ca-book Chapter 744 The Strongest Creature on the Surface of Dathomir
Chapter 744 The Strongest Creature on the Surface of Dathomir
Chapter 744 The Strongest Creature on the Surface of Dathomir
Inside a cave in the Red Stone Forest Canyon.
The dark, spacious cave was unlit, but illuminated by a pool of shimmering green light on the floor in the center. It was a large pit, two meters in diameter, just large enough for Fu Qinghai to be completely submerged in. It was filled with floating spiritual liquid, the green, translucent liquid undulating like some kind of living thing.
Old Daka's soul floated in mid-air.
Fu Qinghai and Xierli exchanged a glance.
Fu Qinghai withdrew his gaze, decisively took off his black shorts and tossed them aside, then stepped into the pool of spiritual liquid and lay down in the depression until the liquid completely submerged his neck. He slightly adjusted his position to ensure that everything except his head was submerged in the liquid.
"let's start."
After Fu Qinghai finished speaking, he leaned back against the edge of the pit.
Siri gently knelt down beside Fu Qinghai, closed his eyes, waved his hands, and began to chant softly. Old Daka, floating in mid-air, also began to chant loudly in unison. The high and low voices intertwined.
The Soul Elixir resembled a green liquid, but it was actually quite different from any liquid. Fu Qinghai immersed himself in the elixir, feeling neither buoyancy nor pressure, nor any cold sensation. The elixir seemed to envelop him like a light and ethereal mist.
Then, as the two witches chanted in unison, the soft, green mist suddenly transformed into countless sharp thorns, as if ten thousand needles were piercing their bodies simultaneously.
"Ok!"
Fu Qinghai let out a low groan of pain.
All the muscles in my body tensed up due to the pain.
The liquid level in the pit began to drop slowly.
Fu Qinghai's body is absorbing the soul essence.
In the Clone Wars, after Savage Opres absorbed the Soul Elixir and gained physical enhancement, his physique became extremely strong and burly, his height increased to about two meters, and the horned crown on his head also grew longer.
Fu Qinghai, lying in the crater, had almost completely absorbed the soul essence, yet his body remained unchanged. His skin had turned bright red, and the bloodstains from the ruptured capillaries spread beneath his skin like an erosion.
The bruises and scars described in the Book of Shadows and the Book of Order appeared on his body, not the ritualistic tattoos on the Night Sisters and Night Brothers, but collateral damage caused by the Force's violent modification of his body.
Fu Qinghai remained seated steadily in the crater, his face calm and composed, enduring the excruciating pain without uttering a sound.
Finally, Siri and Old Dakka finished their spellcasting, and the elixir of soul in the crater dried up completely.
Almost simultaneously with the end of the ceremony, the black scars covering Fu Qinghai's entire body, including his cheeks, receded rapidly like a tide, restoring his skin to its original color, and his physique seemed to have undergone no significant changes.
The Extremis virus was quickly repaired.
"Failed?"
"I can't believe it," Sirri asked, puzzled.
But if the ritual fails, where did all the spiritual liquid in the pit go? We can clearly see that the spiritual liquid has been absorbed, so why hasn't Qingshan's size changed?
"No, it worked."
Fu Qinghai slowly stood up from the crater.
He looked down at his right hand, clenched his fist, and then released it.
He could clearly feel his physical strength increasing.
"But your body shape doesn't seem to have changed."
"I ask, tilting my head in confusion."
"Because this is not my original body type."
Fu Qinghai looked at his arm and answered calmly.
Physical enhancement is like taking steroids to build muscle; there's only the difference between zero times and countless times.
Fu Qinghai is a completely new and different interstellar warrior. He has undergone twenty-two modification surgeries, including four physical enhancements: muscle enhancement organs, bone enhancement organs, super soldier serum, and heart-shaped herbal medicine.
On the equipment level, he was implanted with the Extremis Virus. This nanomechanical virus, deeply embedded in his bones and distributed throughout every cell of his body, also enhances his physical functions, increasing his strength and agility.
