Young Master, Don't Show Off - Chapter 436
[Chapter 435: Alone in the Deep]
the Seventy-three Regions, the Third Guard.
When Lin Xiu, wearing silver armor, came to the Third Guard camp, ten centurions, including Yan Yun, and one thousand Beichen Guards, immediately knelt on one knee and shouted: “Greetings, Captain!”
Yan Yun looked up at Lin Xiu, and he no longer had the psychological gap he had at the beginning.
When Lin Xiu surpassed him a little bit, he would be a little jealous and a little emotional.
But when he left him far behind, the jealousy in his heart had long disappeared without a trace.
He watched Lin Xiu walk all the way, and it was foreseeable that in the near future, he would definitely become an existence that influenced a star field. Even the captains of a thousand men and even the captains of ten thousand men would look up to his back. Of course, he had nothing to be jealous of.
Lin Xiu raised his hand and motioned everyone to stand up.
Facing his former comrades and colleagues, he did not put on the airs of a captain of a thousand men.
However, he could see that Yan Yun and others had already regarded him as the inheritor of a mysterious cosmic clan in their hearts. Not only them, but almost everyone in Beichen Star thought so.
As long as Lin Xiu doesn’t explain, the human race will always be a mysterious and powerful race.
This can also explain the speed of his strength growth. If there are enough resources, let alone taking the first place in two consecutive martial arts performances, even if he participates in three or four consecutive performances, it is not difficult to understand.
Including the Qianyan Star Region, the true inheritors of the major star regions can reach the fifth level of the source realm in a very short time. Compared with those people, his improvement speed is not so exaggerated.
It is precisely because this kind of thing is not uncommon in the universe that the high-level officials of the Beichen Army only asked about the human race in a roundabout way and did not delve into it.
Many races in the universe are unwilling to expose their positions.
Even the Qianyan Empire will not investigate to the end unless they intend to invade this ethnic group.
After leaving the military camp, Lin Xiu did not rush to practice in seclusion.
He exchanged part of the reward Qianyan coins for various resources, and then took the girls back to Blue Star.
Compared with other races in the universe, the human race is still too weak. So far, only Lin Xiu’s family can leave Blue Star.
These resources can allow Xue Lao, the class owner, Ling Jun’s master, and Natasha’s father to enter the source realm first.
Now that Lin Xiu is rich, he can equip them with a space bracelet. In this way, the task of mining solar system resources can be handed over to them in the future.
Lin Xiu did not let them go to Beichen Star directly. Before they have the strength to truly stand on their own feet, it is better not to expose them. He has already chosen a new home for the strong men of the human race, but he has to become a centurion and win the martial arts performance first.
After staying in Blue Star for half a month, Lin Xiu returned to Beichen Star.
In addition to his own practice, he also put some energy into helping the girls improve their cultivation.
The reward for the last centurion martial arts performance was as high as 100 million Yan coins. This money was used on Lin Xiu, which did not help him improve his cultivation, but it was enough to send Caiyi, A Ke, Mingzhu and others to the source realm together.
Seeing them now, and thinking about him and Ling Jun in the past, Lin Xiu couldn’t help but feel a little emotional.
In front of resources, talent is not so important. If the human race can occupy an entire star field, they can become as powerful as the Yan race in a very short time.
But for now, they still have to get out of the Milky Way first.
In order to provide the human race with a planet suitable for living, Lin Xiu needs to become a captain of ten thousand men first, which means that he needs to accumulate more merits. The promotion of the captain of ten thousand men requires more merits. Lin Xiu calculated that even if he could win the first place in the martial arts performance of the thousand men and be promoted to the fourth level of the source realm, he could not accumulate enough merits to be promoted to the captain of ten thousand men.
There are generally three ways to obtain merits.
Participating in martial arts performances is a way to obtain a large amount of merits. In addition, making great contributions to Beichen Star or Qianyan Empire can also gain merits. The third method is to wait for seniority.
Even if the captain of a thousand men does nothing, he will accumulate a certain amount of merits every universe year. As long as he waits for enough years and his strength meets the requirements, he can also be promoted.
The third method is too long for Lin Xiu. Purely waiting for seniority, at least one hundred universe years, he does not have that much time.
Lin Xiu walked on the street of the first residential area, thinking about the possibility of quickly gaining merit while strolling. Unconsciously, he walked to the vicinity of a Thousand Flame Hall.
