Lin Luoran no longer regards the trip to the interstellar transmission circle as an adventure.
Finding Mount Penglai and the ancient book of monsters of wood, as well as building a Taoist root for Mrs. Lin are only her extravagant hopes. Because Yang Lisha says it’s extremely dangerous in the interstellar transmission circle. Lin Luoran doesn’t want to let others take risks, so she decides to go alone with Yang Lisha. The monster vine laughs at her decision, “Are you thinking that the interstellar transmission circle is as small as your backyard? Trust me, you need a team that can work together.”
Yang Lisha’s charisma makes her sarcasm sound like sincere advice.
Lin Luoran thinks about it and announces to the public.
The interstellar transmission circle is probably the last hope for all of the cultivators who still do cultivation. She has no need to hide.
Lin Luoran, Master Mu and a few other people discuss the issue in a meeting room of Mu’s villa on the Fragrant Hills in the capital.
Half of the people agree that the young generation should follow Lin Luoran to the interstellar transmission circle while the other half don’t.
Minister Chen is obsessed with being in authority. He almost throws his teacup on Lin Luoran’s face, “Lin Luoran, you are going to bury our last hope into the interstellar transmission circle!”
The existence of the interstellar transmission circle has already made the crowd anxious. Master Guo murmurs, “If we don’t have a try now, our younger generation may even don’t have the courage to explore the interstellar transmission circle after we passed away.”
Master Guo’s words make everybody silent. If they don’t dare to explore the interstellar transmission circle, what’s the point of knowing where it is?
Master Mu stands up to support his old friend first, “Sixie of our family is definitely going.”
Master Guo is even more resolute and says he will go himself. The master of the Wens hesitates for a while and decides to go with a few of their promising students.
Lin Luoran coughs when she sees the quarrel in the living room, “As far as I know, the interstellar transmission circle is a space-time crack. Going into it is not safer than going into the secret land. Considering our personal abilities, trying to get transmitted between planets is the same as suicide. Although it is also risky, we may find something useful if we pair up and explore the periphery of the circle. I have been thinking about it for a while. Senior cultivators are protected by their magic weapons so they can get through the interstellar transmission circle with their bodies. If we found the key to interstellar transmission, why can’t we get out of the earth through technology?”
Why can’t we get out of the earth through technology——
People sitting in the room are the backbone of the world of cultivation in Huaxia. It is not that they have never thought about leaving the earth and finding another place suitable for cultivation. The fact is that the country on the other side of the ocean with the most advanced technologies can merely accomplish manned lunar landing. Technology and cultivation belong to two different areas. To some extent, it is the severe environmental damages caused by the third industrial revolution that makes it almost impossible to find immortality through cultivation. This is also why the two worlds are hostile to each other.
“To some extent, the so-called civilization of technology can even be regarded as a retrogression compared with Huaxia’s magnificent civilization of cultivation in ancient times.”
Lin Luoran opens a file on her computer and shows the well-known The Classic of Mountains and Seas on the screen. She organizes her thoughts and says, “I always think the course of history was interrupted. From the time of our ancestors to the time when the war of deification happened in Shang and Zhou dynasties, the first myths and the immortals who can fly in the sky and run underground all existed just thousands of years ago. But as far as I know, divinized cultivators beyond Gathering Vitality disappeared two thousand years ago.” There is evidence for what Lin Luoran says. White Fairy fell into the secret land one thousand years ago. She spent six hundred years to cultivate to the level of Gathering Vitality after that. She also had teachers. If any of them had seen a divinized cultivator, they must have told her.
All of the people in the room haven’t given up on cultivation although there is little Reiki. They made great efforts in finding out why cultivators of Gathering Vitality disappeared a thousand years ago in order to find a way out. However, even the youngest one among them is more than sixty years old. They can’t think of proving the history of the world of cultivation through the earthly world like Lin Luoran who grew up in modern society and had to study different subjects.
This is a new idea. Xi Heng’s eyes light up.
“The system of heaven is complete, so I don’t think it is made up. Then, when did the war of deification happen?” Lin Luoran thinks of the Dragon King of Dongting Lake’s small seal that is “conferred by heaven”. If heaven didn’t exist, would there be someone else superior to dragons who can confer titles to them?
