My Special Ability Is Perfect Replication

by Stayrr

After transmigrating to this world where spiritual energy is revived, I realized that it’s a world rampaged by Direbeasts. But what is most exciting is that humans with special abilities do exist! It’s awesome to witness control of thunder and fire, titan’s transformation, limb regeneration, teleportation, telepathy, precognition and many more. And guess what? I have them all.

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Chapter 191: Airdropping to 21th Place, Jealousy

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Hao Shuai, Bai Ya, and Ling Jiu had been at the bottom three in the standings. It had not changed in the past two weeks since they were rookies who had just joined the camp.

Hao Shuai knew that well.

However, Ling Jiu's name was now missing. He was not in the bottom three ranks. What surprised Hao Shuai further was, someone else had dropped the bottom three.

"What's going on here?"

While Hao Shuai was still puzzled, other trainees had also arrived and stood in front of the scoreboard. Everyone looked confused and shocked at the last three names on the scoreboard.

"What the hell's happened? Hiram has dropped to third from the bottom! Not only that, his points are gone!"

"The same's happened to the Ace brothers too. They have zero points now. Did someone rob them or something?"

"Never mind the Ace brothers. Getting robbed is understandable given their strength, which is average. The key is Hiram; his ability would make him into Top Twenty in the matriculation camp. But this horrible thing has happened. Who has he offended, really?"

"Who knows?"

Hearing their conversations, Hao Shuai moved his eyes up the standings and finally saw Ling Jiu's name in the 21st place.

No. 21: Ling Jiu; Pangu; 600,000; 17 years old; 20510607

"T-Twenty-first place? He has climbed to twenty-first place?" Hao Shuai could not have been more stunned. "How is this even possible? He's just a rookie, and he was ranked behind my a* two days ago. Now he's climbed to twenty-first place? Not only that, his score is as high as 600,000 points. What has he done?"

He was shocked, confused, and bewildered.

"Strange! I've dropped one place!" Just then, a veteran trainee spoke in astonishment. "Who climbed above me again?"

"It's true!" another long-time trainee said. "I dropped a place too?"

"What's going on?"

A veteran trainee named Vikas looked up the scoreboard and finally found an unfamiliar name at position 21.

No. 21: Ling Jiu; Pangu; 500,000; 17 years old; 20510607

"Ling Jiu? Who is he?" Vikas asked in confusion. "Is there such a person at all in our matriculation camp?"

"Holy moly! Isn't this the rookie? How did he climb to twenty-first place? What the hell has this guy done?"

"Look at his points; 600,000!"

"This rookie had zero-point last time. How come he has so many points now?"

"Could it be…"

Those veteran trainees looked at each other. Thinking of a possibility, they simultaneously looked at Hiram and the Ace brothers' names at the bottom three.

"Yeah! That's got to be it!" a veteran trainee said solemnly.

"Hiram's previous score was 360,000, and the Ace brothers also had almost 240,000, which is exactly 600,000 in total!"

"In other words, this rookie named Ling Jiu robbed Hiram and Ace brothers? Are you kidding me? He is just a rookie. How did he beat a top-twenty student like Hiram?"

"I can't accept this, but if that ain't it, who can explain the changes in the standings?"

No one could find the words to respond.

Indeed, apart from that possibility, how could they explain the fact that Ling Jiu had suddenly jumped to the 21st place while Hiram and Ace brothers' points had been cleared?

"This guy has actually defeated a veteran like Hiram?"

Hao Shuai could not calm down as he listened to the discussions going on around him. His partner, Ai Xiong had told him that anyone who could make it to the top 100 in the standings was a Level 8 Arcanist or someone with Level 8 combat strength.

The first 50 were all Level 8 Arcanist.

In the top 30, those were the best among Level 8 Arcanists.

In the top 10, those people possessed at least Level 9 combat strength.

Ling Jiu had defeated Hiram in 29th place and robbed his points.

Did it not mean that Ling Jiu was the best among the Level 8 Arcanists?

"Level 8 Arcanist…"

Hao Shuai clenched his fists. "I have just attained Level 7, and he… he… Why is this bugger always one step ahead of me?"

"Ace, you guys are back?" Rightthen, a veteran trainee called out.

Everyone turned their heads and saw two guys walking in their direction. They were none other than the Ace brothers.

Everyone came up to meet them. "Hey, Ace, what's going on? Why are your points completely cleared?"

Hao Shuai had also come up to them.

The Ace twin brothers had darker skin, and they were both two meters tall. They were burly and strong like gorillas.

"Don't mention it to us!"

Both of their faces looked grave. "We must have lost favor with Heaven. We slipped up and messed with someone we shouldn't have messed with."

"Did Ling Jiu really rob you guys?" a veteran trainee asked.

"News spreads so quickly?" The Ace brothers forced a smile. "We bumped into Ling Jiu, as well as Bai Ya, near Wormhole 51 and were beaten up by Ling Jiu. Not only did he take the monster bodies but also all our points."

"Our suspicion has been right. Where is Hiram? Did Ling Jiu rob him too?"

"Yup."

The Ace brothers nodded. "That guy is too powerful. Even Hiram was beaten. Hiram is not in the same league as Ling Jiu."

Hiram was beaten?

There was a dead silence instantly after the crowd heard what the Ace brothers said.

As much as they had guessed the truth earlier, hearing that with their own ears was still a shocker.

Hiram, ranked 29th, had been completely beaten.

"Ace, is that rookie really that powerful?" A veteran trainee could not accept it, too.

"You will know when you try him." The Ace brothers sighed. "He doesn't look like a rookie at all."

"Really?"

A nonchalant voice came. Everyone followed the voice and saw a blond-haired, blue-eyed, handsome young man approaching.

His blond hair looked like a waterfall. He had an athletic body, was handsome and tall, possessing an intimidating persona, as if a male lion.

"Arthur, what are you doing here?" someone quickly greeted him.

"He's Arthur Austin?"

Hao Shuai also looked at the person. He had heard of Arthur Austin's name long ago. Arthur had joined the matriculation camp in December last year, but it had only taken him half a year to reach 28th place in the standings. Arthur was a true genius.

On top of that, Arthur's background was extraordinary. He was from America, one of the five largest countries, and his family was extremely powerful; it was one of the top ten families in the world.

It was precisely because of this that the former camp beauty Euphemia Athena clung to him like superglue.

"Have you two met the rookie named Ling Jiu?"

Arthur Austin ignored everyone but the Ace brothers.

"Yeah."

The Ace brothers quickly nodded.

"Tell me where he is."

Arthur Austin's eyes glinted.

"The Ares Plain."

The Ace brothers did not dare to evade his question and quickly told him where Ling Jiu and Bai Ya were. But after that, they hesitated.

"Arthur, I know why you're looking for Ling Jiu, but I have to tell you one thing."

"What is it?"

Arthur Austin cocked an eyebrow.

"The other rookie Bai Ya is probably Ling Jiu's woman. They have been sleeping together," The Ace brothers said cautiously.

"They have been sleeping together?"

A cold light flashed in Arthur Austin's eyes, his face frosty. "How dare he sleep with the woman I am fond of? Good. Very good."

He disappeared on the spot after that.

"That guy, Ling Jiu and Bai Ya have gotten together, Ace?" one veteran trainee asked.

"What do you think? Ling Jiu admitted to it in front of us. Could it be fake?" the Ace brothers said.

"Damn! What a waste! She is such a perfect goddess. But a rookie has got her. How unfair!"

"Where do you guys think Arthur has gone?"

"Needless to say, he must have gone to the Ares Plain to look for Ling Jiu and Bai Ya. You know, he just ditched Euphemia for Bai Ya."

"Really?"

"Of course! I saw them quarrel with my own eyes."

"What a scumbag. Euphemia is my goddess. You don't know how many days and nights I have been looking at her photos as I reach the climax of my life."

"Don't be so disgusting! By the way, do you guys want to check it out?"

"Check out what?"

"Of course, the drama of Arthur vs. Ling Jiu. Don't forget, Arthur Austin is a very domineering and possessive guy. Now that someone has stolen the woman whom he is fond of. You can imagine how furious he is."

"You have a point."

"Who wants to check it out?"

"Are you going?"

"I'm eager to take a look."

"Let's go together."

It was noon in the blink of an eye. Ling Jiu, who had been busy all morning, threw the saplings on the ground before he slumped down on the sand. "I'm starving."

Bai Ya did not respond. She was still planting trees.

"I'm starving."

Ling Jiu's voice went up by a few decibels, yet Bai Ya still did not respond. Feeling a little unhappy, he shouted, "I said I'm starving!"

Now Bai Ya was upset, and she glared at Ling Jiu. "Why are you shouting at me? Wait until I finish planting this sapling!"

"You do the cooking, and I will help you with the planting!"

Ling Jiu stroked his stomach.

"Okay then."

Bai Ya did not insist anymore. She tossed the shovel to the ground and turned to board the airship. After a while, an alluring aroma drifted out of the airship.

"Lunch is ready!"

Bai Ya was heard calling out from inside.

"All right!" Ling Jiu answered and then boarded the airship.

The food was already on the table: there were four dishes and one soup. There was a bowl of some "farmhouse" dish, stewed beef with potatoes, dried pot cauliflower, sweet and sour pork tenderloin, and seaweed egg drop soup. Additionally, there were two bowls of rice.

"Smells good!"

Ling Jiu grabbed a piece of beef and delivered it to his mouth, earning himself a glare from Bai Ya. "How many times should I remind you to wash your hands before eating?"

"Right away!"

"The potatoes are so good!

"And this pork belly!

"You have to try this!

"Mind your own business. I don't need you to serve me!"

"You've cooked the dishes. Of course, I have to show some appreciation."

"Oh, come on!"

The two bickered as they ate. Little did they notice that there was someone else in the airship.

A waterfall of blonde hair draped behind him, tall and strong, like a lion; this man was no one else but Arthur Austin, who had just arrived from the matriculation camp.

His face contorted when he saw Ling Jiu and Bai Ya flirting over dinner. Jealousy was burning inside him as the woman he loved was stolen by someone else.

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Chapter 192: Absolute Zero, Ling Jiu's Death

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"So that's the Ares Plain?"

"Strange! What is that high wall? A crater or something else?"

"The Ares Plain is in the northern hemisphere of Mars. There are few impact craters and valleys. How could there be craters?"

"Strange!"

A group of people arrived in the Ares Plain. It was the group of veteran trainees who had gathered in front of the scoreboard earlier. They were here to rubberneck.

Of course, Hao Shuai was among them. He was keen to find out how powerful Ling Jiu was now, and if Ling Jiu really could beat Hiram, just as the Ace brothers said.

The group moved like a whirlwind and climbed onto the barrier in the blink of an eye. They saw Ling Jiu's maglev airship and the Arcana forest, which had been planted in the past two weeks.

"So this is Ling Jiu and Bai Ya's forest? It's that massive?"

"There are at least tens of thousands of power trees, right? Didn't they just join the matriculation camp two weeks ago? Since when did they start planting such a large forest?"

"If they possess Earth or Wood Manipulation Arcana, it is entirely possible to plant so many Arcana trees in such a short time."

"You have a point. On the barren surface of Mars, Earth and Wood Manipulation Arcanas are the most convenient for planting trees."

Arthur Austin was furious. He was an extremely possessive man, who would try every way he could to get what he wanted.

He would rather ruin it than let things fall into the hands of others if he could not get it.

That man and woman are really sleeping together.

Arthur Austin stared at the two while they ate. Jealousy burned in his eyes. When he saw Bai Ya, and her beauty, Arthur Austin's heart bled.

She was a perfect woman; God's most perfect work of art. She was really out of this world.

Such a perfect woman has been ruined by trash! Damn it! Damn! Damn! Bugger, I'm going to tear you into pieces!

"By the constipated look on your face, it seems like you're up to something."

Just as Arthur Austin gritted his teeth, a mocking voice rang out and startled him. He then realized that Ling Jiu was looking and smiling at him.

He can see me?

Arthur Austin was taken aback. His Molecularization Arcana turned him into a molecular form that not even a microscope could detect.

Yet, Ling Jiu had seen him?

"What are you talking about?"

Bai Ya looked at Ling Jiu in puzzlement.

"A mouse has sneaked into the airship. No, it should be a pervert," Ling Jiu said. "This pervert has been staring at you for a long while. He must be coveting you. Be careful, don't let him have his way."

"Who?"

Bai Ya was startled, her beautiful eyes darting around. She trusted Ling Jiu very much, and Ling Jiu would never make a joke like this.

He really sees me!

Arthur Austin's face was grim, and he revealed himself.

"Who are you?"

Bai Ya's expression changed when seeing another person appearing in the airship.

"Arthur Austin?"

Arthur Austin stared at Bai Ya and felt a knifelike pain in his heart.

"Beautiful lady, why do you want to give up on yourself to be together with a trash like him?"

"Hey, rascal, are you looking down on me?" Ling Jiu was not too happy.

"Trash!" Arthur Austin stared at Ling Jiu with a frosty face. "How dare you defile such a beautiful woman? You are absolutely heinous! I will punish you on behalf of God today and get rid of you sinner!"

"Heck!" Ling Jiu sneered. "It seems that your mouth isn't as unassuming as your face!"

"Damn you, trash!"

Arthur Austin let out a low growl, and his cheeks instantly gleamed with a bright white light, as if it was a large 1,000-watt light bulb.

The next moment, a white beam of light the size of a human face shot out like a bolt of lightning from his face at Ling Jiu like lightning.

The white light beam was so quick, much like the light from a flashlight at the press of a button, that it arrived in the blink of an eye.

Boom!

As quick as the light beam was, it missed its target. Ling Jiu had vanished on the spot.

Boom!

The light beam hit the wall silently and left behind a hole in the shape of a human face.

The air in the airship gushed out of the hole while the temperature dropped drastically.

The inside of the airship became a freezing ice cellar in an instant.

The food and soup on the table were all frozen, turning into lumps of ice.

Ling Jiu, Bai Ya, and Arthur Austin spontaneously put on their Venom Suits to cover their bodies.

"You've ruined all the food."

Ling Jiu's voice was calm, but his tone was colder than the temperature in the airship.

"So, you have to die. But don't worry, I won't let you die so quickly. I'll make sure that you regret coming here first!"

"You dodged my attack?" Arthur Austin twisted his neck. "But you won't be so lucky next time. Absolute Zero!"

A terrifying cold radiated from Arthur Austin and spread throughout the airship.

Everything in the airship—tables, floors, and walls—froze over, turning into crystal clear ice sculptures.

"This cold current…"

Ling Jiu's expression changed. He grabbed Bai Ya and was about to perform a Blink Arcana to leave when the surrounding space was frozen. His Blink Arcana was useless now.

The next moment, the cold current hit Ling Jiu and his body was turned into an ice sculpture. Amazingly, the cold current had cleverly avoided Bai Ya.

Bai Ya was still standing on the spot, unharmed. But her delicate body was shivering at the extreme temperature.

"Ling Jiu! Ling Jiu!"

Seeing Ling Jiu being frozen, Bai Ya called out to him. But there was no response from Ling Jiu. She glared at Arthur Austin. "What have you done to Ling Jiu?"

"Miss Bai Ya, don't worry!"

Arthur Austin walked over slowly, and as he walked past a table, he tapped it lightly with his finger.

The table shattered in an instant, turning into lumps of ice scattered on the floor. He then let out a smile.

"My Absolute Zero can freeze everything, even dimensions. No one can escape it even if that person has Dimensional Arcana." While he spoke, he walked slowly toward Bai Ya. "Miss Bai Ya, I don't want to kill you. If you break Ling Jiu's ice sculpture, I will let you go and allow you to follow me!"

He wanted to ruin Bai Ya, but seeing what a perfect woman Bai Ya was, he could not bring himself to do it. Hence, he planned to take her.

"Perish your thought!"

Bai Ya spat those words in a frosty voice. At the same time, a bright purple electric arc had sprung to life in her hand, and she lashed it at Arthur Austin like a lightning whip.

"Why are you doing this?"

Arthur Austin shook his head, and his body vanished from the spot.

The lightning whip missed and hit the floor, which broke apart on impact. Everything—the walls, ceiling, even the entire airship—fell apart, becoming shards of ice on the ground.

"Ling Jiu!"

Bai Ya's face sank. She quickly looked at Ling Jiu's sculpture and saw nothing but a large pile of ice shards scattered on the ground.

Ling Jiu had been shattered?

"No!"

Bai Ya screamed, and bright electric arcs erupted from her body. She shot out of the icy layer and looked at Arthur Austin, who had reappeared outside.

"I'll kill you!"

The next moment, several bolts of lightning pierced the air and struck Arthur Austin.

"Not bad. It's just that…"

Arthur Austin shook his head and vanished from his spot again. He was right behind Bai Ya when he reappeared.

"Absolute Zero!"

A strong cold current quietly fell on Bai Ya, and a layer of icy debris appeared on the surface of Bai Ya's body instantly. Her entire body had frozen over except for her head.

"Jerk!"

Bai Ya tried to fight back.

"Don't move."

Arthur Austin chuckled. "Your lower body is frozen in ice. If you struggle, it will break apart like that airship."

"Damn it!" Bai Ya's expression changed.

"Miss Bai Ya, you didn't really do as I say, but you're doing it indirectly at least. I meant what I said. I'll let you follow me!"

Arthur Austin grinned. "Don't worry, I'll handle you with care and treat you well."

"I won't let you touch me even if I have to die."

Bai Ya glared at Arthur Austin in disgust. A bright lightning bolt burst out of her eyes and spread throughout her body.

Her body would be annihilated with the terrifying destructive power of the Annihilation Thunder.

"Stop, Bai Ya!"

Just then, a calm voice rang out. Bai Ya was shaken, and the lightning bolt around her disappeared. She turned her head and looked around to see him behind her.

"Ling Jiu, you… you're still alive!" Bai Ya was overjoyed.

"Everyone has to die one day, and I'm probably no exception," Ling Jiu said. "But don't worry, I can't die in his hands."

"You're really still alive!"

Arthur Austin's face sank.

"Go home and train for 10,000 years more if you still want to kill me." Ling Jiu shook his head. "You've made your move. Now, it's my turn. Don't worry, I'll be very gentle, and I won't let you die too quickly. Six Hundredfold Gravity!"

A terrifying gravity force fell from the sky, instantly enveloping Arthur Austin.

"Gravity? It's useless against me."

Arthur Austin sneered. Just then, his body molecularized. Defying gravity, he then reappeared in another spot in his body.

"This is…" Ling Jiu's heart skipped a beat. His brows then eased up. "This is Molecularization. No wonder! It's no doubt a good Arcana, but…"

"But what?" Arthur Austin asked. "My Molecularization is unaffected by any Arcana attacks. Even your Dimensional Shackle is useless against me."

"You are right. Dimensional Shackle is useless against you."

Ling Jiu nodded in agreement. Dimensional Shackle could confine bodies at best but not the mind. As long as the conscious mind was not subdued, Arthur Austin could perform Molecularization, turning himself into molecules to avoid Dimensional Shackle.

"However, there is one Arcana that can get to you."

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Chapter 193: The Ten Biggest Families, Banished to Another Dimension

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"They're fighting! These two guys are finally fighting!"

"Who do you think will win?"

"I'm really eager to see if this rookie is as badass as the Ace brothers say he is."

"Although he defeated Hiram, it doesn't mean that he's Arthur's match. Arthur's three Arcanas are sick, especially the Molecularization Arcana, which is simply unbeatable. It's unaffected by not only all attacks but also manipulative Arcanas. He's sick!"

"There's also Absolute Zero and the Face-inlaid Energy Cannon, which are equally sick."

"Indeed. Absolute Zero can freeze objects and dimensions as well, while the Face-inlaid Energy Cannon claims to destroy everything."

"One for defense, one for control, and one for offense. With three OP abilities in one, there are few perfect Arcanists like Arthur. If Ling Jiu is thinking of defeating Arthur, it will be a difficult task."

"You have a point, but Ling Jiu has defeated Hiram. That shows he's not a weakling, so it's hard to tell who will prevail."

"Let's just wait and see."

Hao Shuai and a group of veteran trainees had also scaled over the barrier. Before long, they saw the scene they had been desperately wanting to see.

Ling Jiu versus Arthur Austin was finally on.

"Show me what you got, Ling Jiu." Hao Shuai clenched his fists. "Are you a Level 8 Arcanist now?"

Facing Arthur Austin, who was full of confidence, Ling Jiu just smiled faintly. "Your Molecularization Arcana is indeed sick, but you can't escape me even if you can transform into molecules, atoms, or even quarks."

"Really?" Arthur Austin sneered.

"Listen!" Ling Jiu warned. "Your head will say goodbye to you before you know it."

Arthur Austin sneered again. Just then, a mysterious force suddenly descended and enveloped him.

Arthur Austin knew that Ling Jiu had made his move. He willed his Molecularization Arcana in his mind, but he was soon frozen in place.

"All your Arcanas will be useless against Time Halt."

Ling Jiu appeared in front of Arthur Austin, and the Emissian war blade materialized in his hand. He slashed Arthur's throat lightly with the blade and a streak of blood appeared on his neck.

The low-level Venom Suit on Arthur Austin was akin to a piece of paper before the Emissian war blade, which had severed his head from his neck.

Ling Jiu waved his hand, and Arthur Austin's body vanished, leaving only his head suspended in the air.

Ling Jiu then lifted the Time Halt.

"Molecularization Arcana!"

Arthur Austin continued from where he had left off when his consciousness resumed its function, but his head disappeared from the spot.

The next moment, his head reappeared 100 meters away, and he spoke disdainfully, "As I said, you can't do anything to me at all."

"Oh, really?" Ling Jiu sneered. "If you look at yourself carefully, you'll be pleasantly surprised!"

"Huh?"

Arthur Austin looked at himself suspiciously, only to discover that his body was gone and only his head remained.

"What's going on? Where is my body?!" Arthur Austin screamed in horror.

"This is the horror of Time Halt."

Looking at Arthur Austin going hysterical, Ling Jiu could not help sighing.

As time came to a standstill, Arthur's consciousness also entered into a suspended state. He could not feel a thing even if his body had been destroyed.

So, the Time Halt was the most terrifying, manipulative skill in the world. When time was paused, one's thoughts and consciousness were stopped at that moment.

Fighting back was impossible.

To be precise, not even the thought of struggle existed.

"What happened just now? Why did Arthur Austin suddenly freeze?"

"I heard that Ling Jiu has Dimensional Arcana. Could it be that he has used Dimensional Shackle on Arthur? It shouldn't be. Even if the dimensional is frozen, Arthur's consciousness could still function. He could have performed Molecularization in an instant."

"Was it an illusion or some mind control Arcana?"

"It's possible. The only way to stop Arthur's Molecularization is to manipulate his mind. Only illusions or mind control Arcana can do that."

The veteran trainees who watched the battle were all shocked by what they had seen. They were whispering to each other and speculating about what was happening. Everyone thought that Arthur was most likely experiencing an illusion or being affected by a mind control Arcana.

However, Hao Shuai had a different opinion. "It wasn't an illusion or a mind control Arcana but…"

"Huh?"

Those veteran trainees looked at Hao Shuai.

"It's Time Halt."

Hao Shuai's face was grave. This bugger had secretly replicated his Time Halt. Damn it!

"Time Halt?"

Those veteran trainees looked at each other. Time Arcanas were very rare, and they had never appeared in the history of the matriculation camp. That was why they did not think of Time Half at first.

"How did you know it is Time Halt?" a veteran trainee asked in puzzlement.

"Because the Time Halt Arcana was originally mine."

Hao Shuai's face was grim. "But that bugger secretly replicated it from me."

The veteran trainees were in an uproar.

"Incredible! Someone actually has Time Halt!"

"Time Halt might be powerful, but this guy's Arcana Replication is more extraordinary. He will get your Arcanas if you are not careful."

"Absolutely."

On the other side.

"What the hell have you done?"

Arthur Austin finally came out of his shock and glowered at Ling Jiu. "Where's my body?"

"You want me to give it back to you?" Ling Jiu sneered. "You're about to die, so why do you still need your body? Can you even reattach your head to your body?"

"Return my body to me!" Arthur Austin growled.

"What makes you think I'll comply?" Ling Jiu snickered.

"Just because he's Arthur Austin!" A crisp voice came.

Ling Jiu turned his head and saw a tall figure shrouded in a Venom Suit appearing out of thin air.

"Euphemia Athena?"

Ling Jiu cocked an eyebrow. He recognized the woman's voice—it was the former camp beauty.

"My advice to you, Ling Jiu, is to return Arthur's body immediately," Euphemia said in a frosty voice. "He has Molecularization Arcana. As long as the body is not completely dead, he can use Molecularization Arcana to reconnect with his head."

Euphemia had a stern look in her eyes. "But, once the vitality is gone, and the body is dead, Arthur will be dead. Therefore, time is running out!"

"Now I know," Ling Jiu said.

"That's a really buggy ability. To be honest, I am starting to covet it now. But too bad, time is running out."

"What do you mean?" Euphemia frowned.

"I plan to kill him, so why should I return his body to him? I'm not brain-damaged, okay?" Ling Jiu shook his head. "Take his head and go. At least there's something to be buried."

"You're playing with fire, Ling Jiu!"

Euphemia's face was icy as she warned, "Arthur is the direct heir of the Austin family, one of the world's top ten families, and Arthur's father is a Level 10 Arcanist. Anyone who dares to hurt Arthur will earn the wrath of the Austin family and the Level 10 Arcanist. Are you sure you can risk that?"

"Ling Jiu, hand over my body now!" Arthur snapped.

"The top ten families in the world, and a Level 10 Arcanist father… That sounds pretty scary."

Ling Jiu nodded, looking as if he was intimidated. Euphemia and Arthur Austin thought Ling Jiu was going to hand over the body. Yet, Ling Jiu suddenly waved his blade in a flash, and a bloody cut appeared on Austin's face.

The next moment, Arthur's head split in half.

"You… You…"

Arthur Austin scrambled to perform Molecularization and went back to his original state a few hundred meters away. His face was grim, and disbelief filled his eyes.

"You… How dare you…"

"You should have talked nicely to me. I hate being threatened."

Ling Jiu shook off the blood from the blade. "Besides, when you piss me off, I won't hesitate to kill you even if you are the King of Heaven."

"Ling Jiu, do you know what you are doing?" Euphemia trembled with anger. "You will pay a heavy price for what you have done. Even your parents, your brothers and sisters, and your friends will bear the price for your stupid action."

A blade flashed across the air in front of Euphemia all of a sudden.

She was so frightened that she quickly performed Blink Arcana and reappeared hundreds of meters away.

She looked in horror at Ling Jiu, who had appeared in the spot where she had stood earlier. "Madman! You're a madman!"

"I told you, don't threaten me!" Ling Jiu shot a glance at her. "Otherwise, my 40-meter war blade will not hesitate to do its work even if you are a camp beauty."

Euphemia was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she backed away.

"As for you… go to hell!"

Ling Jiu glanced at Arthur Austin and pointed his finger into the void. A dimensional crack appeared behind Arthur Austin with a terrifying suction force. The dimensional crack then swallowed Arthur Austin's head entirely.

He was banished to another dimension.

"Brutal! This guy is brutal! He killed Arthur with no hesitation. What can he not do?"

"Stay away from him in the future. Don't provoke him. Otherwise, Arthur's fate will be our end."

"Arthur is over."

"The Austin family is based in America. It is one of the top ten families in the world. It's said that the family has Level 10 Arcanists among them. Arthur's father is an authentic Level 10 Arcanist and Vulcan Arcana Combine's Department Manager."

"So anyone in his sound mind would not want to offend Arthur in the matriculation camp. Yet Ling Jiu killed him. Who is Ling Jiu? Isn't he afraid of the Austin family's revenge?"

"Who knows? Just don't mess with him and we will be fine."

"That's right! Stay away from a killer like him—the farther, the better."

"Let's go! Hurry before he silences us by killing everyone."

"Right."

Those veteran trainees' hearts skipped a beat, and they fled the place like bats out of hell.

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Chapter 194: New Planet, Joint Exploration

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Ling Jiu's airship had been destroyed, but a more luxurious, extravagant, and splendid airship had appeared in the forest. It was Arthur Austin's airship.

It was a typical double-story villa airship with a living room, kitchen, and training room on the lower floor. Meanwhile, there were bedrooms and a study on the upper floor. It had the most expensive carpet, sofa, chandelier, and TV.

Ling Jiu had estimated that this airship was worth over $30 billion, which was far more expensive than his $8.8 billion airship. Now, it had become his trophy.

Bai Ya and Ling Jiu cleaned the airship, throwing away Arthur Austin's quilt, toiletries, and other stuff before replacing them with their own.

"Do you have any extra quilts, Bai Ya? I don't have any."

"Yeah, but it's used."

"It's okay! I don't mind that."

After a long while, the two finally finished cleaning up. By then, it was dusk, and the sunset on Mars was blue.

Bai Ya had prepared dinner, so the two talked over dinner.

"You shouldn't have killed him!"

Bai Ya had graceful table manners, but tonight, there was a hint of worry on her face.

"You mean Arthur Austin?" Ling Jiu fetched a dish for himself. "Don't worry, they can't do anything to me."

"I looked up the Austin family's background this afternoon," Bai Ya said. "The Austin family is a global financial giant that owns one of the world's largest multinational banks. It controls 37 banks around the world and has a firm presence in industries such as insurance, maglev vehicles, and Direbeast sales. These are just on the business side.

"As for their soft power…" Bai Ya said. "Since they have money, the Austin family can buy many Arcana potions and Treasures of Heaven and Earth. There are many Arcanists in the family. Besides, many of these powerful Arcanists are serving in major Arcana combines around the world, and the top executives of such big organizations as Pangu and Vulcan come from this family. The father of Arthur Austin, whom you've killed, is one of Vulcan's department managers. So, you can imagine how powerful that position is."

Ling Jiu nodded.

Vulcan's corporate structure was exactly the same as Pangu's. At the apex of Vulcan was the world's second most powerful Arcanist, followed by four vice presidents, and a dozen department managers. It was not hard to imagine the power and influence a department manager wielded.

"Others stay away from such a behemoth, but you…" Bai Ya sighed. "Anyway, forget it. I'm partly to blame for this. If the Austin family wants revenge, let's face it together."

"You really are a loyal friend."

Ling Jiu was slightly surprised.

"Let's eat."

Bai Ya glared at him and did not say another word.

After dinner, the two went back to their respective rooms. Bai Ya could only sleep at night since the level of Gene Arcana on Mars was extremely low, and the Arcana trees she had planted had not yet produced any mysterious energy.

But Ling Jiu was different.

He was constantly absorbing Dark Bio-energy for his self-cultivation practice, no matter where he was. That was also an advantage possessed by Emissian warriors, who could practice anytime, anywhere, and unrestricted by the environment.

An enormous amount of Dark Bio-energy poured into his body, and the hungry cells, as well as Sapling Ling, absorbed it first. Once they were full, the Dark bio-energy entered the pubic region, merged with the growing nebula, and was finally absorbed by the Gene Arcana Core, which was spinning at high speed.

"I am now a Level 7 Arcanist with ten Arcanas: Shadowform, Blink Arcana, Gravity Arcana, Tungsten Form, Ten-Thousandfold Gene Arcana, Five-Element Manipulation, Dimensional Arcana, Time Halt, Ultimate Physique, and Inner World.

"Gravity Arcana, Dimensional Arcana, and Time Halt are manipulative. They are unbeatable.

"Ultimate Physique allows me to exert one hundred thousand times the power of ordinary Level 7 Arcanists. Coupled with the Emissian war blade and Dimensional Arcana, I have confidence in beating a Level 10 Arcanist. If they want revenge, let them come," Ling Jiu muttered to himself.

"What are you talking about? A rookie named Ling Jiu killed Arthur Austin? Don't be funny, your joke is not funny at all."

"I am not joking. It's true. Many of us have seen it with our own eyes. Why would I lie to you?"

"Arthur Austin was really killed?"

"Of course."

"Arthur Austin is a direct heir to the Austin family. There are even rumors that he is the next patriarch. Things are serious since he's been killed."

"Ling Jiu is too brutal. You should stay away from him whenever you see him in the future. Don't get yourself into trouble."

"Isn't Ling Jiu a rookie? Where did he get such an ability?"

"Who knows? Arthur and Euphemia were beaten together. They were not in the same league as Ling Jiu at all."

"Are all the rookies so brutal nowadays?"

The news had spread throughout the matriculation camp.

People were talking about this case in the dormitory, bar, KTV, and other places.

The incident was the biggest thing that had ever happened in the matriculation camp in recent years. It shocked the protege trainees who had been busy planting trees and practicing self-cultivation all day.

Niu Ben had received the news, too. At first, he did not believe it, but the vivid description of the incident was circulating in the camp. When he was finally convinced, he was shocked.

"I can't believe that Ling Jiu is so brutal.

"We're talking about Arthur Austin, the guy who climbed to 28th place in just half a year in the matriculation camp. I can't believe that Ling Jiu has killed him.

"That guy…"

Euphemia Athena came in front of the wormhole in the matriculation camp. She wanted to report the matter to a higher level immediately since this was such a serious incident.

She passed through the dimensional passage and came to the Antarctic Ice City.

"Where are you going?"

Just then, a voice came. Euphemia looked over and found that it was Uncle Wang, the personnel guarding the dimensional passage.

"I have something—"

Euphemia quickly explained, but Uncle Wang held up a hand and interrupted her. "The trainees of the matriculation camp are forbidden from leaving Mars. Are you prepared to violate the rules of the matriculation camp?"

"But—"

"Turn back!"

She gritted her teeth when she saw Uncle Wang's unyielding expression. She suddenly used Blink Arcana to flee, but this Arcana that had never failed her before did not work this time. Her expression collapsed. "How could this be possible?"

"Turn back!"

With a wave of his hand, Uncle Wang sent her flying backward. She plunged and disappeared into the dimensional passage.

"These rascals!" Uncle Wang shook his head. "All these people know all day is snitching."

Planting trees during the day, practicing self-cultivation at night, and teasing the camp beauty occasionally, Ling Jiu was having a good life. He had no fear of the Austin family's revenge. Just like that, two weeks had passed.

On this day, Ling Jiu passed through the dimensional passage and quietly left the Antarctic Ice City.

"This kid is sneaking out again!"

Uncle Wang, who was sitting in front of a dimensional passage, glanced at Ling Jiu and shook his head. Yet, Uncle Wang closed his eyes to get some shut-eye instead of stopping him.

An hour later, Ling Jiu arrived on the Australian mainland.

"Replicate The Devourer."

Replication successful. Do you want to install?

"Install."

Two hours later, Ling Jiu returned to the matriculation camp. He immediately got a call from Niu Ben as soon as he arrived.

"What's up, Brother Niu?"

Ling Jiu was puzzled. Niu Ben had not contacted him once since he came to the matriculation camp. It was almost the fourth week since then, and now he suddenly called.

What was it about?

"Listen, bro."

Niu Ben could not hide his excitement. "I just discovered a dimensional passage beneath Olympus Mons. There is a planet on the other end of the passage. I need someone to help me explore this planet. Are you on, bro?"

"You found another planet?" Ling Jiu was shocked.

"Forget it, just come over. Let me first give you a detailed introduction of this planet before you decide whether to explore it," Niu Ben said.

"Very well."

Ling Jiu was back in the matriculation camp minutes after hanging up. He found Niu Ben in the coffee shop.

There were quite a number of people in the cafe, all drinking coffee. When Ling Jiu came in, they immediately turned their heads and looked at him.

"He is Ling Jiu?"

"It's Ling Jiu indeed!"

"Damn! He is Ling Jiu!"

"Keep your voice down…"

Noticing the curious gazes, Ling Jiu shrugged them off with a smile and walked towards Niu Ben: "Hey, Brother Niu!"

"Take a seat, bro." Niu Ben motioned to Ling Jiu to sit down, his face screwed up. "You are famous now, bro."

"Are you poking fun at me, too, Brother Niu?" Ling Jiu took a sip of coffee and shook his head. "Let's talk about the new planet, Brother Niu. I'm more interested in this."

"Okay." Niu Ben immediately cut to the chase. "I found this dimensional passage by accident beneath Olympus Mons. You know Olympus Mons, don't you?"

"Of course. It is the highest volcano on Mars and the largest known volcano in the entire solar system." Ling Jiu nodded.

"That's right," Niu Ben said. "This dimensional passage is 30,000 meters beneath Olympus Mons, and it is stable. So we can go through this dimensional passage to reach the other planet on the opposite side."

Ling Jiu kept nodding as he listened.

"According to the data sent back by the probe that was sent out, that newly discovered planet is an inhospitable place with a surface temperature of over 400C. The atmospheric pressure is at a terrifying level. Even if we have Venom Suits, we can't stay on this planet for too long."

Niu Ben slowly said, "That's all I know about this new planet. We need to explore it to get more information. I think you should know, bro, what it means to discover a new planet. We will get a handsome reward once we report the new findings of a planet to the matriculation camp. My ability alone is limited, and I cannot explore this planet alone. Hence, I need someone to help me. I immediately thought of you, bro. It is now up to you if you are interested."

