Swallowing the Stars: Analyzing All Things

Chapter 117 The Ghost of the Fallen Wind!

The Hidden Realm of the Vast Ocean.

After leaving the indigo hurricane zone, the spaceship continued its silent journey through the asteroid belt.

"Master, signs of life detected ahead!"

On this day, Fat Cat's voice suddenly echoed in the command room: "The energy fluctuation pattern is highly consistent with the Fallen Wind Ghosts, numbering about thirty, and they are wandering in the void."

"A wandering, ghostly phantom!"

Lin Yan immediately looked at the outdoor simulation screen, and Fat Cat simultaneously projected the detected images.

In the scene, dozens of semi-transparent phantoms are drifting silently in the void.

These phantoms have no fixed shape; sometimes they stretch out like snakes, sometimes they shrink into balls, and sometimes they spread out like mist, as if smoke blown by the wind, slowly flowing in the void.

These phantoms are semi-transparent, exhibiting an eerie, pale white color.

But inside each ghost's body, there is a brighter core of light that slowly pulsates; that is the energy core, the source of life for energy life forms.

"Sizzle~"

Suddenly, the ghosts seemed to sense something, their drifting speed suddenly increased, and their direction began to become chaotic.

"Zzzzz—"

Tiny arcs of electricity suddenly began to dance along the edge of one of the ghosts' bodies, exploding into tiny sparks in the air.

then.

The ghost suddenly rushed towards Lin Yan's direction, and the other ghosts followed suit.

"Master, they've spotted us!" the fat cat warned.

Lin Yan nodded slightly. Ghosts don't have eyes or ears, but they can naturally sense life force and energy fluctuations. When the detector detects them, they are probably already known.

"Mingxi, I'm leaving it to you!" Lin Yan said softly, and a green leaf suddenly emerged from his shoulder. The leaf swayed slightly and then disappeared into the spaceship's command room.

Lin Yan quietly watched the clusters of phantoms rapidly approaching from millions of kilometers away in the outdoor simulation.

The Ghost of the Fallen Wind.

This is the first encounter since entering the Windfall Land.

While most of the Specters slumber inside meteorites, some wander in the void. They are elusive, without a fixed range of activity, and aimlessly roam the void.

A wandering ghost is more dangerous than a sleeping one.

As long as they are not disturbed, the sleeping phantoms will not attack on their own. In fact, once they leave a certain range, they will return to sleep again. However, once the wandering phantoms sense any movement, they will swarm like sharks that smell blood.

Dealing with this kind of "madman".

He certainly couldn't go himself.

"Whoosh~"

A deep blue light burst forth from the void.

A giant lotus plant appeared, its leaves as clear and translucent as deep-sea emeralds, each several kilometers long, with pale blue water ripples floating on its surface, and its branches as thick as mountains, slender yet incredibly flexible.

"Swish swish~"

The roots of the Nether Lotus emerged from the void like countless silver-white pythons, spreading towards the wandering ghosts.

"Sizzle~"

Sensing danger, the wandering ghosts immediately scattered in all directions, their speed reaching its limit in the void.

They left behind pale afterimages, trying to escape the range of Mingxi Lian's attack.

But the root system of the water lily grows faster.

The roots gleamed with a faint silver light in the eerie blue glow, each root precisely locking onto a ghost, like a sharp blade piercing the target's body, penetrating the pale energy core.

"laugh"

A ghost shattered instantly under the strangulation of the roots, its energy core pierced by the roots, and then its translucent body turned into countless points of light, dissipating into the void.

"Hiss hiss hiss—"

'

One after another, the sound of shattering echoed in the void.

One ghost after another vanished under the strangulation of the roots, their translucent bodies turning into countless specks of light that drifted away in the eerie blue glow.

"Tch~"

A ghostly storm attempted to resist.

It opened its translucent body, revealing its pale white energy core, and lunged at the roots of the Nether Lotus.

"Boom!"

The power unleashed by the self-destruction of the energy core was enough to kill any ordinary realm lord. Even Lin Yan would be severely injured instantly under such a self-destruction.

However, this self-destructive power was useless against Mingxi Lian's immortal divine body. Her roots were only slightly damaged, but they recovered instantly and continued to extend to other ghosts.

Less than a few breaths.

The wandering Specters were all killed.

In the vast emptiness of the universe.

A narrow spatial rift stretched across the intersection of the three giant fragments, like a wound torn open by some terrifying force, which could not heal for a long time.

The crack is only a few kilometers wide, but it stretches for hundreds of thousands of kilometers, extending from one end of this asteroid belt to the other.

At the edge of this enormous rift, spatial fragments fell like snowflakes, swirling, tumbling, and annihilating in the void, or splashing away and colliding with meteorite fragments.

"Boom!"

The impact shattered the meteorite fragments, creating a cluster of tiny ripples in space.

now.

Not far from Fallen Valley.

An E9-class standard spaceship was parked there, with no markings indicating any faction on its hull.

Inside the spaceship, the three realm lords were having a conversation.

"This is Fallen Valley?"

A sinister-looking man in black robes stared at the simulated outdoor scene, his voice tinged with greed. Between his brows was a dark golden mark of law—the Law of Gold.

"That's it, this is the place!"

Another bald, burly man in dark red armor nodded. He had a rugged face, shrewd eyes that gleamed in his triangular gaze, and a crimson law mark between his brows.

"Why don't we try to investigate?" the man in black robes said eagerly.

"etc."

A realm lord clad in silver armor spoke.

"Don't forget our purpose in coming here is to explore the entire secret realm—the distribution of resources, dangerous areas, the location of ruins, and information about those treasures—and then return to our master."

His voice was calm yet cold. "I'm not here to help you with your own agenda."

The black-robed man's smile froze on his face, and a hint of displeasure flashed in the bald, burly man's triangular eyes.

"Captain, Fallen Valley is right in front of us. Let's go in and take a look. It won't take up much time," the man in black robes tried to argue.

"Yes, Captain."

The bald, burly man chimed in, "A single drop of Windfall Marrow is worth one million Chaos Units. If the three of us find just one drop, we won't have to worry about cultivation resources anymore."

The man in silver armor glanced at the two men, paused for a moment, and then continued, "You know the master's temper."

His voice remained calm, but there was a hint of warning in his tone, "Our mission this time is to explore the information of the entire secret realm, not to search for treasure. If you spend your energy on treasure hunting and delay the exploration progress, you will have to explain to the master when you get back."

"yes!"

The man in black robes and the bald giant exchanged a glance and fell silent. Although they were somewhat unwilling, the man in silver armor was telling the truth.

They were not enslaved.

But having witnessed the other side's methods, they had no room to resist and didn't even dare to entertain the thought of escaping.