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Chapter 199: Chapter 196: Taboo
"Battleships? Flying boats?"
Zhang Lihuo, Si Tianyan, and Guan Xingyun all sighed in relief.
However...
"If we were to use the designs and materials of the Floating Island to build flying boats and battleships, their flying speed would inevitably be slow. Even if we supplemented them with other materials, it would still not be possible to exceed the speed of a Divinity Transformation Great Cultivator’s flying sword, let alone a Primordial Spirit True Monarch. In front of a Primordial Spirit True Monarch, these flying boats and battleships would just be sitting ducks..."
Zhang Lihuo said, pausing for a moment: "Back in the day, the reason for constructing floating islands was to use them as mobile air bases, the symbolic meaning outweighing their combat significance. Coupled with the mature Heavenly Dragon technology of the Holy Realm, each departure of the floating islands was surely accompanied by Heavenly Dragon escorts, hence the legend of the Twelve Floating Islands. But after that period, no Heavenly Master forces would go to great lengths to allocate resources towards producing floating islands again."
"Heavenly Dragon escort?"
Gu Jinlai laughed: "What if I were to install a dozen, or even several dozen short-range defense cannons on the flying boats or battleships? How would the flying swords of Primordial Spirit True Monarchs then break through the defenses and destroy the flying boats and battleships?"
"Installing short-range defense cannons?"
Si Tianyan’s mind stirred, quickly coming up with something: "Is Heavenly Monarch Gu trying to use this method to threaten the Primordial Spirit True Monarchs, to avoid being only defensively passive against those who can control swords and navigate the Void?"
"That’s the idea, but the specifics will depend on costs, feasibility, and various other factors."
Gu Jinlai stated candidly: "Look at Yunxiao Wood and Void Stone, these spiritual materials seem to resonate with a certain force field in our realm. Because of this co-spiritual existence, when their spirituality is harnessed and activated, they can propel floating islands weighing billions, even tens of billions of tons into the Void, acting like engines... and there are thousands of such engines on a floating island..."
He continuously articulated his ideas, expressing his needs.
Zhang Lihuo, Si Tianyan, Guan Xingyun, and other Heavenly Masters listened intently.
Especially Si Tianyan and Guan Xingyun, who had just joined the big family of Lingxiao City, Gu Jinlai had generously allowed Zhang Lihuo to teach them the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method.
Grateful for the favor, they naturally were eager to prove their worth.
Gu Jinlai described his requirements, speculations, and some related designs from the Fighting Machine Xuan Nu and Qingluan Battleships in detail.
The collision of ideas and inspirations seemed to enlighten the Heavenly Masters before him.
Ultimately, he concluded: "We already have the blueprints for the floating islands, the spiritual circuits of the floating islands, and two pieces of spiritual material. The value of these two spiritual materials might not be sufficient to lift thousands of tons, tens of thousands of tons of battleships into the Void, but lifting hundreds of tons isn’t a problem. Whether this hundred tons is exactly one hundred or nine hundred, depends on your abilities."
"We understand. We will find a way,"
Zhang Lihuo nodded solemnly.
Si Tianyan seemed contemplative: "Heavenly Monarch Gu just mentioned the Fighting Machine Xuan Nu and the Qingluan Mother Ship... had these been envisioned earlier?"
"I have already prepared the data for both, but this data reveals the ultimate form of the Qingluan Mother Ship, to be switched to ordinary Xuan Nu Fighting Machines and Qingluan Mother Ships that even common people can operate."
Gu Jinlai said, taking out a booklet he had written that omitted some data which could reveal traces of the Blue Star.
"Common people can operate..."
Zhang Lihuo, despite finding it a bit exaggerated—all the more so after Gu Jinlai completed the Heavenly Master Path’s compensation for the deficiencies in Qi and blood, leaving no side effects—the future won’t see a shortage of Heavenly Masters.
Even during the heyday of Daqian, there were hundreds, if not thousands of Heavenly Masters.
There were more than enough Heavenly Masters.
Could it be that the Supreme Elder was thinking of building over a thousand Xuan Nu Fighting Machines and Qingluan Mother Ships?
"If we truly aim to achieve this goal, it’s not impossible, but the required investment might increase tenfold, a hundredfold,"
Guan Xingyun suddenly spoke.
"Oh? How so?"
Gu Jinlai looked at him.
"All things have spirits, and humans are the leaders of all spiritual things. Even ordinary people possess their own ’spiritual’ power, though they can’t control it well. I’ve read in a book that once there was a Heavenly Monarch who wanted to gather the spirits of all beings to elevate himself to the rank of creator. They failed, yet they also succeeded."
Guan Xingyun continued: "The failure was because the spirits of each person were entirely different; forcibly fusing them would only cause them to cancel out and deplete, achieving very little effect. The success came with some special individuals whose minds and thoughts were almost identically aligned. When the thought frequencies of two, three, four, five, or six people reached an ultimate alignment, the spirits they emitted would add up. Eventually, the released spirits reached a level that activated spiritual materials, equivalent to Heavenly Master Apprentices."
"I’ve also read that book,"
Zhang Lihuo said: "But, finding people with highly similar mental frequencies is too difficult. There are no two identical leaves in the world, let alone two people with identical thoughts. Daqian has a population close to one billion, but only about ten to eight groups might meet the criteria. Rather than spending vast amounts of energy searching for these people, it would be better to train more Heavenly Masters."
