Star Farming, the eldest lady relies on alchemy to counterattack

Chapter 273 Interstellar Travel
Ning Xuan glanced at him speechlessly, ignored him, and directly took off Di Youlin's neck ring. She bit her finger and dripped blood onto the runes on the back of the neck ring. These runes would automatically extract the pheromones from the blood and store them inside the neck ring.

Once the wearer of the neck ring develops symptoms of a fever, the neck ring can detect it and then inject pheromones into the wearer's body to keep them conscious.

"When do you plan to go to the Spiritual Energy Cultivation Secret Realm?" Ning Xuan asked him.

“I’ve just made a breakthrough, so it’s not appropriate to go now. I’ll wait until I reach the next bottleneck.” Di Youlin had already made plans for this issue.

Ning Xuan and her group completed the Black Forest mission together and obtained three months of access to the Spiritual Energy Cultivation Secret Realm. This three-month access was granted by thirteen keys to the Spiritual Energy Cultivation Secret Realm.

"Here's the key for you. You can go whenever you want." Ning Xuan took out a small box made of black iron, no bigger than a palm, from her spatial storage.

Ning Xuan dripped her blood onto the patterns on the surface of the black iron box, and the bronze lock opened with a click, revealing a silver key wrapped in silk. There were three keys in total, but after giving away Di Youlin's key, only two remained.

The remaining two are for Ning Xuan and Chen Nan; the others have already been given away.

"I won't be going anytime soon, please keep it for me, Master." Di Youlin didn't take it.

Ning Xuan didn't know where Di Youlin was going. She prepared some medicine for him and told him when she saw him off that no matter what happened outside, he could always come back to her.

After Ning Xuan finished speaking, Di Youlin bowed deeply to her, then stood up and left without looking back.

Di Youlin dared not turn around; he didn't want Ning Xuan to see the tears in his eyes.

Ning Xuan saw Di Youlin off, and the graduation ceremony and party were over. She took the key to the spiritual energy cultivation secret realm and planned to go there before Ying Yaoshi's people arrived.

Ning Xuan walked into the restaurant with her keys and saw Yu Mingche looking at her intently. Ning Xuan's mind suddenly went blank.

Oh no, she forgot about him.

This contractor, who served as the governor, had respectfully presented his visiting card and was the one she had summoned to help her out of a predicament. Since he had helped her out, she had been so preoccupied with Emperor Youlin these past few days that she had forgotten about him.

"Good morning, have you eaten yet? Uh, is the food to your liking?" Ning Xuan asked, trying to make conversation, feeling a little guilty.

"It's alright, Master. Are you planning to go to the Spiritual Energy Cultivation Realm? I'll go with you." Yu Mingche looked at the key in Ning Xuan's hand and recognized it at a glance.

"Do you have a key? It seems like my key can only let one person in," Ning Xuan asked.

“Yes.” Yu Mingche nodded.

“However, the spiritual energy cultivation realms are all independent spaces, and they cannot encounter each other,” Ning Xuan explained.

“I know that area very well, I can find you,” Yu Mingche insisted.

“Okay, if you want to go, then let’s go together. How have you been these past few days?” Ning Xuan nodded in agreement.

“It’s a habit, Master. I really like the unique flavor of the food here.” Yu Mingche looked at the salt and pepper fish skin, cumin roasted meat, and various soups on the table. The salt and pepper fish skin had an amber luster, with fine golden spices sprinkled on the crispy fish skin, and thin lemon slices curled into crescent shapes and leaned around it.

Take a gentle bite, and the fish skin cracks between your teeth. The salty freshness of the sea salt and the numbing sensation of the Sichuan peppercorns collide on your tongue, creating a unique flavor.

"Can you taste it? This is made from the skin of the silver-scaled fish from the lake in Oasis Wonderland, baked together," Ning Xuan said with a smile.

When Yu Mingche was in his little fox form, he loved to eat silver-scaled fish. I wonder if he still likes to eat fish in his current form.

During the meal, Ning Xuan felt a sense of compensation and carefully observed Yu Mingche's feelings, creating a pleasant atmosphere between them. Jiuwei brought out the last soup and then quietly withdrew.

Ning Xuan packed her bags and headed to the Spiritual Energy Cultivation Secret Realm. After learning of Ning Xuan's plans, Tang Xue also decided to go with her. Therefore, on this trip, Ning Xuan, Yu Mingche, Chen Nan, Tang Xue, and Min Wu traveled together on a starship to planet S135, where the Spiritual Energy Cultivation Secret Realm was located.

Ning Xuan and the others were traveling on a large passenger starship. This starship passed through twenty-three planets, and planet S135 was the third to last stop.

Ning Xuan had never taken such a long interstellar trip before. When she traveled from planet D618 to the Central Star, there were only seven planets in between.

Ning Xuan looked out the window of the starship at the scenery outside. Each star system had different scenery, but without exception, every scene was accompanied by an aura of danger.

"Yu Mingche, look! What are those things?" Ning Xuan saw fireflies-like starlight flitting past the porthole, their shimmering wings like beautiful butterflies.

"That's a particle cloud, created by the collision of high-energy particles ejected from starship engines and interstellar dust," Yu Mingche explained.

"Look at the three o'clock position, do you see that vortex? That's a dark matter vortex. Once you get caught in one, you can never get out," Yu Mingche said, pointing to a blue vortex outside.

"Is this dark matter vortex the kind that can form a black hole?" Ning Xuan asked.

“It’s different. Black holes are another form of dark matter vortex, with much greater energy.” Yu Mingche didn’t know how to explain this either.

"Xuanxuan, look over there, it's so spectacular!" Tang Xue exclaimed.

When Ning Xuan turned her head, she felt her breath catch in her throat. She saw a nebula with a diameter of tens of thousands of kilometers suspended in the dark sky, as if the gods had spilled their palette.

The colorful clouds outlined different shapes: fiery orange-red, vibrant green, and eerie crimson. These colors were independent yet complemented each other, creating a peculiar sense of harmony.

"All positions, prepare for the shuttle!" The moment the captain's voice rang out, the portholes were switched to holographic projection mode.

Ning Xuan saw the massive starship enter a dark space. The octahedral warp drive at the tail of the starship unfolded, drawing ray-like streaks of light. As the starship pierced through the boundary of the dark space, the entire space suddenly burst into brilliant streams of light.

This shuttle is the most difficult one in the entire journey. Once this shuttle is completed, there will be no more risks on the rest of the journey.

Just after the shuttle mission ended, a sudden and unexpected change occurred. The crew and captain, who had been fully focused on carrying out the mission, were captured by space pirates who had infiltrated the passengers after the mission was completed.