Ten years wasn’t exactly a long time, but it wasn’t short, either. Still, considering Bexia had vanished without a trace for ten whole years, he couldn’t help wondering how Christine and the others were doing now.
Bexia casually checked the information on Pangu Supercontinent, paying particular attention to the reports about Huanggu Academy. When he saw Conesy’s information, he couldn’t help smiling slightly. She had actually become one of Huanggu Academy’s top students, and the displayed information even identified her as Luo Chen’s most outstanding student in recent years.
And that was without a doubt!
He couldn’t access the information on the others, but just from looking at Conesy’s, Bexia already had a pretty good idea. The others were definitely doing well too, so there was no need to worry about them.
The only problem was that the journey from the Central Universe to the Eastern Universe was simply too far. It would take some time to get back, and besides, he still had to make a detour to the Abyss to retrieve his power first.
Bexia quietly examined the information, while the fairy attendant behind him wore an expression as if she’d seen a ghost. She stared fixedly at the display on the screen before Bexia, especially the words written in black and gold. She secretly congratulated herself for not having someone deal with Bexia over what had just happened. Otherwise, even dying a hundred times wouldn’t have been enough to atone for her crime.
The names displayed in the virtual network world were determined according to one’s level in the virtual world. Black and gold represented the stuff of legends—even in legends. They would only appear for levels of at least ninety or higher!
Although one’s level in the virtual world didn’t represent their real-world strength, anyone with a high level in the virtual world was definitely rich. The higher the level, the richer they were—there was no doubt about that. Even if they were poor by comparison, they were still unimaginably wealthy to her. Perhaps the entire world she lived in couldn’t even measure the other person’s fortune.
“How much is this?” Bexia had no idea what the fairy attendant was thinking. After checking the information he wanted, he closed his wristband, turned around, and asked her.
“One hundred thousand dimensional coins!” the fairy attendant replied, coming back to her senses.
“Oh! I’ll transfer it directly to you.” Bexia nodded. This world was fairly ordinary, and its goods were unexpectedly cheap. To be honest, their quality was ordinary as well, nowhere near the level of the equipment on Conesy’s hull.
“Yes! This way, my lord!” The fairy attendant addressed Bexia with even greater respect.
Beyond the World
In the tranquil universe, a massive dead planet suddenly began to tremble violently. Huge cracks spread across its surface without end.
“Rumble—!”
With a thunderous boom, the dead planet suddenly exploded. The passing starships were caught in the blast, and many were struck by fragments of the planet, instantly erupting into flames before exploding.
“A massive energy source has been detected!”
“Warning! An energy source of extremely high intensity has been detected ahead!”
“Warning! Warning…”
The alarm suddenly cut off. A massive shadow appeared and swallowed a huge cargo starship in a single bite. Before this enormous creature, a ten-thousand-meter-long battleship was as tiny and inconspicuous as an ordinary person’s pinky nail.
“Roar—!” The enormous, serpent-like space creature let out a low growl. Broad wing membranes spread from both sides of its head, while row after row of bone spines rose from its back. Even in the vacuum of space, the invisible sound waves traveled a great distance.
This was a rare and unusual species known as a cosmic behemoth. Its body was unimaginably huge. Ordinary worlds were about the size of a basketball in the hands of a normal person before them, and a fully grown cosmic behemoth was even many times larger than an entire Pangu Supercontinent!
This was a Star-Eating Colossal Serpent. It grew by devouring worlds. An ordinary million-dimensional world could be swallowed in a single bite, and even dimensional worlds in the tens of millions were among its prey.
These creatures actually weren’t very aggressive. Apart from the time they spent eating, they devoted all their time to sleep. Their bodies were simply too enormous, and every movement consumed a staggering amount of energy. As a result, cosmic creatures like this wouldn’t attack on their own unless necessary.
Of course, that didn’t apply to the period after they awoke from hibernation and needed to feed!
The Star-Eating Colossal Serpent was a cosmic-level natural disaster. It had no clearly defined power ranking. Its level might not be particularly high, but its enormous body contained an unfathomable reserve of energy. Quantity had produced a qualitative change. If a fully grown Star-Eating Colossal Serpent attacked without regard for the consequences, even a Sovereign God would have to give way!
Although this one wasn’t fully grown, it was still no less of a threat to the surrounding worlds than a Sovereign God. The terrifying giant opened its maw and sucked countless stars and starships inside. Cosmic behemoths weren’t picky eaters at all. Any matter containing energy was fair game, and the energy of their digestive systems was simply beyond imagination. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have earned the name Star-Eaters.
The world Bexia was in immediately dispatched countless attack starships to intercept the Star-Eating Colossal Serpent. Yet when those attacks struck its body, they failed to cause even the slightest ripple. The serpent could devour energy not only with its mouth—every scale on its body possessed the same ability!
The Star-Eating Colossal Serpent completely ignored the attacks from the starships. It didn’t fight back at all. It merely swam through space with its enormous body, opening its maw again and again to suck the starships inside, turning them into a part of the energy within its body.
“How is this possible? What kind of monster is that?!”
“Somebody save me…”
Countless people screamed themselves hoarse. The enormous Star-Eating Colossal Serpent stared at the world Bexia was in with its massive pupils, then opened its gigantic jaws and bit down in a single motion………