“It was after this obscure history that cultivation gradually waned, and the path of the whole civilization changed. If we didn’t choose to develop technology, what would the earth be like today?”
What about the saintess of the Jiuli Tribe who calls herself a rabble and the mysterious jade stairs to heaven? Senior cultivators could already transmit people between planets many years ago, but all of them degenerated to their current forms. It is so sad to be trapped on the earth.
“Master Mu, I have been thinking that cultivation is not just a way of evolving individuals. Maybe, the true reason for the decline of the civilization of cultivation is that we gained some abilities during the evolution that superior creatures didn’t want us to have.”
Xi Heng says in a low voice, “Cultivation is not a way of evolving individuals?”
Lin Luoran nods, “Not completely, at least.”
She swipes on the computer and shows a diagram on the screen.
“This is cultivation, our subject. The followings are things like elixirs, magic weapons, magic figures, spirit stones and magic circles. The power of elixirs is to boost the evolution of the human body. What about magic weapons? A Grade Five magic weapon can easily destroy a mountain with one full-strength hit and leaves no pollution, unlike thermal weapons. As for magic figures, I’m going to show you in the most straight-forward way.”
Lin Luoran takes out a Thunder-summoning Figure and crushes it. A purple thunderbolt hits the pool outside Mu’s villa. Water in the pool sprays out with a height of a few meters.
“Look, the magic figure is a kind of spell that can be restrained. It solidifies the power of the five elements that only cultivators can make use of into magic figures. As for spirit stones, they provide the power for running magic circles. They are compressed crystal of power.
Xi Heng interrupts Lin Luoran’s words, “Although civilization of cultivation is more convenient than that of technology, it is undeniable that cultivation goes downhill. What you said all makes sense, but what does it have to do with deciding whether we should go to the interstellar transmission circle?”
“My friend, what you asked is exactly the point of what I’ll say next.” Lin Luoran takes out an ordinary pistol and a bullet with a carved pattern on it.
“The decline of the civilization of cultivation on the earth has already been irreversible. The amount of Reiki left in this world has determined that we can’t go back to the past, but what if we combine cultivation with technology?” She glances at people in the room. Most of them are confused. Is it possible to combine the two?
Lin Luoran doesn’t explain. She just puts one finger on the bullet. The flickering blue light amazes everyone in the room. The magic circle is incepting in spirit!
Lin Luoran doesn’t use a lot of energy to do so because the magic circle is small. The bullet’s surface is soon covered in blue light.
“Is this…?” Master Guo stands up. He has experienced the national defense war, but he never thought that someone would engrave a magic circle on a bullet.
Lin Luoran slowly loads the bullet and holds the pistol with one hand. It’s a .45, the most basic pistol carried by police in Huaxia.
“In the war against Blood Line in Rong City, a junior fellow student of my school saw a man from Blood Line being shot in the head by a sniper rifle. He had a brainwave and came up with the idea of magical bullets, like this one.” She aims at a post-modern sculpture made of tough steel in the yard of Mu’s villa. It is said that Mu Tiannan spent a great deal of money to ship it overseas. Boom! The sculpture’s solid steelhead is shot through by the bullet and suddenly cracks into pieces. Its debris is covered with a thin layer of ice.
What is engraved on the bullet is a small version of the magic circle of water attack.
Chen Yun murmurs, “We can’t let the government have this. If they use this to attack us, I can’t imagine how many cultivators would be killed.”
Lin Luoran shakes her head, “Minister Chen, you didn’t get my point. Combining cultivation and technology like this does bring benefits to the authority of the earthly world, but the most important thing is that we can create more possibilities for cultivation. If we found materials for space jump in the interstellar transmission circle, we could produce alloys that are tougher than the surface of current spacecraft using methods of refining weapons. What do you think we’ll get then?”
Chen Yun is astonished while Master Guo laughs and coughs violently.
“Hahaha……We’ll get chances to get out of the earth and find a paradise of cultivation.”
We can make spacecrafts that can fly out of the earth and the galaxy to a wider universe by combining cultivation and technology. The Master of the Wens pinches his thigh. The sharp pain makes him realize clearly that Lin Luoran’s blueprint is the best way for them to get out of the dead end.
