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"Huh?"
Xuan Ziwen looked puzzled.
What is all this about?
Modern communication soul tools have become relatively mature in terms of technology.
At least within Su Yu's field, the current advancements are enough to fully realize all the functions he needs.
The soul tool he uses to communicate with Xuan Ziwen is already capable of video calls.
After all, as long as the signal can be transmitted, converting it into visuals and sound is a basic application.
On the Douluo Continent, it's not the technology that's lacking—it's the ideas. Soul tools like light screens and voice transmission devices have long existed and are used in many areas.
It's just that no one had thought of applying them this way, or perhaps the old order of Douluo Continent wasn't suitable for the development of such widespread, mobile-phone-like communication soul tools.
Now, with the continent unified and the Federation established, a unified system is in place. With federal coordination and the construction of signal relay stations, the communication network quickly took shape.
Next, Su Yu plans to propose that the soul engineers at Sun-Moon Hall begin satellite research. Once spacecraft technology is developed, satellite technology will soon follow. Then satellites can be launched to improve the structure of the communication network.
First, conquer space. After that, move on to the oceans. With satellites for navigation, soul masters will be far more effective in developing the seas.
"Space?"
Xuan Ziwen instinctively repeated, then took a moment to process Su Yu's meaning.
Su Yu had previously explained to them some basic concepts regarding the form of Douluo Star.
The dimension where Douluo Continent is located is, in fact, a planet—a planet in the universe where life emerged and developed a soul master civilization.
Douluo Continent is the largest landmass on this planet. Scattered across the oceans are numerous islands and smaller continents.
And beyond Douluo Star lies the universe—where other life-bearing planets also exist.
Xuan Ziwen quickly understood what Su Yu meant.
"You want to explore other life-bearing planets in the universe?"
"Exactly. The era of Douluo Continent's development has arrived. Douluo Star alone won't be enough. The soul master world is evolving rapidly, and finding new planets suitable for soul masters to inhabit is one goal. Another is to connect with the universe at large—establishing contact with other races and understanding the current cosmic landscape."
The unknown is what people fear most.
Without a true understanding of the universe beyond, it's hard to feel secure.
Su Yu, however, already knows the general state of the universe. He's aware that Douluo Continent is, in fact, already a mid-to-upper-level civilization on the cosmic scale—especially after subduing the Abyss and taking the Divine Realm into account. It's already considered a major force in the universe.
That means there's no need for internal conflict or fear that interfacing with the universe will bring unpredictable dangers.
Without this vague sense of crisis, the decision to explore the universe becomes much easier.
Likewise, as Douluo Continent steps into the interstellar age, its overall development will greatly accelerate. The expansion of the Federation will also proceed at a much faster pace, progressing in tandem with Su Yu's growth.
"You're that confident we can devour the Abyss?"
Xuan Ziwen couldn't understand where Su Yu's confidence was coming from.
If they can't conquer the Abyss, what basis does Douluo Continent have for expanding into the universe?
Yes, the soul master civilization of Douluo Continent is considered mid-tier in the cosmos. But mid-tier civilizations generally don't have the ability to venture into space.
Below the god level, a civilization remains mid-tier.
Only with god-level beings does a civilization qualify as upper-tier—and even within that, there are more precise classifications.
"Don't worry. With Douluo Continent's current configuration, and the unique attraction my Life-and-Death Rune has for the Abyssal Saint Lord, devouring the Abyss is just a matter of time."
Su Yu had no concerns about the safety of Douluo Continent.
Even in the worst-case scenario—if they can't fully devour the Abyss—Douluo Continent won't be in danger. On the contrary, it has a safety net. The energy the Abyss has already poured into the Extreme North to build a spatial tunnel can be absorbed, helping the continent grow significantly.
Perhaps it still won't be enough to break through the barrier to godhood.
But it will definitely allow the continent to reach the peak of what is possible below the god level.
At that point, Su Yu can ascend to godhood directly on Douluo Continent. This will cause the plane's will to evolve as well. Combined with Su Yu stabilizing a divine position based on wisdom, Douluo Continent will certainly be able to support god-level soul masters.
So Douluo Star becoming a god-tier civilization is inevitable.
"Oh right, Senior Brother—remind the teachers that the Abyss might not necessarily build its spatial tunnel in the Extreme North. If they detect any unusual patterns in the tunnel's formation frequency, be sure to inform me."
