In the depths of the sea of stars, there is a glittering dragon. It is zigzagging, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws.
On a closer look, it was a bizarre-shaped remnant of a primeval battlefield. After hundreds of thousands of years, it was still emitting colorful radiation. Enshrouded by the storms and undercurrents among the stars, the radiation congregated into a small 'galaxy' that penetrated the glamorous galaxy.
Suddenly.
From the front of the 'dragon', a streak of brilliance was spurted out and hovered around the river of remains. Flames of light were spurting out of the body of the dragon, and its speed gradually slowed down. It turned out to be a tiny starship that was riddled with holes and covered in dust!
On one side of the starship, the Rising Dragon of the Nine Stars emblem of the Xing Yao Federation could be seen clearly. On the other side of the starship was the pattern of a smiling star.
There was also the word 'Mars' on the starship, but it had been scratched and corroded during the journey that had lasted almost a hundred years. It was barely recognizable anymore.
Inside Mars, Li Yao, who had just woken up from his ten-year-long hibernation and looked at the glamorous world in front of his eyes, almost burst into tears and roared to the sky!
He had been woken up instantly after a short-distance jump.
It was not because a new star had been discovered, but because Mars had been involved in a dangerous stone belt that could have been broken at any moment.
But Li Yao was not shocked by the discovery at all. Instead, he was overjoyed!
It was because he had discovered that what constituted the 'River of Scattered Stars' was exactly the primeval debris that he had seen at the periphery of Kunlun, including the dead bodies of the Pangu Clan, the armor of the Nuwa Clan, and the 'Colossi', the ultimate treasure of the primeval era driven by human beings!
Although the debris was decayed and would break apart at the first touch …
Now that he had discovered the debris, it meant that he was not far away from his real destination!
Li Yao switched Mars to the manual piloting mode. With his amazing skills in driving the shuttle, he cut through the waves in the river of remains and traveled upward for several days. Finally, he found the Sector where spiritual energy was most abundant!
This was a very stable star system. The star at the center of the system was in its most stable prime, just like the stars in the Tian Yuan Realm. It was very generous and continuously released light and heat to the outside world.
Also, the material that made up the star seemed to be different from that of regular stars. It was mixed with precious components that Li Yao did not know. Looking at it with the naked eye, it was even redder, with vague colors. The spiritual energy it contained was not only more abundant than that of regular stars, but it was also more suitable for the human body to absorb and utilize directly.
It meant that if there were any creatures on the planets around the crimson star, they would be able to accumulate a certain amount of spiritual energy in their bodies by basking in the sun often without training.
When the spiritual energy was abundant, it would stimulate the growth and evolution of the neural network and even generate intelligence of a higher level. After thousands of generations, the most powerful animals and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures would be evolved.
If human beings lived there, their training would certainly be more convenient and faster than in the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Blood Demon Sector, and the Flying Star Sector.
This was what the so-called "Sun Essence and Moon Essence" meant.
The star alone was enough to show that this Sector was an out-and-out 'natural paradise'!
"I've finally found it!"
After inputting the astronomical parameters and relative coordinates of the star into the mainframe crystal processor, the most critical gap in the navigation map was finally filled!
It was the economic, political, and navigation center of the Pangu civilization on the spiral arm of the universe hundreds of thousands of years ago!
If the Pangu civilization had the concept of 'provinces', this space zone would be the 'provincial capital' of the entire spiral arm of the universe!
Li Yao was of a mind to dance and celebrate his discovery.
According to the clock in front of him, ninety-nine years, 122 days, 37 hours, and 54 minutes had passed since he left the Xing Yao Federation in reality!
It was truly a case of 'one day in the sky, a thousand years on the ground'!
Ten years ago, after he failed to find another stellar system with a harsh environment, Li Yao had been somewhat desperate and prepared to return empty-handed.
But out of his expectation, when he was about to find a random space zone where the space was stable and unfold the star beacons to summon reinforcements from his hometown, the mysterious destination suddenly jumped right in front of him!
"Don't be excited. Calm down. Calm down!
"From this second on, the fate of the Federation and I will truly be walking on a tightrope at the gate of hell. One moment of carelessness, and we will be doomed forever!"
After reaching the gate of the mysterious world, Li Yao was even more uneasy and anxious after he indulged himself for a moment.
The spiritual energy in this place was a hundred times more abundant than in the Tian Yuan Realm. It was not necessarily a good thing.
It meant that an enormous civilization that was much more advanced than the Xing Yao Federation probably existed in this place.
Recalling the information that the civilization had sent to the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector, Li Yao was even more wary of the mysterious world.
"What is the weird civilization of this world up to exactly?
"Also, it doesn't make any sense!
