The Fire Ant's words made Li Yao's blood boil.
The depression that had haunted him for days in the horrifying scenes that Gui Suishou described was all gone. His belief was clear, transparent, and strong again!
Yes. Even if the Pangu civilization was truly the parent civilization of mankind, so what?
Transcendence was the best reward for creation!
"Let's go!"
Li Yao, the Fire Ant, and Professor Mo Xuan said goodbye to their family and friends side by side and strode to the launch site.
The top-secret operation had not been disclosed to the public yet. Other than the two hundred Yuanying and demon emperors, only their closest family members and the staff in key posts were aware of it.
There were not a lot of reporters on the spot. Jiang Hailiu, Speaker of the Federation, and dozens of Yuanying and demon emperors were the only ones who were there to celebrate their departure!
The Yuanying and demon emperors would stay in the base of the Heaven's Artillery and conduct joint drills with Burning Prairie so that they could perform the second jump after Li Yao and the other explorers unfolded the star beacons and sent back the critical astronomical parameters.
"Li Yao!"
Jiang Hailiu patted Li Yao's shoulder neither lightly nor heavily and said half-jokingly, "I'm not a superstitious man, but you've created so many miracles in the past ten years that I'm willing to believe that you boast a unique strength that can allow you to create more miracles!
"How about it? As one of the first explorers of the Pangu civilization in the three Sectors, do you have anything to say?"
Looking at so many Yuanying and demon emperors, Li Yao had a lot of feelings. Thinking for a moment, he said solemnly, "I'm truly lucky to be living in this era! If it were in ancient times, I'm afraid that everybody who knew about the super treasures such as the relics of the Pangu civilization would've tried to take all the benefits for themselves. Then, they would've fought each other to the death, wouldn't they?
"It is an out-and-out miracle that almost two hundred Yuanying and demon emperors worked together to develop the relics of the Pangu civilization!"
"No matter why everyone made such a choice, whether it was selfless or because of the pressure of survival, I believe that this is a good beginning!"
"Since everyone trusts us so much and gave us the mission of being the first batch to enter Kunlun, we will definitely not disappoint everyone!"
In the end, Li Yao took a deep look at Ding Ling Dong.
Ding Ling Dong waved her fists and mouthed encouragement to him. Her smile was as bright as the morning glory, full of confidence in him.
Li Yao was greatly excited. He smiled and logged into Sparkle without looking back!
At 1: 25 in the afternoon, the three explorers boarded Sparkle and melted themselves into the buffer gel that looked like a bubble.
At 1: 27 in the afternoon, Sparkle was slowly pushed to the center of the Heaven's Artillery by the traction force field. It was like a grain of rice protruding from the center of a super pot.
Li Yao's four senior brothers, who had been transformed into star spirits just like Professor Mo Xuan, had long been prepared on Sparkle. The four of them had melted into Sparkle and incorporated the Star Map of Kunlun into the space jump system of Sparkle. They had set the jump parameters and were ready to go!
At 1: 30 in the afternoon, Jiang Hailiu, the Speaker of the Federation, gave the order in person that the Heaven's Artillery, which had been upgraded urgently, was fully activated!
In a moment!
The Heaven's Artillery, which was dozens of kilometers in diameter, was like a giant pot deeply embedded in the ground. The pot was made of more than a million curved metal plates, which could all move freely and adjust their angles.
Every metal plate had been carved with more than a thousand runes. They could both absorb the magma and the fire from below the ground and directly use the solar energy and the cosmic radiation as their energy source. They could even consume a lot of crystals as ancillary energy sources!
After the three tubes were activated at the same time, the spiritual energy boiled, as if a pot of colorful water had been boiled in the 'cauldron'. Bubbles of light popped up one after another and gathered in midair into a pillar of light that supported the sky and the earth!
The Heaven's Artillery seemed to have turned from a pot into a super searchlight. The dazzling pillar of light soared into the sky, tore apart the clouds, and pierced into the sky!
The unbelievable view could be seen even from hundreds of kilometers away.
The workers and soldiers who were working hard on the Grand Desolate Plateau were all dumbfounded. They stared at the pillar of light on the horizon, unable to utter a word for a long time.
"Ten! Nine! Eight! Seven! "
Inside the launch center, including Jiang Hailiu, the Speaker of the Federation, countless Yuanying and demon emperors couldn't help but count down in a low voice.
Inside the pillar of light, Sparkle soared into the sky and spiraled along the invisible magnetic field of spiritual energy. It was getting faster and faster, closer and closer to the sky.
"Ahhh!"
Inside Sparkle, despite the protection of the buffer gel, Li Yao tasted the feeling of breaking the void again. He felt that his every muscle fiber and every nerve had been stretched dozens of kilometers long. He had turned into a long noodle that would break apart in the next second!
