“The probes have detected a wormhole inside the moon with dark bio-energy continuously spewing out onto this moon,” Leoux explained. “Therefore Ganymede is rich in dark bio-energy.”

  Ling Jiu’s eyes flashed in excitement. “I would like to check out the wormhole. There should be any problem, right, Leoux?”

  “Sure, no problem,” Leoux said. “The galactic life forms might be powerful, but it is impossible for them to break through the Leoux’s defenses. The Leoux will blow them into pieces if they ever dare to attack.”

  Ling Jiu listened on and his eyes brightened up. Yes, the Leoux was not an ordinary spacecraft but a top-tier biological civilization in the universe.

  Its sturdiness and weapon system were absolutely the top-notch. So what was the galactic life form to it?

  A crazy thought came to mind with this thinking in mind. “Leoux, I want to turn this moon into my private territory,” Ling Jiu said.

  Leoux was stunned, and then laughed. “Do you mean you are going to kill all the creatures that pose a threat to you on this planet?”

  “That’s right.” Ling Jiu kept nodding. “You should know that I have replicated the Inner World of the Flame Astral Behemoth. I can continuously refine energy. Bio-energy can strengthen my physical body, and dark bio-energy can improve my cultivation base.”

  Leoux’s eyes brightened up to this point.

  “For me, those powerful beings are nourishment for improving my strength,” Ling Jiu said with blazing eyes.

  “You are now a pocket version of the Flame Astral Behemoth, with Ultimate Physique, Spawn Split, and Inner World arcanas. With these abilities, you can continuously improve your strength. Sick! You are sick!”

  Leoux kept nodding its head. “I’ll help you hunt down those creatures on this moon. They can’t stand a chance in front of the Leoux’s cannon.”

  “That’s great.” Ling Jiu was very excited. “But we are not in a hurry to hunt down those creatures. Let’s check out the wormhole first. I am eager to know what’s the secret of this wormhole.”

  “Understood.”

  Leoux said, then released the Leoux, and the two entered the spacecraft and went deeper into the ocean.

  The Leoux was fast. In the blink of an eye, it had reached the bottom of the first ocean as a barrier appeared in front of them.

  “This is a high-pressure ice layer with a thickness of about 10 kilometers. It separates the first layer and the second layer of the ocean.”

  Leoux explained it casually, and then directed the Leoux to open up a dimensional passage. Without damaging the high-pressure ice layer, they easily reached the second-layer ocean.

  Opening up a wormhole was extremely difficult, if not impossible, for a low-level civilization. But for a top-tier spacecraft like the Leoux, it was as easy as pie.

  Of course, a short wormhole is a wormhole at all. At most it was a dimensional passage.

  Entering the second layer of ocean and not long into the dive, Leoux spoke again.

  “There is a Stellar-class marine life form following us, Ling Jiu.”

  While speaking, columns of light came down with the snap of its singer. The light columns then formed into a 100-meter direbeast.

  This monster looked like a giant python, but it had a hard shell, like a crab and eight tails, just like an octopus.

  “Because we are inside the spacecraft, we can’t see what’s outside. The monster you see now is a simulation of the scene outside,” Leoux said.

  “No wonder.”

  Only then Ling Jiu knew it was a simulation. No wonder he could not sense the slightest energy from the monster in front of him.

  “This direbeast belongs to the Class-Two Stellar life form,” Leoux said. “It’s not overly strong. But bumping into a Class-Two Stellar life form as soon as we are in the second-layer ocean matches the information we have collected earlier.”

  “Can you capture it alive, Leoux?”

  Ling Jiu’s eyes lit up. “I have accumulated too much bio-energy in my body, and only high-intensity battles can I digest it.”

  “I got you.” Leoux nodded slightly. “The Leoux has a special detention room. It can hold even the most powerful creature with no issue.”

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  Ling Jiu’s eyes lit up, and he had no more hesitation. “Do it now.”

  “Understood.”

  Following Ling Jiu’s order, the Leoux shot out a black light to envelop the direbeast that looked like a python.

