"Sister Long, here, here!"
Long Yunxin, the youngest mentor of the Refining Department of Flying Star University, had just arrived at the entrance of the park with the hundred most distinguished students in the department when she saw Xie Anan, her best friend who had grown up together with her, jumping up and down and waving at them.
After five to six years, the little girl who used to follow her everywhere had matured a lot. She now looked like a lovely, innocent woman.
However, that round, rosy, and ripe apple-like face was still the same. If she had a cute ponytail, people might have thought that she was a college student!
One could not judge a book by its cover. But Long Yunxin knew very well that the silly little girl, who had been regarded as a treasure and looked down upon by everybody in the past, had made astonishing progress after studying with 'Fiend Star Li Yao', the legendary master of refining.
Xie Anan's skills in refining had already reached the level of an expert. Chances were that she would become a master of refining in the future, and everybody would be amazed by her skills!
"I didn't see this coming!"
Long Yunxin remarked to herself. She had yet to figure out what the monster Li Yao saw in Xie Anan and why he had recruited her as his disciple.
Speaking of which, when Li Yao first joined the circle of refiners in the Flying Star Sector, Long Yunxin was actually the first person he met.
Long Yunxin had even brought Li Yao to a party of 'Sword Polishing with Plum Blossoms'. They even had a competition in the Skyhill Sword Seminar!
Later, when Long Yunxin was teaching in the Refining Department of Flying Star University, Li Yao had spent more than half a year in the university as a 'guest lecturer'. The two of them had been in close contact.
Long Yunxin had a good impression of Li Yao when he was pretending to be Li Yao. She had even expressed her feelings to him subtly.
As it turned out, Li Yao had turned her down in a rather perverted way.
Ever since then, whenever the name Li Yao was mentioned, Long Yunxin would gnash her teeth in hatred and feel so ashamed that she would dig a hole on the ground and crawl into it!
Because of the incident, she was even too embarrassed to contact her best friend Xie Anan, who had been a witness of the embarrassing scene.
However, time would eventually erase everything. It was a long time ago.
Right now, it had been almost ten years since the riot of the Immortal Cultivators in the Flying Star Sector.
It had been six years since the great plague in the Blood Demon Sector and the coup of the Patriots Partnership in the Tian Yuan Realm.
It had been five years since the relics of the Pangu civilization were discovered on Kunlun for the first time!
For everybody in the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Flying Star Sector, and the Blood Demon Sector, the so-called 'history' was like a lone boat that suddenly rushed into a narrow, rugged canyon with surging tides after sailing through a broad, peaceful river. The changes in the past five years were perhaps even more ferocious than the changes in the past five hundred years!
Civilizations originated from communication. The tremendous technologies, techniques, wisdom, and history of the three Sectors had been integrated. Together with the primeval magical equipment, spiritual stripes, and spiritual spells that had been delivered from Kunlun to the three Sectors incessantly, as well as the Imperium of True Human Beings, the Alliance of the Holy Covenant, the Pangu Clan, the Nuwa Clan, the Chaos Clan, the God-Sealing War, the Path of Ultimate Benevolence, the true path of immortality … All kinds of new concepts, technologies, discoveries, organizations, and techniques were popping up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.
Even the most remote towns in the three Sectors were changing every day and would be completely different in a couple of months, not to mention the glorious metropolises at the center of the three Sectors.
The splendid, exciting era of great leaps had officially begun!
For a refiner such as Long Yunxin, it was undoubtedly her greatest fortune to live in such an era of rapid development.
Take their current journey as an example.
Five years ago, the Tian Yuan Realm and the Flying Star Sector could only communicate with each other through the Heaven's Artillery and the Universal Slingshot. Large starships such as Burning Prairie, which boasted super long-distance space jumps, were necessary to communicate with each other. The cost of transporting personnel and assets was extremely high. Ordinary people did not even dare dream of 'cross-world travel'.
However, in the past five years, the array of star beacons between the two Sectors had grown larger and larger in scale, and the precision of teleportation was higher and higher. Even point-to-point space gates could be established directly, significantly reducing the cost of the journey.
Even a common refiner such as Long Yunxin, together with almost a hundred college students in her department, could jump from the Flying Star Sector to the Tian Yuan Realm on a medium-sized starship for a study trip!
Long Yunxin and the rest of them were only part of the enormous delegation sent by the Flying Star Sector.
They were here to take part in the first 'Three Sectors United Magical Equipment Exposition'!
The Magical Equipment Exposition was a traditional ceremony of the Xing Yao Federation. The cutting-edge magical equipment of the entire Federation would all be gathered in this place.
After the initial integration of the three Sectors, many pieces of magical equipment had been developed and refined by teams made of specialists from the two Sectors or even the three Sectors.
