Not much!
Qi Bitian looked at Qing’er without speaking.
When you can’t beat someone, it’s best to keep your mouth shut. After all, this person wasn’t exactly a pushover!
Qing’er glanced at Qingqiu in the distance, who was also looking at her.
Their eyes met briefly, but neither spoke.
Qing’er turned to Ye Xuan, “Let’s go for a walk!”
Ye Xuan nodded, “Alright!”
With that, the siblings headed off into the distance.
Then, as if recalling something, Ye Xuan turned to Qin Guan nearby, “Come!”
Qin Guan was momentarily stunned, then smiled brightly, “Okay!”
She hurriedly followed.
And so, under everyone’s gaze, the three walked off into the distance!
In the field, Ding Shaoyao watched the trio, murmuring, “Is it over?”
Qingqiu shook her head.
Ding Shaoyao turned to her, “Why not?”
Qingqiu said softly, “The Boundless Lord isn’t dead yet!”
Ding Shaoyao fell silent.
Nearby, An Nanjing suddenly turned to leave. Seeing this, Ding Shaoyao quickly asked, “Little An, where are you going?”
An Nanjing didn’t look back, “To train!”
With that, she vanished into the depths of the starry sky.
At that moment, Tian Xiu and Qi Bitian also turned to leave. Ding Shaoyao hurriedly said, “You two are leaving too?”
Tian Xiu turned to her, “To train!”
With that, she and Qi Bitian disappeared into the boundless horizon.
Truth be told, this battle had deeply affected the three of them. They had thought they were the strongest in the heavens, aside from the three swords, but now it was clear they were not!
The vast universe was full of countless powerhouses!
Ding Shaoyao suddenly looked at Mu Niannian, who smiled faintly, “I’ll stay a bit longer!”
Ding Shaoyao nodded, “Alright!”
She then turned to the women of the Nether Hall.
Their leader, the Heavenly Maiden, was silent for a moment before saying, “We’re leaving too!”
Ding Shaoyao, curious, asked, “Where to?”
The Nether Maiden replied, “To train!”
With that, she led the other women and vanished into the starry depths.
Ding Shaoyao sighed softly, “All the fighters have left again!”
Qingqiu suddenly said, “Isn’t there still me?”
Ding Shaoyao turned to her, a slight smile tugging at her lips.
…
Deep in the distant starry sky, the Boundless Lord’s face was grim, “Didn’t you say they wouldn’t show up again?”
At that moment, the voice of the Lord of the Great Dao Pen rang out, “I didn’t know your goal was to kill him! You’re something else, aren’t you? Killing him to perish with the myriad worlds, ending my world… you’re really something!”
The Boundless Lord said calmly, “I was just testing, I didn’t really mean to do it!”
The Lord of the Great Dao Pen was silent for a moment before saying, “Don’t let it happen again!”
The Boundless Lord chuckled, “You said you wouldn’t favour him!”
The Lord of the Great Dao Pen snapped, “You called others foolish, but aren’t you foolish yourself? The Backer King used to rely on himself, striving to become a generation’s leader, so the three swords didn’t interfere forcefully. But now, he’s not aiming to be a leader anymore! He’s just the Backer King!”
The Boundless Lord frowned, “So what?”
The Lord of the Great Dao Pen roared, “So what? That means he’s completely out of my control now! If he can’t win a fight, he just calls his sister, what the hell!”
The Boundless Lord fell silent.
The Lord of the Great Dao Pen continued, “You really know how to mess things up!”
The Boundless Lord suddenly said, “If you had blocked that plain-dressed woman earlier, I would’ve succeeded!”
The Lord of the Great Dao Pen said coldly, “You’re not afraid of death, but I am!”
The Boundless Lord sighed softly.
The Lord of the Great Dao Pen added, “You’d better not try anything reckless again!”
The Boundless Lord shrugged and vanished into the starry depths.
“Hey!”
A sigh suddenly echoed in the field.
…
Somewhere in the starry sky.
Ye Xuan walked with Qing’er and Qin Guan, the latter occasionally glancing at Qing’er with curiosity.
Qing’er looked at Qin Guan, “What?”
Qin Guan smiled, “Can I ask you a few questions?”
Qing’er replied bluntly, “No!”
Qin Guan immediately turned to Ye Xuan, giving him a pointed look.
Ye Xuan shook his head with a smile, then looked at Qing’er, chuckling, “Qing’er, Miss Qin is a good person, she’s helped me a lot!”
Qing’er turned to Qin Guan, “Ask away!”
Qin Guan gave Ye Xuan a thumbs-up, then looked at Qing’er seriously, “Do you think the path of technology could surpass martial civilization?”
Qing’er looked at Qin Guan, “The path of technology you speak of is knowledge, right?”
Qin Guan nodded.
Qing’er said, “The path of cultivation requires intellect, and so does the path of technology. Thus, technology and martial arts are fundamentally one, the difference being that martial arts cultivate the self, while technology cultivates external objects.”
Qin Guan was silent for a moment, then opened her palm, revealing a piece of armour.
