mtl008 Chapter 448 Starship Attack
Chapter 448 Starship Attack
Yun Lukuo's resolute tone made Jiang He realize for the first time that the recipes she had memorized were valuable.
She did not hesitate for long:
"Name your price."
"One spirit manual costs 1 spirit stones."
When Yun Lukuo asked, Jiang He suddenly fell silent. Ten thousand spirit stones was indeed a bit too much. The difference between teaching students at the Pill Cultivation Academy and teaching two more Yun Lukuo and Wen Chouchun was not much.
Seeing that Jiang He remained silent, Yun Lukuo was also somewhat unsure about the current market price, so he continued to raise the price: "Twenty thousand spirit stones?"
Jiang He remained silent.
Thirty thousand spirit stones?
Upon hearing Yun Lukuo's voice, Jiang He quickly stopped him, saying, "He must be a rich man; even a low-grade recipe can sell for 30,000 spirit stones!"
"No need for that much, just 10,000 spirit stones. Just deduct your substitute teaching fees and settle the rest with me."
"It has already been deducted."
Yun Lukuo insisted, so Jiang He had no choice but to give up.
After giving the recipes to the two, Jiang He took the opportunity to set aside a few more days to teach them how to cook.
By the time Yun Lukuo and Wen Chouchun had learned the skills, it was time for them to head to the Black Nest with the team.
Countless starships were anchored at the starport.
The Black Nest is located in the border region of the All-Spirit Empire. It takes at least fourteen days to fly there from Yangzhou.
When Jiang He arrived, Zhong Liyu raised her hands and waved in her direction.
Four people stood together in the distance, all carrying weapons.
Jiang He walked over and stood beside the group.
"Commander, we're late."
Li Ling smiled and said to Jiang He that since the end of the competition, Li Ling's form of address had not been changed.
Jiang He didn't pay much attention to it.
Zhong Liyu raised the gun in his hand: "Commander, did you get the gun? It's pure high-tech, it can change form, it has laser cutting function, and there are also spirit bullets to choose from. It's awesome."
Jiang He immediately returned with a gun.
Most of the people on the starship were students from Wanjue Academy. Apart from Jiang He and others who came through registration, the rest were all senior students from Wanjue Academy.
Shangguan Linghu is among them.
Of course, besides the Wanjue Academy, there are other academies in Yangzhou. After graduating from the Wanjue Academy, cultivators can choose to enter a sect, join the army, or choose their own career.
On the military side, the First Army and the Second Army belonged to the Royal Army.
The four academies of Lingqing Academy, Xiling Academy, Jingxu Academy, and Wanjue Academy are known as the "Four Great Academies" for two reasons: firstly, the Academy Grand Competition; and secondly, the fact that all four academies have their own armed forces.
Lingqing Academy corresponds to the Third Army.
Xiling, Wanjue, and Jingxu correspond to the fourth, fifth, and sixth armies, respectively.
Only one-third of the Fifth Army's soldiers were stationed in Yangzhou, while the rest were stationed in Heichao.
This time, Jiang He and the others went to the Black Nest, the location where the Fifth Army was stationed.
After greeting Shangguan Linghu, Jiang He sat down and closed her eyes to rest. They couldn't rest as freely as they did now during the fourteen days ahead.
The next day will begin a twelve-day military training program.
This military training is much stricter than the freshman military training at Wanjue Academy. If a cultivator fails to meet any of the requirements, it is common for them to be sent back.
In addition to the holographic capsule, the starship also has various training grounds.
The next day, everyone was dispersed to various training grounds.
The Fifth Army does not tolerate the existence of useless or cowardly monks.
The purpose of setting up various training programs on the starship is to prevent cultivators from becoming deserters due to poor basic skills when they arrive on the field.
The military training at Wanjue Academy was considered hellish by them in the past, but the military training experience on the starship over the next few days was even more hellish.
Every time I came out of the training field, I felt like I had been soaked in water, with countless drops of sweat streaming down my face.
There weren't many soldiers escorting the monks on the starship.
Twenty were Nascent Soul stage soldiers, and the rest were Nascent Soul stage support soldiers.
On the fourth day of training, Jiang He still emerged from the training ground drenched in sweat, but this time she keenly sensed something was amiss.
Looking out through the thick windows, the exterior of the starship remained completely dark.
The navigation was on, but Jiang He still sensed a huge fluctuation in spiritual energy for a moment.
Just then, Shangguan Linghu walked over:
"The starship has encountered some mishaps. It's possible that an unknown team attacked the starship and used space systems or talismans to relocate it. We are currently in an unknown star system, and our navigation has gone astray."
The team leader instructed us to remain calm and handle any unexpected situations that might arise.
Shangguan Linghu whispered to Jiang He, who had just overheard the other soldiers' discussion.
The officers on the starship did not deliberately hide this information from them; teams of ten Nascent Soul cultivators had already left the starship in small boats to search for the enemy starship's location.
Based on the information provided by Shangguan Linghu, it is clear that they have fallen into a passive position, and the situation is extremely unfavorable to them.
"The enemy's location is unknown, and even the most advanced radar cannot locate them?"
Zhong Liyu was somewhat puzzled.
"It's not radar, but it's close enough. If we could find it, we wouldn't need to send anyone to search for it. We could just locate it and bombard it. But the key issue right now is that the enemy's location is unknown."
Shangguan Linghu had some vague guesses about what was going on, but she couldn't figure it out. They were military personnel, not a starship carrying cargo, so why were these people robbing them?
Bai Zhizhou looked up at the dark starry sky:
"The space pirates' weapons and equipment are advanced, which allows them to escape the pursuit of the device, but we don't know if their starships are stealth fighters VIII or VII."
If it's the former, the location is indeed impossible to determine; we can only rely on energy fluctuations to judge it.
The starship was suddenly attacked, and Shangguan Linghu and Bai Zhizhou suspected that the perpetrators were space pirates.
According to Bai Zhizhou's speculation, if they really are space pirates, things are getting complicated.
Most of the cultivators on the ship also looked rather grim. It was their first trip to the Black Nest, and they hadn't even seen any demons before encountering space pirates.
In their minds, "space pirate" is a general term encompassing individuals who have renounced their citizenship of the Empire, including antisocial individuals, extremists, those who plunder and destroy starships causing negative impacts, and those who roam freely in star systems.
Some space pirates still possess a sense of humanity and conscience, but most space pirates will stop at nothing to achieve their goals and profits.
If we tell them now that they might have encountered space pirates, the cultivators from the academy will naturally panic.
Completely unaware of the enemy's location and strength, they could only sit and wait for their doom.
This feeling is really not good.
"But then again, if they were space pirates, why would they attack our starships? Wouldn't the more valuable cargo be more attractive to them?"
Li Ling silently put himself in the shoes of a space pirate and began to think.
Shangguan Linghu: "That's what I think too, but the advanced and stealthy starship has eliminated most of the suspects except for space pirates. And the most important point is that space pirates did this before, only two hundred years ago."
Shangguan Linghu still feels a chill when she recalls the incident where the entire military starship fleet was wiped out:
"At that time, the enemy starship was filled with a whole ship of evil cultivators; they not only robbed goods but also people..."