Deep inside the Flying Star Sector, after passing through more than ten deadly stone belts and areas of frequent cosmic storms, it was close to the Spider Den Space Zone.
In a secret sailing route, a bloated 'Black Buffalo' -level carrier was flying toward Spider Den while dodging the meteoroids with weird agility.
The Black Buffalo -level carrier was one of the thousand starships that had escaped from the tenth space ring of Heavenly Saints City in a hurry more than a month ago.
The Black Buffalo -level carrier was an old-fashioned carrier that had been finalized for more than a hundred and eighty years. Because of its simple structure and its sturdiness, many Black Buffalo -level carriers were recycled by secondhand starship vendors after they were scrapped and resold after they were repaired and modified.
Many of the Blackwater Bull-level carriers had been resold seven or eight times. After repeated modifications and repairs, they were already beyond recognition and in all sorts of bizarre shapes.
The Black Buffalo -level carrier was the same.
In the management office of the space port of Heavenly Saints City, the carrier had a completely legal identity. It was from a remote space town in a remote space zone.
There weren't even a few cultivators in this town. It was just a bunch of country bumpkins.
All the files and data were real. Even if the Cultivators of Heavenly Saints City had traveled thousands of kilometers to the edge of the Flying Star Sector and found the place where the carrier was registered, a bunch of farmers would have stood out and admitted that they owned such a ship.
But in fact, the Black Buffalo -level carrier belonged to a bunch of space pirates.
Hidden below the patched plate armor was the most lethal crystal cannons and the most advanced, powerful, and fast power rune arrays.
After the spaceship escaped from Heavenly Saints City, it first returned to the remote Star Zone where it was registered after seven space jumps. Then, it hid behind a desolate planet and waited quietly for ten days. After confirming that there was no one following it, the spaceship left. After that, it performed another space jump.
For the next twenty days, the carrier had been moving on the secret sailing route that only the space pirates knew.
It was not until today that it finally reached the edge of the Spider Den Space Zone.
The Black Buffalo -level carrier, which had been modified, boasted an enormous power rune array group that did not match its size at all. It had eighteen main power rune arrays, each of which was more than ten meters in diameter.
Other than that … There were also more than five hundred ancillary power rune arrays to make the behemoth more agile.
Such an enormous group of power rune arrays had been stuffed into the bottom of the carrier after modification. Naturally, it was equipped with a complicated cooling system.
This Black Buffalo class transport ship used air cooling to dissipate heat. Surrounding the engine compartment was a labyrinth of cooling pipes, occupying five times more space than the engine compartment.
As different power rune arrays were functioning or calming down, the tubes would spurt scorching air currents of more than a thousand degrees. Sometimes, it would be frozen to a hundred degrees below zero by the cooling rune array. It was a real hell on earth.
It seemed that no life form could survive in such a cruel world.
At this moment, it was 4: 33 p.m. in the standard time of the Flying Star Sector.
Li Yao turned off the melodious music in the crystal processor and stretched himself comfortably in the middle of the frost in a cooling tube.
From the analysis of his perception. The No. 12 main power rune array in the engine compartment down below had been boosted to 75% of its full power.
This meant that the cooling pipe he was currently hiding in would be shrouded by a scorching airflow of 2,400 degrees Celsius.
Also, the airflow would contain highly corrosive components, which were the waste gas produced by the cooling liquids used by the rune arrays of the wind class after they were consumed.
Even with the protection of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, it was impossible for him to stay in such a high temperature and such deadly gas for half an hour.
On the other hand, the No. 7 and No. 8 power rune arrays on his right had just completed two rapid acceleration spurts.
Based on the pattern that he had discovered in the past month … The two power rune arrays would rest for at least an hour and be kept at 30% of their power at best.
It meant that, as long as he passed the fork 37 meters behind him and entered the Yinmu area of the cooling pipe in ten seconds, he would have another forty-nine minutes to catch his breath.
Of course … That was under the condition that the carrier did not run into a large meteorite.
Recalling the scene when the carrier was caught in a cosmic storm three days ago, Li Yao was still scared.
At that time, all the power rune arrays had been activated to the maximum. The scorching gas was rushing left and right in the cooling pipe without any pattern.
He could only endure the pain of his butt turning into a teppanyaki while he accelerated the activity of all his cells to the maximum and ran crazily in the maze-like cooling pipes, looking for a slim chance of survival in the deadly devilish fire.
Compared to what he had been through three days ago, the thousand-degree poisonous fire that was blowing at his face right now was nothing more than a cool breeze on an autumn evening.
Before the entire cooling pipe was enshrouded in flames, Li Yao turned into a streak of blackness and dashed to a temporarily safe area after a few turns.
"Hehe."
