Chapter 889 |
Blue Star Xia calendar, exactly nine thousand years, Huaxia.
Even though many years have passed, the benefits from interstellar trade are still abundant. The first batch of satellites, warships, probes, and sensors has been sent to Lingjing Star with a team of three thousand engineers. In Lingjing Star, people from Canglan Star will come to pick them up.
The first batch of payments from Canglan Star has also arrived. Their payment methods include not only spirit stones but also other resources. With the in-depth development of various planets, the supplies on Blue Star are becoming more and more plentiful.
The university student league in Huaxia has started again. Cao Ying, as the commander of the league, is on stage watching thousands of participating students, smiling brightly.
These are all elites, chosen from hundreds of millions of university students. Each one can be called a genius, and most have special skills—either they excel in combat, are skilled in Pill, Talisman, Item, and Formation, or have outstanding talents in science and engineering.
"Ancestor Cao"
"Ancestor Cao"
Many big shots from various fields are in the audience, going to greet Cao Ying. They are there to scout talent. Each university student league often showcases a few extraordinary geniuses, and these talents are sought after in every field. After all, for geniuses, they may excel in more than one area.
"What’s this? You’re acting so quickly this time?"
"Well, Ancestor Cao, we are relatives, so you can’t keep giving all the talents to others. Please leave a few for me."
"Hmph, you, with the last name Chen, how can you claim to be related to Ancestor Cao?"
"Hehe, the four great families are all connected. Ancestor Cao is the wife of the Lin family, so that makes her my relative."
A few people began to argue. Cao Ying didn’t get angry. Huaxia is thriving now, and the high-level leaders aren’t involved in any shady business. Their disagreements are just healthy competition.
"You all can keep arguing. I’m going to check on the team from Ying Continent."
Cao Ying ignored them and went to find Li Qing. In the future Blue Star, there may only be three powers: Huaxia, the demon race, and Ying Continent. Currently, Ying Continent has over ten billion people, which is quite large, and doesn’t plan to merge with Huaxia.
"Taoist Friend Cao."
"Taoist Friend Li, the team from Ying Continent looks very impressive this time."
"It’s not bad. After hundreds of years of peace, Ying Continent has made some progress."
Li Qing nodded. The Ying Continent is full of talented people. This is actually thanks to Huaxia. Although the Ying Continent is not very large in the other world, so many resources have been sent back that the entire Blue Star benefits.
"I heard that last month another person from the Ying Continent achieved Tao, so now the Ying Continent has nearly ten Tao achievers, right?"
"Just the tenth person. But Huaxia has nearly a hundred, right?"
"There is no hundred; we are worried about how to win their loyalty."
Cao Ying shook his head, making a worried expression. For these decades, the entire Blue Star has seen a constant flow of geniuses, and there are signs of a surge in cultivators at all levels.
In recent years, even the Ying Continent has had six or seven Tao achievers, and Huaxia has even more. Now there are almost a hundred above Tao achieving, and several of Ye Chen’s group have already reached Transmigration Stage. The number of people at Transmigration Stage in Huaxia has risen to six. If Cao Wang and Zhu Bin weren’t so busy, there could be even more.
Of course, some Tao achievers were once from Qingyun and Zhou Liao. They experienced the merging of the two nations, so it is hard to say how loyal they are to Huaxia. However, Cao Ying and his group are not worried about these people rebelling, as they have already taken control of the situation.
Li Qing naturally does not believe that Cao Ying and his group cannot win the hearts of those Tao achievers. After all, they have been ancestors for thousands of years, and knowing how to manage their subordinates is second nature to them.
Li Qing and Cao Ying were discussing the upcoming college student competition, but in her mind, she was thinking about distant matters, such as how the Ying Continent could capture a planet on its own.
Li Qing always understood that the future of Ying Continent was to control a world alone, just like the demon race. Only by controlling a world by themselves could they have a future.
However, after experiencing several interstellar wars, Li Qing also realized that relying solely on Ying Continent could not conquer a world. Even with the weakest Lingjing Star they had fought, Ying Continent could not defeat it alone.
