Over the next ten days, the Obsidian Airship maintained a constant speed as it flew towards the higher orbit of the Earth-Moon.
Maintaining such a high speed flight for more than ten days in a row consumed a lot of crystals.
But before departure, Chen Nanfeng and the others gathered 50 crystals and gave them to Xia Ruofei. In a situation where cultivation resources were increasingly scarce, even for a top sect, it was quite difficult to come up with 50 crystals.
Xia Ruofei stored these crystals in the Obsidian Airship in advance. During the ten days of flight, every time a crystal was exhausted, he would directly use his mental power to remotely control the airship and replace it with a new one, ensuring that the airship could get a steady stream of power.
In the dragon airship assembly, the nine members of the expedition team lived a very regular life.
They took turns to guard the cockpit, while the others cultivated and rested in different cabins.
As the flight distance increased, the number of times everyone went to the porthole to look at the scenery also slowly increased.
Two or three days after leaving the 400-kilometer orbit, everyone could already see the entire Earth through the porthole.
The blue planet hung in the pure black sky, giving off a very strong visual impact.
Moreover, as the Earth became smaller and smaller in their field of vision, everyone also had a deep feeling of being far away from home. Even though they were all cultivators, and there were nine of them heading to the moon together, they couldn't help but feel a sense of loneliness when they saw the blue Earth hanging there all by itself in the lonely space. It wasn't a sense of loneliness that came from their bodies, but from looking back at Earth from space and feeling the loneliness that humans felt in the vast universe.
After more than ten days of flight, everyone was very used to life in the airship assembly.
Originally, cultivators' physical fitness was much better than ordinary people, and with the help of their mental power, the discomfort of weightlessness only lasted for a short time. Now everyone could easily pass through the cabins, and the process of floating around was also very flexible, no longer like when they first entered the airship, bumping from time to time from time to time.
At this time, the Obsidian Airship had already flown about 250,000 kilometers with the dragon airship assembly.
In fact, their position had already passed the Earth-Moon transfer orbit and was closer to the Moon.
Today, everyone had to transfer to the Obsidian Airship according to the plan to complete the last leg of the journey.
Because after reaching the moon, some deceleration, orbit change, and other operations must be carried out, and the dragon-ship assembly itself has no power. During the past ten days or so, the Obsidian Airship has been dragging the dragon-ship assembly at a constant speed.
If the Obsidian Airship decelerated during this process, in an environment infinitely close to a vacuum, there would be no friction, so the dragon airship assembly would still maintain its original speed, and that would only result in one result — "tailgating".
Therefore, after approaching the moon, when the Obsidian Flying Ship needed to perform some relatively complicated operations, it should be put away the Flying Dragon Assembly.
Otherwise, it wouldn't matter if the Obsidian Spaceship was knocked or bumped, but the Dragon Spaceship wouldn't be able to withstand such collisions. As long as the outer shell was cracked, the airtightness of the cabin couldn't be guaranteed, and everyone would have to wear extravehicular spacesuits during the return trip.
How torturous would it be to be cooped up in a cumbersome spacesuit for ten to twenty days!
In addition, Xia Ruofei and the others also considered that unknown dangers might increase after they approached the Moon. If they encountered any danger during the subsequent journey, they would not be able to react in time in the dragon airship assembly. Not only were the procedures to put on spacesuits tedious, but they also needed to wait for decompression before exiting the cabin. After a series of standard procedures, it would be too late.
Therefore, everyone believed that in the final stage of the journey, it was better to concentrate on the Obsidian Airship. This way, they could deal with possible dangers as quickly as possible.
As for the dragon airship assembly, it was a warm nest for everyone on the return journey, so it naturally had to be properly preserved.
After passing the Earth-Moon transfer orbit, the Obsidian Airship still maintained a constant speed as it flew towards the Moon. Xia Ruofei and the others had already begun to prepare to return to the Obsidian Airship.
Everyone cleaned up the airship assembly and then began to prepare to exit the cabin according to the procedures.
