Several days later, Southern Universe.
Following the Wish Compass's guidance, Xia Ping took the Star Ship directly into the Southern Universe. All around him stretched an endless starry expanse, stars scattered like a vast net, a breathtaking sight.
"The Earth Mother Stone is actually in the Southern Universe? I wonder where exactly it is."
Xia Ping was quite curious. He had originally thought that a treasure like the Earth Mother Stone could perhaps only be found in the Central Universe, but it seemed he had overthought things.
A rare treasure like this could appear in any corner of the universe.
"It seems to be in that starfield ahead."
As he drew closer to his destination, the Wish Compass vibrated ever more intensely. With his divine consciousness, Xia Ping could sense a strange and mysterious starfield appearing in the distance.
"Hm?!"
All of a sudden, as Xia Ping passed through this area, he sensed a black commercial spacecraft ahead. It seemed capable of carrying over ten thousand people, but its situation was extremely dire.
It was being besieged by five or six pirate ships, battered full of holes with nowhere to flee. The many passengers aboard the commercial ship seemed to have been taken hostage by those pirates.
Originally, he had no desire to meddle in such trivial business. Things like this happened every moment throughout the universe; even if he wanted to interfere, he could never handle them all.
But when his divine consciousness penetrated the ship, he immediately discovered familiar auras aboard it. Su Mei and Qiu Xue were both on that spacecraft.
Yet strangely, with their strength, they could have slaughtered all those pirates with ease. Instead, they had disguised themselves as weak women and hidden among the crowd.
Xia Ping stroked his chin. He knew the two