Chapter 232: A Year of Growth

In the following days, both the Huaxia Country and the HR Alliance swiftly transported some spaceship wreckage and peculiar fragments from the ancient civilization ruins to a large warehouse in an industrial facility located over a hundred kilometers outside of Yangzhou City. Afterwards, Babata stored all these materials into its storage space.

Luo Feng had a spatial ring, but Babata also had its own storage space.

Storage spaces could only hold inanimate materials, corpses, etc. However, Babata’s storage space was clearly enormous! Within this vast space, using intelligent control tools, Babata began constructing a spaceship!

Intelligent systems, machinery, energy—all non-living—thus allowed the construction process to begin within the storage space itself!

“Babata, how large is your storage space?” Luo Feng once asked.

“Earlier, you even stored the Yuen-Mo Star Ship inside it. My spatial ring couldn’t even hold the Yuen-Mo Star Ship! Now, you’re turning it into a factory to build a spaceship! Just how big is this space?” Luo Feng had always been curious about Babata’s “personal treasure vault.”

“Bigger than yours,” Babata replied succinctly.

“How long will it take to build a spaceship then?” Luo Feng asked.

“About five or six years!” Babata replied.

“Heaven! Five or six years? Aren’t you supposed to be the most advanced AI? Why so long?”

Babata was clearly displeased. “This is a spaceship capable of traversing the cosmos—not a model! And building a spaceship requires many precision tools, which I don’t even have! Starting from scratch, with nothing! Even on your Earth, how long would it take to build an aircraft carrier? This is thousands, even millions of times more complex than that! Five or six years is actually fast!”

“Alright, I’m not in a hurry anyway,” Luo Feng stopped arguing.

“Hmph, you should feel lucky I’m helping you build it. Otherwise, with your Earth’s technology, even in a hundred or a thousand years, you’d barely reach space. Yet the Milky Way alone is a hundred thousand light-years in diameter! Interstellar travel? Your Earth wouldn’t manage it even in a thousand years!” Babata boasted proudly.

With Luo Feng’s limited knowledge, he was practically illiterate in this matter. He truly didn’t understand how many challenges were involved in building a spaceship capable of interstellar travel!

This was a real spaceship, not a model.

To complete it in five or six years was already incredible.

As an elite AI, Babata easily created a “basic AI” to oversee the spaceship’s construction, while it itself supervised Luo Feng’s training!

“Don’t get cocky. A Star-Level One warrior’s muscles and bones can withstand ten thousand times Earth’s gravity! But because your internal organs and meridians are weaker, you started with just a hundred times gravity. It took you twenty-eight days to adapt to a thousand times gravity—nothing to be proud of!”

Babata’s roar echoed within Luo Feng’s consciousness.

Inside the gravity chamber.

Clad only in shorts and barefoot, Luo Feng stood inside, sweat visibly beading on his body, occasionally dripping down. The display screen beside him showed—”1088g”!

Over a thousand times Earth’s gravity pressed down on every cell of Luo Feng’s body. These twenty-eight days of adaptation fully tapped into the potential of a Star-Level warrior. Each training session, while absorbing the Mu Ya Crystal, caused his organs to rapidly absorb and improve!

“Alright, that’s enough. Begin absorbing the Mu Ya Crystal,” Babata commanded.

Luo Feng immediately sat cross-legged, producing a Mu Ya Crystal in his hand. The crystal’s aroma was mouthwatering. Under the stimulation of genetic energy, streams of pure, refined energy surged into Luo Feng’s body. Unlike genetic energy, Mu Ya Crystal energy was extremely pure and potent in quality!

And full of vitality—very spiritual!

Once this energy entered Luo Feng’s body, it was as if his body were a thirsty young plant receiving water, growing and evolving rapidly!

At the same moment!

Luo Feng’s consciousness entered the virtual space. According to Babata, even when the mind entered virtual space, the body retained subconscious awareness. Through special training, Luo Feng’s subconscious could still perform one simple task—absorbing the Mu Ya Crystal!

“Begin warrior training, starting with footwork. Begin!”

The virtual space resumed footwork training. Within the virtual space, Luo Feng’s physical condition remained at the “Junior Commander” level, just like when he had first entered the elite training camp.

Five months later.

Evening.

Clad only in shorts, Luo Feng entered the gravity chamber and shut the door behind him.

“Babata, let’s focus on the ‘Control Chapter’ today. Help me test my progress,” Luo Feng said.

“Volunteering? Looks like you’re confident,” Babata chuckled mockingly.

Luo Feng smiled.

He pressed the gravity control panel beside him, inputting “1910.” Instantly, the gravity chamber activated. A low hum resonated through the chamber as a terrifying gravitational force pressed down on Luo Feng’s entire body. He instinctively bent his knees slightly before straightening up.

“Hmph,” Luo Feng inhaled deeply.

“Begin,” Luo Feng exerted effort to raise his right hand, where a shard of the Chi Hun Copper Mother blade floated. On Earth, this shard weighed over a ton. Under 1910 times Earth’s gravity, it instantly exceeded two thousand tons! Even a Warlord would struggle to lift it.

Luo Feng found it quite difficult as well.

