Chapter 385 The Prelude to the Age of Stars (5400)

In reality, it wasn't just Su Zhou.

At the very first moment of the spaceship's explosion, Earth, and all the extraordinary individuals rushing to the scene, noticed this immense crisis.

The Far Traveler was a trapezoidal spaceship, over 450 meters long and approximately 200 to 300 meters wide, a symmetrical geometric shape. Its volume was enormous, using a psionic engine, not yet understood by Earth, powered by a combination of conventional engines.

Its weight was easy to calculate, possibly ranging from thirty million to one hundred and fifty million tons depending on the materials and internal structure – but even at the minimum weight, a mass of alloyed metal of at least tens of millions of tons crashing onto Earth's land would create a giant meteorite crater at least a dozen kilometers in diameter. And if it fell into the ocean, a tsunami would be unavoidable if the impact point was close to land.

In addition, there was the possibility of psionic radiation from the spaceship's engine or other unknown substances contaminating Earth's environment. Although, judging by the concentration of spiritual energy, it wasn't certain who was polluting whom, it absolutely could not be ignored.

For Earth, it wouldn't have much of an impact, but changing the biosphere and causing ‘a certain degree’ of destruction was definitely a certainty.

Just as Su Zhou erupted with power and rushed toward the falling spaceship, a message from the United International directly entered his mind through a communication technique.

The information was simple – in just those few seconds, Earth had already calculated the spaceship's predicted point of impact. If left unchecked, it would crash into the northwest side of the Sea of Japan, between Japan and Korea, close to the Liaozhou region of Zheng Country and the Far Eastern border of Ross Country. However, this calculation did not take into account the influence of the *gangfeng* (strong winds) in Earth's atmosphere after the resurgence of spiritual energy. It could very well land in Tokyo, Japan, or perhaps Tiandu, the capital of Zheng Country, the Jiangnan area, or even Southeast Asia.

In short, it was best not to let it fall like that. All the extraordinary individuals in the world would join hands to help him stop the spaceship from falling, and if it was truly impossible, there was also a 'final measure' that could be used.

"This kind of thing goes without saying."

Fortunately, the falling spaceship was not a meteorite after all, and it had its own extremely strong kinetic energy. Su Zhou quickly caught up with the Far Traveler, which had not yet entered Earth's atmosphere.

At the same time, inside the Far Traveler.

Captain Ketaren was filled with despair. Connected to the entire shipboard AI, he received error messages and crisis warnings from all over the exploration ship, and news of dozens of deaths in the explosion, but he could do nothing about it.

"The power system is damaged, the engine area is completely destroyed... The backup engine cannot be started temporarily, and escape pods cannot escape under these conditions close to the planetary atmosphere with the spaceship out of control – we can do nothing but wait for death."

This was the cold reality. Ketaren did not expect the psionicists of this alien civilization to help him – although the other party did indeed have powerful individuals approaching super-ability users, they had not yet reached the godlike realm.

Obviously, this planet in front of him, and the ferocious giant beast, were once part of that powerful Ω-level psionic civilization in the Black Domain Restricted Zone. The Silent Era clearly had a great impact on them. Even though they had reached a level of almost 'transcending the mortal and entering the saintly' in their national psionic abilities, they no longer had those ‘尊主’ (Zunzhu, Revered Lords) capable of destroying planets by themselves.

Even the next level of ‘不朽者’ (Buxiu Zhe, Immortals) and ‘超等灵能者’ (Chao Deng Ling Neng Zhe, Super Psionicists) did not exist. They were clearly weakening due to the Silent Era, like all kinds of civilizations in this galaxy, and even the entire universe, and were now beginning to redevelop.

And at this moment, a flash of understanding crossed Ketaren's mind.

"Allowing the spaceship to crash will undoubtedly cause damage to this planet. Indeed, I am about to die, and whatever damage it causes has nothing to do with me, but the civilization living on this planet will undoubtedly find clues to their homeland from the wreckage of the Far Traveler... They, whose homes have been destroyed and loved ones have died, will inevitably find our Tarin civilization full of anger and hatred after returning to the starry sky."

Just think, if one day, a certain Zunzhu emerged from this civilization, according to this civilization's former reputation as the 'Black Domain Restricted Zone', His temper would definitely not be good. Conquering the Tarin civilization would be a minor matter. If the other party really destroyed the mother star in a fit of anger…

He could die, but he could not become a sinner.

