262: planet hunter

An infinite distance from Blue Star, a silver-white spaceship was traveling at an extremely high speed.

If one could penetrate the thick metal outer wall of the spaceship, one would see an enormous humanoid beast sitting in the cockpit.

A terrifying giant beast covered in black scales, with bulging muscles.

Yet, this muscular beast before him, with six thick arms, was incredibly flexible.

Working together, it was able to pilot this primitive spaceship, named Zeta, with great ease.

It could easily dodge the chaotic rocks from the universe.

The giant beast, Zeta, was a Planet Hunter.

His goal was to find planets with abundant life in the vast, unexplored regions of the universe.

It wasn't that Zeta loved adventure; there was only one reason: he was poor!

That's right, he was poor.

Impoverished, Zeta could only pilot this primitive spaceship through the universe, constantly searching for undiscovered life planets, to obtain enough cultivation resources.

These ownerless life planets were the most sought-after commodities in the trade market.

Every life was a precious treasure.

Those powerhouses who mastered countless secret arts could make these innocent lives perform all sorts of tricks.

After squeezing out every last drop of value from them, they would completely devour them.

In this situation, even the most primitive life planet would be enough for Zeta to make a fortune.

Although the fate of the ownerless life planets sold by Zeta was usually extremely tragic.

But for money, Zeta didn't mind selling his conscience.

Besides, what did the lives of extraterrestrial beings have to do with him?

Zeta only wanted to live a better life in this starfield named Sirius.

However, it was clear that Zeta's luck was not good on this journey to explore ownerless planets.

With his reserves almost depleted, Zeta still hadn't found a suitable target.

Coming up empty-handed was a very normal thing for Planet Hunters.

If every outing resulted in a harvest, Planet Hunters wouldn't be a gutter profession.

But Zeta was different.

Coming up empty-handed, he obviously became anxious, even planning to take a risk and explore the Nineteenth District, where the Phoenix Bird resided.

The Phoenix Bird was a powerhouse who had reached Star-level Eight, and the Nineteenth District was the area he ruled.

Although it was unknown why the Phoenix Bird had recently disappeared, exploring areas ruled by other powerhouses was clearly not a wise choice.

Especially when Zeta only had Planetary-level Three strength, such an action was tantamount to courting death.

But Zeta had no choice; he urgently needed money.

This money could even determine the future fate of him or the Ze Clan behind him.

For this, he was even willing to give his life.

However, many things cannot be done well just by having the resolve.

Even with the resolve to die, Zeta still found nothing.

However, just as he was about to turn into the Nineteenth District, he received an indiscriminate message from the Star Devouring Beast Avatar.

It was the coordinates of an ownerless life planet!

Most importantly, this was an ownerless life planet with an intelligent race possessing strong reproductive capabilities.

Such planets were highly sought after in the trade market.

Intelligent race!

Strong reproductive capabilities!

Each of these adjectives signified considerable value, let alone when they were combined.

The money obtained after selling this ownerless planet would not only solve Zeta's crisis but also allow him to make a huge fortune and gain the opportunity to enter the Star-level.

Zeta's eyes gleamed with excitement.

He never imagined he would encounter such good fortune.

This was like finding a villa while walking down the street—an incredibly good thing.

However, just as he was about to change course, his six thick arms began to hesitate.

No one would be foolish enough to hand over the opportunity to acquire such an excellent ownerless planet.

This might be a trap, a terrible trap.

The vast universe hides countless opportunities, and it also hides countless dangers.

Some beings choose to become Planet Hunters, to hunt ownerless life planets.

Similarly, some beings choose to become Planet Hunter Hunters, to hunt those easily deceived Planet Hunters.

In Zeta's view, this clumsy deception was simply ridiculous.

It was a scam that even the dumbest fool wouldn't believe.

If a being truly discovered an ownerless life planet, the first thing to do would be to use a formation to mark and hide the ownerless life planet as its own.

How could it be possible to publicize the coordinates of this ownerless life planet like a simpleton?

