Chapter 1087
With Aether's help, the Supreme Council passed Lu Yang's proposal as expected, sending people to support the Cultivation Realm's modernization construction.
Regarding sending people to support remote areas, the Interstellar Alliance had its own set of procedures, not just talents in technology, but also in economy, education, art, and every other aspect.
The Interstellar Alliance first planned the round-trip route, support duration, and other small details, then issued notices layer by layer to screen applicants.
After the whole process, more than half a month had passed.
Lu Yang knew that the Interstellar Alliance was interested in spirit stones and spiritual energy, so he specially gifted a few top-grade spirit stones before leaving.
Eternal star system, spaceport.
A huge silver spaceship was docked at the spaceport. Its elegant lines and rounded edge design cast soft shadows under the dim light, as if it were telling the story of countless interstellar crossings. People standing below looking up at the spaceship felt incredibly small and exclaimed in succession.
"It's really big." Lu Yang stood under the spaceship, hands in his pockets, sighing. Compared to the spaceship,
his covered boat was as simple as a broken wooden board.
This spaceship was the "Star Path," and the aid team would ride it to the Cultivation Realm.
He had received notice from the Supreme Council that the aid team would gather here to head to the Cultivation Realm. He had arrived a little early to visit the spaceport he had never seen before.
The Eternal star system was positioned as the capital, so its spaceport was naturally the most advanced in the entire Interstellar Alliance, larger than many cities. Tens of thousands of spaceships docked, rested, and departed here every day,
passing through artificial wormholes to travel back and forth between various star systems.
After Lu Yang finished touring the spaceport, the aid team arrived at the spaceport via the space elevator.
These people were outstanding talents carefully selected by the Interstellar Alliance, famous in their respective fields, and the least experienced among them had at least one aid experience.
They were high-spirited and revealed a sense of superiority all over.
To them, going to a remote area for support was just using the Alliance's comprehensive advanced fields to show off in front of others.
That feeling, once experienced, was something they would definitely want to experience a second time.
Not to mention that the leader this time was a big shot, the Alliance's chief scientist, Dean Gao.
Lu Yang was stunned when he saw that Dean Gao was leading the team.
"Why did you come?"
Dean Gao said solemnly: "Self-exile."
"Didn't you say your Cultivation Realm is backward? Then going to your Cultivation Realm counts as punishing myself."
When Dean Gao took the initiative to propose going to the Cultivation Realm, the entire Supreme Council was shocked. Never before had a Council member personally gone to provide aid, let alone Dean Gao, a chief scientist who mastered the Alliance's most advanced technology.
What they didn't know was that the fundamental reason Dean Gao planned to launch the Aether Revolution was that he wanted to promote technological progress. Dean Gao believed that the Cultivation Realm was definitely not as simple as Lu Yang described and could promote technological progress.
"Take this." Dean Gao stuffed an iron box into Lu Yang's hand.
"What is this?"
"Aether's avatar. You can think of it as a part of Aether, which can synchronize with the Aether host through quantum communication."
The iron box was actually the Alliance's most advanced quantum computer, and Aether's friendly smiling face appeared on the screen: "Mr. Lu, we meet again."
"…Let's discuss something. Can you change your expression in the future?"
"Ah?"
The aid team was somewhat surprised to see Lu Yang and the legendary Dean Gao talking and laughing.
"That's Lu Yang, right?"
"Yes, that's him. I heard he is one of the most powerful people in their Cultivation Realm."
Although it was rare for aid targets to communicate with the Interstellar Alliance on equal terms, once they thought of the methods Lu Yang used to solve the crew's problem, the aid team couldn't help but understand.
Lu Yang raised his eyes and glanced at the spaceship: "We're taking this to go there?"
Dean Gao was somewhat surprised: "Otherwise? Ride your covered boat?"
Dean Gao's thinking was very normal; the covered boat could only seat five or six people, and there was no way the aid team could rely on the covered boat to get to the Cultivation Realm.
Lu Yang slapped his forehead. This was his oversight; he had forgotten to tell the Alliance that he didn't need a spaceship, as he had the means to take people away.
"How long does it take to get to the Cultivation Realm in your spaceship?"
"Seven or eight years, I suppose." Dean Gao calculated the time, "By then, we will be soaked in nutrient solution,
reducing our own functions to the minimum, which is equivalent to time standing still."
This was a common method used by the Interstellar Alliance for long voyages.
Just as Dean Gao wanted to say something else, Lu Yang suddenly drew his Qingfeng Sword, startling Dean Gao, who thought Lu Yang was about to make a move.
Lu Yang opened the Qingfeng Sword's small world and took the spaceship and the aid team inside.
The aid team's originally relaxed and casual expressions vanished without a trace, replaced by undisguised shock and panic.
"What happened?"
"Where is this place?"
"Did we travel through time?"
One second they were at the spaceport, and the next they were in this beautiful world of green mountains and clear waters that felt unreal. They rubbed their eyes several times, trying to confirm whether the strange scenery before them was real.
It was real.
"The ship has a positioning system, take it out and detect where this is!"
"Take out all other tools and record the data here!"
"Dean Gao, where are we?"
Dean Gao was also dumbfounded. Before setting off, he had prepared himself mentally, and no matter what happened, he wouldn't panic.
As a result, before they had even set off, something he couldn't understand had already appeared?!
Lu Yang jumped into the Qingfeng Sword's small world.
Seeing Lu Yang come over, Dean Gao hurriedly stepped forward to ask about the situation.
"Oh, you mean here? This is my small world within the sword." Lu Yang explained casually.
"Small world?" This was the first time Dean Gao had heard this term.
"It's just a piece of space opened up artificially. Don't you know about it?"
Dean Gao opened his mouth wide. He recognized the words "artificially opened space," but why couldn't he understand them when put together?
"Then why did you bring us here? To show off that you have a small world?"
"Your spaceship flies too slowly. I'll take you there with my boat; we'll arrive in a month."
If it were just Lu Yang himself, he could use the prototype of the Origin-Tracing Dao Fruit to revert himself back to the Cultivation Realm,
but it wasn't just Lu Yang going to the Cultivation Realm; there were also the aid team and the Aether extension, so Lu Yang could only honestly row the boat back.
"A month?!" Dean Gao's jaw dropped; this speed was ridiculously fast.
"Can I not stay here? Your boat can still seat people, right?" Dean Gao asked, his face flushed.
Dean Gao's heart was itching intensely. Last time he rode the covered boat, the distance was too short, and he hadn't seen anything before they reached the destination. This time, he had to study it thoroughly.
"That works too."
Dean Gao explained it to the aid team to soothe their hearts.
The scientists in the aid team heard that Lu Yang had such methods and also wanted to witness it, wanting to get on the boat,
but how could the boat seat so many people? Lu Yang thought of a compromise: opening a window to the Qingfeng Sword's small world so that the people inside could see the situation outside.
Only then did Dean Gao come to the outside world with Lu Yang.
The tower navigator called the Star Path: "Star Path, time is up, please exit the port."
"Repeat, Star Path, time is up, please exit the port."
His colleague's gaze was dull, and he poked the navigator: "Stop repeating it, where is the Star Path?"
"What do you mean?"
The navigator looked up in confusion, only to see the huge Star Path disappear without a trace, with only a light boat sailing toward the pitch-black space.
End of Chapter
