Chapter 1298
Hidden Price
Chapter 1298 Hidden Price
The news from the Noah is not bad.
Qiu Yi stated that Yuehua Star Technology does indeed have a mature and comprehensive solution for eliminating ionizing radiation.
However, whether the lower-level radiation elements of the Peron world are included can only be determined after samples are obtained.
Moreover, even if it is confirmed that the problem can be eliminated, it will take a considerable amount of time to immediately begin manufacturing the equipment. Furthermore, the necessary materials may not be readily available on the Noah.
The sheer size of the area covered further amplified the scale of the project...
In short, even if everything goes smoothly, it is by no means a matter of a day or two, and requires long-term planning.
Lin Yuan neither confirmed nor denied this.
He didn't have high expectations for the Noah project to begin with, and he had no objection to the long time it would take.
Regarding materials alone, he will find a way to obtain anything that the Perlan world possesses.
After Lin Yuan left, Lin Fan finally had the chance to ask Le Zhengyuanqing: Does the Youye Sect have any Five Elements Biochemical Array Points below it, and does their sect leader know about this?
"Of course I know." Le Zhengyuanqing couldn't help but frown, looking at Lin Fan as if he were an idiot. "If he couldn't even notice that someone had arranged things like this on his own territory, what kind of sect leader would he be? Has your brain been irritated by radiation? Asking such a stupid question?"
"No," Lin Fan waved his hand, seeing the other person's disgusted look, "I just can't believe it. How could someone use the spiritual energy of an entire sect to fill the array's core? Admittedly, the Youye Sect has abundant spiritual energy, so it might not be seriously damaged, but... what would he be after?"
“Yeah,” Antonio chimed in, stroking his chin. “He’s the sect leader of one of the three major sects, after all. With that kind of status, he can do whatever he wants anywhere. But he actually… seems to have some big ambitions.”
“He wants to use the Five Elements Biochemical Array to return to the glory days of ancient times.” Le Zhengyuanqing didn’t want to look at the two fools in front of him, so he simply closed his eyes, crossed his arms and said, “The cultivators in Youye Sect are in chaos. There have been constant disputes in the past hundred years. Human cultivators have gradually become more powerful, and demon cultivators and evil cultivators also have their own ideas about them. They are gradually becoming unruly. In addition, their nature is unrestrained. Youye Sect is already a mess.”
"That guy wants to go back to ancient times, resurrect those dead demons and powerful beings, generate new cohesion, and reunite the Youye Sect into a unified force."
"It can even bring the dead back to life?" Antonio's eyes widened in surprise. "Is it that powerful?"
"The Five Elements Regeneration Array is a formation that absorbs sufficient power from the five elements to transform and regenerate," Lin Fan explained. "However, we've been thinking that someone wants to recreate the ancient times, but we've overlooked the people who should have existed in that era. Senior Brother, can this formation really recreate the ancient times and completely restore the people and things of that time?"
“That depends on your definition of reproduction,” Le Zhengyuanqing replied. “The extent to which this formation can achieve this depends entirely on the amount of spiritual energy absorbed. If there is enough spiritual energy, not to mention people, even the sand and dust on the ground can be reproduced without any difference.”
This is similar to how the same technique can produce completely different effects depending on whether the cultivator is at Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, or Mahayana stage. Spiritual power often determines the final outcome.
"That's really impressive!" Antonio dragged his stool forward. "If we learn this formation, then if anyone dies or something goes wrong, we can just activate this formation... wouldn't that be like saving a game, never having to worry about bad outcomes again?"
Lin Fan, however, felt that things were not so simple.
Everything is conserved.
If this formation can truly achieve such heaven-defying effects, the price of the exchange would be absolutely terrifying.
Le Zheng Yuanqing lifted her eyelids and saw Antonio unconsciously move his buttocks onto the couch, squeezing in with Lin Fan and hiding behind her, which made Le Zheng Yuanqing even angrier.
"Get down here!" He raised his hand, and Antonio almost knelt down. He quickly leaned back on his stool, pretending to be obedient while secretly glancing to see if any swords were being drawn.
“The obvious cost is definitely spiritual power,” Lin Fan scratched his forehead, ignoring Antonio’s aggrieved look, and looked at Le Zheng Yuanqing, “but spiritual power is only the activation condition. What are the other costs? The present world’s space being squeezed out by the ancient world? An existence where you can only choose one of the two?”
Upon hearing Lin Fan's words, Yue Zhengyuan nodded slightly: "Recreating the ancient times, take a closer look at these words. Is it just space that's being squeezed out?"
"There's still time!" Antonio interjected, then quickly covered his mouth.
He always acted like this in front of Yue Zhengyuanqing, never learning his lesson. Seeing that the other party ignored him, he knew that he had passed the test and started gesturing wildly again.
"Time?" Lin Fan frowned slightly. "So the Five Elements Biochemical Array uses spiritual power as a price to open a dual passage through time and space in another way?"
"Oh my god!" Antonio exclaimed, "That guy who used spatial manipulation to lure the monster out earlier. Are they planning to do it again? What if they create some other weird thing?"
“We don’t need any random stuff,” Lin Fan shook his head. “The ancient world and the present world should exist on the same three-dimensional coordinate system.”
"The original seal forcibly tore the entire world apart, and the heavily polluted ancient world was hidden in the barrier, concealed beneath the world. The unpolluted pure land, after so many years of moving mountains and filling seas, has reached an area close to that of the ancient world, and there is a high degree of overlap at the same latitude and longitude."
"If the Five Elements Biochemical Array really brings the ancient times back to life, that land will appear directly through spatial rules. Putting aside the issue of radiation, the sudden increase in the contents of a limited space will cause crustal compression that will destroy most of the creatures in the present world."
Antonio's mind immediately conjured up images of rock layers squeezed together like a mille-feuille, and his face turned grim.
"And this is just a spatial issue. If time could be reversed, it would be possible to bring back all the cultivators who died back then..."
Lin Fan thought for a while, then said uncertainly, "It is said that ancient cultivators, even those at the same level, were generally more powerful than those of today. Take those powerful demonic cultivators who were found, for example. Will they really be able to strengthen the Youye Sect as Sect Master Youye wishes, instead of destroying it?"
The demon cultivators of today are hard to manage, but weren't the ancient ones even more "wild and untamed"?
In the end, whether they want to revitalize their sect, gain power, or acquire treasures, they will all end up with nothing.
Not only would they risk their own lives, but they might also cause another "world-ending" event—ancient times overturning the present world.
And then, true to the old ways of those people who love to cause trouble, they'll open another spatial rift, and sooner or later, they'll just lure the monsters back in...
Well, it's just looping now, isn't it?
This is still the case if there is enough spiritual energy to return to the beginning of the journey.
If you don't have enough spiritual power, and you fall directly into the monster invasion, or later on... then no one can expect to survive.
Le Zhengyuan nodded with a hint of satisfaction at the prospect of a promising young man: "It's all a jumbled mess, but that's roughly the gist of it."
"Didn't Senior Brother explain the pros and cons to him?" Lin Fan didn't believe that Sect Master Youye would still insist on going his own way even if he knew.
"Why should I tell him?" Yue Zhengyuanqing said dismissively. "This is their planet's business, and we outsiders shouldn't interfere too much in their affairs. Besides, the Five Elements Life-Transforming Array isn't something that the Youye Sect can create on its own."
He glanced at Lin Fan and reminded him clearly, word by word:
"Respect other people's fate. Do what you should do."