Swallowing the Stars: Sacrifice to Become Stronger, Fiancée is Alluring

Chapter 99 Meeting Hu Yanbo

Babata was taken aback by Jiang Lan's directness.

After a pause, Babata spoke:

"By becoming the master's disciple, you will receive the entire legacy of Meteorite Star. Moreover, before the master passed away, he left countless benefits for his future disciple. As long as you become the master's disciple, you will be the future master of Meteorite Star!"

"I will do everything in my power to nurture you. All you need to do is one thing: once you are strong enough, rebuild the former glory of my Meteorite Star!"

Jiang Lan's eyes flickered.

Anyone who isn't a fool would agree to the condition Babata offered.

Not to mention the countless tangible benefits they could gain, the obligations they would have to fulfill in the future would be practically nonexistent.

How strong is considered strong? And how do you even begin to rebuild the glory of Meteorite Star?

However, Jiang Lan herself is not the kind of person who repays kindness with enmity.

He really needs Babata's help right now.

Only with Babata's help can he successfully acquire the spaceship.

Only after acquiring a spaceship could he venture into space to explore.

Only by venturing into space can one encounter even more powerful monsters.

The more powerful the monster, the greater the reward for the sacrifice, and the faster his own strength can increase.

That's the logic. Without a spaceship, with Jiang Lan's current speed, even if he flew until he died, he wouldn't even be able to leave the Milky Way, let alone hunt monsters in the universe and sacrifice them to increase his strength.

Moreover, the benefits that Babata can bring him are definitely not just as simple as a spaceship.

As an immortal deity, Huyanbo left behind a vast amount of wealth, which could be used as start-up capital in the universe.

Thinking about it this way, he had absolutely no reason to refuse Babata.

After a pause, Jiang Lan looked at Babata and nodded emphatically.

"I agree."

Jiang Lan believed that as long as he could travel into space, his strength would grow at a rate that would exceed everyone's expectations.

Once you have enough strength, let alone rebuild the glory of Meteorite Star, you could even revive Hu Yanbo and let him rebuild it himself.

Jiang Lan certainly can't do it now, but he believes that he will be able to do it in the near future.

Babata looked delighted when Jiang Lan agreed.

He knew that the human in front of him was an absolute genius among geniuses. A human with a brain span of 36 was extremely rare, even in the entire universe. Only a very few super geniuses among the powerful human races could possibly achieve that.

Jiang Lan is just an ordinary human being on Earth; to describe him as a genius would be an understatement.

Who knows, this human before us might actually be able to avenge his master and restore Meteorite Star to its former glory.

Babata clenched his fists, his expression somewhat agitated.

"Come on! I'll take you to see your master!"

Without waiting for Jiang Lan's reply, Babata pointed directly to the floor of the hall.

"Hiss—"

A barely perceptible sound rang out, and the ground suddenly parted, revealing a passage.

"Walk!"

As Babata spoke, he jumped down into the passage.

Seeing this, Jiang Lan followed closely behind and arrived at the entrance of the passage.

He looked down and saw that there were no steps below; the depth was about thirty meters.

This height would be impossible for an ordinary person to jump from, but for Jiang Lan, it was incredibly easy.

With his current physical condition, he wouldn't be injured even if he fell from a height of several thousand meters.

"Bang!"

Jiang Lan leaped into the air, and after a moment's fall, her feet touched the ground.

Almost simultaneously, the lights in the previously dim space below came on one by one.

The lights weren't bright; in fact, they were rather dim. But even so, it was enough to see what was inside clearly.

It was an empty hall with octagonal walls, and apart from the lights on the walls, there was nothing else in the hall.

Babata walked ahead and pointed to the floor of the hall again.

"open!"

"Hiss—"

The same sound as when the passage opened rang out, and the ground began to tremble slowly at the spot Babata was pointing to, before separating to the left and right.

"The master's body is being stored very securely; you will be able to see it in a little while."

Babata turned around and looked at Jiang Lan.

"Let me take this opportunity to briefly introduce myself. My name is Babata, and essentially, I am an intelligence!"

He already knew that Babata was an intelligent life form, but he wasn't foolish enough to reveal it at this time.

Therefore, Jiang Lan looked slightly bewildered and continued, following Babata's lead:

"intelligent?"

"Yes, it is intelligence. But the intelligence I understand is not the same as the intelligence you humans on Earth understand. What you humans call artificial intelligence is, in my eyes, nothing more than idiocy."

"Those beings in the universe that can be called intelligent must at least possess independent thinking abilities, be able to think about problems, and have logical abilities far superior to those of you humans."

"Awesome," Jiang Lan replied.

A smug look appeared on Babata's face.

"What I just told you is only ordinary intelligence. But after following my master for countless years, I have long since transcended the scope of ordinary intelligence and evolved into an intelligent life form! Just like you humans, I have all kinds of emotions, including joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, and I can also cultivate and evolve."

"Moreover, my master also prepared a body for me back then, and with that body, I made my name, 'Demon Babata,' spread throughout many galaxies in the universe!"

As he said this, a trace of sadness welled up in Babata's eyes again.

Jiang Lan realized that although Babata was an intelligent life form, he would express all his emotions on his face.

In human terms, they are guileless.

"But in that battle fifty thousand years ago, my body was destroyed, and now I can only revert to an intelligent virtual existence." The sorrow in Babata's eyes deepened. "Although my body is gone, I can still exist in this world in a virtual form, but my master..."

As he spoke, Babata turned his gaze to the spot where the ground had just cracked open.

Jiang Lan followed Babata's gaze and looked in that direction.

A crystal coffin was seen, more than half of which had already emerged from the ground.

A few seconds later, accompanied by a faint sound, the crystal coffin fully emerged from the ground.

From where the coffin appeared, wisps of cold air slowly emanated, and even Jiang Lan felt a chill from it.

The material of this coffin, which can emit such a temperature, is probably not just crystal, but some other material that Jiang Lan does not recognize.

(End of this chapter)