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

Chapter 400 Sword Immortal Li Bai (4k)

At Europa spaceport, Luo Qing had just learned from the young female commander about the changes in the fleet over the past year, including the recent movements of the reincarnated babies.

When he learned that although the babies had suffered some "personal abuse" in their early years, they were now living well on Earth, Luo Qing felt relieved.

After all, they are heroes from the war of the apocalypse. If these reincarnated members of Fleet International are treated unfairly, Luo Qing will definitely take action to teach the relevant responsible persons a lesson.

Luo Qing simply hadn't expected that the international leader of the fleet in front of him was an old acquaintance.

She should now be addressed as the Commander-in-Chief of the Jupiter Fleet, or the Supreme Ruler of the Provisional Government of Jupiter.

With Vitalis nursing, Serantin nursing, the Chairman of the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference and 387 senior officials nursing together, Qian Mengjian not nursing but busy with the integration of the two major international groups, and the Commander of the Asian Fleet not present.

The catgirl president in front of us is indeed the last person who can take on the responsibility.

Luo Qing asked, "So the chairman of the coalition government has already told you about the Dark Forest Theory?"

Grant tucked a stray strand of silver hair behind his ear and nodded gently: "Not only me, but the President also told the leaders of several other stable major powers, as well as the mayor of Mars."

However, you can rest assured that there are no more than 20 people in all of humanity who know about the Dark Forest Theory, and it hasn't spread to the general public; the information has been completely blocked.

Luo Qing pondered for a moment after hearing this.

Indeed, he himself was human, and moreover, he came from Kyushu. He knew all too well how terrifying it was for human thought to be so unpredictable, and that in a moment of impulsiveness, one might do something that would shock the world.

Moreover, with a total human population of 100 billion, it is possible for millions of people to suddenly become mentally ill.

One in a million bad apples—the Earth could find a million of them. Just to imprison these bad apples, you'd need to build ten thousand stables.
Moreover, human nature is a strange thing. The more you try to stop it or legislate against it, the more restless and eager to try it becomes, just like a cat.

Once the Dark Forest Theory is fully revealed, who knows what kind of chaos it will cause? Society is full of people who have ruined their minds in the virtual world. If someone were to build a high-powered electromagnetic wave transmitter and suddenly broadcast high-powered radio waves to the sun, the solar system would never have peace.

Furthermore, with the advanced technology of modern society, it is not difficult to build a high-power radio wave generator.

Give a group of modern high school students a summer vacation, and they could use the abundant electricity available in society to build a super-powerful radar station comparable to the Red Coast Base of yesteryear.

But is simply blocking out the information about the Dark Forest Theory effective?
Grant raised an eyebrow, glanced furtively at Luo Qing, and said softly, "Currently, Earth, Jupiter, and Mars are all ordering the dismantling of energy-intensive traditional electromagnetic wave radars, citing the highly advanced quantum entanglement communication technology as the reason. Legislation will also be enacted to prohibit the unauthorized construction of traditional high-power electromagnetic wave radars. As for gravitational wave communication technology, research and development will cease, and existing technological achievements will be completely sealed away. But this must be done secretly, to avoid attracting too much attention from society."

Luo Qing said, "That's right. With quantum entanglement communication technology, we can basically achieve zero-delay communication within the solar system. The solar signal amplification effect is indeed very dangerous. We should dismantle what needs to be dismantled."

Although he had witnessed Heisen's attack method—light particles—and Luo Qing was confident that the fully constructed Nine Luminaries Celestial Array could intercept the light particles, he still had to guard against some unexpected situations.

Luo Qing chatted with Grant for a while longer, then told him that he still had to go to Jupiter to set up an array and bid him farewell.

Grant hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped himself.

"Why don't you stay here for a couple of days? I've seen that the Bairo Puritan Church's official website has been updating your location information in real time. For the past few months, you seem to have been traveling between various planets. As for the formation, there's no rush. Cultivators also need rest."

"It's urgent," Luo Qing sighed.

He has been incredibly busy lately, guiding Lin Yun in achieving Nascent Soul, communicating with Li Bai about array construction, teaching Luo Ji how to control arrays, discussing Daoist principles with Ding Yi from time to time, and exchanging information about the universe with the Risk Eliminator's sensors.

Besides, many other leaders on Earth want to see him, and he has been forced to let his ego handle them instead, as he is simply too busy.

