340: Fall Guy, Stellar Edge

"Boom!" Just as Yang Dian was wondering if he should temporarily stop, rumbling sounds like thunder emerged from beneath the earth.

A few blinks later, the earth began to surge, the magnetic field became chaotic, and the world visibly started to distort.

'Silicon-based life hiding underground?'

No sooner had the thought crossed his mind than the magnetic field of the distorted world surged past Yang Dian.

The world seemed to freeze.

Dust floating in the air reversed direction, coalescing into a storm giant that raised its hands and clapped towards Yang Dian's location.

Countless luminous corals capable of focusing and reflecting sunlight emerged from the sea, reflecting beams of sunlight towards the clouds in the sky.

The sound of wings flapping came from within the clouds.

Butterflies with nano-mirror array wings flew in front of the light beams, further concentrating the sunlight focused by the luminous corals and reflected into the sky.

Then, using their wings, they divided it into fine light beam threads to cut through the world.

Countless crystal-eating insects flew out from rock crevices, buzzing as they flapped their wings and spitting out lightning.

The lightning converged in the air, forming an impenetrable net of thunderstorms centered on Yang Dian's position.

Looking at the dense, overlapping attacks in real space, Yang Dian, hidden in the spatial interlayer, couldn't help but shiver.

"If I didn't have spatial power, I might have been doomed this time."

Of course, not having spatial power was a false premise.

If he hadn't mastered spatial power, Yang Dian wouldn't have recklessly run into the Cosmic Creature's lair to mess around.

He was very cautious.

Seeing the Cosmic Creatures act as if they wanted him alive or dead, Yang Dian couldn't help but rub his temples again.

"Isn't this a bit over the top?"

Thinking about it carefully, Yang Dian felt it was actually normal.

Putting himself in their shoes, what he had just done was roughly equivalent to an Alien Planet lifeform running into Chinese territory and secretly abducting hundreds of thousands of ordinary people.

In such a situation, as soon as the abductor's traces were discovered, all available celestial weapons and extraordinary abilities would undoubtedly be unleashed on the Alien Planet lifeform's head.

"Good thing I was prepared."

Reaching out, Yang Dian pulled out a large, blue-glowing Mutated Cockroach from his storage ring.

Yes, it was a Mutated Cockroach that had mastered Lingwen power.

Ever since obtaining the Lingwen Clan's [Lingwen Engraving Technology] and [Spirit Liquid Manufacturing Technology], the newly established Lingwen Department had been trying every possible way to increase the success rate of Lingwen engraving.

During this period, the number of Mutated Cockroaches consumed exceeded several million, and the success rate of Lingwen engraving also increased from the original one in thirty thousand to one in seven thousand.

While consuming countless resources significantly improved the success rate, the Lingwen Department also cultivated 165 Mutated Lingwen Cockroaches that had mastered Lingwen power.

With increased numbers, the Lingwen Cockroaches, once considered treasures, naturally became consumables.

Yang Dian carried a few with him.

The purpose was to have a scapegoat to attract firepower in situations like the present.

He casually tossed aside the Lingwen Cockroach, which possessed low-level City-Level combat power.

The Lingwen Cockroach hadn't mastered spatial power, so as soon as Yang Dian threw it, it began to be repelled by space.

Just before being expelled from the spatial interlayer, the Lingwen Cockroach seemed to sense danger, and the Lingwen on its body began to glow blue.

A moment later, the blue light converged outside its body, forming an elliptical blue shield.

As soon as the shield formed, it was completely expelled from the spatial interlayer.

The Lingwen Cockroach, possessing low-level City-Level combat power, didn't even last a second under the focused attack of the Cosmic Creatures before turning into the finest particles and completely vanishing from the world.

It was precisely at the moment of the Lingwen Cockroach's death that countless attacks instantly ceased.

'So these Silicon-based lifeforms also have their own communication System that allows all Silicon-based lifeforms to receive information at the same time?'

'I wasn't discovered before because I acted quickly and didn't allow the contained Silicon-based lifeforms to spread the news?'

'What was the transmission range of this communication System again?'

'If I bring Cosmic Creatures to Earth, will it expose Earth's coordinates, allowing Cosmic Creatures to follow the 'internet cable' to Earth?'

In his contemplation, Yang Dian saw more than 20 entirely black octopuses fly to the location where the Lingwen Cockroach had died.

After standing in different positions, they waved their tentacles a few times, then simultaneously tore open space and probed their heads into the spatial interlayer.

Yang Dian's heart suddenly stopped, then he let out a soft breath.

Space has many layers of interlayers.

The stronger one's mastery of spatial power, the higher the interlayer one can open.

Upper layers of space can directly observe lower layers, while lower layers can only observe upper layers under very rare circumstances.

The spatial interlayer Yang Dian opened through the Dimension Butterfly was at the 69th layer.

The spatial interlayers opened by those 23 octopuses were from the 1st to the 23rd layers.

In short, Yang Dian could observe them, but they could not observe Yang Dian.

"I wonder if there are other space-type lifeforms among the Cosmic Creatures besides these octopuses."

After thinking for a moment, Yang Dian figured there probably were.

If nothing else, the tadpoles that could expand into wormholes were one type of space-based lifeform.

"The Silicon-based lifeforms have already been alerted."

"So, should I just go for a big one next?"

After careful consideration for a while, Yang Dian decided to first observe the enemy situation.

Although he had been busy in the Cosmic Creature's lair for a considerable amount of time, the areas he had actually ventured into were extremely limited.

If he was going to cause a major incident, he first needed to see which Silicon-based lifeforms were more important and suitable for taking away.

And which Silicon-based lifeforms were too abnormal, best to avoid them if seen.

Having made up his mind, Yang Dian began his journey of exploration in the Cosmic Creature's lair.

Thus, he saw the diverse and complex Silicon-based life ecosystem on the surface, no less intricate than that of carbon-based life.

He also saw the gigantic Silicon-based lifeforms in the Earth's crust that remained in a dormant state to reduce energy consumption.

He even saw super-gigantic earthworms in the Earth's core, over several million kilometers long, which increased the planet's magnetic field strength by rubbing against the core's material.

There were also atmospheric energy lifeforms in the atmosphere that could control lightning and air currents.

On the satellite orbit, humanoid creatures with an aura no weaker than the Lizardman God orbited the planet...

He spent nearly half a month thoroughly observing the Cosmic Creature's lair.

As his scheduled return date approached, Yang Dian left some spatial beacons in various corners of the Cosmic Creature's lair.

Finally, taking advantage of a Star Tinder Behemoth flying away from its nest and a dust worm opening a passage, he left this planet, which had no will and seemed to have 'died'.

Long after leaving the Cosmic Creature's lair, he used his sight as a ruler to lock onto the planet farthest from the star.

Controlling the Dimension Butterfly to make several jumps, Yang Dian had already landed on that planet, which was over 5 billion kilometers from the star and nearly 4 billion kilometers from Planet 2.

After his feet touched the unnamed planet's permafrost, Yang Dian first rubbed his arms.

This planet was a bit far from the star, and the stellar energy it received was even scarcer.

Therefore, the planet's temperature remained below -200℃ year-round.

Fortunately, Yang Dian's Physique was already superhuman.

He could still endure this temperature.

"It's time for a big one."

"And to test the reaction of those Cosmic Creatures..."