Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Li Yao's logbook, year nine.

“This is the first time Mars has discovered a star deep in a dark nebula, and the first time I have been awakened from hibernation. ”

“In the sublight state, my perception of time is different from the outside world, not to mention in hibernation, the brain enters a state of deep silence, not even dreams, not to perceive the passage of time. ”

“For me, it was as if I had just said goodbye to Professor Mo Xuan, Fire Ant King, Demon Knife Penghai, Thunder Continent and Bai Happiness, and yesterday I walked hand in hand with Ding Zheng in the depths of the wilderness. I had just left my hometown this morning with the Mars in the eyes of all, and had just beaten up a debt. ”

“Federal experts installed a special ultra-static spiritual timer on Mars to accurately calculate the effect of Mars' velocity on time and thus to derive the velocity of time in the ‘real world’. ”

“By this special clock, I knew that exactly nine years had passed at this time of ‘ho ho ho'. ”

“However, I am lucky to be able to find the first star in 'just’ nine years in a vast universe, especially deep in a dark nebula full of bizarre metal dust. ”

“Although this star is a typical 'lonely star’, it exists alone in the universe and cannot be exploited without its own planets and galaxies. ”

“But its existence means that my speculation is correct —— I did jump deep into the dark nebula, surrounded by hundreds of light-years of stars and celestial bodies, all covered by dark nebula. ”

“As long as you're close enough, you can see the presence of these objects! ”

“I entered parameters such as the stars and trajectories of this star into the master crystal brain and compared them to the charts of Pangu civilization. ”

“Now that only one star has been found, there are still some difficulties in precisely locating it, and I am sure that this nautical map will be of great use once more stars have been found. ”

Li Yao's logbook, fifteenth.

“What a pleasure to find the second star so quickly! ”

“This is a standard hybrid star that, while spinning around the largest mass of objects in the center of the dark nebula, also has its own seven planets, forming a small galaxy, and how many dozens of satellites each have, which is a world very similar to the celestial world. ”

“I spent a month exploring this galaxy, but unfortunately the star was not of sufficient mass and brightness, and its planets were filled with cold, desolate pebbles and small gases, and I found no signs of water on it, nor was there any sign of life or existence. ”

“In the realm of exploration of the stars and seas, such a thousand worlds are commonly referred to as‘ obsolete ', not to say that there is not even a single bit of spirituality here, nor that these planets cannot be transformed into habitable planets, but that the investment in collecting resources and transforming planets is too great, far more costly than the benefits, and has no value for development and migration. ”

“Nevertheless, I am delighted. ”

“In just fifteen years, I found two stars in a row, entered their astronomical parameters and relative relationships into the crystal brain, and compared the charts of Pangu civilization, I had a little bit of a spectrum of my specific position in the dark nebula. ”

“It seems that this time, I am no longer in the grip of bad luck, even God is looking out for the Federation, maybe for twenty or thirty years, I will discover that mysterious thousand world! ”

Li Yao's logbook, year 41.

“What a crow's mouth! ”

“So, people shouldn't be too proud to talk nonsense, and a lot of things can't be said! ”

“I did find a third star, and I even overdid it, and a fourth -- a two-star system, two stars surrounding each other, forming a very stable companion structure. ”

“The problem is that I didn't know that beforehand. ”

“Another star in the two-star system is hidden in the depths of the dark nebula, and Mars' master crystal brain didn't immediately detect it, making me think it was another lonely star. ”

“Because it was in a very stable phase, I wanted to cut into its orbit and use its gravitational field to make a 'star slingshot’ that would allow Mars to accelerate and shorten exploration again without consuming half a dot of fuel. ”

“But I didn't expect the gravitational field of the two-star system to be extremely complex, like a deadly vortex, where Mars was caught up in it, hit hard by a 'gravitational wave' and almost fell directly into the center of the star, burning me without even half a hair. ”

“Despite being fortunate enough to escape, the Mars was scarred and severely damaged, and not only did I deplete all the spare parts, but I even removed some of them from the torch to barely sustain the sublight velocity flight. ”

“Now things are a little tricky. ”

Li Yao's logbook, seventy-seventh year.

