Cosmic Trading System

Chapter 424 Breakthrough and Arrival

"Boom——"

Ten days later, Lin Yun broke through to the peak realm of Huajin.

After Lin Yun grew accustomed to his newfound power, he once again secluded himself for cultivation.

Whoosh——whoosh——whoosh——

The sounds of punches and kicks slicing through the air echoed in Lin Yun's cultivation chamber.

The primary objective was to drastically level up a multitude of martial arts techniques, and Lin Yun, generously, made extensive use of the spirit crystals.

In reality, each time the Cosmic Trading System was used to enhance martial arts techniques, it also carried with it some energy. This energy could also increase Lin Yun's true Qi, and these incremental upgrades, when added together, made quite an impact.

Twenty days after again secluding himself, he had managed to raise all the third-level martial arts techniques—totalling one hundred thirty-six—that he had learned to their respective peak realms.

In the process, Lin Yun studied a few Earth-based and several other civilization techniques. Only after he felt there were no more new insights to be gleaned did he stop.

Afterward, Lin Yun spent plenty of time honing his proficiency and understanding of these martial arts techniques.

"Boom——"

Without any deliberate attempts to surge toward a higher realm, after five more days, a booming sound rang out within Lin Yun's body as he broke through to the Innate Realm.

Things fell into place naturally.

Lin Yun sat cross-legged on the spot, closing his eyes to reflect on what he had accomplished.

Having practiced more than five hundred martial arts techniques and reached peak experience with all of them, he had an excellent grasp of the formidable power coursing through his body.

Whoosh——

An hour later, Lin Yun opened his eyes, and a sharp glint flashed within them.

"The Innate Realm, I've finally reached it…" Lin Yun murmured and stood up.

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"Hurry! Hurry! Use the energy cannon to attack it!"

"Lock on strongly, we just need a little bit more time!"

When Lin Yun arrived at the control room, several Innate Martial Artists were intently facing the control panel, shouting excitedly.

Lin Yun looked up and found that they were attacking a Starry Sky Beast. According to the tips on the Cosmic Trading System, it was a sixth-level beast. It was devoid of legs and covered in scales and long whiskers. Its elongated body, akin to the large fishes on Earth, was seamlessly attached to its head.

Compared to human Cultivators, if added three levels to a battleship, only those at the eighth level and Starry Sky Beasts at the same level could manage to confront a fifth-level technologically advanced civilization battleship.

Their battleship was a top-tier one from a fifth-level technologically advanced civilization. Even when faced with a peak eighth level Cultivator, it was still a formidable contender.

However, this applied only when Cultivators or Starry Sky Beasts engaged in direct battle with the battleship.

If the Cultivators and Starry Sky Beasts decided to flee, a fifth-level technologically advanced civilization's battleship would be lucky to capture a seventh-level Cultivator or Starry Sky Beast.

Because most of the Cultivators and Starry Sky Beasts began to master teleportation when they reached the fifth level, which granted them considerable agility.

In contrast, if an eighth-level Cultivator or Starry Sky Beast battled against a fourth-level technologically advanced civilization's battleship, it was highly likely that the ship wouldn't be able to escape.

This posed a significant disadvantage to human technology.

However, they were currently dealing with a mere sixth-level Starry Sky Beast, putting them in a vastly superior position. Naturally, they didn't face any trouble. Continue reading stories on empire

During this time, Lin Yun's battleship encountered numerous Starry Sky Beasts, even a swarm of them at times. Since their first hunt, everyone became interested in these Starry Sky Beasts.

The Starry Sky Beast they encountered today was the highest level beast they had encountered on their journey. They had encountered one previously, but because it was too far away, they didn't chase after it. This one was the second.

Of course, the Golden Beast was an exception. That Golden Beast was extremely terrifying. They certainly didn't want to encounter such a fearsome super Starry Sky Beast again.

"Mr. Lin!"

"Mr. Lin!"

