As the Medicine-Pounding Guest brushed past the cultivators on their Road to Immortality, several heads popped out from the metal lump, watching the spaceship pass by and even smiling and greeting it a few times.
Seeing the group's spirited demeanor, Li Xingkong felt much more at ease. If he hadn't embarked on cultivation, he really didn't know how long it would have taken him to be able to enter space with his physical body like they were now.
"The teams embarking on the Road to Immortality are now basically fixed, with each team consisting of about 5 people: one navigator to plan the route, two power engineers to provide power for the team's vehicles, and two life support personnel to cast the spells necessary for the team to survive in space."
Looking at the group of people passing by outside the window, Tang Cheng said.
"Having spent so much time on Earth Star, the most troublesome thing about coming to space for the first time is the navigation. Our lunar landing was absolutely agonizing. Without a professional navigator, we practically chased the moon in lunar orbit for ages before we finally succeeded..."
Speaking of this, Li Xingkong was a little embarrassed. He recalled that when he landed on the moon, he waited in orbit for a long time, and it wasn't like he had calculated the orbit beforehand.
All I can say is that everyone's first time is pretty much the same. The older brother won't laugh at the younger brother; anyway, you'll get the hang of it after a few more tries.
"Seeing these teams embarking on the Road to Immortality means we're not far from Earth Star."
The spaceship was very fast, and the groups of cultivators quickly disappeared far behind them. After encountering such a group, they encountered three more groups ascending to immortality along the way.
Judging from this number alone, there are quite a few people who have now entered the Late Qi Refining Stage.
" Brother Li, look."
As the spaceship drew closer to Earth Star, Tang Cheng beckoned Li Xingkong to look ahead.
Looking in the direction Tang Cheng pointed, the massive planet Earth Star was slowly rotating, and in front of Earth Star, there was a black building that looked like the size of a bowl, suspended in the air, slowly moving around Earth Star's orbit.
"This is..."
With Li Xingkong's eyesight, he could naturally see the building clearly. It looked like two large, black tortoise shells stuck together, forming a large oval shape. On one side of this oval, there was a circular opening, like a gaping, black mouth, as if it was about to swallow something.
"Hehe, this brings us to the space elevator you built. It's made several round trips in the past few years, transporting large quantities of supplies into space and mobilizing a large number of personnel and equipment. On this Earth-orbiting orbit, we've constructed Divine Land's first space dock, White Jade Capital."
" White Jade Capital?"
Li Xingkong looked at the building again; it was indeed pitch black, bearing absolutely no resemblance to white jade. One could only say the name was rather abstract.
"That's right, and this ' Medicine-Pounding Guest ' model spaceship was produced at the White Jade Capital Space Shipyard. It was among the first batch of spaceships to be officially put into use at this shipyard."
This development speed is quite fast. Li Xingkong originally thought that Divine Land might need to stabilize for a few more years if it wanted to develop in space, but he did not expect that Divine Land would have such great ambition and produce this thing in just a few years.
Based on this situation, it's only a matter of the next few years before we begin exploring Earth Star's other neighbors in the Solar System.
Li Xingkong truly felt that if he went into seclusion again, the entire Solar System would probably be colonized by Divine Land when he emerged next time.
"By the way, aren't any other countries objecting to us building this thing?"
Li Xingkong remembered that before he went into seclusion, there were still quite a few countries causing trouble. Moreover, at that time, the main task of Divine Land was to maintain the order of the new era and build a new peaceful society in the environment of Spiritual Qi revival. There was not much time to deal with them.
"Of course there were. In fact, when the space elevator first officially took off, dozens of countries jointly opposed it, wanting a piece of the pie. Even the Eagle Country used their genetic weapons to make threats."
Looking back on diplomacy over the years, it's clear that the situation hasn't been easy.
What happened next?
Li Xingkong was very curious about how this matter was handled afterward, since it seemed that no other country was involved in the space dock project.
"Later, the Western Military Region deployed the space elevator, starting from India, circling around the fourteen neighboring countries, as well as Southeast Asia, Japan, and Stick Country, and conducted a military exercise along the way."
"When these damned nations saw the power of this space carrier, they all breathed their last."
Speaking of this, Tang Cheng couldn't help but laugh.
"The military exercise demonstrated two things. One was a three-dimensional air defense exercise, with a large number of gun emplacements on the aerospace carrier. As long as it is present, any aircraft is a sitting duck, and it also has absolute suppression power over the ground. The second was airdrop. At most, a modern aircraft carrier can carry a few aircraft, but an aerospace carrier can deploy more than 50 aircraft and two armored combined arms brigades to a designated location within 10 minutes."
"Since this exercise, everything we do has gone much more smoothly, and no one in the international community has said a word."
"Indeed, this combat capability is comparable to a dimensional reduction attack."
Just think about the mobility of this operation; it's like bringing the entire Divine Land mainland into battle. The Divine Land army is no joke.
"Oh right, you also said that the Eagle Country has developed genetic weapons? Does that mean they've declared war on us?"
We need to say no more about our victory, but we still need to understand the threats we face.
"They wouldn't dare to wage war against Divine Land, of course, but it's a different story when it comes to dealing with their own people. The Eagle Country deployed a genetic weapon in its largest Chinese community, and to demonstrate its power to us, they even sent people to track and report on it."
"Oh, this..."
Li Xingkong couldn't help but laugh out loud. What was this called? It reminded him of the local thugs and ruffians of Tianjin Garrison in the old days.
He collects protection money in the store, takes out a knife, doesn't block or threaten anyone, stands at the store entrance, cuts his own leg with the knife, blood flows everywhere, and then most of the store owners have to do as he says. It's not for any other reason than to say, "I'm this ruthless to myself, if you don't comply, see how I deal with you."
Of course, there are some who won't buy into this, but people who do this are professionals. If a knife to the leg isn't enough, they'll chop off your hand. Not many are unafraid of that.
The tricks that the Eagle Country has learned are getting worse and worse.
As for those unfortunate Chinese Americans, Li Xingkong didn't have any good ideas. Their motherland didn't protect them, so there was no reason for him to go and protect them.