Inside the command room of the Black Dragon Spaceship.
"That planet is Tamu Star."
"Yang Zheng, once we enter Tamu Star, follow our plan," Babata said.
"Mm!"
Yang Zheng nodded, watching the emerald planet draw closer. The enormous ring-shaped spaceport he had spotted from afar grew larger before his eyes.
Beep!
"We've received a guidance signal," Babata said. "Yang Zheng, Tamu Star is a major administrative hub. Unless they belong to powerful organizations like the Universe Galaxy Bank or the Universe Mercenaries, everyone who comes here has to park their spaceship at the spaceport."
Yang Zheng nodded slightly.
As one of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire's administrative planets, it would never readily allow outsiders' spaceships to enter. They had to park at the spaceport, then take one of its ships down to the planet.
Of course, anyone with sufficient strength or powerful backing could disregard the Black Dragon Mountain Empire's rules.
Tamu Star's ring-shaped spaceport.
The Black Dragon Spaceship continued its approach. Through the virtual exterior display, Yang Zheng stared at the massive ring-shaped spaceport below-
It resembled a vast steel city floating in space, with countless vessels darting around it like swarms of bees.
The spaceport's outer ring rotated slowly. It was densely packed with metal passageways that guided incoming ships, their surfaces gleaming coldly beneath the star's light.
The inner ring, meanwhile, was packed with landing pads and signal towers, like a vast silver city compressed into this magnificent orbital structure.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
Following the guidance signal, the Black Dragon Spaceship entered one of the metal passageways and soon reached the inner-ring spaceport.
Through the virtual exterior display, Yang Zheng immediately saw the immense docking area below, packed with countless spaceships.
The ships varied in size. The smaller ones were only a few dozen meters long, some barely a dozen or so, while the larger transport vessels measured around ten thousand meters.
Whoosh!
The Black Dragon Spaceship descended slowly and finally landed at the designated spot.
The hatch opened.
Yang Zheng flew out of the hatch and looked around. There seemed to be no staff in the spaceport's docking area.
"Stop looking around and follow my map. This ring-shaped spaceport is run by an intelligent control hub. There are people in the central control room, but out here, there are only guidance robots at most."
Babata's voice rang out in his mind. After the spaceship landed in the docking area, the control hub had transmitted an information package containing maps of Tamu Star, along with its customs, laws, taboos, and more.
Following Babata's map, Yang Zheng turned into a passageway and soon reached a plaza at its end.
"This is the parking area for dedicated aircraft. Everyone entering Tamu Star can temporarily use one to travel between the spaceport and the planet," Babata said. "Go over there, to the Lan 7718 Aircraft."
Yang Zheng looked in the direction Babata indicated and saw a saucer-shaped aircraft about twenty meters in diameter.
Whoosh!
The aircraft soon rose into the air, passed through a dedicated metal passageway in the inner ring, and flew toward the planet below.
The aircraft descended from the ring-shaped spaceport, drawing closer to the emerald planet.
Its surface seemed wrapped in a flowing green halo, while brilliant, aurora-like colors occasionally flashed through its atmosphere.
At the far edge of his view, an immense tree reached into the heavens, like a pagoda piercing the clouds. Even from this distance, he could see its spire emerging above them.
Tamu Star.
That was where its name came from.
After descending for several minutes, the aircraft finally passed through the thin atmosphere, and a dreamlike world gradually appeared beyond the window.
"Whoa!"
Looking at the scenery outside the window, Yang Zheng could not help exclaiming in amazement.
It was as though he had entered an elven realm. Countless towering trees rose from the ground, their trunks as massive as mountains and their crowns piercing the clouds, gleaming like emeralds in the sunlight.
In the clearings between the giant trees, human cities dotted the landscape like pearls, their silver-white buildings coexisting harmoniously with the lush forest.
Among the enormous branches hundreds of meters above the ground, exquisite cities floated in the sky.
Tamu Star, the main administrative city.
After delivering Yang Zheng to the ground, the aircraft swiftly rose into the air to await his next summons.
Yang Zheng did not linger. Once he entered the main administrative city, he headed straight for the Universe Galaxy Bank branch.
At the very heart of this bustling city stood a building of breathtaking beauty, surrounded by lawns extending over three kilometers.
People occasionally entered it, drawing looks of longing from the passersby nearby. After all, clients of the Universe Galaxy Bank needed deposits of at least one hundred million Black Dragon Coins.
The entire fortune of the richest person on an ordinary planet would amount to roughly that much.
"Yang Zheng, go around to the side. We'll use the automated self-service passage!" Babata promptly directed him.
Yang Zheng looked in that direction. There was another water-curtain entrance there, but very few people used it.
He stepped through the water-curtain entrance.
He walked straight to the end of the silver-white corridor, where there was a small, relatively enclosed room. Yang Zheng entered and immediately keyed in Hu Yanbo's account number and password.
"Esteemed five-star client, welcome to the Universe Galaxy Bank," the bank's Intelligent System announced in a clear voice inside the reception room.
"I need to sell an Immortal Corpse!"
Yang Zheng wasted no words. He stated his purpose directly and handed over a Space Ring containing an Immortal Corpse.
"Inspection in progress..."
The Space Ring was placed inside a specialized inspection device. Red and green beams repeatedly swept over it, and a price was soon calculated.
"Esteemed five-star client, following the bank's standard inspection of the item you wish to sell, the final purchase price has been set at..."
"800 Hunyuan units!"
Although the sale price of an Immortal God's corpse depended on the size of the divine body, even the lowest price in the Garbage Starfield was around 1,000 Hunyuan units.
The Universe Galaxy Bank only offered item-purchasing services to earn some extra money on the side.
Apart from the two types of contribution points-supreme treasure points and valuable treasure points-the Hunyuan unit was the highest denomination of currency commonly used among human factions.
1 Hunyuan unit = 1 trillion Universe Coins.
1 Universe Coin = 3,300 Ganwu coins.
1 Ganwu coin = 1,000 Black Dragon Coins.
After selling the Immortal Corpse, Yang Zheng swiftly left the Universe Galaxy Bank. He then registered as a Universe Citizen and entered Tamu Star's largest slave market.
Unfortunately, the strongest Universe Level slaves currently available here were only at the Cosmic Level Third Order. To obtain Universe Level slaves at the Seventh Order or above, he would have to pay a deposit to reserve them and wait a month.
Yang Zheng had no choice but to pay the deposit first.
He also bought two Cosmic Level Third Order slaves to serve as temporary guards during this trip.
After leaving the slave market, he went to the arms market and ordered a top-of-the-line Stellar Defense System, which likewise would not be delivered for another twenty days.
"Phew..."
The important things are taken care of. Now all I have to do is wait. I should take a good look around and buy some cultivation resources while I'm at it.
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