Swallowing the Stars: The Supreme Being of All Heavens

Chapter 58 The Star of Distortion

"Mr. Su, we have arrived," an Imperial official inquired. "If you wish to observe, I suggest remaining inside the spaceship. The outside is filled with toxic gas and severely polluted. Unless the planetary-level fleet continuously releases a Force shield to isolate you, venturing out without protective measures will easily lead to contamination."

"These toxic gases also corrode the Force, so even planetary-level planets aren't very suitable for survival here," the official honestly stated. Such extremely harsh and useless planets were among the lowest-ranked in the Empire, holding little value. For officials like them, selling them was considered a merit.

"This planet shouldn't have any inhabitants, right?" Suk asked, looking at the unsettling black planet. This planet, Poker, is about 12000 kilometers in diameter, similar to Earth, but the entire planet exudes an eerie and lifeless aura.

"No, because the planet was hit by a meteorite many years ago, damaging and polluting it beyond repair. The environment is too harsh and could even cause mutations, making it unsuitable for building a habitable city here. The cost would be too high. Besides, this planet has little development value, so it's been left as it is," the official replied. "If you want to live here, you'll have to build a dedicated survival base."

Generally, when developing primitive planets or planets with important mineral resources, a survival base will be built on the planet. Survival bases can house anywhere from tens of millions to billions of people. Survival bases can guarantee the supply of air, water, food, and so on.

The imperial official, worried that Suk might not want to buy, enthusiastically said, "If you want to buy a survival base, there are different sizes and prices, but you just need to place an order with the person who sells survival bases, and it can be built very quickly."

Survival bases are indeed suitable for this kind of place.

Moreover, the cheapest A-level option only requires 100,000 Jialan coins to build a survival base that is 10 kilometers long and wide, about 100 meters high, and divided into 30 layers, enough to accommodate 300 million people.

There are even bigger ones!

Grade B is much more expensive; for the same size as the one above, it requires tens of millions of Jialan coins.

A Class C facility, of the same size, could accommodate 300 million people and would require nearly 100 billion Jialan coins.

Orders exceeding 100 billion Jialan coins can also include custom-made survival bases.

Suk was initially reluctant to buy it; his planet was intended to be devoured by the Death Star Vine and wouldn't last more than a few years.

There are few people here, so instead of building houses on planets, it would be better to buy a home-traveling spaceship that is over a thousand meters long, which can be taken anywhere. The interior space is large, which is actually equivalent to a luxury castle. The living environment is also very comfortable, and the price is not too expensive.

"Hmm, my spaceship is too small, only a C6 class. Maybe I should consider buying a better spaceship. If I want to be extravagant, I can buy a C9 class spaceship or even better," Suk thought to himself.

Even if it's made of pure alloy, a C9-class spaceship with a diameter of over 100 meters would cost over 10 billion Jialan coins! After all, the C9's defensive capabilities are more than ten times stronger than the C6.

As for D-level, most cosmic-level powerhouses and domain lords travel in such spaceships.

D1, that's hundreds of billions of Jialan coins.

Even if it's an alloy, D9 is nearly a thousand times stronger than D1! You could say... you'd need to sell dozens or even hundreds of inhabited planets to afford it.

Therefore, for a "domain lord", purchasing a D9 spaceship with a diameter of over 100 meters is considered a luxury.

The spaceship flew into the planet, taking in the sights along the way. Zuo Mu stayed by Su Ke's side, and when he saw the scenery outside, he shook his head and sighed, "Ah, what a godforsaken place. I really don't know how this place became like this. Oh, and there are some cute little things here."

Suk glared at him, then turned his gaze to the black, oil-like river on the ground. After thousands of years of pollution and erosion, everything here had become unrecognizable. Even the plants and animals that survived had mutated, and there were many strange and deformed creatures on the planet.

"Gurgle, gurgle..."

"Chirp, chirp..."

The strange, black creatures, resembling figures from a horror movie, immediately stirred and emitted angry, piercing noises upon discovering the spaceship.

However, most of these things don't seem to fly. They can't reach the spaceships flying in the sky and can only wander around below in vain.

Even when encountering flying creatures, their instincts prevent them from easily approaching this enormous object with a diameter of over 100 meters.

"These are the mutated life forms contaminated by poison gas?" Suk observed them. They were indeed hideous, almost like aliens, and incredibly diverse. They even attacked and devoured each other. "The appalling environment combined with these disgusting things explains why the price is so much cheaper than the average price of a normal planet. In fact, I think it's overpriced; I'll have to haggle a bit." Suk shook his head. If his real purpose for buying the planet wasn't different from others, he wouldn't want this kind of planet either.

Suk's parents and others were also observing, their expressions not very pleasant, probably because they didn't have a good impression of this kind of place.

Suk comforted him, "Don't worry, we won't live on this planet for long. We'll go live on other planets later." He was fine on his own, but there was no need for his parents and relatives to suffer with him.

As the spaceship flew along, the vast planet was shrouded in countless gloomy fogs, the sky was full of black clouds, and little sunlight could be seen. Coupled with those nightmarish, mutated life forms, it was simply like a ghost town.

Suk also saw that some parts of the planet were cratered, like craters left by some kind of bombing. One of them was a large crater with a diameter of over 100 kilometers, which was said to have been created by a meteorite attack tens of thousands of years ago.

"Mr. Su, what do you think?" The imperial officials came over again to ask.

"I'll consider it if it's cheaper."

After some haggling, Suk finally bought the planet for 6500 billion.

The purchase application still needs to be reviewed by various departments at the Imperial Headquarters before the transaction can be officially completed! According to the procedures, it takes a maximum of 10 days and a minimum of 3 days. Moreover, the minister of the Imperial government office on Planet Sugva guaranteed that he would process Suk's application as quickly as possible and wouldn't keep him waiting too long.

So Suk stayed on the planet and waited. During this time, he went down to explore the planet with the others and found that it was indeed completely barren. Its only special feature was probably the mutated creatures; you wouldn't even need special effects to make a post-apocalyptic movie out of it.

But even if they hunt them, nobody wants those contaminated materials.

Saki was quite excited. Having reached the planetary level, he rarely had the opportunity to fight in reality. These mutated creatures, which were generally below the planetary level, were perfect for him to practice on. He used the telekinetic weapon that Suk had given him to keep causing trouble for those mutants.

Eloise and the other girls had absolutely no interest in these disgusting ugly creatures and preferred to stay on the spaceship rather than come down.

Suk quickly lost interest after killing a few mutant creatures, as they were too weak and stupid to be of any training value. Seeing that Zuomu was still enthusiastic, he arranged for a team of slave guards to protect him and let him go. He returned to the spaceship to continue his training.

Time flies, and after waiting for three days, good news came from the Sugwar Empire's official government.