"Now, let's welcome Fellow Cultivator Si Koulie, the leader of the Star Fighters' Alliance and a renowned authority on starship refinement in the three Sectors. He is also in charge of the Heavenly Road Plan.
"The Heavenly Road Plan will be the first step for us to march into the universe."
Professor Mo Xuan waved his hands and returned to his seat. <
Si Koulie walked to the podium with his head held high.
He was an old acquaintance of Li Yao's, too.
Years ago, when he was in the Flying Star Sector, he had proposed the Ice God Project and competed with Xiao Xuance for the leadership of the future exhibition.
At that time, he had been completely suppressed by Xiao Xuance and reduced to an unknown supporting role.
But after more than ten years, when Xiao Xuance had already turned into a cluster of dust in the sea of stars, Si Koulie would shine with the light of life again in his twilight years. He would have a chance to design the future of more Sectors.
The leader of the Star Fighters' Alliance and the chief designer of Burning Prairie, the strongest warship in the three Sectors, was brimming with confidence and hope. His back was even straighter than a teenager's. His hair was black and shiny, and there was not the slightest wrinkle on his face. Even the age spots were barely visible. He was even younger than when Li Yao met him for the first time.
"Fellow Cultivators, it's been a long time."
Si Koulie's voice was as loud as a bell, full of unquestionable decisiveness and heart-piercing charisma. Other than the greetings, he did not waste any time. "After five years of exhibition, we are finally capable of marching into the universe and discovering more Sectors.
"Sectors is a term that many ordinary people and Cultivators talk about all the time. However, the definition of what a Sector is is in many cases vague, if not contradictory.
"It is well known that the three-dimensional universe we live in is a natural whole. There is no substantial barrier that separates and covers different Sectors.
"The three thousand Sectors are integral, continuous, and inseparable. Assuming that there is an ageless turtle that can survive and crawl in the sea of stars, it can also crawl slowly from the Heaven's Origin Sector to the Flying Star Sector and from the Flying Star Sector to the Blood Demon Sector if it is given infinite time. There is no need for any complicated methods.
"Unfortunately, there is no such thing as immortality in this world. Not to mention each of us, even our civilization has limited time. It is the most precious resource."
"What stands between the two Greater Thousand Worlds is not a physical barrier, but the most terrifying chasm of distance and time that we know of."
"Take the Tian Yuan Realm as an example. The nearest star system to us is five light-years away. Even if we travel with light, it will take us five years to reach it. Not to mention, our current technology is far from reaching the level of light."
"And this is just an ordinary star system with thin psionic energy and no life."
"In the sea of stars, there are too many such star systems. 99.99% of them do not have any signs of spiritual energy or life, and they cannot produce resources or Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. They are not enough to be defined as Sectors. At best, they are wastelands that are worthless."
"From the Tian Yuan Realm, it is at least a thousand light-years away to find a prosperous star system with abundant spiritual energy that can nurture everything. With the level of our civilization, it is impossible for us to reach it by regular means. It is safe to say that we are two different Sectors.
"Therefore, in many cases, a Sector is not a very vast concept. Instead, it is extremely narrow and harsh, sometimes even smaller than a galaxy.
"The diameter of the Heaven's Origin Galaxy is about fifty billion kilometers. But only the five billion kilometers at the center has abundant spiritual energy and a habitable environment.
"Then, it is safe to say that the diameter of the Heaven's Origin Galaxy is fifty billion kilometers, and the diameter of the Tian Yuan Realm is only five billion kilometers. It is only one tenth of the diameter of the Tian Yuan Realm.
"The Flying Star Sector, for example, is an anomaly among the many Sectors. But the Flying Star Sector is not an amalgamation of dozens of star systems, either. It is merely an amalgamation of the space with the most abundant spiritual energy among the dozens of star systems connected by wormholes."
An ancient, rustic painting appeared behind Si Koulie.
It was a picture of a holy, benevolent, and motherly goddess dipping a willow branch in dew and throwing it to the ground.
The dew was scattered on the ground by the willow branch, turning into translucent dewdrops that were as glittering as pearls.
It was a myth that everyone knew. Nuwa created human beings.
In the myth, Nuwa molded human beings with mud bit by bit. But as she molded them, she felt that the efficiency was too low. Therefore, she simply dipped a willow branch in the mud and the dewdrops and threw them out. Wherever she threw them out, thousands of living creatures were born.
"The so-called myths often contain the profound understanding of the ancient people about everything in the universe. They are of great significance to us today, too," Si Koulie said calmly.
