25: The whole world rejoices at the birth of Su Xingyao.

Star Calendar year 99786, Chen Jun was thirty-one years old.

Under the top-tier medical care and resource investment from the Star Rail Headquarters, time seemed to truly reveal some kind of "miracle."

Chen Jun sat alone in the Ecological Recuperation Pod of his apartment, which was filled with Life Mist that promoted cellular activity.

He slowly opened his eyes and subconsciously looked inward at his mind.

That cold System interface still existed, but the numbers on it had undergone earth-shattering changes.

[Host]: Chen Jun

[Rank]: 1

[Race]: Human

[Age]: 31 years old (Physiological state severely improved)

[Aptitude]: Mortal Body

[Remaining Lifespan]: 79 years (Estimated total Lifespan: 150 years)

Looking at [Remaining Lifespan: 79.3 years] and [Estimated total Lifespan: 150 years], Chen Jun let out a long, long sigh of relief.

79 years!

He still had a full 79 years to live!

Although compared to the ten thousand or hundred thousand years of Lifespan of Planet-level and Stellar-level Experts, this mere one hundred and fifty years was still pitifully short, for him, who once had only 7 years of life left, this was undoubtedly a grace of rebirth!

The Federation's top technology, combined with the Star Rail Group's investment of resources regardless of cost, had forcibly pulled his body—which had been drained by the System and was on the verge of collapse—back from the brink of death, and repaired and stabilized his maximum life limit at the theoretical limit a Mortal could reach: 150 years.

Of course, this repair was not without cost, nor was it a reversal of time.

His body's Foundation was too severely damaged; his current "health" was built upon continuous external resource input and precise regulation.

He no longer looked like a dying old man who could pass away at any moment, but he still looked like a weathered middle-aged man in his fifties, with graying temples and deep wrinkles at the corners of his eyes; however, his gaze was no longer dead, gaining a bit of Life Qi.

To be able to live, to be able to accompany his family for a few more decades, he was already incomparably satisfied.

This "kindness" made his perceptions of Qin Qingxuan, the Star Rail Group, and even the Federation much more complex.

Even though he knew that all this investment stemmed from his strange "value."

His wife, Lin Wei, had undergone even more startling changes.

Under a plan personally supervised by Qin Qingxuan, using massive amounts of scarce resources to ensure nothing went wrong, Lin Wei successfully passed the Awakening crisis, condensed an "Acquired Martial Body," and stepped into the Elementary Warrior Rank in one fell swoop!

At the moment of Breakthrough, the leap in life level brought about a near-total transformation.

The Impurities deposited in her body were expelled, her skin became smooth, firm, and elastic, her eyes were bright, and she seemed to have aged backward by more than ten years, looking like a vibrant eighteen-year-old girl who had just reached adulthood, youthful and beautiful, with an added touch of a Martial Artist's heroic spirit.

She hugged Chen Jun, crying and laughing, feeling the surging power in her body and a long Lifespan of at least two hundred years, feeling as if she were in a dream.

Their three daughters were rising like rockets.

The eldest daughter, Chen Xi, nine years old, with the terrifying talent of an Innate Martial Body and the top-tier cultivation of Star Rail, was already a High-tier War General! Only one step away from the War God Level!

The second daughter, Chen Yao, eight years old, also an Innate Martial Body, was a Mid-tier War General with astonishing combat power.

The third daughter, Chen Lu, seven years old, was an Elementary War General, her talent not inferior to her two older sisters in the slightest.

In this family, except for Chen Jun, the "Mortal" father, everyone had entered the Ranks of Martial Artists, and their starting points were frighteningly high.

Chen Jun looked at his wife, who had become young and beautiful, and his extraordinarily talented daughters, his heart filled with gratification and emotion.

If life could continue like this, peaceful and full of hope, how wonderful it would be.

This peace was soon broken by a sudden piece of emergency news that swept across the entire Federation Star Net.

On this day, almost every device connected to the Human Federation's information network—whether personal terminals, public light screens, or the internal broadcasts of interstellar ships—was forcibly interrupted by a top-priority news flash.

The title of the news was not a somber battle report, but four golden, shimmering words overflowing with endless joy: "Universal Celebration"!

The background music was the Federation's Anthem of Glory, grand and stirring.

A host with a solemn yet excited demeanor appeared on the screen, their voice trembling slightly with excitement:

"Citizens of the Federation! By the Star Sea! Let us witness this great moment together! Share this supreme joy! July 14th, Star Calendar year 99786, will be forever etched in history!"

"Just now, the 'Hope' Advanced Biological Detection Center in the Tianshu Star Domain officially confirmed! Our Federation has welcomed the birth of its 368th 'Innate Star Body'!"

"Whoosh—!"

Although it was through a screen, it was as if all the 120 trillion citizens across more than a thousand inhabited planets in the entire Human Federation let out a shocked uproar at this moment!

Innate Star Body!

Another Innate Star Body!

The Federation had not seen a new Innate Star Body born for nearly sixty years!

The appearance of every Innate Star Body meant that the Federation would add a strategic pillar in the future who would be at least at the Planet-level Peak, or even have a great hope of reaching the Stellar Level!

The host excitedly continued to announce: "This noble Innate Star Body is a healthy baby girl! Her mother is the pride of our Federation, a super Genius who broke through to the Planetary Level at only twenty-seven years old—War God Su Wan! No, now we should respectfully call her—Councilor Su Wan!"

The screen switched to play a short holographic video.

In the video, Su Wan was wearing the Star Rail Group uniform, but her shoulder pads had already been replaced with Star Emblems representing the Planetary Level.

She looked a bit thinner, but her eyes were deeper and brighter, and her whole body exuded the faint pressure of a Planet-level Expert and an indescribable radiance of life.

