324: Chapter 324 [Transformation Room]

Han Qing thought for a moment: "Don't be afraid. I've been with you for so long, what else is there to be afraid of?"

Qin Lin reached out and touched her belly.

Han Qing's belly was already slightly rounded, a circle larger than before.

Han Qing didn't dodge, just let him touch it, the corners of her mouth curled up.

"Aunt Qing."

"Hmm."

"You've worked hard."

Han Qing looked at him, her eyes reddened slightly, but she didn't cry.

She took his hand off her belly and held it in her palm.

"It's not hard. I thought it was hard before, but I don't think so now. Because now I have something to look forward to."

Qin Lin looked into her eyes; there was light within them.

It wasn't the light of the System, nor the light of a crystal stone, but the light of a person who had found their place.

The The Ark landed in this world of Cultivation, and the women settled down here.

Children ran on the grass, women cooked beside the tents, and sunlight and Spiritual Qi showered over everyone together.

The woman in Room No. 15 was still asleep, and the white crystal stone lay quietly in Qin Lin's pocket.

He didn't know when she would wake up, didn't know what she would say after waking, and didn't know if she was friend or foe.

But those were matters for the future.

Right now, he just wanted to look at this meadow, this group of people, and this home bought with the apocalypse.

...

On the third day after the The Ark landed on this planet, the System popped up a new notification.

[Phase 2 Mission Officially Started]

[Mission Objective: Continue "Many Children, Many Blessings" in the new world; newborns will receive the world's talent bonus.]

[Current blessing points: 4000]

[New use for blessing points: Can be converted into the current world's power System units. Current world power System: Cultivation. Conversion ratio: 100 blessing points = 1 year of cultivation.]

[Note: The Host can give blessing points to passengers.]

Qin Lin looked at the line "100 blessing points = 1 year of cultivation" and did the math in his head.

He now had 4000 blessing points; if he converted them all into cultivation, that would be 40 years.

But there were many passengers on the The Ark, and he didn't know how much one year of cultivation was worth.

Actually, he didn't care about cultivation itself. With the The Ark, he should be able to handle some dangers; after all, the The Ark's weapon System existed, even if it had never been used.

Qin Lin told everyone the news.

The living room was quiet for a moment, then it exploded.

Han Yurou jumped off her chair first. Qin Yue, whom she was holding in her arms, was startled and her little mouth pouted, but she didn't cry.

"So, can I Cultivate now?"

Qin Lin nodded.

Han Yurou's eyes lit up: "I want to learn sword flight, the kind where you fly around!"

Li Ying sat up from the massage chair, put Qin Xu in the baby basket beside her, and crossed her arms.

"What's the point of sword flight? If I'm going to learn, I'll learn Artifact Refining. If the The Ark breaks in the future, I'll fix it."

She paused: "But I prefer powerful weapons. It would be best if I could blow up a planet with one shot."

Han Yurou glared at her: "Are you Cultivating or starting a war?"

Li Ying looked at her: "Is there a difference?"

Qin Lin ignored their daily bickering.

He looked at Su Yuran, who was holding Qin An; Qin An had fallen asleep in her arms.

She lowered her head to look at her son's face, her voice low: "Can Qin An also Cultivate? He's so small."

Qin Lin opened the System instructions and read for a while.

"Yes, newborns on the The Ark grow up in an environment with Spiritual Qi. Their Physique will automatically adapt, and the quality of their Spiritual Root might be higher than an adult's."

Su Yuran was silent for a moment, then smiled and lowered her head to kiss Qin An on the forehead.

"Then you'll be a Cultivation expert in the future."

Qin An's mouth curled up in his sleep.

...

Days passed one by one. The The Ark stopped in the valley, and the collection System extracted Spiritual core energy from the depths of the planetary core day and night.

Qin Lin checked the progress bar once a day. The numbers jumped very slowly, but they were always jumping.

He wasn't in a hurry. The energy of this Spiritual core was enough for the The Ark to use for a long time. Even if only a small portion was collected, it far exceeded all previous energy reserves.

The door to Room No. 15 remained closed.

Han Qing went in once a day to check, record vital signs, then came out and closed the door.

Everything was normal. The woman was still sleeping, breathing steadily, heart beating regularly, body temperature constant, she just wouldn't wake up.

Han Qing said she was like a dormant seed; she didn't know when she would sprout, or if she would sprout at all.

Qin Lin occasionally stood before that door. The white crystal stone in his pocket was quiet, not glowing, but warm.

He had tried leaving the crystal stone in the room, placing it by the woman's pillow. The crystal stone would emit a faint light, with a flickering frequency consistent with her breathing.

When he took the crystal stone away, the light went out.

He had tried many times, and the result was always the same.

There was a connection between the crystal stone and her, not a physical one, but an energetic one.

Perhaps the key to her waking up lay in this crystal stone, but Qin Lin didn't know how to use it.

He simply stopped caring.

She would wake up when she was meant to; when she wasn't, racking his brain wouldn't help.

Life in the valley was as calm as a pool of water.

The children ran on the grass, the women Cultivated, cooked, and took care of the children. Occasionally, there were fresh novelties, such as Han Yurou refining her first batch of edible Medicinal Pill. Although the efficacy was only one-tenth of a normal Medicinal Pill, she was very satisfied and told everyone, "I refined this, you guys try it."

Li Ying refined her first dagger that didn't have a rolled edge. It was very useful for peeling apples. She gave it to Qin Lin, and Qin Lin accepted it, placing it next to the control panel on the Bridge as a letter opener.

Qin Lin spent most of his time on the The Ark's new features.

The Level 9 The Ark had many things he hadn't fully grasped yet, such as the [Transformation Room].

The Transformation Room was on the lowest level of the The Ark, right next to the energy core. It was a small room with silver-white metal walls. In the center of the floor was a circular platform engraved with complex energy circuits, very similar to the patterns on the The Ark's hull, like two different ways of expressing the same language.

The System said this room could convert blessing points into cultivation. When a person stood on the platform, the System would extract the energy corresponding to the blessing points and infuse it into the person's body, directly increasing their cultivation.

There were no side effects, no Bottleneck, and no need to Cultivate. As long as there were blessing points, one could become stronger.

On the operating instructions for the Transformation Room, there was a small line of text:

The conversion process is irreversible; once blessing points are used, they cannot be recovered.

Please allocate with caution.

Qin Lin looked at this line of text, thinking, isn't this just "pay-to-win"?

Trading blessing points for cultivation, earning blessing points by having children, and having children depended on him.

Over four thousand blessing points, corresponding to forty years of cultivation.

There were fourteen passengers on the The Ark, plus himself, making fifteen people.

Forty years of cultivation split among everyone, less than two years per person.

Qin Lin felt that his forty-plus years weren't quite enough; he still had to keep having children.

No, he had to let them keep having children.

He told everyone the news about the Transformation Room, and the living room exploded once again.

Han Yurou raised her hand first: "I'll go first, I'll go first! I want to see how high twenty-five years of cultivation can make me fly!"

Su Yuran held Qin An without speaking, but her eyes lit up.

Li Ying leaned against the massage chair and said: "You go first, you go first. You go up and see if there's any danger."

Han Yurou glared at her: "What danger could there be? Could the The Ark harm us?"

Li Ying said: "It's not that I'm afraid the The Ark will harm you, it's that I'm afraid you won't be able to handle it. If cultivation is poured in all at once, can your Meridians take it? Haven't you read Cultivation novels?"

Qin Lin was stunned for a moment; he hadn't thought of this problem.

He opened the System instructions and read it carefully.