "... He's indeed the top prodigy of a great race."
As a star state themselves, they knew the difference between star states and cosmic system states the most.
Even an ordinary cosmic system state was extremely terrifying, much less a prodigy insectoid. Yet, this Yi Lei still got away. Despite dying in the end, this was still extremely shocking. Even Lu Ze was curious. Would he be able to do this when he was a level-9 star state?
Right at this time, Yi Lei's projection rejoiced. "But that's fine, so what if I die? Every time I reincarnate, I can become stronger! By then, I will enter the top 100 of the Prodigy Ranking!"
Everyone: "?"
Ji Cheng gulped some saliva. "So he means that he can be revived after dying?"
Everyone fell silent. The Human Race had never thought about reviving the dead.
Cheng Feng then said, "This is probably the power of a few hundred million years of foundation."
Carol and Zuoqiu Xunshuang nodded.
If the Human Race had such means, they would definitely prepare it for Lu Ze and the others.
Every race would do everything they could to prepare such means for its most talented members. However, the Human Race didn't have such means.
Carol continued, "By the looks of it, he couldn't even reach the top 100 of the Prodigy Ranking..."
This meant that the top 100 were only stronger. They were all a bunch of monsters.
Yi Lei added, "Hehe, I didn't leave anything good behind. Since you found my ship, then you can have it. Of course, I have a mission. I hope you can send my body back to me."
"There will be rewards."
Zuoqiu Xunshuang frowned. "Why doesn't he come to take it himself?"
As though guessing what they thought, Yi Lei laughed. "I'm at the border of the eastern region, right?... I really came to a barren place... You guys must be confused why I've spoken so much with you and why I'm not getting my body by myself, right? My reincarnation means will cause me to lose the memory of the period prior to my death. So once revived, I won't know where I died too." His voice was a little awkward.
Yi Lei soon hid his awkwardness and made his tone authoritative. "Of course, if you're scared of me not honoring my word, you don't have to bring it here. However, if I find out that you're using my body to forge artifacts... I will annihilate your entire race!"
They never intended to do anything with the body. After all, it wasn't too nice to take his belongings and still forge artifacts with his body.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang said, "We were planning to leave the body here, but now, it seems best to take both the ship and the body."
Cheng Feng nodded. "This Yi Lei might not be trustworthy. We won't send the body to him. We'll take the ship and the body back, then erase the evidence."
They were concerned that Yi Lei was tricking them to bring back his belongings.
Cheng Feng turned to the Shenwu warriors. "We only found the tomb of an ordinary star state today!"
"Yes!"
After making up their mind, they didn't stay here for long.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang took Yi Lei's storage ring and everyone left the ship. Then, Zuoqiu Xunshuang put the ship and body into her storage ring.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang pointed at the storage ring. "We'll hand this to old man Shenwu."
Cheng Feng and Carol nodded.
Subsequently, they cleared all the evidence here before returning to their ships to leave.
Although they found the tomb of a Crystal Race's prodigy, the exploration process was much smoother than imagined.
This was mainly because the ship was already broken and didn't have many defensive capabilities. They didn't even use a few hours for the entire duration.
When everyone got on their respective ships, they flew towards the controlled region.
The reinforcements of the three races probably just left recently. They had no chance of stopping them.
In warp dimension, New Dawn.
Ying Ying never left the ship and was still watching cartoons on the couch now.
If he let Ying Ying do something, she could have kept those three star-states and all the aliens, but Lu Ze didn't resort to this method.
It was better for the Human Race to conceal itself and grow.
When he was stronger and the human foundation was improved, that would be the time when the Human Race would unleash its power. If they just relied on Ying Ying, the Human Race would have no foundation. The previous battle was fine for Lu Ze but still rather tiring for Nangong Jing and the others.
Ying Ying blinked her eyes and spoke with some worry. "Are the sisters very tired?" Qiuyue Hesha grabbed Ying Ying over and caressed her. "Hehe, I won't be tired after I hug Ying Ying."
Nangong Jing exclaimed, "Fox demon, let me hug her too!" Then, she jumped over and stroked Ying Ying from the other side. Ying Ying was squeezed in the middle by the two. Her face was rubbed on both sides.
She was very regretful right now. She shouldn't have said those words.
Lin Ling, Lu Li, and Alice all rushed over.
"I want it too!"
"Hehe, Ying Ying's face is so soft."
"I want to touch it too!"
"Wait! Alice, you're touching the wrong place!" Lu Ze: "?"
Ying Ying's small body was already covered by them. Lu Ze could only see her reach out her two hands from Alice's side, waving helplessly in the air.
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. These women were too terrifying. He felt deep sympathy for Ying Ying. At the same time, he also felt a little glad as he could never win a food war on the table with her.
Despite this, Lu Ze still decided to save Ying
Ying.
He coughed. "Okay, stop bullying Ying Ying. Let's have a look at the treasures we got from those two Blades of Dawn."
The girls were stunned. They moved away curiously and sat down nicely.
Ying Ying immediately jumped to Lu Ze's side in terror. Her deep blue eyes still contained some dread and despair.
These sisters were too terrifying!
Lu Ze rubbed her little head and rolled his eyes. "Just look at how you've scared Ying Ying."
Alice rubbed her head and laughed. "Hehe, Ying Ying is too cute. I didn't notice." Then, she said to Ying Ying, "Sorry, Ying Ying, I'll cook good food for you in a moment." Ying Ying's eyes lit up. "Really?"
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"Really!" Alice nodded. Ying Ying was so cute. She wanted to hug her more but it didn't seem feasible for a while.
Seeing the vigilance in Ying Ying's eyes, she was disappointed.
Lu Li grinned. "Sister will cook food for you too."
Lin Ling smiled. "Me too."
Ying Ying nodded.
In reality, sister Li's and Ling's cooking was far inferior to sister Alice's cooking. However, as a good child, she didn't say it aloud. They were all better than Lu Ze.
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha felt awkward. What could they do? They didn't know how to cook.
Nangong Jing laughed drily. "Then, I can treat you to alcohol?"
Lu Ze and the others: "?"
Qiuyue Hesha looked at Nangong Jing in contempt. "What are you saying?"
Nangong Jing scratched her head. "I'm just joking. Look at you all."
Lu Ze changed the subject. "Okay, let's see what treasures those two blade demons have."
Everyone watched with excitement as Lu Ze took out the two sets of armor and storage rings.
Nangong Jing took an armor and looked carefully before frowning. "This armor's size is different from ours. It's probably custom made."
Alice was dejected. "It seems Li and I can't use this."
They didn't have armors yet and were the weakest.
Lu Ze rubbed Alice's head and consoled, "We've made quite some contribution this time. It should be enough to buy you two Martial God Armor Sets. We'll buy it as soon as we get back." Alice: "!"
Senior rubbed her head. She didn't anticipate this. Her body stiffened, and her face turned red. Her mind became blank.
Lu Ze's actions made the others stunned too.
Lu Li watched this with a smile on her face, but no joy in her eyes. She should have been first! The stupid Lu Ze never touched her head like this.
Why?! She was angry.
Lin Ling's eyes also revealed some annoyance. She was the one who had spent the longest time with Lu Ze.
Nangong Jing looked at Lu Ze and Alice. Her face was very complicated. She thought she could look away from it. She set her goal to be the Guardian Warrior Goddess of the Human Race.
But now, she realized she couldn't look away.
She was the only person who indirectly kissed Lu Ze twice, right?
She was the closest to Lu Ze.
Qiuyue Hesha just smiled seductively at Lu Ze.
Lu Ze was just comforting Alice, but he saw her face turn red, and the atmosphere didn't feel too right. He looked around. When he saw the gazes he received, his mouth twitched.
Lu Ze realized they might be jealous.
Before, when Zuoqiu Xunshuang was here, Lu Ze felt that they probably all had some feelings for him.
If Lu Ze could choose, he would take everything, of course. He didn't want to lie to himself nor them. If he had to give up everyone else and choose one, he couldn't make the decision. In that case, he needed to walk the first step of building his harem.
He waved his hand to them. "Um, how about I pat you too?"
Everyone looked at Lu Ze in a daze.
What was he saying?!
Immediately, they were angrier.
Nangong Jing grinned and charged over, putting Lu Ze in a headlock. Thereafter, Lu Ze felt severe pain on his forehead.
It was over!
Lu Li and Lin Ling came over too.
Alice was still blushing and didn't know what to do.
"Oh! I'm sorry! Stop..."
"Pfft, you want to pat all of our heads. You think too much."
"Keep being naughty!" Of course, they knew what Lu Ze's words meant. Other than being angry, they also felt embarrassed.
At the same time, their hearts were also beating faster.
Just how big did this guy dream? How dare he have such thoughts?!
He needed a beating to wake him up. Lu Ze was now doubting life. He thought they would blush and let him pat their heads. Yet, all he received was a swollen head.
After a while, the girls stopped and went back to their seats, glaring at Lu Ze.
"I just thought you guys wanted to be patted..."
"Pfft..." Four sneers could be heard.
The girls looked at Lu Ze and felt he was itching for another beating. In that case, they had to satisfy him. Thus, Lu Ze howled again.
Alice poked her tongue and hugged Ying Ying while sitting in one corner.
'Senior, it's not that I don't want to help you, but saying such suicidal words was out of my hands.'
Ying Ying twisted around. Alice's arms weren't as soft as the other sisters. It didn't feel that comfortable at all.
Simultaneously, she looked at Lu Ze with pity. Previously, it was her. Now, it was Lu Ze. They were the two greatest victims.
"Stop! I'm sorry! I just wanted to pat you!" Hearing this, the girls returned to their seats.
Lu Ze rubbed his bigger swollen head and grinned.
They didn't really use force, and with Lu Ze's body, he wouldn't really get badly injured.
He used the regeneration god art right away, and the swelling disappeared soon.
At this juncture, Lu Ze felt that it was best to act timidly, or they might beat him up again. As for the path to building a harem, he would take it slowly.
After all, if possible, who would want to share love with others?
Lu Ze couldn't even do this himself.
However, their relationship had pretty much reached its critical point. Everyone knew it well.
They were all a bit scared. If they brought things to the surface, no one knew what would happen in the future. The more they cared, the more scared they became.
However, someone had to make that step. He was the man, so he should be the one to do it. He coughed and spoke seriously, "Alright, let's look at what else is inside the storage ring."
Lu Li and the others felt that Lu Ze was really shameless. He acted like nothing happened. However, this made them breathe easy. Their awkward feelings finally settled down, and they could feel at ease.
Thereafter, they all pretended nothing happened before.
Everyone sent their mental force into the storage ring. Then, their eyes bulged.
Alice exclaimed, "There are so many treasures?"
There were all sorts of spirit fruits, medicines, and equipment.
"Many of these spirit fruits are planetary state! Where did this guy get all of these?" Nangong Jing said with disbelief.
Those two Blades of Dawn were just mortal evolution states.
Qiuyue Hesha raised a brow. "These resources are enough for an ordinary planetary state to reach a higher level in the planetary state."
Lin Ling took out a long black sword. "Are these their loots or their original weapon?"
She inserted spirit force into the sword, and a sharp chi surged out.
Lu Li frowned. "This weapon is probably a planetary state too." Lu Ze said, "Although it can't compare with our number one planetary state weapon, Black Cleaver, it's not a bad weapon."
They didn't really know any sword god arts or divine arts, so it was useless to them.
Lin Kuang had one, but with his pride, he wouldn't take this sword.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "We can recycle it then." She glanced at Alice. "Alice's and Lu Li's Martial God Armor Set is pretty much completed."
They completely didn't expect the overwhelming number of treasures inside. It would definitely be worth more than 100,000 Shenwu merit points.
Right at this moment, Lu Ze asked, "What is this?"
He took out a black crystal.
Everyone could not help but look over.
None of the girls had seen this before.
At this time, Ying Ying said, "This is a heritage crystal."
"Heritage crystal?"
Everyone looked at Ying Ying with surprise.
Lu Ze questioned, "How do you know this?"
Ying Ying answered, "After I sleep, things would appear in my head."
Everyone realized that Ying Ying had her own heritage. Each time she went to sleep, she would be digesting her heritage. Lin Ling said, "Ying Ying, you hadn't slept for a long time."
They had been at the void space for five months, but she hadn't even slept once.
Ying Ying spoke with pride, "Because I learn fast. I'm the fastest in the entire history of the Star Spirit Race."
Everyone was shocked. This little girl meant that she was the most talented one in the entire history of the Star Spirit Race?
Then, she said, "But the orbs Lu Ze gave me is beneficial. Just a little bit."
Lin Ling said, "Although we knew before that Ze's orbs can speed up Ying Ying's awakening, we didn't expect it to be able to hasten Ying Ying's learning rate."
This was very good for them. After all, they would be safer if Ying Ying was stronger.
Ying Ying rubbed her little face. "But soon I might fall asleep again."
She started getting a sense of timing for her heritage as she digested more.
Lu Ze rubbed her little head. "I'll feed you orbs then."
Ying Ying immediately started drooling.
Seeing this, everyone laughed. Lu Li looked curiously at Ying Ying. "Ying Ying, what is a heritage crystal?"
"Knowledge?"
"Mhm, it can be anything, god art, divine art, technology, and even spirit chef knowledge. The knowledge can be directly transferred to your mind."
Everyone stared at the crystal in shock.
This was like his god art orb and divine art runes.
Nangong Jing asked, "There might be divine art inside?"
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The Human Race's divine arts are recorded by words. For instance, 2.1 billion words for the star crippling punch.
Ying Ying nodded. She looked at the crystal and said, "There's a divine art inside, a very low-grade one."
"It really is divine art?"
Everyone was excited.
This was probably the biggest loot this time. After all, the Human Race had very few divine arts, and the quality was even low.
Lu Ze and the others looked at the dark crystal with some excitement.
Then, Lu Ze asked curiously, "Ying Ying, how do I use this?"
Ying Ying answered, "Just touch it with your mental force."
Lu Ze smiled. "I'll try that."
Nangong Jing and the rest nodded. They were curious about what this divine art was as well.
Lu Ze used his mental force and entered the
crystal.
