Chapter 255: The corpse on the back of the moon, the first step towards the sea of stars
Wha, what?
Hearing Jiajing's words, Lu Fang was stunned for a moment.
At the same time, he subconsciously raised his head and looked towards the full moon in the sky.
Master, do you mean to build a teleportation array on the moon?
He didn't expect that his master would have such an idea out of the blue, and he was a little surprised.
But then he felt that there was nothing surprising about this idea.
With the current strength of the Ming Dynasty, it is not difficult to build a teleportation array on the moon to connect the two stars.
However, if you want to build a teleportation array on the moon, you will face a problem: how to get there?
You know, the moon is outside this world.
After these years in the world of immortal cultivation, Lu Fang has also gained a general understanding of the environment outside the stars.
He knew clearly in his heart that with his foundation-building skills, if he wanted to go outside the domain, his body might not be strong enough to withstand it.
It is said that the environment outside the stars is extremely harsh. Not only is there no air, but even ordinary creatures would be crushed into a ball of blood mist in an instant if they were rashly placed outside the domain.
Not only that, it is rumored that there are many unknown energies outside the domain that can cause devastating damage to the bodies of living beings.
Not to mention cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage, even cultivators in the Golden Core Stage might encounter unexpected events if they rashly enter.
Thinking of this, Lu Fang couldn't help but show a trace of worry between his brows. He took a step forward and said slowly: "Master, I heard that this area outside is extremely dangerous..."
"I know," but before Lu Fang could finish his words, Jiajing raised his hand to interrupt him, "If you take a shuttle and activate the defense array, you can travel outside the domain."
"I have made up my mind. You just wait here."
After saying this, Jiajing waved his hand, and a silver shuttle flew out from the storage ring on his hand and disappeared into the sky. After doing all this, Jiajing took a step forward and rushed straight into the sky.
"Your servant respectfully sees off my master." Watching Jiajing's departing back, Lu Fang could only bow.
The cultivators in the Jindan stage no longer need to rely on their spiritual sense to control objects, they can stand in the air and walk in the air.
Jiajing's figure appeared on the clouds. From afar, he saw a shuttle about thirty-five meters long, eighteen meters wide, and orange-red in color, docked there, looking like a ball of fire under the moonlight.
This shuttle, named "Phoenix Ding Fire Ren Water Shuttle", has a total weight of only over two hundred stones. When traveling at full speed, it can reach a speed of 5,339 miles per hour.
Of course, a weight of more than 200 stones is absolutely impossible to carry in some transport-type shuttles.
However, Jiajing's shuttle is a sightseeing shuttle produced by Daxuan Shuttle Company, specially built for the high-end market.
The selling price is as high as 30 million taels of spiritual energy!
However, for the current Jiajing, thirty million taels of spiritual energy are nothing.
No matter what, he is also the emperor of the Great Ming Dynasty, the head of a medium-sized sect in the world of immortal cultivation, and a great cultivator in the middle stage of the Golden Core Stage. He still has to have some dignity when traveling.
Sometimes, traveling in a grand manner is not just for vanity or to show off, but to avoid some trouble.
In the world of cultivating immortals, if a person drives a luxury shuttle worth tens of millions, it means that he must have an impressive background and deep power behind him.
If others want to provoke you, they should think twice. This way, you can naturally avoid the possibility of many short-sighted people causing trouble and save a lot of time.
Of course, this "Phoenix Ding Fire and Ren Water Shuttle" which costs 30 million taels of spiritual energy is not the latest model of Daxuan Shuttle Company. It was released a hundred years ago.
The overall design concept of the shuttle mainly adopts Ding fire as Yin and Ren water as Yang. Fire overcomes water, and water can nourish fire. It implies the coexistence of passion and tenderness, just like a phoenix reborn from the ashes, soaring above the nine heavens, overlooking all the beautiful scenery in the world.
In terms of structural characteristics, the shuttle body is based on the Ding Fire Nirvana Array as the core, supplemented by the Ren Water Moisturizing Array. It is covered with Fire Phoenix wings on the outside and has the Ren Water Qingquan Pavilion inside, with fire and water complementing each other.