A flat-headed alien, holding a source crystal in his hand, walked out of the Thousand Flame Hall with a depressed look on his face. It
took him a long time to finally condense a source crystal and sell it in the Thousand Flame Hall, hoping to exchange it for some Thousand Flame Coins to continue living here.
But the price here was too low. For one source crystal, he was only willing to give him 4,000 Thousand Flame Coins, which was far below his psychological expectation, not to mention that half of the 4,000 Thousand Flame Coins had to be taxed.
At this time, another alien came over from not far away and asked, “My friend, are you going to sell source crystals? I can see that you are new here. If you want to sell source crystals, you can’t choose the shops on Beichen Star. I will take you to a good place. One source crystal can be sold for at least 8,000 Thousand Flame Coins, and there is no tax…”
There was such a good thing. The cosmic race who wanted to sell source crystals soon followed the alien.
Lin Xiu watched the cosmic race being deceived by the star pirates, and couldn’t help but sigh at the simplicity of these cosmic aliens.
How
many cosmic newcomers who finally reached the source realm and saved enough money to live in Beichen Star came here with great expectations for the future, but soon lost their lives in the hands of star pirates. Hundreds of years of practice were gone in an instant. These star pirates should be cut into pieces.
Seeing this scene again, Lin Xiu had some thoughts in his mind.
The star pirates active on Beichen Star seriously threaten the lives and property safety of the residents of Beichen Star.
Everyone has the responsibility to fight against star pirates
. If a wave of star pirates can be fought, it can be regarded as a contribution to maintaining the peace and stability of Beichen Star. Although the various guards don’t like star pirates very much, these star pirates act very cautiously. When the Beichen guards are there, they will not appear at all. Ordinary Beichen guards don’t have the ability to recognize star pirates at a glance.
They don’t, Lin Xiu
is not long.
Outside Beichen Star, somewhere in the asteroid belt.
As Lin Xiu waved his hand, four space pirates of the first level of the Source Realm turned into ashes in the sea of fire. Even their Source Souls did not escape, but turned into the purest Source Power, which condensed into four Source Crystals in Lin Xiu’s hands.
The alien thought that his life was in danger, but he was suddenly rescued at the most critical moment. After surviving the disaster, he lay on the ground and thanked Lin Xiu repeatedly.
Lin Xiu waved his hand and said, “Don’t trust others so easily in the future. If you have any transactions, it’s best to do them on Beichen Star. Even if you go to the black market, you will be targeted by space pirates without strength…”
After the alien expressed his gratitude, Lin Xiu sent him back to Beichen Star.
A moment later, in a city in the 73rd Residential Area, a group of Thousand Flame Guards walked through the street.
Yan Yun followed Lin Xiu, wondering what happened to the Thousand Captain today. He had not come to the camp for a long time on weekdays, but today he was interested in patrolling with them.
While he was distracted, Lin Xiu pointed to an alien wandering outside the Thousand Flame Palace and said, “Catch him.”
Yan Yun was stunned for a moment, wondering why the Thousand Captain gave such an order. The alien did nothing, and he was just caught like that, without any reason.
Although the Beichen Guards have great power, they cannot act recklessly.
However, Yan Yun did not ask much. He only needed to obey the orders of the Thousand Captain. He waved his hand, and several Beichen Guards surrounded the alien that Lin Xiu pointed to.
The alien was at a loss for a moment, a flash of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he forced himself to calm down and said in a panic: “Sir, what are you doing?”
Lin Xiu glanced at Yan Yun and said: “Take him back to the camp and interrogate him. He has been standing here for a long time, neither buying nor selling anything. I suspect he is a star pirate…”
Hearing the word “star pirate”, the alien’s eyes could not help showing panic.
Yan Yun’s heart moved. The expression of this alien was indeed a little strange. He took him back to the Third Guard and used some tricks. The star pirate admitted his identity. In order to get a lighter punishment, he also confessed the location of his other four accomplices.
It was a pity for the other four star pirates. They were still outside Beichen Star, waiting for their companions to bring back prey, but the other party brought back a hundred Beichen Guards.
After catching the other four pirates, Yan Yun looked at Lin Xiu in the Third Guard’s tent and asked in great surprise, “Captain, how did you know he was a pirate?”
Lin Xiu did not explain too much, but just smiled and said, “Intuition.”
Although Yan Yun did not know what “intuition” was, he admired Lin Xiu to the extreme when Lin Xiu recognized five pirates in a row and the soldiers of the Third Guard wiped out five small pirate gangs in one fell swoop.
