Devouring Stars, becoming Luo Feng's golden finger

Chapter 69: The Lies We Tell

Amidst Luo Feng and Babata's conversation, the Moyun Vine sapling completed its initial evolution.

The Moyun Vine sapling transformed from its original green to a dark red, with faint traces of red lightning energy coiling around it.

"You can put it away now. The Moyun Vine sapling has absorbed too much energy this time and needs to sleep to digest it," Babata said, looking pleased with the Moyun Vine sapling's changes.

It was a perfectly executed initial evolution.

Luo Feng felt a sense of attachment from the Moyun Vine sapling, and with a thought, the several-meter-long crimson vine lunged towards him, quickly merging into his skin. Luo Feng only felt a slight coolness throughout the process, as if he were wearing an extra layer of clothing.

"Once the Moyun Vine sapling awakens from its slumber, its usefulness will far surpass your Black God set," Babata said smugly.

Luo Feng's expression turned odd upon hearing this.

He knew that his Black God set had been enhanced by 'Bai,' with the ordinary Black God set only weakening 90% of the force, while this enhanced version could weaken 99% of the impact, an increase of tenfold!

In terms of defensive capabilities, Luo Feng didn't think the Moyun Vine sapling could compare to the enhanced Black God set.

However, the Moyun Vine was an all-around auxiliary plant life form, capable of not only helping its master weaken the impact of attacks but also assisting in combat, killing enemies, and controlling opponents. As a sentient life form, the Moyun Vine's other aspects were beyond what the inanimate enhanced Black God set could offer.

Luo Feng touched his arm, sensing an infant-like consciousness communicating intimately with him, and his heart warmed.

"Sleep now, and come help me when you wake up."

The infant-like consciousness of the Moyun Vine sapling could no longer hold on and drifted into a deep sleep.

"Alright, pack up. We can leave this place now," Babata urged, seeing that Luo Feng was finished.

Having spent fifty thousand years deep underground in a desolate place, he was somewhat eager for the outside world.

Luo Feng nodded and followed Babata's instructions, first storing the seven corpses at the entrance of the passage into his spatial ring. Then, Babata used his own spatial ring to store the entire Yun Mo Star spacecraft before entering an ordinary black wristband.

"There's a crystal inside this black wristband, which is where my intelligent life resides. I'll stay here and guide you from now on."

The black wristband flew onto Luo Feng's arm, fitting snugly.

A black shadow shot from underground to the surface, soaring into the sky—it was Luo Feng.

His No. 1 fighter jet had been summoned long ago, so Luo Feng didn't hesitate to fly into the hatch and enter.

"Oh?" As an intelligent life form, Babata would instinctively scan and intrude on technological items.

Upon intrusion, he was surprised to find that although the intelligent system of this blue and white fighter jet was low-level, it was quite complete in all aspects. And not just the intelligent system, Babata soon discovered that the other hardware of this fighter jet was also quite good.

At least, compared to a native planet like Earth, it was a bit too sci-fi, not on the same level.

"C2-grade alloy body, excellent energy circuit utilization... it's just that the weapon system isn't installed. This fighter jet is quite interesting; with some proper modifications, it could become a suitable spaceship," Babata's somewhat surprised voice echoed in Luo Feng's mind.

Without the energy system supply from the Yun Mo Star spacecraft, Babata couldn't condense into an energy form to manifest, and could only communicate with Luo Feng in a virtual intelligent form.

"Luo Feng, you found this fighter jet from some extraterrestrial ruins, didn't you?" Babata asked curiously, though his tone was certain. Earth couldn't have produced such high-tech products other than from extraterrestrial technology.

Luo Feng remained expressionless and simply nodded in agreement with Babata's guess.

Bai hadn't allowed him to reveal his existence, so Luo Feng naturally chose to conceal it for him.

Compared to the newly acquainted Babata, Luo Feng certainly felt closer to and trusted Bai more—there was no doubt about that.

"Once I've modified the spaceship and entered the universe, that's where you'll rise. Earth is too small a cage for your growth," Babata said.

"Enter the universe?" Luo Feng's heart stirred.

Having heard many stories about the universe from Bai Chen, he also yearned for the universe. However, due to his strength and Bai not mentioning it, he hadn't thought about it. In his own mind, it wouldn't be too late to enter the universe after cultivating for a few more years and reaching the Star level.

"We'll see. After all, I'm too weak now, and it's too dangerous to enter the universe," Luo Feng neither directly rejected nor agreed to Babata's plan.

"Weak?" Babata's tone was strange. He chuckled wickedly, "You're able to recognize yourself, I originally thought you'd be extremely proud and arrogant to have reached the Planetary level at this age, and was thinking of hitting you a bit. Well, being able to recognize that you're a weakling is good; that's great and worthy of praise."

Black lines flashed across Luo Feng's forehead. Why did this intelligent life form always want to strike him down and mock him?

What a nasty personality!

The No. 1 fighter jet quickly landed in the center of a dense wilderness forest.

Luo Feng walked out of it, and with a thought, summoned several throwing knives to simply take care of the monsters attracted by the noise.

He glanced at the number of points on his personal panel: 28,613,200 points.

With the completion of the Yun Mo Star inheritance mission, Luo Feng directly received ten million points, plus the five million points from the previous No. 9 Ancient Civilization Base mission, and the monsters he casually killed while cultivating, his accumulated points were now close to thirty million!

"Having accumulated so many points, it's time to spend them to improve my strength," Luo Feng thought to himself.

But before that—

Luo Feng skillfully took out a black Myriad Soul Banner from his spatial ring, collecting the souls of the surrounding dead monsters and the wandering mental thoughts into it, then storing the monsters' corpses into his spatial ring.

Babata, who had been watching Luo Feng's actions, was stunned. He stared at the Myriad Soul Banner for a long time.

"This thing..." Babata couldn't help but say.

"I also picked it up in an extraterrestrial ruin. Its function is to collect and trap souls, and condense souls and wandering mental power into solid mental power," Luo Feng explained quickly.

"A treasure targeting souls? This thing doesn't look high-level, but it's quite rare in the universe. You managed to pick this up too?" Babata pondered, then asked strangely, "What are you going to do with this solid mental power? Without the corresponding method, you can't absorb it."

At this moment, Luo Feng secretly lamented, 'If I tell one lie, how many lies will I need to cover it up?'

"Well, you're right. I happen to have a method to use solid mental power," Luo Feng said without changing his expression.

"So coincidental? That's right, you should have obtained it together with this black banner," Babata nodded slightly. Although he was a little surprised, he could understand. After all, there were many strange things in the universe. This little thing was only rare and not worth paying attention to.

Inside the inner world, Bai Chen watched this scene with amusement.