Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 387 The Largest Bungee Jump in the Solar System

Another week later, Luo Qing'erte Yunnei returned.

At this time, he and Li Bai had parted ways. Li Bai was ordered by Luo Qing to go to Jupiter to repair the formation. Due to the size of Jupiter, this formation was much more troublesome than all the previous formations.

However, Li Bai is very efficient, so it shouldn't take too long.

This was the first time he had flown so far from Earth since reaching the speed of light, and he felt a strange sense of panic.

I'm terrified that the Earth might suddenly be blown up by someone within this week.

Back then, they were just a little short of time, and their backup plans were insufficient. The Earth Vein Human Emperor Formation built in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths was thus destroyed, forcing them to fight to the death.

Thinking back to the first time I flew towards Jupiter at 1% of the speed of light 180 years ago, it feels like a lifetime ago.

Back then, I felt that the solar system was terrifyingly large, and the entire universe was terrifyingly large. Now that I have reached the realm of traveling at the speed of light, my awe for the boundless universe has not diminished but increased.

Luo Qing thought to himself, 'I need to find a way to learn Li Bai's ability to travel at the speed of light in higher dimensions. Even if I can't escape into the eleventh dimension, learning the speed of light in the fourth dimension would be good. With the vacuum speed of light in the fourth dimension, the time to travel to the Trisolaran world could be reduced to less than four months. At that time, I should be able to set off.'

If you just want to experience the speed of light in four dimensions, you must at least become a four-dimensional being.

Currently, he has only experienced the wonders of four-dimensional space with Shanqing. Although he has some understanding of four-dimensional space, he still lacks insight into it.

How to become a 'four-dimensional being' is also a difficult problem for Luo Qing.

'Forcibly constructing a fourth-dimensional body for myself?'

'How do you structure it? By extending every structural unit of your body to a fourth dimension?'

'What would an extended fourth-dimensional body look like?'

'My hometown is also a three-dimensional world. If I become a higher-dimensional being, won't I end up neither human nor ghost? Is this the right path...?'

'Sigh, the way of space is really troublesome.'

Luo Qing is a cultivator with dual spiritual roots in earth and wood, and his understanding of the Dao of Space is even less than Jiang Li's understanding of the Dao of Time.

'In my past life, there was no need to fly so fast. Even traveling to other worlds wouldn't have been so troublesome; I could have just built a teleportation array. But I don't know how to build a teleportation array...'

'If only I had visited Buddha in my past life and learned about the Dao of Space, but in my past life I was just a minor Nascent Soul cultivator, how could I have had such a big face, sigh…'

Luo Qing sighed inwardly.

Ultimately, he, the number one person below the Nascent Soul stage, was nothing more than a Core Formation cultivator.

'Further words are pointless, let's go up to the sun first.'

Luo Qing thought about accelerating back from 99% of the speed of light to 100% of the speed of light.

There's no way around it; when traveling at 100% light speed, every destination is perceived as a mere instant. If you want to think while traveling, you have to slow down.

Upon reaching 100% light speed, in Luo Qing's perception, it was only a moment before they arrived near Mercury's orbit.

Looking at the sun so close at hand, Luo Qing's thoughts stirred slightly, and he looked at the iron-gray Mercury.

'Why don't we go visit some old colleagues on Mercury first?'

...

Mercury, North Pole.

[Welcome Dr. Luo Ji, the Foundation Establishment cultivator from the previous chapters, to visit and experience the Mercury North Pole Base!]

A long red banner was posted at the entrance.

Luo Ji is now a man who has banners.

"Just jump in like that?"

Luo Ji looked at the enormous, dark hole that emitted artificial light and seemed incredibly deep, and swallowed hard.

Is this one of the early 'miracles' of a certain Nascent Soul cultivator, the "Cave of Creation" scenic area?

Other famous scenic spots in Luoqing include the "Mirror Wall Canyon" in Geneva, Europe; the "Underwater Warship Ruins" in the Pacific Ocean; and the "Utopia Ocean" on Mars.

These are all relics of Nascent Soul cultivators from over 100 years ago. Luo Ji looked down and saw that although the inner walls of the entire giant cave were already inlaid with artificial lights, the end of the deep cave still shone with an eerie blackness.

It's so deep, a 4800-kilometer-long ultimate water tunnel that runs through Mercury's north and south poles.

The staff member smiled warmly and said, "Don't worry, just jump. 2400 kilometers seems deep, but you'll actually reach the cavitation bubble very quickly. There will be a magnetic field that will repel the metal clothing you're wearing. You'll float up and down like on a swing. Before long, you'll come to a stable stop in the center of the cavitation bubble, where a small spaceship will come to pick you up."

