"Hey, Brother Li, it's not my fault. I've been working for so many years, and I figured it was time for me to retire. Actually, I've been thinking about retiring for a while now, but I haven't brought it up because I have a few brothers to take care of."
"Now everyone has their own work, so I'm at ease. But this isn't something you forced me into. If I retire now and continue with the old ways, no one will allow it..."
Ge Baoqi looked utterly grief-stricken, and spoke as if it were the truth.
"Alright, alright, give me some information about the Great Expedition, then go fish."
Li Xingkong didn't bother to look at him. That's just how this guy is—he gets the benefits but then acts innocent. However, although he was appointed to the position in a time of crisis, at least he did a decent job, didn't covet power, and didn't try anything funny.
Let him have high retirement benefits; the Divine Land isn't short of money these days.
" Brother Li, you don't need to give me directions, it's right here with me."
Ge Baoqi circulated his Magic Power, and a peculiar Divine Sense character condensed.
"All the information about the Great Expedition is here. If you can't find it here, you won't find it anywhere else."
After receiving the characters, Li Xingkong used his Divine Sense to read their contents.
That's why he felt at ease entrusting things to Ge Baoqi; in ancient times, this guy would be a high-ranking eunuch on Wei Zhongxian.
He can handle the things I need to do, and he can also prepare for things I haven't asked him to do.
Once I've mastered my cultivation, having this guy as a disciple wouldn't be bad, huh?
The information provided by Ge Baoqi was extremely detailed, from the initial planning stages of the Great Expedition to the detailed information of everyone involved in the expedition.
Extract the key information you need from this massive amount of data.
First, there's the expedition's route map. The purpose of this expedition isn't just one or two star systems, but to explore all the pre-determined spheres of influence of the Divine Land. Only after the exploration is completed and a detailed map is drawn can the next stage of work proceed.
Earth Star is indeed the mother planet, but the Solar System is too barren to be the capital of a civilization.
One of the most important objectives of this expedition was to find a suitable core star region for the future development of Divine Land and to begin subsequent construction work.
The entire expedition route covered a range of hundreds of light-years around Divine Land, encompassing thousands of stars and numerous exoplanets.
However, this range is only for reference. The location of the Solar System is very barren. Although it seems so large, there are very few habitable planets and not many planets that can be used as resource planets.
Otherwise, these places would have been incorporated into the surrounding civilizations long ago, instead of being left to their own devices.
There are reasons why Divine Land's expeditions have lasted for so many years. Although with the technological support of extraterrestrials, Divine Land has made great progress in space warp and light-speed travel, the transformation of technology into a product also requires time and iteration.
Furthermore, the lack of teleportation technology meant that expeditionary forces could only traverse all star systems by relying on spaceships, which inherently meant they couldn't travel very fast.
In addition, the exploration of galaxies and exoplanets takes a considerable amount of time, and it's normal that the expedition hasn't been completed in less than a hundred years.
When we inquired earlier, the expeditionary exploration team had already arrived at the Weitian Galaxy. Judging from their route, there was still a considerable distance to go before the expedition was completed.
After extracting the roadmap, Li Xingkong selected people he knew from the list before finally lifting them off the moon.
Now that things are back on track in the Solar System, there's no need for him to stay and look after things anymore. He should head ahead and find the expedition team.
Following the expedition route, Li Xingkong used space teleportation to jump to the next star system.
Spreading his Divine Sense to probe the planets within the galaxy, Li Xingkong soon found the expedition team's trail.
Perhaps because this place is too close to Earth Star, on one of the planets, they only used an array to set up a small communication device to relay the expedition team's communication with Earth Star. There were no maintenance personnel around this device; it was just a lone figure standing there.
Fortunately, the formation was sturdy, and the thing suffered no damage.
Li Xingkong guessed that the subsequent maintenance work should be done by the later batches of expedition teams, but unfortunately, the later expedition teams had become somewhat distorted.
However, since this product is manufactured by a cultivation company, its quality control is verifiable, and the fact that it's still usable is proof of that.
Don't you see how many archaeological civilizations rely on their past achievements to develop by excavating ancient ruins? If quality control isn't good, how could so many ruins have survived?
Following the route map, they continued towards the next star system, encountering only small maintenance outposts along the way, without seeing any trace of cultivators.
It wasn't until Li Xingkong traversed more than a dozen star systems that he encountered his first large expeditionary outpost.
This is on an exoplanet. The planet is barely habitable, barely enough to survive. Yet, on this very planet, Li Xingkong's first large outpost since Earth Star was established.
Roughly estimated, there are about a hundred cultivators at the outpost. Within this outpost, a considerable amount of medicinal herb fields and farmland have been cultivated, and a small village has even been formed.
However, none of the cultivators at the outpost were acquaintances of Li Xingkong; they appeared to be from the second or even third batch of cultivators.
The reason is simple: although they are cultivators, their overall combat strength is not that strong, and some have even left the server, showing signs of withdrawal symptoms.
When Li Xingkong arrived, he did startle them. Fortunately, although this outpost was remote, it was not completely isolated from the outside world. It was connected by a communication array, and they knew more or less about the current development of Earth Star.
There were naturally guesses about the identity of the newcomer, since apart from Li Xingkong, no other cultivator could so recklessly tear through space and leap out.
After a brief look into the development of this outpost, it turns out that the first expedition team left a message. Although this planet is located in outer space, it can be considered a habitable planet. Its location is also relatively good and has development value, which is why the message was left behind. After subsequent expedition teams arrived, they began to carry out habitable transformation here.
The cultivators who remained here were mostly from the third batch and later. With such an outpost, they were no longer willing to follow the expedition route forward, and it was quite good for them to develop slowly here.
Li Xingkong offered some assistance, setting up a large array to slowly adjust the planet's atmospheric structure.
He won't stay here for long; finding the expedition team is his top priority.
These cultivators could have handled the transformation task themselves; he simply accelerated the process.