Especially with this long journey four light-years away imminent, he felt somewhat anxious.

"Is something the matter?" Grant asked, his eyes showing concern.

"It's nothing... just about the formation. This formation is to defend against Black Forest's attack and the Second Fleet. It needs to be set up properly." Luo Qing looked at his friend and casually brushed it off.

Luo Qing was unaware that Grant, as a former pope of the Byro-Qing cult and a presidential-level leader of its followers, could analyze a great deal of information from every subtle expression on Luo Qing's face.

Seeing that Luo Qing didn't want to talk about it, Grant didn't press the matter further.

For Luo Qing, the supernova crisis was far from being made public. Humanity had just recovered from the shock of the "helium flash crisis," and it would be better to let the people of Earth enjoy a few more days of peace than to tell them about the supernova.

As for the "helium flash crisis" a few days ago, Luo Qing commissioned a risk mitigator to conduct a public clarification. In the clarification, the risk mitigator personally admitted that his prediction of the solar helium flash was completely wrong and repeatedly reiterated that the sun's lifespan is still billions of years, which dispelled the overall fear in the human world.

Luo Qing only wanted to secretly resolve the crisis of the supernova outbreak.

Seeing that Luo Qing seemed unwilling to pay attention to her (actually, she was in a daze), Grant forced a somewhat bitter smile.

She exchanged a few polite words with Luo Qing about the past, then watched as Luo Qing turned into a beam of light and disappeared.

Grant stared blankly at the empty meeting room for a while.

She slowly took off the cat-ear hair ornament that she had specially put on again, looked at her slightly made-up self in the mirror, and felt a little lonely.

'If only he were just an ordinary person…'

...

Deep within Jupiter.

At the boundary between Jupiter's dense liquid metallic hydrogen ocean and gaseous hydrogen-helium atmosphere, the laborer Li Bai floats in the middle, inlaying the "metallic hydrogen crystal clusters" created by Luo Qing as the array base.

Occasionally, a few balloon fish (a species transplanted from macrocircles) would swim by in the gaseous hydrogen and helium, curiously staring at this unjustly bred laborer.

"Go away, go away, don't bother me." Li Bai let the hormones in his brain spread, giving rise to an impatient mood, and chased away these silly balloon fish.

Balloonfish have extremely low intelligence, even less than ants, but they love to join in the fun.

Spaceships that normally collect hydrogen and helium in Jupiter's orbit are usually surrounded by these large numbers of balloonfish after entering Jupiter's atmosphere, let alone a living person like Li Bai.

When the Carbon-Based Federation's spaceship first arrived at the edge of the solar system last year, the commander of the Carbon-Based Federation subconsciously thought that the civilization of the solar system should inhabit Jupiter, a gas giant, since such gas giants are indeed among the planets with the highest probability of developing life.

Unexpectedly, after scanning with a fiber optic wave, only some clumsy balloon fish were found inside. They couldn't even pass the 1E level civilization test, let alone the 3C level test. They could only make a babbling sound; they were purely uncivilized species, causing a huge misunderstanding. Li Bai dispersed these balloon fish that looked like inflatable pufferfish and then placed the latest array plate.

These metallic hydrogen crystal clusters, which form the array disk, are all over 8,000 meters tall, equivalent to the size of Mount Everest.
Unlike other planets that only require one array disk, Jupiter, due to its enormous size, requires a full 20 array disks, corresponding to a regular icosahedron. Twenty clusters of metallic hydrogen crystals are evenly distributed, with each vertex connected to five edges, forming an equilateral triangle.

This shape is a uniformly enclosed structure with the most vertices in three-dimensional space.

Li Bai spent more than a month settling the twelfth one.

"The twelfth one, done!"

"Brother Bai, you've worked hard." A voice suddenly rang out.

Li Bai conjured a neutron star sword from the mass energy in his hand and slashed at Luo Qing, saying, "So you still know how to come?"

Luo Qing drew his immortal sword and slashed at the enemy.

Bang! The neutron star's matter shattered, and nuclear fission erupted.

Li Bai's neutron star sword broke in two.

Li Bai, bathed in the mini nuclear explosion: "..."

Luo Qing sheathed his sword: "I'll teach you alchemy later. Pills are a particularly delicious snack, consider it an apology. Brother Bai, you've worked hard these past few days."

Li Bai chuckled: "Stop making empty promises. Give me the sword in your hand, and I'll forgive you."

