Chapter 960: Hula Hoop?

Chapter 960: Hula Hoop?

In the giant pit, only Chen Dao'er's feeble screams and the grinding teeth of the Yexu Dragon Loach echoed!
Mantis and a host of bad beasts mobilized their minions overnight, searching each floating island in a carpet-like manner for traces of humans!
Looking for the lost silver ring and core, this night was destined to be restless!

On a floating island that fell in cycles, a crooked-neck tree stood quietly!
Seeing the herd of beasts passing, the leaves of the crooked-neck tree trembled like a sieve, making a rustling sound!
Only after the beasts had passed did the crooked-neck tree dare to open its eyes and sneak a peek!
*⸜|◔Tree◔ิ|⸝*
Let out a long sigh of relief!

Chen An was almost scared to tears. If I hadn't run fast, I'd have become a floor tile by now!
Now what's the point of messing with Jiangnan, taking the spirit gauze, grabbing the stele?
I just want to go home to my wife and kids and a warm kang now!
Chen An, disguised as a crooked-neck tree, pulled out his roots, tiptoed step by step towards the outside of the island.
Moving a man brings death, moving a tree brings life. If the door doesn't open, I refuse to be human!

...

At the cave base, Xia Yao, Zhong Yingxue and the others had just finished hotpot!
They walked out of the cave, rubbed their bellies, and burped, wondering where Jiangnan and Liu Mang had gone!
Then they saw a dazzling light rising from the west, extremely bright!
"Huh? Is it dawn? Is the sun in the Void Sea rising from the west?"
But after the light passed, Zi Yuan and the others only heard a loud "boom", and the giant floating island was split into pieces, blown to smithereens!

"Sigh ~ Damn dawn, that's the direction of the Dragon Loach's lair, right?"
"This... this is a hydrogen bomb? Where did Xiao Nan go?"
Everyone exchanged glances, their eyes filled with fear.
Nan Shen wouldn't be going for revenge, would he? Does he have to be so reckless?
He charged over halfway through the meal? You just died there during the day, right?
By the way, how many hydrogen bombs did you bring? You've already set off three!

Just as everyone was wondering whether to go help,
Fat Jiang Hong, Zhang Bie San, and Black Liu Mang had already returned!
Looking at the chubby red Teletubby, everyone swallowed their saliva!
"Two of you went to the giant floating island?"
Zhang San: (›´﹏`‹)…
"It's three! Three!"

Jiang Panghong's eyes were full of excitement: "Hurry back to the cave and hide, I stole the Dragon Loach's home! All the treasures are back!"
"Also got rid of the Chen Family Forest Guards, and made one billion dollars!"
Zhong Yingxue and Xia Yao both covered their small mouths in shock!
"Are you serious?"
"In just the time it took to eat a meal, you did all this?"
"This is more than stealing the base; you crushed the crystal, right?"
"Never suffer a loss, truly revenge doesn't wait for the night, huh?"
"How did you manage it?"

Back in the cave, Xiong Er directly sealed the entrance with earth and stones, while Liu Mang used projections to create grass and trees as camouflage!
In the cave, Zhang San looked blissful: "I've gone through all the hardships, finally back to the team!"
"Such a delicious smell, what good food did you eat? Did you leave any for me? I've been working hard these days~"

But at this moment, everyone gathered around Jiangnan!
Xia Yao's big eyes sparkled: "You got the core and the silver ring? Take them out and let me have a look?"
Zi Yuan nodded excitedly: "The treasure the Dragon Loach always guarded must be very precious, right?"
Jiangnan grinned: "Come! Let's all study it, see what this is actually for?"
With that, he took out the crystal stele, the silver ring, and that core piece.
Everyone let out "oh ho ho" exclamations and crowded around to look nonstop.

Zhang San's expression froze, and he silently sat in the corner hugging his knees.
(̿▀~▀̿̿)̄……
"I wish I could be the center of attention for once! Damn it!"
But still no one noticed Zhang San; they were all captivated by the treasures.

The core fragment was large, about a quarter of the complete size.
It emitted a rich spatial fluctuation, and Jiangnan, approaching the core fragment, felt every cell in his body cheering.
The speed of spiritual power circulation in his body also increased a lot. If he trained beside it, it would surely yield twice the result with half the effort, right?

Just then, Zi Yuan let out a cry of surprise!
They saw that the crystal stele, originally broken into over ninety pieces, miraculously restored itself after being pieced together!
It became a complete crystal stele, with complex runes and carvings on it shining like a galaxy, extremely gorgeous!
Jiangnan wiped his drool: "It even has self-repair? Definitely a good thing, right?"

