Swallowing the Stars: The Rise of Emperor Wei

Gao Sheng retracted the spaceship and returned underground, where Disimia was already waiting.

"Master, we collected approximately 5800 cubic meters this time," Mia reported.

"Okay, no need to report every time. We can count them outside." Gao Sheng waved and put away the robot. "Get on the spaceship."

The spaceship became invisible and flew directly to the central sphere of light in the realm within a realm.

Although the gravity of this realm within a realm is not as strong as that of the Thunder World, it is still considerable. Even a ninth-level star can only achieve a sprint speed of about 5 kilometers per second, and it is impossible to maintain that speed continuously. For a long time, it would be good if the speed could reach one kilometer per second. The realm within a realm spans millions of kilometers. When entering, it is located on the edge of the realm. Therefore, it is estimated that it will take at least six or seven days for those large groups to reach the central area.

However, due to the immense gravity and the effects of the thin air, even though Gao Sheng is a D9-class spacecraft, it can only reach a speed of about 5000 kilometers per second without stealth. In stealth mode, 500 kilometers per second is the limit.

A dozen minutes later, the spaceship was less than 10,000 kilometers away from the castle.

On the spaceship's main control screen, there was a magnified view of the castle, with no adventurers around it.

The spacecraft itself has detection equipment with a range of millions of kilometers. However, Gao Sheng did not activate it. If such a high-powered active detection device were to scan, Brolin might not know, but Babata would definitely be able to detect it. Moreover, this kind of detection device is mainly used to detect meteorites in the starry sky, life on the surface of planets, and strong energy reactions. It is impossible for it to detect deep into the rock layers, let alone cosmic crystal thunderstones.

This inner boundary is flat. If you want to see if there are people, the spaceship's passive observation equipment is enough. Flying high in the sky, you can see clearly even 100,000 kilometers away.

"Hmm? Another kid with a spaceship? And he can even turn invisible?" Inside the castle, a perverted old man tugged at his beard and complained, "Why didn't you come with that kid over there? It would have been so much fun to fight him. No fun, no fun."

Whoosh! 100 kilometers from the castle, the spaceship landed, and the three of them—Master Gao Sheng and his servants—appeared.

"Dipsy, dig!"

"Yes!" Dixi's curved blade disc flew up, transforming into a wheel, and "zzzz..." quickly burrowed into the ground!

The soil layer was much harder than before, but it was still no match for the cosmic level. After drilling for less than a kilometer, a large number of cosmic crystals began to appear.

"Collect, collect, collect!"

The collection of large quantities of cosmic crystals made the area beneath this vertical cavern resemble a honeycomb, making excavation easier.

He directed Dixi to dig for about 5 kilometers, and then they dug out a large hall there as well.

Gao Sheng then took out a Tier 3 Force Armor and two black spheres. He had prepared this armor long ago. With this armor, the C2-level laser gun would not be able to kill Dixi, a Tier 2 cosmic-level warrior.

This black sphere is called "barbed wire," a Tier 1 psychic weapon. Gao Sheng intended for Dessimia and the other two to use it to mine Thunderstone.

That's right, that's the name. Because this weapon looks like a black iron ball, but when you inject your psychic power into it, it turns into a net!

An extremely rare psychic weapon; no normal psychic would use it.

It was actually used to capture people, and it was generally only used by slave traders' slave-catching teams!

No special method is needed; it's very simple to use!

It is also highly efficient for capturing these cosmic crystals.

This time, Gao Sheng took out all eight hundred robots, took off a spatial ring from his hand and said to Dixi, "After Mia and I go up, we'll fill in the hole. One of you can dig here. Remember, don't get within 20 kilometers of the castle. If anyone comes and discovers you, don't reveal your strength. Put the robots away, notify me, and then use this to leave. I'll tell you where to meet up."

Dixi took the probe and froze. A spaceship, a C9-class spaceship! It wasn't the one that entered Lancang Star; that one was still docked at the planetary port.

"Do a good job!" Gao Sheng smiled. "You'll get a 10% share of the cosmic crystals harvested in the Realm Within a Realm, including those mined by the robots. Mia, you'll get a share too! In the near future, I will definitely set you free."

"Yes, Master!" Disimia was extremely excited.

