Five days later, at the center of the Dragon Snake Space Zone, outside of the gravitational sphere of the red giant …
In the middle of the deep purple sea of stars, there was a space city.
The space city boasted a translucent core in the shape of a honeycomb. It seemed to be made of hexagonal crystals or Coloured Glaze of equal sizes. Also, on the intersection of every crystal, enormous solar sails were extended in all directions.
The solar sails that were as thin as cicada's wings had the texture of translucent crystals, too. The delicate runes and tubes of spiritual energy on the surface made them look like enormous, transparent leaves that were slightly shaking in the invisible cosmic waves.
The 'leaves', 'cicada's wings', or 'sails' could absorb the radiation and heat that contained special spiritual waves released from the red giant and transform them into spiritual energy as much as possible. Then, the spiritual energy would be transmitted to the honeycomb-shaped crystal core through the veins that looked like capillaries, serving as the main energy source for the operation of the city.
This place was Fish Dragon City, the heart of the Dragon Snake Space Zone.
The swordfish warship, which carried twelve experts of the Ancient Sages Sector and a female captive of the Imperium, listened to the guidance of the navigator in the space port and slowly passed between the two enormous solar sails in the middle of hundreds of starships of various shapes and sizes, approaching the No. 99 port.
When the fixing rune arrays that were invisible to the naked eye attached the swordfish warship to the dock on the branches that protruded out of Fish Dragon City, a soft tube that could automatically secrete isolation gel extended out of the dock at the same time.
This soft tube was like the feeding device of some kind of mollusk. It trembled, stretched, sniffed, and groped left and right. Soon, it found the cabin door of the swordfish assault ship. Using the isolation gel, it connected the two together seamlessly. The landing was successful!
The Dragon Snake Space Zone was a land of exile that was in a state of anarchy.
Fish Dragon City was also a 'Chamber of Commerce', which was composed of the Uranian Ring Residence, the Crystal Valley, the Nether World Fortress, and the Forest Ocean Gang. The most basic order was maintained in the city.
Basically, as long as one paid a 'port construction fee' to the Chamber of Commerce and did not carry any large-scale destructive magical equipment, they would be allowed to enter and exit Fish Dragon City freely. Nobody would ask about the visitors' identity and purpose on the surface.
Of course, the large-scale destructive magical equipment could be hidden inside the Cosmos Rings. Therefore, the only requirement for a free and unfettered life in such a chaotic place was money.
Fish Dragon City was a paradise for adventurers, a stage for the brave, and a battlefield for the lunatics!
After decades of rapid development, the wealth brought by the four Sectors had created abnormal prosperity. Not only were the villains who were dissatisfied with the Xing Yao Federation considering the place as a shelter for luxury, the experts within the Federation who craved adventure and slaughter, the young men who had lost patience with the peaceful reality, the illusionists who rose to fame overnight, and all kinds of scumbags and guys with ill intentions had all gathered in the place like flies attracted by rotten meat.
In the past ten years, Firefly from the center of the cosmos had been docked near the Dragon Snake Space Zone, too. A lot of Cultivators from the 'rightful government of the Star Ocean Republic' had shown up in the place secretly, too, enjoying the extravagant pleasures that they could not enjoy on Firefly despite the harsh conditions. Some of them even fled to the Xing Yao Federation on a large scale with the Dragon Snake Space Zone as a springboard. After all, the 'rightful government of the Star Ocean Republic', which had been struggling for a thousand years, did not seem to be able to survive for another thousand years, supported by a single Firefly.
All in all, Fish Dragon City was exactly like that. Space pirates, spies, assassins, bodyguards, smugglers, doctors of the black market, hunters, traitors, Immortal Cultivators … Snakes, insects, rats, and ants were playing the great dramas made of schemes, blood, slaughter, and betrayal day and night.
When Li Yao walked to the exit of the spaceport in the middle of the eleven experts from the Ancient Sages Sector and Heiye Lan, he gradually felt that he was short of breath and almost could not hold back the excitement in his heart anymore.
Before they 'disposed' of Fei Qi and the other amateur space pirates, they had collected enough anonymous crystal cards as well as highly-compressed crystals that could be directly used as hard currency in the Dragon Snake Space Zone and compressed into the shape of coins with special magical equipment.
With only five 'crystal coins', they had directly occupied the most convenient VIP channel, eliminating the need to line up and go through the complicated procedures.
As long as they passed through the double-sealed door in the front, they would be back to the modern civilization that they had not seen for a hundred years!
Although this place was not the territory of the Xing Yao Federation in the real sense yet, it was undoubtedly a place where the Federation's influence and influence were highly infiltrated. They would certainly be able to collect more information about the Federation, their family, and their friends in this place!
