254: Chapter 254 Classic of Mountains and Seas: Gourmet Planet

Qinling. A vast mountain range.

This region has always been known as the dividing line between the north and south of the Dragon Kingdom and a place of dragon veins and energy.

In ancient times, it was a battleground for military strategists.

It could serve as an impregnable military fortress.

Jiang Chen, following the system's prompt about the location of the black technology, soon appeared in the middle of the Qinling Mountains, where the mountains were vast, almost touching the clouds.

"Earth Hexagram, the second of the twenty-four hexagrams in the I Ching, possesses spatial transmission capabilities and is a spatial teleportation point left behind by ancient powerful beings."

"This hexagram allows for round trips and can be activated every six months."

"The activation method is as follows..."

According to the system's prompt, Jiang Chen soon used his consciousness particles to sense a huge Earth Hexagram on dozens of mountains in the Qinling range, invisible to the naked eye.

Xue Yao saw the small fishing boat hovering in the surroundings and looked outside. The sky was filled with glowing clouds, the scenery was nice, and there were faint signs of avian creatures. Not seeing the mystery, she asked Jiang Chen: "Darling, what are we doing here?"

"Looking for something," Jiang Chen said, pointing to the Qinling Mountains below. "The surface of these Qinling Mountains is covered with a layer of Earth Hexagram, which can teleport people... I just don't know where it will send us."

Jiang Chen thought and started learning the spatial teleportation activation method prompted by the system.

This Earth Hexagram actually aligned with the laws of the universe and had a very deep mapping of space. After injecting Lightning Qi into the corresponding positions, one could activate the Earth Hexagram and then teleport people to another galaxy.

After listening to Jiang Chen's rough introduction, Xue Yao was shocked: "There is such powerful black technology?"

Current fastest magnetic field transition could only jump to a nearby planet. It required jump after jump. The speed was only six percent of the speed of light.

But this Earth Hexagram could actually teleport to another galaxy in one go. Isn't that faster than light?

"The manufacturing principle is so complex."

Having learned the activation method, Jiang Chen originally wanted to learn how to manufacture this Earth Hexagram, but a massive amount of knowledge flooded his mind, and he couldn't digest it for a while.

Because there was a generational gap between his current knowledge and the knowledge contained in the Earth Hexagram. Consequently, Jiang Chen couldn't connect the two.

"Forget it, knowing how to use it is enough." Jiang Chen shook his head.

Then he looked at Xue Yao: "Want to go take a look together?"

"Can we come back?" Xue Yao hesitated.

"Yes, it's a round trip," Jiang Chen said.

"Then let's go! However, I have to tell Qiu Zhi and Haipeng." Xue Yao gathered her courage. Anyway, she had a Fusion Pill in her body and didn't need to breathe, so even if they were teleported to another galaxy, she could survive. Saying this, she went to contact her daughter and son.

"Okay!" Jiang Chen nodded.

He piloted the small fishing boat, shuttling back and forth over the Qinling Mountains, and at each location, he descended to inject a bit of Lightning Qi.

Some places were barren, where a bolt of Lightning Qi penetrated the mountains.

Some places were ancient trees, where a bolt of Lightning Qi split the tree in two.

After shuttling back and forth to over a hundred locations and injecting over a hundred bolts of Lightning Qi, with only one final finishing touch remaining, the Earth Hexagram could be activated with one more bolt of Lightning Qi.

When the small fishing boat arrived at the last location, he found it was a graveyard.

"Sorry about this." Jiang Chen bowed with cupped hands, then blasted a bolt of Lightning Qi down.

The entire small hill was almost leveled to the ground.

Swish! Countless rays of light, invisible to the naked eye, rushed up from within dozens of mountains in the Qinling range and landed on the clouds, turning into a giant Earth Hexagram. The Earth Hexagram rotated like a vortex.

"Did you tell them?" Jiang Chen looked at Xue Yao, who was still on the phone, seeing that the Earth Hexagram had been activated.

"Don't worry, we will be back soon." Xue Yao put down the communicator, fastened her seatbelt, and grabbed Jiang Chen's hand tightly. "I'm ready, Hubby."

"It's not that dramatic." Jiang Chen smiled and piloted the small fishing boat into the Earth Hexagram above the clouds.

As soon as they entered, the Earth Hexagram started running, and space rippled like water in a way invisible to the naked eye. It rotated faster and faster, and finally, the small fishing boat disappeared.

The moment they opened their eyes, they felt like they had arrived in a passage filled with a sea of stars.

In this passage, the small fishing boat and the Terracotta Warriors could not control their direction or angle. Jiang Chen and Xue Yao felt the world spinning and kept rotating and falling within the passage.

"Ahhh!!!" "This is literally turning heaven and earth upside down!"

