At the center of the cosmos was the place where the cantilevers intersected, the stars collided, and the spiritual energy surged out.
The place was like an enormous swirl that had absorbed most of the spiritual energy in the primeval universe and evolved into a bizarre, unbelievable world.
As far as one's eyes could see, all the stars seemed to be right next to one's face. One could pick a couple of them with one's hand. Compared to the dark, desolate, and barren edge of the cosmos, this place was much more lively and prosperous.
Looking far away, one could even see colorful rivers of stars that intertwined, intertwined, split, and condensed. They were like rivers that nurtured billions of creatures!
Sound could not be transmitted in the vacuum of space, but the rushing rivers of stars seemed to be uttering deafening noises that nourished the souls of all the creatures.
The nebula closest to the place was even more unbelievably splendid.
It was like hundreds of millions of multicolored gems had been crushed and blown away. Inside, there were countless fireflies dancing. Only then could it release a dazzling brilliance.
The nebula was oval in shape, but almost ten arms extended from the two sides, which looked like the limbs of insects.
At the end of the oval that was slightly constricted, another thick arm extended out. The other end of the arm was slightly expanded, making it look like the tail of a scorpion.
Violent exchanges of spiritual energy and materials were taking place between the nebula and the cloud arm, making the entire nebula glitter like explosions all day long. Tremendous spiritual energy and materials were delivered to the end of the nebula through the cloud arm, before they were spurted out of the nebula into surging high-energy particles and super powerful radiation.
At first glance, it truly looked like a scorpion that was spurting venom.
That was how the 'Devilish Scorpion Nebula' got its name.
The reaction of spiritual energy and materials in the nebula itself was so intense that it could be sensed clearly even from hundreds of thousands of lightyears away. It was a natural 'lighthouse of the universe'.
When it spurted out high-energy particles and powerful radiation irregularly through its' tail ', the intensity of the internal reaction would be much higher.
Also, the high-energy particles and powerful radiation were highly directional. It was almost the best 'sailing route in space'.
Therefore, choosing the nebula of the Devilish Scorpion Galaxy as the destination of the jump was the most accurate choice.
As it turned out, when the 'tail' of the nebula began to expand again, emitting a very dangerous deep purple color. The end of the tail even turned scorching white, spurting out visible flames, green light, white light, and purple fog. In the deep space not far away from the nebula, there was an empty space that seemed to have been lengthened by an invisible hand!
Looking at it from a three-dimensional perspective, this scene was extremely strange.
There was clearly no point of reference in the surroundings. The entire space was fused together and inseparable. However, there was a small space that was constantly stretched like noodles.
When the Space Noodle was stretched to its limit, it finally broke.
The rupture was like a hollow pipe, an exit through time and space that spat out a tiny grain of rice!
The wormhole soon disappeared, and the torn space returned to normal. Other than the weak space-time ripples that spread out at the speed of light, it was as if nothing had happened.
The tiny grain of rice, however, was fully displayed under the illumination of the nebula of the Devilish Scorpion Galaxy.
It could not have been more than fifty meters long. In the boundless sea of stars, it was not even a drop of water in the ocean.
The surface of the starship was rusted, with countless traces of collisions caused by meteoroids and star dust. The lightning trident emblem of the Imperium of True Human Beings was painted on the head of the starship. Below the emblem was a weird name.
Jingle Bell!
It was the 'Heavenly Eye' multipurpose deep-space exploration starship of the Xing Yao Federation.
It represented the edge of the cosmos and sent the first 'greeting' to the center of the cosmos, telling the entire universe that they were here!
Is — is this the center of the cosmos? What brilliant stars! What surging spiritual energy! What a beautiful universe!
Finally, we're here!
Standing on the bridge of 'Jingle Bell', he had set the starship to the '100% transparent' mode. Everything around him seemed to have disappeared, and he seemed to be standing in the middle of the sea of stars, bathing in the most prosperous brilliance of the three thousand Sectors. Li Yao was overwhelmed with mixed feelings. He almost couldn't help but roar and vent his ecstasy.
Before his spiritual root was awakened, in the tiny magical equipment graveyard in Floating Spear City of the Xing Yao Federation, he had raised his head to look at the dense purple clouds and listen to his foster father's weird stories about the stars. He had made a great vow that he would travel to the center of the cosmos one day and make the name 'Vulture Li Yao' resound in every Sector and every planet.
Today, he was truly at the peak of the stars and at the center of all Sectors.
After more than a hundred years, his wish had finally been fulfilled!
The last jump was almost perfect. I was sent to the interior of the 'Devilish Scorpion Nebula' immediately. The 'Devilish Scorpion Nebula' is right in front of my eyes!
