With Ether's help, the Supreme Council approved Lu Yang's proposal as expected, sending people to support the Cultivation World's modernization.
The Interstellar Alliance had its own procedures for sending people to support remote regions. They selected not only experts in science and technology, but also people in economics, education, the arts, and many other fields.
First, the Alliance planned out the round trip, the duration of the support mission, and all the other little details. Then it issued notices through the proper channels and screened the applicants.
By the time the process was complete, more than half a month had passed.
Knowing that the Interstellar Alliance was interested in spirit stones and spiritual energy, Lu Yang had made a point of giving them several supreme-grade spirit stones before he left.
Eternal Star System, spaceport.
A gigantic silver starship was docked at the spaceport. Its elegant lines and rounded edges cast soft shadows beneath the dim yellow lights, as though recounting countless journeys across the stars. Standing below and gazing up at it, people felt utterly insignificant and stared in awe.
"It's huge." Lu Yang stood beneath the ship with his hands in his pockets and sighed. Compared with the starship, his covered boat was as crude as a pile of broken boards.
The ship was called the Starbound. The support team would travel aboard it to the Cultivation World.
He had received word from the Supreme Council that the support team would gather here before departing for the Cultivation World. He had arrived early to look around the unfamiliar spaceport.
Eternal Star System was the equivalent of the capital, so its spaceport was naturally the most advanced in the entire Interstellar Alliance. It was bigger than many cities, with tens of thousands of starships docking, resting, and departing every