Master Qiao had no intention of comforting anyone. He leaped from the deck, crossed another several hundred meters, and landed precisely inside the fighter aircraft.
"Marshal Qinglan, do you believe what I said now?"
"You Earthlings are indeed powerful," Marshal Qinglan said, sounding rather bitter. "But what does that have to do with our Azure Empire? You said you wanted to bring our Azure Empire into your civilization's evolutionary framework, but that is simply impossible. Different civilizations develop in different ways. Your methods of evolution may not suit our Azure Empire. To put it bluntly, our two civilizations don't even use the same energy systems."
Commander Gao patiently explained, "We've studied your cultivation before. The finest cultivation resource in your Corgi Empire is nothing more than something called a Spirit Crystal. From the perspective of Earth Civilization, these Spirit Crystals are merely crystalline blocks formed by dark energy condensing into a particular structure. Our civilization has countless ways to directly improve every aspect of physical fitness. We even have medicines that directly extend lifespans."
Marshal Qinglan sneered. "Would you really be willing to provide us with such precious resources?"
Commander Gao smiled. "Heh! Naturally, we won't provide them for free. If you want them, you'll have to earn them through your own efforts."
"How?" Marshal Qinglan asked.
He truly could not turn down what Commander Gao had described.
Even setting aside precious resources like Spirit Crystals, medicines that extended lifespans were exceedingly rare.
People in the Azure Empire actually lived quite long lives. At Marshal Qinglan's level, living five or six hundred years was child's play, provided he wasn't killed.
Even so, countless cultivators died because they failed to reach a higher level before their time ran out. That was the norm in the Azure Empire, and it brought the