Chapter 315 Returning to the Divine Wood World (5800, Seeking Monthly Tickets~)

The flow of time in the Divine Wood World is different from that of Earth.

To be precise, the flow rate of time is different in all the worlds isolated by the Great Seal in the Frozen Void.

It could be a hundred times faster, a thousand times faster, one ten-thousandth as fast, or even a billion years per second—anything is possible.

Su Zhou knew this from the very beginning of his transmigration, and Shao Qiming was also informed of this by Su Zhou—the time ratio between the Divine Wood World and Earth is roughly 50:1.

"Fifty years will have passed there for every year that passes here. And it's been more than two years since you left the Divine Wood World, right? Then more than a hundred years should have passed for them."

So said Shao Qiming, as he sorted out the various supplies and equipment in the house, loading them into a large package.

After doing all this last night, he sat on the sofa, rubbed his forehead, and looked a little tired: "A hundred years is fine for feudal times, there shouldn't be too many obvious changes."

"But, the Divine Wood World has already developed zhenqi cannons, zhenqi forges and other technologies that are close to our world's generators and artillery. This proves that they are only one step away from initially entering the industrial age."

"That's right."

Su Zhou frowned slightly and nodded.

He was currently maintaining the scabbard of the Extinction Blade—because the blade itself had the ability to self-clean, and nothing could defile a weapon of this level, so only the scabbard needed maintenance.

Regarding Shao Qiming's worries, Su Zhou also seriously responded: "Actually, they even created airships back then, and large ships using zhenqi forges are said to be under development. I'm quite looking forward to that kind of zhenqi machinery similar to magic technology!"

"This is not the time to be looking forward to it..." Shao Qiming sighed heavily at his friend's nonchalant attitude, trying to remind him: "The speed of human technological development is getting faster and faster. A hundred years is just a blink of an eye for the Stone Age, just a few generations of leaders for the primitive era, and even the feudal era couldn't have any huge changes."

"But a hundred years is enough for human technology that has just invented airplanes to reach the point where it can travel back and forth from Mars!"

Speaking of this, Shao Qiming emphasized: "Since they already had the pre-existing technology for initial industrialization, what we will be facing this time should be the Divine Wood World at the level of the 19th and 20th centuries. Or even, to exaggerate, they may have entered the electronic information age? Although I don't think it's very likely."

"I know what you mean." Regarding his friend's worries, Su Zhou smiled, looking quite unconcerned: "You think that they have fifty years while we only have one, so their development speed is fifty times ours, right?"

"Yes."

Shao Qiming picked up the drone from the floor. He showed Su Zhou this high-tech creation that applied a lot of biotechnology and the latest optical stealth armor: "Time is the greatest wealth. From the first drone being manufactured to it developing the ninth-generation armed system, Zheng Guo took 20 years. The later the civilization, the more technology and progress time can accumulate."

"Soon, the Divine Wood World will quickly catch up with our pace through this fifty-fold development speed, and then surpass us, and we will never have a chance to catch up with them—unless our development speed is fifty times theirs."

Speaking of this, Shao Qiming narrowed his eyes, and said somewhat fiercely: "This is what I'm worried about—if one day, they discover the Earth world and want to invade us, then what we will face is an opponent who is developing their population and technology at fifty times the speed. This is intolerable."

"So this time, I used your name to bring this batch of 'micro biological warheads'."

"Biological warheads? Oh, the biological weapons that Plague Saint said had already been put into practical use a few days ago... I remember I voted in favor..."

Raising his eyebrows, Su Zhou looked at the miniature warheads sealed in a metal safe. His gaze could penetrate the metal, and even lead could not block his spiritual perception.

"Good家伙, modified plague, smallpox, new strains of swine fever, and modified influenza viruses... it's really complete!" Calmly speaking out the various viruses stored in the miniature warheads, Su Zhou啧啧 said: "Optical stealth, high-tech stealth drones that can be powered by solar energy, plus these super bacteria and viruses, if Qiming you want to destroy the world, I'm afraid it will only take less than a month."

"It's just a little insurance, it mainly depends on you. After all, these things were obtained using your name. If you don't allow it, I won't use them."

Regarding Su Zhou's tone, Shao Qiming was also slightly surprised. He originally thought that his friend would be angry. After all, according to Su Zhou, he saved that world, so he naturally didn't want to see that world destroyed.

