World-saving Plan: The Only Savior

Chapter 1683 - 7: Fear Calamity (Part 2)

Zhang Xiaoman was well aware of the power of his ability, but at this moment, hearing Ziwei, a Middle Control Level strong individual, praise him, he naturally felt a bit happy in his heart.

"Hehe, there’s still some way to go for the fourth star pattern. When the materials are collected, whether it can be imprinted or not, I’ll need your help."

Ziwei chuckled, with a look of assurance, and said:

"Ji Xing, don’t worry. With my relationship with that person, as long as I ask, he will definitely help you get it imprinted!"

Zhang Xiaoman hoped so in his heart, and the person Ziwei was referring to was naturally the Star Pattern Master who helped her imprint the fourth star pattern before.

In the Second Universe, it was not easy to imprint the fourth star pattern. Zhang Xiaoman had no connections there, and even finding a Star Pattern Master was impossible, not to mention asking them to help with the imprint.

Of course, if he offered a large amount of Star Dust as a reward, it might not be impossible to move the other party, but in doing so, his expenditure would be significant, and he had many other uses for Star Dust, so minimizing wastage was naturally preferable.

The shriveled Fog Heart that had fallen into slumber was placed inside a small glass bottle. This glass bottle was Ziwei’s treasure, very expensive. Despite its palm-sized appearance, its internal space was vast, able to contain lakes and seas, much like the Jade Purifying Bottle in folklore associated with the Bodhisattva Guanyin.

Moreover, the most important feature of this bottle was that, unlike a space ring, it could contain living beings. The materials used for crafting are of a rare Third-level, on par with the Doomsday Crystal, exceptionally valuable.

Ziwei named her bottle "Dust Song Bottle." She cherished it dearly and was usually unwilling to bring it out.

Zhang Xiaoman learned that when this woman was doing missions outside and had no place to stay, she would crawl into the bottle to sleep, as if it were her portable home.

Now, to help Zhang Xiaoman quickly transport the Fog Heart back, she grit her teeth and contributed her treasure, placing the shriveled body of the Fog Heart inside.

"Ugh! So disgusting! This thing! Looks like when we get back, I’ll have to pour a whole sea inside to clean the bottle thoroughly..."

Ziwei wiped her small bottle with a pained expression.

Zhang Xiaoman couldn’t help but twitch his brow.

Listen to what this woman is saying, washing a bottle requires wasting the water from a whole sea, truly extravagant.

But fortunately, since she met him now, she wouldn’t need to spend Star Coins to buy water resources like before. As the Master of the Original Realm, he could toss this bottle inside, and create as much water for her as she needed.

"By the way, Ziwei, what was the thing this Fog Heart turned into just now? Was it a Fear Calamity?"

Zhang Xiaoman suddenly recalled Ziwei’s words before she prepared to act.

"Yes, Fear Calamity. Fog Hearts transform into other creatures to intimidate when they encounter danger. Earlier, it must have seen that I was scared and turned into the form of a Fear Calamity."

Ziwei sneered and said:

"But a real Fear Calamity is an Extraordinary Level Wild Beast, much larger than this Fog Heart. It’s ridiculous to imitate a Fear Calamity, completely underestimating others’ intelligence!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Xiaoman finally understood that Fear Calamity was indeed an Extraordinary Level Wild Beast, extremely powerful.

He was naturally familiar with Wild Beasts, belonging to one of the myriad Star Beasts, those at the pinnacle of the pyramid.

Any Wild Beast, unless in its infancy, possessed almost Extraordinary Level power.

Once, Zhang Xiaoman visited Skull Star, built from the skull of a young Wild Beast.

Though Wild Beasts were immensely powerful, their numbers were very scarce, and there were even fewer clearly documented.

Fear Calamity was one among them.

While Ziwei explained, Zhang Xiaoman instinctively activated his personal terminal, which provided him with information on Fear Calamity via thought infusion.

This was a terrifying existence wandering between the Dark Spirit Star Domain and the Insect Domain.

Due to its formidable power, even the Dark Spirit Star Domain was reluctant to provoke it, letting it move freely instead.

Fortunately, this Wild Beast seemed to harbor no intention of attacking human planets, aimlessly roaming a small area, allowing everyone to coexist peacefully over the years.

According to the limited information recorded within the Dark Star Alliance, Fear Calamity is the source of all fear, capable of spreading horror, nourishing itself through others’ fears, and growing stronger.

However, Zhang Xiaoman didn’t expect the Fog Heart just now could transform into its image, suddenly linking this to a possible scenario.

"Ziwei, does the Fog Heart require a premise to change its form?"

He looked somewhat uncertainly at the spontaneous woman beside him.

Ziwei was slightly stunned at first, then snapped back to reality, her face changing abruptly, exclaiming:

"Ji Xing, you mean..."

"Exactly... this Fog Heart must have encountered Fear Calamity before... For them to transform into the appearance of other creatures, the prerequisite is having seen the corresponding individual."

Ziwei was unsettled upon hearing this.

"Could... could that Wild Beast be nearby?"

She spoke nervously and carefully looked around.

Zhang Xiaoman thought for a while, then shook his head and said:

"It shouldn’t be. If that Wild Beast were nearby, it would have reacted when we attacked the Fog Heart. I suspect it’s been roaming that region for years, guarding this Fog Heart, waiting for it to grow so it could devour and evolve itself."

"Evolve itself..."

Ziwei couldn’t fully grasp what Zhang Xiaoman was saying. But since he claimed the Wild Beast wasn’t nearby, she relaxed somewhat.

This Fog Heart should have been projected over due to the universe’s fusion, while the Fear Calamity wasn’t projected with it, leaving them separated.

Zhang Xiaoman also let out a silent breath of relief, grateful that the Wild Beast wasn’t projected over, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to help these Phantom Spirit Clan people.

In the subsequent time, Zhang Xiaoman and the others thoroughly cleared out the Insect Race from this star system, then proceeded to the next destination via spaceship.

Their current flight route was opposite to the path Yadun himself took when escaping. Actually, they had only been on the outer fringes of the Insect Domain, not yet reaching the core area.

This time their goal was simple: to gather as many surviving Phantom Spirit Clan members as possible, strengthening their forces.

"We left the teleportation star map of the Phantom Spirit Star System at the base on Biro Star. Once we find the map, we can pinpoint the transmission crystals of other survivors and proceed to support them one by one."

Yadun explained his plan with a bow.

Zhang Xiaoman nodded, directly forwarding the coordinates given by Yadun to the Hail ship, which immediately accelerated to the maximum speed towards the destination.

It’s worth mentioning that originally due to the presence of the Insect Domain, even with the shield activated on the ship, it couldn’t use a high-power wormhole generator to open wormholes for jumps.

But now, after having developed a consciousness and becoming a living entity, Hail’s stability attributes seem to have improved, allowing it to forcibly overcome the restrictions of the Insect Domain and use wormholes for space jumps.

With the aid of wormholes, the efficiency of their actions improved exponentially; they only needed to open a wormhole near the destination, perform some rough exploration, and they could lock onto the transmission crystal location, thus directly finding the remaining survivors.

Biro Star had been occupied by the Insect Race, and the base Yadun and others were in previously no longer existed.

But the good news was they managed to seize the star map from the Insect Queen on that planet, and the map remained intact and usable.

Originally, everyone thought that after Biro Star’s base was destroyed, the insects that ate everything wouldn’t spare any grass or trees there, their worker bees able to digest all tough metallic minerals, thus converting them into their own biomass to build nests.

Fortunately, the star map remained intact, but it fell into the hands of the Insect Queen, which made Zhang Xiaoman feel a bit peculiar.