It was an extremely dangerous approach.
It was because Li Yao had to attract all the cosmic dust to himself but not invade his body.
If a piece of cosmic dust invaded his body and combined with the atoms that made up his body, it would be equivalent to a nuclear fusion explosion inside his body. The consequences would be unimaginable.
Only a great expert in the Divinity Branching Stage such as Li Yao, a crazy gambler, would dare to do that.
Hiu! Hiu! Hiu!
Hiu! Countless cosmic dust crawled into the starship that had just emerged from the four-dimensional space and was still in the "unfolded" state.
Or rather, it was the pieces and ripples of the starship that crawled into the cosmic dust.
The intense magnetic fields collided, creating countless invisible coils. The turbulent cosmic dust accelerated, emitting dazzling electric arcs that were like countless explosive bullets.
Under the attraction of Li Yao's vitality magnetic field, the glittering bullets drew beautiful curves and shot around him, making soul-stirring and beautiful circles around him, illuminating him and making him look like a god.
However —
The density of the cosmic dust was too high, and the trajectories were too complicated. When the starship was about to break free from the ripples of the four-dimensional space, two cosmic dust particles suddenly collided. One of them deviated from its trajectory and shot into Li Yao's chest!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Boom! Li Yao immediately felt that his heart seemed to have been detonated by 108,000 crystal bombs at the same time. A chain reaction was even triggered, causing all the cells that made up his body to explode.
For a moment, his heart was so painful that he gritted his teeth and roared.
The spiritual energy all over his body flowed to the wound incessantly, forcing the rotten flesh and pus out of the wound together with the cosmic dust. The powerful vitality was activated, and the cells split, the granulation grew, and the shocking wound was healed.
The pus that spurted out was annihilated in midair and turned into smoke before it hit the ground.
That was close!
Li Yao could not help but sweat all over his back. If the diameter of the cosmic dust was a little bigger, even if it was only twenty to thirty percent bigger, maybe he would not have been able to force it out of his body in time and would have been killed by the explosion.
Thinking about that, Li Yao focused his attention. Not daring to be careless at all, he continued to collect the cosmic dust inside the starship carefully. No more accidents happened.
About a minute later, the explosions and bumps of the starship slowly died down, and colorful powder that looked like sand appeared below Li Yao's feet, too.
"Hu —"
Li Yao heaved a long sigh of relief and knelt down on one knee. He clutched his chest that had just healed and finally calmed down.
"Are there any casualties on the starship? What's the power status? Can it be connected to the tactical network to locate the nearby allies? What's the status of the casualties and the location of the allies?"
Three seconds later, Li Yao jumped to his feet and retrieved the surveillance and communication interfaces on the starship. From the 3D light beams floating in midair, tremendous data poured down like a storm and were all scanned into his brain by his eyes that were as sharp as lightning.
Thankfully, because of the tremendous cosmic dust that he had absorbed, 'Falcon', the starship that he was on, did not suffer any casualties. The main structure of the starship was intact, too. Only two sets of power units had malfunctioned and were in the middle of emergency repairs.
The starships that participated in the capture and exploration operation had all been specially strengthened and modified. Every starship had been installed with about fifty percent of the power units, which was more than enough for them. Had it not been for their terrible luck, they would have been able to maintain the combat state even if half of their power had been lost.
Knowing that the crew and the starship were safe and sound, Li Yao finally took a long breath in relief. Through the surveillance cameras and the scanning magical equipment, he focused his attention outside of the starship.
"The tactical network is unfolding and scanning, automatically searching for the nearby allies!"
Li Yao's telepathic thoughts spread out along with the unfolding of the Spiritual Nexus, too, exploring the … glamorous, mysterious, and violent world.
"Beautiful. Too beautiful. The 'cosmic butterfly' is ten thousand times more beautiful when observed from the inside than when observed from the outside!"
When Li Yao's telepathic thoughts were deeply entangled with the universe around, he could not help but be caught in a trance for ten seconds.
No language, not even the language of the Pangu people, could describe the magnificence of the world around him and his shock.
The torrents that the two supernovae spread out were still savaging and savaging the universe to this day, leaving ripples of energy that looked like surging tides.
However, the 'ancient giant planet', as the leader of all the planets, was not easy to deal with, either. It also released radiation and high-energy particles that hit the energy ripples of the supernova explosions brutally.
It was as if two, no, three torrents were converging at the same place, colliding with monstrous waves and deafening thunderclaps.
The cosmic dust that dispersed within the gravity sphere of the ancient giant was ten thousand times denser than the general vacuum of the universe. The tiny particles that could barely be seen with the naked eye were injected with three types of energy of entirely different natures. During the high-speed friction and shooting, they were burning themselves nonstop, releasing brilliant brilliance that was a million times more dazzling than before. They were like countless rainbow-colored serpents that were entangled, swallowing each other, melting, and splitting each other.
