novelsite Chapter 350 Shocking! I ate an alien black hole as a snack
Chapter 350 Shocking! I ate an alien black hole as a snack
Deep within the Earth's core, a dark red aura swirled. The remnants of the Immortal Qin's concealment array lay scattered on the ground. At the ancient star entrance paved with alien crystals, the stench of blood permeated the air.
Lu Sheng forced out a drop of divine blood from his fingertip and flicked it into the rock wall beside him.
The core sub-node of the Heavenly Palace Battle Formation received the command. The Earth's core resonated. Ten fully repaired Immortal Qin guard terracotta warriors stepped into the Earth's core space in orderly formation.
"Stay at number one and wait for orders. Numbers two through eleven, follow me and clear the way."
Lu Sheng issued the order. Ten terracotta warriors knelt on one knee, their electronic compound eyes flashing blue light, and entered the battle sequence.
He turned and stepped into the ancient star path. The terracotta warriors stood protectively behind him.
The environment inside the passage is extremely harsh.
Turbulent currents, generated by the folding of higher dimensions, cut in all directions. Each fragment of space possessed the destructive power to cleave mountains. Ten terracotta warriors of the Immortal Qin Dynasty supported a combined energy shield. Ripples spread across the surface of the blue light curtain, the consumption of spiritual energy approached the critical point, and the mechanical joints emitted noises from overloaded operation.
Lu Shengxing was at the forefront, without taking any defensive measures.
Black and gold dragon scales covered a large area of its body. Turbulent currents slashed at them, bursting into dazzling sparks.
He opened his mouth and took a deep breath. The spatial fragments within a ten-meter radius were forcibly pulled into his stomach.
"It's a bit hard to chew."
His pharyngeal bones twitched. The fragments were roughly chewed up. The Ancient Devouring Furnace was operating in the correct direction, transforming the high-dimensional energy residue into pure spiritual energy. This desperate situation became his buffet.
The light source at the end of the passage is magnified.
Stepping out of the ancient star path, the view suddenly opens up.
This is a giant asteroid belt suspended in deep space. Rock debris of varying sizes obscures starlight, and a deathly silence pervades the area.
In the depths of darkness, three dark purple warships lay silently dormant. Their hulls were long and narrow, branded with some kind of skull emblem of a star-devouring creature, and foul-smelling biochemical preservative fluid flowed from the gaps in their armor. The warships were equipped with massive, oversized crystal energy cannons, their barrels already brimming with high-energy particles, locked onto the exit of the ancient star portal.
Scavenger.
There was no plaintext communication, and no pre-battle warnings.
Within half a second of the detector capturing the live target, the main and secondary guns of the three warships fired simultaneously.
Sound cannot travel in a vacuum.
Tens of thousands of eerie blue annihilation rays intertwined to form an impenetrable net of light. The rays possessed the property of disintegrating matter. This was a common tactic used by scavengers to capture high-level prey: destroy the target's defenses, severely injure it to the brink of death, and then salvage it alive to sell for a high price.
A net of light enveloped the exit of the ancient star path.
The annihilation ray precisely struck Lu Sheng's torso, limbs, and head. High-energy particle streams washed over the black-gold dragon scales, stirring up large patches of ghostly blue flames.
The beam of light converged.
Lu Sheng hovered in place, completely unharmed.
He looked down at the armor on his chest and reached out to brush away the remaining energy spots.
"The temperature is just right. Time for cupping."
Inside the dark purple flagship in the center, red alarm lights flashed rapidly. The vital signs readings on the detection screens skyrocketed. The carbon-based life form's skeletal density curve broke through the dial, rendering it unusable.
Lu Sheng did not give the other party a chance to repair the equipment.
The dragon blood within his body boiled. The divine sequence was activated.
A ferocious dragon horn pierced through the skin from the forehead, black and gold dragon scales covered every inch of the body, and the cross-shaped double pupils transformed into two tiny, jet-black stars. The human-dragon form was operating at full power.
Bend your knees slightly and suddenly exert force with the soles of your feet.
Behind them, a giant meteorite with a diameter of over 100 meters could not withstand the thrust force three thousand times stronger than that of a mortal body and shattered into dust.
Lu Sheng's physical body transformed into a streak of black and gold light, piercing straight towards the main ship.
He did not use any weapons. His hands were formed into claws.
Three hexagonal high-frequency energy shields rose around the main ship.
A layer of cracks.
The second layer shattered.
The three layers shattered.
Its body collided head-on with the star alloy armor. The three-meter-thick bow armor caved inwards and broke off. Lu Sheng penetrated the ship's external structure, destroyed the complex wiring network and watertight compartments, and went straight into the main control room.
Inside the main control room, blinding sparks erupted from the damaged wiring.
A massive creature stood in the center. It had four thick arms, most of its torso had been replaced with a mechanical prosthetic, and its electronic prosthetic eyes glowed red.
Leader of the scavengers.
The leader acted with extreme decisiveness. He simultaneously pressed the red detonation button on the control panel with all four hands.