So, Ketaren made what he thought was the wisest decision.

"Destroy the backup engine and the ammunition depot, let our spaceship disintegrate."

He gave the order in a calm and resolute tone, “Fellow compatriots, for the glory of the Tarin Council of Elders, let us not allow our own mistakes to be borne by other civilizations."

Truthfully, this was not an easy decision to accept, but the other crew members did not fully object to Ketaren as the captain. The shipboard AI had already passed the permission verification and was waiting for him to issue a confirmation order to disintegrate the spaceship.

Ketaren was waiting, waiting for the right moment to self-destruct the spaceship – he had already observed the existence of the Earth's ocean. Even if the wreckage of the spaceship disintegrated, it would still create a rain of debris that would cause great damage to the surface creations, but if it fell scattered into the ocean, it would not cause devastating damage.

"Do you have a way to stop this spaceship from falling?"

But at this moment, Ketaren heard a clear psionic message.

Then, a giant dragon flying at high speed and spraying psionic light appeared on the side of the constantly rotating spaceship – without the slightest hesitation, it directly flew into it. The clever use of soft force did not cause too much damage, but instead slightly stabilized the Far Traveler's rapid rotation while also shifting the spaceship's trajectory.

"No, but at least it can minimize the damage caused by the spaceship's fall."

Ketaren also possessed a certain degree of psionic ability. He knew that the voice appearing in his soul was that of the powerful giant dragon. At the moment when the spaceship's orbit shifted, he was actually very pleasantly surprised, because it meant that the other party's power was enough to shift the Far Traveler's original trajectory – unfortunately, the other party could not save them. Even this giant dragon could only break the spaceship apart, which was no different from him self-destructing.

Using psionic communication to tell the other party his decision, Ketaren originally intended to tell Su Zhou not to waste his energy, and after they self-destructed, to shatter the wreckage to minimize the crisis.

"You are very noble, alien visitor, at least you know what it means to be responsible."

But he received Su Zhou's straightforward reply: "We will do our best to resolve this crisis."

"And in this process, it's not that there's no way to save you."

The giant dragon said, and behind him, figures wearing exoskeletal armor and flying towards the Far Traveler were rapidly approaching.

At the same time, above the ground.

For the residents of Zheng Country, Fusang (Japan), and Southeast Asia, June 13, 2017, was a rather peculiar day. As the sun set on this day, a golden halo like the sun appeared on the dome of the sky.

Then, before long, an extremely bright fiery red star appeared in the middle of the sky.

It fell towards the earth at an angle of nearly forty degrees, dragging a long trail of fire, and because of the popularity of cultivation methods, people with highly evolved eyesight could vaguely see that the center of the fire was a strange trapezoidal metal creation, not an irregularly shaped meteorite as imagined.

However, if one's eyesight was better, one could see that below the side of this trapezoidal meteorite, there was also a white wingless giant dragon spraying out violent psionic currents behind it, gradually shifting the angle of this metallic meteor!

Wingless?

Wingless was right!

At this time, Su Zhou had already removed his three-hundred-meter-long exoskeletal wings and placed them on the side of the Far Traveler as an independent thruster. Su Zhou's main body had returned to its original wingless dragon form, spraying forward psionic currents from its back, ‘lifting’ the constantly falling spaceship.

It and Su Zhou's main body simultaneously applied upward and sideways force, shifting the meteorite, which was expected to fall to Southeast Asia and the southern coast of Zheng Country, southward and eastward, towards the most empty and uninhabited South Pacific!

——It's just a spaceship, watch me push it back with my true form! Although Su Zhou wanted to say that, it was really too heavy.

This was indeed very difficult. Not to mention the enormous weight and impact force that almost made Su Zhou vomit blood, just the air at the bottom of the meteorite had been rapidly heated by atmospheric friction to more than ten thousand degrees – if Su Zhou didn't have fire spiritual power to protect him, ordinary extraordinary individuals would have turned to ashes long ago. Not to mention pushing it back, no one in this world except Su Zhou could shift its falling angle relying solely on the flesh.

However, such actions and risks were necessary.

At this moment, inside the spaceship.

Accompanied by the white light of the activation of one seal after another, cards rapidly flew around. The Seal Envoy, Rafayel, was using the fastest speed of his life to cast sealing spells, sealing the Tarin people, who were like four-legged crabs thrown over by extraordinary individuals from other countries, into his cards, turning them into living seal cards.

