The assembled Earth Vein is only the size of a fist, and the whole thing is a square box. Although it was assembled, from the outside, the entire Earth Vein looks like a single piece, without any trace of assembly.
Its appearance is like jade, looking like a piece of jade that has been cut open but not yet polished. The surface is white and smooth, and there are faint golden lines inside, making it look very beautiful.
This is what the Earth Vein looked like before they were activated.
After fiddling with it in his hands for a while, Li Xingkong pushed open the door to the room.
Since he emerged from his Foundation Establishment seclusion, he has been spending more and more time alone at home, interacting with fewer and fewer people. He has been at the lunar base for so long, and apart from Tang Cheng, he doesn't recognize a single person, or even know their name.
My path of spiritual practice is becoming increasingly solitary.
"Good morning, sir."
Once outside the room, Li Xingkong noticed two guards standing watch at his door. They immediately greeted Li Xingkong as Li Xingkong came out.
To be honest, although the lunar base is developing rapidly, it is still short of manpower. It is really a luxury to directly assign two people to guard the entrance.
"Did you all come here specifically to guard my door?"
Li Xingkong says what he thinks.
"Yes, Captain Tang said that your mission is the most crucial mission for the entire lunar base, so it's essential to make thorough preparations."
One of them spoke up in response.
"Well, that Tang Cheng..."
Li Xingkong almost laughed. With his current strength, why would he need ordinary people to protect him? Wouldn't that be a pure waste of manpower? Especially since the lunar base is currently facing a significant population shortage, they wish they could do the work of two people.
"Where is Tang Cheng now? Take me to him. You don't need to watch this room anymore; your mission is over."
Now that the Earth Vein are created, the next step is naturally to deploy them for testing. At this time, we are on the moon, which is thousands of miles away from Earth Star. Naturally, we can't go back to Earth Star to conduct the test, so we can only try it out at the lunar base.
Moreover, the personnel at this lunar base are mostly high-level researchers, making them relatively easier to work with when participating in testing.
"This way, I'll take you there."
One of them led Li Xingkong toward Tang Cheng's office, while the other gave a brief report over the channel before staying behind.
Although Li Xingkong's experiment was completed and there was nothing else of value in the room, the lack of practical value did not mean it was completely meaningless.
If this experiment succeeds, then this place will be the origin of Spiritual Qi in the entire universe. If this were a world with the Myth status or popularity, the entire Moon-Chasing Island would be directly deified as the Dao Ancestor's Daoist temple.
Even in the real world, from the moment Li Xingkong, it already contained sufficient humanistic value.
Of course, this value is not apparent at present. The reason for guarding this room is simply to see if they can pick up something from Li Xingkong's Li Xingkong after he leaves, so that they can study it.
Li Xingkong hadn't gone far when he heard Tang Cheng's voice. Although the moon had no air, the lunar base had become a large ecological park, and the environment inside was no different from that on Earth Star.
Although Tang Cheng and his group could move around on the moon, once the ecosystem inside the base was completed, they chose to stay inside the base whenever they had free time.
After all, having lived on Earth Star for many years, Earth Star's environment is still more suitable for living.
Living on the lunar surface is novel, but once the novelty wears off, it gets quite boring, far less comfortable than staying in the base.
"I don't want to go back yet, I'm not ready..."
"What? The Eagle Country is putting pressure on us again? They want to go to the moon too? Fine, then let's prepare as soon as possible..."
From a distance, Li Xingkong could hear Tang Cheng's voice; he seemed to be talking to someone.
When the guide led Li Xingkong into Tang Cheng's office, Tang Cheng was sitting upright in a chair with a monitor in front of him displaying Old Tang image.
"Hey, Brother Li, you've come at the perfect time."
Upon seeing that it was Li Xingkong, Tang Cheng's eyes lit up. "Perfect timing! I was just looking forward to it."
He quickly gestured to the person who brought Li Xingkong to close the door. The person understood, immediately turned around, went out, and closed the door.
"What bad news have you brought this time? You look so worried."
Judging from Tang Cheng's appearance, you can tell he must have encountered some new problem.
"Sigh, it's all because of our lunar base."
Tang Cheng pressed his thumb against his eye socket and moved his hand to massage it.
"Our base is developing too fast now, and it's becoming a bit too easy to hide. A couple of days ago Eagle Country satellite spotted it, and now they're starting to put pressure on the ground; they want to come up and visit too."
"Isn't this our base? What business is it of theirs? If they want to come, fine, they can build their own base."
Li Xingkong disagreed.
"Sigh, it's all about that Outer Space Treaty. They colluded with several lackeys to release a statement, suspecting that we've deployed military facilities on the moon, just so they can come and visit our base."
Tang Cheng curled his lip, looking disgusted.
"Moreover, their lunar landing technology is getting worse and worse; they can't even land on the moon now. They're not just trying to cause trouble, they're also trying to piggyback on our lunar rockets. Isn't that despicable?"
"That's normal. Westerners are all a bit slow on the uptake."
Li Xingkong, however, was dismissive of this practice, pointing out that even more outrageous things had happened in the Middle Ages.
Two barons were at war. One side was besieging the city, but it was running out of supplies, money, and food. Logically, the war should have ended there. However, something astonishing happened. The baron directly wrote an IOU to the other side he was fighting, asking them to lend him money and food while the two sides were still fighting, so that he could continue fighting.
The other side was even more extraordinary, actually lending him the money. Although they didn't win in the end, this kind of tactic is indeed quite common in the West.
"Why don't we just refuse them? We're not afraid of them now, are we?"
Li Xingkong subconsciously adopted his own perspective; in his view, such an unreasonable request should simply be rejected outright.
"It's not possible yet. After all, Divine Land hasn't become the dominant power on Earth Star, and we still need to cooperate with them in trade. With conflicting interests at stake, we can't make that kind of response. After all, the situation is different for a nation and for an individual."
Tang Cheng was also somewhat angry. It was still a matter of strength. If the entire Divine Land had the strength of Li Xingkong, these people wouldn't even have a chance to speak.
Indeed, Li Xingkong thought about it. He was strong enough now, so he often overlooked these things when looking at problems. But Divine Land was, after all, a whole for all Divine Land People, and each person's perspective was naturally different.
"So what is Divine Land planning to do?"
Li Xingkong was also curious about what solutions Divine Land might have for this situation.
"Here they come, Brother Li. Do you remember the Xi People we talked about before? My father told us to prepare ourselves. Before they make their move, we need to publicly announce the Xi People's affairs and seize the initiative in the narrative."
Upon hearing Tang Cheng's words, Li Xingkong naturally thought of the things they had done after landing on the moon: creating artifacts everywhere and carelessly discarding stone tablets and carvings.
The emotional aspect is there to prevent this.
"That's great, we can just give them an information overload then."
Li Xingkong felt he couldn't miss out on this exciting show.
"By the way, once my stuff is finished, I'll test it out at our base first. If this thing works well, our Xi People will have even more skills to showcase."
Li Xingkong brandished the Earth Vein in his hand and said with a smile.