Located in Qingquan Pavilion, it has a wide view and is suitable for high-altitude sightseeing and romantic journeys. However, in order to ensure the viewing effect, the Renshui magic array may need to be strengthened in extreme climates to cope with emergencies.
Qingquan Pavilion, which is the main cabin of the shuttle.
The overall layout can be seen as a “品” character.
The space in the front is an open area, and in the front is the huge glass curtain. There is also a wooden table and several wooden chairs in the hall for meeting guests.
On the left are rows of bookshelves, and on the right is a couch by the window, on which are placed a small table, a teapot, and teacups.
On the left is the inner rest area, which contains six rooms, each with a huge floor-to-ceiling glazed window.
On the right is the training room, which consists of three rooms: heaven, earth, and man. The training effects of each room are different.
The reason is naturally that every training room is blessed with a special magic circle. It is rumored that they are made of the heart, trunk and roots of a "Bodhi seed of enlightenment" tree, and the heart of the tree has the best effect.
Jiajing naturally knew how precious the Bodhi seeds were. Building a training room that integrated heaven, earth and man meant consuming a Bodhi tree.
It can be seen that these 30 million taels of spiritual energy are well worth spending.
Looking in front of him, there is a huge light curtain made of light red and transparent glazed glass. Through the light curtain, he can see the boundless space beyond the sea of clouds.
With a thought in his mind, his spiritual consciousness connected with the shuttle. The next moment, layers of red and blue runes appeared inside the entire shuttle.
"Buzz buzz buzz." Following a series of low, roaring noises, the next moment the shuttle transformed into a stream of orange-red flames and rushed out accompanied by the sharp cry of a phoenix.
Inside the shuttle, Jiajing stood with his hands behind his back, not feeling any fluctuations at all, as if he was walking on flat ground.
Outside the huge, light red, transparent glass curtain in front of me, the clouds were moving rapidly and in a blink of an eye they were outside the atmosphere.
Looking down at the cold and lonely stars, Jiajing looked into the distance. A lonely arc with a cold light rose in the darkness and went farther and farther away. Nothing could be seen in the endless darkness.
Only from a distance could one see the pale white planet that seemed embedded in the darkness, with a faint red light in the distance.
As the shuttle moved in, the darkness became wider and deeper, and then spots of light gradually appeared.
It would be a lie to say that Jiajing was not shocked when he entered the extraterritorial universe for the first time. Although he had now reached the Golden Core Stage and was invincible in the Ming Dynasty, he could even change the course of mountains and rivers at will.
But when facing the universe, I still feel my own insignificance, and deep in my heart, there is an inexplicable awe.
If a person looks at the moon from the earth and sees a full moon, then the side of the entire moon facing the earth is "daytime".
About thirty-six hours later.
A streak of orange-red light rushed into the moon, and then with a roar, the light hovered a hundred meters above the ground and turned into a huge flying shuttle.
Inside the shuttle, Jiajing glanced at the desolate wilderness and rocky terrain outside the huge glazed light curtain. With an idea in his mind, he walked out of Qingquan Pavilion and came to the shuttle deck.
There is a layer of light red magic shield on the deck of the shuttle, which can isolate the shuttle from everything outside.
Looking at the moon in the daytime, Jiajing suddenly seemed to think of something. He turned around and looked behind him.
It feels completely different from on Earth.
There are no white clouds or blue sky above my head, only deep darkness!
An endless darkness, like a huge piece of black silk, hung above the head.
However, in this vast darkness, other stars are dotted and inlaid like gems, stable and bright.
However, what attracted Jiajing the most was the sun in the distance, burning fiercely like a fireball.
Because of the memories of later generations, Jiajing still had a certain basic scientific knowledge and was prepared that the sun was not like the three-legged golden crow recorded in ancient books.
The Sun appears almost as large as it does from Earth, but appears more ruthless and cold here.
Each beam of light shone directly down without a trace of softness. Even though his eyes were protected by spiritual power, Jiajing could still feel the burning heat from the sunlight.