"I didn't expect that this old man's first encounter with aliens would be in this situation..." The white-haired old seal master, who had never sealed so many lives in his life, was still chewing spiritual pills from Zheng Country, while using spiritual power to pour himself a magic potion. In addition to the seriousness of performing the mission, he also had a rather absurd feeling in his heart: "Sealing thousands of aliens? I dare say that even the gods in the past have never done this!"

However, in any case, as the first interstellar alien race that humans had contacted and could still communicate with, even if it was only information about the outside galaxy, the Tarin people were worth the risk to rescue.

Moreover, due to the previous engine explosion and the impact of the spaceship's uncontrolled fall, most of the Tarin people who had not undergone mechanical modifications had already died. Only a small number of Tarin people remained now. After all the extraordinary individuals confirmed that there were no more signs of life in the spaceship, Rafayel also left the spaceship under the leadership of the Craftsman Saint and slowly fell in the atmosphere.

"Psionic energy... There is actually this kind of usage..." Inside the bridge, Ketaren, who observed the entire process through the shipboard AI, was shocked – although he was very clear that psionic energy was omnipotent, for the emerging Tarin civilization, using psionic energy to such an extent in sealing techniques was already beyond the scope of common sense.

"Are all the people gone?"

Outside the spaceship, seeing streams of human psionic light leaving the spaceship, knowing that the others had completed the rescue of the Tarin people, Su Zhou did not hesitate.

He reached out his hand and directly shattered the bridge armor of the Far Traveler, and then grabbed Ketaren, who was connected to the Far Traveler and could not leave, along with half of the bridge hall from the spaceship. Then, he picked out Ketaren, who was almost as small as a sesame seed to his main body, from this mass of alloy scrap metal and placed him behind a piece of his protective scales.

Next, he rapidly separated from the Far Traveler spaceship, which was falling in the atmosphere with a bottom temperature of more than ten thousand degrees, and merged with the returning exoskeletal wings in a cracking sound.

With the blessing of the spraying vector nozzles, Su Zhou, with a solemn face, opened his mouth slowly towards the spaceship, which had begun to gradually disintegrate in the self-destruction of the ammunition depot and the backup engine, at the same falling speed as the spaceship.

The blazing power gathered in his body. The free spiritual power between heaven and earth surged in as if drawn into a vortex. In the blood vessels of his body, the molten 'blood' with a temperature of thousands of degrees transmitted the terrifying energy without loss, like a superconducting material, and finally gathered at the top of his head along the spine, which was like a focusing device.

Then, there was an incomparably dazzling flash!

The high-energy particle breath gathered in the giant dragon's mouth burst out at a speed of 150,000 meters per second. Golden and yellowish-white flames mixed with bluish-purple plasma, along with a huge shock wave, poured down on the spaceship.

Instantly, in the middle of the dark and vast sky at night, such a beam of light lit up, piercing the sky – it poured down from a bottom-up angle, pierced through the dome of the night, broke through the barrier of the *gangfeng*, and reached into outer space!

Half the world could see this scene.

And in this beam of light, the Far Traveler, which was already violently shaking due to the explosion of the backup engine and the ammunition depot, was directly torn into five large pieces!

The largest and most core piece fell towards the empty and uninhabited South Pacific according to the trajectory calculated by Su Zhou and the United International, while the other pieces fell in arcs, scattering in all directions – but no matter which piece, they would eventually fall in uninhabited areas.

Even in the deep mountains and old forests, one could see this astonishing scene – the huge meteorite was shattered, turning into five smaller fireballs, falling in a trajectory like the ribs of an umbrella, without the aggressive oppression of before.

Above the ground, in the suburbs of Tiandu, the ancestral land of the Weiwu lineage.

Many Lingwu martial artists who were still practicing and exercising were also pointing in surprise at the meteor light belt that could still be seen earlier, and were discussing it fiercely with each other.

The Martial God Liu Li stood on the top of the mountain. The old man, with his knotted muscles all over his body, held a black longbow and squinted his eyes, staring at the fire in the sky.

In his hand, on the black longbow, the flowing black baleful aura was slowly peeling off under the blessing of spiritual power, revealing the dazzling and brilliant crimson-gold bow body beneath. Every piece of baleful aura that covered the bow body that peeled off would cause a small portion of pure destructive aura to overflow. Even a negligible amount could cause all the flying beasts and running animals within hundreds of miles to lie prone on the ground, trembling, and not daring to move at all.

