"Julu, we're sorry we didn't tell you. Whenever we thought about having to go through that long, uneventful journey to get home, we just couldn't bring ourselves to turn back."
"Actually, we thought about going back first several times, but every time, we decided to wait another ten years..."
Ten years passed after ten years. The wandering immortals looked apologetically at Julu. They really had left Julu behind on their home planet.
Julu smiled bitterly. "What about your supplies? If you don't return to your home planet, where will you find such abundant qi to replenish yourselves?"
Tai Su Qi was easy enough. It existed on every celestial body. Their original exploration of space had been precisely to travel to other planets and extract Tai Su Qi, though it was difficult to refine.
But ordinary qi was closely connected to a planet's ecosystem. Apart from their home planet, every other planet had thin qi, or even none at all.
Yet Li Shitian smiled. "We stayed on the fourth planet for a long time and developed a method of refining magic power from sunlight."
"What!" Julu was shocked. This was an extraordinary breakthrough.
"Wonderful! The sun's power is inexhaustible and never runs dry. With this method, wouldn't we no longer have to fear our qi running out anywhere that can receive sunlight?"
Hearing this, Li Shitian shook his head. "No, you may not understand what this means yet."
"All methods return to one, and different paths lead to the same destination. The essence of all energy is the same; only its patterns differ. As long as we identify the patterns and absorb and refine them with the corresponding methods, any energy can ultimately be digested into magic power."
"Although the conversion itself consumes an enormous amount of magic power, as long