Chapter 290

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    Chapter 290

    Over the past two years, the Custodial Agency's research into Su Hao's summoned beasts had progressed at an astonishing pace, far exceeding even Su Hao's own expectations.

    By studying summoned beasts at different evolutionary stages within the same evolutionary sequence, they successfully analyzed the material composition of blood qi and life energy.

    They then applied their findings to ordinary summoned beasts through countless experiments, enabling those beasts to possess far stronger blood qi and vitality than before.

    Even Su Hao couldn't help but admire their achievements.

    This was the true strength of collective research.

    No matter how gifted an individual was, there were limits to what one person could accomplish. Thousands of brilliant minds working together could often solve problems that a lone genius would spend decades pursuing.

    Their research results continually provided Su Hao with fresh inspiration, further deepening his own understanding of blood qi.

    Because of these breakthroughs, the Custodial Agency invested even more manpower into studying Su Hao's summoned beasts.

    As a result, Su Hao's "Everyone Is an Ally" Plan progressed smoothly.

    Inside the secret laboratory where the Beginner Sovereign giant moth was being studied, nearly eighty percent of the researchers had already been parasitized by the giant moth's cells.

    Copies of each researcher's consciousness had been recorded inside the Marble Space and sealed within individual Black Rooms.

    Only a small number of researchers who rarely interacted with others had escaped infection.

    To eliminate any possibility of accidents, Su Hao had also prepared a consciousness deletion program inside every Black Room.

    The program contained two activation conditions.

    The first:

    If a researcher somehow perceived the Marble Space and their primary consciousness entered the Black Room, the copied consciousness would immediately be erased.

    The second:

    The moment the researcher died naturally, the consciousness preserved inside the Black Room would also be destroyed.


    ---

    "The most valuable prize..."

    "I've finally obtained the principles behind spatial custody technology."

    Inside the Marble Space, Su Hao carefully reviewed the technical data transmitted from the Custodial Agency.

    Strictly speaking, what he possessed were only fragments of the complete technology.

    No researcher within the Agency possessed the entire Summoned Beast Custody System.

    The technology was simply too vast.

    It had long since been divided into countless specialized branches, each assigned to different research teams.

    Every expert understood only the field they were responsible for.

    Therefore, even after turning more than eighty percent of the researchers into his own "allies," Su Hao still couldn't obtain the complete technology.

    However...

    That didn't matter.

    When Su Hao said he had obtained the technology, he wasn't referring to the finished engineering methods.

    He meant that he had successfully reconstructed the fundamental principles behind it.

    For him...

    Understanding the principles was enough.

    As for the countless sophisticated machines used by the Custodial Agency...

    He had no need for them.

    He possessed something far more suitable.

    Runes.

    Anything the Custodial Agency achieved through advanced machinery could, in theory, be reproduced using rune technology.

    That was the confidence born from mastering multiple systems of civilization.


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    So...

    How exactly did the Custodial Agency achieve spatial teleportation?

    After years of observation and analysis, Su Hao finally summarized the underlying principles.

    The first was the Theory of Spatial Duality.

    According to this theory, space itself possessed two opposite attributes, much like the positive and negative poles of a magnet.

    This was the Custodial Agency's greatest secret.

    Every piece of their spatial technology had been developed from this single theory.

    Su Hao had only discovered it by chance through the memories of countless researchers.


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    The second theory was known as Paired Spatial Modules and Continuous Growth.

    The "Spatial Modules" referred to the countless tiny spatial fragments that Su Hao perceived with his mental tentacles.

    According to the Agency's research, whenever a Spatial Module was born, another completely identical module would simultaneously appear somewhere else in the universe.

    Although the two modules might later move independently, they would forever remain perfectly synchronized.

    This phenomenon was called Paired Spatial Modules.

    The second part of the theory—Continuous Growth—proposed that new Spatial Modules were constantly being created while old ones disappeared.

    Whether within the Main Star or the Secondary Star, Spatial Modules were continuously being born and destroyed.

    However, viewed over a long period, their total number continued to increase.


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    The third theory was perhaps the strangest of all.

    It was called the Theory of Spatial Non-Distance.

    When Su Hao first encountered it, he was completely dumbfounded.

    "Space has no distance?"

    "If there is no distance... can it still be called space?"

    The theory completely contradicted ordinary intuition.

    Yet...

    Every piece of the Custodial Agency's spatial technology had been built upon it.

    The fact that their technology functioned proved that, even if the theory wasn't perfectly accurate, it had to be extremely close to the truth.

    For the first time in a long while, Su Hao felt that his own thinking was somewhat inadequate.

    He had always considered himself gifted.

    Yet compared to the true pioneers who had created these theories from nothing...

    He still couldn't fully comprehend the path their thoughts had taken.

    After countless experiments and months of contemplation, Su Hao gradually arrived at his own interpretation.

    Distance certainly existed...

    From the perspective of three-dimensional space.

    However, from the perspective of four-dimensional space...

    Distance might not exist at all.

    Perhaps...

    Every location in the universe was merely an endless overlap of spatial singularities.

    Even now, Su Hao couldn't say with complete certainty whether this understanding was correct.


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    According to the Custodial Agency's hypothesis, the reason the Main Star and the Secondary Star could be connected through summoning was because of a unique spatial phenomenon.

