Chapter 313: A Casual Move, a Battlefield Within the Starry Sky?

So, under these circumstances, he suddenly thought of this point — since his body was a planet-sized body, and his spiritual force had already reached this level,

could he treat the entire starry sky as a vaster heaven and earth, and imitate the methods of travel used within a planet—

using spiritual force to grasp the void, fixing the void like an invisible great hand, pulling his own body forward continuously,

or distorting the surrounding energy, rolling up an energy torrent, treading atop the energy torrent like riding a wave to keep moving forward,

or, like those technological starships crossing vast distances, directly having powerful energy distort the surrounding gravity to form a peculiar "field," causing the surrounding space to warp,

just like a flat sheet of white paper rolled into a circular sloped passage, and the surrounding space, in order to restore itself, would inevitably produce a repulsive spatial "difference," and this would generate a tremendous thrust that allowed him to move swiftly?

The answer was feasible. Although the energy within the starry sky was extremely violent and could easily damage spiritual force, don't forget the Radiation Absorption he had newly acquired — its first step was to absorb and soften the surrounding energy,

and under these circumstances, he even combined the characteristics of these several methods, along with his new subordinates' abilities, to create a method of travel unique to him,

whereupon, within the starry sky, there appeared a divine beast, a Bixie, its entire body treading thunderclouds like a god of thunder!

Amidst the flickering of endless plasma, it transformed into thunderclouds, easily trampled beneath its feet; along the way, countless dust matter, meteorites, and comets, as if drawn by some force, gathered into this Thunder Plasma Cloud, adding bricks and tiles to its expansion.

The thunder beast Bixie thus rode the Thunder Plasma Cloud of tremendous momentum, galloping through the starry sky with its two subordinates.

In the blink of an eye, three hundred years had passed.

Since the day he left that first star system, even Baichuan no longer knew where he had reached — this was the trouble of having no star chart; this starry sky was unfamiliar to him everywhere.

In this regard, even the former Fugitive Fleet could not help him, because they too had merely been fleeing for their lives.

The only coordinate they had was their former home star.

In fact, Baichuan now was advancing by following the direction of their home star.

Not to mention anything else, at the very least there was a vast mysterious ruin there, as well as a civilization that, although powerful, was not unbeatable for Baichuan — if the 'Luo' civilization where the Star Beast cub resided could faintly hold a special position, then what about Baichuan's planet-body?

Presumably it would not be much worse.

And so, in the first thousand years of galloping through this desolate starry sky.

Baichuan vaguely felt that he had finally stepped out of one star system once more, entering another unknown, unfamiliar star system.

This was the third star system he had set foot in; under the long passage of time, apart from encountering an ordinary primitive civilization with life in the second star system at the beginning, he had not encountered any other life-bearing planets.

It was a civilization dominated by humans as well, only it was still merely at the stage of primitive tribal civilization, and possessed not a trace of anything special, so Baichuan merely explored it briefly, took away some special and common materials, and then, out of kindness, repaid this planet with a meteor shower before departing.

As for the true nature of the meteor shower, it was Crystal aggregated from Light Points, containing a kind of bloodline composite ability — Cang's Qi ability, as well as a powerful physical body!

If the humans of this planet's civilization proved capable, perhaps in the future a civilization would emerge with powerful physical bodies that also controlled powerful Qi, capable of traversing the cosmos with their physical forms.

When the time came, by virtue of the special nature of the Crystal, he might gain an additional group of subordinates.

Of course, if it didn't work out, it was no matter — at worst it was merely a casual move.

This was the confidence brought by a long lifespan.

……

On this day, he finally stopped once more, and along with his two tiny Juanzhu, stared in shock at the scene before them.

The first thing to meet their eyes was a bizarre purple star that had only half of itself remaining!

A star that should have been a great fireball was, for some unknown reason, missing half, and had not exhibited the explosion or destruction that Baichuan would normally expect; it seemed to be bound by something, and the traces of its missing portion, viewed from afar, resembled a purple pudding, or a pastry, with a bite taken out of it by something!

Just like how Baichuan once devoured Yan Star!

Then, as if finding it unpalatable, it merely took one bite and abandoned it here.

But between these two, there was simply no comparison, because this bizarre purple star was far more massive than the one he had once seen — a full two hundred times larger!

The one from before had already been enormous enough, yet this one was even vaster; even with Baichuan's current Bixie eyesight, he could not see its full appearance.