He needed the aid of Ling Jiu's Dimensional Arcana. The planet's environment was too hostile, but the Dimensional Arcana would solve that problem.

"The surface temperature exceeds 400C? The atmospheric pressure is terrifyingly high?"

Others might not withstand such a hostile environment, but not him.

"I'm in, Brother Niu." Ling Jiu thought it over and immediately made up his mind.

"Great." Niu Ben was overjoyed. "Shall we go now?"

"Sure."

Off the two went, heading straight to Olympus Mons.

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Chapter 195: A Hellish Planet, Monster Rodan

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Olympus Mons was the highest volcano on Mars and the largest known volcano in the solar system.

It was 21,171 meters above the Martian datum plane and over 10,000 meters higher than Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth.

It was a veritable behemoth. Even if you stood on Earth and observed the planet with a telescope, you can still see Olympus Mons.

However, unlike Mount Everest, which was steep and difficult to climb, Olympus Mons had a gentle slope, so it was very easy to climb.

Its biggest feature was just being too high and too big. Climbing Olympus Mons was exhausting and time-consuming. But this was not a big problem for Ling Jiu and Niu Ben, as both could fly.

The two climbed to the crater, and a dark sinkhole appeared at the bottom of the crater. It was a passage leading to the inside of Olympus Mons.

With the inner core dying, the geological movement of Mars is almost nonexistent. The largest volcano in the solar system has died out. For hundreds of millions of years, the crater of the volcano has been buried by dust and sand. It was Niu Ben who excavated this passage.

"We can enter the inside of Olympus Mons following this passage."

Niu Ben pointed to the sinkhole in the crater with delight. "That dimensional passage is at a depth of thirty-thousand meters underground."

"Let's get down there."

Ling Jiu did not hesitate, and Ling Jiu flew down toward the sinkhole without hesitation. Niu Ben quickly followed.

This was not the first time Ling Jiu had entered a sinkhole. But compared with the sinkhole on Pandora, this one was obviously much quieter.

There was no lichen, no fungus, no moisture, only thick volcanic ash and layers of rocks. Mars had been silent for too long.

After descending for half an hour, they finally came to the dimensional passage that emitted a fiery red glow.

Its appearance was almost identical to that of other stable dimensional passages. The only difference was, this one was fiery red, like a magnified ruby with scorching heat waves coming from the dimensional passage.

"I can even feel the heat in the passage. Can you imagine how hot that planet on the other side is?" Niu Ben said.

"Shall we go?" Ling Jiu was an eager beaver now.

"Sure."

Niu Ben nodded and then entered the dimensional passage with Ling Jiu. In just a moment, they came to the world on the other end of the dimensional passage.

A terrifying heatwave hit them, and they could feel the unbearable heat even with their Venom Suits on.

They felt a pulling force acting on their bodies, and it made movement extremely difficult as if they were 1,000 meters deep undersea.

The sky was orange, while the surface was dry and red.

It was a hot, dead world, completely different from Mars.

"Bro, we won't be able to stay for too long," Niu Ben warned. "We will leave after a few minutes, then take a rest and come in again."

"Understood." Ling Jiu nodded and even took out an environment reader. "Brother Niu, I will explore while you take the readings."

"Sure."

"Holy cow! The temperature here is 470 degrees Celsius. No wonder the Venom Suit can't last long. I wonder if anything can survive here. But, the greenhouse effect may cause this, since the atmosphere is 96% carbon dioxide, 3% nitrogen, and 1% sulfuric acid."

"The carbon dioxide content is so high?" Niu Ben was startled as carbon dioxide was the main greenhouse gas.

The carbon dioxide content on this planet was so high that the greenhouse effect was serious. It was as if there was a thick insulation board wrapped around the planet. When the sun shone, the heat would only get in, but not out.

The greenhouse effect was out of control.

"So much carbon dioxide. How nice it would be if we can take some for Mars."

Ling Jiu couldn't help sighing. What did Mars lack most?

Mars lacked everything—water, oxygen…

However, Ling Jiu thought that what Mars currently lacked most was heat. It was -5 to -6C during the day, and even as low as -70 or -80C at night.

Where could the heat be coming from?

Carbon dioxide…

If Mars had so much carbon dioxide, it would only take half a day for the sun to heat up Mars and turn it into a hospitable world.

"There is a dimensional passage between this planet and Mars. Perhaps it is possible to transfer some carbon dioxide to Mars!" Ling Jiu exclaimed as he suddenly thought of something.

"That makes sense! You have a point."

Niu Ben was overjoyed. As a matriculation camp veteran, he knew some inside stories that ordinary rookies did not.

The high-level humans on Earth had thought of many ways to terraform Mars using means such as nuclear bombing and planting Arcana trees.

Unfortunately, they were not very effective.

Now that this planet had a massive amount of carbon dioxide, if they reported this to the higher up, it was going to help in the terraforming effort of Mars, besides getting a handsome reward.

"One more thing, if the carbon dioxide is transferred to Mars, the carbon dioxide content on this planet will decrease, and the temperature here will drop significantly. Then, this planet will become a suitable candidate for terraforming," Ling Jiu said. "At least, when the temperature drops, we can plant Arcana trees here."

"Yep, that's it!" Niu Ben said in excitement. "Meaning, it may be possible to terraform this planet. This way, the reward we get… Wow, bro, you are so smart."

"Explore! Let's explore!"

"After we finish exploring, we will see the camp commandant and report the findings. We will share the rewards fifty-fifty."

"Deal."

Ling Jiu kept nodding and then continued to explore with the environment reader in hand.

"The atmospheric pressure on the surface of this planet is 90 times higher than that of Earth. This is equivalent to the pressure at a depth of 1,000 meters in the sea."

"That is terrifying," Niu Ben said. "If this is the case, then the pressure we feel now should be at atmospheric pressure. The gravity of this planet should be lower than expected."

"Very likely."

Just as the two were busy exploring, a terrifying thunder suddenly sounded in the thick orange-yellow clouds.

As they looked up, they saw a thousand-meter-long bolt of lightning dancing in the clouds, running in a rampage for seven or eight minutes before dissipating.

"Holy cow! This lightning lasts really long enough!" Niu Ben exclaimed. "Record this! Record this."

"One more thing, the wind speed on this planet is very slow, but because the atmosphere is thick, the slow wind contains terrifyingly high energy."

"Record this."

Just like that, the two people joined hands to explore this planet. Some time had passed and the Venom Suits overloaded. The two returned to Mars to take a break. When they recovered, they started exploring again.

Three hours passed just like that.

The two came to an enormous lake.

A lake…

This was an important discovery.

When the two of them saw the lake's true face though, they could not help but shudder.

"This lake is…" Niu Ben swallowed hard. "It will even melt our bones if we fall inside."

There was indeed a lake ahead, but it was yellow, giving out black smoke and a pungent smell.

Ling Jiu took out a piece of PH test paper and then tested the liquid in the lake. The PH paper turned dark red.

"This is an acid lake." Ling Jiu was bated breath. "Judging by the 1% sulfuric acid in the atmosphere, it is not difficult to tell that the liquid in this lake is sulfuric acid."

"Sulfuric acid?" Niu Ben shuddered all over, and couldn't help taking a few steps back. "Let's explore other places. It's too dangerous here."

"Agree."

Half an hour later, the two of them came to a river that appeared crimson and bubbled.

No test was needed this time. The two immediately recognized it to be a lava river.

"A sulfuric acid lake just now, and now a lava flow," Niu Ben said. "What is this planet, really?"

"Don't you think it looks like Venus, one of the eight planets in the solar system?" Ling Jiu had a thoughtful look on his face.

"Venus?" Niu Ben's heart skipped a beat.

"Yes, Venus." Ling Jiu nodded. "All the data we have collected points to the possibility that this planet is Venus."

"If it is really Venus…"

Just then, the lava suddenly surged. They turned their heads to look and saw two spiral horns, followed by a head, slowly emerged from the lava river.

"This is…" It shocked them to see a head coming out of the lava river. "There is life on this planet?"

In the eyes of the two, life is impossible to exist on a hostile planet like this. Even if there was life, it could only be micro-life such as bacteria and viruses, and it was impossible to breed larger life forms.

Now, however, the creature with two spiral horns in front of their eyes was over ten meters long, and its head was larger than a bus.

Then, there was its body…

Ling Jiu and Niu Ben looked on with bated breath as the creature came out of the lava flow.

It was over 100 meters tall, and its body was covered in fiery red scales. It also had a pair of huge bat-like wings, which were also covered in the same fiery red scales.

On the whole, it looked like an enlarged version of a pterosaur, and a firebird with a terrifying wingspan at the same time.

"What is this monster?" Niu Ben's voice trembled.

"It looks a bit like the monster, Rodan in theGodzilla 2movie," Ling Jiu muttered to himself.

Let's call it Rodan.

After climbing out of the lava river, Rodan flapped its wings that were over 300 meters. They were so massive that they could almost block out the sky.

It opened its bird's beak-like monstrous mouth and roared with bursts of sound, the energy of which formed circles of substantial shock waves.

Immediately after, Radon flapped its wings to strike the two of them.

Boom!

A tornado of wind swept at them, sending them flying back backward like two pieces of paper before they landed thousands of meters away.

"That's powerful!" There was a flash of excitement in Ling Jiu's eye. He tucked the environment reader away and burst into laughter. "Brother Niu, you take photos while I will play with this beast."

Taking photos as evidence…

Since there was such a terrifying life form on this hellish planet, taking photos as evidence was absolutely necessary. They could get more details that way.

"What are you going to do?" Niu Ben asked with a trembling voice.

"Kill this beast and take it back for further study."

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Chapter 196: Silence by Killing, Level 9 Arcana

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"Kill this beast and take it back for further study?"

Niu Ben was almost struck dumb upon hearing this. The terrifying aura of this monster was suffocating him. Apparently, this beast was rivaling a Class-9 beast emperor. He could not wait to flee from it, yet Ling Jiu wanted to kill it?

Was he having a death wish?

But it was too late to stop him, as Ling Jiu had faded into a beam of light, charging at the Rodan.

The Rodan roared, vibrating the wings on its back to set off a hurricane. It then spat out hot magma from its mouth. A torrent of magma a few meters in diameter shot towards Ling Jiu, about to burn Ling Jiu into ashes.

Ling Jiu dodged the hot magma in a flash. He suddenly appeared above the Rodan, raising his iron fist and smashing it down.

The powerful blow smashed the Rodan to the ground. It roared in pain. But this was not all. Ling Jiu appeared in front of the Rodan and delivered a punch in the Rodan's chest.

There was a loud crackling sound on impact. The Rodan's sternum was broken, it seemed. Immediately afterwards, the massive Rodan was smashed and tossed into the sky.

"Again!"

Crack!

"Again!"

Boom!

Niu Ben could not believe his eyes looking at what happened. The horrible creature rivaling a Class-9 beast emperor was completely crushed and beaten.

Ling Jiu was apparently faster than the Rodan in terms of speed and strength.

He broke the Radon's ribs with just a punch.

These two hard attributes alone were enough to subdue Rodan.

It was helpless. It was easier to fly into the air in this hostile planet's atmosphere, but flying was more laborious.

Just as people could easily float in the water, but it was obviously much more difficult to move in the water than on the land.

The same was true to the Rodan. If it were on Earth, it might move at supersonic speed. But here, it was significantly slower.

On the other hand, Ling Jiu was unaffected at all, as he was bullying the Rodan with his Blink Arcana.

"I thought you were my opponent. It turned out that you couldn't even withstand a punch."

Ling Jiu appeared 100 meters away, shaking his head as he looked at the Rodan that he had beaten black and blue. "That's it. It ends here."

Roar!

The Rodan could not have been more furious. Its wings vibrated as it charged at Ling Jiu.

"That's more like it."

Ling Jiu howled, opened his mouth and inhaled when the Rodan was less than a few meters away from him. "The Devourer!"

Boom!

A black hole 100 meters in size with extremely terrifying swallowing force suddenly appeared in front of the Rodan.

The black hole caught the Rodan off guard and swallowed it entirely.

The black hole gradually disappeared, and the sky returned to normal, as if everything had never happened as the black hole disappeared.

Ling Jiu burped, pleased with the power of The Devourer arcana.

Before getting The Devourer, he could only send objects into the Inner World with the help of Dimensional Arcana. This method was not powerful.

But with The Devour, things changed. Nothing could stop a black hole that swallowed, no matter how fierce the thing was.

So the combination of The Devourer and Inner World was the most badass part of the Flame Astral Behemoth, a devouring type Astral Behemoth.

"Where is the monster?"

Niu Ben was stunned, squinting his eyes to search for the Radon.

But the Rodan had vanished forever.

"Where is that monster, bro?" Niu Ben flew into the air and asked.

"I have swallowed it."

Ling Jiu said. Even if this Raton monster could bathe in the hot lava, The Rodan could not withstand the fire of the Inner World even if it lived in the lava.

The Rodan's body had started to fall apart before two minutes had passed. It was a matter of time before it was completely annihilated.

Sure enough, two minutes later, the Rodan was reduced to ashes, turning into a pure form of vitality.

Boom!

The vitality poured into his body, and his body cells started to devour this vitality like hungry wolves, steadily strengthening his physique.

When all the vitality devoured, Ling Jiu could feel his physique get a tremendous boost in strength. This was something devouring Class-8 direbeasts could not achieve.

"The improvement is incredible!" Ling Jiu murmured. "It seems that this Rodan monster is comparable to a Class-Nine direbeast."

"What is that skill you used, bro?"

Niu Ben swallowed, wondering how Ling Jiu had devoured such a massive monster.

Was he still a human?

"This is a devouring arcana," Ling Jiu said. "I replicated it from a direbeast."

"A devouring arcana? Awesome!" Niu Ben exclaimed. "You have devoured a monster comparable to a Class-Nine direbeast. It would have been unimaginable if not seeing it with my own eyes."

"But I devoured the monster. We probably have to catch another one before we leave."

"Are there other direbeasts?"

Niu Ben turned his head and looked around.

"Don't worry, there will be a second one when there is the first one. It's impossible for a direbeast to live alone on such a massive planet."

So the two continued to search.

As Ling Jiu expected, he found a second monster an hour later. It was also a Rodan monster. But this one was much smaller than the first one. He killed it effortlessly and left with its body.

Just as they were out of the dimensional passage, someone came down to the sinkhole to his surprise.

They had eye to eye.

Both sides were startled. None of them had expected the other here.

"Niu Ben?" The person was in surprise.

"Sara Ohara?" Niu Ben's face sank.

"It's really you trash!"

That person was wearing a Venom Suit, and so his face was not visible. There was a hint of disdain in his voice, though. "What are you two doing here? Wait a moment, what is that?"

He looked at the fiery red wormhole behind them, his eyes widening. "Is that a dimensional passage?"

"We found it first, Sara Ohara!"

Niu Ben shouted quietly. "It has nothing to do with you. Please leave immediately!"

"It really is a dimensional passage!"

Sara Ohara became excited. "I didn't expect trash like you to find a new dimensional passage here. You must have loads of goddamn luck! But I am sorry to tell you it belongs to me now."

"We found it first, Sara Ohara!" Niu Ben shouted. "Let me say it again—please leave immediately!"

"Whoever finds it owns it? I am afraid that things don't work like this here." Sara Ohara sneered. "It was the Italian Columbus who first discovered the American continent, but it was the British who occupied it."

"You had better get out of here immediately! Wait a second. You just got out of it, that means, you have already explored the planet on the other end of the wormhole? You can't leave in this case."

Sara Ohara extended his hand. "Listen, hand over all the data you have collected and then lie down here for a few days and you may live. Otherwise…"

"Otherwise what?" Ling Jiu asked with a faint smile.

"Don't force me to kill you all!" Sara Ohara had a murderous look in his eyes.

Whoever discovered a new dimensional passage would receive handsome rewards.

If the planet on the other side of the dimensional passage had good potential, the reward would be unimaginably huge. He would not hesitate to kill the two of them for the sake of the rewards.

"What makes you think you can kill us?"

Ling Jiu shook his head. "You are freaking arrogant, and that's why your country has perished. You should learn your lesson!"

"You have a death wish, you rascal!" Sara Ohara's expression changed.

The subjugation of a country was the eternal pain of every surviving Japanese. They would never forget the tragic destruction caused by the invading direbeasts, and their dire situation when no country was willing to accept them when they sought refuge. The world was so big, yet there was no place for them—they would never forget that.

And so the surviving Japanese were extremely sensitive to the subjugation of the country.

"I said, you can't kill me." Ling Jiu snapped his fingers at Niu Ben. "Brother Niu, time's a wastin'. You report back to the matriculation camp while I will guard this place."

"Bro, he is Sara Ohara, ranked 9th on the scoreboard. He possesses the strength of a Level-Nine arcanist. So be careful," Niu Ben said.

He did not expect that Sara Ohara would come here. He and Ling Jiu shared the same thinking: the most urgent thing now was to report the findings to the matriculation camp.

Only in this way that they would be considered as the persons who discovered the dimensional passage.

Otherwise, their effort would be in vain if others robbed them of this opportunity.

"Let me send you back."

Ling Jiu nodded. He pointed into the void and a dimensional passage appeared. Niu Ben was about to enter the dimensional passage.

"Unfortunately, you will have to stay!" Sara Ohara's expression changed as a massive bolt of lightning burst out of nowhere and struck at Niu Ben.

Ling Jiu hissed. As he opened his mouth, a terrifying devouring force appeared, sucking the bolt of lightning into his mouth. Niu Ben took this opportunity and jumped into the dimensional passage.

"Now, you will have all my attention."

Ling Jiu waved his hand to close the dimensional passage, then smiled at Sara Ohara. "I hope you, a Level-Nine arcanist, can last a little longer. Don't let me down."

"Are you the rookie named Ling Jiu?" Sara Ohara's face was grave.

"I am."

"Kid, defeating trash like Hiram and Arthur is nothing to shout about. I will let you know what an Ultimate Arcanist is."

Sara Ohara let out a low roar, and lightning burst out of all over his body as he turned into a ball of lightning.

The next moment, a massive bolt of lightning shot out of the lightning ball at Ling Jiu.

"It is said that the realm of Level-Nine arcanists can be infused into heaven and earth to mobilize the power of the entire world. The terrifying power can move mountains and reclaim the sea. Such powerful it is," Ling Jiu murmured. "So, the BUFF bonus of the realm is fiftyfold higher, together with the mysterious energy absorbed, the arcana will be two hundred and fiftyfold more powerful."

250-fold more powerful was an incredible number.

For example, a Level-9 Earth arcanist could summon 18-fold gravity, which when multiplied by 250 would be equal to 4500.

This was Gravity Arcana.

The Thunder arcanist in the matriculation camp could increase power by tenfold.

Ling Jiu was a Level-7 arcanist, his Arcana Field's buff was ten times, 10 times of arcana power, and that made his total arcana output of 100 times.

In terms of gravity, he could control 1,400 times of gravity at most, which was below that of a Level-9 arcanist.

This was normal, as there were two-generation gap differences.

But this did not mean that Ling Jiu was afraid of level-9 arcanists. His strength lay not in arcana but physique.

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Chapter 197: Yamata no Orochi, Warming Up Mars

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Niu Ben wasted no time to pass through the dimensional passage upon returning to the matriculation camp.

"Stop!"

Uncle Wang, who was guarding the dimensional passage, shot a glance at Niu Ben. "Why are you out again? I didn't receive instructions from the camp commandant this time."

"It is an emergency, Uncle Wang."

Niu Ben walked up to Uncle Wang and took out the photos he had just taken.

"I just discovered a new dimensional passage and found a new planet. I need to report to the camp commandant immediately."

"A new planet?"

Uncle Wang was startled as he took the cell phone and looked at the photos. "Go!"

"Thanks, Uncle Wang." Niu Ben immediately headed straight to the camp commandant's office.

"Madam!"

"Anything?"

The camp commandant looked at Niu Ben in bafflement.

As Niu Ben told of his discovery, the camp commandant's eyes lit up. She signaled Niu Ben to brief her more about it.

After a long while.

"It might not be a habitable planet, but we can terraform it. According to what you said, 96% of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of this planet is good news for Mars," the camp commandant said.

"It was Ling Jiu who proposed to transfer some carbon dioxide to Mars," Niu Ben said. "He also said that if the carbon dioxide on this planet is transferred to Mars, the temperature of this planet will also be reduced, and there will be hope for the planet to become a habitable world."

"That is a real possibility," The camp commandant said. "You have done a good job this time. I will report this to the higher level of humanity and reward you."

"Thank you, Madam!" Niu Ben's face broke out in a smile.

"Leave this information to me. You may leave now."

"Yes, Madam!"

Off Niu Ben went.

The camp commandant was deep in thought as she continued to look through the materials about the planet.

Mars was a suitable candidate for terraforming, but the low temperature on Mars was delaying the project.

So those humans at the higher level planned to build CO2 factories on Mars. This method could increase the CO2 in Mars's atmosphere, but it was going to take a long time.

It could take hundreds of years before CO2 reached an ideal level in the atmosphere.

But now things were different.

The discovery of a planet rich in CO2 would solve the problem on Mars.

Once Mars warmed up, Earth's plants could be introduced to produce oxygen.

In other words, they could kick-start Mars terraforming project immediately, which was undoubtedly good news for humankind.

"I didn't expect such a hostile planet could harbor such a large life form. And Ling Jiu devoured it just like that! What arcana is that? A devouring arcana? I didn't know that he was so powerful."

Sara Ohara was as if a small sun with dazzling lightning. It illuminated the entire underground space, echoing with the glow of the wormhole.

"Die!"

Immediately afterwards, bolts of lightning burst out from him and struck Ling Jiu, as if it was about to turn Ling Jiu's into coke and burn him into ashes.

Facing this aggressive attack, Ling Jiu opened his mouth and swallowed those lightning bolts, turning them into pure energy for his own use.

"How is this possible?"

Shrouded in thunder and lightning, Sara Ohara looked on in surprise and disbelief.

His lightning was feared by even the fiercest Class-9 Beast Emperor. Yet Ling Jiu had devoured it. Was he even a human?

"Is that what you have got?"

Ling Jiu licked his lips, as if wanting for more. "If you have any, use them now. Don't say I didn't give you a chance."

"You arrogant bugger!"

Sara Ohara's face was hideous as his body suddenly swelled, and pieces of white scales crawled out of him.

In just a few breaths, he became a gigantic snake of over 100 meters long with snow-white scales and eight heads.

"This is…" Ling Jiu's heart skipped a beat. "A Body Morphing, Yamata no Orochi?"

Yamata no Orochi was a monster that existed in Japanese mythology and not in the real world. But at this moment, Sara Ohara had turned into one.

This came as a surprise for Ling Jiu.

For a long time, people had only treated myths as myths, and mythological creatures were just beings in myths and would not really appear in real life.

But with the rise of the direbeasts and the emergence of arcanists, more and more mythical creatures appeared in the world.

For example, the Gigantization-type Arcanas, which was easily associated with the Titans; Christopher's Angelization Arcana that was reminiscent of angels; and Yamata no Orochi, which was reminiscent of the Japanese dragon.

In this era, Ling Jiu would not find it a surprise to see the dragon in Chinese mythology. When even the omnipotent arcanists had emerged, nothing else was impossible.

"I will kill you, kid!"

Sara Ohara-transformed Yamata no Orochi roared. Its eight heads opened their mouths at once, shooting out eight giant pythons of energy at Ling Jiu.

A fire python.

A water python.

An earth python.

A thunder python.

A python formed by venom.

A python formed by acid fluid.

A python formed by white light.

A python formed by black smoke.

The eight giant pythons cut through the air and flew from eight directions, wanting to burn Ling Jiu into ashes, scorch him into coke, and melt him with corrosive fluid.

"That looks badass. But unfortunately, this type of attack is the most useless against me."

With the wave of his hand, Ling Jiu opened a dark dimensional crack in front of him. Before the eight giant pythons knew it, the dimensional crack had swallowed them.

"This is a child's play in front of a Dimensional arcanist like me. Now, it is my turn."

As soon as his voice trailed off, Ling Jiu opened his mouth and swallowed.

A black hole appeared with a terrifying suction force, pulling Sara Ohara-formed Yamata no Orochi towards it.

"No—"

Looking at the black hole in front of him and feeling the horrible tearing force, Sara Ohara panicked and fought back with all his strength.

But it was useless.

All struggles were futile.

The Yamata no Orochi plunged and disappeared into the black hole to the sound of its terrified scream. The black hole disappeared after that.

Sara Ohara was swallowed into the Inner World, attacked by flames from all directions. The terrifying heat scorched his body.

Most of the water on his body surface vaporized in the blink of an eye, his scales scorched, turning into a roasted Yamata no Orochi.

"What place is this? What place is this?"

Sara Ohara was screaming in agony, frantically looking for a way out. But there was fire in all directions. There was no escape.

"No—"

Amid the cry of anguish, Sara Ohara vanished from this world forever as he failed to escape the fate of being burned alive into ashes.

Boom!

A potent vitality poured into his mind again, absorbed by the cells, increasing the strength of his physique. Ling Jiu let out a long sigh after that.

"The combination of The Devourer and Inner World is the most lethal arcana, apart from Ultimate Physique."

As much as Ling Jiu understood the horror of these two arcanas, he was even more afraid of the Flame Astral Behemoth that was about to hatch.

The Flame Astral Behemoth was the original owner of The Devourer and Inner World.

Just like Ultimate Physique, The Devourer and Inner World worked the best in it. An imitation like him was never in the same league as the Flame Astral Behemoth.

"I must become stronger." Ling Jiu clenched his fists.

His cell phone rang. It was Niu Ben calling.

"Hey, Brother Niu."

"I have already met the camp commandant. It's done, bro," Niu Ben said, "You can come back now."

"All right."

Ling Jiu left a dimensional mark and then left. Instead of returning to the matriculation camp, he went to the forest.

"You are back!"

Seeing Ling Jiu returning safe and sound, there was a hint of relief in Bai Ya's eyes. But her face was still pallid as she continued planting her trees.

"Yeah."

Ling Jiu casually pointed with his finger, and the pit in front of Bai Ya expanded rapidly. A pit had formed in the blink of an eye.

Upon seeing this, Bai Ya planted a sapling inside, and soil automatically covered back the pit after that.

"Aren't you curious about what I did?" Ling Jiu could not help but ask upon seeing Bai Ya's silence.

"What have you done?"

Ling Jiu shook his head. "Senior Niu Ben discovered a new dimensional passage beneath Olympus Mons. There is a new planet on the other side of the passage. We have gone to explore. Do you know what kind of planet it is?"

"What planet is it?"

Ling Jiu talked non stop as he helped Bai Ya planting trees. As the blue sunset gradually appeared on the horizon, and their bodies cast a pair of long shadows on the ground until they came into one.

There was not much work the next few days. Niu Ben had called and said that the humans higher up there had dispatched a group of scientists over to conduct an in-depth study on the new planet.

At last, they determined that the new planet was actually Venus.

Of course, this was so not important.

The most important thing was, the scientists had unanimously approved the CO2 equalization plan proposed by Ling Jiu.

The plan finally unfolded after a series of careful calculations and computer simulations.

The first step was to remove the obstacles above the dimensional passage.

So Olympus Mons had to bear the brunt.

The camp commandant had come personally to remove the Olympus Mons.

As a result, the dimensional passage buried 30,000 meters underground was exposed.

At the same time, they had also cleared up the other end of the dimensional passage to expose the passage to facilitate the flow of CO2.

As the obstruction was cleared, Mars and Venus were now connected. What followed next was self-evident.

With the atmospheric pressure higher on one side and lower on the other, CO2 would flow naturally.

The atmospheric pressure of Venus was as high as 96 times of that on Earth, which was equivalent to the pressure of 1,000 meters in the deep sea.

What about Mars?

Mars's atmospheric pressure was only 0.75 times of Earth's.

In other words, the difference of atmospheric pressures between Venus and Mars was 128 times.

So there would be a massive amount of CO2 pouring into the wormhole, entering Mars, and then spreading from the now removed Olympus Mons to the entire planet.

According to scientists' calculations, with the speed of CO2 flow, it would only take 13 days for the CO2 level to reach the ideal level where Mars became hospitable.

By then, Mars would warm up to a level comparable to that of Earth.

Mars would warm up.

Chapter 198: Swallowing Magma, Becoming Taller

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A steady stream of CO2 poured into Mars. In just a few days, trainees in the matriculation camp on Mars could feel that Mars was warming up.

Yes, it was warm, andgetting warmer by the day.

In the beginning, the temperature was -70C or -80C at night. It rose to minus 40C in just three days. The increase was so astonishing that the temperature during the day had exceeded 0C.

The frozen ground at the polar cap started to melt, releasing the frozen CO2.

Everything was going in the direction that people expected. This made the team of scientists in charge of the Mars terraforming program extremely excited.

It was one step closer to terraform Mars.

Of course, all of this had nothing to do with Ling Jiu for the time being. Early this morning, Ling Jiu left the forest after eating breakfast prepared by Bai Ya.

His purpose was simple: Venus.

After passing through the dimensional passage and arriving at the hellish Venus, his first feeling was that Venus was cooler.

When he was in Venus before this, he could still feel the heat even with his Venom Suit on. But now it felt much better.

"The CO2 content has reduced considerably, the greenhouse effect has weakened, and the temperature has dropped. This is something entirely expected."

Ling Jiu muttered to himself and took a deep breath as he came in front of a massive lava flow.

The hot magma flew into his mouth like a flowing black river, forming a rare scene, much like a dragon drinking water above the lava flow.

A few minutes later, the lava river had almost dried up. Ling Jiu burped and stopped swallowing. He then sank his consciousness into the Inner World inside his body.

The Flame Astral Behemoths fed on magma, flames, and stellar energy so they could grow rapidly.

So Ling Jiu wanted to know what would happen if he drank this magma, too.

Of course, his real purpose was the Direbeasts on Venus. He wanted to devour them to strengthen himself. Drinking the magma was just an impromptu idea.

To his surprise, as the magma entered his Inner World, it did not transform into vitality like the monsters Rodan and others. Instead, it turned into another form of energy in the burning flames.

It then vanished from the Inner World.

"It disappeared?"

Ling Jiu blinked, shaking his head. "No! It didn't disappear. It must have been infused into the Inner World. I can feel the Inner World expanding a little.

"Wait a minute. Expanding?"

"Could it result from absorbing magma?"

Ling Jiu's eyes lit up. He came to the source of this lava flow: a huge volcano.

This was obviously an active volcano. It was spewing massive amounts of ash and black smoke from the crater, much like a chimney putting out exhaust gas.

Ling Jiu entered the crater and saw a vast magma lake. It was bubbling like a bowl of boiling soup, which immediately aroused Ling Jiu's appetite.

He could not wait any longer. Opening his mouth with a terrifying swallowing force, he started sucking, and the boiling magma flew into the black hole.

It was an incredible scene. If it were to happen on Earth, it would definitely shock everyone. How could someone drink hot magma as if drinking soup?

Unfortunately, this was Venus.

No one was going to know it, no matter how mind-blowing the thing was on a dead planet like Venus.

Time passed and the magma level in the lake dropped.

Ten minutes later, the magma lake had bottomed out as Ling Jiu had swallowed all the magma in the volcano.

Ling Jiu burped with a few wisps of hydrogen sulfide gas coming out of his mouth. It smelled as horrible as a fart.

He took a look at his Inner World.

It was indeed expanding outward at a slow rate after drinking a tremendous amount of magma. The continent became wider, and the sky was higher.

Finally, the expansion stopped.

"The diameter of the continent has expanded by one kilometer?"

The light of joy flashed in Ling Jiu's eyes. To his surprise, mysterious energy poured out of the Inner World and dispersed throughout his body at the end of the expansion.

"This is…"

Ling Jiu felt that a boiling, heavy, and thick energy enveloped him as if he was in an oven.

The next moment, he felt that his body was growing rapidly, from 1.8 to 1.9, and from 1.9 to 2 meters.

Ling Jiu felt he had grown to 10 meters and then stopped in a matter of a few breaths.

"My hands! My Legs!"

He looked in disbelief at his hands that had grown bigger and his legs that were several meters longer. "How come I grew taller?"

"What the heck is going on?"

Shocked. Puzzled.

He could not wrap his brain around this.

"After absorbing the magma, my Inner World expanded, and a mysterious energy was activated in my body before I grew taller. What the heck? How did this work?"

Ling Jiu frowned. He felt he had to figure out what had caused this before deciding whether to continue drinking the magma.

Half an hour later, Ling Jiu found 9527, and then told of what had just happened. 9527 smiled as it started to answer Ling Jiu's questions.

"The Astral Behemoths are massive creatures. The Flame Astral Behemoths that possess the acme of bloodlines are among the best. A newly born Flame Astral Behemoth has a body size of 100 meters. As it continues to grow, it will become larger and larger until they reach adulthood."

"How big is a Flame Astral Behemoth in adulthood?" Ling Jiu asked with curiosity.

"There is no one standard size for an adult Flame Astral Behemoth. It could range from over 100 million to over 1 billion light-years. Its strength is linked to its strength," 9527 said.

Ling Jiu gasped as he listened. Over 100 million to 1 billion light-years… He had a hard time visualizing it.

The diameter of the solar system is only 1 light-year. So this creature was bigger than the solar system?

Ling Jiu could not wrap his brain around it.

"You have replicated the Ultimate Physique of the Flame Astral Behemoth. But you will only become stronger and not bigger since you do not possess the Flame Astral Behemoth's bloodline," 9527 said. "But you have later replicated the Inner World of the Flame Astral Behemoth and is the reason for the change in your body shape!"

"I am none the wiser." Ling Jiu knitted his brows together.

"As you know, the Inner World is the core of the Flame Astral Behemoth," 9527 said. "The Flame Astral Behemoth's Inner World is akin to the human soul, heart, and other important organs. If you replicate the Inner World, you are essentially replicating the Flame Astral Behemoth's core."

"Coupled with the Ultimate Physique, you have practically replicated everything about the Flame Astral Behemoth. It can be said that you have become a shrunken version of the Flame Astral Behemoth."

"A shrunken version of the Flame Astral Behemoth?" Ling Jiu was dumbfounded.

"Yes." 9527 nodded. "After swallowing magma and stellar energy, a Flame Astral behemoth's Inner World will expand, and its body will grow correspondingly. The fundamental reason for your height change is the same."

"Now I know." Ling Jiu still did not understand it all, but at least he knew one thing. "In other words, if I continue to swallow magma, my body will continue to grow taller."

"Exactly." 9527's reply was affirmative. "One more thing, like I said earlier, you have replicated the Ultimate Physique of the Flame Astral Behemoth, but you cannot be like the Flame Astral Behemoth having one million times higher in attribute index because of your body size."

Ling Jiu nodded; his attribute index was 100,000 times.

"But now you can," 9527 said. "As long as your body keeps growing and eventually reaches the same level as the Flame Astral Behemoth, your attribute index will also reach 1 million times."

"Seriously?" Ling Jiu was struck dumb.

"Of course," 9527 said. "As I said before, it is your body size that's limiting your attribute index. But as your body grows, this problem will be solved."

"You mean, as long as I have the same body size as the Flame Astral Behemoth, my attribute index will reach one million times?" Ling Jiu swallowed.

"You are right." 9527 nodded with a smile.

"This will be great if this is the case." Ling Jiu rubbed his hands. "One million times the attribute index. Unimaginable!"

"The only thing is, the Flame Astral Behemoths don't possess the ability to change their body size freely. So once they have grown, they return to their previous sizes. The same applies to you," 9527 warned. "If you don't want to become an alien among the humans on Earth, you have to replicate the ability to change your body shape."

"It's simple." Ling Jiu was not worried as he had thought of Celeste, which possessed the ability to shrink objects.

He could just replicate Celeste's ability.

"In a few days, the cooldown period of my Arcana Replication will end. I can then go home and replicate this ability from Celeste. Thanks, 9527."

Ling Jiu left Pandora and then returned to Venus.

Knowing that swallowing magma could increase his strength, Ling Jiu would not let go of such a wonderful opportunity.

He swallowed magma for the second time as he came to a volcano.

Ten minutes later, the magma lake of this active volcano had bottomed out, and his Inner World had expanded and his height increased as desired.

Following that, Ling Jiu was like a hardworking bee, traveling around Venus, looking for volcanoes and lava flow that he could swallow.

The Inner World continued to expand. So his height kept increasing.

Of course, this also had an enormous impact on Venus.

The magma in all volcanoes came from the inner layer of the planet. After he had swallowed that massive amount of magma, the level of magma within Venus had dropped tremendously.

The most direct side effect was that most volcanoes of Venus died down, or more appropriately, became dormant.

As the volcanoes became dormant, the emission of volcanic ash, CO2, sulfur dioxide, and other greenhouse gases reduced.

The temperature of Venus dropped rapidly.

A week had passed.

Ling Jiu finally left Venus and returned to Lantian Base City on Earth.

He found no one at home.

He knew Xiaotong had gone to school, but what about his dad, mom, and Celeste?

