Li Yao seemed to have fallen into a bottomless dream, or like a drop of water falling into a boundless ocean. The Crystal Suit and the star shuttle that enveloped his body were gradually melting. Even his physical body was gone.
His soul drifted and turned into a dazzling star, which merged into the swirl made of billions of stars and dived toward the deepest part of the swirl.
He had completely forgotten his origins and his destiny and was fully immersed in the surging sea of stars.
When he finally reached the deepest part of the swirl and passed through a long, dark channel, what appeared in front of his eyes was a splendid battlefield of stars.
Billions of stars were burning brilliantly. Red brilliance and blue brilliance condensed into two armies that were engaged in a fierce battle.
Every star cluster was a soldier, and the raging nebula was condensed into the burning warhorse beneath them. They gathered thousands of stars as their weapons, and the cantilever of the galaxy was their sword. They swept across the distance of hundreds of lightyears, and every spark they collided with was a star!
The fierce battle seemed to have lasted ten thousand years, but it also seemed to have lasted only a moment. The armies of red and blue perished together and melted into a cluster of chaotic cosmic dust.
Li Yao's soul was still diving, diving, and diving toward the dust cloud.
After an unknown amount of time, he finally realized that he wasn't diving, but falling.
But his heart was unprecedentedly peaceful, as if he had become part of the sea of stars.
"Li Yao!"
Someone was calling him. The voice seemed to come from the other side of the galaxy, but it woke up his soul that was about to be lost.
Li Yao was greatly shocked. All the pores all over his body were constricting. It was not until then that he realized that his body was still there.
He was like a person who had just died. His soul had been split into two halves, and a small part of it was still inside his body. His soul was locked in the Crystal Suit and bound to the foam seat of the star shuttle.
The other half of his soul, on the other hand, was flung forward under the enormous inertia of the space shuttle. After being flung away for who knew how many lightyears, it was pulled back brutally.
It was like a marble tied to a rubber band. After being stretched to the limit, it was suddenly released. His soul bounced around his body many times before it completely returned to his body.
"Wu En …"
Li Yao was in a daze. His eyes were half open for a long time before he remembered everything. When he opened his mouth, he found that his words were unclear. There was a big bag of sour and astringent liquid in his mouth. It was unknown whether it was blood or saliva.
Using the cleaning system in his helmet to remove the acid, he stretched his tongue and asked, "Have we really traveled 10,000 light-years?"
"That's right, but we're not there yet!"
Hong Tong struggled out of the foam chair and treated Yan Yangtian together with 'Dummy' Ba Weiqi.
After all, the distance of ten thousand lightyears was a heavy burden on the body and the brain. Yan Yangtian's soul was shaken, and her brain was bruised.
Li Yao shook his head. In addition to the strong feeling of vomiting, his body was also somewhat numb. His perception flooded his limbs and bones. He regained control of every finger.
He turned around and found that Ding Ling Dong was waking up, too. She stretched out her hands and tried to control her body by extending and retracting her fingers one by one.
Just when Li Yao took a breath in relief, the star shuttle trembled violently as if it had just been punched. An ominous red light illuminated the cabin.
Hong Tong and 'Dummy' Ba Weiqi both fell to the ground.
Thankfully, under the guidance of Ba Weiqi, Yan Yangtian recovered in time. She gasped for ten seconds in the communication channel, before she coughed hard. It was as if she had just woken up from a nightmare.
Hong Tong and Ba Weiqi hurried back to their positions and covered themselves with the buffer foam again. They shouted, "Be careful.
We've been captured by the gravity of Ultimacy, but we're now passing through a space debris belt! "
Li Yao looked out of the porthole. From his perspective, he could only see the deep, dark universe. There was not a single star in sight, let alone Ultimacy.
But countless tiny metal pieces were slipping past them now and then.
Li Yao felt that his heart was in his throat.
They had not been teleported to the surface of Ultimacy directly. Instead, they had appeared in the gravity belt outside of the atmosphere.
It was already a very lucky result when there were no star beacons to guide them.
Making a Star Shuttle cross a distance of ten thousand light-years and accurately teleport to the surface of a planet was no less difficult than throwing an embroidery needle hundreds of kilometres away and accurately stabbing the wing of a fly.
To be honest, it was already a miracle that they had not been teleported to the mantle of Ultimacy or the nearby stars.
For the expedition of ten thousand lightyears, the five star shuttles that had been sent had all been equipped with a simple power system. The best sailing route and landing spot had been automatically calculated by the crystal processor.
But that was the end of their luck.
They had been teleported to an area of space debris outside of the gravity belt of Ultimacy. There was nothing but space garbage around them.
The forty-eight crystal cameras installed on the outside of the crystal shuttles scanned and analyzed quickly, displaying the scene in front of them.
Then, they saw a space battlefield from thousands of years ago.
Scraps of weapons and magical equipment were everywhere in the universe, as well as bizarre-shaped bodies of Cultivators and demons.
