Alien Hotel.

Chapter 467 Black Star
A talisman to ward off idlers was pasted on the pergola, and the passersby immediately scattered. Master Yuanhao looked at Yu Sheng with a smile, conjuring up several stools as he explained, "First, let me correct something. Not only are these odds and ends blessed, but your statue is also blessed—I'm honest with everyone, young and old. Buying it will really ward off evil spirits. I caught two mountain spirits and monsters to test it..."

Yu Sheng was just about to sit down on the stool when he heard the old marshal say this, and he almost fell to the ground: "Is this the important point?!"

"How is it not the point?" Yuan Hao's eyes widened immediately. "The consecration technique of my Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain is unparalleled in the entire Taixu Spiritual Pivot..."

Yu Sheng slapped his forehead and let out a long sigh.

Luna and Huli had somehow ended up at the stall, sandwiched between a carefree doll. You could hear the three of them whispering to each other: "Hey, you know what, the eyes do look a bit like this one!"

"My benefactor's eyes are more beautiful than this..."

"Silly fox, you're beholden to someone who feeds you, so you think everything about him is good-looking."

"Yep."

"Hey, you silly fox, listen! Even the C-shaped clasp supports me!"

Yu Sheng listened to the murmurs beside him, his eyes twitching, and stepped forward to grab the old handsome man's hand: "Seriously, let's take this thing away..."

Yuan Hao slapped his thigh: "Just telling me to leave won't do any good."

Yu Sheng: "...What do you mean?"

Yuan Hao then raised his hand and pointed to the surroundings: "Take a look around you."

Yu Sheng looked in the direction the other person was pointing and immediately saw a souvenir stall nearby. Under the shade of the stall, several large portraits were hanging prominently. The one in the center had two lines of large characters: on the left, it read "The Great Virtuous and Sage Yu Sheng, Who Grants Great Grace and Saves from Calamities," and on the right, it read "His Divine Light Shines Universally, Relieving Disasters and Repelling All Evils"...

The portrait was painted in a style reminiscent of the Taixu era, with a solemn and dignified appearance, surrounded by auspicious clouds and radiating spiritual light. Even Yu Sheng himself thought that if he took it back and hung it in the living room, it might really ward off evil spirits—then there would be two flat-figured figures in the house.

After a moment's wild thoughts, he broke out in a cold sweat, staring intently at the leisurely handsome old man in front of him: "Who came up with this... Did you start it?"

“What kind of leader am I?” Yuan Hao chuckled. “Besides, does anyone even need to lead? Don’t you even think about why this celebration started in the first place?”

Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, then realized with a wry smile that a whole host of chain events were indeed destined to occur after the angel's fall—only this time the chain had led in a direction he had never anticipated…

He somewhat missed the border area, which was under the control of the Secret Service and always maintained a "normal" routine.

At this moment, Yuan Hao suddenly leaned closer, lowered his voice, and said mysteriously, "There's a share..."

Yu Sheng quickly realized what was happening and was immediately shocked: "This works?!"

Yuan Hao pulled out a palm-leaf fan from somewhere and started waving it: "Under normal circumstances, it definitely won't work. The main reason is that things that can be hung on the wall to ward off evil spirits are usually things that have already disappeared in ancient times, or they are simply made up by the common people. It's not easy to find someone like you who is still alive."

Yu Sheng thought for a moment: "But then again..."

Then he looked up and around, suddenly a smile appeared on his face. He moved his stool closer to Yuan Hao Zhenren, and the two lowered their heads and began to whisper to each other. They hit it off immediately, becoming accomplices in their wicked schemes...

Eileen seemed to notice the commotion behind her, turned around and glanced at Yuan Hao and Yu Sheng, who were huddled together whispering to each other, and poked Hu Li's tail: "What are they talking about?"

The fox pricked up its ears and listened for a while before becoming excited: "My benefactor said he's going to buy me something delicious!"

Eileen: "...I shouldn't have asked you."

Meanwhile, after whispering with Yuan Hao, Yu Sheng suddenly remembered something: "Right, shouldn't you be on the mountain right now? As the sect leader, shouldn't you be showing up on a day like this?"

“I left an avatar in Queyun Palace,” Yuan Hao said, waving his fan. “The affairs of the sect are really boring, and besides, leaving an avatar is enough to handle them.”

"Master Yuanling has no objections?"

Yuan Hao waved his hand: "Junior brother is already used to it."

Yu Sheng clicked his tongue as he listened: "What if he really attacks?"

Yuan Hao looked up at the sky and said, "I'm used to it."

Yu Sheng: "..."

Well, to put it simply, he truly lives up to his reputation as someone who, after going clubbing down the mountain, was kidnapped and forced into a life of servitude for twelve years, yet still returns as if nothing happened. Old Shuai's mental state is practically that of a born immortal cultivator; his Dao heart is as stable as if it were dead. With a slight sigh, Yu Sheng leaned back in his chair and let out a breath. Then, slightly abandoning his lazy demeanor, he sat up and said, "Perfect timing. Now that the Dark Angel issue is resolved, we both have some free time. I have something to ask you."