In his eyes, those aliens were no different from ordinary citizens. He could not even tell their appearances, but the captain could rely on “intuition” to see through their identities at a glance.
What Yan Yun did not know, the pirates hiding outside the North Star did not know.
They just realized that the pirates who were usually active in the Seventy-three Regions suddenly disappeared without a trace, and many of the pirates who entered the Seventy-three Regions never came out again.
After some inquiries, I learned that the Seventy-three Regions Third Guards had been severely cracking down on pirates during this period, and hundreds of pirates had fallen into their hands.
For a time, the 73rd Domain immediately became a forbidden domain for star pirates. No star pirate dared to risk his life and move around in this residential domain.
This situation lasted for a long time, causing many cosmic races whose residence in other domains had expired to choose the 73rd Domain when they chose a new residential domain. Some newcomers who came to Beichen Star for the first time were also more willing to choose this place, which directly caused the number of residents in this domain to surge, and even temporarily expanded several cities.
Beichen Star naturally hopes to attract more people to settle here, which can bring them more population and more tax revenue. There is also competition between the domains.
In combating star pirates, the achievements made by the Third Guard set an example for other domains and were rewarded by the domain master. The collective soldiers of the Third Guard all received merits.
As the captain of the Third Guard, Lin Xiu alone added 2,000 merits. Although it is far from enough to be promoted to the captain of ten thousand, but a little bit makes a lot, there will always be a day when enough is accumulated.
The merits of the soldiers of the Third Guard are a disaster for star pirates.
Outside the North Star, on a certain asteroid, in a secret black market, normal transactions are going on. In order to avoid taxes, the buyers and sellers have to choose this place as the transaction location. What they don’t know is that in the dark, there are countless eyes staring at them.
Inside the North Star, all regions are fighting against star pirates. It is very dangerous to operate there, and the number of star pirates gathering in the black market has also increased.
Under the shadow of the huge rock, several figures are communicating in a low voice.
“What’s going on?”
“How did their identities get exposed?”
“Is there a traitor in the organization?”
“It’s the Seventy-third Region again. The guy hasn’t been caught last time, and this kind of thing has happened again. You wait here, watch at any time, and collect information. I’m going back to report…”
…
Recently, the star pirates in the Seventy-third Region have suffered heavy losses. The star pirate leader in charge of this area finally couldn’t sit still. If this continues, he will really have only a few people left.
He must go back and report the matter, and by the way, ask for more men.
Elsewhere in the black market, a figure was selecting goods leisurely. There were countless voices around him, which came into his ears. Lin Xiu screened and filtered them one by one.
Two years ago, Lin Xiu swore that he would wipe out the lair of these star pirates sooner or later.
Originally, he planned to wait until he was strong enough to do it himself, but now, he urgently needed meritorious promotion, so he had to advance the plan. A figure left the black market, and Lin Xiu glanced at it and followed silently.
It was a star pirate of the third level of the source realm, even in the star pirate organization, it was considered a small high-level.
The star pirate leader flew away from the black market at a very fast speed. When he was sure that no one was following, he randomly chose an asteroid and landed on it. A space stone appeared in his hand, as if he was going to teleport.
At this moment, a sudden black fog appeared out of thin air and suddenly wrapped him.
His body was swallowed up the moment it touched the black fog.
The sudden change made him extremely horrified. His source soul struggled to escape. When he was about to escape, a cold voice suddenly came from the void.
“Stop.”
His source soul was fixed in the void, motionless, and even his thoughts were stagnant.
A figure appeared, and Lin Xiu’s plundering ability was activated. The source power in the body of this star pirate at the third level of the source realm quickly disappeared, and soon fell from the third level of the source realm to the peak of the second level of the source realm, then to the early stage of the second level, the first level of the source realm, and the eighth level of the spirit realm…
When Lin Xiu stepped into the third level of the source realm, he had almost no opponents in this realm. In the case of a sneak attack, almost no one of the same level could escape.
Lin Xiu did not solve him directly. His target was not the leader of the star pirates.
When the opponent’s strength fell to the spirit realm, he was a lamb to be slaughtered in his hands.
Lin Xiu activated the illusion technique, looked into his eyes, and asked lightly: “Where is your nest?”
The star pirate’s nest is an absolute secret. Even among the star pirates, only the high-level people above the third level of the source realm are qualified to contact it. The star pirate leader would never reveal it, but at this moment, his consciousness no longer belongs to him.
