1747 Return to Black Tortoise (1/2)

”Childe Zhufeng!” Su Xiaoman's excited voice came from the other end. ”I've found a lead for the Black Water Stone on your list!”

”Really? That's fast!” Chen Xiaobei was delighted.

”You call this quick?” Su Xiaoman said. ”It's been nine days since we parted. If I couldn't even find a single lead, then I would have been wasting my time in Black Tortoise.”

”Right… It's been nine days huh!” Chen Xiaobei thought back. Because the Divine Dragon Ruin was located in such a remote area, there was no portal on the little asteroid.

It took them a full seven days to arrive at their destination with the spacecraft, and including the two days before and after, that made a total of nine days.

”Tell me about what you found.” Chen Xiaobei said.

”In ten days, there will be a black-market auction in Black Tortoise! There will be a Black Water Stone at the auction! I've confirmed the news, but you have to prepare quite a large sum of Spiritual Stones. Earth-God items certainly don't come cheap!”

”That's not going to be a problem at all! I will get there in ten days!” Chen Xiaobei exclaimed excitedly.

The Prime of Tongtian had predicted that Chen Xiaobei's friends would help him find the things on the list. He sure was right about that.

Getting the Black Water Stone would leave him with one more material from the list to upgrade his Netherspirit Battlescouter.

Once the upgrade was complete, Chen Xiaobei could choose a Heavenly Path Reward, and then use his Ambergris to increase his combat power

Chen Xiaobei was thrilled at that thought.

After he hung up, Chen Xiaobei took out his interstellar spacecraft.

The last time, with Ling Qingfeng navigating the spacecraft, Chen Xiaobei had time to cultivate for seven days and seven nights.

This time, although Ling Qingfeng was not around, Chen Xiaobei had just the solution for this problem.

Out came the long-unused No.8 Luban.

This Spiritual Instrument was the latest model of a robot made by Master Luban himself. It could transfer everything it was seeing to its master's head.

Chen Xiaobei set the flight course before seating No. 8 Luban at the pilot's seat.

Hence, without untoward incidents, he should be able to make it back to the planet with the portal in seven days before continuing to Black Tortoise.

If anything did happen during the journey, Chen Xiaobei would be informed through No. 8 Luban and could immediately stop cultivating to solve the problem.

With everything prepped and ready, the spacecraft took off.

Chen Xiaobei retreated to the lounge. Not wasting every minute and every second, he began to cultivate at once.

His consented three-months period with Lady Nuwo was getting shorter and shorter. Even before using the Ambergris, Chen Xiaobei would still need a rather long period of time to cultivate before he could reach the peak of Ethereal Cultivation. He would need every second.

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The rest of the seven days went smoothly without incident.

The spacecraft landed on the planet on autopilot.

Chen Xiaobei had cultivated for a good seven days and seven nights.

There were twenty-four hours a day. This meant that Chen Xiaobei had been cultivating for a total of 168 hours.