But in the end, the old man let go of his hand. He used his already withered, almost bone-like hand to remove the longbow string, and then re-sealed the bow body, which had returned to a wooden strip, back into the jade marrow gem. Then, he turned around and went down the mountain, taking the gem back to the Yuyuan Secret Realm.

"Ha... The young man did a good job indeed, there's no need to use these final measures."

As he walked, he shook his head with emotion. The hands that had been eroded into withered bones by the longbow gradually regenerated flesh and blood, becoming full again: "And, this resolute will..."

"It's really suitable."

At the same time, similar scenes were happening all over the world – pieces of divine artifacts and weapons that suppressed the national fortune were taken out, and then returned to the altar and the divine seat. Because of Su Zhou's activity, the forces of various countries, who originally planned to show a part of their true cards, gave up this plan, and then, they felt even more apprehensive and fearful, as well as a trace of helpless emotion.

"Although it's just a target... But to be able to destroy a genuine alien spaceship with just a breath... This kind of destructive power, even fighting against alien warships in the universe, I'm afraid it's not impossible!"

"The growth is really too fast..."

At this moment, Earth, South Pacific.

The whistling fragments of the spaceship fell into the calm waters of the South Pacific Ocean. This biological vacuum zone, where even ocean currents did not exist, instantly set off an earth-shattering tsunami. Billions of tons of seawater were lifted up and vaporized, and then the high-temperature water mist that rose like an explosion and the booming shock wave, mixed with dozens of meters high giant waves, swept towards the sky and in all directions.

Some small islands along the way were directly submerged. The fragile island foundation was as fragile as a chocolate biscuit, twisting and shattering in the huge sound waves, turning into mud and debris that diffused in the seawater, surging towards the more distant continent.

But then, the giant dragon also descended. With a serious expression, Su Zhou immediately used the Water Assistance and the *Mingxing* (dark and vast) Dragon Transformation Technique to begin weakening the impact of the giant waves along the direction of the surging waves, slowly calming them down little by little.

He couldn't control the waves that rushed towards Antarctica and uninhabited areas, but Su Zhou could still control the tsunamis in other places – and water control ability users from all over the world were also approaching the surrounding area, preparing to join forces to resist the giant waves that might attack the coast of Australia.

‘But these are things for later.’

Now, at this moment, the sudden alien visitors, and the unexpected situation created by their spaceship, have been mostly resolved.

And today, which is destined to be recorded in history, is the prelude to mankind entering the age of the stars.

——Galaxy, third spiral arm, unknown universe space.

A strange spaceship, shaped like a bullet and nearly conical, was traveling rapidly in the dark space.

Then, as the psionic sensors inside the spaceship issued a warning, streams of information were transmitted.

[The Tarin Council of Elders exploration ship disappeared in the Black Domain Restricted Zone, the signal disappeared, suspected to be destroyed.]

[According to the information left by the Creators, this Black Domain Restricted Zone is a forbidden place for all civilizations in the entire galaxy. Even the Creators have lost many warships in it.]

[The Black Domain Restricted Zone has been proven to be effective, or was once ineffective, and is now revived with the end of the Silent Era.]

[The danger level is the highest, it is recommended to proceed with caution.]

A series of electronic signals flashed in the spaceship's channel, which seemed to be a simple intelligence analysis between a large number of crew members.

But soon, the noisy discussion in the channel stopped completely, leaving only a few scattered voices.

[Captain, should we get closer.] The remaining voices said, his tone full of worry: [The Tarin people are missing, it can already be confirmed that there is an extremely abnormal danger in the Black Domain Restricted Zone.]

[...Slow down.] A dignified tone rang out: [Since the Tarin people have disappeared, there is no reason to speed up the action next.]

After a pause, the voice continued.

[The Black Domain Restricted Zone is, after all, our goal, and we must complete the mission even if we die – continue tracking and reconnaissance.]

[Yes!] Everyone answered in unison.

The extremely brief exchange ended.

Then, accompanied by a faint blue light, which lit up from the front of the spaceship and turned into a portal, this bullet-like spaceship, like a real bullet, turned into a stream of light, rapidly passing through it, and then disappeared at the end of time and space.

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