On a cultivation level, he achieved Force awakening. Cultivating Force also subtly and gradually enhances the cultivator's physical functions, sensory abilities, and nerve reaction speed.
This is the six-fold body transformation.
In addition, the Soul Elixir further enhances this effect.
It has now undergone seven levels of physical enhancement and modification.
His entire body is filled with the power of the Force and the ruthlessness of technology.
Calling him "the strongest creature on Earth" is not an exaggeration.
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The clouds in the azure sky rolled slowly.
Fu Qinghai and Xierli lay on the meadow on the hillside.
Fu Qinghai had a thin blade of grass dangling from his mouth.
A large leaf covered Sylvie's face.
They've been lying here for most of the day.
How did you get back to Dasomir?
Fu Qinghai suddenly turned to look at Sirri and asked.
"Of course, we'll take a passenger spaceship."
"I answered that matter-of-factly with my eyes closed," Sirri replied.
That makes sense... Since Siri had to keep 90% of her commission to hand over to Madam Tarzin, how could she possibly have the money to buy her own spaceship? She must have returned on a passenger spaceship.
Fu Qinghai spat out the grass stem in his mouth and thought to himself.
"AA-9 Coruscant cargo ship".
Siri smirked and said with a hint of sarcasm:
"I still remember the model of that ship. It was dirty, smelly, and crowded, with passengers and cargo mixed together. I paid three times the usual rate before the captain reluctantly agreed to take the Dasomir route."
So what should we do now?
Fu Qinghai picked at the stubble on his chin.
Who will come to Dasomir during this time?
Fu Qinghai recalled the game "Star Wars: Fallen Order". According to the game's plot, the protagonist, Cal Kestis, would travel to Somir by spaceship.
This game belongs to the main Star Wars universe, that much is certain, but Fu Qinghai is unsure whether the game's storyline will appear in the reincarnation world simultaneously.
Even within the same Star Wars canon universe, the settings in different movies, TV series, comics, and novels can conflict with each other, and retconning is quite common in Star Wars.
Is there a child named Merlin in Redstone Canyon?
Fu Qinghai thought of something and asked Sirri directly.
How do you know about Merlin?
Sylvie turned her head and raised her eyebrows in surprise as she asked.
Dasomir really does have a child named Merlin!
Merlin is one of the Night Sisters from Star Wars: Fallen Order, and her existence suggests that the storyline of this game also appears in the Reincarnation World.
"How old is that child, Merlin?"
Fu Qinghai looked at Sirri and asked.
"She's not even ten years old yet, why are you asking this?"
Sirri looked at Fu Qinghai strangely.
It seems we can't count on Carl Kestis.
Carl was a Jedi Practitioner who narrowly escaped Order 66. He worked in a factory under an assumed name. After meeting Merlin, they gradually developed a romantic relationship. The two were not far apart in age. If Merlin was a child now, then Carl would most likely be a child as well, and he certainly couldn't be relied upon.
"Just wait, just wait, there will always be an opportunity..."
Fu Qinghai lay down on the ground helplessly.
"Hey, what did you say..."
Sylvie leaned over, her face flushed.
"Could I be pregnant?"
Fu Qinghai turned his head and stared at her blankly.
"You've been putting so much in there..."
Sylvie's face grew increasingly embarrassed as she spoke.
I'm sorry to have disappointed you.
Fu Qinghai said with a guilty expression:
"I am infertile."
Sylli was slightly taken aback upon hearing this.
"I am a man-made biological weapon, and our sole purpose for existence is war... Wait!"
Just as Fu Qinghai was about to explain, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a flash of light in the sky above, which quickly disappeared into the swaying branches of the trees.
That was... a shooting star? No, that was a spaceship!
Fu Qinghai realized what was happening and immediately turned over and stood up.
Then he slapped Sylvie on the butt:
"Get up, Dasomir has a guest!"
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On the west side of Geshan Mountain lies the Dream Canyon.
Two pairs of eyes peeked out from among the dense foliage.
Fu Qinghai and Xierli hid behind the bushes.