Now, Li Qing hopes to find a chaotic, undeveloped planet like Jiang Star, one that is suitable for survival and has no strong enemies, but such opportunities are very rare; they would need a stroke of luck.
So, after thinking it over, the future of Ying Continent still seems unclear. For now, Ying Continent can only continue to follow Huaxia, hoping to strengthen their power.
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In Haigang City, Lin Jiang was sending off a group of Tao Achieving beings, and he had just hosted a banquet to honor them.
There are quite a few Tao Achieving beings in Huaxia. Aside from guarding different places, most of them live within Huaxia. Although with their status, it would be easy for them to get property in Lingjing Star or Jiang Star, Lin Jiang does not allow it.
The reason is simple: he does not want them to cause trouble. Their status is very high; if they went to Jiang Star or Lingjing Star, the governors appointed by Lin Jiang wouldn’t be able to control them, which would be a problem.
So, in Huaxia, while they can enjoy a luxurious lifestyle and can bend the rules a little, they cannot go too far, especially since Lin Jiang is there to keep watch.
However, they grew restless after a while. Lin Jiang was worried they might cause trouble, so he gathered them together, along with forty Demon Emperors from the demon race, totaling eighty skilled individuals. Led by Shenwu Demon Emperor, they opened the Stargate to pave the way for the research team, heading to various Star Domains to release detectors and sensors.
The speed of the probe ships was not slow, but it could not compare to the Stargate. This time, they took many years to lead the research team over a hundred light-years away to deploy the probe ships and establish the farthest survival base from Blue Star.
In Lin Jiang’s plan, dozens of similar survival bases would be built, each farther away, to explore the vast universe.
After sending everyone off and returning to his office, Xia Qingshan had appeared again.
"Are you here to rush me again?"
Lin Jiang sat quietly across from Xia Qingshan and spoke to him.
"Of course, it’s been so long! There hasn’t been any news?"
"You should see how much information you gave me. I am almost starting from scratch. Without hundreds of years of exploration, finding Lingyun Star is just a dream."
"Right now, I’m worried. I feel like I have no goals and just want to go back home for revenge."
"I heard that new Heavenly Court immortals must visit the Heavenly Court, why aren’t you going?"
"You know the Heavenly Court is full of ambition. Not only do I not want to go, but neither Zilan Star nor Canglan Star has truly visited there. So I hope you can pass your trial soon, then you can go to the Heavenly Court and we can support each other—it will be safer that way."
"Are you telling me to go die?"
"Of course not. A regular immortal poses no threat to the Heavenly Emperor; only someone like me can be a threat. You aren’t qualified yet."
Xia Qingshan scoffed and said that if the Heavenly Emperor could be easily threatened, he would have been overthrown long ago.
The ones who can really threaten the Heavenly Emperor are powerful lords like him, who control independent worlds—he has four. If time drags on, who knows how much stronger they could become?
So the stronger Xia Qingshan becomes, the more he fears the Heavenly Court. He is completely unwilling to go meet the Heavenly Emperor, not even for the Soul Fragment.
"It seems you know a lot about the Heavenly Court. How about you tell me about it?"
"Once you pass your trial successfully, I will tell you. Right now, you aren’t qualified. Of course, if you’re interested, you can tell me about your hometown’s Heavenly Court."
"I was just tricking you; it’s all fake. There is no such thing as a Heavenly Court."
"Hehe, the universe is bigger than you think. Li Canghai told me that the farthest immortal he knows is only tens of thousands of light-years away, but how big is the universe? I don’t need to say much; there are easily billions of light-years. In such a vast universe, having a few Heavenly Courts is not a big deal. I could accept a few more Buddha Masters too."
Xia Qingshan said that Lin Jiang had mentioned many times that the Heavenly Court was fake and made up, but Xia Qingshan still believed it was real. First, the universe is too big, so big that even he, as an immortal, cannot imagine it. Second, he still could not see through Lin Jiang’s true nature. Xia Qingshan had become much stronger compared to how he was back then.
Lin Jiang looked at him with a smile, saying nothing. However, Lin Jiang was also a little hesitant. The universe is so vast; what if this really is true? Wouldn’t that mean endless interstellar wars in the future?