The development of 'Kunlun', a relic of the Pangu civilization, could not have been achieved without the unremitting efforts of everybody in the three Sectors.
During the great development that lasted five years, the development team made of historians, archeologists, refiners, and specialists of various trades encountered all kinds of difficulties and obstacles deep inside Kunlun. Some of them even sacrificed their precious lives for it!
Right now, the first five-year plan for the development of Kunlun had finally come to an end.
The Three Sectors United Magical Equipment Exposition would focus on the most cutting-edge achievements of their work in the past five years, which would lay a solid material foundation for the official establishment of the new Federation in the near future.
Long Yunxin and Xie Anan hugged each other tightly.
The two of them laughed and screamed like teenage girls, as if they had returned to their carefree childhood.
Long Yunxin was a refiner after all. The ultimate treasures excavated from the relic of the Pangu civilization were right in front of her. She felt that dozens of kittens were playing in her heart. How could she hold herself back?
After the fun, she immediately grabbed Xie Anan's hand and asked for a tour.
Flying Star University, as one of the two best universities of the Flying Star Sector, naturally had its own booth in the Magical Equipment Exposition.
However, Long Yunxin had long been familiar with the various kinds of magical equipment developed by Flying Star University.
She knew that Xie Anan, as Fiend Star Li Yao's disciple, must have gotten in touch with a lot of cutting-edge magical equipment over the past few years. She must know which magical equipment was most worth checking out, and she also knew the mechanisms and the key mysteries of the magical equipment.
It was definitely a good idea to hire her as a guide. Chances were that she would be able to see some good stuff that the regular tourists could not!
"Students, please follow me!"
Xie Anan greeted the dazzled college students warmly.
The young men in their twenties hadn't recovered from the first space jump across Sectors yet. They were staggering as they walked.
They had grown up in a civilization of narrow, rugged starships. Even the splendid Heavenly Saints City was nothing more than an iron shell that was connected by hundreds of slightly larger starships.
This was the first time that they had 'stepped on solid ground' and arrived on a habitable planet.
The grass and the trees of the Tian Yuan Realm were all new to them. Even the rising sun, the setting moon, and even a bird flying by in the sky were all marveling and marveling at.
Xie Anan was from Flying Star University herself. Those little fellows were all her junior brothers and sisters. She understood their feelings very well and waited nearby with a smile.
In the end, Long Yunxin felt embarrassed and urged everybody to move on.
The unprecedentedly grand Magical Equipment Exposition, as well as the magical equipment deals and research projects that would follow, would last three months.
It was also meant to disperse the crowds of tourists as much as possible.
Even so, there was still a sea of people in the park. Not only was the ground so crowded, but even the sky was divided into dozens of flat traffic zones according to different heights. They were packed with tourists who were riding floating discs and sightseeing vehicles.
"Wow. Look over there. A floating mountain has been refined into the appearance of a resource planet. It is really floating in midair and displaying the model of an automatic mining base!"
"Look at the back. Are those the legendary Colossi? It is said that we have only managed to assemble three Colossi after five years of searching on Kunlun with all the remnants of the magical equipment we collected! "
"Huh? Are these people from the Demon Clan? Their wings are so beautiful. They look like dragonflies! "
After they entered the park, not just the college students, even Long Yunxin felt that her eyes were not enough for her to take in everything. However hard she tried to pretend to be calm, her eyes were rolling crazily, and there was both excitement and confusion on her face.
Such an expression couldn't have been more obvious when they reached the center of the main square of the park.
At the center of the main square was a statue of light and shadow.
It was like a never-ending fountain, but also like a slowly blooming lotus. When observed from every angle, it would change into more than ten thousand kinds of luster. Every wave was calculated randomly. No matter how long it took, it would not repeat itself. It made people immersed in it at first glance, and they would never get tired of it.
On every drop of 'spring', or rather, on every 'petal', the names and introductions of the magical equipment, techniques, and technologies were dangling. As long as one touched them softly with their hands, they would be able to see a long introduction.
"Colossi and related techniques and technologies."
"Techniques and technologies related to space fortresses."
"Magical equipment related to superconductivity technology …"
"Magical equipment related to super-heat-resistant metal materials …"
It was a detailed list of all the magical equipment on display in the Magical Equipment Exposition. It was sort of a unique 'tour guide'. Whichever magical equipment one was interested in, one could follow the map and go to the corresponding area to appreciate it.
What interested Long Yunxin, on the other hand, was the splendid statue of light and shadow itself.
She extended her finger and touched the 'petal' softly.
The warm touch and the clear elasticity told her that the colorful statue in front of her eyes was not an illusionary shadow but made of spiritual energy!
"You have made breakthroughs in the field of 'superstring theory', allowing you to enshroud spiritual energy in the form of a light membrane and twist it into such a delicate form with the force field?"
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