Then his gaze fell on the huge silver ring.
Its diameter was about 30 meters, and its material was as hard as the crystal stele.
The runes engraved on it were even more complex than those on the crystal stele.
It was covered with 108 circular grooves, and at the very bottom there was a strangely shaped hole, its purpose unknown.
On the far left, there were scorched black marks, as if burned by high temperature, and a large area of runes had been melted.
"Who can understand the runes on it? What is this? A universe ring? It looks pretty high-end!"

Zhong Yingxue studied it with a magnifying glass for a long time, her brows tightly furrowed.
"These are all high-level runes. We haven't even recorded most of them, let alone understand their meaning."
"But I can understand a few runes around the grooves. They have an absorption function, and there are spiritual power circuits built from runes beside them. Is it for setting something?"

Jiangnan scratched his head; his body now stored ten-colored creation force, not Jiang Ning's Bose particles.
Otherwise, he would have called Jiang Ning. He didn't know if she could understand...

Xia Yao touched the grooves, her imagination running wild: "Hey, Xiao Nan! Do you think these grooves are for setting spirit beads?"
Jiangnan's eyes lit up. It might really be true!
Then he took out a diamond-grade spirit bead and placed it in a groove, but there was no reaction.
He tried several in a row, no reaction. He even tried a spirit-binding bead.
Until Jiangnan took out a space-type spirit bead and put it into the groove.
"Shua"
The space-type spiritual power in the bead was suddenly absorbed, and many runes lit up with flickering spiritual light.
Everyone in the cave showed amazed expressions.
"It really is for spirit beads? Must it be space-type?"

Obviously one is not enough. Jiangnan swallowed his saliva, feeling extremely itching inside.
"Space-type spirit beads are very valuable! This thing needs 108 of them?"
"Isn't this trying to kill me?"
But Jiangnan was still curious about what this thing actually did.
He gritted his teeth and stomped his foot.
"Set them!"
Anyway, he had a lot of Void Koi spirit beads, duplicates were useless.
So he picked 108 platinum-grade space-type spirit beads and set them in.

In an instant, all the runes on the ring lit up, and then... that was it.
Jiangnan's face darkened.
"Cheated me into setting spirit beads, and all it did was light up? This isn't some big shot's hula hoop for exercising, is it?"
Xia Yao beside him couldn't help covering her face: "Holy crap hula hoop!"
"Do aliens play with this too?"
"Using this as a hula hoop, how thick would your waist be?"

Zhong Yingxue said excitedly: "Xiao Nan, look, there's still a hole not set. Could it be because of this?"
Jiangnan looked down: "The shape of this hole looks so familiar to me?"
"Wait!"
Jiangnan took off a crystal conch necklace from his neck.
"It was the gift that Jiang Jing insisted on 'giving' me when I first met her."
"Isn't the shape of the hole exactly the same as this conch?"
Jiangnan was stunned. Does it have to be this coincidental?
As if possessed, he placed the crystal conch into it.

The entire silver ring seemed to be activated, emitting brilliant starlight!
The spatial fluctuation was extremely rich!
The space inside the ring began to warp and spin, and even the space power from the core fragment was drawn in large amounts!
And under the starlight's projection, the crystal stele actually reacted!
The nebula carvings on it seemed to come alive, and a small light point lit up on it!
Jiangnan quickly picked up the crystal stele and examined it carefully.
"Is this crystal stele a set with the silver ring? What's with this small light point? What do all the little balls mean?"

Zhong Yingxue stared with wide eyes for a long time, then her face was full of horror.
"Sigh ~ This... this isn't the solar system, is it? The positions match exactly, and the bright spot is our Blue Star!"
Jiangnan was stunned, a shiver ran through him, his scalp tingling.
"Damn! This crystal stele is a star map? Then this... this thing is a star gate?"
Everyone was shocked by Jiangnan's guess. No joke?

Liu Mang's mouth twitched slightly: "Don't tell me you can go to the Centaurus galaxy with this silver ring!"
"Human technology hasn't even figured out the solar system yet!"
"This can perform ultra-long-distance teleportation star gate? Too unbelievable, right?"

Just then, the space inside the star gate warped to the extreme, finally forming a spatial vortex that seemed to devour everything!
But it was extremely unstable!
Jiangnan licked his lips: "Should we go over and take a look?"
"There might be alien sisters or something behind it, right?"
"If we can catch an alien creature, how much money could we sell it for?"

But then they saw that on the left side of the star gate, the burned area had accumulated a large amount of spiritual light!
With a "boom", the spatial vortex in the star gate only lasted for a moment, then shattered!
The powerful spatial fluctuation blasted everyone back several steps!
The star gate went silent again, and the 108 space-type spirit beads on it were all drained, crushed into pieces!
Jiangnan's forehead was covered in sweat. Lucky he didn't go in, otherwise who knows if he'd be shredded by the spatial vortex!
This star gate was obviously broken because of that burned piece.