Chapter 306
Full enlightenment on the true nature of spacetime is not going to come so easily as a single meditation session. So, once I’m well rested and have an idea where I should be working from to advance my cultivation, I rejoin Karl and Lelou.
Instead of the direct Manipulation of water, Karl had taught Lelou how to gather hydrogen and oxygen from the nebula and burn them to create water vapor near the surface of the planet where gravity would trap it.
Of course, that’s far from the only thing that an atmosphere will need, but Lelou had chosen to work from the core out, so she knew she wasn’t missing any steps.
Everyone watched me move the star over to the planet before my nap, which sparked a great deal of innovation. The principle of bending space around an object is the fundamental theory behind an Alcubierre Warp Drive, which Elder Song is now trying to replicate with inscriptions and magical circles designed to gather and manipulate Cosmic Energy.
It’s not quite working, so he plans to repeat the experiment as many times as necessary until he can make himself a faster than light motorcycle.
He’s definitely spent too much time around Karl.
Hui’Jin and Lala look busy, so I start gathering another star. Not with direct energy usage like last time, but by Manipulation of reality around my desired point. Every day that I work at it, in a continual cycle of cultivate, build, sleep repeat, the fundamentals behind the technique, and the influence of it on the stars I’ve made becomes a little more clear.
Neither Hui’Jin or Lala is having any luck understanding what I’m trying to do, but Elder Song understood enough to create a battleship sized faster than light transport. That’s as small as he could get it with all the inscriptions and circles that were required, but honestly I’m shocked he managed it at all.
The transport itself is mostly just a toy, a high level divinity can move between Planes, Realms or worlds in an instant without any sort of device, and an Immortal can do it with an inscription and technique combined. The advantage of the ship is, that it can operate on multiple types of energy and move not just between set points, but also at a slower pace as a proper transport.
Hui’Jin has begun adding plants to Lelou’s world, but for the moment they neither grow nor wither and die. Her understanding of botany and cell structure is strong, but life has its own energy that a a Priestess of the Death god, she is unable to manipulate without extensive research.
That’s Lala’s strong suit. Her Immortal Soul has barely begun to strengthen, and neither of them had comprehended a Domain yet, but exotic energy control and botany through a modified creation spell weren’t beyond them anymore.