A scene had occurred in the pavilion on the Chessboard Mountain in Zhaoge City many years ago.
Hundreds of black and white Go pieces hovered in the air, forming a complicated structure, which was witnessed by He Zhan, Que Niang and many other Cultivation practitioners.
This scene was often described in one word: the stars were scattered all over the chess pieces.
The chess pieces were like the stars at the time.
The starry sky was like the chess pieces.
In fact, compared to the chess game, Jing Jiu had a more familiar activity to describe this problem: the sand-piling game.
He often slept on the bamboo chair from the small village to the Aoyama Sect. The ceramic plate would appear by the bamboo chair from time to time, and he would put a grain of sand on it every once in a while, until it became a picturesque scene of mountains and rivers. Could he use this method on this patch of starry sky?
Jing Jiu had told Tong Yan that he couldn't even calculate all the variations of this chess game, let alone this patch of starry sky.
He had also told Tong Yan that the Cultivation practitioners pursued the impossible; but was it possible to achieve the impossible?
This patch of starry sky was of course much more complicated than the structure formed by the black and white Go pieces and the grains of sand on the plate.
There were tens of thousands of permanent stars in the area where the humans were active; how complicated would the chess game be if the range was extended to the entire local galaxy?
The super-calculation was indeed of little help in solving this problem. As Ceng Ju said, the final decision would be based on the intuition that was close to metaphysics.
Was what Tong Yan said right?
It would be better if he could come out.
Jing Jiu said to Ceng Ju, "Even if we can succeed, the Sea of Dark Matter will appear as the human civilization advances. It's meaningless."
The warped holes were right there, like a treasure hidden in an unguarded storage room; who could refrain from using it?
If they didn't enter the warped holes and didn't use the gravitational field and the high-energy particles, there would be fewer cracks in the space between the dimensions, and the Sea of Dark Matter would take shape much later. However, if they did so, the humans would be locked on the planets forever. Who would accept it except for the extreme pastoral group?
He wouldn't accept it.
If a thing didn't develop, progress and change, it was no different from death.
However, if the humans continued to advance based on their courage, wisdom and the spirit of exploration like they did in the distant ancient civilization or in the Federation of the Milky Way, they would inevitably enter these realms and the Sea of Dark Matter would appear. He did not know how it would be in other parts of the universe, but in this galaxy, it seemed to be an endless cycle of life.
Ceng Ju said, "Destroying the Sea of Dark Matter will buy more time for the humans; at least they won't be sealed off in three hundred years. Next, we will try to slow down the speed of civilization temporarily, trying to extend this process to more than ten thousand years. Then, humans will send a super fleet to the periphery of the galaxy to conduct various experiments, hoping to find a fundamental solution. At the same time, scientists will conduct more theoretical experiments … "
Jing Jiu didn't wait for him to finish and said calmly, "Don't talk nonsense."
Shen Yunmai's face was also full of mockery. His opinion was the same as that of Jing Jiu. He believed that the ideas of the previous ascendants were in a mess and could not possibly be realized. How much power would it take to forcibly slow down the advancement of civilization? How many people would die if the energy of the civilization exploded? The experiments carried out by the super fleet in the periphery of the galaxy would open up the cracks in the dimensional space. Wouldn't the Sea of Dark Matter pose a threat to the humans if it was far away? Would the super fleet be abandoned? What the hell was the theoretical experiment? Any monkey with a basic knowledge of science would know that it would be a dead end if they did so.
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The plan to ignite the permanent star was still a pavilion built in the sky. It was no different from talking nonsense to talk about the follow-up.
Jing Jiu had no desire to listen to the plan any longer. He went back to the ground with Shen Yunmai.
Walking in the passageway, his line of sight passed through the French window and saw the well-preserved city. It suddenly occurred to him that the pavilions of the distant ancient civilization were built in the sky.
After coming back to the suite, he came to the window on the other side and looked at the black barren land.
Hua Xi put the iron kettle on the stove and threw herself onto the sofa. She started playing games, paying no attention to Jing Jiu's mood at the moment, nor did she ask him what he had done that day.
Jing Jiu knew that she wouldn't ask him, so he kept thinking about those things.
There was a saying in the Zen sects: one drink and one peck.
It turned out that the Go game in Zhaoge City, the sand table by the bamboo chair, and the stars in the night sky had such a connection and correspondence.
Was this the destiny or the heavenly secret?
Or was it the arrangement that god had made when he built the laboratory in Chaotian?
Planet 857 was located at the edge of the local galaxy. Many stars could be seen in the sky, though they were not very bright.
The whole picture of the local galaxy could be seen from here.
Of course, it required a very good telescope or a pair of eyes like Jing Jiu's.
Looking at the indistinct nebula, Jing Jiu remained silent for a long time.
He had often looked up at the starry sky on the deck of the Stargate Hotel, and he had noticed this patch of nebula.
After hearing the story that day, the patch of nebula had a different meaning; it had become a hole in the local galaxy.
It was the wound of the distant ancient civilization.