The warship's underbelly miniature black hole engine experiences reverse overload.
Space rapidly collapsed. A gravitational storm, capable of absorbing everything, formed in the center of the main control room. Glass-like cracks appeared on the walls of the main control room. The surrounding control panels and metal isolation doors were pulled into it, compressed into a singularity in the blink of an eye. The gravitational tides peeled away the outer armor of the leader's four arms layer by layer.
The other side intended to take the intruder down with them.
Instead of retreating, Lu Sheng took a step forward.
He reached out with both hands and plunged them straight into the core of that rapidly expanding miniature black hole.
The violent gravity tore at his flesh and blood. The black and gold dragon scales rubbed against each other, making a clanging sound.
At the dantian, the deathly gray, ancient Devouring Furnace was fully opened in reverse.
"I told you, I'm starving."
A suction force more domineering and tyrannical than that of a black hole erupted from his arms. The gravity of the Devouring Furnace reversed and restrained the expansion of the miniature black hole.
Forcibly deprived.
In less than two seconds, the miniature singularity, powerful enough to destroy an area of hundreds of miles, along with all the high-level spiritual energy stored in the warship's energy reservoir, flowed into his body through his arms. The eclipse black flames danced on his body's surface, and after devouring the singularity, his physical strength increased once again.
[Absorbed a high-energy singularity core, Spiritual Source Reserves +300000.]
The main control room lost power support, and the backup lights went out.
The four-armed leader stood frozen in place. The fact that the miniature black hole had been devoured alive—a shocking revelation—caused his electronic processing center to malfunction.
Lu Sheng stretched out his right hand, grabbed the leader's alloy neck bone, and lifted him into the air.
The black flames from the eclipse seeped from the fingertips, melting through the outer metal layer and reaching the neurons in the cerebral cortex.
Soul Search.
The vast fragments of memory were forcibly read by the ancient will.
The "rancher" is not an independent high-dimensional deity; it belongs to a vast interstellar alliance called the "World Cleaners."
The alliance occupies dozens of star systems. Its operations encompass cleaning up inferior civilizations, selling higher-dimensional resources, and reclaiming wasteland planets.
Three minutes ago, a top-level wanted bounty was issued to every interstellar hunter terminal via the Alliance Star Network.
Coordinates: Blue Star.
Danger rating: Extremely dangerous. Requires capture and extraction of the high-dimensional mutation source.
These alien scavengers were merely the first hyenas to arrive, drawn by the scent of blood.
Lu Sheng finished digesting. He then exerted force with his fingers.
A crisp cracking sound rang out. The leader's alloy cervical vertebrae were broken. A flash of deathly light appeared at his fingertips as he drained the remaining bio-energy from the corpse, tossing the scrap metal-like body into the corner of the hatch.
Step out of the damaged main ship.
Seeing the situation was dire, the other two warships turned around, their engines spitting out exhaust flames, attempting to use short-distance jump to escape this dangerous area.
"Ten terracotta warriors, listen to my command: block the right flank jump point."
Lu Sheng issued the order. The shoulder thrusters of the terracotta warriors activated, forming an assault formation for interception.
He spread his wings. Twelve black and gold dragon wings stretched out behind him. The black flames of the eclipse drew a long black streak in the vacuum.
He darted toward the fleeing warship on his left.
With a loose grip on his right arm, the Dragon Devouring Spear materialized. The spearhead emitted a sharp, purplish-gold light.
The warship's stern shields were as fragile as paper before the spear. Lu Sheng pierced the siphon engine with a single thrust. The warship lost its balance and tumbled and crashed within the asteroid belt.
He leaped onto the tumbling back of the ship, his feet digging into the alloy hull like nails. His hands gripped the cracks in the armor. All three hundred muscles in his back tensed simultaneously.
With a sickening metallic clang, the ship's keel snapped. The kilometer-long warship was torn in two.
Inside, dozens of deformed crew members were exposed to the vacuum, losing their pressure protection, and their bodies burst open, causing a bloody mist.
Lu Sheng allowed the Devouring Heaven Furnace to exert its gravity, absorbing all these low-level living beings along with their dissipated spiritual energy.
Mosquitoes are meat no matter how small they are.
It stood on the spine of the shattered warship.
In the distance, ten terracotta warriors had finished dismantling the power system of the last warship and were dragging the captured wreckage together.
Lu Sheng licked away the remaining energy fragments between his teeth. The savage look in his eyes intensified.
The World Cleaner Alliance.
The most wanted warrant.
Desperados from all over the universe are flocking to this place. Earth is no longer a closed pastureland that is harvested in one direction only.
The takeout menu has been sent out.
Delivery workers kept coming one after another.
The broth in this enormous, bubbling pot is already boiling; it's just waiting for the ingredients to jump in and die.
Lu Sheng gripped his spear tightly and gazed at the deep, boundless sea of stars.
He turned around and waved for the terracotta warriors to drag the remains into the ancient star path.
"Go back and prepare the bowls and chopsticks; it's time to go buy the goods."