Chapter 789

Chapter 789: The Five Elements Bead

Xia Calendar, Year 7090, Huaxia

Lin Jiang stood at a spot in the Cloud Mountain Range, looking at the withering trees all around. He sighed, thinking that for many years, the spiritual energy of Cloud Mountain had been damaged a lot because of the Five Elements Bead, causing its level to drop.

"Ancestor Lin, the spiritual energy in Cloud Mountain has stopped getting damaged and is starting to recover, but because of the Five Elements Bead, the spiritual energy is gathering heavily around it, so the recovery is slow."

Zhu Bin said to Lin Jiang, "The damage to the spirit vein of Cloud Mountain is a big deal because Cloud Mountain is very important. Along Cloud Mountain, there are dozens of big cities that rely on the nourishment of its spirit vein. Similarly, there are many high-grade spiritual herbs and several branches of cultivation academies inside Cloud Mountain."

"Just hold on for a few more decades. A few decades will pass quickly."

Lin Jiang said, "The Five Elements Bead needs to be nourished by the spirit vein for a hundred years. It has only been about sixty years, so there are still forty years left."

"Can I ask you, Ancestor, what exactly is the Five Elements Bead for?"

"This is a secret method I found in ancient texts, which can allow Jiang Star to generate a spirit vein."

"Is that so? Why have I never heard of it?"

"There are many things you haven’t heard of, no need to ask too much. Just be careful and look after the Five Elements Bead."

Lin Jiang said that it was not convenient for him to speak much about Xia Qingshan, so he could only find a random excuse to get past it.

"Yes, Ancestor."

"Zhu Bin, you are about to break through the Transmigration Stage, right?"

"Not yet, Ancestor, I’m only in the middle of the Tao Achieving stage."

"Then keep working hard!"

"Yes, thank you for your concern, Ancestor."

Zhu Bin said, although the path of Tao Achieving was smooth, breaking through was not so quick. Lin Jiang took four hundred years to reach the peak of Tao Achieving, and they would only be slower because their resources couldn’t compare to Lin Jiang’s.

Lin Jiang and Zhu Bin chatted for a bit about the Interstellar Teleportation Array. Zhu Bin had once asserted that the limit of the Interstellar Teleportation Array was a distance of ten billion kilometers, but with Lin Jiang revealing a lot of ancient secrets, Zhu Bin felt that this limit could be surpassed.

Of course, Zhu Bin hadn’t yet comprehended a more powerful teleportation array, but he was very confident that with a little time, he could improve.

Lin Jiang also reassured him several times before leaving and headed to the Spiritual Energy Research Institute because Cao Wang had informed him that new news had arrived from Jiang Star.

"The news from Jiang Star has been coming in for more than seven years, but it hasn’t stopped. The updates are quite frequent. The latest news is that Liang Long has already set up a survival base on Jiang Star. The technology for the survival base is very advanced, and in space, aside from Jiang Star, there are already seventeen others."

"How are the related scientific experiments going?"

"Everything is in progress. When the immigrant spaceship arrives, providing them with some supplies will not be a problem, but turning the entire Jiang Star into something like Blue Star will definitely take more time."

"Stay tuned."

"Yes, Ancestor Lin, when will the second batch of immigrant spaceships depart? I am a bit eager."

"We need to wait at least another forty years for the Five Elements Bead to fully solidify, and Jiang Star also needs to have enough space to settle before we go. We cannot let millions of people take risks."

Lin Jiang said that the first purely immigrant spaceship has five hundred thousand people on board, which is already a huge risk. If we send millions more, the consequences could be dire. We must remember that, in order to compete for the benefits of Jiang Star, there is a lot of internal conflict in Huaxia. The ones going in the initial phase are mostly from powerful families. Although they may not be direct descendants, they are certainly not just cannon fodder.

"Ancestor, the flight time will be two hundred years. We can actually launch it earlier, and by the time this group arrives, it will be two hundred years later."

"You should find a way to shorten the flight time. We can’t let Zhu Bin outdo us."

"The flight speed has already hit a bottleneck. Sigh, the next goal is to reach one-tenth of the speed of light, and that’s already quite difficult."