With a massive question mark over his head, Ling Jiu dialed his dad's number.

"Ling Jiu!"

"Dad, where are you? Why is no one home?"

"Your mother and I are having fun hunting Direbeasts in the wilderness."

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Chapter 199: The Fairy Comes to Earth, Opposite the Wormhole

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Ling Jiu followed the address and came to the place where his dad and mom were. It turned out that the two were hunting Direbeasts in Qianyang.

He had not seen them for nearly a month. Both of their strengths had skyrocketed, with his mom at Level 5 and his dad, a Level 4 Arcanist now.

The speed of their improvement was nothing short of amazing, faster than when Ling Jiu was first awakened.

However, this was entirely normal. Ling Jiu's circumstances had been much more difficult back then. He had a low-level Gene Arcana secret technique with no Treasure of Heaven and Earth, so naturally, his progress had been relatively slow.

At this moment, his parents were resting next to a Qianyang reservoir, grilling Direbeast legs and drinking tea. They were having a good life.

Meanwhile, Celeste was lying on the side and enjoying the nutritious jerky, like a dog tagging along with its master. No one would have thought that Celeste was a Class 9 Beast Emperor.

Ling Jiu was not in a hurry to reveal himself, but first quietly replicated and installed Celeste's ability to shrink objects. He shrank himself to his normal size, only then he emerged to meet them.

"Mom, Dad, you two really know how to enjoy life, eh?" Ling Jiu quipped.

"One sows, another reaps."

Ling Tianci laughed. "With anOptimus Prime1like you to take care of the family, there is no pressure on me and your mom. We can take it easy."

"You still have the nerve to say this. Don't you feel ashamed of yourself?" Yang Su rolled her eyes at her husband.

"Although it feels shameless to depend on our son, I can't help it. I have a wonderful son."

Ling Tianci was nonchalant. He had seen through it; when his wife left him last time, he bit the bullet and worked his butt off, trying to go up in the world.

Now that his wife was back, the family was reunited. Their three children had all done well, and he felt that his life was complete. He needed nothing more. He just wanted to spend time with his wife and was content being unaspiring.

Make money?

Screw it.

Ling Jiu shook his head and said nothing upon hearing what his dad said.

It did not matter how unaspiring the idea was, the most important thing was that they were happy. The money he made was more than enough to support them. They could live however they wanted.

Ling Jiu spent the afternoon with the two of them before returning to Mars. When he finally arrived back on Mars, he received several missed calls.

They were all calls from Bai Ya.

"What happened this time?"

Ling Jiu dialed Bai Ya's number.

"Bai Ya?"

"Are you back on Mars?" Bai Ya asked.

"I just arrived. What's up?" Ling Jiu asked in puzzlement.

"Our forest has been destroyed!" Bai Ya said.

Her voice seemed calm, but Ling Jiu could still hear a slight tremble. Was that anger, grief, or sadness?

Ling Jiu could not tell, but he could imagine how Bai Ya felt now.

The forest was Bai Ya's most precious treasure.

"Wait for me to come back."

Ling Jiu hung up, then sensed the dimensional mark, and returned to the forest.

Several sections of the 100-meter-tall barrier had collapsed. He looked at the forest; it was in ruin with massive holes everywhere, the saplings all destroyed.

"Damn it!"

Anger brewed within him. The trees that they had worked so hard planting for the past month had been uprooted. He could not tolerate this.

Bai Ya was standing next to him and staring at the uprooted trees. Her eyes were blank as she stood motionless, like a piece of deadwood. There were bloodstains at the corners of her mouth. She had been injured during a fight with the monsters.

"Are you okay?" Ling Jiu asked.

"I'm fine."

Bai Ya sounded calm, but her eyes were red. It could be have been anger, or sadness, or both.

Ling Jiu knew how she felt. She had woken up early in the morning and worked into the night to plant the trees. Those Arcana trees were her hope.

"It's okay."

Ling Jiu turned to her. "It's okay to lose the trees. The most important thing is you're all right."

Bai Ya suddenly fell into Ling Jiu's arms and burst into tears, as though she wanted to vent all of her grievances, anger, and sadness in one go.

Ling Jiu froze. Bai Ya broke down in front of him for the first time. She had been a stubborn and cold woman. He didn't see this coming.

From this, he knew the destruction of the forest had dealt a serious blow to her.

"Cry if you want."

Ling Jiu sighed and gently hugged her waist.

After a long while, Bai Ya eventually calmed down. She pushed Ling Jiu away, turned, and went to one side.

"Are you okay now?"

"Don't tell the others about today, or else… or else…"

Bai Ya seemed to feel embarrassed, squeezing her hands tightly with her back facing him.

"Or else, what will you do?" Ling Jiu approached her from behind.

"Or else… Or else…"

Before Bai Ya could finish, Ling Jiu suddenly grabbed her from behind and turned her around to face him. Then he planted his lips on hers.

"What are you doing?" Startled, Bai Ya struggled frantically.

"Since the high and mighty fairy has come to Earth, let's stay in the mortal world forever."

Ling Jiu kissed Bai Ya vehemently, but their Venom Suits were getting in the way. He carried her into the airship, took off their Venom Suits, and launched a fierce "attack".

"What are you doing? Don't touch me!" Bai Ya kept resisting.

Yet, Ling Jiu did not let up.

Gradually….

After a long, long while.

The two slumped on the sofa with Bai Ya hugging Ling Jiu tightly, her smitten cheeks on Ling Jiu's chest.

"You're okay now?"

Ling Jiu stroked her face.

"You bullied me!"

Bai Ya blushed some more, her cheeks resembling a monkey's butt.

"I've wanted to bully you a long time ago." Ling Jiu teased.

"Didn't you realize how sour your face was previously?"

"You're shameless!"

"I wouldn't have won your heart if I hadn't been thick-skinned," Ling Jiu said. "You're my woman from now on."

"Who wants to be your woman?"

Bai Ya looked up and glared at Ling Jiu. But Ling Jiu's smiling eyes defeated her. "You've never courted me."

"Do I have to? We've been in the same room for so long. Who else will you marry if not me?"

"Nonsense! We've just been staying in the same airship, but we have done nothing!"

"Who would believe that? Anyway, as far as I know, everyone in the matriculation camp knows that we have been sleeping together."

The two bickered for a while, and Bai Ya's attitude was as icy as ever. But Ling Jiu knew that their relationship had changed.

The fairy had come down to Earth after all, and she would never go back to heaven again.

"The forest has been destroyed." Bai Ya went outside. Looking at the devastation across the sandy land, her face was filled with sadness and fury again. "Damn those monsters!"

"It's okay. We will regrow the forest quickly."

Ling Jiu smiled and tried to comfort her, then wrapped his arm around her shoulder. Bai Ya's body stiffened, but she did not resist.

"Shall we plant the forest together?" Ling Jiu whispered.

Bai Ya was silent for a moment. "This is not fair to you. You are much quicker than I am."

"I don't mind." Ling Jiu shook his head with a smile. "Let's go!"

"Go where?" Bai Ya was baffled.

"Those monsters destroyed my things. How could I let them off just like that?" Ling Jiu sneered with a stern look in his eyes. "They are not going to get off so easily."

"You want to look for those monsters and take revenge?"

"Yup." Ling Jiu nodded, then followed the trace that the monsters left behind.

Not long after, the two came to Wormhole 51, which was the nearest to them.

"I knew it, they got out of here."

Ling Jiu squinted. "Wait here Bai Ya. I'll take a look at the other side."

"No!"

Bai Ya shook her head quickly. "You know nothing about the world opposite the wormhole. It is too dangerous!"

"Don't worry. I have the Dimensional Arcana. No one can do anything to me," Ling Jiu said. "Besides, it's not that no one has entered Wormhole 51 before."

"Huh?" Bai Ya was taken aback. "Someone has entered Wormhole 51 before?"

"That's right."

Ling Jiu nodded. "Senior Niu Ben told me that it's dangerous on the other end of Wormhole 51, but a trainee has gone there before. It's said that he attended the matriculation camp for less than two years, but his points quickly surpassed one million, and he successfully left. It's also said that his points increased so fast because he often entered the wormhole and hunted the monsters on the other side."

Bai Ya understood now. "Can you take me there?"

"No problem," Ling Jiu said. "But you have to listen to me!"

"Okay."

Ling Jiu took a deep breath and brought Bai Ya into the wormhole. They traveled all the way and finally reached the world on the other side.

It was a yellow world.

However, unlike the orange-yellow color of Venus, it was light yellow here.

The pale-yellow sky was covered with dark clouds, and an extremely pungent gas filled the air. If Ling Jiu took off his Venom Suit, he would definitely smell rotten eggs—or fart—everywhere.

Obviously, the atmosphere of this planet was full of hydrogen sulfide gas.

The land was light yellow, dry, and cracked. It was not the desert color of Mars but a barren earthen yellow. There were exposed rock formations and light yellow boulders everywhere.

"Another barren world." Ling Jiu could not help shaking his head. "I wonder how a barren world like this could harbor life such as those massive monsters."

"It is hard to fathom the mysteries of the universe. We can't know in what else form life exists other than life as we know it. There must be a reason life can thrive here." Bai Ya was seeing things rather objectively.

"You have a point." Ling Jiu nodded.

Although this planet was barren, at least not as hot as Venus. So long as they wore a Venom Suit, they could continue to stay there.

This was a good sign.

"Ling Jiu, look over there!" Bai Ya suddenly said.

He followed where Bai Ya pointed and saw many pits on the ground. These things were all too familiar to him. They were the footprints left of the monsters.

"Now let's see where else all of you can escape!" Ling Jiu said. "We will go after them now!"

They followed the footprints and soon came to a massive mountain peak. They were stunned at seeing what was in front of them.

Arcana trees were everywhere.

To be precise, it was a forest of Arcana trees.

"Someone is planting Arcana trees here?"

Bai Ya looked at Ling Jiu, a glint flashing in her eyes. "Could it be that those monsters were after our Arcana trees?"

"Very likely."

Ling Jiu nodded. It was obvious that the Arcana trees had existed there for some time. Not only did all the Arcana trees survive but they also grew tall.

This was not something that could be planted in a day or two.

"Who planted this? The monsters?"

"Let's conduct a test, then we'll know."

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Chapter 200: Alien Humanoid, Colossal Giants

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The pale yellow planet was filled with pale yellow hydrogen sulfide gas everywhere, so the entire planet was immersed in a strong smell of flatulence.

Breathing fart every day?

It was unimaginable how life survived on this planet.

There was a massive mountain in front of them, and Ling Jiu launched an attack against the several thousand acres of the Arcana forest.

"Earthen Starburst!"

As he pointed into the void with a finger, the earth rocked. Pieces of rocks, piles of mud, and loess rose and formed a ball of earth in the air.

The Arcana trees were uprooted, and they rose into the air as they were pulled out by force.

Boom!

The ground was trembling.

The earth ball was growing.

After a dozen breaths, a giant earth ball with a diameter of several hundred meters appeared in the air as Bai Ya watched in awe.

"Fall!"

Ling Jiu's mouth curled up in a smirk as he looked at the center of the Arcana forest. As he waved his hand down, the earth ball instantly fell.

It bored through the air and plunged like a meteorite. Once it hit the ground, it would cause a devastating blow to thousands of acres of Arcana forest.

At this critical moment, a roar suddenly came from the mountain peak, along with ripples seen on the bare mountain wall.

The next moment, a group of hideous monsters lunged out of the mountain wall.

Five lobster monsters…

Four sickle-head monsters…

Two bull-headed monsters…

Two crocodile monsters…

There were 13 monsters roaring and lunging out of the mountain wall.

"Here they come!"

The appearance of the monsters was not a surprise to Ling Jiu. He used Blink Arcana and reappeared in front of the monsters. Then, he opened his mouth and released a powerful suction force.

A black hole that was much more powerful and violent than before appeared out of thin air with an unparalleled swallowing force.

To Bai Ya's amazement, these 13 monsters that looked like theNine Tails confined by Madara Uchiha1plunged into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

Of course, these 13 monsters did not actually plunge into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. They fell into Ling Jiu's mouth and then disappeared into it.

The black hole disappeared after that.

Ling Jiu burped and let out a sigh of satisfaction as a vitality poured into his body.

9527 once said that the Inner World was the core of the Flame Astral Behemoths. Ling Jiu gradually realized that this was indeed true.

The Devourer transformed them into vitality to strengthen the physical body.

Swallowing magma could transform into an energy that grows the Inner World.

Even the Spawn Split was also done in the Inner World.

It's not wrong to say that the Inner World was the core of Flames Astral Behemoths.

"How did he swallow thirteen massive monsters at once?"

Bai Ya was wide-eyed. "What ability is that?"

She knew that Ling Jiu had Arcana replication, so it was not surprising that Ling Jiu had all kinds of Arcana.

What stirred Bai Ya's curiosity was the kind of Arcana that had such an astounding effect. It seemed like the mythological creatures, Taotie and Chaos.

They could devour everything.

It was terrifying.

Boom!

Just then, the giant earthen ball that fell from the sky hit the center of the forest of Arcana trees.

A loud boom ensured, and the ground shook violently with a violent shock wave spreading out in all directions.

An enormous crater with a diameter of several thousand meters and a depth of several dozen meters formed in the middle of the Arcana forest. Rocks and dust were flying into the air as if it was a doomsday scene.

"I have not used the Gravity Arcana for a long time. It seems that it is not rusty yet."

Ling Jiu was hovering in the air, watching the scene in front of him with the corners of his mouth curling up. He was pleased with the power of Earthen Starburst.

After becoming a Level 7 Arcanist, all his abilities had received a tremendous boost of power. Of course, his Arcana Field had gotten the most direct improvement.

His field had further consolidated, not only the buff bonus was higher (10 times), but the range of the Arcana Field had also further expanded (1 km).

With the help of the Arcana Field, he could fly in the air and cross the void.

Therefore, all Level 7 Arcanists could fly like a bird instead of fly by gravity.

Just then, a roar came from the mountain wall. Ling Jiu turned his head and looked around and saw a little monster over three meters tall had lunged out of the mountain wall and glared at him.

Compared with the previous thirteen monsters, this one was much shorter, no more than three meters, resembling an aquatic insect.

The most striking thing was, it walked upright and had four arms as well as a pair of translucent wings.

It also looked like the crustaceans on Earth with exoskeletons. Not only that, but it had a spindle-shaped crown too.

It was more like the head of an alien queen.

"Is this a monster, or an alien human?"

Ling Jiu squinted as he looked at the humanoid creature that suddenly appeared. His gut feeling told him that the monster in differed from all the monsters before. This monster had a keen eye.

While Ling Jiu was studying the humanoid creature, it was also studying him. When it saw the destroyed forest of Arcana trees, there was a furious look in its eyes.

"Kill it, Slattern!"

It screamed, and the next moment, the earth trembled. The mountain wall shook as a colossal monster emerged.

It was a horrible monster that was 180 meters tall, unprecedentedly large. It had a shark-like head with double fins, thick and tough armor, as well as three sharp, spear-like tails. It was truly monstrous.

It was also humongous.

In terms of size alone, the 13 monsters earlier were a child's play.

The moment it appeared, a terrifying murderous air radiated from it. It was so oppressive that Bai Ya's expression changed as horror filled her eyes.

"Be careful, Ling Jiu!"

Bai Ya shouted, "This isn't any monster!"

"I know. Don't worry!"

Ling Jiu mimed an "okay" at Bai Ya with his finger while he stared at the monster.

Indeed, this was not any monster. He could feel the terrifying air it exuded—so much so that it was more terrible than all the Class 9 Direbeasts he had seen so far.

Ling Jiu did not know if this was a Class 9 Direbeast or something more powerful. All he knew was that this guy here was badass.

"Kill him for me, Slattern!" The humanoid pointed at Ling Jiu and shouted angrily.

The colossal monster known as Slattern roared. The sonic wave exploded, forming a circle of substantial shock waves spreading in all directions.

Hit by the sound wave, Bai Ya covered her head with her hands and screamed in pain. The sonic attack was so powerful that Bai Ya was bleeding through her ears.

Upon seeing this, Ling Jiu waved his big hand and sent Bai Ya into a dimension, where no one could hurt her.

"You have a death wish!"

Ling Jiu snorted, and his body expanded rapidly like an inflated balloon. He transformed into a 50-meter-tall giant in an instant.

The Venom Suit apparently did not fit him and automatically retracted. His clothes had been torn apart.

It goes without saying that Ling Jiu was naked now.

However, it was all right since he was not facing any human. He had nothing to be ashamed of. Bai Ya was inside the dimension, and she could not see what was happening outside.

The Slattern ran on her enormous feet toward Ling Jiu, and a loud rumbling sound rose with every step she took.

With her enormous size, it only took her a few steps to traverse a few hundred meters. The Slattern wielded her two blade-like claws and grabbed Ling Jiu in a flash.

"If you think you can do whatever you want because of your size, you are sorely mistaken!"

Ling Jiu hissed, dodging the sharp claw in a flash, then raised his right fist and struck.

The iron fist hit the Slattern in the chest. The blow punched through the ten-meter-thick armor and left behind a wound with blue blood gurgling out of it.

"Your defense looks amazing, but fragile!"

Ling Jiu lost interest after just a punch. He was not interested in continuing the fight. At first, he had thought of having close-quarters combat, but the opponent was horrible. Hence, he would end the battle here.

Ling Jiu opened his mouth again.

A violent suction force came from his mouth, and the Slattern lost control of her body. She flew toward Ling Jiu before vanishing into his mouth.

"How could this be possible?"

The humanoid could not believe its eyes, seeing what happened.

It made a series of strange sounds as it rushed back toward the mountain wall.

Apparently it was thinking of fleeing.

"Where are you going, huh?"

Ling Jiu chuckled, and spelled out a word, "Freeze!"

The humanoid froze in the air in an instant.

Ling Jiu shrunk his body, put on his Venom Suit, and came close to the humanoid. He pulled his right hand in the void, and a dimensional cage formed. He then threw the humanoid inside the cage and locked it up.

The so-called dimensional cage was actually a small dimensional created by Ling Jiu with dimensional points. No one could escape unless the captive could hack through this small dimension with brute force, or the captive was good at using Dimensional Arcana like Ling Jiu.

Ling Jiu lifted Time Half and the humanoid creature resumed its movement. It still tried to escape back to the mountain wall, only to find that it was trapped.

It tried to hack the barrier of the small dimension, but it could not make a dent. Ling Jiu finally figured it out; this humanoid creature was barely equivalent to a Level 5 or 6 Arcanist in terms of strength. There was no way it could destroy the dimension.

Ling Jiu's eyes fell on it.

Name: Pioneer Mosalz

Species: Atworth Pioneers

Arcanas: Poison Manipulation (awakened), Beast Manipulation (awakened)

"Atworth Pioneers?"

Ling Jiu was stunned. "What species is this? Forget it. I will take it back and show it to 9527 later."

Ling Jiu ignored this humanoid creature and let Bai Ya out. "Are you okay?"

"I am fine," Bai Ya replied. "Are you okay?"

"How can I not be okay?"

Ling Jiu shrugged. "Let's check out that mountain wall."

"All right."

The two walked over.

What appeared in front of them was indeed a mountain wall that looked no different from an ordinary mountain wall.

Yet, when Ling Jiu reached out to touch it, a ripple formed as his hand went all the way through the mountain wall.

"This mountain wall is like an enchantment, or maybe a door!"

Ling Jiu exclaimed and then took a step forward and passed through the mountain wall. Bai Ya followed.

They then arrived on the inside of the mountain wall.

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Chapter 201: Void Worm, Walking Upon Jupiter

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"This is…"

Ling Jiu and Bai Ya's eyes widened as a massive cave appeared before them.

But the cave was filled with various furnishings, including strange-looking beds, tables, chairs, and clothes made out of bizarre scales.

Everything in it was completely different from the style back on Earth. This was obviously used by the humanoid creature named Mosal the Pioneer.

In addition, what attracted the two the most was a ball with a diameter about 4 meters placed on the left side of the cave.

It was made out a special alloy, with a round transparent glass in the middle, looking somewhat similar to the spherical spaceships Vegeta, Nappa and Raditz rode to Earth in the Dragon Ball anime.

Ling Jiu walked to the front of the sphere and ignored the outer wall as he entered its interior.

The interior layout was very simple, a panel with a simple keyboard, and a bow-shaped reclining chair. Aside from those, there was nothing left.

"Is that really a spaceship?"

Ling Jiu murmured for a moment before waving his hand and putting the sphere into his Dimensional Ring as he planned to let 9527 take a look at it later.

"Ling Jiu, come here. What is this?" Bai Ya suddenly called for him.

Ling Jiu turned his head and saw Bai Ya staring at something similar to an incubator. Through the transparent outer wall, they saw a fat and white, giant maggot lying quietly inside it.

It was indeed similar to a white maggot dug out from the ground, but it was much larger and fatter at more than two meters long. Aside from that, there was nothing special about it.

"What is this? Is it the child of that humanoid creature?"

Ling Jiu was puzzled, and he used the Arcana Replication to sense the Arcana information of the big white maggot. The results that came out shocked him.

Name: Grumble

Race: Void Worm

Arcana: Space Devourer (Awakened), Dimensional Barrier (Awakened), Wormhole Creation (Awakened)

"Space Devourer?"

"Dimensional Barrier?"

"Wormhole Creation?"

Ling Jiu was astonished. "There's such a lifeform? Are you kidding me?"

In Ling Jiu's imagination, wormholes were 'space tunnels' that exist in the universe, or were naturally created from the universe's evolution.

They could also be creation from civilization like the Emessians who had created the peak of technology and had great expertise in the domain of space.

Or, maybe, they were creation of a terrifying being who had cultivated to an extremely powerful level!

But Ling Jiu could never have imagined that a seemingly ordinary-looking bug could create a wormhole, and that simply subverted what Ling Jiu had known.

Of course, after Ling Jiu was shocked for a moment, what followed was excitement! This bug had the Arcana to create wormholes, and he could replicate it!

Although he had mastered the Dimension Arcana, he could only at most create tiny space tunnels.

To create wormholes between planets and galaxies was simply just a pipedream.

He might be able to pull that off in the future, but for now, it was nothing but a dream.

So, if he replicated the ability to create wormholes…

The picture was so beautiful that Ling Jiu dared not imagine it!

"Let's take it with us!"

Ling Jiu waved his hand and put the incubator containing the giant void worm into his ring, and he planned to look for 9527 to study it later.

Finally, Ling Jiu could not help but to look at a large rock of glass that stood at the innermost part of the cave.

Let's call it a glass for now.

Because it really did look like a layer of glass.

It was transparent as it hung silently in the innermost part of the cave, and on the opposite side of the glass was a world full of water.

It had separated the water world from this cave, dividing them into the world on this side, and the world on the otherside.

From where Ling Jiu was standing, it looked like a fish tank, or an aquarium where he could enjoy view of water, fishes, dolphins, mermaids through the thick glass wall…

In all, this was a very amazing layer of glass!

Ling Jiu stretched his hand out and carefully touched the layer of glass. And the result was… the glass actually rippled before his hand passed through, just like how he walked through the mountain wall earlier.

"This is also a… barrier?"

Ling Jiu looked at Bai Ya, as the both of them had an incredulous expression on their faces.

After that, Ling Jiu pulled his hand back and found that his hand was wet.

"What's beyond the barrier… is actually water?"

Bai Ya also stretched her hand in, and carefully perceived for a moment before saying slowly. "The water temperature is not low, but the water pressure should be very scary."

Bai Ya took out a device from her Dimensional Pocket to detect pressure and put it into the world opposite the 'glass', and soon, the results came back.

But it left Bai Ya speechless.

"What's wrong?"

Ling Jiu asked.

"The water on the opposite side… it's very deep!"

Bai Ya took a deep breath. "If the water pressure sensor is not wrong, then the water on the other side is almost 100 kilometers deep!"

"100…100 kilometers?"

Ling Jiu shuddered. "You gotta be kidding? How is there a water so deep?"

It was not that Ling Jiu was kicking up a fuss, but the water level was really just too deep.

The average ocean depth was about 3,795 meters, and the deepest Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean was 11,034 meters deep.

3,795m = 3.795 km.

11034m = 11.034 km.

3 kilometers!

11 kilometers!

100 kilometers!

There was no comparison at all!

"I don't know!"

Bai Ya shook her head slightly "But the water pressure sensor will not lie."

Ling Jiu could not help but to gasp. "That is to say, the world beyond this barrier is an aquatic world that has a hundred kilometer deep ocean?"

"It's very possible."

Bai Ya's voice was calm.

"If that's the case, it'll be very incredible."

Ling Jiu's shock was even more amplified, and could only say something after a long while. "Bai Ya, we may have very well run into a massive discovery!"

"If what's opposite this glass is a planet, that means this planet has a ocean that is at least 100 kilometers deep!"

Bai Ya gasped. "I cannot imagine at all what sort of world that planet would be!"

"How about… we go and have a look?"

Ling Jiu licked his lips.

"That's… a bad idea, no?"

Bai Ya was a little hesitant. "We know nothing of the world on the opposite side. If there is some incomparably scary monsters there, won't barging in like this means our death? Also, the ocean there is vast, if we get lost…"

The unknown was always scary!

Especially when the opposite side was an incredibly deep ocean world!

"There's no worry about getting lost. I've left a Dimensional Marker here, as long as we do not stray too far away, I can sense it."

Ling Jiu laughed. "The only fear is there are lifeforms stronger than level 10, and that will be an headache."

"Let's leave."

Bai Ya shook her head. "Let's report everything here back to the camp and leave the exploration to them. Better not risk ourselves."

"There's no need to rush to report it first!"

Ling Jiu smiled. "At least until I've explored the place!"

"Are you really going in?"

Bai Ya raised her eyebrows as she quietly bit her lips for a while before lowering her head to say. "There may be danger in it, I-I-I don't want you to go in!"

"You're worried about me?"

Ling Jiu smiled and looked at Bai Ya.

"W-W-Who is worried about you!"

Bai Ya was blushing up to her ears. "Don't think too much! I was just… was just…"

"Don't need to explain, I understand!"

Ling Jiu sniggered as he suddenly stretched his arms out to carry Bai Ya before jumping headlong into the 'glass'.

"AH—!!"

Bai Ya screamed and then went into the ocean world on the opposite side with Ling Jiu.

*BAAAMMM!!*

A terrifying pressure squeezed his body and thankfully Ling Jiu reacted in a timely manner as he formed a dimensional barrier using his Dimension Arcana, isolating them from the frenzied pressure of the sea water and protecting the two.

"Ling Jiu, what are you doing?"

Bai Ya glared at Ling Jiu.

"Heh!"

Ling Jiu smirked. "You actually wanted to explore this world, right?"

"I…"

Bai Ya took a deep breath in. Everyone had a thirst for knowledge, and she was certainly no exception, not to mention there was a 100 kilometer deep ocean world.

She of course wanted to explore it.

"If you want to, then come with me!"

Ling Jiu smiled and then turned around. As this was the deep sea, everything was dark, a complete world in darkness.

There was no sky above.

No land beneath.

No sunlight.

No references.

Nor could he see his own five fingers.

The most outrageous thing was:

The planet's gravity seemed to be very miniscule, and the buoyancy of the sea water had completely offset it,. Therefore, any ordinary person coming here would definitely get lost!

Should he swim upwards or downwards?

It was not an exaggeration to say that this was like outer space with no concept of top, bottom, front or back. Anyone in this spot would certainly get lost.

But this did not faze Ling Jiu, after carefully sensing the fluctuation of space, he took Bai Ya as they darted all the way to the ocean above.

Ten minutes later, the two came to the surface of the ocean, and by normal logic, they should be able to see the sky once they were at the ocean's surface.

But this was…

This was completely not the case at all!

A hard layer of material appeared above his head, and Ling Jiu observed for a moment and instantly knew that it was ice. The surface of the ocean was covered with a thick layer of ice.

What does this mean?

"This means, that this planet is either very cold, or we are at one of the polar points of the planet." Bai Ya said slowly.

"Yeah, that."

Ling Jiu nodded and continued upwards. The Dimension Arcana was handy as he did not need to cut through the ice and simply just went through it.

As they went all the way upwards, it took about ten minutes for them to successfully pierced through the ice layer, and came to the world above the ice.

"The thickness of that ice is at least 20-30 kilometers!"

Ling Jiu marveled at it before taking Bai Ya together with him onto the ice.

As he looked over, the place was almost all covered in ice, and the surface was equally flat, like an completely endless ice field.

But there were no snow on the ice, not a single drop of snow, but the surface of the ice field was covered in a thin layer of pale yellow material.

Ling Jiu gave it a taste, and it was salty with a bit of bitterness, seemingly some sort of salt-like substance.

At the same time, there were numerous cracks on the ice field. This was not surprising as any ice field would be covered in cracks.

He then looked at the sky again.

The sky was dark, just like the nights back on Earth on the fifteen to sixteenth day of the solar calendar, where the moon was full.

"Ling Jiu, look over there!"

Bai Ya suddenly exclaimed.

Ling Jiu looked up and saw a huge 'moon' hanging across the skyline with dark alternating red, brown, white colours across it.

The most eye-catching thing was that the giant moon had a bright red spot on its surface.

"This is…"

Chapter 202: Outer Space Hotpot, Graduating from Being Single

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When they saw the giant moon, both Ling Jiu and Bai Ya exclaimed.

"This is… Jupiter!"

Of the eight planets of the solar system, the ones that one could recognize at a glance was first Earth and followed straight by Saturn and Jupiter.

The characteristics of these three planets were just too obvious!

"Since that is Jupiter, isn't the planet we are standing on now Jupiter's moon?"

Bai Ya whispered. "With the hundred-kilometer-deep ocean, that is to say, this is Jupiter's second moon, Europa?"

"It's very likely!"

Ling Jiu nodded. "The scientists had speculated that the Ganymede is a satellite covered with thick ice, with a liquid ocean beneath the ice."

"Europa!"

Bai Ya was shocked. "We've just went through a wormhole and a layer of glass and we went all the way from Mars to Europa? Unbelievable!"

"It is indeed incredible!"

Ling Jiu nodded, and then said. "Let's look around?"

"Yeah!"

Bai Ya nodded vigorously.

Ling Jiu held her petite hand as the two strolled on the surface of Europa.

Above their heads was the colorful Jupiter, and beneath their feet was an endless ice plain. Looking up they could see the other moons of Jupiter, and the bright starry sky. The scene was indeed very romantic.

After a long walk, both of them got a little hungry, and Ling Jiu suggested to eat hotpot here and Bai Ya agreed.

With a wave of his hand, Ling Jiu formed a miniature dimension. The two entered the space, taking out pots, pans, ladles and dishes, and got busy.

Before long, a seductive scent drifted in within the miniature dimension.

At this moment, Bai Ya showed her playful side. She did not rush to eat, but instead took several photos with her mobile phone.

Of Jupiter overhead.

Of the dishes on the table.

A vast, endless ice field.

And the boiling soup.

After taking the photos, only did she start eating contentedly.

"Why don't you take a photo of me?"

Ling Jiu smiled and teased.

"These are photos I'm posting to my Moments, why should I take a photo of you?"

Bai Ya said with some snark.

Ling Jiu frowned slightly, looking a little unhappy. "Aren't we two a couple now?"

"You're saying?" Bai Ya snorted lightly.

"So, what do I have to do to make it count?" Ling Jiu licked his lips.

"No idea." Bai Ya lowered her head.

"Does this count?"

Ling Jiu sniggered and suddenly pounced as he pulled Bai Ya into his arms and planted his lips onto hers…

"AH—!!"

It was better for him to act fast after meeting a good girl.

Especially when the girl did not seem to dislike you, act as fast as you can, so the chances of you getting her would be very high!

This was Ling Jiu's experience in his previous life!

Bai Ya was undoubtedly a good girl. Although she was proud and cold, it was just on the surface. Beneath that was a kind and gentle heart.

When she did not approve of you, she would be cold and distant, but when you walked into her heart, she would be even more enthusiastic, loyal and courageous than any ordinary women.

If you could find a girlfriend like that, congratulations, you had struck jackpot!

Ling Jiu felt like he had struck gold. After finishing the hotpot, Bai Ya asked to take a close photo with him, and then sent it to her Moments.

The content was like this:

This iceberg had finally become an ice cream in your hands…

Clearly, she had officially regarded Ling Jiu as her boyfriend.

And she had made their relationship official.

Look!

She was such a woman, stubborn and inflexible, but when she made up her mind, she would become very courageous and decisive.

With Bai Ya already doing that, how could Ling Jiu not follow up. He asked Bai Ya to send him the photo and uploaded it to his own Moments.

The content was like this:

This prepaid value did not disappoint me. All of the ladies lining behind can disperse now. /funny face/funny face/funny face

"You talk like I came complementarily with the prepaid value."

Bai Ya pouted, clearly a little unhappy.

"Hahaha!! Of course not!"

Ling Jiu laughed out loud as he sat her on his lap and started nibbling at her again.

In Mainland Australia.

After a busy day, Yang Ling'er and Ai Yuhe returned to the airship to rest. The two simply had some jerky and then each took a bath and went to bed.

As they were all girls, and close friends at that, both of them shared a bed. At this moment, Ai Yuhe was swiping through her Moments.

As she swiped, Ai Yuhe suddenly froze, and then sighed faintly.

"What's wrong, Sister He?"

Yang Ling'er asked in confusion.

"Have a look yourself."

Ai Yuhe passed her phone over and as Yang Ling'er picked the phone up suspiciously, she saw Ling Jiu's Moments:

This prepaid value did not disappoint me. All of the ladies lining behind can disperse now. /funny face/funny face/funny face

And following that were several photos.

Yang Ling tapped open the photos and looked through all of them, not knowing what to say. It was indeed a happy thing that her brother was no longer single, but Sister He…"

"That girl seems to be Bai Ya from Tianwei Preparatory Camp?" Ai Yuhe said softly.

"Seems like it!"

Yang Ling'er nodded. "We've met her on Pandora one. Funny, wasn't she the proud and cold type? How did she get together with my brother?"

"Your brother is outstanding. If he wanted to chase after a girl sincerely, who could resist him?" Ai Yuhe smiled bitterly. "However, they are a good match."

Yang Ling'er was silent.

Tianwei Preparatory Camp.

Wangwang was originally in a group with her sister Bai Ya. With Bai Ya's help she ranked second in Tianwei's standings.

Unfortunately, with Bai Ya graduating into the Matriculation Camp, Wangwang had to fight alone now.

Fortunately, she had obtained plenty of energy crystals on Pandora, and her strength had greatly increased. While she had slid down the rankings, the drop was not too much.

That night, Wangwang was swiping through her Moments after taking her bath, and suddenly she shouted and leap three feet high.

"Oh, come on!"

"Big sis is no longer single?"

"And her boyfriend is that scoundrel?"

"You gotta be kidding me!"

Wangwang's beautiful eyes were full of incredulity and shock. She knew what kind of person her sister Bai Ya was, and was extremely distant towards men, and even to the ladies she was cold and frosty, leaving her with few friends.

Only when she was with her, and their parents would she be slightly normal.

This cold, lonesome, friendless, and non-smiling sister had once caused plenty of headache for their mother who was worried that she would be single for her entire life.

Wangwang too was worried, but she never thought that her sister would no longer be single!

And her boyfriend was Ling Jiu!

And she had only went to the Matriculation Camp for less than a month!

Wangwang felt that her worldview had just turned upside down.

"Oh, come on!"

"How long had Big Sis gone to the camp?"

"Should be less than a month, right?"

"And she's now together with Ling Jiu?"

"That's a little too fast!"

"No! I need to ask her clearly!"

Wangwang pulled out Bai Ya's phone number and prepared to give her a call, But before that, Wangwang suddenly remembered that Bai Ya was totally uncontactable since she was in the Matriculation Camp.

"Sister, how can you be with this pervert?"

Lantian Base City.

Pangu Arcana Combine Appraisal Department.

"F*ck me! Ol' Ling is actually no longer single!"

Li Kai looked at Ling Jiu's Moments and was surprised. "But then again, this girl sure is beautiful. Ling Jiu sure got lucky!"

"Strange! Where are they eating that hotpot?"

"Why is there a Jupiter over their heads?"

The two parties did not know that a mere post to their Moments had kicked up such a storm. After the two were done, they planned to leave.

At this moment, the ice sheet under their feet shook violently as if an earthquake had just occurred. Just as Ling Jiu and Bai Ya were extremely shocked, a hole suddenly cracked open in the ice sheet under their feet and an ice pillar shot up from below.

WOOSHH!!

The water column was thousands of meters wide and splashed straight into the sky, forming an extraordinarily magnificent fountain before them.

Immediately after, with Europa's astonishingly low temperature, the waterspout quickly condensed into ice and turned into a frozen fountain.

The sunlight then shone over, reflecting a dazzling light on the surface of the fountain, causing a rainbow to hang high in the sky. Beautiful.

"What a magnificent view!"

Bai Ya was enchanted by it.

"Yeah, beautiful!"

Ling Jiu too was amazed.

*CRACK!!*

Under the action of gravity, the frozen fountain fell from the sky, hitting the ice sheet and cracking apart with a bang.

