A Year of Growth

In the days that followed, the Huaxia Nation and the HR Alliance swiftly delivered the spaceship wreckage and peculiar fragments from the ancient civilization ruins to a large factory warehouse in the wilderness, over a hundred kilometers outside Yangzhou City! Afterward, Babata stored these materials in its storage space. Luo Feng possessed a space ring! However, Babata also had its own storage space. Storage spaces could only hold inanimate materials, corpses, and the like. But clearly, Babata’s storage space was enormous! Within its vast storage space, it began constructing a spaceship using intelligent control tools! The intelligent systems, machinery, and energy components were all inanimate, so construction commenced right there in the storage space! “Babata, how big is your storage space?” Luo Feng once asked. “You already took in the Yunmo Star, and my space ring couldn’t even hold the Yunmo Star! Now you’re using it as a factory to build a spaceship! Just how big is it?” Luo Feng had always been curious about Babata’s ‘personal treasury.’ “Bigger than yours,” Babata replied succinctly. “Then how long will it take to build a spaceship?” Luo Feng inquired. “Five or six years!” Babata stated. “Heavens, five or six years? Aren’t you the most powerful AI? Why so long?” Babata was displeased: “That’s building a spaceship capable of traversing the cosmos, not a model! Moreover, building a spaceship requires many precision tools, and I started from scratch without any tools! On your Earth, how long does it take to build an aircraft carrier? What I’m doing is thousands, tens of thousands of times harder than building an aircraft carrier. Five or six years is already fast!” “Alright, I’m not in a hurry anyway,” Luo Feng conceded. “Hmph, you’re lucky I’m helping you build it. Otherwise, with your Earth’s technology, even after a hundred or a thousand years, you’d at most enter the cosmos. Yet, the Milky Way Galaxy alone is 100,000 light-years in diameter! To achieve interstellar travel, your Earth couldn’t build one in a thousand years,” Babata boasted. Luo Feng’s knowledge was, in fact, quite limited; he truly didn’t understand the immense difficulties involved in building a spaceship capable of traversing interstellar space. This was a real spaceship, not a model. Five or six years for success was already incredible. … As a top-tier AI, Babata easily created a ‘Beginner Tier AI’ to oversee the spaceship construction. Meanwhile, it supervised Luo Feng’s training! “Don’t get complacent. A Planetary Level One’s muscles and bones can withstand 1000 times Earth’s gravity! It’s only because your internal organs and meridians are weaker that you started with 100 times Earth’s gravity. Taking 28 days to adapt to 1000 times Earth’s gravity is nothing to be proud of!” Babata’s roar echoed in Luo Feng’s mind. Inside the Gravity Room. Luo Feng, clad only in shorts and barefoot, stood in the Gravity Room, subtle beads of sweat forming all over his body, occasionally dripping down! The display screen beside him showed ‘1088g’! Over a thousand times the gravity pressed down on every minute cell of Luo Feng’s body. This 28-day adaptation fully tapped into the potential of a Planetary Level expert. Each time he trained and absorbed Muya Jing, his internal organs frantically absorbed and improved! “Good, that’s enough. Start absorbing the Muya Jing,” Babata urged. Luo Feng immediately sat cross-legged. A Muya Jing appeared in his hand, its fragrance making one salivate. Guided by gene energy, streams of energy rapidly surged into Luo Feng’s body. Muya Jing energy differed from gene energy; it was extremely pure and refined! In terms of quality, it was exceptionally high! And it was full of vitality! Very spiritual! Once it integrated into Luo Feng’s body, his body grew like a watered sapling, evolving at an astonishing speed! At the same moment! Luo Feng’s consciousness entered the virtual space. According to Babata, even when a person’s consciousness enters the virtual space, their physical body still retains a subconscious. Through special training, even with Luo Feng’s consciousness in the virtual space, his subconscious could perform one simple task—absorbing Muya Jing! … “Begin warrior training, starting with movement technique. Begin!” In the virtual space, movement technique training resumed. In the virtual space, Luo Feng’s physical stats were maintained at ‘Beginner Tier Warrior’ level, just like when he entered the virtual space in the elite training camp. … Five months later. Evening. Luo Feng, in shorts and bare-chested, entered the Gravity Room, then closed the door. “Babata, let’s focus on the ‘Control Chapter’ today. Help me test my progress,” Luo Feng said. “Volunteering? Looks like you’re full of confidence,” Babata chuckled mischievously. Luo Feng smiled. First, he pressed the gravity control panel and entered ‘1910’. The Gravity Room quickly activated, a low hum audible, and a terrifying gravitational force instantly acted upon Luo Feng’s entire body. Luo Feng couldn’t help but sink slightly, his knees bending, before he straightened up. “Hoo,” Luo Feng took a deep breath. “Here we go.” Luo Feng lifted his right hand with some effort. In his right hand was the ‘Red-Mixed Copper Mother’ blade fragment. This fragment alone weighed over a ton on Earth, but under 1910 times Earth’s gravity in the Gravity Room, it instantly exceeded two thousand tons! A War God wouldn’t even be able to lift it. Even Luo Feng found it quite strenuous. Fortunately, this weight was only within the Gravity Room. If the Gravity Room itself weighed ‘5 