  The next second, this direbeast disappeared into thin air, and when it reappeared, it was suspended and held up inside the Leoux.

  The Leoux had a spacious interior, with black earth and purple sky, almost no difference from the inside of a planet at first glance.

  At this moment, that direbeast was confined in midair. By the looks of its eyes, it must be struggling frantically to escape.

  But struggling was useless.

  No way it could get away.

  “So you have just caught alive?” Ling Jiu exclaimed in awe. “The Leoux is absolutely powerful!”

  “Of course.” Leoux smiled faintly. “Put it in detention?”

  “Yes.” Ling Jiu nodded.

  “OK.”

  The ground in the distance suddenly split open with the snap of fingers of Leoux. A black beam of light shone and engulfed the direbeast.

  Immediately afterwards, the direbeast disappeared into thin air while the earth closed back up and the light subsided. Everything returned to normal.

  “The direbeast is now held in the spaceship. Will it die here?”

  Ling Jiu looked at the place where the direbeast disappeared with worries.

  “The tenaciousness of the stellar life form is beyond your imagination. Even if you place it in outer space, it will live forever,” Leoux said.

  “That’s good!”

  The Mothership continued to dive and encountered many Stellar-class direbeasts along the way. Ling Jiu had only one thing in mind: capture them.

  When the Leoux reached the second ocean bottom, over 62 Stellar-class direbeasts had been captured. Many of them were Class-8 and even -9 terrifying stellar life forms.

  Finally, there was the third layer of ocean.

  The direbeasts in this ocean were obviously scarcer, but each one was extremely powerful.

  When they dived to 210 kilometers of depth, Ling Jiu saw the first galactic creature that surpassed the stellar life form.

  This was a whale-like direbeast, over 1,000-meter long, with hard scales of metallic luster, and its mouth full of fangs. Its enormous body was far more terrifying than the Crimson Fire Dragon and the Dark Devil Dragon.

  Standing in front of this creature was like standing at the foot of a gigantic mountain. It made one feel incredibly tiny, as if it could crush people into dead meat with the swing of its tail.

  It was terrible. It felt terrifying to watch, even through simulation. How would it feel when standing in front of it in person?

  Ling Jiu could not imagine it.

  “Can you catch it, Leoux?” Ling Jiu swallowed and asked.

  “There is no difference between a Galactic-class and Stellar-class direbeast in front of the Leoux,” Leoux said. It snapped its fingers again and this 1,000-meter Galactic-class direbeast vanished.

  A never-seen-before horror energy radiated from this direbeast. Ling Jiu felt his shoulders sinking, and he almost fell to the ground.

  When he looked over at Bai Ya, he saw her panting, her face pale, and panic filling her eyes, as if she had seen something horrible.

  “Is this a Galactic-class life form?”

  Ling Jiu gasped as he could feel the air turning viscous, just like mercury.

  There was no obstruction to breathing earlier. But now, even the simple act of breathing was difficult.

  The air had become heavy.

  “Can you kill it, Leoux?” Ling Jiu licked his lips.

  “As you wish.”

  Leoux smiled faintly and pointed forward with a finger.

  A bloody glow shot out from the blood moon in the sky and struck the head of this whale-like direbeast.

  The next moment, the direbeast stiffened, and its eyes gradually closed.

  It was dead.

  It was killed in one blow.

  “Is it dead, Leoux?” Ling Jiu was in disbelief. “How did you do it?”

  “You need to use its body, so I have just annihilated its soul,” Leoux said. “In this way, its body will remain perfectly intact for you to boost your strength.”

  “Annihilate the soul?”

  Ling Jiu got chills. Fortunately, he did not recklessly open a wormhole to enter the Leoux. Otherwise, he could not imagine what would have happened to him.

  Things were hard to predict.

  Ling Jiu felt extremely grateful at this moment.

  “Don’t you want to swallow it, Ling Jiu?” Leoux did not know what Ling Jiu was thinking. It just felt curious. “Show me the ability that you have replicated from the Flame Astral Behemoth.”