Obviously, it is extremely dangerous to look directly at the sun from the moon. Even a brief glance may cause irreversible damage to the eyes of living creatures.
After a moment, Jiajing withdrew his gaze and looked at the desolate land full of holes in the distance. With something moving in his heart, Jiajing slowly closed his eyes. His spiritual consciousness stretched out from between his eyebrows, and with himself as the center, it swept in all directions. The moon and the earth were all clear in his mind.
Although memories of later generations told him that there was nothing on the moon, the ancients' various beautiful wishes for the moon also prompted him to explore this mysterious place.
In an instant, the huge and powerful consciousness of the Jindan stage, like a torrent, swept across the entire surface of the moon inch by inch.
Although the spiritual awareness of a Jindan stage cultivator cannot cover the entire moon, it is enough to cover at least half of the moon's surface.
Even after one's cultivation breaks through to the Nascent Soul stage, one's spiritual consciousness can directly cover a star.
Of course, the size of stars is limited to the size of the earth and the moon. If you are in the world of cultivating immortals on Arcturus, don’t even think about covering a continent, let alone the entire star.
It is obvious that the legend of Chang'e flying to the moon is false. There is no Chang'e on the moon, let alone any magnificent palaces.
"Boom boom boom." At this time, with the death of Jiajing, the shuttle took off again, but this time it flew at a low altitude.
Just like that, Jiajing stood on the shuttle deck, flying at a low altitude, while using his spiritual sense to the maximum to grope inch by inch.
Soon, the moon was facing the earth, and Jiajing had explored the daytime side of the moon without any unexpected gains.
Afterwards, Jiajing drove the shuttle slowly into the darkness. At this time, the back of the moon was in darkness.
It was pitch black and lonely, with only the low humming sound of the shuttle. Apart from the light of the shuttle itself, there was a deep darkness between heaven and earth that made one's scalp tingle.
If you look up and down, it seems that in this terrifying darkness, there is an indescribable horror hidden.
Of course, this is just the body's instinctive feeling of the unknown when viewed with the naked eye. After a spiritual exploration and scan, the back of the moon did not hold any secrets for Jiajing.
Well, but the back of the moon looks not only desolate, but also has countless pits, which are densely packed and extremely ugly.
The shuttle flew at a low altitude all the way. As it went deeper, its spiritual sense saw undulating mountains and magnificent and cold peaks.
The spiritual consciousness swept like a tide, spreading out on the ground on the back of the moon. However, just as the spiritual consciousness passed over a broken mountain range, a picture suddenly flashed through Jiajing's mind.
"Huh?!" This sudden change caused Jiajing's forward-moving consciousness to suddenly stagnate.
"Was that... a person?!" Even with Jiajing's temperament, he couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine at this moment.
He was very sure that what he saw with his spiritual sense just now was not wrong. The broken part seemed to be the thing under the fracture of the mountain that was blown up by a meteorite. It was a person!
A person who was placed in the trunk of what looked like an ancient tree suddenly appeared. His facial features and figure looked like a woman.
To be exact, it should be a woman's body?
Thinking of this, Jiajing did not hesitate. He withdrew all his spiritual awareness and concentrated it into one place, heading towards the middle of the broken mountain range, while flying slowly approaching.
"Boom!" When the shuttle arrived above the fracture of the mountain, huge beams of white light shone down like thousands of silk threads. In an instant, the area within a hundred miles below the fracture was as bright as day.
At this time, through the exploration of his spiritual sense, Jiajing finally saw the specific appearance of the female corpse and the trunk of the ancient tree.
The naked female corpse was lying on her side in the trunk of an ancient tree, her body hunched over as if she was asleep.
The fair and tight skin showed no signs of a corpse. If it were not for the fact that there was no sign of life under the investigation of his spiritual sense, Jiajing would almost think that the person was just sleeping based on his senses.
Judging from her age, she is just a slim girl.
The beam of light from the shuttle fell on her cloud-like hair, fair skin, and smooth and delicate back, making her skin look like fine jade, sparkling with a soft luster.
Jiajing's spiritual sense swept over, looking extremely carefully, not missing an inch of space. Of course, it was not to say that he had never seen a woman before, but this female corpse was too strange.
