Swallowing the Stars: Starting with a Meteor Tear

Chapter 45 First Encounter with the Universe

The fluctuation was subtle and invisible, and Zhou Yang had no way of noticing it.

He now has only one thought in his subconscious—

"Perhaps the Meteorite Starship was buried too deep, and Babata's guidance range wasn't sufficient?"

"Since we're already here, let's keep looking."

With this in mind, he continued his journey underground.

At first, his movements were aimless, basically changing direction slightly every so often to expand the search area as much as possible.

However, as time went on, his direction unexpectedly became clear.

Even Zhou Yang himself didn't realize that his current route was almost straight, rapidly approaching a certain underground direction.

"They're here, they're here, they're finally here!"

"I've waited 50,000 years for this day!"

At this moment, in a rock stratum about 15,000 meters underground, a thick rock began to tremble and writhe.

"call!"

Immediately afterwards, the thick rock vanished into nothingness, just like a bubble being blown away.

Where the thick rock had been before, a dusty, half-open hatch appeared in the underground rock formation.

Zhou Yang was maneuvering the sharp cone of throwing knives rapidly into the ground when suddenly—

"Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The flying knife seemed to have encountered some kind of extremely hard alloy, and a violent shockwave was transmitted back.

"Huh? What's this?"

Zhou Yang's mind stirred, and a surge of powerful spiritual energy erupted forth.

A large amount of rock was suddenly pushed aside, directly creating a circular space with a diameter of about ten meters deep underground.

At the edge of this space, a dusty, silver-white metal door appeared in front of Zhou Yang.

Upon seeing the silver-white metal door, Zhou Yang was startled, and his mind instantly cleared.

"What just happened to me? I had this strange feeling, like my subconscious was telling me that things were going in the wrong direction, that it was Babata!"

Zhou Yang instantly snapped out of his daze, "This, this metal door... it's the Meteorite Starship!"

In an instant, Zhou Yang's heart was filled with ecstasy!

During the initial search, he didn't sense any guidance and thought his qualifications didn't meet Babata's requirements, which made him feel quite disheartened.

Now it seems I was probably guided by Babata all along.

The method of guidance was quite sophisticated and there was no hostility involved, which is why he hadn't noticed it until now.

"Since we've been guided, we must have met Babata's test requirements. Now, let's go see that great 'demon'!"

Zhou Yang's eyes brightened, and his figure slowly floated towards the silver-white metal door.

As a precaution, the Black God Suit quickly expanded to cover the entire body.

"Crunch!"

Zhou Yang lightly stepped onto the entrance of the silver-white hatch, and then his mental energy quickly probed behind the hatch.

Behind the silver-white hatch is an entrance passage that is twelve meters wide and eight meters deep.

At the end of the passage, there is a wide passage running to the left and right.

"Since Babata went to all the trouble to bring me here, he probably wasn't just messing around with me, so there shouldn't be any danger."

Zhou Yang paused briefly, then made up his mind and stepped directly into the huge passage behind the hatch.

He soon arrived at the intersection of the passageways. He looked to the left and right along the wide passageway at the end, and his eyes were immediately drawn to it.

On the left side of the passage, a huge corpse was leaning against the ground.

The enormous corpse had dark skin, thick arms, and was covered in a special armor with intricate patterns.

Moreover, it was wearing special gloves on its arms and fists, and its blood-red eyes were still trying to stay open.

When Zhou Yang met those blood-red eyes, a chill ran through him!

The feeling was like an ant facing a giant dragon; a profound sense of powerlessness welled up within me.

"call!"

"This must be an immortal corpse. Good heavens, just a corpse makes me tremble and I dare not resist at all. How powerful must a living immortal be!"

Zhou Yang took a deep breath.

At that moment, he began to feel a deep sense of awe for the endless universe.

He was under so much pressure from just an ordinary, immortal corpse.

How strong must a living immortal, even a Venerable One, a Lord of the Universe, or the strongest being in the universe, be?

"With my current strength, in the vast universe, I'm probably not even worth a slightly stronger ant. I need to stay humble and keep working hard!"

He silently reminded himself.

He then stopped and, after passing the enormous corpse, continued along the wide passage.

There were many side passages on both sides of the passage, but he skipped them all.

After walking along the main passage for about 300 meters, the passage began to turn, and then a tall gate appeared!

The gate is over ten meters wide and over ten meters high, and it is currently half-open.

Zhou Yang stepped directly through the gate, and immediately, a magnificent, semi-circular hall, tens of meters high and nearly two hundred meters long and wide, appeared in his sight!

In this magnificent hall, Zhou Yang once again saw six corpses of various shapes.

Five of the corpses still had lifelike features, while the other was just a golden skeleton.

Zhou Yang didn't look at the corpses, but waited silently.

Sure enough, a few seconds later—

With a crisp electronic tick, the previously dimly lit hall suddenly lit up with bright lights.

A dazzling light shone down from the top of the hall, making the entire hall bright and airy.

At the same time, strange lights converged in the center of the hall, beginning to form a black virtual human figure.

The figure resembled a child, only about 1.45 meters tall, with two sharp horns on his forehead, blood-red eyes, and wearing a black robe.

"Zhou Yang, you've finally arrived."

The child in the black robe looked at Zhou Yang, a hint of joy in his blood-red eyes.

The moment Zhou Yang saw that familiar figure appear, he became excited.

He quickly spoke:

"No need to say anything, I'm willing. Let's get straight to the next step!"

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The child in the black robe fell into a brief silence, and Zhou Yang seemed to see his small, fair hands clenching slightly.

After a moment, the black-robed child finally spoke again.

"If you see me and aren't curious, do you know why I want to see you?"

"Forehead"

Zhou Yang then realized that his reaction just now was a bit too excited.

He gave an awkward laugh and casually explained:

"I can roughly guess. It's an ancient civilization relic, so it'll either be a reward for completing the level or a mentorship program. Um, why don't you continue?"

"Ancient civilization relics?"

The child in the black robe smiled, but there was a hint of loneliness in his smile.

"Only a few tens of thousands of years have passed, and we're already being called an 'ancient civilization'?"

However, he then chuckled and shook his head, "But that's true. Compared to your Earth's short history of only a few thousand years, we really can be considered an ancient civilization."

"Alright, enough of that. Let me introduce myself. My name is Babata, and my master is the powerful Meteorite Star."

Next, Babata began to recount the past glory and decline of the Meteorite Star lineage, and also gave Zhou Yang a basic introduction to some common knowledge about the universe.

"My master, the lord of Meteorite Star, is a great and immortal god."

The universe is divided into star regions, star domains, and galaxies. The cosmic realm is further divided into...

"Your Earth's Milky Way galaxy is merely one of the eight star systems under the control of the Silver Blue Empire, the lowest level of civilization."

"Martial artists and mental cultivators are mainly divided into five levels: Planetary, Constant, Universe, Domain Lord, and World Lord. Surpassing the World Lord level... is immortality!"

"What war god? He's just an ordinary apprentice."

Zhou Yang had already seen these details in the novel.

However, Babata's description was much more detailed.

As he continued to narrate, a vast cosmic blueprint slowly took shape in Zhou Yang's mind.

Meanwhile, a certain desire in Zhou Yang's heart was also constantly growing.

"The universe is so vast; if I don't take a look, I'd seem out of touch with reality!"

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(End of this chapter)