Gao Wu insists on cultivating immortality.

The blue-green corpse monster, over ten meters tall, let out a sharp howl.

The penetrating sound waves created ripples in the air, causing rocks to crack and soil to collapse wherever they passed, and various materials to shatter under the intense vibrations of the sound waves.

Even the steel bars in the cement were shattering and exploding amidst the buzzing vibrations, flying everywhere.

A massive, high-frequency oscillating sound wave forms a hemispherical space with a diameter of 100 meters. Matter within this range is subjected to the intense impact of the high-frequency sound wave.

Faced with such a terrifying attack over such a wide area, even Gao Wu, who was riding the Aquarius Star Armor known for its high speed, did not have time to dodge and could only fly outward along with the surging sound waves.

Although the Aquarius Star Armor was not of a high level, Zhang Qinglin invested a lot of resources in its modification, especially in strengthening its overall structure.

The sonic impact alone cannot destroy the Star Armor; its main purpose is to cause great damage to the fragile Star Master.

Although Gao Wu was unable to imbue his virtual body with divine spells, he was able to withstand the sonic shocks through his mental strength.

The blue corpse monster is of a very high level, clearly having reached an advanced level and evolved powerful mental abilities.

This was the first high-level corpse monster Gao Wu encountered in the abyss. He noticed that the monster's mental power was abnormally gathering, so he retreated first, avoiding the monster's sonic wave impact on the core area.

The blue corpse monster was not large, but it was very strong and even somewhat cunning.

After the shrieking sound waves stopped, Gao Wu made a move to charge forward, but the blue corpse monster let out another shriek.

After trying this several times, the blue corpse monster, seeing that it could not defeat Gao Wu, turned and ran away.

He has a translucent membrane at the junction of his arms and back, and he can glide through the air when he spreads his arms.

Gao Wu, however, saw through the corpse monster's true nature. As soon as the monster spread its arms and flew up, Gao Wu rode Aquarius and stabbed at it from the side.

One sword pierced the opponent's head, the other pierced his neck. With a twist of the two swords, the opponent's massive head was severed, splitting in two as it flew through the air...

Without the control of consciousness, the giant corpse monster fell diagonally from the sky, creating a shallow crater in the ground, and dust and debris flew up again.

Gao Wu circled halfway through the air, and just as he was about to land in front of the corpse monster's body, he suddenly turned in an arc. Two huge arrows, as big as spears, grazed his body and pierced the corpse monster's body.

The arrow was incredibly powerful; nearly five meters long, with only a small portion of the fletching protruding from its tip.

The Aquarius Star Armor's advantage lies in its speed and agility; if it is hit by two heavy arrows, the Star Armor will be destroyed.

Even if Gao Wu hadn't died then, he would have been at the mercy of his opponent.

Neither of the two players who fired the arrows expected to miss, and a strong sense of unease arose within them. This was a terrifying player...

Although the abyss is dangerous, it offers the opportunity to obtain extremely valuable energy cores and special materials.

In this situation, ordinary teammates are very likely to turn against each other.

While Abyss Mode allows for team play, there is no damage reduction when playing in a team. The same applies to other modes.

After all, it's a simulation game; in reality, there's no such thing as being immune to damage when you're in a team.

Teaming up only increases the identification code between friend and foe, and allows for communication and information sharing, etc.

Players who enter the Abyss Mode must have a very good relationship, or even be real friends offline, in order to trust each other in this mode.

The two players were drawn over by the shrieks of the zombie monster. After seeing Gao Wu kill the zombie monster, they couldn't resist killing it and stealing its treasure.

As a result, the two of them both failed.

Gao Wu didn't care why the other party made the move. He suddenly accelerated his Aquarius and blocked the two star armors.

They were all mid-level star armors, with various mottled marks on their surfaces, suggesting they were from veteran players in the Abyss.

Before the two could speak, Gao Wu attacked. A white blade of light had already filled the screens in their cockpits.

Such a fierce attack terrified both players, who hurriedly tried to escape in their star armor.

