"To put it bluntly, this Spiritual Root is just a tool. In essence, it's no different from the car we drive or the various tools we use. Cars have been around for so many years, but no one has forgotten how to walk. Lighters are everywhere, but the ability to start a fire manually hasn't been forgotten."
Old Tang's words make sense; if it's just used as a tool, then there's really no problem with it.
Moreover, as long as Divine Land continues to grow and prosper, the negative impact of this Spiritual Root will not be too great.
"Besides, this thing is a great tool in the military. Those young men in the army are all heroes when it comes to fighting, but asking them to study and figure out something in-depth is like making a cow drink water—it's too much to ask of them."
"To be honest, the gap between the strength of cultivators in the military and the overall strength of civilians is narrowing, mainly because their minds are too slow, which causes them to fall behind in cultivation."
Hearing what Old Tang said, Li Xingkong also made up his mind.
"Alright, then I'll go and get this Spiritual Root. Let's try it out in the army first and see how it goes."
"That's right. In our current situation, there's no experiment we wouldn't dare to do. As long as it benefits Divine Land, we should go ahead and try it."
Anyway, now that we have the Soul-Guiding Banner and Venus's resurrection array as backup, no matter what kind of experiment it is, even if someone dies here, we can still bring them back to life.
With the plan set, Li Xingkong didn't linger any longer. He left the gates of the Earthly Capital capital and flew straight into space.
He already had an idea for a method to mass-produce these Spiritual Root.
For the entire factory in Divine Land to produce it, putting aside efficiency, just the manufacturing technology of this Spiritual Root would take a considerable amount of time to develop into an industrial chain.
Moreover, although Earth Star has now been unified, the manufacturing details of this Spiritual Root still need to be kept secret. This thing is different from other things; it is to be handed over to every cultivator. If some evil cultivator were to discover the manufacturing technique and tamper with the Spiritual Root, it would be quite troublesome.
Therefore, Li Xingkong still planned to follow his old methods.
To refine a spirit tree that can produce Spiritual Root.
All the technical details of creating the Spiritual Root were incorporated into this tree through this natural growth process. Even if people from Divine Land were to participate in the production process, they could only be involved in the initial step of supplying materials and resources; they would remain completely unaware of the actual creation process of the Spiritual Root.
The fewer people who know about such confidential information, the better.
As for why he came to space, the main reason is that the tree is much larger than imagined.
After all, it needs to be able to supply a sufficient number of Spiritual Root in a short period of time, so the number of Spiritual Root it produces at one time cannot be too small.
Therefore, its size is naturally not small.
According to Li Xingkong's estimate, this thing must be several thousand meters tall, and with its branches and leaves spread out, this tree would be the size of a large city.
As for the materials needed to produce Spiritual Root, that's also a considerable amount. If this stuff were on the ground, its logistics and transportation would be a major problem.
It would be far better to simply leave them in space, where the necessary supplies can be towed over by spaceships. Moreover, these supplies can be collected directly from the surrounding asteroid belt, avoiding the excessive consumption of Earth Star's resources.
Since Divine Land began its exploration of space, the protection of Earth Star's environment has reached a new level. Minerals and materials that can be obtained from outer space are used to minimize the impact on Earth Star's internal resources.
After all, Earth Star is the mother planet, so the level of protection it receives, given the necessary conditions, goes without saying.
Building the entire tree also requires a lot of resources, but this is not a difficult task for Li Xingkong.
After traveling at a brisk pace, Li Xingkong arrived at the familiar Kuiper Belt and stopped.
This time, he didn't need to be picky. He transformed his Divine Sense into a large net and sent it toward the dense meteorite net in the Kuiper Belt.
Like a fisherman towing a boat, this vast net of Divine Sense directly covered an extremely large area, and then began to slowly shrink towards Li Xingkong's location.
As it shrank, all the meteorites caught in the net, regardless of size, were dragged by the large net formed by Divine Sense and flew backwards in the direction of Li Xingkong.
As the Divine Sense contracted, more and more meteorites were caught in the net. A large number of meteorites collided, the larger ones grew bigger, while the smaller ones were mercilessly crushed and then attached to the larger meteorites.
Once shrunk to a certain size, the meteorite inside the entire Divine Sense was forcibly molded into a single piece, transforming into a giant sphere.
Li Xingkong found a direction, waved his hand, and a Sword Qi pierced through the sphere, opening a passage for him to pass through.
This sphere, formed from a meteorite, is probably sufficient as material for the Spiritual Root Mother Tree, and there might even be some surplus.
After estimating its mass, Li Xingkong found a suitable orbit and dragged it between the Earth and the Moon.
Then, the spell in his hand emitted a dazzling light, and the entire sphere, under the influence of the spell, began to melt and reshape itself, as if it had turned into clay.
Since this mother tree was created out of Li Xingkong, it can obviously bypass many of the constraints of biological evolution. It does not need to grow and is shaped in one go, so its shell does not need to be made of biological material. It can be made of the most durable material.
If the photosynthetic capabilities are combined with the tree body using a magic array, then its energy supply will not be a problem.
Being in space, it doesn't need to take root in the soil, so its root system doesn't need to be designed either. The entire base of the tree directly solidifies into an inverted, floating hill. On the side facing the tree, the outside is higher than the inside, and the hill below looks like a plate, while the tree looks like a chopstick standing in the plate.
This design also facilitates the subsequent deployment of supplies. Simply drop the supplies onto this small hill, and they will automatically fall into the mother tree's absorption range.
With the magic activated, the tree was basically formed in a series of designs. However, since there was no supply of materials, the tree looked bare, like a withered tree.
But its branches are so extensive, extending in all directions, that the dense branches of the tree, combined with the small hill below, form a unique spherical structure.
Once the structure was complete, Li Xingkong estimated the orbital data and gave the sphere a push.
Soon, the mother tree began to revolve around Earth Star at a relatively stationary speed.
Li Xingkong then returned to Kuiper Belt and brought back a rather large piece of meteorite.
This meteorite became the first nourishment for this giant tree.