108: Chapter 108 The Shattered Starship Graveyard

The "seagull" shot out from that chaotic battlefield like a bolt of gray lightning, in a perilously close escape.

Wang Pingan did not dare to stop for even a moment. He pushed the ship's engine power to the limit and sped toward the depths of the Subspace Storm without looking back.

Only after completely shaking off the group of "Subspace Stalkers" that were still slaughtering each other did he finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"Pfft!"

As his taut nerves relaxed, a powerful sense of backlash surged up like a tidal wave.

Wang Pingan spat out another mouthful of blood, feeling as if his head were about to split open and his vision darkening in waves.

What had just looked effortless was actually a move that had completely drained over ninety percent of his spirit.

Casting large-scale group illusions on thousands of energy entities comparable to the Fourth Rank Peak, and doing so in the harsh environment of a Subspace Storm.

Such a feat was something even a true Sixth Rank spirit master might not dare to attempt.

Wang Pingan was only able to do it by relying on the bizarre nature of the "Phantom Gods Eye" and his own monstrous spirit recovery speed.

"Kid! Are... are you okay?!" Mentor Murphy's voice, full of tension and concern, rang out in his consciousness.

He had just "watched" with his own eyes how Wang Pingan had single-handedly reversed that certain-death situation.

The way he looked at Wang Pingan now had completely changed.

It was no longer the look one gives a "talented tool," but rather like looking at a... true monster, one who was his equal, or who had even surpassed him in certain areas.

"I... I'm not dead yet." Wang Pingan squeezed the words out through his teeth, then, without hesitation, pulled the highest-grade spirit recovery potion Mentor Murphy had given him from his storage space and injected himself with it.

A cool, life-force-filled energy instantly spread throughout his entire spiritual sea of consciousness.

The tearing, excruciating pain was immediately relieved quite a bit.

"Damn it, I can never do such a losing business again." Wang Pingan swore to himself.

That move just now was truly cool, but the cost was truly immense.

If it hadn't been to save his life, he would not have been willing to play like that.

"Where... are we now?" Wang Pingan asked while recovering his spirit.

"We've already passed through the outermost energy turbulence zone." Mentor Murphy pulled up the star chart, his voice regaining a hint of calm. "Ahead is the 'Shattered Star Ring.' That is the middle region of the storm. Relatively speaking, it will be a bit safer than before."

"Shattered Star Ring?"

"Yes, that used to be an interstellar battlefield of an ancient civilization. Later, for some unknown reason, this Subspace Storm was triggered, and the entire star system, along with the fleets of both warring sides, were all sucked in and torn to pieces." Mentor Murphy's tone carried a hint of emotion. "It is now a massive starship graveyard, floating in the turbulence of space-time."

Starship graveyard?

Wang Pingan's eyes lit up instantly.

In his mind, he immediately pictured the massive starship wreckage in the West City Scrap Yard in Shen City that had brought him his first pot of gold.

That thing had made him earn a fortune!

And here, there was an entire starship graveyard?

How many "treasures" must there be?

"Ahem, Mentor." Wang Pingan's tone suddenly became somewhat eager. "That place... can we, perhaps... stop for a moment?"

"Stop?" Mentor Murphy was taken aback. "What are you up to, kid? We are racing against death right now! That ten-minute safety window has long passed! The storm's energy tides could erupt again at any moment!"

"Just... just ten minutes! No, five minutes!" Wang Pingan started to bargain. "I feel like my spirit consumption is too great; I need to find a place to 'replenish' my energy a little."

Of course, he could not say he wanted to go "scavenging," so he could only come up with such a lame excuse.

Mentor Murphy looked at him suspiciously.

He always felt this kid's tone was a bit off.

But thinking back to how Wang Pingan had indeed saved both their lives single-handedly just now, he felt embarrassed to refuse too bluntly.

"Fine, just five minutes!" Mentor Murphy finally relented. "But you must promise me that if there is any anomaly, we must leave immediately!"

"No problem! Just watch!" Wang Pingan was overjoyed.

He steered the "seagull," carefully avoiding the space rifts that appeared and disappeared, and slowly sailed into the so-called "Shattered Star Ring."

As soon as he entered, Wang Pingan was completely stunned by the sight before him.

Countless starship wrecks, huge beyond imagination, floated silently in this chaotic space-time like silent steel behemoths.

Some warships were severed at the waist, with dangerous energy arcs still flickering at the break.

Some warships had been torn into countless pieces by some terrifying force, like a pile of floating space junk.

There was even a mothership, immense in size and comparable to a moon, with a terrifying, circular hole piercing through its entire hull, as if it had been struck by some unimaginable superweapon.

The whole scene was filled with a doomsday-like, tragic sense of epic scale.

"Good grief, this scale is even more exaggerated than in the movies." Wang Pingan exclaimed inwardly, with heartfelt emotion.

But he was in no mood to appreciate these things right now.

His "Eye of Truth" had long been scanning frantically through this huge "treasure trove" like a high-powered radar!

[Detected 'Titan-class battleship' main gun wreckage, containing high-purity 'Annihilation Energy Core,' can convert to pay-to-win points: 18,000!]

[Detected 'Psionic mothership' engine fragment, containing trace amounts of 'Subspace Energy,' can convert to pay-to-win points: 25,000!]

[Detected 'God's Envoy-class' flagship bridge wreckage... can convert to pay-to-win points: 32,000!]

...

A series of golden, tempting notifications were flooding Wang Pingan's vision!

His breathing became heavy at this moment.

His eyes turned blood red from extreme excitement!

He struck it rich!

This time, he really struck it rich!

He felt like a pauper who had fallen into a vault, with everything around him shining with the golden light of "pay-to-win points"!

"Mentor!" Wang Pingan's voice trembled with excitement. "Park the ship next to that largest piece of wreckage!"

He pointed to the mothership wreckage in the distance, the one the size of a moon with its hull pierced through.

That thing was no longer just wreckage in his eyes.

That was a glittering, gargantuan mountain of gold made of pure gold!