Calming himself down, Li Yao recalled the simulation training on 'Neltharion'. He walked to the control panel and groped for a cover carved with runes. He inputted his spiritual energy, and the cover panel opened to two sides, revealing a round groove below.
Li Yao pushed the red crystal pillar into the groove softly.
"Beep! Beep! Beep!"
Feeble noises of spiritual energy were echoing inside the control panel. Although the lights around were not on, Li Yao still felt that a mysterious force was waking up inside the mainframe crystal processor.
He suddenly felt pain on his fingertip. A scarlet mystic ray was triggered by the end of the crystal pillar, which pierced his fingertip softly and absorbed a drop of his blood.
In the meantime, he felt that his brain was itching, as if a feather was brushing his every brain cell softly.
He knew that it was the mainframe crystal processor of Sparkle that was testing his species and confirming his identity as a human being.
A moment later, crimson mystic rays beamed out of the hundred and eight holes on the control panel. Sparks were raised in midair at first. Then, the sparks connected into an enormous light beam that seemed both to be right in front of him and to be embedded into his retina and brain.
It was the operation menu of Sparkle displayed in the form of the 'Half-Step Grand Illusionary Land'.
Li Yao had seen it countless times during the training on Neltharion. He was not surprised at all.
"Shua!"
The raging red dragon swallowing the sun emblem appeared again. Then, it turned into thousands of streaks of brilliance and condensed into countless streams of information that flooded into Li Yao's brain.
"Human identity confirmed. Cultivator identity confirmed!"
"All permissions of Sparkle are being fully opened. Progress: 24% … 53% … 87% …
"According to the 'Wartime Decree No. 17 of the Star Ocean Imperium', the military has the right to mobilize all human beings in emergencies. Cultivators, in particular, are to participate in the war to defend the civilization! According to the decree, serial number 24434552 is now being handed over to you. You will be the temporary captain of Sparkle, the 'Lone Star' multi-purpose exploration starship. After the crisis is resolved, you will hand over the control when you run into the regular army of the Imperium in the future!
"Please input your personal information and the trace of spiritual waves!"
Li Yao hurried to summon all his telepathic thoughts and sent his identity information over, including a few videos of his battles against the demons, in order to prove his stance and capability.
However, Li Yao hesitated for a moment on the 'sect' part.
In the era of the Star Ocean Imperium, all Cultivators belonged to one of the twenty Guilds of Provenance. Every Cultivator belonged to a sect.... Unaffiliated Cultivators were few and far between.
The Grand Desolate War Institution was not a sect in the traditional sense. He could barely be considered a loose cultivator.
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao's eyes glittered as he typed in the information of the sect.
.. Heaven's Origin. Li...
The red light surged for a moment, and an enormous amount of information turned into thousands of vortexes, and the transmission speed became faster and faster.
"Identity confirmed! Cell features of cell input. Trace of spiritual waves of spiritual waves!
"Heaven's Origin Li. From this moment on, you are the new captain of Sparkle, and you will be the pilot of Sparkle. Let's go! "
Li Yao gritted his teeth so hard that they were making cracking noises. His blood was boiling. He was so overjoyed that he almost wanted to dance in joy without caring about his image.
Captain!
It was no longer a training model like Neltharion. It was a real warship of the Star Ocean Imperium and one of the most powerful treasures in the history of Cultivators!
Although he was only the temporary captain, Li Yao didn't care. According to the mainframe crystal processor, he would only hand over the control of the starship after he ran into the regular soldiers of the Star Ocean Imperium. Only after he met the regular soldiers would he hand over the control of the starship.
But the Star Ocean Imperium had been gone for thousands of years. Where could he find any regular soldiers?
Therefore. The starship belonged to him now!
As a crazy fan of magical equipment … Li Yao felt that he was melting into Sparkle! Shua!
Shua! Shua! Shua!
Among the starships of the Star Ocean Imperium, Sparkle was one of the smallest ones, but it played an important role.
It was a multi-purpose exploration starship named 'Lone Star'. It had been jointly refined by 'Star Wolf Sect' and 'Iron Sect', two of the twenty Guilds of Provenance. It was a combination of orbital assault starship, extreme exploration starship, and even scientific research starship.
The original purpose of the starship was to explore strange space zones. When necessary, it could also be used to attack the enemy's rear. It played an important role in reconnaissance, guerilla warfare, and bandit suppression.
It boasted a strong self-recovery ability, a survival ability on its own, and a scientific research and analysis ability. It did not have a high requirement on its pilot, and it required very few crew members. It could explore a strange space zone on its own for a long time and be self-sufficient with the spiritual energy and materials of the alien planets. That was why it was named 'Lone Star'!
In short, it was a starship that was born for exploration!
"What a windfall!"
Li Yao mumbled to himself. Sparkle was the most suitable starship for him right now.
If it was a super starship tens of thousands of meters long, it would be very difficult to maneuver despite its remarkable capabilities and ferocious firepower. Chances were that only Cultivators in the Yuanying Stage or even the Divinity Transformation Stage would be able to pilot it. Also, it would require a lot of supplies, a large dock as a base, and countless well-trained Cultivators as crew members.
