Babata

Biodata

Background / History

Babata accompanied Hu Yanbo for tens of millions of years. After Hu Yanbo’s death, Babata spent approximately fifty thousand years isolated underground, preserving the Yunmo Star inheritance. As an intelligent life unable to cultivate or go outside, it endured the confinement with little to do beyond solitary entertainment 43 45.

Its consciousness could still connect to the Virtual Universe Network, but Hu Yanbo’s account had expired. Temporary anonymous accounts also eventually became invalid because they could not be renewed, leaving Babata restricted to offline play 41.

Babata sought talented successors to rebuild Yunmo Star. Its initial choice was Luo Feng, but Yang Zheng’s exceptional aptitude prompted it to admit a second disciple. Later, the discovery of a juvenile Golden Horned Beast offered Babata a possible route toward both the lineage’s revival and revenge for Hu Yanbo 32 35 36 39.

Appearance

• Avatar: A child wearing black robes 32.
• Distinguishing features: Two pointed horns and visible fangs 36 41.
• Presentation: Appears floating in Virtual Space or as a small face on a spacecraft’s console screen 36 41.

Personality

Babata is outspoken, demanding, and quick to criticize inadequate talent or training methods. It initially considers Earth’s candidates barely acceptable and dismisses several Earth-developed techniques as too crude for Yang Zheng. Its teaching nevertheless emphasizes practical priorities: master selected techniques, establish a sound foundation, and increase cultivation strength rather than collect unnecessary arts 32 36 37.

Its loyalty to Hu Yanbo remains central to its decisions. Babata shows nostalgia when viewing Yunmo Star and recruits Yang Zheng with the lineage’s future reconstruction in mind. It can also become impulsive when an extraordinary opportunity appears: its enthusiasm over the Golden Horned Beast leads it to underestimate the danger to Yang Zheng, after which it apologizes 36 39.

Babata uses teasing and competition to motivate its students. It supports deciding senior-disciple status by strength rather than admission order, deliberately putting pressure on Luo Feng to train. After its long confinement, it is also eager to return to the universe and regain access to the Virtual Universe 35 41 44.

Abilities & Skills

Detection and Aptitude Assessment

Babata uses specialized scanning methods to evaluate people, identify creatures, and explore spacecraft.

• Measures brain domain width, detecting Luo Feng’s value of 22 and Yang Zheng’s value of 45 32 34 35.
• Assesses Yang Zheng’s Spiritual Force, physical cultivation, and aptitude for both warrior and Spirit Reader training 35 36.
• Scans the mothership in Ancient Civilization Ruin No. 12 and guides Yang Zheng through it 38.
• Detects the Golden Horned Beast beyond the range of Yang Zheng’s spiritual-force sensing 39.

Mental Communication and Guidance

Babata communicates directly within its students’ minds and can guide a chosen candidate toward the inheritance.

• Sends invisible ripples through layers of rock into Luo Feng’s Sea of Consciousness 32.
• Uses those ripples to modify suggestions and guide Luo Feng toward the underground ship 32.
• The guiding ripples cannot be detected by the naked eye, instruments, or spiritual force 32.
• Provides real-time navigation and tactical advice through mental communication 38 39.

Cultivation Instruction

Babata administers Hu Yanbo’s legacy and adapts its instruction to each disciple.

• Teaches Luo Feng about cultivation realms, interstellar civilizations, powerful bloodlines, and the dangers of displaying valuable possessions 34.
• Supplies manuals covering Planetary Level through World Lord Level, including warrior techniques and Yunmo Star’s Control, Illusion, and Miscellaneous chapters 36.
• Closely corrects Luo Feng’s training while giving the more independent Yang Zheng regular assessments and recommendations 37.
• Helps Yang Zheng transform his ordinary spiritual force into the special spiritual force required for Yunmo Star’s secret techniques 40.

