Devouring the Stars: Soul Master

Chapter 124 Secluded Cultivation on Earth, Crisis in the Universe

Inside the spacecraft control room, Qin Ming, Luo Feng, Jia Yi, and others appeared.

Returning home for the first time after an expedition, accompanied by powerful warships, a large number of advanced machines, and a large number of slaves, it was truly a triumphant homecoming.

Everyone was in a very good mood.

"Huh? What's going on? Babata, why is the spaceship going in circles?"

Luo Feng looked at the control panel with curiosity. At this moment, the entire fleet was under the control of Babata.

Both the Black Dragon Mountain spaceship leading the way and the transport ships following behind were circling around.

"We have arrived at the dark universe region corresponding to Earth, but Earth's dark universe coordinates have been concealed by your teacher using spatial secrets."

Therefore, I need to follow a specific trajectory for five minutes to discover the true cosmic coordinates.

Babata's image appeared on the console screen.

Qin Ming, Luo Feng, and Jia Yi suddenly realized that Earth was being concealed by a spatial secret technique.

Leaving Earth is fine; all you need to do is accelerate into the dark universe. But if there's no corresponding method, then you can't go back.

Currently, only the Babata possess this kind of control over the entire Earth.

Even Jia Yi and his group didn't have it.

For safety reasons, they do not plan to obtain it for the time being.

Although it's inconvenient, having Babata act as the navigator is the safest option.

Otherwise, if humans on Earth encounter a crisis or are enslaved, Earth will be completely exposed, and the risks will be too great.

……

five minutes later.

In the vast starry sky of the solar system, ripples spread through space as a massive fleet appeared out of nowhere.

The space travel was successful.

"came back!"

"I'm home now, and for some reason, seeing this familiar starry sky suddenly makes me feel a little emotional."

No matter how good it is outside, it's never home!

Inside the spaceship's control room, the group, who had been away from Earth for over a month, looked at the familiar starry sky, especially the azure planet, and were filled with countless emotions.

I witnessed the vastness of the universe and the magnificence of the planet Qiulong, but it was never my home.

"walk home!"

The massive fleet began to accelerate, rapidly heading towards Earth.

On Earth, in the capital of China.

Inside a quaint room, upon seeing Jia Yi's contact code, the dignified-looking old man answered the call immediately.

"You have successfully made contact with space and brought back an entire fleet?"

And a large number of industrial machine tools, materials, and stellar-level slaves?

The old man, who was usually taciturn, couldn't help but smile.

It worked!
An unprecedented success!
"A large fleet spanning tens of thousands of meters can land at the Jiangnan base city. There is a pre-built spaceship take-off and landing center there, large enough for you to dock."

With excitement, the dignified old man immediately spoke.

After communicating with Jia Yi and the others, he immediately made several phone calls, and instantly the entire Jiangnan base city, and even the entire China, was mobilized.

The spacecraft launch and landing center is under construction in Jiangnan Base City.

A large group of workers and soldiers quickly evacuated after receiving orders.

Subsequently, they, and even hundreds of millions of people around the entire Jiangnan base city, witnessed that breathtaking scene.

It was accompanied by a huge sonic boom.

The first warship spacecraft entered the atmosphere.

As a Class C warship, it is not very large, but it is still over a thousand meters long, much larger than the aircraft carriers before Earth's Nirvana.

Next up are the cargo ships!

An interstellar cargo spaceship that is tens of thousands of meters long.

Tens of thousands of meters!
What does this mean?

Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth, has an altitude of only 8848.86 meters, and its actual height is only three to four thousand meters.

This is equivalent to a colossal object several times the size of Mount Everest falling from the sky!

And it wasn't just one, but a full three!

Everyone in the entire Jiangnan base city stared blankly at this scene.

Fear rose in everyone's hearts.

"alien?"

"Has an alien invasion of Earth?"

Inside the Jiangnan base city, a worker stared at the sky, his face ashen.

Cars stopped in the street, and crowds poured out of shops on both sides, all looking up at the sky.