Even if it fell into his hands, what could it do?
Sparkle, on the other hand, was different. As a multi-purpose exploration starship designed for exploration in alien planets, it had taken the harshest environment into consideration. Not only was it sturdy, it could self-repair, and it was not difficult to pilot it.
Li Yao, as a Building Foundation Stage Cultivator, was able to pilot it after a year and a half of training with the model!
More importantly, in order to explore the strange space zones, Sparkle had been equipped with a space jump system made of sixty-four magical equipment units, which was far beyond its level.
It was almost like a super teleportation array had been installed inside the starship.
With enough spiritual energy, the starship could break the void and travel through the sea of stars at any time!
"Does it mean that I will be able to jump to the center of the cosmos and explore other Sectors after I have Sparkle under my control?"
Li Yao was quite tempted.
The Tian Yuan Realm was at the edge of the sea of stars. It was a relatively desolate and barren Sector. The strongest Cultivators there were only the Yuanying Stage Cultivators. The level of the Cultivation civilization was still relatively low.
At the center of the sea of stars … Billions of stars were burning furiously, forming a vast galaxy. There was no telling how many Sectors were stored with abundant spiritual energy and resources.
Those Sectors were the most prosperous areas in the heartland of the Star Ocean Imperium and the Demon Beast Imperium.
After ten thousand years of war, countless Sectors had been destroyed and blown to smithereens.
In the remaining Sectors, there must be a Cultivation civilization more advanced than that of the Tian Yuan Realm. There must be even more powerful magical equipment and Cultivation arts …
If he could go to those Sectors and get a few pieces of magical equipment and Cultivation arts, the scumbags of the Blood Demon Sector would be nothing when he returned to the Tian Yuan Realm.
Li Yao's imagination ran wild. He seemed to be back from the center of the cosmos, leading a magnificent interstellar fleet and countless unparalleled Cultivators in super Crystal Suit, and crushing the Blood Demon Sector brutally.
Shaking his head hard, Li Yao bit the tip of his tongue. He quickly dismissed the tempting idea with the stinging pain.
The picture was wonderful, but it was impossible.
Leaving aside whether or not the space jump system could still work normally, even if it could … Li Yao didn't have a star map. There were no stargazers on the starship. He couldn't locate the star beacons, either. Where could he go by breaking the void?
The universe was a vast place. It was filled with endless void and deep darkness.
Of all the Sectors, the ones that were abundant in spiritual energy and materials and suitable for life and Cultivation were less than one ten-thousandth.
It was needless to say that most of the Sectors in the universe were filled with dangerous radiation and radiation. They were full of dangerous radiation, cosmic dust, cosmic dust storms, and turbulence of tenebrum energy. Only a few sailing routes were passable.
Even in the Sectors … Many of them were ruled by demons, Demonic Cultivators, and other alien species.
Traveling to them recklessly without a star map … It would be no different from sailing through the turbulent, perilous ocean on a small boat without the help of a nautical chart or experienced sailors.
In the vast ocean, trying to find an island with fresh water and food without relying on a nautical chart wasn't an adventure, it was suicide!
"It seems that I have to figure out a way to get it back to the Tian Yuan Realm.
"Although Sparkle is not a piece of planetary magical equipment, the magical equipment and techniques it contains are quite impressive, too. If I can decipher all of them, my trip to Boneyard will be worth it."
Li Yao sighed and held back the idea of exploring the depths of the sea of stars.
"First of all, I have to figure out a way to get through the crisis in front of me!
"Let me check the status of Sparkle first!"
Li Yao sent a telepathic thought into the mainframe crystal processor of Sparkle. Through the analysis and integration of his super computational ability, his telepathic thoughts flowed into every corner of Sparkle along the crystal wires and examined all the units.
It was a mysterious feeling, similar to when he put on the Crystal Suit for the first time. He felt that countless organs had been added to his body all of a sudden, and he had turned into Sparkle itself and entered a special state of 'internal vision'. All kinds of information streams were pouring in.
"This is not good.
"The spiritual energy absorbed from the seawater that leaked through the rocks is too weak after all. The mustard-level maintainer magical equipment is too slow. It has been thousands of years and still hasn't been fully repaired.
"The drill of mystic rays has basically been repaired. The power rune arrays have only been repaired 29%, and the speed is no higher than that of a snail. The space jump system has been repaired 55%, and it can support one or two space jumps. As for the weapon system, only one of the secondary cannons is about to be repaired!"
The joy of getting the starship was gone, and Li Yao furrowed his eyebrows.
The damage of Sparkle was beyond his expectation. After thousands of years of self-repair, it was still ragged and barely functional.
"Spiritual energy. Spiritual energy. It's all because of the lack of spiritual energy.
"Both the drill of mystic rays and Sparkle itself will consume a lot of spiritual energy even if they are activated at the lowest level.
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