They didn't know how long they spun. Jiang Chen only felt the passage flick, and he, the small fishing boat, and his wife were thrown out together.

Whoosh! The Terracotta Warriors and the small fishing boat corrected their direction and angle simultaneously. It took a full minute of being tossed before they stabilized and stopped in the void.

"Ugh!" Xue Yao held her stomach, nearly vomiting the baby out of her mouth. Even though Jiang Chen was a Level 4 Lifeform, his face was flushed red. He adjusted the Fusion Pill for a long while before restoring his vital signs to a normal level.

"Wife, are you okay?" Jiang Chen touched Xue Yao's stomach. Although she had only been pregnant for a few days and her stomach was still flat, if he had known this teleportation would be so chaotic, he definitely wouldn't have let Xue Yao come along.

"I'm, I'm fine. Where are we now?" Xue Yao looked around. It was a void, pitch black, because there was no luminous star nearby, so she couldn't see anything.

Fortunately, Jiang Chen's consciousness particles could cover a radius of ten miles. Through his perception, he discovered that there was a planet not far away, with a volume estimated to be a hundred times that of Earth. It was just that this planet didn't emit light and was in chaos.

"I don't know where we are, but there is a planet in front, with a volume a hundred times that of Earth, and this planet contains five basic elements: lightning, wood, water, fire, and earth."

"We've really struck gold." Jiang Chen's expression was full of joy.

He thought this non-luminous planet was a garbage planet, but he didn't expect the content of Qi elements to be so rich. It was higher than the Qi content of any planet in the Solar System.

"Hubby, be careful and see if there are any monsters." As the small fishing boat fell toward this nameless planet, Xue Yao nervously grabbed Jiang Chen's hand and reminded him.

"Darling, where are you grabbing? My hand is here." Jiang Chen reached out his hand. "Oh!" Xue Yao was helpless. Because Jiang Chen could change his body shape, she couldn't tell if what she was grabbing was his hand in this darkness. The touch was about the same anyway.

"There are mountains, there are seas, it seems I haven't found any monsters." Jiang Chen piloted the fishing boat down and sensed the surroundings.

This planet was still in a state of chaos, not yet opened up. The mountains were very high, but there were volcanic eruptions everywhere. The ocean was vast, but it was murky, and he couldn't even see a monster.

Boom. The small fishing boat landed on a mountain where it could dock. The rocks here were jagged, and the ground was uneven, but at least it was spacious enough to park the fishing boat and the Terracotta Warriors.

"Are there really no monsters? Could it be that you didn't see them?" Although she could feel that they had landed, it was pitch black all around. Xue Yao asked worriedly, holding Jiang Chen's hand tightly.

Jiang Chen looked left and right, then picked up two stones and rubbed them together, lighting a spark. But this spark was fleeting and quickly fell back into darkness.

"Darling, are you trying to be Pangu?" Xue Yao asked. Jiang Chen chuckled: "Why not?"

As he finished speaking, the energy in his body vibrated, controlling all the surrounding debris to rise, then throwing them into the sky to collide and rub against each other. Pop, pop, pop. Boom, boom, boom! Countless fragments collided and rubbed, some shattering, but some always created sparks. The little sparks connected together, barely illuminating this mountain area and sea area.

"Wow! How romantic." In this dark planet, not knowing where they were, seeing these fireworks-like sparks, Xue Yao couldn't help but exclaim.

However, just as she exclaimed, something crossed the void, directly hitting the debris and sparks, and everything fell back into darkness. From the distance came a strange sound, like a roar but not quite, like a chant but not quite.

"Holy crap, what is that!" Xue Yao was startled. Jiang Chen also frowned, not expecting there to be real monsters! He immediately took Xue Yao back to the cockpit.

Just at that moment, something smashed those stones and extinguished the sparks. It's just that Jiang Chen hadn't sensed what the opponent was, and the opponent had already left the range of ten miles. That is to say, the speed of this thing had already reached the level of ten miles per second.

Although ten miles per second was still a bit short of reaching the first cosmic velocity, it was already very fast. In one second, it was already out of the range of his consciousness perception.

"It seems this planet really has monsters, I just don't know what they are." Jiang Chen piloted the small fishing boat, following the source of the sound, and flew forward. Finally, in a mountain col, less than eight miles away, Jiang Chen sensed a large number of creatures multiplying and living at the junction of the mountain and sea ahead.

"Hubby, what is that?" Xue Yao noticed the small fishing boat had stopped, and the roaring sound not far away was very close, so she asked in a low voice.

Jiang Chen sensed carefully and then described: "Five hundred meters long, yellowish giant tail, body shape like a tiger, but with wings. This looks like..." "Qiongqi?" Xue Yao instinctively interjected. In the myths of the Dragon Kingdom, the classic of mountains and seas once mentioned a strange beast with wings on its back that eats people. What Jiang Chen described was very similar to what was recorded in the classic of mountains and seas.