tons,’ then no matter how strong the gravity inside, it wouldn’t affect the outside! Even if someone entered and the gravity inside reached tens of thousands of g… the pressure the Gravity Room exerted on the building would remain unchanged. Maintaining the gravitational field consumed energy. “Start,” Babata said. “One strand!” Luo Feng manipulated one strand of spiritual force to move the blade fragment. “Two strands!” Luo Feng controlled another strand of spiritual force, applying it to the blade fragment. “Three strands!” “Four strands!” … The blade fragment floated. “Ten strands!” Luo Feng continued to add more strands of spiritual force. Before receiving the Yunmo Star lineage, Luo Feng could control 18 strands of spiritual force, but these 18 strands had to control 18 separate items. Luo Feng couldn’t combine all 18 strands without affecting their combat power; once combined, they would interfere with each other. Also, back then, Luo Feng’s spiritual force had little effect on his combat suit. This was because his fine control over spiritual force was weak, and the combat suit had tiny pores that easily leaked spiritual force. But now, it was different! “Nineteen strands!” Luo Feng called out the final number. “Oh, you can now combine 19 strands of spiritual force without them interfering with each other?” Babata was surprised. “Weren’t you only able to do 18 strands a while ago?” “I improved,” Luo Feng chuckled. “Very good. Under nearly 2000 times Earth’s gravity, you can still combine 19 strands of spiritual force without interference. You’ve achieved minor mastery in the ‘Condensation’ technique of the ‘Control Chapter’.” Babata praised him. “The ‘Control Chapter’ has nine basic techniques: ‘Condensation,’ ‘Dispersion,’ ‘Sharpness,’ ‘Resilience,’ ‘Softness,’ ‘Rigidity,’ ‘Dance,’ ‘Illusion,’ and ‘Fusion.’ Since you’ve achieved minor mastery in the first technique, ‘Condensation,’ let’s start with the second one, ‘Resilience’!” … Five months ago, Luo Feng could control a maximum of 18 ultimate strands of spiritual force. After five months of arduous training, he could only control 19! However, merely achieving minor mastery in the first technique boosted Luo Feng’s combat power severalfold! According to the requirements of the ‘Control Chapter’s’ nine techniques, once all nine are mastered, spiritual force can be used coarsely like an ‘iron plate’ to smash opponents, or finely like a ‘needle’ to directly pierce through their weapons and bodies! Normally, spiritual force would directly merge into flesh, but after minor mastery of the nine techniques, it becomes incredibly condensed! Extremely sharp and formidable! It can fully serve as a weapon! However, without sufficient methods and insights, it’s incredibly difficult to figure out on one’s own. … January 12, 2060, morning. In the Gravity Room of Luo Feng’s Training Hall on the second floor. Under the pale yellow light. A young man, covered in a layer of blood-red combat armor, sat cross-legged. Around his body, a cluster of ‘blade fragments’ circled and danced. Suddenly, he opened his eyes. The display screen beside him showed a number—‘3100g’. Most Planetary Level experts on Earth would instantly perish upon entering! Swish! The layer of blood-red combat armor silently merged into his skin and disappeared, revealing his lean and powerful physique! He stood up! Compared to a year ago, he was even leaner, and even seemed a few centimeters shorter. Even standing still, he exuded a sense of dread more profound than that of a King-level monster! “Spiritual force training is indeed harder than warrior training. I only just entered Planetary Level Three today.” “Luo Feng, don’t be so narcissistic! This training starts easy and gets harder later! Look at Hong and Lei Shen; the further they go, the harder it is to improve,” Babata said. Luo Feng smiled. Four months ago, he had already reached ‘Planetary Level Three’ as a warrior, but only today did his spiritual force reach ‘Planetary Level Three.’ “Now, even with just my warrior abilities, I can defeat the Third Speaker!” Luo Feng said with full confidence. His foundation was incredibly solid! His spiritual force efficiency was far superior to the Fourth Speaker’s. He could easily control the Duntiansuo and Arc Blade Disk. Luo Feng’s trump cards were the ‘Red-Mixed Copper Mother fragment’ and the awakened Moyun Teng, which had formed the blood-red combat armor earlier. The current Luo Feng… had undergone a complete transformation from the inside out! Now, he truly had the right to call himself a Yunmo Star heir! Suddenly, his phone rang from outside the Gravity Room. “Hmm.” Luo Feng walked out of the Gravity Room and picked up his phone. The caller ID showed Xu Xin! Xu Xin was now running her own business, choosing Yangzhou City as her location. This allowed them to spend time together frequently. “Hello, Luo Feng, I’m almost there. I just bought groceries,” Xu Xin’s voice came through. “My parents are traveling, and I let the nanny go home. Didn’t I say we were going out to eat today?” Luo Feng asked. “I learned a bit from TV. Today, I’m cooking myself. I want you to try it; it’s my first time cooking. Oh, I’ve already entered the Residential District!” Luo Feng rushed to the window and looked out. Indeed… A sleek white sports car slowly drove into the Residential District. With Luo Feng’s vision, he clearly saw Xu Xin, wearing a white sweater, smiling happily in the driver’s seat. “Xu Xin cooking?” Luo Feng took a deep breath, gritting his teeth and thinking, “No matter how bad it tastes, I have to eat it and act excited, praising her!”