Feeling the hot stream rushing behind him, as if a cluster of magma was giving him a massage, Li Yao felt that every cell in his body was stretched out, like a bunch of tea leaves that had been soaked in hot water and were blossoming. He could not help but laugh out loud.
He had been lurking in the cooling pipe of the carrier for a month.
During the month, he had been moving in the cooling pipe every few minutes or an hour at most, avoiding the hot stream and the poisonous gas that were thousands of degrees high and looking for a suitable place for survival.
Sometimes, he had to run crazily every few minutes and look for the one percent that was suitable for temporary shelter when 99% of the pipes were burning with devilish fire.
But for some reason, struggling to survive in such a harsh environment made Li Yao feel that he was enjoying himself more than the peaceful, carefree life in Flying Star University …
The peaceful life in Flying Star University was good, but something was always missing.
Perhaps, he was born to live such a life where he was walking on a tightrope between life and death.
"I'm alive again."
Li Yao mumbled to himself and took a deep breath.
The air was still suffocating after the seven filters of the Crystal Suit, but he was fascinated by it. Glamorous brilliance beamed out of his eyes. "I'm alive again!"
Swoosh!
Li Yao shrank his body and turned into a black ball of lightning, flashing agilely in the narrow cooling pipe. Now and then, he would slash with the tip of his left foot without a sound!
The saber art that he was practicing was entirely different from his usual style of slashing. It was more brutal and mysterious, like a venomous snake whose bones had been removed.
It was the 'Hellsword Arts', the ultimate skill of 'Hellsword', the Yuanying Monster!
Spider Den was the nest of the most brutal criminals of the Flying Star Sector. It was even more dangerous than Iron Plateau.
Li Yao had snuck into Spider Den by himself. Naturally, he had to seize every second to improve his capability.
The 'Hellsword Arts' had been a kicking art at the beginning, but Hellsword had added soul attacks and modified it into a fatal saber art. Of course, it was impossible for Li Yao to fully grasp it in one month.
However, Li Yao had a natural advantage. His brain had been blasted by Ou Yezi, and his soul power was extremely strong.
Before, he had never practiced any arts of soul attacks. He had merely strengthened his soul for defense purposes.
The 'Hellsword Arts', on the other hand, recorded a lot of methods of soul attacks and techniques that could be used to build illusions with mental power to influence the enemy's senses and thinking.
Li Yao had been studying the arts wholeheartedly for a month. He had figured out some of the ways to apply the arts.
Everybody had different approaches to mental attacks. Hellsword was best at creating creepy, creepy ghosts, but Li Yao did not have to be the same as him.
Hiu!
Li Yao curled his left foot. A narrow, long, weird saber aura flashed. In the meantime, he imagined an infinite horror picture in his head. Then, he compressed the picture into a ball the size of a 'bean' with his soul power and threw it out with his mental power!
"Bo!"
The illusionary light ball exploded in midair. The illusion it created turned out to be an enormous, furiously burning furnace.
Tempests were raging inside the furnace, and scorching flames were burning furiously!
If the enemy was hit by Li Yao's illusionary attack, they would feel that they were in a giant furnace that was being tortured in a temperature of thousands of degrees.
There was no way out for them, and they would be burned to death in the abyss of suffering. Such illusions were as good as Hellsword's illusions of thousands of ghosts.
As long as the enemy was slightly dazed, Li Yao's consecutive slashes would cut the enemy's throat directly!
My assets have almost run out. Water is running out, too. Thankfully, we are about to arrive at Spider Den. I don't need to go out and look for water.
In the battle of Heavenly Saints City, I used up all the materials for crystal bombs and magical equipment. I did find some materials from Hellsword's Cosmos Ring, but they did not meet my needs.
Right now, I have two Crystal Suits, the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit and the Black Horn Battlesuit. But the two Crystal Suits are too eye-catching and cannot be shown to anyone easily.
Thankfully, I hid the Star Basher and the Divine Anvil in my Cosmos Ring and carried them with me. As long as I have enough materials, I will be able to build a batch of handy magical equipment myself!
It is not difficult to sneak into Spider Den, but it will take me a lot of time to approach the leader of the space pirates and investigate the secrets of the Temple of Immortals.
Li Yao opened 'Stormy Sword', Fengyu Zhong's notebook, through his crystal processor and began to study it carefully.
The notebook was the essence of Fengyu Zhong's life. It was an out-and-out 'textbook of robbery' that he had taught to his son, Fengyu Ming.
Other than the hunting methods, 'Stormy Sword' also recorded a lot of rules, secrets, and analyses of the major forces on Spider Den. There were also a lot of lists of the most ferocious, cunning bandits on Spider Den. They were even graded according to the danger factor of the bandits.
They were all unparalleled bandits that Fengyu Zhong had warned his son not to mess with.
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