Baichuan roughly compared within his heart and found that his current body, compared to this purple star, was like a grain of rice compared to the former moon!

And he was precisely that single grain of rice……

One must remember that he was still in his Bixie form!

He was a planet-level super giant beast!

Yet such a massive star still appeared as if half of it had been devoured by something!

From this, one could roughly deduce how vast, and how powerful, that mysterious creature must be.

If it truly had been devoured by something!

Further in the distance, one could also see a thick dust-like mass, within which countless tiny landmasses could faintly be seen floating quietly, interspersed with various reds, greens, blacks……

Further still were planets that had lost the gravitational pull of the star, resulting in chaotic collisions and destruction.

Baichuan felt an ominous premonition in his heart, and once more cast his gaze further into the distance —

there drifted a massive cluster of scrap iron whose specific form could not be made out, with hints of its original exquisite and ingenious craftsmanship faintly visible.

Everything seemed to silently narrate that a terrifying encounter had taken place here!

Rendering this place a scene of utter devastation!

"B-boss…… wh-what should we do?"

Beside him, within the Thunder Plasma Cloud, the little lizard nervously swallowed and spoke with difficulty.

Now, because of following Baichuan, no longer needing to feast one day and starve for several, the rock body it once possessed had mostly reverted to a flesh-and-blood body — this was its special ability, Environment Assimilation LV5 (Planet).

Previously, it had only Assimilated on Yan Star, feeding on rock, because there was no food and it had no choice.

The thunderbird on the other side, although it did not speak, also turned its gaze toward Baichuan.

"Let's go! This place is not suitable for staying long."

A voice rang out without the slightest hesitation.

Then the Bixie once more wrapped itself in thunderclouds and galloped back the way it had come; of course, the current thundercloud had become much smaller in size and commotion, even though this made its speed considerably slower.

At this moment, Baichuan's heart was utterly solemn; his intuition told him that this place was very likely a battlefield!

And at this moment, they had unfortunately stumbled into this terrifying battlefield.

As for what level the opponent's strength was, Baichuan did not know, but merely the fact that this abnormally large star was missing half, and yet, due to some mysterious binding, had not undergone the slightest change,

was enough for him to understand that this had been caused by a higher-level life form far more terrifying than a Planet Overlord.

Faced with this scene, even Baichuan was a little thrown off.

Is the starry sky really this dangerous?

Could it be that he had only just left the starter village before?

He had only just stepped into the starry sky for less than two thousand years, and in such a short span of time, he had actually encountered such a terrifying battlefield.

Or was he just too unlucky?

Baichuan didn't know, but he knew he had to slip away.

Otherwise, if he ran into a creature that could bite half off even that massive star in one go, a little fellow like him, a Bixie, might be sucked in by the other in a single breath.

Yes, sucked in.

He couldn't even fill the gaps between the other's teeth!

He wouldn't even be noticed when inhaled — after all, who would care how much dust they accidentally breathed in between breaths?

Perhaps by then he would have to use the Ancient Bell to shift away, just like the Fugitive Fleet of old.

But if it came to that, the energy he had accumulated over such a long time would probably be drained by more than two-thirds in an instant, and the next time an even trickier situation arose, it would be even more troublesome.

For now, it was best not to use it.

In an instant, the majestic and domineering Bixie had come charging over in great force, and before it could linger for long, it had to slink away again with its little brothers in tow.

It made Baichuan sigh at the impermanence of life — the large intestine wrapped around the small intestine.

……

A hundred years later, Baichuan, who had been fleeing, came to a halt and silently gazed with his two little brothers at the distant purple star, now only half remaining.

A familiar scene……

"Let's go!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Baichuan turned and left once more.

……

Another hundred years later, the lightning-wreathed Bixie once again, along with its two little brothers, beheld the familiar purple star.

"B-boss, are we not going to be able to escape?"

"Wh-what do we do?"

It was still the little lizard's voice that rang out.

This time, Baichuan did not respond to its voice.

Because even he knew clearly that they had probably become trapped within this star system.

Perhaps this star system harbored some special, mysterious power that prevented any life that entered from ever escaping.

He glanced at the little brothers around him who were looking his way, and let out a long, quiet sigh.

Since he couldn't avoid it, he would explore.

It was also time to let these two little brothers in on the inner world within his Bixie body.

