Between the stars, light flickered.
Like all light in the universe, this beam had traveled a long journey before reaching its destination.
The Solar System's Light that had set out alongside him seemed to offer a greeting. These fellow townsmen did not pause for any reason, continuing onward toward the distant horizon.
Traveling at light speed had already become routine for the Great Sun Sword Master.
Yet it was also the limit, one that could never be broken—the limit and shackles of special relativity.
"By Kardashev's theory, if one can travel at light speed, the Immortal Sect should already count as a Second Level Civilization, right?"
Jiang Ding thought silently.
Though, for now, only he as an individual could achieve light-speed travel. Even the Central Army Group Fleet had not yet arrived; its mass was too great, the technological accumulation insufficient, and the technology had not yet been widely implemented.
He was not satisfied with this.
Beyond light speed lay Wormhole Theory: natural Spacetime Channels. The Immortal Sect possessed one such channel.
A very long time ago, before Jiang Ding had been born, the Immortal Sect had luckily discovered one and put it to use as its ultimate escape route. Under normal circumstances, no one had the authority to activate it.
The other was the Warp Drive, which compressed the space ahead and expanded the space behind to propel a fleet beyond light speed. This method seemed to share the same wondrous principle as the Immortal Technique: Shrink Ground into Inches. The Immortal Sect had already accumulated some technology in this direction, but the energy required to compress and collide space was simply too great, and could not yet be met.
Once the Immortal Sect advanced into a Heavenly Being Grade power, there should be hope.
There were also Tachyon