Nuclear Warhead Cooked in Wine

At the opening ceremony of Sea Blue Star Basic Military Academy, as the representative of the incoming freshmen, Guding proclaimed his grand ambition in front of all the teachers and students: 
"I'm Guding! I'm gonna become the Man with the Highest Bounty in the entire Cosmic Sea!"
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It is an era of artificial superintelligences, interstellar travel, gene medicine, and virtual reality worlds. 
Far into Earth's future, 15-year-old Gu Ding is a student of Cerulean Military Academy by day, and tavern waiter by night. 
His ambition: Become the space pirate with the highest bounty offered by the Universal Federation Government. 
With the help of Neptune, a neonate super-intelligence, Guding finds himself thrust into a galaxy of shadowy organizations, political under dealings, and otherworldly forces that lie beyond human comprehension…

The Highest Bounty

[The fourth update is finally complete... Time for a nap!]


The art of forging, in this era, indeed suffered from a significant loss of knowledge.


As a result, the higher the rank of the divine artifact, the more glaring the flaws revealed in its forging became.


At the current stage, forging a five-star divine artifact largely relied on piling up high-quality materials, and whether one could successfully refine it also came down to luck. Even the final products, if compared to those from the Early Modern Times, were actually just crudely made fake five-star divine items.


The five-star divine artifact that Guding had exchanged from the Ouer Ruins was genuinely a real five-star divine item, and its quality was considered decent. It was at least twice as defensively powerful as five-star divine armor crafted by contemporary forging masters.


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