Some of the ice slag shot towards them, and Ling Jiu's eyes widened. He used his Shinra Tensei, sending all of the ice slag and projectiles flying away.

"Let's go back!"

"Yeah!"

By the time the two returned to the planet, it was already half an hour later. After returning to the cave, Ling Jiu took all of the items inside and then left the planet and returned to Mars.

"Bai Ya, wait for me here. I'll head to the camp commandant's office and report the discovery of Europa!"

"Yes, go."

After returning to the Antarctic Ice City, Ling Jiu did not head straight to the camp commandant's office, but instead quietly left the Antarctic and hurried towards Australia.

He then came to Pandora.

"9527, I want to know all of the information about this guy!"

Ling Jiu first took out the humanoid creature named Pioneer Mosalz.

"Hmmm?"

9527 inspected Pioneer Mosalz, as a glimmer of doubt appeared in its eyes. It then sent him into the research chamber to study, and the results soon came out.

"Ling Jiu, you have found quite the thing," said 9527 meaningfully.

"What do you mean?" Ling Jiu raised his eyebrows.

"The thing I'm talking about is not Pioneer Mosalz, but the void worm in your hands!"

9527 smiled and said. "You sure are lucky, to be able to encounter such a treasure!"

"You've read this thing's memories?"

Ling Jiu said, "Quickly, tell me what is it all about?"

"That Pioneer Mosalz person came from the Ainsworth Pioneer Family of the Ainsworth Pioneer Star."

9527 explained. "The level of this civilization is not that high, and not much better than Earth, but they are very good at making poisons and controlling beasts."

"The most powerful and fortunate thing of this race was they had enslaved a void worm. This is an incredible treasure!"

"9527, what kind of lifeform does the void worm belong to?"

Ling Jiu asked curiously. Although he knew about the void worm's Arcana, but he had no other information about it.

"I've told you about the Astral Behemoths before, right? And that the Astral Behemoth is the general term used for all lifeforms born in outer space, right?" 9527 asked.

"Yes, sir!"

"Like the Flame Astral Behemoth, the Void Worm is also an Astral Behemoth!"

9527 said. "But unlike the Flame Astral Behemoths that were born to feed on the stars, the void worms live in the void and are born to feed on space!"

"Feed on space?"

Ling Jiu was shocked.

"Yes, feed on space!"

9527 nodded. "And precisely because of that, a tunnel will form everywhere the void worm passes through while eating."

"Just like how a rat digs a hole, but the passage left behind by the void worm is not just a mouse hole, but a wormhole!"

"Wormhole?"

Chapter 203: Humidifying Mars, Generous Reward

Feeding on space!

And the passage that it ate through was a wormhole!

Just like a giant rat hole!

Ling Jiu must admit that he was shocked. A wormhole could form just like that?

"The universe may be dead silent, but it gave birth to many lifeforms. Some are weak, some are strong, but all of them had their own survival skills!"

9527 smiled and sighed. "The void worms are just that. They do not have any combat power, but because they feed on space, this is the survival skill that the universe had given to them."

Ling Jiu nodded slightly, and then with a wave of his hand, released the void worm. 9527 looked at the big white maggot in the incubator and said slowly.

"Looking from its size, it should be a larvae that had not been born long. Of course, Pioneer Mosalz's strength can only enslave a larva."

"This is a larva?"

Ling Jiu was stunned.

"Yes, a larva!"

9527 said with affirmation. "Yes, because it's a larva, it could only create short-ranged wormholes, probably the size of a star system."

"This is indeed the case. Based on Pioneer Mosalz's memories, the guy had manipulated this little one to create many wormholes within the solar system. All of the planets and satellites with resources in the system are almost connected."

"Is this for real?"

Ling Jiu was dumbstruck.

"This was how it was like in Pioneer Mosalz's memories."

9527 smiled and said. "And this is fortuitous for you Earthlings. You can enjoy the fruits of its labor and easily develop the solar system!"

"Indeed!"

Ling Jiu nodded again and again. With Earth's current technological level, forgot travelling across galaxies, even navigating the solar system itself was impossible!

So, the development of the solar system was just a pipedream. But with these wormholes connecting the entire solar system, that problem is naturally solved!

There was no need for spaceships, no need for interstellar travel.

They only needed to find these wormholes and go through them.

Simple.

Convenient.

So, basically speaking, the people of Earth had just struck jackpot!

"By the way, have a look at this." Ling Jiu released an object when he thought of it. It was that sphere he found in the cave. "9527, is this a spaceship?"

"That's right!"

9527 nodded. "It's the spacecraft that Pioneer Mosalz rode to the solar system. It's not a spacecraft created by the Ainsworth Pioneers, but he had seized it from somewhere else!"

"Seized?"

Ling Jiu was stunned.

"I have said it before, Pioneer Mosalz belonged to a primitive civilization like you Earthlings, and they cannot create this sort of interstellar spacecraft."

9527 smiled. "Based on Pioneer Mosalz's memories, after it had gotten this spaceship, it then stole the treasure of the Ainsworth Pioneers, the void worm, and then escaped with it to the solar system."

"Why did it steal the void worm?" Ling Jiu was puzzled.

"It had been unfairly treated, so he developed psychological distortions." 9527 smiled lightly.

"Alright then!"

Ling Jiu was not interested in listening to its backstory as he continued. "9527, if I hand this spacecraft over to scientists back on Earth, you think we can crack the technology within it at our level?"

"I've checked through it."

9527 smiled and said. "The technology used in this spacecraft is not deep and is just a simple FTL travel. With the current technological level on Earth, it can be completely unraveled after a period of time!"

"That's good then!"

Ling Jiu's eyes lit up as he continued to ask, "9527, are there anything valuable on Pioneer Mosalz?"

Stars like Europa was useless to him, so he needed to report it and let humans develop and utilise it.

And Ling Jiu also intended to report the many wormholes connecting the solar system one by one in exchange for rewards.

But before he reported anything, Ling Jiu wanted to make sure no other valuable things were left behind, like that void worm.

All of these things he had to keep for himself.

"Things of value…"

9527 shook his head. "No, the only thing that is valuable to you is the life on the various planets in the solar system."

"All of the monsters Pioneer Mosalz controls came from Europa, so the ocean beneath the ice on Europa contains an astonishing number of monsters!"

"These monsters can increase your physical strength."

"That aside, it has the strongest volcanic activity within the solar system. You can increase your body size by devouring these volcanoes."

"Aside from that, there is no other valuable information."

"Alright then!"

Ling Jiu was disappointed. He thought that by finding this alien he would discover a lot of things, but he did not expect the alien to be an absolute broke-ass.

Disappointing, really!

Later on, Ling Jiu left Pandora and returned to the Antarctic Ice City.

"Commandant!"

Ling Jiu knocked on the commandant's office door.

"Ling Jiu?" The camp commandant gave Ling Jiu a puzzled look.

"Yesterday, Bai Ya and I entered Wormhole 51 and made a major discovery!"

Ling Jiu went straight to the point, and without any concealment, told the commandant what he had discovered yesterday. Of course, he had actually concealed a lot of things—like the void worm.

"That is to say, you located Europa and an alien?" The camp commandant said in disbelief.

"Yes, sir!"

Ling Jiu nodded. "Europa is a planet with a 100-kilometer-deep ocean. If we can distribute part of the water on Europa to Mars, then Mars can be a planet with water like Earth. This is very useful in terraforming Mars."

"That makes sense."

The camp commandant nodded.

Ling Jiu's suggestion undoubtedly sounded very feasible, but whether this was possible and how to implement it was best to leave it to the experts.

"And also, this."

With a wave of his hand, Ling Jiu took out the spaceship. "This is something that inside the cave where the alien lived that I've found. I suspect it's a spaceship."

"A spaceship?"

The camp commandant was shocked, and he could not hide the excitement in his eyes. "Ling Jiu, if this is really a spaceship, then you've done a really great job!"

The spaceship was different from Europa. The discovery of a new planet only meant that there was another planet which humans could make a move on and gain more resources.

But a spaceship was different, the things onboard it were far too valuable: the aircraft engine technology, the material manufacturing technology, the weapons technology, the communication technology, energy source technology and the likes contained within it.

Even if they were to only study one, it was enough to cause a major leap in mankind's technology, and this was far more important than discovering a planet.

"Commandant, you flatter me. I'm afterall a part of humanity!" Ling Jiu smiled modestly.

"Very well!"

The camp commandant showed an approving look and then said again. "I've heard that you already have the ability to kill Level-9 Arcanists. This is good. Strive to break through to Level 10 as soon as possible and become part of humanity's top echelon."

"Understood!"

"You may leave now."

The camp commandant smiled. "I'll hand this over to the relevant experts for them to have a look at it. If it is really a spaceship, then your reward will definitely not be wanting. Of course, the reward for the discovery of Venus and Europa will also be given to the both of you, don't worry about that."

"Thank you, Sir!"

After that, Ling Jiu left the commandant's office and returned to Mars.

In the next few days, Ling Jiu did not run around and instead stayed on Mars with Bai Ya planting Arcana Trees peacefully.

Plant a little tree here.

Flirt a little there.

Life was great.

Of course, the relationship between the two was also advancing by leaps and bounds.

Just as Ling Jiu expected, for a proud and cold lady like Bai Ya, before she recognized you as someone worthy, she would be cold and frosty towards you.

But once she recognized you, she would be more enthusiastic and braver than ordinary women. In the past few days, Ling Jiu was almost melted by Bai Ya's fiery passion.

In the morning, when Ling Jiu got up, Bai Ya had already prepared breakfast. Her waterfall-like long black hair was casually tied up with a hairtie and she wore only a nightdress. Her proud and cold demeanor from before had completely disappeared, and in their place was a tinge of playfulness and cuteness.

"My dear, breakfast's ready!"

Seeing Ling Jiu waking up, Bai Ya let out a sweet smile.

"I don't want breakfast."

Ling Jiu came to her and hugged her from behind, pressing his head tightly against her back. "What I want is you!"

"Oh you!"

With a blushing face, Bai Ya pushed Ling Jiu to the table. "Hurry up and eat, we got trees to plant once you're done."

"As the queen commands, so I shall follow."

Ling Jiu made a hold-fist salute as a gesture of obedience. Just as he was about to sit down and eat, his phone rang. It was a call from the camp commandant.

"Commandant, looking for me?"

Ling Jiu straightened up.

While Bai Ya also stopped.

"Ling Jiu, come to my office with Bai Ya at 9 o'clock."

The camp commandant's order was succinct and he hung up after that.

"The camp commandant is looking for us!"

Ling Jiu looked at Bai Ya with a smile. "If I'm not wrong, he's probably about to give us our reward."

"There's a reward?"

Bai Ya was a little surprised.

"Of course! We had done a great service this time!"

Ling Jiu smiled. "Hurry up and eat. We'll head over right after."

"Yeah!"

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the two arrived at the camp commandant's office right on time. After a brief greeting, the camp commandant went straight to the point.

"The reason I called you two here is to tell you some good news!"

"First, we've sent someone to Europa to identify the place, and found that the rich ocean planet is indeed Europa!"

"Second, after the investigations, calculations and simulations by the experts, they think your plan to divert water to Mars is feasible!"

The camp commandant smiled and said. "That is to say, if we proceed according to the plan, there will be an additional ocean on Mars, and will help with the terraforming of Mars."

"Third, the sphere you found is indeed a spaceship, and contains several very important technologies in it."

The camp commandant was amazed. "The experts say that once we understand these technologies, humanity's aerospace technology will have a quantum leap!"

"So, both of you had done meritorious service!"

"Heh!"

Ling Jiu smiled modestly, while Bai Ya showed an excited look.

"In addition, with your discovery of Venus earlier with Niu Ben, and several other credit to your name added together, the human top echelon had decided to reward you."

The camp commandant smiled and said. "First, a set of Intermediate-level Venom Suit."

"An Intermediate-level Venom Suit!"

Bai Ya was shocked. All of the students in the Matriculation Camp wore Low-level Venom Suits. The quantum of increase was 10 times, but an intermediate-level one was 100 times.

The gap was just too big, and that meant that as long as she obtained the Intermediate-level Venom Suit, her strength would increase by 100 times. How could she not be excited?

In comparison, Ling Jiu was much calmer as he had already obtained an Intermediate-level Venom Suit from 9527.

Of course, he would not complain about having too many goodies. He could always leave it for his family if he did not need it himself.

"Second, 200,000 contribution points!"

"Third, 1 Ultimate Life Enhancement Liquid worth 100,000 contribution points."

"Fourth, 1 Ultimate Gene Strengthening Elixir worth 100,000 contribution points."

"Fifth, a copy of Ultimate Gene Potion worth 100,000 contribution points."

"Sixth, three pieces of Ultimate treasures of heaven and earth worth 100,000 contribution points, which are for Deep Awakening of Arcana, Awakening new Arcana, and cold weapon."

"Seventh, one Ultimate-level airship for each of you."

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Chapter 204: Plunder Arcana, Glowing Plants

Ares Plains.

Ling Jiu and Bai Ya returned to their turf as they could not wait to take out the rewards they had just received.

Bai Ya's beautiful eyes were filled with joy as she was excited. "With these treasures, our strength will improve by a lot!"

Ultimate Life Enhancement Liquid could strengthen one's body.

Ultimate Gene Arcana Strengthening Elixir could strengthen their Gene Arcana cores.

The Ultimate Gene Potion, a Gene medicine that could strengthen one's self-healing ability, allowing them to enhance their self-healing.

Ling Jiu could not be bothered with these three, so he tossed it over to Bai Ya, slightly startling her. "My dear, what are you—"

"These three things are useless to me. You can use them instead." Ling Jiu smiled.

"How could it be useless?" Bai Ya was puzzled.

"Just take them." Ling Jiu smiled and did not explain as he continued to check the remaining three treasures of heaven and earth.

The first one, Deep Awakening of Arcana.

'My Arcana Replication has been awakened three times now and can check one's Arcana information within a radius of ten meters, and the cooldown is two weeks.'

'If I were to consume this and awaken it for the fourth time, will the detection range be larger? Or will the cooldown time shorten?'

Thinking of this, Ling Jiu consumed the ultimate treasure of heaven and earth for deep awakening of his arcana. Not too long later, he felt drowsy and fell asleep.

"Ugh…"

Seeing this, Bai Ya could not help but to shake her head as she hugged Ling Jiu around the waist and carried him into the airship next her before covering him with a quilt.

This sleep was exceptionally peaceful and by the time Ling Jiu woke up, no one knew how much time had since passed.

He noticed it was dark outside the window, and his surroundings were quiet while Bai Ya clung herself onto him like an octopus with her long legs resting on his body…

"This girl…"

Ling Jiu shook his head as he sank back into that mysterious world.

It was still dark, and the golden light orb that represented the Arcana Replication was still floating in the center of the darkness, but it was larger, brighter, and more majestic than before.

Moreover, there were more light orbs around it, with their colors ranging from black, yellow, silver, dark silver, emerald, green, silver white, dark gold…

There was a total of 14 of them, representing exactly the 14 types of Arcana that Ling Jiu had replicated.

Shadowform, Gravity, Tungsten-Form, Ten Thousand Times Gene Arcana, Five-element Manipulation (gold, wood, water, fire and earth), Dimension Arcana (Blink included), Time Stop, Ultimate Physique, Inner World and… Miniaturization.

A giant golden light orb.

Fourteen other colored light orbs.

It was like a star system and Ling Jiu did not understand why his Arcana would be presented in such a manner.

But it did not matter.

"The most central light orb representing the Arcana Replication is even greater one, and that is to say, my Arcana Replication had been awakened for the fourth time?"

Ling Jiu muttered, "I don't know how much the replication radius has expanded, and how much the cooldown has been reduced…"

"I'll test it out once I have the time."

Immediately after, Ling Jiu took out the second ultimate treasure of heaven and earth. "This thing can help someone awaken a new Arcana; I wonder if it is useful to me?"

Ling Jiu had not taken a similar treasure of heaven and earth before as there was no need for that. With his Arcana Replication, why did he need to take those?

So, Ling Jiu was curious, if he were to consume treasures of heaven and earth like this, would he gain a new Arcana?

As he thought about that, Ling Jiu consumed this ultimate treasure of heaven and earth that was worth a 100,000 contribution points.

Not long after that, a surge of heat rushed to his head, and as if his brain was about to blow up, a sharp pain sang in it.

Because Bai Ya was sleeping next to him, Ling Jiu was afraid of disturbing her, so he gritted his teeth and endured the pain without making a sound. Thankfully he was used to such a pain, and his pain receptors were rather dull now, so he could still endure the pain, albeit barely.

Time passed without him knowing, and half an hour later, the pain receded like the tide and all of it was gone.

"Huh~~~"

Ling Jiu had let out a heavy breath as he could not wait to check. He wanted to know if he had awakened a new Arcana.

Ling Jiu first went to that mysterious space, and saw the dark mysterious space change again.

Earlier on, it was a star system: a golden light orb representing the Replication Arcana and the 14 surrounding orbs representing the other Arcanas.

Now there was another star system. To be precise, it was an additional 'star' next to the system representing the Arcana Replication as an additional light orb appeared there.

This light orb…

How to describe it?

It was like a black hole, with a dark center with only a golden light around it.

That's right!

It was really like a black hole!

From appearance alone, the dark center and the surrounding event horizons were not much different than a black hole.

Of course, appearance was not the point.

"Is this a new Arcana?"

Ling Jiu was intrigued. "Say, what sort of new Arcana is that?"

Ling Jiu carefully perceived it, and after a good while, he still could not figure anything out. And just as Ling Jiu was frustrated, Bai Ya suddenly woke up. "Darling, why aren't you sleeping?"

"I was, just woke up though."

Ling Jiu patted his girlfriend on the shoulder as he smiled and comforted her. However, the moment he touched Bai Ya, a few lines of black words appeared in his mind.

Name: Bai Ya

Race: Earthling

Arcana: Thunder Manipulation (Awakened, Plunderable)

Ling Jiu was stunned.

"Pl… Plunderable?"

"What the heck does that mean?"

"Could it be that… I could plunder Bai Ya's Arcana? Plunder…"

A wave of shock set off inside Ling Jiu. "That is to say, this newly awakened Arcana is the Plundering Arcana? Damn!"

Plunder!

What do you mean by plunder?

That it was to take someone else's belongings forcibly, so they would no longer have it.

So, the effect of Plunder was self-evident, that was, to take away the Arcana of others for your own use.

"Taking away someone else's ability."

"This is a little evil."

"But I like it, heh."

After a moment of shock, Ling Jiu gradually calmed down as he noticed the Plunder Arcana did not… make much of a difference to him.

"I already have the Replication Arcana and can replicate any Arcana I want. On this point alone, the Plunder Arcana seems a little weak."

"But its more tyrannical side is compared to the Arcana Replication is that once I plunder an Arcana, the person can no longer use that Arcana anymore, and that's the only difference.

Ling Jiu mused, taking away someone else's Arcana is a very vicious, and was something unacceptable to any Arcanist.

"So, I need to try to not let this get exposed."

Ling Jiu made his decision. He would either not use Plunder at all, or to use it without anyone noticing. In any case, he could not let anyone know, and that was the crux of the usage of Plunder.

Immediately, it was the third piece of the ultimate treasure of heaven and earth.

"This is a weapon, an ultimate cold weapon worth 100,000 contribution points."

It was a blob of flame.

The flame had seven distinct layers, from the inside out going from red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and purple, corresponding to the color of the rainbow.

Therefore, the camp commandant had called this flame the Seven-heart Rainbow Flame, and it was said that the temperature of this flame could reach up to a hundred thousand degrees celsius. Terrifying!

"A hundred thousand degrees Celsius. This is enough to burn everything on Earth."

Ling Jiu muttered and then put the flame away. For him now, this flame was definitely the perfect weapon.

So!

"This round of rewards… worth it!"

Ling Jiu made a summary of things, and at the same time he could see that there was still many good stuff in the hands of humanity's top echelon.

"My dear, it's almost dawn, let's hurry up and get some more sleep."

"Yeah!"

"AH—!!"

The next morning, Ling Jiu bade farewell to Bai Ya before going through Wormhole 51 and returned to the barren planet.

In fact, the planet was Io, the closest moon to Jupiter. When Pioneer Mosalz manipulated the void worm to open up a wormhole between Mars and Io, the resulting wormhole was Wormhole 51.

And then, it burrowed another wormhole between Io and Europa.

So, to enter Europa from Mars, he needed to go through Wormhole 51 to Io, and then through Io to Europa.

Io was a bridge, and as there was a middle station in Io, the difficulty of transferring water to Mars had increased a lot.

But this could not stop the determination of humanity's top echelon, and as far as Ling Jiu knew, in the past few days, a large number of experts and engineering teams had moved over to Io.

It looked like they wanted to build a canal system through Wormhole 51 to transport the water from Europa.

The project was quite complex, but everyone was brimming with energy as when Ling Jiu arrived at Io, he saw a very lively scene.

The excavators rumbled.

The rollers crushed back and forth.

The mixer rotated at a constant speed.

At the same time, some workers in Venom Suits were commanded by experts as they were busying about enthusiastically.

"It seems like it'll take barely a few days for the water on Europa to be transported over to Mars."

Ling Jiu smiled and shook his head as he went to Europa. His purpose this time was simple, to hunt the monsters in Europa's ocean.

All of the monsters Pioneer Mosalz had controlled were from the vast oceans of Europa.

Thus, Europa was also a planet of life, and one that had given birth to a huge amount of life.

From this point of view, the scientists from Earth's guess were right.

As he arrived once again at the vast ocean, it was still dark as ever, and Ling Jiu took out the life sign detector 9527 had given him and began to search.

The ocean of Europa was too big, many times bigger than Earth, and finding monsters here was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

So, Ling Jiu asked for the life sign detector from 9527.

Beep–beep–beep

Soon, the detector had a reaction, and Ling Jiu followed the directions to the place, and came to a place in the deep ocean.

It was a huge floating mountain.

But unlike the floating mountains on Pandora, it was not suspended in midair, but inside the vast, endless ocean.

The size of the floating mountain was astonishing. It was not that tall, only stretching a kilometers or so, but its base was massive, like a mountain dwarf.

The most eye-catching thing was the surface of the wide mountain was full of strange aquatic plants.

These plants were like Christmas trees with light bulbs, emitting crystal-clear light. As the clusters of plants swayed in the water, they were bright and dazzling.

As the mountain was full of glowing plants, the floating mountain appeared very bright, much like a lighthouse in the night, illuminating the sea region.

"I see! I finally get it now."

"I was wondering earlier why a dark sea like Europa would have monsters with eyes."

"It turns out that this glowing plants had replaced the sun as light source."

"Amazing."

Chapter 205: Wanton Devouring, Mosasaur Monster

Soil and water bred life!

No matter how cruel the environment was, as long as it was suitable for the evolution of life, it would always give birth to lifeforms suitable for that environment.

The cold Antarctic ice.

The scorching underwater volcano.

Even the boiling Venus.

All of them had signs of life.

It was just as what that sentence had said—"Life will always find its way".

Although the liquid ocean beneath the ice of Europa was dark and its water pressure was horrifying, it had given birth to many brilliant lifeforms.

The magical glowing plants before him was the source of light in Europa. Large patches of glowing plants formed a unique glowing forest, acting as the sun, and at the same time became a breeding hotbed for countless of life.

"Beautiful!"

Ling Jiu looked at the glowing mountain floating before him, his eyes showing an entranced look.

This floating mountain was like a moving city, full of countless glowing plants, dazzling and brilliant!

And among the luminous plants, strange fishes of various shapes shuttled back and forage, foraging within the forest.

Beautiful.

Magnificent.

Majestic.

"It's so beautiful. I must bring Bai Ya here next time. She will love a beautiful place like this."

Just as Ling Jiu murmured and sighed, he noticed a monster swimming out from the luminous mountain. It looked like a crocodile but was more than a hundred meters long.

Beneath its abdomen were not four legs like a crocodile but instead a dense array of tentacles, with each more than a hundred meters long. There was electric arc flashing on it, seemingly about to discharge electricity.

"What monster is this?"

Ling Jiu appeared before the monster with a Blink. The monster also noticed Ling Jiu immediately so it shot out an electric tentacle. The tentacle was like a giant python darting out of a cage and lashed out like lightning. The monster had clearly taken Ling Jiu for prey and wanted to kill him there and then.

"Heh!"

Ling Jiu shook his head and smiled, grabbing the tentacle just as it was lashing it him. He wanted to try out this monster's electric discharge ability.

*Crackle!*

Sure enough, the moment Ling Jiu grabbed the tentacle, a violent wave of current shot out from the tentacles and brutally lashed at Ling Jiu.

*WOOOSHHH!!*

Ling Jiu's hair suddenly stood up straight. His head looked like a broomstick as a dazzling electric arc erupted from his body, as if he had instantly transformed into a Super Saiyan.

"Huhhh~~~"

Ling Jiu breathed out a wisp of black smoke as he shook his head at the monster. "The power is OK, but sadly for you… it's useless against me!"

Immediately afterwards, Ling Jiu checked this monster's Arcana.

Name: None

Species: Electrocutor Crocodile Eel.

Arcana: Discharge (Awakened, Plunderable)

"I've haven't gotten around using the Plunder Arcana after awakening it. How about I give it a try?"

As he thought of that, Ling Jiu gave the other to plunder.

*WOOOSHHH!!*

Few lines of black letters flew out, transforming into a black light veil to wrap around the Electrocutor Crocodile Eel before him. A moment later, the black light returned to Ling Jiu.

Plunder successful, assimilate?

"Assimilate!"

*BAAAMMM!!*

As Ling Jiu ordered, a rather violent energy surged into his body as it continuously transformed his body.

At the same time.

A wave of pain that got progressively biting hit Ling Jiu's body, causing him to feel extreme pain. Fortunately, the pain of this severity was something Ling Jiu could bear.

After a long while, the pain had completely receded. Ling Jiu spread out his palm and an electric current appeared there as it constantly crackled, just like Chidori in Kakashi's hands.

Looking at this Electrocutor Crocodile Eel again, the endless electrical arcs surging on its tentacles had disappeared, and the tentacles held by Ling Jiu also no longer discharged electricity.

It was clear that it had lost its ability to discharge electricity forever.

"Poor thing!"

Ling Jiu shook his hand and with a powerful tug, pulled the Electrocutor Crocodile Eel over, and then opened his mouth as he swallowed it directly into his Inner World.

"Next!"

Ling Jiu entered the luminous forest and found that the luminous plants were very tall when he got close.

They were standing over tens of meters tall, and the long ones were like sheep's intestines, swaying slightly along the waves. The shorter ones were at least a meter or two tall, like fluffy shrubs.

"What a magical place!"

Ling Jiu sighed and followed the instructions on the detector to find the second monster.

It was another Electrocutor Crocodile Eel that was swimming in the forest. The moment it saw Ling Jiu, it attacked but ended up inside Ling Jiu's stomach.

"Next!"

Ling Jiu continued to search, and soon found the third monster.

This was a very familiar monster. Standing over 200 meters tall, with a double-fin shark-like head and thick carapace over it and a trident-like tail…

Monster… the Slattern!

Just like when he fought Pioneer Mosalz back on Io, the Slattern the last monster it enslaved, and was also its strongest monster.

This Slattern was obviously much larger, stronger and powerful than the one before, as the evil aura it exuded was even more terrifying.

Yet, it did not attack after spotting Ling Jiu, and instead swung its long tail to leave, seemingly looking down upon Ling Jiu as a prey.

Ling Jiu was just too small.

"Bloody hell! I got looked down on by a monster!"

Ling Jiu was a little unhappy. He Blinked to the back of the Slattern. An electrical current surged in his hand as he slammed it onto the Slattern's back.

Powered by the Dark Bio-energy, Ling Jiu's Electricity Manipulation Arcana was much stronger than the Electrocutor Crocodile Eel.

The Slattern trembled violently like chaff on a sieve, as if it were high on drugs.

"The Devourer!"

Ling Jiu devoured it and sent the Slattern into his Inner World.

"Next!"

Ling Jiu continued to search.

Unexpectedly, he did not go too far before the floating mountain suddenly shook violently. The next moment, the mountain suddenly exploded as another Slattern rushed out.

It was not over yet. After the appearance of the first Slattern, others came out one after another, and in a blink of an eye, 20 Slatterns had appeared.

The amazing this was, all of them swam towards Ling Jiu and surrounded him at once.

This stunned Ling Jiu. All of the Slatterns were over 180 meters tall, each of them a giant monster, plus that horrifying number…

In terms of battle alone.

This was indeed really scary.

"Are they trying to surround me?"

Ling Jiu raised his eyebrows. "Could it be that this is the Slatterns' nest?"

*ROAR!!!*

Just as Ling Jiu was ridiculing them, the first Slattern charged over.

It swung its long-barbed tail like a flanged mace at Ling Jiu. If hit, even a Ninth-Order Beast Emperor would recoil.

Yet, this was useless against Ling Jiu as he Blinked to avoid the attack, and the appeared-on top of the Slattern as he opened his mouth.

*WOOOSHHH!!*

The Slattern was swallowed into his stomach.

"Buurrpp–"

Ling Jiu burped and looked at the other Slatterns. They were either rammed at him with their head or lashing at him with their tails aggressively.

"Since all of you are serving yourself up, then I'll spare the pleasantries."

Ling Jiu laughed as he Blinked to avoid the attacks and quietly appeared before a Slattern and activated the Devourer, swallowing it into his abdomen in one mouth.

Then came the second, the third…

Before Ling Jiu with his Blink and Dimension Arcana, numbers were meaningless. No matter how violent they were, how sharp their attacks were… it was all useless!

Ling Jiu swallowed them one by one, and in barely two minutes, he had sent all of the Slatterns into his Inner World.

*BAAAMMM!!*

The terrifying amount of Slatterns were in the end reduced to raging life force that surged into Ling Jiu's body, strengthening his body, and nourishing his cells…

By the time all of the life energies were absorbed, Ling Jiu felt that his body had improved a lot.

And it was a real significant increase!

"I wonder if my body now could compare with a Tenth-Order Direbeast?"

Tenth-Order

Level 10.

This was a brand-new area.

9527 referred to life about Level 10 (including Level 10) as a stellar lifeform, while lifeforms below Level 10 as planetary lifeforms.

After assimilating the Ultimate Physique, Ling Jiu's body was comparable to most Ninth-Order Direbeasts, and now that he had absorbed so much life energy and magma, his body must be even more powerful now. However, he had no idea how it compared to a Level 10 being.

"Forget it, let's continue hunting."

Ling Jiu followed the instructions on the life sign detector and left the floating mountain. As he traveled along, he finally arrived at another floating mountain.

While it was a floating mountain in words, it was more like a floating valley. The valley itself was large, as if cleaved open by a knife, spanning several kilometers wide and dozens of kilometers long.

Countless luminous plants grew above the valley, but as it continued to deepen, it gradually dimmed, and it was pitch black at the bottom of the valley.

"The life sign detector shows that there's a monster hidden in this valley."

Ling Jiu continued to go in deeper and finally reached the bottom of the valley. It was so dark that one could not see his own fingers. Fortunately, Ling Jiu had excellent night vision, and that allowed him to barely see his surroundings.

There was a dark cave at the bottom of the valley that was on a straight mountain wall, making it impossible to see its interior.

"What the hell is living inside that cave? Such a terrifying aura!"

Ling Jiu could clearly feel the terrifying aura coming from the cave. It gave him fear and goosebumps. There must be an extremely terrifying monster inhabiting here.

"Huhhh~~~"

At this moment, a turbulent wave rushed out from the cave, blowing the slit at the bottom of the cave far away. At the same time, a loud noise rang out from the cave.

Ling Jiu knew that it was a snoring sound. The big guy in the cave was sleeping.

"You dare to sleep at this moment!"

Ling Jiu grumbled and then plunged into the cave. He then saw a behemoth more than 200 meters long.

Its entire body was covered in bright silver carapce with bone spurs more than ten meters long on its back like rows of sharp spears.

Under its abdomen were six sturdy legs on both left and right sides, looking like twelve stone pillars supporting its bloated and powerful body.

It looked like a monitor lizard or a crocodile, but Ling Jiu preferred to describe it as a Mosasaur as it does resemble one, with the only difference being the row of bone spurs and its twelve legs.

"This aura… it's comparable to a Tenth-Order Direbeast right?"

Ling Jiu quietly crept up to the monster as he opened his mouth and prepared to swallow it.

Unexpectedly, at this very moment, the Mosasaur's eyes suddenly opened. It then opened its mouth and let out a terrifying roar.

*RAAAAWWRRRR—*

The rolling sound waves thundered, stirring the surrounding sea water as it formed into circles of violent shock waves that spread in all directions.

Ling Jiu was stunned and dazed as he was sent flying by the violent shock waves.

Yet the Mosasaur monster did not let him go as the twelve long legs beneath its body stomped the ground and slammed at Ling Jiu like an intercontinental ballistic missile.

*BAAAMMM!!*

Chapter 206: Finding Energy Crystals, Two Bai Ya-s.

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"Bloody hell! Give an inch, take a foot eh!"

Ling Jiu snorted coldly as his body suddenly inflated like a balloon and instantly turned nto a 50-meter-tall giant.

The next moment, Ling Jiu bent forward and shot a punch out.

*CRACK!!*

The raging iron fist and the Mosasaur monster's head collided, and like a nuclear explosion, following a thunderous bang, an unparalleled shock wave burst out.

The impact that slammed against the inner cave wall was instantly fragmenting it.

Looking at Ling Jiu and the Mosasaur monster again.

Ling Jiu staggered dozens of steps back before he could regain his balance. His right arm trembled slightly, and his fist felt numb and uncomfortable.

Looking at the Mosasaur monster, it only fell a few meters back and its head was completely intact without the slightest trace of injury.

"Bloody hell, that's a hard head."

Ling Jiu's eyes lit up as he became more and more excited. Hadn't he always wanted to find a thing that was equal in combat strength to duke it out?"

This thing in front of him was the very existence he was looking for!

"Again!"

Ling Jiu charged at it again.

RAAAAWWRRRR—

A great battle soon commenced.

*BOOM—*

*BOOM—*

*BOOM—*

Man and beast exchanged blows head-to-head. For a moment, the deep cave was completely torn into pieces. It finally collapsed.

Both sides charged out of the ruins and fought fiercely in the valley.

Rocks fell as mountain walls collapsed.

Massive wave rolled as the floor cracked.

The other monsters living in the valley were out of luck. As the powerful ones fled in panic, the weaker ones were straight up minced.

Looking at the fierce battle between the two, in terms of strength, Ling Jiu was clearly weaker than the Mosarus monster. He was sent flying with every violent clash.

But with his incomparable life force and terrifying resilience, Ling Jiu came back with full health time after time and unleashed his most powerful strikes time and time again.

In contrast, although the Mosasaur monster was much more powerful, its endurance was worse than Ling Jiu's.

Half an hour later, Ling Jiu was still active and vigorous while the Mosasaur monster's strength was gradually weakening. Its speed slowed and its attack were no longer that pointed.

Moreover, Ling Jiu also discovered that after this fierce clash, his body had actually improved significantly.

He understood why after pondering a little. For a long time, his body actually had excess vitality, and was like excess nutrition.

After absorbing so much life energy, his cells were fully saturated, and could only absorb a little while the remaining ones were stored in his body.

Just like how Ling'er used the Life Source Ginseng to heal her legs, she only used up a small amount of the life force while the rest were stored in her body.

And now, in the violent hand-to-hand melee between Ling Jiu and the Mosasaur monster, the depletion of his cells accelerated, and so the rate of consumption of his life force increased.

After absorbing the life force, his cells became stronger.

With stronger cells meant stronger body.

It was a virtuous circle.

Therefore, Ling Jiu slowly gained the upper hand after being ill-matched in the beginning. The Mosasaur monster's stamina aside, this was also the reason why Ling Jiu fought harder and harder.

"Again!"

Two hours later, the Mosasaur monster lay inert on the ground. Its strength was exhausted, and it no longer wanted to move a finger.

Ling Jiu understood that while this monster was powerful, its stamina was too poor. Not all monsters were all-round freaks like the Flame Astral Behemoth.

"You've pleased me." Ling Jiu looked down at the Mosasaur monster. "So, I'll make this a quick one for you!"

As soon as he said that a black hole emerged as the exhausted Mosasaur monster did not struggle much before it was swallowed by the black hole and sent into the Inner World.

*BAAAMMM!!*

Raging fire burned as the Mosasaur monster quickly burned into ashes, turning into surging life energy inside Ling Jiu's body.

"AH—!!"

Just like soaking inside a hotspring, it was just so comfortable that Ling Jiu could not help but to moan. This feeling was just too wonderful, as the sensation was even better that 'that'.

After the life energy was swallowed up, his body improved significantly again as Ling Jiu could not help but sigh. "Sure enough, the effect will be even better if I absorb the life energy once I've exhausted my strength."

After that Ling Jiu prepared to leave, but unexpectedly, at this moment, his eyes caught something.

