Devouring the Stars: Soul Master

Chapter 107 Mastering the Earth Domain!

On December 12, 2056, the weather was clear and cloudless.

Within the Jiangnan base city, a prehistoric-level intelligent fighter jet slowly took off, flying towards the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Looking at the scene rushing past below, Qin Ming felt quite gratified.

Three months later, the dilapidated city in the wilderness has come back to life, with a large number of people and construction machinery moving around, and some low-rise buildings even being inhabited.

If given a choice, no one would want to live in a dark and gloomy base city.

In fact, with the large-scale relocation of the population, the Jiangnan base city itself has also begun to undergo renovation and demolition.

The end times are over, and a new era has begun.

The rapid development over the past three months has changed many things.

For example, with Qin Ming's strong support, and with the government taking the lead and Babata providing technical support, super-large intelligent centers have been established in multiple base cities to promote virtual world technology.

In the past, the War God Palace was only a place for a few War Gods to log in for leisure and entertainment, although it also had functions such as a trial tower and a battle arena.

However, in reality, its efficiency is very low.

Now that monsters have been largely eliminated, humanity has entered an era of peace and martial arts practitioners. We must provide them with a suitable platform for training and combat.

Virtual spaces, whether used for learning, education, cultivation, combat, making friends, or trade, have a revolutionary impact.

Of course, this wasn't the real reason Qin Ming was so enthusiastic about promoting it.

Rather, it was for the purpose of visiting the 12th ruin next.

When Hu Yanbo was establishing his territory around Earth, he destroyed the interstellar fleet's mothership with a single move, causing it to crash near the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

This mothership contains a 'Black Dragon Mountain - X81 model spaceship'.

Even after hundreds of thousands of years, the 'Black Dragon Mountain - X81 model spaceship' is still in good working order.

This spaceship is one of the three most famous forbidden zones on Earth, Ruins 12.

In the original timeline, Luo Feng used this spaceship to travel to space.

However, when Luo Feng entered the ruins, he triggered the spaceship's self-destruct sequence, forcing Babata to resort to violent attacks, resulting in extensive damage to the spaceship's internal electronic equipment.

In January 2060, Luo Feng obtained the Black Dragon Mountain-X81 model spaceship.

However, due to severe internal damage, Babata did not repair the spaceship until December 2061, which took nearly two years!

Qin Ming didn't want to repeat the same mistake.

Ideally, we should be able to take down this spaceship perfectly.

If it is not violently destroyed, Qin Ming estimates that Babata will be able to complete its repairs in one or two months at most, after which it can travel to the vast universe.

In terms of computing power, China's super-large intelligent center is definitely no match for Babata.

However, with sufficient hardware support and prior warning, Babata might be able to take it down perfectly.

Regardless of the outcome, it's always good to do some preparatory work.

The fighter jet flew at high speed, entered the Pacific Ocean, and finally hovered over the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean, above Ruins No. 12.

Qin Ming stood in mid-air, transforming into a streak of light and plunging directly into the sea.

China had explored Ruins No. 12 multiple times, so Qin Ming was very clear about the information therein, and he was able to pinpoint the mothership wreckage 3300 meters below the seabed.

The seawater was dark, but Qin Ming's eyesight and mental power allowed him to clearly perceive everything around him.

The deep sea is also home to a large number of sea monsters.

Although Qin Ming alone killed hundreds of billions of monsters in the war between sea monsters and humans, this number is not many compared to the total number of sea monsters.

The ocean is still teeming with monsters.

However, Qin Ming had no interest in slaughtering anyone else at this moment, as the cultivation of the Gu by the Ten Thousand Soul Banner was not yet over.

Through continuous devouring, Thunder Dragon Emperor has evolved to the ninth level of the planetary level, and is only slightly away from breaking through to the stellar level.

To Qin Ming's delight, the Thunder Dragon Emperor truly lived up to its reputation as one of the two supreme monster emperors.

After three months of continuous killing, he was still able to maintain a relatively clear mind.

His potential and willpower exceeded Qin Ming's expectations.

Once they break through, they will definitely be among the top candidates for the main soul.

Qin Ming even considered nurturing him properly.

After all, Earth is a treasure meticulously crafted by the Mountain-Sitting Guest, and the life and souls born within it are inherently very powerful and have extremely high potential.

If this Thunder Dragon Emperor is properly trained, he might become one of my top generals.

