Chapter 257: Aircraft carrier? Rocket projectile? Ballistic missile? Or even…

On the upcoming journey, Lu Yuan headed straight for the Jingpu Dynasty.

This legendary top-tier dynasty.

At this moment, Lu Yuan was sitting with his legs crossed, looking at a map, with a notebook beside him.

The neat small characters on it were copied by his second daughter-in-law these past days, recording matters about the Jingpu Dynasty.

Before, the Great Zhou Dynasty had always been under a sea ban, knowing little about the outside world.

These records were all copied by his second daughter-in-law after she browsed ancient books.

However, some of these records are from several hundred years ago, even over a thousand years ago.

Some are not very accurate; to know the current situation of the Jingpu Dynasty, Lu Yuan still has to explore it himself.

What is seen in this notebook now are all the prosperous scenes of the Jingpu Dynasty at its peak.

The reason the Jingpu Dynasty is extraordinarily powerful is simply that its territory contains nine huge spirit power mines!

Like the spirit power mine of Little Green Mountain in the Great Zhou Dynasty, which is actually just a small spirit power mine on the whole continent.

Meanwhile, such a spirit power mine of the Little Green Mountain level in the Great Zhou Dynasty is countless within the Jingpu Dynasty.

Relying on so many spirit power mines, the Jingpu Dynasty has remained prosperous for ten thousand years.

According to the records in this notebook.

It is said that inside the Jingpu Dynasty there are those automatic ladders.

Lu Yuan understands them as elevators, and the Jingpu Dynasty's elevators are all driven by spirit power cores.

This shows just what it means for the Jingpu Dynasty to be rich enough to make oil flow.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, spirit power cores are so precious that one would wish to split a single one in half to use.

But in the Jingpu Dynasty, this thing is practically just the most ordinary source of energy.

This glimpse through a tube reveals how wealthy the Jingpu Dynasty must have been back then.

The Jingpu Dynasty rose back then by relying on its countless huge spirit power mines within its borders; its present decline is naturally also due to the reduction in the number of spirit power mines.

About five hundred years ago, four of the Jingpu Dynasty's nine spirit power mines had been exhausted.

Five remain, but their reserves are also in dire straits.

Without spirit power cores, this country would naturally fall into an energy shortage.

It's like a developed country on Earth that loses power every few days—how could it still be considered developed?

Looking at the notes about the Jingpu Dynasty, Lu Yuan couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Well, first of all, the fuel-steam path I have led the Great Zhou Dynasty down is correct.

From now on, I must persistently continue to lead the Great Zhou Dynasty forward.

That is……

The Jingpu Dynasty has made Lu Yuan start to worry a little.

……

Two days later, Lu Yuan reached the border of the Jingpu Dynasty, a sea island.

Looking down from the airplane, sure enough, this top-tier dynasty truly is a top-tier dynasty.

It really is different.

This place belongs to the border of the Jingpu Dynasty, a remote frontier town.

Even this frontier town can show what the Jingpu Dynasty's prosperous age was like.

A perfect town plan, with parks, hospitals, and greenery.

Across the whole island, stone bricks are laid everywhere, looking so clean and orderly.

The houses are rows upon rows of red-tiled small Western-style homes, each with a small courtyard; viewed from above, they are truly neat and truly beautiful.

The people down there wear bright and splendid clothes, their faces lit with happy smiles.

When Lu Yuan's airplane flies overhead, the people of the Jingpu Dynasty do not, like the natives of those dynasties on the mainland, suddenly kneel and kowtow in worship.

They merely look on curiously, not feeling the airplane is a threat, nor thinking Lu Yuan might be some immortal.

Even if they knew Lu Yuan was a true immortal, these people would still not kneel.

This is the extreme confidence bestowed upon the people by a top-tier dynasty.

Whether a nation's people are happy or not can be seen by looking at the faces of its citizens on the street.

Whether they are full of confidence or have furrowed, worried brows.

Lu Yuan then flew over several small towns on sea islands, and they were basically all like this.

A top-tier dynasty is a top-tier dynasty, even though the Jingpu Dynasty is now nearing resource exhaustion and may lose its top-tier status.

Even if the status is not preserved, they are still a high-tier dynasty.

Absolutely not something the Great Zhou Dynasty can compare to.

Of course, the Great Zhou Dynasty is not bad either; nowadays it is undertaking large-scale earthworks everywhere, beginning infrastructure construction.

I believe it will not take seven or eight years for the Great Zhou Dynasty to reach this kind of urban planning.

By then, various skyscrapers will rise from the ground.

However, whether a nation is strong or not really is not measured by how many high-rise buildings it has.

