263: Chapter 263 The Path of the Mechanical Dragon: Saturation Exploration, Silver Academy

"There is, Immortal Master."

Ling Ming's figure raised a hand, projecting a large amount of translated Galactic Common language data. Wang An quickly scanned all the information with his Yin Spirit thought.

"So it really is like this? Building a planet-level warship fortress—is this an intention to abandon the Pterosaur identity and fully convert into a mechanical modification System to make a Breakthrough to the High Grade? The ambition is quite significant, but it's my gain."

Ling Ming explained with a determined look on her small face.

"It should be. For a mechanical modification System to support promotion to the High Grade Star-forging profession, one usually modifies oneself into a large interstellar warship while at the Medium Grade. This way, one can obtain a long lifespan and powerful self-preservation capabilities. That Mechanical Pterosaur only maintaining a body of about 10 meters is indeed extremely rare."

Regarding Ling Ming's confusion, Wang An recalled the scene he saw earlier while tracing the Qi flow and sneered.

"Heh, unless that Mechanical Pterosaur no longer wants to mix with the Pterosaur Clan of the Dinosaur Civilization within the Beast Alliance, it is impossible for it to fully transform into a warship or planetary lifeform. Otherwise, given their even more severe and brutal social environment compared to our four Human Race categories, it would have long been ostracized."

"Looking at it now, if it hadn't comprehended the Profound Truth of the Mechanical Dragon Law and received the attention of some old fogies, it would have been impossible to borrow a Three-Law Totem Weapon."

Following the Immortal Master's understanding, Ling Ming quickly deduced the purpose of the two functional Law artifacts and blurted it out immediately.

"So in that case, the [Stellar Furnace] is the energy source, and the [Living Law Metal Source] is prepared for shaping a larger Pterosaur body. No wonder his 'Mechanicalization' and 'Mechanical Dragon Profound Truth' have no offensive capability."

"The next Profound Truth of Law should be about wanting to continue making progress on the Dao of the Mechanical Dragon. If successful, there might appear in the future a High Grade Mechanical Pterosaur that fuses the mechanical modification System and the Dragon-transformation System."

Wang An couldn't help but laugh and shake his head at Ling Ming overestimating that Pterosaur's Dao of the Mechanical Dragon.

"It's not that simple. The four major Dragon Clan branches of the Dinosaur Civilization have existed for hundreds of millions of years, and I've never heard of any branch like the Mechanical Dragon."

"Given that Mechanical Pterosaur's talent—still stuck at two Profound Truths of Law after thousands of years—it is almost impossible for it to have a chance to break through where countless Prodigies have failed."

"The greater possibility is that it just serves as a possibility. For this reason, there have always been Medium Grade existences exploring this path, never abandoning any possibility."

"This is the terror of a race that has existed for hundreds of millions of years. Every path that has the potential to become High Grade has some Medium Grade existences maintaining the exploration; if there is a Breakthrough at some point, it will be a huge return."

"By comparison, the Bronze Human Race has only just produced one High Grade existence, and they already need to gather the Prodigies of the entire race to expand the Law of [Ritual], seeking greater possibilities."

This kind of thing was somewhat difficult for Ling Ming to understand, because from the perspective of an informational spiritual lifeform like her, the probabilities involved were too minuscule, almost negligible.

Therefore, she quickly collected similar examples in her database that might help her understand, and within a short moment, she had her own interpretation.

"Oh, I understand. It's like the great Eastern nation of the old Blue Star era; their industry, talent, and economic volume were several, or even over ten times that of other countries. In every major category, although they didn't know which branch would be the successful technical route, by testing every possibility, they had a high probability of discovering revolutionary technologies with high feasibility."

"If you understand it that way, that's about right. However, this path of the Mechanical Dragon certainly won't be welcomed by those of the same race who follow the Dragon-transformation System."

After the conversation ended, they traveled for a few more days and finally approached the Academy planetary System.

The tianhe ship, like a large fish, emerged from the sea of the Dark Universe, pausing in the dark vacuum. Neither the warship's radar nor the bridge portholes could see any planetary System nearby.

"Ding, Silver Human Race Traffic Control Department, open-code connection."

A holographic projection appeared, showing a human male figure in a white dress suit. He first bowed to Wang An before speaking.

"Your Excellency, Immortal Master tianhe, I am the Grand Mentor of the Silver Academy, [Sky Star Water Master] Shui Bai. I will be receiving you for your mission to enter the Silver Academy."

Wang An was quite familiar with this, so he nodded immediately.

"Thank you for your hard work, Fellow Daoist Shui Bai."

After he agreed, in this range of over a dozen light-years where there were originally no large-mass objects, a white interstellar warship suddenly appeared in front of the tianhe ship. The communication coordinates displayed by the radar System were precisely this warship.

Shui Bai's projection then continued to guide them with a smile.

"Immortal Master, just follow this white warship; I will guide you."

When the two warships moved side by side, they sailed forward for a short distance, and the scene before them suddenly changed drastically. Wang An also felt as if he had entered some kind of Formation or ritual.

Outside the warship's porthole, a binary star System—one white and one yellow—appeared abruptly. Moreover, one could faintly detect shadows obstructing these two stars; Wang An guessed that they were likely megastructures similar to a Dyson Cloud for collecting stellar energy.

But this was the scene seen through the reflection of light with the naked eye. On the tianhe ship's radar detection interface, five locations of super-large-scale Law fluctuation concentration points were specially marked in red.

Such concentration points of Law fluctuations were not naturally emitted by Medium Grade lifeforms, but were rather tidal fluctuation effects that could only be triggered by the accumulation of massive amounts of Law resources, or a large number of Law Profound Truth artifacts concentrated together.

Based on her massive database containing partial data of two High Grade civilization races, Ling Ming quickly analyzed the possible situations and displayed them in order.

"70% probability that it is a planet-level super-giant Law fortress."

"20% probability that it is a planet-level Law Cultivation treasure ground."

"9.2% probability that it is a planet-level special functional megastructure."

"0.8% probability that it is a planet-level Tier 2 full-energy concentration ecosystem."

"Hiss."

According to Ling Ming's database comparison, the possibility of it being a planet-level super-giant Law fortress was the highest.

With such a massive undertaking, it was naturally impossible for it to be so easily discovered by the tianhe ship's Tier 2 Medium Grade radar; therefore, the only possibility was that the other party had done it intentionally.

Given the increasingly chaotic situation nowadays, it seemed that doing this was also to deter petty villains.

As the only planetary System currently open to the outside world, the Silver Academy had to strictly defend itself while also preventing the appearance of potential saboteurs.

Shui Bai seemed to notice the surprised expression on Wang An's face. As a Grand Mentor of the Academy and a Tier 2 Medium Grade powerhouse, he naturally understood why, and immediately explained.

"Immortal Master, as our Silver Academy planetary System serves as the only window for external communication for the entire civilization, these are all necessary measures to ensure normal order."