Chapter 1308: Your Spaceship Is Too Slow

With ether's help, the High Council passed Lu Yang's proposal without surprise, sending personnel to support the Cultivation Realm's modernization.

For dispatching personnel to remote areas, the Interstellar Alliance has its own procedures—not just technological talent, but also economic, educational, artistic, and all other aspects.

The Interstellar Alliance first planned the round-trip route, support duration, and various minor details, then issued notifications layer by layer, screening applicants.

After this process, over half a month passed.

Lu Yang knew the Interstellar Alliance was interested in spirit stones and spirit qi, so before departure he specially gifted several top-grade spirit stones.

Eternal Star System, Spaceport.

A massive silver spaceship docked at the spaceport, its elegant lines and rounded edges casting soft shadows under the yellowish lights, as if telling countless tales of interstellar voyages; standing beneath it, one feels infinitesimally small, awestruck.

"So huge." Lu Yang stood beneath the ship, hands in pockets, sighing, compared to the spaceship,

his oiled-paper boat is as flimsy as a rotten plank.

This ship is the "Star Voyager"; the aid team will take it to the Cultivation Realm.

He received notice from the High Council that the aid team would gather here, then proceed to the Cultivation Realm; he arrived early to tour the unfamiliar spaceport.

The Eternal Star System's location equals the capital; its spaceport is naturally the most advanced in the Interstellar Alliance, larger than many cities, with over ten thousand ships docking, resting, and departing daily,

via artificial wormholes to and from various star systems.

After Lu Yang finished touring the spaceport, the aid team took the space elevator to the spaceport,

these people are outstanding talents handpicked by the Interstellar Alliance, renowned in their respective fields, the least experienced having at least one aid mission.

They bear themselves with noble bearing, their entire beings exuding a sense of superiority.

To them, aiding remote regions is simply using the Alliance's all-encompassing advanced fields to display their holiness before others.

Having experienced it once, one would surely want to experience it again.

Moreover, this time the team is led by the renowned figure, the Alliance's Chief Scientist, Chancellor Gao.

Lu Yang saw Chancellor Gao leading the team and was stunned.

"How did you come here?"

Chancellor Gao spoke solemnly: "Self-exile."

"You said the Cultivation Realm is backward, so going there counts as punishing myself."

When Chancellor Gao proactively volunteered to go to the Cultivation Realm, the entire High Council was shocked—never before had a council member personally gone to aid, let alone Chancellor Gao, who holds the Alliance's most advanced technology.

What they don't know is that Chancellor Gao plans to launch the Ether Revolution; his fundamental motive is to promote technological progress, and he believes the Cultivation Realm is certainly not as simple as Lu Yang described, capable of advancing technology.

"Take this." Chancellor Gao handed Lu Yang an iron box.

"What is this?"

"An ether avatar; you can regard it as a part of ether, capable of quantum communication and synchronization with the ether mainframe."

The iron box is actually the Alliance's most advanced quantum computer; the screen shows ether's friendly smile: "Mr. Lu, we meet again."

"Let's discuss something—can you change your expression later?"

"Ah?

The aid team saw Lu Yang chatting and laughing with the legendary Chancellor Gao, some surprised.

"Is he Lu Yang?"

"Yes, it's him; I heard he's one of their Cultivation Realm's strongest."

Although it's rare for aid targets to interact equally with the Interstellar Alliance, considering how Lu Yang resolved the production team's issue, the aid team can also understand.

Lu Yang glanced at the spaceship: "Shall we take this?"

Chancellor Gao was somewhat surprised: "Otherwise, would you take your oiled-paper boat?"

Chancellor Gao's thought is normal—the oiled-paper boat can barely hold five or six people; the aid team could hardly reach the Cultivation Realm by such a boat.

Lu Yang slapped his forehead—this was his oversight, forgetting to tell the Alliance no ship was needed, as he has means to transport them.

"How long would it take to reach the Cultivation Realm in your spaceship?"

"Seven or eight years." Chancellor Gao calculated: "By then we'll be soaking in nutrient fluid,

reducing bodily functions to a minimum, equivalent to time standing still."

This is a common method for long-distance voyages in the Interstellar Alliance.

As Chancellor Gao was about to say something, Lu Yang suddenly drew his Qingfeng Sword, startling him, who thought Lu Yang was about to attack.

Lu Yang activated the Qingfeng Sword's small world, sucking the spaceship and aid team entirely inside.

The aid team's originally relaxed expression vanished instantly, replaced by undisguised shock and panic.

"What happened?"

"Where is this?"

"Did we traverse?"

One second they were in the spaceport, the next they arrived at this unrealistically beautiful world of green waters and green mountains; they rubbed their eyes several times, trying to confirm whether the sight before them was real.

It truly exists.

"The ship has a positioning system—take it out to check where we are!"

"Take out other tools too, record this place's data!"

"Chancellor Gao, where are we?"

Chancellor Gao was also dumbfounded; he had made sufficient mental preparations before departure, believing nothing would panic him.

The result: before departure, he already encountered something he couldn't comprehend?!

Lu Yang leapt into the Qingfeng Sword's small world.

Seeing Lu Yang approach, Chancellor Gao hurried forward to inquire about the situation.

"Oh, you mean this place—this is my sword's small world." Lu Yang casually explained.

"Small world?" Chancellor Gao heard this term for the first time.

"It's just a space opened up by humans, don't you know?"

Dean Zhang opened his mouth wide—he knew the words "human-made space," each character familiar, but when put together, he couldn't understand them.

"Then why did you bring us here? To show off your small world?"

"Your spaceship flies too slowly; I'll take you there with my ship—we'll get there in a month."

Only with Lu Yang's own words can Lu Yang use the embryonic form of the Retracing Dao Fruit to send himself back to the Cultivation Realm.

But it's not just Lu Yang going to the Cultivation Realm—there's also the support team and the etheric extension, so Lu Yang can only honestly row his boat back.

"One month?!" Dean Zhang's jaw dropped—this speed is absurdly fast.

"Can I not stay here? Can your ship still carry people?" Dean Zhang negotiated with a strained face.

Dean Zhang was itching intensely—last time he rode the black-canopied boat, the distance was too short, and he arrived before he could observe anything; this time he must figure it out completely.

"That works."

Dean Zhang explained to the support team, calming their minds.

The scientists in the support team, hearing Lu Yang had such a method, also wanted to witness it and thought of going aboard the ship,

but how could the ship possibly hold so many people? Lu Yang devised a compromise: he opened a window in the Qingfeng Sword's small world, allowing those inside to see the outside situation.

Only then did Dean Zhang and Lu Yang come to the outer realm.

The tower's navigator hailed the Star Voyager: "Star Voyager, time's up—please depart the harbor."

"Repeat, Star Voyager, time's up—please depart the harbor."

His colleague stared blankly, nudged the navigator: "Stop repeating—where is the Star Voyager?"

"What do you mean?"

The navigator looked up in confusion, only to see the massive Star Voyager vanished without a trace, with only a light skiff sailing toward the dark void of space.