Because he planned to first conceal himself with the power of the Ancient Bell. After all, the mystery of the Ancient Bell and the power within it — even he, who had now reached the peak of Earth Immortal, could only faintly sense the tremendous might of this Faba, a power that absolutely belonged to a Planet True Immortal or above.

So, under these circumstances, it could still help him hide to some degree, and if something went wrong, he could immediately flee into another space, just like the Fugitive Fleet of old, or shift directly out of this star system.

Of course, the place the two little brothers were entering was not the Tianyuan Star within the Bixie's body — that was his most important place, the very foundation of the Bixie —

but rather a small world he had specially built during this period, with a portion of his mind, at a spot just below the Bixie's head.

A crude world built on the foundation of various planetary materials he had obtained later — after all, in the starry sky, everything else might be lacking, but common planetary materials were never in short supply.

After settling it in a few words, Baichuan, with only the Bixie body left standing in the void, also turned his gaze seriously toward this ravaged star system, preparing to begin a bit of exploration.

……

In the fourth hundred year, Baichuan, who had wandered a small circuit and even attempted to approach this half-ruined star, finally discovered a special region within this star system —

a thing transparent like a ripple of water, stretched horizontally right before his eyes!

He tried lifting a claw to press against it, and immediately a visible ripple appeared before his eyes.

Immediately after, a faint sense of repulsion came, lightly flicking his claw away.

Of course, this "lightly" was only light in the face of his Bixie body; if it were any other creature, it would probably have been sent flying.

So, what was this?

With this flicker of doubt in his mind, Baichuan began to increase the force in his claw.

At once, this invisible ripple began to show visible deformation,

but no matter how much force he used, this ripple showed not the slightest sign of breaking, and the rebounding force transmitted from above grew ever stronger.

In the end, Baichuan withdrew his claw and slowly retreated some distance,

then suddenly gathered his strength, driving a surging cloud of plasma to coil around his claw as he struck at the transparent ripple,

and in an instant, a sharp lightning claw-shadow powerful enough to split a planet shot forth from the Bixie's claw, clawing toward the ripple.

Yet the very next instant, an even more terrifying claw-shadow rebounded straight back from the ripple, lunging toward the Bixie at an even swifter speed!

If the previous claw-shadow could only split a small asteroid, then this one now could, with the greatest ease, carve an unfathomably deep hollow into a planet!

Baichuan's pupils contracted sharply, and he hastily dodged aside.

"It seems the anomaly of this star system... is most likely connected to this invisible ripple."

Watching the claw-shadow fly off into the distance, Baichuan mused inwardly.

Fortunately, after he had felt the rebounding force from the ripple earlier, he had already raised his guard; otherwise, a casual probe would have cost him dearly.

But this probe also told him, in no uncertain terms, that brute force was useless.

Of course, it could also be that his brute force simply wasn't brutal enough.

He thought it over, and considering that both little brothers were super ancient antiques who had lived for units of ten thousand years, and the little lizard was a Star Beast descendant of extraordinary talent whose experience might even surpass his own,

the mysterious ripple-like thing before him was most likely a power belonging to a planet-level being or above, and the two of them coming into contact with it might trigger some kind of information — he decided to release the little lizard and the thunder bird,

"Boss."

The two called out softly.

Baichuan gave a slight nod and briefly told them the general situation at hand.

"... No problem, Boss, leave it to me to scout!"

The little lizard, having listened and finally realizing it could be useful, immediately cast a smug glance at the thunderbird beside it, thumped its chest in assurance, then set off at a stride...

Halfway there, it stopped, turned back around, and said sheepishly: "Boss, uh... where was that spot again?"

Baichuan "..."

Baichuan suddenly doubted whether taking in this little underling had been the right call—would this idiot's stupidity be contagious?

With a helpless sigh, he simply rolled up the Thunder Plasma Cloud along with the thunderbird and sent them near the invisible water-wave, then himself picked a direction and began studying the peculiar "Membrane" that seemed to be energy, seemed to be flowing water, and seemed not to exist at all.

Of course, he also kept part of his attention on those two subordinates, in case anything unexpected happened.

At this moment, as the little lizard drew closer and closer, the expression on its face unconsciously became thoughtful.

After a while, it actually extended one rather slender little claw and, without thinking, reached out to touch that invisible water-wave, muttering to itself: "... A familiar scent?"

(End of chapter)