News from the Ruo Lan Shan Family

The Wheel of Time uses Cosmic Crystals as its energy source, allowing its time acceleration effect to surge again. However, just as Jiang Ming was about to push the time acceleration effect beyond a hundredfold, the consumption instantly increased by several hundred times.

"What is this?"

Jiang Ming noticed this situation and immediately stopped.

After a careful inspection, Jiang Ming understood what was happening.

"So that's how it is."

Every time the Wheel of Time's time acceleration effect reached a certain stage, its consumption would increase by a hundred or even a thousand times.

Before the tenfold acceleration effect, the Wheel of Time only needed to draw external cosmic energy to accelerate successfully, with almost no consumption. But beyond tenfold, the consumption increased several hundredfold.

At that time, Jiang Ming used Stellar Energy as the consumption source, which was barely enough.

Now, with Cosmic Crystals as the energy source, the Wheel of Time's propulsion effect naturally surged immensely.

"It seems I can only use the hundredfold acceleration effect for now. If I go beyond a hundredfold, I can't afford the consumption yet."

Jiang Ming judged the consumption rate of Cosmic Crystals at speeds exceeding a hundredfold.

Hundredfold acceleration was already an extremely powerful effect, and it was more than enough for Jiang Ming at the moment.

"After dealing with the people from Ruo Lan Shan, I'll go participate in the Universe Mercenary Alliance assessment."

Jiang Ming thought of the Cosmic Crystals scattered everywhere in the intermediate realm of the Thunder World. As long as he could obtain that batch of Cosmic Crystals, he wouldn't have to worry about consumption issues before the Genius Battle.

However, Jiang Ming thought of the huge commotion caused when the intermediate realm appeared, and he couldn't help but ponder.

"I need to find a backer."

Jiang Ming also thought to himself at this moment. With his talent, he could easily attract the attention of major powers in the universe.

Joining these major forces would naturally bring many benefits, but also many restrictions. Therefore, Jiang Ming had no intention of joining a major force earlier.

He just wanted to cultivate peacefully until the Genius Battle began.

But now, the acceleration effect of the Wheel of Time gave him new ideas.

"Perhaps it's feasible."

Jiang Ming quickly made up his mind.

The most suitable force for him was naturally the Virtual Universe Company. With his strength and talent, attracting the attention of the Virtual Universe Company would be no problem at all.

"If I have enough Cosmic Crystals, I can accelerate at will. By then, when the Genius Battle begins, I might set an incredible record."

Jiang Ming thought to himself.

With his mind made up, Jiang Ming stopped thinking about other things and entered a state of cultivation.

Although the hundredfold time flow would lead to a crazy surge in consumption if he wanted to increase it further, expanding the acceleration range did not significantly increase the consumption.

Earlier, Jiang Ming had been accelerating with the smallest range of 0.1 cubic meters, barely covering his entire body.

Now, with Cosmic Crystals, Jiang Ming could expand the covered range.

After expanding the time acceleration effect to ten cubic meters, Jiang Ming stopped.

December 23rd, China time.

A silver-gray flying saucer-shaped spacecraft appeared at the edge of the solar system.

"Look, that's our destination, that life-bearing planet around that star."

In the spacecraft's control room.

The captain, wearing a blue combat suit, pointed to a corner of the virtual starry sky. The screen zoomed in.

A blue planet appeared before everyone's eyes.

"Excellent, praise it! It will bring us status, bring us money."

Upon seeing the blue planet, the people on the ship let out loud cheers. They had been wandering the universe for a long time.

Now, it was finally time to reap their rewards.

"That planet was once occupied by an invincible expert. There might be treasures left behind by an invincible expert there."

Just as everyone was lost in their fantasies, their bodies began to burn.

In just a moment, the people who were cheering in the spacecraft turned into dust.

In the vastness of space, Jiang Ming, with fiery red hair, stood still in the void.

To be safe, Jiang Ming had his Universe level Fire God clone personally handle the matter.

With hundredfold time flow, even though the Fire God clone's hundredfold gene required a lot of energy, it had already reached the Universe level third stage.

With the Fire God clone's strength, even if this exploration fleet from Ruo Lan Shan was prepared, they would still be instantly annihilated.

"Zero, see if they managed to send any transmissions back."

Jiang Ming raised his hand and spoke to his intelligent optical computer. When purchasing items in Qiu Long City, Jiang Ming also bought a few intelligent optical computers. Jiang Ming was too lazy to name them, so he uniformly called them Zero.

After Zero hacked into the spaceship's system and conducted a search, Jiang Ming reached out and retrieved the spaceship.

With the super space ring obtained from Babata, storing a few motherships was an easy task.

Not long after, Thor Jiang Ming returned to the Sun with the spoils of war.

Earth.

West Lake Villa.

"Purple Light Dew has begun global trials and is already showing results."

Luo Feng looked at the data from various major countries and base cities, and his mood improved considerably.

If everything went smoothly, Earthlings' bloodlines would soon be improved.

"Jiang Ming is out of seclusion. He's calling."

Babata's voice sounded in Luo Feng's ear, and the call was connected.

"Come see me."

After the call was connected, Jiang Ming only gave a coordinate and stopped.

Seeing Jiang Ming's demeanor, Luo Feng immediately realized something had happened.

At an altitude of 400 kilometers, a silver triangular spaceship was suspended in the void. This was the C5-class spaceship Jiang Ming had purchased on Qiu Long Star.

Hong, Thor, and Luo Feng were all in the spaceship's control room.

At this moment, their expressions were very solemn. From Jiang Ming's tone during their conversation, it was clear that something must have happened.

"We might be in trouble."

Jiang Ming said, and without waiting for the others to react, a projection appeared in the control room.

The screen showed the Ruo Lan Shan Family's spaceship approaching the solar system. This was captured by the star detection machine Jiang Ming had deployed on the planet just now.

"This is a Universe Adventurer's spaceship."

Universe Adventurers, to put it nicely, were adventurers. In reality, most of them were a group of wandering gold prospectors. The vast majority of slave planets were discovered and enslaved by Universe Adventurers.

They were an extremely notorious group.

So, when Jiang Ming mentioned Universe Adventurers, Luo Feng and the other two's faces instantly turned grim.

The presence of Universe Adventurers near the solar system meant that Earth had been discovered.

"The most crucial point is here, look."

Jiang Ming pointed at the screen. There was a marking on the spaceship.

"I found some information. This is the mark of a Universe level family in the universe. Their patriarch is a Universe level ninth stage expert."

"Universe level ninth stage!"

Hearing Jiang Ming say this, Luo Feng and the other two broke out in a cold sweat, their hearts beginning to panic.