"Judging from the spiritual waves that Spark has received, the artificial waves in this mysterious world are very quiet. They seem to be the waves of the celestial bodies themselves, but there are not many signs of artificial celestial bodies!
"By logic, with such an abundance of spiritual energy and the relics of the Pangu civilization, if there was indeed a civilization in this place, it should have been a behemoth that spanned hundreds of galaxies a long time ago.
"Why does it seem to me that the space here is so empty? There is not a single trade route between the planets or a single starship?"
Li Yao was greatly confused.
He had not intended to enter the planet of the mysterious world directly to pry into the reality of the civilization, which was too risky and unpredictable.
His idea was that, since the civilization was able to send information to another world, they should have at least deployed carriers between the planets in their own solar system.
Then, he would sneak into one of the enemy's starships with the 'starship breach' strategy that he was best at. He would observe the social form and the civilization of the enemy through the tiny world on the starship before he decided what to do next.
If the enemy was truly malicious, one starship would be relatively easy to deal with.
But as it turned out, the entire space was empty. Except for the remnants of the primeval battlefields hundreds of thousands of years ago, there were no traces of artificial celestial bodies at all. Li Yao was rather embarrassed.
"Is it possible that space cruising technology hasn't been exhibited in this world yet?"
Li Yao couldn't help but put on a weird expression.
The long-distance space jump technology that spanned tens of thousands of lightyears was certainly a sophisticated field.
But to be honest, exploring the solar system that one was in was not a difficult technology at all.
Even in Li Yao's previous life, 'Earth', which was devoid of spiritual energy, the technology had been able to do it to some extent. How could it not be possible in this world?
Could it be?
Li Yao thought quickly and seemed to have realized something.
During the hundred years of space cruising, he had vaguely sensed that the dark nebula that covered hundreds of lightyears did not seem to be a natural phenomenon but rather man-made.
The 'war fog' was like the most advanced barrier that protected the entire world inside. Outsiders could neither detect their information nor see their star. Naturally, they were unaware of their existence.
No matter what happened in the outside world, the world inside remained calm and unaffected, happy and contented.
However, as a result, while outsiders could not see what was inside, it was barely possible for those inside to see what was outside, too.
Human beings lived in the universe. Although they were just tiny germs on a tiny ball, they could see the boundless sea of stars when they raised their head at night. Even without magical equipment, they could appreciate the mysteries and glamorous worlds in the sea of stars with only the most precise telescopes.
It was only because of that that human beings had the ambition to travel across the universe and explore the outside world!
But in this world …
Li Yao did not know whether or not the people of this world could appreciate the glamorous starry sky and perceive the vastness of the universe, or whether their night sky was pitch black with only the glimmering of a couple of stars.
It was hard to imagine that the signals they sent out could hardly penetrate the 'impenetrable' dark nebula. If they had developed the elementary space navigation technology, their shabby starships would hardly be able to move at all in absolute darkness, either.
As time went by, they did not even know whether or not there were vaster worlds beyond the dark nebula. Who would want to travel in the sea of stars at all?
It was as if this world was growing inside a 'black box'!
Things are getting more and more interesting.
Li Yao pondered for a moment and felt that the whole thing seemed to have deviated from the track that he had anticipated.
However, it was better to be safe than sorry. Anything could happen in the mysterious universe. Even if an octopus with green liquid all over its body suddenly jumped out of nowhere, it would not be a big deal.
Li Yao had two choices right now.
Firstly, he could unfold the star beacon and send the specific coordinates of this place to the Xing Yao Federation.
However, during the arduous voyage that had lasted a hundred years, Spark had been seriously damaged several times. The backup components had long been used up. To ensure the speed, Li Yao had to replace them with the components on the star beacons.
It was not impossible to return the components, but in such a way, the performance of Spark would be greatly reduced, and it would not be able to accelerate at all.
Faced with an unknown civilization, if the speed could not be accelerated, it meant that there would be no way to escape!
Besides, to this moment, Li Yao still could not rule out the possibility that the enemy had set up a trap.
Chances were that, after he unfolded the star beacon and sent the coordinates to the Tian Yuan Realm, the enemy would lock onto him and track him down. Eventually, they would discover the precise coordinates of the Tian Yuan Realm.
In a universal war, the precise coordinates of one's own side were even more clandestine than the pattern on one's wife's underwear.
Despite the magnificence of the Imperium of True Human Beings, it was still a firm principle when it explored a new world. It was necessary to figure out the civilization level and the stance of good and evil in the new world before it could send a message to the mother planet.
Li Yao could despise the spirit of the Imperium of True Human Beings, but he would never ignore their experience.
Therefore, he decided to take the risk of sneaking into the planet of the unknown civilization and prying into their actual situation before he made further plans.
As it happened, the star beacons that Spark carried had a lot of units that were seriously worn out. They might not be very effective when they were assembled and unfolded.
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