Gao Wu chased after them, smashing the heads of the two intermediate-level battle suits one by one, effectively sending the two Star Masters straight out of the abyss.

They searched the portable pods on the player's starsuit and found some crystal cores and energy blocks inside. They also took the two more valuable bows and arrows from the starsuits.

All of these things combined would amount to at least a few million credits.

Gao Wu has also killed several players who ambushed him in the past few days, and with the loot from killing zombies, he has earned tens of millions.

The crystal core of the elite zombie was dug out; it was only the size of a fist and looked to be of extremely high quality.

Crystal nuclei are not classified by size, but by energy levels.

Generally speaking, the higher the energy level of the crystal nucleus, the more beautiful and delicate it is.

Not only does the game system have a recycling shop, but the private trading market among players is also enormous.

Gao Wu received 100 million credits sponsored by Zhang Qinglin, which was more than enough to cover his expenses. He was too impatient to set up a stall in the player market and haggle over prices; it was too much trouble.

There are also auction houses, but the fees are quite high, and this amount of stuff isn't worth the hassle.

Selling today's harvest to the system shop yielded a total income of tens of millions. The main reason was that two players' longbows were high-level star-armor weapons, which were very valuable.

If there were no quest to find Qi, one could spend a year or two in the abyss without getting bored.

Gao Wu is now playing with a very clear purpose; he believes that Qi might be hidden in the abyss...

Or perhaps it's deep within the starry sky!

He's been fraught with trouble in the abyss these past few days not for fun, but to explore it and accumulate merit.

In just a few days, tens of millions of merits were easily accumulated. Once the power of the Yang God is unsealed, accumulating trillions of merits in the Abyss doesn't seem impossible.

A text message popped up on the screen; it was from Zhang Qinglin, who had pulled some strings to send him to Feima Security Company.

Gao Wu checked on the Tianwang website and found that Feima Security Company was a very legitimate and large-scale company, the largest security company in Changning Star.

Zhang Qinglin's so-called cousin, Zhang Qingyun, has a company located in Feixing City, which is also a ground-based platform that connects directly to outer space.

Generally speaking, interstellar spacecraft are too large to enter a planet's atmosphere.

Interstellar spaceships will dock at spaceports. Cargo and people will enter planets via space elevators. The space elevator in Feixing City connects to the Changning-3 spaceport above, primarily for cargo transport.

Zhang Qingyun's company is definitely a small security company, just affiliated with Pegasus.

Even private security companies need to conduct interviews, assessments, and training to recruit Star Masters. Although the process is much more lenient than that of the military, it still takes about six months to complete.

Gao Wu didn't have time to wait that long. He knew Zhang Qinglin had ill intentions, but he didn't care.

This realm can greatly amplify the power of spiritual energy. Even though his Yang God is limited, the level of his true spiritual energy is beyond Zhang Qinglin's imagination.

Even if the other party is harboring some wicked intentions, there's no need to worry about it...

Zhang Qinglin was very efficient and immediately took Gao Wu on an air express highway straight to Feixing City.

A high-speed, bullet-shaped train inside a closed tube travels at two thousand kilometers per hour. It is extremely smooth and quiet.

In less than an hour, Gao Wu and Zhang Qinglin had arrived in Feixing City.

The buildings in the city are relatively short, and most of them have huge, enclosed transparent covers to block out external noise, strong light, and so on.

Gao Wu could see the space elevator from afar. It looked like an aerial express, with several huge pipes connecting to a spaceport 300 kilometers above the ground.

At intervals, huge aircraft connect the upper and lower passages like bolts, maintaining the stability of the passages.

Countless goods flow continuously through the pipelines, like water constantly turning.

Gao Wu was amazed by the efficiency of the logistics equipment. Truly advanced technology!

Gao Wu has been busy these past few days, reading through all the textbooks for various basic subjects, especially physics and astronomy.

He noticed a problem: the speed of light in this universe is not 300,000 kilometers per second.

This change in the fundamental constant of the universe means that the fundamental physical laws of the two universes are different.

It would be pointless to bring back all the technology from this universe.

