74: Shadow Puppet, Reforging the Xuanhuang Dao Palace

[ August, Dawn Year 113. The Federation was already able to mass-produce the Spirit Beasts from the previous reality simulation and had continued to enact the Spirit Beast Protection Law. ]

[ Soon, a craze for raising Spirit Beasts swept through the Dawn Federation. Everyone competed to see whose Spirit Beast was cooler or prettier. Under the protection Law and with everyone's kind intentions, these Spirit Beasts lived much more comfortably than they did in the wild. ]

[ Dawn Year 114. There were already over a hundred Transcendents in the Mana Realm. ]

[ Although advancing in the Mana Realm was much harder than in the Qi Refining Realm, for those talented individuals who had undergone Awakening, their cultivation speed did not decrease by much. ]

[ This was because after reaching the Mana Realm, they could comprehend their own innate talents. ]

[ In your view, the talents awakened by these individuals all counted as Law-level powers; they could be said to be equivalent to fragments of Laws, likely bestowed upon them by the Heavenly Dao of the Blue Star Universe. ]

[ Comprehending these fragments of Laws could greatly increase their cultivation speed, but at this point, those with mental-type talents were no longer at an advantage; instead, those with elemental-type talents were. ]

[ This was because natural elements were much easier to comprehend than mental states or certain abstract concepts. ]

[ Dawn Year 121. The Space Tunnel arrived as scheduled. ]

[ March, Dawn Year 122. The Space Tunnel opened on time. ]

[ The moment it opened, the ten million Spirit Rune super-robots and ten Mana Realm Transcendents prepared by the Federation instantly charged to the other side. ]

[ In less than a month, the Federation had already conquered the Deep Sea Star of the Sea Race. ]

[ At this time, you were comprehending the profound spatial knowledge contained within the Space Tunnel, as you discovered that your Space Law could not influence the Space Tunnel in the slightest. ]

[ During the process of comprehension, you also sent a Divided Soul of yours to the Deep Sea Star on the other side of the Space Tunnel. ]

[ As soon as you entered, you felt a sense of suppression, but this suppression did not have any effect on you. ]

[ You discovered that this suppression was actually an instinctive rejection by the world itself towards outsiders, so it was not too strong. ]

[ In fact, as long as one stayed in the world for a period of time, this suppression would naturally dissipate; of course, this period of time was calculated in years. ]

[ Of course, it might also be because the Deep Sea Star world was too weak. ]

[ Because with a sweep of your Divine Thought, you discovered that this world where the Sea Race resided was a bit small, consisting of only one planet—the Deep Sea Star. The sun in the sky could not even be called a manifestation of a Law; at most, it was just a projection. ]

[ Moreover, you felt that the Heavenly Dao of the Deep Sea Star world was a bit off; you always felt it was lacking something compared to the Heavenly Dao in the simulation world. ]

[ Whether it was the fleeting glimpse of the Blue Star Universe's Heavenly Dao or the Heavenly Dao of the Deep Sea Star world, in your view, neither possessed the sense of Perfection found in the Heavenly Dao of the previous simulation world, nor that feeling of being above everything else. ]

" It couldn't be that the world from the last simulation was a powerful world that had fallen, could it? Simulator, do you know the reason? " Lin Yu was also somewhat curious about this aspect.

[ The Simulator does not answer questions unrelated to the simulation. ]

Hearing the Simulator's response, Lin Yu was speechless, but he did not ask again. He had already determined that the Simulator's intelligent System was definitely an artificial idiot.

[ Unable to figure it out, you still attributed it to the differences between worlds. Afterward, you began to comprehend the Laws contained within the Deep Sea Star world. ]

[ However, you were a bit disappointed after comprehending them, because you discovered that the Laws contained in the Deep Sea Star world were all present in the Blue Star Universe, and were even more profound. ]

[ You then tried to comprehend the other two worlds connected to the Deep Sea Star and found they were no different; the Laws contained within them were of no help to you. ]

[ Dawn Year 126. Based on the Entry-Level spatial knowledge you provided, the Federation successfully created a spaceship equipped with a warp drive. ]

[ According to tests, the spaceship's speed reached ten times the speed of light, which meant that Blue Star had truly entered the interstellar era. ]

[ Dawn Year 127. Relying on the light-speed spaceship, Blue Star surveyed all the star Systems near the solar System, including the Three-Body people's lair, the Alpha Centauri System; unfortunately, there were no Three-Body people there. ]

[ April, Dawn Year 130. The Space Tunnel connecting to the Shadow Clan opened. ]

[ The moment the Space Tunnel opened, you took action directly. Within three seconds, you obtained the weapon that killed you in the previous reality simulation through soul-searching, and incidentally deleted the Shadow Clan's memories regarding this weapon. ]

[ " This is what killed me last time. " Looking at the bow and arrow wrapped in strange runes in your hand, you did not feel any Law-level power from it. ]

[ In your perception, this bow and arrow contained abilities in three aspects: death, Karma, and space. The combination of the three meant that the arrows fired from it would forever pursue the locked target until they were killed. ]

[ Unfortunately, the intensity of these three abilities was not very high and none reached the Law level. For you now, even at full power, this bow and arrow could not harm you in the slightest. ]

[ In your view, the greatest value of this bow and arrow was the knowledge of Artifact Refining it contained. ]

[ Knowledge is priceless, especially knowledge from other worlds. In your view, comprehending developed and mature knowledge Systems is a shortcut to understanding the world. ]

[ While you were exploring the technology contained in this bow and arrow, Blue Star had already started fighting with the Shadow Clan. ]

[ For the Federation, the strongest of the Shadow Clan was only equivalent to someone who had just entered the Mana Realm, and they were far inferior to the Federation in numbers, so there was nothing to discuss; they just crushed them directly. ]

[ In this battle with such a disparity in strength, the Shadow Clan retreated steadily. Their possession ability, which had always worked in the past, had no effect on the Human Race of Blue Star, who had condensed spiritual bodies. ]

[ As for their stealth and spying abilities, they were completely exposed under the Federation's Spirit Rune satellites. ]

[ Dawn Year 131. The Federation officially conquered the Shadow Star, as well as the other five planets connected to it. ]

[ At this time, including Blue Star, humanity already possessed ten planets containing Spiritual Qi. ]

[ Dawn Year 135. Under your promotion, the Federation used a special method to refine the Shadow Clan into a type of Puppet, named Shadow Puppet. ]

[ Shadow Puppets usually hid in people's shadows. After inserting a specially made Spirit Rune chip, a Shadow Puppet could serve as an excellent living servant, much more useful than intelligent robots. ]

[ Dawn Year 140. You dismantled a profound Artifact Refining method from that bow and arrow. ]

[ You integrated this Artifact Refining method into your own Xuanhuang Artifact Refining technique, and afterward, you collected various rare metals from the Universe to re-refine the Xuanhuang Dao Palace. ]

[ The re-refined Xuanhuang Dao Palace was even more magnificent, with mysterious patterns engraved on every inch. ]

[ Under the effect of your Laws, the Dao Palace was spring-like all year round and full of vitality; ordinary people living inside could easily live to be three hundred years old, but unfortunately, there were no longer any ordinary people on Blue Star. ]