Si Koulie said calmly, "Look at the mud spots and dewdrops that have been thrown out. If we consider the earth as the entire universe and every dewdrop is a Sector, we will be the tiny microbes living inside the dewdrops.
"The microbes like us are extremely vulnerable. Only inside the dewdrops can we receive the necessary nutrition to resist the scourge of the sun and the sandstorm. Once we leave the dewdrops, we will die very soon.
"Two dewdrops, on the other hand, are too far apart from each other, although there are no high walls or deep moats to block them. With the short life of a microbe, it is impossible for them to leave one dewdrop and crawl several kilometers to another dewdrop.
"This is the relationship between the Sectors that we rely on for our survival and the entire three-dimensional universe. If we only had regular means of navigation, we would be doomed to be trapped in the invisible, unbreakable wall of light."
"Thankfully, above the three-dimensional universe, there are wormholes between the third dimension and the fourth dimension, which allow us to break the void and reach another Sector directly from a higher dimension."
The picture behind Si Koulie changed. From every dewdrop, one or dozens of colorful, colorful light threads extended out and connected all the dewdrops together like extremely thin rainbow arcs.
The arcs of rainbows were the wormholes.
"The number of wormholes in the universe is limited. The space where a space jump can be carried out is limited, too. It is like jumping blindly on the sailing routes of the universe when the coordinates and the sailing route are not confirmed. It is most likely a suicide.
"Of all the people here, Fellow Cultivator Li Yao is the only one who has ever succeeded in a blind jump. But I believe that even he would not be willing to do it again."
Li Yao scratched his nose in embarrassment.
Si Koulie was quite right. He would rather face Xiao Xuance, Bai Xinghe, Lu Zui, and Zhou Hengdao a hundred times than perform a blind jump where the coordinates and the sailing route were not confirmed.
Fighting a strong enemy such as Xiao Xuance, he would rather die a quick death. But if the blind jump failed, it was very likely that he would jump into the desolate universe where there were no resources and no vitality, waiting for his death in the darkness and coldness.
There might not be any of his own kind in the tens of billions of lightyears nearby. Such a lonely and desperate death would collapse even the strongest belief.
"To march into the universe, the most important thing is to find and dredge every sailing route. Then, we can set up highly-efficient lighthouses, or star beacons, at the two ends of the sailing route. We can even combine the countless star beacons into space gates in order to facilitate the transportation of large-scale fleets," Si Koulie said.
"Fortunately, mankind was not the first civilization to explore the universe. Before us, the Pangu civilization had already made plans for the development of the three thousand Sectors on a large scale. They discovered most of the usable wormholes and developed them into sailing routes. A perfect teleportation network of star beacons was established, connecting the three thousand Sectors into an inseparable whole.
"The space network was still playing an important role until the age of the ancient Cultivators forty thousand years ago. It allowed the ancient people with low technological abilities to travel across the sea of stars and travel among different worlds easily.
"Unfortunately, after the civil war at the end of the age of the ancient Cultivators, the war between human beings and demons, and the rise and fall of the Star Ocean Imperium, the space transportation network was almost destroyed.
"If you want to be rich, you have to build roads first. It is common sense that every village-level government knows.
"Leaving the age of the ancient Cultivators aside, during the thirty thousand years when the demon race reigned over the universe and the thousand years when the Star Ocean Imperium reigned over the world, attempts were made to restore and strengthen the star beacons and sailing routes. Although they were destroyed in the war in the end, a lot of debris and relics were left behind. Many star beacons simply ran out of spiritual energy and fell into the hibernation state but did not completely perish.
"Right now, with the legacies of the Star Ocean Imperium excavated from Spider Den, the legacies of the Imperium of True Human Beings from the war bases of the Immortal Cultivators, and the legacies of the Ming Dynasty on Kunlun, we have grasped tremendous information about the ancient space sailing routes and the secret arts to produce star beacons and space gates of higher levels.
"To march to the grand universe, the first step is to find and activate the sailing routes again, repair the star beacons that the ancient civilization established there, and expand the space gates of a larger scale.
"We are going to reconnect the dried and broken nerves and veins inside the body of the entire civilization after the arduous journey in the sea of stars like the ancestors of the primeval times.
"This is the significance of the Heavenly Road Plan."
On the light beam behind Si Koulie, many brilliant worlds appeared. They were closely connected by colorful heavenly roads and constructed into the most splendid picture of the cosmos.
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