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The beautiful floating mountains and luminous plants immediately caught Bai Ya’s heart as she was full of praise of Europa’s beautiful ocean.
“Honey, make sure to take me with you next time when you go to Europa!”
Bai Ya said hopefully.
“No problem!”
Ling Jiu nodded. “Let’s go to Europa for another round of hotpot then!”
“Thank you, dear!”
Bai Ya gave Ling Jiu a sweet kiss.
“And there’s one more thing!”
Ling Jiu opened his right hand, and an energy crystal appeared on it. Bai Ya recognized it at a glance and wondered. “What are you showing me?”
“I found this in Europa’s floating mountains!”
Ling Jiu said with a smile as Bai Ya’s eyes widened. “You mean, Europa too produces energy crystal?”
Ling Jiu nodded. “For the past few days, I’ve been hunting monsters and collecting energy crystals on Europa. I’ve collected a total of 1,400 pieces!”
With a wave of his hand, he took half of them out.
More than 700 energy crystals flowed with a soft milky white light beneath the lamp, like beads of pearls as they exuded an alluring charm.
Bai Ya had seen energy crystals before, but this was the first time she had encountered so many. She was so surprised that her petite mouth was opened so wide that you could stuff a duck’s egg into it.
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“Wifey, are they beautiful?”
Ling Jiu asked with a smile.
“Beautiful!”
Bai Ya nodded continuously.
“Then they are yours!”
Ling Jiu smiled.
“Mine?”
Bai Ya was somewhat taken aback as she shook her head like a tambourine. “Honey, this is too precious. I cannot take it!”
“Silly, you’ve already given yourself to me, there’s nothing you cannot ask for! In my eyes, even an energy crystal mountain does not worth as much as you.”
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Ling Jiu pinched Bai Ya’s nose as he said with a doting face.
“Honey, you’re so nice to me!”
Bai Ya felt her chest tighten as her eyes reddened. “Aside from mother and Wangwang, you’re the person that treats me the best in this world!”
“Silly, you are my girlfriend now, and the mother of my children in the future, and also the person to spend the rest of my life with. If I’m not nice to you, who should I be nice to?”
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Ling Jiu laughed and scolded her.
“Wuuuwuu~~”
Bai Ya was so moved that she started crying as she threw herself into Ling Jiu’s arms and sobbed.
“Alright, don’t cry.”
It took a while for him to stop Bai Ya’s crying. The two then took a bath together before getting up to cook. Ling Jiu washed the vegetables while Bai Ya cut them up
 Before long, an alluring aroma wafted about.
“Let’s eat!”
The two were happily eating the meal on the table when Ling Jiu’s phone suddenly rang.
“A call from Brother Niu?”
Ling Jiu had a confused look as he answered the call.
“Brother Niu, looking for me?”
“Brother Ling, first of all, congratulations on snagging a beautiful girlfriend. Do you know, you’ve now become public enemy number one of all of the men in the Matriculation Camp!”
Niu Ben smiled as he said.
“Really? I didn’t know.”
Ling Jiu smiled and took a glance at Bai Ya.
“Hahaha, there will be many who are jealous of you, no doubt about that!”
Niu Ben smiled as he chatted a few more words before going to the main topic. “I’m calling today mainly to discuss a matter with you.”
“Go ahead, Brother Niu.”
“Oh, the thing is, Wormhole 13 is about to open again, and I want to invite you to team up.” Niu Ben went straight to the point.
“Activated again?”
Ling Jiu frowned. “Wormhole 13 had never been activated before?”
“Brother Ling, you may not have known.”
Niu Ben explained patiently. “There are 51 wormholes on Mars, and most of the wormholes are the same but a rare few are very special.”
“Wormhole 13 is one of those special wormholes as it only opens once every nine months and is closed the rest of the time.”
“There’s such a wormhole?”
Ling Jiu was surprised.
Based on his understanding, the wormhole was like a tunnel inside a mountain. Once it opened, unless it was blocked by external forces, it would always be open for passage. And if it was blocked by external forces, the tunnel would then be sealed shut.
‘How can it open every once in a while, then?’
“Wormhole 13 had always been like this, and no one knows why.”
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Niu Ben shook his head and continued. “And even more amazingly, every time Wormhole 13 opens up, the planet on the opposite side is different.”
“Different?”
Ling Jiu was stunned. “What do you mean?”
“Let’s get into this then.”
Niu Ben said, “When we first found Wormhole 13, the opposite end was a planet full of water with a thick atmospheric layer. The surface of the planet was completely aquatic without a single piece of land.”
“When Wormhole 13 opened for the second time, it was a frozen planet on the opposite side, covered in thick snow and glaciers, with temperatures as low as minus 100 degrees Celsius!”
“When it reopened for the third time, the environment changed again, and this time it was an Earth-like planet of life.”
“The surface of the planet was covered with dense forests, and it was on this planet we found lots of energy crystals and an amazing amount of natural treasures. Everyone made a pot full of profit at the end of the day.”
“So, since the last time, the Matriculation Camp cadets were very interested in Wormhole 13 and looked forward to its next opening.”
At this moment, Niu Ben sighed. “And, in the next three day’s time it will be the day Wormhole 13 opens, all of the matriculation camp cadets are rubbing their hands in glee, preparing to make it big.”
“What a mysterious wormhole.”