At this moment, information about the divine art started to appear in his mind. Compared to a divine art that was recorded with text, this information contained some knowledge that was inexplicable.
Soon, these pieces of information flowed into Lu Ze's mind. He could feel his head swell. The immense flow of information gave him some pressure.
Of course, this type of pain was nothing to Lu
Ze.
He felt that the information was different from the information flow from the divine art rune.
Soon, Lu Ze found that there was much more convoluted information compared to the divine art runes. They were far from as concise as the divine art rune.
A few minutes later, Lu Ze finished digesting the information in the crystal and opened his eyes.
Nangong Jing asked curiously, "How is it?"
Lu Ze grinned. "After I used my mental force, this stream of knowledge was transmitted to my brain. It's much easier to learn than words."
However, it still couldn't compare to the divine art runes of the pocket hunting dimension, which were comparably easier to comprehend. Lu Ze looked at the crystal and had a bold idea.
Lin Ling asked, "What divine art is it? Can we learn it?"
Lu Ze's combat power was so much stronger than hers. It was partially due to his divine art being too strong It would take too much time for Lu Ze to teach them as there were too many things involved when it came to divine art.
Now, there was this heritage crystal. This was very good for them.
Lu Ze organized the information he had received in his head and said, "This is a divine art about the Demon Race's demon body. It's called 'Demonic Transformation'. It is amplifying your power in a short time using the demonic body. Its level is about... the same as my lightning cloud divine art." Lu Ze's head was full of question marks.
Didn't Ying Ying say this was a very low-grade divine art?!
So the lightning cloud divine art he took so much pride in was actually a low-leveled one?
For some reason, he wanted to cry.
Nangong Jing and the group were dazed. Lu Li was in disbelief. "Similar to your lightning cloud divine art?!"
They all knew how strong it was. At the very least, the star crippling punch was far from it.
The Shenwu Treasure Depot might have divine art that was on par with the lightning cloud divine art, but they couldn't afford the strongest divine art in there at all.
Yet, the strongest divine art in the Human Race was only considered a low-grade divine art in Ying Ying's eyes?
Everyone looked at Ying Ying. Ying Ying looked up innocently. "What's wrong, sisters?"
Qiuyue Hesha rubbed Ying Ying's head.
Ying Ying was probably still traumatized from being surrounded by them before, and her body trembled.
After seeing that Qiuyue didn't do anything else, she then relaxed.
Nangong Jing sighed. "The Human Race is still too weak indeed."
Lu Ze soon recovered. Based on what he had gotten in the pocket hunting dimension, the lightning cloud divine art, Golden Needle divine art, and Earth Shield divine art were also of the same level. They were all divine arts of the mortal evolution state overlords.
If Lu Ze entered the next map, there should be planetary state overlords, right?
Then, those divine arts would definitely be stronger than these ones.
The pocket hunting dimension didn't just have planetary states. Those super bosses were at least cosmic system states.
If he beat those bosses, then he would have divine arts that were at least cosmic system state, wouldn't he?
That level shouldn't be low, right?
Who knew if there were stronger bosses after that?
This wasn't only the case for divine arts but also god arts.
At this point, Lu Ze realized that his pocket hunting dimension was really strong.
The orbs were useful, even for Ying Ying who was a cosmic realm state.
His divine art and god art would always be stronger than his cultivation level.
Lu Ze smiled. "The Human Race might still be weak now, but as long as we are here, it will definitely become stronger."
Nangong Jing and the others were stunned. They felt Lu Ze seemed very handsome at this moment.
Of course, they would never say this aloud.
Qiuyue Hesha's eyes flashed with gentleness, and then, she leaned on Lu Ze's shoulder. "I'm already your sugar baby anyways. You decide."
Qiuyue Hesha smiled as she slid her fingers across Lu Ze's face.
Hearing this, Lu Ze's mouth twitched. He would never believe her words again. Previously, he merely wanted to pat their heads, but in the end, he got beaten up. Nangong Jing frowned. "But this divine art is used in conjunction with a demonic body. We don't have a demonic body. We can't use it."
Hearing this, everyone was disappointed.
Lu Ze shook his head. "Then, we'll recycle it at the Shenwu Army. It should be worth a lot."
Thereafter, they kept looking through the storage ring. There were high-tech items, but they didn't dare to use them.
Lu Ze said, "We can leave these planetary state spirit fruits for teacher Nangong and Qiuyue. The spirit items that can be used for spirit cooking, we'll also keep them. As for the rest, we should recycle them, shouldn't we?"
"Mhm."
Everyone was fine with this decision.
After this, the group looked at the other storage ring There were also many resources and high-tech items, but there was no heritage crystal.
Nangong Jing frowned. "Why is there only one heritage crystal?" Lin Ling remarked, "The two prodigies Ze killed was Guguyate, who had space field god art, and Momoerde, who had prediction god art. There should be very few divine arts for those two god arts."
Qiuyue Hesha nodded. "Lin Ling is right."
Lu Ze grinned. "Our loot this time is already bountiful. We can buy quite a lot when we get back."
Everyone couldn't resist smiling.
"By the way! Didn't we come out for those two pirates' treasures?"
With what they had now, not even tens of those pirates' treasures could compare, right?
Lu Ze asked, "... Are we still going to look for it?"
No matter how small the meat was, it was still meat after all.
Nangong Jing scratched her head. "My mom probably wouldn't let us go again, would she?"
Most likely, they were on the wanted list of the other three races. If they went out, there would be a huge bunch of bosses chasing them.
Thinking about this, everyone fell silent. Lu Ze then said, "Never mind, let's return first."
No one objected.
After dealing with the treasures of the two blade demons, Lu Ze and his team loosened themselves up. Several people leaned on the sofa without any desire to move.
After a moment of complete silence, Lu Ze turned his head and looked at Alice. He then said, "Alice, I'm hungry." Ying Ying also looked up at Alice. Alice smiled and got up. "Then, I'll go cook for senior."
"Alice is the best!"
She was indeed an angel.
Everyone looked over immediately. Lu Li and Lin Ling also got up and went into the kitchen.
Lu Ze, Nangong Jing, and Qiuyue Hesha squirmed next to Ying Ying and watched cartoons with her.
An hour later, the dinner was ready.
Thereafter, everyone went into their rooms. Lu Ze looked at this mental force dimension. He had used up the red and purple orbs from the two golden echidnas. At the same time, the speed at which he learned the Earth Shield slowed down.
Originally, he would need a month to achieve perfection for such divine arts, but now, that would be multiplied. His cultivation level had reached level-8 mortal evolution state for more than twenty days. Currently, it would take another twenty or so to reach level-9 mortal evolution state.
He only had a month until he returned. This speed was a bit sluggish. After all, Lu Ze's target was to reach the planetary state during his first year at the university.
As of this moment, it seemed as though the pressure was immense.
He had to see if there were overlords he could hunt then.
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In the pocket hunting dimension, his combat power would be level-3 planetary state, nearing level-4 planetary state. His Earth Shield had reached experienced mastery, so his defenses should be able to reach level-4 planetary state.
Lu Ze closed his eyes and entered the pocket hunting dimension.
It was still the familiar barren lands. Lu Ze took a deep breath. This felt like he was going home.
The beasts here were great. They cultivated with him and gave him treasures.
Sures.
Roar!
A heavy growl sounded behind Lu Ze, and a scorching temperature shot at him.
Lu Ze dashed a few hundred meters to the side and left an afterimage.
A huge fireball penetrated Lu Ze's afterimage and turned into a red beam that disappeared into the horizon. Lu Ze looked in the direction of the fireball. There were five huge, red-armored wolves. The leading one was a level-8 mortal evolution state, and there were still strands of flames seeping out of his mouth.
Lu Ze smiled vibrantly. An opportunity to harvest for him as soon as he arrived. Great!
His figure disappeared from the spot. He appeared before the leading wolf and pressed on the wolf's head.
Golden light flashed in his hand as he pressed down hard.
Rumble!
The red wolf knelt down as its head was deeply rooted into the ground. The ground was torn apart by this violent power as weblike cracks spread in all directions.
The wolf's ligaments convulsed, and its life force instantly ceased.
The other four red wolves were ranged from level-4 mortal evolution state to level-6 mortal evolution state. They couldn't even react in time upon seeing their boss was so easily killed.
During this time, Lu Ze looked up at them.
His body flashed, and in a short instant, four heavy thuds could be heard.
The earth was shaking as the cracks expanded. The remaining four wolves' heads were also buried into the ground, and they died on the spot. This happened so fast that the first wolf didn't even have time to turn to dust yet.
Lu Ze looked up into the sky with some morose expression. "Too weak, these guys are too weak. They're not a challenge at all."
A few months ago, level-7 mortal evolution state beasts chased him everywhere, but now, he casually sent them off.
These guys couldn't keep up with his progress.
Invincibility was so lonely...
Moments later, the five red wolves turned to dust, leaving behind a ground full of orbs.
Lu Ze picked them up and disappeared from the spot.
With Lu Ze's speed, it wasn't hard to run through the entire third map now. He had even been to the border of the map and saw the familiar green grass plain.
That was the scene on the second map. Seeing the two lightning horses playing happily on the grassland, Lu Ze felt joyful. Accordingly, he sent out two lightning spears as a gift to them.
Lu Ze also went to the border of the fourth map. It was on the other side of the forest.
Lu Ze saw endless mountain ranges. He couldn't even tell how tall they were. The clouds were only at the waist of the mountain.
The valleys and ravines were filled with forests. The trees were also much taller than the ones on the third map. They were at least a few kilometers tall.
Lu Ze didn't know what beasts were there, but he saw a gray-furred mammoth. It was about 500 meters tall. It was passing by a ravine, and the shocking chi it emitted made Lu Ze freeze.
It was so strong! Even the fox demon and alcoholic were a far cry from it.
Luckily, he didn't need to go to the fourth map yet.
When he killed all the overlords on the third map, his cultivation level would pretty much be at the planetary state.
Three days later.
Lu Ze got a lot of level-9 mortal evolution state god art orbs and ordinary orbs. He got even more orbs below level-9 mortal evolution state.
At this state, he could pretty much do what he wanted on this map.
Lu Ze was picking up some orbs. Just when he was planning to leave, he felt some kind of immense pressure crushing him.
Roar!
A huge red dragon appeared. It was burning with terrifying flames. The nearby grass and trees burned.
The barren lands were being roasted. This was a boss!
A red beam of flame shot out of its mouth. It felt like the flames could melt anything.
Lu Ze used Earth Shield and golden armor without hesitation.
The red flames instantly vaporized the Earth Shield.
Eventually, Lu Ze finally tore open the space restriction and disappeared from the spot.
A few thousand kilometers away, Lu Ze was already charred. His armor long melted earlier on.
So strong! This guy's combat power was at the top of level-4 planetary states. It was on par with the black and white snakes.
He used space transmission once more.
Roar!
Before he entered warp dimension, the terrifying pillar of flames shot at him again in the form of a flame dragon. Space was crumbling around it. Lu Ze disappeared and reappeared more than ten thousand kilometers away. He had no time to rest. After running hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, he quickly used chi stealth god art to hide his chi and run in other directions.
The fire dragon roared in the distance.
Luckily, his defenses were strong, or he would have turned to dust immediately.
Lu Ze kept running while recovering his power. He used regeneration god art to recover his carbonized body. Simultaneously, he relied on his flame god art to clear the searing fire on his body.
More than ten hours later, Lu Ze finally returned to his peak condition. Another day later, Lu Ze looked at a distant plain.
There were fat possums eating the grass there. There was a forest in the middle of the plains.
Lu Ze's eyes lit up. He had preys to hunt now.
The current area before Lu Ze was the base of the fat possums. Lu Ze had come here a few times before, but at the time, he wasn't strong enough, so he didn't even enter that forest.
Now, it was different. Lu Ze's current strength would allow him to escape even in the face of the highest level overlords. Naturally, he wasn't worried about the fat possums at all.
He wondered whether the fat possums had overlords.
Not every race had an overlord. Regardless, Lu Ze was going to enter the area and check it out. He proceeded to conceal his chi as he went inside.
Lu Ze entered the small forest. The canopy was thick, and it blocked out most of the sunlight.
The place appeared to be dark.
There were numerous possums both on trees and the ground. There were pine cone-like fruits on the trees. Lu Ze picked one and found out he couldn't eat it. It was different from the golden fruits.
The huge tree trunks had holes dug in them. There would be possums flying out from time to time.
Their cultivation levels varied. There were ones from level-1 mortal evolution state to level-7, and as he reached the deeper portion of the forest, the possums became much stronger. There was even one nearing level-8 mortal evolution state.
Lu Ze was surprised upon seeing a level-8 mortal evolution state happily eating a huge pine cone. Did this mean the overlord of the range rabbits is only a level-8 mortal evolution state?
Observing the entire surroundings, there were quite a few level- 8 mortal evolution state possums around. Clearly, they weren't the overlords.
As Lu Ze went deeper, he soon reached the center of the forest.
There was an empty space, which had a three-kilometer radius, in the center of the forest. In the middle, an enormous tree was present.
This tree was over one kilometer tall and had a diameter of over 200 meters. It was like a huge tree that covered this empty space.
There were purple lightning runes on the branches, which the other trees didn't have.
There was a huge hole in the tree that was 100 meters in diameter. In addition, there were subtle purple and red lights flickering in the tree hole.
Powerful chi surged out of the hole.
Seeing this, Lu Ze's eyes flashed with joy.
Clearly, the possum living here wouldn't be ordinary. It was definitely an overlord-level!
Thinking about this, Lu Ze unleashed all his chi. Violent power spread in all directions, which then formed an airwave that swept across the forest.
The chi in the hole erupted.
Guu!
A purple-yellow figure flew out of the hole and appeared in the air.
Lu Ze saw that it was a massive possum. It was 100 meters long and had yellow fur. There were purple lightning runes around it. Its appearance was a bit dashing.
The possum's dark eyes flashed with lightning. It was furious as it was challenged in its base.
Lu Ze was surprised. This guy was a level-9 mortal evolution state with a cultivation level nearing the planetary state. It was much stronger than the rabbit overlord.
