180: Chapter 180 High-Level Pollution, Galaxy Finance, Spirit Crystal Production

"Then how did you arrive at Blue Star so quickly? The 'galaxy general knowledge' doesn't cover that, so it must have been using a high-tier method of navigation, right?"

Di Qiling was extremely eager for knowledge about Transcendent Life and high-tier technology; the peripheral detectors on his body became even more active due to his emotions as he said excitedly.

"Pretty much. Honestly, we have the True Person to thank for this.

If you hadn't obtained a three-star potential rating, the [Galactic Extraordinary Council] wouldn't have utilized the high-tier teleportation array deployed on the periphery of the Solar System to rapidly teleport our warships here. Otherwise, experiencing such spatial teleportation is quite rare."

Cassandra, however, looked disgusted as she picked up the poured spirit tea and sipped it slowly.

"Forget it, I'd still prefer to fly over at normal speed. With all the various storms and turbulence in space, if we even slightly grazed them, who knows what corner of the universe we'd be thrown to."

"Actually, True Person, most of the knowledge involving high-tier matters is not recorded in the basic version of the 'galaxy general knowledge'.

It's not that the Starfall Great Sage is restricting the right of low-tier life forms like us to learn about upward progression, but rather that most information and knowledge involving high-tier life, once understood by low-tier life forms, is extremely susceptible to their high-dimensional contamination.

There have even been instances where high-tier life forms released their aura without restraint, causing the civilization on a life planet to fall into collective distortion and madness, engaging in crazy, bloody, and cruel worship.

In short, the more you know, the greater the contamination. Unless you have already touched upon a part of the complete laws, you won't have a certain degree of resistance."

"So that's how it is, no wonder."

At this moment, the Incarnation opened the control interface of the communicator. Besides the previous local modules, other news and information modules that required an internet connection could now be opened.

Also, by scanning through the communicator and recording a bit of his own spiritual aura to create a private account, it had already automatically and directly linked to a Galactic Interstellar Bank under the [Galactic Extraordinary Council], although the assets in this account were currently zero.

Unsurprisingly, the financial system throughout the galaxy uses energy crystals as currency—such as elemental crystals, faith crystals, star energy crystals, etc.—which are officially certified and standardized energy currencies.

However, the energy coins between each major tier are not interchangeable, and the middle-tier energy crystals, in particular, are extremely precious.

If one low-grade first-tier life spirit primordial crystal contains 10 units of [life spirit primordial qi], the energy it contains is equivalent to the explosive energy of a roughly 100,000-ton hydrogen bomb.

The difference between a high-grade first-tier crystal and a low-grade one is a thousandfold.

According to the introduction on the communicator regarding a first-tier level 3 large interstellar fusion warship, 1 kg of He3 ≈ 1.4065 standard low-grade first-tier life spirit primordial crystals.

Filling a standard large interstellar fusion warship with a total length of 1280 meters, a maximum hull width of 365 meters, and a hull height of 210 meters requires 700,000 low-grade life spirit primordial crystals, which have energy equivalent to 500 tons of Helium-3.

For slow interstellar cruising, the minimum energy consumption can sustain it for nearly five and a half years; for full-speed conventional navigation and full system operation, it can last over a year and a half; if firing at full power, it can only continuously fight for about 40 days.

Of course, in interstellar society, using fusion energy by unlocking nuclear energy is the norm, but this still doesn't compare to energy crystals converted by collecting energy from stars and suns.

The Incarnation immediately activated his Yin Spirit thoughts to calculate the various parameters of Blue Star.

Based on the fact that only about 30% of sunlight globally reaches the surface on average, which is 5.2065 × 10^16 J/s of energy, it can be calculated that it could produce tens of millions of life spirit primordial crystals per day.

But this is the result of 100% efficient conversion. With current formation domain technology, at most one ten-thousandth of the energy can be converted, which is 1000 crystals per day.

There is another limitation here, which is that converting [life spirit primordial qi] requires using the [Creation Spirit Pointing] spell. For a first-tier level 1 Transcendent Life, converting 10 crystals a day is already a lot.

And if it is engraved into an automatic formation, the production efficiency is greatly reduced, resulting in a yield of only one or two crystals a day.

The production methods for energy crystals of other systems are the same. The great universe specifically restricts the large-scale conversion of transcendent energy; otherwise, it is very likely to cause a part of reality space to fall into deep space dimensions due to excessively high concentrations of transcendent energy.

Therefore, no matter how the technology is improved, the most cost-effective method is for Transcendent Life of the same tier to participate directly and produce the corresponding level of energy crystals.

But even so, the amount of energy crystals that can be produced daily is extremely considerable. According to Blue Star's current technology, one Transcendent Life can produce about 7 kilograms of Helium-3 every day, which can be called super productivity.

Of course, one can also go to the Moon to collect a large amount of Helium-3; 1 kilogram of Helium-3 requires processing 2.8–100,000 tons of lunar soil, which is nothing for a Transcendent Life. But when actually calculated, it is not as cost-effective as producing energy crystals, so this type of extraction is generally used by civilizations without Transcendent Life.

Transcendent Life production being so "slow" is measured by current technology; the production efficiency of true interstellar society is far higher than current calculations.

After the calculation, the Incarnation discovered that by deploying the formation domain globally, even with low utilization, he could increase Blue Star's current energy concentration from 2-point-something to 5 points in a short time.

The yield of life spirit primordial crystals is also not small; 40,000 to 50,000 crystals a year is more than enough.

When the Incarnation checked the energy crystals representing the middle tier, because such energy crystals already contain a small amount of laws, they are more difficult to produce and are precious.

They can drive middle-tier Transcendent warships, using laws to easily break open and enter the Dark Universe, reaching a speed of 10,000 light-years per year.

Such energy crystals can not only quickly replenish middle-tier magic power but also be exchanged for rare middle-tier items.

Subsequently, the Incarnation browsed the online market store regarding the value of initial-tier and middle-tier Transcendent artifacts and potions.

Ada Wang Potion Shop, Gene Fusion Potion, Basic Initial-Tier Star Beast Gene Potion, 20,000 first-tier low-grade energy crystals.

Bronze Human Race Boutique Artifact Shop, Intra-stellar System Communicator, Basic Initial-Tier Communicator, 10,000 first-tier low-grade energy crystals.

Golden Human Race High-Quality Plant Shop, Rare Transcendent Plant, Increases Initial-Tier Life Enlightenment, Mind-Clearing Grass, 80,000 first-tier low-grade energy crystals.

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Because most Transcendent plants and artifacts require special cultivation by specific Transcendent system professions to improve their spirituality, the price of first-tier low-grade Transcendent plants and artifacts is between 10,000 and 100,000 low-grade energy crystals.

Seeing this price, the Incarnation was a bit shocked.

"This… are Transcendent plants sold so expensively outside?"

Savage, accustomed to such scenes, specifically explained to the Incarnation.

"After long-term development, most systems have already researched methods to cultivate inferior Transcendent, or rather, Transcendent Life with absolutely no potential for advancement."