Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 592

Chapter 590 The Ninth Mother Star

. “This realm of cultivation isn’t right,” Bai Hongtu pointed out.

“The Qi Training Stage is supposed to involve absorbing and exhaling primordial purple qi. Only

when the purple qi reaches a distance of thirty thousand miles can one be considered to have entered the Qi Training Stage.” “Next comes the Foundation Establishment Stage. Refining forty-nine strands of primordial purple qi marks the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, and refining fifty strands of primordial purple qi marks the Great Dao Foundation Establishment.”

“The ‘gold’ in the Golden Core Stage represents indestructibility. Achieving the Golden Core allows one to traverse the heavens and myriad realms, journey through the vast river of time, with an indestructible golden body, lasting eternity…”

Jiang Li tapped Bai Hongtu, “It’s almost there.”

Seeing this, Yu Yin retracted her half-extended hand.

Jiang Li had preempted

Bai Hongtu’s opportunity to tap him. The captain didn’t mind the scene. There were plenty of insane Fusion Stage masters.

Transforming the body to reach the Fusion Stage inevitably compromised the mind—this was the price of cultivating the immortal.

Jiang Li pointed out the view outside the window and asked, “Is that the camera in space you mentioned?”

A metallic object, resembling a cauldron, floated outside the ship’s window, the largest of which was hundreds of kilometers in diameter.

Similar metal objects were everywhere, and within a short time of flying, Jiang Li had spotted seven.

“Yes, it’s called a Cosmic Eye, used for observing the universe. Cosmic Eyes are spread throughout the universe, and mining stellar iron ore is also a reason for creating Cosmic Eyes.”

“How can you reproduce in a body like yours?” As a frequent visitor to the Hehuan Sect, Bai Hongtu expressed his confusion at the captain’s behavior.

A body made of steel, without feeling, touch, sensation, or taste, what’s the point of living?

“How difficult is it to reproduce? Before merging with the ship, just leave your seed in the hospital, and the hospital will take care of itself.”

“What about the process?”

“Does the process matter?” the captain asked, leaving Bai Hongtu at a loss for words.

The captain continued, “Sexual behavior is the result of hormones and physiological reactions controlling a person. As a cultivator, you must abandon such behavior. As an observer, you must always prioritize rationality over emotion.”

“We’ve arrived at the port,” the captain said.

Without even a tremor, the ship silently arrived at the port. Home to hundreds of ships, it was the largest port on the planet.

The port was bustling. As soon as it stopped, countless workers began unloading minerals from the ship. In just over ten minutes, all the star minerals were unloaded.

“The president welcomes you three. Would you like to visit the Meteorite Group?” The captain reported Jiang Li and the other two to his superiors. The group’s top brass was very interested in them.

Even without the captain’s report, the group would have known about them. The ship was covered in cameras, and the group had a clear view of what was happening aboard.

“Thank you, but as newcomers, we’d like to explore the area on our own,” Jiang Li declined, disembarking and disappearing into the crowd.

The captain tried to persuade them, but just as he opened his mouth, he realized the three had vanished, leaving no trace.

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Welcome to the Ninth Mother Planet.” A massive electronic screen stood outside the port, welcoming visitors from other planets.

The port served as both a transit point for cargo and interstellar tourism, attracting countless visitors from other planets.

“Ninth Mother Planet?”

Jiang Li noticed a passage in the lower left corner of the electronic welcome sign, explaining the origins of the Ninth Mother Planet.

Originally, the Observer World consisted of three stars, known as the Three Mother Planets. Later, as space expanded, and as more and more people entered space, new settlements gradually formed, known as the Fourth Mother Planet.

An unwritten rule later emerged: any planet with a human settlement exceeding one billion could also be called a Mother Planet.

Thus, following the order in which these Mother Planets were formed, there was the Fifth Mother Planet, the Sixth Mother Planet… the Ninth Mother Planet… the 1,221st Mother Planet.

“Even the trees here are made of cast steel,” Bai Hongtu tapped on a tree trunk, making a metallic sound.

The people walking the streets, the dogs running frolicking, the birds soaring through the sky—all bear traces of artificial creation, whether organs or entirely artificial.

Most of the people living here belong to the “steam monks,” their bodies a patchwork of parts, quite uncoordinated.

For example, some have robotic arms, but both are right arms. Some walk with a limp because the mechanism that regulates their center of gravity in their lower body isn’t very sensitive. Still others treat their bodies like storage devices, walking to a corner, lifting their clothes, opening their bellies, pulling out all sorts of gadgets, and setting up a street stall…

Physically, these people are stronger than real mortals, their robotic organs giving them greater endurance and fighting power.

Jiang Li pulled out a microphone, pretending to be a reporter, and began interviewing people on the street: “Hello, I’m a reporter from Jiuzhou News. Could I have a moment of your time for a brief interview?”

Seeing this, Bai Hongtu conjured a camera and slung it over his shoulder.

The vendor looked at the unremarkable Jiang Li in surprise, then at Yu Yin, who was sitting there with her hands in her pockets, doing nothing. He wondered if a female reporter wouldn’t normally be the one interviewing.

But the vendor had no intention of refusing. After all, being on TV might even boost his business.

“May I ask why you want to modify your body?”

“Because a mechanical body is easier to use than your own. You have heart problems and need surgery, and you have gastrointestinal problems and need surgery, but replacing your organs with mechanical ones is different. Wherever there’s a problem, you can just replace it. It’s simple and convenient.”

“Our parents taught us from a young age to aspire to replace our entire bodies with mechanical ones and ascend to higher-level cultivators.”

“When I was little, I also thought I could replace my entire body. If nothing else, at least I had to switch from steam to electricity.”

“Now that I’ve grown up, I’ve faced reality. I’m just an ordinary person. The cost of the Electricity Foundation Establishment Stage is more than we can afford.”

“But I still encourage my children to have ambitions and become Electricity Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators. I’m setting up a stall to make money so I can save money so my children can have better bodies.”

“No matter how poor we are, we can’t neglect our children’s health.”

The vendor was a very talkative person. He talked in front of the camera, talking about his own inner journey. The three people listened quietly, interrupting from time to time.

What the vendor said could reflect to a large extent the life of ordinary people on the Ninth Mother Star.

“My child has said that he wants to join the army since he was young. No matter how much we persuade him, he won’t listen. Really, being a soldier is so dangerous. I know that if a big demon crosses the border and a soldier is the first to rush to the battlefield, that brat still thinks being a soldier is an honor, it’s his life.”

“But then again, if there were no soldiers to protect us, we would have died in the attack of the big demon long ago, and we wouldn’t have the life we have now.” “

It’s really tangled… Wait, this is not a live broadcast, right?” The vendor realized that what he said could not be broadcast on TV.

Jiang Li smiled: “It’s not a live broadcast. Can you tell me in detail what the big demon that came from the border is?”

(End of this chapter)