Chapter 1002: Cosmic Spaceship! Gene Primal Energy Cultivation Art!

"There's an old saying from your Blue Planet that I quite like.

It goes, 'Those who are not of my kind are sure to be of different heart,' and this saying holds true throughout the universe as well.

The war between humanity and the other races has already stretched on for endless years.

It can be foreseen that this war will continue to go on, perhaps even forever.

Therefore, humanity spares no effort in cultivating the strong and seeking out geniuses.

My Noah Empire is no different — we not only search for geniuses within the star systems under our dominion.

We also deploy Trial Towers to remote star domains, selecting geniuses through the towers of trial."

Lord Hei Yu's beautiful eyes gazed at Xu Jingming. "And you are the most outstanding genius selected by this trial!

Not yet twenty years old, yet already on the verge of touching the threshold of the Stellar Radiance level, and your comprehension of the Laws has also reached the Second Domain.

If you were placed within my Noah Sacred Land, any genius plucked out at random would be enough to crush you.

But considering you come from a native planet, to have achieved such accomplishments already counts you as a genius among geniuses.

According to normal procedure, the Empire should arrange a cosmic spaceship to come pick you up.

At the same time, it would take over the life planet you inhabit and incorporate it into the Empire's territory.

But unfortunately, your entire star domain belongs to an extremely remote region even within the Milky Way galaxy.

I have already lost contact with the home star and have no way to call a fleet to come fetch you."

"However, when the Trial Tower was first created, such a situation had already been taken into account."

Swoosh—

Lord Hei Yu gave a gentle wave of her jade hand, and the floor of the palace abruptly opened.

A vessel roughly thirty-plus meters long and over ten meters high,

streamlined in form and brimming with a sci-fi aesthetic, slowly rose from underground and appeared within Xu Jingming's line of sight.

"This is a cosmic spaceship, its entire body forged from F-grade metal.

Don't misunderstand — the F-grade metal here is not the same as your Blue Planet's F-grade alloy.

This F-grade metal's strength is comparable to your SSR-grade alloy, and only those at the Stellar Radiance level can damage it."

Lord Hei Yu explained.

"A cosmic spaceship?" Xu Jingming gazed curiously at the vessel.

In his heart, Yiva had already gone nearly mad with excitement, muttering nonstop:

'A cosmic spaceship! A more advanced cosmic spaceship! Even better than the Hope cosmic spaceship from back then!'

"This cosmic spaceship's maximum flight speed is one times the speed of light, and it carries enough fuel for three years of travel.

In other words, it can fly out a maximum distance of three light-years.

As long as you find any life planet that has entered the interstellar era during that time,

you can use the spaceship to contact our home star and have us send someone to pick you up.

Because your region here is too remote and lies outside the star-domain territory of the Noah Empire,

with no coordinate system, I have no way of determining where the nearest life planet that has entered the interstellar era is from you.

The spaceship is yours; as for how you contact us afterward, that depends on your own efforts."

Lord Hei Yu waved her hand once more.

The star map shifted and returned to the Solar System.

But across the entire star map, the area around the Solar System was a stretch of nothingness, belonging to an as-yet-uncharted state.

"No planetary coordinates?"

Xu Jingming was briefly taken aback, but quickly let it go.

For him as he was now, leaving Blue Planet was still far too distant a prospect.

Learning so much information related to the stars was already an enormous gain.

"By the way, Lord Hei Yu, you should know about that membrane outside Blue Planet, right? Do you know what it is?"

Having finally encountered an alien civilization, Xu Jingming hurriedly seized the moment to ask.

"I do know of it, but I don't know how it came to be," Lord Hei Yu shook her head.

"Even you don't know?" Xu Jingming's brow furrowed.

"This Trial Tower originally existed within a spatial maelstrom and was already in a half-scrapped state.

It later crashed into the Spark World and was forcibly held back by a Stellar Radiance-level powerhouse from your Spark World.

Although I learned information related to the 'membrane' from those who entered the Trial Tower, after all I never truly went to Blue Planet to see it for myself."

Lord Hei Yu gave a helpless shrug. "It cannot be ruled out that your planet may have been enclosed and raised by some Stellar-level or Cosmic-level powerhouse.

And that powerhouse might not even be human, but rather of the Demon race or the Insect race.

Of course, the ultimate truth still requires you to explore it yourself.

I am merely an insignificant intelligent-life sub-body that cannot leave the Trial Tower, and I cannot be of much help to you."

"I understand."

Xu Jingming drew a deep breath, then asked, "What about the Molten Fire Beast? Do you have any understanding of it?"

Swoosh—

The smart bracer projected a beam of light that converged into the figure of the Molten Fire Beast.

"I'm not too clear on that either."

Lord Hei Yu shook her head again. "However, it certainly belongs to a branch of the Demon race — it's just that the Demon race has many varieties and a prolific breeding capacity, so I don't know exactly which clan it belongs to."

"Thank you, Lord Hei Yu, for clearing up my doubts."

Xu Jingming was somewhat disappointed upon hearing this, but still offered his thanks respectfully.

He had originally thought he could obtain some useful information about the Molten Fire Beast and the membrane outside Blue Star from Lord Hei Yu.

Now it seemed there was no chance — everything still had to rely entirely on himself.

"It's nothing."

Lord Hei Yu waved her hand casually. "This spaceship is one of the rewards from the civilization inheritance. Besides this, there's also this manual, the 'Genetic Origin Energy Cultivation Art.'"

An ancient, unadorned manual appeared in her hand, and she then handed it to Xu Jingming.

"This Genetic Origin Energy Cultivation Art has a cultivation efficiency ten times that of your top-tier ability training methods. With this manual, the speed at which you step into the Stellar Radiance level will be much faster."

"Ten times?"

Xu Jingming's eyes went wide.

The top-tier ability training method was already the fastest technique for absorbing origin energy on Blue Star.

He hadn't expected this manual to actually be ten times stronger than it!

"By the way, how do cosmic powerhouses cultivate? Do they also have abilities?"

Xu Jingming suddenly thought of this question and asked with some curiosity.

"Cosmic powerhouses also absorb origin energy. They don't have abilities — what they possess is Laws," Lord Hei Yu explained softly.

"What's the difference between abilities and Laws?" Xu Jingming was still somewhat puzzled.

"Abilities are the low-level manifestation of Laws. When abilities advance further, they will transform into Laws. The two actually share the same root and origin."

Lord Hei Yu continued, "Laws are the rules by which the universe operates. They are divided into two major categories. One is the Fundamental Laws, which respectively include these eight: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Lightning, and Light.

These eight Fundamental Laws belong to the category of Energy Laws. They have a higher affinity with the attributes of living beings and are relatively easier to comprehend.

The other category is the Advanced Laws, which respectively include these four: Time, Space, Destruction, and Life.

These four Laws form the underlying framework of the universe. The difficulty of comprehending them is extremely high — basically only those at the Immortal level will come into contact with them.

As for the Chaos Doushen Shenlei ability you possess, it actually belongs to the Lightning Law among the eight Fundamental Laws.

However, saying it's purely the Lightning Law isn't quite right either — it actually also contains a trace of the flavor of the Destruction Law."