Chapter 00089: Good Stuff
# Good Stuff
Chapter 89
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 89: Good Stuff
After landing on Kunlun, Lan Xiaobu had finally arrived at the so-called place of digging for boundary stones. It was a massive deep pit, rough and jagged from excavation. Under his divine sense, he could still find some fragments of spiritual stones scattered about.
As he wandered around the edge of the deep pit, he didn’t even bother to climb down to search for spiritual stones. His divine sense had already confirmed that there were none left. Not only were there no spiritual stones, but even the soil at the edge of the pit did not contain any. This meant he had arrived too late; all the spiritual stones here had been dug out by someone else.
Just as Lan Xiaobu prepared to leave in disappointment, Gu Dao suddenly shouted, and in that instant, Lan Xiaobu sensed a crisis. Without hesitation, he leapt sideways into the deep pit, subconsciously believing that the deep pit was the safest place.
A bright light sliced through his side, nearly crushing one of his ribs. Almost simultaneously with Lan Xiaobu’s jump into the pit, Gu Dao followed suit.
Bang! Lan Xiaobu landed hard in the pit, and quickly, a figure appeared in his divine sense.
That figure was crouched low, moving swiftly toward the pit while also shifting sideways. In his hand, he held a magnetic light gun, clearly aiming at Lan Xiaobu’s direction, waiting for him to show his head.
What a cunning individual! This man must have shot at him using some sort of aiming device. By jumping sideways into the pit, Lan Xiaobu had just saved his own life. If he hadn’t leapt in that way, his current strength would have made it impossible to dodge the speed of the magnetic light.
Feeling a mix of fear and relief, Lan Xiaobu was secretly grateful that he had learned the Soul Thorn technique; it had allowed him to encounter these technological beings. Otherwise, who knows how long his corpse would have remained here?
Under his divine sense, the newcomer was getting closer. He was a one-eyed man, moving rapidly and crouched low, his strength likely not any weaker than that of Mu Yuan.
In just two minutes, the man had closed in to within twenty meters of the pit. However, instead of approaching rapidly, he lay flat on the ground.
Lan Xiaobu patted Gu Dao beside him and praised, “Well done, very clever.”
If Gu Dao hadn’t jumped down into the pit with him, he would certainly have been shot by now. The man above would never allow Gu Dao to stand guard for Lan Xiaobu up there.
Without even bothering to bandage his own wound, Lan Xiaobu decisively launched a Soul Thorn at the enemy. This time he didn’t hold back; the full power of the Soul Thorn tore through the stranger’s soul in one blow.
“Ah…” A piercing scream filled the air as the one-eyed man could no longer grip his magnetic light gun. Instead, he clutched at the grass on the ground, the horrific pain driving him to grasp at anything he could find.
At that moment, Lan Xiaobu rushed out of the pit, landing beside the one-eyed man. Without waiting for him to lift his gun again, Lan Xiaobu stepped on his wrist and seized the magnetic light gun.
The one-eyed man stared at Lan Xiaobu, “It’s you! You killed the only son of Emperor Saeno, Lian…”
“Surprised that space treasures can bring in a flying saucer?” Lan Xiaobu mocked.
The one-eyed man looked shocked at the sight of the Kunlun parked nearby. If the Jade Dawn Star could indeed bring in a flying saucer, everyone would have had one by now. Since the Jade Dawn Star couldn’t carry a flying saucer in, the one he was seeing now must have been carried in through a space treasure.
“What a pity, no prize for answering correctly.” Lan Xiaobu unsheathed a short knife from his waist.
Seeing the murderous intent in Lan Xiaobu’s eyes, the one-eyed man regretted his words. He shouldn’t have pointed out that Lian was killed by Lan Xiaobu; wasn’t that just asking to be silenced? How foolish he was.
But a strong desire to survive made him cry out, “Friend, I have a top-tier treasure for you! I assure you it’s worth more than all the boundary stones, even comparable to space treasures!”
A flicker of surprise flashed in Lan Xiaobu’s eyes, and the short knife in his hand began to lower. “Is there really such a treasure?”
Seeing the surprise and movement in Lan Xiaobu’s eyes, the one-eyed man felt a surge of excitement and quickly replied, “Yes, absolutely…”
“Puh!” Lan Xiaobu spun the short knife and swiftly cut the man’s throat. Even if his head was severed by Lan Xiaobu, there remained a look of disbelief in his eyes.