But a level-9 mortal evolution state overlord pretty much posed no threat to Lu Ze. Rumble!
The possum sensed Lu Ze's powerful chi and became serious. It disappeared from the spot.
Lu Ze's eyes widened when he sensed the possum's speed.
Oh shit!
It was this fast?! Its speed reached level-3 planetary state.
To be honest, speed was his weaker aspect.
His wind god art wasn't sufficiently strong, and his corresponding divine art was only the Blue Bird 1 divine art.
Previously, Lu Ze used space transmission to fight, but after encountering that fire dragon, he realized those bosses could disrupt space.
It was too dangerous for him to move in chaotic space now.
As his cultivation level grew stronger, his space transmission could only be used for travel if it didn't improve.
This possum seemed to have a speed god art, right?
This was good news for him.
The possum soon appeared before Lu Ze. The huge claws contained earth and lightning god art.
The terrifying spirit claw caused the air to distort everywhere it passed.
In turn, an Earth Shield formed before Lu Ze.
Rumble!
There was a deafening sound.
The Earth Shield crumbled, and the spirit claw disappeared.
Although it had dual god art and could even fuse them together, it didn't have an attack-type divine art. It wasn't too strong after all.
If it did, its offense power might be on par with that level-1 planetary state fire dragon.
If that was the case, Lu Ze would have to start running
Rumble...
Lightning clouds formed above Lu Ze's head. Tens of purple red lightning struck towards the possum.
Consequently, Earth Shields were formed before the possum. The blood lightning broke through a few Earth Shields and also fell apart.
Lu Ze was shocked.
Two divine arts?!
This guy didn't have a dual-god-art divine art but one earth divine art and another lightning divine art. These divine arts made its speed and defense terrifying. The possum looked up at the lightning cloud Thereafter, Earth spears shot up into the sky. Purple lightning circulated the spears. The two fused and their chi multiplied instantly, penetrating the lightning cloud and dispersing it.
At the same time, Lu Ze formed blood lightning spears while his golden fist force surged out.
He used space transmission and disappeared from the spot, appearing instantly before the possum.
The tens of lightning spear shot at the possum.
The possum growled furiously and formed Earth Shields again. The lightning spear struck the Earth Shields, and the Earth Shields shattered.
At this moment, Lu Ze launched two golden fist force towards the possum.
Purple lightning flashed around it, and it disappeared from the spot.
The fist force only penetrated its afterimage and struck the ground instead.
Rumble!
Two huge cracks expanded in all directions.
Before Lu Ze could take back his fist, spirit force gathered behind him. Lu Ze disappeared from the spot, and a purple yellow beam penetrated the place where he stood.
The broken ground exploded once again. The forest wobbled, but the tree in the center seemed to be protected by some unseen force.
Guu!
Gu! Gu!
Gu! Gu! Gu!
As the forest was destroyed, large possums shot into the air and attacked Lu Ze.
Lu Ze could completely ignore them. The difference was too huge.
He reappeared next to the possum overlord.
Rumble!
The star crippling punch broke the Earth Shield, and the lightning spears kept assaulting the possum.
However, the possum overlord was too fast. It disappeared before the lightning spear could even get close.
Lu Ze followed and used space transmission.
In a few minutes, the surrounding few thousand kilometers of the forest was riddled with craters. All the other trees had turned to ashes except for the tree at the center.
The possums nearby were also affected.
Large amounts of orbs appeared on the ground.
The surviving possums ran far away due to the fear of experiencing the same fate.
Rumble!
Ten minutes later, another collision could be heard.
The possum's Earth Shield cracked. This time, it didn't have time to dodge. As such, Lu Ze's punch landed on its side heavily.
Thud!
The golden fist force flashed. Immense power brought the possum's huge body flying out, thrusting its body into the damaged grounds.
Gugu!
The possum recovered its stance and flew up again. A huge wound appeared on its side. Consequently, its blood dripped from above the air, and its fur was shedding.
Evidently, its chi was no longer in its prime state.
Lu Ze had a spirit body and recovered extremely fast. He could still maintain a rather good state even in the middle of such an intense battle.
In contrast, the possum overlord was different. It had exhausted large amounts of power.
The possum stared at Lu Ze with some intention to retreat. This was his home, but if he couldn't win, he had to flee.
The possum didn't charge up like before. Instead, it flew off.
Lu Ze grinned. He instantly appeared before the possum.
Without the space restrictions and distortions, his space transmission could easily catch up to the possum. Moreover, the possum was far slower than before.
Tens of lightning spear formed around Lu Ze.
"Die!"
Rumble!
The lightning spears shot at the possum overlord, creating overwhelming chi waves.
Subsequently, the possum overlord sensed Lu Ze's killing intent and roared furiously. At the same time, it formed the Earth Shield again and tried to run in a different direction with the lightning divine art.
At this moment, Lu Ze appeared on the side of the possum.
He directed his golden star crippling fist force towards the wound.
Gugugu!
The fist force penetrated the possum's body.
Blood poured out and covered the skies.
The possum was sent flying, and its chi further weakened a lot.
Lu Ze didn't stop there. He chased after the possum and punched heavily again.
The possum's body wasn't strong. With the third punch, the possum was pierced through, and its life force perished.
The body was flung a few kilometers away and shot into the ground.
Lu Ze used space transmission again to approach the body and watch it turn to dust. He then grinned. This was easier than he imagined!
Their powers were quite similar. Lu Ze's defense and attack were stronger, but the possum's speed was stronger.
That's why the battle lasted more than ten minutes. Nevertheless, Lu Ze had more stamina.
Ten minutes was nothing to him, but it was lethal to the possum.
In the end, Lu Ze was only slightly injured, and he quickly recovered using the regeneration god art.
The possum posed no threat to him in the end. He also realized that against those with similar power levels, he wasn't afraid of anyone since he could last for an extremely long time!
Thereafter, the body turned to dust, leaving behind orbs.
There were 15 overlord red and purple orbs, one strand of white energy that was thicker than the ones the golden echidnas gave him, a lightning god art orb, an earth god art orb, an Earth Shield divine art, and a lightning divine art rune.
Lu Ze quickly picked them all up.
This was a bountiful harvest!
The orbs were also bigger than the previous ones.
Now, he didn't have to worry about his cultivation resources. He even had hopes of breaking through to the level-9 mortal evolution state.
During this time, Lu Ze frowned. He realized he had three new divine arts now, and he used three level-8 mortal evolution state overlord purple orbs, but he couldn't learn the first divine art to perfection mastery.
If this continued, he wouldn't have enough overlord purple orbs.
Lu Ze shook his head. There was nothing he could do about this. The Earth Shield was considered the strongest-grade of divine art in the Federation. Yet, he only took two months to reach experienced mastery. This was beyond shocking already.
Even young-duke-level prodigies would need decades or even a few hundred years to reach experienced mastery for this.
His speed could be ranked even in the Elf Cosmic Realm.
Lu Ze felt great. He was indeed a prodigy.
He put away his treasure and flew into the sky.
The forest had been wiped, and only the huge tree in the center remained.
The possums living here had fled. This place would soon recover, and those beasts he killed would be revived, except the overlords.
Lu Ze flew towards that big tree.
There should be treasures there.
Soon, he arrived inside the tree hole. It was very spacious inside. There was a pine cone floating at the top.
The pine cones outside were brown and larger than Lu Ze, but the pine cone here was the size of Lu Ze's fist. It was purple and crystal-like.
It seemed more like a work of art.
Lu Ze flew up and grabbed the purple pine cone.
He then felt his hands go numb. It was electrifying Subsequently, he enclosed the pine with his mental force and put it in his mental dimension. It was a treasure!
Lu Ze looked around in the tree hole. He flew out after not finding anything else there.
He earned so much this time that it didn't matter if he died, but if he could still extend his stay, he would rather not die.
Lu Ze flew out in a random direction.
Five minutes later, Lu Ze saw some stone-armored boars and wanted to go and hunt them.
Suddenly, a white beam swiped past and froze everything in its path. Lu Ze's consciousness was instantly wiped away.
Later on, he slowly opened his eyes and shivered.
The soul-freezing coldness made him shiver non-stop.
He quickly wrapped himself up in his blanket.
After resting for a moment, the coldness in Lu Ze's soul slowly receded. He then panted and threw the blanket on the side. He thought he was going to freeze to death.
He couldn't even use fire god art on himself to warm his body up.
Lu Ze closed his eyes and went into the mental force dimension.
He surveyed the loot from the possum overlord and decided on the crystal pine cone.
He didn't know what it did, but since it was flickering with lightning, it was probably related to the lightning god art.
Lu Ze took it out. He gulped some saliva and wondered whether it was tasty.
Right after, he attempted to bite it. The pine cone was very crisp. It melted in his mouth and turned into a gust of energy.
At the same time, lightning explosions sounded in his mind. He found that he could sense the arcanum of lightning god art in the universe.
His lightning god art started to grow stronger under its influence.
This...
Lu Ze's eyes widened. He quickly ate the entire pine cone. Before he could have enough time to enjoy the taste, he quickly used an overlord purple orb.
Immediately, Lu Ze's mind cleared up. The lightning god art arcanum, which he could subtly sense, became comprehensible too.
Simultaneously, he drew in that lightning divine art rune. It was like the heritage crystal but was much more effective.
This lightning divine art rune was of the same caliber as the Earth Shield and golden needle divine art.
Before, he used a few days to learn the Earth Shield and golden needle with the level-8 mortal evolution state overlord purple orb.
But now, after using the purple pine cone, the secrets of the divine art became very discernable.
Lu Ze constantly devoured the knowledge from the rune.
Two hours later, he reached beginner mastery.
Six hours later, he reached familiar mastery.
Twenty hours later, he reached experienced mastery. Despite this, the effects of the pine cone still hadn't disappeared. Lu Ze was still immersed in the secrets of the lightning divine art.
In the living room, Nangong Jing and the others were sitting on the couch while looking at Lu Ze's door.
Lu Li remarked, "That guy is immersed in solitary cultivation again." He didn't leave his room the entire day.
Nangong Jing commented, "Huh, this guy is probably progressing again. Who can stand up to this speed? I feel like I won't be able to suppress him for long."
She was sipping wine leisurely, but she was actually distraught inside. Lin Ling asked, "Do I have no hopes of surpassing this guy?" Lu Li questioned as well, "Who gave you the confidence of thinking you can surpass Lu Ze?"
Sister Lin Ling was probably still dreaming.
Lin Ling smiled. "People need a dream."
Qiuyue Hesha looked at Lin Ling and Lu Li. Her eyes seemed like she wanted to start trouble. "By the way, you guys all know what little brother Lu Ze meant before, right? What do you think?"
Everyone stopped breathing.
The atmosphere tensed up.
Alice looked around and squirmed into a ball.
She started the situation before. She didn't want the others to gang-up on her.
Lu Li bit her lips. She was clearly the first, but now, she had to compete with four other girls.
Lu Ze, that bastard, dares to covet them all!
She would tell her parents when she got back.
Nangong Jing almost spat her wine out. Lin Ling didn't know what she was feeling. Angry? Feeling bad? Annoyed?
All of it.
Qiuyue Hesha narrowed her eyes and said nothing
Ying Ying sensed this change in atmosphere and looked around. She was confused, but she went back to watching her screen. She didn't know what was going on. She didn't dare to ask either.
Three days later, Lu Ze slowly opened his eyes. Blood lightning crackled around him. Soon, the lightning receded, and his eyes flashed with excitement.
The lightning divine art was at perfection mastery!
It was just one crystal pine cone, and with only four days, his lightning divine art reached perfection mastery from beginner mastery!
Now, his speed should be able to reach level-4 planetary state.
During the battle, the lightning divine art would be more effective if space was restricted.
This joy came so quickly that Lu Ze ended up dazed.
Now, his weakest aspect, speed, became his strongest one.
Lu Ze toned down his excitement. He was a prodigy. How could he be so agitated?
Lu Ze coughed and suppressed his joy. He got off the bed and stretched out. He had sat for five days. Lu Ze felt his body was stiff.
Unlike other mortal evolution states, Lu Ze rarely went into solitary cultivation. It was very normal for mortal evolution states to go into solitary cultivation for a few months, but Lu Ze had only spent one month in solitary cultivation at the dao enlightenment room.
Lu Ze subsequently came out of his room.
He hadn't eaten for a few days. He needed to get Alice to cook some good food.
As soon as he came out of the room, he was stared at by everyone on the couch.
Lu Ze asked in confusion, "What happened?"
Nangong Jing got up and dragged Lu Ze towards the virtual reality room. "You spent five days in solitary cultivation! Let me see what progress you've made!"
Everyone looked at Lu Ze with anticipation.
This guy was Lu Ze after all. They knew Lu Ze too well. This guy had gone into solitary cultivation for this long. He definitely must have made some decent improvement.
Seeing how desperate Nangong Jing was, Lu Ze stopped her and rolled his eyes. "I haven't eaten for five days. You want to spar with me as soon as I come out?"
Everyone laughed drily.
Nangong Jing said with embarrassment, "I was too curious just then. I forgot you haven't eaten yet."
Then, she suddenly paused. She felt something wasn't right?
The other people looked among each other. They felt they forgot something.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "We're all above mortal evolution state. Even if we don't eat anything, it's fine."
Lin Ling was speechless. "So it's fine if we don't eat every day?"
Lu Li's mouth twitched. "It's all Lu Ze's fault for cultivating this habit in everyone."
Lu Ze rebutted, "Is Alice's food not good? Aren't you guys very happy every time you're eating?"
Alice felt great. The senior was complimenting her again.
She poked out her tongue. "Senior, I'll go cook for you."
Then, she rushed towards the kitchen. Lu Li and Lin Ling looked at Lu Ze and then at the kitchen. Eventually, they followed after Alice.
Lu Ze wasn't very happy with the breakfast before him.
Nangong Jing and the rest rushed him to eat faster. They even wanted to spoon-feed him.
He finished the last dumpling and put down his chopsticks speechlessly. Were they still proper foodies? Lu Ze felt he hadn't given them enough influence. He needed to work harder.