As his strength increased, Lin Xiu’s various abilities also improved, which made him almost omnipotent.
Soon, the little leader of the star pirates revealed the location of the headquarters of the star pirates in the North Territory.
The location of the star pirate headquarters is not easy to find. It needs to be transferred five times. It is not because it is far away, but to keep it secret. After all, the Qianyan Empire did not eliminate the star pirates, not because it is powerful, but because the universe is too big and it is difficult to find them.
After asking for the method to get out of the star pirate headquarters, Lin Xiu solved the star pirate leader.
And his figure changed for a while, and soon he became the star pirate.
Lin Xiu took his space bracelet, found a space node from it, and chose to transfer. His figure disappeared instantly, and the next time he appeared, he was already on a strange planet.
Lin Xiu didn’t know where this was. He saw a desolate place. The surface temperature of this planet was as high as thousands of degrees. There were erupting volcanoes everywhere, and the air was full of pungent smells.
Lin Xiu flew quickly on the surface of this planet, and soon came to a volcano with a strange shape.
The surface of this volcano was bumpy and had many holes. According to what the star pirate leader said, Lin Xiu found a hole, flew in, and found a small space door at the innermost part of the cave.
He teleported through the space gate again. This time, Lin Xiu just appeared and found himself at the bottom of the sea.
There were some large aquatic creatures around him. The largest one could reach a hundred feet long, like some kind of ferocious giant fish. Lin Xiu happened to teleport to the mouth of a giant fish that was dozens of feet long. It opened its bloody mouth and sharp teeth and bit Lin Xiu.
Lin Xiu just glanced at it lightly, and the giant fish stopped there with its mouth wide open, then slowly retreated, swung its tail vigorously, and swam away without looking back.
And all the creatures within ten thousand feet around him also quickly moved away.
Lin Xiu came to the sea and found that this was a planet covered by the ocean. More than 99% of the land was under the water, and occasionally some scattered islands would emerge from the water.
Lin Xiu searched for a long time before finding the location of the second teleportation gate.
The space fluctuated, and he quickly disappeared on this planet.
I don’t know how long it took, in the deep of an irregular galaxy in the northern region of Qianyan Star Region, on an asteroid, Lin Xiu’s figure appeared from a teleportation gate.
On both sides of the portal, two cosmic races of the first level of the source realm looked at him. Lin Xiu took out a sign that he had found in the space bracelet of the star pirate. After the two looked at it, one of them said, “Please hand over the space bracelet, sir.”
Lin Xiu looked normal and took the initiative to hand over the space bracelet.
This is the nest of the star pirates in the Northern Territory. They have taken great pains to hide here. Lin Xiu has been teleported five times and passed through several planets. The portals of each planet are very hidden.
After finally coming here, the first thing is to hand over the space bracelet to prevent someone from using the space bracelet to establish a space node here. It will not be returned until it leaves.
Lin Xiu had already asked about these rules.
Lin Xiu looked around and saw a desert that stretched as far as the eye could see. There was a city in the desert. In the center of the city was a tower-like building that was thousands of feet high. The tower was the nest of the star pirates.
This time, Lin Xiu did not rush up and catch all the star pirates here.
He doesn’t have that kind of strength now. The strength of the Northern Territory Star Pirates is not much weaker than those powerful races. There are many of them who are at the fourth level of the Source Realm, comparable to the leader of the North Star Guard. Their leader is a strong man at the fifth level of the Source Realm, and the Lord of the Northern Territory is only at the fifth level of the Source Realm. Unless the Empire sends strong men above the sixth level of the Source Realm, no matter how many people come , they will die
. Even from a long distance, Lin Xiu can sense that there are countless powerful auras coming from the tower, one of which is even more powerful than the leader of the ten thousand he has seen.
That kind of existence is not something that Lin Xiu can fight alone. He only needs to build a space node here, and the next thing will be left to the Qianyan Empire.
Two people at the first level of the Source Realm temporarily detained Lin Xiu’s space bracelet, and searched him carefully. After confirming that he did not hide other space bracelets, they let him go.
When Lin Xiu flew to the city, he quietly took out another space bracelet from his portable space, recorded the space node, and threw it back.
Then, he came to the center of the city.
If you are in a hurry to leave right after arriving here, it will definitely arouse other people’s suspicion. It is better to stay for a while before leaving.