Cao Wang said, "The current flying speed is about one-third of the speed of light, which is already the limit of our technology. We are also at a bottleneck stage. To break through this bottleneck, there needs to be a significant leap in scientific knowledge. Increasing the speed even a little is very difficult."

"I have already given Zhu Bin funding. On Cape VII Planet, we will continue to build three teleportation arrays. With our funding, they can save enough for one teleportation array every fifty years. The rest is up to you."

Lin Jiang said, "We also need to put some pressure on Cao Wang; we can’t let him rest on his achievements. The funds should not all go to Cao Wang; others should share some too."

Therefore, every fifty years, we will save enough to build one teleportation array and then construct it. At that time, the launch point will also be moved forward to reduce travel time. Even with the current technology, ten billion kilometers is still twenty days at light speed. Three teleportation arrays would be one-sixth of a light year.

This means that the next launch of the Space Mother Ship might reduce the travel time by twenty years. So, in the entire Jiang Star project, Zhu Bin and his team will take a large share of the credit.

"Old Ancestor, aren’t you just forcing us?"

"You enjoy the best resources and the best treatment. If I don’t push you a bit, you might get lazy."

"We are not being lazy. We are researching civilian technology; we really can’t be blamed."

"I don’t care about that. There needs to be competition within your team. Alright, I have already looked over the materials."

Lin Jiang said he was ready to leave. He had finished looking at the information sent from Jiang Star. Liang Long did very well; this choice was not wrong.

Now he had to go back. Xia Qingshan had given him many powerful techniques, and he had picked a few that fit him. Now Lin Jiang also needed to return to practice these techniques. The more techniques he mastered, the stronger his fighting ability would become. When the time came, he could sacrifice some lifespan, and Lin Jiang was confident he could compete with someone at the Tao Achieving level and Transmigration Stage.

Also, it takes time to practice and improve his skills. Last time, he had planned to advance to the Transmigration Stage, but because of Xia Qingshan’s appearance, he had to stop. He would need some time to break through.

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In the year seven thousand one hundred of the Blue Star Xia calendar, Jiang Star.

Liang Long vanished from the office and appeared in a warehouse, where several warehouse managers were already waiting.

"Greetings, sir."

"No need for formalities, just explain the situation."

"Yes, sir. Please look at this. This is the spiritual paddy we grew using soil-less cultivation techniques and spirit stones on Jiang Star. When we harvested it, the grains were full and rich in spirit energy. But now, something has happened, and all the spirit energy from these spiritual paddies has vanished."

"How is Blue Star doing?"

"It’s okay, even though there is a loss of spiritual energy, it’s all normal."

"It means that here in Jiang Star, even if we use spiritual energy to grow spiritual plants, we can’t keep them."

"It’s about the same situation, but the herbs haven’t shown this issue yet since they haven’t been harvested."

"Please wait a moment."

Liang Long said, and then he instantly appeared in the Spiritual Herb Garden of the base, pulling up a herb.

Sure enough, once the herb left the nutrient solution, the spiritual energy started to disappear, at a rate hundreds of times faster than on Blue Star. It is estimated that within a month, these herbs will turn from spiritual herbs into ordinary herbs.

In that moment, Liang Long thought of many things, like spiritual energy recovery. Before spiritual energy recovery, there were no spiritual herbs on Blue Star. According to the information he received from Cao Wang, the accurate statement is that the Heavenly Way of Blue Star is in slumber, so spiritual herbs and cultivators cannot appear on Blue Star.

"Indeed, there are many secrets about Blue Star that I do not know, like this Heavenly Way, which is not what I imagined."

Liang Long sneered. He once thought he knew all the secrets of Blue Star, but now it seemed there were many secrets he did not understand, like this mysterious way of heaven.

Back in the warehouse, several managers quickly said, "Sir, what should we do now?"

"Stop all planting and research of spiritual items, and save the spirit stones."

"Sir, what about the development of Jiang Star?"

"That’s not something you should worry about. Just take care of these supplies."

"Yes, Sir."

"I will take my leave now."

Liang Long left and returned to his office, lost in thought. He had originally planned to use Jiang Star as a stepping stone to carry out his grand plan of the sea of stars, but now it seemed he needed to wait. First, he needed to gather information about the most critical secrets of Blue Star to ensure everything would be perfect.