Chapter 806: Empty Fantasy Crystal
Translator: Sigma Editor: SSins
The Bloody Chief Skull Pirates slowly approached the abandoned mineral star. Soon, a massive battleship landed on the star.
This mineral star had countless caverns running all the way to the ground. Some caverns were big enough to contain ten massive Bloody Chief Skull battleships effortlessly.
The Bloody Chief Skull battleship landed in a gloomy cavern that was so dark that they couldn't see the bottom. Russell's pirates gathered rocks around to cover the Bloody Chief Skull battleship. This would prevent people from seeing it from an aerial view.
The wooden material used to build this battleship was unique as it could conceal life auras. The pirates just needed to stay on their ship. Within a certain distance, the other warriors wouldn't be able to use the Soul Consciousness to detect them.
Russell apparently had a detailed plan: hide the battleship on the mineral star with all of his pirates staying inside the ship so they wouldn't be discovered by experts and battleships passing by this area, which could create an effective opportunity for ambush.
Shi Yan and Feng Rao stayed in the hole under the pond, seeing the Bloody Chief Skull pirates arrange everything. They didn't dare leave their shelter but continued watching.
"Seems like we need to find a place to shelter," Shi Yan had let Feng Rao go a long time ago. He frowned, contemplated before continuing, "This mineral star has only one pond, which is the one we're hiding in. I can't guarantee that they won't come here for water or shower. We should move deeper underground."
Feng Rao nodded in agreement with his decision.
Crack Crack Crack!
The cave where they were expanded under Shi Yan's power.
Shortly after, the cave was enlarged a dozen times. However, the entrance was still small and stayed sealed by small rocks. If the pirates came and didn't check it carefully, they wouldn't find this place.
Staying in the extended cave, Shi Yan was sitting five meters away from Feng Rao. They sat cross-legged, facing each other.
"Why do you want to stay here?" Feng Rao was surprised and couldn't understand his intentions. "You don't have a relationship with the Bloody Chief Skull pirates or the Nine Star Chamber of Commerce. Are you sure you want to interfere their business?"
Shaking his head, Shi Yan explained, "I don't want to poke my nose in this. However, this mineral star now has so many eyes and ears to watch Russell. If we stay here and use the jade token to hide our auras, they won't find us. However, if you are persistent and want to leave, once you enter the atmosphere, I'm not sure that they won't see you."
Pausing for a while, he frowned and said, "You said that Russell has the First Sky of Original God Realm and that some of his troops have reached the Third Sky of King God Realm. If he finds us, it won't be easy for us to escape this star area alive."
Feng Rao also nodded seriously. "It's true. It won't be easy. Russell isn't a nice guy. Perhaps he knows why I came to the Purgatory Star. If he knew about my whereabouts, perhaps he would come to the conclusion that I have the star map. Then, he would definitely not let us go."
"For the time being, we'll stay here. We don't care about what they do or will do. We shouldn't pay attention to them either. Yeah, wait until they're done with their business. Afterward, they will leave for sure. I doubt they would stay in an abandoned mineral planet for a long time," Shi Yan pondered before expressing his opinions.
Feng Rao contemplated for a while. She thought that they couldn't do anything further than that so she didn't talk more.
Time flies hurriedly. Ten days had gone just like a blink of an eye.
Feng Rao and Shi Yan had always secluded in the cave under the pond. They hadn't gone out once. Sometimes, they would peer through the water to see the sky and find nothing.
Most of the time, they didn't talk to each other. Each of them closed their eyes and meditated.
Ten days were short. It was so short that Shi Yan had just sunk into his Star power Upanishad, and he hadn't had time to perceive anything yet.
After he had reached the King God Realm, the progression of his three powers slowed down. However, accumulating energy wasn't something hard to him as he just needed to kill people and use his acupuncture points to filter and refine the energy to supply and maintain peak status. Shi Yan didn't need to worry about energy sources.
Only if his powers Upanishad could upgrade. Then, they could help him break through to a higher realm.
The battle at the other meteorite where he killed Pang Jia and swallowed Ganji's soul altar had helped his God Soul, making the Seals of Upanishad crystal clear. He could see the sign of the bottleneck. Shi Yan wanted to seize all chances to strengthen his powers Upanishad, which would be his door to the new realm.
This time, he didn't restrain Feng Rao. After ten days, Feng Rao had restored 30% of her full energy. Now she had half of the strength she would have had in her peak condition.
Usually, at this moment, Shi Yan would do something to reduce her energy, dragging her competence down to 20% or 30%, which ensured that she wouldn't become a threat to him.
Feng Rao understood him well. After ten days had passed, she woke up and opened her bright eyes, watching him in silence as if she was waiting for him to attack her.
Opening his eyes, Shi Yan smiled brightly, talking deliberately. "Our situation is a bit different now. I won't restrain you this time. Yeah. You can restore half of your powers. If something unexpected happens, you can defend yourself."
Feng Rao quietly exhaled in relief. She put on a faint smile. "Seems that you're not as vicious as I thought. If you attack me in this given circumstance, you would truly be an asshole."
