Chapter 1162: E1-Level Equipment! Ke Lan!

"Sister Lan, do you have any plans for tomorrow?"

"This insectoid mission was insanely hard to complete—how about we all go out and relax tomorrow?"

High above, Ye Lan's squad was flying back home.

As Level 1 geniuses, their dormitory was in Zone A.

During this time, one of the squad members chuckled and asked.

They had spent over three months clearing the entire planet's insectoid swarm—they were utterly exhausted.

"My mentor is going to the Beast Trial Zone tomorrow to observe the new recruits' rating evaluations—I'll be going with him."

Ye Lan's cold voice rang out.

"The new recruit rating evaluations happen every month—they're all Starlight-level newcomers. What's so interesting about that?"

One squad member asked in confusion.

The Noah Sanctuary had people leaving every month and new recruits arriving—by now, they were completely used to it.

And Ye Lan's mentor was an Immortal-level powerhouse; he would never bother paying attention to Starlight-level trainees' evaluations.

"This time is different—the Empire discovered a Goliath clan member on a remote planet."

"He's agreed to join the Sanctuary, and he'll be participating in tomorrow's evaluation."

Ye Lan's gaze sharpened slightly; the rest of the squad also reacted with surprise.

The Goliath clan was one of the oldest and noblest bloodlines among humanity—without doing anything, they could naturally enter the Cosmic level upon adulthood.

Such bloodlines were incredibly rare across the entire human universe, yet the Empire had actually found one.

"No wonder—it seems most Immortal-level mentors will show up for tomorrow's evaluation."

One squad member remarked.

The ruler of the Noah Empire was a peak Immortal-level powerhouse.

In addition, the Empire had ten "National Pillars," all of whom were also Immortal-level.

The National Pillars were unattainable heights—over countless moons and suns, countless people in the Sanctuary had tried and failed to become their disciples.

Only someone like Ye Lan, with her heavenly talent, had become one of their students.

And now, merely the appearance of this unique bloodline had drawn their attention.

Of course, the Goliath clan bloodline was indeed rare.

If nurtured properly, in hundreds of thousands of years, the Empire might gain another "National Pillar"...

On the other side, Xu Jingming returned to his villa and successfully retrieved his equipment.

A Level E1 combat suit, and a Level E1 long spear.

Like on Blue Star, alloys and equipment grades increased sequentially from F-level upward.

But each letter grade was additionally followed by a numerical suffix.

There was no choice.

The universe was filled with too many alloys and pieces of equipment.

If they used only letters, they couldn't possibly represent the full range of equipment tiers.

The SSR-level alloy from Blue Star was roughly equivalent to F1-level equipment in the cosmos.

"Good thing low-tier equipment in the Shangcheng doesn't require credit points—only cosmic currency. Otherwise, I couldn't even upgrade my gear."

Xu Jingming took off his black armor and put on the new combat suit.

Crackling—

SSS-level Chaos Doushen Shenlei surged into the spear, with none of the sluggishness he'd felt on Blue Star.

The spear showed no signs of disintegration.

This was expected—Level E1 equipment was sufficient for him to use until Starlight peak.

"Good—finally, I can use my spear techniques freely."

Swish-swish-swish—

Xu Jingming swung the spear casually, stabbing a thousand times in mere instants!

Of course, the price of these two items wasn't cheap.

The Level E1 combat suit cost 450,000 cosmic currency; the spear cost 320,000 cosmic currency.

Without the bank card left by Yiwa, he couldn't have owned even this lowest-tier equipment.

"This is just regular alloy weaponry—wait until you get a Law Weapon, and you'll truly feel the joy of wielding it."

Yiwa, hovering in midair, giggled.

"Law Weapon..." Xu Jingming also felt anticipation.

On Blue Star, psychics were divided into melee warriors and ranged elementalists.

The same distinction existed in the cosmos—warriors and elementalists.

There were also spiritual force manipulators, but that path was exceedingly rare.

Weapons were divided into regular alloy weapons and Law Weapons, corresponding to Blue Star's melee and elemental weapons.

But unlike on Blue Star, melee weapons could also be made into Law Weapons.

Compared to alloy weapons, Law Weapons better channeled the power of lightning.

But unfortunately, Law Weapons could only be purchased with credit points.

He currently couldn't afford any.

"I need to pass the evaluation tomorrow as soon as possible—then I'll gain access to the Sanctuary's vast resources," Xu Jingming thought silently.

The Sanctuary Shangcheng was a colossal treasury!

Every kind of treasure was available.

He was envious!

But being envious was useless — without credit points, he could only wait......

The three-star system of the Noah Empire was extremely stable, with every planet having a clear alternation of day and night.

The next morning, the star's light pierced through the atmosphere and spread across the surface of the third planet.

It was only 7:30 now, yet Xu Jingming had already geared up and was ready to head out.

The third planet was incomprehensibly vast; the Beast Trial Zone was a full 30,000 kilometers from his dormitory district.

Even at his normal 32 times the speed of sound, it would still take roughly 45 minutes to arrive.

Whoosh—

A flash of black Lei Guang — Xu Jingming transformed into a streak of light and shot into the sky, speeding toward the Beast Trial Zone.

The surface area of the third planet was over 1,300 times that of Blue Star, yet the human population was only ten million.

Therefore, flight was not restricted here — after all, the population was too small.

Even if everyone flew in the air, there would not be the slightest crowding.

Whoosh, whoosh—

Xu Jingming streaked through the air, wild wind howling in his ears.

He savored the feeling of flight and did not use lightning to block the gale.

But not long after he had taken off, before even leaving the dormitory district, his spiritual sense detected an aura several kilometers away approaching him.

In a moment, a tall, lanky youth of about two meters appeared in his line of sight.

Seeing Xu Jingming, his eyes lit up, and he proactively flew over to greet him:

"This brother, you're heading to take the assessment rating too, right?

I'm also going to take this assessment rating.

This Holy Land is great in every way, except it's too spacious — I'm in the dormitory district right next to yours.

I've been staying over there for nearly twenty-plus days, thinking all along that your dormitory district was empty.

Didn't expect to only see you fly out from there today......"

This fellow was a born extrovert — before Xu Jingming could even open his mouth to speak, he had already launched into an unbroken stream of chatter.

"I just checked in over there last night," Xu Jingming said.

"So that's how it is."

The tall, lanky youth suddenly understood, and said with a smile: "I'm Ke Lan, from Zeta Star in the Barnard Star System."

"Xu Jingming, from Blue Star in the Milky Way galaxy," Xu Jingming replied with a smile.

Having just arrived at the Holy Land, he was also willing to get to know other people.

Moreover, the fact that the other party could stay in the dormitory district next to his proved that the other party should also be a Tier-2 genius.