Isn't there a saying that a city's quality is not judged by how high its buildings are, but by how many public toilets it has?

However, regarding the gap with the Jingpu Dynasty, Lu Yuan is not despairing.

There is something to pursue.

But it's just……

Lu Yuan worries about the Jingpu Dynasty……

No…… to be precise…… Lu Yuan worries about these top-tier dynasties.

Before this, he had always stayed in the Great Zhou Dynasty; Lu Yuan truly had never thought about anything else, but after coming out, he also had more to think about.

Especially after discovering, the surroundings of the Great Zhou Dynasty actually have so many potential threats.

Not to mention the other continent; just this Jingpu Dynasty gives Lu Yuan a bit of a headache.

Such a great dynasty, previously so powerful, now it has to fall from being a top-tier dynasty.

This dynasty surely has internal contradictions.

However, we just don't know when it will break out.

Generally speaking, when a powerful country has internal contradictions that cannot be resolved, it will turn its spear outward.

For example, by launching a war, or something like that, to first transfer the contradiction outward.

This is all too classic on Earth.

The Great Zhou Dynasty is so close to this Jingpu Dynasty; what if, when the time comes, the Jingpu Dynasty wants to shift its contradictions onto the Great Zhou Dynasty?

Or perhaps they cannot find spirit power ore within their own territory, so they want to search in other dynasties' territories?

The Great Zhou Dynasty's territory is vast and boundless; it must certainly contain spirit power ore.

It's just that the Great Zhou Dynasty previously had no way to probe, but that doesn't mean there isn't any; the Jingpu Dynasty definitely has more advanced means.

If, when the time comes, they come to the Great Zhou Dynasty and discover a giant spirit power ore deposit?

Let's not talk about that illusory giant spirit power ore.

Let's just say, if the Great Zhou Dynasty's ore refining equipment is discovered by the Jingpu Dynasty now?

They want it; will we give it or not?

Not everyone is as good-tempered as Ji Lingxiao.

Moreover, even Ji Lingxiao, when he couldn't obtain Su Liyan back then, didn't he also have ulterior motives toward Lu Yuan?

How could a top-tier dynasty possibly reason with a low-tier dynasty?

If this ore refining equipment is discovered by the Jingpu Dynasty and taken away.

Then the Jingpu Dynasty will surely rise again.

If the Jingpu Dynasty rises again, then the Great Zhou Dynasty's side is doomed.

Besides that, there are steam engines, internal combustion engines; these things are also bound to be discovered.

By then, will all the things Lu Yuan painstakingly researched be seized by the Jingpu Dynasty?

Moreover, Lu Yuan feels that these things will inevitably be discovered sooner or later.

However, the Great Zhou Dynasty is currently far too weak and insignificant.

Still, the saying goes: one must never lack vigilance against others.

This Jingpu Dynasty is not like those dynasties of the other continent where Lu Yuan could just toss half a sweet potato somewhere and go pick a fight.

After Lu Yuan flew his plane over several sea-island towns of the Jingpu Dynasty.

After pondering, he tilted the control stick and flew off the original plan.

Originally Lu Yuan planned to visit those major cities of the Jingpu Dynasty to have a look, but now it's better not to go.

Dangerous.

What to do if they set their sights on us?

This time Lu Yuan intends to head straight for the Linglan Sword Sect.

At night.

On an uninhabited sea island, waves crash against the shore.

Lu Yuan reclines on a lounge chair with his legs crossed, a bonfire burning beside him, a small iron pot on it bubbling as it cooks some big shrimp and crabs.

These are all things Lu Yuan just caught by diving into the sea.

In the forest behind the island, various animal calls can be heard.

Everything is actually extremely leisurely and carefree.

However, Lu Yuan's mood is not so happy.

At this moment, Lu Yuan has one hand behind his head, pillowing his arm, gazing at the night sky with the full moon, pondering.

Still the matter from this afternoon.

How should we deal with the Jingpu Dynasty...

This matter is really difficult...

Based on Lu Yuan's understanding...

Lu Yuan's things... really seem unable to contend with a top-tier dynasty.

A deep sense of helplessness blocks Lu Yuan's chest, making him feel uneasy.

You say, planes and tanks—these things might work against a gilded dynasty, but against a top-tier dynasty they're really not enough.

Inside this top-tier dynasty, there must be many cultivation sects!

The Jingpu Dynasty previously had so many spirit power ores; who knows how many sects and cultivators have established themselves here?

How could the planes and tanks manufactured by the Great Zhou Dynasty possibly deal with cultivators...

Let alone the Great Zhou Dynasty's current planes and tanks, which are merely at the level of World War I on Earth.