The first group of four people to return was Muhua, Mu Jianfei, Shen Tianfang, and Xu Yurou.
They put on their spacesuits in the orbital module, checked the performance of the spacesuits and the oxygen storage, and then closed the orbital module door. Xia Ruofei, who was sitting in the cockpit, pressed the button to perform a decompression operation on the orbital module.
Soon, the orbital module had been pumped into a vacuum environment.
Muhua and the others opened the hatch and once again entered the vast universe. They floated along the traction rope back to the Obsidian Airship.
Then, Xia Ruofei used his mental power to close the exit of the orbital module and check the airtightness. At the same time, he began to release high-pressure gas cylinders to pressurize the cabin.
After the cabin pressure was stabilized, Xia Ruofei took Ling Qingxue, Chen Xuan, Yang Liu, and Yu Xin 'er to the orbital module.
It was still a series of standard procedures such as putting on spacesuits, checking the performance of the spacesuits and the oxygen content, closing the hatch, decompression, and so on.
In the end, Xia Ruofei and the others also left the assembly.
Xia Ruofei was the last to leave.
He held the railing with one hand at the hatch door, and at the same time used his mental power to control the exit of the orbital module and closed the hatch.
Then, he extended his mental power into the cockpit, pressed the button to check the airtightness of the orbital module, and then began to pressurize it.
After all this, Xia Ruofei cut off the main power of the spacecraft, the spacecraft's computer was completely shut down, and all the lights went out.
Xia Ruofei still didn't put away the solar panels.
He followed the traction rope, and with a slight pull, he floated to the Obsidian Airship.
In fact, during the entire process, the Obsidian Airship and the Obsidian Airship combination were still heading towards the moon at an extremely high speed.
However, the speed of the two was exactly the same, so they were relatively stationary.
As a result, when Xia Ruofei returned to the deck of the Obsidian Airship and directly loosened the hooks of the five traction ropes, the relative distance between the two didn't change at all.
After Xia Ruofei loosened the traction ropes, he directly moved the Obsidian Airship combination into the Ring-Tu space.
Now, only the Obsidian Airship was left sailing alone in space.
Everyone didn't return to the cabin, but went to the front deck of the airship.
Until Xia Ruofei put away the Obsidian Airship combination, and also went back to the front deck of the airship.
Xia Ruofei said in the communication channel, "Fellow Daoists, let's keep our spirits up! If nothing unexpected happens, we should be able to reach our destination soon! "
Chen Xuan grabbed the side of the Obsidian Airship to control his body, looked up at the moon that seemed to be close at hand, and said with emotion, "This is the first time in my life that I've seen the moon at such a close distance!"
Everyone couldn't help but laugh when they heard this.
Indeed, everyone had the experience of looking up at the starry sky when they were young, and there were bound to be all kinds of imagination, but none of them thought that one day they would come to such a close distance to observe the moon.
Except for the several batches of astronauts of the Apollo program, among all of mankind, there were only a few people who had seen the moon from this position with their own eyes.
Of course, this conclusion may not be accurate, because according to the magical illusion that the music brought everyone into, there was such a place on the moon that was like a paradise on earth, so at least someone in the cultivation world must have been there. Otherwise, who would have left that secret realm?
Xia Ruofei looked back at the lonely blue earth and added, "This is also the furthest we've ever been from home …"
Everyone felt the same, and they all nodded somewhat awkwardly.
The scene in space was so spectacular that no one was willing to return to the cabin, including Xia Ruofei, who stayed on the front deck — this could definitely be called an invincible space observatory.
He also directly used his mental power to control the Obsidian Airship, but he continued to stay on the deck.
In fact, this method didn't consume much mental power, and the benefits were obvious. Viewing the scenery was secondary, and the main thing was that the view here was excellent. If they stayed on the deck, if any danger approached, they would be able to detect it immediately, and it would also be more convenient for everyone to find the place they saw while listening to the music.
There was still about 50,000 kilometers to go, and the Obsidian Airship slowed down slightly, drawing a large arc as it flew toward the moon, and began to enter the moon's orbit.
