Chapter 2718 - 14: Man-made Star Core
(Regarding the star core hypothesis, it’s a character setting I made up myself, so don’t really think there’s any actual star core, maybe there is, maybe there isn’t.)
However, the situation soon changed.
That is, after Jia Yan traveled a certain distance, he felt the rocks and other minerals of the planet ahead turned into high temperatures.
From sub-zero temperatures, it quickly rose to above-zero temperatures.
"It’s over fifty degrees! Humans would pass out from the heat here."
Jia Yan was slightly delighted.
At this time, he was already more than three hundred kilometers deep inside the planet.
Then he grew even more excited, because up ahead, there was a large amount of magma.
The appearance of magma caused Jia Yan to feel satisfied with the current situation.
With magma, it can be confirmed that this planet’s center is a liquid core, and at the very center of this core, a star core should appear.
To be honest, collecting star cores usually requires the planet to explode, or a stellar disaster to occur, but Jia Yan was desperately using his strength to conquer a planet.
To say it out, it actually sounds a bit silly.
Because to achieve this, at least galactic-level strength is required.
After all, it looks simple now, but the deeper you go into the planet, the greater the pressure. If Jia Yan were not a middle-rank star river powerhouse, he would probably be directly crushed at the planet’s core.
This even applies to a planet with a diameter of two thousand kilometers; if it were a gigantic planet like Earth, the pressure at the center would be unbelievably terrifying. Even Jia Yan may not be able to withstand it.
If it were a larger gas planet, like Jupiter and Uranus, the central pressure could directly kill Jia Yan.
So the problem arises, the essence of the star core inside a small planet is not very high, and its application range is not large, so a strong one goes through great effort to reach the center, just to extract a small bit of star core material, then must escape, or simply explode the planet, wasting too much effort.
Because after they get it, they need to put it outside, process it scientifically, and then ordinary strong ones can use it. After some time, the star core’s quality decreases, and it’s possible that such a small planet’s star core is almost useless.
This is why strong ones hardly ever do such things.
Otherwise, so many trash planets would have been excavated by strong ones, and many planets would have been destroyed by them.
Only Jia Yan foolishly came to try.
Of course, Jia Yan’s attempt is not without reason.
His reason for attempting was precisely because he previously believed that he was an Evolutionary Creature.
Others can’t use it quickly, can they?
But he is different. He is an Evolutionary Creature; perhaps once he finds the star core, he can devour it directly inside the planet.
As long as he can truly and completely digest it, the effect would not be much different from devouring a complete star core.
Pop, pop, pop.
Jia Yan continued to drill forward.
The pressure on him began to increase because the density of the surrounding matter became extremely terrifying.
Earlier, drilling through the soft surface, he felt extremely relaxed, but by the eight or nine hundred kilometer zone, the surroundings were all magma, with temperatures reaching above thousands of degrees.
Now, up, down, left, and right, all provided resistance, the heat making Jia Yan feel a bit itchy and uncomfortable.
"But it’s close now; another one or two hundred kilometers and I’ll reach the star core region. I feel the surrounding energy is solidifying somewhat; is this the energy inside a planet?"
Jia Yan felt a bit of joy regarding the pressure inside this planet.
Because he thought, other strong ones cannot cultivate in such places because they cannot directly transform the power, but he is different, being an Evolutionary Creature.
"Next time, I’ll try finding a place with better energy to see if I can directly transform energy within. Perhaps my previous cultivation method was always off track, and previous Evolutionary Creature predecessors may have used such cultivation methods."
Jia Yan felt like he had opened a new door.
Considering it, previous Evolutionary Creature predecessors had always been heavily hunted, leaving little time for cultivation, so how could they have quickly cultivated to a level higher than Jia Yan now possesses?
It’s very likely that they adopted the method of cultivating inside planets.
The correct way for Evolutionary Creatures might very well be this.
"Haha, it has taken me reaching such strength to understand this logic, but it’s not too late, because before reaching galaxy level, even stellar-level existence, wanting to venture into a planet’s interior to cultivate is very dangerous; even if one can withstand high temperatures and pressure, a movement in the crust could mean death."
Jia Yan sensed that the magma within the planet was not very active, considering it is a celestial body far from stellar radiation, the activity of the celestial body is very low.
"There it is!"
Suddenly, Jia Yan sensed that the energy density in his drilling direction up ahead suddenly became slightly lower than the region he was in. He immediately understood that he had arrived.
The energy ahead being lower than where he was indicated he was now at the center point.
"This whole area of extremely high density makes me feel it provides at least a thousand times atmospheric pressure, very formidable, someone who isn’t a galaxy level existence would truly be crushed to death."
Jia Yan was quite shaken with the surrounding energy.
Moreover, all around were extremely hard, semi-liquid substances, with shockingly high density.
"These can actually be considered a star core, but generally, the entire essence of a planet’s interior must be gathered to truly count as a star core."
Jia Yan quietly felt it, then released his brainwave power with a buzz.
The already highly condensed central part of the planet, under his brainwave power, instantly contracted further.
"A natural star core is generally formed due to a planet’s accident, like an explosion or collision compressing it instantaneously, but now I’m using artificial means, which surely isn’t as consolidated. Still, better than nothing."
Kacha, kacha, kacha...
The internal pressure of the planet was at least thousands of times the Earth’s surface pressure, but Jia Yan artificially increased the pressure several more times.
The materials here rapidly condensed along Jia Yan’s cut surface, fiercely gathering toward the center.
Jia Yan himself resisted the influx of external matter, allowing at least 30 kilometers of central star core material to be fully compressed.
Very quickly, 30 kilometers continued to be compressed, which was absolutely an extremely laborious task.
Jia Yan swiftly compressed these materials down to 25 kilometers.
"I’m getting a little tired."
He was already somewhat out of breath.
Bear in mind, his strength is middle-rank star river level, and it’s the first time he encountered such a situation.
Having compressed just five kilometers, the interior of this star core could either be considered a star core or not.
Because Jia Yan’s compression is simply not up to par, he doesn’t have the strength to further compress the materials.
Compressing density can be said to be an atomic-level action, especially since the materials here are already very dense, so being able to further compress 30 kilometers reasonably by another 5 kilometers is already tremendously remarkable.
"It’s not enough, at least another five kilometers. Yin Yang Dao Power, explode for me!"
Jia Yan exerted all his power.
The power of Yin Yang Dao suddenly exploded.
Under a booming thunder, a brainwave power with matter-antimatter smashed onto the sphere.
The sphere continued to shrink.
Bang, bang, bang.
The shrinking sphere suddenly had an exceptionally solidified intention.
Kaccha, kaccha, kaccha.
Finally, as Jia Yan exhausted all his strength, nearly collapsing, this artificial "star core" appeared before his eyes.
He was almost at his limit.
"Very well, let’s take it out; the pressure here is too great, having sustained it for at least several days, I’m about out of energy."
Jia Yan, with his brainwave power enveloping the star core, abruptly pulled it with him as he charged out.