Su Yu's power over fate allows him to deduce the location of the spatial tunnel.
However, if he's unable to sense it—if he doesn't know it exists—then he can't find it.
In the past, this kind of deduction might have been difficult. But now, with the strong karmic ties between Su Yu and the Abyss, his fate-based deductions have become much more accurate.
"Alright, I'll pass the message along."
Xuan Ziwen rubbed his temples, feeling that Su Yu's train of thought was jumping around a bit—he was just talking about the universe, and now he's suddenly back to discussing the Abyssal portal.
"Senior Brother, Kuang Tie has successfully perfected the Heavenly Refinement technique. The forged sentient metal can now be directly used to create Super Battle Armor."
"Really?"
Hearing Su Yu mention Heavenly Refinement and the effects of Heavenly Refined metal, Xuan Ziwen's eyes lit up.
He still didn't have a Super Battle Armor yet.
That was mainly because nurturing sentient metal takes an enormous amount of time.
Although the sentient metal for his own high-grade Battle Armor began nurturing at nearly the same time as Su Yu's, Su Yu possessed an inexhaustible source of life force, combined with the power of faith and numerous opportunities. Naturally, his nurturing progress far outpaced Xuan Ziwen's.
As for Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming, they had massive reserves of soul power and spiritual energy to nourish their metals.
Spiritual power at the Spirit Domain level is strong enough to influence reality itself. After several years of nurturing, combined with the transformation from soul power and optimal methods used from the very beginning to guide the metal's sentience, they were able to develop Super Battle Armor with relative speed.
The key factor was time.
Xuan Ziwen was too busy—constantly researching this and that—his energy was spread thin. He could only afford the time for basic daily nurturing. Meanwhile, Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen devoted themselves entirely to the process, nurturing their armor without rest.
Now that the Heavenly Refinement technique was perfected, how could Xuan Ziwen not be excited?
His soul power had already reached Rank 94.
Over the past few years, since he absorbed the 100,000-year Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ring and broke through to Titled Douluo, he had now stabilized at Rank 94 and had been stuck there for quite a while.
His high-grade Battle Armor now provided very little additional strength. At most, it allowed him to barely maintain the combat power of someone at Rank 95 or 96.
But if he were to obtain Super Battle Armor, his strength could leap to Rank 98—possibly even reach Rank 99.
"No, wait—power isn't my goal," Xuan Ziwen reminded himself.
Why was he suddenly so eager for strength?
"The main thing is that with Limit Douluo-level power, researching soul tools would become so much easier."
Research and development of soul tools often require a strong foundation in personal strength.
Otherwise, when experimenting with soul tools that surpass your own level, any unexpected incident could have disastrous consequences, negatively affecting your mindset and reducing your chances of successfully restarting after a failure.
"It's just that the forging process might be a bit slow. But the technique has been fully developed, and I've helped Kuang Tie resolve the issue of backlash. As he continues forging, the success rate will improve, and the production speed of Heavenly Refined metals will gradually increase."
"With Heavenly Refined metal, Senior Brother, your spacecraft research should become a lot easier."
Xuan Ziwen's eyes sparkled.
Using Heavenly Refined metal to build spacecraft?
Good heavens, if an entire spacecraft could be constructed from such material, wouldn't that essentially be a massive Battle Armor?
A combat aircraft!
A Battle Armor warship!
Could that even be considered a regular spacecraft?
With just a few combat-related formations added, the power it could unleash would absolutely surpass that of individual Battle Armor enhancements—it might even be able to generate god-level strength!
Actual god-level power.
However, such technology wouldn't be easy to develop.
Only highly mature technology could allow for the full application of Heavenly Refined metal on something as massive as a spacecraft. And to develop that level of technology would take a long time.
It certainly wouldn't be achievable in just a year or two.
"So, my task is to ensure the spacecraft's flight capabilities. We don't need to focus too much on offensive systems. As long as flight and defense are fully maxed out, that will be enough."
Even if some of the properties of the Heavenly Refined metal end up underutilized, these two aspects must be maximized.
That way, even if the rest of the technology is slightly behind, it would still be sufficient for Su Yu to navigate the universe safely.
"Understood," Xuan Ziwen replied.
Just from the specifications Su Yu had given, it was clear how eager he was to begin space travel.
"Senior Brother, do you think we could develop it within six months?"
