"It really is a Wood Essence Crystal!"
Wei Wen quickly advanced toward the source of the aromatic fragrance. Before long, he spotted a faint glow—it was a crystal emitting light.
The translucent white crystal still wafted the scent of rice, so enticing it made Wei Wen's mouth water. With a mere thought, his spiritual power guided the crystal straight into his hand.
The appearance of the Wood Essence Crystal here confirmed that Babata was observing Wei Wen. Up until now, Wei Wen had sensed no activity from within the Meteoric Tear, leaving him unsure whether Babata was asleep, awake, or even monitoring the situation around the meteorite.
Now, the emergence of the Wood Essence Crystal clarified everything for him.
He might not know his exact brain development capacity, but it was certainly not as high as the world's top two geniuses, who boasted 21% and 15% respectively. Yet, even so, he had managed to attract Babata's attention.
This had to be related to the amplitude of his spiritual power. With such a modest brain capacity but such formidable spiritual amplitude power, anyone witnessing it would probably be stunned into doubting their own existence, right?
Wei Wen hadn't originally intended to seek Huyan Bo's inheritance, but Babata held plenty of treasures. Wood Essence Crystals were likely piled up there! Since one had already appeared for him, more were bound to follow.
"Babata, how many Wood Essence Crystals can a genius like me obtain?" Wei Wen couldn't help but feel a secret thrill of anticipation.
Wood Essence Crystals were treasures used by Planetary Level experts for cultivation, and their effects were immensely powerful.
With just one crystal, a mid-level or high-level God of War could reach the first stage of Planetary Level within a single month! With a sufficient supply, breaking through to the Star-Level was even possible.
For Wei Wen, who was currently eager to advance his strength, the Wood Essence Crystal arrived at the perfect moment. He was currently only a Planetary Level spiritual master; his physical fitness as a warrior had not yet broken through to that level. A single Wood Essence Crystal could enable him to achieve a Planetary Level breakthrough as a warrior. Of course, if used on Luo Feng, the feedback effect would be even stronger.
Given the crystal's remarkable efficacy, Wei Wen naturally began searching for more.
Wei Wen circled the area around the Meteoric Tear, his mind occupied with pleasant thoughts, occasionally even delving deep underground.
Any blind-sighted Lord-Level monsters that dared trouble him were naturally dispatched with a flying knife—even high-level Lord-Level beasts fell to a single strike.
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Fifteen thousand meters below the surface, within the Earth's crust, a blood-red Meteoric Star spaceship lay quietly embedded in the rock. Yet, even after a long time, the Yun Mo Planet space ship showed no signs of damage, a testament to the terror of F-grade metal.
Inside the space ship's cabin lay only a few strangely shaped, immortal-level corpses. Beyond that, all was silent.
But within a virtual space, the figure of the demon Babata appeared—horns on his forehead, eyes blood-red. He was observing a three-dimensional projection screen in the hall, which displayed Wei Wen clad in a Black God Suit and SS-grade battle armor.
"Target locked."
"Adjusting guidance cues. Commencing lead-in."
Undetectable fluctuations invisible to the naked eye, instruments, or mental power emanated from the Yun Mo Planet, traveling almost in a straight line. In an instant, they passed through Stages of rock... reaching Wei Wen, who was searching for Wood Essence Crystals.
These imperceptible fluctuations directly entered Wei Wen's sea of consciousness, beginning to guide his subconscious. However, they could only guide the subconscious. If his conscious purpose was clear, he could still resist this subtle influence.
"I wonder if there's any error in checking his brain development capacity..." Babata secretly analyzed. "But after waiting all this time, I've never encountered a genius growing at such a speed. At the very least, based on his growth rate, he is already qualified to become an heir."
"Wei Wen, is it? As long as you come here, there are more benefits awaiting. It's been fifty thousand years... fifty thousand years since the master died. I will surely fulfill his will, train an outstanding successor, and restore the glory of the Yun Mo Planet!"
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Wei Wen was unaware of Babata's actions. However, he was pleasantly surprised to find Wood Essence Crystals appearing one after another.
"That light and scent ahead must be another Wood Essence Crystal!"
In the darkness underground, a white translucent crystal appeared, casting a faint glow over the pitch-black surroundings. Wei Wen immediately accelerated, swiftly moving toward the faint light.
Wood Essence Crystals were not only beneficial to humans but had an even greater effect on monsters. In the original storyline, after consuming a single crystal, a mid-level Lord-Level monster immediately broke through to the King-Level (Planetary Level).
Thus, when Wei Wen reached his destination, he found a large number of aquatic monsters already eyeing the crystal.
