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"Thank you, Superior Immortal!"
Liao Shizhao's eyes were full of gratitude, he could feel that his body had undergone an astonishing transformation.
The once sore and weak knees and waist were now strong and vigorous, his energy levels were unprecedentedly high.
He did not ntion the Art of Longevity again, but instead knelt directly on the ground, bowing deeply as if to a god or Buddha.
Though he had not achieved immortality, he was content, for to witness a hundred years of worldly glory, among the emperors of forr dynasties, it was only he who had achieved this feat!
Chu Zheng waved his hand dismissively and turned to walk towards the valley.
The mont his figure disappeared at the mouth of the valley, the rock walls on both sides roared thunderously, transforming the valley entrance into a sheer cliff hundreds of feet high, without the slightest trace remaining.
It was only then that Liao Shizhao rembered the first words Chu Zheng had spoken.
Our fate together ends today.
He stood in place for a long ti, feeling a sense of loss, unwilling to leave for a long while.
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In the center of the valley, a hundred-ter-long silver-grey battleship lay quietly.
Chu Zheng walked unhurriedly to the side of the battleship, using up today's repair quota, and soon a prompt appeared on the panel.
[Patrol Ship (Fourth Order): A patrol ship mounted on the Tianyao Federation's 'God of the Starry Sky' flagship, originally destroyed, now thoroughly repaired by your great efforts, equipped with an interdiate energy core, advanced search radar, advanced firepower deploynt, carrying two Tianyao VII Type Bombing Missiles.]
After nearly a year, the patrol ship was finally fully repaired.
Including the year he spent in the Imperial Capital, Chu Zheng had been on this star for over two years now.
With the nourishnt of the abundant vegetation essence Qi, his cultivation progressed steadily each day, and now he was in the late stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm, nearing perfection.
This speed, in comparison to his true body, was undoubtedly much slower, but in this world, it was already remarkably valuable.
In fact, the speed of Qi refining of this incarnation was nearly ten tis faster than that of his true body in the Cangyun Realm.
Without it, even with the aid of nurous old dicines, it would have taken him at least twenty years to reach this point.
More importantly, as his cultivation grew, one thing made Chu Zheng extrely puzzled.
He had not felt the slightest bit of Heavenly Fate's blessing.
The Qi Refining Lineage could not be separated from the influence of destiny, seizing Heavenly Fate to fight for one's own, was the way to progress.
Even in the early days of Qi refining in the Cangyun Realm, Chu Zheng could feel the feedback from heaven and earth.
But on this star, he hadn't felt any response at all.
He wondered whether it was because the influence of this star was too small, or if the Heavenly Dao here was too weak; he felt no assistance from Heavenly Fate and was not subjected to any suppression. There was nothing, as if in a void.
This made him increasingly uncertain about which power's dominion he was currently within.
In the Great Universe now, the two paths of Immortal Martial accounted for forty percent of Heavenly Fate, the Myriad Heavens and Realms combined for thirty percent, the remaining twenty-five percent belonged to the Ancestral Dao, and the final five percent was scattered throughout the Chaos Sea.
Where he was now, he did not know which area it was part of.
Chu Zheng shook off these thoughts and leaped down from the patrol ship, opening the hatch and stepping inside.
As soon as he entered the ship, a chanical voice sounded in his ear.
"Current coordinates: Dongan Star, connecting to the internal network of the star domain."
"Network connection successful..."
"Retrieving information..."
"Retrieval complete, environntal sample verification complete, no anomalies, all previous data lost, attempting recovery..."
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"Recovery failed..."
Listening to the successive voices, Chu Zheng's gaze shifted slightly, and he quickly understood that he had overlooked a serious problem.
His habit had prevented him from realizing the vast differences between such warships and magic treasures.
With the technology of the Tianyao Federation, these kinds of warships would inevitably have so form of artificial intelligence system.
This was different from an Artifact Spirit in magic treasures; it was purely a systematic program that did not function simply by being obtained.
Moreover, once the warship was repaired, it would certainly make autonomous contact with the Tianyao Federation.
Through the network, the Tianyao Federation would likely discover the existence of the warship very quickly...
