79: Chapter 79 Tracking

Three days passed quietly.

"Exiting warp drive. Space jump engine cooling down. Arriving at destination coordinates—Aolan Star Domain, 35th Star Zone, main star System."

Accompanied by the spaceship AI's soft and emotionless synthesized electronic voice, the star dome shuttle, which had been in a state of absolute stability, suddenly gave a very slight tremor.

Immediately after, the deep blue spatial light outside the porthole, which looked like stretched noodles, instantly shattered, turning into a sky full of brilliant, real stars.

Su Wu, sitting in the pilot's seat, slowly opened his eyes.

As his gaze passed through the wide porthole made of star glass, he cast it toward this brand-new starry sky.

Shocking.

This was a cosmic spectacle, completely different from the Solar System and extremely extreme!

Directly in front of the spaceship, there was not a single lonely star.

Instead, there were three huge stars, fiery red in size and color, yet orbiting each other under some extremely subtle gravitational balance!

This was a triple-star System!

"Is this the main star System of the 35th Star Zone... Three Suns in the Sky?"

If the star dome had not been equipped with a Star Lord-level defensive force field, any ordinary spaceship would likely have been crushed into powder by the gravitational tides of these three intersecting stars the moment it exited the jump.

"Beep—Main planet coordinates locked, entering synchronous orbit."

At the core and most stable point of the three stars' gravity, a vast planet gradually magnified in Su Wu's field of vision.

This was the destination of this trip, and also the location of the Starfall Secret Realm.

As the distance closed, the shocking geographical features of this main planet were clearly presented before his eyes.

Unlike the blue, water-dominated sphere of Earth, over seventy percent of this planet was covered by vast lands of dark brown, purple-red, and gray-white.

On those lands, exaggerated mountain ranges rose up, stretching for millions of kilometers like the spines of giant dragons.

And the oceans, which accounted for only twenty-some percent, presented a deep, heart-palpitating ink blue, divided by the land into huge inland seas.

Around the outer edge of the planet's atmosphere circled a massive "star ring" composed of countless scrapped warships, meteorite fragments, and the wreckage of giant space fortresses.

This star ring was not only a natural defensive barrier but also demonstrated what a tragic interstellar war this planet had once experienced.

"Land."

Su Wu ordered the AI.

The dark golden star dome shuttle turned into a stream of light, tearing directly through the planet's thick atmosphere, and amidst a blaze of intense friction, landed toward a massive urban spaceport on the planet's surface.

...

"Hiss—"

Accompanied by the dull sound of air pressure release, the hatch of the star dome slid slowly to both sides.

Su Wu was wearing a very low-key, long gray trench coat, his hands in his pockets, stepping down the metal stairs, walking out of the landing pad unhurriedly.

On his left shoulder, that white fur ball that had just taken a nap on the spaceship—Xiao Bai—was lying lazily, its long, fluffy tail swinging aimlessly in the air.

Before landing, Su Wu had given this little ancestor a strict order: on this planet, it was absolutely forbidden to speak in front of other humans, and even more forbidden to reveal even the slightest trace of its Star Beast aura.

After all, this was not the remote Earth; this was a high-level star zone. A Star Beast cub? Once exposed, it would definitely cause big trouble! Even if Su Wu had heaven-defying abilities, he couldn't withstand the combined assault of thousands of major powers.

"Squeak, squeak." Xiao Bai called out a few times, then very cooperatively closed its mouth, pretending to be a harmless pet, even deliberately letting out a "meow."

Walking out of the spaceport, which covered an area comparable to a small country on Earth, a heatwave mixed with various exotic spices and the smell of metal machine oil instantly hit his face.

"So lively!"

Su Wu stood on the huge viewing platform of the port, overlooking the super metropolis below called "Xingyao City," unable to hide a trace of amazement in his eyes.

If Earth's Yanjing Base was a jungle of steel, then this Xingyao City was a cosmic city where extremely advanced interstellar technology perfectly integrated!

There were no traditional cars or asphalt roads here.

The sky was divided into thousands of three-dimensional flight paths. Various strangely shaped aircraft shuttled through the air like weaving, leaving behind colorful energy trails.

The city's architectural style was bizarre to the extreme.

Some skyscrapers were made entirely of transparent crystal; some buildings were entirely ancient giant trees tens of thousands of feet tall, with their trunks hollowed out to build countless shops and residences; and even in the air, there were small floating islands held up entirely by anti-gravity Formations.

Su Wu took a deep breath and walked into this cosmic city with Xiao Bai.

According to intelligence, there was about half a month left until the "Starfall Secret Realm" officially opened.

These two weeks were crucial for him.

Although he had learned about the Secret Realm tickets and rumors of fifth-order ancient martial art from Zhao Feng, whom he had killed, he knew almost nothing about the specific rules, spatial restrictions, danger levels inside the Secret Realm, and how many monsters the major powers had sent this time...

Secret Realms in the Universe were strange and varied. Some suppressed cultivation, like the Kunlun ancestral land of Earth back then; some were filled with chaotic Laws, where Martial Artists would lose all their cultivation upon entering; and some interstellar ruins would cause one to be swept into a time turbulence and die of old age instantly if one took a wrong step.

Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated.

In the following days.

Su Wu wandered around the prosperous and dizzying Xingyao City like the most ordinary interstellar traveler.

He frequented the most noisy, low-class interstellar taverns, using a few glasses of strong liquor to pry gossip from the mouths of those interstellar mercenaries who licked blood from the edge of a blade; he lingered in high-end auction houses run by large chambers of commerce and black markets where intelligence peddlers gathered, and even spared no expense to purchase a few Incomplete Manuals that supposedly recorded the manuscripts of survivors from the last opening of the Secret Realm.

Over the next few days, the fragmented information gradually pieced together into a vague network in his mind.

This Starfall Secret Realm, like the ancestral land on Earth, had a cultivation cap, and the Star King Realm happened to be the highest Realm allowed to enter the Secret Realm!

And just as Su Wu was shuttling through the city for this information, he did not notice that his seemingly casual but actually purposeful inquiries over the past few days had quietly fallen into the eyes of some interested parties.

...

This evening.

Xingyao City was still under the three suns, so there was no real night.

Su Wu strolled along a bustling, noisy main commercial street. Surrounded by various holographic advertising girls dancing in the air, the huge volume of noise covered up all subtle movements.

Just then.

"Pat, pat."

Xiao Bai, who had been pretending to sleep on Su Wu's left shoulder, suddenly reached out its small claw and very covertly patted Su Wu's neck twice.

Someone is tracking us!