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Chapter 764 - 397: Return to Jingnan - News of the Star Beast (Beginning of the month, please vote!)

Chapter 764: Chapter 397: Return to Jingnan - News of the Star Beast (Beginning of the month, please vote!)

He rose to stretch his limbs, as the Sky Shattering King entered his body from behind.

His body felt like a furnace, and Li Ming exhaled a breath of scalding heat.

While undergoing the trial, his body wasn’t idle, constantly performing autonomous development under the blessing of the Evolution System.

Running dual threads simultaneously, Li Ming often did this, for the autonomous development of the body, the consciousness had nothing better to do.

The Holy Castle trial could greatly enhance his combat abilities, and it was precisely because of the enhancement in combat skills that allowed him to pass the Upper Lord trial at 65% progress, undoubtedly improving every moment.

This trial lasted a full sixteen hours, conducted six times in total, each time missing by a sliver, which really frustrated him, prompting him to attempt several times consecutively until he succeeded.

He opened the smart terminal intending to browse the news, and the shadow of Vermilion Bird appeared, "Master, two hours ago, Lord Feder came looking for you."

"Oh?" Li Ming put away the smart terminal and went out to find Feder, who was lounging in the communal resting area, chatting idly with Robbin.

Upon seeing Li Ming’s arrival, he stood up immediately and said with some resignation, "Asimara finally trusts me."

Since the Mechanical Court left, and with Li Ming’s guarantee, Feder had been trying to connect with Asimara on the Black Hole Network.

Logging into the Black Hole Network account and sending messages to the other party was quite simple, the challenge was in how to make Asimara trust him, which Feder had been striving for.

But Asimara’s wariness was incredibly strong, not trusting even video calls, for it was a task where one could be pulverized in a moment of carelessness.

In the end, Feder even mentioned Gabriel, but Asimara remained skeptical.

Yet after contacting intermittently all these days, and divulging such secrets, Asimara finally believed him and revealed some information.

"Due to Prince Ryan’s influence, a significant portion of civilizations in the Northern Crown Star Ring are providing us assistance, as a result, the Blood Seeds have spread over more than a hundred life planets," Feder said gravely.

"So fast?" Robbin beside him shuddered in surprise. He also learned about this from Feder during that time.

"A hundred planets?" Li Ming frowned slightly, and Feder glanced at him before continuing in a low voice, "Also, Professor Wu has been investigating this matter all along."

Li Ming froze for a moment, a solemn expression on his face, "Old Wu?"

Feder quickly explained, "The number of people Asimara could trust is extremely limited, aside from me and my father, there’s only Professor Wu."

"This matter was Professor Wu’s initiative, plus he’s just mingling among those transporting Blood Seeds, not in any danger."

"Because Blue Star was among the first batch of life planets deployed, nobody knows the position of the Blood Seeds, so he could only collect inclination data this way, attempting to locate them."

He was afraid Li Ming would think Asimara was forcibly pulling Professor Wu into the situation.

Li Ming nodded, his expression softening somewhat, knowing Old Wu’s personality to some extent, almost no one could compel him to do anything against his will.

As for whether it was for Blue Star or other reasons, that was unknown.

Feder further explained, "Professor Wu collected a lot of data, based on their behavioral habits, and the traits of the Blood Seeds, has currently narrowed down potential locations to ten spots."

"Asimara asked about our next move? Whether he needs to coordinate?"

Li Ming pondered, there’s still no news from Blackbeard, the Pioneer is uncertain about the truth of this matter, unable to decide on the specifics of what’s next.

"For now, no need, return to Blue Star first, and see exactly what those Blood Seeds are," Li Ming thought briefly, deciding the next step.

"Furthermore, send me a copy of the data collected by Old Wu."

"Alright." Feder nodded and quickly searched through the materials.

Back in the room, Li Ming routinely browsed the Star Network for information, reading some gossip news with interest, those making it to interstellar headlines were always influential figures.

For instance, today’s headline was "Federation Speaker mired in scandal involving underage life forms."

It also involved quite a few other big names, the changeover of leadership on the Federation side happened rapidly, often accompanied by political scandals.

Then, he logged into the Black Hole Network.

"Oh?"

Li Ming noticed new messages on this account, his eyes flickered.

"Do you want a top-tier S-level Star Beast?" The other party was concise, straight to the point.

Li Ming didn’t respond immediately, instead opening the other party’s profile, noting they hadn’t chosen to remain anonymous.

The profile claimed to be an intelligence broker active in the Sea of Stars, classified as an A-level life form.

"Just an A-level life form?" Li Ming was somewhat disappointed, previous A-level life forms who contacted him found Star Beasts that weren’t quite satisfactory.

However, holding onto a sliver of hope, he still replied, "What kind of Star Beast?"

Originally thinking it would take some time for the reply, unexpectedly, within two or three minutes, there was a response.

"Flame Gold Holy Scale Lion, comparable to a 90% development S-level life form." The other party sent a photo.

The giant beast in the picture had a robust physique, smooth muscle lines, sturdy limbs, claws as sharp as hooks, with its body covered in dazzling golden scales, ablaze with golden flames.

Its broad forehead was set with eyes burning with a red flame, sharp and majestic, its fangs protruding from its mouth.

Li Ming zoomed in on the details, inspecting carefully, and slightly frowned, "No golden pattern on the forehead, no dual ring on the pupils, the scales on the tail aren’t overlapping, this isn’t the Lion Emperor. Only the Lion Emperor could reach the level you mentioned; ordinary Holy Scale Lions are considerably weaker."