Yang Yuan’s eyebrows twitched. Although he hadn’t found the information he wanted, those metals that couldn’t even be destroyed by the previous explosion were materials even he coveted.

And those stones that couldn’t be melted, he guessed, were likely the so-called Star Spirit Ores.

The radiation in this area was terrifying, but the source wasn’t the Star Spirit Ores as he thought—it was from the terrifying explosion before.

This type of radiation wasn’t nuclear but a kind of devastating radiation, the kind that could kill, and if on a life-bearing planet, could completely destroy the ecosystem in a short time.

This radiation was extremely lethal even to Earth Level creatures, making this area a life-forbidden zone for them.

But for Celestial-level creatures, it was just uncomfortable and not even capable of injuring them.

Yang Yuan collected a large amount of that indestructible alloy and then picked up a piece of the unmeltable ore.

These ores...

How should I say?

They are pitch black, not transparent, yet give a feeling like a black diamond, very beautiful.

Oddly, though its name might be ’Star Spirit Ore’, it contained little energy inside.

"Was it consumed during the explosion? Or is there another reason?"

Yang Yuan carefully sensed and quickly found an anomaly.

The anomaly was that this stone, like a black diamond, had an extremely faint spirituality inside.

"Spirituality..."

Yang Yuan raised an eyebrow, carefully sensing.

He discovered that this spirituality wasn’t like the spiritual power type but was of intelligence type spirituality.

A stone that contains spirituality?

Yang Yuan searched nearby and quickly found another piece of such stone.

Sure enough, inside this stone was that same spirituality.

Very faint, but it truly existed.

Yang Yuan even suspected that if there was a way to enhance it, it might even possess true intelligence.

"But... what use is it? Is it for Artifact Refining?"

Yang Yuan was puzzled. Though this ore is mystical, its application shouldn’t be as significant as imagined, right?

For Artifact Refining, aside from his own marvel, other high-level weapons generally possess spirituality, some even have an artifact spirit, capable of speaking, even autonomously controlling their divine artifact.

In comparison, the spirituality in this Star Spirit Ore was too weak, though also precious, seemingly not valuable enough for a force to list as a controlled resource, right?

Just because it was accidentally discovered by me, everything must be destroyed to erase the evidence, not hesitating to completely destroy the mining machinery team.

"Could this Star Spirit Ore have some function I’m unaware of?"

No matter what, since some force values this ore so highly, it must be something good. Collecting more can’t hurt.

So next, Yang Yuan spent more than half a month here, picking up the trash.

Be it that unmeltable black-tech alloy or Star Spirit Ore vein, he wanted it all.

After more than half a month’s time, having picked up all the trash here, he left.

Not knowing which direction had the starry civilization or any living people, Yang Yuan opened the Gate of Space in one direction and kept traversing.

Thus, more than a month passed.

He had no idea how far he had gone.

Anyway, he had completely left the original location of the Creation Continent.

Yet, bewilderingly, he found no other life along the way.

One couldn’t help but lament the vastness of the universe; even at his speed, he couldn’t find living people in a short time, let alone others.

...

That day, Yang Yuan paused briefly on an uninhabited planet and looked at his personal experience.

Though he sold over a hundred billion swords before, most buyers weren’t Celestial-level powerhouses and couldn’t elevate those swords and marvels to celestial level, only to Level 71.

Thus, over more than three years, the personal experience he gathered was enough only to raise himself to Level 76.

But in this period, he also gained a lot. Taking a look, he spent it all, successfully reaching Level 77.

Level 77, still early Celestial-level; one needed to reach Level 81 to be considered mid-Celestial-level.

However, after reaching Celestial-level, raising one minor level had substantial growth.

Thus Yang Yuan suspected others were the same, and at Celestial-level, there were many different tiers.

From the aspect of ’as tall as the sky,’ it was the same; Heavenly Dao had the small world’s Heavenly Dao, the great world’s Heavenly Dao, and the universe’s Heavenly Dao.

Perhaps early Celestial-level was the small world’s Heavenly Dao, mid-Celestial-level the great world’s Heavenly Dao, and late Celestial-level the super world’s Heavenly Dao, like the Creation Continent’s world.

And Heaven’s Limit should be the universe’s Heavenly Dao.

If divided this way, it made a bit of sense; otherwise, the disparity was excessively wide. Normally, mid-Celestial-level could easily crush many early Celestial-levels.

"Hmm?"

Suddenly, Yang Yuan saw three streaks of light flying past in the distant starry sky.

Those streaks of light weren’t spacecraft or anything but Celestial-level creatures.

His heart stirred; relying on vision far superior to other Celestial-level beings, he took to the air, flew off from this planet, and followed them from afar.