The ancient return was exposed by his sister's live stream.

The array patterns lit up. Divine sense probed in.

Once the connection is established, the divine consciousness is propelled to even greater distances.

One hundred million kilometers.

Two hundred million kilometers.

three

stable.

Four hundred million kilometers, stable, seven hundred million kilometers.

The divine sense traversed interstellar space, crossed boundary walls, and reached the outer edge of the atmosphere of a blue planet.

Blue Star.

Arrived.

but...

The video is shaking.

The moment the divine sense signal passed through the boundary, it generated a violent fluctuation. It wasn't a break, but the information transmission showed obvious distortion.

If someone on Earth were to connect while wearing a consciousness helmet... the images they see would flicker and distort incessantly, and after three seconds they would be forced to exit due to dizziness.

Not available.

But the distance... is enough.

Chen Hao disconnected and opened his eyes.

The problem is clear.

Distance is no longer an obstacle. The eleventh edition's multi-layered, progressive structure has solved the distance problem.

The remaining issue is stability.

The signal fluctuations at the moment the boundary is breached must be suppressed to within the range that the human consciousness can withstand.

How to press?

Chen Hao walked to the wall, where two rows of array patterns had already been pasted.

The first ten versions were failures, the eleventh version was a half-finished product... now we're starting the twelfth version.

He picked up the array pattern pen.

The direction of this modification is very clear... add a layer of buffer array pattern before and after the boundary wall penetration node.

Use the spatial properties of the Boundary Stone itself to create a "shock absorber".

The principle is not complicated. However, implementation... requires doubling the precision of the array patterns.

Chen Hao began to draw.

-

The second month. The seventeenth day.

Twelfth edition. Finished product.

A spiritual connection... from Jupiter to Earth.

stable.

The image is no longer shaky. The fluctuations in the signal as it penetrates the boundary have been compressed to an acceptable range.

Chen Hao "saw" from outside the atmosphere of Earth for thirty seconds. The view was clear, smooth, and without any dizziness.

but...

He maintained the connection for five minutes.

At the fourth minute and a half mark, the signal began to weaken slightly.

It's not a break. It's just slowly weakening. At this rate, it will become unusable in about twenty minutes.

For cultivators, training in the Martial Arts Pavilion takes at least one or two hours at a time. A twenty-minute burst of energy is of no practical use.

Just one step away.

The final step... battery life.

Chen Hao placed the twelfth version of the finished product on the table, side by side with the eleventh version of the semi-finished product.

Progress has been faster than expected. Distance and stability were resolved in two months. The remaining time… is entirely focused on improving battery life.

He took out a new Boundary Stone from his Qiankun Bag.

carry on.

-

The third month. The fourth month.

The fire in the hearth of the Tushita Palace never went out for a single day.

Chen Hao's life trajectory is extremely monotonous... Refining weapons, deducing, failing, modifying, and refining again.

Occasionally, Chen Siyao would bring things over. Sometimes it was food, and sometimes it was array books she had found in the library.

There are occasional records about spatial array patterns inside, which are of limited help to Chen Hao, but he always flips through them.

Yang Wanqing visited twice.

The first time was in the third month, when she came to peek out from the gate of the Tushita Palace.

"Master...you're still alive, aren't you?"

Chen Hao didn't turn his head. "Alive."

"Oh, that's good. I'm leaving now. Yao Yao asked me to come and make sure you didn't starve to death."

"no."

Yang Wanqing pulled her head back and ran away.

The second time was in the fourth month.

She came again. This time she didn't call out, she just stood at the door and watched for a while.

Chen Hao sat in front of the stove with his back to the door. In front of him were three different versions of the disc...the fourteenth edition, the fifteenth edition, and the sixteenth edition.

The fourteenth version boasts a battery life of forty minutes.

The fifteenth edition took one hour.

The sixteenth edition... just exploded.

There was a small charred mark on the table, which was caused by the crystal core being burned after being overloaded.

Yang Wanqing looked at the scorch marks and silently withdrew.

No disturbance.

Back in the attic, she told Chen Siyao, "Master blew another one up."

Chen Siyao turned a page of the bamboo slip. "Which one is it?"

"I don't know. There were three on the table, and a pile of broken pieces on the floor."

"That means it's still under revision."

"Um."

Yang Wanqing slumped onto the table. "Master isn't really going to train for half a year, is he?"

Chen Siyao did not answer.

She continued flipping through the bamboo slips. Beside her was a cup of tea that had gone cold.

-

During these four months, the two of them also worked on their cultivation.

Yang Wanqing's Golden Body Realm has advanced from the initial stage to the middle stage.

Every night he practices against various phantoms in the martial arts pavilion, and every few days he goes to the Golden Cloud Sect to hone his sword intent... His progress is ridiculously fast.

While cultivators on Blue Star are still struggling in the Body Tempering and Meridian Opening stages, she has already surpassed them by two major realms.

Chen Siyao's improvement in cultivation was not as noticeable as Yang Wanqing's.

Her energy was divided among three lines: formations, organizing cultivation techniques, and her own cultivation.

However, the sharpness of his divine sense and the purity of his spiritual power... were much stronger than when he first arrived at the Thirty-Third Heaven.

The Martial Arts Pavilion is really useful.

Practice whatever you want. Adjust the opponent's strength as you like. Losing won't hurt you; you'll just be knocked out and have to start over.

It can also replay the battle and analyze frame by frame where you went wrong.

Yang Wanqing would spend at least two hours in there every day. Once, she fought a phantom of a "gun cultivator" of the same realm for four hours straight, and when she came out, she was so excited that she couldn't sleep until midnight.

"That gunman was ruthless! Every shot was aimed at my vital points! It took me three hundred moves to find his opening!"

Chen Siyao's head was throbbing from her noise. "Go to sleep."

"I can't sleep! Let me go in and do it again..."

"No. Your spiritual energy is overexerted. If you go in again, you'll have a headache for three days."

"……All right."

Life went on like this.

The fire in the hearth of the Tushita Palace was burning. The lamp in the attic was lit.

Both sides are doing their own thing.

The fifth month. The ninth day.

Tushita Palace.

The fire in the Eight Trigrams Furnace... went out.

It's not turned off. It's been actively shut down.

Chen Hao stood in front of the furnace, holding a round plate in his hand.

Compared to the previous version, this one doesn't have much change in appearance.

The same palm-sized crystal, the same dark purple color, and the same octahedral crystal nucleus embedded in the center.

But the array patterns... are completely different now.

If the previous version was a two-dimensional map, then the array patterns on this one are a three-dimensional city.

Layer upon layer, crisscrossing, only the outermost few main lines are visible to the naked eye. The internal structure—thirty-seven layers.

Nineteenth edition.

Chen Hao infused spiritual power.

The array patterns lit up. Purple light spread outward from the center. Stable. Without the slightest tremor.

He closed his eyes. His divine sense probed in.

Connection established.

Passing through the thirty-three heavens. Passing through Jupiter's atmosphere. Passing through interstellar space. Passing through the boundary walls.

Blue Star.

The picture is clear. The signal is stable.

One minute.

ten minutes.

Half an hour.

One hour.

Two hours.

The signal showed no signs of attenuation.

Chen Hao maintained the connection for three hours before actively disconnecting it.

It's not that we can't hold on any longer. It's that there's no need to continue testing.

It became.

Chen Hao opened his eyes.

The disc lay quietly in his palm, its purple aura slowly receding and returning to standby mode.

The scale of the virtual sea.

carry out.

It was a month faster than the estimated six months.