Mister Vii

CC: Chapter 136 – Interpersonal Drama

We descended on a rapid elevator into the core of the world. Cheng was giving us a tour to see if we spotted anything useful before we left. If we could enhance Chicken, that would be a great option. Especially in terms of speed and safety, since those two features went hand in hand.

“How does the Crystal Conclave compare to the Heavenly Alliance?” I asked Luo Lingtai in a slightly teasing tone. I didn’t know about Cheng, but I doubted he would get upset at some minor banter. It w...

CC: Chapter 135 – City Of Souls

After an hour of traveling at a crawl on Chicken, we broke through the cloud of dark gas and saw a large expanse of terrain in front of me. It was mostly small plants and bio-luminescent moss, but the view was massive. Behind us was the swirling clouds of gas. Gravity had completely shifted and stabilized. Our forward was the new down.

There was a sharp curve to this place. The large gases in this environment were being pushed away from what could be called a large planetary body. “Th...

CC: Chapter 134 – Trapped In Darkness

I slammed a metal spike into the ground with one hand and walked forward. Luo Lingtai followed behind me doing the same thing. The dark clouds rushed about us, primarily when the gravity shifted. More and more, it kept pushing us away, which was why we were using metal spikes to advance forward to the edge of this space.

Luo Lingtai had said it wasn’t part, but it was unclear if this meant a couple days of walking or a year. With our current progress, it might be more than a year. The...

CC: Chapter 133 – Ripples Traveling Every Direction

AN: I will be posting for at least week before giving a longer update and going on Discord. I want to focus on writing and picking things where I left off and make sure I am writing and getting things out at a rate of at least 5k/day, not just saying things.

Summary: To catch people up. Yuan Zhou has been traveling through the Firmament with Yang Zi, a male salvager who he deemed up with to set up energy pumps and Luo Lingtai, a recent female addition from the Xyon Front, a massive grou...

CC: Chapter 132 – Change Is The Only Constant

The entire vessel shook as a massive wave of force and energy swept over us. That fact that everything shook and I could tell there was a wave of force coming through the defenses, meant whatever just happened was massive. The energy levels had spiked as well.

“Whatever that was, came from the Free Port or close to it,” Yang Zi said, while I felt a heightened sense of danger. Which wasn’t very helpful for the situation, since it was clear something had happened.

“Opportuni...

CC: Chapter 131 – Opportunity Or Risk

“Any problems?” Yang Zi asked as Luo Lingtai entered the bridge of the vessel. Since that system was always running as we cycled between energy pumps, her job was to monitor the process to make sure there were no problems.

“There are none, just like the past 5,821 times you have asked,” she replied with some testiness in her voice. You could take a spit fire away from home, but you could not take the spit fire out of her personality.

“And I will keep asking. We can’t a...

CC: Chapter 130 – Cartel Deal

“Ready?” Yang Zi asked me as we made our way to the meeting point.

“Hopefully,” I replied. I didn’t feel ready, but there was no other option at the moment. As intelligent and focused as I was, I could not recreate a knowledge base far beyond me. It was like handing someone a modern car and telling them to figure it out. I might see how it works holistically, but there were just too many small details. Like the material composition of the various components. Or the programing ...

CC: Chapter 129 – Hardships Of The Firmament

I flipped through the instruction manual while looking over the massive diagram. My head was beginning to hurt again trying to figure all of this out. The area of our vessel that had once been filled with energy pumps was now completely empty. Instead, we were attempting to make a boot leg energy processor and compressor.

The idea being we would use half our available space for this monstrosity of a design, while the other half was the final storage tank before resale. While Yang Zi cou...

CC: Chapter 128 – High Risk, High Reward

Drifting through the darkness of swirling dark gas was incredibly stressful. If the other vessel changed locations while I was moving, or there was some kind of spatial event that moved through this area I would be screwed.

I also couldn’t move that fast otherwise I would be located. I really needed to study up on the technical side of things much more once I had some spare time. I had been focused on arrays and formations for the longest time and Yang Zi had been too competent. I had...

CC: Chapter 127 – A Difficult Problem

We sat in near darkness and complete silence with only a couple of holographic displays up and running. I thought I could almost hear the swirl of gas outside the vessel. We were a short distance away from the first energy pump we had set up, carefully watching both the energy pump and the surroundings.

“A tenth of a cycle and still nothing,” Yang Zi muttered quietly. It had been planned as a trap, but no one had showed up so far. As for other work I could be doing right now, it was...