Nangong Jing immediately dragged him towards the virtual reality pod. "Hurry up and spar with me. Let's see how much stronger you have gotten." She felt she needed to give herself some mental preparation.
Lu Ze's mouth twitched, but he didn't object.
His speed had improved quite a bit. He wanted to test it out too.
By the way...
He just realized he hadn't given this lightning divine art a cool name yet.
He frowned and contemplated.
It was a lightning divine art and a speed-type. He would call it "Lightning Travel".
Lightning Travel divine art!
Lu Ze was happy with this name. It was simple yet elegant.
Thereafter, everyone went into the virtual reality pod. They were all curious about Lu Ze's progress. Within the hundred-kilometer radius of the stage composed of a vast stone, everyone had switched into loose martial arts robes.
Lu Ze was wearing black while the girls were wearing white.
Nangong Jing and Lu Ze were standing, facing each other.
They would cultivate every morning before. His power didn't match Nangong Jing's yet, but if he tried his best, he would get the most out of it.
Of course, Lu Ze didn't want to lose, but his current power didn't allow it.
"Start." Lu Ze smiled.
Nangong Jing's eye's narrowed. Her body flashed with golden light. The ground already started to crack as Nangong Jing disappeared from the spot.
This type of movement technique divine art was good for bursts of speed but not much for long distances.
Screech! Rumble!
Lu Ze grinned, and his eyes flashed with purple runes.
Lightning Travel divine art!
Bzzz.
Blood lightning swam around Lu Ze across all directions.
Lu Ze's body turned into a bolt of blood lightning and dodged Nangong Jing's fist. Then, he appeared on her side.
Blood lightning gathered, forming tens of lightning spears, while he let out a punch. The star crippling punch was being prepared too. As for the lightning cloud, it was useless against Nangong Jing. She could destroy it before it formed, and he would have wasted spirit force.
A heavy explosion sounded in the sky. Space was distorted.
The spirit force spread in every direction possible until it was blocked by an invisible wall at the border of the stage.
Nangong Jing was scared by Lu Ze's speed.
During the previous fights, Lu Ze used space transmission to barely dodge her attacks. Then, as her cultivation level improved, she could use her god arts to suppress space. Lu Ze was chased around every fight.
But now, Lu Ze used this speed divine art. This was a divine art he had never used before.
She wasn't shocked about him gaining a new one, but she was shocked about how fast this divine art was.
Speed wasn't her specialty, but hers had reached a medium level in the level-4 planetary state. Yet, this guy still managed to maneuver through her attacks.
Although there was a bit of reluctance on her part, this speed was definitely on par with the primary stage of level-4 planetary state.
He was a level-8 mortal evolution state, and yet, his speed reached this level. Just up to what degree did he learn this divine art?
There was no way this guy used five days to learn a clearly high-level divine art to perfection, right?
Even this guy couldn't be that absurd.
This speed was almost catching up to her. How far were his other aspects from her? She was going to be over soon at this rate.
She had enjoyed the past, and now, karma was coming quick.
Nangong Jing was scared by Lu Ze's speed. Only when the lightning spear came near did she wake up.
She raised her brow and went all-out with her power.
Rumble!
The golden light burst again. Nangong Jing broke free from the attack of the lightning spears and flew to the side.
As soon as she did, Lu Ze did the same.
His golden fist force created a tidal wave that struck towards Nangong Jing's chest.
Seeing Lu Ze keep up with her rhythm, Nangong Jing became more worried. However, she also greeted Lu Ze's fist with the star crippling punch. Nangong Jing was a level-2 planetary state, and her body god art was extremely strong. Lu Ze gave her first body god art and golden body god art. Her body god art was even stronger than Lu Ze's.
This punch's power approached level-5 planetary state. Lu Ze was instantly flung away, and his right hand was fractured a bit.
When he landed, there was severe pain coming from his right hand.
Nangong Jing looked worriedly at Lu Ze's hand. "Are you okay? I took back quite some power."
This was a virtual reality, but she was still worried.
Lu Ze looked strangely at her. When they just met, she would never ask about this.
He waved his noodle-like right hand. "Does this look fine?"
Before she could say anything, his right hand flashed with gray light, and the hand started to recover.
Seeing this, Nangong Jing was furious. This bastard dared to play with her?
Meanwhile, those who were off the stage realized that Lu Ze became stronger indeed.
Alice said with admiration, "Senior is so fast."
Qiuyue Hesha narrowed her eyes. "Little brother Lu Ze would be able to catch up to us soon."
His speed was very fast, and his defenses weren't weak. He just needed to improve his attack, and then, he would really be able to challenge them.
When his hand completely recovered, Lu Ze saw that Nangong Jing maintained her position.
He was touched. Since when was she this gentle and caring?
He grinned. "How is it?"
Nangong Jing said, "It's okay."
Lu Ze prodded further, "Are you worried? Remember how great you felt beating me up every day. When I surpass you, you understand what's going to happen, right?"
His long time wish was about to be fulfilled.
Nangong Jing's heart skipped. This bastard was vengeful.
She suddenly smiled. "Well, you haven't reached it yet."
Then, she charged up again.
"Hey! What are you doing?! We fought already. Wait!"
Lu Ze howled in pain.
Moments later, Nangong Jing walked off the stage with a satisfied expression while Lu Ze rubbed the bumps on his head.
In the endless cosmos, a space fortress floated.
Inside a spacious meeting room, the high-levels of the three races, including Lala Nisi, Ying Xian, and Avit, were gathered.
All the blade demons had a bad expression on their faces. They looked at the Dark Metal Demons and Black Smoke Race with strong dissatisfaction.
Lala Nisi's face was cold. "Why didn't you think of a way to kill Lu Ze first before retreating?! If he matures, it won't benefit any of our races!"
Ying Xian replied, "The loss would be too great. Three of our level-6 planetary states died, and more of those who were below that state did too. Who would compensate for such a huge loss? If the stalemate continued, the losses would increase further."
The dark metal demon Avit, who was a star state, also reasoned, "Lu Ze has space transmission god art, and Cheng Feng and the rest are watching, so how do we kill him? The Dark Metal Demons also lost two level-6 planetary states. We can't afford it."
Lala Nisi's face looked worse. Who didn't suffer losses?
They lost five level-6 planetary states and one level-7 planetary state almost died. Most importantly, they lost Guguyate and Momoerde, two seeds who had cosmic system state potential!
This loss made their hearts ache.
"Pfft, short-sightedness! If Lu Ze matures and reaches the cosmic cloud state, will it be good for your two races?!" Lala Nisi sneered.
Ying Xian smiled. "Lu Ze's talent is indeed shocking, but if he were to become a cosmic cloud state, the Human Race wouldn't have enough resources to support him. If he goes out to search for resources, there are endless dangers in the universe. Who would know about the future? Even if he could really become a cosmic cloud state, the fastest it would take would be a few thousand years or even ten thousand years. It's not like we won't have many opportunities in the future as well. Why the rush?"
Avit sneered, "Even if Lu Ze truly matures, it would be the Blade Demon Race's loss. Our territories are far away. Even if Lu Ze reaches the cosmic cloud state, he's not going to bring the Human Race across endless space to come and take over us. At most, he would protect the Human Race. If the people below him aren't good enough, it would be a dream to come conquer us. Our territories are vast. Even if the Human Race comes over, what would they take if they don't split up? If they split off, we can avoid Lu Ze and use guerrilla warfare. They might lose more. Perhaps the loot they would get won't even be enough to pay for the cost of the travel."
These words were harsh, but they were right. By then, the Blade Demon Race would be in the worst position.
Ying Xian spoke again, "Alright, we weren't prepared this time. Lu Ze is only a mortal evolution state now. He's not even a planetary state. He will definitely leave the Human Race to seek more fortunes. We would have plenty of opportunities. I'll report this back to the race. We won't let him go."
Avit nodded. "I agree. The Dark Metal Demons will act too."
Lala Nisi nodded. Her face looked slightly better.
Avit continued, "Would our reinforcements be able to stop the Shenwu Army?"
The Shenwu Army ships had entered warp dimension. They couldn't monitor them at all.
Lala Nisi shook her head. "Too late. They won't stay outside. They would've asked for reinforcements too, and they would only arrive earlier than us."
Hearing this, Ying Xian and Avit were annoyed, but there was nothing they could do.
They couldn't just send a mass army to the human-controlled region. The humans had their allies in this region of void space too.
The meeting ended, and the three races split
off.
Lala Nisi looked at Luoluoxisi. "Momoerde and Guguyate are dead. You're the most talented prodigy of our race. I'll report this to the race and ask them to give all the resources to you. Don't disappoint me."
Luoluoxisi's eyes flashed with immense joy.
The Advanced Demon Race gave them bountiful resources. He only carried a portion he needed now. The rest were kept inside the race.
Now, these resources would all belong to him.
He quickly said, "Thank you, Master Lala Nisi. Lu Ze is just a stepping stone. Soon, I will kill him personally!"
Lala Nisi nodded.
New Dawn.
Everyone began their usual cultivation routine.
After lunch, everyone rested for a moment and went into their own rooms.
Lu Ze sat on the bed and looked at the mental dimension.
He drew in the white strand of energy. His body, cultivation, and mental force rapidly grew stronger.
The white energy was better than the overlord-level red and purple orbs.
After he finished digesting this, it would be a huge progress for him.
It would take 15 days to return to the controlled region.
He spent five days learning the Lightning Travel divine art. As such, there were 10 days left.
He was confident he would be able to reach level-9 mortal evolution state in the following 10 days.
...
10 days later, Lu Ze's room.
Lu Ze was glowing with white light.
His entire body was flashing with starlight.
All the parts were filled with planetary seeds perfectly.
This was extremely rare in the entire history of the Human Race.
Among this generation of young dukes, only Nangong Jing reached this level-even Qiuyue Hesha failed. However, after she used the red orbs, she managed to make up for this aspect.
A few hours later, Lu Ze clutched his fists and smiled. Level-9 mortal evolution state!
Now, the only part of his body without planetary seeds fully formed was his skin. If he finished that area, his entire body would be perfected.
Lu Ze planned to rest for a while after reaching level-9 mortal evolution state.
One had to have a balanced cultivation life.
After getting out of bed, Lu Ze stretched and walked out.
He walked to the living room and saw Nangong Jing drinking while watching her phone. Ying Ying was watching cartoons on the side. Meanwhile, Qiuyue Hesha, Lin Ling, Lu Li, and Alice weren't there.
They were still probably cultivating.
Nangong Jing looked at Lu Ze. "Ze, it's not the time for dinner yet. You came out this early?" Thereafter, she planned to keep looking at the phone when she suddenly sensed something and looked up with disbelief. "Wow! You didn't even tell me. You reached level-9 mortal evolution state?" Lu Ze: "?"
"Why should I notify you when I make a breakthrough?" Subsequently, Lu Ze sat down next to Nangong Jing.
Nangong Jing stared at Lu Ze. "Let me get prepared mentally!"
Lu Ze's cultivation level reached level-9 mortal evolution state. His combat power would definitely reach level-4 planetary state. Soon, this guy was really going to surpass her.
Nangong Jing suddenly had the urge to not rest and go cultivate.
Lu Ze said, "I'm no match for you now, what are you worried about?"
Her combat power was near level-5 planetary state. He was still quite far from it.
Nangong Jing rolled her eyes. She didn't know what to say. If her cultivation speed had the speed of a plane, then Lu Ze's was at the rate of a warp-travel speed.
Lu Ze ignored her and looked at her phone curiously.
Following such, she ended up dazed. The screen of the phone was playing a beautiful girl who was dancing and singing.
Oh shit?!
She watched the fox demon's concert?!
What was this?
He looked strangely at Nangong Jing and then put his hand on her forehead. "Are you having a fever?"
Nangong Jing stiffened and then slapped Lu Ze's hand away. "You're the one having a fever!"
Lu Ze pointed at her phone. "Then, why are you suddenly interested in teacher Qiuyue's concert video?"
Nangong Jing just realized that she was caught. She quickly turned off her phone and forced herself to stay calm. "Nothing, I have nothing to do."
Lu Ze: "..."
He didn't believe this at all.
Nangong Jing glared at Lu Ze. Her eyes even turned golden as though she was going to explode. "I can't even casually watch something?!"
Lu Ze said seriously, "Of course, you can! I agree wholeheartedly!"
Nangong Jing rolled her eyes. "Pfft!"
She couldn't say that she and the fox demon were equally good-looking and talented, but the fox demon was more popular.
She couldn't say that she felt she didn't have the charm of a girl and wanted to learn from the fox demon's video to be more feminine.
She glanced at Lu Ze. "Do you think her dances are good?"
Lu Ze nodded. "Yeah."
Hearing this, Nangong Jing was furious!
"Pfft, guys!" She glared at Lu Ze.
Lu Ze: "?"
"But if it's teacher Nangong, you don't need to do anything to be extremely pretty."
Nangong Jing rolled her eyes and gave her bottle to Lu Ze. "Here, you can drink it. I'm going to go and cultivate."
It was almost dinner, but she didn't feel comfortable sitting here.
Lu Ze looked at the half-full bottle, and his mouth twitched.
Was she too angry or shy?
He looked at the crisp green wine and frowned. This wine was good but not as good as his golden fruit wine.
Nangong Jing went back to her room and watched Qiuyue Hesha's dance videos. She frowned. "What's so good about twisting around?"
She couldn't resist getting up and attempting the same thing.
She was a planetary state and had great control over her body. She could learn easily just by watching. She then looked at herself in the mirror and froze in awkwardness.
She stood straight and threw her phone on the bed. Afterward, she dropped onto her bed as well. "This doesn't even look like me. Why should I change?!"
Plus, that guy said she looked great this way.
Thinking about this, Nangong Jing felt great and began cultivating on her bed.
Lu Ze finished the wine in a few gulps and casually threw the bottle in a corner.
That was where she kept her bottles. It was filled to almost his height.
All of them came from these few days of drinking as every time they left warp travel, she would pulverize the bottle and throw it
out.
Lu Ze went to Ying Ying and carried her in his arms and watched cartoons with her.
Ying Ying then looked up. "Lu Ze, what happened to sister Jing just then?"
