Swallowing the Stars: Only in my later years did I come to the life-spending panel.

Deep beneath the surface of Kirishima, a tattered, blood-red triangular spaceship lies dormant.

Inside the spaceship, a petite girl floated in the air, her purple eyes tightly closed. Her entire body was a translucent energy form, and beneath her skin, countless fine star patterns could be faintly seen flowing slowly, as if encompassing the entire starry sky.

Her long, silver-white hair cascaded down to her waist, the ends shimmering with a faint glow. A pair of small, mechanical wings fluttered gently behind her, scattering starlight with each flap.

Babata has been asleep for nearly 50,000 years.

Since Director Hu Yanbo's death, she has crashed the Meteorite Star on Earth, waiting for the person who can inherit her master's mantle to appear.

She waited year after year, until the earth evolved from barbarism into civilization, until the oceans turned into fertile fields...

boom!!!

A faint tremor came from the ground, an energy fluctuation!

Babata's purple eyes suddenly opened.

"Is there a battle?"

With a gentle flap of her mechanical wings, she instantly floated to the control panel.

She tapped her slender fingers a few times in the air, and holographic screens unfolded in front of her, projecting images from external observations.

In the video, a giant purple dragon, nearly a thousand meters long, is swimming in the deep sea, while another enormous creature covered in tentacles emerges from the trench.

"Damn it, we accidentally released too many Wood Crystals, attracting another planetary-level monster from Earth. Will the humans be too scared to come now?"

Babata scratched his little head and said helplessly.

Two monsters confront each other at the front of Kirishima Island, stirring up towering waves.

Then, a bolt of deep purple lightning descended from the sky.

Babata's purple eyes widened instantly.

"A domain... of leadership?!"

She stared intently at the dark figure in the screen, watching him effortlessly navigate the attack from two planetary-level monsters, watching him completely suppress the tentacle beast with his terrifying domain, and then slowly grind it to death with each shot.

"The scope and power of this domain...seven levels...at least a domain at level seven!"

Babata's voice was clear yet trembling, "And that's... a law?!?"

She frantically controlled the Meteorite Starship to retrieve probe data and analyze Zhou Mu's various indicators; streams of data flashed across the holographic screen:

[Target analysis in progress...]

Bone age: 69 years old

[Energy Fluctuation: Planetary Level 2 Mentalist, Planetary Level 1 Martial Artist]

[Brain width: 19]

Bloodline Rank: Ninth Grade

[Combat Data Analysis: Seven Levels of Lightning Domain, Mastering the Laws of Lightning (Introduction)]

Babata was completely dumbfounded.

A brain capacity of 19 is only considered a below-average talent in the universe; even becoming a cosmic-level powerhouse depends on luck.

But someone with such talent actually comprehended a domain at the planetary level?! They even touched the threshold of the laws, and took a giant leap forward!

"Master..." Babata's voice trembled, her eyes glistening with tears. "Master, did you see that? Someone... someone did what you couldn't do back then!"

She thought of Hu Yanbo, the brilliant and talented master of the Meteorite Star, who could barely touch the threshold of the laws at the Domain Lord level and only gain the recognition of the primordial laws at the World Lord level. And this human had already achieved that at the planetary level!

"The Meteorite Star has a worthy successor! Master... our revenge is within reach!"

Babata trembled with excitement, his mechanical wings flapping wildly, scattering a shower of starlight.

She immediately brought up the guidance program for the Meteorite Star, preparing to guide this human to discover the entrance to the Meteorite Star.

According to her plan, this human should first go to the lakeside under mental suggestion, discover the scattered Muya crystals, enter the lake bottom space, obtain the fragments of the Red Mixed Copper Mother, and then go deep underground to discover the Meteorite Star.

However, the next second, Babata was stunned.

On the detection screen, the white-haired human killed the tentacle beast she had accelerated with the Wood Crystal, subdued another dragon beast, and turned to fly towards Mist Island.

Then, he began to sweep across the entire island, gathering his men to pack up and take away all the spirits of plants and trees on the island, and also took the Cloud-Piercing Vine used to guide the spirits.

Babata stared in disbelief, his mouth agape wide enough to fit an egg.

This human... why isn't he following the script? Mental suggestion has absolutely no effect on him? Doesn't he know there's something good down there?

"Hurry up! Get down here!"

Babata was so anxious she was jumping up and down, her slender legs kicking wildly in the air. "There's something good down there! A million times better than those worthless plant spirits!"

But that human didn't seem to be in a hurry at all.

After subduing the Cloud Vine, he actually led a young martial artist and slowly walked towards the lake.

Babata breathed a slight sigh of relief.

"Finally we're coming down. It's a bit slow, but we're heading in the right direction."

"When he reaches the lake, he'll find Muya Crystal, follow the clues to the bottom of the lake, find the fragments of the Crimson Copper Mother, and then follow the guidance to this place..."

She began adjusting the induction program, her purple eyes filled with anticipation.

Fifty thousand years!

Finally, we've found a decent successor!

Babata even began to imagine what kind of attitude he should adopt when he appeared in front of the other party—should he be aloof or friendly?

Should we reveal our identities directly, or test them first?

Then......

She saw the human standing by the lake, precisely dodging all the thrown wooden crystals. The next second, he leaped into the lake and manipulated his telekinetic weapon to reach the bottom.

The bootloader was completely ignored!

"Wait—wait a minute!!"

Babata's eyes widened, his mechanical wings froze, and he stood frozen in mid-air like an exquisite doll.

"Why aren't you following the script?!"

She screamed in despair, her slender hands flailing wildly in the air, her long, silvery-white hair standing on end.

But the human couldn't hear him at all. He led the young martial artist down the passage at breakneck speed, his goal terrifyingly clear, as if he already knew what was below.

Babata stood there, stunned.

She had been captivated for fifty thousand years, imagining countless possibilities: the visitor would overcome numerous trials and finally be moved to tears before her; the visitor would endure countless hardships to finally find the entrance and have a deeply moving encounter with her...

But she never imagined this would happen.

This human knew from the very beginning what lay below.

He doesn't need any guidance at all.

"Who...who exactly is he?"

She quickly retrieved the detection data from Monitoring Base No. 9, accessed Earth's network to search for and analyze Zhou Mu's experiences, but all of this data showed that he was a native of Earth.

"This is impossible..."

Babata murmured, his slender fingers moving unconsciously in the air, causing streams of data to flash chaotically.

For 50,000 years, no one except her knew of the existence of the Meteorite Starship!

How could this human possibly know?

Could it be...?

On the detection screen, the two figures had already passed through the bottom of the lake and entered the underground cave. The white-haired human stopped, scanned the surroundings, and then turned precisely towards the direction of the Meteorite Star probe's camera.

He smiled.

That smile seemed to say: I know you're here.

Babata shuddered.

The next second, the figure continued forward, pointing directly at the disguised hatch of the Meteorite Star.

Finally, the footsteps stopped outside the cabin door.

A deep, calm voice came through the hatch and clearly entered the spaceship:

"Babata, I'm here."

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