Judging from the intensity and the angle of the high-energy particles spurted out by the nebula, my landing point was perfect, too. It was not so far away that I had to perform a second jump to adjust the coordinates, and it was not too close to the nebula in case I was blasted by the high-energy particles and the powerful radiations.
Hehe. It means that my luck is rising. Is the heavens finally taking care of me?
Or is my speculation correct? Is Earth really somewhere at the center of the cosmos, and I belong to this place in the first place. So, after I return to this place, I will no longer be in 'conflict' with the world around me, and there will be no forces that 'reject' me?
In any case, Imperium, I'm here. Holy League, I'm here. Earth, I'm back!
Li Yao bashed his chest and shouted.
No wonder he was so excited. It was certainly not an easy task to trace back to the Black Wind Fleet's march in the past and complete their hundred-year journey in only one month.
Jingle Bell did not jump from the Federation to the Imperium all at once.
The precision of such a jump was too difficult to grasp. Even though the target was the nebula of the Devilish Scorpion in the beginning, as long as one decimal point of one parameter was slightly off, and even if all the initial parameters were correct, but the astronomical environment around the destination had the tiniest changes in the past hundred years, it was possible that Li Yao would jump directly to an uncanny place. For example, the military base of the Imperium that was heavily guarded was right below the nose of hundreds of main-force warships of the Imperium.
Besides, the bottom structure of Jingle Bell was a single escape capsule from the Pangu clan, which was only thirty to fifty meters long at best. Even if all the toilets were filled, how much fuel could they store?
The fuel was too little to support a super long-distance space jump that crossed billions of stars.
Therefore, Li Yao adopted the form of "leapfrogging".
When the Black Wind Fleet marched to the edge of the cosmos, it was also their mission to establish a new sailing route for the Imperium. Therefore, they had left a lot of fully-automated, unmanned resource warehouses along the way during their hundred years of march, which were sort of "space stations".
The fuel left in the space stations was not much, but it was more than enough for a super-tiny starship such as Jingle Bell to perform a mid- to short-distance jump.
In such a way, Li Yao jumped from station to station. Every time he reached a space station, he would refill the fuel and slightly adjust the direction.
It was not until he was not far away from the Imperium that he finally locked onto the nebula of the Devilish Scorpion, his final destination. He had indeed hit the bullseye!
However, now is not the time to be careless.
Taking a deep breath, Li Yao turned on all the surveillance magical equipment on Jingle Bell and raised his wariness to the maximum, ready to summon the Crystal Suit and the Colossus at any moment.
A space jump was the same as a beach landing. The moment after the jump was the most dangerous moment.
Jingle Bell was the most advanced stealth exploration starship of the Federation, and it could almost cover all the radiation and spiritual energy on the starship when it entered the cruising state.
However, the moment after the jump, the space-time ripples caused by the tearing apart of the three-dimensional space could not be concealed at all.
The space-time ripples that were spreading out at the speed of light were likely to be discovered by the enemy.
The so-called "enemy" might not necessarily be the patrolling fleet of the Imperium of True Human Beings.
The universe was too vast. Even inside the nebula of the Devilish Scorpion, there were almost a hundred Desolate Worlds and almost ten Sectors. The odds that he would run into the people of the Imperium the moment he jumped over were not high.
Even if he did run into them, Jingle Bell had been highly modified and did not reveal anything on the surface that would reveal Li Yao's identity or the existence of the Federation. He could totally deal with the people of the Imperium for a while.
However, other than the people of the Imperium and the Holy League, there were other dangerous hunters in the depths of the sea of stars, which were the alien species.
A long, long time ago, Li Yao had been very curious about something. The three thousand Sectors included millions, if not millions, of galaxies. Countless habitable planets with atmospheres could be found among them.
Even on the "uninhabitable planets" that did not have atmospheres, a lot of low-level life forms that were entirely different from human beings had been discovered.
Why were there no other powerful civilizations in such a colorful world other than the civilization of mankind?
It was said that human beings had encountered some very tough, highly-intelligent alien species on their journey to explore the universe. Some of them had even led to the annihilation of an entire legion of human beings.
However, most of the alien species fought on their own. However strong they were, it was inevitable that they would be suppressed by the army of human beings.
Their lack of civilization was their fatal weakness.
It was not until a long time later that Li Yao learned the truth through the incomplete information on Kunlun and the underground laboratories of the Ancient Sages Sector.
Millions of years ago, in the vast sea of stars that human beings called the three thousand Sectors today, there might have been hundreds of civilizations.
However, most of the civilizations had been destroyed, or rather, "melted", by the Pangu Alliance of Civilizations.
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