Lu Ze shook his head. "I don't know, maybe it's just a girl thing?"
Ying Ying blinked her eyes and nodded.
Moments later, Qiuyue Hesha came out.
She smiled and sat next to Lu Ze. "Little brother Lu Ze finished cultivation so early today..."
She suddenly stopped and became dazed like Nangong Jing. "Little brother Lu Ze is so fast. You're already a level-9 mortal evolution state."
Lu Ze smiled. "Yeah, I'm almost catching up to you." Qiuyue Hesha blinked her eyes and smiled. "What are you planning to do after you catch up to me? You need to be gentle with me."
Lu Ze: "..."
He spoke seriously, "Don't worry, I definitely won't be gentle!"
Although he didn't fight her as much, she gave him quite some trouble and made Lu Li and the other girls look at him with contempt.
Qiuyue Hesha immediately pleaded, "Little brother Lu Ze is so cruel, you want to treat me rough." Lu Ze: "..."
At this moment, Lu Li, Lin Ling, and Alice all walked out.
When they only saw Qiuyue Hesha, Lu Ze, and Ying Ying in the living room, Lu Li immediately became vigilant. "Lu Ze, sister Hesha, what are you guys doing?"
Qiuyue Hesha replied, "You might not believe it, but little brother Lu Ze said he would treat me roughly when he catches up to me."
Lu Li:
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Alice: {( 3°Ã°)
Seeing the three girls' eyes gradually change, Lu Ze's mouth twitched. He quickly explained things.
Lu Li said, "So, you've reached level-9 mortal evolution state?"
They couldn't see Lu Ze's cultivation level at all.
Lu Ze affirmed, "Yeah."
Lu Li and Lin Ling wanted to go back to their rooms immediately.
Lu Ze couldn't bear it and grabbed one with each hand. "What are you guys doing?" "Cultivation!"
Lu Ze said, "Don't go too hard. We're about to have dinner. I'm waiting for you to cook."
Eventually, Lu Li and Lin Ling went into the kitchen with Alice.
Lu Ze glared at Qiuyue Hesha who was acting innocent.
How could she do this?
He almost got beaten up.
After a while, Nangong Jing came out.
Lu Ze looked calmly at Nangong Jing. She only went inside for half an hour. What did she even cultivate?
He said nothing in the end.
Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha started arguing as usual. It was as though she didn't watch her videos.
After dinner, everyone rested on the couch.
Lu Ze looked out at the warp tunnel. "We're almost there, right?"
Lin Ling nodded. "We've been inside for 15 days. It shouldn't be far."
At this moment, a white light flashed outside. After it disappeared, the warp tunnel turned into a cosmos.
Alice said, "Sister Lin Ling's mouth is really blessed."
Everyone else smiled.
During this moment, Lu Li pointed ahead. "Is that the Federal fleet?"
Everyone looked over. There were tens of large warships parked there. They were of the Shenwu Army style. The main ship was extremely large. It was a cosmic mothership.
Nangong Jing smiled. "These are the reinforcements, right?"
Lu Ze nodded. "We've contacted the reinforcements before. It's to prevent the aliens from attacking us." New Dawn's voice sounded, "Master, General Zuoqiu is requesting for communications."
Lu Ze accepted. Zuoqiu Xunshuang appeared and said, "The reinforcements are here. We just need to follow the Shenwu Army. We're going to board the mother ship. You guys want to follow too?"
Lu Ze and the team looked among each other and nodded. It would be rude to stay in their ships as there would be commanders in the mothership.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang smiled and nodded. Then, she asked, "Did something happen between you guys?" Lu Ze: "..."
Everyone: "..."
Nangong Jing rolled her eyes. "Mom, stop. Watch your image. You're a commander of the Shenwu Army."
Zuoqiu Xunshuang protested, "I'm your mother too!" Thereafter, she felt quite disappointed. "Okay, let's go over."
Zuoqiu Xunshuang disappeared, and Lu Ze and the others felt quite awkward.
Soon, the ship flew inside the mothership. Everyone then came out. There were already soldiers waiting there.
Lu Ze saw that the three leading warriors had extremely strong chi, it was on the same level as Zuoqiu Xunshuang.
Another three star states!
Lu Ze was surprised. Star states were rare in the entire Federation, and they each had their missions. Yet, another three were sent to pick them up. Clearly, the Shenwu Army took this seriously. Cheng Feng laughed. "Old Li, didn't expect you guys to be picking us up."
A dark-haired youth smiled and tapped Cheng Feng's chest. "I heard you guys did something big. If we didn't come over quickly, who knows if you would get killed?"
Carol wasn't too happy. "Let me tell you, that's not it. We killed more than a few hundred of the planetary states of the three races!" "A few hundred?!"
The Shenwu Army was shocked.
Another star state was in disbelief. "You're joking, right, Carol?"
He glanced behind Carol. "How can you guys kill a few hundred planetary states? Then, why did you call for reinforcements?"
Another green-haired woman said, "Yeah, it was amazing that you could bring back the treasure. You're bluffing too much."
Zuoqiu Xunshuang remarked, "You guys don't believe us? There are also two cosmic system state blade demon prodigies."
Old Li's mouth twitched. "They would have guardians, right?"
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "I happened to record it."
Hearing this, the star states, as well as everyone, looked over.
Old Li studied Qiuyue Hesha and smiled gently. "This is Qiuyue Hesha, right? You're quite famous during this time in the controlled region. It's an honor for the Human Race to have a prodigy like you."
The others were also amazed, partly due to her appearance and partly due to her cultivation level at this age. She was a prodigy who was never seen before in the Federation's history.
He looked around at Lu Ze's friends. "You're all amazing."
Their cultivation level was no secret to star states. Lu Ze was the most terrifying.
Level-9 mortal evolution state...
They didn't even dare to believe this.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang asked, "Ze, you reached level-9 mortal evolution state without a commotion?"
Lu Ze: "..."
Yan Gu and those other seniors felt heartbroken. Back when they saw Lu Ze a few months ago until now, this junior's cultivation level skyrocketed, and he couldn't stop at all.
Lu Ze smiled. "I just cultivated as usual and I broke through."
One star state exclaimed, "In less than ten thousand years, the Human Race will arise."
The star state looked at each other with amazement.
"A few thousand years later, Ze might really surpass the saints. Ten thousand years later, he might go above the cosmic system state." Cheng Feng rubbed his bald head. "Those old grandpas really do have foresight."
Everyone nodded. As long as Lu Ze matured, the Human Race would prosper for the next hundreds of thousands of years to million years.
This was a crucial period for the build-up of the foundation for a new race.
The twelve saints protected the root of the Human Race. Lu Ze could bring the Human Race to prosperity.
Lu Ze was embarrassed. These sorts of compliments would make him cocky.
Lu Li and the rest looked at Lu Ze with pride and gentleness.
At this moment, old Li looked at Qiuyue Hesha. "By the way, what was recorded?"
Qiuyue Hesha smiled and opened the recording. It was the clip of Lu Ze killing Guguyate. After watching it, those people at the battle still felt shocked, much less old Li and the others. They doubted their eyes.
A mortal evolution state killed a blade demon prodigy who was protected by five level-5 planetary states. This wasn't logical!
They knew Lu Ze was very strong but didn't expect him to be this strong. This was too absurd.
Old Li and the rest opened their mouths and were stunned.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang smiled. "Now, do you believe me? All those below level-5 planetary states are dead. They were killed by Ze, Jing Jing, and Hesha and the others."
The Shenwu Army, who came to greet them, felt this was too scary. Were they really cultivating the same thing? Looking at how they were doubting life, Cheng Feng waved his hand. "Okay, let's not talk about this. Let's go back."
This was not far from the controlled region, but it was still better to go back inside.
Old Li nodded. "I'll take you guys to rest first."
The Shenwu Army soldiers looked at them strangely. Lu Ze and the team felt quite embarrassed, but they said nothing.
Lu Ze and the others were given rooms to rest while Cheng Feng and the rest of the high-levels left together. They were in no rush to start cultivating, so they began chatting instead.
Yan Gu looked at Lu Ze. "Junior Lu Ze, it's almost time for the Four-Race Social Gathering. There is one month remaining until you guys go back, right?".
Lu Ze nodded. "Mhm, we have been training in the controlled region for six months."
Yan Gu and the others had nostalgic expressions, as though they were reminiscing something. "Four-Race Social..."
Ji Cheng said, "We've been there before too, but at that time, we mostly lost."
Shadora added, "This time with junior Lu Ze and the group, the Human Race will get first for sure."
Xia Zhi smiled. "I don't think anyone can beat junior at the same cultivation level."
Ji Cheng looked strangely at Lu Ze. "A monster like junior Lu Ze would probably be considered a super-prodigy in the entire Elf Cosmic Realm, right?"
Yan Gu said, "We'll be watching your competition in the controlled region."
Other than the collaboration between high-levels at the Four-Race Social, there would be sparring between the younger generation. This would, of course, be broadcasted through the entire Federation. Even the Barbarian Race, Winged Race, and Round Race would receive the broadcasts.
They came to the void space to train, just so they could win. This was for the honor of the Human Race.
The old man said, "The collaboration between races was based on power."
They chatted for a few hours.
Yan Gu and the others soon left. Only Lu Ze and the team remained in the room.
After a while, Lu Ze smiled. "I plan to give some low-level red and purple orbs to the old man and let him give them to young dukes as rewards."
Nangong Jing and the group were shocked.
Nangong's face was red. "You're not going to wait for a while?"
If the old man knew of Lu Ze's god art, would he tell her to get married to him and have a baby?
Seeing how embarrassed Nangong Jing was, Lu Ze felt dazed. "Weren't you the one who told me to tell the old man?" Nangong Jing rolled her eyes and forced that thought out of her mind. "Do what you want."
Lu Li said, "Regardless of what you do, I will support you."
Lu Ze's god art mattered too much. It would give the Human Race much more prodigies.
Qiuyue Hesha touched her face. "Of course, I support little brother Lu Ze."
Lin Ling thought the same thing as Nangong Jing. Would her father tie her up to have a child with Lu Ze? However, she still nodded in the end.
Alice giggled. "I support senior too." Lu Ze nodded. "Okay, once we return, we'll get some time to consolidate our power. If I give orbs to some young dukes, their power would experience some improvement too."
Lu Ze wouldn't give out too much in one go, but even that would improve the combat power and talent of other young dukes.
The other three races would be shocked at the social gathering then.
Thereafter, Nangong Jing and the group went back to their rooms to cultivate.
In the pocket hunting dimension, Lu Ze appeared. This was his first time coming in after reaching level-9 mortal evolution state.
His defenses reached the middle stage of level-4 planetary state. His speed could reach near the tertiary stage of level-4 planetary state.
The only weakness was the power of his attack. After all, his lightning cloud divine art was limited. While fighting those of the same level, the only thing he could use was the star crippling punch and lightning spear. They were just at the primary stage of level-4 planetary state.
Lu Ze felt he could fight some bosses—those level-1 planetary state bosses. Thus, Lu Ze began searching in the wilderness.
He set his target as that level-1 planetary state fire wolf overlord or the golden echidna.
The fire dragon, golden ape, and the black-and-white anaconda were still too strong. They were at the peak of the level-4 planetary state. Lu Ze wasn't confident in beating them.
Three days later, Lu Ze saw the resting 100-meter tall fire wolf and smiled.
Found it!
At the same time, the overlord wolf also looked up.
When he saw Lu Ze, he was stunned.
It's the two-legged animal who stole the treasure.
How could he resist?
It roared, and the temperature around it drastically rose. The ground turned to lava, and the air was distorted.
Vibrant red runes flashed and went inside its body.
Its chi became even stronger after this.
Roar!
The wolf stepped out. Every place it passed turned to lava, and its body instantly disappeared from the spot.
So strong!
Lu Ze's hair stood up after sensing its power. It wasn't as strong as the red dragon overlord, but its power also reached the tertiary stage of level-4 planetary state.
This was a difference not in cultivation level but the race.
If Lu Ze ran, he could get away easily, but there was still some gap if he fought head-on.
But...
Blood lightning surged around Lu Ze as he charged up. This difference wasn't enough to make Lu Ze back off.
The two beams clashed. Heaven and earth stood still for a moment, and then, the thunderous sounds erupted.
The surrounding few thousand kilometers sunk.
Cracks quickly appeared.
The clash just lasted an instant, and Lu Ze flew out.
Blood came out of his mouth with searing temperature.
He was very shocked.
This wolf's speed, power, and defenses were well balanced. It had no weaknesses.
What divine art was it?
Lu Ze felt like his entire body was burned with fire. It was extremely painful.
That red wolf's fire god art was far above his. Its combat power was stronger than his too, so Lu Ze received some injuries with just one clash.
Seeing the red wolf charge over again, Lu Ze's eyes flashed with runes. Gray light flashed around him while blood lightning circulated his body.
He used Lightning Travel divine art and super regeneration at the same time.
Rumble! Rumble!
The figures of human and wolf flashed non-stop. Their speed was so fast that they couldn't be seen with naked eyes.
The earth had completely turned to lava while blood lightning flickered on it.
The air was distorted and space was torn. It was like doomsday.
The lightning sound traveled out tens of thousands of kilometers. The beasts that sensed this battle fled in a hurry.
Even high-level mortal evolution states with god art began fleeing.
Roar!
A huge fireball shot out of the enemy's mouth. Every area the fireball passed, space was twisted.
Lu Ze dodged the fireball but that temperature still made him feel like he was burning in a furnace.
A red beam flashed and the huge red wolf appeared before Lu Ze. It swiped its paws down.
Lu Ze formed the Earth Shield before him. The fire claw instantly destroyed the shield and collided with a thud on Lu Ze's golden armor.
Lu Ze's body was rammed into the lava.
Rumble!
A huge lava wave was created.
A moment later, a golden light flashed. Lu Ze rose up from the lava and appeared on the red wolf's side. Lightning spears formed around his body while the star crippling fist force spun around his fist.
Rumble!
Tens of lightning spear shot towards the red wolf while the star crippling punch was heading towards its waist.
