Chapter 496

The army chasing after Lin Zhen had indeed gone through a painful journey.

According to later statistics, a total of 300,000 people chased Lin Zhen in the Chaotic Star River for a prize of 10 billion Cosmic Crystals!

Among them, nearly 100,000 were Fire Kirin warriors, and the remaining 200,000 were warriors from the Insect Clan.

Despite the large number of pursuers, Lin Zhen was as cunning as an eel, drilling through the Chaotic Star River and taking advantage of the terrain to pilot his small spacecraft everywhere to escape.

The problem with the Chaotic Star River was that as long as you had a top sub-light speed spacecraft, no one could catch you unless your driving skills were terrible or your energy ran out.

In the beginning, people thought that Lin Zhen’s spacecraft was too small to carry a large number of Energy Blocks, so there would be chances to catch him.

However, later, they discovered their mistake.

This guy most likely has ten Space Rings, each filled with Energy Blocks!

After the pursuit went on for a month, some of the spacecraft had to withdraw due to insufficient power, admitting their failure in the chase.

However, many people who entered the Chaotic Star River also brought a lot of energy blocks. They were confident they could chase Lin Zhen until he ran out of energy.

But no matter how they pursued and intercepted, the back-and-forth struggle lasted for three months, and Lin Zhen’s small spacecraft was still bustling in the Chaotic Star River.

Not to mention, along the way, some people felt hopeless in the pursuit of Lin Zhen and began to attack other pursuers instead.

The martial artists from the Insect Clan attacked the Fire Kirin, and the Fire Kirin took the opportunity to kill the insects. The two factions were not from the same camp, so such mutual attacks were normal.

Because of this, their cooperation was never in harmony, and they always had a competitive mindset, causing them to miss several good opportunities to catch Lin Zhen.

Five months later, there were fewer than 3,000 of the original 300,000 still persisting in the pursuit.

Moreover, these people were still gradually leaving, as the Insect Clan had begun to fight back.

Since the Fire Kirin warriors entered, the Insect Clan had adopted a strategy of luring the enemy deeper. Gradually, the Fire Kirin warriors entered deeper into the Chaotic Star River, far away from the Bright Path. Even if they wanted to retreat, it would not be an easy task.

And now, the Insect Clan’s experts finally made their move.

Seven Insect Marshals led 108 Insect Generals from the seven main hive Star Nests deep in the Chaotic Star River, launching an encirclement and suppression campaign against the Fire Kirin Empire’s martial artists.

After a fierce battle that lasted for two months, the Fire Kirin warriors suffered a huge defeat!

Of the 300,000 warriors, only less than 50,000 survived, and four Star System Stage warriors perished in battle, including Thunder World King’s disciple Zhang Zhidong!

Zhang Zhidong claimed to have formidable combat skills and took the risk of entering deep into the enemy area to compete for the first place, only to be besieged by two Insect Marshals.

The Locust Leader and the Great Hornet Leader, two Insect Marshals, joined forces in the starry sky and killed Zhang Zhidong, causing the most significant loss to the Fire Kirin Empire since the start of their concentrated training camp!

In addition to Zhang Zhidong’s downfall, Ye Hua and Feng Qingluan joined forces and encountered four Insect Marshals in a fierce battle three thousand stars away from Suspended Island. Ye Hua was injured and left, while Feng Qingluan’s whereabouts were unknown after being seriously wounded.

If not for Feng Qingluan’s name still shining, people would even suspect that she had died.

Continuous setbacks have dampened the morale of these talented individuals from the training camp, realizing that the Insect Clan was not as weak as they appeared.

As for the matters of chasing Lin Zhen, it had gradually been forgotten by people.

Of the three thousand pursuers, only less than a hundred remained, still unremittingly chasing after the elusive fortune of 10 billion Cosmic Crystals.

On a garbage planet, the ground was loosening.

“Plop~!”

The ground cracked, and a person emerged from the soil.

“Phew~! It was really difficult to dig underground, but fortunately, my scales are strong enough to drill down smoothly.”

Lin Zhen’s clone climbed up from the ground with an excited look on his face.

“I finally found it, after a full seven months! After seven months of hard searching, I finally found the location of the resource planet. This is it!”

To find this resource planet, the clone also went through a lot of difficulties.

For the past seven months, he had not killed any Insect Clan members and had devoted all his energy to searching for the resource planet, working tirelessly and searching almost all garbage planets in the region. After exploring hundreds of planets, he finally found his target.

This resource planet had a diameter of over 500 kilometers and was not a particularly small planet.

It was unknown how long the garbage had been here, but the surface was covered with 3,000 meters of garbage. Lin Zhen had spent more than ten days digging underground to confirm it as a resource planet.

“Chris, can you estimate how many Thunder Crystals this resource planet contains? Is it enough for me to upgrade to Constant Star Level Nine?”

During the seven months of space travel, Lin Zhen’s main body had finally advanced to Constant Star Level Four, with his Star Power climbing to 500. However, he had not yet had the opportunity to combine with his clone, still traveling around the distant starry sky and playing games with his pursuers.