But necessary precautions are also necessary—if the Divine Wood World really threatened the Earth, threatened their parents and family, then he would not hold back at all, and with Su Zhou's character, he would never allow this to happen.

But now, Su Zhou's tone was so calm, which made him a little confused as to why.

So, he said somewhat guiltily: "Actually, I didn't deliberately think so darkly. When I originally learned that I could go to another world, I was very excited—unlike the Beast God World, the Divine Wood World is a world with human civilization. There, there should be novel things that can't be seen on Earth."

"But, I can't help but think, if at the other end of time and space, under the acceleration of fifty times the time, the other party already has a High Lord level, or even a Hegemon level existence, then how should our Earth civilization face them in the future? If they discover your time-space gate, A Zhou, and then defeat you, and then use this as a springboard to invade our world, then we would be sinners of Earth, right?"

So said Shao Qiming, closing his eyes and using his spiritual power to connect with his personal agent terminal and the drone. Immediately, the drone took off silently from his hand. With a flash of colorful spots of light, it disappeared into the old house, completely invisible.

And Shao Qiming's voice sounded from the drone's speakers: "I can't help but think about these things, I hope you don't get angry."

"I won't get angry, after all, you are sincerely doing it for the good of Earth's civilization, and what's more, you don't intend to act first and report later, that's enough."

Su Zhou looked in the direction of the drone. Even if the other party was completely optically invisible, as long as it didn't completely shield the spiritual energy fluctuations, he could still see it.

Regarding his friend's words, he first nodded, then shook his head. Su Zhou put the Extinction Blade aside and said lightly: "There's one thing you're right about—time is a civilization's greatest asset."

"But, you also have to understand that time is also the pusher that urges a civilization to its end."

"Let's not talk about anything else, our world's war, and the subsequent First Internet World War. The former created a large amount of nuclear wasteland in the Middle East oil area, and it is still impossible for people to live there. The Descending Spirit Society is recruiting troops in that kind of place, so it is extremely difficult to be wiped out. And at that time, if the proxy wars of various countries were further upgraded, that kind of nuclear wasteland should appear in every corner of the world."

These are all common sense in elementary school history. There is no need to mention them to Su Zhou and Shao Qiming. Their parents' generation experienced that tense era. The young man recalled the scope of public opinion in his childhood and shook his head: "The Internet war was even worse. It almost turned all the Internet in the world into a local area network, completely extinguishing the budding of the information society, and it wouldn't be surprising if the industrial chain completely collapsed... I think, if it wasn't for our human luck, we could have self-destructed twice, or even several times, in just these less than fifty years."

Shao Qiming could not refute this. In fact, he himself was a beneficiary of that era.

The Third World War caused huge damage to the oil-producing areas, accelerating global investment in the new energy industry. It was under such an environment that the Shao family resolutely invested in the new energy industry, and thus became wealthy.

And the speed of development of civilization is indeed getting faster and faster, but the later it gets, the stronger its ability to self-destruct becomes—in ancient feudal times, a tragic war would at most consume a large number of people. No matter what, it was impossible to fight to the point where both sides would perish together, and no one would survive. But in modern times, a nuclear war is enough to send humanity back to the Stone Age.

Even more than just the Stone Age.

Su Zhou remembered very clearly that some time ago, when he was at the 2016 Mid-Year Conference, he heard a report from the Military Saint—although the world has been peaceful for forty years, Zheng Guo still holds a stockpile of thermonuclear weapons sufficient to completely destroy the entire Earth civilization circle, and after the appearance of the Otherworld, they even have to further increase their strategic weapon reserves and research new weapons of destruction to ensure that even the Otherworld cannot escape the dead hand system.

And the miniature biological weapons that Shao Qiming showed earlier are just an insignificant part of the destruction chain. This kind of dangerous creation that is enough to destroy a modern industrial civilization is something that even a student of an extraordinary academy can apply for. It does not hinder the Earth civilization, which is already practicing universal cultivation, but for the Otherworld, it may be a great weapon.

"Whether a civilization self-destructs or is destroyed by external forces, it is a very normal thing. In fact, the more developed it is, the easier it is to self-destruct."