She held a swaddled infant in her arms; the baby was surrounded by a layer of faint, pure, and dazzling starlight, as if countless tiny stars were revolving around her, extraordinary and divine!

"It is reported that while nurturing this Star Body Daughter, Expert Su Wan broke through her Bottleneck and successfully condensed an 'Acquired Star Body,' stepping into the Planetary Level Domain, thanks to the 'Innate Nurturing Feedback' effect brought by the fetus! A twenty-seven-year-old Planetary Level! This has refreshed the record for the youngest Planetary Level in the Federation in nearly eighty years! This is undoubtedly a double blessing! It is the Universe's favor upon our Human Federation!"

The host's voice was high-pitched and full of pride.

"And this highly anticipated Star Body Daughter has been named—Su Xingyao—according to the wishes of her mother, Expert Su Wan! May she be as eternal as the stars and as brilliant as fine jade, shining upon the Federation and protecting the Human Race in the future!"

Su Xingyao!

This name instantly spread to every corner of the Federation.

The news was not over; the host invited a senior academician from the Federation Academy of Sciences, a highly respected old scholar, to explain the profound significance of this celebration to everyone.

The old academician was so excited that his white beard was trembling:

"A miracle! This is a true miracle! As everyone knows, the probability of an Innate Aptitude being born is extremely harsh!"

"Take the Innate Martial Body as an example!"

The old academician pulled up a data chart.

"If both parents have S-Rank or higher Aptitude, the probability of their offspring having an Innate Martial Body is about one in a hundred million! This is already an extremely low probability!"

"But!"

He changed his tone, emphasizing,

"Over 95% of our Federation's population are ordinary people with energy affinity below C-Rank! What is the probability of an Innate Martial Body being born from the union of two ordinary people? It is a despairing one in ten billion!"

A huge, dizzying number appeared on the light screen:

1/10,000,000,000!

The holographic image simulated countless dense spots of light representing ordinary people, with one spot of light faintly lighting up, representing that lucky one.

"And the Innate Star Body!"

The old academician's voice was hoarse with excitement.

"Its probability is even lower than one can imagine! If top-tier experts unite, the probability might increase to one in a trillion or even one in a hundred billion (this is just theoretical speculation; there has never been a statistic for Innate Star Bodies born from such a large base of top-tier experts in the Federation's history). But if two ordinary people unite..."

He paused and threw out a number that made everyone's skin crawl:

"The probability is lower than one in a hundred trillion! Theoretically, it would take one hundred trillion newborns for a single case to possibly appear!"

This number was already beyond most people's comprehension.

"Our Federation has developed to this day with a total population of over 120 trillion, achieved through nearly a hundred thousand years of technological explosion and interstellar colonization! In the early days of the Federation, when the population was less than ten billion, the probability of an Innate Star Body appearing was almost zero! It is precisely because of the exponential population growth and the sufficiently large base that we can luckily welcome the birth of an Innate Star Body every once in a while!"

"Every Innate Star Body is the most precious gift bestowed upon our Federation by the Universe!"

The host chimed in at the right time, their tone full of emotion:

"Indeed, Academician. This reminds me that the average Lifespan of an ordinary person in our Federation is about 100 star years. This means that approximately every 100 years, out of our base of over 120 trillion ordinary people, about 10,000 Innate Martial Bodies can be born, averaging about 100 per year. These Innate Martial Bodies, as long as they don't die young, can almost all grow into Planet-level Experts with ten thousand years of Lifespan."

"A Planet-level Expert, in their long life, can witness the birth, aging, sickness, and death of 100 generations of ordinary people. It is precisely the reproduction of ordinary people generation after generation that provides the massive base, making the birth of top-tier Aptitudes possible. They are the soil and Foundation of the Federation's civilization."

The old academician nodded in agreement:

"Exactly! And Planet-level Experts constitute the backbone and sanctuary of our civilization. According to incomplete statistics, despite the constant attrition of war, the total number of existing Planet-level Experts in our Federation is still estimated to be over one hundred million! This is a reassuring number."

"But,"

The academician's expression became solemn.

"Stellar-level Experts are on another level entirely. The difficulty of condensing an 'Acquired Moon Body' far exceeds that of condensing an 'Acquired Star Body'! Every Breakthrough is accompanied by huge risks and massive consumption of resources. Plus the attrition from the ten-thousand-year war with the Empire... the number of existing Stellar-level Experts in our Federation... might be fewer than two hundred!"

"Therefore!"

The academician's voice rose again.

"The birth of every Innate Star Body means that the hope of us adding a Stellar Level expert in the future is greatly increased! The significance of Young Miss Su Xingyao's birth cannot be overstated! This is a holiday for all of us Federation citizens!"

At the end of the news, footage of spontaneous celebrations held in major Star Domains and on various inhabited planets across the Federation was shown.

People took to the streets, cheering and jumping for joy, as holographic fireworks bloomed into star patterns in the night sky, filled with an atmosphere of hope and joy.

At the Star Rail Headquarters, Chen Jun silently turned off the news.

His heart was filled with mixed emotions.

Su Wan had succeeded, giving birth to an Innate Star Body and breaking through to the Planetary Level because of it.

He should be happy; the Federation had gained more strength.

But thinking about that process full of humiliation and embarrassment, he felt a wave of complex emotions.

Especially when he heard the probability of "one in a hundred trillion," his mouth twitched.

This damn System really ground the study of probability into the dirt.

However, seeing the Federation's people so jubilant and seeing his daughter, Su Xingyao, being held in such high regard, a subtle, indescribable sense of accomplishment and peace still welled up deep within him.

Even though the child didn't take his surname.