Since knowing the King of Bloodline, Zhang Rongfang, he has indeed been sincerely following the planned steps. From the perspective of a collaborator, he’s truly competent.
But... just thinking about his terrifying ability to simulate anyone’s skills and talents at any time makes Ra feel uneasy.
She doesn’t quite understand where this unease comes from, but at this moment, after hesitating for a brief instant, she still gently shakes her head.
"I can help you find the Heart-Burning Furnace with space martial arts characteristics. You can try to simulate the research. But I’ve studied it, my furnace is very special and completely different from Long’s characteristics."
"Two directions? What do you mean?" Zhang Rongfang understood the underlying implications.
"Long isn’t merely a simple space ability. If the so-called strongest physical body were this simple, it wouldn’t be able to suppress the other three kings, who are also experimental crystals," Ra explained simply.
"In other words... we still need to find an opportunity to actually face it directly..." Zhang Rongfang realized.
He looked around at the chaotic underground space; aside from Ra, there was no other assistant who could enter.
To be precise, Ra doesn’t trust anyone else to come into contact with this biggest secret.
She has put in too much effort and too much sweat to open the base of this channel.
If she were to restart and establish a new channel base, she might already be unable to do so now.
The technical content and complexity contained in this, Zhang Rongfang had seen the drawings and tried to replicate.
But this isn’t life, it’s not a living substance and cannot be replicated, relying solely on his own characteristics of the ultimate organism to simulate.
He simulated a small portion before reaching his limit, where his flesh structure completely collapsed.
The difficulty level is akin to asking a primary school student to solve a research topic of a mathematics PhD.
Even with enhanced thinking talents, it’s impossible to accomplish in a short period of time.
At this moment, he glanced at the chaotic research hall surrounding him.
Various scattered experimental tools, piles of flesh and blood documents, unwashed experimental instruments, discarded mystery cloths that had started to stink and sour.
"You don’t have anyone else helping you here. Shall I send someone to assist?" he asked aloud.
Ra turned to take down a freshly prepared energy liquid from the test bench. This is her current research topic, how to compress more energy into a smaller substance while enhancing the energy release speed upon stimulation, with the strongest burst power, to counteract the increasingly strong gravitational pull of White Eyes.
Yes, as time progresses, the gravitational pull of White Eyes grows larger and closer.
If they don’t speed up, they might soon face a situation where escape is impossible.
After all, the greater the gravitational pull, the greater the energy required to escape; it’s positively correlated.
"Assistant? No need, I will move out and use space transfer to throw it out," Ra shook her head and declined.
"But you need to move it out first. Using space ability directly here will affect the stability of the environment, right?" Zhang Rongfang hinted.
"What? Do you have an idea?" Ra looked at him with curiosity.
Her stable life over hundreds of years seemed to show signs of collapse since this person’s arrival.
Every day he would bring new impacts and changes.
The process of adapting to these new changes made her somewhat uncomfortable.
The undeniable fact is that these changes seem to bring hope in a positive direction.
"If you don’t trust others, how about this?" Zhang Rongfang raised his hand and gently plucked a strand of his own hair.
He tossed the long hair lightly to the side.
The hair rapidly expanded, grew larger, and transformed into a thin, sausage-like piece of flesh. Within seconds, it split, widened, and soon grew into a red-clothed person without a mouth or nose.
"How about letting him be your assistant? He is essentially a part of me. No mouth makes him quieter. No nose means he won’t exchange gases with the outside world, affecting the environment here. Just fix a time to exchange waste gases outside," Zhang Rongfang smiled and introduced.
"....." Ra looked at the strange humanoid figure in the tight red outfit and had a hard time accepting it.
"What’s wrong? Don’t you like it?" Zhang Rongfang asked in surprise.
"Can it change appearance? This exterior completely doesn’t fit my aesthetics..." Ra forced a slight smile.
"That can be done."
Zhang Rongfang raised his hand and gently pointed.
Immediately, the red-clothed humanoid transformed and wriggled, quickly changing into a curvy female figure. Of course, still without a mouth or nose, only a pair of eyes.
Though the eyes were beautiful, the lack of a mouth or nose still...
"This...." Ra hesitated.
"How about this?" Zhang Rongfang pointed again, and the red-clothed humanoid swiftly transformed, this time its figure started resembling Ra, soon becoming identical in stature.
The face and eyes, however, were slightly different, appearing clearer.
"I don’t like my own appearance," Ra frowned.
"Then let’s do it like this." Zhang Rongfang pointed again, and the humanoid transformed, changing into a slender-waisted girl with large breasts.
This time, he subconsciously integrated the impression of a Celestial Maiden.
"This one, this is the most detailed and realistic," Ra decisively concluded.
She was right; the previous simulations were quite crude, giving a feeling of severe lack of detail and discomfort.
