Chapter 876
Neutron Star
Chen Feng patted Li Xiaorou on the shoulder:
"Sit down and talk; there are other people around."
Li Xiaorou glanced around; many of the base's employees were watching them from inside the coffee shop.
One by one, they all showed expressions of curiosity.
“So what if there are people here? I don’t care.” Li Xiaorou’s face was flushed, but she still didn’t let go of Chen Feng.
"I'll take you sightseeing later, is that alright?" Chen Feng said softly.
Upon hearing this, Li Xiaorou immediately beamed with joy:
"I want to go to Mars. I heard they're building a new space city there, and I've always wanted to go see it."
"Okay." Chen Feng nodded in agreement immediately.
The crisis in the Xuanhuang Realm has now been temporarily resolved.
As long as the Three Saints Sect doesn't discover the spatial rift inside the Haotian Secret Realm, there will be no danger on Earth. This is a good time for him to relax, since he hasn't had a rest in a long time.
The monotonous cultivation life was not what Chen Feng wanted; he preferred a simple and peaceful life.
Hearing Chen Feng's agreement, Li Xiaorou finally released her grip on Chen Feng, satisfied.
After Chen Feng sat down, he looked at Lin Wei and said in surprise:
"You've reached the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage. Your cultivation is progressing quite quickly."
Although he knew Lin Wei cultivated very quickly, Chen Feng was still somewhat surprised that she had reached the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage in just two years.
"It's all thanks to the pills you gave me, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to break through so quickly."
Lin Wei didn't think much of it, since she had very little contact with cultivators and mostly used Chen Feng as a reference.
Compared to Chen Feng, she felt that her cultivation speed was not fast.
Chen Feng said with a smile:
"The pills are secondary; the key is your own effort. When do you plan to break through to the Nascent Soul stage?"
Although the pills he gave were good, even if someone from the Xingfeng Sect took them, they wouldn't be able to cultivate as quickly as Lin Wei.
Upon hearing that she had broken through to the Nascent Soul stage, Lin Wei hesitated.
"I feel my mindset isn't right."
“That’s true. The later you go, the higher the requirements for your state of mind become. You should take a few more years to settle down.” Chen Feng nodded.
Li Xiaorou suddenly asked:
"Boss, are you and Sister Lin Wei going to live for thousands of years?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Wei's smile vanished instantly, and she then offered words of comfort:
"Xiaorou, don't worry, we have developed a consciousness transfer technology. Even if your lifespan ends, you can live in a mechanical body."
Li Xiaorou is just a mortal and has no aptitude for cultivating immortality. Even if she takes elixirs, her lifespan will be at most a little over a hundred years.
Therefore, Lin Wei rarely brought up the topic of cultivation in front of Li Xiaorou, for fear that Li Xiaorou would overthink it.
Li Xiaorou managed a weak smile:
"I know, I was just asking out of curiosity."
Lin Wei didn't know how to answer for a moment, so she could only look at Chen Feng.
Chen Feng looked at Li Xiaorou and said:
"You were indeed unable to cultivate before, but now you have an opportunity. I wonder if you would like to give it a try."
Upon hearing this, Lin Wei and Li Xiaorou were both taken aback. Li Xiaorou immediately exclaimed with delight:
"Boss, are you serious?"
Although she had always said she didn't care, it was all an act.
The thought of dying a hundred years from now and no longer being able to be with Chen Feng makes her very sad.
Although consciousness transplantation technology is now available, in Li Xiaorou's mind, if she were to have a mechanical body, she would no longer be herself.
“Cultivating immortality is not an option for now, but practicing martial arts is still possible. I have obtained a new martial arts system. As long as you can cultivate it to the highest level, living for five or six hundred years is not a problem.”
The new martial arts system that Chen Feng mentioned was naturally the martial arts system he obtained from the Xuanhuang Realm.
In that world, the highest level of martial arts cultivation could be reached: Martial Immortal.
The lifespan of a Martial Immortal is five hundred years, which is already extremely long.
Lin Wei immediately laughed: "Xiao Rou, five hundred years is enough time. With his abilities, he will definitely find a way to extend your lifespan later."
Lin Wei was also very happy to see that Li Xiaorou had resolved her lifespan issue.
Li Xiaorou's eyes were red and teary as she threw herself into Chen Feng's arms again: "Boss!"
"Alright, alright, stop crying. Why are you still acting like a little kid?" Chen Feng looked at Li Xiaorou, who was crying her eyes out in his arms, and felt helpless.
After some comforting, Li Xiaorou finally calmed down and asked with red eyes:
"Boss, how do I cultivate?"