Master Yuanhao raised his eyelids: "Oh? What is it?"

Yu Sheng then reached into the air and opened a small door beside him. He rummaged around inside for a while, then took out a small box. As he opened it in front of the handsome old man, he casually said, "It's a strange thing that suddenly appeared in my house. I originally came to Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain to ask you about this, but I didn't expect to encounter such a deadly event as the alien outbreak and the Dark Angels as soon as I arrived, which delayed me... Come on, take a look, doesn't it look familiar?"

When the box is opened, a fragment of fabric with a peculiar material and mysterious patterns lies quietly inside.

Yuanhao Zhenren curiously peeked over and took a look, and sure enough, a hint of surprise appeared on his face.

Yu Sheng noticed the change in the other person's expression: "I heard that you also have a similar fragment over there."

Yuan Hao pondered for a moment, then nodded slightly: "I do have it."

Yu Sheng unconsciously leaned forward: "Do you remember where you came from?"

Yuan Hao recalled for a moment, his face serious: "About a hundred years ago, I was traveling near the Alglade Starfield when my immortal ship unexpectedly malfunctioned, specifically the spirit disk part..."

"Ahem, there's no need to explain the malfunction of the immortal ship in detail, I don't understand it either, and to be honest, I don't think it's anything unexpected—it seems like your immortal ship never doesn't malfunction," Yu Sheng quickly coughed twice to interrupt the other party, "Just tell me what happened next."

Yuan Hao wasn't embarrassed at all, and was quite frank: "In short, it's like I crashed into a 'black star' when I lost control..."

"Black Star?"

"Yes, it was a completely black celestial body, but for some reason, a very faint glow was evenly distributed in a large area of ​​space near the celestial body—it was the presence of that faint glow that made the 'Black Star' visible to the naked eye... extremely obvious and strange."

Is it a black hole?

“Of course not,” Master Yuanhao shook his head. “I recognize black holes—that body is completely different from a black hole. It has no gravity and cannot even be measured as a ‘physical entity.’ When you send your spiritual sense through it, it’s like hitting empty space; it will penetrate directly into it. If you have to say, that ‘black star’ is more like a shadow reflected in the universe.”

"But it is real."

"At that time, my immortal ship went out of control and crashed straight into that pitch-black 'planet'. Judging from the senses transmitted from the immortal ship, it should have a 'surface' that was almost liquid and even moving slowly. The immortal ship slowed down briefly when it fell into that 'liquid', but soon I penetrated into the interior of that 'black star'."

"Below was a chaotic space, and even with my divine sense, amplified by the many formations on the immortal ship, it was difficult to perceive the environment beyond my line of sight. I remember seeing many large clumps of clouds floating in the air, and the deeper I went, the more condensed the clouds became, until they resembled isolated islands floating in the air. I passed through some of these islands, most of which were empty, but some of them, when passing through, showed some strange and bizarre sights."

Yu Sheng asked curiously, "A strange and bizarre sight?"

“Hmm,” Yuan Hao nodded slightly, “Some are tall buildings floating alone in the chaos, some are structures that seem to have been torn off from the wreckage of some huge ship, and some are strangely curled landmasses, or rivers floating in the darkness out of thin air…”

"As I walked through them, I felt that those things were like bubbles and phantoms, intangible and untouchable."

"But after passing those 'clouds,' the situation changed again—deeper in the depths were vast, layered ruins."

"Ruins?!" Yu Sheng exclaimed in surprise.

"Yes, ruins. They are all kinds of buildings, twisted and messy, mixed together in one place, piled up like mountains. Moreover, these ruins are surrounded by a ring of 'deep pit' in the middle... It is called a 'pit', but its scale is even larger than the entire Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain. Moreover, thick black mist keeps overflowing from its depths, and the black mist is full of the surging building remains."

"The debris fell on the surrounding ruins and mountains, making them grow taller and taller. But the mountaintops were constantly swallowed up by the clouds in the sky, turning into swirling ashes that fell back into the crater. This cycle repeated itself endlessly, and looking at it... made one feel extremely depressed and uneasy."

"Just hearing you say that gives me goosebumps," Yu Sheng subconsciously rubbed his arms and adjusted his posture. "And then what?"

"Then I flew down into that big pit..."

Yu Sheng: "...Huh?"

What the hell did they do and just barged in like that? Are all these repairmen really this brave?!
Yuan Hao shrugged and said, "I'm panicking too! My immortal ship is out of control!"

"Oh, I forgot about that—so what?"

"Then I passed through that layer of black mist and saw another, larger, but much more complete and orderly ruin below. It looked like a large collapsed temple, with many magnificent stone pillars standing in the megalithic plaza. In the distance, there were collapsed and crooked arches and beams, and a huge shadow—I couldn't see what it was, only the outline of a human body, but it also seemed to have other limb structures mixed in—fell among those stone pillars."

Yu Sheng blinked, his expression gradually becoming serious.

That scene... looks familiar!
(End of this chapter)