Bang!
Following the route once pioneered by the powerful figures of China, Qin Ming arrived at the seabed and broke through the seabed rocks until he finally saw an extremely large warship.

Even with Qin Ming's sixth-level planetary-level mental power covering a radius of six kilometers, he still couldn't completely cover the entire warship.

Indeed, after three months of arduous training in the gravity chamber, Qin Ming's physical fitness has reached the fourth level of the planetary level, while his mental strength has simultaneously improved to the sixth level of the planetary level.

According to intelligence data, the underwater spaceship was scanned by special instruments in the ruins and was found to be 16000 meters long, 3200 meters wide, and 800 meters high.

It's a truly massive creature.

After taking a look around, Qin Ming followed the route indicated in the intelligence report.

After exploration by multiple countries, the mothership has long been dismantled and reduced to an empty shell.

The mothership itself is not actually the site of the No. 12 ancient civilization. The real "dead end" is a secret compartment inside the mothership.

A moment later, in a huge cabin, Qin Ming saw the true destination of his journey.

This is a saucer-shaped spacecraft with a diameter of about 100 meters.

The spaceship is entirely black. As a Class C spaceship, even if it has been underground for countless millennia, the corrosion of the spaceship's fuselage is minimal.

After looking him up and down, Qin Ming saw the entrance to the spaceship and the double-winged dragon pattern printed on its hull.

This is also the marking of the Heilongshan spacecraft.

Instead of rushing in, Qin Ming raised his wrist and contacted Babata.

To conceal his supposed 'precognition,' Qin Ming deliberately chose to set off first and then notify Babata.

"Babata, I'm in Ruins 12. Do you know anything about this spaceship?"
Is there any way to get inside?

Given the capabilities of the Babata intelligent life form, theoretically, Ruins No. 12 should hold no secrets for him.

It should have known about the situation long ago through intelligence from the five major powers, the Ultimate Martial Arts School, and other forces.

But in reality, Babata knew nothing about it.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have thought of building their own spaceship and going to space.

The information about Ruins No. 12 was given to Luo Feng by Hong, and Babata only learned about it after entering the ruins.

Therefore, before this, Qin Ming did not tell Babata, allowing it to carry out large-scale construction in Jiangnan Base City and build a large spaceship base.

This is a good thing for China.

China definitely needs to have its own spacecraft construction capabilities. For the past three months, Babata has focused most of his energy on spacecraft construction. Preliminary work has been completed, and construction has begun. China has also acquired considerable spacecraft manufacturing technology.

"A spaceship? Let me see!"

A phantom image of Babata popped up on Qin Ming's auxiliary AI.

"Haha, this is the 'Black Dragon Mountain - X81 model spaceship'!"
Wait here, Luo Feng and I are coming right now!

The spaceship appears to be in excellent condition.

With this, I won't need to spend years building it from scratch; I can take you directly into space.

Babata became excited.

Its true form is a pair of black wrists carried by Luo Feng.

There is a crystal core inside the wrist, which is where its main body is located. This crystal core also has storage space, including a large number of wood crystals, arc blade discs, etc.

Qin Ming guessed that it was most likely a world ring, containing an extremely vast space.

It's worth noting that Babata initially planned to build a spaceship inside the ring.

"Okay, come over here."

Qin Ming nodded slightly, and then began to wait.

About twenty minutes later, Luo Feng's voice came through the auxiliary AI.

"Brother Ming, I've arrived!"

Wearing the Moyun Vine Battle Armor, Luo Feng stepped out from the corner of the cabin. After three months of training, Luo Feng's strength had improved considerably, and he had reached the second level of the Planetary level in martial arts. However, his mental power was still at the first level of the Planetary level.

After the dark golden sphere of spirit in Luo Feng's sea of ​​consciousness shattered, the growth rate of his spiritual power slowed down, but his physical attributes continued to improve rapidly thanks to Mu Ya Jing.

"This is Heilongshan—the X81 spaceship?"

Luo Feng's eyes were also filled with excitement. On the way here, Babata had told him about Black Dragon Mountain—the X81 model spaceship, which is extremely precious even in the universe.

Not only is it extremely expensive to build, but its standard weapons are capable of killing seventh and eighth-order stellar-class ships.

Most importantly, Babata is confident that he can break through their defenses and take them on a cosmic adventure in the vast universe!

How could Luo Feng not be excited?
"Let's go! Let's go in first. I just went in and took a look. I can go through the laser tunnel, but I can't open the gate."

