Chapter 1092,: 1092,
Amidst the vast Starry Sky, a Starship carefully avoided the stray asteroids as it sailed towards its goal .
The Starship wasn’t big, less than two hundred meters in length, the smallest type in the entire Star Field, barely Saint King Grade Low-Rank . The hull of such a Starship wasn’t very sturdy, and from the dents and scrapes on its hull, it was clear it had suffered damage from numerous asteroid hits .
If it was a higher grade Starship, such damage would never have been possible .
This small Starship sailed extremely cautiously and seemed to be full of cargo, so its overall speed was quite slow .
Inside the ship, there were about sixty cultivators of varying strength, each one performing their routine duties .
For this expedition, they had been ordered to go out to mine some ore from a nearby Ore Star for half a year, and it wasn’t until a few days ago when they had filled their cargo hold that they had set sail for home .
There were originally a hundred of them, but now only a bit more than half of them remained . They didn’t know why, but the Ore Star they had travelled to had many ferocious beasts appearing and disappearing, resulting in the deaths of many of their companions while they were mining .
The survivors were all just happy to be returning alive so they spoke no words of complaint .
Six months of hard work could be exchanged for many years of freedom, so they were quite satisfied . After this trip, they would receive a large amount of remuneration and could use that money to purchase better Secret Arts and Martial Skills while possibly even acquiring higher grade artifacts . Everyone aboard the Starship felt a sense of accomplishment as they imagined such a bright future .
Wu Yi, a First Order Saint King, was this Starship’s captain . At her age, having such cultivation on Shadowed Star made it clear her aptitude wasn’t bad . The Elders in her family had asserted that as long as she cultivated diligently, she would definitely reach the Origin Returning Realm in the future .
Her strength wasn’t the strongest on the Starship though, that title belonged to her family’s Foreign Elder who possessed a Third Order Saint King cultivation . This Foreign Elder was very old though and besides sitting in the Starship to ensure its safety, he was aloof to all other matters, even Wu Yi wasn’t qualified to command him .
There were other Saint Kings around as well; after all, this mining expedition required a certain amount of strength to protect itself .
Wu Yi stood in the Starship’s power room at this moment and was gazing out the transparent window, staring at the Starry Sky, a sense of longing flashing across her beautiful eyes .
Shadowed Star was her home, but the World Energy on Shadowed Star couldn’t be compared to other major Cultivation Stars in the Star Field . It was a barren place with scarce resources and supplies, lacking in high-grade precious treasure and powerful masters alike .
The strongest masters on Shadowed Star were just Second-Order Origin Returning Realm cultivators and many of them were already over two thousand years old . It wasn’t even clear how much battle strength these masters had .
Shadowed Star was also situated in a relatively remote part of Heng Luo Star Field and was surrounded by countless Dead Stars nearby . To find an Ore Star to mine, a several month long journey was necessary . During this period, everyone onboard the Starship was constantly on edge, fearing that the ship would be destroyed .
Because of its remoteness and barrenness, the great forces in the Star Field rarely paid any attention to this area, and even the ruthless Galaxy Ridge and Abandoned Lair didn’t run over to engage in plunder and bloodshed .
Although Shadowed Star was technically part of the Star Field, it had almost become its own independent world, forgotten by everyone else .
Wu Yi very much wanted to leave Shadowed Star and take a look at the outside world . When she was young, she had listened to many stories of the wondrous sights and scenes of the other Cultivation Stars in the Star Field as well as the great masters at the Origin King Realm . The unimaginable beauty and splendour of those other Cultivation Star where one could cultivate many times faster than on Shadowed Star, all the various different kinds of people, the Saint Crystals and pills that could never be used up .
Compared to those other Cultivation Stars, Wu Yi felt like a little countryside girl who had never seen the world .
She yearned for everything in the outside, but the status of her family severely limited her freedom, and since she was quite sensible, she had soon begun focusing on making contributions to her family instead of her childhood dreams, offering to lead this dangerous trip to the nearby Ore Star . For every ten Starships that were sent out, it would be fortunate if five returned from this task, so no one dared to take on this job if at all possible . In the eyes of the Elders of the family, this was almost akin to punishment rather than a duty .
However, with Wu Yi being a woman, in her family’s eyes, even if she were to accidentally die outside, it wouldn’t damage the foundation of the family, so they had easily agreed to her leading the expedition .
If it was instead a male direct descendant of the family, the Elders would never have allowed him to take on such a dangerous mission .
[A group of old short-sighted fools, no wonder they can only wait to die on Shadowed Star!]
[So what if I’m a woman?] Wu Yi snorted softly, clenching her fists while secretly vowing that one day she would leave Shadowed Star and escape from this suffocating prisoner’s cage, find her own freedom, and bask in the wider and more exciting world .
“Young Lady!” A Third-Order Saint hurried over, his eyes greedily lingering on Wu Yi’s splendid mountains and enchanting valleys before he quickly lowered his head and focused his gaze on his feet .
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