In the next moment, his line of sight shifted to a remote spot in the night sky, where there was a white permanent star with an ordinary brightness that could be easily missed.
It was the real sun outside Chaotian, located between the Haiyin Nebula and the Federation of the Milky Way.
The three of them formed a stable spatial structure.
The former Sea of Dark Matter was inside.
The current Sea of Dark Matter was outside.
That was why there was a legend about the heavenly demons of the outside world in Chaotian, and why the ascendants encountered so many dangers when they came to the universe. Fortunately, the heavenly demons of the outside world couldn't break through the boundary between the two worlds with different speeds of light, so they couldn't invade Chaotian.
As Jing Jiu was thinking of all this, a faint buzzing sound could be heard in the night sky, followed by a slight tremor on the ground. The glass window in front of him was slightly deformed, and the lights and starlight of the circular base became distorted.
Hua Xi, who was playing a game, lifted her head and found that Jing Jiu had disappeared from the window. All that could be seen was the gentle wind blowing the steam coming out from the iron kettle.
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No one was running on the dark and desolate barren land, and there was no deathly dust dragon brought up by the white cloth. There was only the buzzing sound from time to time and the faint black smoke rising from the ground.
Jing Jiu walked to the edge of the cliff and sat down. He lifted his head to look at the dark space. His line of sight followed the sword light moving at a high speed, calculating his speed and analyzing his strength.
Shen Yunmai was the combination of two civilizations. He had a higher talent in Cultivation than most of the Cultivation practitioners in Chaotian, and he was more able to accept the modification of the interstellar civilization. His fighting prowess was indeed formidable. The Sages had a very high status among the ascendants, but Ceng Ju might not be able to defeat him.
The sword light traveled at an unimaginably high speed, traveling up and down along the edge of the atmosphere. The sword light traveled over the equator one moment, then returned to the circular base in the far north, brushing past the edge of the protective shield of the ghost city, and then returned to the space, passing through a few black battleships.
It was not to show off his skills or to be bored; it was a serious experiment.
Shen Yunmai needed time to adapt to the newly installed mechanical arm, and he was also testing a few weapons of the battleship level for the military; and he had a more important mission.
As far as the regular folks were concerned, he was the most important young master in the Federation of the Milky Way; as far as the swordsmen were concerned, he was a weirdo; and as far as the military was concerned, he was a fleet.
Jing Jiu noticed that the sword light contained a faint light of a different color. He took a closer look at it and was certain that the light came from his waist.
That was why.
The swordsmen in the starry sky couldn't conquer the starry sky just because they were too far away.
Even Jing Jiu himself had a hard time traveling across the vast ocean of stars. It was because the permanent stars were too far away, and the fairy energy was not enough.
How could a Cultivation practitioner travel freely in the universe?
The answer was not to ride the battleships, which was the least interesting of all.
The real answer was the super-particle transformation of the nuclear power furnaces.
The ascendants had been tempered by the fairy energy, so they didn't need to worry about the radiation.
The super-particle transformation of the nuclear power furnaces had been the main focus of the scientific circle in the Federation of the Milky Way; but few people knew that it was based on the needs of the ascendants. At least seventy universities of various sects had formed a group to tackle the problem. Though they had made great progress in the past few decades, they hadn't found any useful results.
Seeing the experiment conducted by Shen Yunmai, Jing Jiu realized that the miniature nuclear power furnaces had succeeded a long time ago. Thinking of the huge energy furnace he had seen in the passageway at the center of the planet that day, Jing Jiu instinctively thought that it had something to do with the miniature nuclear power furnaces. Planet 857 had the most relics of the distant ancient civilization, which could be of great help to the newborn humans.
This also explained why the Immortal Tan was willing to take the risk and come here incognito.
There were many Cultivation states for the Immortal Tan, and the Great Immortal Tan was in heaven and earth.
The Immortal Tan was well aware of this, so he wouldn't miss the opportunity to obtain the miniature nuclear power furnaces.
The sword light broke through the atmosphere and headed toward the peak of the mountain. The air was compressed at a high speed, giving off a whistling sound.
Shen Yunmai halted by the cliff's edge. Noticing Jing Jiu's gaze, he asked, "The experiment has just begun. Do you want to give it a try?"
Jing Jiu uttered "hmm" without hesitation.
Shen Yunmai issued an order to the battleship in the space.
A few minutes later, a few highly achieved swordsmen of the military in combat armor flew off the battleship and carried a case into the atmosphere. They landed slowly by the cliff's edge and flew back to the space after putting the case down. The case had a dark gray color, and it was made of a high-density material of the highest standard. It wouldn't be vaporized in a short time even if it was bombarded by a laser cannon.
The 857 Base had developed a dozen experimental super-particle nuclear power furnaces in secret over the last few years. Only three of them had been delivered to the military after a strict inspection. The first one was given to General Li. The second one was carried by Shen Yunmai's waist. The third one was in the case.
"It was prepared for you," Shen Yunmai said to Jing Jiu.
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