206: Chapter 206 The System's Fourth Upgrade

In the 20th year of the star calendar, through the joint efforts of scientists and Su Fan, Xia Country's independently developed class-c spaceship successfully rolled off the production line!

This moment marked Xia Country's official entry into a Level 4 Civilization! And upon entry, it was already at the peak of Level 4!

At Su Fan's home on Ziwei Star.

Su Fan sat quietly in the cultivation room.

In the 1st year of the star calendar, he had already become famous by breaking through to Level 4 of Body Refining, becoming a true Level 5 cosmic lifeform.

Level 5 lifeforms were even more powerful; not only did his lifespan leap from the original 3,000 years to 6,000 years, doubling completely.

His physical and mental strength also saw a leap-forward improvement. Now, Su Fan felt he could take on a class-c spaceship single-handedly!

One must know, a class-c spaceship possessed the power to destroy a planet.

For Su Fan to achieve this level just by himself was simply—terrifyingly powerful!

"The human body is truly amazing!" Su Fan studied his own body while cultivating, quietly waiting for the system upgrade.

With this upgrade, the system would officially become a Level 4 system. Unsurprisingly, black technology from a level 5 civilization would also be open for exchange.

Time passed slowly; Su Fan waited quietly while cultivating.

Because of his cultivation, he was now extremely patient with the passage of time.

"Ding!"

"System upgrade complete. Please check the new system functions, Host," the system's indifferent voice rang out.

Su Fan was delighted; this was the moment he had been waiting for.

He called up the system interface with some anticipation and found the color had changed to light purple.

Additionally, the system's functional modules had also changed.

Besides the original Black Technology Mall and personal attribute panel, a Small World teleportation function had been added.

"System, what does Small World teleportation mean?" Su Fan asked curiously.

"It randomly teleports the Host to any subordinate Small World of this universe for the Host to explore and hunt for treasures," the system replied indifferently, with a hint of posturing in its tone.

Having upgraded to Level 4, the system's tone was now almost human, and its emotions could be clearly felt.

"Uh... wouldn't that be very dangerous?" Su Fan asked back.

"Small Worlds are rich in resources; various unique cosmic rarities exist there that are not found in the ordinary universe. As for whether the Host is willing to go, it depends on the Host's own will," the system replied indifferently.

"We'll see!" Su Fan shook his head. He valued his life very much now; the vast Xia Country was waiting for him, and he couldn't afford to have any problems. Once something went wrong, given Xia Country's current situation, it would be very easy to split!

"By the way, does this Small World teleportation cost influence points?"

"Yes, each teleportation costs one trillion influence points," the system replied indifferently.

"One trillion! Why don't you just rob me!" Su Fan's eyes widened, even though he didn't lack influence points now.

Intelligent lifeforms throughout the Milky Way were slowly switching to technological products manufactured by Xia Country.

These technological products were all exchanged by Su Fan from the system; as long as they were used, they might provide Su Fan with influence points.

Of course, it was only "possible" because even if people used them, they wouldn't necessarily give a heartfelt positive review.

Especially those civilizations that were already technologically advanced; they might not be used to switching to Xia Country's tech products, so how could they all give positive reviews?

Therefore, although Xia Country had been promoting this, the ones providing Su Fan with the most influence points were still those low-level or primitive civilizations.

Moreover, due to time constraints, Xia Country's tech products had not been promoted to the entire Milky Way, only to a portion of the regions.

But even so, it provided Su Fan with a massive amount of influence points.

His current number of influence points was: 1,000 trillion!

(Don't nitpick, it's just a value! The Milky Way is so big with so many planetary civilizations, it's really hard to write values, so I just made one up!)

One trillion per teleportation was just a drop in the bucket for him.

It's equivalent to someone having a thousand yuan and spending one yuan on a bus fare; would anyone feel the pinch?

Su Fan ignored the Small World teleportation function. With a lifespan of 6,000 years, he had only lived for over 200 years; it wasn't time to court death yet.

The black technology exchange was what he looked forward to the most!

Opening the system's Black Technology Mall, a smile immediately spread across Su Fan's face.

Level 5 Gene Optimization Fluid, advanced Warp Drive, class-b spaceship, Interstellar Teleportation Array, Dimensional Space Construction Technology... a large amount of black technology from level 5 civilization was refreshed.

Before the system upgrade, he only saw Level 5 Gene Optimization Fluid, class-b spaceship, and a lot of relatively common black technology.

After this system upgrade, he didn't expect black technologies like the Interstellar Teleportation Array and Dimensional Space Construction Technology to appear.

The Interstellar Teleportation Array is easy to understand: build two Interstellar Teleportation Arrays and teleport from one end to the other.

However, the Interstellar Teleportation Array technology here belongs to Small-scale Interstellar Teleportation Arrays, with a maximum teleportation distance of only 1 million light-years.

But for the current Xia Country, this was already completely sufficient!

One must know, the diameter of the Milky Way is only about 100,000 light-years!

With the Interstellar Teleportation Array, it will greatly facilitate the development of all walks of life in Xia Country, and more importantly, facilitate military mobilization!

The other technology, Dimensional Space Construction Technology, is also very powerful; this technology can build a small dimensional space within specific materials.

In common terms, it's the technological version of fantasy methods like spatial rings, storage rings, and Universe in a Sleeve.

The better the material quality and the larger the material volume, the larger and more stable the dimensional space built will be.

"It seems that level 5 civilization has a deeper application of spatial technology," Su Fan muttered to himself.

Level 4 Civilization's application of spatial technology only involves the Warp Drive and some other minor functions.

Whereas level 5 civilization's use of space is clearly much more sophisticated; whether it's the Interstellar Teleportation Array or dimensional space, both are very practical and powerful.

"Eh? System, I suddenly thought of something." A flash of inspiration suddenly struck Su Fan.

"If you teleport me to a Small World, and then I directly deploy an Interstellar Teleportation Array in that Small World, can I teleport back to the Milky Way?"

"No!" the system replied indifferently. "This is an Interstellar Teleportation Array, not a World Teleportation Array!"

"Although Small Worlds rely on the Main Universe to exist, there is a world barrier between them and the Main Universe."

"The Interstellar Teleportation Array simply cannot break through this barrier!"

"Alright..." Su Fan was helpless. "Then when can I have this World Teleportation Array?"

"One more upgrade; it's a black technology of Level 6 Civilization." This time, the system rarely didn't keep him in suspense.

Su Fan's eyes lit up after hearing this. Level 6 Civilization black technology, meaning just one more system upgrade; it wasn't too far away.

"System, exchange the Interstellar Teleportation Array technology for me."

"Small-scale Interstellar Teleportation Array technology, worth 100 billion influence points. Would you like to exchange and extract it?" the system asked procedurally.

"Exchange and extract!" Su Fan said expectantly.

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