Chen Feng waved his right hand, and dozens of jade slips appeared on the table.
"The cultivation techniques are all here. You can practice them. Later, you can ask Lin Wei to help you copy them."
Upon hearing this, Li Xiaorou immediately looked at Lin Wei: "Sister Lin Wei, is it okay now?"
Clearly, Li Xiaorou doesn't want to wait a moment longer.
Lin Wei knew the other party was anxious, so she immediately took the jade slip and began to examine it.
After reading it, she took out her phone and sent the contents of the jade slip to Li Xiaorou.
Li Xiaorou eagerly looked at the content on her phone, her expression very serious.
Originally, she wasn't very interested in cultivation.
But after learning that Chen Feng and Lin Wei were already cultivators, she really hoped that she could also cultivate. Now that she finally had the opportunity, she naturally cherished it very much.
Seeing that Li Xiaorou was carefully studying the cultivation technique, Chen Feng and Lin Wei did not disturb her.
Chen Feng looked at Lin Wei and said:
"Take these jade slips to Jack and the others later, and let them cultivate as well. However, the spiritual energy on Earth is currently very scarce, so it will take some time before they can break through to a higher level."
He doesn't have a cultivator's primordial spirit in him right now, so he can't replenish the Earth's vital energy. He'll have to do that later.
"Okay." Lin Wei put away the jade slip on the table.
Chen Feng then asked, "By the way, what developments have you made in the past two years?"
"I thought you wouldn't ask. See for yourself." Lin Wei handed her phone to Chen Feng.
Chen Feng took the phone; it contained a research report covering multiple aspects.
Chen Feng has never given up on technology.
He has always believed that as technology advances, it will certainly not be weaker than cultivating immortality.
The research report doesn't have anything particularly noteworthy at the beginning; most of it focuses on technologies related to people's livelihoods.
Chen Feng's eyes lit up when he saw the research related to vital energy.
Over the past two years, Harvey and his team have discovered the properties of Vitality, which has enabled them to create many valuable items.
The first step is the creation of antimatter.
Previously, antimatter could only be produced by colliding space-based weapons.
Now, it's not that complicated anymore.
Harvey developed a device that can directly produce antimatter simply by adding elemental stones.
Its principle is to compress primordial energy and allow it to collide with each other to produce antimatter.
This device can produce one gram of antimatter in just a few seconds, and each time it only consumes one hundred elemental stones.
The ability to manufacture this device relies not only on vital energy, but also on several special materials.
Some of these materials came from the world of paintings, while others came from trade with the Moro tribe.
This is a new technology resulting from the combination of two civilization systems.
After the problem of antimatter production was solved, Tosen has also developed several new antimatter weapons in the past two years.
The Star Destroyer Cannon has also been improved to a second generation.
The second-generation planet-destroying cannon is twice as powerful and has twice the range of the first generation, and its cooldown time is also greatly reduced. However, these are not what Chen Feng cares about most.
His gaze fell on the last research finding.
Warp drive.
The results report recorded a test of the warp drive.
The experiment took place in July of last year, and the report clearly stated that the experiment was successful.
The spaceship, equipped with a warp drive, successfully started up and traveled a distance of six million kilometers in less than a second.
Chen Feng looked at Lin Wei in surprise and asked:
"The warp drive was successful?"
Warp drive can achieve faster-than-light travel.
If this is realized, it would mean they have the ability to explore the surrounding star systems.
This is just the value of exploration. If warships with warp engines are built in the future, the strength of the Wind Gate will be enhanced to a higher level.
In the world of the painting, only those ancient monsters who have reached the Dao can barely achieve faster-than-light travel.
But that kind of faster-than-light speed is not true faster-than-light speed.
The reason why cultivators at the Dao Integration Realm can move so quickly is because they enter the Void Realm to move, where time is almost suspended.
The cultivators who had reached the Dao were traveling within the Void Realm, and not much time had passed in the existing universe.
That's why it gives people the illusion of faster than light.
However, moving within the Sky Realm is a very risky thing.
The Void Realm is incredibly strange, with terrifying spacetime distortions occurring at any time.
Such a distortion of spacetime would be absolutely fatal even to a cultivator at the Dao Integration stage.
Therefore, most cultivators who have reached the Dao realm stay in one place and dare not move around after entering the Void Realm.
Unless absolutely necessary, one would not dare to move a long distance easily.
However, the warp drive is different. It creates a spacetime bubble directly in the existing universe and achieves faster-than-light travel by stretching spacetime. This kind of travel is risk-free.
Chen Feng originally thought that it would take at least a hundred years to realize this technology.