It wasn’t that he didn’t believe Lan Xiaobu would kill him; he couldn’t comprehend why Lan Xiaobu would do so before he had revealed the treasure. Only after killing him did Lan Xiaobu’s sense of danger finally dissipate.
Bending down, Lan Xiaobu picked up a piece of something the size of a one-yuan coin from the man’s hand. When he saw the words on it, a chill ran down his back. He knew what this was.
A pot bomb, the smallest and most terrifying explosive. Despite being no bigger than a coin, it could detonate instantly and reduce everything within dozens of meters to rubble.
Even if he sensed the crisis and tried to escape, it was unlikely he could entirely avoid the pot bomb’s explosion. However, pot bombs were extremely rare; the special metal needed to manufacture them was exceptionally difficult to acquire. From what Lan Xiaobu understood, this metal didn’t seem to be naturally occurring but was rather artificially crafted.
Regardless, this pot bomb was now his.
Lan Xiaobu felt some concern for the pot bomb, having heard that it could explode from mere pressure. If he accidentally squeezed it, would he be turned to dust?
After thinking, he decided not to discard it. He placed the pot bomb in a box and put the box into his spatial ring.
Gu Dao had already climbed up, and Lan Xiaobu gave him a pat, “Go see what this guy hid, where he was sheltering just now. I need to bandage my wounds.”
Getting injured by the magnetic light gun wasn’t a big deal for Lan Xiaobu; he had enough medicine, and changing into another set of clothes would suffice.
Before Lan Xiaobu had properly changed, Gu Dao shouted from a distance, prompting him to rush over. Then Lan Xiaobu immediately understood why everyone else had left, while this one-eyed man remained here.
In front of him was a large bag and a piece of white stone at least a yard long and a meter in diameter.
If it were just a stone, that would be fine, but when Lan Xiaobu’s divine sense landed on the stone, he immediately felt an extremely rich aura of spiritual energy. This was definitely not a spiritual stone, but it had the same effects, brimming with spiritual energy.
Lan Xiaobu tried to run his technique to absorb the energy from the stone. With just one cycle of the Jinwu Jue technique, he clearly felt the concentrated spiritual energy flowing into his body. This turned out to be something even better than spiritual stones for training, and the difference was quite substantial.
What on earth is this? No matter what it was, at this moment Lan Xiaobu was sure that the treasure the man spoke of was this stone. This guy must have been distressed about how to take it out of the Jade Dawn Star, and unexpectedly, he stumbled upon Lan Xiaobu.
This trip was not in vain; Lan Xiaobu quickly focused on the bag. The contents inside made him overjoyed.
The bag contained at least several thousand spiritual stones. While they were all irregularly shaped, the quantity alone was sufficient. He was here to cultivate, not to trade.
Lan Xiaobu discarded all the rest of the contents in the bag and kept only the spiritual stones, a star crystal for cosmic positioning, and the yard-long white stone into his spatial ring.
This white giant stone was truly good stuff, and Lan Xiaobu decided to use it for training and see what effects it might have.
With dark clouds approaching, everyone entering the Jade Dawn Star was eager to leave, so Lan Xiaobu had no intention of changing places for cultivation. He chose to remain here and cultivate for a few days.
Once again, he began operating the Jinwu Jue technique. Lan Xiaobu immediately sensed a difference. Previously, while training with spiritual stones, he was certain that he wouldn’t be able to refine a golden dan in a short time. However, using this giant stone, he had managed, in just six days, to shape a fuzzy golden dan prototype in his dantian.
Lan Xiaobu halted his cultivation. The golden dan had tiers. This massive stone had an unparalleled impact on the refinement process, and he couldn’t let it go to waste. According to his calculations, it would take him at least another ten days to completely refine a dan, and he definitely wouldn’t make it back to the Jade Dawn Star in time.
That was fine; after leaving the Jade Dawn Star, his first task was to protect his life. Once safe, he could search for another planet to refine a dan at his convenience.
Stopping his dan refinement, Lan Xiaobu continued his cultivation.
The spirit of the artifact from the Hongyun Sect had given him a jade slip of techniques. Although he hadn’t yet successfully refined a dan, he had managed to cultivate his divine sense. According to the spirit, he could also practice the techniques therein.
(Today’s update ends here. Good night, friends. The next chapter will begin at midnight.)
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