Acting

"Haha, a wood crystal!" Wang Yi exclaimed with joy.

A wood crystal is a rare treasure used for cultivation and is highly effective in taming animals and nurturing plant life. It's incredibly valuable.

For example, with the wood sacred crystal, a Cloud vine can rapidly grow to a 'constant star' level! On today's Earth, that level is practically invincible.

Just one wood crystal can enable an eighth- or ninth-rank apprentice to break through to the first rank of a star warrior in a month!

For Wang Yi, who was eagerly seeking a breakthrough, this wood crystal was a godsend.

Moreover, the life energy from the wood crystal can also be used to train and quickly enhance his strength!

Wang Yi had no interest in following the typical protagonist route found in novels, where even with treasures in hand, they insist on taking the hard way. "My physical fitness is already at the peak of the God of War, and my mental power is at the limit of a ninth-rank apprentice. Perhaps with a wood crystal, I can break through in both areas at once, becoming both a planetary warrior and a spiritual master!" Wang Yi's eyes gleamed.

Whether one is a warrior or a spiritual master, there are specific requirements to break through to planetary level status. It doesn't just happen by chance.

Of course, if you're a genius like Hong or Thunder God, you can manage the breakthrough on your own.

For Wang Yi, whose genetic makeup was far superior to that of any human on Earth, a breakthrough wasn't far off, even without the wood crystal. Given time, he would naturally reach the next level.

Compared to the many warriors who remained stuck at the God of War stage, Wang Yi was leagues ahead!

But Wang Yi wasn't one to wait.

"There's a way to break through, but it takes time. Better to solve the problem now with this wood crystal." Smiling, Wang Yi pocketed the crystal, feeling pleased. "Besides, I can use the crystal to help my family too." Wang Yi was never stingy when it came to his family.

After all, his relatives meant more to him than anything else.

"Since I've found one wood crystal, there must be more," Wang Yi thought, his spirits lifting as his eyes searched the darkness. "Babata, now's the time to show your power."

Wang Yi sniffed the air and continued his search underground.

Several kilometers deep beneath Wang Yi's location, in an ancient black spacecraft...

In a vast hall, bright lights shone down from above. A small figure, no taller than 1.4 meters, with two horns on his forehead and blood-red eyes, stood in a black robe, staring at a three-dimensional screen. The screen showed a black-haired youth in a gray and black combat suit moving slowly.

"Hmm... After waiting so long, a human with a sufficiently broad mind has finally come," the horned figure said, his blood-red eyes fixed on the youth. "Come, come. As long as you make it here and take my master as your teacher, becoming a strong warrior in the universe is no longer a dream." His tone turned melancholic as he gazed at the center of the hall, his eyes filled with sorrow.

"Master..."

"Fifty thousand years..."

"It's been fifty thousand years since you passed. I'll make sure to honor your wishes and train an excellent disciple for you!"

"I must."

…

While Babata muttered to himself, Wang Yi was "accidentally" finding another pair of wood crystals.

"That makes 13..." Wang Yi thought to himself as he pocketed the crystals, just as casually as someone might pick up gold.

In the original story, when wood crystals appeared, they attracted strong warriors from all over the world. People fought to the death over them, with some planetary stars even perishing in the process, but few obtained much.

Now Wang Yi casually strolled underground, gathering them in abundance.

Some people are just destined to be lucky.

Truly, the protagonist's fate is something special, Wang Yi mused.

But the world is unfair by nature, and Wang Yi didn't dwell on it.

He kept searching for more wood crystals.

Gradually, he delved deeper and deeper into the earth.

At 15,600 meters underground...

"Target locked."

"Wood crystal acquired."

"Commencing guidance."

Invisible ripples, undetectable by the naked eye, passed through the earth, traveling in a straight line through the rock layers and into Wang Yi's mind. These ripples, unseen and undetected by instruments or thoughts, penetrated his consciousness.

Wang Yi suddenly felt a tug in his mind, an instinct urging him to move in a certain direction, as though he could sense another wood crystal waiting for him there.

Wang Yi quickly realized what was happening—Babata was at work.

"Babata, you sneaky little trickster," Wang Yi thought. But he played along, pretending to be influenced by the mysterious pull, moving deeper underground.

In the spacecraft hall, Babata watched eagerly.

"Ah, what a greedy little fellow. Come on, come on." Babata grinned triumphantly. "There's no way an Earthling like you can escape my grasp."

Meanwhile, Wang Yi, still "accidentally" finding wood crystals, continued to gather them with a contented smile.

It seemed Babata, worried that Wang Yi might lose interest, kept throwing out more wood crystals along the way.

"There are already 27. Babata is really going all out," Wang Yi thought, thrilled with his growing collection.

But the real prize still lay ahead!

"Huh? No trace of the red alloy fragments?" Wang Yi glanced around, stamping his foot on the ground a few times.

"Babata, you underestimate me." The alloy fragments were incredibly sharp, and while they didn't hold much importance for Wang Yi, they were still worth taking.

Too bad Babata hadn't thought of that.

After a short while, when Wang Yi found his 32nd wood crystal, a strange metallic glint caught his eye in a nearby crevice of the rock.

"Here?" Wang Yi's heart skipped a beat as he saw the metal.

"Meteorite Star spaceship!" Wang Yi realized he had found it.

Feigning shock and excitement, he pretended to be surprised by the discovery.

Babata, watching from the spacecraft, was satisfied with the display.

"The fish has taken the bait," both thought at the same time.

Without hesitation, Wang Yi used his flying knife to carve out the surrounding rock, revealing a passable passage. Ahead, a strange silver-white metal door lay before him, half-closed and covered in dust.

Wang Yi blinked.

He approached slowly, letting his mental power seep inside.

And soon, Wang Yi saw what he had been searching for—piles of crystals with a faint white glow, scattered all around the entrance. There were ten, twenty, thirty...

Hundreds of them!

Even though he had expected this, Wang Yi's eyes glistened with excitement.