Smiling, Shi Yan didn't care about her ridicule. "You're Feng Ke's daughter. I want to ask something. Besides you, how many children does your father has?"
"I have two brothers," Feng Rao frowned, contemplating for a while before explaining, "from different mothers."
Shi Yan smiled. "Does your father love you? In his eyes, who is more important?"
Feng Rao put on a cold visage, snorted, but didn't answer.
"I understand," Shi Yan nodded, "If you are more important than your two brothers, you wouldn't have to go to the Extreme Purgatory Field. No wonder. In the Raging Flame Star Area, daughters aren't more favored than the sons."
Feng Rao was enraged, her face cold. "What is it that you truly wish to say?"
"I want to say that even if you can return to the Land of God Punishment, it would be impossible for you to inherit your father's forces one day. Perhaps, your two brothers will kill you. It would be better to follow me then," said Shi Yan with his thick-skinned face.
"Follow you?" Feng Rao was surprised. She immediately panted in anger. "What do you have? What are you to me? Me, follow you? If you don't have the star map, you have nothing! Just who do you think you are? You're just at the First Sky of King God Realm. You can't even defeat me. What can you offer me? Ridiculous!"
She was a woman with great ambitions. She had planned carefully; otherwise, she wouldn't have got into the Purgatory Star and stayed there alone for several hundred years.
If there was a man who was stronger than her in many aspects, a man who could offer her powers and pleasures, perhaps she would submit herself to him and serve him well with all her heart.
However, Shi Yan's powers at this moment weren't excellent. They weren't enough to convince her but to make her laugh.
"It is true that I can't offer you anything now," said Shi Yan with a solemn face. "But it doesn't mean that it will be the same later. Although this Raging Flame Star Area is vast, it can't hold me. Sooner or later, I will surpass everyone else. If you follow me today, you can have all that belongs to me in the future."
"Well, wait until you can prove that. When you do, come back and talk to me again," snorted Feng Rao disdainfully. Apparently, she wasn't going to give in so easily.
Shi Yan smiled and said nothing else. He understood that it wasn't easy to conquer this woman. He had time. He believed that if this woman stayed with him a little longer, she would gradually change her mind. Maybe one day.
Although the Raging Flame Star Area was vast, Shi Yan didn't have a good background. Even if he wanted to do something, he didn't have the means to do anything. Without subordinates, how could he be an overlord of a region?"
In his eyes, Feng Rao was cunning and wicked. She had many accomplishments. If he could gain her favors, his beginning would be smoother.
Zi Yao was a princess of the Dark Firmament Divine Nation. She would absolutely not risk her life for him. Forces of the Dark Firmament Divine Nation were still fighting against each other discreetly. If he wanted to ask for Zi Yao's favor without a sufficient force, people would look down on him.
"A ship is coming..." Feng Rao suddenly let out a low shout. She came close to the cave entrance to peer at the sky out there. Her face slightly changed.
Shi Yan stopped thinking about the future, walking to the crack he left open at the cave entrance. Standing next to Feng Rao and taking in the tender aroma of her body, he got distracted, his mind disoriented. He thought that if he could subdue this woman, perhaps his scheme of the new star area would be very convenient.
A massive vessel with the Nine Star Chamber of Commerce's symbol was moving slowly in the dark sky. It became bigger in their vision as it came closer to the abandoned mineral star.
The crest of the Nine Star Chamber of Commerce. The incomers should be members of the Nine Star Chamber of Commerce. Since this ship was huge, it was probably carrying a lot of materials.
A flow of Soul Consciousness was released together with Space power, making this flow sway between folds of space, stealthily moving toward the battleship.
Shi Yan knew that with space power, his beam of Soul Consciousness would be hard to catch while its sensibility was enhanced. However, his Soul Consciousness fell into that big ship like a rock sinking into the ocean. It seemed like it was disrupted by an unknown force. Shi Yan couldn't feel anything.
Shi Yan's face changed to be more solemn. "That ship of the Nine Star Chamber of Commerce can distract space power? How is it so dangerous?"
"Never heard about that," Feng Rao shook her head in surprise. "There's no battleship in the Raging Flame Star Area that can blind space power. It's impossible!"
"When my Soul Consciousness came close to that big ship, I lost the connection. I found nothing," Shi Yan frowned, talking in a low voice.
"Your Soul Consciousness is created by space energy?" Feng Rao was a little frightened.
Shi Yan nodded.
"The ship carries something special." Feng Rao contemplated for a while. With her broad knowledge, her eyes suddenly brightened. "The Empty Fantasy Crystal! Only the Empty Fantasy Crystal can produce such an effect!" "Empty Fantasy Crystal?"
"Yeah. It is the main material used to create Fantasy Sky Rings. It is also the main material to build space formations. It's a dozen time precious than the Ethereal Crystal. They say that if we utilized the Empty Fantasy Crystal more efficiently, we would be able to create space passages connecting different star areas. Of course, we need the experts who have space energy to use the God Soul to control the formation," explained Feng Rao.
Shi Yan's eyes brightened, shaken by this new information. "I want it!"