Chapter 148: Destination, Absolute Heaven Star! (Seeking Subscriptions, Seeking Monthly Votes)

Inside the cosmic battleship, Lantian first entered the virtual universe network. After teleporting back to Earth, he arranged a meeting with Wang Ling and his parents.

"Xiaotian, when will you be able to come back?" Seeing that Lantian's figure always appeared hazy and flickering, his mother asked with lingering worry, even though she knew it was due to a poor virtual universe network signal.

"Mom, don't worry, it'll be soon. How are you all doing?" Lantian asked with a smile, looking at his mother, who appeared much younger and more stylish now.

"Of course we're doing great. Nowadays, there isn't a single person on Earth who doesn't recognize your mother. She's treated like a celebrity; people crowd around her wherever she goes, it's so annoying!" Lantian's father, Lan Hua, looked deeply resentful.

"Haha, Dad, with a superstar wife, you should just secretly be happy!" Lantian said with a smile. Seeing his parents again filled him with joy.

"By the way, Xiaoling, how is your parents' cultivation coming along?" Seeing that Wang Ling was standing quietly to the side with a gentle smile as she looked at their family of three, Lantian took the initiative to ask.

"Them? They're doing wonderfully, of course. Your cultivation techniques are so powerful that the few of us are progressing much faster than ordinary people. My dad is already the Minister of Public Security for China now. Hmph, his lust for power is just too strong!" Wang Ling playfully complained.

"Haha, your dad was already a vice-governor to begin with, and now that his cultivation realm is so high, becoming the Minister of Public Security is only natural, isn't it? By the way, what realms have you all reached in your cultivation now?" Lantian chuckled, immediately showing concern for their progress.

Everything else was secondary; cultivation realm was the only foundation.

"Hmm... pretty fast, actually. Chen Xiaoxing and I are progressing the fastest, and we've already reached the 9th level of Energy Condensation. My parents and your uncle and aunt have all reached the 8th level of Energy Condensation," Wang Ling replied.

"Mm, that speed isn't slow, but it's not particularly fast either. No matter, I'm here this time specifically to tell you something. If things go smoothly, I suppose I'll be able to improve your cultivation aptitudes very soon!" Lantian nodded and said quite happily.

After receiving some explanations from Bai, Lantian learned that the bottle of Primordial Life Essence he inherited from the God of War's legacy was precisely a divine medicine capable of elevating aptitude!

The value of Primordial Life Essence was extraordinarily high; a single drop could instantly heal injuries and increase a portion of one's lifespan, while also carrying the supplementary effect of enhancing aptitude. Although the enhancement effect was not overwhelmingly massive, when applied to people with lower aptitudes like Wang Ling and the others, the results should still be quite remarkable.

"You can improve our aptitude right away? You found a divine medicine to raise aptitude, and you're coming back?!" Wang Ling asked in pleasant surprise upon hearing this.

"As for coming back, that will still take a little while, but the divine medicine to improve aptitude has indeed been found," Lantian replied with a smile. "Though it's a relatively low-grade divine medicine, let's just make do with it for now. I'll find better ones for you in the future."

"You still can't come back... Then why did you say you could improve our aptitude right away, getting my hopes up for nothing!" Upon hearing this, Wang Ling immediately wore a disappointed expression.

To her, improving her aptitude or not didn't really matter; the crucial thing was that she truly missed him.

"Silly girl~ I can't return just yet, but that doesn't mean I can't send things back," Lantian said with doting indulgence. Without dragging out the suspense any longer, he shared his plan to send back a cosmic battleship along with a batch of high-tech equipment.

"Ha! A cosmic battleship! I've truly never ridden in a contraption like that. How interesting, send it over immediately!" Lan Hua was the first who couldn't hold back, expressing extreme anticipation.

"Dad! I'm sending the cosmic battleship over not for you guys to play around with. Lately, I've been activating the locator on the Scarlet Gold Divine Armor quite frequently, yet the Yuanlan Empire hasn't made any major moves. It makes me feel a bit uneasy, and I'm afraid it would spell disaster if they decide to set their sights directly on Earth. That's why I'm paying a heavy price to send a cosmic battleship over. If you sense anything amiss, you must board the battleship and flee at the very first moment; don't try to be heroes!" Lantian warned sternly.

"Alright, but how do you operate a cosmic battleship? I'm afraid no one on Earth knows how to pilot such a thing..." Seeing his son speak with such gravity, Lan Hua turned serious as well, asking with some confusion.

"Don't worry, I've already purchased an auxiliary smart computer and will be sending it along with the ship. Although this auxiliary smart computer doesn't have a very high intelligence and hasn't evolved into a true intelligent life form like Bai, operating a cosmic battleship won't be a problem," Lantian explained.

"Allow me to ask out of curiosity, just how powerful is this cosmic battleship?" The more Lan Hua heard, the more excited he became. And you couldn't blame him—if any ordinary person learned they were about to own a cosmic battleship—something previously only seen in movies, and even vastly more powerful than those in films—their reaction would probably be even more overwhelming than his!

"Well... if all weapons are fired at full capacity, obliterating an Earth should be an effortless task..." After consulting Bai, Lantian gave this answer.

"Uh..." Lan Hua was left speechless by the answer, never expecting that the destructive power of this cosmic battleship would be so terrifying!

Afterwards, Lantian gave a few more detailed instructions, making sure everything that needed to be arranged was settled, before reluctantly logging out of the virtual universe network.

Without further delay, he left the technologies purchased from the trading platform for upgrading Earth, along with the auxiliary smart computer, inside the cosmic battleship.

"Little Bai, pilot this cosmic battleship at full speed to the designated coordinates, and obey my father and the others' commands in everything without fail!" Lantian commanded the auxiliary smart computer he had nicknamed "Little Bai," and then reminded Weilin and the other person to log out.

Inside the spatial ring, one hundred thousand 9th-tier energy crystals lay quietly. Therefore, Lantian did not choose the standard navigation mode for the battleship; instead, he made a lavish expenditure and directly selected the spatial jump mode. Although the battleship's massive size meant that a direct spatial jump to Earth would consume about one hundred 9th-tier energy crystals, what did such a cost matter compared to the safety of Wang Ling and the others?

Not only that, aside from the one hundred 9th-tier energy crystals used for the spatial jump, he deliberately reserved five hundred 9th-tier energy crystals as an energy reserve for the battleship. He believed that supported by so many 9th-tier energy crystals, even if people from the Yuanlan Empire arrived on Earth, Wang Ling and the others would be fully capable of self-preservation, provided there were no super-experts above the Cosmic realm.

Having resolved a major worry, Lantian was in exceptionally high spirits. He returned to the branch office to greet Supervisor He, and after a round of farewells, he wasted no time. Activating the flight mode of the Scarlet Gold Divine Armor and carrying Weilin and her companion, he immediately executed a spatial jump.

Target: Juezhan Star!

As for why he still used the Scarlet Gold Divine Armor instead of deploying the cosmic battleship stored in his spatial ring:

Compared to the Scarlet Gold Divine Armor, which only consumed a mere 10 ninth-tier energy crystals, if a thousand-meter-long cosmic battleship were to make a spatial jump across billions of light-years, I'm afraid ten thousand ninth-tier energy crystals might not even be enough...

(End of this chapter)