Gao Wu once thought that this universe might be one of his future possibilities, and considering the laws of history and physics, it seemed completely different.

The reasons behind it were too complex for Gao Wu to fully understand. Of course, this didn't stop him from collecting relevant knowledge and recording any useful information.

In his experience, all changes stemmed from differences in source energy, or perhaps from the existence of a powerful demon god in this universe that altered everything...

Strangely, no demon gods or spirits openly preached. At least, no such information can be found on the Heavenly Network.

Gao Wu originally considered himself a smart person, but he found that he was only more gifted in martial arts and not much better than the average person in terms of scientific knowledge.

Zhang Qinglin secretly observed Gao Wu and noticed that Gao Wu seemed very interested in the space elevator, so he gave him a brief introduction.

Guided by his personal electronic terminal, Zhang Qinglin quickly led Gao Wu to the Pegasus Security Company.

Compared to Zhang Qinglin's office building, this company is located deep inside a huge warehouse.

The warehouse is enormous, appearing to be hundreds of thousands of square meters, making people look incredibly small when standing inside.

Several old suits of armor were placed on either side of the front of the office, seemingly as decorations.

Driving a Star Armor in the game is nothing special, but actually standing in front of a Star Armor, even someone as powerful as Gao Wu felt a sense of oppression.

Because of their enormous size, colossal objects naturally inspire awe.

Just like how children are afraid of adults, it's because adults are three or four times the height of children.

From a child's perspective, adults appear enormous and terrifying.

Most of the Star Armor units are seven or eight meters tall, with a fully mechanical metal structure that is heavy and rigid.

Gao Wu sighed inwardly, realizing that his current weak physical body could not withstand a punch from an ordinary Star Armor user.

Only by regaining his physical body can he confront this massive metal behemoth head-on.

Zhang Qingyun, who was in the office, came out to greet him, smiling and extending his hand: "Mr. Gao, welcome, welcome..."

Zhang Qingyun and Zhang Qinglin are quite similar; both have small eyes and plain features, but are tall and strong. However, Zhang Qingyun has a cheerful smile, unlike Zhang Qinglin, who has a sinister look and doesn't seem like a good person.

Gao Wu shook hands with Zhang Qingyun. "Thank you for your help, Mr. Zhang."

"No trouble at all, our company is eager to find talented people!"

Zhang Qingyun said with a smile, "I know the name of the Heavenly Spear. Actually, the real Star Armor is no different from the game. The only difference is that the real environment is more complex, and failure could very well result in real death."

Gao Wu nodded slightly, indicating that he was ready.

Only by becoming a true Star Master can he see the truth of this world, obtain more resources, and acquire higher-level spiritual mystic arts.

There are certainly many risks involved, but he has to give it a try.

Zhang Qingyun said, "To become a Star Master, you must first pass the Star Master Guild's examination and obtain a Star Master license."

"The guild assessment is the day after tomorrow. The content is very simple: ride the Mountain-Breaking Star Armor to subdue a giant fire serpent, a very low-level alien beast..."

Zhang Qingyun's office may not look big, but it has more than ten guest rooms, which are all dormitories prepared specifically for employees.

After arranging a room for Gao Wu so that he could rest well, Zhang Qingyun drove his cousin Zhang Qinglin to the air rail station.

Once outside the platform, Zhang Qinglin asked, "Is it safe to talk here?"

“It’s dozens of kilometers away, so it’s definitely safe.” Zhang Qingyun looked at the smart bracelet, which showed that Gao Wu was in the room.

He laughed and said, "Just say what you want to say."

Zhang Qinglin cautiously looked around before saying, "This kid stole my Battle.net Star Armor and 100 million credits. Fifth Brother, you have to help me get them back."

Zhang Qingyun laughed heartily and patted his cousin on the shoulder: "Don't worry, Gao Wu's arrival is just in time. I'm about to do something big..."

As for what the important matter was, Zhang Qingyun wouldn't tell his cousin. Secrecy is a fundamental quality for undertaking great tasks. (End of Chapter)