  Ling Jiu came out of his thoughts and nodded. As he activated the Devourer, a terrifying black hole emerged with violent, devouring force.

  Had this direbeast been still alive, he could not have swallowed it with his level of ability.

  But it was now dead.

  So it did not take him much effort to swallow it.

  “So this is the Devourer arcana of the Flame Astral Behemoth?” Leoux’s eyes lit up. “This ability and the Inner World are the killer skills of the Flame Astral Behemoth to devour other Astral Behemoths.”

  “Really?”

  Ling Jiu smiled but said nothing. Not that he wanted to act cool. Just that the flame of the Inner World was having a hard time consuming the direbeast that he had just swallowed.

  This direbeast was as if a stone. No matter how intense the fire was, it did not budge. It was incredibly tough.

  “I thought the more powerful the creature that I swallow is, the better. It seems that this is not the case.” Ling Jiu shook his head and forced a smile. “There will be indigestion if it is overly massive.”

  “What’s wrong?” Leoux wondered.

  “This direbeast is too tough. I can’t digest it in a short time in the Inner World.”

  “This is entirely normal.” Leoux understood very well. “Even the true Flame Astral Behemoth will not swallow too much food, because it is difficult to digest.”

  “Yeah.”

  The Leoux continued to descend.

  Ten minutes later, it finally came to the bottom of the third-layer ocean.

  This time the bottom of the sea was no longer a high-pressure ice layer, but a seabed of rocks and silt.

  This sea floor was the same as the seafloor on Earth, meaning the Leoux had finally arrived inside of Ganymede.

  “Ling Jiu, look, over there!”

  While Leoux spoke, rays of light shone down to form a colorful sphere. Ling Jiu could not have been more familiar with this thing—it was a wormhole.

  Chapter 238: This Is a White Hole, Treasure from the Universe

  A colorful ball of light stood quietly at the bottom of the sea, just like a pearl emitting a dazzling light at night.

  Ling Jiu could clearly sense a steady stream of dark bio-energy escaping from the wormhole and spread in all directions in the ocean.

  As Leoux said, all the dark bio-energy of Ganymede came from this wormhole.

  “Other than dark bio-energy, there are many other forms of energy, such as dark psionic energy, dark mechanical energy, and so on. Tsk tsk, it is a hodgepodge of energies.” Leoux was fascinated. “I have probably guessed what the situation is on the opposite side of this wormhole, Ling Jiu. If I am right, you will be rich very soon.”

  “Huh?” Ling Jiu cocked an eyebrow. “What have you guessed?”

  “It is a secret.” Leoux let out a mysterious smile. “Check it out and you will know. Remember: keep it secret.”

  Ling Jiu rolled his eyes and held Bai Ya’s hand. “My dear, let’s check it out.”

  “OK.” Bai Ya nodded.

  The two entered the wormhole. After going for like a few minutes, they arrived at the opposite side of the wormhole.

  At first glance, it was still seawater.

  Apparently, opposite the wormhole was another water-rich planet.

  But unlike Ganymede, the water here was not dark, but translucent.

  “This planet……”

  Ling Jiu raised his eyebrows slightly. There was richer dark bio-energy in the seawater here than in Ganymede’s ocean.

  “Let’s go to the surface, Ling Jiu.” Leoux urged.

  “OK.”

  Ling Jiu brought Bai Ya and ascended towards the ocean surface. The seawater got brighter as they rose.

  Ten minutes later, the two came to the surface at last.

  A dazzling light came from the sky, and it took them a while to adapt to the blinding light and see the surroundings clearly.

  It was still an endless seawater at first glance. As the billowing waves rose, dazzling sunlight bounced off the water.

  They looked up at the sky again. It was blazing white with a celestial body many times brighter than the Sun hanging high in the sky, releasing light and heat to its fullest.

  “This star is too blindingly bright.”

  Ling Jiu put his hand over his forehead to shelter his eyes from the glaring light.

  “Is this planet too close to the star, or is the brightness of the star itself so high? But it can’t be. It doesn’t matter if the planet is too close to the star, or the star is too bright, no ocean should be on this planet.”