"Mental frequencies in sync..."
Gu Jinlai seemed lost in thought.
All things have spirits.
Spirit, refers to the soul.
Being a Blue Star person who easily adapted to the "All things have spirits" rule, this rule also applies on Blue Star.
In other words, spiritual materials exist on Blue Star too.
He remembered reading about and hearing rumors of some special materials on the internet.
However...
All things have spirits does not mean that people from Blue Star can become Heavenly Masters.
This likely relates to the environmental differences between the two planets.
Though people on Blue Star can practice martial arts to strengthen their bodies, they can at most achieve the level of refining organs and changing blood.
That is, wearing a hundred-catty heavy armor and moving as usual.
But the Heavenly Master Path requires Qi Refining and Divinity Transformation.
The prerequisite for Qi Refining and Divinity Transformation is Perfect Essence Qi, which means one must first achieve Qi Refining.
This is almost an impossible task on Blue Star.
Hence, it’s not realistic for Blue Star people to follow the Heavenly Master path.
The Blue Star people might not even complete the first step of "Qi Refining and God Transformation" before exhausting their Qi and blood, dying instantly on the spot.
If the path of the Heavenly Master is impassable, then the only option is to resonate thought frequencies to activate spiritual materials.
Spiritual materials belong to a completely new type of material.
He believed that once the Blue Star truly understood the power and divinity of spiritual materials, relying on their technological base, a fourth industrial revolution would inevitably be sparked.
When that time came, he would bring those industrial achievements from Blue Star here for the more spiritually powerful Heavenly Masters to utilize...
Recreating the glory of the Holy Sanctuary Era a thousand years ago was certainly not a lavish hope.
Only with a civilization comparable to that of the Holy Sanctuary Era a thousand years ago would he truly dare to say he had the confidence to spread the radiance of "order" to every corner of the world.
Otherwise, even if he created a hydrogen bomb, it would be of no use against those Earthly True Immortals who could withstand tens of thousands of degrees of high temperature with their physical bodies.
Though a hydrogen bomb has a core temperature of several hundred million degrees, that temperature exists only at the very core and is also released instantaneously. The radiant heat and shock waves from such a bomb simply cannot affect those Earthly True Immortals.
Moreover, even a person who has comprehended mental realms can sense danger, let alone those Earthly True Immortals who stand at the pinnacle of the mortal world.
The Primordial Spirit True Monarch Lu Zhanxian can control six flying swords at five times the speed of sound to kill targets. What about the Earthly True Immortals?
Unless he uses a full-scale nuclear bombardment, he would not be able to harm any of the Earthly True Immortals.
Even a full-scale nuclear bombardment might not be effective.
After all, Earthly True Immortals are not large targets; they could easily take cover and carry out assassinations.
Therefore, it was clearly necessary for the Blue Star to instigate a fourth industrial revolution and upgrade their capabilities.
"Let’s proceed in the direction of thought frequency resonance."
Gu Jinlai spoke solemnly, "I’m giving you one month. I want a preliminary report in a month."
"Yes."
Zhang Lihuo, Si Tianyan, Guan Xingyun, and others responded simultaneously.
After handling the matters here, Gu Jinlai returned to his own residence.
He briefly reviewed his own situation...
He discovered that he was extremely lacking in Qingguang.
Not to mention the Eternal Furnace; he couldn’t even think about it without two or three hundred strands of Qingguang.
Nuclear fusion engine...
It should be soon. With just three or five more strands of Qingguang, he would be able to fully link it with the Heavenly Masters’ creations in this world.
But the nuclear fusion engine was just a part of the complete Cheng Ying Mecha; even if perfected, it wouldn’t mean much.
The remaining issue was the Qiantian Purple Qi Technique.
This Qi Observation Technique was crucial to his cultivation of "power"...
"Wait!"
When Gu Jinlai thought of this, it was as if he realized something.
"Power... the power of all living beings!"
But if all living beings were inherently one entity...
Just like when he contacted the true "spiritual world" through True Spirit while in the Clear Light State, seeing that all living beings and everything in the universe belonged to the "spirit," it made no sense to talk about the power or intent of all beings.
That is to say...
"I could indeed start with the ’spiritual world,’ understanding the forces of all beings... no, I should grasp the momentum of the ’spiritual world’ itself, ultimately harnessing the power of the ’spiritual world’ for my own use."
Gu Jinlai muttered to himself.
If he really managed to harness the power of the spiritual world for himself, what would that mean!?
It would mean he could easily dismantle or erase the "spirituality" of any life form.
This trait...
Gu Jinlai’s eyes narrowed: "The Ruins Beast!" 𝚗ov𝚙𝚞𝚋.c𝚘m
He was shocked.
This was the Ruins Beast!
The highest achievement of the Heavenly Master Holy Sanctuary a thousand years ago, the ultimate weapon against all cultivator beings, known as the taboo Ruins Beast!
This was the reason why the Heavenly Master Holy Sanctuary could always dominate over those beings who had achieved the Dao Fruit, despite not having comparable power.
Likewise, it was the core reason why cultivators always struggled to truly rise up before the Heavenly Masters.
"Taboo power..."
Gu Jinlai found it hard to imagine what consequences truly wielding this power might bring.
He would likely...
become public enemy number one in the Cultivation World.
This power...
"I may not use it, but... I cannot be without it."