Luo Qing tossed the Celestial Sword in his hand to Li Bai.

The Celestial Sword is Luo Qing's spoils of war. The first Celestial who was personally killed by him had his sword fall into his hands. The sword's spirit had long been destroyed by Luo Qing when he was in the nascent form of the Heavenly Dao. The sword he now possesses is the only "dead sword" in his spiritual sword collection that has no spirituality.

Li Bai was surprised when Luo Qingzhen threw the sword over. He caught the Celestial Sword and was vaguely intimidated by its aura.

"This damn thing... can it kill gods?" Li Bai said solemnly.

Luo Qing said, "It depends on the type of god. You definitely can't do it. I can't catch up with you, but I should be able to kill Shangping Guangpo... This sword had already been involved in a certain amount of time law before it was born. It can easily cut through Shangping's trap and make Guangpo self-destruct."

"Was the sword alive before it was born?" Li Bai asked in surprise and doubt.

Luo Qing nodded: "In my hometown, everything can be alive, even stones can become spirits, but this is indeed a dead sword."

“I’m getting more and more curious about your hometown… I was getting a little annoyed that you were using me as a tool, but now it seems I still have to cooperate with you, not for anything else, but for the secret behind you—and of course, art.” Li Bai shook his head and returned the sword to Luo Qing.

Luo Qing asked in confusion, "You don't want it? This immortal sword is my only immortal sword. The other two immortal weapons, one is a knife and the other is a hammer. They are both living beings and regard me as their mortal enemy. I can't control them, so I can only seal them for now and refine them after I break through to the Nascent Soul stage. Apart from that, this immortal sword is my most precious weapon."

"I'm giving you this sword, I mean it."

Luo Qing then tossed the immortal sword to Li Bai.

This time, Li Bai did not refuse but accepted it. He habitually tried to analyze the composition of the immortal sword, but he quickly failed.

The fundamental logic of physics cannot put down this sword.

Li Bai couldn't even convert it into pure energy; he could only carry it with him at all times.

A miniature black hole erupted from the tip of his left finger and collided with the immortal sword, leaving the sword undamaged.

He conjured a small ball of antimatter neutron star into the Immortal Sword with his right hand, and the Immortal Sword remained undamaged.

Li Bai held the immortal sword that did not react with black holes or antimatter, seemingly at a loss for what to do.

"Drip a drop of blood onto the sword," Luo Qing reminded him.

Li Bai looked up at Luo Qing, seemingly hesitant, but ultimately pierced his fingertip with his sword, drawing out a drop of divine "blood" containing high-dimensional energy.

The total energy of this drop of blood is many orders of magnitude higher than the energy level of the white hole that the Carbon-based Federation gave to Earth.

Divine blood fell from the immortal sword.

Nothing happened. The immortal sword, imbued with divine power and carrying divine blood containing high-dimensional energy, remained unchanged.

Luo Qing was puzzled: "That's not right. I thought that as long as it's blood, the immortal sword should be able to recognize and refine it as its master, right?"

As soon as Luo Qing finished speaking, the drop of divine blood immediately merged into the immortal sword. An exaggerated high-dimensional energy immediately enveloped the immortal sword, and countless sword shadows merged in the churning. Soon, an eleven-dimensional immortal sword appeared before the two of them, exuding an aura that made space tremble.

Luo Qing smiled and said, "So there was a delay."

"Delay?" Li Bai felt that something was not quite right, but he did not think about it in detail. Instead, he stared at the terrifying aura emanating from the immortal sword in front of him and pondered.

Looking at the sword, Li Bai had a strange feeling that with this sword in hand, no god-level individual would be able to defeat him. He could even take down the six gods behind the silicon-based empire with a single sword strike.

Luo Qing didn't know what Li Bai was thinking. He said, "After the Immortal Sword is refined, it should become a part of you. It will no longer be affected by quantum properties, and its eleven-dimensional characteristics will not hinder your high-dimensional light-speed flight."

Li Bai nodded, and following Luo Qing's example, sheathed his sword in the quantum world.

"This sword is a natural work of art. For the sake of this sword, you can call on me for help with anything you need in the next hundred million Earth years. I will teleport to your side at any time to assist you." Li Bai bowed solemnly to Luo Qing, imitating the manner of a cultivator.

Upon seeing this, Luo Qing smiled brightly.

Trading a spiritless immortal sword for a god-level laborer is a much better deal.

(End of this chapter)