Use first and repay later: Advance the future cultivation fruits

Chapter 293: 154, Earth Treasure, Present World 4

Lin Qing saw that in ten minutes, the exploration of Celestial Vault Islands would begin, so he created Black Flame once more and then logged into the Second Cosmic Network through the consciousness sensor.

Inside the Second Cosmic Network.

The reflections of everything were almost identical to reality, which were uncertain variables after Cosmic Citizens gained self-awareness, causing changes within the Second Cosmic Network.

Lin Qing appeared in the Second Cosmic Network and walked to the villa’s rooftop, looking up at the star-filled vast night sky.

To explore the Celestial Vault Islands, there was no need for registration or any other conditions.

Any Cosmic Citizen from Earth could attempt it!

At 1:55 AM,

“Boom!”

Suddenly, an invisible roar and huge energy fluctuations transmitted from the sky, the ancient and immense aura rapidly spreading throughout.

In the night sky, invisible to the naked eye, long star rivers suddenly appeared, like bridges spanning across the sky, connecting islands floating high above.

These islands, both large and small, were at least a thousand kilometers above the ground, making them hard to see with the naked eye.

“Here it comes.”

Lin Qing’s eyes brightened, and he instantly transformed into a streak of light flying toward the sky.

Now, he could fly without even expanding his Domain, simply using Original Energy omnipresent, not even needing the Sky Dome Wings.

The Sky Dome Wings had already integrated into the Pseudo Divine Body, undergoing a huge transformation.

After maintaining a low-speed flight of over ten times the speed of sound for a while, Lin Qing had already flown past the Kármán line, arriving at an atmospheric layer where the air density was nearly zero.

After accelerating again, he soon reached the high altitudes of thousands of kilometers.

He was now level with each of the islands connected by the star river bridges.

Each of these Sky Islands was actually very far apart, but with his eyesight, he could see everything clearly as long as it was not below the horizon.

However, each island was covered in mist, with special symbolic text floating above them.

This was the most universal language in the universe, consisting of serial numbers.

Over these days, Lin Qing had naturally also learned it in advance.

The nearest island to him had a diameter of about twenty kilometers.

“Is this… Sky Island number 01477?”

Lin Qing immediately recognized the location of this island, “If so… let’s go to the nearest Sky Island number 01399!”

After determining the direction, he instantly transformed into a streak of light and flew in the other direction.

Every two years, the treasure of the Earth region in the Second Cosmic Network—the Celestial Vault Islands—would automatically appear, with 101007 Sky Islands distributed across the global skies, interconnected by star river bridges.

There are 99999 lower layer islands, 999 middle layer islands, and… 9 upper layer islands!

However, the hidden Celestial Vault Islands were also in constant motion, so every time the islands appeared, they were in different places.

Perhaps lower layer island 00001 would appear over North America this time, and next time it could be over Asia.

But the relative positions between each layer of islands didn’t change, so they were not hard to find.

The surface area of Earth was over five hundred million square kilometers, and the atmospheric area where the lower layer islands were located was even larger, with 99999 islands distributed globally—that’s an average of seven thousand square kilometers for just one island.

Therefore, each island was nearly a hundred kilometers apart, and the density was not high.

Even among the lower layer islands, some particularly large islands were also floating higher.

As for the middle layer islands, they were already over five thousand kilometers away from the ground.

…

At this moment, streaks of light flew from the ground towards the floating islands high in the vault of the sky, rising to the islands amid countless star river bridges.

The weakest were level with Cosmic Citizen Inspectors!

The stronger ones were even Original-level Clerics!

“Finally, it has appeared.”

“Haha, the Sky Island I wanted to explore is right above my head? This time it’s my turn.”

“Us regular clerics should still explore the lowest layer islands.”

“The lowest layer islands still offer a hope of passing the test.”

“Immediately follow me, the Holy Text Faction on that island is confirmed, we must succeed.”

At this time, Basic Divine Position and Original-level Cleric from around the world had almost all set out, with the vast majority forming teams, streaks of light like reverse meteor showers, immediately flying towards the depths of the Celestial Vault.

And among them, teams made up of Inspection Officers from Earth’s civilizations were hardly noticeable.

After all, there were thousands of Basic Divine Position holders in the urban circles.

Only the rare Divine Position holders, numbering merely in the dozens, met the standards.

…

Sky Island number 01399, just a few hundred kilometers from Sky Island 01477, Lin Qing quickly arrived.

Sky Island 01477 was about twenty kilometers in diameter, while the floating height of Sky Island 01399 was three hundred kilometers higher, with the island about fifty kilometers in diameter.

“Hmm?”

As Lin Qing had just flown near Sky Island 01399, he saw a blue streak of light that had raced ahead of him.

It turned out to be a blue intelligent flying saucer.

As the flying device hovered in front of Sky Island 01399, the device opened and a twelve-person team flew out from it.

Lin Qing glanced and recognized the two leaders as Rare Divine Position holders from the Intelligent Star Group, while the other ten were likely just regular clerics, merely at the Inspector level.

Since they dared to come to such a challenging island, the rest probably had some strength, stronger than others in their rank, at least qualified to be cannon fodder.