Jiang Shu finally woke up from the joy of practicing. Looking at the star map of the current war situation, his face turned a little dark.
Once upon a time, thirty years ago to be precise, the Tianshui Empire and the Minghui Empire were equally matched, and they competed for the title of Tongue Star Officer, with each side taking half.
At this time, the territory of the Minghui Empire was 900 light years, and the territory of the Tianshui Empire was more than 800 light years. But because the territory of the Tianshui Empire was located in the Sanyuan area, there were more stars.
At that time, the imperial capital of the Tianshui Empire was 480 light years away from the front line.
Now, the Minghui Empire has taken over all of Jutuanguan, not to mention the Tianchuan Star. The Tianchuan Star is less than 150 light years away from the Daling Star where the Tianshui Empire is located!
What does this mean? It means that the southern part of the Tianshui Empire has almost lost more than 300 light-years of territory, and the empire's territory has shrunk by at least 40%!
But when the war has reached this level, it is no longer a matter of territory, but... the Tianshui Empire has run out of ammunition and food.
As the war continued, military personnel and warships from both sides were consumed greatly.
But gradually, the Minghui Empire's industrial production capacity exploded, and the situation began to change.
In the past, a warship required at least thousands of shipwrights and more than a dozen elites to operate it; but now Blue Star Group's warships only require dozens of shipwrights and more than a dozen elites. When necessary, three or five people are not impossible.
.The advancement of intelligent technology makes everything possible.
In addition, the explosion of industrial production capacity has caused the Blue Star Group to not care about the loss of battleships at all. It often uses automated systems to control the charge of battleships to create opportunities for rear battles.
Especially recently, some "skeleton" spaceships have appeared one after another. These spaceships only have a simple control room and nuclear island and other power systems, and then one or several rail guns. Three or five people can control such a warship.
What's even more outrageous is that Blue Star Group also has "intelligent life" - it is no longer a secret since the war started. How powerful is intelligent life? People can run away along the wireless network, so I ask you if you are afraid.
There are even some intelligent beings who feel that they will never come back, so they can back up in advance. Once the main body dies, the backup is automatically activated! Or it can be activated by other intelligent beings, or manually, etc.
Backed by the Blue Star Group and industrial production capabilities that have grown into a behemoth, the Minghui Empire is getting stronger and stronger; battleship technology is constantly being updated. Various auxiliary technologies are emerging one after another.
What Skynet reconnaissance technology, ultra-long-range astronomical observation technology, cold nuclear fusion, fortress-level rail guns, new particle cannons, seventh-generation ultra-fast warp engines, mechas, ultra-fast communications, interstellar highways, etc., only the Tianshui Empire
There is nothing that the other party cannot think of, and there is nothing that the other party cannot provide.
On the contrary, the warships of the Tianshui Empire have been accumulated little by little over the years. The war has become more and more frustrating. The losses on the front line are too great, and the supplies in the rear are already insufficient. There are fewer and fewer warships, and the number of troops is also getting smaller and smaller. The soldiers are all
There is a timid mood. Some even secretly surrender.
War is a competition of comprehensive national strength. And the Blue Star Group, which has completed industrialization, has explosive growth in war potential. Not to mention that the Tianshui Empire Alliance has fallen apart, and the Blue Star Group is gathering greater war power.
What Jiang Shu saw now was this star map and this situation. Needless to say, Jiang Shu hesitated for a long time and finally found Mo Qiuyu.
Jiang Shu did not 'invite' Mo Qiuyu to directly participate in the war, but asked Mo Qiuyu to leave as soon as possible to 'account' the Minghui Empire.
However, this little thought could not be hidden from Mo Qiuyu; she thought for a while and said: "You have very good qualifications, and you have fully activated the saint's bloodline in your body. Ordinarily, you should have reached the peak of Daluo Golden Immortal after so many years.
Maybe even Dzogchen.”
Jiang Shu sighed slightly and said nothing.
Mo Qiuyu shook his head slightly: "You are in the wrong direction. We are practitioners, not emperors. Would you rather be an immortal practitioner or an emperor with a limited lifespan?"
Jiang Shu was surprised: "If you don't become a quasi-sage, who dares to claim immortality?"
Mo Qiuyu hesitated before saying: "There have always been legends in the world of cultivation, saying that the quasi-sage has a lifespan of millions of years, but the actual situation is that the quasi-sage seems to be immortal. Don't you have any doubts?"
Lifespan is an eternal topic among practitioners; not only practitioners, but ordinary people are also concerned about it. There may be some people who are not afraid of death, but no one is willing to die if they can live.
It is generally believed that the life span of ordinary people is only a few decades - people over seventy have been rare since ancient times, which is a true reflection of ordinary people.
In the world of cultivation, those who are at the third level of Qi refining stage and below are generally counted as ordinary people; in some places, the standard is even raised to the sixth level, ninth level, etc. When counting the population, they are not even counted.
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Let me also say here that in the traditional world of spiritual practice, there are only a few people who can become practitioners. There are only a handful of people like Dayang Group and Tianyuanxing civilization who have popularized education. Most of them are 'following the fate' - spiritual practice, in terms of practice.
It's just fate!
Moreover, in the traditional cultivation environment, due to problems such as skills and resources, there are only a few who can continue to make breakthroughs. To support the cultivation of the whole people, resources beyond imagination are needed. Under the natural state, the resources on a planet are not enough to support too many people.
Practitioner.