Ling Jiu frowned and saw that among the shattered rubbles, was either a piece of glass or a mirror that reflected a dazzling white light.

"Why is there glass here?"

Ling Jiu looked puzzled and as he flipped open the rubble, he saw a stone as big as a grapefruit. The stone was milky white, like a solidified milk which he could sense a massive Gene Arcana from within.

"They're actually energy crystals!"

Ling Jiu was surprised.

He was certainly not unfamiliar with energy crystals. Back then on Pandora, he had obtained more than a hundred energy crystals.

Later on, he sold part of them, and divided some to his parents and Ling'er, and he still had about fifty of them with him.

'Why are there energy crystals here?'

Ling Jiu was surprised. 'Could it be that… there's an energy crystal mine here?'

As he thought of that, Ling Jiu quickly searched and sure enough, he found more energy crystals beneath the rubble. In the end, after Ling Jiu scoured through the floating valley, he had more than 200 energy crystals in his hands.

More than 200 pieces!

That's a lot!

"To find so many energy crystals inside a floating mountain!"

"There seems to be way lot more energy crystals in Europa!"

For the next three days, Ling Jiu began to wander in the deep sea, moving across floating mountains as he hunted monsters he saw, and looked for energy crystals.

Battle after battle.

Monsters were killed one after another.

His body was being improved every moment.

Of course, some of the floating mountains had energy crystals, while some did not, but overall, Ling Jiu's haul of energy crystals were quite significant.

Three days later, Ling Jiu finally left Europa and returned to Io.

To Ling Jiu's surprise, an extremely spacious canal had appeared before the cave, spanning several kilometers wide and nearly a hundred meters deep, extending all the way from the front of the cave to Wormhole 51.

It was incredibly long!

To dig out such a canal in just a few days, the work efficiency was astounding.

Ling Jiu was amazed as he entered Wormhole 51 and then back to Mars.

At this moment, he clearly felt heat, and Ling Jiu tried to take off the Venom Suit on his hand, exposing it. As the warm sunlight shone upon his hand, it felt warm.

"Did the temperature in Mars rise so much in the past few days that I have been away?"

Ling Jiu was surprised. "The current temperature must be about ten degrees above zero. The heating speed is really fast."

Immediately after, Ling Jiu returned to the woods.

Bai Ya was still busy planting trees.

"Honey, I'm back!"

Ling Jiu smiled as he shouted.

Bai Ya dropped the shovel as she rushed over with a cheer and leapt onto Ling Jiu as her legs wrapped around his waist like an octopus.

"So passionate!"

Ling Jiu laughed.

"Why, don't you like it?"

Bai Ya sniggered.

"I like it! Of course, I'd like it!"

"If you dare to dislike it, I'll beat you up!"

Bai Ya snorted as she gave him a kiss.

"Hahaha…!"

Five hours later, the two lay on the bed exhausted. At this moment, Bai Ya suddenly teased.

"Honey, I got two good news to tell you, which you want to hear first?"

"Anyone will do!"

"Hmph! Such half-heartedness!"

"I'll stop teasing you!"

Bai Ya giggled. "The first good news is that I've broken through Level 8!"

"Level 8? That fast?"

Ling Jiu was surprised.

"After taking two bottles of Ultimate Gene Arcana Strengthening Elixir, I've broken through Level 8 as expected." Bai Ya said happily.

"Congratulations, wifey for breaking through Level 8!"

Ling Jiu smiled and said. "You have to cover for me more in the future!"

"Don't worry!"

Bai Ya waved her hand with aplomb. "The second good news is, I've awakened a new Arcana!"

"This was somewhat expected."

Ling Jiu smiled and said. "Tell me, what sort of Arcana you've awakened?"

"I couldn't figure it out at first, but after studying for two days I've finally got it!"

Bai Ya gave out a weird smile and then Ling Jiu saw another strange figure appearing beside her.

This person was exactly the same as Bai Ya, both of them lying on the bed. She was a complete copy of Bai Ya, or rather, a clone of Bai Ya.

"Is this the… Shadow Clone Arcana?"

Ling Jiu's eyes widened.

"No, not a clone!"

The two Bai Ya spoke at the same time. "It's a duplicate. I think my new Arcana is to create a duplicate of me!"

"Moreover, the duplicate has the same combat power as me, and even has her own thoughts, she can train on her own, it's like a completely another me!"

"But the weakness of this Arcana is that every time a duplicate is created, half of my Gene Arcana will be split away."

"A duplicate?"

"The same combat powers?"

Ling Jiu gasped, and then squeezed Bai Ya's duplicate, only to find that it was also a proper body of flesh and blood and was even more shocked.

"This Arcana is quite overpowered! Right, how many duplicates can you make?" Ling Jiu asked.

"At most three."

Bai Ya looked a little disappointed. "The number is still quite small."

"That's a lot!"

Ling Jiu was amazed. "Three duplicates, plus yourself, when the four of you work together, with your Annihilation Thunder, there are few that could rival you in the same realm!"

"The duplicates are fine, but they consume just too much Gene Arcana."

Bai Ya was a little unsatisfied. "However, it's fortunate that the duplicates can train themselves, and make up for this shortcoming a little."

"That's a great Arcana!"

Ling Jiu exclaimed. "Right, you should be able to dismiss the duplicate at any time, right?"

"That's for sure."

Bai Ya nodded. "As long as I want to, I can dismiss the duplicates at any time. And then, all of the Gene Arcana that was split will return to my body."

"That's great!"

Ling Jiu smiled and nodded before continuing. "Guess what I've found during my trip to Europa this time around?"

"What was it?"

Bai Ya was puzzled.

"Let me show you, you'll definitely be shocked."

Ling Jiu smiled and took out his phone as he opened a set of photos for Bai Ya.

"A glowing mountain?"

Bai Ya said in surprise: "It's so beautiful!"

"Beautiful, right?"

Ling Jiu smiled and continued. "Scroll down some more!"

"Yeah!"

"Beautiful!"

"This tree…and this grass… it's really beautiful!"

After seeing through the set of photos, Bai Ya was so shocked that she could not close her mouth and quickly looked at Ling Jiu. "My dear, where is this?"

"You guess?"

"It's sea water all around, is it Europa?"

"My wifey is pretty smart eh!"

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Chapter 207: Magical Wormhole, Opening Again

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The beautiful floating mountains and luminous plants immediately caught Bai Ya's heart as she was full of praise of Europa's beautiful ocean.

"Honey, make sure to take me with you next time when you go to Europa!"

Bai Ya said hopefully.

"No problem!"

Ling Jiu nodded. "Let's go to Europa for another round of hotpot then!"

"Thank you, dear!"

Bai Ya gave Ling Jiu a sweet kiss.

"And there's one more thing!"

Ling Jiu opened his right hand, and an energy crystal appeared on it. Bai Ya recognized it at a glance and wondered. "What are you showing me?"

"I found this in Europa's floating mountains!"

Ling Jiu said with a smile as Bai Ya's eyes widened. "You mean, Europa too produces energy crystal?"

Ling Jiu nodded. "For the past few days, I've been hunting monsters and collecting energy crystals on Europa. I've collected a total of 1,400 pieces!"

With a wave of his hand, he took half of them out.

More than 700 energy crystals flowed with a soft milky white light beneath the lamp, like beads of pearls as they exuded an alluring charm.

Bai Ya had seen energy crystals before, but this was the first time she had encountered so many. She was so surprised that her petite mouth was opened so wide that you could stuff a duck's egg into it.

"Wifey, are they beautiful?"

Ling Jiu asked with a smile.

"Beautiful!"

Bai Ya nodded continuously.

"Then they are yours!"

Ling Jiu smiled.

"Mine?"

Bai Ya was somewhat taken aback as she shook her head like a tambourine. "Honey, this is too precious. I cannot take it!"

"Silly, you've already given yourself to me, there's nothing you cannot ask for! In my eyes, even an energy crystal mountain does not worth as much as you."

Ling Jiu pinched Bai Ya's nose as he said with a doting face.

"Honey, you're so nice to me!"

Bai Ya felt her chest tighten as her eyes reddened. "Aside from mother and Wangwang, you're the person that treats me the best in this world!"

"Silly, you are my girlfriend now, and the mother of my children in the future, and also the person to spend the rest of my life with. If I'm not nice to you, who should I be nice to?"

Ling Jiu laughed and scolded her.

"Wuuuwuu~~"

Bai Ya was so moved that she started crying as she threw herself into Ling Jiu's arms and sobbed.

"Alright, don't cry."

It took a while for him to stop Bai Ya's crying. The two then took a bath together before getting up to cook. Ling Jiu washed the vegetables while Bai Ya cut them up… Before long, an alluring aroma wafted about.

"Let's eat!"

The two were happily eating the meal on the table when Ling Jiu's phone suddenly rang.

"A call from Brother Niu?"

Ling Jiu had a confused look as he answered the call.

"Brother Niu, looking for me?"

"Brother Ling, first of all, congratulations on snagging a beautiful girlfriend. Do you know, you've now become public enemy number one of all of the men in the Matriculation Camp!"

Niu Ben smiled as he said.

"Really? I didn't know."

Ling Jiu smiled and took a glance at Bai Ya.

"Hahaha, there will be many who are jealous of you, no doubt about that!"

Niu Ben smiled as he chatted a few more words before going to the main topic. "I'm calling today mainly to discuss a matter with you."

"Go ahead, Brother Niu."

"Oh, the thing is, Wormhole 13 is about to open again, and I want to invite you to team up." Niu Ben went straight to the point.

"Activated again?"

Ling Jiu frowned. "Wormhole 13 had never been activated before?"

"Brother Ling, you may not have known."

Niu Ben explained patiently. "There are 51 wormholes on Mars, and most of the wormholes are the same but a rare few are very special."

"Wormhole 13 is one of those special wormholes as it only opens once every nine months and is closed the rest of the time."

"There's such a wormhole?"

Ling Jiu was surprised.

Based on his understanding, the wormhole was like a tunnel inside a mountain. Once it opened, unless it was blocked by external forces, it would always be open for passage. And if it was blocked by external forces, the tunnel would then be sealed shut.

'How can it open every once in a while, then?'

"Wormhole 13 had always been like this, and no one knows why."

Niu Ben shook his head and continued. "And even more amazingly, every time Wormhole 13 opens up, the planet on the opposite side is different."

"Different?"

Ling Jiu was stunned. "What do you mean?"

"Let's get into this then."

Niu Ben said, "When we first found Wormhole 13, the opposite end was a planet full of water with a thick atmospheric layer. The surface of the planet was completely aquatic without a single piece of land."

"When Wormhole 13 opened for the second time, it was a frozen planet on the opposite side, covered in thick snow and glaciers, with temperatures as low as minus 100 degrees Celsius!"

"When it reopened for the third time, the environment changed again, and this time it was an Earth-like planet of life."

"The surface of the planet was covered with dense forests, and it was on this planet we found lots of energy crystals and an amazing amount of natural treasures. Everyone made a pot full of profit at the end of the day."

"So, since the last time, the Matriculation Camp cadets were very interested in Wormhole 13 and looked forward to its next opening."

At this moment, Niu Ben sighed. "And, in the next three day's time it will be the day Wormhole 13 opens, all of the matriculation camp cadets are rubbing their hands in glee, preparing to make it big."

"What a mysterious wormhole."

Ling Jiu shook his head and lamented. "But, Brother Niu, is the world on the other side of Wormhole 13 random, and completely irregular?"

"It's totally random."

Niu Ben nodded with confidence.

"Alright then!"

Ling Jiu replied. "Three days later, right? I'll head over."

"Brother Ling you sure are decisive. I believe with you joining me, once we find good stuff on that planet, we will certainly strike big!"

"Hopefully, we don't get sent to some useless planet." Ling Jiu said.

"Hahaha, Brother Ling, your luck had always been good. And it'll definitely be no exception this time!"

After hanging up, Ling Jiu looked at Bai Ya. "You've heard the conversation earlier, want to go have a look together?"

"If you're going, I'll go too!"

Bai Ya nodded hurriedly.

"Okay!"

Ling Jiu patted his girlfriend's head as he said. "Listening to Brother Niu, it seems like when Wormhole 13 opens, it will usually close after a month. If we are to stay on that planet for a moment, that's quite a long time."

"So, for the next two days, let's just get on with planting trees. After we plant them and come back a month later, they'll basically all thrive by then."

"Yeah!"

So, for the next two days, Ling Jiu did not go anywhere and instead accompanied Bai Ya to plant Arcana trees.

When Ling Jiu went full throttle planting trees, his speed was unparalleled as with just a thought, tree pits appeared in succession within a square kilometer radius.

With another thought, hundreds of Arcana Tree saplings rose to the sky and flew into the dug-out tree pits as the sand moved and buried the saplings.

Just like that, two days had passed. That morning, after having breakfast, Ling Jiu and Bai Ya returned to the Matriculation Camp to rendezvous with Niu Ben. What the two did not expect was that Niu Ben also came with a friend.

"Let me introduce you, this is my sister Niu Miao." Niu Ben guffawed.

"Hello, Sister Niu."

Ling Jiu smiled and said hello while Bai Ya nodded.

"Hello, a pleasure to team up with the both of you."

In contrast to her portly brother Niu Ben, Niu Miao was a beautiful, fair-skinned girl. She stood less than 1.6 meters tall, but her features were delicate, and she was the petite type of girl.

"There aren't many instances in the world where both brother and sister join the Matriculation Camp, right?" Ling Jiu sincerely praised.

"That, Brother Ling, you're very wrong!"

Niu Ben laughed. "In fact, there are many siblings who had entered the Matriculation Camp, at least in this camp, there are four pairs of siblings!"

"Ugh… that many?"

Ling Jiu was stunned.

"Of course!"

Niu Ben laughed. "Arcana has a great probability of genetic inheritance, so if an elder brother or sister has powerful Arcana, the younger sibling will not be too far behind."

"Of course, there's another, as long as the elder sibling enters the Matriculation Camp, that means they could get access to a large number of training resources that they can give to their younger siblings to help them with their training, so entering the Matriculation Camp is not something too difficult."

"That's a workable reason."

Ling Jiu nodded. Wasn't he also doing so, passing many of the unused training resources to Ling'er?

Even if Ling'er's talent in Arcana was poor, Ling Jiu had the confidence to give her a bright future using the treasure of heaven and earth.

"Come, let's head over to Wormhole 13."

"Okay!"

Ling Jiu deployed his airship, and Niu Ben could not help but remind him. "Brother Ling, what are you deploying the airship for? Airships can't fly in Mars."

"Brother Niu, my airship is different." Ling Jiu smiled as he opened the airship door. "Please, come in."

The Niu siblings looked on confusedly as they entered the airship. They were instantly stunned by the lavish decoration in the airship. "Bloody hell, is this a palace or what?"

"A carpet made out of a Ninth-Order Nine-tailed Snow Fox skin. The sofa cushions seemed to be also made out of the silk of a Ninth-Order Heaven's Eye Silkworm. And that chandelier… Brother Ling, how much did you spend for this ship?"

"I didn't buy this, it's a reward from the Matriculation Camp."

Ling Jiu smiled and told them what happened in the past few days, and Niu Ben immediately realized. "No wonder your points soared by two hundred thousand. Just like I said, your luck is really good."

"And this airship too."

"Heh, an Ultimate airship eh. Yeah, an ultimate airship would have performance far exceeding ordinary airships, and only the ultimate airship can fly on Mars."

"Hahaha…"

Half an hour later, the four came before Wormhole 13 and a huge gorge appeared before them as the matriculation camp cadets filled it.

Everyone was wearing Venom Suits as they stood together in twos and threes. They were talking to each other when Ling Jiu's airship hovered over at that instant, instantly attracting everyone's attention.

"Who is that?"

"Wasn't Mars magnetic field too weak that airship was unable to fly?"

"I don't know."

All of the cadets looked at the airship with a confused look on their faces. Immediately after, the hatch opened as Ling Jiu and the other three walked out.

"Isn't that Niu Ben?"

"Who's with him?"

"One of them must be his sister, I don't know the remaining two."

"Heh, that woman sure has a good figure…"

The crowd whispered.

At this moment, a dazzling light suddenly shot out from the bottom of the gorge and then filled the entire canyon before rushing to the sky.

"It's open!"

"Wormhole 13 is open!"

"I wonder where this will lead to this time?"

For a time, all of the trainees were attracted by it.

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Chapter 208: Planet of Hell, Dragon Creature

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Matriculation Camp, the camp commandant office.

There were many people gathered in the office, aside from the dignified camp commandant, there were also more than a dozen staff that rarely revealed themselves.

"Wormhole 13 is about to open again!"

The camp commandant glanced at everyone and said. "Although there were only minor casualties previously, but in order to prevent any accidents, I still need you lot to monitor this at very moment!"

"Yes, sir!"

More than a dozen staff responded in unison.

"To your stations!"

At this moment, there were more than a hundred trainees in the gorge. In other words, more than ninety percent of all trainees were there.

Some were alone, some were in teams of twos, or threes and fives. All of the trainees were excited for Wormhole 13.

When Wormhole 13 opened last time, it was the passage to a planet of life with plenty of energy crystals and treasure of heaven and earth, with many making a fortune.

So, who was not excited for the opening this time?

The moment Wormhole 13 opened, all of the trainees jumped from the gorge into the wormhole like a group of chickens on crack.

"Let's head over too!"

Niu Ben was eager.

"Okay!"

Ling Jiu, Bai Ya and Niu Miao all nodded and leapt into the gorge.

Flight was a skill that all matriculation camp trainees had mastered. To be precise, all matriculation camp trainees were at least Level 7 so all of them could fly.

When they came to the bottom of the gorge, they saw a sphere emitting colorful light as it suspended quietly at the bottom of the canyon like a bright colorful ball.

All of the trainees went in.

Ling Jiu and the other three looked at one another before heading in. After more than ten seconds of shuttling through the wormhole, they had arrived at the world on the other side of Wormhole 13.

Total darkness!

A darkness where you cannot see your own fingers.

This… this was a world of darkness!

"A dark planet?"

"Or just the hemisphere we are on at night now?"

There were bursts of exclamations as lights were turned on one by one, illuminating the world around them. Clearly, everyone had brought lights with them.

As the lights came on and illuminating the surroundings, everyone saw spherical rocks beneath their feet. Some were large, some were small. The larger ones were as big as a cow's head, while the small ones were like pits of a date. They were piled up densely all over the place and seemed to be everywhere.

Yes!

They were indeed everywhere as at a glance the entire ground was full of rocks.

"Are these rocks?"

Someone picked up one of the rocks.

"They are. I have Earth-element Arcana, and I can totally perceive them. Everything on the ground are rocks, no doubt about that." Someone said slowly.

"The ground is all rocks? What kind of planet is this?"

The voices of discussions rose and fell.

"Miaomiao, check the atmospheric composition."

Niu Ben said to his sister, Niu Miao.

"Already on it!"

Niu Miao took out a computer-like object as she replied without even looking back. A moment later, a touch of astonishment suddenly appeared on her face.

"What's wrong, Miaomiao?"

Niu Ben quickly asked.

"Brother, you would never have thought of what the atmospheric composition of this planet is like!" Niu Miao gasped.

"Out with it."

Niu Ben urged her as Ling Jiu and Bai Ya also looked at Niu Miao.

"50 percent nitrogen, 4 percent carbon dioxide, and the remaining 44 percent is almost all calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, calcium silicate, magnesium silicate, silicon dioxide and more!"

Niu Miao's tone was calm, but each of her words was a bombshell.

Niu Ben, Ling Jiu and Bai Ya looked at each other.

"Aren't things like calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate and silicon dioxide chemical substances that make up rocks? They are generally solids so how would they appear in the atmosphere?"

Atmosphere.

Which was also air.

There were 44 percent rocks in the air?

This joke was not funny at the slightest!

"Brother, the atmospheric detector is never wrong!"

Niu Miao smiled bitterly. "The atmosphere of this planet is indeed like this. The atmosphere does contain 44 percent of gaseous rocks!"

"How high is the temperature this planet that it could turn rocks into gas?" Bai Ya gasped as an incredulous look appeared on her face.

"The temperature of the location we are at now is 110 degrees Celsius!" Niu Miao immediately replied.

"110 degrees Celsius? Although that's high, it's not enough to melt rocks, right?"

The three of them were shocked one again. "Also, isn't our current location nighttime? And the temperature is still that high?"

VOOOSH VOOSHH!!

Just as the three were shocked, a shrill rip of the air suddenly thundered above them. As everyone looked up with their lights, they saw countless rocks were falling like raindrops as they crashed violently onto the ground.

BOOM–BOOM–

And they appeared almost instantly above everyone's heads.

"Shinra Tensei!"

Ling Jiu glanced around and deployed a repulsive shield around the four of them as all of the falling rocks were blocked on the outside.

The others were not so lucky, while those with Earth Manipulation Arcana were fine, those who did not were down on their luck.

With rocks smashing against their skulls like hail, all those who were hit screamed. Fortunately, everyone here was a powerful top-level Arcanist, and all were equipped with Venom Suits, so their lives were not in danger.

"That's a bloody rain of rocks!"

"It's raining rocks on this planet. What the hell?"

"I suddenly understand where the rocks on the ground came from…"

The sounds of cursing rang out as everyone knew how the rocks on the ground came about, and they came down like rain.

"What sort of planet have we come to?" Niu Ben smiled bitterly.

"Brother, what should we do now?" Niu Miao looked at her brother.

"Brother Ling, what do you mean…" Niu Ben looked at Ling Jiu.

Ling Jiu pondered for a moment before saying slowly. "Since we are already here, there's no rush to go back. Plus, I have an idea!"

"What idea?"

The three others asked.

"The atmosphere of this planet is 44% rich in gaseous rocks. Think about it, how high is the temperature needed to vaporize rocks?"

Ling Jiu said slowly. "A mere 110 degrees Celsius definitely won't cut it, so I guess this planet's temperature is certainly much higher, at least over 2,000 degrees Celsius!"

"But it's only 110 degrees Celsius here!" Niu Miao raised an objecting opinion.

"I think there's three possibilities as to why the temperature here is so low."

"First, this is the back of the planet, and that means it's night over here. Second, is that we are at the planet's polar points."

Ling Jiu said slowly. "It's still not that bad if we are at the polar points of the planet. But if this is night, and when day comes, the temperature on the planet's surface will definitely skyrocket to at least 2,000 degrees Celsius! By then, we will not be able to bear the heat!"

"This…"

Nio Ben and the other two shuddered.

2000 degrees Celsius!

Even rocks would vaporize!

How could their mere mortal bodies of flesh and blood withstand this terrifying heat?

"Ling Jiu, what should we do?"

Niu Ben trembled.

"Generally speaking, the most sensible choice is to stay in front of the wormhole and wait for a while to see if day comes. This is the safest way."

Ling Jiu smiled and said. "But we don't have to wait, because I have Dimension Arcana and can take everyone into the Dimension Sea. This way, we'll be fine even if the temperature soars."

"So, what do we do?"

The three heaved a sigh of relief.

"Since we are already on this planet, of course we must go and have a look!"

Ling Jiu licked his lips. "Whether this planet have any treasures or not, I don't know, but I have a hunch that this is a blessed place for me."

"A blessed place?"

The three were taken aback.

"Come, let's go and have a look."

Ling Jiu smiled as he wrapped the three using his Dimension Domain and darted away.

For Ling Jiu, who had superior night vision, he did not need any illumination as his eyes could clearly see everything within a few miles.

"What is that?"

Ling Jiu suddenly stopped, and then landed on the ground as he pulled a few rocks away and pulled a crystal the size of a bull's head out.

Let's call it a crystal for now, as it was transparent, and gleamed with crystal clear light, looking very beautiful.

"Brother Ling, what is this?"

Niu Ben asked puzzledly.

"Pretty decent luck, I found a diamond!" Ling Jiu smiled and gave Bai Ya the diamond. "Darling, a 10-catty diamond for you!"

"This… alright."

Bai Ya glanced at Niu Ben and Niu Miao before taking the diamond.

"Brother Ling you are so lucky, to pick up such a large diamond just like that. If you put this up for auction, this would be worth at least a few billion bucks yeah?"

Niu Ben said with smiling aghast.

Several billions were of course a small number. To people like them, money was the most useless, but such a large diamond was indeed rare, at least such a giant stone will never be found back on Earth.

"Hahaha! This is not a matter of luck. This planet has a unique environment, and according to my guess, there should be no shortage of large diamonds!"

Ling Jiu led everyone forward, and after a while Ling Jiu suddenly noticed light ahead and flew over with everyone.

As they approached, the light grew brighter and brighter as the temperature soared rapidly, breaking through 400 degrees Celsius in a blink of an eye.

Even though they were wearing Venom Suits, Bai Ya and the other two could not withstand the heat. Without any other recourse, Ling Jiu could only take them into the Dimensional Sea.

And then, they forged on.

Finally, when the four of them came to the light zone, they were stunned by the scene that greeted them.

The ground before them were full of roiling lava.

Flaming red and roiling lava spread all across the land as everything until the end of their sight was a boiling lava lake.

A lava lake?

It was more like a sea of lava!

Because the lava lake before them was just too big!

Looking above them, a giant star floating in the sky, almost totally obscuring everything. It was totally conceivable that it was too close to this planet.

Looking at the sun above, and then the lava sea beneath their feet. Ling Jiu finally understood. "Everyone, I finally understand how the earlier rain of rocks had formed!"

"As it is too close to the star, so the temperature of the hemisphere facing the star is very high, estimated to be as high as several thousand degrees, enough to vaporize the rocks on the ground."

"So that's why the planet's atmosphere is full of gaseous rocks, while the other side of the planet is much lower in temperature at 110 degrees Celsius."

"The massive difference in temperature caused a strong convection effect on the planet's atmosphere as the vaporized rocks moved to the back and condensed back into rocks, which in turn transforming into scorching rocks falling from high altitude, thus the rain of rocks!"

"That is to say, we have come to a planet full of lava and rain of rocks?" Niu Ben was disappointed. "What can such a planet have?"

"Energy crystals generally only exists in planets with vibrant life, what can a hellish planet like this have?"

Niu Ben smiled bitterly: "Let's go, we can withdraw now."

"Look, what is that?"

At this moment, Bai Ya suddenly called out in a whisper as everyone looked over.

They saw inside the boiling lava sea, a crimson being that resembling a dragon with two horns appeared from time to time…

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Chapter 209: Beating Up A Dragon, Mysterious Crystal

In the boiling lava sea, a 50-meter-long dinosaur-like monster with bat wings loomed about in the magma sea.

The creature leapt out of the lava and then back into it like a dolphin. The scorching magma was like sea water to the creature—not only the lava did not harm it, but it also made it very happy.

"That's a lifeform?"

Ling Jiu and the other three stared at the figure as they gasped with aghast. With their current strength, they could completely defend against magma attacks.

But that did not mean that they could swim and bath inside magma.

To defend or ignore, these were two completely different concepts!

It was no exaggeration to say that aside from Ling Jiu, if Niu Ben and the others were to enter the magma, they could probably withstand it for a moment, but once time passes, they would definitely be reduced to ashes.

This was the same when they were unable to withstand the terrifying heat in Venus for a long period of time.

"For it to swim inside magma, this lifeform must be very powerful right?"

Niu Ben's voice trembled a little. "Also, this extremely harsh environment could actually breed life? Unbelievable!"

"Life is like that!"

Ling Jiu smiled and said. "You guys wait here, I will go and have a look at that monster!"

"Don't go!"

Bai Ya grabbed Ling Jiu with a worried look in her beautiful eyes. "We know nothing about that monster, in the event if it is very powerful…"

"Don't worry, with my Dimension Arcana, I'll be fine!"

Ling Jiu smiled and comforted her as he darted out of the Dimension Sea and charged at the dragon-like monster that loomed in the distance.

"Be careful, my dear!"

Bai Ya stared at Ling Jiu's back, clenching her fists tightly.

"Bai Ya, don't you worry."

Niu Ben smiled and comforted her. "Brother Ling has Dimension Arcana and is invincible by nature. Hurting him is… very difficult."

"Yeah."

Ling Jiu's speed was fast and after a few Blinks he appeared before the dragon monster and intercepted it.

Looking closely, this monster looked a lot like a giant dragon in Western mythology.

It had two bat-like wings on its back with dense red scales on its body. It looked like a dinosaur, but it had four powerful legs under its abdomen and sharp claws at the front end of the limbs.

In addition, there were two spiral horns on top of its head that pointed at the sky.

"What a majestic monster!"

Ling Jiu was amazed.

BAM!

Ling Jiu measured the monster while it also measured Ling Jiu in return. Its pair of round eyes stared at him, with curiosity gleaming in its eyes.

The eyes were the window of the soul, and with only a look, Ling Jiu could tell that this monster is very intelligent, probably no inferior to humans.

Of course, intelligence was not the point, Ling Jiu's purpose was to get a feel of the monster's fighting power, so he approached it step by step.

The monster showed no look of fear or terror but instead showed an even more curious look as it looked on with interest at the tiny Ling Jiu. And that lasted until Ling Jiu approached it and smashed it at the back of its head…

BAM!

The dragon monster was sent reeling a few steps back by the smash, and that was it.

It shook its head and glared at Ling Jiu. The curiosity in its eyes had disappeared and in its place was anger.

Clearly, it was angry.

BAAAMMM!!

The giant dragon monster flapped its wings as it suddenly rose into the air and then appeared before Ling Jiu like a thunderbolt as its right claw came slamming down like lightning.

BAAAMMM!!

Its speed was so fast that Ling Jiu did not had time to dodge and was slapped straight into the magma lake before disappeared altogether.

"Ling Jiu!"

Bai Yu was shocked as she tried to rush out, but he was trapped inside the Dimension Sea and could only watch everything happening outside and could simply not go out.

"Bai Ya, don't worry, Brother Ling will be fine!"

Niu Ben hurriedly advised her. Although he may be saying that he was not confident at all as that was magma several thousand degrees Celsius hot, who could survive it?

Just as the three were worried, a vortex suddenly appeared inside the scalding magma lake as it expanded rapidly as it appeared. In a blink of an eye, it was several hundred meters wide.

For a moment, the surrounding magma were all drawn in by the vortex towards the bottom of it.

"What's going on?"

The three were stunned.

Even the dragon monster was equally puzzled.

They did not understand why a vortex would suddenly appear.

After devouring the magma for a while, the vortex gradually calmed down as Ling Jiu with his bare upper body slowly appeared out from the boiling magma.

There was still a drop of magma hanging from the corner of his mouth as he could not help but to stick his tongue out and licked it clean before looking quietly at the dragon monster.

"Ling Jiu!!!"

"Ling Jiu's alright!"

"That b*stard, I knew it!"

Seeing Ling Jiu reappearing, Bai Ya and the other two let out a long sigh of relief.

"It's fast and powerful, but… not enough!"

Ling Jiu looked at the dragon monster as his body quickly swelled up, and instantly he was a 50-meter-tall giant.

At this moment, Ling Jiu's height was no less than that of the dragon monster.

"That's the Gigantization Arcana?"

The Niu siblings exclaimed. "Bai Ya, Brother Ling even had Gigantization replicated already?"

"I… I don't know!"

Bai Ya shook her head repeatedly.

"Again!"

Ling Jiu let out a long howl as he shot past the dragon monster with just a step. He was so fast that when he ripped across the magma sea, he ripped out a long ripple at his wake.

In a flash, Ling Jiu appeared before the dragon monster and struck his head out.

BAAAMMM!!

A violent force erupted as the dragon monster screamed and instantly flew out, flying for several hundred feet before stopping.

The dragon monster shook its dazed head as it then flapped its wings and charged at Ling Jiu. It was only hurt by the hit, but there were no apparent wounds. Its powerful defense had Ling Jiu amazed, this b*stard sure was tough!

ROAR!!!

The dragon monster opened its mouth and spewed out a surge of boiling magma.

"Child's play!"

Ling Jiu smirked as he Blinked away from the oncoming magma spray, and then with another Blink appeared before the dragon monster.

BAAAMMM!!

Another fist blasted out and the dragon monster flew out again.

After being sent flying a few times in a row, the dragon monster smartened up as it looked fearfully at Ling Jiu.

It was afraid.

Ling Jiu was even more surprised. He had unleashed the flurry of strikes with all of his might, and while he had sent it flying time after time, it did not seem to have suffered much injury at all.

"This guy's muscles are incredibly compact, tough and solid. So, it's strength is powerful, and its defense is amazing. Plus the tough scales on its body made it so powerful defensively."

Ling Jiu muttered to himself. "As expected of a life born in this extreme environment. Amazing!"

"ROAR!!!"

The dragon monster stared at Ling Jiu for a moment before diving into the magma and disappearing. No one knew where it went to.

Ling Jiu stared at the place it had left for a while before returning to the three.

"Brother Ling, you're awesome!"

Niu Ben immediately praised him. "That dragon monster earlier was obviously a Ninth-Order level, and is even stronger than ordinary Ninth Order Direbeasts, and you actually had it on the backfoot!"

Niu Miao also nodded as a look of shock and admiration appeared in her beautiful eyes. Although the Matriculation Camp had many elites, there were scant few that could really beat up a Ninth-Order Direbeast like that.

Only Bai Ya stared hard at Ling Jiu, seemingly blaming him for taking unnecessary risks, and making her worry.

"It's alright."

Ling Jiu smiled as he looked back at the hot magma sea.

"Brother Ling, what do we do next? Go back, or continue the search?"

Niu Ben also looked at the scalding magma. "The environment here is too extreme, and there's obviously nothing good here. How about we withdraw first?"

"No, there are more good stuff here than we imagined."

Ling Jiu shook his head as he flipped his hand over and a red crystal appeared on his palm.

It was a water drop-shaped rock, looking like a red crystal, or a bloodstone, but it was emitted an incomparably hot, scorching temperature.

"This is…"

Niu Ben and the other two stared at the red crystal.

"No idea."

Ling Jiu shook his head. "It could be a special type of stone, but exactly what is it, I don't know. But I have a bold prediction that the value of this thing is very high!"

"Ugh…"

The three looked at each other.

"Brother Ling, do you have basis to say that?"

Niu Ben frowned and asked.

"Of course."

Ling Jiu nodded slightly and then said. "Brother Niu, your strength should be very strong right?"

Hearing the word strength, a confident look appeared on Niu Ben's face. "Looking at the entire Matriculation Camp, my comprehensive combat strength may be very average, but in terms of strength, I don't think I'll lose to anyone, including you, Brother Ling!"

Ling Jiu did not confirm or deny, but he knew that Niu Ben was indeed really strong as one of his Arcanas was Super Strength.

And his power index was 5000 times!

What does that mean?

Niu Ben was a Level 8 Arcanist now, so he could unleash 5000 times the strength of ordinary Arcanists.

On strength alone, he was indeed freakish.

Of course, this was compared to normal folks, but when compared to Ling Jiu it was a totally different thing.

"Then can you try to crush this?"

Ling Jiu handed the red crystal over and as Niu Ben took it, he seethed at the heat, but he still gave it a strong grip as he tried to squeeze it hard.

In the end…

Even when he had put in a colossal effort, he could not crush the crystal.

"What thing is this? So hard!" Niu Ben could not help but gasp.

With his current strength, even the toughest Zanderman Alloy was like playdough to him, and he actually could not crush this thing.

"It's not just you, even I could not crush it! Even…"

Ling Jiu shook his head as the took out a blob of flame. It was the Seven-colored Rainbow Flame the Matriculation Camp had awarded him, and he placed the flame on top of the crystal to burn it.

And after burning for a good while, it could still not melt the red crystal.

"See? Even a 100 thousand degrees Celsius Seven-coloured Rainbow Flame could not melt it. Can you imagine how solid it is?"

Ling Jiu took a deep breath.

"What the hell is this thing?"

The trio were shocked.

"I suppose it's some kind of ore, and if you add this red crystal into a weapon or a spacecraft, the effect… heh!"

Ling Jiu smiled. "So, this is absolutely a treasure, so as long as we collect more of them and bring them back to sell, we can absolutely make a killing!"

"Make sense!"

The trio's eyes lit up.

Money was useless to them, but contribution points and ultimate treasures of heaven and earth were of great use to them. If they could exchange contribution points and ultimate treasures of heaven and earth, then they would have earned big!

"Find it!"

"Find it now!"

The trio were very excited.

BOOM—

Just at this moment, a huge wave was set off in the distance as the four turned around as they saw a behemoth rushing through the magma towards them.

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Chapter 210: Stellar Monster, No. 4 Cometh

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"That is…"

The four were instantly attracted by the huge movement, and saw a massive wave being kicked up in the distance, and amidst the raging waves, a red behemoth was darting through it.

It had massive wings and menacing dragon horns, with crimson scales and stout legs, alongside a strong and majestic body.

With only a glance, the four could tell that it was the same as the dragon monster from earlier on, but many times larger.

The dragon monster earlier was about 50 meters long, but this dragon monster was at least 500 meters long.

It was like an aircraft carrier, gliding across the boiling and raging magma as it quickly darted towards them at extreme speed.

"This guy…"

A grim look appeared in Ling Jiu's eyes as he immediately grabbed Bai Ya and the other two as he quickly moved them towards a higher place.