“Thirty-six years have passed since the catastrophic accident in the two-star system. ”

“For the last 36 years, Mars jumped halfway through space, crashing like a flyless fly deep into a dark nebula; the other halfway through sublight speedy stars, dispersing all the ‘mist’ on the star map a little. ”

“I discovered five more stars, four of them with their own galaxies, but none of them had any signs of life or development value. ”

“This is the norm between the stars and oceans - life itself is the greatest miracle in the universe, not so easy to find. ”

“This is the first time I've discovered a star in the twilight years of my life - a red giant. ”

“When the core burns out and the last glow of life begins to spread to the periphery, the star expands dramatically and the brightness increases dramatically. ”

“Visually, the red star that occupies almost the entire universe is definitely the most magnificent spectacle I've ever seen. ”

“The little Mars is not even a 'poppy' in front of it, it's a little bacteria in the ocean. ”

“Looking at the red star, I suddenly felt so alone. ”

“Since my voyage, I have been in a state of sobriety, exploring several galaxies plus time to repair the Mars, about a year and a half in total, and it has not been particularly difficult. ”

“But in real life, seventy-seven years have passed! ”

“Seventy-seven years, enough for a baby with a dental language, to grow up to be an adult of the heavens and the earth; and to turn a strong man who scolds the wind into a tombstone, a ladle of loess, a wind. ”

“Dingbell once promised me that after I left, she would join the second wave of the Skylight Program to explore a thousand worlds closer to the Three Kingdoms. ”

“Has she arrived safely in a new thousand worlds, and what a strange and exciting story has happened there? ”

“Can she persuade the civilizations of the new world to integrate into the Federation? ”

“What is she doing now, still trying to be as vibrant and radiant as she used to be? ”

“And my three disciples, Golden Moon, Witch Horseflame, Cheyenne Ann, what happened to them? ”

“Has Golden Heart Moon come to the forefront of federal politics? Has Witch Horseflame broken through his dream of a '1,000 Weight Refining Period'? Does Cheyenne still like to cry her nose as much as she used to? Has she achieved anything in the refiner's circle? ”

“What does the Starlight Federation look like now? ”

“Before I left, the three realms of Tian Yuan, Blood Demon, and Flying Star were to be fully integrated, creating a 'new Federation’ and implementing the 'Federation Calendar’, although conditions were not yet ripe in all respects, and the matter was still under planning. ”

“Seventy-seven years have passed, and the new Federation of Stars and Glows should have risen by the sea of stars, right? With the integration of the three worlds, Kunlun development, the new Federation's level of menstruation must rapidly advance. All kinds of strong people and masters emerge as springshoots after the rain. Ha, maybe when I return to the Federation, it's like a hillbilly entering the city, I don't understand anything! ”

“For some time now, I've been thinking, if only I could have made some more improvements when I designed the Mars, and it would have been a double ride, if Dingbell had been with me, it wouldn't have mattered for 500 years and 1,000 years. ”

“But when you think about it, it still seems better this way. ”

“On the one hand, such a shuttle of the stars is too dangerous, and I don't want Ding Bell to risk it with me. ”

“On the other hand, knowing that there is another person in my hometown waiting for me to return, it seems that the harder, more dangerous, more creepy situation ahead of me is nothing! ”

“Over time, the good news seems to be getting a little negative. ”

“First of all, after measuring the astronomical parameters and relative positional relationships of nearly ten stars, I finally mapped them to the planets on the Pan Ancient Star Map, thereby determining my coordinates in the dark nebula. ”

“Secondly, I feel that in recent decades the dark nebula itself has slowly become thinner, ‘visibility' has grown, and information has moved more smoothly outward. ”

“This red giant is a good reference, and I have the option to expand the torch in its orbit, absorb the spiritual energy it emits, and transmit the coordinates here to my hometown. ”

“The Red Star, however, is not the real target we're looking for, and it doesn't make much sense for the Federation's big troops to jump here. ”

“And I don't know what's going on in that mysterious world, but if they have some kind of magic to capture signals, Shundo, and find a specific location in the Federation, that's terrible! ”

“For the sake of safety, find this mysterious world, understand each other's civilizational level and good and evil positions, and then send a signal to your hometown no later than later. ”

“I have a hunch that I am close to this mysterious world! ”