Devouring the Stars: Soul Master

Chapter 111 The Opportunity for China's Rise

The control room of the Black Dragon spacecraft.

"Hehehe, Qin Ming, Luo Feng, the devil Babata is at your service!"

A crisp, triumphant laugh echoed in the control room, and the image of the demon child Babata appeared on the console screen.

"set off!"

Qin Ming and Luo Feng were also in high spirits.

hum!
The spaceship started up and sped away towards outer space, but Qin Ming and Luo Feng inside didn't feel much of a difference.

"Do we need to turn on the outdoor simulation?" Babata asked. "Simulation level 10% to 100% is fine."

Oh, you might not know about location simulation.

Because the spaceship is made of metal and cannot see outside, the outside scenery can be simulated using a method similar to 3D projection.

"Start it up, 100% simulation."

Qin Ming said.

brush!
Everything in the control room, including the console, chairs, and floor, disappeared.

A hazy atmosphere swept past behind him, and when Qin Ming turned his head, he saw a huge, azure planet appear in his field of vision.

So beautiful!
The moment Qin Ming saw the Earth, he was overwhelmed with a sense of awe and emotion.

Although images of Earth have appeared countless times on the internet and television.

But when you experience it all firsthand, the silent shock feels like it touches your very soul.

It evoked a deep sense of emotion in people.

As the Earth shrank and gradually disappeared, Qin Ming and Luo Feng turned around and saw a look of shock in each other's eyes.

"This is the Earth we live on. It is tiny in the universe, but it is the cradle of humankind."

Qin Ming sighed.

"Yes, it's breathtakingly beautiful! However, we always have to step out of our cradle and see a wider world."

Luo Feng also praised it, but his gaze was fixed on the distance.

He saw the enormous sun, burning fiercely, and he saw comets passing by, which were huge ice blocks orbiting gas.

Occasionally, asteroids, celestial dust, and other debris will streak by.

The vastness and mystery of the universe dazzled and amazed the two inexperienced newcomers.

"It is indeed very beautiful at first glance, but you will get bored after seeing it a lot."

Babata said.

He traveled with Huyan Bo for millions of years in the universe, and had seen countless beautiful and magnificent landscapes, so he was already used to it.

"Indeed, let's say 10% simulation."

After looking around for a while, the surrounding scenery was much the same, and the novelty in Qin Ming and Luo Feng's hearts gradually faded.

The scene inside the spaceship's cockpit appeared, while the surrounding starry sky became blurred.

The Heilongshan spaceship is a Class C spaceship, which is considered relatively high-end in the universe.

Unlike Earth, items in the universe are classified into levels A, B, C, D, E, and F, corresponding to planetary level, stellar level, cosmic level, domain lord level, world lord level, and immortal level, respectively.

Level C is already at the cosmic level, and each level is further divided into nine sub-levels.

For example, their Heilongshan X81 spaceship belongs to the 'C5' class spaceship.

Even a cosmic-level powerhouse would have to expend a great deal of effort to destroy it.

For Qin Ming and his group, who are only at the planetary level, this is already extremely advanced.

……

"Qin Ming, Luo Feng, we are about to arrive at Mars. The spaceship is beginning to decelerate," Babata reminded them.

The two immediately looked out and a red planet came into view.

call!
The spacecraft decelerated as it passed through the Martian atmosphere.

"Babata, open the hatch."

At the entrance of the spaceship, Qin Ming and Luo Feng were waiting. They were covered in the Black God Suit and the Cloud Vine Armor, with only their eyes showing.

Planetary-level beings are already capable of short-term survival in the universe.

This is certainly possible on Mars as well.

The black spaceship slowly decelerated, and the hatch opened.

Whoosh!
Qin Ming and Luo Feng flew out and stood in the void, looking down below.

"Compared to Earth, Mars' gravity is significantly weaker."

Qin Ming slightly adjusted the gravitational magnetic field generated by the miniature planet inside his body to adapt to the Martian environment.

"what is this?"

Luo Feng looked at the towering, enormous buildings on the vast land.

This is a pyramid-like structure; although the surface is decayed, the whole structure remains intact.
There are nine pyramids in total.

Although they appear to be randomly placed, they give the impression of being a unified whole, as if they have formed an incredibly huge, illusory pyramid.

Qin Ming also looked down.

Although he already knew there was an alien base on Mars, he couldn't help but feel a little wistful when he saw it with his own eyes.

Beneath the nine towering pyramids lies a city whose outline has been largely revealed.

Among them, one can see the ruins of some buildings, with only a few broken walls remaining, clearly abandoned for countless millennia.

Whoosh!
The two quickly landed below and walked on the Martian ground.

Luo Feng flew directly there and then quickly landed on the Martian surface covered with gravel.

What's so surprising?

Babata, however, seemed quite alarmed, as it already knew about the situation here.

“Before this star system was ruled by our master, it belonged to the territory of the Silver Blue Empire,” Babata said. “And Earth is one of two life-bearing planets within a radius of nearly a thousand light-years!”

"Two?"

Luo Feng asked curiously, and Qin Ming listened quietly.

"Yes, the other inhabited planet is about 100 light-years away from us. If you want to go, we can travel through space directly to take a look."

Babata shrugged. The spaceship had reached faster-than-light speed and was traveling into the dark universe. It wouldn't take long to get there.

The ratio between the dark universe and the original universe is 1:1008.1.