Speaking in a rather cold and ruthless tone, Su Zhou's tone was very calm and natural: "Actually, this time I went to the Divine Wood World, I was mentally prepared for them to have already self-destructed—although I told them before I left not to pursue the power of the Divine Wood, but if they don't listen to me and still pursue immortality, what can I do? What's more, in addition to the power of the Divine Wood, there are more things that will destroy civilization."

"However, there is no need to worry too much about the Divine Wood World being able to invade us by taking advantage of the time difference."

So said Su Zhou, taking out the ordinary Heavenly God Imprint from his arms. He stared at this 'artifact' like a pocket watch, which in a sense was what truly created his current reliance, and smiled: "As far as I know, only the Heavenly God Imprint can open the time-space gate between different time reference frames across the difference in time flow."

The young man looked up at his friend. Shao Qiming suddenly realized that his connection with the drone was directly cut off and taken over by another electromagnetic signal—the next second, the drone landed in Su Zhou's hand.

"You know, my eyes and control over my power have reached the microscopic level. When I observe with all my attention with the power of a Lord level, I can see the details of nanomaterials."

Stretching out his hand, Su Zhou's hands lit up with cyan-blue electric currents. He used thunder light micro-sculpture to engrave some tiny runes on the drone with his bare hands, and the Heavenly God Imprint floated in front of the young man: "But this thing, even with my microscopic perspective at the nanometer level, is still a silver-white piece, so dense that there are no gaps at all."

"And the shape of the dial of the Heavenly God Imprint is 100%, without the slightest deviation, a pure circle."

Soon, the drone, which was engraved with some runes by Su Zhou, was controlled by Su Zhou and flew back into Shao Qiming's hands: "You can understand, right? The Heavenly God Imprint is not an ordinary thing. The time-space gate it can open is not at the same level as the time-space gate that immortals and gods can open—theoretically, different time flows are actually a huge trap, something like the event horizon of a black hole. We and the Divine Wood World should not be able to observe each other until the end of the universe. We are all outside each other's observation range, but the Heavenly God Imprint can connect these two worlds—it can even make the time flow of the Otherworld tend to be the same as that of Earth."

"When I left, the Divine Wood World may have been at a fifty-fold time flow, but now, I'm afraid it's close to 1:1, right? The Samsara World is the same, but the power of the Lonely Master is very strong in that place. I don't know if the Heavenly God Imprint can adjust it, but even if it can, it's not surprising."

Speaking of this, Su Zhou even laughed, but there was not much laughter in his laughter: "Without relying on the Heavenly God Imprint, wanting to cross the time trap, cross different time flows, and connect two worlds is equivalent to forcibly stopping a speeding universe. The energy required for this is far greater than the energy contained in a universe itself. And do we still need to worry about the invasion if we are able to deal with this kind of exaggerated thing?"

Su Zhou's meaning is very simple and clear—crossing the flow of time can only be done by the Heavenly God Imprint at present. If a civilization can do it, then there is no need to worry about the invasion problem, because whales will not invade bacteria breeding pots. Facing Them, any thoughts of human beings are meaningless.

And the time flow rate of the Divine Wood World is also gradually synchronized with the time of the Earth world because of the connection of the Heavenly God Imprint. At least, as long as the cyan Imprint representing the Divine Wood World still exists on the Heavenly God Imprint, the situation is like this.

Su Zhou himself guessed that perhaps when the Heavenly God Imprint fills every Imprint represented by the Great Existence, then the time flow of all worlds will be unified, and the Frozen Void will also thaw... But what kind of results will this bring?

Su Zhou didn't know, and Yala had never said.

Although he said so much, Shao Qiming realized that the other party still did not explain one possibility: "But what if someone else takes the Heavenly God Imprint away from you?"

"This thing is in my personal space. If someone can snatch something from my personal space, then they must be at least a Celestial Venerable..."

Regarding his friend's rather杞人忧天 worry, Su Zhou rolled his eyes and said angrily: "In this era, no one can keep up with the speed of my progress at all, and when I reach the Hegemon level, even a Celestial Venerable will not be able to grab me at will. As long as the situation is not right, I can run away immediately."

"Instead of worrying about me, who is so powerful and cautious, it is better to worry about whether human beings on Earth will launch a Fourth World War and then become extinct in the situation of spiritual energy recovery."

"...That's also true. After all, if you have to ensure everything is safe, staying at home may still be killed by a meteorite..."