Upon seeing Lin Yun enter, several Innate Martial Artists promptly greeted him with respect.

However, as a result, their operation of the battleship briefly paused, allowing the sixth-level Starry Sky Beast to gain some considerable distance.

This Starry Sky Beast was already at the edge of the battleship's firing range. If it continued to flee at this pace, it would likely escape the range within seconds.

At this point, it's worth noting that most of the universe is a vacuum, meaning energy attacks face extremely little resistance when traveling in it. Therefore, as long as there are no obstacles along the way, and provided that they don't hit small celestial bodies, the battleship's firing range still extends quite far.

It could easily span several hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of kilometers.

Therefore, if the battleship gave chase afterwards, the Starry Sky Beast would not be able to escape.

"We should no longer pursue this Starry Sky Beast. We must hurry to our destination. Once we are done with the task at hand, we will have all the time in the world…" Lin Yun gently nodded and spoke.

There had been a new development—Star Blue informed him that initially, the people he was dealing with took a softer approach. Now, they were preparing to employ soul-searching methods.

He was continually careful while dealing with them. He wasn't sure when they would resort to such tactics, or how long he would be able to withstand their onslaught.

Many spiritual cultivation systems employed soul-searching, a rather violent tactic. If a strong Cultivator were to use it on an ordinary person, the latter might not suffer significant harm. However, Star Blue's mental strength was not weak. If they were to use this method against him, his soul could easily be damaged.

However, because Star Blue's mental strength was strong, those people were discussing the best way to search Star Blue's soul. Currently, they were just threatening him in order to extract more knowledge from him.

"Yes, Mr. Lin."

"This Starry Sky Beast was merely on our way. We only attacked it as it was en route."

A group of Innate Martial Artists nodded in agreement. One of them explained the situation.

Three days later, Lin Yun adapted to the strength of the Innate Realm and began to increase his mental strength to the sixth level.

Subsequently, he too participated in the operation of the battleship. After familiarizing himself with the controls for three days, he stepped back.

His main task, however, was still cultivation.

Compared to the immense power of technology, he desired the strength of a powerful Cultivator more.

Ever since he had broken through to the Innate Realm, with no worries hanging over him, his cultivation speed had picked up.

He chose to practice Tiandi Xuanhuang Martial Art.

With a total of twelve levels, it could be advanced to the twelfth level of the Cultivator stage.

With a strong foundation, and now that he had ascended to the realm of the Innate, internalizing and synchronizing in, harmonizing yin and yang, the power of this martial art technique could be employed in its entirety.

Within a few days, Lin Yun had already progressed a decent distance within the early phase of the Innate Realm. He felt that he wouldn't require more than ten more days to break through to the mid-term realm of the Innate.

Including Lin Yun on this excursion, there were a total of fifteen people.

Lin Yuanshan and Zhang Haoran hadn't broken through to the Innate Realm yet at the time.

Lin Yun remained in seclusion for several days, and only then did the two of them break through to the Innate Realm.

In the meantime, as Lin Yun was cultivating, so were the two of them.

Now, both of them had broken through to the mid-term realm of the Innate.

The two of them were also practicing the Tiandi Xuanhuang Martial Art.

One day…two days…three days…

Time went by slowly.

The distance between Lin Yun's battleship and Star Blue's coordinates was rapidly closing.

In the blink of an eye, two more months had passed.

The duration of this space voyage even exceeded Lin Yun's initial estimate.

In the vast expanse of space, one moment they could perform a space jump, and the next moment they couldn't. The detector needed time to probe the distant space. Oftentimes, Lin Yun's battleship had no choice but to make short-distance space jumps.

All of this added to the time it took them to get there.

Fortunately, after a little more than three months, Lin Yun and his party finally arrived.

"So this is the civilization that has trapped Star Blue…"

Inside a black battleship, upon seeing the massive planet displayed on the screen, Lin Yun's eyes narrowed as he spoke.