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Chapter 312: Chapter 309: Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones
Gu Jinlai had previously estimated that to elevate the Eternal Furnace from Mahayana to Perfection, two to three hundred Qingguangs would be needed.
Over the years, when he had excess Qingguang, he occasionally used it for minor upgrades to the Eternal Furnace.
The most notable change was that after entering the "Eternal Immortal" Super Boost State and then restoring stability, the time reduced from three months to two and a half months.
At this moment, with the Qingguang that Gu Jinlai invested...
His understanding of this Golden Technique was also continuously climbing.
As it climbed, the Eternal Furnace also brought a series of changes.
Overall power enhancement.
Body refinement efficiency enhancement.
Transmission characteristic enhancement.
Stability enhancement.
...
In every aspect, a comprehensive strengthening was undertaken.
The power boost brought on by this enhancement had completely exceeded his own capacity limits, powerful enough that even he himself felt somewhat palpitation.
"Too strong! No, it’s excessively strong!"
Gu Jinlai’s figure trembled slightly.
It was like a driver naturally feeling the stronger the engine performance, the better.
But what if simply pressing the accelerator slightly could immediately accelerate to a thousand miles per hour?
If you accidentally floored the gas pedal, and the speed directly soared to ten thousand kilometers per hour, that speed...
Who could withstand it!?
Too fast.
The speed was too fast.
He looked at the data of this technique.
Eternal Furnace: Mahayana→Perfection.
As expected, it had upgraded to the Perfect Realm.
In the end, only thirteen Qingguangs remained.
But Gu Jinlai regretted it somewhat.
Now, he felt it was somewhat premature to enhance the Eternal Furnace to Perfection.
He felt that he only needed to operate the Eternal Furnace slightly, and an intense, violent force would surge and burst within his body.
If he couldn’t vent or release this force immediately, his current weak body would be instantly consumed by the violent energy, suffering severe damage on the spot.
If due to severe damage he couldn’t stop the Eternal Furnace in time, like still flooring the gas pedal in a car accident, there could be only one outcome...
"Bang!"
His entire body would be burst by the power leaking from the operating Eternal Furnace.
An instant display of human fireworks.
Moreover, since the Eternal Furnace had become even more powerful, regaining stability once it went out of control would become even tougher.
In other words, the cooldown time had increased.
Of course, corresponding to this, there were also many advantages.
For example, originally, he needed several breaths to gather the energy to strike down a Peak Heavenly Being instantly, but now...
It could be completed in a moment of thought.
This meant he could avoid having to first charge the energy into a top-grade or Supreme Grade Spirit Artifact possessing tenacity and Infinite attributes, thus avoiding the loss of at least one top-grade Spirit Artifact with each strike.
Even so, since the power of the Eternal Furnace had become strong, his attacks were no longer limited to annihilating Heavenly Beings.
If a Dao Artifact with attributes geared towards "tenacity" and "Infinite" were used to store and carry energy, let alone killing a Saint, even an Earthly True Immortal...
They might not withstand his killing move.
"This... It really is too powerful!"
Gu Jinlai sighed.
However, after pondering for a moment, he seemingly felt this wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.
He had the Mystic Bird Fighting Machine to deal with Primordial Spirit Monarchs and the Cheng Ying Mecha for Heavenly Immortals, and only Saints and Earthly True Immortals could force him to use his ultimate moves.
And how many Saints were there in the entire Qiantian World?
Just five.
And Earthly True Immortals were even fewer, with only Master Wushi.
So...
Although the Eternal Furnace at the Perfection level was excessively strong, making him have to be extremely cautious when acting, it enhanced his trump card, giving him the ability to kill Saints and even Earthly True Immortals.
In a world where top-tier powerhouses were extremely rare, possessing such a trump card undeniably qualified him to compete at the peak.
Even, this kind of qualification was not like those of the Taiyi Sect, Tianhai Sword Sect, Earth Mother Divine Sect, and Island State that had Heavenly Immortals presiding at the peak.
Instead, he had a power comparable to Divine Weapon Forces and one that could contend against Divine Weapon Forces at the peak.
"Divine Weapon Forces..."
Gu Jinlai was somewhat moved.
Ever since the Divine Weapons emerged more than two hundred years ago, the rules of the Qiantian World had changed.
Heavenly Immortals were originally the peak, but they were abruptly promoted to the level of Earthly True Immortals.
There even appeared a discontinuity of Saints.
When the Heavenly Immortal Palace, Sanqing Hall, and Daqian Royal Family contended with each other, other forces could only watch dryly from the sidelines; even their respective supreme powerhouses didn’t have the permission to intervene.
But now...
This situation had been broken.
Gu Jinlai, a man without any divine weapons and who had not even come into contact with divine weapons, had risen from the ashes and had achieved the status to interfere in the conflict of divine weapon forces.
"It was not in vain that I spent half a month traveling east and west driving eight Mystic Bird Fighting Machines."
As Gu Jinlai spoke, he let out a long sigh.