'Falcon' that Li Yao was on, the cutting-edge starship that was made of all the wisdom, courage, and sweat of the civilization of mankind, was nothing more than a tiny worm on the body of the rainbow serpent, bumping up and down and drifting with the current of the rainbow serpent.
Li Yao knew that it was the cosmic dust that made up the rainbow serpent that almost killed him just now.
Even so, faced with such a splendid universe, he still could not help but feel deeply moved. The most primitive and wild roars were echoing from the depths of his every cell. "Universe. Such a splendid universe. Such a magnificent and soul-stirring universe. We, human beings, are here. We will witness and conquer!"
Li Yao's eyes, which were even more scorching than the detonation of a star, pierced through the rainbow dust belt and looked at the depths of the ancient giant planet.
It was a stone belt. Countless meteoroids the size of fingers and fists were rushing out, forming a glittering halo that looked like a saber that a planetary warrior was waving.
Li Yao knew that, according to the ancient astronomical database of the Imperium of True Human Beings, the ancient giant planet did not have a planetary halo in the beginning. The halo must've been formed when a few satellites collided and tore apart each other not long ago.
The halo that had just been formed was not stable in terms of form, structure, speed, or orbit. It was the most dangerous stone belt.
Thankfully, they did not directly jump into the halo of the ancient giant planet just now. Otherwise, they would've been doomed even if hundreds of top experts had transformed into the ultimate deities.
Looking past the rainbow dust belt and the planetary halo, Li Yao saw … 'it'.
It was the ancient giant planet, one of the most enormous planets in the universe, the reserve of a star, and the giant planet that was millions of times larger than a solid planet!
The ancient giant planet almost occupied Li Yao's entire vision, giving him a weird illusion that the giant planet was expanding nonstop and had swallowed more than half of the universe.
On the surface of the planet, there were parallel stripes in red, brown, white, blue, and other colors, indicating that there were extremely powerful tornadoes inside its ethane atmosphere. There were also enormous red spots, which must've been the result of the intense reaction between the high-temperature spurted out from the core and the materials on the surface. The red spots were all thousands of kilometers in diameter. They were truly like bloody mouths that were about to swallow the starships of human beings.
Li Yao had the experience of training close to a neutron pulsar before, but he had never been so close to a giant planet before.
Although the density of the former was extremely high, the latter was much more soul-stirring in terms of visual effect.
It was because a neutron star was the product of the explosion of a star. It was equivalent to the corpse of a star. Its vitality had almost been cut off and it was on its way to the end.
The ancient giant planet, on the other hand, was still in the most magnificent years of its life. It was still trying its best to break free from all the shackles that bound it.
Li Yao sensed the unparalleled vitality from the ancient giant planet, as if he were watching a warrior who was trying to survive in a desperate situation.
It was a pity that …
Li Yao noticed that the ancient giant planet was not in the shape of a regular sphere but an oval that was close to an olive. Also, a lot of irregular depressions and bumps had appeared on the surface, as if countless deep valleys and dangerous peaks had suddenly appeared.
It was a sign that the fixed form that had been maintained for billions of years was about to be broken due to the intense internal reactions. If the ancient giant planet could not ignite the fire of the stars and evolve into a real star, Li Yao estimated that it would lose a lot of mass in a certain astronomical amount of time and turn into a smaller wandering planet. It might even fall apart.
Thankfully, 'a certain astronomical amount of time' could be thousands of years for human beings. As long as it was not stimulated by artificial beings, they should not have to worry about the collapse of the ancient giant planet for the time being.
Li Yao expanded his telepathic thoughts to the maximum with the enhancement of the Spiritual Nexus. Very soon, he locked onto dozens of friendly starships nearby.
Because they had jumped in through a super-short space jump from 0.1 lightyears away, the precision of the jump was very high, and the battle formation was relatively intact. Most of the starships had jumped to the edge of the gravity sphere of the ancient giant planet accurately and near the rainbow dust belt.
The rainbow dust had indeed caused a lot of trouble for the starships. The spiritual shields of many starships had been broken through, and many starships had lost twenty to thirty percent of their impetus. Some of the explorers on the starships had even been killed before the mission was over and had 'crashed' into the cosmic dust when they jumped to this place, perishing on the spot.
This was a battlefield. This was a war between mankind and the universe. Shouldering the destiny of the future, Li Yao could only grit his teeth and pay the greatest respect to the warriors who had sacrificed themselves in the bottom of his heart. Then, he took over their unfinished mission and continued the exploration.
Thankfully, so far, all the starships had been damaged within an acceptable range, and none of them had lost their combat ability. However, the magnetic storm nearby was too intense, and the interferences were too severe. The communication on the Spiritual Nexus was intermittent, and it was difficult for them to communicate with their allies effectively.
Right when Li Yao ordered the crew to increase the output and establish a more stable battle network, 'Falcon' received a distress signal.
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