Swallowing the Starry Sky: The Lone Bamboo Stands
Chapter 72

The Breakthrough at Last

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The escape pod was ultimately too small, and there wasn't much of use inside. Even after it had been completely dismantled, it yielded little that could help develop the base.

Although they had begun researching how to build a laser cannon using the Laser Cannon Operation Instructions, the technological gap was simply too vast. They had made some progress, but success was still nowhere in sight.

Lin Chenxing and the others also shared all these materials with the authorities in Kyoto Base City. After all, the more people researching them, the sooner they could wipe out the monsters.

As for the Water of Locke, it was probably an infinitely diluted version of the Divine Water of Locke from Lin Chenxing's memories. Its best use was cultivating plants. Though it lacked the Divine Water of Locke's miraculous properties, it could still promote plant growth to some extent.

Before long, it was August. Lin Chenxing had sorted through what he had gained on that single journey, and at last he deeply understood what the so-called "will" meant.

In his view, will was simply an unwavering resolve deep in one's heart—a refusal to give up. The more steadfast one was, the stronger one's will became. Alternatively, it could mean embracing all things: when the heart was boundless, so was the will.

All of this had already been expressed and summarized in the legacy of his ancestors.

In Lin Chenxing's memories, Hong had once told Luo Feng that cultivating the mind had three stages.

The first stage was to make one's consciousness as firm as bedrock. But to become that firm, one first had to find a purpose—a cause one could devote oneself to completely.

The second stage of cultivating the mind was "unity with heaven and humanity, a childlike heart, and a perfectly

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