Not far away, there were several starships that were riddled with holes and a space fortress of the demon clan that looked like a giant hermit crab.
"It seems that there was a fierce battle between human beings and demons in the sky of Ultimacy. That's why there are so many debris here. Therefore, there must be something very important on Ultimacy!"
While speaking, Hong Tong turned his eyes to Li Yao.
Li Yao quickly identified the debris and agreed with the captain as an expert. "Yes. The few starships that are riddled with holes should be much more powerful than the 'Tiger Shark' class starships that we excavated before, although we can't see them clearly, judging from the distribution of the cannons and the layout of the bridge, they should be starships that are much more powerful than the 'Tiger Shark' class starships that we excavated before!
"The 'Tiger Shark' class starships alone require more than five Jin Dan experts to drive. There must be a Yuanying monster on board such a powerful starship!
"Judging from the debris, there are at least dozens of starships of the same type. There are even starships of a higher level further away!
"That is to say, dozens of Yuanying monsters were involved in the battle at the same time. It could even be a battle between stronger Cultivators.
"Although the Star Ocean Imperium was the peak of the Cultivation civilization with countless unparalleled experts, a battle involving hundreds of Yuanying at the same time … It could be called a great war!
"It's the same for the Yao Clan. That kind of Starry Sky Battle Fort. I've never seen one before, but it's definitely more powerful than the few demon fortresses recorded in the database. At the very least, it's larger in size and should be of a very high level. It must be the main weapon of the Demon Beast Empire!
"There must be something very important on Ultimacy for the two parties to fight."
Hong Tong pondered for a moment.
"The starships and the space fortresses. Are they worth retrieving? "
Li Yao pondered for a moment and shook his head.
"There is not much recycling value. They died together in the first place and drained their last bit of spiritual energy. It seems that most of them were destroyed by the self-explosion. Also, after drifting in the sea of stars for thousands of years, they suffered the corrosion of the cosmic dust and radiation. Even the intact magical equipment would've turned into garbage, not to mention that they were already broken apart!"
"I suggest that we focus on exploring Ultimacy. If we find nothing, we can always come back and clean up the ancient battlefield.
"If we have to talk about it, now is the time. They are just trouble! "
Before Li Yao concluded his sentence, another two pieces of debris hit the star shuttle heavily and shook it.
The debris in front of them was getting denser and denser. The sound of the debris hitting the shell of the star shuttle turned from the sound of rain into a storm!
The spiritual shield of the star shuttle was being worn out quickly. The 3D model displayed on the light beam changed from green, which meant that it was absolutely safe, to bright yellow, which meant that it was under attack, and then to orange, which meant that it was frightening.
It lasted another minute. It would turn into the crimson color of despair!
The mainframe crystal processor was calculating the best route of escape, but they had been blown into the debris area by the inertia of the broken void. Wreckage was everywhere, and there was no way to avoid it.
This was the only way. That was to accelerate downwards and rush into the atmosphere of Ultimacy as soon as possible!
Bang!
Li Yao saw that half of the hideous corpse of the Demon Clan had crashed into the shell of the star shuttle.
This corpse had long been corroded by cosmic radiation to the point that it was extremely brittle, barely maintaining its basic form. At this moment, after the violent collision, it was instantly torn apart and turned into fine powder.
"Ahhhhh!"
The rest of the crowd began to shout.
Li Yao turned his head and saw that the seven or eight light screens were all occupied by the same image.
It was the wreckage of a starship more than 3,000 meters in diameter, blocking their way.
The star shuttle continued to dive, trying to pass through the gap between the wreckage of the starship.
Although the route set by the crystal processor was supposed to be accurate, the wreckage had been stirred up by the waves of their arrival and was crashing into each other. Who could say whether or not new pieces of the wreckage would appear in the gap?
The defense ability of the spiritual shield had been reduced to the minimum. Perhaps a slight hit would be enough to kill them.
"Beep!"
All the brightness inside the star shuttle died down, leaving only a feeble light beam. All the spiritual energy was supplied to the mainframe crystal processor, which was running crazy calculations.
Everybody held their breath and watched the wreckage of the starship grow bigger and bigger in front of them.
They were like tiny fireflies that had flown into the bloody mouth of a tyrannosaurus rex.
The sharp protrusions in the wreckage were like the tusks of a tyrannosaurus rex.
In Li Yao's perception, the ten seconds it took to pass through the 'tusks' was even longer than the time they had spent in space.
It was not until all the lights and light beams were back on that everybody finally heaved a long sigh of relief and collapsed on the foam chairs. They did not even have the strength to cheer.
The wreckage area was left behind. In front of them was a mottled planet, blue and red.
The star shuttle cut into the atmosphere of Ultimacy.
The atmosphere of Ultimacy was much thinner than that of the Heaven's Origin Sector. There was no telling what materials it contained, but the flames outside the window were in a weird red color, as if frost flowers were blossoming on the window.
"BOOM!"
The star shuttle shivered slightly and broke out of the atmosphere.
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