Qiu Long Star

Ten days later, Jin Yu stood in the Black Dragon spaceship's control room. Before him was the exterior virtual display, clearly showing the ship approaching Qiu Long Star. It was already about to touch the atmosphere.

Qiu Long Star's atmosphere was extremely peculiar. Even with the naked eye, one could clearly see... clouds of various colors flowing slowly, making the entire planet appear incomparably dazzling from space.

Beep!

"We've received a tractor signal," Babata said. "Jin Yu, the spaceship will follow the tractor signal to the planet's docking port."

Jin Yu nodded slightly. After recruiting Hong and Thor, he had set out on his journey into the universe.

He had only one goal: accelerate his own progress. Too many problems in the early stages required great power to solve, whether it was Nolan Mountain or the World Lord world that lay ahead.

As well as the countless resources his evolution required.

This trip was for him to cash out. After all, his previous self had left behind a considerable fortune.

The Black Dragon spaceship pierced through the atmosphere. Through the exterior virtual display, Jin Yu immediately saw an enormous silver city below. It was a vast docking port, packed densely with countless spaceships. Some were large, some small; the smaller ones were only dozens of meters long, or even just over ten meters.

The longer ones were generally large transport ships and the like, stretching over ten thousand meters in length.

"Signal received. We're heading to the C-class area!" Babata said from the control console screen.

The enormous docking port.

It was divided into several major sections. In the C-class area, every spaceship and warship was incomparably expensive.

Whoosh!

The Black Dragon spaceship slowly descended and finally landed.

The hatch opened.

"This planet's gravity is a little more than three times that of Earth." Jin Yu flew out of the hatch and instantly felt the change in gravity.

"Hm?"

Jin Yu turned his head. A burly green-skinned man in a gray uniform flew over. He stood around 2.8 meters tall and had two curved horns atop his head. He landed in front of Jin Yu.

Humble and polite, he smiled as he spoke fluent Universal Common Language. "Honored sir, welcome to Qiu Long Star. The docking fee for your Black Dragon Mountain X81 model spaceship is 600 Black Dragon Coins per year! Even if it is less than a year, the fee will still be charged at 600 Black Dragon Coins. This is your docking card."

As he spoke, he held out a silver, translucent card with both hands. A C-class symbol was displayed on it.

"Jin Yu, you remember what I told you before, right?" Babata had thoroughly explained to Jin Yu how to handle all kinds of situations on Qiu Long Star.

"I remember."

Jin Yu smiled, flipped his hand over, and a coin appeared in his palm. He casually tossed it over.

"Gan Wu Coins." The green-skinned man's eyes lit up.

In an instant, the man became even more respectful and ingratiating. On Qiu Long Star, a ninth-rank Planetary-level being like him was merely the most ordinary kind of citizen. If he could break through and become a Stellar-level powerhouse, his status would rise dramatically.

But... even a Stellar-level powerhouse would be somewhat intimidated upon encountering someone like this—someone riding a luxurious C5-class all-metal spaceship and casually throwing around Gan Wu Coins!

There was no need to ask!

This was proof of a great family and a powerful background.

"Keep the change," Jin Yu said casually.

"Thank you, sir." The green-skinned burly man was immensely respectful. A descendant of such a great family could casually command tens of thousands of ninth-rank Planetary-level subordinates.

"Is sir alone? If necessary, I can help hire some bodyguards for you. Qiu Long City is still several thousand kilometers from here. On Qiu Long Star, only the city is protected. Outside the city, there is no protection. There might be bandits along the way," the green-skinned burly man said.

This was also one of his sources of income. Referring customers earned him a hefty commission.

Jin Yu smiled. No bodyguards?

Swish!

Two Flowing Silver Guards in black clothing appeared beside him.

Damn, Flowing Silver Guards? The green-skinned burly man's heart twitched. What extravagance.

Though he thought so inwardly, he remained incomparably respectful on the surface and watched Jin Yu depart.

Whoosh!

Jin Yu soared into the air, standing atop the Arc Blade Disc. Cloud-Covering Armor appeared over his body, while the Flowing Silver Guards followed behind him.

After flying for nearly half an hour, Jin Yu finally saw an incomparably enormous city in the distance. Its walls were black as ink, stretching continuously to the end of sight, with no edge visible at a glance!

Atop the city walls stood rows of transparent, glazed dragons, beautiful and dreamlike, coiled along the battlements.

Only as Jin Yu drew closer did he discover that the ink-black walls were also covered in intricate carvings—carvings of one-horned dragons.

"What a huge city." Jin Yu landed on the ground and looked up at the massive walls, praising them inwardly. Other than in movies, when had he ever seen such a sight in reality?

The black city walls alone stood around 120 meters tall. Including the height formed by the glazed dragon carvings above them, they reached several hundred meters.

Moreover, when viewed from above, the entire enormous city stretched to the horizon, its end impossible to see. That vast, ancient aura was breathtaking.

"Qiu Long City is nearly 6,000 kilometers in both length and width, but its history is at most a little over three million years," Babata said disdainfully.

Jin Yu rolled his eyes when he heard that. Babata was obviously showing off, making several million years sound utterly insignificant.

How old was he, even counting both his past and present lives? And this city's length and width already matched Earth's radius. A quarter of Earth could be dropped straight into it. Such grandeur could only truly be understood when faced head-on.

Of course, Babata was not entirely wrong. To certain super planets, several million years truly meant nothing. Whether in technology, certain empires, organizations, and so on, there would be little change. For cosmic empires whose existence was measured in hundreds of millions of years, a million years indeed had little impact.

The enormous city gate was nearly a kilometer wide.

People flowed through it in an endless stream.

Jin Yu had long since put away the guards and entered the gate alone.

"Signal received. Jin Yu, your communication number in Qiu Long City is 199201080," Babata said.

Jin Yu nodded. This was a planetary communication number, or rather, a telephone number. Outside the Human Race's Virtual Universe, planets generally used relatively rudimentary communication methods, after all, they were cheap.

And between different planets, the Human Race had only one means of internal communication—the Virtual Universe Network.

As Jin Yu walked through this super city, he found it incomparably dazzling.

The surrounding buildings came in all kinds of styles.

Many of them were truly so beautiful that they made one's heart tremble. The artistic standards refined by time were far beyond anything Earth could compare to.

"This is so interesting."

"Three eyes, just like Erlang Shen. Huh, this person's mouth and teeth are interesting. Wolverine? There are even three-headed, six-armed ones. If they were in the prehistoric world, they'd all be big shots."

Jin Yu walked along the streets, where crowds surged endlessly. At the same time, many people flew through the air more than a hundred meters above, hurrying along their way.

They were called people, but every one of them looked extremely strange. In just five minutes, among the "humans" Jin Yu saw, the tallest was nearly fifteen meters high, while the shortest resembled an infant from Earth.

But after seeing enough of them, the novelty faded, and Jin Yu began to feel bored. He headed straight for the spaceship sales office in the city.