  “Exactly.” Bai Ya nodded in agreement.

  Either the planet was too close to the star, or the star is too bright would raise the planet’s temperature too much, just like Mercury. The entire ocean should have evaporated; it could not have been like this.

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  “Besides, the temperature on this planet is not that high—it is only about 25°C, almost the same as Earth’s temperature.” Ling Jiu was even more puzzled. “What the hell is going on?”

  “Confused, right?” Leoux laughed. “You should be confused, because this luminous celestial body in the sky is not a star.”

  “Not a star?” Ling Jiu was stunned.

  “Yup. Not a star,” Leoux said. “If it is a star with this level of brightness, the temperature on this planet cannot be so low, and there would have been no ocean. But the fact is, everything of the above has happened. This can only show that the celestial body is not a star.”

  “What would it be if it is not a star?”

  Ling Jiu could not help but frown as he looked at the sun in the sky.

  “That’s a white hole!” There was light in Leoux’s eyes.

  “A white hole?” Ling Jiu was none the wiser.

  “Yup. A white hole,” Leoux said: “The glowing celestial body above our heads is not a star, but a white hole.”

  “A white hole……” Ling Jiu mumbled to himself.

  “You will know when you enter outer space, Ling Jiu,” Leoux said as it released the Leoux, and then brought Ling Jiu and Bai Ya into outer space.

  At this time, Ling Jiu and Bai Ya saw the true face of this ‘star’ at last.

  What caught their eyes was a giant light-emitting vortex-shaped disc, which spun around an axis.

  The most amazing thing was, in the center of the vortex-shaped disk stood a massive beam of light.

  The scene was too majestic, shocking, and indescribably magnificent. It was beyond imagination.

  “Did you see that? It’s a white hole.” Leoux spoke into Ling Jiu’s mind. “The light beam in the center of the white hole is a high-energy matter ejected from the white hole.”

  “I can’t believe that it is a white hole!” Ling Jiu was utterly stunned.

  “White holes are celestial bodies that are the opposite of black holes. The gravity of black holes is infinite, so they can swallow all matter close to black holes. White holes are just the opposite. The surrounding gravity is infinitely negative, which means the repulsive force around them is infinitely positive, and it can repel all matter. Even if light beamed straight toward a white hole, it would bounce back. So even light cannot enter white holes,” Leoux said. “Besides, black holes and white holes are companion celestial bodies. As long as there is a black hole, there will be a white hole on the opposite side. Any matter swallowed by the black hole will be spat out by the white hole. You should be able to feel the rich bio-energy and dark bio-energy here, right?”

  “Yup.” Ling Jiu kept nodding. “The dark bio-energy here is richer than that in the ocean of Ganymede and the ocean on this planet below us.”

  “That’s for sure.” Leoux let out a smile. “In fact, there is not only dark bio-energy but also other energies here.”

  “Such as, the dark psionic energy, dark chemical energy, and dark mechanical energy. These energies are ejected out from the white hole.”

  “Wow, I didn’t know that,” Ling Jiu said.

  “That’s why I said, we are rich now,” Leoux said. “White holes are treasure vaults, because they will continuously eject energies, just like a cornucopia. Not only can you find dark bio-energy and dark psionic energy for self-cultivation but you can also find other forms of energy for spaceships. So white holes are another holy land and resource paradise of self-cultivation.”

  “You mean, practicing self-cultivation here will yield twice the result with half the effort?” Ling Jiu’s eyes were beaming with spirit.

  “More than that. It’s ten, a hundred, or even a thousand times,” Leoux said with a grin. “One more thing, the time curvature of a white hole is negative infinity, so the time flow around it will be quick. Do you know what this means?”

  “The flow of time is quick?”

  Ling Jiu swallowed. “Do you mean……”

  “There is a saying in mythology: one day in heaven equals one year on Earth. So in this case, one day on Earth equal N years near a white hole,” Leoux said, still grinning. “This is another reason people call white holes a self-cultivation holy land. That is because of the fast flow of time.”