Inheritance limits:

• The Inheritance Soul Seal is irreversibly fused with Luo Feng’s soul; Babata cannot reclaim it after discovering Yang Zheng 36.
• Under Hu Yanbo’s arrangements, that seal distinguishes a personal disciple entitled to inherit his estate from a Named Disciple 36.
• Yang Zheng must begin learning without the seal, making his initial training more difficult despite his aptitude 36.

Virtual Space Construction

Babata creates personalized spaces for instruction and private communication.

• Builds Yang Zheng a cultivation environment containing a mountain, a projected Yunmo Star, a blood-red castle, and a room stocked with manuals 36.
• Provides training environments in which Yang Zheng and Luo Feng spar 38.
• Constructs the shared Virtual Space used for their discussion of possessing the Golden Horned Beast. Conversations there cannot be uncovered through Reverse Time and Space; the Original Ancestor’s Virtual Universe is identified as an exception 50.

Engineering and Spacecraft Operation

Babata repairs ancient technology and manages interstellar travel.

• Modifies Luo Feng’s intelligent fighter systems to make private discussion safer 35.
• Preserves important systems during the recovery of the Black Dragon Mountain Ship and repairs the vessel over five months 39 41.
• Restores three depleted Flowing Silver Guards 39 45.
• Operates the Black Dragon Spaceship through the Dark Universe at 1.2 times light speed, conserving energy and limiting risks to the newly repaired ship 41.
• Takes control of the twenty-two transport ships supplied with Yang Zheng’s Stellar Defense System 43.

Duplication: Babata No. 2

Before leaving Earth, Babata creates a less intelligent duplicate to teach and assist Luo Feng 41 45.

• Defense planning: Explains how the B6-grade laser cannon and three repaired Flowing Silver Guards could kill a Stellar Level One Golden Horned Beast if used properly 45.
• Risk assessment: Urges Luo Feng to wait for Yang Zheng’s return and warns that severe soul injuries can leave even Immortals asleep for a million years—or permanently 48.
• Sacrificial operation: After Luo Feng refuses to wait, selects Mohanderson, Ister, Tripathi Singh, Jia Yi, and Sokolov by soul strength to assist him 48.
• Limitation: Has little emotional capacity, though Luo Feng’s resolve produces a response described as something beyond absolute rationality 48.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Yunmo Star Ship — Houses the inheritance fifteen thousand meters beneath Mist Island. Babata plans to use its exceptionally hard hull to imprison the juvenile Golden Horned Beast 32 34 39.
• Wood Bud Crystals — Releases more than twenty as bait to gather Earth’s strongest fighters for aptitude screening 32.
• Yunmo Star cultivation library — Preserves Hu Yanbo’s warrior manuals and Spirit Reader inheritance 36 40.
• Storage ring — Gives Luo Feng a ring-shaped storage item and explains how to bind it with a spiritual imprint 34.
• Crimson Chaos Copper Mother Fragment — Explains its usage restrictions to Luo Feng, then directs him to pass it to Yang Zheng 34 35.
• Black Dragon Spaceship — Repairs and pilots the recovered ship for the Tamu Star expedition 39 41.

Relationships

• Hu Yanbo — Master whose inheritance Babata preserves. Rebuilding Yunmo Star and potentially avenging him remain long-term goals 34 36 39.
• Luo Feng — Hu Yanbo’s final direct disciple and Babata’s initial chosen inheritor. Babata teaches him, corrects his training, and encourages rivalry with Yang Zheng 32 34 37 44.
• Yang Zheng — Hu Yanbo’s Named Disciple and a core Yunmo Star disciple. Babata recognizes his exceptional talent, helps him learn the inheritance, and accompanies him into space 35 36 40 41.
• Golden Horned Beast — A rare target Babata hopes to capture to transform its disciples’ prospects. Later, it participates in the plan to persuade Luo Feng to possess the beast 39 50.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Notable Quotes

“When you're weak, you must remember not to flaunt your wealth. The universe is a place of bloody cruelty.” 34

“Master laid out a path for Luo Feng. As for you... I can only offer suggestions. The final decision is yours.” 36

“Yang Zheng, this time I didn't think things through!” 39