Traveling at the speed of light in the dark universe for one year is only one light-year. But traveling back to the original universe would take 1008 million light-years. 100 light-years, if traveled through the dark universe and taking into account acceleration and deceleration time, would only take 3.6 seconds!
"Then can we go and take a look?"

Luo Feng said excitedly.

Another planet with life!

"Of course! That planet is just like your Earth. In the Silver Blue Empire, it serves as a pastoral planet, where powerful monsters are raised, tamed, and sold for profit."

Babata explained.

Life-bearing planets are also divided into many categories, such as habitable planets, tourist planets, pastoral planets, industrial planets, etc., and each planet belongs to a different category.

Qin Ming listened intently, pondering the matter in his heart.

Earth is a special treasure crafted by the Mountain-Sitting Guest, whose value far exceeds that of supreme treasures in the peak realm. Therefore, life born within it possesses an inherently extremely powerful soul.

This is a large part of the reason why so many 'sages' have emerged in Chinese history.

The strength of the souls and wills of figures like Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen also originates from this.

This is the culmination of a god-king's life's work.

Therefore, he naturally wanted to completely occupy the Earth and make it belong solely to China.

As for the others?
We can migrate out and experience the beauty of the universe; there's no need to stay stuck in this poor, remote place on Earth.

The Earth can be left for the hardworking Chinese people to build up slowly.

Infrastructure construction—isn't that what the Chinese are best at?

"Earth is a grazing planet, which also raises many precious monsters, so the Silver Blue Empire has arranged for a fleet to be stationed here."

As for Mars, it is a mining planet.

Many people were mining on Mars back then, and even built a mining base there.

However, this place was later chosen by its master, who wiped out the interstellar fleet in one move.

Without supplies, the mining base naturally perished.

Both of them listened with a sigh.

The power of immortal beings is indeed terrifying; they can decide the life and death of millions of people with a mere flick of their wrists.

"Look, those pyramids are energy towers. They are a low-level method of energy production that imitates the mechanical race, and it is very cost-effective."

"The machine race is technologically advanced, far surpassing the human race."

Moreover, although the machine race are intelligent life forms without souls, they can cultivate through special methods and possess immortal combat power.

Babata sighed.

The Machine Race is one of the six most powerful races in the universe.

Although they lack souls, they are still incredibly powerful.

Qin Ming nodded in agreement. He cared a lot about the mechanical race, or rather, he cared about all races without souls.

The Myriad Soul Banner has advanced to the second tier, and its soul domain poses a great threat to any life form with a soul.

But for the mechanical race, they probably wouldn't even feel anything.

Soul attacks are terrifying for most living beings.

But for a being that doesn't even have a soul, that's like casting a seductive glance at a blind man.

"Mars has extremely rich deposits of black iron ore, and I also discovered a huge steel base beneath these pyramids."

We can collect some Xuan Iron and sell it in space, which will give us some start-up capital once we enter the universe.

Babata said that this was also the reason why it brought Qin Ming, Luo Feng and the others here.

"Yes, Xuan Tie is an A8 grade metal with excellent hardness, and it's very popular in the universe. Moreover, the deposits here are very large, and there must be a lot of Xuan Tie essence in them."

That's B8 grade material.

If the quantity is large enough, it can amount to a considerable fortune.

"A steel base? Let's go check it out!"

Qin Ming spoke up directly.

In the original timeline, Luo Feng had already successfully possessed the Golden Horned Beast when he went to Mars. His main purpose in coming to Mars was to devour metal to accelerate the Golden Horned Beast's growth.

Consuming metal is nothing; there's plenty of it in this base.

However, the disposal of this steel base was extremely wasteful; they actually dismantled the steel base, which had been in operation for millions of years, and sold it as scrap metal.

If this thing were left to China, China could directly enter an era of endless energy and take off from the spot.

For China, which is about to connect with the universe, the energy tower is definitely a divine artifact.

……

After Babata scanned the area, the two quickly arrived at a huge cave several hundred meters in diameter, which appeared to have collapsed naturally.

brush!
Qin Ming and Luo Feng rushed into the cave and went deeper underground.

As Qin Ming spread his mental energy, he quickly discovered a huge underground city gate, behind which lay a metal city.

"found it!"

Qin Ming and Luo Feng landed on the ground and looked at the heavy black metal door in front of them.

"Boom~~"

The mental energy probed into the metal gate, condensing on it. The iron gate slowly opened with a rumble, and a large amount of soil fell down, filling the air with sand and dust.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

Beams of white light shot out, enveloping the area around the gate, with some of them shooting directly towards the location of Qin Ming and Luo Feng.

The shield formed by the rotating sword matrix flew past at high speed, blocking the laser.

"This steel city is still running?" Luo Feng was shocked. He had already checked it with his mental power and found that it was full of dust and there was no one inside.

"That's normal! The nine energy towers are still there, so the steel city is still operational, it's just that everyone is dead. Let's go in, the defenses of this hastily constructed steel city are very weak."

Babata urged.

"We'll go in and take control of the base. Babata, it's up to you now!"

Qin Ming grinned, and immediately, enveloped by the sword matrix, he and Luo Feng withstood a wave of lasers and charged in.

The city's defenses are indeed very weak, not even as strong as the laser channel defenses of the Black Dragon Mountain spaceship.

"Control? Don't worry! Leave it to me."

Babata said confidently, "How could a mere mining base possibly stop me?"

(End of this chapter)