    Under certain special environmental conditions, enormous numbers of Spatial Modules were generated within the Main Star.

    Their paired counterparts simultaneously appeared throughout the Secondary Star.

    Together, these paired modules naturally formed a special spatial relationship between the two worlds.

    As long as a summoner used their mental tentacles to disturb nearby Spatial Modules...

    The resonance would inevitably spread to their paired counterparts on the Secondary Star.

    That was why every successful summoning always reached the Secondary Star.

    In reality...

    There was no invisible tunnel.

    Nor was there a hidden doorway connecting the two worlds.

    The so-called "spatial passage" that everyone imagined simply did not exist.

    Everything was merely the result of Paired Spatial Modules interacting under the framework of the Theory of Spatial Non-Distance.

    Together...

    Those two theories produced the miraculous phenomenon that the world called summoning.


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    Did understanding these three theories mean one could immediately master short-range teleportation?

    Of course not.

    Even if these theories were published for the entire world to study...

    Very few people would ever succeed.

    Yet...

    The Custodial Agency had succeeded.

    At some point in history, someone proposed an almost unbelievable idea.

    If natural Spatial Modules could exist...

    Why couldn't they manufacture artificial ones?

    If they could create paired Spatial Modules by human hands...

    Then perhaps summoned beasts could use them to perform controlled spatial teleportation.

    It sounded absurd.

    Almost impossible.

    Yet countless researchers worked together, refining the concept generation after generation.

    Eventually...

    They made it a reality.

    The method itself was equally ingenious.

    They recreated, through artificial means, the unique magnetic field environments found within both the Main Star and the Secondary Star, forcing the birth of new Spatial Modules.

    After investing unimaginable wealth...

    Consuming mountains of resources...

    And enduring countless failures...

    They finally succeeded.

    Humanity had created its very first artificial Spatial Module.

    Su Hao could only sigh in admiration.

    Remarkable.

    Behind this single achievement lay countless failures that outsiders would never see.

    Scientific exploration had never been a smooth road. Every breakthrough was built upon innumerable dead ends, abandoned experiments, and decades of persistence.

    One small success often represented the accumulated efforts of generations of researchers.


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    During the early stages of their research, the Custodial Agency attempted to attach various recording instruments to summoned beasts before sending them back to the Secondary Star. Afterward, they summoned the beasts again, hoping to retrieve data collected from the other world.

    Every attempt failed.

    Every instrument was crushed into scrap during the process of traversing space.

    This raised another fundamental question.

    If machines could not survive spatial transit...

    Why could summoned beasts?


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    After years of research, they finally uncovered the answer.

    Evolution.

    Under the influence of the unique spatial magnetic fields that existed between the Main Star and the Secondary Star, both humans and Secondary Star creatures had gradually evolved over countless generations.

    However, their evolutionary paths diverged.

    Secondary Star beasts evolved organs specifically adapted for surviving spatial transit.

    Humans, on the other hand, evolved heightened mental power.

    Through training, this mental power developed into mental tentacles, allowing summoners to perceive and manipulate Spatial Modules.

    Only after discovering the biological mechanism that enabled summoned beasts to withstand spatial transfer did the Custodial Agency succeed in replicating it artificially.

    They designed a balancing device based on that biological structure and installed it on scientific instruments.

    Only then were their instruments finally able to survive passage to the Secondary Star and return safely.

    From that point onward, large-scale collection of spatial magnetic field data became possible.


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    Having completely sorted through the Agency's research, Su Hao couldn't help letting out a quiet sigh.

    "The universe truly is full of endless wonders."

    "Under different environmental conditions, life can evolve in unimaginably miraculous directions."

    He once again admired the brilliance of the Custodial Agency's researchers.

    Their discoveries had genuinely impressed him.

    For a brief moment, Su Hao even entertained a rather amusing thought.

    Perhaps...

    Instead of secretly taking all their technology...

    Wouldn't it be interesting to simply become friends with them and exchange academic ideas openly?

    He smiled and immediately dismissed the thought.

    That was clearly impossible.


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    If Su Hao had attempted to uncover all of these spatial principles entirely on his own...

    He estimated that even after living out another lifetime...

    He still might never have arrived at these three foundational theories.

    This had nothing to do with intelligence.

    Scientific discovery was never a straight line.

    Sometimes, progress depended upon a single flash of inspiration.

    Without that inspiration...

    No matter how talented a person was...

    No amount of effort could bridge the gap.

    That fleeting moment of insight could not simply be replaced by diligence.


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    Looking once more at the immense body of research accumulated by the Custodial Agency, Su Hao couldn't help but smile.

    "They really are a remarkable group."

    "Now that I understand the principles..."

    "The rest is simply a matter of implementation."

    Unlike the Custodial Agency, which relied on vast industrial infrastructure and sophisticated machinery...

    Su Hao possessed something uniquely his own.

    Runes.

    As long as the underlying principles remained the same, rune arrays could replace machines.

    With enough experimentation, he could eventually reproduce every function of the Custodial Agency's spatial technology through runic engineering alone.

    And once that happened...

    The greatest obstacle preventing him from freely manipulating space would disappear.

    A new field of research had finally opened before him.

    (End of Chapter 290)
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