Chapter 943: Chapter 712: Robbery in Broad Daylight
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Several days later, not a single Giant legacy was found, but the Cosmic Stone fragments had already grown to the size of a basketball. The Cosmic Stones possess a self-fusing property, with all the fragments fusing into one whole. By this time, the entire Plane had heard of such a strange spacecraft, round and puffy, moving at extreme speed, appearing at various locations likely to have Cosmic Stones, and then stealing the Cosmic Stones at high velocity.
"This won’t do, it’s still too small!"
Long Yi held the Cosmic Stone fragment, which was enough to scare anyone to death, with a completely dissatisfied face.
On the star chart, many of those blue dots had disappeared. Some were discovered while the majority simply amounted to nothing.
"Now the place that might have the largest Cosmic Stone fragment is just left over here." Long Yi pointed at the largest dot on the chart and said, "If it’s not here, I’m going to have to use force! No! It shouldn’t be stealing, it should be taking back what’s rightfully mine!"
"Let’s go! We’re going to rob!" Ai Lin had been way too happy recently, always having endless conversations and infinite fun with Long Yi. And Long Yi was too happy as well, carrying Ai Lin around the entire Great Explorer had almost become his habit.
Long Yi even said that doing nothing but holding Ai Lin felt extremely comfortable!
The Great Explorer silently moved forward in the cosmos. Finally, when they drew close to a certain star domain, the patrolling spacecraft gathered around.
"An Ancient Powerhouse is present here, the star domain ahead is off-limits!"
The message came from the patrolling spacecraft.
Off-limits?
Long Yi smirked, the gigantic Cosmic Stone symbol on the star chart nearly blinding him. There was definitely a massive Cosmic Stone here!
"Get lost!"
Long Yi cursed and the Great Explorer charged straight in. The patrolling spacecraft behind them were not slow either, but they were far behind the Great Explorer. After advancing for a few minutes, in the deep space ahead, a flickering light captured Long Yi’s attention. But what drew more attention was the huge object illuminated by that flickering light.
It was a Cosmic Stone fragment with a diameter of more than a thousand meters!
As the Great Explorer drew near, it discovered that there were two people fighting in space around the Cosmic Stone fragment. Upon zooming in the camera, they could see two old men continuously casting magic to attack each other. They even cast spells to attack the Cosmic Stone. The shattered fragments of the Cosmic Stone hadn’t been absorbed back, and they would stretch out their hands to snatch them. When one man snatched, the other took the opportunity to attack. At this time, the massive Cosmic Stone would generate a gravitational pull, reabsorbing the surrounding fragments.
"Damn! Daring to touch my belongings!"
Long Yi immediately became furious.
But now, they couldn’t use the traction beam to retrieve that Cosmic Stone, for it was simply too large, even larger than the Great Explorer itself!
Unless Long Yi personally took action and stuffed that Cosmic Stone into his own private space.
Long Yi was extremely confident that his private space could definitely fit it.
"Wait for me here, Ai Lin," Long Yi said.
"Go for it, my love!" Ai Lin sweetly replied.
Suddenly, Long Yi felt the Giant’s power inside him boiling!
The Great Explorer came to a halt, and Long Yi flew out of the spacecraft. Magic swirled around him to maintain oxygen and isolate the temperature.
The two men who had been fighting also noticed Long Yi’s arrival, and they both halted their combat to look at him.
"Who are you?"
One of the old men asked.
"None of your damn business!"
Without another word, Long Yi blasted off with fire from his palms and feet, propelling him toward the Cosmic Stone. The two old men did not know what Long Yi intended to do, but seeing him heading toward the Cosmic Stone, even fools knew they absolutely couldn’t let him get close.
"Ignorant junior seeking death! You dare to covet my Cosmic Stone!" another old man roared. He clapped his hands violently and then spread them apart, immediately unleashing a brilliant beam of light at Long Yi. Long Yi’s speed was extremely fast; he twisted his hands in front of him, and the beam swept past right in front of him while he shifted his hand positions. Performing irregular movements in the air, he nonetheless kept closing in!
"Bastard!" the other old man also bellowed, at the same time casting a golden chain. The chain was not solid but formed of condensed energy. Despite not knowing what kind of energy it was, Long Yi felt it was better to avoid such strange things. He accelerated once more, dodging continuously. And the chain was relentlessly pursuing him—and it even seemed faster than Long Yi’s flying speed!
"Damn it! No way!"
Suddenly, with a clang, the golden chain wrapped around Long Yi’s ankle! No matter how he struggled, he couldn’t break free, and at that moment the dazzling light also caught up.
"Boom!"
A fireball burst open in the sky, and the two old men retracted their chains and dispersed the glowing orb, sneering dismissively. In their eyes, Long Yi had already been reduced to ashes!
But!
Out of the fireball dashed a figure! The figure moved at incredible speed towards the Cosmic Stone, and in the moment he made contact with it, the enormously huge Cosmic Stone suddenly vanished!
"Thief!"
The abrupt turn of events drove the two old men to fury.
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"Hahaha!" Long Yi laughed loudly. The moment the beam of light hit him, he instantly summoned a layer of crystal on the surface of his body. It wasn’t the red Crystal Stone armor, but a crystal clear and sparkling crystal, the Crystal Poison from within his body. The crystal scattered and refracted the energy within the light beam, greatly reducing its intensity. Of course, its final power was still formidable, but it was no longer lethal.
