“Transfer, unranked planet.”
In the dead of night, Li Mo turned into a white light and was gone after a light shout.
Spiritual roots were graded from one to ten. The lower it was, the longer breaks it needed between uses. Li Mo’s last trip with the spiritual root’s Transfer was more than half a month ago.
Li Mo opened his eyes and softly frowned.
Transfer did take him to an unranked planet, but life was just starting to form. There were barely any plants around, not to mention no animals whatsoever.
‘Isn’t this planet a bit too desolate?’
Li Mo roamed the unranked planet for five hours, leaving him downcast. This place was a hundred times more barren than Earth.
Using Fortune of Heaven and Earth Art in this place would offer pitiful results.
This planet was unfit for cultivation.
Li Mo’s eyes shined and seconds later he was gone.
His second return wasn’t that far off from his place, less than half a km.
Li Mo arrived home just as the dawn broke.
Spiritual root’s Transfer was out of commission for now. His only option was the dimension door Du Fei and the rest of the testers were using.
Li Mo took out the Staff of Origin and hesitated for a long time before putting it away.
It would be easy to enter a dimension door with the Staff of Origin but it would catch the attention of some of the universe’s meanest people. He wasn’t his past self, he wasn’t a human ’emperor’ who could move unhinged around the universe. There was no going back once he attracted those types of people.
“Yao Xi, oh, Yao Xi. Your Godly Fates Art is what I need the most right now. Such a pity I can’t train it since you didn’t teach me.”
Li Mo sighed, a strange face appearing in his mind shaking a fortune sticks tube for a long time before a stick finally fell. ‘Bad omen. Oh no, we are all out of luck today…’
Recalling Yao Xi kneeling and wailing while hugging his head, Li Mo smiled.
Li Mo washed his face and went to school.
With his body, not sleeping half a month wouldn’t affect him at all.
The military drill continued with Li Mo participating, but now toned it down to common people’s standards.
The campus’ dazzling and most outstanding student was Su Haoyang. He was the best runner, the strongest, simply perfect in every way.
Su Haoyang became the most famous student of Century Middle School, and coupled with his dashing good looks, not to mention rich clan, he received love letters from schoolgirls practically daily. But unlike Yang Chong and Ma Yu, Su Haoyang didn’t care about some silly love letters, finding them beneath him.
“I am the future leader of the Su clan. With my standard, of the entire Century Middle School, only Lin Qingrou can become my woman. Others don’t qualify!”
The girls thought Su Haoyang was playing coy, but as time passed, it was clear he was looking down on all of them.
And these last few days, Su Haoyang didn’t come every day at school, but when he did, it was to ask the same question, “Is Lin Qingrou here?”
A pity the Century Middle School’s number one belle, the crowned Lin Qingrou, avoided school since he showed up.
Li Mo just crossed the campus gates while Su Haoyang was storming out.
The two’s eyes met then passed by each other, with Su Haoyang’s face tinted in disdain.
“Brother, I just got news that an expert is near Cangnan Mountain’s spring!”
Li Mo eavesdropped on Su Haoyang having a phone call a hundred meters away.
He had yet to refine his hearing, but with Foundation achieved, it was boosted ten times.
‘Expert? Cangnan Mountain’s spring?’ Li Mo’s heart skipped a beat.
Su Haoyang was Starscape’s first in-house tester. However, Starscape and Li Mo’s ‘log in’ were different. The people on Earth that had spiritual roots were ignorant to the Transfer function. The one they used was another.
A spiritual root user was able to feel spiritual qi echoes. As the sources that could affect the spiritual qi’s rise were scarce – miraculous items, ingredients, exceptional beings, as well as dimension doors – the Starscape developers used instances to access it.
Then let the spiritual root testers sweep them for the source of the echo, sending large batches of testers through each time the dimension doors opened.
This was the Starscape in-house testing program.
Dimension doors wore out with time. On this planet, the legends, the scattered clues, of certain items or men in its long history, were all true, coming from these dimension doors. But Starscape players only view it as a gaming instance.
‘Funny…’
“Can the dimension door the Du Fei’s group is using be located in Cangnan Mountain?”
Li Mo found it highly likely. How else could one explain the rich spiritual qi of the spring if there was no spiritual qi source?
“Li Mo, come here.” Huang Yao called out.
‘Regardless, I need to visit Cangnan Mountain again!’ With his mind set, Li Mo was ready to leave.
“Li Mo, what are you doing? Didn’t you hear me calling you?”
Li Mo turned a deaf ear as his step quickened and Huang Yao couldn’t catch up.
He hailed a cab and told his destination, to which the driver shook his head.
“Cangnan Mountain has been sealed since a few days ago. They say murderers are roaming its woods. Boy, that place is dangerous, and I can’t take you even if I wanted to.”
“Then leave me nearby.”
This only worked to affirm his guess. The oddity surrounding Cangnan Mountain was most likely because of a dimension door.
After paying the fare, Li Mo got out nearby the mountain. His figure flitted by with uncanny speed.
The driver jumped in his seat, watched the money then the surroundings and floored it.
“God, oh god, a daytime monster!”
Li Mo was soon at Cangnan Mountain’s checkpoint.
The sentries weren’t from the army, or police, but the Thunderstruck Enterprise’s men, the developer of Starscape. It held the largest power in the world among the ten companies that joined in developing the game. Not only nationally, as it had branches all around the globe.
A large number of Thunderstruck Enterprise’s people patrolled the area. Their numbers weren’t in the tens – or hundreds – but thousands.
This large scale deployment only confirmed that this mountain housed a dimension door!
A Humvee came down the road and stopped at the checkpoint. Su Haoyang and a middle-aged man in a suit stepped out.
“I am Su Corporation’s CEO and this is my brother Su Haoyang, Starscape’s first in-house tester…”
“I am sorry, the situation is volatile and I can’t let you in.”
A man interrupted Su Haonan before he could finish.
Hu~
A gentle wind blew Su Haoyang’s hair.