The rest of the flight took about two days.
In these two days, everyone was cooped up in the spacesuits outside the cabin, and it was naturally not as comfortable as staying in the dragon spacecraft combination.
Other things aside, just the oxygen supply module alone would run out of oxygen every six hours or so, and everyone had to replace it once.
In addition, eating, drinking, and defecating was also a problem. Fortunately, cultivators were not like ordinary people who had to eat every few hours, and everyone tried to eat as little as possible during this period.
The process of eating was also very strange — everyone directly took out food from their storage magic treasures, and then the food would directly appear in the mask of the spacesuit outside the cabin. Naturally, they didn't need to use their hands, and the whole process of eating was controlled by mental power. If an ordinary person saw this scene, they would definitely be shocked.
As for the "three needs", eating less naturally meant excreting less, but it was unavoidable. After all, cultivators were not pixiu, only ingesting and not excreting. At this time, the adult diapers that were prepared on Earth came in handy.
After about two days of flight, the Obsidian Airship was very close to the moon's surface.
Although the moon was much smaller than the earth, that was relative. After flying close to the moon, Xia Ruofei and the others still saw a huge celestial body, and the large and small craters on the moon's surface were much larger than they imagined.
At this time, when everyone looked back at the earth, they found that the earth they saw now was almost ten times bigger than the moon they saw on Earth, and the earth they saw from this angle was much brighter than the moon they saw on Earth.
In fact, the nine people in the expedition team had experienced the wonderful illusion created by the music. The illusion scene started with flying from the earth to the moon, but the speed was much faster than when they took the Obsidian Airship. Therefore, the nine of them had a rough idea of the approximate location in the illusion.
Xia Ruofei controlled the Obsidian Airship to descend along the moon's flight path. When the airship reached the far side of the moon, it began to accelerate its descent until it was about three hundred kilometers away from the moon's surface. Then everyone began to look for the landing site in the illusion.
The memory of cultivators was quite amazing, not to mention that after experiencing the illusion of the music, that experience was engraved in everyone's mind. So when everyone approached the moon's surface, they quickly found a familiar ground landmark — a huge crater.
Xia Ruofei was the same as everyone else. After seeing the crater, his face suddenly showed an overjoyed expression. At the same time, he did not hesitate to control the airship to descend quickly towards the crater.
At this moment, everyone was completely sure that the scene in the illusion of the music was real.
Everyone was more confident in finding the secret realm shown to them in the music on this trip.
The Obsidian Airship's altitude continued to descend, and finally, it was only about a kilometer away from the moon's surface. This was also the range of low-altitude flight on Earth.
Xia Ruofei controlled the Obsidian Airship to sweep past the moon's surface at high speed at this altitude. Chen Xuan and the others were also observing the situation below.
At that time, in the illusion of the music, they all cut into the moon from this huge crater, then flew at low altitude for a long distance at high speed, almost crossing half of the moon, before coming to a valley on the back of the crater, and then the portal appeared.
The Obsidian Airship flew very fast, but Xia Ruofei's control was extremely precise. Now he was almost recreating the illusion of the music everyone experienced at that time.
The environment below was almost exactly the same as in the illusion.
As Xia Ruofei controlled the airship, he sighed in his heart. The history of the Rising Dragon Token could be traced back to at least three thousand years ago. Although it would reassemble every few decades, and he did not know if the illusion formed would be the same as this time, everything in this illusion had not changed at all. This was only possible on the moon because the environment here was dead silent, and there would not be any artificial overdevelopment. Unless a meteorite hit the moon's surface again, it would naturally remain unchanged.
Xia Ruofei controlled the Obsidian Airship to fly for about five hours along the route in his memory. This was only a short time in the illusion, and the Obsidian Airship's speed was still too slow. Finally, the nine people cheered in the communication channel in unison.
They saw a familiar crater, which also meant that if there were no accidents, they would arrive at the end of this journey after turning to the valley on the back.
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