As they traveled along the way, they frequently witnessed scenes of lords battling dark creatures. Ye Chen and his companions even saw several battles between interstellar wanderers and dark creatures.
These interstellar wanderers are composed of a group of awakened beings, or beings who have gained great strength by consuming extraordinary spiritual plants, as well as remnants of alien races they found in the boundless starry sky.
These interstellar wanderers are generally not very strong and can hardly play a decisive role in a plane war, but when their numbers accumulate, they become a force that cannot be ignored.
Moreover, among the interstellar wanderers, there are occasionally some powerful awakened ones. These awakened ones, who risk their lives and seek immortality between life and death, surpass the awakened ones in both combat power and strength.
Of course, even more died!
Along the way, Ye Chen and his companions witnessed the annihilation of a group of interstellar wanderers. Although they wanted to rescue them, they were ultimately too late and only managed to save two survivors. These survivors were also corrupted by dark energy and would require a great deal of time to purify.
"These two aren't very strong, how did they survive?" the fat man asked curiously, looking at the two of them.
When they were in the Maya plane, they also encountered interstellar wanderers, but their strength was at least at the mid-level, otherwise they would not be able to be exposed to the vacuum environment for a long time and would easily fall into danger.
However, the two girls in front of them only had the strength of the third rank, not even the fourth rank. It was quite surprising that they were able to survive the destruction of the spaceship.
"There should be a protective treasure, right? I sensed another aura of light!" Jian Mengyi explained. She mainly cultivated the light attribute and was very sensitive to the aura of light.
"It seems that the two of them must be of high status, that they would protect them even if the entire team was wiped out! But are they from the catwoman clan?" Ye Chen asked curiously, looking at the cat ears and the long, thin cat tail behind them.
"I guess so? Some kind of feline alien race, do you like this kind of thing too?" Jian Mengyi pouted as she watched Ye Chen curiously stroke the cat's ears and tail.
"No way! I was just curious, after all, it's the first time I've seen it up close!" Ye Chen immediately let go and explained.
"All evils originate from curiosity!" the fat man's voice echoed softly.
"Boom!" A bright star was shining in the sky above the primordial planet.
"I swear! I was absolutely just curious and wanted to see, I had absolutely no other intentions, and heaven and earth can bear witness to my feelings for you!"
"..."
After leaving the two women in New Aini City, Ye Chen and the others ignored them. As they continued to advance into their territory and approached the star node, the battles became more and more frequent.
Jian Mengyi's entire clan has also been mobilized, leading many newcomers in continuous battles across the starry sky.
"Sigh... If only I hadn't been trapped here. After a hundred years of development in the Time Cave, I should have reached at least the fifth or sixth rank, right?" Jian Mengyi said with a hint of regret. Now, she could only fight alongside these newcomers.
"It's alright, the Time Cave is right there. It's only a matter of time before you want to go in. Didn't your grandfather give me some seventh-tier energy crystals? I'll open it for you when I have time!" Ye Chen comforted him with a smile.
Jian Mengyi's grandfather was a seventh-tier lord, so he naturally had the ability to exchange for seventh-tier energy crystals. As her grandson-in-law, she had to give him a small gift. Knowing that he possessed the Time Cave, she gave him a few seventh-tier energy crystals.
Don't underestimate these few pieces; their value is not low. Moreover, even a seventh-tier lord has a limit on the number he can exchange for them. He might not even have enough for his own use, let alone save some for him.
"Yes! We can charge a fee then, and let all the lords in the vicinity come in and make a fortune from them!" Jian Mengyi nodded, already thinking about how to make money.
The Caverns of Time are quite large. Besides the major powers, most lords who want to open them will go to crowded places to sell tickets, which is a way to recoup their investment.
Therefore, there is no need for ordinary lords to exchange for Time Caverns. They can simply find other lords who possess Time Caverns, pay a fee to enter, and that's just a bit more expensive. Moreover, the duration of their stay is uncertain, but it's still cheaper than exchanging for one themselves.
"Great! We'll make a fortune!" Ye Chen replied with a smile.
"Roar~~~" Suddenly, a beastly roar rang out, causing everyone's heart to tremble. Looking up, they saw that the dark creatures in the starry sky had been replaced by giant snake-men.
This is a bipedal basilisk with a snake-like head, tail, and scales, but also has hands and feet. Its back is slightly hunched, like that of a frail old man, but it has sharp bone spurs, like the back of a Stegosaurus from the Blue Planet dinosaur era.
Some of the snake people even wore dirty robes and bloodstained headscarves, suggesting that they once possessed some kind of glorious civilization.
"Civilization?" Ye Chen was taken aback. This was the first time he had sensed the aura of civilization from a dark creature, something that no other dark creature possessed.
Dark creatures are synonymous with chaos, destruction, and disorder. They are a group of termites that constantly devour everything in the universe. Even if high-level dark gods possess extremely high intelligence, they often use that intelligence to devour the universe. Asking them to create civilization? They are more interested in swallowing a universe.
Ye Chen hadn't expected that he could sense the aura of civilization emanating from the dark creatures. This was a terrifying thing, meaning that the dark creatures could be far more powerful than they had imagined or understood.
The difference in actual combat power between guerrillas and regular armies is completely different; it's no exaggeration to say that it's a dimensional reduction attack. Yet, even with such a dimensional reduction attack, the lords of all the heavens and myriad worlds failed to completely repel the dark creatures, let alone the fact that they had established a civilization just like their own.
"No wonder they say that the snake people's actual combat power far surpasses that of other dark creatures, even the original dark creatures cannot compare to them. It seems that this is indeed the case!" Ye Chen thought to himself.
"Everyone back off, let's clear out the other dark creatures first!" Ye Chen said in the group. Although he wasn't sure if his guess was right, he didn't dare to gamble with these newbies. If they really went and never came back, he would lose a lot.
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