But this time, the details were full, clearly a different class from the previous ones.
"....." Zhang Rongfang was rendered speechless.
He looked at the sub-body that his clone produced, which was essentially himself. He could switch consciousness to it at any moment.
When not switched, it operated according to basic instincts and could execute simple instructions.
However... looking at the Celestial Maiden, he suddenly felt he should go meet her again...
At this moment, he was able to face all his desires deep within. Yes, he indeed once had a slight admiration for the Celestial Maiden.
But later... as he encountered more and more complex situations, the world became more and more cruel.
He lost the mind to focus on such matters.
"She should be a significant and profound impression for you, someone you like?" Long seemed to have figured something out.
In reality, even a fool could see there was something wrong in such a situation.
"She once gave me great help, I truly cannot forget." Zhang Rongfang nodded slightly.
"You like her, then go tell her. The entire world is about to end. Why hesitate? People are supposed to live without any regrets!" Long turned it around to advise Zhang Rongfang.
"She no longer suits the current me...." Zhang Rongfang shook his head and answered softly.
"That’s a cruel answer." Long’s smile faded, "But do you like her?"
"....." Zhang Rongfang said nothing.
"As the King of Bloodline, you should seize, take, and conquer whatever you desire." Long said seriously.
"No, I respect her, which is also respecting my past self. If I lose that respect, then she is no different from anyone else." Zhang Rongfang replied.
"This is your personal issue, you decide for yourself. Also, I have the analysis results you wanted on the cloud composition. I did similar research a long time ago." Long handed over a flesh document.
The daylight would be blocked and weakened by the clouds, so Zhang Rongfang planned to explore the principle of their formation to see if it could be artificially created.
Accepting the flesh document, Zhang Rongfang carefully examined it, slightly frowning.
The component analysis on the document only showed dust, moisture, and a few bacterial colonies.
"Are you sure that’s all?"
"Confirmed. I suspect the key lies in these dust particles, since they account for the majority." Long said gravely.
"Then... what about the bacterial colonies?" Zhang Rongfang asked.
"You can try examining the bacterial colonies that can survive among cloud and daylight, they should also have something remarkable. However, due to the large variety and my limited energy, it’s not my area of expertise, so I couldn’t study it in detail." Long remarked thoughtfully.
"This is my expertise, let me try it." Zhang Rongfang nodded.
The two discussed the situation of the clouds for a while, then the statue troops outside sent samples of the clouds, Zhang Rongfang personally simulated the bacterial colonies in them.
This problem that troubled Long for decades was solved in just a short moment.
Out of over three hundred types of cloud bacterial colonies, more than thirty were found to have certain resistance to daylight and evil energy radiation.
And Zhang Rongfang selected the one with the strongest resistance as the key component to construct the sky canopy.
He named this bacterium the Xi, Xi bacteria.
After deciding to use Xi bacteria as the sky canopy component, the two discussed and decided on the start time for formally building the largest surface city sky canopy.
This project would inevitably be a long-term, extensive undertaking.
The sky canopy that could withstand the impact of daylight would need significant thickness, even if Zhang Rongfang had abundant nutritional resources, he could only build a small portion in a short time. It would depend on a gradual process over time.
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Human Alliance.
The simulated evening light gradually sank and dimmed.
Yue Dewen sat by the edge of a practice ground in the underground town, occasionally lowering his head to cough a few times while directing some young people practicing basic combat stances on the open ground ahead.
"Hip and leg power must be coordinated, exert force together, I mentioned before there are five methods to apply force, every one of you choose one suitable for yourselves, do not be greedy."
Yue Dewen, who was at the moment the Moon God, appeared solemn, seemingly regaining the sense he once had during the Great Dao Teaching.
Since his spiritual line was extracted, he lost most of his power, the remaining regenerated flesh was not strong, causing him to fall into a weak and powerless state.
To avoid being kept for free by Ounan, he proactively offered to contribute something.
Thus, he ended up in the current state.
"Yue Shi, how can leverage be utilized with the heavy blade? Many enemies we face are tall and fast. How do you win without having the advantage in speed or power? Do you have any opinions?" A young person with blond hair adjusted his posture while asking with a thoughtful expression.
"I don’t. If you lack advantage in speed and power, you can only win if you far exceed the opponent in martial arts realm. What is the martial arts realm? It’s your overall judgment, estimation, determination of enemy strengths and weaknesses, among others. But all these require a lot of accumulated experience, which you cannot achieve right now." Yue Dewen shook his head.
"Then why can Ounan and the others be so strong at this age?" another young person couldn’t help but ask.
"This leads to something called the Extreme Realm’s mental state." Yue Dewen patiently explained the Extreme Realm to several people in thorough detail.
They seemed to have grasped the essence, and began another new round of practice.