Although Luo Ji was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, he was still somewhat nervous.

He once tried to emulate Luo Qing's early form on Earth, flying from the surface into the sky, but his cultivation was only at the Foundation Establishment stage, and his flight altitude was at most 10,000 meters, not even reaching the Carmen line, let alone near-Earth orbit.

If he were to actually take on the most thrilling super bungee jump in the solar system, it would be a bit scary.

Just as Luo Ji was hesitating whether to fly slowly over on his sword, he saw several more people working at the Mercury North Pole base cheering as they finished get off work. After putting on their metal anti-G suits, they jumped into the giant hole one by one and quickly disappeared.

Seeing this, Luo Ji had no more worries. He thanked the staff and then jumped to his death.

Free fall!

The weightlessness brought on by acceleration made Luo Ji subconsciously summon his flying sword in the quantum world, but he quickly suppressed the urge to control it and let himself fall freely.

The metal well walls, inlaid with lights, formed a dazzling band of light in his field of vision. The air in the sealed base at the North Pole of Mercury was also filled with the shallow part of the giant hole, so much so that he could hear the whooshing sound of the air being rapidly pushed away.

Soon, the wind died down, and the loss of air resistance made him fall even faster.

His Foundation Establishment stage true essence was circulating spontaneously throughout his body. If he were to fall to the ground at this moment, even with his cultivation level, he would only be smashed to pieces.

The light bands on the well wall gradually changed. The originally neatly arranged artificial light spots began to lengthen and blur, eventually merging into a chaotic white stream of light.

This means that his speed has reached dozens of times the speed of sound, and the huge depth indicator numbers are jumping rapidly on the cave wall.

2000 km
1500 km
1000 km
"Shouldn't we brake?" Luo Ji thought to himself.

Soon a strange feeling enveloped him, and a gentle magnetic force began to act on the metal anti-G suit on his body, slowing his descent in a noticeable way.

He seemed to have already seen the huge cavitation bubble.

When the pointer dropped to 100 kilometers, he saw the enormous, dazzling, and bright supercavitation city.

A super-dense city designed to accommodate 100 billion people! And it is the first truly three-dimensional city in human history, like a giant ant nest, filled with this 100-kilometer-diameter bubble space.

Humans designed Noah's Ark for over a hundred years!
The ultimate successor to the Wandering Earth project—Wandering Mercury!
This megacity, along with the thousands of planetary engines on the far side of Mercury, forms the core of this Noah's Ark.

The city's glow was as dazzling as starlight, which reminded Luo Ji of the scene two centuries ago when he flew into the night and looked down at the city. However, back then, the city was flat and slightly curved, while the city now, radiating a soft glow, was enveloping him from all directions.

But before Luo Ji could figure it out, he had already entered the tunnel in the Antarctic region, and the city that was flowing at high speed in his eyes disappeared instantly.

As expected, it is impossible to brake within an air bubble. The electromagnetic field of the air cannon must be designed with the human body's tolerance in mind. Although the human body's tolerance has greatly increased since the advent of the martial arts era, the magnetic field strength is still insufficient to support a one-time braking.

Luo Ji felt as if he had become a stone thrown by an invisible hand, the kinetic energy of his fall being converted into upward potential energy, and then being pulled back again.

"Swinging on a swing..."

Luo Ji felt somewhat helpless as the cluster of empty, bubble-like cities kept flashing and disappearing before his eyes.

In this repeated alternation of weightlessness and gravitational pull, Luo Ji gradually adapted to the rhythm. After dozens of oscillations, he finally hovered steadily in the center of the passage.

Luo Ji floated, looking up and down at the endless, dotted-with-light deep wells. He felt as if he were an insignificant point on a line connecting the two polar worlds of Mercury, and a sense of awe arose from the interplay of this insignificance and vastness.

"There's nothing to be proud of about being a cultivator. What I'm seeing before me is far more awe-inspiring than that of a mere cultivator," Luo Ji said, suppressing his slight smugness since becoming a cultivator.

Shortly after he stabilized, a point of light that had originally belonged to the well wall separated from below and flew lightly toward him; it was a small homing spaceship.

It glided silently to Luo Ji's side, the hatch opened, revealing the person inside who was smiling at him.

He was a rugged old man with a full head of white hair.

Luo Ji was stunned when he saw that familiar face.

"Mr. Ray... Mr. Raydiaz?"

(End of this chapter)