It took Lu Yang several months to pilot the covered boat back to the Cultivation Realm, more than twice as long as it had taken to travel from the Cultivation Realm to Blue Star.
Xia He had never been to space before. The weightlessness, the chance to see the sun, moon, and stars up close... What a rare experience! Bai Shuang had ridden in a spaceship, but nothing could match how novel a covered boat felt.
So they had spent a long time on the journey.
Lu Yang understood the feeling. After all, he had also spent quite a while playing around in space back then.
On top of that, they had run into no shortage of little mishaps along the way: a wormhole had appeared out of nowhere and sent them to an unknown region of the universe; they had rescued a silicon-based civilization, played gods in Lilliput, encountered the last survivors of the giant race, killed several space monsters and a giant monster formed by their fusion, then found their way back and returned safely to the Cultivation Realm.
"There are so many kinds of life in the universe." After the trip, Xia He and Bai Shuang had their eyes opened wide. These were scenes they had only ever seen in science-fiction movies, yet they had experienced them all firsthand.
Lu Yang couldn't help wondering. Even the two powerful civilizations of the universe, the Interstellar Alliance and the Zhu Tian Civilization, had never encountered so many strange cosmic races. How had he managed to run into all of them on one trip?
"It's pretty ordinary. I ran into things like this all the time when I traveled through the universe. I'm used to it." Lu Yang spoke so casually that it was easy to imagine how rich his