He stared at the group of guys carrying blaster guns in the distance.
They were dressed in various styles and represented different races. The explosive weapons they carried were not of uniform specifications or models, suggesting they were likely pirates or bandits.
They all wore what looked like gas masks around their waists and carried compressed gas cylinders on their backs. One of them, a tall, hairy Wookiee, carried a huge stack of chains and iron rings on his shoulder. Another, a short, large-eyed Saleste, followed behind the group in a tracked engineering trailer.
"Poacher!"
"Silly said in a low voice."
"How did you know?"
Fu Qinghai turned to look at her.
"They came specifically to capture the Lank Beasts."
Syllie said with great certainty:
“Those gas cylinders contain a hallucinogenic gas. They first drug Lank before binding and capturing him. This is a standard procedure used by these outsiders to capture Lank beasts.”
Fu Qinghai understood.
Because the Rank beast's skin is extremely tough, small- to medium-caliber explosive weapons cannot penetrate it, and ordinary trapping devices are ineffective against this large creature. More powerful weapons, on the other hand, might kill the Rank beast. Poachers clearly want a whole, healthy Rank beast, so they resort to chemical methods.
"One, two, three, four... eight."
Siri quietly counted the number of people.
It took Fu Qinghai and Sirli two days and one night to find the group's trail. Searching for a mere eight people on a planet with such complex terrain was no easy task. It was only thanks to the extraordinary sensory abilities granted to him by the "Sense of Wisted" and the "Ear of Cyroticus" that they were able to locate these newcomers.
"What are you going to do?"
Fu Qinghai turned to look at Siri.
"Kill them, then steal the spaceship."
"Siri said without hesitation."
Is he really that murderous...?
Fu Qinghai thought to himself.
Perhaps it was his submissive performance in bed that made Fu Qinghai almost forget that Siri was actually a dark-side Force practitioner, and that the Dark Night Sisters were actually a villainous organization that believed in the law of the jungle, where the strong prey on the weak.
"Can you pilot a spaceship?"
Fu Qinghai raised a very crucial question.
Upon hearing this, Sylvie remained silent for a second or two.
"Then leave the pilot behind."
She made some minor revisions to her plan.
"On the premise that the situation can be controlled."
Fu Qinghai slowly revealed his thoughts:
"I hope to retain as many prisoners as possible. You and I are currently out of touch with the outside world and need some prisoners to provide us with the latest information."
"I'll listen to you."
Sylvie obediently agreed.
"Let's put these people aside for now."
Fu Qinghai immediately made action plans:
"The most urgent task is to find that spaceship."
Fu Qinghai pulled Xierli away quietly, slowly disappearing into the dense foliage. The group of outsiders had already dispersed, exploring the valley in search formation. Fu Qinghai and Xierli had to take a long detour to avoid them.
After the poachers dispersed, they continued their search deeper into the Dream Valley, while Fu Qinghai and Xierli carefully avoided them and made their way towards the outside of the valley.
The Dream Valley is narrow with a large vertical drop. Apart from the stream in the middle, there is not much place to walk. Fu Qinghai and Xierli used their familiarity with the terrain to avoid the sight of the poachers searching for the Lank Beast.
The poachers were also very vigilant, constantly scanning their surroundings with their blaster guns. In fact, for them, the most dangerous things in Dathomir were not the large predators like the Rank, the Sullian Dragon, and the Drebbin, but rather the inconspicuous little creatures like the Blood Vessel, the Fistfly, and the Lightning Worm.
Fu Qinghai quietly observed the poachers' backs as he walked cautiously, pondering to himself.
Siri wasn't wrong either; Fu Qinghai himself was also used to thinking about the worst-case scenario in everything.
These are a group of bounty hunters, and we cannot assume that they have any moral bottom line. Although their main purpose in coming to Dassormir is to capture the Lank Beast, if they fail to find Lank and instead accidentally discover the Redstone Canyon where the Night Sisters live, they would most likely not mind taking a few children with them—the slave trade in the galaxy is rampant, especially in the outer ring region.