Panic and helplessness quickly spread.

How could Earth possibly stop such a terrifying interstellar warship?

"Why is this happening? Our China has already unified the world, the virtual age has arrived, and I've just started playing virtual games!"

"I'm not willing to die like this!"

"What time is it! Still thinking about games?"

Inside the villa complex, Luo Hongguo and his family also ran out to look at the sky.

It looked like the entire Jiangnan base city was about to fall into chaos.

The city's epidemic prevention alarms did not sound; instead, announcements were made through loudspeakers.

"Fellow citizens of China, please remain calm and maintain order! This is our own interstellar spaceship, returning to Earth from space!"

"..."

A continuous stream of sound came from the radio.

The entire Jiangnan Base City erupted in excitement upon hearing this sound.

"China's own spaceship?!"

"We have spaceships? Although I know we always like to develop one generation and hide the next, this is too exaggerated, isn't it?"

A burly man on the street couldn't help but complain excitedly.

"This is outrageous! China is awesome!"

Beside him, another person also looked speechless.

It's so exciting.

One second you think the earth is about to perish, but it turns out the other side is one of your own.

"Quick! Quick! Quick! Let's go see the interstellar spaceship! It's so big, it's amazing!"

"You still have to go to work."

"Go to work my ass, I saw the boss run over there."

"..."

The chaos in the entire Jiangnan base city subsided at an extremely fast pace. Fear was gone from everyone's eyes; instead, they were filled with joy, though disbelief still lingered in their words.

Amidst the stunned gazes of everyone, the Black Dragon Mountain spaceship led the way, followed by 10 other spaceships that landed on the ground in succession.

A spaceship tens of thousands of meters long is simply too enormous.

This kind of spaceship shouldn't be on the ground, but in a starport. The sheer gravity alone would be enough to easily crush the ground.

But clearly Earth does not have this condition.

Amidst a tremor akin to an earthquake, the spaceship finally came to a stop.

The massive, mountain-like structure opened its hatch, and powerful beings of stellar and planetary caliber, resembling Earthlings in appearance, flew out of the spaceship, emanating powerful auras.

That aura terrified everyone who saw it.

This scene quickly spread across the globe via the internet, sparking a frenzy of discussion.

Some powerful individuals even traveled to the Jiangnan base city in person, just to see this legendary interstellar spaceship with their own eyes.

This scene was actually orchestrated by Jia Yi and others.

The warship is too large.

Their presence on Earth cannot be hidden, and besides, they don't want to hide it.

With so many orders received from space, all of Earth's resources have to be mobilized to build factories, ushering in a tense era of space industry.

Everyone has to work!
However, Qin Ming was too lazy to care about these things, as they were not his area of ​​expertise.

I decided to leave early and go home to rest.

I spent a few days at home with my second uncle's family and had a good time relaxing.

After his second uncle Qin Yi recovered, Qin Ming also gave him some cultivation resources.

Although he did not return to the army, his strength improved rapidly, and he was forcibly raised to the planetary level by Muya Jing.

The family lived a comfortable life.

Having stayed at home for so long, and possessing considerable strength himself, he was becoming somewhat unsettled.

Especially after learning about Starfleet and the vastness of the outside world, they became eager to make their move.

Qin Ming naturally supported this and allowed him to return to the army.

After dealing with family matters and relaxing for a few days, Qin Ming resumed his life of seclusion and cultivation.

He has a lot to do now.

Improving one's strength is only one aspect.

He hasn't fully mastered the basics of the Meteorite Star's inheritance, such as "The Controller" and "The Illusion Chapter." He also needs to learn the secret techniques in the miscellaneous chapters and the basic knowledge that needs to be mastered.

There's also the martial arts direction.

With the powerful aid of soul introspection, Qin Ming does not intend to follow the path of a pure mentalist, but rather to pursue both paths simultaneously.

Being too weak in close combat is a fatal weakness.

The basics of martial arts also need to be improved.

