130: Chapter 130 Cultivation Civilization

"Your clan's Holy Language?" Su Fan's eyes widened.

"Red Queen, I remember we didn't bring simultaneous interpretation this time!" Su Fan inquired.

"Master, it's not on."

"Good grief, not only do they look exactly like Xia People, but even their language is the same. If anyone says they have no relation to the Xia People now, I'll be the first to call bullshit," Su Fan complained inside the spaceship.

The view shifted back outside the spaceship.

"I don't know anything about a Holy Language; this is my clan's own language," Su Fan said to the old man with a smile.

The old man was stunned, then his expression grew excited. "Could you be the descendants of some Ascendant Saint left behind in the universe?"

"Ascendant Saint?" Su Fan was puzzled; another unfamiliar term had appeared.

"What is an Ascendant Saint?" Su Fan asked curiously.

"Do you not have the Saint's inheritance?" the old man asked, looking at Su Fan with confusion.

"In what sense are you using the word 'Saint'?" Su Fan became more and more bewildered. He felt that although they spoke the same language, they weren't on the same wavelength.

The old man also realized this. He looked at the spaceship in the sky, then back at Su Fan, and seemed to think of something.

"You developed toward a technological civilization, didn't you?"

Su Fan felt this person must know quite a bit and nodded. "Correct, we are a technological civilization."

"What type of civilization are you? A cultivation civilization?"

The smile on the old man's face grew wider; he had finally found a starting point for communication.

"We are a cultivation civilization. We don't follow the same path as your technological civilization."

Su Fan's eyes lit up. "A cultivation civilization? If you cultivate to the end, can you fly?"

"Can you fly? That's just the beginning!" The old man stroked his long white beard.

"Cultivate to the end, and you can ascend directly to the Upper Realm! Being able to fly is merely the starting point."

Su Fan's eyes grew brighter and brighter. Whether it was flight or ascension, both were things to aspire to.

Although he could gain the ability to fly by piloting a spaceship or wearing a mecha, the ability to fly personally was still something to be yearned for.

"How does your cultivation civilization practice? Are there many levels?" Su Fan asked with a smile.

He had read many novels, and cultivation in novels was generally divided into many levels from weak to strong.

"The method of cultivation is simple, and it is indeed divided into levels. However, before I speak of that, I would like to ask a question," the old man said with a smile.

"Please, go ahead!" Su Fan replied with a smile.

"When I first arrived near this spaceship, I scanned it several times with my Mental Energy but found no trace of humans or other life forms. So why is it that you can stand before me and speak?" the old man asked in confusion.

"This is a type of technology. Without leaving home, one can remotely control Androids to travel the universe." Su Fan felt that this old man's understanding of technological civilizations was likely about the same as his own understanding of cultivation civilizations.

"I see. That is quite safe then," the old man said with some envy.

"You just mentioned Mental Energy. What is that?" Su Fan asked.

He increasingly felt that cultivation was a good thing; even things from novels like Mental Energy were appearing.

There was once an interesting argument on Blue Star: an individual's imagination stems from their experiences, while a race's imagination stems from the entire world. Human imagination cannot arise from nothing; anything imagined must surely exist in some corner of the universe.

Now, cultivators had appeared, and Mental Energy had appeared. What would appear next?

"It is a power that only high-level cultivators can produce. It originates from the mind, the soul, and the will. In short, it is an ethereal but incredibly powerful force!" The old man's expression was serious and solemn.

"How are your cultivation levels divided? What level do you need to reach to be able to fly?" Su Fan asked with a smile.

The old man glanced at the massive spaceship again. From it, he felt a deep sense of crisis.

"On our Shengyuan Star, cultivation is divided into two major realms and eighteen minor realms."

"Specifically, Body Refining Levels 1 through 9, and God Forging Levels 1 through 9."

In the face of powerful military force, the old man ultimately revealed the cultivation levels.

Ever since he developed Mental Energy, his sixth sense had become very keen, and his perception of danger was very accurate.

He could clearly perceive that the spaceship before him held a great terror.

"If you wish to fly, you must reach God-Forging Level 1," the old man explained.

"After injecting level 4 gene optimization fluid, you can also fly," the system suddenly chimed in.

Su Fan was startled, somewhat surprised by the system's initiative this time.

He ignored the system and continued to ask the old man, "What level have you reached?"

"God Forging Level 3." The old man was slightly reluctant, but he still answered.

Circumstances forced his hand; he only hoped that this person, who might be of the same race, would not start a massacre, or else Shengyuan Star would be in danger.

Su Fan nodded and continued to ask, "When you cultivate, do you need cultivation techniques?"

The old man's heart trembled; what he feared was coming.

Although he was unwilling, one must bow when under another's roof, so he chose to tell the truth.

"There is no distinction between good and bad cultivation techniques on our Shengyuan Star."

"Because we only have two techniques: one is the Guidance Technique, and the other is the God-Forging Technique."

"The Guidance Technique allows one to absorb Source Stones, and the God-Forging Technique can improve Mental Energy."

Su Fan's eyes lit up. If the people of Blue Star could practice the Guidance Technique and the God-Forging Technique, he wondered if they could reach the level of flying and tunneling through the earth.

"Can this Guidance Technique and God-Forging Technique be taught to outsiders?"

"Sigh—" The old man sighed. "They cannot be practiced by those not of our clan. The body structure and bloodline of outsiders are different from ours. Cultivating them rashly would be life-threatening."

"However, seeing that your appearance and language are the same as ours, perhaps we were of the same clan in the distant past."

Su Fan pondered for a moment. "How about this: provide me with a drop of blood. Yours will do, or someone else's. I'll test the genes to see if we are indeed of the same clan."

The old man's eyes lit up. He actually hoped in his heart that both sides were of the same clan, because if that were the case, he wouldn't have to worry about the crisis of his race's extermination.

He squeezed a drop of fresh blood from his finger and used Mental Energy to control it, making it hover in mid-air.

"Just use mine!" the old man said with a smile.

"Good!" Su Fan replied with a smile, his eyes full of anticipation.

Next, Su Fan ordered Red Queen to dispatch a flying robot to bring the drop of blood back to the spaceship. Using a Portable Gene Sequencer, they compared the genes contained in this drop of blood with those of the Xia People.

The results came back quickly: the humans of Shengyuan Star were of the same race as the Xia People!

"The gene test results are out; we are of the same race!" Su Fan said with a smile. At this moment, the way he looked at the old man became a bit gentler.

The old man breathed a heavy sigh of relief upon hearing this. He could clearly sense the change in Su Fan's face and eyes.

"In that case, let's not chat in the sky; this isn't the place for it. Let's go down to my place and have a good talk. Let me show you some hospitality!" the old man invited with a smile.

"Furthermore, we have a complete inheritance that you can look at."

"That's even better. I also happen to want to see the history of the human race on Shengyuan Star and perhaps find the secret of our Xia Clan's origins," Su Fan said with a smile.

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