284: Chapter 284 The Black Market of the Myriad Realms

"Captain Chen! Is it done?"

Seeing Chen Xi flying out from the wreckage of the flagship, Su Xiaoxiao, Li Murou, and Ye Fei immediately went to meet him. Although the three women bore traces of gunpowder smoke on their bodies, their eyes shone with a hearty sense of satisfaction. Lin Shan also flew over, carrying those two tower shields that had already been hacked until they were full of pits and hollows, his face still filled with a sense of wanting more.

"It's done. Not only did I finish off this group of alien pirates, but I also dug out a shocking piece of gossip from their brains that's enough to let us completely establish a firm foothold in this universe."

Chen Xi briefly and concisely recounted the information he had just obtained from the soul search to the four of them.

"The legacy of the Ancient Human Empire?! The god-creating cube?!"

After listening to Chen Xi's narration, all four of them gasped. Li Murou was so excited that stars were practically popping out of her large eyes: "Captain! That's something left behind by our ancestors! It absolutely cannot fall into the hands of those alien races! Let's go snatch it back!"

"Of course we're taking it back. And we're not going to 'snatch' it; we're going to 'take' it openly and rightfully."

Chen Xi's gaze turned toward the depths of the starry sky, in the direction of the coordinates belonging to the [Myriad Realms Black Market].

"Pass down the order: have Shen Ye and General Lei Zhentian take over the defense of this Starship Graveyard. Take all these seized warship wrecks back to the Divine Domain to be smelted and used to upgrade our own fleet."

With a wave of Chen Xi's hand, an alien ace assault ship appeared before everyone. It had been forcibly repaired by him using his card-making ability, its internal core modified, and it emitted a dark, somber luster.

"As for our Nirvana Battle Team..."

Chen Xi was the first to board the warship's hatch. He turned back and gave his four teammates behind him a brilliant smile filled with danger and ambition:

"Get ready."

"We're going to take a trip to that [Myriad Realms Black Market]."

"To take back the things our ancestors left outside..."

"With interest!!!"

Sirius Sector, First Interstellar Outpost.

Exactly twelve hours had passed since that "fourth calamity" carnival, which had been a one-sided crushing of the Orion Interstellar Raiders. In the vast starry sky, countless Earth Players shimmering with blue halos were joyfully dragging warship wrecks hundreds of times larger than their own bodies, like industrious worker ants, continuously transporting the spoils into the furnaces of the Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain.

Inside the central command tower of the outpost, however, the atmosphere was exceptionally solemn.

"Chen Xi, have you really decided to only take the four of them?"

Shen Ye stood before a massive holographic star map, his single eye full of gravity and worry. He pointed to a coordinate point flashing with a dark red light on the star map, tens of thousands of light-years away from the Sirius Sector—the [Myriad Realms Black Market].

"Through the soul search of that alien commander just now, you saw it too. This Myriad Realms Black Market isn't some ordinary interstellar trading station at all. It's built on a dead white dwarf star, and it's surrounded by countless third-rate, second-rate, and even first-rate high-level civilization powers! There, star-space overlords above Lv.100 are as common as hair on an ox, and there might even be true gods hidden there in person!"

"You're going deep into the tiger's den single-handedly with the Nirvana Battle Team to snatch the [Empire Treasury Key] that even the Star God Race covets... This is too crazy! At least let Commander Lei and me assemble a hundred thousand elite fleet members to back you up!"

"A hundred thousand fleet members?"

Sitting in the command chair, Chen Xi shook his head slightly, a composed and faint smile playing at the corners of his mouth:

"Captain Shen, space warfare isn't a gang fight. Numbers can't bridge the gap in dimensions. If we go over there with a grand fleet, not only will it instantly expose Earth's coordinates, but it will also trigger a collective suppression from the entire Myriad Realms Black Market."

"This is a muddy situation that can only be handled with wit, not force."

Chen Xi stood up, walked over to Shen Ye and Lei Zhentian, and patted the shoulders of the two iron-blooded veteran generals. His tone carried an unquestionable trust and entrustment:

"The defensive lines of Earth and the Sirius Sector are my greatest weakness. I'm leaving the deputy administrator permissions of the Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain to you. With the support of a hundredfold time flow, I want you to train an invincible iron army for me within one month of real time—one where every member is above Lv.80 and capable of piloting Dark Matter Star-Core Warships!"

"As for the fragments of the [god-creating cube]..."

A heart-palpitating crimson-gold divine light flashed in the depths of Chen Xi's eyes:

"That is a legacy left behind by my ancient human ancestors. Whoever dares to reach for it, I will chop off their hands!"

Seeing that Chen Xi's mind was made up, Shen Ye and Lei Zhentian took a deep breath and stepped back in unison. They gave a most solemn military salute to this young commander who had saved humanity from dire straits time and again.

"Mission guaranteed! We'll be on Earth, waiting for your triumphant return!"

After arranging everything in the rear, Chen Xi turned and walked toward a warship moored in the starport.

This was precisely the Orion flagship seized from Grand Commander Garu. However, at this moment, it had already undergone a complete transformation under Chen Xi's frenzied [Miracle: Sublimation] modification.

The originally dark red, bloated hull with its savage and crude style had been resmelted by Chen Xi using hundreds of thousands of tons of [High-Dimensional Titanium] and [Void Behemoth Skeletons].

Now, it presented a deep, streamlined teardrop shape, its surface covered in a dark coating that seemed capable of swallowing light. There were no exposed gun barrels; all weapon systems and curvature engines had been perfectly integrated into the space-folding matrix inside the hull.

Chen Xi named this brand-new super stealth assault ship—[stardust].

"Captain, we're ready!"

In front of the stardust's hatch, Su Xiaoxiao, Li Murou, Ye Fei, and Lin Shan had already finished assembling. The eyes of each person shimmered with excitement and battle intent for the unknown sea of stars.

"Don't be in such a hurry to board."

Chen Xi looked at the four of them, his eyebrows arching slightly: "If we just walk in like this, any alien with a brain could use a scanner and discover that we are carbon-based humans from Earth. In the eyes of those high-level civilizations, the word 'human' is still synonymous with 'prey' and 'slave.' It's too conspicuous."

"Then what should we do? We can't exactly put on mascot costumes and pretend to be lucky charms, can we?" Li Murou stuck out her tongue.

"In this universe, if you don't want to be treated as prey, the best way is to turn yourself into a top-tier predator that they don't even dare to look at directly."

A mysterious smile curled at the corners of Chen Xi's mouth. He slowly raised his right hand, and five silver cards—radiating an extremely eerie, deep aura that seemed to not belong to this dimension—fanned out at his fingertips like a peacock's tail.

"Last night, using the core data of that [High-Dimensional Observer] I crushed, plus a trace of high-dimensional divine blood left by the Star Abyss Tyrant, I spent three thousand points of mental power to custom-make these for us—[Miracle: High-Dimensional Race Disguise Card]!"