Some had even attempted to swallow it, but the crystal remained intact, indicating that those monsters had burst and died. This temporarily deterred the others from acting rashly.
Now, seeing Wei Wen flying toward the white crystal, the monsters began attacking him one by one, only to be easily slain.
Wei Wen was as thrilled as an ordinary person stumbling upon gold. Excitedly, he pocketed the Wood Essence Crystal before him.
"This is already the thirtieth one... but without realizing it, I'm going deeper and deeper underground beneath the Meteoric Tear," Wei Wen murmured to himself.
It was worth noting that in the original story, when Wood Essence Crystals first appeared, they attracted almost all the Planetary Level powerhouses worldwide.
Over fifty Planetary Level beings and a large group of God of Wars fought desperately over them, resulting in several Planetary Level deaths. Yet, on the surface, they hadn't even secured twenty crystals.
Here was Wei Wen, casually wandering around and encountering so many. As a transmigrator, Wei Wen had already anticipated Babata's actions.
Sure enough, upon careful reflection, Wei Wen sensed a subconscious urge in his mind—a compulsion to keep moving in a specific direction. It seemed that as long as he followed this mental map, he would find more Wood Essence Crystals.
"This Babata, trapped inside, is just resorting to psychological tricks here..." Mentally prepared, Wei Wen wasn't easily swayed by Babata's suggestions. However, on the surface, he naturally pretended to be lured, slowly advancing in the direction of the search.
After all, high-end hunters often present themselves as prey.
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"This guy doesn't know what Wood Essence Crystals are, yet he can guess they're incredibly useful. Quite a greedy fellow," Babata remarked with a light smile. "But how could you, a mere native of Earth, escape the control of this lord, Babata?"
In Babata's eyes, Wei Wen—pretending to be clueless—was happily collecting the accidental discoveries along the way, finding one Wood Essence Crystal after another.
Even aware of Wei Wen's extraordinary talent, Babata, still somewhat worried he wasn't being enticing enough, continued to toss out a few more crystals while Wei Wen searched.
"Hmm?"
While moving underground, Wei Wen suddenly felt a sharp pain in the sole of his foot.
Something extremely sharp seemed to have instantly pierced through the defenses of his Black God Suit and his SS-grade boots, directly wounding his flesh!
It's worth noting that Wei Wen could use his mental power to scan his surroundings at any time, so he rarely encountered any danger. Even if danger existed, his mental power would usually warn him in advance. This time, however, he had detected nothing.
"It's unlikely Babata is trying to kill me... so this must be a fragment of the F-grade metal, Hybrid Copper Mother." Wei Wen couldn't help but think to himself.
Wei Wen lifted his foot and discovered a large gash had been cut into the sole of his SS-grade combat boot! Embedded in the rock beneath the gash was a blood-red metal fragment.
Reaching down, Wei Wen picked up the blood-red metal fragment, which was about the size and thickness of an ID card. He was shocked to find it weighed a full ton! This incredible density alone instantly confirmed to Wei Wen that this was indeed a fragment of Hybrid Copper Mother.
With a thought, Wei Wen willed the Hybrid Copper Mother fragment to slash towards an SS-grade flying dagger.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
As the blood-red streak of light cleaved through the SS-grade flying dagger, the dagger was swiftly sliced apart again and again while the streak flickered back and forth rapidly.
When Wei Wen finally stopped manipulating it with his mind, he was soon stunned to find the SS-grade flying dagger had been cut to pieces as if it were tofu facing an impossibly sharp blade.
Clearly, the defensive gear and weapons on Earth, whose toughness and sharpness were comparable to that of Emperor-level monsters, were as fragile as paper before F-grade metal.
Moreover, just moments ago, even the Planetary Level force field armor, the Black God Suit, had failed to withstand the sharpness of the F-grade metal. It seemed its keen edge could cut through anything on Earth.
If a Planetary Level warrior were to face Wei Wen wielding this Hybrid Copper Mother fragment, any defense would be utterly useless!
Secondly, the flight speed of the Hybrid Copper Mother fragment was also astonishingly fast, clearly exceeding ten times the speed of sound.
One must remember that even Hong and the Thunder God, at the sixth and seventh levels of Planetary Level respectively, could not fly that swiftly. Furthermore, while flying at over ten times the speed of sound, it sliced through air and rock without producing a sonic boom, operating in near silence!
Before this fragment, even air and rock seemed to be effortlessly severed. The so-called resistance from air and rock was almost negligible, hence the fragment encountered minimal drag.
It is known that the faster an object moves, the more astounding the various resistances become. Yet, even at its astonishing velocity, all resistance against this fragment was extremely slight, making the Hybrid Copper Mother fragment a formidable killing tool. Even a creature like the Golden Horned Beast would fear such a thing.