The Guanxuan Armour!
Qin Guan looked at Qing’er, “This armour represents the pinnacle of the defensive aspects of the technological path I’ve mastered. Please give me some pointers!”
Qing’er opened her palm, and the Guanxuan Armour floated to her. She glanced at it, then said, “One piece of armour containing millions of arrays!”
Qin Guan nodded, “Impressive, right?”
Qing’er glanced at her, “Rubbish!”
Qin Guan’s expression froze.
Ye Xuan suddenly said, “To contain millions of arrays in a single piece of armour, that’s already impressive!”
Qin Guan shook her head with a smile, “Actually, she’s right, it’s not much! In the Milky Way long ago, there was something called a chip, which could hold billions of transistors, and that was technology from ages past…”
She paused, then continued, “I used that principle to embed some of this world’s top arrays in it, but sadly, the technology isn’t advanced enough to contain more!”
Qing’er suddenly said, “Your idea is excellent!”
Qin Guan looked at her, and Qing’er added, “But you’re going in the wrong direction!”
Qin Guan hurriedly said, “Please, great one, enlighten me!”
Qing’er looked at her, “You could inscribe millions of spatial dimensions into this armour, then build arrays within those dimensions. That way, couldn’t you store tens of billions, hundreds of billions, or even trillions of arrays in it?”
Ye Xuan, “…”
Qin Guan said gravely, “I thought of that initially, but it’s hard to implement! Doing so requires an extremely strong material to bear it, otherwise, ordinary objects couldn’t withstand a vast world.”
She looked at Qing’er, “The Qingxuan Sword you made for Little Xuan is incredibly durable, yet it’s made of ordinary materials. How did you do it?”
Qing’er looked at Qin Guan, “That involves higher-level knowledge, can you understand it?”
Ye Xuan, “…”
Qin Guan laughed, “Try me!”
Qing’er nodded, “Material immortality!”
Qin Guan said gravely, “I understand materials, but how can you make them immortal?”
Qing’er looked at her, “Cultivation.”
She opened her palm, and a tree branch floated to her, “Material immortality means constantly transforming it, transforming it to the limit of its potential.”
Ye Xuan suddenly said, “Er Ya’s scales are very tough, does that mean she’s constantly transforming herself?”
Qing’er looked at Ye Xuan, smiling, “Brother, you’re so clever!”
Ye Xuan, “…”
Qing’er continued, “That crazy girl is cultivating, using cultivation to continuously transform her scales to a certain limit, making them indestructible. Cultivation is a process of repeated rebirth through nirvana!”
She looked at Qin Guan, “The paths of technology and martial arts are one, they can complement each other! As for how to make materials truly immortal, that’s for you to figure out.”
Qin Guan said gravely, “Is there a good, relatively simple method?”
Qing’er replied flatly, “Don’t know!”
Qin Guan looked at Ye Xuan, frantically giving him signals.
Ye Xuan hesitated, then looked at Qing’er, “Qing’er… you must know, right?”
Qing’er looked at Ye Xuan, smiling, “Of course!”
Qin Guan’s mouth twitched.
Qing’er looked at Qin Guan, “How did you embed countless arrays in this armour?”
Qin Guan said gravely, “Compression!”
At that, her eyes widened, brimming with excitement, “I get it! I get it! Compression… I can use the technology I’ve mastered to compress materials, then combine those compressed materials and compress them again, repeating until I create what I need!”
Qing’er glanced at Qin Guan without speaking.
Qin Guan exclaimed excitedly, “Destiny Girl, one last question!”
Qing’er’s brows furrowed slightly.
Qin Guan hurriedly gave Ye Xuan another look.
Ye Xuan felt a headache. If it were anyone else, he might refuse, but this rich lady… he couldn’t say no!
Ye Xuan took Qing’er’s hand, saying gently, “Qing’er, it’s her last question!”
Qing’er glanced at Qin Guan, “Speak!”
Qin Guan looked at Qing’er earnestly, “How can one ignore all spatial barriers, reaching any of the myriad universes with a single thought?”
She knew the Destiny before her wasn’t tearing through universes but teleporting directly.
Crossing countless starfields instantly to reach a destination, that was staggering!
If she could master this, her technological path would undergo a qualitative leap, as all her weapons could use this principle to achieve maximum attack speed!
Who could withstand that?
Qing’er said, “To ignore spatial barriers, you must step outside of space-time!”
Qin Guan frowned, “Step outside of space-time?”
Qing’er looked at her, “Do you think I’m standing within this space-time right now?”
Qin Guan was stunned, then said, “You…”
Qing’er continued, “I stand outside all space-time, then fold it!”
She opened her palm and gently pinched, “If I wish, I can fold the entire universe into a sheet of paper in an instant!”
Ye Xuan’s face was full of shock.
Qin Guan, after a long silence, exclaimed excitedly, “I understand!”
Qing’er looked at her, “Any more questions?”
Qin Guan quickly shook her head, “None!”
Qing’er stared at her, “Then why aren’t you leaving? I want to be alone with my brother!”
Qin Guan, “…”