Anakin Skywalker's mother, Smy Skywalker, was sold into slavery to Tatooine.
"Click..."
Just then, Fu Qinghai stepped on a withered leaf.
The two stopped in their tracks without making a sound.
By this time, the two of them were some distance from the poachers, and the only person in their line of sight was the Salest man driving a tracked engineering trailer towing the rear of the group.
Unexpectedly, the barely perceptible sound of withered leaves cracking made the short alien turn his head. His exaggeratedly large ears twitched, and his completely black eyes, devoid of any whites, stared in the direction of Fu Qinghai and Sirli.
"Someone!"
The Salest man pointed this way and shouted:
"There's someone there!"
"Biu!"
Almost a second after he finished speaking, a red burst of energy shot over, the branches crackled and the leaves exploded and flew everywhere. Fu Qinghai pushed Xierli down and the two of them fell into the soft, fluffy pile of fallen leaves.
They opened fire without even knowing the identities of the people involved.
These outsiders are definitely not good people.
"go!"
Fu Qinghai gave Xierli a push on the shoulder, and the two of them quickly twisted their bodies and crawled forward on the woodland slope.
"Biu!" "Biu!" "Biu!"
One after another, bursts of energy beams flew overhead, the sharp sound of the explosive gas cutting through the air mixed with the sound of tree trunks and branches exploding, like a sudden storm pounding the jungle. On the slope in front of us, a scorched and smoking crater appeared, with some dead leaves lit up and sparks ignited.
The poachers clearly didn't know their exact location; they were just firing wildly and randomly in that direction.
After crawling forward for a distance, Fu Qinghai got up and activated "Map Search Speed," running wildly without concealing his presence. He instantly attracted the attention of all the poachers. He became a blurry afterimage moving through the forest, even faster than the poachers could turn their guns to track him. The energy beams all missed their mark.
As Fu Qinghai ran, he also bent down and grabbed two hard stones. He picked them up, turned, and hurled them at the poachers. One of the men with a gun was caught off guard and hit by a stone; his head exploded with a loud "crack," leaving a patch of bloody, scarlet flesh—a visually more shocking sight than a hit from an explosive weapon. The other poacher was hit in the torso and fell backward with a thud, as if struck by a cannonball.
"Snapped!"
Fu Qinghai took a few steps and jumped onto the treetop, then suddenly burst through the dense foliage and leaped out of the sky.
"Roar---"
Just as he leaped out of the treetop, he opened his mouth and let out a roar, and invisible ripples instantly burst outwards, causing the skin on the side of his cheek to swell and undulate.
Sulian's Roar!
The poachers were suddenly attacked by the Force's sonic waves, like a stun grenade exploding in their ears. After a sharp pain in their eardrums, all that remained was a buzzing sound, and they could no longer hear any other sound. At the same time, they also experienced intense dizziness, nausea, and vomiting—especially the Salest man with the big ears, who clutched his ears and collapsed from the seat of the engineering trailer.
"Oh!"
After landing, Fu Qinghai delivered a hook punch that sent a poacher flying—a true "smash." The poor fellow instantly lifted off the ground, arcing through the treetops more than ten meters high before disappearing into the jungle.
Fu Qinghai pushed out a palm to the left, and an invisible force swept past like a whirlwind. A poacher on the left was hit squarely as if by an invisible dump truck, and was sent flying backward, crashing into a thick tree trunk and breaking it in two with a "crack".
Fu Qinghai reached out to his right and grabbed a human who was still shaking his head and trying to shake off the dizziness. The human suddenly released his weapon and fell forward, his feet dragging rapidly on the ground, as he was pulled over by an irresistible, invisible force.
Fu Qinghai grabbed the poacher by the neck with one hand and lifted him into the air. Then he moved in front of him, blocking a red burst of energy that was fired. Fu Qinghai could feel the poacher's body tremble violently.
It turned into a loose corpse.
"Ouch!"
Ten meters away, the Wookiee, who was over two meters tall, put down his T-21 light rapid-fire blaster, pounded his chest twice, and let out an angry nasal roar.