How developed was the Federation that boasted seven Sectors a hundred years later?
What were the details of Ding Ling Dong and Jin Xinyue's adventures and development?
Also, Wu Mayan, Xie Anan, Guo Chunfeng, Lei Dalu, Bai Kaixin, Xiong Wuji, Professor Mo Xuan … What were their adventures and current situations?
Li Yao could not wait to know everything.
But he was also somewhat nervous when he was close to home. He could not imagine what it would be like when he really met Ding Ling Dong and Jin Xinyue.
It had been a hundred years. Although he had been in hibernation most of the time, it had passed in the blink of an eye.
But it had been a hundred years after all. It had been such a long hundred years that he had almost forgotten the feeling of the 'competition of beliefs'.
Li Yao felt that his heart was palpitating.
He suddenly remembered the nights when he and Ding Ling Dong discussed life, shared their ideals, and practiced their techniques on the asteroids, in the trenches tens of thousands of meters deep, next to the gravitational sphere of the pulsar.
"Federation, I'm back. Honey, I'm back!"
Li Yao chuckled in his heart and strode to the double-sealed door that had been installed with automatic sensor rune arrays.
"Chi …"
The door was opened.
Although Li Yao thought that he was mentally prepared, he was still deeply shocked by what he saw in front of his eyes!
This was a three-dimensional city built on the inner wall of the 'crystal honeycomb'. There was no up, down, left, or right at all. Skyscrapers, or 'branches', extended from the inner wall to the center everywhere.
They relied on the light balls that floated in the air and glowed faintly like fireflies to provide illumination. Those light balls were created with the spirit magnetic waves and radiation energy of the red giant. They were sent to this place through transmission tubes that looked like capillaries.
Every light ball was floating like a dandelion. The light that they emitted was not dazzling on its own, but when the light of hundreds of light balls was congregated, they turned into a splendid ocean of light.
The 'lifespan' of every light ball was not very long. They would break and perish like ivory soap bubbles, but new light balls would be blown to the center of the city unhurriedly, covering the lawless, chaotic city with a soft veil that was highly camouflaged.
Under the illumination of the light balls, the four districts of Fish Dragon City that were in different styles were displayed in front of Li Yao and everybody else.
The nobles of the Uranian Ring Sector worshipped elegance and agility. Their architectural style was a perfect example of that. It was like a pile of underdeveloped reeds. The buildings were large in head and thin in feet. They gave people a feeling that the foundation was not stable, and the buildings were hollow and shaky.
The people of the Water Crystal Sector, on the other hand, liked everything that was glittering and glittering. Their buildings were like cobs of corn that were embedded with artificial diamonds.
The Nether World Sector was a world of spectral Cultivators. Their buildings were gloomy, dark, and heavy, like overlapping black turtle shells. Such a form of buildings could help them resist the fatal radiation from space to the greatest extent and protect the vulnerable souls so that they would not be wasted pointlessly.
The outcasts of the Forest Ocean Sector worshipped nature. It was said that their hometown was a planet surrounded by primitive forests. All kinds of bizarre plants even grew out of the bottom of the ocean all the way to beyond the atmosphere.
Naturally, it was impossible for them to plant such enormous trees in Fish Dragon City. But they still chose to decorate their new home with all kinds of bizarre-shaped plants. Li Yao even saw things that were almost a hundred meters in diameter, and there was no telling whether or not they should be called 'flowers', blossoming on their enormous trees and buildings!
The modern buildings in all kinds of shapes and sizes were already enough for the 'bumpkins' from the ancient Cultivators to stare at for a long time, not to mention the shuttles that were flying among the buildings freely and the trains that were running in the vacuum tubes all over the city. What caught them off guard and dumbfounded them the most were the overwhelming, omnipresent light beams!
The greatest difference between the modern society and the ancient society was neither buildings nor vehicles but information. It was how information was presented and transmitted.
In the modern Cultivation civilization that had experienced the information boom, the transmission and presentation of information were a hundred times crazier and more explosive than in the ancient Cultivators' world!
At least thousands of enormous light beams hundreds of square meters were floating in midair, displaying information as fast as a storm. One of them was a pretty girl with heavy makeup and nothing on her upper body. Another one was the pictures from the first-person perspective of broken limbs flying crazily in an arena. The third one was the information about the stock market of the Xing Yao Federation falling like a waterfall of stars, together with the roars of the specialists, scholars, liars, and lunatics. Then, it was the magical equipment that was both useful and useless in the latest research and development that was being sold at a great discount. The bizarre colors, the colors, the colors, and the colors completely stunned the Ancient Sages Sector!
"This is …"
'Iron Saint' Qi Zhongdao was somewhat confused. He extended his hand and pushed away two nonexistent objects in the void.
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