The 50-meter-long dragon monster was already terrifying enough, and now this one was ten times larger in size, how terrifying would it be then?

Ling Jiu had no confidence in dealing with it, so he placed Bai Ya and the others somewhere safe first.

After bringing the three towards an altitude of several thousand meters, and then hiding in the Dimensional Sea did Ling Jiu relaxed as he looked at the dragon monster.

*ROAR!!!*

The dragon monster appeared below as it stared at Ling Jiu with cold, indifferent eyes, as a tyrannical glint flashed past its eyes.

The next moment, it opened its mouth wide and let out a terrifying roar, the rolling sound wave erupted, creating waves of ripples.

And something shocking happened.

Where the sound wave passed, the void shattered like fragile glass as a massive black hole directly appeared in the void.

"A stellar lifeform!"

"It is definitely a stellar lifeform!"

Ling Jiu's had goosebumps all over his scalp and immediately took Bai Ya and the others into the distance at greatest speed, fearing that any slower will see them end up as the monster's snack.

Ling Jiu had seen Emperor Might tear through space with his own eye and knew that a stellar lifeform's attacks could seemingly tear through space.

The attack of the dragon before him was no longer as simple as ripping space apart, it was completely obliterating it.

So, how powerful was it?

Run!

Gotta run fast!

They fled at top speed and after running for who knows how far and was sure that the dragon monster did not pursue them did Ling Jiu heaved a sigh of relief and let the three down.

"Finally managed to throw it off."

Ling Jiu smiled bitterly. "What the hell is going on with this planet? Why did it give birth to such a terrifying creature?"

"For its roar alone to shatter the space, this is definitely a monster beyond the Tenth-Order!"

Even Niu Ben was soaked in cold sweat. "Thankfully we ran fast enough, or else we would have died. It was really dangerous just now!"

"It seems like the Dimension Arcana is not totally invincible."

Bai Ya frowned at Ling Jiu. "My dear, don't be so arrogant in the future, lest you throw yourself into a dangerous place!"

"Understood!"

Ling Jiu nodded slightly and then looked around. They had been fleeing all the way and had no idea where they had run to, yet it was nothing but boiling magma sea beneath them.

"Let's go, let's head down to have a look."

Ling Jiu smiled and said. "Let's look around, maybe we can find that sort of crystal again!"

"Is there no danger?"

After encountering the dragon monster earlier, Niu Ben was slightly traumatized.

"Don't worry, I have a life sign detector here, and it will sound an alarm should a lifeform approaches!" Ling Jiu smiled.

"A Life sign detector?"

The eyes of the three lit up. "Wth the life sign detector, we can any monster's approach in advance, and that is indeed much safer!"

"But…"

Niu Ben said. "Before we start looking for the crystals, I think there's a need to ascertain their value, or else if they are worth nothing, then wouldn't we be putting in so much effort for nothing?"

"Brother Niu, you mean…"

Ling Jiu looked at Niu Ben.

"Brother Ling, I want to go back to the camp first, and get the camp commandant to help appraise it."

Niu Ben put forward his suggestion.

"Fair enough!"

Ling Jiu nodded slightly. Although he felt that the fiery red crystal was of great value, he did not want to work for nothing, so there was indeed a need to appraise it first.

"Let's go back then!"

Ling Jiu sensed the Dimension Mark and returned to the wormhole.

At this moment, there were no one around the wormhole, and they did not know if the people there had already got searching deep into the planet or had exited the wormhole, but there was no longer anyone there.

The four returned to Mars.

Bai Ya and Niu Miao stood guard at the front of the wormhole while Ling Jiu and Niu Ben headed to the Matriculation Camp.

"Why are the both of you here?"

Seeing Ling Jiu and Niu Ben, the camp commandant was a little surprised. "Didn't you two entered Wormhole 13? Back so soon?"

"Commandant, we have a discovery!"

Niu Ben spoke about the planet on the other side of Wormhole 13 and then took out the fiery red crystal.

The camp commandant took the crystal and had a look as his expression changed drastically. As he looked at the two, he asked. "You found this on that planet?"

"Yes!"

The two nodded.

"I did not expect that this planet also had such a thing. Unbelievable!"

The camp commandant said to himself as his expression became more and more complicated, seemingly excited, shocked and joyful at the same time…

In short, it was indescribable.

"Commandant, do you recognize this thing?"

Niu Ben noticed the camp commandant's expression and asked tentatively.

"I won't be able to explain everything in a short time, but I can tell you that if it was to be categorized, it would be a stellar-level treasure of heaven and earth!"

The camp commandant's voice was calm, yet his every words were astonishing. "It has a huge effect even for Arcanists beyond Level 10!"

A stellar-level treasure of heaven and earth?

For this level, Niu Ben was completely dumbfounded, but he understood the words clearly. "Commandant, you're saying… that this crystal is useful for Arcanists beyond Level 10?"

"Yes!"

The camp commandant nodded slightly. "As for its specific usage, someone will naturally tell you once you are a Level 10 being, but it is still too early now."

"Understood, sir!"

Niu Ben nodded immediately.

Immediately afterwards, the two took the crystal back and returned to Mars.

"Brother Ling, you heard that? We're rich! We're rich!"

On the way back to Wormhole 13, Niu Ben was so excited it looked like he was juiced up. "A treasure of heaven and earth that is useful for Arcanists beyond Level 10!"

"And I guess only we know this news, and that is to say, we now occupy the advantage of knowing first."

"Also, that is an extremely hostile planet, and aside from us, it will be difficult for others to survive there, let alone getting their hands on the crystals!"

"That means no one will be fighting with us for it…"

After getting back to Wormhole 13, and when Niu Ben told the news to Bai Ya and Niu Miao, the two girls were as excited as he was.

As a result, the four returned to the planet and came above the magma sea as they started looking for the fiery red crystal.

"The depth of this magma sea is only about ten meters or so, so it's not very deep, and these fiery red crystals are quite heavy, I guess they should be deposited at the bottom of the magma sea."

Ling Jiu said. "So, I'll be in charge of moving the magma away, Bai Ya and Brother Niu will be in charge of looking for the crystals, and Sister Niu has Earth-element Arcana so you will be in charge of picking them up."

"Okay!"

The three answered immediately.

A thought appeared in Ling Jiu's mind.

The magma below them instantly moved apart in all directions, and a moment later, it was an empty area as a scorched land was revealed.

Bai Ya and the Niu siblings looked on the ground and saw nothing.

"Let's change spot!"

Ling Jiu changed to a different spot.

"There seems to be a piece there!"

"Where?"

Niu Ben and Niu Miao shouted at the same time.

"Over there!"

Bai Ya pointed and the Niu siblings immediately turned to where she was pointing to, and sure enough they saw a red-colored rock.

"Rise!"

With a grasp of her hand, the rock flew into the air and she caught it in her hands. Looking at this smaller but similar rock to the fiery red crystal, Niu Ben and Niu Miao were elated. "We found them; we found the first piece!"

"If there is a first piece, there will be a second one!"

Ling Jiu said. "Let's continue!"

Just like that, the four worked together as they searched. When they were tired, they rested, had something to eat, and then continued on.

Of course, during the whole process, Ling Jiu did not forget to swallow magma to expand his Inner World. To him, the entire planet was a holy ground for cultivation.

And just like that, 24 hours had passed, and on earth, this was a whole day, yet this planet did not seem to alternate between day and night, or their day is extraordinarily long.

After 24 hours, this area still shows no signs of turning black.

Although it was not dark, the four of them were exhausted and needed a rest.

So, the four left the magma sea and returned to the dark side of the planet. The temperature here was only a 110 degrees Celsius, and they could rest as much as possible.

After a while, a sumptuous meal was served as Niu Ben opened a rare bottle of red wine of 2020 vintage and poured everyone a glass.

"We've found a total of five fiery red crystals today. If anything, today's harvest is great! So, let us toast to that!"

"Cheers!"

Ling Jiu and the other two also picked up their wine glasses.

"This is a stellar level treasure of heaven and earth, and I've just checked through a special channel that anything above the Ultimate treasure of heaven and earth are called stellar treasure of heaven and earth."

Niu Ben was very excited. "Every stellar treasure of heaven and earth is worth millions of contribution points, and that is to say, we have had a net profit of 5 million contribution points a day today!"

"So, let us have another toast!"

"Cheers!"

Everyone was happy.

5 million contribution points, with an average of a million contribution points per person, this was definitely not a small number.

If one were to buy Ultimate treasures of heaven and earth worth a 100 thousand contribution points, then one could buy 10 of them, and that was a great increase in strength.

Ling Jiu was also very happy. Although Ultimate treasure of heaven and earth like the Gene Arcana Strengthening Elixir was useless to him, the other treasures were still useful.

In particular, the categorization of the stellar treasure of heaven and earth made Ling Jiu very curious. What sort of nice treasures did the humanity top-echelon had?

"What's the stellar treasure of heaven and earth you guys were talking about?"

Just as the four were drinking, a suspicious voice suddenly sounded inside the airship.

Ling Jiu frowned slightly and saw there was another person inside the airship. He had not sensed this person's approach just now, indicating that this person had appeared suddenly using teleportation or some other means!

"Alexis !!!"

After hearing the voice Niu Ben and Niu Miao involuntarily shuddered as they immediately turned around and looked at the newcomer with a bitter look.

"I'll ask again, what is the deal with the Stellar-class treasure of heaven and earth?"

The newcomer put away his Venom Suit, revealing a brown-skinned face. It was a recognizable face.

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Chapter 211: Gold Arcana, Alien Bugs

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"Spill it. What is the Stellar-class treasure of heaven and earth you have mentioned just now?"

Alexis stared at Niu Ben. Although his voice was calm, the threat and coldness in his words were not concealed.

This was how Matriculation Camp was like. It was not an ivory tower where the trainees could live in peace, but a box sealed with all venomous creatures competing cruelly with each other1. Killing was not uncommon here!

"What are you talking about?" Niu Ben said in low pitch, "What Stellar-class treasure of heaven and earth? I don't understand what you are talking about."

"Niu Ben!" Alexis said, "You have been in Matriculation Camp for ten years, so you should know my Arcana. Any sound within a thousand miles can't slip through my ears! So, do you still want to play dumb?"

Niu Ben's facial expression sank. "Brother Alexis—"

"Don't give me nonsense!" Alexis' tone was indifferent and sounded intimidating. "My time is precious. If you dare to waste my time, I don't mind letting you taste another Arcana of mine!"

"Bone Manipulation?" Niu Ben's expression changed, and a trace of fear rose in his eyes.

At this moment, Ling Jiu's voice came. "Brother Niu, who is he. So arrogant?"

Hearing Ling Jiu's voice, Niu Ben was drawn up.

'With a superb arcanist like Brother Ling by my side, what do I need to be afraid of?'

When Niu Ben thought of this, he quietly let out a sigh of relief, and then said, "He is Alexis Brahman, ranked fourth in the standings, and owns a total of four Arcana: Clairaudience, Bone Manipulation, Audi Blink, and Golden Form!"

"He is very strong, and he definitely has the ultimate combat power!"

"Moreover, although he has only joined Matriculation Camp for 4 years, he has accumulated 920,000 points and is ranked fourth in the standings. In terms of talent and strength alone, he is not less capable than the top three in the standings!"

"I see!" Ling Jiu nodded slightly, glanced at Alexis, and said dully, "I don't care who you are, what is your rank in the standings, or what kind of strength you have. I now give you a chance to leave my airship immediately!"

"Rookie, your mouth is foul!" Alexis frowned and looked at Ling Jiu. When he entered the airship, he had recognized Ling Jiu once he noticed him. However, Alexis did not take him seriously.

'He is just a rookie'

'What makes him worth my attention?'

However, Alexis did not expect the rookie to be this insolent.

'This rookie dares to chase me out of the airship even after knowing my name!'

'Is it because he is backed by some forces? Or he is just an insolent fool?'

"Why? Didn't you hear me clearly? Do you want me to repeat?" Ling Jiu took a bite of the dish and said impatiently while chewing it. "I am in a good mood today so I don't want to argue with the likes of you, hurry up!"

"What a big mouth you have!" Alexis' facial expression sank, his eyes colder. "Rookie, you are looking for death by barking in Matriculation Camp with no strength!"

"Listen! I will extract your bones from your body, wash and air-dry it to make it into a specimen display for my collection!"

"Really?" Ling Jiu laughed.

"Rookie, you will pay a heavy price for your stupidity and insolence!" A dazzling golden light suddenly radiated from Alexis' body. In the next moment, he turned into a golden man. It seemed as if he was made of gold. His whole body was shining like a golden statue.

"Gold Arcana!" Niu Ben whispered, "Ling Jiu, be careful. In Gold Form, his various attributes will skyrocket 1,500 times than before!"

"Therefore, there were very significant changes in terms of speed, strength, defense, etc. You must be careful and stay vigilant!"

"Don't worry! He won't be able to cause much ruckus!"

Ling Jiu smiled faintly. "Let's go out. I will play with you. You can't afford the cost of damaging my airship!"

Ling Jiu put on the venom suit and disappeared from the airship. Alexis disappeared too after letting out a cold snort.

"Let's go out and watch!" Niu Ben and the other two followed them.

The surroundings were dark when they came outside. Fortunately, there was light source from the airship. It dispelled the darkness and illuminate the place.

Ling Jiu and Alexis were standing, facing each other from far.

"Your appearance in this form does look really good!" Ling Jiu looked at Alexis who was shining with the golden light. "I heard that the bodies of gods in Egyptian mythology were made of gold. They even had golden blood flow through their veins! Perhaps, the so-called gods of— "

Ling Jiu could not finish his sentence as Alexis suddenly appeared before him. That was Alexis' another arcana—Audi Blink.

Although this Arcana was also a type of Blink, it was different than Ling Jiu's Blink. Ling Jiu's Blink allowed him to teleport at will. Unlike Ling Jiu, Alexis could only teleport when he heard the target's voice. One could say that his Audi Blink's limitation was greater!

However, when used Audi Blink with Clairaudience, Alexis could teleport in longer distance than the regular Blink. For example, before Alexis showed up, he was actually hundred miles away, but he teleported to here once he had picked up voice of Ling Jiu and the three others.

Teleport a hundred miles. This distance is long enough!

*BOOM–*

Alexis' golden fist tore the air and was about to slam into Ling Jiu's chin instantly. Its speed was as fast as lightning, its force was brutal and savage. Even a Class-9 Beast would suffer if got hit by this punch.

"Ling Jiu, watch out!" Niu Ben warned Ling Jiu loudly.

Bai Ya clenched her fists tight. Her beautiful pair of eyes were filled with worries and tension. Niu Miao also watched the fight nervously.

The golden fist's momentum was strong. However, Ling Jiu did not plan to dodge it even though it could tear everything apart brutally. Instead, he stretched out his fist and grabbed the golden fist effortlessly.

CRACK!

The golden fist with brutal momentum which could tear everything somehow fluttered into Ling Jiu's hand. And all the terrifying aura instantly vanished into the air.

"Come on! I have waited for a long time and this is what you got? This is your strength?" Ling Jiu shook his head and looked disappointed. "It seems that my expectation is too high!"

Ling Jiu flung his hand once he finished his words. Alexis was sent flying to the sky like a cannonball.

"Thunder!" A bright thunder light suddenly emerged from Ling Jiu's body once he uttered this word without much emotion. In the next moment, a slash of thunder as thick as a bucket shot up straight to the sky from Ling Jiu and hit Alexis brutally.

"Ah— "

From the sky, a scream of pain was heard. The power of thunder triggered by actual dark bio-energy was much more terrifying than the regular thunder.

But of course, that was all it could do!

After all, Ling Jiu was a Level-7 Arcanist. On top of that, he did not combine the attack with Dimension Arcana. Even if the force of the Arcana was nine times stronger than the regular Arcana, it was still not enough to kill Alexis.

As expected, once the thunder disappeared, there was no injuries on Alexis' body other than some scorch marks.

"I want you dead!"

Alexis' face was hideous. A bright golden beam burst out of his golden eyes. The next moment, Ling Jiu felt a continuous bone-cracking sound from his body. His bones began to move restlessly, as though they were going to leave his body.

'This is Bone Manipulation?' Ling Jiu was secretly shocked. 'I thought his arcana was similar to Kimimaro's ability where he could only manipulate his own bones. Never did I expect him to be capable of manipulating other people's bones!'

Of course, Ling Jiu would not let Alexis to extract his bones. He swiftly blinked and appeared before Alexis, then pointed his finger. A mysterious wave suddenly covered Alexis.

Alexis was surprised to see his body shrinking strangely, and in the blink of an eye, he had shrunk into a three-inch man.

"T-T-This —"

"Alexis had become smaller?"

"What arcana is this?"

Niu Ben, Bai Ya, and Niu Miao were all shocked. They looked at Alexis who was now in the size of a thumb in disbelief. Their hearts were deeply stirred.

"This is Size Reduction!" Ling Jiu replied. "I can shrink any object to millesimal-size of their original state! So, I am considered merciful. Otherwise, he will become even smaller!"

" M-M-M-Millesimal-size?" The three of them took a deep breath.

Like what Ling Jiu said, he was indeed merciful.

Alexis was 1.7-meter tall. A millesimal size of this height was 0. 17 cm, which was shorter than 2 decimeters. It could not even fill in the two squares on a meterstick.

Now, Alexis was at least three or four centimeters tall.

Yes, Ling Jiu was indeed, merciful!

Ling Jiu is really merciful!

"Bast*rd! How dare—how dare you—" Alexis shouted in horror.

From his perspective, everything around him suddenly became very huge, and Ling Jiu was a behemoth.

"Don't struggle, it's useless!" Ling Jiu casually grabbed Alexis—who was now a miniscule guy—in his hands. "Size Reduction shrinks everything! Including the Gene Arcana in your body! So, with your current body size, all the strikes you make are just tickles. They will not be destructive at all!"

"Bast*rd! You assh*le!" Alexis almost vomited blood in anger. He never expected that Ling Jiu would have such brutal arcana.

'To be able to shrink people?'

'This is not a fair game!'

"Although your arcana are not bad, I don't like them! So, just go die." Once Ling Jiu finished speaking, he threw Alexis into his mouth to send Alexis into the inner world of his body.

Of course, Ling Jiu did not forget to restore him to his original size because the bigger the body, the more vitality!

"Okay, done!" Ling Jiu landed on the ground and smiled. He spoke to Bai Ya and the other two, "Let's continue eating!"

"Okay!" The three nodded while looking at Ling Jiu with mixed feelings, especially Niu Ben and Niu Miao. Their feelings were extremely complex.

'Be it Alexis Brahman, who was ranked 4th in the standings, or the top three trainees who were officially recognized, all were hammered by Ling Jiu without chance to fight back!'

'Just how strong is Ling Jiu?'

"My dear, you are amazing!" Compared to Niu Ben and Niu Miao, Bai Ya's facial expression was much simpler. She blinked her big eyes and looked at Ling Jiu with admiration.

"How can I be your man if I'm not amazing?" Ling Jiu rubbed her nose and smiled. "Let's continue our meal!"

"Yeah!" The airship hatch opened and the four of them were about to enter.

Suddenly, they heard a series of rustling sound around them. It sounded like there were ten thousand crabs crawling on the beach.

"What is that?" Ling Jiu's auditory perception was so terrifying. He could hear it from far away. He slightly frowned and then looked around.

His pupils shrank once he saw something.

"Retreat!" Ling Jiu let out a low voice, and immediately pull Bai Ya to his back to protect her.

"What's wrong, dear?" Bai Ya asked nervously.

Niu Ben and Niu Miao also looked at Ling Jiu.

"Wait for a while!" Ling Jiu asked three of them to stay calm with a gesture. After a long time, he pointed to a distance and said, "Look there!"

The location he pointed at was far away from his airship, where the light barely reached. So, it was very dim.

But under dim light, one could still see dense colonies of bug-like creatures gathering from all directions, surrounding them and the airship.

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Chapter 212: Devouring Light, Unlimited Growth

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A few hundred miles out in the wilderness, a maglev airship was silently floating. There were two people in it, and like Alexis, they were brown-skinned folks. Looking at their clothes, they were obviously Indians.

The Indians often sang and danced, and were very lively, but at this moment, the two of them were very silent.

"Alexis is dead!"

"Who killed him?"

The two clenched their fists tightly. "Before Alexis disappeared, he apparently mentioned something about a Stellar treasure of heaven and earth?"

"He seemed to say that someone had gotten a Stellar-level treasure of heaven and earth, so he went to check it out? In other words, is there really any Stellar treasure of heaven and earth in this dead planet?"

"Since Alexis have heard about it, it must be! Also, that is a Stellar treasure of heaven and earth, and if we can get our hands on one, it's like hitting the jackpot! So, I'd rather believe it than not!"

"What should we do?"

"Look carefully tomorrow, I don't believe we can't find it if others can!

"If we really cannot find it, then spread the news out!"

"Yeah!"

"What is that? Scary!"

"I have trypophobia!"

Seeing the countless insects rushing in from all directions. Niu Miao screamed as she hid directly behind her brother, but Niu Ben too was frightened.

Too many!

There were just too many bugs!

They were coming all over and in all directions.

Densely packed and swarming.

At first glance, it was nothing but a swarm of black insects as they formed into an endless tide of bugs surrounding them.

While Ling Jiu was surprised, he did not panic as he grabbed his hand out and caught one of the bugs over.

The black bug looked strange. It was about the size of a fist, and it had devilfish-like wings, with dozens of legs under its belly.

The weirdest thing was its mouth. It was similar to a suction cup that was aimed in the direction of the airship. Even when it was caught by Ling Jiu, it continued to aim its mouth at the airship.

"Was this lifeform born on this planet?"

Ling Jiu looked at the bug for a while and then pinched his fingers gently as he tried to squash the bug. Yet it was somehow unscathed.

"Hmmm?"

Ling Jiu frowned as he increased his strength. Yet, the bug remained fine. He then used all of his strength before the sound of a crack rang out and the bug was squashed.

Strangely enough, the moment the bug was squashed, what burst out if its body was not blood but dazzling light, as though…

Light was stored in the bug instead of blood!

"What a weird bug," Ling Jiu whispered before he heard Bai Ya exclaim, "Honey, have a look at these bugs!"

Ling Jiu turned his head and saw something was happening among the densely packed insects as they were expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye…

From the size of a child's palm to the size of an adult's palm.

Then, the size of Yao Ming's palm.

And then, the size of a junior high textbook.

In just a few breath's time, the frontmost insects were as big as a grinding plate, and in comparison, the ones at the back were growing a little slower.

"What's wrong with them?"

"Why is this happening?"

The four looked at each other, startled by the strange scene.

Ling Jiu frowned and mused as he immediately used his Replication Arcana to probe these insect's information.

Name: Unknown

Species: Unknown

Arcana: Devouring Light ((Awakened, Replicable), Unlimited Growth (Awakened, Replicable), Super Defense (Awakened, Replicable)

Looking at the Arcana information that appeared in his mind, and then back at the bugs with their suction cup-like mouth aiming at the airship. Ling Jiu suddenly realized something.

The bugs were not targeting the airship, but rather the lights inside it.

These bugs… were devouring light!

Or rather, they were eating light!

With that thought in mind, Ling Jiu took out the remote control and turned off all of the lights on the airship. Ling Jiu could clearly see that as the light disappeared, all of the bugs closed their mouths and faded away like the tide.

They had no intelligence and only followed the light. Now that the light was gone, they had nothing to feed on, so they would naturally leave.

Ling Jiu pressed the button and turned on the lights. The bugs immediately converged again as they aimed their open suction-cup mouths toward the airship's lights.

They were… starting to devour light!

"I did not expect such a lifeform to exist. The universe is so vast and amazing!"

Ling Jiu was secretly amazed before placing his attention on the bug's three different Arcanas. Ling Jiu was not interested in Devouring Light, but what piqued his interests were Unlimited Growth and Super Defense.

First was Unlimited Growth.

Ling Jiu had heard reports like this before talking about how reptiles and fish on Earth constantly grew throughout their lives. In theory, as long as there was no limit to their lifespan, they could grow in size infinitely.

However, Ling Jiu could not ascertain the authenticity of those reports since all animals had a lifespan limit and would die once they reached the end of their lives.

Yet, the bug before him could seemingly grow indefinitely, and Ling Jiu was very interested in this power.

The reason was after replicating the abilities of the Astral Flame Behemoth, the larger his size got, the greater his attribute index.

At 1.8 meters tall, his attribute index was a hundred thousand times.

Now at the height of 50 meters, Ling Jiu had no idea what kind of state the attribute index was in, but he was clear that his attributes were much stronger than before.

So, to him, size represented strength. The larger his size, the stronger he was!

However, as 9527 had said, even behemoths like the Flame Astral Behemoth, whose adult form could span light-years… had restrictions when it came to their body size.

Once it reached its limit, the Flame Astral Behemoth would not continue to grow. This meant that its power had reached its limit, and would stop getting stronger.

Reaching one's limit…

That was without a doubt something very unpleasant for any lifeforms.

Ling Jiu, who had replicated the physique of the Astral Behemoth would undoubtedly stop growing once his body had reached its growth limit. That was simply off-putting.

So, how would he solve this problem?

The solution was right before him now.

The Unlimited Growth Arcana!

"Should I replicate that?" Ling Jiu muttered to himself.

The second one was Super Defense.

Ling Jiu had witnessed the kind of defensive power that the bug possessed. With the strength he had in his current form, he needed to use all of his might to crush a bug the size of his palm.

How strong was its defense power?

It… simply begged belief!

Ling Jiu was also very interested in its Super Defense, even though his current defense was god-knows how many times stronger than ordinary Level 7 Arcanists.

"Unlimited growth!

"Super defense!

"Which one to replicate first?"

Ling Jiu pondered for a long time before finally making his decision.

"Replicate, Unlimited Growth!"

Replication successful. Assimilate?

"Not yet."

Ling Jiu shook his head and said to Bai Ya and the others, "These bugs are eating light. They are not harmful to us. Let's go back."

"Eating light?"

The three were stunned.

After lunch, all four of them took a rest.

Ling Jiu waited for Bai Ya to sleep before quietly sneaking out of the airship and came to the wilderness tens of kilometers away before assimilating the Unlimited Growth Arcana.

"Aaargh!!"

It was another painful ordeal and Ling Jiu saw another black light orb appearing in his Replication Arcana star system, for a total of 15 now.

This light orb represented the Unlimited Growth Arcana.

"Hopefully, after replicating this Arcana, I can really grow without any restrictions."

This time he slept for almost ten hours, and after a meal, they came to the other half of the planet to search for the red crystals in the magma.

The four seemed to have ran out of luck as after working for 24 hours, they had only found three crystals, far lesser than yesterday's harvest.

However, even with lesser harvest they still had to rest.

And just as the four was about to leave the magma sea to head back, they heard an earth-shaking roar coming from the distance.

"What's going on there?"

The four looked at each other.

"Let's go and have a look!"

Ling Jiu immediately wrapped everyone in the bubble and rushed over. After a while they arrived at the scene and saw a flaming man fighting with a monster.

The identity of the flaming man was unclear at the moment.

The monster, on the other hand, was a dragon more than 80 meters in size!

Eighty meters!

This was a terrifying size!

The dragon monster Ling Jiu had fought earlier was only 50 meters along and could take Ling Jiu's fists without getting hurt.

A dragon that was more than 80 meters long… was definitely stronger.

Amazingly, though, the flaming man seemed to be beating the dragon monster?

The temperature of his flame was higher than the magma's as giant fireballs slammed onto the dragon monster one after another, scorching it as it roared in fury.

The dragon monster wanted to attack the flaming man, and as soon as its claws struck, the flaming man dispersed before reforming moments later.

The dragon monster's attack… was ineffective!

"This guy is really strong!"

Ling Jiu slowly said, "Brother Niu, you recognize this person?"

"Fire-Elemental Form!"

Niu Ben solemnly said, "And a Level 9 combat power… Across the entire matriculation camp, there's only one person I can think of."

"Who's that?" Ling Jiu asked.

"Alek Ansel!" Niu Ben slowly uttered a name.

"Both Alek and I joined the camp the same year, and we've been in the camp together for almost ten years now. We're proper old coots! Plus, he's a typical representation of someone who's unwilling to leave the camp."

Ling Jiu nodded. Niu Ben had mentioned earlier that only the camp had the Arcana Tree, and there was no other place one could absorb those arcane energies.

Once they left, they would not be able to draw upon it anymore, and that led to many of the older cadets in the camp being reluctant to leave.

"It's precisely because he doesn't want to leave that every time he's about to break a million points, Alek always consumes a portion of it."

Niu Ben added, "He doesn't care about his ranking because he has been number one in the rankings for a long time."

"There was something like that happening?"

Ling Jiu was stunned.

"It's true!"

Niu Ben sighed. "He's really strong, even the second-ranked Qiu Haohao and the third-ranked Toynbee are not necessarily his match! In other words, if Alek wanted to graduate and leave, he would have done so long ago!"

"Seems like a true powerhouse!"

Ling Jiu continued to look at the two embroiled in battle.

By this time, the battle had already came to an end, and under Alek's immolation, the dragon monster which could swim freely in the magma were at its limits as patches of scorched black marks appeared all across its body as it recoiled and prepared to escape.

"Running away?'

Alek sneered as the flames in his hand transformed into a black flaming blade that burst out and instantly cut the wings of the dragon monster.

Dush!

Following a crisp thud, the black flaming blade instantly ripped through the dragon monster's right wing and sliced it clean off.

The incision was scorched black, but very smooth. One could imagine how terrifying the power of the black flaming blade was.

One needed to know that earlier on when Ling Jiu used his fist, he was not able to break the skull of that 50-meter-long dragon, but now…

"What kind of flame is that?"

Ling Jiu's pupils shrank.

Chapter 213: Fire of Evolution, Stellar Dragon

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The dragon monster left deep impression on Ling Jiu, not because of its super strength or the ability to tear the dimension, but its terrifying defense!

The 50-meter-long dragon monster was unscathed despite taking a punch from him directly. So, one could imagine just how terrifying the defense of this creature was!

A 80-meter long dragon monster's defense could be even stronger.

However, at this moment, Alek's fire blade suddenly cut off the giant dragon monster's wing with just a slash. Wings were indeed a relatively fragile part of a dragon monster's body, but for it to get cut off that easily, this fire blade's power must be absolutely remarkable!

"This flame is one of Alek's arcana!" Niu Ben explained.

"His flame can absorb other flames or energy to evolve. The more flames and energy it absorbs, the more powerful it becomes!"

"So, Alek named this flame as Fire of Evolution. It is said that its temperature is higher than 200,000 degrees Celsius!"

"200,000 degrees Celsius…"

"And it can evolve!" Ling Jiu suddenly felt that his Seven-colored Rainbow Flame was not that great. Although Seven-colored Rainbow Flame , with temperature as high as 100,000 degrees Celsius, was not inferior to Alek's Fire of Evolution, it was obviously not good enough compared to an evolvable flame!

'I must find a chance to replicate it!' Ling Jiu thought silently.

On the other hand, the 80-meter-long dragon monster could not maintain its balance after one of its wing being cut off by Alek. It plunged into the sea of hot lava.

However, the sea of lava was not a real ocean. It was only dozen-meter deep, so a 40 to 50 meters long dragon monster could not hide itself there. Alek suddenly appeared above the dragon monster with black flames gathered in his hand. The flames eventually formed a ten-meter long spear.

"Go!" Alek threw the black spear, aiming directly at the back of the dragon monster's head. If it hit, it would definitely pierce through the dragon monster's head.

"Stop!" A spatial vortex suddenly appeared in the path of the black spear, and the black spear went into it. Once the vortex disappeared, everything returned to peace.

"Who is this?" Alek's facial expression turned grave because his attack—which was about to succeed—suddenly got intercepted. He scanned around like a falcon with his eyes, looking for the person who did that.

Ling Jiu slowly showed himself. It was not someone else but him who had done that! Initially, he did not bother about the dragon monster's life. However, his prior experience told him what if there was a Stellar-class dragon monster behind this creature.

If this dragon monster got killed and that Stellar-class dragon wanted to avenge its death, who could defeat the latter. And when that time came, could they still look for Fiery Red Crystal? So, out of these considerations, Ling Jiu decided to save the dragon's life.

"Who are you?" Alek looked at Ling Jiu who suddenly showed up. His face was grave.

"You cannot kill it!" Ling Jiu said dully.

"Cannot kill?" Alek's voice turned cold. "Give me a reason, otherwise, I will kill you too!"

"Kill me too? Can you even do it?" Ling Jiu sneered. Initially, he wanted to explain. But after hearing Alek's tone and seeing his attitude, Ling Jiu was unhappy.

'I'm trying to save your life, and this is how you repay me?'

'D*mn it! Who does not have a little bad temper?'

"I knew it would become like this!" Niu Ben smiled bitterly after seeing clash between Ling Jiu and Alek. He supported Ling Jiu's action for stopping Alek because it was undoubtedly a wise decision.

Niu Ben knew the temperament of these two people well. Alek was low-key, but cruel, cold, and murderous, while Ling Jiu was arrogant, amenable to coaxing but not coercion.

Therefore, when Ling Jiu took his move, Niu Ben had figured that this would happen. As expected, the two clashed head-to-head.

"Brother, can you try to stop them?" Niu Miao said anxiously, "Alek was known for being ferocious in Matriculation Camp. More than a dozen trainees had died in his hands. If Ling Jiu confronts him hastily…"

Expression on Bai Ya's pretty face changed slightly once she heard Niu Miao. Her gaze was fixed at Niu Ben.

"Let me try! But I am not sure if I can succeed!" Niu Ben gave a wry smile, and then appeared between Ling Jiu and Alek. "Alek, stay calm!"

"Niu Ben?" Alek frowned, and then looked at Ling Jiu. He said coldly, "So, you are the rookie who has just joined Matriculation Camp recently? For a rookie to be this arrogant, you must be looking for death!"

"So, what if I'm the rookie? Beating you up is not a problem!" Ling Jiu sneered.

"Listen to me first!" Seeing that the two were about to fight, Niu Ben continued to intervene, "Alek, Ling Jiu prevented you from killing that monster for a reason—"

"Get out of the way!" Alek did not want to listen to Niu Ben. Suddenly, a shining black flame burst out of his body. He was immediately covered by the black flame. And instantly, he appeared in front of Ling Jiu and blasted his fist out vigorously.

"Go die!"

"Ling Jiu, be careful!" Niu Ben warned him loudly.

"Great!" Ling Jiu's lips curled. He squeezed his right fist and was going to meet Alek's punch. "You're dead!"

When Alek saw it, a smirk appeared at the corner of his mouth. Although his fist's strength was not great, it was wrapped in a layer of Fire of Evolution. No one would dare to strike a fist against his fist because, apparently, it would only lead to one outcome!

"Fool!" Alek sneered and expanded the flame on his fist. His huge fist instantly turned into a fist of flame, and then slammed into Ling Jiu's fist hard.

Kacha—

Their fists collided.

When Alek felt there was a terrifying power coming from Ling Jiu's fist, his expression changed drastically, his eyes widened. He could not believe his eyes.

"How is this possible?" Alek screamed. He felt there was a blast breaking his bones inch by inch, starting from his fist. It was until it reached his elbow, it stopped. In other words, all the bones of lower than his right elbow shattered.

However, Ling Jiu's fist did not stop. After smashing Alek's arm, he struck a heavy punch at Alek's chest, resulting a deep pit.

"Ah—"Alek spouted a mouthful of blood. His body was sent flying like a cannonball.

"With such little strength and yet dared to fight me head-to-head, you are indeed a fool!" Ling Jiu sneered. He looked at the black flame which had spread to his fist and opened his mouth to suck it into the inner realm of his body.

The flame was submerged by the fire in the inner realm without causing any waves. This proved the fire in the inner realm was even more terrifying!

"He won! Ling Jiu won!" Niu Miao cheered loudly.

Bai Ya quietly let out a sigh of relief.

Niu Ben exclaimed, "Brother Ling is really amazing. Alek's Fire of Evolution has not caused him any harm!"

"Ling Jiu is really awesome, but Alek is really stupid. He even went head-to-head with Ling Jiu. Isn't he looking for death?" Said Niu Miao.

"Miao Miao, Ling Jiu is just a rookie. Besides us, who would know that he is this strong?" said Niu Ben.

"That's true!" Niu Miao nodded slightly.

On the other hand, Alek did not die from such serious injury. He was indeed one of the previous top trainees in the standings. The black flame on his body burned even more vigorously.

Ling Jiu saw that Alek's broken arm and sunken chest recovering little by little quickly.

"Good resilience!" Ling Jiu was slightly amazed.

"This guy's resilience is so strong!" Bai Ya was also stunned.

"Alek has been in Matriculation Camp for ten years, and he was the top trainee in the past. I don't know how many rewards he has received from Matriculation Camp over the years!" Niu Ben shook his head and exclaimed. "After taking a lot of treasures of heaven and earth, he is considered to have become perfect, almost without weakness!"

"I see." Bai Ya was stunned.