“Master, although this resource planet contains a considerable amount of Thunder Crystals, the amount required for you to advance to Constant Star Level Nine is too huge. Besides, this is a mineral; more than 95% of it is useless. Moreover, there will be some waste during the absorption process. According to my calculations, you can probably advance to Constant Star Eighth Level through this resource planet, but reaching Level Eight’s peak will be difficult unless you can do it without waste. Otherwise, you might advance only to Level Nine, but that’s almost impossible.”

“Constant Star Eighth Level… that’s almost enough. What I lack now is Star Power. If I can advance to Level Eight, it should be enough. Not to mention, I also have Constant Star Crystals to absorb.”

Upon finally finding the location of the resource planet, Lin Zhen wanted his main body to return home.

He was also very annoyed by the tails chasing after him.

Currently, only twenty or thirty people were chasing him, riding in four or five small spacecraft, and there were no insect clan martial artists left, all of them were from the Fire Kirin Empire.

Although the empire does not allow martial artists to kill each other, there is no one in the Chaotic Star River who can restrain these lawless martial artists.

For the sake of 100 billion cosmic crystals, they would do anything.

“It has been seven months; it’s about time to put an end to this. You have been chasing me for so long; it’s time to repay your debts.”

Lin Zhen had figured out the identity of the people chasing him over these days.

Out of the twenty-plus people, only one was a martial artist in the Star System Stage, that is Sun Hao from before, and the rest were all in the Black Hole Period.

Once the route was determined, Lin Zhen began to turn the ship around and head back to the garbage disposal plant.

He wanted to resolve this matter thoroughly here and then cultivate in peace.

“It’s been seven months, Lin Zhen, even if you carry a lot of energy blocks, it should be about time for you to run out, right?”

As Sun Hao sat in the spacecraft, the pursuit was not particularly exhausting for him. He had carried enough energy blocks, and now he had consumed about half of them. He believed that Lin Zhen would not have more energy blocks than he did.

Now that Lin Zhen was heading towards the garbage disposal plant, it further confirmed Sun Hao’s guess.

What was he going to the garbage disposal plant for? The only possibility was to look for some energy blocks from those abandoned ships.

However, those broken ships at the garbage disposal plant had been there for countless years, and even if there were any energy blocks left, the remaining energy would have almost dissipated by now. This action of Lin Zhen was enough to prove that he was running out of fuel.

“This chase should be over; Lin Zhen, you are finished!”

Lin Zhen’s main body sat in the cabin, quietly experiencing the changes in the Dark Star.

After a long seven-month journey, the Dark Star had finally absorbed all the power of the Heart of Star Plants. It was about to break through from the peak of the Evident Universe stage to the Mesozoic Era!

The Mesozoic Era corresponds to the Planet Stage of martial artist cultivation. However, since the Dark Star is a physical object, its Star Power is becoming stronger and stronger, dozens of times stronger than that of an actual martial artist in the Planet Stage!

It is precisely because of the increasingly strong power of the Dark Star that Lin Zhen was able to fight across different levels, making the Dark Star his strongest trump card.

On the Star Fruit Tree, flowers were blooming one after another.

In the Sky Dome, more and more Star Crystals began to appear.

“This is the final transformation of the power of the Heart of Plants and Trees. This wave of Star Crystals is particularly large. If properly used, along with the Thunder Crystals from the resource planet, I may not be without a chance to break through to the Constant Star Level Nine.”

“But now is not the time to study it; my Dark Star is finally going to advance!”

The Cloud-climbing Vine resembled a giant snake, its vines clinging to the tree, wrapping around the Star Fruit Tree in circles.

It was a good decision to bring the Cloud-climbing Vine into the Dark Star Space in the past, as the vines effectively suppressed the growth of the Star Fruit Tree, preventing it from growing too large and consuming too much of the Dark Star’s energy.

This way, the excess energy could be used to nurture more Star Crystals.

However, even so, the Star Fruit Tree had grown more than 20,000 meters tall!

Thankfully, the Dark Star was much larger than Earth. If it were on Earth, the Star Fruit Tree would have already broken through the atmosphere.

A strong life force permeated the Dark Star, vegetation flourished, and microorganisms began to appear in the rivers and mountains.

At the foot of the Star Fruit Tree, a small red flower bud stood up.

Drawing on the life force of the fruit tree, it was the first flower to bloom within the Dark Star.

Lin Zhen’s Spiritual Power was always watching it, waiting for it to bring the first touch of light to the Dark Star World that had evolved from the Dark Ancient Era to the present day.

Drip~!

A droplet of dew fell from the Star Fruit Tree and landed on the flower bud.

Nourished by this droplet of dew, the red flower bud lazily stretched its waist and blossomed slowly into a beautiful fiery red!

Although it was just an ordinary flower, it was breathtakingly beautiful in Lin Zhen’s eyes!

With just a little more life force, at the moment the flower bloomed, the Dark Star World advanced!

A new round of expansion began with a rumble, and an invisible change happened silently in the Dark Star and the surrounding space!

Huge amounts of Star Power began to flow, climbing continuously!

Mesozoic Era, achieved~!