CC: Chapter 126 – Putting In The Hours

“My brain hurts,” I muttered. I hadn’t studied so hard since I had started cultivating. There was a constant throbbing sensation behind my eyes as I looked over array symbols and formation design. I felt like my brain was going to explode out through my eyeballs. While it may have been a slight over exaggeration, this stuff was incredibly complicated.

I didn’t know if it was an age issue or a complexity issue, perhaps both. I had always been concerned about my mind and how culti...

CC: Chapter 125 – The Devil Is In The Details

“How much longer do I have?” I asked the lead specialist who was looking over my health. This comprehensive checkup cost 100,000 units. I wanted to know exactly how much time I had left to reach immortality. While it was a bit pricy, it was worth it to have peace of mind and properly plan things out.

The medical industry was very limited in the Free Port. While basic health services were provided to every being by the Administrator for a couple of units, getting anything custom done...

CC: Chapter 124 – Spending Units

“Welcome! Welcome!” A massively obese man greeted us while shoveling food into his mouth as we entered the dining room. Servants were constantly bringing forth more food for this massive blob to shovel down his throat. I noted he just tossed the bones from the meat he had eaten on the floor, letting the servants clean up.

“Cultivator Yuan Zhou, this is Coordinator Lung, who is handling this transaction,” Yang Zi introduced us as we took our seats across the table from this man. ...

CC: Chapter 123 – Undermining The Competition

I looked out from the top floor of the café I was sitting in at one of the arteries of the Free Port. Calmly watching the immense amount of traffic constantly flowing by at a high speed. There were ebbs and flows to the amount of traffic, but the Free Port never slept.

While the place was massive, the Firmament was infinite. Infinite beats massive, even if the scale was very hard to understand. I could see models and diagrams, but they were just numbers and abstract concepts. Seeing th...

CC: Chapter 122 – Long Term Planning

I was sitting in my own booth in the Red Line Club after being dismissed by Garzag. I had units to spend, but since I wasn’t just throwing them away, I was asked to leave. It was humbling, but understandable. This entire Free Port operated under social rules I didn’t understand.

The technology and metallic design of various structures made this place feel quite modern, even with the intricately carved wood paneling. There was no toxic smog, brain-dead people running everything, or a...

CC: Chapter 121 – A Fresh Start

“This is worth, 82,152 units,” the energy trader said while looking over piece of equipment after putting the token I had inside of the scanner, which gave a reading we could both see. The glasses I was wearing translated the information.

“That seems a lot less than what it should be. Based on the energy of these tokens, nature, and how compressed it is,” I argued.

“It is. But there is a standard ten percent fee for such transactions. I have expenses as well,” the trad...

CC: Chapter 120 – Settling In

Looking up above me the ceiling had to be at least 10 meters or 32 feet above me. There was soft white lighting everywhere. Not too bright like the Life Light of the Great World. The space I was in appeared to be some sort of large empty cargo area, since it was just a large empty space with metal doors on the various walls. There were no windows, writing, or displays.

“Greetings,” a reflective silver egg that was twice the size of my head lowered down from the ceiling in front of m...

CC: Chapter 119 – A Different Mindset

“And now we have arrived,” She Who Seeks Knowledge said. The trip seemed far shorter than I had thought, but clearly there was some kind of temporal manipulation going on like she had stated with the separation chamber or the Explorer Seven was much faster than I thought possible. With energy, both options weren’t out of the question. “Once we dock with the Free Port you shall be allowed to freely depart. Until then, I will explain what will happen. We have an understanding with the A...

CC: Chapter 118 – A Direct Path

“An interesting tale,” She Who Seeks Knowledge said after I gave an abbreviated version of my history. She waved her hand and two clear crystal goblets formed on the table. A branch lowered from the ceiling and a clear shimmering liquid poured into the cup. I could tell the liquid was incredibly energy dense. “A drink that many enjoy. Since the energy inside of it is completely neutral.”

I carefully took a goblet as the elf in front of me did the same. I carefully took a sip. If...

CC: Chapter 117 – Unburdened By What Has Been

Thankfully the controls were intuitive enough that I didn’t have to worry about controlling the escape yacht. The Soaring Star Society sure liked to travel in style. Looking out the large expansive windows in front of me, there was blackness. Lots and lots of blackness.

There was quite a bit of room, but I didn’t leave the cockpit in case something happened, or I came across something. The actual Firmament was in reality, incredibly boring. Boring enough that I had a pad open lookin...