Before he came into contact with the martial arts inheritance of Meteorite Star, Qin Ming's power amplitude was already very high.

After learning martial arts secrets, improving his bloodline, and undergoing a soul transformation, his power amplitude increased even more rapidly, only slightly less than that of his mental power amplitude.

It has reached a terrifying 50.

By absorbing the essence of the flesh and blood of stellar-level monsters and the crimson energy enhanced from immortal corpses, his strength is growing at an extremely rapid pace.

Even in the field of knowledge, the mountain giant ape has made great progress thanks to its talent.

He has so much to do!

The side effect of rapid improvement in strength is a lack of personal foundation, which is not in combat power, but in the mastery of knowledge.

Now, everything on Earth is at peace.

He finally had time to reflect and enrich his knowledge.

When you're tired, go fight in the killing field of the virtual universe.

Or find numerous stellar-level slaves to fight.

In this wholehearted cultivation, Qin Ming's strength increased at an alarming rate, and his foundation was gradually strengthened.

As our strength increases, the entire Earth is undergoing tremendous changes.

With the help of high-tech instruments in space, huge cities sprang up and factories of all kinds sprang up like mushrooms after rain.

The entire planet has entered an era of rapid development.

Extraterrestrial ports are under construction on Earth.

With the availability of large transport ships, development of surrounding planets such as Mars and the Moon has also begun.

The billions of people on Earth alone are simply not enough.

Occasionally.

Qin Ming will also take the Black Dragon Mountain spaceship to Anfeng Star to harvest a batch of monster flesh and souls from the large slaughterhouse that has already started operating.

Just as he had expected.

Apart from a few specially customized monsters, most of the monsters in the slaughterhouse are apprentice-level or planetary-level, and of extremely poor quality.

The monsters raised in captivity are far less ferocious, capable of fighting, and have less potential than those raised in captivity.

Qin Ming didn't care; if the quality wasn't good, quantity would make up for it.

In just over six months, Qin Ming harvested hundreds of billions of monster souls through the slaughterhouse.

The Myriad Souls Banner was filled once more, and a new round of the Gu-raising war began.

But peaceful days rarely last long.

Just as Earth was thriving, an investigation into the Huaxia Trading Company on the planet Qiulong had already begun in the universe.

……

In a dark-toned conference room in a virtual universe.

A group of 'humans' of various shapes and sizes appeared. Sitting at the head of the table, a burly man covered in blood-red scales looked down and roared angrily.

"What's the deal with this Shenzhou Trading Company that suddenly appeared?"
In less than a year, we lost seven or eight big orders!

Do you know how much profit this has cost us?

Below his seat, a subordinate with a single horn on his head stood up and answered respectfully.

"Lord Bloodscale, we have investigated the Shenzhou Trading Company."

This company was originally an established company on the planet Qiulong, engaged in a wide variety of trades, from daily necessities such as clothing to metal suits and spaceships; there was nothing they wouldn't do.

However, due to poor management, the company has been acquired by a certain force.

The actual controller of this power is still unclear.

However, he is most likely a second-generation disciple of a powerful family; here is some information about him.

As he spoke, the subordinate uploaded the information he had gathered to the conference system.

Information including the Black Dragon Mountain spaceship, the Flowing Silver Guard, and even large-scale purchases of slaves and industrial machine tools, as well as Anfeng Star, were all clearly retrieved.

China's foundation in the universe is too shallow; when it first entered, it only made some simple disguises.

Their whereabouts can be traced by those who are interested in investigating.

The burly man known as Silver Scales looked grim when he heard the name Qiulong Star.

As the core trading planet among hundreds of star systems, it is controlled by a domain lord-level powerhouse.

Those who can establish themselves on the Dragon Star are destined for wealth and high status.

"Let's test them first. Don't they have a base on Anfeng Star in the Milky Way?"
Release the message.

Orders worth trillions of Black Dragon coins—that's a huge piece of meat.

If the surrounding space pirates find out, they won't be able to resist taking action.

(End of this chapter)