"Qiongqi? It really looks a bit like it." Jiang Chen nodded. He continued to fly forward. Ahead was a sea area. Under his perception, the seawater surged, and from time to time, creatures jumped up, swallowing avian creatures in the air.

Roar! Just then, a bloody mouth rushed over from nowhere, trying to swallow the small fishing boat. "Electrocute you!" One hundred million volts of electricity were released from Xue Yao's body, and the bloody mouth was scorched on the spot. With a boom, it hit the water.

At the same time, a strange smell of cooked meat wafted from the sea to the fishing boat. "Gulp." Jiang Chen swallowed his saliva and said to Xue Yao, "Darling, control the current, medium-rare is enough."

"Ugh, you still want to eat these monsters? What if they are poisonous? It's too scary." Xue Yao shook her head repeatedly, the electricity in her hand sizzling, ready to scorch the creatures that sneak attack at any time.

Jiang Chen continued to pilot forward. Along the way, he saw various creatures recorded in the classic of mountains and seas on various islands and the sea one after another. Besides Qiongqi, there were also Yinglong, Bashe, Phoenix, Bifang, Taotie, and other strange beasts.

The size of these strange beasts might not be as big as the Avian Flight Formation of Haipeng, but each one's strength was not simple. With Xue Yao's one hundred million-volt current, some strange beasts were actually unscathed, which was shocking. It was only with Jiang Chen's help that they were made medium-rare.

Two hours later, the small fishing boat appeared on a large island. The creatures on this island had been cleared by the two of them. The creatures near the sea, because of the several impacts, had suffered heavy casualties and were now much more honest, swimming ten miles away, not daring to approach again.

On the island, a ten-ton Phoenix was lying there, struck dead by lightning. Its feathers had been burned off by the current. Jiang Chen stood on the Phoenix's head, took out the scalpel prepared by Xue Yao, cut off a small piece of Phoenix meat, put it in his mouth, tasted it, and marveled: "Not bad, not bad, the meat is delicious, I just forgot to bring seasonings."

If he had known this was the classic of mountains and seas Gourmet Planet, he should have brought all the seasonings: green onion, ginger, garlic, oil, salt, vinegar, chicken essence, monosodium glutamate, etc.

"Ugh!" Xue Yao sat there, eating the Phoenix meat Jiang Chen brought. Although she couldn't see, the texture of this Phoenix meat was still good. After eating 100 jin, she burped.

"Eat slowly, there are still over ten tons there." Jiang Chen said. "Not eating anymore, the Qi concentration here is quite high, I plan to evolve." Xue Yao was now a Level 2 Lifeform, so she couldn't perceive anything. If she could become a Level 3 Lifeform, she would be able to perceive things around her like Jiang Chen.

"Okay, I will protect you." Jiang Chen let her evolve with peace of mind. Xue Yao had the water Qi attribute, and the surrounding Qi concentration was normal. Plus, this planet didn't know which galaxy it was in, so after eating, it probably wouldn't affect the Solar System. Therefore, Xue Yao opened her stomach and began to evolve.

Jiang Chen continued to clear hidden dangerous creatures nearby. It must be said that there were indeed many strange beasts recorded in the classic of mountains and seas nearby. Jiang Chen cleared them for most of the day before making the creatures on the entire island completely gone.

"The strange beasts here are relatively weak, most of them are only about Level 2." Jiang Chen thought to himself. According to his observation, the strange beasts on this Mountain and Sea planet seemed to find their strongholds based on strength, not mixed together. Like the island he was on, most of them were Level 2. He hadn't encountered a single Level 3 Lifeform. It was clear that it was not because there were no Level 3 Lifeforms, but that the Level 3 Lifeform strange beasts were not on this island.

"Level 3, Level 4 Lifeforms must exist, I just don't know if there are Level 5 Lifeforms." This was the only thing Jiang Chen was worried about. However, he did not plan to leave this island now. At least he had to wait until he became a Level 5 Lifeform before considering exploring the surroundings.

Thinking of this, Jiang Chen returned to the vicinity of the small fishing boat. Xue Yao had already entered the evolution state. She was relying on her talent for absorbing water Qi to absorb the surrounding water Qi.

One day. Two days. A week passed. Jiang Chen saw that nothing was happening around him, so he also started to absorb Lightning Qi.

Until half a month later, Xue Yao suddenly opened her eyes and shouted anxiously. "Hubby!" "Hmm? What's wrong." Jiang Chen quickly sensed the surroundings and did not sense any high-level lifeform invasion.

"I, I think I'm going to give birth." Xue Yao said.

"What!" Jiang Chen was shocked. Last time she gave birth to Haipeng and Qiu Zhi, it only took a few months from pregnancy to delivery. This time, it was less than a month.