Qin Ming immediately took the lead and led Luo Feng inside. With a little effort, he pried open the spaceship's hatch.

A passage about 30 meters long was exposed inside, with numerous dense holes on both sides of the passage.

While waiting, he opened the hatch and went inside to take a look.

Behind the hatch is a laser corridor about 30 meters long.

The lasers in this laser channel are very powerful, capable of killing ordinary fifth and sixth-tier planetary-level beings.

Many people from various countries around the world have died in this entrance passage while trying to explore the spaceship.

But for Qin Ming, this was not a problem. After unleashing the second layer of the Sky Shuttle sword matrix, he could easily defend himself.

However, lifting the gate behind the laser channel requires the skill of a third or fourth-tier stellar-level martial artist.

In fact, if Qin Ming unleashed his full mental power, along with the numerous planetary-level souls within the Myriad Soul Banner, he might not have been unable to lift it.

But even if you get in, so what?

He has no ability to crack the spaceship's intelligence; he might as well wait for Babata to pull out the 'jack' and easily get in.

"Hehe, it's normal that you can't open it. That mechanism gate requires a stellar-level martial artist to forcibly lift it! But with my tool, it will be fine."

Babata proudly pulled out a tool that resembled an axe and introduced it to Babata.

It's like a cosmic version of a jack.

"Is this the laser tunnel? How do we get across?"

Luo Feng looked somewhat nervous. This was a laser capable of killing fifth or sixth-level planetary warriors, and he was only a second-level planetary warrior at the moment.

Even with the protection of the Moyun Vine Armor, he wasn't entirely confident.

"Don't worry, I'll defend you. You just need to fly forward."

Qin Ming smiled, and the Sky Shuttle flew out blades, forming a sword matrix between himself and Luo Feng.

"Is this the sword matrix from the second form of the Sky Shuttle?"

Luo Feng looked at the shields surrounding him with a hint of envy. Through continuous cultivation, his mental strength had also improved considerably, but the amplitude was only 18.

The Sky-Shuttle Secret Technique created by Huyan Bo requires the Sky-Shuttle Secret Technique to activate.

The "Escape to Heaven" technique has three levels, each with three major forms, and each form has three levels.

He had only barely reached the first level, the entry level of the first form, and could only use the Mountain Drill Cone, not even the first form of the Mountain Shield.

That requires an amplitude of 24 to cultivate.

Qin Ming, on the other hand, can unleash the second form of the sword matrix, and even unleash two at the same time!
Even Babata, upon seeing it, couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

Planetary level, with a 60-fold increase in mental energy amplitude!
Even in the universe, this would be considered a top-tier genius.

"Qin Ming, with your mental power amplitude, if you can master the domain, you can directly unleash the ultimate secret of the 'Escape from Heaven' technique."

"Domain? I have a vague sense of it, but I'm still a little short; I haven't truly entered the field."

Qin Ming shook his head slightly.

He did gain some insights. During the three months of cultivation in the gravity chamber, his soul grew rapidly, and he vaguely sensed a trace of the earth element.

The realm of perception mainly encompasses several aspects.

One method is to use extremely high comprehension to comprehend the laws.

Like Hong Na.

According to Earthly tradition, reaching the supreme state of "unity of heaven and man" in ancient Indian yoga legends, and the perfect state of "unity of body and soul" in Chinese internal martial arts, and surpassing them, allows one to enter the realm of ultimate mastery.
Another type relies on bloodline.

For example, the Golden Horned Beast, once it reaches the cosmic level, can naturally comprehend the realm of metal, and has an innate high affinity for the laws of metal.

Qin Ming naturally did not have such bloodline, but his soul was powerful enough!

Power far exceeding that of ordinary people!
Although the power of the soul is not as direct as that of bloodline, it still allows Qin Ming to vaguely sense the power of the laws of heaven and earth.

Relying on his own comprehension and other factors, Qin Ming did indeed vaguely sense a trace of the Earth Domain.

Perhaps in another month or two, or even a year or two, or perhaps in a flash of inspiration, one might grasp a vague insight and step into the realm of mastery.

"Are you really going to comprehend the realm?"

Babata was startled; it had only said it casually.

It's already astonishing enough that Hong Neng on Earth is capable of comprehending the planetary level, but I never expected that Qin Ming could also master it!

"I've only just scratched the surface."

"Let's put that aside for now and get into the spaceship."

(End of this chapter)