Taking advantage of the confusion caused by the explosion, Long Yi actually managed to secure the Cosmic Stone in his possession!
How could these two old men not be furious?
Unsurprisingly, both old men were Ancient Powerhouses, their strength immensely formidable. Almost simultaneously, they discovered this unprecedented Cosmic Stone, but neither had personal space large enough to accommodate such a massive Cosmic Stone. Therefore, they wanted to drag the stone to their own star domain using their ships. But since both discovered it at the same time, it was impossible to tolerate one person monopolizing it. For this reason, they started fighting here. Moreover, as they fought, they continued to blast off fragments of the Cosmic Stone and stuff them into their personal space.
But!
After battling so desperately for so long, they had not expected that a whippersnapper who came out of nowhere would take advantage of the situation! He had actually swallowed the entire, enormous Cosmic Stone whole!
"Hahaha, thank you both for your generous hospitality, goodbye!" With that, Fighting Aura and Mana surged wildly through Long Yi’s body, as he tried to use every means at his disposal to escape.
"You stole my thing and you still want to run!" The old man who had shot the beam felt like he was about to explode with anger. A huge Auffa ring unfolded, and he radiated terrifying Mana fluctuations like a mini sun.
"Die under the magic of the great Giant! Stellar Flare!"
Mana suddenly condensed, and a particularly bright area appeared on the Auffa ring, followed by a terrifyingly hot beam bursting forth from that area. Even the other old man had to close his eyes to prevent them from being scorched.
"This old bastard actually used the Giant’s magic against me! You think I don’t know how?" Just as Long Yi was about to make his move, he felt an extremely massive Mana fluctuation erupting from the far-off Great Explorer!
"Absolute Mirror Image!"
Next to the Great Explorer, Ai Lin’s forearm’s Cosmic Stone suddenly shattered, and the massive energy released even caused space to roar. Space behind Long Yi twisted drastically, as if a huge mirror had suddenly appeared behind him. The energy from the Stellar Flare that exploded was immediately reflected in the mirror and then deflected towards the other old man!
"Bastard!"
The other old man was shocked, having not anticipated at all that the blast would hit him. It was already too late to dodge. As he busied himself raising his hand, endless chains wrapped around him layer by layer.
In the end, after the magic concluded, they saw the Great Explorer had vanished far into the depths of the cosmos.
By this time, the peripheral ship that had just tried to intercept the Great Explorer arrived on the scene, belatedly.
The two old men looked at each other, their faces twisted with extreme rage!
"The one hiding in that ship must be some Ancient Powerhouse! He must have obtained a Giant legacy related to space in the past; otherwise, there is no way anyone could so easily take away such a massive object!" the old man who released the Stellar Flare said.
"It’s your fault! If you had listened to me and just took away parts of it when it shattered, none of this would’ve happened!" the old man who used the chains shouted.
"It’s because you, old fool, contested with me! It was I who found it first! You just had to get involved!"
"Such a huge Cosmic Stone, even if you discovered it, could you have taken it away? Even if you had, could you have used it all?"
"Not convinced?"
"What are you staring at?"
"So what if I am?!"
And with that, the two old men once again broke into a fight.
At this moment, on the Great Explorer, both Long Yi and Ai Lin were nearly dying of laughter. Long Yi had been complaining that the pieces of the Cosmic Stone he had acquired before were too small, and now he had suddenly gotten such a big one!
The intelligent interface told Long Yi that the Cosmic Stone had a very strong self-recombining ability; it would always attempt to restore itself. Initially, when the Cosmic Stone exploded, its fragments scattered across the universe. In the quiet cosmos, small fragments started to attract each other, becoming larger, and then the larger fragments generated a stronger gravitational pull, attracting even more pieces.
Eventually, after nearly ten thousand years, it had absorbed countless fragments to turn into this massive size.
"Now that we’ve got the Cosmic Stone, what do we do next?" asked Ai Lin.
"What do we do? Divvy up the treasure, of course!"
On an uninhabited planet, the Great Explorer landed in a basin. The huge Cosmic Stone with a diameter of a kilometer was also taken out of Long Yi’s personal space.
"Come, my beautiful queen," Long Yi said to Ai Lin with a smile, gesturing with his hand.
"Okay, my handsome king!" Ai Lin did not demur; after all, this was all her own stuff!
Silver wings spread out, and equally silver dragon horns extended from her forehead. This was actually Ai Lin’s true form; she normally concealed her appearance.
Then, Ai Lin slowly flew up, approaching the giant Cosmic Stone. Suddenly, the Cosmic Stone fragment embedded in the back of her hand forcibly detached itself and disappeared into the big Cosmic Stone.
Ai Lin hovered near the Cosmic Stone, and the closer she got, the more rapidly the complex Runes and Arrays on her body operated. They continuously rearranged and resonated with magic!
Hum!
Ai Lin’s hand touched the Cosmic Stone, which immediately issued a deep rumble. Simultaneously, the part of the Cosmic Stone near Ai Lin’s palm started to liquefy, slowly spreading along her arm, encompassing her entire body and even her wings. Those liquefied pieces of the Cosmic Stone automatically filled the Runes and Arrays on Ai Lin’s entire body, forming little stars. In the blink of an eye, Ai Lin’s body was filled with the dazzling light of gemstones!
But the process did not stop there! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to qidian.com to vote for recommended tickets and monthly tickets, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)