Ling Jiu shook his head and lamented. “But, Brother Niu, is the world on the other side of Wormhole 13 random, and completely irregular?”
“It’s totally random.”
Niu Ben nodded with confidence.
“Alright then!”
Ling Jiu replied. “Three days later, right? I’ll head over.”
“Brother Ling you sure are decisive. I believe with you joining me, once we find good stuff on that planet, we will certainly strike big!”
“Hopefully, we don’t get sent to some useless planet.” Ling Jiu said.
“Hahaha, Brother Ling, your luck had always been good. And it’ll definitely be no exception this time!”
After hanging up, Ling Jiu looked at Bai Ya. “You’ve heard the conversation earlier, want to go have a look together?”
“If you’re going, I’ll go too!”
Bai Ya nodded hurriedly.
“Okay!”
Ling Jiu patted his girlfriend’s head as he said. “Listening to Brother Niu, it seems like when Wormhole 13 opens, it will usually close after a month. If we are to stay on that planet for a moment, that’s quite a long time.”
“So, for the next two days, let’s just get on with planting trees. After we plant them and come back a month later, they’ll basically all thrive by then.”
“Yeah!”
So, for the next two days, Ling Jiu did not go anywhere and instead accompanied Bai Ya to plant Arcana trees.
When Ling Jiu went full throttle planting trees, his speed was unparalleled as with just a thought, tree pits appeared in succession within a square kilometer radius.
With another thought, hundreds of Arcana Tree saplings rose to the sky and flew into the dug-out tree pits as the sand moved and buried the saplings.
Just like that, two days had passed. That morning, after having breakfast, Ling Jiu and Bai Ya returned to the Matriculation Camp to rendezvous with Niu Ben. What the two did not expect was that Niu Ben also came with a friend.
“Let me introduce you, this is my sister Niu Miao.” Niu Ben guffawed.
“Hello, Sister Niu.”
Ling Jiu smiled and said hello while Bai Ya nodded.
“Hello, a pleasure to team up with the both of you.”
In contrast to her portly brother Niu Ben, Niu Miao was a beautiful, fair-skinned girl. She stood less than 1.6 meters tall, but her features were delicate, and she was the petite type of girl.
“There aren’t many instances in the world where both brother and sister join the Matriculation Camp, right?” Ling Jiu sincerely praised.
“That, Brother Ling, you’re very wrong!”
Niu Ben laughed. “In fact, there are many siblings who had entered the Matriculation Camp, at least in this camp, there are four pairs of siblings!”
“Ugh
 that many?”
Ling Jiu was stunned.
“Of course!”
Niu Ben laughed. “Arcana has a great probability of genetic inheritance, so if an elder brother or sister has powerful Arcana, the younger sibling will not be too far behind.”
“Of course, there’s another, as long as the elder sibling enters the Matriculation Camp, that means they could get access to a large number of training resources that they can give to their younger siblings to help them with their training, so entering the Matriculation Camp is not something too difficult.”
“That’s a workable reason.”
Ling Jiu nodded. Wasn’t he also doing so, passing many of the unused training resources to Ling’er?
Even if Ling’er’s talent in Arcana was poor, Ling Jiu had the confidence to give her a bright future using the treasure of heaven and earth.
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“Come, let’s head over to Wormhole 13.”
“Okay!”
Ling Jiu deployed his airship, and Niu Ben could not help but remind him. “Brother Ling, what are you deploying the airship for? Airships can’t fly in Mars.”
“Brother Niu, my airship is different.” Ling Jiu smiled as he opened the airship door. “Please, come in.”
The Niu siblings looked on confusedly as they entered the airship. They were instantly stunned by the lavish decoration in the airship. “Bloody hell, is this a palace or what?”
“A carpet made out of a Ninth-Order Nine-tailed Snow Fox skin. The sofa cushions seemed to be also made out of the silk of a Ninth-Order Heaven’s Eye Silkworm. And that chandelier
 Brother Ling, how much did you spend for this ship?”
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“I didn’t buy this, it’s a reward from the Matriculation Camp.”
Ling Jiu smiled and told them what happened in the past few days, and Niu Ben immediately realized. “No wonder your points soared by two hundred thousand. Just like I said, your luck is really good.”
“And this airship too.”
“Heh, an Ultimate airship eh. Yeah, an ultimate airship would have performance far exceeding ordinary airships, and only the ultimate airship can fly on Mars.”
“Hahaha
”
Half an hour later, the four came before Wormhole 13 and a huge gorge appeared before them as the matriculation camp cadets filled it.
Everyone was wearing Venom Suits as they stood together in twos and threes. They were talking to each other when Ling Jiu’s airship hovered over at that instant, instantly attracting everyone’s attention.
“Who is that?”
“Wasn’t Mars magnetic field too weak that airship was unable to fly?”
“I don’t know.”
All of the cadets looked at the airship with a confused look on their faces. Immediately after, the hatch opened as Ling Jiu and the other three walked out.
“Isn’t that Niu Ben?”
“Who’s with him?”
“One of them must be his sister, I don’t know the remaining two.”
“Heh, that woman sure has a good figure
”
The crowd whispered.
At this moment, a dazzling light suddenly shot out from the bottom of the gorge and then filled the entire canyon before rushing to the sky.
“It’s open!”
“Wormhole 13 is open!”
“I wonder where this will lead to this time?”
For a time, all of the trainees were attracted by it.