Unexpectedly, it was achieved so quickly.
Lin Wei shook her head and said:
"It's just the first experiment, and mass production is still a long way off. In the last experiment, we compressed several kilograms of antimatter to create a spacetime bubble, but such a spacetime bubble cannot be maintained for long because the engine materials were all destroyed six seconds after the spacetime bubble was formed."
Chen Feng frowned: "None of the materials will work?"
The materials he gave Lin Wei included some of the most advanced materials in the world of paintings, some of which were even used to forge Heavenly Treasures.
"No, we've tried them all, but none of the materials can withstand it."
Chen Feng tapped his fingers lightly on the table, lost in thought.
The best materials in the Nine Star Domains are currently Heavenly Treasures and Immortal Artifacts.
If a celestial treasure won't work, then it can only be a celestial artifact.
There are only two immortal artifacts in the entire Xingfeng Sect: one is Yinyin's conch shell, and the other is his Immortal-Slaying Sword.
He would never use these two treasures for experiments.
The conch shell is capable of moving planets, and the Immortal-Slaying Sword is related to the combat power of the Immortal Corpse Puppet.
"Leave the materials to me, I'll look for them later," Chen Feng said.
The universe is so vast; he doesn't believe there aren't better materials in it.
He now has more than just the world of paintings as a source of materials.
The Moro Clan and the Xuanhuang Realm might have even better materials.
Lin Wei seemed to have thought of something, and then said:
"I know of a material that should be able to withstand the annihilation of highly concentrated antimatter."
Upon hearing this, Chen Feng was surprised:
What material?
Lin Wei looked out at the dark space outside the window, and then slowly uttered three words: "Neutron star".
"Neutron star?" Chen Feng had naturally heard of this celestial body.
This thing is a special celestial body formed by a supernova explosion, and its density can only be described as terrifying.
Each cubic centimeter alone weighs hundreds of millions of tons!
Neutron stars are also known as the densest matter in the universe besides black holes.
Lin Wei nodded: "That's right, it's the most suitable material I can think of right now. With the hardness of a neutron star, it can definitely withstand the terrifying energy inside the warp drive."
"Where is the closest neutron star to us?" Chen Feng stood up and asked.
Since there's a way, we should give it a try.
With a spaceship powered by a warp drive, he no longer needed to worry about safety even if he left the teleportation range of the scroll.
Lin Wei scrolled through her phone for a moment and then said, "It's in the southern corona, about four hundred light-years away from us."
Hearing this, Chen Feng sat down again.
Four hundred light-years, that's really too far.
Even an antimatter warship would need hundreds of years to reach that place, so he simply cannot go there now.
"It's too far, we can't go for now," Chen Feng sighed helplessly.
Lin Wei said with a smile:
"No rush, take your time. By the way, how's the situation at the Haotian Secret Realm?"
Chen Feng didn't hide anything and immediately recounted how he had gone to the Xuanhuang Realm through the spatial rift.
Chen Feng still trusted the two women.
Moreover, the Xuanhuang Realm does not involve the painting; it is a world he entered through a spatial rift in the Haotian Secret Realm, so there is nothing he cannot say.
Lin Wei and Li Xiaorou were both stunned as they listened.
Whether it's the Xuanhuang Realm or the Three Saints Sect, it's undoubtedly a very novel thing for people like Lin Wei and Li Xiaorou who have lived in the modern world for a long time.
Li Xiaorou's mouth dropped open in surprise:
"So there really is a world of cultivation, and it's so close to us! Boss, can you take me to see it?"
Lin Wei, standing beside him, also looked at Chen Feng with expectant eyes.
This kind of world, which only exists in novels, is something that everyone is curious about.
They found it particularly interesting when Chen Feng talked about what happened within the Three Saints Sect.
Chen Feng shook his head: "Not for now. My current identity is also a disguise. Once it is exposed, not only will we be in danger, but the Earth will also be in danger immediately."
Li Xiaorou sighed, "Okay, I really want to go see those fairies."
Lin Wei then joked, "So, you not only have an older sister now, but also an aunt?"
Li Xiaorou also came to her senses and looked at Chen Feng:
"Boss, are your aunt and sister pretty?"
Seeing the two women gossiping, Chen Feng said seriously:
"That was a disguise. If those two knew I had locked up the real Wang Ping, they would probably fight me to the death."
Li Xiaorou giggled and said:
"That's not necessarily true. My boss is so charming. Maybe if they found out who you are, they wouldn't blame you at all, but would actually fall for you. Isn't that how it's always written in novels?" (End of Chapter)