Ancient Planet was flourishing with technology millions of years ahead of Earth. Cars made of light, zero-weight hover crafts, a supersonic hoverboard. In a word, anything here would be a global sensation on Earth.
While Li Mo’s carriage looked downright crude by comparison.
But on Ancient Planet, any that had such opulent carriages were labeled nobles on the spot.
“There’re all kinds of races here…” Ye Xiaolu gawked.
“Ancient Planet is a Peaceful Planet. Ancient Planet welcomes all races, as long as they pay taxes. Anyone is free to enjoy the lavish style of a noble, so long as you got the money.”
“Even snow people?”
“Gu Yiming is a mere Gnoll. You think he’d restrict snow people?”
Ye Xiaolu nodded, “You have a point…”
“But don’t let appearances fool you. Gu Yiming is no good samaritan. His goal is a simple one, money. You don’t have it, then you’re kicked out, even Nine-headed race and Celestial Fire race are no different.
“On Ancient Planet, money is power!”
“Then what are we? Rich, or well off?”
“Well…”
“Spit it out.”
“I only have around a hundred god crystal coins on me. Trading them for RMB, that would be ten thousand for one. Of course that is only a comparison. In fact, RMB and god crystal coin can’t even be compared since no one in the universe accepts RMB…”
“Goddammit!”
“Money aside, I still have five hundred cubic meter rings worth of minerals.
“As for how much money that makes… it should be a hundred thousand god crystal coins, at least.
“There are four major attractions on Ancient Planet.
“Peace, turning it into the best refuge for the weak races.”
“Technology, since Ancient Planet represents the peak of the universe’s science level. Gu Yiming has a personal science team that developed two drug. One is ancestral drug, capable of atavism. Once released, it stirred the greed of countless races that depended on their bloodline’s inheritance.
“The other is the gene drug. It is classified as low, average, high and special. Even a normal person can turn into a mighty warrior with a gene drug of any grade.
“As far as I know, the special gene drug can make even those tenth level ones stir with greed.
“Third are auctions. With so many races on Ancient Planet, business is booming. There once was a rumor that with enough money, you can buy anything in auctions.”
Li Mo stooped his walk.
“And the fourth?” Ye Xiaolu was excited.
“This.”
Li Mo pointed at a shop with a signboard written in universal script, Ancient Rare Antiques.
“What? A curio?”
“Quite right, yet not entirely.”
“I hate it when you stop halfway. I would’ve killed you by now if I could!”
“This shop can’t be explained in a few words. You’ll know when we enter.”
“Let’s go!”
Ye Xiaolu hugged the kitty and darted for the shop.
“Just like a curio…”
There were all kinds of stuff in front. Stone tools, wooden ones, iron, the likes. What they all had in common was how old they seemed.
“If it were a simple curio, it wouldn’t be a top attraction on Ancient Planet.”
Li Mo held a stone cauldron in appraisal, “No one knows the age of our universe, to the point those ten ancient sacred beasts lived quite recently too. Since the birth of the universe there had been many events happening, and every era gave birth to wondrous people and things.
“One era in particular in the endless history of the universe is most notable.
“From its inception to its doom, no one knows how long it lasted, or even if that era even existed to begin with.
“But one thing is certain, many useful things have survived till now from those long long-ago times.
“Billion upon billions of years passed yet they remained intact. Isn’t that amazing? And the best part, today’s science can’t replicate them.
“Each one is unique.
“Later people found that every special item came from that era, no exception. But no one knows the era’s name, so they gave it one.”
“Lost Era.”
While Li Mo was talking, a humanoid with bat wings spoke out.
The Batmen weren’t known for their strength but they had a trait, ultrasound, like a radar but far stronger.
The Batman gave a friendly nod to Li Mo and pointed at the stone cauldron, “No one knows if Lost Era even existed, but items from that era are unearthed every day.
“There are all kinds of things from that era, but the universe’s strongest don’t look for them for their historical value, but how pragmatic they are.
“They say the Staff of Origin, Origin Heart and Pearl of Creation, the three godly items came from the Lost Era. It is this rumor that had every strong being in the universe chase after the Lost Era. As if eager to find the fourth, or fifth, godly item…”
The Batman laughed, “Though it had yet come to pass.
“Even so, useful trinkets come out from time to time. But to find those really special ones, one needs equally special means.
“Friend, may I have a look at that cauldron?”
Li Mo gave it to him.
“Thank you.”
The Batman chuckled, then opened his mouth and released an odd sound on it.
“What’s he doing?” Ye Xiaolu stared on.
“Think of it as using his radar to scan it.”
“Got it.”
Five minutes later, the Batman stopped and said to the shop owner, “How much is this stone cauldron?”
“Ten god crystal coins!”
“Here.”
The Batman paid, then walked to Ye Xiaolu.
“Gorgeous, may I ask that you release a breath?”
“You want me to vent?”
“Yes.”
Li Mo waved, “No, her breath stinks.”
“Yours stinks!
“No problem.” Ye Xiaolu said.
“Please get ready, we’ll do it together on the cauldron.”
“Now!”
The two breathed on the cauldron.
Ye Xiaolu waited a good while, but nothing happened…