In this city, Lin Xiu saw many alien figures, many of whom were familiar to him. These were all famous wanted criminals in the Northern Territory. Every time he caught one, he would get a lot of merit.
In order to be promoted to the captain of ten thousand men as soon as possible, Lin Xiu had studied how to gain merit. Many of these wanted criminals were guys who committed serious crimes on the planets managed by the empire. Although they escaped punishment by chance, there was no place for them in the Beichen Galaxy. They did not dare to appear in the Beichen Galaxy, so they simply became star pirates.
Lin Xiu looked at them as if he was looking at a bunch of walking merits.
If he could capture them all, his merits for promotion would be almost enough.
Unfortunately, he couldn’t do it here, as he had more important things to do.
The star pirates usually burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil. Sometimes, in order to rob resources, they would slaughter other tribes. They were richer than some super tribes. Since it was the headquarters of the star pirates in the Northern Territory, there must be extremely rich resources hidden here.
Blue Star was located in a remote corner with very few resources. Although Lin Xiu made money very quickly, he had to support a large family and take care of the human race, so he spent money even faster.
He was almost going crazy with poverty.
Now that he was here, he had to take something before leaving.
This planet was not big. There was only one city on the entire planet. The star pirates’ treasure house must be somewhere, and it was most likely underground.
The reason why Lin Xiu was so sure was that the space inside the space bracelet was very limited. It could be regarded as a backpack to store a small amount of personal belongings, which was naturally very convenient, but if there were a little more things, the space bracelet would not be able to hold them.
The capacity of the largest space bracelet is only several times more than that of the cheaper space bracelet.
Unlike Lin Xiu’s space ability, he can directly open up a portable space in his body. With his strength of the third level of the source realm, it is no problem to accommodate an asteroid.
Lin Xiu hid his body, escaped underground, and began to look for the target.
He soon found something unusual.
This asteroid is made of soil and rocks, but there is an area under the high tower in the center of the city, a thousand feet deep, which is abnormal.
There is a spherical magma area there.
Lin Xiu escaped into the different space and slowly approached the magma. This spherical magma area is about a hundred feet thick, and some creatures live in it.
It was just a magma bubble that burst, and dozens of toad-like magma creatures nearby opened their eyes.
They looked around and found that nothing had happened, so they closed their eyes again.
This magma layer, plus these creatures with very keen senses, almost cut off the possibility of someone wanting to break in quietly. As long as there was a little movement in this magma layer, these creatures would be alarmed.
A strong man of the fire system, after transforming into an element, can pass through here silently.
But he must also know the art of earth escape to reach this magma layer.
After passing through the magma layer, there is another thick rock layer, followed by a metal layer that is a hundred feet thick, and next to the metal layer, there is another ice layer that is a hundred feet thick…
Under the heavy protection, any single ability user cannot pass through here.
Of course, space is an exception. No matter how much protection there is, it cannot prevent someone from stealing the house directly. However, the Qianyan Star Region is a race that does not have the ability to control space. This level of protection, in addition to the normal passage, can only be broken violently from the outside unless it comes directly from the alien space.
Lin Xiu passed through the magma layer, rock layer, metal layer, ice layer, and then passed through the water layer, rock layer, and finally passed through a metal layer, and the surroundings suddenly became empty.
Judging from the distance he traveled in the alien space, his location should be the center of this asteroid.
Lin Xiu concealed all his breath and returned to the real space invisibly.
Some luminous minerals were embedded in the metal wall, bringing some light here. Lin Xiu was in the center of an open space. The area of the open space was very large, at least ten thousand feet in radius.
Piles of precious metals were scattered randomly on the ground. At Lin Xiu’s feet, source crystals piled up into a mountain. There was also a huge ice lotus emitting cold air. Next to it was a millstone-sized stone that emitted a faint red light and overflowed with fire source power. There was a giant tree that was ten feet tall, lush and green, and the whole body was condensed by wood source power. These precious treasures of various series were scattered here randomly like weeds and dead trees…
At a glance, this ten thousand feet space was filled with these things.
Looking at everything in front of him, Lin Xiu’s heart skipped a beat.
If this was converted into Qianyan coins, I’m afraid it would be more than hundreds of billions.
Plundering is indeed the fastest way to accumulate wealth. The Star Pirates Organization is much richer than he imagined.
Now he is the rich one.
Today I merged one chapter, the number of words is a bit longer, and I will try to merge them together in the future.
(End of this chapter)
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