Chapter 306: Six Tiers Conception
But no matter what, everyone understood that humanity's future ultimately lay in the boundless cosmos. All the struggles and machinations between individuals, between classes, were merely internal distribution issues.
Whether it was the discontent of the lower classes or the conflicts among the upper echelons, these issues could actually be alleviated by conquering a new planet. Shifting internal contradictions outwards, transforming them into external conflicts, had always been humanity's specialty. Thus, the Moon, being the closest to humanity and possessing substantial resource reserves, naturally became the first target for the increasingly strife-ridden nations.
Over two months later, four space bases, located in Huaxia, the United States, Russia, and the European Union respectively, each gathered elites from across their nations. They were filled with the ambition to achieve great deeds on the Moon, fighting for humanity's cause of space colonization.
Of the major forces originally participating in the Moon development conference, the Luminous Holy Church withdrew due to its greatly reduced strength following previous internal strife, while Yamato ultimately chose to give up, lacking sufficient funds to execute the plan.
As for the Latin Alliance... no one really paid them any mind. After all, they were just an alliance of poor, small nations, barely able to continue their struggle against the United States solely by relying on Huaxia's support. Grand endeavors like manned spaceflight simply weren't within the consideration of their various Witch-Kings.
The armies of the four nations preparing for lunar operations would maintain their independent command and deployment on the Moon. The bases were expected to be approximately fifty kilometers apart, with exploration proceeding from the four cardinal directions: east, south, west, and north.
Across the Moon's surface of thirty-eight million square kilometers, they expected to complete a preliminary strategic survey within one month.
Huaxia Federation, Tian Qiong City.
The thousand individuals preparing to participate in the Moon clearing operation were now fully equipped and ready for departure. Each of them was certainly no weakling, having achieved at least a Fourth Tier evaluation in combat power tests.
Each space shuttle, carrying twenty people, would transport the thousand individuals to the Moon in five batches over half a month, as planned. Simultaneously, a batch of remote-controlled weapons would land, along with, most importantly, five massive base vehicles.
Each of these vehicles was a behemoth weighing over a hundred tons. To transport them to the Moon, the Huaxia Federation invested a considerable sum, developing and improving larger capacity space shuttles at all costs.
Although the upper echelons placed great importance on Spirit Qi research, they certainly wouldn't neglect aerospace research, which concerned the nation's destiny. They had no desire to become another Sea Race, trapped beneath the atmosphere.
These five base vehicles would collectively form the Huaxia Federation's forward military base on the Moon, providing indispensable support for the eventual occupation of the Moon.
"Bei Di'en, may you have a smooth journey." Before their departure, Cheng Mu, who had come to inspect the situation, patted Bei Di'en on the shoulder and said.
Bei Di'en was the most recent Five Tiers powerhouse within the Martial Arts Symposium to cultivate a Martial Path Dharma Body. In this operation, he would be the sole Five Tiers individual to land on the Moon with his main body, serving as the Huaxia Federation's ultimate combat force, while other Five Tiers powerhouses would dispatch varying numbers of avatars as support.
"Thank you." Facing this elder who had single-handedly nurtured him, Bei Di'en still held considerable respect. Even though his absolute strength was now on par with the other party, it was also partly because Cheng Mu still possessed an extremely vast network of connections, his latent influence far surpassing that of an ascetic cultivator like himself.
Bei Di'en's personal journey to the Moon this time was, on one hand, to repay the favor of Cheng Mu's faction, who had expended vast resources to cultivate him; on the other hand, he sought to find his own fortuitous opportunities on the Moon.
Lunar exploration ultimately carried significant dangers and many unknown factors, yet Cheng Mu's faction also wanted to seize the initiative in the Moon's development, which was why they approached Bei Di'en.
As a powerful latecomer, the cake had already been cleanly divided by a group of pioneers. If he wanted to secure his own share, he either had to snatch it from the hands of his predecessors or venture out to open up a new world himself.
Having only recently completed his breakthrough, his foundation was still unstable, so he naturally wouldn't choose the first path. And now, with the opportunity to pioneer the Moon, Bei Di'en logically embraced it.
The thousand Fourth Tier warriors accompanying him were mostly in a similar situation to Bei Di'en, eager to acquire more resources but not yet wishing to conflict with existing powers.
He looked around; nearly a hundred avatars were seated in the spacious lounge. Most of these avatars still appeared somewhat ethereal, but the dozen or so sitting in the front row were indistinguishable from living people.
All these avatars belonged to top-tier powerhouses affiliated with the Huaxia Federation government. Among them, the ones who felt strongest to him were the two individuals meditating in the front corner. Bei Di'en even felt that, even in a one-on-one fight, he might not be their match.
This struck him as odd, because the upper limit of an avatar's combat power was almost always one tier lower than the main body. Even Speaker Chen Bo, who had perfected the Xuanhua Stage, his avatar's combat power had only just reached the Five Tiers, and wouldn't give him a sense of danger.
"Could it be that he has already surpassed the Five Tiers?" Bei Di'en suddenly had this thought.
Having only completed his breakthrough three months prior and formally joined Huaxia's upper echelons, he had heard of Bai Mo before, but he didn't have a clear understanding of what stage this elusive and mysterious titan had truly reached.
Within the entire Huaxia Federation, there were currently four individuals who had achieved godhood through faith, forty-three at the Xuanhua Stage, and twelve at the Martial Path Dharma Body stage. Among these, three practiced both Spirit Hub and Martial Path dual cultivation. Thus, the total number of Five Tiers combatants was fifty-six, accounting for a quarter of the world's total.
In fact, Bai Mo was already researching and formulating the demarcation standard between the Five Tiers and Six Tiers. However, because the current sample size was too small—besides himself, only Ramdo met the criteria, and Gang Duo in Florence could be counted as half—there wasn't yet a truly strict division.
In his view, from the Six Tiers onwards, regardless of the cultivation system, individuals became extremely difficult to kill. For example, someone like him, as long as his primordial spirit remained undying, would always have a day when he could fully recover. To completely annihilate a primordial spirit that could gather and disperse at will was a very difficult feat.
Or take Ramdo; if his divine blood plan were to fully unfold, anyone with divine blood flowing within them could potentially be seized and reborn by him. And even now, after self-detonating his godhead, he hadn't completely perished, merely waiting for the day of his revenge.
According to Bai Mo's understanding of the mage system, their method for entering the Six Tiers would likely involve beginning the Elementization of their bodies. Correspondingly, the Martial Path system would involve allowing their spiritual will to truly exist independently of their physical body for extended periods..
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