Heading to Space

After the Lantern Festival in 2058.

Luo Feng and his family had a pleasant Spring Festival, and his relationship with Xu Xin progressed further.

"Dad, Mom, don't worry, Luo Hua will take good care of you."

After saying goodbye to his family, Luo Feng walked up to Xu Xin, gently took her hands in his, and said tenderly, "When I finish my cultivation this time and come back, we'll get married!"

Xu Xin was overjoyed, but her reserve and upbringing prevented her from overreacting.

"I'm waiting for you!"

The three gentle yet firm words made Luo Feng burst into laughter.

This is precisely what motivates him to strive to become stronger.

Meanwhile, inside the X81 spaceship in Heilongshan.

Babata unusually expressed his approval of Luo Feng's actions.

During the 50,000 years of waiting, Babata had also wished that her master would have offspring.

"Sigh, Zhou Tong, according to Earthling customs, men your age should be getting married and having children. Luo Feng is getting married soon, what about you?"

Faced with Babata's question, Zhou Tong was completely dumbfounded. What did Luo Feng's marriage have to do with him? Besides, what's wrong with you, an intelligent life form, learning to urge people to get married?

The key issue is that there aren't many famous beauties on Earth in Swallowed Star. If it were something like Battle Through the Heavens, he wouldn't mind having a huge harem.

After all, Zhou Tong had often fantasized about these things while reading novels and watching anime before he transmigrated, or rather, it's impossible for any normal man not to think about them.

Just then, Luo Feng flew into the spaceship and overheard Babata's words, so he asked, half-jokingly and half-seriously, "If Zhou Tong wants to find a girlfriend, I can ask Xu Xin to help introduce someone."

"As long as you are strong enough, you can get anything you want, so start by cultivating."

After Zhou Tong finished speaking, he turned to Babata and said, "Before going to the universe, Babata should go to Mars first. There are a lot of Ether Crystals there, which is a fairly substantial amount of start-up capital."

"You can't go anywhere in the universe without money. Although the master left Luo Feng a lot of wealth, he doesn't have the strength to take it now."

Babata echoed this sentiment and simultaneously activated the Black Dragon Mountain X81 spaceship.

In just a few moments, the spaceship reached outer space.

"The exterior scenery is 100% accurate; we've already left Earth."

With a rapid change in light, Luo Feng and Zhou Tong seemed to be standing in the void.

Looking back, a huge blue planet came into view.

Zhou Tong wasn't too surprised by this. He had already flown into space after breaking through to the planetary level, and naturally had seen Earth in such a state.

Luo Feng had been preoccupied with various matters, and this was his first time in space, as well as his first time seeing Earth from there.

"It's so...so beautiful, so spectacular..."

However, before Luo Feng could even utter a few words of amazement, the Earth was already getting smaller and smaller.

Meanwhile, Babata, seeing Zhou Tong's calm expression, was quite... quite surprised by Luo Feng's overreaction.

"Luo Feng, don't make a fuss like a country bumpkin. There are plenty of amazing and beautiful landscapes in the universe. And when you get to Qiulong Star, even if you're pretending, you should pretend to be calm. Otherwise, if people see you like this, you might attract space pirates or something."

Zhou Tong said calmly, "When the time comes, I'll take Luo Feng to the slave market to broaden his horizons, and he'll quickly adapt to the rules of the universe."

Before Luo Feng could respond, the spaceship suddenly experienced a slight tremor.

Through location simulation, the two realized they had arrived on Mars.

The two then left the spaceship.

What comes into view is a vast expanse of reddish-brown gravel.

A very tall, all-metal pyramid floats high in the distance, surrounded by several smaller pyramids, making a total of nine.

There is also a city ruin on the ground, whose outline can only be seen in general, and you can still vaguely see a trace of its former prosperity.

Sensing the abundant golden essence emanating from the mining base below, Zhou Tong longed to take a deep breath. Unfortunately, this was all future start-up capital and couldn't be touched for the time being, so he had to suppress his inner impulse.

"What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and loot!"

Zhou Tong and Luo Feng were scanning the mining base with their mental powers when they were brought back to their senses by Babata's urging.

Both of them had spatial rings, so they chose to split up.

For an entire day, Zhou Tong and Luo Feng didn't stop for a second, constantly shuttling between various warehouses, mines, miners' rooms, and other places to collect Ether Crystal Gold Ore. In the end, they didn't even spare the buildings constructed with Ether Crystal Gold.

The final results were also encouraging. The most valuable C8 grade ether gold was found in 2.34 tons, the next most valuable B8 grade ether gold was found in 33600 tons, and the largest A8 grade ether gold deposit was found in nearly 10 billion tons.

"We're rich! We're rich!"

Seeing Babata's greedy look, Zhou Tong and Luo Feng were also very happy to see the mountain of Ether Crystal Gold piled up in front of them.

"Luo Feng, you can put away the B-grade Ether Crystals for now. I'll handle the C-grade and A-grade Ether Crystals. Otherwise, with such a large quantity, it won't be easy for us to deal with them in this unfamiliar universe."

Upon hearing this, Luo Feng's eyes lit up as he looked at Zhou Tong: "You're going to use alchemy again... By the way, can I learn it?"

Zhou Tong spread his hands: "I only know how to use it myself. I don't know how to learn it. Moreover, all the techniques I have cultivated may not be able to be passed on to a second person. At least I haven't found any way to record them yet."

Luo Feng exclaimed in surprise, "It can't be passed on to a second person?... There's such a technique?"

Zhou Tong smiled, glanced at Earth, and said nothing more.

Isn't the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual on Earth just that? However, Zhou Tong doesn't know whether the fragments recording the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual were always on Earth or were sent to Earth later, so he won't say more until he finds them.

Luo Feng then realized that this was something Zhou Tong had said couldn't be said openly, so he had no choice but to give up asking and start working.

Zhou Tong also began to use the Great Five Elements Technique: White Emperor Golden Emperor Slash to absorb the golden essence of the Ether Crystal Gold.

Although the quality of the ether crystal gold is not high enough to cultivate the White Emperor Golden Emperor Slash, it can still condense golden essence energy, which can be used to complement alchemy.

In the end, nearly 10 billion tons of etheric gold barely managed to condense into two strands of golden essence.

Then Zhou used C8 grade etheric gold and gold essence to perform an equivalent exchange using alchemy, which resulted in exactly 2 tons of flowing silver metal.

Originally, all the Ether Crystals combined were only worth about a million Black Dragon Coins, but now 2 tons of Flowing Silver Metal are worth 320 million Black Dragon Coins, which is an incredible profit.

"This doesn't make sense..."

Babata almost crashed again upon seeing this.

"There are many unscientific things in the universe, and we'll have plenty to see in the future. Right now, it's more important to go to the universe."

Zhou Tong couldn't explain it to them clearly in a short time, so he was too lazy to explain and just gave them a few perfunctory words to get rid of Luo Feng and Babata.

Seeing this, Babata stopped worrying and also looked forward to the universe.

The Heilongshan X81 spacecraft left Mars and sped towards the outer solar system, only beginning to accelerate towards the speed of light after leaving the solar system.

"Shuttle engine activated!"

"Light speed flight, 30-second countdown begins."

"28, 27...10, 9...3, 2, 1, the spaceship reaches the speed of light."

"Space travel complete, now in the dark universe."