Chapter 157: Viska Star

The exterior scene is virtual.

The surrounding scenery shifts, revealing the void of the outside world.

A thin mist spreads in the outside, with various void dust fragments floating, and in the distance stands an immensely tall palace, suspended in the void; farther still looms a massive shadow.

"This palace is called Jade Palace; some of our Virtual Universe Company's super‑strong individuals are meditating here and also monitoring Viska Star," the silver‑robed woman introduced. "The huge planet in the distance is Viska Star; occasionally some indigenous humans or indigenous monsters fly into the universe."

Xiao Yu naturally knew what surveillance implied; Viska Star had been incorporated into the Virtual Universe Company for billions of eras, yet the strong among them rebelled repeatedly, their wildness hard to tame, so this place was used as a proving ground to cultivate human geniuses. Should an indigenous strong one leave the universe, the outcome would be very bloody.

In front of Jade Palace lies a vast cleared area, sufficient for a spaceship to accelerate for interstellar transit.

"Your Highness, I will take you as far as this; the distance to Viska Star is not far, the remaining journey you must take yourself by spaceship," the silver‑robed woman said. "Your Highness should have the spaceship, as the mission briefing indicates."

In the control room, Xiao Yu glanced at the distant Jade Palace behind him, then looked forward and ordered, "Mist, take over the spaceship's AI, then activate the ship's disguise simulation, mimicking an ordinary meteor."

But at present Xiao Yu still does not know what valuables the indigenous humans use!

And when releasing the Insect Race peak Realm Lord, he also needs to first determine whether this massive deep forest harbors any wild beasts exceeding Realm Lord Level; during previous hunts he occasionally encountered wild beasts that had reached Realm Lord Level, but who knows whether the forest still contains Immortal Level ones.

After a month of continuous hunting, Xiao Yu gained a deeper understanding of the entire Viska Star. Over the month, the weakest monsters he encountered were Planet‑level Fifth Tier, the most common were Stellar‑level, he could not kill more than ten Universe‑level Ninth Tier monsters, and he killed two Domain Lord Level ones.

Then Xiao Yu flew downward for five minutes before landing in an ancient forest.

Viska Star, whose diameter reaches ten trillion kilometers, hosts many abnormally tall mountain ranges, the tallest being the Dragon Source Mountain Range, whose highest peak exceeds 300 million kilometers.

"Understood," Mist replied.

Beneath a colossal tree three thousand meters tall.

A small world within the body.

"The monster's corpse can't be wasted; embed it in the internal time and let Irina repurpose it!" Xiao Yu waved his hand, and the monster's body on the ground vanished.

Two fingers pinched the blood‑red crystal, examined it closely, then applied slight pressure, "This must be the 'beast core' the Viska Star natives speak of; the beast core of a Planet‑level Ninth Tier monster can astonishingly endure Stellar‑level Ninth Tier force."

"Here, Planet‑level Ninth Tier cannot fly at all, and Stellar‑level can probably only hover briefly before failing," Xiao Yu sighed.

"Three more hours until we enter the Dragon Source Mountain Range of Viska Star."

"After a month of continuous hunting, we have only obtained thirty thousand beast cores; that's too slow," Xiao Yu thought, sweeping his mind over a small pile of items within the Space Ring.

The F‑class Spaceship's exterior shifted, soon becoming a deep‑gray, seemingly ordinary meteor, inconspicuous in the void, then surged at astonishing speed toward Viska Star.

The ship pierced layer upon layer of thin mist clouds, and Viska Star grew ever larger before its eyes.

To obtain beast cores more quickly, either release eleven peak Insect Race Realm Lords and one Universe‑level Ninth Tier Insect Race warrior to hunt wild beasts, or acquire large amounts of valuables in human cities.

Five thousand meters ahead, a massive tree that would require over thirty people to encircle is coiled by a gigantic blood‑red serpent, which in turn is entwined around a bizarre entity with a blood‑red snake body, a human face, and a pair of hands.

Xiao Yu looked at the monster; it was as tall as a twenty‑story building, making Xiao Yu look like a tiny speck before it. Yet when Xiao Yu gazed at it, the monster was terrified, trembling all over, its knife and spear dropping from its hands, as if confronting an ancient demon god radiating murderous aura.

The Dragon Source Mountain Range possesses an abnormally strong magnetic field, frequently spawning violent thunderstorms; even a Realm Lord Level strong one perishes when approaching the peaks. Whether human or Alien Tribe, few venture here.

He looked toward Xiao Yu's direction, his eyes scanning among the large trees, one hand raised like a spear, on guard so that at the first sign of an enemy he could thrust the spear, the other hand holding a blood‑red metal warblade.

The warblade glimmered with a cold sheen, extremely sharp, clearly man‑made.

Below the thunderstorm layer lay twenty‑one massive cloud layers, spaced a million kilometers apart, each layer thousands of kilometers thick.

Xiao Yu, like a meteor from the heavens, surged from the 19th cloud layer downward, accelerating, then maintained a relatively normal rapid descent, falling for about an hour or so, finally breaking through the lowest, first cloud layer.

After piercing the thunderstorm layer, Xiao Yu immediately exited the spaceship, then stored the F‑class Spaceship within his internal small world, glanced at his attire—very primitive—and then flew straight downward.

Below, the endless ground bore an incomprehensibly vast mountain‑forest; by Xiao Yu's estimate, this ancient forest spans at least a million kilometers, with countless distant peaks piercing the sky.

Thus he could harvest massive soul energy to fuel his cultivation of the Primordial Soul secret technique.

"Let me see!" Irina's World Force swept over the monster's corpse, "We need a hundred to forge a Planet‑level Insect Race."

"It's all spiritual energy, just as the description said," Xiao Yu smiled.

Irina looked at the suddenly appearing monster corpse and complained, "Master, what can a Planet‑level Ninth Tier do? Not even enough to bite."

The World Tree—Xiao Yu asked, "If it's this kind of monster corpse, how many are needed to produce one Planet‑level Insect Race?"

The hatch opened, and Xiao Yu, clad in a black battle suit and bearing a warblade, flew straight out of the spaceship into the void; then with a wave of his hand, an F‑class Spaceship, sleek as an ancient sword, appeared beside him, its hatch opened, and Xiao Yu entered the F‑class ship.

"The gravity here is unbelievably strong!" As he passed through the 19th cloud layer, Xiao Yu felt a pull so immense that even the magnetic field generated by a Planet‑level Ninth Tier body could not resist it.

Xiao Yu stepped forward, placed his hand on the monster's head, stroked it twice as if soothing a frightened child, then applied slight pressure; the monster's head shattered as if struck by heaven, dropping a blood‑red crystal.

"Hmm." Xiao Yu nodded.

Ancient forest.

Continuing to apply force, when the power reached Universe‑level, the beast core shattered, turning into invisible energy that dissipated into the air.

Finally, the scenery of Viska Star appeared before his eyes.

"Continue hunting wild beasts, obtain beast cores!" Xiao Yu muttered, leaving a trail of afterimages at his spot, which vanished instantly into the distance.

Beast cores are a unique treasure of Viska Star, containing the entirety of a monster's soul. Xiao Yu chose this place as the true purpose of his cultivation mission: to acquire massive numbers of beast cores.

According to data, human strength on Viska Star is divided into: Earth‑level, Sky‑level, Lingxiao‑level, Lord Rank, World‑level, Divine; these correspond precisely to the planetary, stellar, Universe‑level, Domain Lord, Realm Lord, Immortal tiers in the cosmos.

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