235: Chapter 235 Project Initiation, Recent Developments of the Human Race on Blue Star

The procedures for project initiation were not particularly complicated, and there was no personnel on-site to assist; everything was handled by the high-level intelligent entity in this bronze hall.

He arrived at the console, selected the project initiation section, and entered his identity information.

Project Number: Space Technology—007

Project Name: Practice and Application of Primary Space Storage Technology

Project Resources: 20 sets of spatial biological materials, 20 sets of spatial energy, and materials for large-scale formation arrays.

Project Site: Region of Dense Spatial Laws

Project Personnel: Tianhe Zhenren

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This project did not require any assistance; after all, without an understanding of space technology or exposure to spatial laws, anyone who came would only cause trouble. It was better to conduct the research alone.

In less than a moment, the entire project review was quickly processed and approved by the high-level intelligent entity, and the corresponding site and resources had already been allocated.

Wang An spent 20 minutes here, collected all the resources, and boarded a small cargo transport spaceship to head to the experimental site allocated to him.

As a plane-type small world, the region of dense spatial laws in Taiyi Yutian was naturally located at the edge of the world.

The entire small world was surrounded by seawater on all four sides, and countless transported islands and rocks were forged around the extreme weather that gathered there.

The place he was heading to now was an energy celestial eye near the place of sunrise in the east.

In less than 30 minutes, the spaceship crossed tens of thousands of miles and arrived beneath the energy celestial eye.

Looking from afar, a massive black hole spanning a thousand miles split open in the sky, and countless amounts of energy, cosmic dust, and streams of laws were spewed into the world by that celestial eye.

"So this is the energy injection node of the small world? It is truly magnificent."

The energy here was extremely violent. As Wang An's Yin Spirit thought scanned the ten-thousand-mile radius, he found that the 36 islands were almost completely barren; ordinary living beings found it extremely difficult to survive here.

The spaceship continued forward and landed on the 17th island allocated to him. As soon as he stepped out, a dull, hard sensation traveled from the soles of his feet through his entire body.

Wang An discovered that the space and soil in this area were extremely hard, and they even emitted a faint aura of laws.

"This must be the effect of long-term exposure to the laws."

Subsequently, he began the formation array setup and experimental site planning.

Time flowed by bit by bit.

New Era Year 16, Solar System, Blue Star, Tianhe Dojo.

Wang An's true body emerged from the blessed land.

"I have been in seclusion for four years this time, but I did not expect to have advanced to Mid-Stage Level 2 so quickly."

He immediately sent a message to his three disciples, asking them to report on the recent developments.

Before long, Lu Tianxin, Chen Tianping, and Ye Tianli arrived one after another at the main hall of Yinhan Mansion.

Having previously sensed the imagery of "Celestial Palaces and Cloud Terraces" from the Earth on the Roof outside, they had guessed that their master had made another breakthrough. Now, seeing their master's aura like a rainbow—even more vast and majestic—they were even more certain and immediately offered their congratulations in unison.

"We, your disciples, congratulate Master on the further advancement of your cultivation; achieving the High Stage is just around the corner."

"Very well, no need for more words. During these years of my seclusion, what major events have occurred in our human civilization? Tell me about them."

"Yes, Master."

Lu Tianxin spoke first. Although he was no longer responsible for executing specific tasks, he still directed the development path of the entire Blue Star civilization and was very well-informed about recent developments.

He immediately introduced them.

"After you went into seclusion in New Era Year 12, the Blue Star Human Federation continued to push forward with the terraforming projects of Venus and Mars. As of now, in New Era Year 16, three Primary-Stage Spirit Beasts have been born. Two of them had cruel temperaments and were unwilling to submit, so they were executed; another one, a Fire-element Spirit Turtle named [ Rock Mountain Fire ], has submitted."

"On these two preliminarily terraformed planets, there are 5 Primary-Stage specific spirit plants and spirit herbs, and 6 types of extraordinary mineral veins."

"Over the past 4 years, a total of 5 Extraordinary Primary-Stage lifeforms have been born: 3 from our Tianhe Dojo, and one each from the Martial Arts and Taoist schools. Currently, our Supreme Council of Blue Star Human Civilization and the Human Federation have a total of 24 council members."

Hearing these figures, Wang An felt that the rate of one Extraordinary per year was not too slow. He then asked about the issues he was concerned about.

"What is the success rate for breaking through to the Extraordinary Primary Stage?"

To this, Lu Tianxin replied with great familiarity.

"20%. This is the probability of breakthrough when holding an important position in the Blue Star Human Federation and enjoying sufficient resources, cultivation techniques, and destiny supply. In the 4 years up to now, 20 Qi Refining cultivators have failed their breakthroughs and transformed into small Five-Element Spirit Lands."

This success rate was not insignificant. One must know that before Year 12, the breakthrough success rate was below 10%. At that time, the Extraordinary interstellar society had not been fully built, a complete Extraordinary industry had not been established, and most people were still using primitive spirit herbs as auxiliary stabilizing agents during breakthroughs.

Of course, this did not include other systems; the cultivation paths for the Primary Stage in other systems had not even been perfected, and their success rates were a whole order of magnitude lower.

"This success rate has been achieved due to innovations in pills over the past year or two."

"What is the current population of cultivators?"

"There are already 120,000 Level 10 lifeforms, and the number of Qi Refining cultivators who have stepped over the cultivation threshold of Level 2 and above has reached 20 million."

After more than a decade of education and resource supply, although the population had recovered to around 4.5 billion, the overall growth rate of cultivators was showing signs of slowing down.

"That is still too few."

Regarding this, Lu Tianxin also said with some helplessness.

"We have discovered that a large portion of the population has reached a state of near-insulation toward Vital Qi. Even in such a dense environment, the amount their bodies can absorb remains minimal. Moreover, the currently taught cultivation techniques are difficult for some people to grasp; many are blocked at the stage of refining True Qi and, no matter what they do, cannot touch this threshold."

Wang An had the ability to solve these problems, but now that he had such a large organization to manage, he could not handle everything personally.

"Does the Federation have any solutions?"

At this moment, Ye Tianli replied.

"We are currently working on two projects. First, we are rewriting a set of cultivation techniques suitable for life levels between 1 and 2; this technique aims to improve the body's sensitivity to and absorption efficiency of Vital Qi. Second, for those who have been stuck at Level 2 life for a long time and are unable to cultivate True Qi, we provide an intake of milder Wondrous Qi to directly break through using external objects."

"Among these, the low-level technique requires collecting cultivation data from a large number of people and is still in the exploratory stage. The intake of Wondrous Qi has already been verified; after about 2 years of intake, one can passively nurture and refine True Qi. However, cultivation after that point is still extremely slow, and only a very small number of geniuses with high comprehension can rise rapidly after breaking through this barrier."