Chapter 509: The Firs (1/2)

After a while, the girl exclaimed, “Oh, so it’s like that. Oh, I need to serve tea to the Councilor!” She then quickly rushed away. It was Zhao Ran, who frequently lost her memories.

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In space, there was a luxurious spacecraft cruising along. The stunning Madam Nalan was within the vessel, looking at a screen with bright eyes. “If you can usher in a new era, then so what if you’re enemies with the Ten Arbiters.”

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In Umbral Butterfly Weave, in a certain gloomy region, Amu watched the video of Lu Yin with a detached expression. Some level of expectation could be seen within the depths of his eyes, but he had gone through too many changes since he had last seen Lu Yin.

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In Northcastle Weave, on a bustling planet that was close to the Astral Wilderness, there was a building that the entire universe recognized: the Mavis Bank.

The universal currency floated through the air like leaves, displaying the generosity of the Mavis Bank.

One man walked into the Mavis Bank. He took a deep breath before moving to look for the bank manager.

Half an hour later, the man walked out under the bank manager’s shocked expression. All of the star essence that had been stored at this branch had just been exchanged and taken away.

This scene didn’t occur at just this one branch of the Mavis Bank, but repeatedly at any bank that carried star essence. Even clans that possessed star essence had mysterious people visit them, making offers to take as many star essence as possible.

These were not eye-catching events, and they were not even noticed for an entire month.

One month after Lu Yin took control of the mountain range on Planet Pyrolyte, one of the Ross Empire’s battleships exploded. Scholar Newmoon took action, but he was obstructed by a mysterious Enlighter, which led to a battle erupting in the area of outer space directly above the planet. The battle didn’t last for long, but it still attracted a great deal of attention from all of the organizations present at Planet Pyrolyte.

Closely following that battle, a piece of news that was leaked. Rather than news, it would be more accurate to call it a method that allowed Explorers to descend onto Planet Pyrolyte.

The method that the Ross Empire had come out with was simple but also crude. It was to put on another layer of skin over the outermost layer, much like clothes.

Compared to a Limiteer, an Explorer’s body had undergone a transformation and naturally resonated with the universe. For their bodily functions to operate, Explorers had to constantly absorb star energy; otherwise, they would fall into a period of exhaustion. This was the price that Explorers paid to be able to freely move about the universe. For them to not absorb the outside world’s atmosphere, their only option was to put another layer over their skin, and it also had to be made from star essence. Without the star energy provided by star essence, the Explorer’s body would involuntarily start absorbing energy from Planet Pyrolyte, which would lead to pyrolyte entering their body and causing them to spontaneously combust.

When this method was revealed, the various great powers studied the feasibility of the method while they sent people to search the nearby weaves and gather all of the available star essence.

However, when they started moving, they discovered that, regardless if they searched Northcastle Weave, Grandtop Weave, or Lars Weave, all of the nearby weaves had been stripped clean of star essence.

The various powers weren’t made of fools, and they instantly knew that the Ross Empire must have cleaned out the nearby weaves of star essence.

Helpless, the other powers were forced to look in more distant weaves, or even mobilize the star essence of the Innerverse.

They also considered Frostwave Weave, but because of Lu Yin’s orders, the entire weave had sealed its borders. Also, since Elder Ren was close by, not one of the Innerverse powers dared to take any actions against Frostwave Weave. Thus, they could only skip that weave.

In the span of a month, a third of the pyrolyte ore from Pyrolyte Mountain had already been mined out. The other mining areas had reached a similar state, and many of them had already been depleted. Battles constantly broke out on Planet Pyrolyte.

The mountain range that Lu Yin occupied had already been probed rather deeply, and its pyrolyte ore was still being mined. However, though no one knew exactly how much pyrolyte ore was available in this location, one thing was certain: this area held more pyrolyte ore than Pyrolyte Mountain, Pyrolyte Lake, and Pyrolyte Plain combined. That was because those three areas were actually merely the edge of this gigantic pyrolyte reservoir.

As such, the various great powers urgently wanted to take control of the mountain range. The longer Lu Yin occupied the area, the more pyrolyte ore the Northline Flowzone people would take away. Although the pyrolyte ore was being mined by Northline Flowzone, even a fool knew that it would end up in the Sea King's Dome’s hands. Northline Flowzone would not dare to be bold enough to fight the Sea King for this pyrolyte. Actually, they would be quite satisfied if they could receive just a small amount of the ore.

Lu Yin sat on a dark-red cliff and stared at the nearby mining tunnel. They had dug immeasurably deep into the ground, and Lu Yin watched on as pyrolyte ore was occasionally brought out.

If the Sea King's Dome did not participate in conflicts in the Innerverse or the Outerverse, then what did it require this pyrolyte for? Lu Yin had asked Hai Qiqi this question, but he had been mercilessly mocked by her. “Let’s not say that Miss Qi doesn’t know, but so what if I did? Why would I tell you? Can’t you use some of your brain?”

To the great powers, Planet Pyrolyte had been peaceful for a month.