After refining Qi, there is the foundation building period, which is the first step in cultivation.
The foundation building period can break the shackles of life for the first time. Basically, as long as you don't commit suicide during the foundation building period, there is no problem with a hundred-year lifespan. If you practice a little bit and pay attention to maintenance, there are many foundation building periods around 160 years old, and there are many people over 200 years old.
After that comes the golden elixir period, which is generally considered to have a lifespan of at least 200 years. However, after the golden elixir period, the calculation of lifespan becomes more complicated.
During the entire practice process, the life span limit is doubled. However, the life span limit does not represent the actual life span.
There is a saying that the 'actual life span' is 'ten times' the 'residual life span of the previous level'; but there is also a limit. The limit of the Golden Elixir stage is 500 years old. Because 500 years old is the standard for the Nascent Soul realm.
Of course, cultivation is not a statistic. There are golden elixir stages of living to 600 years old, but they are too few and cannot be used as a reference.
It is generally believed that the lifespan limit will continue to double. Some special realms, especially those with "qualitative change", will increase more.
The life span is calculated based on whichever comes first is 10 times the remaining life of the previous level and the theoretical life limit of the current level.
100 foundation building, 200 golden elixir, 500 Nascent Soul, 1000 spirit transformation, 2,000 Dharma signs, 5,000 hole voids, 10,000 true returns, 20,000 pure yangs, 40,000 years to return to the void state, and each level is increased by about 5,000 lifespans
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The limit of Huanxu Realm is said to be 90,000 and some say 100,000, but it is about the same. The lifespan of a Golden Immortal is 200,000, and that of a Daluo Golden Immortal is 500,000. In principle, it is a million years to reach a Quasi-Sage.
This is the theory.
But the actual situation is that before returning to the True Realm, the life span generally exceeds the "theoretical value"; after returning to the True Realm, the life span is generally less than the theoretical value. Especially after the Golden Immortal, the life span often shrinks greatly.
Some people believe that the higher you get to a high level, the more you touch the limits of the laws of heaven and earth.
But no matter what, everyone still agrees with this speculation that the quasi-sage has a life span of one million years. But the actual situation is... the quasi-sage is almost immortal!
For thousands of years after the Holy Emperor, except for a few quasi-sages who died in battle, the rest are still alive and kicking, and the longer they live, the more powerful they become. In the entire Zhoutian world, there is no such thing as the aging of quasi-sages, the decline of heaven and man, etc.
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Everyone is not without suspicion, but as time goes by... it just becomes like that, everyone has turned a blind eye. Quasi-sage, don't think about it, just go to sleep.
Although Jiang Shu is now in the late stage of Daluo Jinxian, he is still a member of all living beings. Therefore, he scorns the statement that the quasi-sage has a life span of millions of years.
But now that Mo Qiuyu asked, she got stuck.
Mo Qiuyu waited for a while and finally spoke softly: "Actually, the life span of one million years is the Great Perfection of the Great Luo Jinxian."
"Ah..." Jiang Shu didn't react for a while, but he was surprised the next moment, "Dzogchen...quasi-sage...wait, is it said that Daluo Jinxian's Dzogchen is equivalent to quasi-sage? But...but...
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"But Daluo Jinxian Dzogchen is not a quasi-sage after all, right?"
Jiang Shu nodded.
Mo Qiuyu sighed leisurely, "Actually, this involves some secrets. If you want to explain it clearly, you have to start from the era of the Holy Emperor.
In the era of the Holy Emperor, there was no so-called Great Perfection of the Great Luo Jinxian. After the peak of the Great Luo Jinxian, there were quasi-sages. At that time, the quasi-sages had a lifespan of one million years.
But then the situation changed. The Holy Emperor arranged the Zhoutian Formation, transformed the entire starry sky, and put it under the supervision of the Quasi-Sage.
The Zhoutian Formation can be seen as a manifestation of the saint's ability, or it is an ability of the saint to control the authority of heaven and earth.
Later, the Holy Emperor disappeared, and the quasi-sages gradually took charge of the formation. But in the same process, the quasi-sages gradually took control of the formation, and then stole the power of heaven and earth through the formation, gaining some of the abilities that only saints have.
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This is what we call ‘harmony’.
The authority they received mainly consists of two parts. One part is life span, which is the same as the life span of heaven and earth. The other part is authority to represent the shepherds of heaven.”
"But everything comes at a price.
The quasi-sages have gained lifespan and gained rights, which will inevitably affect the cultivation status of the entire world. It is still unclear what impact it has caused, and the quasi-sages have also remained silent.
But one thing is certain, that is, there is an additional realm of Dharma, Golden Immortal, and Dzogchen in the level of cultivation.
In the past, after reaching the peak of Da Luo Jinxian, one could comprehend the laws of heaven and earth and break through to the quasi-sage. Now, after reaching the peak of Da Luo Jinxian... one cannot feel any chance. The only change may be that the life span reaches the million-year level."
Jiang Shu was stunned. After a while, he asked tremblingly: "How many Daluo Jinxian Dzogchen are there now?"
"Quite a few. Because they have a longer lifespan, more accumulation, and their practice has become more and more perfect over the years, it is initially estimated that there are no less than a thousand people in the Dzogchen realm. It is said that there are also many people who are in seclusion and self-sealing."
Jiang Shu was silent for a while and said leisurely: "In this case, we should build and protect the country. Can we build the country into a small Zhoutian galaxy?