Even if you put F-22s, J-20s—these fifth-generation fighters—and the strongest main battle tanks like the 99A and M1A2C here, they'd still be useless.

The pride of fifth-generation fighters is their stealth, which means radar can't detect them, not that they're invisible to the naked eye.

But you have to know... the cultivators here... they don't use radar; they use spiritual sense.

So-called stealth is utterly ineffective.

And like the 99A and M1A2C, the kings of land warfare on Earth, here they probably can't even withstand a cultivator's ordinary fireball spell.

Moreover, the attacks launched by these Earthly super weapons also feel neither painful nor itchy on cultivators.

Even to say……

Lu Yuan felt that it was basically impossible to hit a cultivator.

They have all kinds of barriers, immortal arts.

Lu Yuan felt that even a nuclear bomb would be useless here.

When your nuclear bomb arrives, they directly tear open a spatial rift and hide the bomb within it.

Just like the two-dimensional foil from that whatever Three-Body.

Lu Yuan felt…… with the technology he controlled, facing this orthodox cultivation world, it was basically a dimensional strike down.

The more Lu Yuan pondered, the more irritated he became.

In the end, he stopped thinking and first ate.

Just after Lu Yuan took a few big bites.

Lu Yuan then suddenly froze for a moment.

Hiss~~

Suddenly, a bold idea popped into Lu Yuan's head!!

Everything Lu Yuan had done before was either done according to his original knowledge, or learned from what he saw and studied on Earth.

Or else it was simply copying directly from the books given by the system.

Besides that, Lu Yuan had nothing he himself had created.

If one had to say there was something, the Kang heating ducts would count as one.

The Kang heating ducts were researched by Lu Yuan himself.

Also, Lu Yuan himself made Fobao materials, and besides that there was nothing else.

And everything Lu Yuan made was either Earth's stuff or the cultivation world's stuff.

The two basically don't border each other.

Lu Yuan had said before that the Great Zhou Dynasty needs to walk on two legs to be fast.

One is the spirit-power core, the other is the Earth technology in Lu Yuan's mind.

But Lu Yuan had never thought of merging the two into one.

Just now Lu Yuan suddenly thought that if the two were merged, it…… might actually be possible!!

For example, fifth-generation fighter jets.

On Earth, the surface of fifth-generation fighter jets has a special coating that makes them invisible and untouchable to enemy radar.

This is the top military secret of nations that possess fifth-generation jets.

But this special coating is useless here, because there is no radar here; here it is cultivators' spiritual sense.

So, if uh.

What if, Lu Yuan, relying on the 'God·Smelting', created a coating that cultivators' spiritual sense cannot detect??

That's not impossible.

Because here there exists something that can shield cultivators' spiritual sense.

There is even something that can conceal a cultivator's realm.

These all exist.

Lu Yuan used the 'God·Smelting' to produce this material, then coated the aircraft with it.

Wouldn't the Great Zhou Dynasty's aircraft then be able to silently breach the defenses of the Jingpu Dynasty?

With this kind of stealth aircraft in another sense, those cultivators would be useless.

Unless seen with the naked eye.

But who among cultivators stares at the sky all day?

Having spoken of aircraft, now let's talk about tanks.

Take the 99A, M1A2C, these kings of land warfare on Earth; they are useless here because the armor they pride themselves on Earth is like plastic here.

Because here the firepower is not guns and cannons, but spiritual power.

Powerful spiritual power can instantly turn this steel into molten iron.

Is there a material that can block spiritual power?

Yes!

Of course there is!

Let's not talk about how Lu Yuan studied the 'God·Metallurgy' for so long; just speaking of the basics, this world has a material called spirit‑blocking stone that can be used to block and seal spiritual power.

In some cultivator sects' great prisons, there are also handcuffs and shackles specifically made to capture cultivators, which are forged from spirit‑blocking stone.

Once a cultivator is cuffed with this, they cannot use their spiritual power.

If we used this to make tank armor, how would that be?

Besides that, find some extremely hard materials, combine them with spirit‑blocking stone, create a new material, and use that material to make tank armor.

Wouldn't the tank then be useful?

The biggest problem with Lu Yuan's envisioned ideas is that some materials are extremely costly.

But that's no problem.

Lu Yuan has the 'God·Metallurgy'; he can use various cheap materials, various cheap metals to smelt and conduct experiments!

Just give Lu Yuan time and it'll be fine!

In a moment, Lu Yuan began to fantasize about the future.

If this path can be taken……

Then, afterward it won't just be aircraft and tanks……

Moreover……

Aircraft carrier?

Rocket shell?

Ballistic missile?

Even…… a star-destroying warship?!

Didn't expect that, huh? Today it's even earlier.

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(End of chapter)