Chapter 2019 April 9, 23:17

Su Zhou’s coffin, returning from another world, had been floating in space for over an hour.

After an emergency meeting lasting twelve minutes, the Earth Fleet on the far side of the moon temporarily modified their exercise plans, turning towards the coffin’s location.

Almost every space observatory in the world focused its lenses in that direction, recording every detail.

However, many sensors and electronic facilities, including the Earth Fleet’s radar, suffered extremely severe psionic radiation interference. Even the simplest optical scanners and lenses observed severely distorted light waves, making it impossible to clearly detect the conditions around the coffin.

Of course, it wasn’t a distortion of mass, but rather like observing the sun through a high-precision lens. Ordinary facilities couldn’t penetrate the surface layer of intense psionic light, and the overwhelming psionic radiation rendered all electronic recordings useless and inaccurate.

Chapter 2019 April 10, 3:25 AM

The Earth Fleet approached the suspected location of Su Zhou’s coffin, and could vaguely see, with the naked eye in the vacuum of space, the gigantic metal capsule as large as a mountain, with a total length exceeding two thousand meters. The tremors generated by the nine Qi dragons surging around it were visible to the naked eye, and the ripples of Qi flow spread tens of thousands of meters away, still clear.

The lead flagship intended to continue approaching, but as it drew closer, the overwhelming psionic radiation activated the warship’s psionic shield. The closer it got, the more the originally elliptical psionic shield caved in like a balloon under the pressure of rushing water, showing obvious deformation.

Moreover, many intelligent AIs inside the warship were affected by the overwhelming psionic radiation, and for a time, the entire fleet’s trajectory showed a noticeable deflection. This prompted the fleet commander to urgently order a halt to further approach.

After reporting this failed approach and observation attempt to Earth, all the Sacred Seats in the Zhengguo Aerospace Administration, who had been working overtime for nearly five hours due to this unusual event, frowned deeply.

"You mean to say that even a psionic barrier comparable to a battleship can’t block the psionic radiation of an Immortal Celestial?"

In the conference room, Yu Sheng took a long breath. He removed the artificial eye from his left socket, adjusted the data, and then put it back. The half-cybernetic改造人 spoke with some weariness, "The unknown coffin—okay, we all know it should be Su Zhou—broke through to the Celestial Immortal realm—who knows why he broke through again as soon as he came back—anyway, with our current technology, we can’t get close enough to observe his specific situation?"

"Theoretically speaking, we can."

Dao Sheng, sitting beside him, put down the report in his hand, his brow also furrowed. "Celestial Immortals, compared to Earth Immortals, not only achieve true immortality, but their life essence also undergoes sublimation. Simply put, it’s like a bird that uses spiritual energy, and a divine bird composed of spiritual energy—a fundamental transformation."

"But this doesn't mean that a Celestial Immortal who has just entered the Immortal realm has the power to completely crush an Earth Immortal."

He raised his hand and adjusted the position of the light screen in the conference room, displaying a structural schematic of the magnetic field changes and psionic field distribution around ‘Su Zhou’s coffin’ for everyone present.

Dao Sheng explained in a clear tone, "Looking purely at the intensity of energy, the Moon Fleet’s scan should theoretically be able to break through. But because the psionic radiation around Su Zhou spontaneously forms a kind of natural law, and the effect of this divine power law is so strong that even warships can’t get close."

"Then what exactly is that law?"

Li Sheng, who was sitting opposite Dao Sheng and about to retire but was still pulled out of bed in the middle of the night to work overtime, provided a timely supporting line.

"Currently, it’s just speculation."

In response, Dao Sheng once again lowered his head to look at the research report in his hand, his tone somewhat uncertain as he said, "But if I’m not mistaken—if the books aren’t wrong."

"That law should be a great divine power that has been lost since the era of the Immortals and Gods."

"Inherited from the Five Virtues Phoenix Clan…the Five Virtues Divine Light."

"—This, isn't this the Five Virtues Divine Light?!"

Nanling, New World Exploration Department.

Bai Yingxue, who was originally working on related documents under Tang Yuan’s guidance, widened her eyes when she saw the analysis file that was uploaded in real time to the Minister's office.

When this former Xuanming Ice Phoenix saw the complete form of the great divine power that she hadn't even comprehended when she was about to break through to the Celestial Immortal realm in her previous life, she was filled with shock and confusion.

—This, this thing, even I, a descendant of a divine bird who has awakened the Phoenix blood, don't know!

—Why did Su Zhou, this descendant of the Yinglong, comprehend it as soon as he returned after going to the outer stars for secluded cultivation?!

Except for the Sacred Seats and a few people close to Su Zhou, most Zhengguo officials, like ordinary people, believed that Su Zhou had disappeared for the past eight months to cultivate in seclusion in the Great Red Spot area of Jupiter.

After the revival of spiritual energy, in addition to the sun becoming the source of spiritual energy for the entire solar system, Jupiter, as a gas giant, also had its high spiritual nature confirmed. The planetary-level storm in its Great Red Spot area contained more spiritual energy than most blessed lands on Earth. However, because its spiritual energy was extremely fierce, ordinary cultivators found it difficult to absorb and would instead have their spirituality obliterated. Therefore, it was also used as a prison to suppress ordinary criminals and hostile Earth Immortals and Celestial Immortals.

"Could it be that he really comprehended it from the Phoenix inheritance I gave him?"

So now, Bai Yingxue was really racking her brains trying to figure out why Su Zhou suddenly learned the complete version of the Five Virtues Divine Light after cultivating on Jupiter… It felt like her boss, who could only ride a bicycle, suddenly became proficient in driving cars, helicopters, and even yachts after going to Hawaii—that was how unbelievable it was.

