Above The Sky

Chapter 2126 - 56: The Correct [Guidance]

[Wandering Terra...]

The Galewind Dragon King was captivated by the future Ian described, immersed in it.

The Dragon King couldn’t help but imagine the scene: a pitch-black, colossal cradle planet, along with its twin moons, moving towards the Terra Sun.

Its speed wasn’t fast, traveling along with gravity, and after some time, it merged with the sun, beginning to absorb endless light and heat.

After another stretch of time, this planetary cradle emerged from the other side of the sun. It had traversed the sun, passed through the sun’s fusion core, and absorbed enough light and heat to supply its internal planetary ecosystem with energy for millions, even billions of years.

Then, the cradle began to accelerate, constantly accelerating until it reached the edge of the cradle on the other side, ten light years away from the breach to another complete ’Cradle Wall’.

By then, Ian, who had already achieved the status of the Star God, could maneuver the cradle fusion and then separation, successfully penetrating the impenetrable Cradle Wall, entering the exterior ’Great Universe’.

Perhaps, that might be one of the ’Keys’ left by the Star God.

If you can’t create ’Magnetic Monopoles’, if you can’t create the ’Cradle’... if you can’t make even these two, you might as well stay in the exterior, obediently admitting you are still a child.

[Truly remarkable!] The Galewind Dragon King emerged from its imagination, looked at Ian, and couldn’t help but exclaim, [Indeed, we don’t always need to fix things when they break. Sometimes, going against the tide is needed, reversing our thinking.]

[Since Terra is now almost the gathering place of all life, just bring Terra along!]

—Even with the Galewind Dragon King’s most exaggerated and extravagant imagination, the Dragon King would never blow up the sun, unlike certain humans who initially planned to blow up the sun directly—the difference between dragons and humans is so grand.

Ian didn’t know the Galewind Dragon King had never imagined blowing up the sun. If he knew, he’d surely shake his head because blowing up the sun wasn’t his hobby but leaving a sufficiently complex environment for The End, allowing the unthinking ’Abyssal Tree’ to slowly gather the sun’s mass to create a Black Hole, granting them ample time to leave.

Not to mention, the supernova explosion itself could bring enough ’heavy elements’.

[Still,] The Galewind Dragon King, after all, is the Dragon King, one of the most powerful and wise beings in the Terra World. It quickly noticed several loopholes and unclear aspects of Ian’s plan, [Civilization will always develop; the future human population, other Spark life forms, will balloon.]

[Terra and its twin moons could probably support one to two hundred billion intelligent beings, but if the crust and mantle layers are developed to fully utilize the planet’s mass, using the cradle’s characteristics to fully turn matter into stacked living districts, perhaps over a trillion intelligent beings could settle.]

An illusion appeared, depicting all of Terra, except for the gradually cooling star core, being stripped away and transformed into a layered, continental ring structure.

Every continental layer served as a dwelling place, much like the Flat World theory, like peeling an onion layer by layer, each one being a continent, capable of housing tens of billions of life forms.

The Galewind Dragon King seemed somewhat unsatisfied, starting to deconstruct planets and fully utilize all material resources, [But that’s still too little, and there’s a problem with material cycling.]

"Why think about this when there’s a Perpetual Motion Machine."

Ian shook his head and stated clearly, "Then, just use the Thousand-Star Beast to proliferate matter, create more continental planets."

"If it really can’t be done, make the inside of the cradle resemble a beehive structure; that way, the number of intelligent beings able to settle would be unimaginably numerous."

[Indeed,]

The Galewind Dragon King nodded slightly, recognizing the future potential of the Wandering Terra Path of the Dao, but soon raised the second issue, [But I remember, Ian, your goal is to venture to the outer worlds, exploring farther.]

[Indeed, leaving in the cradle ark can lead away from this Great Cradle... but as the Star God, you cannot easily leave, because easily using Aether would easily draw The End.]

[How do you plan to solve this problem? After all, if the cradle can’t be left, it’s just transitioning from a large Cage to a smaller Cage.]

"With machines," Ian reasoned naturally, "As the Star God then, I couldn’t go out, but I could use robots, moving telescopes, or something to search for information outside and send it back."

[Yet,] The Galewind Dragon King questioned further, [Wouldn’t that still require using Aether?]

Ian hesitated a moment, thinking thoroughly, discovering that Terra’s technological development really had been entirely focused on Aether... even in the Silverpeak Domain, incorporating parts of Earth technology, yet the energy system was also wholly based on Elemental Crystals and the Aether Furnace.

"That is indeed a problem," he frowned but then relaxed, saying, "Well, eventually, just charge with solar power—besides, blowing up the sun will yield plenty of heavy elements, gather some, and nuclear fusion or fission could be used then."

"Just blow up the sun, supernova eruptions, heavy element synthesis, everything would turn out fine!"

—Can’t you be nicer to the sun; it’s the mother of Terra’s civilization!