Chapter 763 - 477: Piercing the Moon (Part 2)

Chapter 763: Chapter 477: Piercing the Moon (Part 2)

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A day later.

Wang Ye quietly hovered over a large crater, looking down at the crater below, which had a diameter of several tens of kilometers.

The high temperature emitted from the plasma flames around him seemed as if it would melt all the moon dust beneath him.

The blinding radiance cast his silhouette onto the ground, resembling a distorted ghostly shadow.

Throughout that day, he had been searching the surfaces of various lunar craters.

But there was nothing gained.

The only discovery was a crater on the far side of the moon that appeared slightly unusual in shape.

He tried extending Primordial Qi inward for scanning but did not detect any special substances.

He suspected that it might be because he was too far from the target.

Thus, his next plan was to dig downward from this point as a breakthrough to see if anything useful could be unearthed.

Of course, this excavation action would not damage the entire moon’s ecological environment. Because Wang Ye had long possessed the ability to control the soil within his range, which is an "Earth Manipulation" trait brought by the Excavation Skill. With this trait, Wang Ye found it almost effortless to excavate soil and rock because, to him, even the hardest soil and rock were as soft as rubber and could be restored to their original form at any time after being damaged.

With Wang Ye’s memory, he could clearly remember the original appearance of the rocks he damaged, and his observation and creativity had long reached an exquisite level, beyond that of a lithography machine. Even if experts examined the restored rocks with a microscope, they wouldn’t notice any discrepancies.

So even if he were to dig tens of kilometers, hundreds of kilometers, or even through the entire moon, it would leave no traces. But if he were to split the moon into two halves, that level of destruction would be another story since Wang Ye’s current abilities weren’t powerful enough to restore an entire moon.

All he could do was restore the rock and soil behind him as he continued excavating forward,

and that was the limit of what he could accomplish.

With this thought, Wang Ye dove toward the Central Peak beneath him.

His speed instantly accelerated beyond the speed of sound,

just as his head was about to touch the lunar surface.

Hiss!!!

The Central Peak suddenly twisted into a gray-black liquid, leaving a passage barely wide enough for Wang Ye to pass through. His speed increased as he raced toward the center of the moon. The rocks and soil in front of and around him also quickly dissolved, then reshaped themselves behind him.

While drilling, Wang Ye continually paused to use Primordial Qi to search the surroundings for possible locations of crystal clusters.

But he searched downwards for over a hundred kilometers without the slightest result.

In fact, this essentially meant that no extraterrestrial crystal clusters existed in this crater,

but Wang Ye remained unwilling to give up.

He continued to push his Earth Manipulation Ability to the limit, increasing his speed to around Mach 50.

He saw a large amount of surrounding soil and rock instantly melted into a gray-black liquid, and he raced back and forth through the vast space. Every few kilometers he would stop to carefully explore with Primordial Qi, attempting to find traces of crystal clusters.

But all was in vain,

Wang Ye continued drilling downward until he penetrated the entire moon, without finding any crystal clusters.

It was not until two days later, after he entirely abandoned his search, that Wang Ye returned to the lunar surface. He felt a sense of loss as he looked at the reshuffled moon beneath his feet.

However, luckily, the three days of exploration were not futile. With the intensive excavation, his Earth Escape Skill proficiency was maxed out and fused with Riding to evolve into a new skill.

[Control]

The birth of the Control skill elevated his command over the surrounding materials to an unprecedented level.

Now, not only soil and rock but any other material could be controlled by Wang Ye.

Moreover, the range of control unexpectedly surged from less than a hundred meters to a kilometer.

With this skill, destroying a planet would surely become easier for Wang Ye in the future.

Then, Wang Ye returned to the surface and calmly sat near their prearranged landing site, to practice Samadhi True Fire.

During the practice, he was surprised to find that practicing on the moon was significantly more effective than on Earth.

Perhaps it was because life rarely stepped foot here, and the void contained a lot of unknown dark matter, resulting in a more efficient practice.

According to Wang Ye’s understanding, the birth of life absorbs a type of dark energy from the cosmos.

Take, for example, his proposed "Merit."

Each life birth is accompanied by a certain amount of Merit.

And where does this Merit come from? Naturally, it is acquired from the cosmos.

Thus, on Earth, Merit is already scarce, making it exceedingly challenging to obtain.

But on the lifeless moon, obtaining this dark energy is extremely easy.

This indeed was an unexpected delight of coming to the moon.

However, in reality, Wang Ye had not forgotten his other task besides digging for crystal clusters on the moon.

That was to complete Ozaki’s Eight’s final challenge, the Ultimate Trust.

Previously, he had completed the seventh challenge, Master of Six Lives, which involved enduring a nuclear explosion, fitting the phrase Master of Six Lives perfectly.

As for Ultimate Trust, the original challenge involved climbing Venezuela Waterfall by hand and then jumping backward off the waterfall.

The essence was to trust oneself and trust nature.

Even be willing to entrust one’s life to nature.

So to align with the theme of the original challenge, he also needed to perform a "jump."

Simply flying from Earth to the moon was unrelated to "jumping."

Therefore, Wang Ye might have to jump from the moon to Earth.

Transforming into a meteor and jumping from the moon to Earth, breaking through Earth’s atmosphere, and landing at Nemo Point in the Pacific Ocean.

Trusting his home planet, that is true Ultimate Trust.

Or, for more thrill, he could directly fly from the moon to the Sun and bathe in the star’s radiance, which was the second option. But the second option was a bit too difficult for Wang Ye right now, so unless something unexpected happened, Wang Ye would most likely choose the first option, leaving the second option for later.

However, if during cosmic exploration, Wang Ye’s power drastically increased, to the point that he could bathe unharmed in thousands or even tens of thousands of degrees in a star, he might choose to challenge the second option.

Of course, this possibility seemed somewhat illusory. Wang Ye’s current power had long hit a bottleneck, and unless something unexpected happened, it was unlikely to improve significantly in the near term.

Unless in this period he could shatter Mercury, acquiring a massive amount of Merit. This Merit would nourish him, turning him into a being akin to a Divine Being.

Overall, shattering Mercury was currently the most crucial and critical goal for Wang Ye.

He was also curious about what change would occur if he actually shattered a planet and caused a massive entropy increase,

Knowing that just causing a small area of entropy increase on Earth granted him the Samadhi True Fire with temperatures far exceeding ten thousand Celsius.

If he acquired the entropy increase of an entire Mercury, the Merit it brought might far exceed his imagination.

Just then, as Wang Ye pondered, he suddenly sensed that the rocket carrying three astronauts was nearing the vicinity of the moon.

He stood up and began to wait for their landing.

About an hour later, the rocket they were in slowed its speed to the utmost,

and landed on a flat area of the moon, its massive base sending up a large amount of moon dust upon touching down.

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