Fortunately, this weight was confined within the gravity chamber. If the chamber simulated “5 tons,” then no matter how intense the gravity inside, it had no effect on the outside world. Even if someone entered the chamber and the gravity reached tens of thousands of Gs, the pressure on the building itself remained unchanged. The magnetic gravity field consumed only energy.

“Begin,” Babata said.

“One thread!”

Luo Feng manipulated a thread of mental energy to lift the blade shard.

“Two threads!” He controlled another stream of mental energy onto the shard.

“Three threads!” “Four threads!” …

The blade shard floated.

“Ten threads!” Luo Feng continued increasing the threads of mental energy.

Before receiving the Yuen-Mo Star’s inheritance, Luo Feng could control eighteen threads of mental energy, but each had to control a separate object. He couldn’t combine all eighteen threads together without interference affecting his combat effectiveness.

Also, back then, his mental energy was weak when applied to his battle suit. Because his fine control was poor, small holes in the suit allowed mental energy to leak.

But now—it was different!

“Nineteen threads!”

Luo Feng shouted the final count.

“Hey! You can now control nineteen threads of mental energy, all combined without interference?” Babata was surprised.

“Aren’t you limited to eighteen just a while ago?”

“Guess I improved,” Luo Feng chuckled.

“Excellent. Under nearly two thousand times Earth’s gravity, you can still combine nineteen threads of mental energy without interference. You’ve achieved a minor mastery of the ‘Condense’ technique in the ‘Control Chapter.'” Babata praised. “Next, the ‘Control Chapter’ has nine foundational techniques: ‘Condense,’ ‘Scatter,’ ‘Sharp,’ ‘Resilient,’ ‘Soft,’ ‘Hard,’ ‘Dance,’ ‘Illusion,’ and ‘Merge.’ Since you’ve mastered the first, ‘Condense,’ it’s time to begin the second: ‘Resilient’!”

Five months ago, Luo Feng could control a maximum of eighteen threads of mental energy. Five months of hard training had only increased it to nineteen!

However, even with just the first technique mastered, his combat power had increased severalfold!

According to the ‘Control Chapter,’ once all nine techniques were mastered, mental energy could be as thick as a steel plate to smash opponents or as fine as a needle to pierce weapons and enemies. Normally, mental energy would penetrate flesh directly, but after mastering the nine techniques, it became incredibly refined and sharp!

It could function as a weapon! However, without proper techniques, it was extremely difficult to master on one’s own.

January 12, 2060, morning.

Inside the gravity chamber on the second floor training hall of Luo Feng’s home.

Under dim yellow lighting.

A young man clad in a blood-red battle armor sat cross-legged. Around him, a cluster of blade shards floated and danced. Suddenly, he opened his eyes. The display beside him showed—”3100g.” Most Star-Level warriors on Earth would be crushed instantly at this gravity!

Swoosh!

Silently, the blood-red battle armor dissolved into his skin and vanished, revealing a lean, muscular frame!

He stood up!

Compared to a year ago, his entire body had become even leaner, even slightly shorter in height. Even standing still, he emitted an aura more terrifying than a King-class beast!

“Mental energy training is truly harder than warrior training. I’ve only now reached Star-Level Three.”

“Luo Feng, stop being conceited! Training is always easy at first and gets harder later! Look at Hong and Thunder, their progress slows more and more!” Babata remarked.

Luo Feng smiled.

Four months ago, he had already reached Star-Level Three as a warrior, but only today did his mental energy reach Star-Level Three.

“Now, with just my warrior abilities alone, I can defeat the Third Elder!” Luo Feng was full of confidence.

His foundation was rock-solid!

His mental energy efficiency was far superior to the Fourth Elder. With such a solid foundation, he could easily control the Dun Tian Shuttle and the Arc Blade Disc. His ultimate trump cards were the Chi Hun Copper Mother shard and the awakened Moyun Vine. The blood-red battle armor he had worn earlier was formed by the Moyun Vine.

Luo Feng now…

Had undergone a complete transformation from within outward! Now, he was truly worthy of being the heir of the Yuen-Mo Star!

Suddenly, the ringtone of his phone echoed from outside the gravity chamber.

“Hmm.”

Luo Feng exited the gravity chamber and picked up his phone. The caller ID showed—Xu Xin! Xu Xin had started her own business, choosing Yangzhou City as her base. Thus, the two often spent time together.

“Hey, Luo Feng, I’m almost there. I just bought some groceries,” Xu Xin’s voice came through.

“Didn’t my parents go on a trip? I told the maid to take a break too. And didn’t I say we were going out to eat today?” Luo Feng replied.

“I learned a bit from watching TV. Today I’m cooking for you personally. This is my first time cooking! I’m already in the neighborhood!”

Luo Feng quickly walked to the window and looked outside.

Sure enough…

A sleek white sports sedan slowly entered the neighborhood. With his sharp vision, Luo Feng clearly saw Xu Xin in the driver’s seat, wearing a white sweater, her face glowing with happiness.

“Xu Xin cooking?” Luo Feng inhaled deeply, gritting his teeth inwardly.

“No matter how bad it tastes, I’ll eat it all. And I’ll pretend to be excited and praise her!”