The King of Black Fog

"The situation is turning grim," one said.

"Hasn't it always been like this?" came the reply.

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Eagles soar through the sky, fish dart in the shallow waters,...

Chapter 323 All in Despair

Mars separates Jupiter from Earth.

Li Changzhou had been to Mars, teleported there directly from the moon, and the artificial star he moved back from Konglu Star was still in orbit.

Leaving Mars, we flew towards Jupiter.

With each step he took, his figure resembled a sharp arrow piercing through the universe.

"Bow Force"

Visualize a 'bow of divine light', transform all your magical power into a divine bow, and shoot your body out.

This is a footwork technique, and also a fighting style.

It's rated A+.

Li Changzhou possessed the Fragrant Leaf Crown, and by the Jiajing era, he had all the Taoist techniques he could find. The reason he chose this A+ level Taoist technique was because it was the introductory technique for the S- level Taoist technique Houyi Shooting the Sun Fist.

Since we're on the road anyway, why not practice some Taoist magic along the way?

Rest? Do you even deserve it?

Once they reached the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, Li Changzhou moved with lightning speed. A cosmic rock flashed past his eyes, and he threw a punch.

He swung his right arm and thrust it forward like an arrow.

Silently, the asteroid, about 30 kilometers long, was pierced through from both ends.

Li Changzhou took a step forward, his body transforming once again into an arrow-shaped streak of light as he rushed into the asteroid belt.

The asteroid belt contains more than 500,000 asteroids, some scientists believe the number is in the millions, but only 120,000 have been numbered by Earth so far.

Nevertheless, he did not collide with any asteroids along the way.

Looking around, there is only one asteroid every few thousand kilometers on average. Li Changzhou estimates that even a spacecraft, even if it flies in the asteroid belt for hundreds of thousands of years, may not be able to collide with any object.

The largest of these asteroids is Ceres, which is one-thirteenth the size of the Moon.

Li Changzhou found Ceres, and just as the astronomers had said, it did indeed have water and a thin atmosphere formed by water vapor, but no airglow.

Just as he was about to transform into a streak of light and leave, he suddenly stopped.

An asteroid streaked past in the distance. Li Changzhou locked onto it and teleported directly to it.

With a burst of magic, he froze the asteroid, and then unleashed another apricot-yellow Five Elements True Blade, which, like a cloud of powder, enveloped the asteroid.

The Earth Element True Light continuously eroded the surface of the asteroid, and soon, Li Changzhou saw what he had sensed.

A huge gemstone.

The asteroid is a giant gem, glowing blue all over, looking like a dream, like a solidified ocean.

The gem is about 1 kilometer long, and it would take a college student about three or four minutes to run from one end to the other. That's how huge the gem is.

The more you travel through the universe, the smaller Earth seems.

If there really are extraterrestrials capable of discovering Earth's civilization, Earth might not mean much to them, even if it is habitable (habitability is probably relative).

As Li Changzhou sat cross-legged in the universe, collecting the aura of Earth, his mindset had subtly changed. He no longer focused his attention on Earth and lost interest in the rights and wrongs of Earth.

He threw the gem into the Honey Pot World, where it sank into the Great Lake, causing the lake to rise and nearly flood Bird's Nest Plain.

At this moment, the Bird's Nest Plain resembles a green meadow by the river, and the houses they live in are like villages along the river.

Looking at the deep blue gem at the bottom of the lake, Li Changzhou smiled. Such a large gem could be used to make a ring, or even carved into a gem palace.

In ancient times, Emperor Wu of Han kept a beautiful woman in a golden house; now he keeps Yang Qinglan in a jeweled palace. Hmm, not bad.

The problem is, Yang Qinglan might not like living in the Gem Palace.

Leaving the honeypot world, Li Changzhou continued his journey. With the gems he had acquired, he began to pay attention to these asteroids, hoping to find one that was entirely made of gold.

He wasn't interested in gold—although he had no money, he just wanted to show off to Li Qianxia and broaden her horizons.

In addition, it could be placed on the moon as a tourist attraction.

It can also serve as a reminder to regimes on Earth: the universe is vast and boundless, with unlimited resources. Since we can leave Earth, we should stop fighting each other on Earth.

While drawing cosmic energy, Li Changzhou rushed towards Jupiter, searching for celestial bodies worth seeing along the way.

He walks through the solar system like a farmer walking in his own field, parting the leaves to see if the corn kernels are plump; lifting the vines to see where the watermelons are hidden, strolling leisurely, with a sense of abundant leisure.

Of course, they didn't forget to keep moving forward.

Use teleportation as long as there are asteroids within sight that can serve as coordinates (an empty vacuum won't work).

It took five days to finally reach Jupiter, which is 780 million kilometers away from the moon.

How should I put it about this distance...

The Helios 2 probe is the fastest probe ever built by mankind, traveling at approximately 240,000 kilometers per hour. At this speed, it would take about 109 days to travel from Earth to Jupiter.

If you were to travel on a commercial airliner, even if you were born on a plane, you might not live to be over 80 years old and never reach Jupiter in your lifetime.

An ordinary immortal's magical power is probably only enough for a one-way ticket. Without carrying enough energy with them or stopping along the way to collect enough energy to replenish their magical power, they will be killed by cosmic radiation due to exhaustion of their magical power.

Taking the Princess of Yaochi would be faster, but Li Changzhou didn't want to have too much contact with Yaochi outside of his mission.

Besides, the time spent on the road was not wasted; it was also a form of cultivation.

From afar, Jupiter's surface is covered with white, yellow, brown, and red clouds. A closer look reveals 17 such clouds, resembling colorful ribbons, creating a magnificent and auspicious scene, like a fairyland shrouded in auspicious clouds.

Further ahead are Jupiter's rings.

Jupiter's rings are composed of numerous black rock fragments, ranging in diameter from tens to hundreds of meters, which rotate rapidly around Jupiter.

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