They saw it from the spaceship: the castle was surrounded by piles and piles of cosmic crystals for nearly a thousand kilometers around it—it was practically free money.

Gao Sheng smiled. Although the Realm Within a Realm is vast, the total volume of all the cosmic crystals is estimated to be at most a billion cubic meters. Most of them are still below the castle and cannot be excavated. The amount that can be excavated is estimated to be just over a billion cubic meters. The vast majority are around the castle, and compared to the treasures inside, they are insignificant.

Day 4 of entering the realm within a realm.

Gao Sheng's spaceship has been maintaining stealth and probing back and forth within the boundary, but this boundary is too vast, with an area of ​​trillions of square kilometers. Although the spaceship is fast, it can only detect an area of ​​500 by 200 kilometers per second, and only two to three billion square kilometers per day. It would probably take one or two years to explore this boundary completely.

"A total of 16 areas showed faint energy reactions, which should be the Thunderstones. These 16 dense areas are concentrated in three places, with scattered Thunderstones in between. However, the three places are quite far apart. Each dense area contains anywhere from over 300,000 to only a few hundred thousand Thunderstones, totaling less than 3 million in total." Gao Sheng carefully studied the detection results. "These densely packed areas should be the locations marked on the map that the white-bearded old man in the castle took out. Yes, we should carefully probe these three large areas outwards from the known areas."

Gao Sheng remembers that the map only marked about twenty-six areas in the end.

"The Thunderstones are distributed in such a small area that there's no map. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack. Luo Feng found two places just by walking around a 20-kilometer detection range? Is this what you call protagonist luck? No, they must be in the same large area." Gao Sheng muttered to himself.

Gao Sheng doesn't need to put in any effort to conduct the exploration; all the results are simply recorded. Gao Sheng mainly focuses on the adventurer team's movements.

Robberies and murders! Robberies and murders are happening everywhere!

There were large groups and small groups, mostly heading towards the castle. There were also smaller groups that split off from the larger groups to chase and kill the scattered groups. Various ambushes and chases were happening everywhere.

In the virtual universe, Gao Sheng looked at Luo Feng on the screen and asked, "Luo Feng, how's the harvest?"

"It's alright, but there shouldn't be much left on the outer perimeter now. We're heading towards the center." Luo Feng looked exhausted.

Gao Sheng said, "Then you'd better be careful. There are robberies and killings everywhere now, and the closer you get to the center, the more groups there are."

"Don't worry, we'll be careful."

"If you encounter any serious danger, please let me know. I might be nearby and able to help you," Gao Sheng said solemnly.

"must."

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On Canglan Star, at the entrance to the Thunder World, inside the garden of that historic villa.

As Pero Vidi stepped inside, he saw a group of renowned domain lords and even world lords from the Black Dragon Mountain Star Region crowding into the garden.

"What happened?"

At the entrance of the villa, a beautiful woman with short silver hair and a cold face stood ramrod straight. "Jiang Tianchen! These are the regulations set by my Cosmic Mercenary Alliance. It's not your place to interfere! I can't stop you, but I will record everything that happens here. Anyone who dares to blatantly violate the Alliance's regulations will be reported to the Alliance and killed by the enforcement team. Their soul will be shattered and turned into nothingness. Don't blame me for not warning you."

The handsome, otherworldly man who had been reprimanded stood in the garden looking at the woman in silver armor.

Jiang Tianchen is a super strong expert from Three Axe Mountain, and he can definitely rank among the top five in the entire Black Dragon Mountain Star Region!

But when faced with this beautiful woman, he frowned and pondered.

Pero looked around and quietly whispered to a burly man standing nearby, "Mingyu, who is this girl?"

"Her name is Qinia, and she is a special envoy of the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance..." Mingyu replied.

"An inspection envoy?" Perot exclaimed in surprise.

At this moment, the silver-haired woman looked at the crowd and announced loudly, "This Thunder World is recognized as a 'Test World' by our Cosmic Mercenary Alliance. Unless the Alliance revokes its 'Test World' status, it will remain a Test World. Only Star-level adventurers participating in the Apprentice Mercenary Test are allowed to enter; no one else is permitted!"

Mingyu whispered, "I heard she has a military commander behind her."

"The military leader? Not only that, Ming Yu, the special envoy of the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance, must be one of their core members." Pero whispered.

Mingyu's expression changed drastically.