Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 40 Entering the Secret Realm Ruins
Cangxuan Galaxy.

A once uninhabited planet called 'Hidden Star'.

The once desolate and remote Zanghai Star has suddenly become incredibly lively in the past few days.

A large number of spaceships and warships flying from all directions of the Eternal Empire were guided by the signal and slowly entered the interstellar docking port temporarily set up in the airspace around the Hidden Sea Star.

From a distance, the area around Zanghai Star looks like a sea of ​​steel.

"Om~"

A deep blue triangular spaceship slowly landed and docked in the temporary harbor of the Hidden Star.

Wow~~
The spaceship hatch opened, and Qi Yuan, dressed in an ice-blue Force suit and carrying a black battle sword, flew directly out of the hatch.

"Hmm? It's a cosmic-level being!"

The moment Qi Yuan appeared, a fifth-tier stellar-level soldier responsible for receiving him immediately straightened his face and stepped forward to greet him.

"My lord, I am a member of the Sixth Army of the Thirteenth Legion of the Eternal Empire. I am responsible for carrying out the mission of guiding people here. Are you going to enter the secret realm ruins?"

"Are there more people to guide us?"

Qi Yuan nodded calmly, "That's right, I'm planning to go to the secret realm ruins."

"My lord, please understand that, according to orders from higher command, you need to show your identification information," the stellar-level soldier said with utmost respect.

"Ah."

Qi Yuan didn't say anything, but simply showed the soldier a special medal he had obtained after joining the Virtual Universe Company.

The stellar-level soldier skillfully used his arm guard's optical computer to scan the medal information, and only after confirming that everything was correct did he respectfully allow Qi Yuan to pass.

"Sir, verification successful. The nearest entrance is 314. You can fly there directly."

"Okay, thank you very much."

Qi Yuan nodded, and then his figure instantly soared into the sky.

Because the secret realm ruins have just fallen from the spatial interlayer, the internal space is extremely unstable, so all spaceships and warships are not allowed to enter.

To get in, you can only fly there from temporary forward bases like the Hidden Star.

Once his figure disappeared from sight, the soldier who had spoken to him scratched his head, somewhat flattered.

"A cosmic-level figure actually thanked me?"

"Whoo~"

The moment he broke through the thin atmosphere of the Tibetan star, an extremely spectacular scene immediately came into Qi Yuan's view.

The once dark, silk-like starry sky seemed to have been torn apart by an inexplicable force, with countless huge cracks like a spider web everywhere, and almost liquid silver light flowing from each crack.

Through the cracks, one could vaguely see huge pieces of land floating around.

You can even see floating landmasses occasionally approaching the silvery spatial rift, only to be instantly torn apart and swallowed up by the rift!
"Whoosh~"

Qi Yuan's speed continued to increase, and soon it reached hundreds of times the speed of sound.

After nearly an hour of flight, he finally passed through a 'safe passage' surrounded by several huge spatial rifts and successfully entered a completely new region!

Everywhere was a dark void, and within that void, countless broken continents were scattered about.

Some broken continents are only a few hundred kilometers long and wide, while others are as large as a giant star!

Such shattered continents are densely packed throughout the entire starry sky as far as the eye can see, their number almost too numerous to count.

The 'no-man's-land' between each continent is also filled with a large number of meteorites and dust fragments.

From a distance, the connected continents look somewhat like giant, crushed 'biscuits'.

"Is this the interior of the secret realm ruins?"

Qi Yuan flew at high speed, his mind highly focused, constantly aware of any potential risks. According to the information he obtained from Bu Chen, the dangers in this secret realm ruins mainly came from two aspects.

First, we must be aware that new spatial rifts may appear at any time due to the instability of space.

Secondly, it is necessary to guard against members from other major organizations entering the organization.

After all, even though it's a joint operation by various organizations, when you actually encounter a treasure that you're interested in, who cares about your identity? You'd be lucky if they didn't smash your brains out!
Qi Yuan continued to advance deeper into the secret realm ruins.

Three days later, he finally arrived at the nearest fragment of the continent.

This continent is about 10,000 kilometers long and wide, and its area is larger than the largest continent on Earth in my previous life.

However, the entire continent looked extremely barren, with the land covered in a dark brown color, and apart from rocks and barren soil, there was no sign of life on the surface.

Qi Yuan quickly surveyed the continent.

However, let alone treasures, not even a single blade of grass was found.

"I arrived about three days later than the first group, so even if there were any treasures, they would have already been looted by the people before me."

"It seems that if we want to make any progress, we have to speed up and get ahead of the main force!"

After figuring it out, Qi Yuan stopped wasting time on the outskirts and rushed straight into the depths of the secret realm ruins.

After Qi Yuan broke through to the cosmic level, his travel speed became incredibly fast.

The team that came in earlier included a large number of star-level beings, and since they also had to focus on exploration, they were quickly caught up by Qi Yuan.

In the blink of an eye, it had been eight days since Qi Yuan entered the secret realm ruins.

By this time, he had already surpassed most of the star-level forces and was in a relatively forward position.

Above a vast continent with a radius of hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

"I've been ahead of the stellar-level army for several days now, how come I haven't gained anything yet? Those veteran cosmic-level experts ahead of me have looted way too cleanly!"

As Qi Yuan flew rapidly, his high-precision detector was constantly scanning downwards.

Below was a vast mountain range, as desolate and barren as ever.

Thousands of rocks and ravines stretched before my eyes, yet not a single sign of life could be seen.

He originally thought he would get nothing again this time.

Sudden--

Whether it was a misperception or not, Qi Yuan suddenly felt a sense of being spied on.

"Ok?"

He became secretly on guard and immediately gripped the Silent Soul Blade on his back.

"Is someone spying on us in the dark?"

He slowly lowered his body, using the jagged rocks to conceal his figure.

At the same time, his gaze began to carefully scan the surrounding dark brown ravines.

"Hmm, nobody's here? Even the detectors aren't showing any signs of life."

"what?"

Suddenly, as if sensing something, he immediately looked towards a small valley diagonally opposite.

Near the bottom of the mountain wall on one side of the valley, hidden by several huge rocks, a dark cave entrance is vaguely visible.

In the instant Qi Yuan looked at it, a pair of organs that looked like 'eyes' met his gaze in the dark cave!
"Whoosh~"

Upon being discovered, the owner of those 'eyes', like a startled rabbit, instantly transformed into a golden blur and darted into the cave behind.

(End of this chapter)