Swallowing the Stars: Analyzing All Things

Chapter 98 The Key to the Ruins?

The Abyss Starfield is located deep within the Eleventh Battlefield.

It is shrouded in a dark red nebula all year round, and its interior is filled with numerous spatial rifts, energy storms, and various natural traps, making it one of the most dangerous areas of the Eleventh Battlefield.

It is said that this happened hundreds of millions of years ago.

The sacrificial temple, the force that once ruled the entire starry sky, left numerous traces in this star field.

Temples, altars, tombs —

However, over the course of hundreds of millions of years, most of the relics have been looted by our predecessors.

Those still remaining in the Netherworld Starfield are either extremely well hidden and difficult to discover, or extremely dangerous, so much so that even Kings and Immortals dare not venture into them easily.

The entire Youyuan Starfield is divided into the outer domain and the inner domain. The outer domain is relatively safe, with fewer spatial rifts and energy storms, and is the main activity area for some powerful realm lords and immortal military lords.

The inner region is much more dangerous, with dense spatial rifts, frequent energy storms, and even natural spatial collapse areas. It is mainly explored by Marquis-level Immortals, and only King-level Immortals dare to venture further in.

In the outer space.

In a region near the inner domain, spatial rifts appear and disappear in the void like invisible scars.

The smaller ones are only as thick as a hair, disappearing in a flash, and even detectors cannot easily capture them, while the larger ones stretch for tens of thousands of miles, like wounds torn open by some terrifying force, which cannot heal for a long time.

"Hiss~"

Energy storms raged through the void, completely unpredictable. Some were like gentle breezes, while others were mixed with terrifying fragments of space, tearing everything in their path to shreds.

now.

In this region rife with danger and chaos, a silver-white spaceship is silently navigating.

"One drop at a time"

Inside the spaceship, the detector's alarm suddenly sounded, waking Lin Yan from the Time Palace in the World Ring.

"Master, a violent energy fluctuation has been detected ahead!"

Fat Cat's voice echoed in the command room, "Distance 9982 million kilometers, combat level—Marquis-level!"

A battle at the level of a marquis?

Lin Yan's pupils contracted slightly.

In the outer domain of this Netherworld Starfield, battles between Marquis-level Immortals are not common. Marquis-level Immortals generally operate in the inner domain, while the outer domain is mainly the battlefield of Immortal Army Lords, and Marquis-level Immortals rarely get involved.

He let the light fall on the screen, where two huge energies were colliding violently.

"Fat cat!"

"Produce a live projection."

As soon as he finished speaking, a stunning battle scene appeared on the projection screen in mid-air in front of him.

One of them was a giant serpent thousands of meters long writhing in the void, its entire body covered in dark golden scales, with a thin layer of battle armor faintly visible on the surface of the scales.

On the other side is a human who has been granted an immortal title.

He was only eight meters tall, appearing as insignificant as dust in front of the giant serpent, but he was surrounded by a layer of cyan immortal divine power, and held a cyan longsword in his hand, with cyan light flowing on the blade.

The two fought fiercely in the void.

The giant serpent's tail glowed with dark golden light, leaving afterimages in the void. The immortal human wielded a cyan longsword, each swing of which brought forth a cyan sword aura, leaving a lingering trail in the air.

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

The battle between the two immortal gods exploded into a blinding ball of light with each collision, and the terrifying aftershocks scattered in all directions, shattering the surrounding meteorite fragments and dispelling the energy storm.

"He's actually a Realm Lord!!!"

Lin Yan's gaze was fixed on the giant snake that was a thousand meters long above his head.

The aura emanating from this serpentine demon was clearly only at the peak of the Realm Lord level, yet it was able to fight a human who had been granted the title of Marquis and was now evenly matched, and even seemed to have the upper hand.

"That is—"

"An immortal metallic life form?"

Lin Yan quickly figured out the reason.

The thin layer of armor worn by this snake-like demon realm lord was actually that of an immortal-level metallic life form.

Energy subtly flows across the surface of the battle armor. Each time the giant serpent is attacked, the energy automatically condenses to form a shield, allowing the battle armor to absorb most of the attack's power.

Anything that assists life.

Whether it's a metal life form, a plant life form, or an energy life form, it can possess other life forms.

Just like in the original timeline, when Moro, a member of the Primal Realm, fought against the Realm Lord with the help of auxiliary metal lifeforms when he was at the cosmic level.

Once a support life form possesses a user, it can indeed enable the user to unleash extraordinary power. However, a support life form is, after all, just a support life form. Although possessing a user can greatly increase the user's power, this power is ultimately not the user's own. Naturally, it cannot be used perfectly and will not be able to perform its own secret techniques for attacking, defending, or dodging.

and so.

Even though Lin Yan could have Ming Xilian possess him, most of the time he would simply let Ming Xilian handle the situation.

"Comrade, comrade. I have encountered a genius realm lord of the demon race, who possesses the strength of a low-level Marquis."

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Suddenly, a distress message was sent directly to Lin Yan through the military system and the virtual universe network.

Ask for help.

This is a means of communication and mutual assistance for the human faction in the extraterritorial battlefield, which can be directly sent to all allies and comrades within a radius of 10 billion kilometers.

Lin Yan was less than 100 million kilometers from the battlefield. Only because his detection equipment was advanced and shielded him from detection by both sides, the enemy had not been able to detect him.

However, the human side can use the military system to know the coordinates of allies and comrades within a certain range.

"Master, that immortal human deity has requested to speak with you," the fat cat said.

"Yes." Lin Yan nodded.

A man appeared on the screen. His face was resolute, and there was a hint of fatigue between his brows. Several tears had appeared on his blue battle robe, but his eyes were exceptionally bright.

"Comrade, this demon race realm lord genius has a key to the ruins, and he has already opened them." The man's voice was urgent and clear. "My detection equipment can't find you, comrade. We'll have to rely on the military system to know the location of our comrades nearby."

"My comrade is probably stronger than me. Let's join forces to take down this demon realm lord and divide the treasures in this ruin equally."

Key to the ruins?

Lin Yan was taken aback.

Almost all the ruins in the Youyuan Starfield have been explored and searched. Now, there is a complete ruin. If we can enter the ruin and find the treasures within—

That's far better than him searching for hundreds of years.

"Okay!" Lin Yan replied immediately, "I'll be right there!"

Then communication was shut down.

"Master, we've detected it. The entrance to the ruins should be there." The fat cat's voice echoed in the command room.

On the screen, an image appeared, depicting a hidden area surrounded by spatial rifts and energy storms, located about ten million kilometers from the edge of the battlefield between the two immortal gods.

At the center of the area, a faint light flickered, a blood-red, eerie and bewitching light, almost indistinguishable against the backdrop of the dark red nebula.

At the edge of the light, space seemed to be distorting, as if something was emerging from the void.

The entrance to the ruins is taking shape.