Everyone Is Acting

"Ha ha, I got a Wood Crystal!" Wang Yi was overjoyed.

Wood Crystals were treasures used for cultivation, as well as for raising Beast Taming creatures and Plant Life. They had a great many uses.

For example, if a Moyun Vine was nurtured with Wood Crystals, it could quickly grow to the Stellar level!

On present-day Earth, that would be an invincible existence!

Just one Wood Crystal could allow someone around the Apprentice Eighth or Ninth Order to spend a month and directly step into the first rank of the Planetary level!

For Wang Yi, who was currently eager to break through, a Wood Crystal was undoubtedly timely aid.

Moreover, the life energy within a Wood Crystal could also be used for cultivation, rapidly increasing one's strength!

Wang Yi had no intention of imitating those novel protagonists who clearly had ready-made treasures that could help them break through quickly, yet insisted on taking some risky path and trying to break through on their own!

"My physical fitness is already at the peak of the War God level, and my Mental Power has also reached the limit of the Apprentice Ninth Order. Maybe one Wood Crystal will let me break through in both aspects at once! I'll become a Planetary-level Martial Artist and Mental Master!" Light shone in Wang Yi's eyes.

Whether one was a Martial Artist or a Mental Master, breaking through to the Planetary level had specific requirements. It was not something one could achieve simply by wanting it!

Of course, if one was a peerless genius as formidable as Hong or Thunder God, breaking through on one's own was also possible.

For Wang Yi, whose Gene Level far surpassed that of Earthlings, breaking through was not particularly difficult. Even without Wood Crystals, he would likely break through naturally after some time.

Compared with the countless other Martial Artists trapped at the War God level, he was vastly superior!

But Wang Yi was unwilling to wait!

"There are methods to break through, but they require time. A Wood Crystal can solve the problem directly." Smiling, Wang Yi put away the Wood Crystal, feeling delighted. "Besides, Wood Crystals can also be used by my family." Naturally, Wang Yi would not be stingy toward his family.

After all, compared to anything else, his loved ones meant more to him.

"Since one Wood Crystal has appeared, there must be more than one." Wang Yi was full of energy as he gazed sharply into the darkness. "Babata, now it depends on how capable you are."

Wang Yi sniffed and continued drilling deeper underground.

Several thousand meters beneath Wang Yi's location, within the underground rock, was an ancient black spacecraft.

In a spacious hall, dazzling light shone down from above. A tiny virtual figure, only about 1.45 meters tall and resembling a child, with two single horns growing from his forehead, blood-red eyes, and a black robe, was watching a 3D Projection in the hall. On the screen was the slowly moving figure of a black-haired youth dressed in a gray-black combat uniform.

"Hmph hmph... After waiting so long, a human with a sufficiently high Brain Domain Width has finally arrived." The child's demonic blood-red eyes stared intently at the figure on the screen. "Come on, come closer, little fellow. As long as you come over, there'll be plenty of benefits. As long as you acknowledge my boss as your master and become the inheritor of our Yunmo Star, then under my, Babata's, guidance, becoming a powerhouse in the universe will no longer be a dream."

When he spoke of his "boss," the demon-like child's tone fell. He looked toward the center of the hall, his eyes filled with grief.

"Boss..."

"Fifty thousand years..."

"You've been dead for fifty thousand years. I will definitely follow your wishes and train an outstanding disciple for you!"

"Definitely!"

Ignoring Babata's muttering, Wang Yi, on the other side, once again delightedly "happened" to pick up two Wood Crystals.

"That makes thirteen already..." Like an ordinary person picking up gold, Wang Yi proficiently put away the Wood Crystals as he muttered inwardly.

When Wood Crystals appeared in the original story, they attracted the world's powerhouses. A group of people fought to the death over them, and even several Planetary-level fighters died, yet they had not managed to seize many.

Now, Wang Yi had merely wandered around underground a few times and had already picked up a whole pile.

Truly, different people had different fates.

The protagonist's treatment really was different. Wang Yi sighed inwardly.

But this world had never been fair to begin with, so Wang Yi could not be bothered to think too much about it.

He continued searching for Wood Crystals.

Gradually, Wang Yi went deeper and deeper underground.

And at a depth of 15,600 meters underground.

"Target locked."

"Wood Crystal acquired."

"Activate suggestion. Begin guidance."

Strange ripples, invisible to the naked eye, shifted slightly. From the depths underground, they traveled almost in a straight line through numerous layers of rock and reached Wang Yi's body as he searched for Wood Crystals underground. These ripples, undetectable by the naked eye, instruments, or mental power, directly entered his Sea of Consciousness.

Wang Yi also discovered that his mind seemed to have gained a thought: to keep advancing in one direction, as though instinctively believing that he would find Wood Crystals there.

Wang Yi immediately understood that Babata had begun making his moves.

"This Babata can't leave his ship, so he resorts to these mysterious tricks..." Having been mentally prepared, Wang Yi naturally would not be easily affected by Babata's psychological suggestion. However, on the surface, he still pretended to be lured in and slowly descended deeper underground.

Inside the spacecraft's hall, Babata watched the scene expectantly.

He smacked his lips.

"What a greedy little fellow. He's coming over. Hehe." Babata smiled smugly. "You're just a little Earth native. How could you possibly escape the grasp of the great Babata?"

Meanwhile, Wang Yi, pretending to know nothing, happily continued gathering the Wood Crystals he had "accidentally" discovered along the way.

It seemed Babata feared that the lure was not strong enough, so he kept tossing out some Wood Crystals along the route Wang Yi was taking.

"Twenty-seven already. Babata is really being generous." Wang Yi felt full of satisfaction.

However, the real haul was still ahead!

"Hmm? Why isn't there a Crimson Chaos Copper Mother Fragment?" Wang Yi glanced around, then stomped on the ground a few times.

"This Babata really looks down on people." Primordial Copper Mother Fragments were incomparably sharp and were powerful killing weapons. They were not that useful to Luo Feng either, so Wang Yi would not have minded taking one along the way.

Unfortunately, Babata might not have thought of that and had not put one out.

That made Wang Yi somewhat displeased.

After a while, when Wang Yi "picked up" his thirty-second Wood Crystal, his Throwing Knife struck an incomparably hard piece of metal in a thick rock wall not far away.

"We're here?" Wang Yi's heart stirred. Looking over, he could see what seemed to be metal within a narrow crack nearby.

"The Yunmo Starship!" Wang Yi understood that he had reached his destination.

But on the surface, Wang Yi still revealed an expression of surprise, delight, and shock.

Babata, who had been watching Wang Yi from inside the spacecraft, was naturally pleased to see this.

"The fish has taken the bait." Both of them thought the same thing.

Without hesitation, Wang Yi directly controlled his Throwing Knife and cleared away the rock around the metal, revealing a passage wide enough to pass through. Ahead was a strange "door" made from silvery-white metal and covered in dust. This door, similar to the hatch of an Intelligent Fighter Jet, was currently half-closed.

Wang Yi blinked.

He slowly walked over while extending his Mental Power inside.

Very quickly, Wang Yi saw the sight he had wanted to see—on the ground of the entrance passage beyond the hatch, crystal after crystal faintly glowing with white halos had all been gathered together. Ten, twenty, thirty... They were densely packed, at least two or three hundred of them!

Even though he had already expected it, Wang Yi's eyes instantly turned red.