This was how an arcanist grew. The improvement could take place in other aspects besides the arcana gene's thickness, the arcana's control, and the physical body's strength. It could be improvements like awakening new arcana and gaining new abilities. So, the longer time the arcanists cultivated, especially the ancient ones, the stronger and more perfect they were.

This was an undisputed fact!

"I have underestimated you!" Alek was almost done recovering. He stared at Ling Jiu coldly with murderous intent in his eyes.

"However, that's it— "

*ROAR—*

Alek's could not finish his words as a thunderous roar suddenly came from a distance. And the next moment, the sky above his head became dark. Everyone looked up quickly and saw a huge black shadow appear in the sky, blocking the sun and sunlight.

"This is…" Ling Jiu's pupils shrank, and every hair on his body stood raised with fear.

Without hesitation, he tried to perform Dimension Arcana to move near to Bai Ya and the duo so he could flee with them.

Unexpectedly, his body was still in place. He could not move no matter how hard he tried.

"D*mn! What the h*ll is going on?" Ling Jiu struggled desperately to no avail.

The same thing happened to Alek, Bai Ya, Niu siblings—none of them could move.

'This is Dimensional Shackle!' Ling Jiu shouted in his heart. 'This dimension is completely locked!'

Ling Jiu, who had Dimension Arcana, could clearly see that all the Dimensional Points within a few kilometers are locked. Not only that, it was Brutal Dimensional Shackle!

Hence, even if he had Dimension Arcana, he could not shake the surrounding Dimensional Points! "It's over! We are dead!" Bitterness grew in Ling Jiu's heart.

It was a giant dragon monster and not someone else that appeared in the sky. The dragon monster was 800-meter long. With its wings spread, its width was more than 4,000 meters. It was a monster that could cover the sky and the sun.

At this moment, an unparalleled aura radiated from the dragon monster, arbitrarily oppressing the hearts of several people, making them feel distraught and frightened.

'Stellar lifeform!

'It is definitely a Stellar lifeform!

'It is even more scary than the dragon with a body length of more than 500 meters that appeared last time!'

"Why does this kind of terrifying existence appear? What does it want to do? Does it want to avenge the dragon monster just now?"

Ling Jiu was in a little panic. "D*mn Alek, if it wasn't him…"

Ling Jiu's guess was correct. A tiny figure flew out of the sea of lava to the giant dragon monster.

It was the 80-meter-long dragon monster whose wing was cut off by Alek.

The 80-meter-long dragon monster let out a low roar. Its pair of fiery red eyes swept Alek, Ling Jiu and the others from time to time. It seemed like it was complaining of something.

ROAR—

After listening the small dragon, the giant dragon monster landed its gaze on Alek. There was a glint of violence in its eyes.

*BANG*

Alek suddenly exploded and became a cloud of blood. He was burnt into ashes after falling into the sea of hot lava.

"He is d-d-dead!" Ling Jiu was horrified. The same went to the trio.

No one knew what this giant dragon monster would do next. Was it going to kill them, like it killed Alek?

If so…They were doomed!

Chapter 214: Ocean on Mars, Gratitude from Giant Dragon

To Ling Jiu's surprise, the giant dragon did not kill them after slaughtering Alek.

Instead, it stared at them for a while, particularly at Ling Jiu. After giving him a long gaze, it left the scene with the small dragon and slowly disappeared in the sky.

As the giant and small dragons left, the pressure of the giant dragon's aura gradually dissipated. Ling Jiu and the trio panted heavily, as if they had just come back from hell.

"Finally, they left!" Niu Miao patted her chest, with lingering fear in her heart. "I was almost scared to death just now. I thought we were doomed for sure. Who would expect…"

"Thank God!"

"Alek that assh*le had almost got us killed!" Niu Ben also smiled bitterly

"Why didn't that dragon monster kill us?"

"Is it because Ling Jiu have saved the little dragon?" Niu Ben spoke in low voice.

"This must be the only explanation!" Niu Ben sighed, "Maybe that small dragon monster has said something nice about us when it was communicating with the giant dragon monster?"

Niu Miao nodded slightly as she agreed that this was the only explanation.

"Just how many such terrifying beings are there on this planet?"

Bai Ya said, "This is the second being powerful than Class-10 Direbeast we have encountered so far. Last time it was a 500-meter-long dragon."

"God knows how many?" Niu Ben shook his head and said, "Forget it, let's leave. This planet is not where we should stay!"

Bai Ya and Niu Miao also nodded slightly. The Fiery Red Crystals were good stuff, but this planet was too dangerous.

These terrifying dragons would not attack them as long as they did not provoke them. But what if there was an accident?

Almost all Matriculation Camp trainees had come to this planet, and no one could guarantee that things like what happened to Alek would not occur.

Therefore, the three of them agreed to leave, and Ling Jiu had no choice but to leave with them for now.

Eventually, the news they heard later proved that their judgment was correct. Once they returned to Mars through Wormhole 13, the staff notified them that the danger state of that planet was identified as SS Level due to 11 trainee deaths and the existence of horrifying creatures on the planet!

Therefore, Matriculation Camp trainees were banned from visiting that planet!

After they were informed, Ling Jiu and the other three looked at each other, and saw consternation in each other's eyes.

'There are already 11 people died on that planet?'

'The death rate is too high!

'But it is normal since the planet's environment is harsh. The temperature is high. It is as high as 110 degree Celsius even for regions in hemisphere of night, let alone the other hemisphere covered by sea of lava.

'On planet with such extreme environment, Matriculation Camp trainees will not be able to stay long. Their lives can be in danger if they walk a little farther. Hence, 11 deaths reported after few days—it's not high.'

"Let's go. Let's go back!"

The four returned to Matriculation Camp after passing through Wormhole 13. They planned to go back to Antarctic Ice City to meet the camp commandant. Their goal was simple—to sell the Fiery Red Crystals and divide the earning equally!

Unexpectedly, as soon as they had passed through the wormhole, Uncle Wang blocked their way.

"It's you again?" Uncle Wang squinted his eyes. "Where are you going?"

"Uncle Wang, we need to meet Camp Commandant for an urgent matter!" Niu Ben spoke with a smiling face, then took out a good bottle of red wine for Uncle Wang. "Hehe. Please make an exception for us."

Uncle Wang calmly accepted the red wine and said dully, "You have picked the wrong time. Camp Commandant is not at Antarctic Ice City right now!"

"No?" Niu Ben was taken aback.

"She went to Mars!" Uncle Wang said lightly.

"Mars?" The four of them had no choice but to return to Mars. However, they did not know where the camp commandant was, so they could only go separate ways for now.

Ling Jiu and Bai Ya returned to their woods, while Niu Ben and Niu Miao went to Matriculation Camp.

"Ling Jiu, look!" Bai Ya suddenly pointed to a distance and exclaimed when they had just reached the front of the barrier wall.

Ling Jiu looked at the direction she was pointing and saw a huge fountain suddenly appear in the distant desert. The thick waterspout shot few hundred-meter-high into the sky. It could be clearly seen even from remote distance.

"They have started to let the water in?" Ling Jiu said in low voice, "Let's go to take a look!"

"Okay!"

The next moment, the two arrived at the front of Wormhole 51 and saw a waterspout of few hundred meters thick shot out from the wormhole, to the sky in an extremely violent impact.

The water then spread out under the sunlight. It was a beautiful sight.

At the same time, there were people standing in front of Wormhole 51: construction workers, relevant experts, scientists, and Matriculation Camp senior officials including the camp commandant.

There were also many Matriculation Camp trainees attracted by the view.

"Camp Commandant is here!" Ling Jiu whispered secretly.

At this time, everyone seemed very happy. Looking at the waterspout shot out from Wormhole 51, they were full of joy.

"10 days! It only took 10 days for this project to get proposed, approved, and finally completed. Thanks to everyone's hard work!"

"Judging from the current water output speed, I think it will take several decades for Mars to have oceans like Earth. But this would not obscure tree planting on Mars!"

"The temperature of Mars now is considered conducive. And with water, we can grow plants at large areas of Mars so they could produce oxygen! "

"And once the temperature is right, the survival and growth rates of the arcana trees will be greatly accelerated. It will form a virtuous circle, and speed up Mars terraformation!

"Yes, it may not even have to take a few years…"

People were excited and full of hopes for the future of Mars.

Mars was the first foreign planet that humans was trying to terraform.

During the entire terraformation process, not only could humans increase their experience, they would have one more home planet once the terraformation was complete.

Therefore, terraforming Mars certainly had extraordinary significance!

Ling Jiu, as a participant in Mars terraformation, felt very differently.

Mars had evolved from an icy planet to a planet with conducive temperature. And now, there was even water. Ling Jiu's contribution was great!

It was him who had discovered Venus and proposed to divide the carbon dioxide; it was him who had discovered Europa and proposed to distribute part of its water to Mars…

One could say that Ling Jiu played an important role in the whole process.

Once Mars terraformation succeeded, his contribution would be indelible.

After watching for a long time, the crowd gradually dispersed. The canal system had been built, and the water had been released. The next thing to do was to wait.

Mars would become a humid planet after its dry surface absorbed more and more water.

"But it is a pity for Europa! " Ling Jiu shook his head and sighed, "Once the ocean beneath the ice shrinks significantly, Europa's environment is bound to drastic changes. It will greatly affect the lifeforms and floating mountains! "

"Yes!" Bai Ya nodded slightly.

"However, there is no other way!" Ling Jiu said with mixed feelings, "No matter how good Europa is, it is a planet where humans cannot survive, and there is no way to transform it!"

In the next few days, Ling Jiu and Bai Ya did not go anywhere but planted trees at Ares Plains at ease.

They planted trees during the day, slept and had training at night.

These days were fulfilling and wonderful.

It was not that Ling Jiu did not want to go out. Bai Ya had been keeping tight eyes on him.

She was afraid that Ling Jiu would visit that dangerous hellish planet again, so she refused to let him leave.

After a full week, Ling Jiu left the place. He came up with the excuse that his cooling-off period for Arcana Replication had ended and he needed to look for a good target to replicate at Matriculation Camp.

"Sigh! This is the disadvantage of being in relationship. I no longer able to enjoy freedom as much as before! "

Ling Jiu sighed and moved straight to Wormhole 13.

The cooling-period of Arcana Replication had actually passed, and it had only been 10 days since the replication of Unlimited Growth.

This meant the cooling-period of Arcana Replication had been shortened to 10 days from 15 days, which was 5 days lesser!

It was great news!

But Ling Jiu's goal today was not to replicate an arcana but to go back to that hellish planet and swallow a wave of lava. Apparently, he was at his wits' end past few days.

Ling Jiu arrived at the hellish planet. The surrounding was still endlessly dark.

After he sensed Dimensional Marker, he reached the sky above the sea of lava. While looking at the boiling sea of lava, he licked his lips, "I have done craving… The Devourer!"

*BOOM—*

A black hole emerged and swallowed the hot lava madly. Nevertheless, Ling Jiu did not feel satisfied. He jumped into the sea of lava and create a terrifying vortex that could swallow even more madly.

*BUZZ—*

The huge vortex frantically swallowed the surrounding lava. As large amount of lava was sucked into his inner realm, the realm was expanding at speed visible to the eyes.

29 kilometers, 30 kilometers, 31 kilometers…

After devouring the lava for a while, Ling Jiu burped contentedly and emerged from the sea of lava.

It was not that he did not want to continue to devour the lava, but The Devourer 's consumption of dark bio-energy was way too shocking. In addition, it costed him dark bio-energy too when his inner realm was transforming the lava!

This was Ling Jiu. If it was another person, the arcana gene of that person would get drained long ago!

Therefore, Ling Jiu could not swallow endlessly. He needed to pause for a break after a certain period of swallowing the lava.

Sitting cross-legged, Ling Jiu quickly absorbed dark bio-energy in the void.

A steady stream of dark bio-energy flooded into his Dantian. And as nebula rotated, the stream was finally absorbed by Gene Arcana core at the center of nebula. The Gene Arcana core which had shrunk earlier then quickly recovered.

After a long time, Ling Jiu had almost recovered so he continued to devour the lava.

The half day had passed in the blink of an eye. Ling Jiu knew that he had to go back, otherwise Bai Ya would get suspicious.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Ling Jiu heard a low roar. He turned his head and saw a giant dragon monster galloping in the hot lava, rushing towards him in high speed.

When Ling Jiu saw the giant dragon monster, his heart tightened. The shock had shadowed him. But luckily, the giant dragon monster in front of him was a small one, only seventy or eighty meters long.

Ling Jiu could not help but let out a sigh of relief. Nevertheless, he was still going to withdraw.

In the last two occasions, when the small dragons were under attack, the big dragons had showed up to avenge them.

Therefore, if this small dragon was here, the big one must be not far away.

So, Ling Jiu would be frightened even though it was just a small dragon.

The dragon seemed to have noticed that Ling Jiu was about to flee, so it flapped its two wings quickly and blocked Ling Jiu's way after letting out a roar.

Its two wings were obviously asymmetrical—one was bigger than the other one. The smaller wing looked rather new.

When Ling Jiu saw the wings, he was shocked. 'Is this fellow the dragon whose wing was cut off by Alek in last fierce battle?'

What happened next proved that Ling Jiu's guess was right. With a pair of watermelon-sized eyes, the dragon fixed its gaze at Ling Jiu, and there was no malice in its eyes.

"Thank you… for saving me!" Ling Jiu heard a low voice in his mind.

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Chapter 215: Unknown Black Egg, Prophecy

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"Thank you… for saving me?"

Hearing the sudden drawl in his mind, Ling Jiu was shocked as he looked around before landing his eyes on the dragon. "It was you speaking?"

"Yes!"

The 80-meter-long dragon monster nodded its big head. "I left in a hurry the other day and did not have the time to thank you. So today, I'm officially thanking you for your life-saving grace."

"Uh…. you're welcome?"

The monster could actually speak!

Ling Jiu was a little shocked, but after pondering for a bit he felt it was actually normal.

Back on Earth, a Class 8 Direbeast possessed intelligence no inferior to humans.

Class 9 Direbeasts could speak the human tongue, and it was said that even more powerful monsters could change their size at will.

The great dragon before him was certainly of Class 9 or even higher. So it would not have been out of space for it to speak, even though it was an alien creature.

However, Ling Jiu still checked its Arcana.

Name: Unknown

Species: Unknown

Arcana: Spiritual Communication (Awakened, Replicable), Super Physique (Awakened, Replicable), Mega Dragon Flame (Awakened, Replicable), Mega Tremor (Awakened, Replicable)

Ling Jiu directly ignored the first three Arcanas as his attention fell onto the last Mega Tremor Arcana.

Tremor!

It was a very terrifying force!

It normally referred to the tremors caused by a relatively large object, and this was different from the vibrations caused by smaller objects.

For example, an earthquake was the most typical example of a tremor, as it was formed by the shaking of the earth's crust. The destructive power of an earthquake was beyond doubt, and once could see the power of the Tremor Arcana through an earthquake.

"With my body, coupled with the Tremor Arcana, its effect is definitely no inferior to Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit in One Piece1, right?"

Ling Jiu licked his lips as he hesitated with replicating that Arcana.

In fact, he still had many other choices. Which of those cadets in the matriculation camp did not have freakish Arcana? Who did not have at least two or three Arcanas with them?

There were so many choices!

So, should he replicate?

Ling Jiu was a little hesitant.

"Can you come with me?"

The dragon looked at Ling Jiu and said.

"To where?"

Ling Jiu was dumbfounded.

"You'll find out if you follow me!"

The dragon monster said and then plunged headlong into the magma. After a moment of hesitation, Ling Jiu followed it.

After swimming through the magma, Ling Jiu suddenly felt like he had passed through something similar to a barrier, and then came to a mysterious area.

There was no longer any boiling magma around him, and the temperature was not as high. Instead, it was an extremely cool underground world.

At a glance, it seemed like he had arrived at a massive gorge with undulating mountains and lush vegetation.

"This is…"

Ling Jiu was shocked.

Above him was red hot roiling magma, but they were blocked by a mysterious barrier and could not fall through it.

"This is a world inside the planet!"

The great dragon explained, "We are used to calling this place the Dragon Valley because the Redflame Dragon clan lives here."

"The Dragon Valley?"

"Crimson Dragon?"

Ling Jiu muttered a few words and continued to look at the place called the Dragon Valley.

In terms of geography alone, this place looked not too different from those places surrounded by mountains back on Earth, the only difference was the plant life that grew inside it.

Aside from that, there were bizarre flying creatures and beasts that lived in the mountains and forests as roars ring out from it. Giving him a primordial and wild atmosphere.

"Great dragon… friend, where are you taking me?" Ling Jiu could not help but ask.

He was a little worried if the latter had any plots in mind, and if he was brought to Stellar lifeform-level great dragon, then he would be dead meat!

"We'll arrive soon enough!"

The dragon said, "I'm not called 'friend', I'm called Redflame."

"Redflame?" Ling Jiu murmured.

Under Redflame's lead, the two soon arrived at the front of a huge mountain, and close to the top of the mountain was a massive cave.

A scorching heatwave came from the cave, and at the same time, there was a strong smell of sulfur. It was not difficult for Ling Jiu to guess that this should be a volcano. The cave should lead to the inside of that volcano.

"We're here!" the dragon called Redflame said before flying into the cave. Ling Jiu gritted himself as he followed from behind and ventured into the depths of the cave.

Sure enough, the innermost cave led to the center of the volcano, and one could see the scorching hot magma from a distance. Redflame retracted its wings and landed beside the magma lake.

"Father, we are back!" Redflame shouted at the magma lake.

Soon, the boiling magma became restless as a massive head slowly emerged from the lake.

At first glance, Ling Jiu recognized the creature, it was the same 800 meter long great dragon that had killed Alek, with a wingspan of more than 4,000 meters.

"Greetings, Earthling."

The great dragon spoke human tongue, and its words astonishing, but its attitude was fairly cordial.

Amidst Ling Jiu's shock, he quietly let out a sigh of relief. If the latter wanted him dead, he would have no room to fight back, and so the top priority was to survive as long as he could.

"Hello," Ling Jiu replied immediately.

"You are the first alien creature to come into this realm!"

The great dragon slowly said, "Of course, you won't be able to enter without my permission."

"May I ask, Sir, is there anything that led you to summon me?" Ling Jiu asked.

"There are two matters."

The great dragon slowly said, "First, you saved my child. According to the traditions of my people, I must thank you for your life-saving grace."

"There's no need for that, it was nothing."

Ling Jiu shook his head quickly.

"My people never owe any favors."

The great dragon leisurely said, "This is for you as a sign of our gratitude."

As his voice trailed away, a black stone the size of a millstone flew out of the magma and landed in front of Ling Jiu.

"This is…"

Ling Jiu was stunned.

"This is an egg."

The great dragon continued unhurriedly, "You've seen the environment of this planet. It is fixed in place by the tidal gravitational force of its parent star and has no rotation.

"So half of its hemisphere is always facing the star, under extreme temperature, while the other half is always night.

"Our Redflame Dragon clan occupies the magma hemisphere, while the dark side of the planet is ruled by the Dark Demonic Dragons."

"Dark Demonic Dragons?"

Ling Jiu was startled, and he broke out in cold sweat. "There is a Dark Demonic Dragon Clan on the hemisphere that is experiencing eternal night?"

"Yes!"

The great dragon slowly continued, "But there's only one Dark Demonic Dragon, not a clan.

"In fact, it was only me and the Dark Demonic Dragon at first. The Redflame Dragon clan was born from me."

"You alone? You bred an entire clan?"

Ling Jiu was stunned.

"Our clan has very powerful environmental adaptability, and under necessary conditions, we can change our gender, or even take on a hermaphrodite form," the great dragon gradually explained.

Ling Jiu was rendered speechless. What else was there to say?

Aside from… holy sh*t!

"Both the Dark Demonic Dragon and I do not belong here. We only entered a wormhole by mistake because we were fighting for this egg."

The Redflame Dragon glanced at the black egg lying quietly on the ground and said, "After that, the wormhole disappeared, and we have been staying here since forever."

"Sir, what is this thing actually?"

Ling Jiu was curious.

"I don't know what it is exactly either."

Bit by bit, the great dragon said, "But from my eyes, I can tell that it is definitely not a usual thing because its incubation period is just too long!"

"It has been more than 800 years since I got it, and it still hasn't hatched. So it is definitely an unusual thing."

"Hasn't hatched even after 800 years? Is it a dead egg?"

Ling Jiu raised his eyebrows as he used his Replication Arcana to probe the Arcana of this egg. It would have been fine if he did not check it, but when he did, he got a shock of his life.

Name: Unknown

Species: Unknown

Arcana: Unknown

"The hell, everything is unknown?"

Ling Jiu was a little confused. Generally speaking, as long as it was a living creature, he could probe the other's Arcana information, but the result was all unknown?

What was going on here?

If this was a dead object, then it was impossible for these lines to appear.

Since they appeared, it had proven that it was alive.

"It's alive, so why isn't there any information?"

Ling Jiu frowned deeply. "Could it be that the level of this lifeform is just too high, hence it's beyond the Replication Arcana's ability to detect it?"

After he mulled over it, he still came to a dead-end, so Ling Jiu simply could not be bothered with thinking about it any longer. He looked at the great dragon and thanked it.

Seeing Ling Jiu accept the black egg, the great dragon resumed talking. "The second thing is I would like to seek your aid."

"My aid?"

Ling Jiu was taken aback. "You are a powerful Stellar lifeform, what can I do to help you?"

"I once had a dream. The images I saw were extremely vague, but I remember some important parts very clearly.

The great dragon slowly said, "A human teenager who can swallow magma appeared in the dream, and he helped us to return to our homeland!"

"A human teenager who devours magma…"

Ling Jiu was shocked. Isn't that him that was being talked about?

"I've seen everything you did outside. I think you are the boy in my dream who can help us go home."

The great dragon stared at Ling Jiu with fiery eyes, full of expectation and hope.

"It has been more than 800 years since I came here, and my life is about to come to an end. My greatest is dream is to return to my homeland."

Ling Jiu suddenly smiled bitterly. "It is just a dream! Besides, I don't even know where your home is, so how can I help you get home?"

"Although us Redfire Dragons spend most of our lives in deep sleep, dragons never dream easily."

At that moment, Redfire said, "Yet, once you have a dream, the fragments in the dream will be transformed into reality. This is considered a talent of our kind."

"Transforming dreams into reality?"

Ling Jiu perked up and could not help but use the Replication Arcana to look into the great dragon's Arcana information. The results surprised Ling Jiu.

Name: Unknown

Species: Redflame Dragon

Arcana: Spiritual Communication (Awakened, Replicable), Super Physique (Awakened, Replicable), Mega Dragon Flame (Awakened, Replicable), Mega Tremor (Awakened, Replicable), Prophecy (Awakened, Replicable)

"Prophecy!"

Ling Jiu was stunned. "It has the power of prophecy? Good lord, is it telling the truth?"

If previously Ling Jiu was doubtful of the words of the great dragon and the crimson dragon, then now… he was wavering.

For a dragon that could foresee the future, it may very well be able to see the future.

"I've had two dreams in my life!"

The great dragon said, "The first time, I dreamt that I had come to a strange planet and thrived there!"

"As you have seen, the dream became reality!

"And the second dream was about you."

The dragon looked at Ling Jiu. "I believe this time it will certainly turn into reality. So, human, are you willing to aid me?"

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Chapter 216: Dark Demonic Dragon, the Black Egg's Identity

"So…

"Are you willing to aid me?"

Ling Jiu was a little speechless. Even if I want to help you, I am powerless. Who the hell knows where your homeland is? And even if I have an idea, how do I send you back?

It's not like I know how to make wormholes!

…Create a wormhole!

Ling Jiu's mind perked up.

Naturally, he thought of the void worm. It had been sleeping ever since he had gotten it, and in the words of 9527, it was about to hatch.

Once it hatched, it would break out of its cocoon and become a butterfly, formally entering its adolescence stage. An adolescent void worm would undoubtedly have an even stronger ability to create wormholes.

"If I replicate the ability to create wormholes, then there is hope to help the great dragon return home! But the question is, where is its home?"

"Also, if the distance is too far, then it won't be possible."

Thinking of this, Ling Jiu slowly said, "Sir Dragon, although I do want to help you, I know nothing about your homeland…"

"As long as you are willing to help us, that problem can be easily resolved!"

A glimmer of joy flashed in the eyes of the great dragon as it then looked in a direction and spoke.

"I can faintly sense the direction of my homeland. It's over there, and it's not too far away, about a few light-years away."

"A few light-years? That doesn't seem all that far away."

Ling Jiu nodded and then wondered again. "With this distance, you should be able to fly back right?"

Ling Jiu had heard 9527 said before that Stellar lifeforms possessed the ability to wander throughout the universe, and will not freeze to death in the icy environment of deep space nor to space radiation, and could survive in space.

With the power of the great dragon, it was not a problem to cross a few light-years, right?

"I used to think so too!"

The great dragon slowly said, "Unfortunately, the distance of a few light-years is just too far for me. I'm afraid that I will die of old age long before I reach my homeland!"

"You need to know, while we, Redfire Dragons have relatively long lifespans, a Stellar-lifeform Redfire Dragon can only live for 1,500 years at most."

"How is it possible to cross several light-years in just 1,500 years?"

Ling Jiu was silent.

How far was 'several light-years away'?

One year of light traveling was one light-year.

Several years… meant that light had to travel for several years!

How fast was the speed of light again?

About 300,000 kilometers per second!

Three hundred thousand kilometers… per second!

That was an extremely terrifying number!

One-tenth was 30,000 kilometers per second.

One percent was 3,000 kilometers per second.

One over ten thousand was 30 kilometers per second.

Even 30 kilometers per second was a terrifying number!

Ling Jiu did not know what the maximum speed of a Stellar lifeform was, but he thought that it would not exceed 30 kilometers per second, ten-thousandth of the speed of light.

Assuming that the great dragon could reach ten-thousandth of the speed of light, it would need 10,000 years to traverse the distance of a single light-year!

Ten thousand years!

Forget a few light-years!

That alone was already tens of thousands of years!

A lifespan of 1,500 years was far from enough!

It was true that outer space was vast and empty, without any obstructions, and in theory, a Stellar lifeform could continue to accelerate and eventually reach a terrifying speed.

But this was obviously unrealistic.

It was impossible, even for a machine, to accelerate all of the time!

Why? Because there would not be enough fuel in the tank, much less a lifeform that needed to eat, drink, and do toilet business.

So, it was not realistic to keep on accelerating indefinitely.

This was space!

This was the universe!

A mere few light-years away was already akin to a moat that could trap a primitive, low-level lifeform in their planets.

"So, I could only wait here silently. When I gradually lost patience and was about to sink into despair, I suddenly had a dream!"

The giant dragon looked at Ling Jiu. "And you appeared in the dream… At the end of it, you helped us return to our homeland!"

"So, I hope you can give me your aid!"

Ling Jiu was silent for a moment before speaking slowly. "I can try to help you, but whether I can be of any help in the end I don't know."

"Thank you!"

The great dragon said the two words slowly.

"Give me a week to prepare."

Ling Jiu said. "I will be back there at this time next week!"

The great dragon stared at Ling Jiu for a long while, before slowly saying. "Please."

Ling Jiu left the Dragon Valley.

After returning to the planet's surface, bathing in the hot molten magma, Ling Jiu let out a long sigh of relief. The pressure of standing beside the great dragon was just too much.

Its terrifying aura and pressure were really suffocating.

"Even standing beside Emperor Might back then did not give me such a pressure."

Ling Jiu moved his muscles a little and then sensed the Dimensional Mark before returning to Wormhole 13.

Just as he looked at the darkness around him, Ling Jiu murmured. "Does that Dark Demonic Dragon live here? We didn't know about it before!"

"Let's go! Fast!"

Just as Ling Jiu was about to leave, he suddenly realized that his body could not move. This feeling was the same when the first great dragon monster had appeared for the first time…

The surrounding space is held in place by force!

Who was it?

Was there even a need to ask?

"Damn it!"

Ling Jiu was horrified and his guts churned. "I should have just directly entered Wormhole 13 once I teleported over just now! Otherwise, how would I end up like this?"

The next moment, Ling Jiu felt the world spin. When he regained his senses, he was already in an unfamiliar environment.

It was pitch black all around.

He could not see his own five fingers.

Even with Ling Jiu's superior night vision, he could not see his surrounding environment clearly at all.

But Ling Jiu could clearly feel an incomparably terrifying aura crushing upon him as even the air became extremely thick, and was even more unbearable than being subjected to 400 times the gravity!

"Oh no!"

Ling Jiu wailed in his heart and then, he saw two huge blood-colored light orbs appearing in the void.

Blood-colored light burst out from the light orbs and illuminating the surroundings slightly. This was a massive cave with nothing inside it.

And in the center of the cave, lay a colossal monster.

A menacing head, dragon horns rising towards the sky, pieces of black and shiny scales… everything was telling its identity:

The Dark Demonic Dragon!

"I knew it!"

Ling Jiu panicked.

"Insignificant gnat!"

The Dark Demonic Dragon spoke, as violent sound waves blasted out from its mouth, rendering Ling Jiu's hearing ineffective as fear ran through him.

"You have been to the Dragon Valley, right?"

"Yes…yes!"

Ling Jiu trembled, being weak and helpless.

"Why did that fellow, Redfire, looked for you?"

The Dark Demonic Dragon continued to speak as if it was asking a casual question.

"This…"

Ling Jiu dithered.

"Hmmm?"

The Dark Demonic Dragon glared at him.

"Sir Redfire asked me to go to the Dragon Valley, one was to thank me for saving its child, and second, to get me to help it return to its homeland."

Ling Jiu said tremblingly.

"Return to its homeland?"

The Dark Demonic Dragon's voice suddenly raised a pitch higher, as its pair of blood-red eyeballs stared at Ling Jiu.

"That's nonsense! The Dragonstar is a few light-years away from this planet! How could a weak planetary lifeform like you help it!"

"S-Sir, I have a way to make wormholes!" Ling Jiu whispered as much as he could.

"Create wormholes?"

The Dark Demonic Dragon choked a little and said with surprise. "Gnat, do you really have a wake to create wormholes?"

"Yes!"

Ling Jiu suddenly toughened up. "Give me a week to prepare. After a week, I will return and help you create the wormholes, provided you lot give me directions."

Damn it, aren't you just a Stellar lifeform? What's there to be afraid of? These two fools obviously want me to help them return home. What do I have to be afraid of?

The one with nothing to fear is me!

"Gnat, if you dare to deceive me, I will pursue you to your death even if you escape to the ends of the universe."

The Dark Demonic Dragon growled. "Don't doubt my words, your kind cannot withstand my fury."

"I've already said what needed to be said, I can't do anything if you don't believe it." Ling Jiu shrugged and said nonchalantly.

"You…"

The Dark Demonic Dragon was displeased with Ling Jiu's tone as it stared at him for a good while before it spat, "Get lost!"

The next moment, a gust hit him as Ling Jiu felt the world spinning again. When he recovered his senses again, he had returned to the surface of the planet.

And Wormhole 13 was not too far away.

"Bloody hell! That was dangerous!"

Ling Jiu heaved a long sigh of relief. This time, without any pause, he threw himself headfirst into Wormhole 13 to return to Mars.

Instead of returning to the Ares Plains, however, he went to the Antarctic Ice City and then to Pandora.

"9527, help me have a look at this!"

Ling Jiu took out his phone. This was a video he had captured earlier that showed the scene of his previous conversation with the great dragon earlier.

This was taken by a nanobot, and the great dragon was not aware of it. Perhaps it was aware of it, but it did not care.

All in all, he managed to capture the image of the Redfire Dragon.

9527 took the phone and looked for a while, saying. "This is a Nidhogg Dragons, and are Stellar lifeforms when they reach adulthood. A good species."

"Nidhogg Dragons?"

Ling Jiu muttered, and then told 9527 his encounter at the infernal planet, before saying. "9527, should I help them in a week's time?"

"Of course! Why shouldn't you?"

9527 laughed. "The Nidhogg Dragons are a righteous race. If you help them, not only they will not kill you, they will repay you instead."

"Also, if you don't go, if that fire dragon and dark dragon were to break into Earth to look for you, it will undoubtedly be a disaster! The planetary lifeform on Earth may not be able to stop them."

"This…"

Ling Jiu frowned deeply.

"The power of a Nidhogg Dragon is quite easy to tell."

9527 said. "The length of their body represented their strength."

"An adult Nidhogg Dragon will grow more than 100 meters, and every time it levels up, its length increases by another 100 meters.

"This fire dragon is more than 800 meters long, so it is clear that it's a Level 8 Stellar lifeform.

"Eight hundred meters… Level 8 Stellar lifeform?"

Ling Jiu's heart trembled. A Level 8 Stellar lifeform. He had heard 9527 mentioned that Emperor Might, the number one powerhouse on Earth was only a Level 6 Stellar lifeform.

Level 6 Stellar lifeform…

Level 8 Stellar lifeform…

A difference of two whole levels.

Not to mention…

There was not only one Stellar lifeform among the Redfire Dragons. That 500-meter-long great dragon… Was it not a Level 5 Stellar lifeform?

Also, the nemesis of the Redfire Dragon, the Dark Demonic Dragon, should not be weaker than it right? So, another Level 8 Stellar lifeform?

Ling Jiu could not imagine what would happen if he stood them up. Once they got furious and killed their way to Earth to look for him, what would happen?

"Do I really have to go?"

Ling Jiu said with a distraught look.

"It's all right, don't worry and just go."

9527 laughed. "Oh right, you mentioned that the fire dragon gave you an egg. Take it out and show me."

"All right then!"

Ling Jiu waved his hand and took the egg out.

"Hmmm?"

9527 made a 'Hmm?' sound, before placing the egg on the instrument to observe it carefully. After a long while, only did it start to mutter.

"So it's such a lifeform!"

"How did such a lifeform came about here?"

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Chapter 217: Golden Saiyan Apes, Cosmic Civilization

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"9527, you recognize this egg?"

Ling Jiu immediately asked, "What life form is going to be born once this egg hatches?"

"This is not the egg of an ordinary lifeform."

9527 had a rather complicated expression. "I've told you before that the universe has given birth to a lot of life, but 99 % of them have been born weak. For instance, you Earthlings, the Nidhogg Dragons, and we, the Emessians."

"Astral Behemoths like the Flame Astral Behemoth with peak pedigree are few and far between, with barely any of them around."

Ling Jiu nodded. The universe was too big, so the probability of a planet being able to birth life was lower than one out of a billion.

However, that would not stop the universe from trying.

A minuscule probability when multiplied by a large base, was still astronomical.

Hence, numerous planets in the universe could give birth to life, albeit the vast majority of them would be low-level lifeforms and born extremely weak.

"There are a few. They are not non-existent!"

9527 then pivoted the conversation. "In the universe, there are many lifeforms that are no lesser, or perhaps even stronger than a Flame Astral Behemoth, just like this egg."

Ling Jiu's eyes lit up.

9527 slowly pointed at the black egg and said, "This is not an actual egg but a mechanical shell used to protect the little guy inside.

"This mechanical shell is isolated from all kinds of detection, so any external force cannot detect information inside it."

"Oh, I see!"

Ling Jiu suddenly realized why the great dragon was unable to sense what was inside it, and only knew it as an egg.

"In theory, the mechanical shell would have been set up in advance. Once the right conditions are achieved, it should automatically open and let the little guy inside wake up," 9527 said unhurriedly.

"However, I don't know if the mechanical shell has some faults, or it has not opened up for some reason, forcing the little guy inside to be asleep. Hence, it is unable to wake up."

"So, what kind of lifeform is the little guy?" Ling Jiu asked.

"A Golden Saiyan Ape," 9527 revealed its name leisurely.

"A Golden Saiyan Ape?"

Ling Jiu was stunned. "What sort of race is that?"

"An extremely terrifying one."

9527 said, "They are born as Stellar lifeforms and only need to reach adulthood to become comparable to apex lifeforms. They are no less inferior to a Flame Astral Behemoth."

"Moreover, what makes them even more terrifying than a Flame Astral Behemoth is that their adulthood period is shorter, and their fertility rate is higher!"

"This…"

Ling Jiu was shocked. "Doesn't that mean this race is stronger than the Flame Astral Behemoths?"

Measuring the strength of an individual was nothing more than indexing attribute parameters like strength speed, defense…

However, measuring the overall strength of a group or a race was not only dependent on individual strength. It was also dependent on the lifespan and fertility rate of that group.

Take pigs and pandas for example; in terms of individual strength, the chubby panda's strength was definitely stronger than a pig's.

One needed to know that this animal was called the Ironeater back in the day, and its bite force was fifth among all of the animals on Earth. It was only weaker to lions, brown bears, tigers, and polar bears.

A panda's bite could easily rip half of a pig's butt off.

In terms of overall strength, though, the pig was definitely stronger.

One pig could beat a panda, but what about ten, or a hundred of them?

In the same way, the Flame Astral Behemoths were very strong and comparable to the Golden Saiyan Apes, but the latter was more capable in reproduction. Hence, it was easier for them to grow to their peak.

