Babata's Excitement (Please Bookmark and Follow)

More than ten thousand meters beneath the lake.

Inside the Meteorite Star Ship.

Unlike the stunned Hong and the others, the demon Babata was thrilled. "Haha, at just four years old, he can already skillfully control a fourth-tier Mental Power Weapon. His Mental Power amplitude definitely exceeds 56... Such Controller talent would rank as genius-class even in the universe!!"

"After guarding Earth for fifty thousand years, our Yunmo Star lineage is finally about to welcome an inheritor!"

Babata's blood-red eyes stared at the screen as it began controlling the ship to toss out Wood Essence Crystals one after another.

"Little fellow, come quickly. Once you join the Yunmo Star lineage, you'll understand that only our Yunmo Star lineage can raise you into a powerhouse of the universe!"

It could barely suppress its excitement.

After the Councilor-level powerhouses of the world's many factions learned that Zhou Hao had killed the shrimp Beast Emperor, they were shocked—but immediately rushed madly toward Mist Island.

Everyone knew that Mist Island was bound to contain treasures, perhaps even Ancient Civilization Relics. Arriving a step earlier meant having one more chance than everyone else.

Hong and Thor also ordered their Smart Fighter Jets to proceed at full speed.

At the edge of Mist Island.

After dragging the enormous corpse of the shrimp Beast Emperor onto the shore, Zhou Hao ignored the people in charge of the stationed base who came crowding around him and charged straight into the lake.

He did not know the Meteorite Star Ship's exact location. He only knew it was more than ten thousand meters beneath the lake. Still, his expression was quite relaxed. In any case, he was not in a hurry—Babata was the one in a hurry.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

Quite a few War God martial artists from the stationed base naturally understood that entering the lakebed first would give them a tremendous advantage. Even without urging from the Councilors behind their factions, they closely followed Zhou Hao and rushed into the lake.

Within the interconnected underground river channels three thousand meters beneath the lakebed.

Zhou Hao wandered about as leisurely as if strolling through a garden. He appeared to be searching for treasure, but he was actually waiting for the Wood Essence Crystals to appear.

One minute.

Five minutes.

It was not until seven minutes had passed that Zhou Hao turned into a relatively narrow underground river channel and caught a strong fragrance of rice.

He flew directly toward the source of the rice fragrance and soon saw Wood Essence Crystals floating above the underground river channel.

There were seven of them in total!!

Zhou Hao immediately grinned from ear to ear. Babata was truly willing to spend generously, tossing out seven Wood Essence Crystals right from the start just to take him as a disciple.

Roar, roar~

The Lord-level Monsters in the underground river also smelled the rice fragrance. Each grew agitated and charged madly toward the Wood Essence Crystals. The aquatic monster at the very front lunged at the crystals without regard for its own life.

How could Zhou Hao, who had seen it all, allow the monster to swallow the Wood Essence Crystals?

Boom!

Golden light swept through.

Several Lord-level aquatic monsters around the Wood Essence Crystals were all killed.

Zhou Hao rushed over and stored the seven Wood Essence Crystals in his Space Wristwatch.

He already had more than sixty Wood Essence Crystals in his wristwatch, all obtained from continuous check-ins over the past four months.

"Let's continue!" Zhou Hao's little face wore a smile, and anticipation gleamed in his eyes. Though Wood Essence Crystals were precious, what he needed most were the vast collection of secret techniques and the Controller inheritance gathered by Yunmo Star.

Another ten minutes passed.

Rumble, rumble, rumble!

The roar of fighter jets came from the sky.

Hong and Thor were the first to arrive. The fighter jet hatches opened, and the Councilor-level powerhouses from Limit Martial Hall and Thunderclap Martial Hall filed out one after another.

The first thing they saw was the massive shrimp Beast Emperor lying across the shore. Of its original hundred-plus tentacles, only the roots remained, while its body was riddled with sword-shaped holes and bloody punctures like a sieve. It looked utterly miserable.

The Councilors from the two martial halls all sucked in cold breaths.