Xuan Ziwen's eyes widened.
"Come again?"
Six months?
You're asking me to build a spacecraft in six months?
And this is when we don't even have any existing technology in that field!
"Su Yu, I don't know much about conditions in space. I have no idea what precautions are needed for space travel. Developing this kind of technology isn't just a matter of theoretical design—it requires practical testing in actual space, gradually refining everything."
There's no way it can be developed that quickly.
"Senior Brother, you only need to handle the most basic parts. Later, I'll perfect the rest myself. I can also handle the debugging of the spacecraft. Since I control space, I'll pilot the ship myself for testing, which will be much safer. If anything goes wrong, I can tear through space and return to Douluo Continent."
Xuan Ziwen thought carefully and replied, "Alright, I'll try to develop this technology within six months, but I can't guarantee how close it will be to a fully functional spacecraft capable of space travel."
It might just need a little fine-tuning and a few technical upgrades to be on par with a real spacefaring vessel.
But it could also end up falling short in several areas, especially in terms of structure and design.
It was all happening too quickly.
But Su Yu wasn't worried.
"Don't worry, Senior Brother, just focus on the development."
As long as the spacecraft can theoretically travel in space, Su Yu could handle most of the real-world challenges himself.
"Space travel depends heavily on wormholes, and the ship needs to be able to withstand the pressure of traveling through them."
"This…" Xuan Ziwen admitted that his understanding of wormholes was not very deep.
"Senior Brother, just focus on developing the defense systems, as long as they can withstand attacks from a Limit Douluo-level opponent. As for the spatial pressure, I can handle that myself."
The more Su Yu spoke, the less reliable he seemed to Xuan Ziwen.
Space travel—this was something that even entire civilizations struggled with, a project that would take eons to complete. Yet, here was Su Yu, in a rush to develop basic technology within six months, then rapidly fine-tune it and send a test ship through a wormhole.
"Senior Brother, I'm counting on you."
After saying this, Su Yu ended the communication.
He tore through space, preparing to summon Xuan Ziwen over.
However, just as he was about to do so, Su Yu received a follow-up message from Xuan Ziwen. "I'll stay on the front lines in the Extreme North for now. With Kong Lao and the Hall Master's help, the development process will go more smoothly."
After reading the message, Su Yu decided against summoning Xuan Ziwen for now.
"As for the Heavenly Refined metal, there's no rush to hand it over to Senior Brother and the others."
Heavenly Refined metal, in simple terms, was sentient metal with abundant spiritual energy. Its sentience had evolved to a level equivalent to the type of metal needed to create Super Battle Armor.
Douluo City.
"One year's time—my goal is to raise my soul power to Rank 94, and then break through to Rank 95 during space travel."
Su Yu's soul power was currently at Rank 92.
The time he spent stuck at Rank 89 wasn't significant. Additionally, the two core soul nuclei had greatly enhanced the quality of his soul power, making his soul power much denser than that of typical Titled Douluo at the same rank.
"Faith is also starting to show progress. I just need to wait for the delegates in various regions to finalize it."
Su Yu had already done everything he could for the common people.
"As for Star Luo Continent, I haven't fully established my faith there yet. The same goes for the Phoenix Great Continent; my faith there isn't pure either."
Although Su Yu's goal in collecting faith was to establish the faith of the God of Wisdom for his trial, it wasn't limited to just that.
"Rulership and other divine powers are important too. They have significant implications for Douluo Continent's further development."
As for the existence of the God Realm, Su Yu viewed it merely as a special space for Douluo Continent.
Once the lower realms were unified, the upper realm would become a special space controlled by the lower realm, a gathering place for powerful beings with divine inheritance.
It could be seen as a sacred land in one world, with many strong figures eager to seize the divine positions within.
Of course, the precondition for this was that Douluo Star must be powerful enough, and the Federation must be able to integrate the various realms under the Douluo God Realm.
The Federation's system, in this regard, was quite excellent. It facilitated alliances and the establishment of a broader Federation, even forming larger unions.
"Phoenix Great Continent, to establish the faith of Reincarnation. As for the True Dragon Continent…" Su Yu couldn't think of what type of faith would be suitable for the True Dragon Continent.
On the Phoenix Great Continent, the tribes worship totems, with the Phoenix tribe being one of the largest. Some other faiths are connected to the Phoenix, as this continent had seen a large number of fallen Phoenixes. These beliefs even relate to concepts such as Nirvana. For Su Yu, establishing a faith centered around Reincarnation was relatively easy.
