Hearing what Babata said, naturally Luo Feng was very eager to go.
That same evening, Luo Feng mentioned it to his family.
December 3rd, 2061, morning.
After breakfast, the family dispersed. Xu Xin drove to work from the garage, while Luo Feng waved goodbye, “Dad, Mom, I won’t be back for lunch, but I will come back for dinner. Pingping, Xiaohai, behave and listen to your grandparents!” He lovingly kissed his two sons, then walked out the door. In the courtyard, his figure blurred and vanished instantly.
High in the sky.
Luo Feng soared straight up, piercing through the cloud layers, climbing higher and higher. The sunlight above the clouds was even more blinding.
He flew nonstop to an altitude of about 8,000 meters, hovering midair.
“Barbara, bring out the Black Dragon spaceship. Oh, and activate the cloaking first—don’t let any satellites spot it,” Luo Feng mentally commanded.
“Don’t worry. If the Earthlings discovered a top-tier spaceship from the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, that would be a real joke!” Babata replied. At the same time, in the air beside Luo Feng, a massive, black, disc-shaped spaceship—about 100 meters in diameter—materialized out of nowhere. The ship’s hull bore the emblem of a winged dragon.
Luo Feng took a deep breath.
A hundred meters in diameter didn’t sound that large, but seeing it in person was awe-inspiring. In terms of sheer size, it was much bigger than an average high school football field.
“Beep!”
The outer hatch automatically opened, and Luo Feng flew through the laser corridor into the inner chamber, where the inner gate lifted.
…
Inside the control room of the Black Dragon spaceship.
“Master Luo Feng, your demon Babata is at your service!” A crisp, proud voice echoed throughout the control room. On the screen of the control panel ahead, Babata’s face appeared.
Luo Feng grinned. “Let’s go!”
“Roger that.” Babata chuckled.
A low hum vibrated through the air. Even for someone as strong as Luo Feng, the vibration was barely perceptible inside the ship. Compared to an average car, this was incomparably more comfortable.
“Shall I activate the external visual simulation?” Babata asked. “It can range from 10% to 100%.”
“External simulation?” Luo Feng was puzzled.
“Because the spaceship’s hull is thick metal, you can’t see outside directly. So we use external simulation. It’s similar to the 3D projections on Earth, but… the effect is far superior to Earth’s technology,” Babata explained.
“Activate, 100%.” Luo Feng ordered directly.
Flash!
The entire control room—the control panel, the seats, the floor—all vanished.
The surroundings were now a hazy atmosphere.
“The Black Dragon spaceship is flying through the atmosphere and will soon fully leave Earth. We have departed!” Babata’s voice echoed around him. Luo Feng immediately saw the boundless expanse of space in the distance.
He turned his head to look behind.
A massive, azure-blue planet appeared in his field of vision.
“Earth!” Luo Feng involuntarily held his breath.
It was so breathtakingly beautiful!
Though he had often seen images of Earth on the internet and television, the real sight, viewed in person from a spaceship, was absolutely soul-shaking.
The azure-blue planet was shrinking in size!
The Black Dragon spaceship was moving farther and farther away from the blue planet.
“Earth, and the Sun,” Luo Feng turned his gaze to the far-off flame-burning sphere behind Earth—the Sun.
“The ship has accelerated to 100,000 kilometers per second. We will now maintain this speed and head to Mars,” Babata’s voice rang out.
Luo Feng turned his head again, looking to the other side.
“Truly dreamlike!” Luo Feng couldn’t help but exclaim.
“Oh, Babata, over there.” He pointed to the left. In the distance, a massive cluster of ice was flying through gas clouds, but the Black Dragon spaceship easily overtook it.
“That’s what your Earthlings call a comet,” Babata said.
Luo Feng gazed around.
The mysterious, infinite starry sky stretched endlessly. Occasionally, a planet, some asteroids, or cosmic dust appeared in the distance.
“Absolutely beautiful,” Luo Feng murmured in admiration.
“It is beautiful, but after seeing it too many times, you’ll find it boring and cold,” Babata said.
“Set the simulation to 10%.” Luo Feng said.
Flash!
The starry sky around him instantly faded, becoming like a faint shadow. Still, he could see Earth and the Sun behind him, though they were now hazy and dim. Meanwhile, the control room’s floor, chairs, control panel, and lights reappeared.
“With 100% simulation, it feels like you’re truly in space. If you weren’t using your mental powers to observe, or touching with your hands, or sitting on the chair—if you were just floating—it would feel like the control room doesn’t exist at all,” Luo Feng couldn’t help but marvel. The 100% simulation was indeed amazing.
“Of course, it’s top-notch. 100% simulation is standard only on B-class ships and above!” Babata said proudly. “If it were a low-tier A-class ship, 50% simulation would be considered decent. Unless you install a high-quality external simulation system yourself, which would be an expensive luxury.”
Luo Feng couldn’t help asking, “How exactly do spaceship classes work?”
Although he had inherited memories, the Golden-Horned Beast’s inheritance didn’t cover how human spaceships were classified.
“A-class corresponds to ‘Stellar-Level.'”
“B-class corresponds to ‘Star-Level.’ C-class corresponds to ‘Cosmic-Level’… E-class corresponds to ‘World-Level,’ and F-class corresponds to ‘Immortal-Level.'”
“Many items are categorized this way.”