Why is there a female corpse on the far side of the moon? Who put it there and why is it so well preserved?
Thinking of the various legends in later generations, that there is an alien base behind the moon, or even alien life, Jiajing frowned deeply. Could it be that there is really other life on the moon?
Jiajing was not in a hurry to explore the dark back side of the moon, but his consciousness slid down the back, ups and downs, hollows and depressions, and finally came to the front of the girl.
Her rosy little mouth was tightly closed, her delicate and small nose was straight, her eyebrows were curved like the moon and of the right thickness, and her eye sockets were slightly sunken, as if she had Western foreign blood.
Therefore, the girl's facial features give people a deep and clear feeling. Although she is ordinary among the beauties in the harem, her appearance is very impressive and memorable.
Jiajing temporarily withdrew his spiritual sense from the girl, and scanned all directions with his spiritual sense. After finding nothing, he stood on the deck in silence for a moment and decided to go and take a look in person.
The body of a mysterious girl was suddenly found on the moon. We have to find out what Jiajing said.
After all, all assets in the entire universe, including the Earth, belong to the Ming Dynasty, and the affairs of one's own territory must be made clear.
Yes, that’s right. In Jiajing’s mind, all visible and invisible things in the entire universe where the earth is located belong to the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, it was not just him who took this for granted. All the officials in the entire Ming Dynasty took it for granted.
He took a step forward, his body turned into a rainbow, and in an instant he arrived at the fracture of the mountain range.
The entire fracture seemed to have been formed by a meteorite, forming a huge basin, with smooth and neat broken walls in front and behind, and slightly shallower mountain walls on both sides. The huge coffin-like ancient tree body was in the middle.
Stepping forward and looking at the body of the girl with his naked eyes, Jiajing felt that the body of the girl was even more realistic.
Without hesitation, a storage ring appeared on Jiajing's finger, and he was about to put the girl into the storage ring. However, what he didn't expect was that something unexpected happened again the moment he took action.
At this moment, the girl's body became transparent, and the flesh and bones inside were clearly visible. The blood seemed to be flowing, and the whole body instantly turned into a horrible bloody corpse.
Then, the body became more and more transparent; the skin, flesh, blood, and bones all disappeared, leaving only a transparent shape.
"What is this?!" However, at this moment, Jiajing's gaze was fixed on the girl's back, where there was actually a vertebra that emitted a bright light.
Goodbye spine!
And it's on the moon outside the earth!
At this moment, Jiajing thought of countless thoughts, and almost subconsciously, he looked up at the star-dotted darkness in the distance.
He was sure that the vertebra in front of him was exactly the same as the two he had encountered in the immortal world of Arcturus.
"Buzz." At this moment, the body of the girl in front of him became more and more transparent, and then as the last weak energy on that section of the spine disappeared, the transparent female corpse also dissipated instantly.
The spine became ordinary, nothing special about it except that it was still white, and fell into the trunk of the ancient tree.
Jiajing suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his mind and picked up the cold spine. It was exactly the same as the two he had obtained before, ordinary and unremarkable.
The first impression is that this is just an ordinary human spine, nothing special about it.
But considering how precious Li Changqing regarded it, how Huang Feng placed it in the treasure house of Huangfeng Valley, and what he saw before him, how could Jiajing still regard it as an ordinary bone?
Moreover, what puzzled Jiajing the most at this moment was why things from the world of immortal cultivation would appear on the moon on the Ming side.
For a moment, his mind couldn't help but think of the world of immortal cultivation and the names of various star fields.
Twenty-eight star regions: the Azure Dragon Region in the East, the Suzaku Region in the South, the White Tiger Region in the West, and the Black Tortoise Region in the North.
The Arcturus where he was was the Arcturus in the Eastern Azure Dragon Region. Coincidentally, the Arcturus immortal cultivation world was a group of stars, and there was another big star outside of it that also belonged to Arcturus.
(Note: See Chapter 69 for details.)
In addition, there is the Da Kang star, which is also a group of stars.