Of course, this was not absolute.

There was once a lucky person who received an unfamiliar coordinate signal.

Being naive, he didn't know the dangers of the universe and chose to head towards the coordinates at the first opportunity.

This time, he was very lucky and actually found an ownerless life planet.

For a time, it drew countless envious gazes.

Although in Zeta's mind, this was definitely a scam.

A scam to lure Planet Hunters.

But for all Planet Hunters, wasn't this what they dreamed of?

Although he had already judged the coordinates sent by the Star Devouring Beast Avatar in his heart, just as Zeta was about to head to the Nineteenth District, he still hesitated.

This might be his only chance.

Compared to the Nineteenth District, which was a certain death trap, these unfamiliar coordinates might actually offer a glimmer of hope.

In Zeta's impression, the location of the coordinates was a newly formed area.

Such places generally wouldn't contain any valuable planets.

However, there was an extremely low probability that a planet might get lucky and give birth to life.

He looked at his still ample reserves.

And those very close coordinates.

Zeta pondered for a moment and decided to check out the coordinates provided by the Star Devouring Beast Avatar.

Anyway, it was very close and wouldn't waste much of his reserves.

If he found danger, he just needed to leave immediately.

If there really were lucky people in this world, why couldn't that lucky person be him?

Even if those coordinates were truly a trap, a trap that could lead to his demise.

Then it would mean Zeta was destined for such a fate.

After all, the Nineteenth District was also a place of certain death.

Moreover, Zeta had embarked on this journey with the resolve to die.

He was inherently a gambler, a gambler who would risk everything for money.

Thinking of this, Zeta gritted his teeth, his six arms began to fly, driving the spaceship towards Blue Star's direction.

Three months.

He would only need three months to reach the coordinates and investigate.

Although this time seemed long, for cosmic explorations that often lasted decades or even centuries, it was an insignificant amount of time.

Zeta only hoped that upon reaching the target coordinates, he would have a pleasant surprise... In fact, many beings received the signal from the Star Devouring Beast Avatar.

However, unless they had the same resolve as Zeta, these beings would not choose to take the risk and head to these coordinates, which clearly looked like a trap.

The Star Devouring Beast Avatar naturally understood this logic.

But it didn't care.

After all, as long as enough beings received the signal, there would always be one willing to check it out.

Beings capable of exploring the universe were at least Planetary-level One.

Facing such an existence, that hateful tiger would only face death.

Not only that, but the planet he guarded would also become food for the strong to grow, devoured until not even a speck of dust remained.

The only way to break the situation was for Lin Tianwei to be strong enough to repel all invaders.

But the Star Devouring Beast Avatar clearly didn't believe this was possible.

Beings that reached the Planetary-level were each as large as Blue Star.

Their bodies also contained infinite power.

No matter how powerful Lin Tianwei was, it was impossible for him to win with such a huge disparity in strength.

Take Zeta, for example.

As a Ze Clan member, a humanoid giant beast, his body was not too large among Planetary-level beings.

But that was only relative to other Planetary-level beings.

Compared to Blue Star, Blue Star became the younger sibling.

Even in his regular form, Zeta possessed twice the size of Blue Star.

He could even effortlessly destroy Blue Star with a single slap.

Undoubtedly, the Star Devouring Beast Avatar's goal was achieved.

The coordinates of Blue Star, transmitted into the universe, attracted the ill-intentioned Zeta to approach.

However, whether things would unfold as it predicted would depend on whether Lin Tianwei possessed the power to overcome everything... Blue Star, Antarctic Sea.

Although he had defeated the Star Devouring Beast Avatar, Lin Tianwei's body was also completely depleted of energy.

After the initial excitement of acquiring the Mythical Level Talent passed, an intense hunger emanated from every cell in Lin Tianwei's body.

It was a signal that they needed a large amount of energy.

Looking around.

Lin Tianwei sighed. The Return to Origin secret art was truly brutal; the once vibrant Antarctic Sea now had no living creatures.