  “A day on Earth equals N years here.” Ling Jiu’s eyes were beaming. “It’s really a holy land for self-cultivation.”

  “This is the white hole,” Leoux said. “According to my calculations, the ratio of the time velocity between this planet we are on now and the normal area of the universe is 1 to 68. This means that one day in other areas equals 68 days here. Of course, the time flow around a white hole is constantly changing. The closer you are to a white hole, the faster the flow of time. The planet under our feet is quite far away from the white hole, so the ratio of time flow is this low.”

  “Did you say the ratio of one to sixty-eight is low?” Ling Jiu had no word for it.

  “It is,” Leoux said. “Near many supermassive white holes, the time velocity can reach tens of thousands, or even millions of times faster. So sixty eight is really too low!”

  “All right.” Ling Jiu shook his head.

  “Let’s check out this white hole together.”

  Leoux said as it directed the Leoux to fly towards the white hole. As the distance narrowed, the white hole in their fields of vision became larger and larger.

  The brightness was also getting more and more intense, along with the energy and repulsive force growing higher and higher.

  When it got close white hole at a certain distance, the repulsion was so great that the spacecraft could no longer move forward but fly around the white hole.

  So the Leoux was flying around the white hole for the subsequent few days as they sightsaw and explored around it.

  It was on the fifth day.

  “We are about to end the exploration. There are five planets around this white hole. Because of the high energy, these five planets are all habitable,” Leoux said. “I named them according to their distance from the white hole: Whitehole-1, Whitehole-2, Whitehole-3, Whitehole-4, and Whitehole-5. Whitehole-1 is the nearest, with the richest energy and the fastest time flow rate at a ratio of about 1:130; Whitehole-5 is the farthest, with the thinnest energy, and the time flow is the slowest at only 1:24.”

  “What about the planet connected to Ganymede?” Ling Jiu asked.

  “That planet is Whitehole-3, the third closest to the white hole, the energy is medium, the time velocity is medium, and the ratio is 1:68.” Leoux said.

  “In other words, Whitehole-1 is the most suitable for self-cultivation?” Ling Jiu asked.

  “In theory, yes. But in reality, the most suitable for self-cultivation is Whitehole-2,” Leoux explained. “Whitehole-2 is a forest planet, just like Earth. It is suitable for not only practicing self-cultivation but also living.”

  “Shall we check out Whitehole-2 now?” Ling Jiu could not wait.

  “Sure.”

  Half an hour later, they came to Whitehole-2.

  As Leoux said, this was a green, habitable planet, as if an emerald suspended quietly in space, dazzlingly beautiful.

  When Ling Jiu saw this planet for the first time, he instantly understood why Leoux says this planet was suitable for living and practicing self-cultivation—because it was so beautiful.

  Incredibly beautiful.

  “It’s so beautiful, more beautiful than Earth.” Bai Ya was fascinated.

  “This is Whitehole-2,” Leoux said. “The ratio of the time flow rate is one to ninety-nine, which means one day on Earth equal ninety-nine days here.”

  “One to ninety-nine ratio? That’s awesome!” Ling Jiu was extremely excited. “If I practice self-cultivation for ninety-nine years here, it would be only one year on Earth. I wonder what level of self-cultivation I will attain by then.”

  “This is the scariest part of white holes,” Leoux said. “So white holes are the best treasure the universe has ever bestowed on life. All species living near white holes are blessed races. This white hole is connected to the Solar System through a wormhole, so people on Earth are blessed.”

  “Absolutely.” Ling Jiu nodded slightly. “But we must first clean up the galactic and stellar life forms in Ganymede’s ocean before we use this white hole. Those things stand in our way.”

  “You are right.” Leoux nodded in agreement.

  “I will count on you then.” Ling Jiu stretched. “Leoux, you go to Ganymede to capture those galactic and stellar life forms while we will stay on Whitehole-2 to practice self-cultivation.”

  “No problem.”

  Leoux quickly agreed. It had been idling for too long, and could not wait to go into battles.