Babata!

On the Australian Continent, danger lurked everywhere. Vinina possessed only the strength of an intermediate War God, so she naturally could not treat monsters as beneath notice like Luo Feng in the Original Work. Instead, she cautiously passed through the territories of one Lord-level monster after another, doing her best to avoid them.

Even so, several battles still broke out along the way.

Fortunately, the strongest among them were only at the Initial Lord level. Since Vinina had no intention of fighting, she quickly broke away from them.

After traveling for nearly three days, a massive river finally appeared in Vinina's sight.

"Finally."

"Follow this river straight for 260 kilometers, and I'll reach the lake where Mist Island is located."

Vinina looked at the satellite map and murmured softly before plunging straight into the river. She channeled Battle Intent Power into her eyes, making them glimmer with a faint golden light.

Whoosh!

With her full strength unleashed, Vinina shot forward and raced south along the river.

She paid no attention whatsoever to the monsters in the river.

After all, the river was only a little over ten meters wide. The monsters living within it could at most be Beast General level, posing no threat to her at all.

She advanced rapidly.

In just forty minutes, she crossed the 260 kilometers. Rising from the water, she saw an enormous lake spanning a hundred li in every direction.

The lake stretched vast and wide, completely shrouded in endless thick fog. The deeper one went toward its center, the denser the fog became. Without Battle Intent Power enhancing her vision, Vinina could see only about a hundred meters ahead. Strange sounds occasionally drifted up from beneath the water.

Eerie.

Mysterious.

An invisible pressure bore down on her.

But precisely because of this, she knew she had come to the right place!

"I hope you won't disappoint me."

Vinina murmured, then plunged headfirst into the lake and swam downward.

At the bottom of the lake, within a thick layer of rock roughly 15,600 meters below.

"One target is approaching;"

"Target locked;"

"Beginning suggestive guidance;"

Accompanied by several phrases in an unknown language of unclear origin, strange light waves invisible to the naked eye began to spread. From a depth of 15,600 meters, they traveled in a straight line through countless layers of rock and reached the mind of Vinina, who was rapidly diving deeper.

"Haha, I knew it!"

Vinina immediately stopped diving. Looking into the depths below, joy rose in her heart.

She could clearly sense an impulse appearing in her mind, urging her to continue diving!

This was obviously Babata's doing.

It could no longer hold back!

It had waited a full fifty thousand years just to ensure that Yunmo Star's inheritance would not be severed. Naturally, it placed immense importance on geniuses appearing on Earth. Even Sago Neheru had been clearly recorded by it, so how could it possibly ignore her when she was sixteen years old and had a Punch Power exertion level of 5?

With that thought, Vinina's diving speed abruptly increased.

Five thousand meters.

Ten thousand meters.

Fifteen thousand meters.

Fifteen thousand six hundred meters!

"Target has arrived."

"Cabin door cloaking deactivated."

At the same moment Vinina reached a depth of 15,600 meters, the area buried beneath countless layers of rock began to wriggle. The hard stone shattered as easily as foam under its movements.

What emerged was a dust-covered cabin door that had clearly been sealed away for a long time!

"There!"

Vinina noticed it at once. Her spear thrust forward, splitting apart countless rocks and forming a passage roughly one meter wide.

At the end of the passage stood a silver-white door covered in dust!

Moreover, the silver-white door was half open!

Directly in front of the cabin door, translucent crystals with faint white halos were casually piled together. They gave off a rich aroma of rice, and a single glance revealed more than a hundred of them.

Wood Crystals!

But this arrangement...

Were you baiting fish?

Vinina felt somewhat helpless, but she did not hesitate in the slightest. She immediately crouched down and swiftly placed the casually piled Wood Crystals into the backpack on her back one by one.

She counted them as she stored them.

A total of 174.

If they were released to the public, they would absolutely shake the entire Earth. Even Hong and Thor, those overwhelmingly dominant figures, would be no exception.

After all, even in the Vast Universe, these things were not cheap. The value of 174 of them was fully comparable to several Star-level slaves!

What level were Hong and Thor at, anyway?

After gathering up the Wood Crystals, Vinina looked at the half-open silver door. She let out a long breath, then stepped inside.

Beyond the silver-white door was a long, spacious passage with two branching corridors to the left and right. At the intersection, a massive corpse leaned against the wall.

The corpse had dark skin and thick arms. Its entire body was clad in a special suit of armor containing secret patterns, and its fists were covered in unusual gloves. Its blood-red eyes met Vinina's gaze.

The crushing pressure from its Life Level immediately filled her with fear!

This had nothing to do with willpower.

"An Immortal God!"

Suppressing the trembling in her heart, Vinina continued onward.

After walking roughly three hundred meters, the passage began to turn, and a tall door appeared ahead.

It too was half open.

She stepped inside.

Before her was a magnificent semicircular hall dozens of meters high and more than two hundred meters wide. Six corpses lay within the hall. One of them had been reduced to nothing but golden bones, yet every single one of them, like the corpse at the intersection, brought Vinina the crushing sensation of a superior Life Level, leaving her fearful and trembling!

Beep!

A sound suddenly rang out. The dim hall instantly lit up, illuminating the entire space. Then, strange light gathered at the center of the hall and formed a black virtual figure.

It was a small figure resembling a child.

Two sharp horns grew from its forehead, its eyes were blood-red, and it wore a black robe.

"Vinina Polenas."

The black-robed child looked at Vinina, a trace of delight in its blood-red eyes.

"You are?"

Vinina put on a cautious expression and asked in surprise.

She still had to act when it was time to act.

Otherwise, if she aroused its suspicion and made it connect the dots, she would be completely finished.

"I have waited for you for fifty thousand years."

Babata shook its head. "You humans of Earth have truly dreadful aptitude. In fifty thousand years, I only managed to find one suitable person."

"Suitable?"

Vinina blinked, looking somewhat stunned.

How could she be suitable?

She should belong to the Gene Warrior Ranks.

Vinina was certain of that.

After all, Mental Masters and Gene Warriors had a fundamental difference: a Mental Master's origin lay in the 'Sea of Consciousness' within the head, while a Gene Warrior's origin lay in the 'Dantian' in the abdomen. Vinina had practically never cultivated—

No.

Battle Intent Power was stored in the 'Sea of Consciousness' in her head. Could Babata have mistaken Battle Intent Power for Mental Power?