Chapter 978: Rich Beyond Imagination! Race Against Time!

The Void Stone is completely transparent, imbued with spatial power, and does not reflect light.

But seeing so many Void Stones, Xu Jingming still felt his eyes were about to be blinded!

"This… how many Void Stones are here?" Xu Jingming swallowed hard.

"13.31 million."

Su Tianrui smiled and replied, "These things are everywhere in the Spatial Chaos Layer.

I originally planned to save them until we got out, but I kept accumulating them until now."

Inside his space ring, besides these Void Stones, there were also some pieces of equipment.

All other usable pills, potions, and resources had long since been used up.

"13.31 million? That many?!" Su Qingli was also stunned.

She knew that even after all their efforts, they had only 2.87 million Void Stones in total.

That was even after acquiring some from Qiao Lin and the others—otherwise, they'd have even fewer.

"Adding ours to this, we now have a total of 16.18 million Void Stones!" Xu Jingming's eyes blazed with brilliance.

Rich beyond imagination! Undeniably rich beyond imagination!

Just these Void Stones alone are enough to exchange for four resources to evolve an ability into SS rank!

"Bad! Our Void Stone count has been exposed!"

Su Qingli looked up at the sky and cried out.

Xu Jingming followed her gaze and saw the ranking changes above.

"Rank One, No. 344, Void Stones: 【empty】.

Rank Two, No. 1, Void Stones: 【empty】.

……"

"I'm now ranked first! Is this Void Tower's surveillance really this powerful?" Xu Jingming's expression darkened.

The Void Stones weren't all concentrated on him—Su Qingli and Eva also had plenty.

So originally, he had only been ranked second.

But now, his rank shot straight to first!

Most critically, the number of Void Stones he held had been exposed too!

"This is trouble—over fifteen million Void Stones! Others will definitely notice!"

Xu Jingming's expression grew anxious. "Professor Su, we must leave now—we must reach the teleportation portal as quickly as possible!"

One or two million Void Stones are still within normal range.

Each of the top five on the ranking list has over a million Void Stones.

But over ten million is abnormal—it's more than ten times their amount!

Xu Jingming was certain that other ninth-level experts had already noticed the anomaly.

Without doubt, these experts would rush forward to block the teleportation portal.

At that point, he would have no chance to exchange resources.

Once he exchanged, his identity would be revealed!

And with his current strength, he couldn't crush everyone.

At that moment, he would surely face a siege from other experts.

Therefore, he could only exchange resources before they blocked the portal, then open the teleportation channel and enter the next level!

"We're over seven hundred kilometers from the teleportation portal—flying directly won't be fast enough."

Su Qingli clearly realized this too and hurriedly said.

"Use the fighter!"

Xu Jingming immediately pulled out the Black Obsidian-class fighter from his space ring.

"Senior Su, no time left—I'll store you in my space ring first."

"Alright."

After storing Su Tianrui in his space ring, Xu Jingming and Su Qingli entered the fighter, and he barked orders:

"Eva! No holds barred! Activate maximum performance mode!"

"Eva understands!"

On the fighter's cockpit display appeared the small, pale, clean face of the girl Eva.

"Hold on tight! Eva Fighter, taking off now!"

Eva excitedly activated the fighter.

Boom!!

The fighter's engines were pushed to their limit, accompanied by a piercing sonic boom.

The massive fighter vanished instantly from its original position, as if teleporting.

This was the Black Obsidian-class fighter's maximum performance mode, capable of reaching ten times the speed of sound!

Of course, this mode could only last half an hour.

Otherwise, the entire fighter would collapse under the extreme speed…

"Fifteen million Void Stones?! Who?!"

On the ninth level of the Void Tower, somewhere.

Howling winds raged; at the center of a massive hurricane, a delicate-looking man stared in surprise at the ranking screen above.

Miek!

The ninth-rank peak Law Saint of the Erth Family, possessing an S-rank Elemental Wind ability.

"Looks like someone got their hands on an extraordinary resource." Mike licked his lips.

"Too bad I'm still over three thousand kilometers from the finish line. I wonder if I can make it in time..."

He could no longer spare a thought for the other powerful members of the Es family around him.

Gale-force wind howled around Mike as he instantly transformed into a phantom and vanished on the spot.

As a peak ninth-tier elemental wind cultivator, his maximum flight speed reached a terrifying 16 times the speed of sound—nearly the limit achievable below the level of Supreme!

"Number 344! It's you!"

Rio, a peak ninth-tier warrior of the Lei Ding family, also noticed the change on the ranking board.

"Fifteen million void stones—stole my opportunity, and on top of that got so many void stones?

Seems your luck isn't bad, but in the end it only benefits me."

Rio let out a sinister laugh.

"We're less than a thousand kilometers from the finish line. We'll get there soon." A powerful cultivator beside him, also from the Lei Ding family, said with a smile.

"Of course."

Rio laughed heartily.

He took a fighter craft out of his spatial ring.

The craft had a streamlined body, entirely jet-black.

It was also an Obsidian-grade fighter craft!

"Let's go!" Rio boarded the craft with the other powerful cultivators and flew swiftly toward the finish line.

Although he was a peak ninth-tier Martial Saint, his maximum flight speed was only 9 times the speed of sound.

Compared to the Obsidian fighter's maximum mode, he still fell short by a bit.

Such a scene was not only happening with top-tier powerhouses like Rio and Mike.

In addition, a large number of ability users, upon discovering that the first-place holder was heading toward the void stones, also rushed toward the finish line.

They weren't trying to block Xu Jingming—rather, ten million void stones were already enough to meet the requirement for opening a teleportation channel.

They wanted to rush to the next layer the moment the teleportation gate opened.

"Sis! We're so lucky—we're not far from the finish line!"

Somewhere about a hundred kilometers from the finish line.

A young woman with a pair of fluffy fox ears on her head and a mixed-blood appearance looked up at the changing rankings in the sky and cried out joyfully.

Beside her was another woman who looked seventy to eighty percent similar to her, but more mature.

This woman wore a tight-fitting battle suit, her figure curvy in all the right places.

Her whole body was wreathed in blazing dark-purple flames, and a Crimson Serpent Sword circled around her like a spirit snake amid the flames.

This pair of mixed-blood sisters was none other than Leng Yuexi and Leng Yuechan.

They happened to be searching for void stones nearby when they noticed the change on the ranking board.

"Looks like our luck really isn't bad. Let's go—maybe we can be among the first to enter the next layer."

Leng Yuexi nodded with a smile.

Before she could leave with Leng Yuechan, a sudden sharp whistle rang out!

A black fighter craft, like a phantom, flew rapidly over from the distance.

"Is that... Xu Jingming's fighter craft?" Leng Yuechan's beautiful eyes lit up as she said in pleasant surprise.