87: Exploration, spaceship orb

Lu Yu looked around, ignoring the surging black creatures, and propelled the completely airborne circular cage to the central projection area of this space.

Here, a fist-sized sphere floated in mid-air, emitting a sky full of galaxy projections, accompanied by various runes cascading down like a waterfall, constantly changing.

It seemed to be the core of this space, containing a lot of information.

Lu Yu pondered for a moment and looked at Little White Fox.

Little White Fox possessed the bloodline of the Nine-tailed Fox, had profound luck, could avoid danger, and was practically a good luck charm.

When unsure if there was danger, it was best to let her try first.

Stared at by Lu Yu, Little White Fox immediately understood his thoughts.

She tentatively extended her tail, approaching the sphere, her spiritual sense exceptionally tense.

If she sensed danger, she would immediately stop her actions.

However, as her tail approached and even coiled around the sphere, she didn't detect any danger, so she confidently brought the sphere into the Hand of Earth.

"You hold onto this for now. When we go back up, let those human scientists study it. If they can learn about this spaceship from it, it will benefit both him and us."

Lu Yu sent a spiritual message to Little White Fox.

Although this place was very dangerous, since there were treasures like zi xuan crystal and spirit gathering stone, it meant there were even greater opportunities here!

Little White Fox wrapped the sphere within her spiritual sense tail, carefully protecting it.

She was also curious about these spaceships; a place of great danger often meant great treasures!

Afterward, Lu Yu continued to delve deeper with Little White Fox.

After passing through what looked like a cockpit, Lu Yu arrived at a vast space filled with glass jars.

Looking around, the glass jars were like towering pillars, supporting this space, neatly arranged in rows.

Some were already damaged, while others, still intact, were filled with green liquid, immersing black creatures.

From time to time, black creatures crawled out from the tops of the jars, shook off the liquid on their bodies, and then charged at Lu Yu and Little White Fox.

This seemed to be the birthplace of the black creatures.

As Lu Yu delved deeper, he discovered that these glass jars also contained many other creatures he didn't recognize at all; many were skeletons, and many were incomplete organs or limbs.

It was like a giant biological laboratory.

Below each jar was a string of symbols, like a record or some kind of code.

Lu Yu couldn't understand them, but he always felt an eerie strangeness everywhere.

Not wanting to linger here, he continued deeper into the area where the zi xuan crystal was located.

After crossing several more areas, Lu Yu and Little White Fox finally arrived at a white laboratory where the zi xuan crystal was located.

Here, the zi xuan crystal floated high in the air, like a purple sun, emitting terrifying energy fluctuations, which were then rapidly absorbed by various devices surrounding it and transmitted to all corners of the spaceship through dense mechanical pipes.

Even with devices designed to collect the zi xuan crystal's energy, perhaps due to disrepair over the years, a good deal of energy still escaped, rippling through the air in circles.

Lu Yu and Little White Fox were not far from the zi xuan crystal and were soon affected by the ripples; their spiritual senses fluctuated and twisted, causing them agonizing pain.

Spiritual sense was inherently fragile, protected by the physical body, and the energy fluctuations emitted by the zi xuan crystal were extremely strange and powerful; they both found it somewhat unbearable.

However, Lu Yu did not retreat. He handed the spirit gathering stone on his body to Little White Fox, saying, "You don't need to follow me anymore. Take the spirit gathering stone and the sphere out."

It seemed the zi xuan crystal was the power core of this spaceship. Such an important place should not be so easy to approach.

While he was still in his spiritual state, he would go and probe, making some preparations for a deeper exploration later.

Little White Fox wanted to persuade Lu Yu, but after entering here, her sense of foreboding had increased several times, as if an invisible sharp sword hung over her head, ready to fall at any moment.

If he didn't risk trying with his spiritual sense, Lu Yu's main body might perish here if he came.

Thus, she could only swallow her words of persuasion, holding the spirit gathering stone Lu Yu handed her, and then reluctantly left the place.

She had no idea what would happen once Lu Yu's spiritual sense approached the zi xuan crystal; she could only leave first and take the spirit gathering stone and the sphere back.

After Little White Fox left, Lu Yu finally relaxed, and then, enduring the increasingly violent energyImpact, he approached the zi xuan crystal.

The closer he got to the zi xuan crystal, the more terrifying the energy impact became. After only approaching halfway, Lu Yu's spiritual sense was half-eroded and had twisted to a certain extent.

However, nothing unusual happened, so it seemed his previous speculation was wrong.

Feeling his thinning spiritual sense, Lu Yu decided to use this last bit of spiritual sense to thoroughly touch the zi xuan crystal.

If there was still no danger, it meant the zi xuan crystal was merely the spaceship's energy system.

With this thought, Lu Yu's spiritual sense began to contract, then, like a bullet, it broke through the zi xuan crystal's energy impact and landed on the zi xuan crystal.

At this moment, the zi xuan crystal seemed to sense something, suddenly erupting with a large amount of chaotic energy, sweeping in all directions!

Lu Yu's already weakened spiritual sense was instantly sent flying, and the various devices surrounding the zi xuan crystal also operated at overload, absorbing most of the energy that escaped from the zi xuan crystal.

Other than that, no other anomaly occurred.

This made Lu Yu's almost dissipated spiritual sense breathe a slight sigh of relief.

It seemed he had overthought things.

As long as one could withstand the zi xuan crystal's energy impact, one could take the zi xuan crystal away.

And based on the impact his spiritual sense had received, he was certain that his B-class physical body, combined with activating his spiritual energy in advance to resist, could definitely withstand the zi xuan crystal's impact.

Just as he had relaxed, his residual spiritual sense, which had been pushed back deep into the spaceship by the zi xuan crystal, vaguely detected a giant skeleton bound by massive chains.

The skeleton was too large to see clearly, like a corpse that had been decaying for many days.

There was no skin, no blood vessels, only crimson muscles clinging to the bone surface, lifelessly bound by chains, unable to move.

Lu Yu's heart jumped, and he tried to mobilize his last bit of spiritual sense to get a clear look at the skeleton.

A sudden terrifying gale appeared, and Lu Yu's spiritual sense was instantly shredded and annihilated, leaving nothing behind.

On the ground, Lu Yu suddenly spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, his face extremely pale, and his aura continuously weakened because half of his spiritual sense was damaged.

However, Lu Yu ignored his physical injuries; he was stabilizing his chaotic spiritual sense, because he vaguely remembered that as the terrifying gale struck, a faint light had lit up in the deep eye sockets of that giant skeleton.