With this trump card and the completion of the Cheng Ying Mecha...
Gu Jinlai, who had originally planned to recuperate for a while, couldn’t help but gaze towards Mu State.
Purgatory Sect, Cold Moon Sect, Netherworld Sect, and even Yan State across the Black and White Sand Sea could be ignored, but...
Mu State had to be conquered.
You should know that Mu State contained the largest gold mine south of Tianhe.
Even compared to the gold mines of Moon State in the Qiantian World, it was second only.
If he could get a hold of this gold mine, upgrade the mining equipment, and then add several small gold mines within Jiangzhou State...
In three to five years, Lingxiao City would again gather enough Immortal Essence Gold to manufacture a second Cheng Ying Mecha.
...
Star Shining Federation.
Cosmic Light Laboratory.
This laboratory housed the world’s largest particle collider.
Designed by hundreds of countries and tens of thousands of researchers who had put in tremendous effort, this collider consisted of a 30,000 meters long superconducting magnet ring where high-energy particles would collide, giving rise to a variety of changes.
At this time, in the control room of the laboratory, more than a dozen influential figures in the scientific community were gathered, constantly busy.
Outside the control room, there were hundreds of personnel operating many screen instruments.
Countless datasets from around the Star Shining Federation had been assembled here, providing data support to Dr. Harryman, the head of the "Apocalypse" project team.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please look, my hypothesis has been proven once again."
Dr. Harryman laid out a document in front of everyone, "We have confirmed, from various observations and verifications, that the world above our heads indeed belongs to the same coordinates as ours! The two worlds are actually two entities within the same starry sky, on different timelines, merely overlapping due to factors such as temporal-spatial dislocation, which we currently do not understand, allowing us to observe this world, which is unknown how far from us."
"We have already spent over sixty-six billion just to validate this widely accepted theory, and obviously, that alone is not enough... Despite the impact of this data, what the higher-ups care about is what it can bring us, and just this conclusion is not enough."
The speaker was the spokesperson of the technology minister and also the deputy leader of the Apocalypse project team, Lao Keren.
His role here was mainly to oversee the financial direction of the project team besides assisting Harryman.
"Not enough?"
Harryman scoffed, "What if I tell you that our competitors have already moved ahead of us?"
"Hmm!?"
As he said this, Lao Keren and several researchers with government backgrounds simultaneously changed their expressions.
"What do you mean?"
"Please look at this data."
Dr. Harryman directly showed them the newly compiled data, "Over the recent period, I can’t claim to have monitored all global transmission signals, but I still have most of them in processing, and based on our monitoring, I derived an interesting piece of information—our competitors had already developed a communication plan at least a year ago, but they disguised their plan amidst the astronomical observation craze, deceiving us for at least a year."
Lao Keren looked at the data Harryman had provided, and his expression grew increasingly serious.
"That country..."
"Although I do not know to what extent they have progressed, but I’m certain they have acted. After realizing this, I immediately had someone investigate secretly, and we discovered an interesting phenomenon."
Dr. Harryman presented another set of data, "Not long ago, our competitors used the pretext of national health checks, spending a few months to screen a group of special people. Although they tried to conceal their intentions and continued to use tactics of confusion, based on our monitoring and understanding of them, we derived three most likely truthful speculations..."
Lao Keren looked at the document’s index.
Three likely truthful speculations.
Brainwave technology.
A brand-new piloting technology.
Telepathy Technology utilizing psychic abilities.
"I pulled out three thousand sets of data they released to mislead the public. After multiple layers of screening and validation, thirty sets remained, and among these thirty groups of personnel, nine groups displayed common traits, precisely what I pointed out."
Dr. Harryman declared.
"You’re not going to tell me they’re researching technologies like mind telepathy or brainwaves, are you?"
"No, that’s not my field, you forgot what I do."
Harryman’s eyes flickered with zeal, "But we cannot deny the wonder of human thought, which is a special existence that transcends the shackles of time and space. It is bound by nothing, so, I have a speculation, is there a possibility that the thinking, the consciousness of life, is powerful enough to penetrate the barriers of time and space, moving from one world to another?"
He looked up, his gaze seemingly piercing through the laboratory’s roof, seeing the Immortal World enveloped above the sky dome, "Especially... given how close our two worlds have already become."
Lao Keren, Denis, and others exchanged glances. While they found Harryman’s statement somewhat incredible,...
Seeking the truth was in itself a process of constant trial.
"What do you plan to do?"
"Crossing the river by feeling the stones, we also search for similar individuals, and then, using the specialty of their thoughts, we attempt to contact that world through the spacetime disturbances created by particle collisions, and even conduct telepathy with the beings of that world," Harryman asserted.
"I need to report."
Denis said.
"Please,"
Harryman calmly extended his hand.
Soon, Denis had left.
But he returned in less than half an hour, "You will receive a batch of experimental subjects according to your requirements. There will be important figures coming to witness your experiment; hopefully, by then, you will have achieved effective results."
