96: Chapter 96 A Tremendous Change Is Approaching

While flying, Chen Mo's perception expanded outward.

The land below receded rapidly, and vast urban clusters spread across the plains.

Those were the newly built cities in the central region.

Millions of construction robots worked day and night, and the high-strength earthquake-resistant steel reflected a cold white luster under the bright lights.

Buildings, roads, and underground bunkers—all structures were designed according to the highest disaster-resistance standards.

Looking down from high altitude, Chen Mo could see the skeleton of the cities growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Every steel bar in these cities had redundancy reserved for the impending disaster.

And the sense of crisis in his mind was becoming clearer day by day.

Chen Mo closed his eyes.

The fragments in his perception were piecing together.

He saw the continents splitting, tectonic plates being pushed to slide outward by some force, and cracks spreading from deep underground all the way to the surface.

But he still couldn't see it clearly.

It was like a giant jigsaw puzzle; the edge pieces were in place, but the most important piece in the center was still buried in darkness.

Chen Mo opened his eyes.

"Not today."

"Still not enough."

Although his sense of crisis was becoming clearer, it was still missing the final step.

It was like a very thin membrane; he knew what was behind it, but it hadn't been pierced yet.

In the following days, the entire human civilization was undergoing an unprecedented migration.

The Xia Kingdom took the lead in launching large-scale mass production of robots.

In the past, policies had been restrictive due to concerns that large-scale robotic replacement of human labor would cause social shocks.

Now, with the crisis at hand, all restrictions were completely lifted.

Millions of high-performance robots came off the production lines and were deployed into construction, transportation, agriculture, and various public service sectors.

Humans were liberated from repetitive labor.

Under the unified organization of the Xia Kingdom, the liberated labor force began practicing the Human Breathing Method at the highest intensity.

This was not an individual act, but a national one.

Practice rooms, training grounds, unified nutritional rations, standardized movement breakdowns, and real-time detection feedback.

The Xia Kingdom applied the organizational power of collectivism to the enhancement of individual strength.

The results were astonishing.

There was no panic in social sentiment; instead, there was a solid sense of confidence underlying the tension.

With a vast amount of information being transparent and public, people actually found a direction to move forward.

Evolution, relocation, and production—these three things were advanced simultaneously, like three thick cables twisted together, holding the entire Xia Kingdom firmly in place.

Training venues were everywhere on the streets, and in the air, besides the sunlight and heat waves, there was the heavy breathing of crowds.

International reactions varied.

A large number of countries began to evacuate earthquake zones, coastal cities migrated inland, and underground defense projects were pushed forward at extreme speeds.

However, some countries were slow to act due to large populations, lagging productivity, or insufficient regime organizational capabilities.

Faced with this level of super-engineering, they could only carry out symbolic, partial relocations.

The gap in action efficiency between countries was exposed and amplified in the face of the great change.

Time passed slowly amidst the largest relocation and war preparation in human history.

Chen Mo's perception was approaching a critical point day by day.

On March 10th, the Spiritual Qi concentration was 28 times.

By mid-April, it had broken through 35 times.

By early May, it was nearing 45 times.

In just over two months, it had surged from 28 times to 50 times.

It was as if Blue Star was at the crest of the Spiritual Energy Revival; the closer it got to the Peak, the faster the speed of increase.

And Chen Mo's premonition tightened accordingly.

The original blurry outlines gradually turned into clear lines.

Chen Mo had once envisioned what would happen on May 21st, the day marking one full year of the Spiritual Energy Revival.

But that day passed.

Everything was as usual.

The time scale of Spiritual Qi and the time of Blue Star itself perhaps did not have any precise alignment.

Then came May 27th.

Chen Mo was conducting Source Power training when he suddenly stopped.

The sense of crisis in his mind underwent a qualitative change at this moment.

It was as if someone had torn away the veil covering it, and the image suddenly became clear.

Chen Mo saw it.

Continents splitting, with cracks deep and bottomless.

The sky expanding outward, and clouds being stretched to unprecedented heights.

The earth extending outward, coastlines constantly receding, revealing vast swathes of newly born land.

Everything pointed in one direction.

"Blue Star is going to grow larger."

He understood.

The Spiritual Energy Revival was not just about bestowing the possibility of evolution upon living beings.

Under the continuous nourishment of Spiritual Qi, this planet itself was also beginning to evolve.

The true great change was no longer fragments in his perception, but a complete, irreversible process.

Chen Mo stood still, and only after a few seconds did he let out a long breath.

He deduced that there were still more than three months left.

Three months later, Blue Star would begin to slowly evolve from one celestial body into a larger one.

The geological activities, atmospheric fluctuations, and subtle changes in gravity during this period—each one was enough to overturn all existing defense measures of human civilization.

Chen Mo thought of something.

He had also faintly felt this crisis when he was training in space before.

At the time, he thought it was some kind of threat from deep space.

Now it seemed...

He expanded his Force Field and shot up into the sky.

When passing through the atmosphere, the glow of the sunset was stretched into a golden arc.

A few seconds later, he was hovering at the outer edge of the atmosphere, with the curved outline of Blue Star beneath his feet and pure darkness overhead.

Chen Mo expanded his perception with all his might.

His Mental Power surged to the limit.

His field of vision was like a drop of ink falling into clear water, rapidly extending outward.

This time, he saw more.

It was not Blue Star growing larger in isolation.

It was the entire starry sky being stretched.

The distances between planets were increasing at an extremely slow but unmistakable speed, as if the starry sky itself was conducting a breath of its own.

Chen Mo opened his eyes.

He understood.

Blue Star's evolution was not an isolated case.

All planets in this Star Domain were in the same process.

The sun was growing larger, planets were stretching, and the starry sky itself was expanding.

And this, surprisingly, was a good thing.

He looked at that slowly expanding star.

If only the sun grew larger while Blue Star remained in place, gravity would become unbalanced, the orbit would be unstable, and ultimately, only destruction would await human civilization.

But now, the starry sky was stretching synchronously.

The distances between celestial bodies were being redistributed.

This was no longer doomsday, but an evolution spanning the entire Star Domain.

As for what the starry sky would look like after the evolution was complete...

Chen Mo closed his eyes and tried hard to deduce it.

But in his perception, there were only blurry lights and shadows; he couldn't see clearly.

The distance was too great.

He withdrew his perception, not forcing it anymore.

In space, looking at the blue planet beneath his feet.

Three months later, this planet, which carried billions of human civilization, would undergo the largest-scale geological change in history.

It was not a volcanic eruption, not an ice age, not tectonic plate drift.

It was the evolution of the planet itself.

And humanity—

could only wait.

If they survived, it would be a new starting point.

If they couldn't survive, there was nothing left to talk about.

He turned and sank back into the atmosphere.

The land below was boiling in a sea of construction lights.

Millions of robots were pouring foundations overnight.

People were still practicing Standing Post in the training grounds, sweat dripping onto the concrete floor, reflecting dark light under the lamps.

And the countdown in Chen Mo's mind was ticking away quietly; time was running out.

The Great Change approaches.

The starry sky will change.