The Wookiee, wielding a large spear, charged straight at Fu Qinghai. His fluffy, messy black fur billowed and danced in the air, making him look like a giant bear that could run upright.
As one of the strongest intelligent beings in the galaxy, almost no one dares to engage in one-on-one hand-to-hand combat with the Wookiees.
Fu Qinghai casually tossed the corpse aside, showing no fear even as he faced the black bear that towered over him. The Woogi raised his rifle butt and brought it down with all his might, but Fu Qinghai snatched the gun from his hand, gripped the barrel, and swung it backhand, striking the Woogi in the side of the face.
"Snapped!"
With a sharp crack, the Wookiee's face twisted to one side, and two sharp canine teeth flew out, mixed with clear saliva.
Fu Qinghai swung his gun again, hitting Wu Jiren on the head. The furry bear was stunned and fell to his knees with a thud. He swayed twice and fell face down.
Meanwhile, on the other side, while Fu Qinghai's frenzied killing had drawn the attention of all the poachers, Siri quietly crept up behind him and stabbed the last armed poacher to death.
Siri drew the Tarzan Blade, which was burning with green flames, and gently laid the corpse flat on the ground. Then she walked to the engineering tracked trailer, picked up the Salest man who had been knocked unconscious by the roar of Sulian with one hand, and the short alien was only about chest-high to her.
At this point, the poachers were all wiped out.
Just then, a howling wind blew in from outside the valley. Fu Qinghai and Xierli looked up at the same time and saw that the deep green forest on the ridge on the east side of the valley suddenly surged with waves, and the leaves were constantly undulating in the wind.
It came along with the strong winds...
It's a huge noise from the engine starting up!
"Oops!"
Siri's expression changed and he exclaimed in surprise.
Waves of air blew against the dense forest, and Fu Qinghai and Xierli could see the back of a flat spaceship rising shakily from behind the ridge.
"It's going to run away..."
Syllie's tone was one of frustration at having failed at the last minute.
The spaceship had already taken off. Even if Fu Qinghai and Siri killed a lot of poachers, it would be useless if they couldn't seize the spaceship. They still couldn't leave Dassormir.
"It can't run away!"
Fu Qinghai suddenly pushed off the ground and sprinted towards the ridge with a chop-like motion. Sirri stared blankly at his retreating figure, unable to understand how he was going to stop a spaceship that had already risen hundreds of meters into the air.
Suddenly, Sirri caught a glimpse of something on the other side of the ridge, where the branches and leaves were swaying and trembling, as if a giant beast was smashing through the obstructing leaves and branches and rushing toward Fu Qinghai on the mountainside. Sirri opened his mouth as if to warn him.
"Wow!"
The "beast" broke through the obstruction of branches and leaves, revealing its true form—it was an armored giant nearly three meters tall! As the armored giant ran, it raised its arm and aimed it at Fu Qinghai. Sirri only saw a thin line flash by, and Fu Qinghai's body suddenly enlarged proportionally, transforming from a 1.9-meter-tall muscular man into a muscular giant nearly 2.7 meters tall.
Then, the armor plates on the giant's body opened layer by layer like flower petals blooming, revealing that there was nothing inside! Fu Qinghai twisted and squeezed into the armor, opening the plates and they all closed instantly. The giant's visors lit up with a red light, and its power backpack behind it underwent a series of mechanical transformations, unfolding two wings and a set of huge circular turbofan nozzles.
Sylvie stared blankly, mouth agape.
He stared blankly at the scene.
"call out---"
The turbofan engines roared, and white ion flames and surging, violent airflow spewed from the nozzles of the flight pack, propelling the armored giant into the sky. The airflow whipped up fallen leaves and swirled sand and gravel throughout the valley. Siri instinctively raised his hands to shield his face, but the flying leaves and sand still stung his cheeks. Even the stream in the valley was whipped into undulating waves, ripples spreading towards the banks.