If Lin Tianwei wanted to find food, he either had to eat rocks and mud, or he could only travel to more distant waters.

Sighing, Lin Tianwei thought to himself that he was truly destined for a busy life.

His limbs began to move, and Lin Tianwei swam at an extremely fast speed towards the Northern Hemisphere.

Although exhausted, for the powerful Lin Tianwei, swimming across half of Blue Star was a very easy task.

Lin Tianwei's speed was very fast; even in an exhausted state, he still reached the Northern Hemisphere in less than half an hour.

After a moment of thought, Lin Tianwei identified his target—Sakura Island.

Currently, there were basically no beings on Blue Star who had not yet pledged allegiance to Lin Tianwei.

After all, the closer to death, the more it could stimulate a creature's desire for protection.

Especially when facing an unresolvable existence like the Star Devouring Beast Avatar, it could further stimulate their desire to express their existence to a powerful being like Lin Tianwei.

Of course, this only applied to intelligent beings.

The monstrous beasts on Sakura Island, who had already lost their minds, were clearly not included.

As for that giant mutated lizard?

At this moment, it was still sound asleep in the magma, completely unaware that Blue Star had already experienced an apocalyptic crisis.

But this was good, as it saved Lin Tianwei the trouble of finding food.

Otherwise, with his subjects everywhere, Lin Tianwei wouldn't have been able to go on a killing spree.

Thinking of this, Lin Tianwei no longer hesitated and swam towards Sakura Island at an extremely fast speed.

He was truly too hungry.

Sakura Island seemed different from all other places on Blue Star; even from a great distance, Lin Tianwei could smell a foul odor.

It was a smell full of nuclear radiation, incredibly pungent.

Not only that, the harsh environment also made Sakura Island reek.

Those monstrous beasts didn't understand what it meant to be clean and hygienic.

Even as food, the creatures on Sakura Island were clearly not very qualified.

However, in this situation of food shortage, even Lin Tianwei couldn't be picky.

Thinking of this, he swam directly ashore.

To conserve energy, Lin Tianwei now maintained his smallest length of three hundred meters.

But for these monstrous beasts, who were generally not even two meters tall, Lin Tianwei was undoubtedly a behemoth.

After all, the creatures here inherently had genetic defects and were considerably smaller than those in other places.

Even with mutation, few grew to a large size.

To grow to two meters was already a very difficult feat for them.

Talent: Tigers Might (Extraordinary)!

Lin Tianwei had no intention of wasting time with these food items; at this moment, he was already drooling.

To save time, Lin Tianwei directly activated Tigers Might.

Under the powerful deterrence of Tigers Might, these trashy monstrous beasts had no power to resist Lin Tianwei whatsoever.

They couldn't even hold on for a second before kneeling on the ground.

However, this was not the most astonishing part.

Lin Tianwei's power seemed to trigger their instincts hidden deep within their genes.

Some monstrous beasts even began to constantly bend and sway up and down.

Judging by their movements, it was a skilled bowing motion.

However, Lin Tianwei had no intention of letting them go.

If bowing could solve problems, then what was the need for powerful martial force?

They were merely food.

Fulfilling their destined mission was their greatest value!

"Ding, congratulations to the host for killing a new target."

"Ding, Talent extraction failed. The host has gained six hundred Talent Shards."

..."Ding, Talent extraction failed. The host has gained two hundred and fifty Talent Shards."

Amidst a series of system kill notifications, Lin Tianwei finally felt his ravenous stomach ease slightly.

His body also became slightly replenished with energy.

Since the appetizer was finished, it was time for the main course.

Thinking of this, Lin Tianwei turned his gaze towards the core area of Sakura Island.

The closer to the core of Sakura Island, the stronger the monstrous beasts became.

There were even terrifying monstrous beasts over a hundred meters tall.

And that mutated lizard still sound asleep in the magma.

These were the true feasts Lin Tianwei was looking forward to.

Perhaps he could even acquire some powerful Talents from them.

Thinking of this, Lin Tianwei started running again. (End of Chapter)