The skies above Earth shimmered as the black dragon mountain x81 was removed from babatas world ring.
Luo Feng stood near the boarding ramp, dressed in battle armor, his expression solemn yet burning with anticipation. Si Feng stood beside him, calm as always. His presence was weightless, his aura perfectly restrained, but a terrifying pressure lingered beneath the surface.
Babata, projected as a small red-armored figure, hovered over Luo Feng's shoulder. "Remember, this is the start of your cosmic journey. From now on, we play by the rules of the universe."
Si Feng glanced at him. "Your scans still don't work on me, do they?"
"No. And that makes me uncomfortable," Babata grumbled. "But you've been useful. The resources you provided… even Huyan Bo's main treasury didn't have some of this stuff."
With one final look at Earth, they boarded the spacecraft. Within seconds, it roared into the sky, tearing through Earth's atmosphere. A portal of light opened, stabilized by Skynet's improved hyperspace calculations, and they vanished into the stars.
They arrived in the Black Dragon Mountain Empire after a week of hyperspace travel. The empire's vast territory spanned countless starfields, ruled by nobles, corporations, and interstellar factions. But even the lowest fringes of this empire were far beyond Earth's technological grasp.
The first stop was the Empire's Identity Registration Center on a border trading planet. Si Feng and Luo Feng entered the structure—a building shaped like a spiral tower of crystal and steel.
An AI hologram greeted them. "Welcome, travelers. Please provide genetic data and soul signatures for citizenship processing."
Luo Feng offered his credentials, guided by Babata. Si Feng followed suit with perfect ease—though his information was specially encoded, including a cloaking protocol masking his Stellar Level 1 life code.
Within moments, both were officially granted Black Dragon Empire Nationality, encoded into their soul imprints.
"Now," Babata said smugly, "you're recognized citizens. We can open official Virtual Universe accounts and access the Interstellar Banking Network."
Their next destination: the Virtual Universe Company's satellite branch, orbiting a nearby gas giant. There, Si Feng and Luo Feng were issued entry tokens, instantly syncing their consciousness with the Virtual Universe's access gateway.
For Luo Feng, it was like entering a dream. For Si Feng, whose spiritual force was already refined beyond the planetary level, the connection was almost too simple. He masked his true strength and smoothly entered the Basic Training Sector of the Virtual Universe.
There, he quickly registered a private network space, then turned to business.
They visited the Cosmic Galaxy Bank next, entering its imposing citadel in the station's heart. The walls pulsed with quantum encryption fields, and armored security guards stood at every gate.
At the teller pod, Luo Feng used Huyan Bo's Five-Star Universe Bank Account to initiate secure transactions.
Si Feng smiled faintly. This account was a cosmic treasure—granted only to nobles, powerful sector lords, and ancient civilizations. It allowed direct dealings with major corporations and unrestricted interstellar commerce.
"Let's sell the Arc Blade Cutter," Si Feng said.
He placed the sleek blade on the counter—a refined chakra-metal alloy weapon enhanced with nanocircuitry and vibration edge generators. The Arc Blade had been built using Terminator-era materials and powered by Skynet's schematics. It was a prototype—deadly, elegant, and far ahead of current standards.
The banker AI examined it, scanned its structure, and immediately brightened. "This weapon qualifies for top-tier auction. Estimated value: 800 million black dragon dollars minimum. Bidding may exceed 1.2 billion."
Luo Feng blinked. "That much?"
"It's more advanced than Sector-level equipment," Si Feng murmured. "And this is just the start."
They left the weapon for sale at the auction house, then proceeded to open trading accounts, resource exchange links, and material requisition lines.
Luo Feng transferred most of the capital into cultivation resources: upgraded force-amplifying Armor, origin crystals, and memory metal for custom weapons.
Si Feng, meanwhile, invested in dimensional expansion stones, AI virus security firewalls, and sealed cultivation chambers. He also began assembling the framework for an interstellar company under a ghost identity—one that would funnel advanced Earth tech into the outer empire in exchange for rare ores and training manuals.
Back in the Virtual Universe, Si Feng registered a training arena. He quietly crushed every opponent in the planetary-level tiers, his true strength cloaked. He was not interested in attention—only access.
He exchanged points for secret manuals on spatial comprehension, ancient soul techniques, and powerful divine body enhancements. One manual in particular, labelled "Heavenly Abyss Absorption", intrigued him. He downloaded it into Skynet's matrix for cross-analysis.
As they concluded their business, Babata spoke quietly to Si Feng. "You're hiding a lot. More than I like. But you're not hostile to Luo Feng. So I'll tolerate it—for now."
Si Feng responded coolly, "I don't play in small ponds, Babata. And neither should you."
The AI said nothing more.
As the days passed, Si Feng continued building. Skynet, integrated with the optic light brain, began parsing Virtual Universe data at accelerated speeds. Its intelligence grew exponentially, designing new bio-enhancement protocols, cultivation algorithms, and even quantum spirit-fusion weapons.
The Si Industrial Company, now renamed and registered under a new front in the Black Dragon Empire, began receiving contracts for rare alloys, beast crystals, and cultivation enhancers.
At the same time, back on Earth, his operatives continued refining Orochimaru's research. The bloodline serum program advanced, and experimental chakra-metal wargear began appearing among elite Earth warriors.
Si Feng didn't need to conquer Earth anymore. He had outgrown it.
Now he would conquer the stars.