Before Chu Zheng could think further, the chanical voice rang out again:
"An unidentified person detected in the cabin, verifying identity..."
"Information retrieval failed, no piloting authority, initiating expulsion protocol."
Chu Zheng's brow furrowed slightly, and his figure began to fade into the void.
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Invisibility Technique.
He wasn't quite sure if this Divine Skill could deceive the patrol ship's search system.
But regardless, he had to make an attempt.
Having waited here for a year, he naturally wasn't willing to give up easily.
The next opportunity, who knows when it would co, to make contact with the Tianyao Federation through other ans, he didn't know how much energy and ti it would consu.
Chu Zheng held his breath and focused, concealing his breath to the ultimate extent, like a stubborn stone, unmoving.
Soon, the chanical voice echoed in the cabin again:
"Searching, target lost, no unauthorized personnel in the cabin, no anomalies, docking with internal network."
"Confirm docking code, verify identity information, Lieutenant Fer, Junior Lieutenant Cheng Qiao, deploying holographic projection..."
Hum—
Before the voice faded, a flash of light and shadow passed, and suddenly two figures appeared in the empty cabin, a man and a woman.
The man had golden short hair, wearing a tight battle suit, with a robust physique.
The woman had chestnut ear-length hair with a small ponytail at the back of her head, also wearing a tight battle suit, sowhat lean, with clear muscle lines in her waist, buttocks, and legs, exuding visible explosive strength.
"Lieutenant Fer, are you sure this is the patrol ship lost three hundred years ago?"
The woman's hologram circled the cabin with so confusion, "This doesn't look like an antique from three hundred years ago at all..."
"Junior Lieutenant Cheng Qiao, you have to believe in the Federation's technology, the information codes all match up, there's no mistake."
The blond man approached the central console, retrieving a large amount of information.
Chu Zheng had exceptional eyesight, he quickly scanned the information, initially morizing broadly, then slowly digesting the details.
Fortunately, for him who had almost observed the developnt of the Tianyao Federation from the sidelines, these textual informaion were not unfamiliar. Otherwise, he would only be able to morize a bunch of gibberish now.
"The ship has no records for the past three hundred years; the previous records have all been lost and cannot be retrieved."
Lieutenant Fer's brow furrowed, and soon he pulled up another image.
The image displayed Chu Zheng's face along with a series of analytical data.
"Beep—"
Looking at the values that erged on the panel, both of them had their faces tighten.
"Could there be a mistake?"
Cheng Qiao showed a shocked expression, "How can the energy value of this local be so high, more than ten tis higher than that of second-generation Evolvers? It's almost catching up to the third-generation armor values."
As the two were marveling, the image suddenly twisted, and in the next instant, the figures disappeared out of thin air.
"This..."
Seeing this bizarre scene, the two officers, accustod to grand spectacles, were both stuck in a cognitive freeze.
Disappearing into thin air, it was quite a cognitive challenge.
After a while, the two ca back to their senses. After a brief discussion, they decided to have the patrol ship return first, using the Federation's core technology to see if they could restore the lost information.
As for that unusually overpowered local, they would have to think about it later.
Under Fer's adjustnts, the chanical voice in the cabin sounded again:
"Docking complete, preparing to initiate space leap, Lieutenant Fer, please set the leap region."
"20,000 kiloters above Dongan Star."
Boom—
A mont later, the warship shook violently, like a sharp sword piercing the heavens, shooting straight into the sky.
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Outside the valley, watching the silver behemoth take to the skies, many Royal Descendants imdiately fell to their knees in worship, repeatedly bowing, believing they had witnessed a divine miracle.
Watching the warship head straight into the starry sky, Liao Shihua was unable to regain his senses for a long ti.
He suddenly had many questions in his mind.
Could Chu Zheng's abrupt ergence imply that he might not be from this Star?
Above the firmant, with so many stars, could they all be like their current world, harboring different forms of life?
Could the gods and buddhas of the legends have truly existed?
A flood of questions filled the mind of this Son of Heaven, and after a long while, he shook his head, his expression sowhat forlorn.
These questions, perhaps he would never have the chance to unravel them in this lifeti.
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