They could hardly imagine how terrifying that unfamiliar Mental Power Master's attack had been to torture such a powerful Beast Emperor-level monster into this state.

Hong had never seen Zhou Hao's methods, so he looked at Thor.

Thor's expression was somewhat blank, but he quickly came back to his senses. Amid his shock was a trace of bitter amusement as he nodded. "It was his doing."

Hong could not help taking a deep breath and sighed. "Four months!"

Thor said with feeling, "Yes, four months!"

"Come on, let's hurry to the bottom of the lake too. If we're any later, I'm afraid we won't even get any soup." Hong's expression returned to calm as he smiled.

Whoosh, whoosh.

The two were the first to charge into the lake.

The other Councilors, inspectors, and the rest quickly followed.

Not long afterward.

Councilor-level powerhouses from the HR Alliance, the five major powers, and the various base cities arrived one after another. Their reactions upon seeing the Beast Emperor's corpse were much the same as those of the Councilors from the two martial halls. Afterward, they too swiftly entered the lake.

By then, Zhou Hao had already collected seventeen Wood Essence Crystals in succession. However, the direction of his location had been leaked. After all, several of those War God martial artists who had followed him in first had encountered him, and some had even smelled the rice fragrance.

Yet all those War Gods knew Zhou Hao's strength. The moment they saw him from afar, they immediately turned around and left.

Zhou Hao did not care about this. He had never intended to conceal his location in the first place. Besides, even without those War Gods leaking it, the Councilor-level powerhouses of the various factions could detect it through their instruments.

As large numbers of Councilor-level powerhouses and some High-level War Gods entered.

The commotion in the underground river channels grew greater and greater.

Zhou Hao frowned. It was not that he feared having too many people around. Rather, the Wood Essence Crystals did not appear along any obvious route. Sometimes they appeared in the underground river channels, and sometimes within the rock layers. If too many people came in and took the Wood Essence Crystals from certain locations, he would have no way to accurately determine the approximate area where the Meteorite Star Ship was located.

"Forget it, I'm not in a hurry." Shaking his little head, he continued wandering aimlessly through the underground rivers.

Inside the Meteorite Star Ship.

Babata used the ship's innate mental power waves to silently influence Zhou Hao's consciousness, while tossing out Wood Essence Crystals one after another to guide him in the right direction.

However, the mental power waves could only influence him gradually. Though it was anxious, it still had to be patient.

As for the precise locations of the Wood Essence Crystals, sometimes even it could not control them. The underground rivers were turbulent and the currents rapid, so occasionally two or three Wood Essence Crystals would drift with the river into other channels.

Thus, after the Councilor-level powerhouses of the other factions discovered the miraculous effects of the Wood Essence Crystals, every one of them went mad.

Within one broad underground river.

Hong breathed heavily, his eyes bright. "They're actually Wood Essence Crystals, precious treasures of the universe. If my Cloud-Soaring Vine wants to grow, it must be fed life treasures. According to ancient civilization information, Wood Essence Crystals can cultivate a Cloud-Soaring Vine..."

At that thought, he immediately issued an order.

"All Councilors of Limit Martial Hall, listen up. The moment you discover those crystals carrying a rice fragrance, report it immediately. The person who reports it can receive..."

Not only Limit Martial Hall—the leaders of Thunderclap Martial Hall and the HR Alliance also hurriedly instructed the Councilors under their command.

Time passed bit by bit.

Because Zhou Hao had entered the underground rivers early, he obtained quite a few Wood Essence Crystals. But Babata spared no expense in throwing out Wood Essence Crystals to lure him onward, resulting in no small number of crystals drifting into other channels. The major factions gradually descended into madness in their struggle for the Wood Essence Crystals.

During the third hour after the Wood Essence Crystals appeared, a Councilor-level powerhouse from Soviet Russia, one of the five major powers, seized a Wood Essence Crystal—only to be besieged and killed by the other Councilor-level powerhouses!

Yet rather than calming the others, this only drove every Councilor even madder.

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