According to the "General Records of the Star Domain", within the Eastern Qinglong Domain, there is also a world of immortal cultivation governed by Taoism and Buddhism.
For example, the "Fang", "Xin" and "Di" ruled by Taoism, and the "Wei" and "Ji" ruled by Buddhism are all named directly after stars.
In addition, in the world of cultivating immortals, there is also the Sanyuan star field, which includes the three major star fields of Ziwei, Taiwei and Tianshi.
In addition to the twenty-eight star fields and the three envoys star fields, there are also many other star fields such as the Southern Dipper star field and the Northern Dipper star field.
The star region division and naming in the world of immortal cultivation are similar to those recorded in ancient books, such as the Ganshi Star Classic of the Warring States Period, the Taichu Ling and Lingxian of the Han Dynasty.
At the beginning, Jiajing had thought that the world of immortal cultivation he traveled through and the earth were actually a unified universe.
But he dismissed this idea the moment it came to his mind.
First of all, although the memories of later generations are not very clear about astronomy and calendar, they still know common sense.
For example, basic knowledge about the solar system and the Milky Way.
The so-called twenty-eight constellations, the Big Dipper, the Southern Dipper, and the Three Enclosures are all within the Milky Way.
Too small! Yes, too small.
Compared to the vast and magnificent world of cultivation, it is too small.
If the Earth is also a world of immortal cultivation, how is it possible that no immortal cultivators have set foot here?
You know, the star region ruled by the academy alone includes not only Arcturus and Dakang, but also many surrounding stars.
The academy also needs to develop, and it must have the input of "fresh blood" to ensure the inheritance of the academy.
This also means that the worlds of immortal cultivation, big and small, will master and observe countless "dead stars".
How come the sects, families, and even dynasties in the world of immortal cultivation have not discovered that the Earth is a "death planet"?
There are vast historical books. Apart from some ancient records from the pre-Qin period and Emperor Qin Shihuang's pursuit of immortality, there are no concrete records at all.
This means that the Earth has either not been discovered at all, or it is not in the same universe as the world of cultivation.
Secondly, there was another important reason that made Jiajing give up his original speculation, and that was the sun!
One sun represents one star. There are too many stars in the Milky Way galaxy, and each one is similar to the sun.
However, on Arcturus, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west every day, and there are twelve hours in a day, and four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Not only that, Arcturus also has its own moon.
Of course, it is not certain that the same operating system will appear in this huge Milky Way. But when the two speculations are combined, it is impossible.
But now this section of spine, which should have been in the world of immortal cultivation, appeared in this world, and made Jiajing feel that even if they were not in the same universe, the two must have some connection!
In fact, there must be a connection, otherwise how could I travel between the two worlds? There are also cultures such as Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and there are also such things in the world of cultivating immortals.
"And this spine," Jiajing felt the spine in his hand, "now it seems that its owner is that girl."
"In the words of later generations, is it a parallel universe?" Jiajing began to search the limited knowledge in the memories of later generations.
Unfortunately, the understanding is extremely superficial. The most crude understanding is that they are two exactly the same or two different worlds.
Moreover, hundreds of years later, there were many different opinions on the existence of parallel universes, and there was no evidence to prove it. Therefore, this clue was directly ruled out by Jiajing.
Without figuring out the reason, Jiajing could only put his thoughts aside for the time being and put away the spine in his hand.
As for the half trunk of the ancient tree that looked like an ordinary tree, he also collected it.
Because of the sudden change that just happened, Jiajing put away his simple desire to appreciate the scenery above the moon.
Along the way, he began to seriously use his spiritual sense to explore the entire moon.
Unfortunately, after several days, he had scanned the entire moon twice with his spiritual sense, not even missing a single big pit, but he still gained nothing.
The previous discovery at the fracture of the Moon Back Mountains was as if it had never happened.
Afterwards, Jiajing used the remaining materials to build a teleportation array to the Earth on the side facing the Earth.
With this trip, Jiajing completed ahead of schedule the first step taken by the Ming Dynasty towards the sea of stars in the universe.
Of course, at this point, above the bright moon is also the bright land!
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(End of this chapter)
