Immortal Starry Sky
Chapter 84 - 81 Western Continent
CHAPTER 84: CHAPTER 81 WESTERN CONTINENT
Wang Xu returned to the Ancient Battleship, and the Celestial Spirit flew over.
"Master, you’ve now become Star Level. Would you like to open the Space Ring left by the previous owner?" the Celestial Spirit asked sweetly.
Wang Xu suddenly remembered that before Xian Qu dissipated, he left him a Space Ring, which contained his life’s savings.
"Open it," Wang Xu said.
The Space Ring had always been kept within the Ancient Battleship, and with a wave of the Celestial Spirit’s hand, the Space Ring fell into Wang Xu’s hand, and he directly entered it to explore.
"So many treasures!" Wang Xu couldn’t help but exclaim at the heaps of various treasures.
In the Space Ring, there were thousands of Star Spiritual Treasures, including Initial Grade, Upper Grade, and Spiritual Grade.
"Are these glowing stones mineral resources from the Cosmos?" Wang Xu casually flipped one, and a fist-sized Deep Blue Stone appeared in his hand, emitting a blue glow like breathing.
"Master, this is ’Star Ancient Ore,’ only a few thousand years old," the Celestial Spirit said.
"A few thousand years?" Wang Xu was surprised.
"Star Ancient Ore is a kind of mineral formed over long ages under various environmental influences of a star. The longer the years, the more precious the ore. The one in your hand is ’Deep Blue Stone,’ about three thousand years old, belonging to the Lower Grade of Star Ancient Ore," the Celestial Spirit explained.
"Thousands of years, and it’s only Lower Grade. I wonder how many years it takes to reach Upper Grade?" Wang Xu sighed, noting that although people hardly live for hundreds of years, these stones had already endured thousands, yet were still just Lower Grade.
"Anything under ten thousand years is Lower Grade, under one hundred thousand years is Middle Grade, under one million years is Upper Grade, and beyond one million years is Top-Grade," the Celestial Spirit explained.
Wang Xu nodded in realization and continued exploring the Space Ring.
Undeniably, the treasures accumulated by Xian Qu were too many. Even many useless items were kept, making Wang Xu overwhelmed.
"Forget it, there are too many treasures, and even with Spiritual Consciousness, I can’t browse them all in a short time. Celestial Spirit, help me count them," Wang Xu said helplessly after a moment of searching.
Although Spiritual Consciousness is powerful, providing omnidirectional vision and perception, this perception is not sensitive enough to evaluate each item.
"Alright, Master," the Celestial Spirit said with a smile.
Then, Wang Xu directly left the Ancient Battleship, flying across the Pacific Ocean.
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"Quick! Use shells to hit its wings, make it lose its flying ability!"
This was a deserted city, with ruined buildings tangled in green vines visible everywhere. On the asphalt highway, a gigantic cyan Flying Insect Beast raised its head and roared loudly, its wings vibrating as it tried to take off.
Cyan-winged Thunder Heat Insect, Tier Nine Insect Beast!
Below, a group of battle group students with golden hair and blue eyes and diverse skin tones were waving their weapons, constantly moving around, frantically besieging this Tier Nine Insect Beast.
Boom!
A shell shot out, hitting the wings of the Cyan-winged Thunder Heat Insect, only blowing off a few scales, not hurting the Insect Beast at all.
An Insect Beast at Tier Nine has a fleshly body strong enough to resist a Laser Cannon, with ordinary shells being almost ineffective.
The Cyan-winged Thunder Heat Insect, attacked, became extremely angry. Threads of lightning suddenly appeared on its body, and from its huge mouth, it spat a fireball, the fusion of lightning and fireball greatly increasing its power, not weaker than a Laser Cannon blast.
"Dodge quickly!" a bald black man shouted loudly, but the thunder-heat fireball was too fast, and people couldn’t dodge in time.
Boom!
Several Tier Eight Genetic Warriors directly faced the attack, severely injured, with skin severely burned, completely losing their combat ability.
The bald man looked grim. They had taken on the task of hunting the Cyan-winged Thunder Heat Insect, knowing it would be quite risky, so they brought several team members along, but even three Tier Nine experts were helpless against the Insect Beast.