Wei Wen momentarily wondered why Luo Feng hadn't used this object when fighting the Golden Horned Beast. Did he sell it after venturing into the universe?
The Hybrid Copper Mother fragment was exceedingly sharp and a major lethal weapon, yet it hadn't been very useful to Luo Feng personally. Since Wei Wen had encountered it by chance, he didn't mind taking it with him for now as a lifesaving tool.
As a spiritual master, Wei Wen could control the Hybrid Copper Mother fragment with his spiritual power, using it as a flying dagger to attack and kill enemies.
"Unless absolutely necessary, the Hybrid Copper Mother fragment must not be exposed for now. Once revealed... who knows what trouble it might invite."
Wei Wen understood this perfectly. This Hybrid Copper Mother fragment was undoubtedly the most powerful spiritual master's weapon on Earth today, a metal of inconceivable sharpness! If exposed, others would surely kill to silence him, for the value of this blade fragment was extraordinary.
Time passed slowly, and soon Wei Wen reached a depth of about 15,000 meters underground.
"Already at 50? This Babata is willing to give up, but I should be close to the Yun Mo Planet Ship now, right?" Wei Wen couldn't help but think to himself.
Wei Wen scanned his surroundings again, even sending out waves of mental power detection, but still sensed nothing.
Rumble!
Suddenly, a rock near Wei Wen began to tremble and squirm, then made a whoosh sound like a bubble being blown.
The solid rock in front of him melted directly into nothingness, and in its place appeared a strange sight: a silver-white metal hatch. The door was currently half-open. Staring in shock at this bizarre phenomenon, Wei Wen realized this must be the hatch entrance to the Yun Mo Planet Ship.
"If you don't want the inheritance, you won't gain many benefits in the future," Wei Wen thought to himself. He wasn't planning to obtain the inheritance himself, as it was better left to Luo Feng, who would then provide him with higher-level feedback.
Meanwhile, Babata, who had been observing Wei Wen from within the space ship, was naturally satisfied with the scene before him. Both of them thought simultaneously—the prey had taken the bait.
"Is this an undiscovered relic of an ancient civilization on Earth?" Wei Wen blinked, appearing hesitant, while simultaneously probing inside with his mental power.
Soon, Wei Wen discovered the scene he hoped to see. Within the passageway inside the hatch were numerous wood crystals emitting a faint white halo.
Wei Wen didn't count them in detail, but there were at least several hundred—enough for a Planetary Level powerhouse to use for a long time.
Even though Wei Wen had anticipated it, his eyes still momentarily reddened with desire.
Without hesitation, Wei Wen transformed into a streak of light and leapt into the space ship's entrance passage, showing no concern about potential danger.
He knew the entire Yun Mo Planet Ship was under the surveillance of the intelligent life form Babata, so he wouldn't be easily harmed. After all, Babata had lured him inside to continue the inheritance, not to target him. Otherwise, it wouldn't have used so many Wood Essence Crystals to attract him to explore the space ship.
"One hundred... two hundred... three hundred... four hundred and five." Wei Wen frantically collected the wood crystals from the hatch passageway. Including the previous 50, he had harvested a total of 500 Wood Essence Crystals this time.
Each Wood Essence Crystal was enough for an intermediate or high-level God of War to break through to the planet level.
Five hundred crystals represented the potential for over five hundred Planetary Level warriors, while the entire Earth currently had only slightly over fifty.
If used by a single individual, it might not guarantee a breakthrough to the star level, but it would certainly allow one to surpass the seventh-level Planetary Level Thunder God in terms of genetic energy.
This was an enormous fortune; even Hong and the Thunder God would covet it. Therefore, apart from the utterly reliable backer Luo Feng, Wei Wen would never reveal that he possessed so many Wood Essence Crystals.
On the surface, he could only take out a few for now; otherwise, the consequences would be severe. This stash was enough for both Wei Wen and Luo Feng to use for a long time.
Wei Wen looked at the now-empty passage before him, finding all the Wood Essence Crystals gone. He also knew Babata must have more in reserve, but it was a pity he had no intention of obtaining the inheritance.
"Then..." Wei Wen decided to retreat.
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Within the core control room of the Mo Yun Planet Ship.
"He found the Hybrid Copper Mother fragment!"
"There are so many Wood Essence Crystals in the hatch!"
"No matter how foolish he is, he can guess there are more and better treasures inside. But why isn't he coming in?"
"Damn it—is his next move to run away?"
As if hearing Babata's thoughts... Wei Wen turned around without hesitation, transformed into a streak of light, and rushed out of the Mo Yun Planet Ship's hatch.
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