Shao Qiming was not completely convinced by Su Zhou, but in the end, talking is not going to get anywhere. Instead of thinking and struggling here, it is better to go to the Divine Wood World and take a trip.

Only after really going to the Otherworld can one judge whether one's thinking is correct.

"How is it? As expected, you still have to actually see it once, right?"

Seeing what his friend was thinking, Su Zhou asked with a smile: "If there are no accidents, the round trip will probably take less than a second. There is no need to consider follow-up plans. We can set off when you are ready."

And Shao Qiming, who was counting the equipment in the package, shrugged: "I'm almost done packing. I can go now. So, let's go?"

"Let's go."

Yala did not say a word about the conversation between the two young men.

It was not until Su Zhou picked up the Heavenly God Imprint and began to inject his own spiritual power into the silver-white pocket watch that it raised its head and looked at the silver-white dial.

The former 'Heavenly God' stared at the Heavenly God Imprint...

It could be seen that as Su Zhou's spiritual power poured into the cyan Imprint of the Heavenly God Imprint, colorless ripples began to ripple in time and space.

The silver brilliance lit up——

【——World Core Element·Celestial Wood——】

【——Intrusion Deviation Value 3.19%——】

【——Highly Stable Independent World——】

The circular, cyan crystal time-space ball appeared in the center of the Shao family's old house. It could be vaguely seen that behind it, goose feather snow was falling all over the sky.

"Let's go."

Su Zhou stretched out his hand without hesitation and touched it.

"It's so beautiful..."

And Shao Qiming also touched the light sphere after being slightly shocked for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, as Su Zhou mobilized his spiritual power, a silver light curtain swept across, and the two of them felt their bodies lighten, and they disappeared into the house in an instant.

Divine Wood World.

A silver light curtain unfolded and dissipated, and the figures of the two people appeared in the high sky thousands of meters above the ground.

"Eh, why are we still in the high sky?"

Su Zhou's rather surprised voice could be heard: "And this is much higher than the last time I came here, right?"

Thousands of meters above the ground, ordinary Awakened will be killed if they are not careful.

So said Su Zhou, mobilizing his power to open the Gale Shield, preparing to grab his friend next to him and take him to fly together.

However, Su Zhou saw Shao Qiming activate the jetpack on his back in a leisurely manner. Immediately, a stable airflow fixed him in mid-air, comparable to flying.

"You said last time that when you came to the Divine Wood World, you fell from the sky, so I considered this."

Shao Qiming, who had already made all the preparations, smiled and patted the trademark on the jetpack: "I even prepared tools that can dig out from the ground. Of course, there is no way to go deep into the magma layer, so I can only rely on you."

"You always think so comprehensively."

哈哈 After confirming that there was no danger, Su Zhou was too lazy to descend slowly. He directly removed the Gale Shield and let himself free fall, falling into the vast mountain forest below him.

It was not until he was about to collide with the ground that Su Zhou directly used his spiritual power to offset the impact, and stood firmly on the ground as if there was no inertia at all.

"Familiar scenery."

And during this short fall, he had already looked around at the surrounding terrain and situation, and selected information from the memory bank. Su Zhou couldn't help but show a look of recollection: "I didn't expect it to be here."

"Where is it?"

Through the jetpack, slowly descending, Shao Qiming also landed on the ground at this time.

Hearing Su Zhou's words, he couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Mount Taibai."

Raising his head and looking at the towering mountain in the distance, and the snowflakes falling all over the sky, the corners of Su Zhou's mouth raised slightly: "That is, the place where I first descended into the Divine Wood World."

"It seems that I really have some fate with this place."

So said Su Zhou, originally wanting to go straight to the top of Mount Taibai to see the old place at the beginning, and to observe the surrounding situation from a high position.

However, just as he was about to set off with Shao Qiming, who had already started taking photos of the details of the surrounding trees with a camera, Su Zhou stopped and blinked slightly.

Because, he heard that in the distance about several kilometers away, there was quite a noisy human voice.

The vibrating sound waves were transmitted through the heavy snow.

"...Taibai Mountain Area 神刀 Memorial Area, Liuyun Tourist Group gathers, the free activity time is over, everyone come to the rest area to gather when you hear it!"

"Repeat again, Taibai Mountain Area, 神刀 Memorial Area, Liuyun Tourist Group gathers, our next tourist attraction is the 'Sword Casting Museum'!"

Seeking monthly tickets~