“Just like the laser cannon we had before—it was a B6-class laser cannon. The mothership we found at the No.12 Ruins was a B-class mothership. This Black Dragon Mountain X81 model is a ‘C5’-class spaceship. Because it’s a C5-class mothership, even a Cosmic-Level expert would need to exert great effort to damage it.”
“Also, like energy crystals—they are similarly divided into A-class, B-class, C-class… The higher the class, the rarer and more expensive they are.”
Luo Feng nodded thoughtfully.
It was a simple classification system, making it easy to understand the level of laser cannons, energy crystals, and spaceships.
“Babata, then the list of metals I gave you before—can they be classified this way too?” Luo Feng suddenly realized.
“Exactly.”
“The list of metals needed by the Golden-Horned Beast can be clearly divided into five levels. A-class metals are suitable for Stellar-Level Golden-Horned Beasts, B-class metals for Star-Level Golden-Horned Beasts… E-class metals for World-Level Golden-Horned Beasts.” Babata confirmed.
Luo Feng nodded slightly.
The Golden-Horned Beast’s growth mainly depended on the growth of its ‘inner world,’ and for that inner world to develop, it needed to consume metals!
Metal consumption was mainly divided into three types.
The first type involved consuming alloys, spaceship debris, or low-level pure metals. This was the least efficient method. It was also the slowest way for the Golden-Horned Beast to evolve. From Star-Level First Stage to Cosmic-Level First Stage, it would take 100 years.
The second type was consuming pure metals of the same level. For example, Luo Feng, currently at Star-Level Third Stage as a Golden-Horned Beast, could consume nearly 100% pure B-class metals. If he reached Cosmic-Level, he would need to consume pure C-class metals. Using this method, Luo Feng’s evolution speed could double!
From Star-Level First Stage to Cosmic-Level First Stage, it would only take 50 years. The cost, however, was a massive amount of high-purity metals of the same level!
The third type was ‘metal combinations.’ Just like humans eating different dishes to get balanced nutrition for health, the same principle applied! If the inner world consumed several combined metals simultaneously, it might have miraculous effects. Evolution speed could increase by several times to dozens of times.
For example, the optimal metal combination for a Star-Level Golden-Horned Beast to consume was 325 types of B-class metals, nearly 100% pure, with precise proportions among them.
Consuming them all at once!
The evolution efficiency increased by 89 times!
“Currently on Earth, almost all metals are very ordinary and low-grade. Only what you call ‘gold’ is A3-class metal. The ‘Blue Gold’ metal discovered by Earthlings on the Moon is A6-class metal,” Babata explained. “There isn’t a single B-class metal here.”
Luo Feng nodded.
That was why the Golden-Horned Beast consumed ‘war bases.’ Back then, when the Golden-Horned Beast reached Star-Level First Stage, it couldn’t find any B-class metals on Earth, so it had to eat whatever it could find.
Alloy debris from spaceships was the least efficient to digest—no different from eating ordinary metals, except maybe smaller in volume.
“The Golden-Horned Beast’s evolution relies on ‘metal combinations’ for the fastest growth. But even ordinary metals can still contribute to cultivation. However, ‘Ben-Zun Tian-Di’…” Luo Feng felt helpless. The Golden-Horned Beast had two secret techniques to cultivate—’Ben-Zun Tian-Di’ and ‘Absolute Space.’ ‘Absolute Space’ relied on extensive practice and talent.
But ‘Ben-Zun Tian-Di’ had extremely strict requirements.
‘Ben-Zun Tian-Di’ allowed the Golden-Horned Beast to change its body size—either shrinking or expanding. Therefore, to cultivate it, one must directly consume specific ‘metal combinations,’ swallowing them and allowing the complex metal ratios to be absorbed by the body, improving the Golden-Horned Beast’s genetic structure, enabling it to shrink or grow.
In short…
The cultivation of ‘Ben-Zun Tian-Di’ was secondary; the main factor was consuming ‘metal combinations,’ and not just any metal—it had to be swallowed directly into the stomach, not absorbed into the ‘inner world.’
Moreover, the formulas for each stage of ‘Ben-Zun Tian-Di’ were even more difficult and complex than the highest metal consumption formula Luo Feng used for his own evolution!
…
“Master Luo Feng, we’re approaching Mars. The spaceship is beginning to decelerate,” Babata’s voice rang out.
Luo Feng looked ahead.
The 10% visual simulation allowed him to see the red planet in the distance. It had a reddish-orange hue and was clearly not as visually appealing as Earth.
Whoosh!
The spaceship quickly entered Mars’ atmosphere. Mars’ atmosphere was clearly much thinner than Earth’s.
“Babata, prepare to open the hatch.”
Luo Feng ran directly toward the mid-level hatch exit of the spaceship. As he ran, the Mo Yun battle armor rapidly extended from his body surface, soon completely covering him. A battle helmet formed on his head, leaving only his eyes exposed.
The black disc-shaped spaceship slowly descended. During the descent, the hatch opened directly.
Whoosh!
A figure shot out, fully clad in blood-red battle armor, with a pair of cold eyes peering down below.
“Hmm? The gravity on Mars is so light,” Luo Feng immediately felt the difference in gravity compared to Earth. He quickly adjusted the gravitational field generated by the ‘micro planet’ within his body to adapt to Mars’ gravity.
“What is this—”
Looking down, Luo Feng instantly spotted the vast, sandy terrain below. In the distance stood towering, ancient structures—pyramids! One, two, three…
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