After merging with the armor, Fu Qinghai, fearing the cargo ship might escape, immediately activated the afterburner mode of the Azure Shell. The head of the power armor broke the sound barrier, bursting out a ring of white mist, and "whoosh" it shot into the azure sky. At the same time, the wings on both sides of the flight backpack automatically narrowed backward, changing from straight wings to swept wings, reducing shock wave drag and improving high-speed performance.
By this time, the cargo spaceship had risen to an altitude of several thousand meters, revealing its complete form: a flat and wide hull, a cruciform cockpit in the middle, huge cargo holds on both sides, and a triple engine nozzle at the rear.
YU-410 light cargo ship.
Produced by Corellia Engineering.
Fu Qinghai recognized its model at a glance.
"This ship is pretty good..."
Fu Qinghai muttered to himself as he flew.
Corellia Engineering Corporation's reputation in the civilian shipbuilding sector rivals that of Quarter Dynamics in the warship industry. Corellia's transport ships are all top-notch, and its Y-series spaceships are its flagship product. Han Solo's famous Millennium Falcon is model YL-2200.
However, without additional modifications, the YU-410 light cargo ship is relatively slow, and even slower inside the atmosphere. Fu Qinghai easily caught up with the large cargo ship.
The twin blast turrets on top of the cargo ship turned around, and the two cannons aimed at Fu Qinghai, continuously spitting out red blast beams. Fu Qinghai gently sank down and dodged its firing range.
The YU-410 light cargo ship has four twin-barreled blast cannons: two at the forward corner of the cargo hold, and two at the top and bottom of the ship. While the firing arc appears to be quite wide, there are blind spots in the area around the tail engine exhaust and the narrow areas on either side of the cargo hold. The cargo ship ascended while swaying from side to side, attempting to lock onto Fu Qinghai with its blast cannons.
Fu Qinghai fully utilized his small size and high speed to quickly approach the climbing cargo ship, staying firmly in the narrow firing blind spot on the side. The speed at which the blast turret rotated couldn't even keep up with his change of direction, and the blast beams repeatedly grazed the edges of his armor and missed.
Fu Qinghai had already come to regard the YU-410 light cargo ship as his own, so he didn't conjure up the thermal cannon or plasma cannon to destroy the two explosive turrets. Instead, he calmly dodged the explosive fire by maneuvering and changing direction.
He then noticed that, seemingly due to the rushed emergency takeoff, a cargo door on the port side of the ship was not fully closed and was still slowly closing.
Fu Qinghai seized the opportunity and immediately accelerated again. He spun and rolled away from the turret that was turning around at the bottom, grabbed the edge of the hatch with both hands, and clung firmly to the side of the cargo ship. At this time, the hatch was almost completely closed, leaving only a gap less than 30 centimeters wide.
Fu Qinghai gripped the edge of the hatch with one hand and grabbed the closing hatch with the other. With a sudden burst of strength, he unleashed an even more terrifying power as he became one with his armor. Amidst the teeth-grinding creaking sound of metal deformation, the hydraulic linkage that was pushing the hatch to close twisted and exploded, sending a pile of parts flying out like bullets with a clatter. The hatch was forcibly pulled open.
Fu Qinghai walked into the cargo hold, leaving the howling wind outside. He looked around the empty space and saw an internal hatch that was closed and locked.
"Humph……"
Fu Qinghai smiled, a slight upturn to his lips.
"Sizzsssssssssss..."
A white glare from the switching beam lit up behind the hatch and drew an irregular circle on the thick, durable steel hatch. Then the circle was kicked open, and Fu Qinghai, holding a plasma pistol, calmly ducked through the hole and came to the cargo ship's corridor.
Fu Qinghai looked up at the cargo ship's bridge.
A slender B1 combat robot sits in the middle of the pilot's seat, with blue paint markings on its body, suggesting it is a modified flying combat robot from the B1 combat robot series.
The pilot was actually a B1?
Fu Qinghai held up his pistol, somewhat puzzled.
The combat robot turned its head and saw Fu Qinghai behind it. Without hesitation, it released its hands from the control stick and raised them above its head.
"I surrender, I surrender."
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