"No way, the Cyan-winged Thunder Heat Insect is too strong, we can’t fight it head-on, retreat! Retreat!" the bald man immediately ordered.
Everyone nodded and withdrew violently. The Cyan-winged Thunder Heat Insect was too difficult to handle, and even though they had managed to draw it to the ground, they couldn’t keep it there. Once it ascended again, they would have no means to stop it and would be at its mercy.
The Cyan-winged Thunder Heat Insect took to the sky, circling high above, not leaving, letting out a long roar.
The bald man’s face changed drastically, shouting, "Quick! The Cyan-winged Thunder Heat Insect is summoning its swarm!"
Among Tier Nine Insect Beasts, some have swarms under their command, and the Cyan-winged Thunder Heat Insect was one of them.
Sure enough, after its long roar, a large swarm of Insect Beasts came rushing from afar, their strengths varied, with Tier Eight, Tier Seven, and Tier Six among them, numbering at least several hundred.
Everyone was so scared they lost their wits, splitting up immediately to escape, as these were temporarily assembled and lacked enough coordination. In the face of danger, they all fled for their lives.
The bald man wanted to gather his team, but before he could speak, the overwhelming Insect Beast army came at him, forcing him to flee.
"Damn it! If I’d known, I wouldn’t have listened to Kos’s incitement to come to the Western Continent to hunt a Tier Nine Insect Beast, regrets, regrets!" the bald man lamented, thinking of the bright future he had if he’d stayed with the Genius Battle Group, executing missions, cultivating realms, and eventually becoming a Venerable, reaching human pinnacle.
But he wasn’t satisfied with his current situation, seeking thrill and challenge, coming to the distant Western Continent to hunt Tier Nine Insect Beasts, and now the results were completely evident.
The Cyan-winged Thunder Heat Insect seemed to fixate on the bald man, swooping down at him, his face turning pale as he looked up, feeling a sense of doom.
Done for.
This time, it’s over.
"Die!"
Suddenly, at this moment, a black figure strode through the air from afar, striking with a palm, a massive hand rolling forth, pressing the Cyan-winged Thunder Heat Insect down entirely!
The bald man was stunned, then his face filled with ecstatic joy. A Venerable had come; he was saved!
The Cyan-winged Thunder Heat Insect let out an angry screech, declaring war on the black figure in the sky.
"Hmph! A mere worm dares to resist?" the black figure coldly snorted, grasping with five fingers as the massive hand captured the entire Cyan-winged Thunder Heat Insect, like holding a young swallow, no matter how it struggled, it couldn’t break free.
Crack!
The massive hand squeezed tightly, and a sound of flesh bursting and bones cracking echoed, the Cyan-winged Thunder Heat Insect convulsed a few times and then fell silent!
It had actually been crushed to death alive!
All the Genetic Warriors present were dumbfounded, and the bald man was shocked.
He had seen Venerables before, one was in his own family, but even they couldn’t easily crush a Tier Nine Insect Beast to death!
Yet the Venerable before his eyes accomplished this, such an extreme display of terrifying power was intimidating.
"Could it be he’s not a Venerable but a God-level existence?" the bald man muttered in a daze.
With the death of the Cyan-winged Thunder Heat Insect, all its swarm minions immediately retreated, eyes showing fear, not daring to linger for even a moment.
The black figure didn’t even glance at them, turning to leave.
"Wait!" suddenly, the bald man, who had been staring at the black figure, spoke.
The black figure turned his head, curious, and gave him a look.
Seeing the true appearance of the black figure, the bald man’s pupils shrank sharply, disbelief flooding his face, murmuring, "How can it be you, how can it be..."
This black figure was none other than Wang Xu, who had come from afar.
The Celestial Destiny Palace is in the distant Western Continent. Before the Insect Demon Era, the Western Continent had several nations strong enough to dominate the world, but during the Insect Era, cities were built and established as the Third Safe Zone of humanity through the introduction of technology from the Eastern Continent.
The Celestial Destiny Palace was right within this Third Safe Zone.
"You recognize me, then?" Wang Xu asked.
"Your name is Wang Xu, isn’t it?" the bald man said.
Wang Xu nodded.
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