So overall, the Golden Saiyan Apes were stronger, and there was no doubt about it.

"Yes!"

9527 nodded slightly. "Of course the Golden Saiyan Apes are stronger, and it's precisely because of their terrifying strength that they established an eternal cosmic civilization.

"An eternal cosmic civilization!

"An eternal existence.

"Deathless.

"Everlasting.

"That is something even our Emessian Civilization can't attain. At our peak, the Emessian Civilization only barely made it into the ranks of cosmic civilizations.

"Unfortunately… it still perished eventually.

"No matter how strong a perishable civilization is, they will never become an eternal cosmic civilization."

"An eternal cosmic civilization…" Ling Jiu muttered to himself.

"So, Ling Jiu, remember this," 9527 suddenly said.

"A strong individual only means that the person is strong. Even if you were to become the strongest in the universe, it doesn't mean your civilization is strong.

"Should you fall due to some accident, then your civilization will fall apart and disappear. That is not the hallmark of an eternal cosmic civilization.

"Only when the entire race is strong can a powerful civilization be established and truly aspire to be at the peak of the universe."

"Understood!"

Ling Jiu nodded slowly.

"Now, you are faced with two choices," 9527 abruptly mentioned.

"This little fellow is not dead, and as long as you open its mechanical shell, he will quickly recover.

"Once that happens, you can replicate all of his Arcanas and even raise him up so that he may become your helper. That is the first choice."

Ling Jiu's eyes lit up.

"But doing so comes with great risks."

9527 slowly explained, "The Golden Saiyan Apes are really too strong, and are without question, one of the most powerful treasures of the universe. The moment information about it leaks out, Earth will never see another peaceful day.

"In terms of this, the Flame Astral Behemoth is also the same. In other words, once another civilization knows that there is a Flame Astral Behemoth on Earth…"

9527 shook its head and did not verbalize the rest of its sentence, but Ling Jiu understood what it meant.

Once leaked, it would eventually be coveted by all parties. It would be the same situation as the time they fought for energy crystals and treasures of heaven and earth.

All in all, that was not a good thing at all!

"So, you should think things through on whether to open the mechanical shell or not."

9527 threw the question to Ling Jiu.

Ling Jiu was lost in thought.

On one hand was the various terrifying abilities the Golden Saiyan Ape had.

On the other hand, there were the massive risks that came with it.

So, what should he choose?

After a while, Ling Jiu said, "9527, tell me more about the abilities of the Golden Saiyan Apes. I want to make a comprehensive conclusion."

"Okay!" 9527 said.

"The Golden Saiyan Apes are a warrior race. They are born to be warriors and are born with terrifying combat intelligence."

"A warlike race?"

Ling Jiu was speechless. Was the Super Saiyans1 not a warrior race?

"However, they are different from the Flame Astral Behemoth."

9527 continued, "The Golden Saiyan Apes have no special abilities. The strongest, most powerful thing they have, or the only thing they possess is their body."

"Only their body?"

Ling Jiu was stunned.

"Yes, the body."

9527 further said, "The body of a Golden Saiyan Ape is close to perfection.

"It has perfect strength, speed, endurance, resilience… and so on. All of their attributes are close to perfection.

"It could be said that they were born for war."

"Born for war?" Ling Jiu muttered to himself.

"Also," 9527 added, "the Golden Saiyan Apes can naturally sense Dark Bio-energy in the dark universe.

"So, once they are born, they can sense Dark Bio-energy and absorb them into their bodies."

"Bloody hell! That's cheating!" Ling Jiu could not help but chime in.

"Yes, it's cheating.

"But that's why the Golden Saiyan Apes are known as the most war-hungry and the best fighters in the universe," 9527 said indifferently.

"Of course, these are nothing."

"Huh…" Ling Jiu was stunned.

"The most unbelievable thing about the Golden Saiyan Ape is that there are no limits to its body's physical potential!"

9527 said something astonishing, "That means, as long as they continue to train, the Golden Saiyan Apes can grow infinitely stronger, with no limit at all. That is the most annoying thing."

"No limit?

"And can get infinitely stronger?"

Ling Jiu was totally flabbergasted, and he asked in disbelief, "There's such a race?"

"The Golden Saiyan Ape race is as such."

9527 gradually said, "Therefore, they are called the race with the most perfect flesh… Only cosmic warrior beings can establish an eternal cosmic civilization."

"That's really just too powerful!" Ling Jiu muttered to himself and added, "9527, since the Golden Saiyan Apes are so powerful, what are their various attribute indexes?"

The Flame Astral Behemoth… or rather, the various attributes indexes of a newborn Flame Astral Behemoth came to a million.

It meant that its strength speed, endurance, resilience, and other attribute indices were one million times that of an ordinary planetary lifeform.

Ling Jiu had replicated the Ultimate Physique of the Flame Astral Behemoth, and at the beginning, his various attribute indexes were at 100,000 times. Later, due to the growth of his body size, all the various attributes should have been greatly improved.

As for how much, Ling Jiu did not know because he had never tested it out again.

Nevertheless, he was sure that it was definitely more than 100,000 times now.

Therefore, Ling Jiu was very curious. What the attribute index of the Golden Saiyan Apes, known as the cosmic warlike race and possessed the most perfect body was?

"Before I answer that question, let me ask you a question first."

9527 did not provide an explanation but questioned Ling Jiu in return, "What is the attribute index of Earthlings?"

"It… It's hard to say."

Ling Jiu was stunned. After pondering for a moment, he sheepishly said, "I don't know about ordinary folks, but the physical attribute index of an Arcanist is very different.

"The various physical attributes would definitely be higher. For people like Hirano Hatake, it should be ten times, and Christopher, 100 times.

"The physical attribute indexes of other Arcanists are much weaker."

"The exact number is not the key."

9527 smiled and said, "The point is… you Earthlings do not have a unified physical attribute index, right?"

"That's it."

Ling Jiu nodded again and again. Everyone was indeed different from one another.

"The same applies to the Golden Saiyan Apes."

9527 shook its head and sighed. "Different Golden Saiyan Apes have different attribute indexes. Some are high, and some are low, this is determined by nature.

"On this point, they are very similar to you humans.

"Therefore, the Golden Saiyan Apes divided their people into various classes according to their physical attributes, and the ranking system is very strict.

"To be exact, it is divided into five levels: Low-level fighters, intermediate-level fighters, top-level fighters, ace fighters, and the most powerful, apex fighters."

"Five levels…" Ling Jiu murmured.

"Those whose attribute indices do not go past 100,000 times all belong under low-level fighters.

"Intermediate-level fighters possess indices between 100,000 to 200,000 times.

"A top-level fighter's index is between 200,000 to 500,000.

"As for ace fighters, their attribute indices are between 500,000 to 1,000,000 times.

"And for an apex fighter… it is between 1,000,000 to infinity."

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Chapter 218: His Name Is Wukong, Opening a Wormhole

Low-level fighters, 100,000 times!

Intermediate-level fighters, 100,000 to 200,000 times!

Top-level fighters, 200,000 to 500,000 times.

Ace fighters, 500,000 to 1,000,000 times.

Apex fighters, 1,000,000 times to infinity!

The low, intermediate, top-level, and ace fighters might have looked normal, but the apex fighters… that was quite shocking.

The lower limit was 1,000,000 times and the upper limit was infinite!

Was that even human?

It was simply unimaginable!

"From the attribute index, one can see that most Golden Saiyan Apes are no match for the Flame Astral Behemoths. That is also the truth."

9527 smiled and said, "Although the Golden Saiyan Apes are powerful, not all of them can just roll the Flame Astral Behemoths over.

"It can be said that the vast majority of Golden Saiyan Apes are no match for the Flame Astral Behemoth. That's a good reflection of their power."

"Indeed!"

Ling Jiu nodded. "Only the most powerful apex fighters among the entire Golden Saiyan Apes can crush a Flame Astral Behemoth for sure."

"Yes, only the apex fighters can take down a Flame Astral Behemoth with certainty."

9527 nodded a little and slowly said, "So, what are you going to do? Release the little guy inside or allow it to continue its sleep?"

"Let me think about it."

Ling Jiu rubbed his temples and then asked the last question. "With apex fighters being so powerful, their numbers should be extremely rare, right?"

"Naturally."

9527 nodded. "The Golden Saiyan Apes are strictly hierarchical. Oftentimes, only the royal family gives birth to apex fighters, and the royal family only has a single hereditary branch."

Ling Jiu nodded slightly as he heard that, and then wondered. "In other words, the possibility of him being an apex fighter is very low?"

"Almost zero."

9527 nodded and said. "Given how revered the Golden Saiyan Apes royals are, how could they appear in such a place?"

"All right then!"

Ling Jiu breathed a sigh of relief and suddenly felt disappointed at the same time.

In the end, while Ling Jiu was worried that this Golden Saiyan Ape would cause trouble, but he also hoped that the latter was an apex warrior. In that case, he could replicate the latter's physique.

Therefore, Ling Jiu was feeling a little conflicted.

"Wait a moment, this mechanical shell is quite troublesome," 9527 said before it went to work.

Taking advantage of the free time, Ling Jiu took out the void worm and replicated its ability.

"Ah!!"

Twenty minutes later, Ling Jiu carefully felt his newly-gained ability, and he could not help but let out a deep breath.

The sea of space still looked like the same sea of space, but he could see much, much farther away. As for how far, Ling Jiu could not tell, at least hundreds of thousands of kilometers he supposed?

There was another thing to point out.

He was able to control the space points in his surroundings, use Dimensional Lock, Dimensional Slash, and Dimensional crush, or create a small-scale dimensional passageway… and the like.

Now, as long as he wanted to, he could create a long-distance dimensional passageway within his field of vision.

A long-distance dimensional passageway could no longer be called that, but a… wormhole.

"Is this the ability to create wormholes? Everything is almost instinctual, simple, easy and without any difficulty at all."

Ling Jiu murmured, "If I want to go to the moon now, I can just create a dimensional passageway with just a wave of my hand. After all, 380,000 kilometers isn't that far."

Of course, in addition to the ability to create dimensional passageways, Ling Jiu's other dimensional abilities had also greatly improved. His manipulation of space had become even more intuitive as if he was manipulating his own arm, and Ling Jiu had never expected it.

"Ling Jiu, it worked!"

9527's voice rang out and Ling Jiu immediately looked over as he saw the black egg slowly rising from the ground and then slowly opened.

A dazzling golden light seeped out of it, as if one was opening a treasure chest full of gold and diamonds.

"It's opened!"

Ling Jiu immediately looked over.

The black egg was fully opened and it was filled with a strange green liquid, and inside the liquid was… a baby?

Let's call it a baby for now.

He was indeed a baby. His face was also human, but his body, arms, and legs were covered with golden hair…

He had a tender, chubby face, and except for the golden hair on his body, he was not much different from a baby from Earth.

"This is a Golden Saiyan Ape?"

Ling Jiu stared at the little chubby guy. He found it difficult to connect him to the powerful race that 9527 had compared to the Flame Astral Behemoth and created an eternal cosmic civilization.

"He's going to wake up soon!"

9527 smiled.

As soon as its voice trailed off, the little guy opened his wistful eyes, with a look of confusion in it as his gaze first fell onto Ling Jiu.

He then stretched out both arms at Ling Jiu as he babbled away.

"9527, he wants to…"

Ling Jiu quickly looked at 9527.

"He is now like a newborn baby, I guess he wants you to hold him?" 9527 said with some uncertainty.

"He wants me to hold him?"

Ling Jiu shook his head and reached out to carry the little guy. He had been a little put off by the slimy green liquid on the little guy's body at first.

Amazingly, however, when he left the mechanical shell, his body was extremely dry, without a drop of liquid.

"Gyagyagya…"

When Ling Jiu carried the little guy in his arms, he was extremely happy. He immediately stretched his golden hand out and grabbed Ling Jiu's face. A kid grabbing at a person's face was nothing really.

Yet, when the little guy's hands caught his face, Ling Jiu's expression suddenly changed. He felt a terrifying force acting on his face, almost shattering his bones. Ling Jiu immediately held the little guy away from his face.

"Bloody hell. What kind of strength is this!"

Ling Jiu's face turned pale.

"He has been sleeping inside the mechanical shell for too long, which resulted in malnutrition some time ago. He is now at his weakest state but still has terrifying strength that rivals a Level 9 Planetary lifeform.

"Once he eats something and regains his vigor, he will become a stellar lifeform."

9527 leisurely said, "Take him back after a while, and I will examine his physical attribute index."

"You want me to take him back?"

Ling Jiu was taken aback as he looked at the little guy in his hand and then at 9527. "How do you expect me to take him back? I won't be able to explain it?"

"The Golden Saiyan Apes are communal creatures. It won't be good for his growth if he follows me," 9527 said.

"Moreover, he is like a blank sheet of paper now. If you take good care of him, when he grows up, he will treat you as his dearest person…"

"His dearest person…"

Ling Jiu's eyes turned and decisively said, "Since he's a communal being and following you is not for good him, I'll take care of him."

"That's for the best."

9527 smiled. "Is there anything else?"

"None."

Ling Jiu shook his head.

"Give him a name then," 9527 said with a smile.

"A name…"

Ling Jiu frowned and thought for a moment: "Let's just call him Wukong then!"

"Wukong? Good name."

9527 nodded slightly. "One more thing, shave the hair off his body so that he will not be so conspicuous."

"Makes sense!"

Ling Jiu left Pandora with Wukong. Half an hour later, he returned to the Antarctic Ice City, but when he passed through the wormhole, he was stopped by Uncle Wang who guarded it.

"Halt!"

"Ugh…"

Ling Jiu showed himself and looked at Uncle Wang who was lying on the recliner. He was staring at Ling Jiu with a stunned expression "Uncle Wang, so you can see me?"

"Bullsh*t!"

Uncle Wang rolled his eyes. "What are you thinking, trying to fool my eyes with your little spatial tricks?"

Ling Jiu smiled. "So, you know every time I leave Mars secretly?"

"Of course!"

Uncle Wang faintly said, "There're orders from above, due to your special abilities, you are allowed to enter and leave the camp at will, so I never stop you, but…"

Uncle Wang pointed at Wukong in Ling Jiu's arms and sternly. said, "The matriculation camp prohibits non-affiliated people from entering, so this child cannot go in."

"Uncle Wang, where can he go if I cannot take him into the camp?"

Ling Jiu smiled bitterly. "Can you just make an exception and let me take him in?

"Plus, he's a newborn baby, who knows nothing, so nothing will happen!"

"Absolutely not!" Uncle Wang said sternly.

"The matriculation camp prohibits the entry of non-affiliated individuals!"

"Uncle Wang…"

Ling Jiu tried to wiggle his way but Uncle Wang was an old coot and no matter what Ling Jiu said, he would not agree so Ling Jiu had no choice but to leave the Antarctic Ice City with the child.

"If you don't let me take him in, the more I want to do it!"

Ling Jiu's temper also rose, and after leaving the Antarctic Ice City, he came to the ice field outside and looked at the sky above his head as something came to mind.

"Mars doesn't seem all that far from Earth…"

Ling Jiu murmured a little and then became to look for Mars. Standing on Earth, one could still see Mars at night with their naked eyes.

It was just not that obvious.

So, Mars to the naked eye looked exactly the same as other stars in the sky. No distinctions could be seen. Therefore, a telescope was needed.

However, Ling Jiu did not need that.

His eyesight was many times stronger than that of an ordinary person, and it was better than a telescope.

The only question was that Ling Jiu did not know which star Mars was, but that was not too difficult for him.

Ling Jiu first downloaded a star map software, and then quickly found Mars' position using gravity sensing. He then locked onto the unremarkable star in the sky and then a thought appeared in his mind.

"Buzzz…"

A dimensional passageway formed.

Ling Jiu stepped into the passageway and after some shuttling, he had arrived in an area of space tens of thousands of kilometers away.

It was dead silence around him.

Beneath him was a beautiful blue planet; it was Earth.

From this perspective, the beauty of Earth and its majesty shocked him to the depths of his soul. It was something that could not be described in words.

Just from movies alone, one could not fully appreciate the vastness and charm of Earth.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing was the big fireball that was constantly burning not too far away as the sun's endless light and heat were constantly radiating across space.

That was the sun.

He then looked at Mars, and at this moment it was already quite big, just like an orange disc. It was not exactly massive but not small either.

"Again!"

Ling Jiu waved his hand again as another dimensional passageway appeared. Ling Jiu plunged head first into it, and when he reappeared again, he was countless of kilometers away.

Looking at Mars again… it had gotten even bigger.

"Again!"

With that, after three attempts, Ling Jiu arrived at Mars as he stood high in the sky looking down at it, Mars was still a desert planet.

Aside from desert, there was nothing else but deserts.

The Arcana Tree planted by the matriculation camp cadets had not taken form in scale yet, so one could hardly see them from above Mars.

"But!"

"Mars now has a suitable temperature. It won't be long before lakes, oceans, and finally, forests appear on Mars."

"Everything takes time."

Ling Jiu murmured slightly as another wormhole appeared…

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Chapter 219: Become a Mother in Advance, Going on a Journey

"Honey, you're back!"

Seeing Ling Jiu's return, Bai Ya greeted him happily. However, when she saw Wukong in Ling Jiu's arms, she could not help but look stunned. "This is…"

"It's a long story."

Ling Jiu smiled bitterly. "Honey, first of all, I'd like to admit my guilt."

"Admit your guilt?"

Bai Ya's pretty face changed as her body trembled slightly. "He… Could he be a child you had with another woman outside?"

"Huh?"

Ling Jiu immediately said, "Honey, what were you thinking? He's not mine. Let me explain."

Bai Ya took a deep breath. "Every single detail."

"All right, all right…"

Ling Jiu dared not dither and immediately explained what had happened on the infernal planet. Of course, he omitted almost everything about Wukong's origins.

The matter regarding the Golden Saiyan Apes was grave and could not be exposed.

"I knew you would go to that planet. Sure enough, old habits die hard."

Bai Ya glared at Ling Jiu with some detestation and added, "In other words, this kid was given to you by that great dragon?"

"Yeah!"

Ling Jiu nodded. "This little guy's strength is even greater than mine; he's like a total monster. How could he be my child?"

"That outrageous?"

Bai Ya was stunned.

"Of course!"

Ling Jiu affirmed it.

"How can a newborn child have such enormous strength?"

Bai Ya muttered and could not help but to look at Wukong as the latter looked back at her.

A bright smile appeared on Wukong's chubby face. A child's smile was almost the most moving as Bai Ya's heart trembled a little as she could not help but to stretch out a finger to tease Wukong.

"No! Don't!

Ling Jiu stopped her hurriedly. "The little guy's strength is bonkers. If you stretch your finger out like that, he'll break it!"

"Are you for real?"

Bai Ya did not believe it.

"Don't doubt me on that."

Ling Jiu shook his head as he took out a knife from his Dimensional Ring, and then rolled the knife into an iron ball before putting it into Wukong's hand as a toy. As expected, Wukong squashed it the moment he took it.

"This…"

Bai Ya's expression changed instantly.

"Be careful when you deal with him in the future. He's dangerous."

Ling Jiu shook his head. It was due to the same reason that he did not dare to hand Wukong over to his mom and dad. He was just too dangerous.

"Ling Jiu, are you going to raise him from now on?"

Bai Ya looked at Wukong with a complicated gaze.

"What else can I do?"

Ling Jiu sighed. "I can't just toss him away, right? Plus, he was born with such terrifying strength, god knows how strong will he get once he grows up? Such a child with potential, of course, I need to raise him with me by his side."

Somewhat frustrated, Bai Ya opened her mouth and said, "That means, I have become his mother before I even get married? Boy, am I pitiful."

Ling Jiu smiled awkwardly. Wukong's existence was indeed a little unfair to Bai Ya, or rather, there was no girlfriend that would not mind it.

After all, that was not her child.

"If you really can't, then we'll hand him over to someone else to raise him?" Ling Jiu sighed and thought of 9527. He could only hand Wukong to 9527.

"Forget it. Let's raise him ourselves."

Bai Ya was a kind woman, and after grappling with the issue for a while, she accepted Wukong. "I'll just take it as being a mother in advance, to accumulate experience for our future children."

"Honey, you're the best!"

Ling Jiu was moved. For a woman to accept a child that was not hers, how much courage would that take?

"Just be nicer to me in the future."

Bai Ya glared at Ling Jiu before she looked at Wukong with a smile on her face. "Oh right, dear, what does he eat?"

"The usual stuff. He'll eat what we eat?" Ling Jiu smiled.

"He's still so young, can he eat solid food?" Bai Ya was a little worried.

"He is much stronger than you think."

Ling Jiu shook his head and smiled. In fact, the most suitable diet for a Golden Saiyan Ape was the nutrient-rich ferocious Direbeast meat, and the higher the class, the better. Only then could Wukong grow faster.

However, this was Earth, and there was nothing that was overly high-leveled, so they could only make do.

"All right. I'll get cooking then."

"Let me help you! Oh, by the way, I've bought a lot of Direbeast meat on the way back. Cook some for the kid, he may like these."

"All right!"

A moment later, a delicious-smelling meal was served. When Bai Ya fed the stir-fried celery into Wukong's mouth, he spat it out right away.

He then looked at the cooked Direbeast meat with his big black eyes, and his saliva flowed down like a breached dam.

"He's a carnivore and doesn't eat veggies."

Ling Jiu smiled and shook his head as he put the ribs before Wukong. Wukong, with no fear of it being hot, grabbed the rib and started chomping into it.

In just ten short seconds, not only was the meat on the rib bones eaten clean but the entire rib bone was chewed up as well…

"Is this really just a child?"

Bai Ya found it incredulous, and she looked at Wukong as if she was looking at a monster.

"I told you already, don't look at him normally."

Ling Jiu shook his head and placed the Direbeast meat next to Wukong. Wukong sat with its bare backside on the table and started chomping on the meat in big mouthfuls.

"Let's eat too."

Ling Jiu picked up a few vegetable stalks and put them in Bai Ya's bowl.

After gulping down a pot full of Direbeast meat, Wukong became a lot sharper. Not only could he walk, but he could also jump up and down as he ran about inside the airship cabin endlessly. He was totally unlike a normal child at all.

Fortunately, he was still young, and after playing about for a while he was soon sleepy as he lay down and sleep.

"Like a total beast."

Bai Ya put him in bed and covered him with a quilt as she could not help but smile awkwardly.

"He's a beast."

Ling Jiu shook his head. "Let's go. Let's get busy while he's asleep. Otherwise, when he wakes up, who knows what kind of ruckus he'll kick up."

"Yeah!"

Time passed quickly, and soon, a week had passed.

This week was arguably the busiest week Ling Jiu had ever since he came to the matriculation camp.

Wukong was growing day by day, and in just a short week's time, he was like a two- to three-year-old child on Earth. His appetite had greatly increased, and his strength was amazing too.

Most importantly, Ling Jiu had been able to subdue Wukong at first, but now, it was getting harder and harder. Just as 9527 said, in just a few days' time, Wukong had become a stellar lifeform.

This was the part that gave Ling Jiu the most headaches.

He was such a young child, yet he had such terrifying strength, and he totally had no control of his powers. God only knew what kind of trouble he would cause in the future.

The only thing that gave Ling Jiu a little peace of mind was while Wukong would cause trouble, he would also spend most of the time sleeping. That part of him was similar to a baby back on Earth, and it saved him a lot of effort.

That day, Ling Jiu left Mars again. Bai Ya knew what he was going to do, and while she wanted to stop him she knew she could not.

If Ling Jiu did not go?

She could not imagine what would happen!

If she let Ling Jiu go?

She was worried that Ling Jiu would be in danger.

This contradictory feeling made her extremely flustered, but fortunately, Ling Jiu's vow made her calm down slightly.

Then, Ling Jiu arrived on the infernal planet as promised.

"You came?"

A huge head slowly emerged from the magma lake like a small hill; it was the great dragon Redfire.

"I'm here!"

Ling Jiu nodded slightly: "I'm ready!"

"Okay!"

A look of joy flashed past Redfire's eyes as it let out a low growl. The next moment, a series of Redfire Dragons rose from the magma lake.

There were large and small dragons, which came to a total of twenty heads. Plus, six of them were more than 100 meters long.

When their bodies exceeding 100 meters long, that meant they were stellar lifeforms.

Six stellar lifeforms!

If all of them were to charge at Earth, who knew what would happen.

"Sir Redfire, there's something I need to tell you before we leave."

Ling Jiu slowly said, "Firstly, although I can make wormholes, there are still some limitations."

"So, this is bound to be a long journey, I hope you are all prepared."

"Okay!"

Redfire nodded its big head as a trace of irrepressible joy flashed past its eyes.

Its life was coming to an end, and its greatest wish was to return home. It had been 800 years since… Could that wish finally come true?

Ling Jiu continued, "Secondly, I know nothing about your homeworld, so I need you to show the way."

"Not a problem!" Redfire agreed readily.

"Let's get started then."

Before Ling Jiu could finish his words, an earth-shaking roar suddenly came from a distant void.

A rolling sound wave blasted out, forming a terrifying shock wave. Even from afar, Ling Jiu could feel the terrifying power of the dragon's roar.

The next second, a large hole suddenly ripped open in the void above their heads, and a black dragon more than 900 meters long emerged from it.

It had a menacing head and sturdy dragon scales…

Not to mention, a powerful dragon body and razor-sharp claws.

At the same time, a terrifying aura radiated from the black dragon's body, and wantonly suppressed the entire place.

Ling Jiu's expression changed drastically while other Redfire Dragons looked as if they were facing a great foe as they looked at the black dragon in fear, with the smallest of them trembling in fear.

"Roar!!!"

Seeing that, Redfire growled. "Schwarzkopf, you've scared them."

"Redfire, after all these years, your strength has regressed instead."

The Dark Demonic Dragon looked at the Redfire Dragons that looked at him like a great foe and said, "It seems like your power has been split by these little ones."

"Being alone is just too boring after all."

Redfire slowly said, "I'm not like you who can withstand loneliness."

"Hmph!"

The Dark Demonic Dragon looked at Ling Jiu. "Human boy, I, Schwarzkopf, am a dragon of my word. If you can send me back to my homeworld, you will have my gratitude."

"Let's talk about that once you are home."

Ling Jiu shook his head. "All right, let's cut the nonsense. Which direction is your homeworld in?"

"That direction!" Redfire and Schwarzkopf both pointed toward a general direction and spoke in unison.

"Okay!"

Ling Jiu nodded slightly, as he waved his hand, a wormhole appeared, and then he plunged into it.

The Dark Demonic Dragon and the Redfire Dragon looked at each other, as the former's body shrank quickly into a few meters in size and hurriedly entered the wormhole.

"Children, let's go too!"

With that, the journey of unknown time length began.

With Ling Jiu's efforts, a wormhole starting from the infernal planet appeared, and it stretched infinitely in the direction of a distant void.

Three days later, the group had left the star system where the infernal planet was and entered vast nothingness.

That was where true darkness lay.

There was no light, no dust, and even the hydrogen atoms and helium atoms that were widely present in the universe were pitifully scarce, pretty much close to non-existent.

In this environment, Redfire's spawn would certainly not survive.

However, this was not a challenge for Redfire as it stored all of its non-stellar lifeform children into its stomach, hiding them there to prevent them from being exposed to the cold and dark outer space.

Time passed in a blink of an eye, and half a month went by without them noticing.

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Chapter 220: Wandering Planet, Menacing Vines

If one were to compare the vast universe to an ocean, then every star system would be like scattered lone islands.

There was huge space between the star systems, where there seemed to be almost nothing, but in fact, the galaxy itself was not absolute nothingness. Instead, it had distributions of hydrogen atoms, planets, and other materials.

At least for now, Ling Jiu and the others had encountered a planet.

It was a dark red planet, which was quietly suspended between the vast, endless system. It was like a ghostly pole on the path that Ling Jiu and the others had to pass.

"Human, can we take a rest on the planet ahead?" Redfire made a request.

While it could withstand the long trip through the wormhole, the dozen or so little ones could not bear it any longer. They urgently needed rest and to readjust themselves.

"Then let's take a break."

Ling Jiu agreed without hesitation. Throughout the whole journey, Ling Jiu had been the one working the hardest.

Opening up wormholes consumed more than just Dark Bio-energy. Besides, he needed to open up hundreds of wormholes a day. Repeating this day after day had long bored him out of his wits.

So, he desperately wanted to recuperate a little.

The Dark Demonic Dragon did not say much and silently acknowledged the need to rest.

Therefore, Ling Jiu opened a wormhole that led to the dark red planet and plunged into it.

"Hmmm?"

The moment he arrived at the planet, Ling Jiu felt a little weird. It was not cold?

In his impression, a planet that floated between star systems should be very cold, and it should be close to absolute zero.

After all, it did not have the heat from a star like a sun. Yet, the fact was the planet was warm, at least above zero degrees Celsius.

As if seeing through Ling Jiu's confusion, Redfire slowly explained, "It should be a radiation effect."

"Radiation effect?"

Ling Jiu understood it after a moment's pause.

The so-called radiation effect referred to the geothermal energy generated by the radioactive isotopes in the core of the planet, which provided it with heat.

In addition, if this planet had an atmosphere, then it could store the heat and prevent it from being lost.

This way, the surface temperature of this planet would be high, and there may even be oceans, or life here!

So, there were no absolutes in this world!

As he thought of this, Ling Jiu first took out the air pressure detector and found that not only did this planet had atmospheric pressure, it was also ten times that of Earth.

He then used the atmospheric detector and found nitrogen 76%, oxygen 9%, methane 2%, sulfur dioxide 6%, carbon dioxide 6%, others…1%

"This place not only has oxygen but also carbon dioxide!"

"With that high of a carbon dioxide content, no wonder the planet can maintain such a high temperature. The greenhouse effect is many times stronger than Earth's."

As the group landed, they realized there was nothing on the ground but only…

Grains of sand.

Yes, sand!

At a glance, it was full of soft, white sand, just like the sand on high-quality beaches!

"It's all sand! But that's still much better than the dark, empty space outside."

Ling Jiu breathed a sigh of relief. Without wasting any time, he sat cross-legged on the ground as he began to absorb the Dark Bio-energy in the void to recover.

The sad thing was, all of the absorbed Dark Bio-energy needed to be drawn in by the Venom Suit first before they could get to Ling Jiu.

Although Ling Jiu was helpless, there was no other way. He was not a stellar lifeform, and could not be exposed directly to outer space. The Venom Suit was the only thing that kept him alive!

So, even if he starved, he had to feed the Venom Suit first.

At the same time, the Dark Demonic Dragon, the Redfire Dragon, and several other stellar-level Redfire Dragons also landed on the planet's surface as Redfire called out to them.

"Roar!!!"

As soon as the Redfire dragon call rang out, they roared excitedly before they flapped their wings and soared freely.

They had been suffocating for the past few days.

The dark red sky enveloped the entire planet, causing the planet to look dim, but it would not fall into absolute darkness either.

So all of them, man and dragon, seized the time to readjust themselves, appearing particularly relaxed.

"Rawwwrrrrr!"

Just as the group was about to completely relax, the grim roar of a dragon suddenly rang out from not too far away.

The dragon's roar was like an alarm bell at midnight. It caused everyone to spring to attention as they got up and looked around immediately.

The roar had come from a Redfire dragon that was about 90 meters long. It was suspended in midair, and its body was entangled in some blood-colored vines.

The 90-meter-long Redfire dragon was almost 100 meters, indicating that it was just 10 meters away from adulthood. Hence, its strength was absolutely comparable to a Class 9 Direbeast back on Earth!

However, at that moment, after being tightly bound by the blood-colored vines, the soon-to-be adult Redfire Dragon could not shake them off at all.

It struggled frantically and exhausted all of its strength, yet it could not snap a single vine as the vines' grasp tightened even more.

"Roarrr!!!"

Redfire was furious as it unleashed a nearly transparent dragon's breath, desperately burning the vines that were emerging from the ground.

Redfire's dragon breath was terrifying. Under its immolation, the vines were like a cat with its tails stepped on. They immediately loosened their grip on the small fire dragon and retracted back into the ground.

"Want to run?" Redfire roared.

"Buzzzz…."

The space vibrated instantly, and in the blink of an eye, the void in front of them shattered as the entire space was directly shaken into a sticky mess.

Before the vines could retract back into the ground, they were overwhelmed by the broken space.

However, what no one expected was that despite the shattered space, the vines were still intact as they drilled their way out and sank into the ground.

Finally, they disappeared.

"These vines are so tough!"

Redfire took a deep breath "A tremor that could shatter even space could not do anything to these vines. What manner of creatures are they?"

"No idea."

The Dark Demonic Dragon shook its big head and solemnly said, "Let's leave this planet as soon as possible. There are strange things everywhere here."

"All right then!"

Redfire agreed and looked at Ling Jiu. Unfortunately, at that moment, the small fire dragon that had been bound by the vines earlier suddenly fell onto the ground.

It then struggled in pain as it convulsed and spasmed violently, foaming in its mouth…

"Redmountain, what's wrong?" Redfire rushed over and asked anxiously.

"It's been poisoned!"

The Dark Demonic Dragon shook its head. "It is a virulent venom! It's… beyond saving!"

Just as the Dark Demonic Dragon spoke, the small fire dragon could no longer be rescued. In just ten seconds, it stopped convulsing and lay motionless.

It was dead!

From the time it was poisoned to its death, it took no more than 30 seconds!

What did highly toxic meant?

This was what it meant!

A 90-meter-long Redfire Dragon that was comparable to a Class 9 Direbeast was poisoned to death just like that, which showed the terrifying toxicity of the venom.

Ling Jiu took a deep breath. "Run!"

"Run!" The Dark Demonic Dragon naturally agreed.

Redfire did not reject that, and although it was pained, it knew that this was not the time for sorrow.

So, after telling the other whelps, it opened its mouth to motion them to enter. The dragon whelps were already terrified and quickly lined up to get in.

Unexpectedly, at this very moment, something happened again.

The surrounding sand suddenly shook violently as if an earthquake had happened, and large tracts of sand suddenly sank downwards.

Immediately after, extremely thick tentacles emerged from the sands like ferocious pythons and charged straight into the sky.

Rustle! Rustle!

Too many…

There were too many tentacles.

They appeared from all directions, and the thickest of them was like a chimney of a chemical factory, while the thinnest ones were as thick as an adult's arm.

There were tentacles everywhere, all of them with a mysterious blood-red hue. Their surface, on the other hand, was covered in dense spikes.

They stood in every path, and like fierce blood dragons, they transformed into streams of blood lights as they lashed at Ling Jiu and the others.

Voosh voosh!!

They were so fast that they were already upon the group in the blink of an eye. At this critical moment, all of the stellar lifeform dragons attacked at the same time.

"Roar!!!"

The rolling sound wave met the dense vines as a terrifying shock wave spread out. The void was instantly crushed as countless smaller vines were sent flying, while the thicker ones paused.

Taking advantage of this moment, Ling Jiu waved his hand as a wormhole appeared in midair.

"Run!"

Ling Jiu shouted and got in first.

"Children, let's go!" Redfire shouted loudly.

"Yes, Mother!"

The fire dragon whelps[1] responded one after another, and they also went into the wormhole. The vines seemed to have witnessed this and became immediately anxious.

As a result, the surrounding ground trembled violently, and at the same time, the desert parted and collapsed, forming lines of trenches.

Soon after, more and more tentacles that were thicker and longer rose from these trenches. Then, they transformed into hideous blood pythons as they shot toward Ling Jiu.

"We must buy time!"

Redfire clearly knew that it would take time for the fire dragon whelps to enter the wormhole, and it needed to buy them that time.

"Roar!!!"

Redfire let out a furious roar as billowing flames suddenly rose around it, and its 800-meter-long body was completely covered by flames.

The next moment, fire dragons formed completely out of flames shot out from its body and slammed into the oncoming vines.

Boom!

Boom!

The fire dragons and the vines collided.

At this moment, all of the fire dragons exploded, and following the endless thundering explosions, the dark red sky was illuminated.

"The temperature that these fire dragons are releasing is just too high!"

Right then, Ling Jiu had already arrived in outer space. As the wormhole was created in a hurry, the distance was not very far and was still within the planet's atmosphere.

This place was not very far from the ground, but it was definitely not close either. Even with such a distance, Ling Jiu could still feel the terrifying heat coming from those fire dragons, showing how terrifying their temperature was.

Even so, as the aftermath of the explosion settled, most of the vines were still intact, and only the slender ones were burned.

"How strong are these vines actually?"

Ling Jiu was shocked.

"These vines are exceedingly tough!"

Redfire growled. It noticed that all of the fire dragon whelps had entered the wormhole at this point, so it said to the Dark Demonic Dragon and several other stellar-lifeform Redfire Dragons, "All of you, leave first!"

"Okay!"

The other dragons did not dither as they shrank one after another and entered the wormhole. After all of them had entered the wormhole, Redfire blasted all of the remaining vines away and prepared to enter the wormhole.

At this moment, the ground under its feet suddenly cracked open as an extremely massive mouth emerged from the ground with its jaws wide upon…

[1] term for young dragons

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