But what type of faith should be established on the True Dragon Continent?
"The environment there is more primitive. Perhaps… I should consider establishing a battle-based faith?" Su Yu shook his head and ultimately decided to continue with the Reincarnation faith.
The primary continent would be dedicated to the faith of Wisdom, while the two smaller continents would adopt Reincarnation faith.
"True Dragon Continent's coordinates…" Su Yu immediately tore through space and made his way to the True Dragon Continent.
One month later…
"Having immense power really makes everything simpler," Su Yu remarked as he looked at a group of soul masters before him.
"The Reincarnation Temple is established today!"
"Greetings, Temple Master!"
The Soul Saints and Soul Emperors, who had been living comfortably on the True Dragon Continent, bowed respectfully to Su Yu.
There was no resentment or dissatisfaction in their eyes, only fervor and admiration.
True power could easily gather many followers, especially on the True Dragon Continent, where soul masters had yet to reach the Titled Douluo stage.
The primitive soul masters on this continent revered power above all else.
Su Yu's strength had conquered them all.
"Mmm, the temple is established. Now, we must unite all the humans on the continent, train soul masters, and conquer the continent."
"Soul Saint is just the seventh stage of a soul master's cultivation. After that, there's the Soul Douluo, the Titled Douluo at level 90, and even higher, the God level!"
Su Yu's voice echoed, and the Soul Saints and Soul Emperors below looked on with fervor.
"God!"
"God of Reincarnation!"
Having conquered the continent's strongest, after establishing the Reincarnation Temple, Su Yu would bring order to the continent and complete its unification.
"Mmm, the humans on this continent are too scattered. It will take some time to fully unite them and establish the Reincarnation Holy City, but with the power of soul masters, we can do it within six months."
"Indeed, directional faith will subtly aid in the gathering of divine power for me."
Su Yu's faith power was already immense.
"The Federation's faith is vast and starting to lean toward wisdom. I can vaguely sense it coming together."
Even with the power of rule perception, Su Yu's abilities now surpassed those of most gods when it came to sensing these forces.
So even with the early stages of establishing the faith of Wisdom, Su Yu could feel the trends of the faith power within him.
"Wisdom."
This broad term left Su Yu uncertain where to start.
Especially since he couldn't even perceive the rules of Wisdom directly.
Now, with the help of faith, he could begin to condense the authority of Wisdom, stabilizing the rules surrounding it.
"Just like the Sea God—his authority is so vast, and his omnipotence so broad. But these elements of authority depend on each soul master's understanding and experience. Even I would struggle to comprehend and condense all of it at once."
However, as faith grew, each believer's different perception of the Sea God would contribute to the unity of his authority. This, in turn, would allow the Sea God's divine position to emerge.
There were no direct rules belonging to the Sea God, but his divine position could manipulate rules like water, domains, and many others.
A divine position is authority. It combines various rules, but it doesn't necessarily correspond directly to any one rule.
Su Yu gradually understood this.
"My Wisdom divine position also doesn't directly correspond to the rules of Wisdom but instead condenses the authority of Wisdom, managing all the rules related to it, and shining the light of Wisdom."
Wisdom was broad.
But when this will became strong enough, and when immense faith power gathered, the authority of Wisdom could form.
"Divine positions, though, aren't useless."
At this moment, Su Yu realized that divine positions weren't as insignificant as he once thought.
"Previously, my views were too narrow."
With so many gods in the universe seeking to establish divine realms and obtain divine positions, there must have been reason behind it.
Divine positions grant gods endless lifespans—this, too, was no coincidence.
"The authority of Reincarnation is also more complex than I imagined. It's not just about the intertwining of life and death."
The True Dragon Continent was more primitive, which made it easier to establish order. People here valued power and survival of the fittest, which made unifying the continent much simpler.
Absolute power.
Thus, Su Yu didn't need to worry about the development of the Reincarnation Temple.
"Since that's settled, I should head to the Phoenix Great Continent."
Su Yu was looking forward to visiting the Phoenix Great Continent.
Though he had done a thorough search before, he had to admit that at that time, he wasn't mature enough in his perception of opportunities.
"The fall of the God-level Phoenix… there's bound to be plenty of opportunities related to gods."
(End of chapter)