Fire swept from the wolf and clashed with the lightning spear.
Lu Ze's star crippling punch hit the wolf's paw, and then, two split off again.
The shockwave spread around in all directions. Huge lava waves erupted from the ocean.
Lu Ze panted, and gray light formed around him again. Super regeneration was used again. It was a bit strong. Lu Ze felt he couldn't beat it head-on, but he had his advantage. He had super recovery ability after all.
Spirit force from the void went into his body non-stop.
Lu Ze felt he could attempt a prolonged battle. If he couldn't win, he could still run too. Thinking about this, Lu Ze disappeared from the spot.
The red wolf charged up again without hesitation.
Rumble...
Waves of clashes sounded.
Their battle grew more and more intense. The battle region spread to over ten thousand kilometers.
The ground in the pocket hunting dimension was rather sturdy. If it was on an ordinary planet outside, the battle was enough to destroy any civilization that hadn't ventured into space and would even have a huge effect on the planet itself.
Planetary state battle was truly doomsday for any ordinary life.
The battle lasted a few hours.
After one clash, the two sides didn't charge at each other again.
Lu Ze was covered in wounds as his body continuously dripped with blood.
The red wolf's scales cracked up quite a bit.
Lu Ze seemed much more injured. The red wolf was rapidly sucking spirit force from the void. It looked at Lu Ze with disbelief. This two-legged animal was clearly weaker, but why could it fight for this long?
This animal's recovery speed was too quick. Meanwhile, it could feel itself weaken. How could this be?!
At this moment, the wolf saw that strange gray light flash around Lu Ze. It was due to this light that the two-legged animal could recover.
The red wolf howled and bared its fangs. However, it didn't rush forward.
Suddenly, the red wolf flew off into the distance. This made Lu Ze dumbfounded.
This guy was going to run? The wolf should still have quite some reserve power remaining.
Why was the wolf this scared?
Without hesitation, Lu Ze chased after it. What a joke! He had spent a few hours on this. How could he let the overlord escape?
No way!
The red wolf felt insulted once it sensed Lu Ze's chi.
Roar!
If Lu Ze kept chasing it, it wasn't going to be pretty.
Flames around the wolf shot towards Lu Ze. Simultaneously, the lava from the ground shot up at Lu Ze.
The wolf kept flying.
Seeing this, Lu Ze flashed with silver light. Space transmission!
He instantly appeared before the red wolf while his golden fist force struck towards a cracked piece of armor.
Roar!
It sensed Lu Ze's fist force and tried to twist away while reaching out its claw.
Its claw clashed with Lu Ze's fist.
Rumble!
The wolf claw was bigger than Lu Ze, but the clash lasted a few seconds.
Thereafter, Lu Ze flew back again. He spat out more blood. But at the same time, the red wolf also flew back.
It still won in that exchange, but the difference wasn't as big as when they started.
Sensing its own weakened power, the red wolf was more adamant on its belief that there was something wrong with this two-legged animal.
It kept flying away using the momentum of the clash, but how could Lu Ze let it flee like that?
Lu Ze gritted his teeth and let the spirit force flow faster.
Gray light spun around its body, and then, a green light flashed. Only resorting to super regeneration alone wasn't enough. Lu Ze chose to use wood god art as well. With this, Lu Ze's wounds visibly recovered. His chi stabilized and became strong.
Lu Ze pursued the wolf.
Another clash sounded.
Lu Ze was injured, and the red wolf kept fleeing. Therefore, the level-1 planetary state was being chased around by Lu Ze.
They moved rapidly, and their battle made the beasts in their path shiver on the ground.
Ten minutes later, the overlord's chi grew even weaker while Lu Ze's grew stronger. Lu Ze had completely recovered his injuries and even recovered some power while the red wolf couldn't even use its full power while fleeing.
Roar!
The red wolf sensed a lethal threat and suddenly changed directions.
Lu Ze followed after it without hesitation.
This red wolf was going to die for sure today. Even the heavenly monarch wasn't going to save it!
The clashes rang throughout the wilderness. As time progressed, the red wolf overlord was no longer a match for Lu Ze.
After every collision, it ended up injured.
The red wolf had changed directions for over ten minutes. Its chi weakened as blood gushed out from the gap of its armor.
Lu Ze was excited. Soon, this red wolf would be dead. This was a level-1 planetary state boss.
Roar!
At this moment, another roar sounded from the distance.
Fire waves hotter than the red wolf's approached.
Immediately, the red wolf's eyes burned with excitement.
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. No wonder this wolf kept shifting directions. It was asking for help.
A red beam came close rapidly. That familiar massive body made Lu Ze's skin crawl. It was the huge fire dragon!
A chi stronger than the red wolf at its prime condition originated from it.
Lu Ze just escaped with his life a few days ago from the fire dragon. Lu Ze didn't believe he was a match for this guy now.
He didn't expect the red wolf and fire dragon were allies.
Was it because they had affinities with the fire element, so they were close?
The fire dragon was stunned when it saw Lu Ze, but soon, it charged towards the latter. This two-legged animal was their enemy for stealing away the treasure last time.
bit, but his power was still depleted.
The red wolf looked pitiful, but it still had remaining combat power. Moreover, it had the help of the red dragon. Lu Ze didn't know if he could win. However, he only hesitated for an instant and charged towards the red wolf again.
Hesitation would lead to defeat.
There was nothing to be scared of. He could escape from this red dragon when he was just a level-8 mortal evolution state. Now that he was stronger, he could run if he couldn't beat it.
The red dragon also flickered with fire runes. Clearly, the wolf and the dragon had the same divine art.
ame
It opened its huge mouth, and a searing shot of dragon breath proceeded towards Lu Ze. Lu Ze's body was aching from the explosive flames, and this was already under the protection of the golden armor defenses. Otherwise, he would've been injured already.
He used Lightning Travel divine art and dodged the dragon's breath.
During this time, the fire dragon's wings flapped, and it appeared before Lu Ze, swiping him with its claws.
Lu Ze formed the Earth Shield and quickly used space transmission. Crack!
The Earth Shield was instantly broken while Lu Ze disappeared from the spot.
The fire dragon roared, and its flames spread in all directions. This damned space transmission!
Lu Ze appeared not far away. His face was a little pale.
With the growth of his power, his level of mastery over the space transmission god art wasn't good enough.
unleashed lightning spear and star crippling punch with full force.
The red wolf roared. Its body flowed with flames while its sharp claws stopped most of the star crippling punch and lightning spears. Despite so, a few spears still struck its armor and sent it flying away. The wolf howled, and its chi grew weaker again.
Just when Lu Ze was planning to chase after the wolf, he sensed a terrifying power behind him.
Oh shit!
Lu Ze didn't even have time to break the space restriction and use space transmission. He could only form an Earth Shield behind him.
Rumble!
The flames shattered the Earth Shield and struck Lu Ze. The violent dragon breath sent him into the rolling lava.
The flames ravaged Lu Ze's life force. He used super regeneration and wood god art at full force while using fire god art to remove the remaining flames.
He stabilized his injury in an instant. At this juncture, Lu Ze sensed an extreme danger and quickly used space transmission to disappear from the spot. As soon as he did, a huge claw went into the lava.
In the air, the red wolf was trying to remove the blood lightning in its body.
Right at this time, Lu Ze appeared next to him while forming a star crippling punch and lightning spear once again.
The red wolf didn't know what enmity this two-legged animal had with him. Why did Lu Ze focus on him like that?
The wolf could only try its best to defend. However, it could barely stop a portion of the attacks.
Its armor was damaged heavily, and blood flowed out like a fountain.
Heavily injured!
The dragon appeared before Lu Ze again and smacked down with its claw. That terrifying power once again sent Lu Ze into the lava
jer onc
Lu Ze's body was fractured, and even his mind ended up dazed. Even if he were to trade his life, he would finish the red wolf overlord.
Lu Ze only had a little time to recover and had to use space transmission right away. Meanwhile, the red wolf's life force became extremely weak. Lu Ze suddenly appeared next to it again.
Damn it!
The red wolf was so weak, it couldn't even reform its defenses.
The lightning spear easily tore open the flames around the wolf while the star crippling punch struck its wounds. The red wolf's huge body flew out while its life force slowly faded.
Lu Ze sensed that his body and mental force were completely drained. His vision soon blurred.
Roar!
A furious roar sounded behind him. He used the Earth Shield to block for a moment and was flung once again.
His injuries grew worse while blood poured out of him like crazy.
Lu Ze felt the calling of death.
He used all his remaining power to heal himself. Thereafter, he used Lightning Travel divine art to move a few hundred meters. As soon as he did, an attack struck where he was previously.
The shockwave made his injuries worse.
Oh shit! Lu Ze felt he was about to die at any time. But if he died now, he would be furious. He hadn't picked up the orbs!
Those few seconds felt like an eternity.
Finally, the red wolf turned to dust.
Lu Ze didn't have much time to think and used space transmission to appear next to the orbs. He picked up everything without looking. Then, Lu Ze forced himself to focus.
I'm not only going to kill your pal, but I'm also going to escape!
He used up all the spirit force he had left and moved a thousand kilometers away with space transmission.
The dragon was furious upon seeing this. What did Lu Ze think of it? It was one of the strongest in the barren lands!
Lu Ze grinned and recovered some spirit force as he moved away once more.
Slowly, the distance between the two grew.
Lu Ze had more spirit force to recover his injuries. He felt he was very cool!
Suddenly, a white-and-black flow appeared.
Lu Ze's smile stiffened.
Black-and-white spirit force covered the skies. It was even harder to use space transmission.
Roar!
The red dragon also followed too.
Lu Ze: "..."
Why were these two guys here?
Lu Ze's consciousness slowly dwindled. Consequently, he woke up in his room.
Why did this happen?
He almost escaped but still ended up getting besieged.
Lu Ze felt regretful, but he was more excited. After all, he killed his first level-1 planetary state overlord beast! Those orbs would definitely allow his power to improve rapidly.
After reaching level-9 mortal evolution state, Lu Ze would need half a year up to an entire year to reach perfection and then make a breakthrough.
But with these red orbs, Lu Ze believed he could rapidly raise his cultivation level. Moreover, that red wolf's divine art seemed rather good. It improved one's combat power in all aspects.
Lu Ze rested for a moment to ease up his pain. Then, he sat down and checked his mental force dimension.
Compared to the mortal evolution state overlord orbs, the planetary state ones were many times larger. There seemed to be more liquid inside too. The white strand of energy was also several times thicker.
Subsequently, there was a burning red orb and a red rune.
Lu Ze thought about things and chose to use the white strand of energy first.
It entered his body and that gentle yet powerful force flowed inside him. It was like he was in a hot spring. There was no pain, only comfort.
Lu Ze's body grew stronger, and his mental force improved too. Even his spirit body talent was improving Lu Ze didn't know what this energy was, but every time he used it, his talent would get better.
Eight hours later, Lu Ze opened his eyes. His eyes flashed with white light.
He sensed his cultivation level and grinned. Just this white energy helped Lu Ze form nearly 10% of the planetary seeds on his skin.
If he had ten strands, he would be able to form all the planetary seeds, and his mortal evolution state would reach the perfect state. Thereafter, he would be able to break through to the planetary state. Lu Ze knew there were a few more planetary state overlords in the pocket hunting dimension. That way, his progress would greatly speed up. Lu Ze touched his chin. He felt that perhaps he could go back and fight another wave of top overlords.
At this moment, Lu Ze smelled some kind of aroma coming from outside. His eyes lit up, and he immediately ran out of his room.
Alice, Lu Li, and Lin Ling were preparing breakfast while Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha were sitting on the couch, playing with their phones.
Ying Ying was sitting in Nangong Jing's lap watching cartoons while looking at the table from time to time.
Everyone looked up when Lu Ze came out.
Nangong Jing frowned. Why did she feel this guy got even stronger? It must be an illusion. Nangong Jing didn't believe it.
Qiuyue Hesha was surprised too. She had the same thoughts. But this wasn't a breakthrough in cultivation level, so it was more obscure.
Lu Ze happily ran to the table and wanted to grab a glowing white cake. Before he could reach it, his hands were slapped away by Lu Li.
Lu Li reprimanded, "Are you a kid? Use chopsticks!"
Lu Ze grabbed a pair of chopsticks on the side and planned to start eating. However, Ying Ying suddenly appeared at the table and grabbed the cake that Lu Ze was aiming for.
Lu Ze looked at this in disbelief. "Hey, Ying Ying, are you a kid?! Use chopsticks..."
Suddenly, he became dumbfounded. After all, Ying Ying was actually a little kid. He couldn't beat her. Even if he could, those girls on the side would protect her. What could he do then?
In the end, Lu Ze could only change targets.
After breakfast, everyone returned to their usual cultivation.
During the night time, the fleet had entered the border of the controlled region. Lu Ze and the team didn't alight the ship.
There were twenty days until they return. When their mission rewards arrived, it would be enough, so they didn't need to do more missions.
Everyone planned to go into solitary cultivation for a period of time in Shenwu City.
The fleet went straight to Shenwu City. The treasures, which were found this time, were very important. They wouldn't be placed in other bases.
Yan Gu and the rest planned to do the same.
At night, Lu Ze entered the pocket hunting dimension. He planned to go and fight the top overlords and see if he could beat them.
Yet, as soon as he appeared, he saw the white-and-black anaconda, fire dragon, golden ape, golden needle tiger, a green deer, and two golden echidnas.
These overlords were gathered for some reason. When they saw Lu Ze suddenly appear the atmosphere became silent.
He looked at the group of overlords and was bewildered.
Who am I?
Where am I?
Why did I appear here?
In an instant, the overlords reacted.
Their eyes went red as they roared.
Lu Ze felt multiple forces locking the space completely, and a large wave of divine arts flashed. Then, there was nothing. Lu Ze woke up back in his room.
He almost cried.
He jumped into the pile of bosses right at the beginning
Lu Ze exhaled and closed his eyes.
This time, Lu Ze used the fire divine art rune.
He drew it with his mental force, and the rune flowed into his body.
Violent flames started to burn inside him. Even though his organs were full of planetary seeds, they still burned.
