Chapter 436

Chapter 436: Refining the Communication Stone

With the conclusion of the seventh new skill teaching, the strength of the top geniuses was set to surge explosively once again.

First, their stagnant realms could be elevated once more.

Thanks to the Cave Paradise, they could break through to the Spirit Enlightenment Stage in about half a year.

Secondly, various improved versions of new skills would greatly enhance their powers.

In particular, the newly learned Dull Technique, although its effects were far inferior to the Dull Technique created by Yi Chen and belonged to the weakened version of a weakened version, could still easily reduce the speed and reaction of targets at the same level by about twenty percent.

With a twenty percent reduction in speed and a further twenty percent reduction in reaction, the cumulative impact on the target would be unimaginably significant.

Even when facing an opponent who was a major realm above them, they could still lower the opponent’s speed and reaction by about ten percent.

This was also a huge weakening.

With the addition of the Teleportation Technique, Heaven-Slashing Technique, and the strong talents of the top geniuses, they could still put up a fight against opponents who were a major realm above them.

As for the average strength and realm of the entire Great Flame Empire, it was already in a rapid enhancement stage after the announcement of the Cave Paradise; as long as the average realm did not exceed the Cave Paradise’s upper limit, it could continue to rise quickly.

In space, inside the flying treasure, Yi Chen was practicing while drawing luck from the entire Tianling Star Cluster, considering the matter of the third generation of the Cave Paradise.

The third generation of the Cave Paradise now required low-grade immortal ores to be constructed.

From the Shadow Clan, he had received a batch of related materials, but it was not enough to create the third generation of the Cave Paradise.

He needed to find a way to start gathering more.

According to his calculations, it would only take a little over a year for the top geniuses to break through to the first level of the Crossing Tribulation Stage.

By then, even if he imparted the Crossing Tribulation Stage version of the Chaos Technique, it would be very challenging for the top geniuses to make further advancements.

Their talent, although unique among humanity, was still limited due to the average talents of humanity not being high enough to support them.

With the second generation of the Cave Paradise, top geniuses could break through a major realm in just over half a year.

But without the third generation of the Cave Paradise, given the talents of the top geniuses, breaking through a small realm could take several years or even more.

After careful consideration, Yi Chen felt it was about time to collect the second interest payment from the human federation.

His divine consciousness quickly located Bai Ruo Xin: “Ruo Xin, send over a batch of communication stones produced in various star systems.”

“Sure!”

Bai Ruo Xin responded and ran over to the Political Council to obtain the communication stones required by Yi Chen. Afterward, she flew in the direction of the flying treasure.

Soon, Bai Ruo Xin arrived outside the flying treasure. After Yi Chen disabled the energy shield, she entered the grand hall.

“Your Majesty, here are the communication stones you requested.”

She took out more than ten types of communication stones from her storage ring, introducing the star systems each of them came from.

Throughout the entire star cluster, besides the communication devices crafted with advanced technology by humanity, the most commonly used communication tools between the various races were communication stones.

Communication stones needed to be refined to infuse each other’s auras and energies into them, allowing for long-distance communication.

Only a few strong beings could refine communication stones.

Even some weaker tribes, even if at the Strong Fighter Level, were unable to refine communication stones.

Thus, only a select few strong ones from various tribes could possess communication stones.

Below the strong, only some high-end combatants who needed to send important information would have them.

Of course, even so, it was better than the humanity of the Great Flame Empire.

Because the Great Flame Empire still did not have its own true communication devices.

Some high-ranking leaders relied entirely on a batch of communication stones provided by the Shadow Clan, which were modified by Shadow Clan strong ones based on the spirit power traits of humanity.

This time, when collecting interest from the human federation, Yi Chen planned to use communication stones for connection and negotiation in the initial stages and then visit the Milky Way when collecting the interest, allowing him to continue misleading the Giants of the human federation into thinking he was still in the Milky Way.

The communication stones varied slightly across different star clusters and even regions.

Using the Shadow Clan’s communication stones would easily reveal that their materials did not belong to the star cluster.

Thus, Yi Chen intended to personally refine communication stones, while also teaching the refining methods so that the Great Flame Empire could have its own unique communication stones.

Yi Chen paused his cultivation and luck absorption, wrapping all the communication stones in his divine consciousness to test and explore their traits and materials.

The testing results satisfied him greatly.

These communication stones came from various star systems within the star cluster.

Their traits did not differ much, all containing unique power of the laws of space, but the variance stemmed from the grade of the materials, leading to differing strengths of traits.

As for the communication stones between different star systems, the materials varied slightly due to different nurturing environments and impurities contained within the stones.

Even the strong from various tribes, including those from the Shadow Clan who were level 150 and above, could not completely eliminate the impurities in the communication stones.

Yi Chen’s weapon refining technique experienced no such issues.

The communication stones were simply made from medium to high-grade spirit mines.

With his current strength realm, the flames released by his weapon refining technique could easily eliminate even the tiniest impurities inside.

This meant that, for him, even when using communication stone materials brought over by the Shadow Clan from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, the communication stones could be refined to be untraceable, making it impossible for any strong being or equipment to detect from which star system they originated.

“Let’s use communication stones from the Milky Way!”

After a moment of thought, Yi Chen decided to refine a batch of inferior products first.

He wrapped his divine consciousness around all the communication stones produced in the Milky Way.

The weapon refining technique was activated, and a crimson flame surged forth.

The communication stones began to melt, quickly turning into a puddle of gray liquid.

The impurities inside continued to be refined until only a tiny amount remained. When Yi Chen felt it was enough, he stopped the refining process.

The crimson flame changed to blue, starting to refine the negative characteristics within the communication stones.

He then began to add various materials, stripping away the impurities and negative characteristics, before switching to a light yellow flame to enhance the communication stones’ long-distance communication properties.

With Yi Chen’s strength realm, refining communication stones at the spiritual artifact level was like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

In just over ten minutes, he successfully refined a batch of communication stones.

After charging the stones with spirit power, they could not only enable long-distance communication but also display video clips of each other.

“That’s it! You can handle the distribution of these communication stones!”

Yi Chen waved his hand, infusing energy auras into all the communication stones before placing one into his storage ring.

He looked at Bai Ruo Xin and instructed, “Have the Shadow Clan send one to the human federation through the Revival Army. Inform Lu Qingxian, Parliament Chairman, that I’ll be meeting him in a few days to discuss the second interest payment. Have them all prepare for it.”

“Understood!”

Bai Ruo Xin placed all the communication stones into her storage ring.