"Six! Five! Four! Three! "
Ding Ling Dong was in the launch center, too. Staring at Sparkle in the pillar of light, she bit her lips hard and counted down in silence. She didn't even know that blood was flowing to her chin.
Her fists, which wouldn't have trembled even if she had hammered a demon beast the size of a hill to death, were trembling and unclenching now and then. She wiped her sweat on her pants and clenched them again.
From her perspective, she could clearly see that Sparkle was gradually becoming transparent, as if it were made of ice, but it was melting, evaporating, and disappearing into nothingness under the scorching sun!
A lot of materials were dissected from Sparkle, which turned into mystic rays and spread out in all directions.
Very soon, Sparkle would be completely melted into the pillar of light!
"Two! One! Launch! "
The chief refiner responsible for the Heaven's Artillery bellowed. A deafening hum echoed from the depths of the Heaven's Artillery. The pillar of light that was soaring to the sky was even brighter than before!
Although the transparency of the glass window had been adjusted in time and turned into a light black that was almost as dark as ink, the people in the launch center still couldn't see anything in front of their eyes for half a second.
When they regained their vision, the towering pillar of light had turned into a mist of light that spread out in all directions. With the Heaven's Cannon as the center, the area within a radius of dozens of miles was immersed in a milky white mist. It was so dark that they couldn't even see their own fingers.
Ding Ling Dong was the first to rush to the glass window. She almost squeezed her face through the glass window and observed for a long time, only to find no components of Sparkle in the light.
Sparkle had completely disappeared from this world!
…
"Ahhhhhhh!"
On Sparkle, Li Yao felt that he was like a blooming chrysanthemum. His every cell had exploded and spread out clearly in the grand universe!
In the broken void, time and space lost their original definition. In a trance, he seemed to have 'seen' countless Li Yaos, from small to large, arranged together into 'noodles' and 'pancakes' that filled the entire sea of stars!
He even 'saw' that his mental devil had been thrown out of his brain and twisted to the maximum in space like a half-dead bacterium. It was also making weird faces that were either crying for help or mocking him.
The weird process lasted 0.1 seconds, or maybe several days and nights. Li Yao suddenly shuddered hard. His every cell, nerve, vein, and muscle fiber was sucked back, constricted, and condensed again.
"Ouch!"
Li Yao struggled out of the buffer gel and vomited loudly on the ground. But nothing came out.
Thankfully, he had experience in long-distance space jumps several times. The distance of the jump was not very long, and the buffer performance of Sparkle had been greatly improved. He was back to normal very soon.
Li Yao immediately heard earsplitting alarms.
Sparkle was being seriously scourged by a meteor shower. His blood was freezing when he heard the spluttering noises.
"Did it work?"
Professor Mo Xuan, Fire Ant, and the other four star spirits all recovered from the broken void, too.
The four star spirits hurried to activate their spiritual shields and the force field twisting system!
During a space jump, the defense system of a starship would temporarily malfunction. It was the most vulnerable moment of the starship. If they were unlucky, even a tiny meteor could break through the shell and hit the critical core unit.
After the spiritual shields and the force field twisting system were activated, the meteors that were less powerful would be bounced away. Even those that were too powerful would be shattered by the spiritual shields.
As the spiritual shields and the force field twisting system were upgraded, the spluttering noises were indeed weaker and weaker. Sparkle was more and more stable, too. In the end, the influence of the meteor shower could not be sensed at all.
"It seems that it is not a large-scale meteor shower. It is just space dust!"
"Self-examination completed. Sparkle is 97% intact. All the core units are intact. The fuel is not leaked, either. It is not affected by the broken void at all!"
"The astronomical parameters nearby have been collected. There are two celestial bodies in front of us that are emitting intense spiritual waves. One of them is Kunlun, and the other is the pulsar deep inside the crab nebula!"
"Based on the relative distance between us and the 'Star Map of Kunlun', we have successfully jumped to the center of the crab nebula. We are no more than half a million kilometers away from Kunlun. It is almost within reach!"
Good news came from the four star spirits one after another.
Li Yao, Fire Ant, and Professor Mo Xuan looked at each other and saw the excitement in each other's eyes!
It was a very successful space jump. Half a million kilometers was just the distance between a planet and its satellite. In terms of astronomy, it was not much wider than a hair!
Without the guidance of star beacons, they had hit the bullseye with an ancient star map from forty thousand years ago. They were truly lucky.
"What's going on outside? Turn on all the crystal cameras and let's take a look! "Professor Mo Xuan said.
Immediately, more than a hundred crystal cameras around Sparkle captured the entire space around them. They were projected to the three of them in 3D.
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