Although the Five Virtues Divine Light looked a bit strange and unorthodox, with her knowledge and instinct, she could completely see that the essence of this divine power was already very complete. Even the Phoenix blood that had already awakened in her body began to instinctively approach the star in the sky that emitted light.

Soon, the time came to six in the morning.

After a long period of experimentation, the Moon Fleet realized that although Su Zhou's coffin was very self-contained and basically did not respond to any external communication signals and frequencies, the nine dragons pulling the coffin were not.

As the power source of the coffin, the nine dragons would instinctively move towards areas with higher concentrations of spiritual energy. This led to a rather awkward phenomenon: Su Zhou himself was constantly shifting towards the direction of the sun, and his speed was increasing.

After calculation, if not stopped, the Su Zhou coffin, which would accelerate to the extreme in more than a week, would directly rush into the sun at the fourth cosmic velocity—and the shock wave generated at that time, the interference to the sun's magnetic field, would likely trigger a small-scale solar storm, affecting the signal stability of half the solar system.

No one worried about Su Zhou's safety. After all, cultivators could act on the surface of the sun as early as the Earth Immortal realm. If they were strong Earth Immortals, they would be fearless even in the face of coronal mass ejections.

With Su Zhou's past performance and power, it was more likely that he would enter the sun to absorb energy and heal his injuries.

But in that case, not to mention the excessive impact on human civilization, even a one in ten thousand chance that something unexpected happened when he collided with the sun was unacceptable to the entire Earth civilization.

Currently, on the entire Earth, apart from a few leaders of major forces who had touched the edge of the Earth Immortal realm, everyone else was only at the peak of the Commanding realm. After all, it had only been less than five years since the revival of spiritual energy. Even with the cultivation experience of predecessors as assistance, it was still too short a time to find one’s own path to immortality.

The Earth civilization, which had already begun to contact many cosmic civilizations, knew very well that in terms of various technological levels, especially in space engineering and warship technology, it was not even close to the Seresians, not even close to the Talin. It needed to use all kinds of extraordinary means to catch up.

Although it was very unwilling, it sounded like the entire civilization was becoming a foil for individuals…

But to communicate equally with these cosmic civilizations, the existence of Su Zhou, the strongest person on Earth, was very important.

Especially now that Su Zhou had broken through to the Celestial Immortal realm and completely left all the cultivation circles on Earth behind by two major realms, this importance was even greater.

As the only known Alpha-level psionic in the current known universe, his very existence could serve as a direction, a signpost, to guide the advancement of civilization—he was also a deterrent that could keep all cosmic civilizations friendly and harmonious. Even the arrogant Galactic Superpower was now calmly sending ambassadors to communicate because of Su Zhou's existence.

According to Bai Yingxue's information, most of the leaders in the Earth civilization circle knew that the various aliens the Earth civilization encountered before her rebirth were not very friendly.

"Since Su Zhou is currently suspected of being seriously injured and in a state where he cannot communicate with the outside world."

At this moment, Sheng Sheng Cang Lunzhe, who had just rushed out of his laboratory, proposed a rather bold suggestion: "Then why don't we try to artificially create a high-spirit environment in front of the nine dragons to guide Su Zhou's coffin to land?"

This was indeed a good idea, but there were also many problems. On the spot, other Sacred Seats raised questions.

"How to create a high-spirit environment? It's simple."

Hearing this, the pseudo-Dao leader with the blood of Bai Ze smiled slightly. Sheng Sheng stretched out his hand and pointed to the many nuclear warheads in the Moon Fleet’s armory: "Isn't this the thing?"

"Continuously detonate nuclear bombs, use its brilliance to build a path in the starry sky, and guide Su Zhou to land!"

Chapter 2019 April 10, 7:12 AM American Time, after an emergency discussion by the United International, the Moon Fleet, which received the order, began to implement the ‘Guiding Project’.

In the silent and deep vacuum of space, in front of the huge coffin pulled by the nine dragons, a cluster of bright and dazzling fusion light suddenly lit up.

In the vacuum, there were no shock waves. Pure radiation, carrying the rapidly spreading Solar True Fire spiritual energy, created bright spherical light clusters.

In an instant, the nine dragons, which were originally staring at the direction of the sun and acting as tentacles for capturing spiritual energy, immediately reversed direction and began to devour the massive spiritual energy created by a hydrogen bomb.

Then, there was the second, the third, the fourth…

On Earth, in Asia, which had already entered the evening, it could be clearly seen that at the top of the southern sky at night, there was a bright star that was rapidly moving and approaching the moon.

This was also part of the guiding plan—Su Zhou's coffin would land around the Mare Imbrium base on the far side of the moon.

This was a well-considered choice… After all, not to mention anything else, the metal coffin was more than two thousand meters long, and its total mass was comparable to a mountain. If such a behemoth were allowed to land on Earth, as long as the speed was slightly faster, the impact would probably not be at the level of collapsing Mount Tai. Even if it was located in the western plateau area, it would make the entire Mount Everest shake three times.

Three and a half hours later, with the forty-seventh nuclear bomb detonating in a giant crater on the far side of the moon, creating an extremely bright golden-red light spot.

In the lunar orbit, the huge silver-gray coffin, surrounded by seven-colored rainbows and the aura of the Five Virtues, landed safely under the guidance of the nine dragons.

As if sensing that it had reached a safe location, the nine dragons dissipated in long chants after landing, transforming into clear紋路 and returning to the coffin, turning into一面面totems.

At the same time, the Sacred Seats of Zhengguo, who had been prepared for a long time, as well as the Tower Spirit Mi Luo Goddess, who carried the ‘Portable Preaching Tower’ and was able to break away from the inheritance secret realm to go to other regions, arrived to receive him at the first time.