The severe pain made Lu Ze's body shiver. Simultaneously, that familiar arcanum went into his brain.
The extremely complex knowledge filled up Lu Ze's brain, making him feel like his brain was about to explode.
Lu Ze quickly used a level-1 planetary state overlord purple orb. His mind immediately cleared up and attained an enlightened state.
The pain was becoming more apparent, but it was nothing to Lu Ze anymore. He started to study the knowledge.
As time went on, he turned the knowledge into his own.
Lu Ze's body glowed red. There seemed to be runes appearing from time to time. In the beginning, there was only one rune. Gradually, more appeared, and Lu Ze's chi grew stronger.
Six days later, the runes slowly went into his body and that powerful chi receded.
Lu Ze opened his eyes. There were complex fire runes glowing inside. He had successfully learned the fire divine art.
The red wolf overlord's fire divine art was rather powerful.
Other than his mental force, it improved all areas. The degree of improvement was rather significant.
It was sort of like the body of darkness. However, the body of darkness could only be used in the dark while this divine art could be used anywhere.
Lu Ze used this divine art. Dim fire runes appeared on him. Lu Ze felt his power increase greatly.
This was quite powerful!
If he used this divine art with the star crippling punch, his offensive power would greatly increase. If he used Lightning Travel divine art, his speed would considerably improve too. Lu Ze felt his speed could reach the peak of the level-4 planetary state. Coupled with his recovery ability, Lu Ze was confident he could fight those top overlords. The only drawback was that if he used Lightning Travel divine art, star crippling punch, lightning spear, golden armor, Earth Shield, super regeneration, and wood god art, he might not have enough power.
That was eight god arts and divine arts after all. An ordinary level-9 mortal evolution state could barely use one divine art. Despite his recovery and quality of spirit force being far superior to those of the same level, he didn't know how long he could last.
He should think about something happy right now. In particular, naming this divine art. It was a fire divine art and a buff-type divine art. So, he would call it 'Fire Buff'.
Simple and nice.
Great!
Lu Ze was very happy with this name.
He stretched out and planned to take a break after being in solitary cultivation for six days in a row.
Lu Ze got out of his room.
Almost everyone was there, and they looked at him as though trying to gauge if this guy improved again.
Alice was fine, but Lu Li and Lin Ling wanted to catch up to him. As for Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha, they were scared of being surpassed by Lu Ze. They stared for a while but couldn't see anything, so they gave up.
Lin Ling smiled. "Ze, you came out at the perfect time. We're almost at planet Shenwu." Lu Ze felt dazed and looked outside. The massive planet Shenwu was already visible. He felt that a lifetime had passed since he came here. He spent the first half month here and never came back.
Now, his mind relaxed quite a bit.
Qiuyue Hesha stretched out. "After going back, I must have a good hot bath and sleep."
Martial artists didn't really need sleep. They usually cultivated at night, but after having such tense times, some relaxation was necessary.
Even Lu Li and Lin Ling nodded.
At this moment, the sound of someone knocking on the door could be heard. It was a female's voice. "Monarch of the New Dawn, young dukes, is it convenient right now?"
Lu Ze went to open the door. A Shenwu Army soldier stood at the door. She looked at Lu Ze and peeked inside. Her heart skipped fast, but she didn't show it.
She saluted and said, "Monarch of the New Dawn, we're about to arrive at Shenwu City. General Zuoqiu told me to call you guys over."
Lu Ze smiled and nodded. "Okay, thank you."
Lu Ze's smile made her heart beat even faster -handsome, good smile, and gentle voice.
At this moment, Nangong Jing and the team came over.
Alice grabbed Lu Ze's arm. "What's wrong, senior?"
Lu Ze said, "Aunty Xunshuang told us to go over."
"Oh."
Lu Ze smiled at the soldier. "Please lead the way." The soldier looked at the other girls. They were all good-looking and talented. Her mouth twitched, but she still smiled. "Please follow me."
The group came to the space station. Inside were the star states and some level-8 and level-9 planetary states. Yan Gu and the others were there too.
Zuoqiu Xunshuang smiled. "We're about to arrive. We'll ride our own ships back from here."
Lu Ze and the group nodded. The star states were very busy. Therefore, everyone returned to their own ships and left the mothership.
The two Shenwu Army warships, New Dawn, and Yan Gu's ship all flew towards Shenwu City.
As soon as they went in the ship, Zuoqiu Xunshuang contacted them. "We'll go straight to the Shenwu Army headquarters. You guys can go rest in Shenwu City. Your rewards will be given to you these few days."
Lu Ze and the group nodded.
Lu Ze leaned on the couch. "Our rewards should be quite abundant this time."
"Mhm."
Lu Li and Alice were hopeful. Their Martial God Armor Sets would finally come. They were the only ones who didn't have it.
Nangong Jing said, "If there are extra rewards, let's go exchange them for a few powerful divine arts."
The divine art with the highest caliber inside the Federation was the star crippling punch. Back at Shenwu City, there were stronger ones. Nangong Jing's and Qiuyue Hesha's divine art had reached perfection with the use of purple orbs. If they wanted to improve their combat power, they would need stronger divine arts. Lu Ze was dazed. When he broke through to the planetary state, he planned to give them divine art runes, but the two wanted them
now.
Seeing this, Qiuyue Hesha asked, "What's wrong, little brother Lu Ze?"
Lu Ze answered, "Don't get divine arts, get something else. After seeing the heritage crystal, I have the feeling that when I reach the planetary state, my divine art would progress, and perhaps, I can turn my current divine arts into heritage."
Hearing this, Nangong Jing and the others were stunned. Their eyes widened, and their breathing quickened.
Nangong Jing grabbed Lu Ze's shoulder. "Really?"
Lu Ze's combat power was so strong, mainly because of divine arts. If they had the same divine arts as Lu Ze, perhaps she can stay a bit longer?
Great!
Originally, Nangong Jing wanted to improve as quickly as possible in order to avoid Lu Ze's vengeance. Now, perhaps she can still be saved?
Lu Ze could feel the heat of Nangong Jing's breath. He pressed her forehead and pushed her back to the couch.
He rolled his eyes. "You're too hopeful. I just said there's a chance. It's not certain."
Alice looked at Lu Ze with admiration. "Senior can definitely do it. You're the best!"
Lu Ze nodded happily. Alice was the best.
"We should save our points, and if I can't get my divine art heritage out, then we'll buy divine art. If I do get it out, then we can use the points to buy other things."
Nangong Jing and the group nodded.
Soon, the ship entered planet Shenwu. The two Shenwu Army ships split off from them.
The New Dawn and Yan Gu's ship proceeded to the space station.
Lu Ze put away the New Dawn while Yan Gu and the others walked over.
Yan Gu smiled. "Junior Lu Ze, what are you guys planning to do now?".
Lu Ze answered, "We'll rest for a day and go into solitary cultivation."
Yan Gu then said, "We're going to exchange our points with cultivation resources and then go into solitary cultivation for a while too. We have our own house in Shenwu City. If there's anything, just contact us."
Lu Ze nodded. "For sure."
Yan Gu looked at Lu Ze and his girls, and he smirked. "We won't disturb you then. Rest well."
The others smirked too and left the space station.
Alice asked, "Why do I feel their smiles were strange?"
Everyone: "..." Lu Ze said, "Okay, let's find a place to rest too."
"hm."
While walking on the streets, Lu Ze and the group noticed quite some people glancing at them. The group didn't care. Their names had pretty much spread through the entire controlled region. All those who went on forums would recognize them.
After they left, the adventurers started discussing
"That's Monarch of the New Dawn Lu Ze's group, right? Weren't they at Shang Yang System? Why did they come back?"
"I heard there was a large scale beast tide there. They didn't even rest and fought until the beast tide ended."
"I heard this too, but Lu Ze only seems to be a mortal evolution state, right? This is too terrifying."
"Otherwise, how can he be the number one prodigy of the Federation. They all say that if Lu Ze doesn't die, he will definitely become a cosmic system state. That's the same level as the four saints."
"Young duke Nangong and Qiuyue seem very strong too."
"Not just them, all the girls around Lu Ze are prodigies. At other eras, they would be considered the best."
"This coming Four-Race Social will bring the Human Race honor."
"That's true."
Lu Ze and the girls went to a hotel. The hotel owner seems to know Lu Ze and the rest and was very nice but didn't let them stay for free.
They booked a suite and went up. Inside the suite, the group finally completely relaxed. The girls stretched out and took Ying Ying to bath while Lu Ze sat alone on the couch. He was speechless upon hearing the giggling in the bathroom.
Why wasn't he allowed to go as well?
Only after they finished was Lu Ze allowed to go in. Then, Alice and the others took out the precious ingredients from the Blades of Dawn and prepared a good meal.
After finishing the food, no one went to cultivate. They played games together.
At night, Lu Ze didn't go into the pocket hunting dimension nor cultivate. He had a good night's sleep.
The next morning, Lu Ze woke up feeling refreshed. He looked at the time and realized it was the morning of the third day.
Did he sleep for an entire day and night?
Was he the laziest?
He got out of his room.
In the living room, Lin Ling was drinking water on the couch in loose pajamas. As for Ying Ying, she was playing on the couch. No one else was there.
Lu Ze came and sat next to Lin Ling.
Lin Ling leaned on him and giggled. "You just woke up?"
Lu Ze felt Lin Ling's body heat and felt dazed. He didn't expect her to learn over like this. He smiled and rubbed his face against her head.
He could smell the scent of her shampoo. "Yes, what about you?"
Lin Ling also used her head to rub against Lu Ze. "Me too. I thought I was the laziest, but I asked Ying Ying and realized none of you had gotten up."
"I'm the earliest."
Lu Ze said, "The earliest worm gets eaten."
Ying Ying interrupted, "Lu Ze you're a bird. Are you going to eat sister Lin Ling?"
Lu Ze: "?"
Lin Ling blushed. Suddenly, she realized that now was a good opportunity. The others were sleeping. Perhaps they could go a step further. At this moment, the sound of the door opening could be heard. Lu Ze sat up quickly. The two looked at each other, and Lin Ling smiled cheekily.
That was quite thrilling!
Lu Li's confused voice sounded, "Lu Ze, sister Lin Ling, why is it just you two?" Lu Li was looking between the two as if trying to catch something. Lin Ling said, "They haven't gotten up. I and Ze just woke up."
"Oh." Lu Li couldn't tell anything and just sat next to Lu Ze.
She took out a brush and handed it to Lu Ze. "Brother, brush my hair."
Lu Ze replied, "Your hair looks so smooth, do you still need to brush it?"
Lu Li smiled, and her voice turned softer. "Hmm? What did you say, brother? I didn't hear it."
Lu Ze: "..."
He took the brush and said seriously, "I said it's my honor to brush Li's hair."
Lin Ling: "?"
Lu Li turned around. "Thank you, brother. You're the best."
Lu Ze brushed her hair softly. He had to admit her hair felt great.
Seeing this, Lin Ling was furious. She touched her short hair and wondered whether she should have long hair.
Li definitely did this on purpose.
At this moment, another door opened. Alice came out. Lu Li smiled. "Morning, Alice."
Her tone was very prideful.
Lu Ze also smiled. "Morning, Alice." Alice: "..."
After some silence, she giggled. "Morning, senior, Li, and sister Lin Ling. Are you hungry? I'll go and cook. Li, come help." Lin Ling's eyes immediately lit up. "Indeed, it's time to cook. Li, come help us." Thereafter, she and Alice grabbed Lu Li from the side.
Lu Li: "?"
"Wait! I'm not done yet!"
Lu Ze's eyes lit up. "Don't worry Li, your hair is very soft! It's definitely fine!"
Lu Li: "..."
She wanted to beat him up. "Okay, stop pulling me I can walk. Brother, I'll leave the brush with you. Brush my hair next time."
Lu Ze nodded.
Alice also said, "Senior, I want it too next time!"
Lu Ze watched cartoons with Ying Ying. Soon, Nangong Jing and Qiuyue Hesha exited their rooms.
They were the strongest, but they were the latest to wake up.
They just sat down on the couch and waited for food. Soon, breakfast was ready, and the group finished it and returned to the couch.
Moments later, Lin Ling asked, "Ze, are the rewards here?"
Everyone looked over curiously.
"Let me see." Lu Ze took out his phone and read the message.
Seeing the rewards, Lu Ze rejoiced.
Nangong Jing came over and asked, "How is it?"
Lu Ze projected the information in the air. The rewards were rather plenty. They provided the clue to the star state tomb. That alone gave them 150,000 merit points- definitely more than the beast tide.
After all, this was a high-level star state's heritage, and the being was the top prodigy of the Crystal Race.
Other than that, they also killed a few hundred planetary states and two cosmic system state blade demon prodigies with potential.
The blade demon prodigies were equivalent to 30,000 merit points each, and the other planetary states gave a total of 100,000 merit points.
Summing up everything, they received 310,000 merit points. Everyone looked among each other. They didn't expect the reward to be this good.
They had done so many things before and didn't even get 300,000. Yet, the awards they had earned this time was more than their combined total for the past five months.
Everyone was excited. This amount of points was enough to buy a lot of resources.
Nangong Jing remarked, "Perhaps many high planetary states won't be as wealthy as us."
That was 310,000!
They could even buy six more Martial God Armor Sets. Even the strongest planetary state weapon, the black cleaver, was only 55,000.
Lu Ze smiled. "Okay, let's buy. Buy whatever you want. We have so many points."
The girls' eyes lit up. Buying was tempting to them.
Lu Li said, "I and Alice want the armor sets."
Alice nodded.
Lu Ze then agreed.
Nangong Jing said, "I want a set of fighting gloves."
"Buy!"
Qiuyue Hesha exclaimed, "I want equipment to amplify mental force god art!"
"Buy!"
Lin Ling expressed, "I want a new spear then."
"Buy!" The girls got together and looked at their phones as though they wanted to spend all the points.
Lu Ze let them look through.
Soon, Lu Li and Alice bought their armor sets totaling 100,000 merit points. Thereafter, Alice bought a planetary state sword to amplify fire god art which cost 40,000 merit points
As for Lu Li, she could use the sword that buffed darkness god art, which they got from the level-8 planetary state blade demon. Nangong Jing bought a set of golden fist gloves which was worth 45,000 merit points.
On the other hand, Qiuyue Hesha bought a necklace to buff mental force. This type of equipment was rare and cost 80,000 merit points.
Originally, Qiuyue Hesha didn't want to buy it because it was too expensive, but everyone agreed to let her buy it.
Her seduction god art was too powerful. With a piece of new equipment, their collective combat power would increase. Thus, Qiuyue Hesha bought it.
Lin Ling bought a spear that buffed metal god art. She could see weaknesses with her spirit eye. Attacking that spot with metal god art would allow her to be too powerful. That spear cost 45,000 merit points.
Just like that, the entire 310,000 was spent.
The group wasn't even done yet.
Alice was disappointed. "310,000 was gone like that?"
Nangong Jing was helpless. "Didn't have enough reward points."
Qiuyue Hesha said, "My necklace was too expensive."
That was 8 billion Federal contribution points!
Lu Ze comforted, "That necklace is definitely worth it for you."
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "Hopefully."
Lu Li pointed out, "Brother hasn't bought anything yet. We'll go recycle the blade demon prodigy's belongings and then buy something for him."
The girls nodded.
"The treasures in the storage rings are very valuable. We should be able to get a lot of reward points from it."
Alice added, "Yes, and there is the heritage crystal too."
Lu Ze smiled. "Let's keep the points from the heritage crystal. If I can't give out divine art heritage when I reach the planetary state, then we'll use it to buy divine art."
Everyone agreed. Subsequently, Alice jumped and grabbed Lu Ze's hand. "Then, let's go to the Resource Hall and recycle those things."
The group was excited. After recycling, they could buy resources again. Therefore, the group went out.
In the small building not far from the Treasure Depot, old Wang suddenly screamed. "Oh shit?! Oh shit! Oh shit..."
He looked at the transaction record with disbelief.
Everyone in the office stared at him. The beautiful lady said, "Old Wang, what happened this time? Don't' tell me there's another large order."
Old Wang didn't answer and just stared at the screen.
Everyone was more confused. They all came up to old Wang
"This transaction?!"
"Holy shit?"
"Am I seeing it right? Multiple 5 digit transactions?"
"It's a total of... 310,000? All bought by the same person?"
"So... this is the joy of being wealthy?"
They were planetary states too, but they hadn't even spent 10,000 in one transaction.
How long would it take to accumulate 310,000 for planetary states? How many missions were that?
The beautiful woman's heart was shaking. "Who bought it?"
"Why is there another two Martial God Armor Sets? Don't tell me it's Monarch of the New Dawn again!"
"No way. He already bought four." "Yes, how could that guy get 310,000 so quickly?!"
Everyone didn't know what to say. They didn't want to believe it was Lu Ze.
Why did this guy get another 310,000? It had only been two months since the beast tide.
But who else, other than that guy, would buy this much equipments?
Old Wang was curious too. "Let me see?"
He opened the transaction information. It was indeed Lu Ze.
Everyone: "..."
Oh shit! It was this guy again!
Everyone silently went back to their seats.
They were very envious. However, old Wang still got up and went to notify the Treasure Depot.
In an individual room in the Resource Hall, a middle-aged man looked at the black crystal in his hands. His hands were trembling. The other workers, who were present there, were also dumbfounded.
The middle-aged man was the appraiser of the Resource Hall. He would appraise the value of the items being recycled. His cultivation level was level-7 planetary state.
The atmosphere remained silent. Lu Ze and the others felt this was hard to bear.
Nangong Jing was impatient and spoke first, "Mr. Ouweng, how many points is this crystal worth?"
The others also looked impatiently at Ouweng. After they got their points, they were going to return and buy more.
Ouweng finally replied, "Sorry, young duke Nangong. This item is worth too much... I have no right to recycle it. I think, you best contact General Zuoqiu. If you want to recycle it here, I'll notify the manager here, General Barier."
Just the heritage crystal itself was worth a lot, much less the powerful divine art inside. There were no more than five divine arts of this caliber in the Human Race.
The other workers were used to seeing all sorts of treasure. They weren't this shocked even when they saw star state treasure. However, this was the extremely precious heritage crystal. It was over the line to bring it over like this to recycle.
Lu Ze and the girls were dazed. They didn't expect the crystal to be this troublesome at recycling. Nangong Jing smiled bitterly. "I should've told my mother before, if I knew earlier. I forgot about it."
Alice said, "After all, this isn't a divine art we can use."
Lu Ze remarked, "I forgot about it too."
From his perspective, he already had quite a few divine arts of this grade. He didn't care much about it. Even the girls didn't pay attention to this divine art too much.
Who knew things would turn out like this?
The workers: "..."
They didn't know what to say anymore.
Nangong Jing said, "Then, wait a moment. I'll contact my mom now. I don't know if she's busy or not." Zuoqiu Xunshuang was a star state, and she just finished a mission. Who knew if she had the time to come over again?
Ouweng smiled politely. "Do as you please."
Her entire family was very powerful. Her parents were star states, and her grandpa was one of the four saints. She herself was a super prodigy. If it was someone else, they would protect this crystal like a treasure, in fear of getting robbed.
Although the Shenwu Army wouldn't do this, the adventurers were different. A treasure like this may lead some adventurers to take some risk. However, Lu Ze and the team didn't mind. Even if someone came to rob them, there was still Ying Ying here.
Soon, Zuoqiu Xunshuang's image appeared in the room.
She smiled. "Jing Jing, you miss mommy already?"
Nangong Jing rolled her eyes and said, "We got a heritage crystal with a divine art from the battle last time. I want to ask you how to deal with it?"
Zuoqiu Xunshuang was stunned. "What? Heritage crystal?"
She felt she heard it incorrectly. Didn't they go to the battle last time together? How come she didn't know about it?
Lu Ze explained, "After I killed Guguyate, I found it in his storage ring. But we couldn't cultivate that divine art, so we forgot about it."
Zuoqiu Xunshuang's mouth twitched. "... Why didn't you forget to eat every day?!"
The group looked down with embarrassment. They didn't dare to talk, seeing that Zuoqiu Xunshuang was a little angry.
Yet, Zuoqiu Xunshuang found their reactions funny and laughed instead.
She looked at the group helplessly and said, "I'm busy right now, and I can't leave. I'll tell Barier later. He will deal with this."
Lu Ze and the group smiled. Nangong Jing said, "Thank you, mom." Zuoqiu Xunshuang rolled her eyes. "I thought you missed me. So, it's for this."
Nangong Jing said, "It's also because I miss you." Zuoqiu Xunshuang sneered in disbelief. Then, she said, "Okay, I still have things to do. Cultivate well."
"Okay, goodbye, mom." "Goodbye, aunty Xunshuang."
When Zuoqiu Xunshuang disappeared, the workers finally dared to breathe easy. Zuoqiu Xunshuang was a star state after all. Her temperament was too powerful.
Ouweng said, "Since General Zuoqiu is contacting General Barier, then please wait for a moment. The general will be here soon."
Lu Ze and the girls nodded and waited.
A few minutes later, a door opened, and a gray-haired, middle-aged man came out. His face looked a little desperate.
As the Human Race's door to the void space border, Shenwu City had multiple star states. Barier was one of them.
He rushed over quickly when Zuoqiu Xunshuang told him there was a heritage crystal to be recycled.
Ouweng and the rest saluted, "General Barier!"
Barier nodded in return.
He looked at the workers and said, "You guys may leave first."
Ouweng and the others left.
Lu Ze and the group looked at Barier and saluted too, "General Barier!"
They weren't of the Shenwu Army, but they belonged to the army too and had honorary positions.
This guy looked too serious. Lu Ze and the group felt it was best not to be cheeky.
Barier smiled and waved his hand. "No need to be too polite. Zuoqiu said you guys were rather cheeky, but it seems you're quite mature."
Lu Ze and the group laughed awkwardly. "Hahaha, yes..."
How could aunty Xunshuang say that?
They were always very mature. Barier said, "I've been hearing about you guys during this period. Didn't expect you guys to give me such a huge surprise upon my first time seeing you. That's the heritage crystal... The Human Race only has four heritage crystal divine arts. You brought back the fifth! Theoretically, it should be the marshal dealing with you guys personally, but he's busy, so I hope you guys can understand." Barier's attitude was very nice.
Lu Ze smiled. "Saint Shenwu needs to guard the entire void border, he doesn't need to come for a minor thing like this."
Hearing this, Barier's mouth twitched. Minor thing?
Is heritage crystal considered a minor thing?
He didn't know how to answer.
He smiled. "Ahaha... let's talk business. Show me the heritage crystal."
Lu Ze handed over the black crystal.
Barier smiled. "Did you know that words are limited? There is much information that can't be described in words. This is, even more, the case for divine art knowledge. The higher the level of the divine art, the harder it is to describe with words. And, it's much easier to learn divine art through heritage crystal than words. However, the Human Race doesn't have a way to create heritage crystal. We don't have extra resources to buy them."
Lu Ze sighed. If they had more heritage crystals, it would be much easier for human prodigies to learn divine arts.
Barier smiled. "By the way, there are actually two heritage crystals in the belongings of the Crystal Race, but the knowledge there has been erased. The marshal is guessing that the knowledge inside is probably a divine art. Someone probably wiped out the content inside to prevent the knowledge from leaking out."
Lu Ze and the group felt stunned. They felt this was quite a pity. The divine art that the top prodigy of the Crystal Race would erase definitely wasn't simple.
This was a huge loss.
Clearly, the human foundation was lacking. After all, there wasn't enough time. For an ancient race like the Crystal Race, which existed for hundreds of millions of years, who knew what sort of secrets they had?
Any random one would surpass the Human Race.
Barier smiled and said, "Alright, let's not talk about this. Let me see what grade this divine art is."
He pierced through the crystal using his mental force. Moments later, he opened his eyes with surprise and joy. "It's a middle-class, low-grade divine art. The Federation only has a few divine arts of this level!"
He continued with regret, "What a pity! Demonic body god art is commonly seen in the Demon Race. It's too rare in the Human Race."
Lu Ze and the girls were dumbfounded. They didn't know what sort of levels of divine arts there were.
Barier noticed this and explained, "The level of divine art is not too important to the Human Race because our foundation is too weak. It's pretty much all low-class divine art. For a middle-class divine art, we only have a middle- and low-grade."
Lu Ze and the others felt that Barier made the Human Race sound so pitiful and poor. But then, Barier continued, "However, you've cultivated your divine arts very well. It's not far from my level." He was very shocked. He was a star state being, and in the years he's lived, he had plenty of time to learn divine art. However, he didn't feel he had that much better mastery of god art than Lu Ze and his group. Barier added, "Divine art is divided into low-class, middle-class, high-class, top-class. Each class has low, middle, and high grades. The divine art you took out is a middle-class, low-grade."
This divine art was about the same level as the ones he got from the mortal evolution state overlords.
Lu Ze was very curious what level of divine art those super bosses in the pocket hunting dimension would drop.
Barier said, "This divine art isn't a low-class, but the god art is too rare. I can award you 500,000 merit points."
"500,000 merit points?".
Lu Ze and the team widened their eyes.
Oh shit! They were rich! Barier smiled. "To be honest, this divine art isn't precious for races who have existed for a long time, but the Human Race has too few divine arts, especially high-quality ones, so the reward is more bountiful."
To be honest, it was more because of Lu Ze's and the girl's talent. Giving them more reward points would help them grow faster.
Lu Ze nodded his head and smiled, "Thank you, General Barier."
Barier shook his head. "Zuogiu asked me to look after you guys. Your talent and contribution are worth it." Thereafter, Barier left with the crystal. He had many things to do.
Lu Ze and the rest recycled the two blade demon prodigy's belongings and earned another 140,000 reward points. Altogether, they earned 640,000 merit points.
Following such, they returned to their suite. The girls were rather excited.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "We have more reward points. We can buy more things now."
Alice giggled and looked at Lu Ze. "What should we buy, senior?"
Nangong Jing remarked, "Gloves, the same as mine. Ze doesn't use any other weapons."
Nangong Jing thought to herself, 'This could be couple gloves'.
The others didn't like it, but they didn't argue either.
Qiuyue Hesha smiled. "The gloves won't cost that much. Should we buy him a necklace? One that also buffs mental force god art?"
Everyone looked at Qiuyue Hesha strangely. She didn't want to buy herself one, but she was willing to buy one for Lu Ze.
Lu Ze was speechless. He didn't care about equipment. He progressed too fast after all. Soon, the equipment won't be useful to him.
Lu Ze coughed. "Forget the necklace, my mental force god art is too weak, and I use it occasionally. The necklace is too expensive and wasteful. I'll just buy a set of gloves. You guys can see what other things you want to buy."
Qiuyue Hesha gave Lu Ze a disgruntled look while Nangong Jing grinned. When everyone took out their weapons, it would be clear they had a couple set.
Great!
45,000 for the gloves. They were going to save 500,000, so now, only 95,000 were spendable.
Lin Ling asked, "What should we buy next?"
Lu Li said, "We don't lack cultivation resources. We have regeneration and wood god art, so we don't need medicine. As for a trump card..."
Everyone looked at Ying Ying. What trump card could be stronger than her?
"Should we buy some buff items?" "Never mind. We're progressing so fast. It's a bit of a waste." "Our power can't support this much good equipment."
"Then, what should we buy?"
Everyone didn't know what to buy. After all, their equipment was at the top of the planetary state. Meanwhile, star state equipment was too expensive, and they couldn't afford it. Even if they could, it wouldn't be more useful.
Lu Ze's mouth twitched. "If the other young dukes knew we were full build, I wonder what they would think?"
That would feel very painful for them.
Lu Ze's eyes lit up, and he said, "Should we buy some rare ingredients?"
Everyone looked at each other, and then, Alice said with a blush, "Then, let's buy a few? I can study a new recipe."
Everyone immediately agreed.
"Spirit force is beneficial for cultivation anyways."
Everyone comforted themselves.
Afterward, they spent 95,000 on buying high-level spirit ingredients.
