233: Chapter 233 The Most Central Location of the Dragon Kingdom

"Not concentrated enough?"

Xiao Shuihan fell into deep thought.

He had thought about human structure, genetics, and even the geographical environment, but the one thing he hadn't considered was the concentration of Qi.

"Could concentration also have an impact?"

He looked up at Jiang Chen. "But we can't influence this concentration!"

"This thing only appeared after the oceans expanded, and its source is unknown. Are we supposed to make the Earth expand again?"

Jiang Chen smiled and shook his head. After the oceans expanded, a significant amount of Qi did indeed appear beneath the seawater, but most of it came from Qi scattered throughout the Solar System.

And this Qi was attracted by the gathering immortal flag on the Antarctic continent.

When Jiang Chen originally threw the gathering immortal flag onto the Antarctic continent, he hoped to revitalize the Flat Peach Garden and cultivate new high-grade medicinal materials, but so far, it didn't seem to have been very successful.

But now!

To increase the Qi concentration of the Eurasian continent, he only needed to take the gathering immortal flag from the Antarctic continent and place it in the Dragon Kingdom.

Jiang Chen asked Xiao Shuihan, "What about Professor Shen Wanyu from the Great Wall Scientific Research Station? Did he not continue cultivating his Flat Peach Garden?"

"The Great Wall Scientific Research Station was gradually abandoned forty years ago after the Luan Bird took to the skies."

"After Professor Shen passed away from cancer, no one else was willing to go there to conduct research."

"You know, the environment there is too harsh. The Pangu Base was built there previously for the Luan Bird."

"Later, when the Luan Bird took off and developing the two extraterrestrial planets became the primary direction, the Pangu Base became a transit station. As for those two research stations, they naturally lost their value."

Xiao Shuihan smiled bitterly.

Almost all the resources on the entire Antarctic continent had been hollowed out; what value could be left?

Research station, research station—what was there left to research?

"Was the Scientific Research Station blown up too?"

Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow!

He was still thinking about that blob of slime mold called Old Fungus Lao.

It would be a real pity if it was thrown away.

Xiao Shuihan said, "It wasn't blown up. I heard it's become a storage room now, acting as an auxiliary site for the Pangu Base. There are probably a few caretakers still there, but the experimental equipment has been moved out."

"Alright, I plan to take a trip to the Antarctic continent. I'll be back soon."

Jiang Chen put down the Water Spirit Grass, took out his communicator, and contacted Xue Yao, asking her to pick him up.

Xiao Shuihan was still worried about the two hanging at the academy. "Aren't you going to wait for the people from the Lunar Base and Mars?"

"Don't worry, I'll be back in three hours at most."

Jiang Chen waited in the small manor for ten minutes.

Xue Yao drove the small fishing boat at the first cosmic velocity, which is 7.9 kilometers per second. Since Zhongsha City is less than 2,000 kilometers from Kyoto, it only took a bit over 200 seconds—about four minutes—to arrive.

It took ten minutes only because she started decelerating after entering Kyoto.

Xiao Qi, standing nearby, was also shocked by this speed.

He finally understood why Jiang Chen didn't take his own aircraft.

Because his aircraft didn't have that kind of speed at all.

Whoosh!

The small fishing boat flew away in an instant, just like a UFO.

There was quite a distance between Kyoto and the Great Wall Scientific Research Station, about 20,000 kilometers.

Ten times the distance from Zhongsha City to Kyoto.

A normal aircraft would take several hours to get there.

However, the small fishing boat reached its limit at the first cosmic velocity, so it took less than an hour to successfully reach the Great Wall Scientific Research Station.

It was currently the polar day in Antarctica.

The surroundings were freezing cold.

The Pangu Base was situated within a range of mountains.

And on the back of one mountain was a Scientific Research Station.

This Scientific Research Station was already very desolate; the gates were rusted, and the roads were full of potholes.

When the small fishing boat appeared there, not a soul was around.

"Hubby, what are we doing here?"

Xue Yao was wearing thin clothes but didn't feel the cold. She was just a bit confused about why they were there.

Since the Luan Bird took off, a large number of people had already withdrawn from this place.

"Didn't Professor Shen used to keep a blob of slime mold? I call it Old Fungus Lao. I wonder if it was taken away."

As Jiang Chen spoke, he blasted open the Scientific Research Station's gate with a punch and walked inside.

Xue Yao followed him in.

The inside was already empty.

Jiang Chen searched all over but found nothing.

He had to give up.

Then he went to the Flat Peach Garden on the opposite mountain; this Flat Peach Garden was also abandoned.

There weren't even any mutated flat peach trees left.

Maybe they had been dug up and taken away.

But amidst a pile of discarded trash, Jiang Chen sensed that something hadn't been taken.

Boom!

Dirt, snowflakes, and trash all flew aside, revealing a flag inside.

This flag wasn't large, about the size of a child's toy flag. It was red—the very gathering immortal flag Jiang Chen had planted here back then.

"A flag?"

Xue Yao looked at Jiang Chen in confusion as he picked the item up from the trash and patted it like a treasure.

"Yes, a flag. But this is no ordinary flag."

Jiang Chen struck the flag with his palm. Any ordinary object would have disintegrated, but this thing was like a swamp, instantly swallowing all the energy Jiang Chen outputted. The flag just fluttered as if nothing had happened.

"It has a devouring property?"

Xue Yao looked at the inconspicuous flag in surprise.

"Devouring, attracting... this flag has quite a few properties."

Jiang Chen examined the flag, trying to see some hidden mechanism.

Pity!

He wasn't the ancient Kuafu either.

He hadn't reached the point where he'd dare to forge a divine hairpin between a neutron star and a black hole.

So after looking at it for a long time, he still didn't understand how the flag was crafted.

He could only take the flag and return to the small fishing boat.

Xue Yao was about to start it up.

Jiang Chen suddenly said, "Wait!"

As he spoke, he paced around the deck, searching as if rummaging through chests and cupboards.

After searching for a long while, he not only found the fishing net, the sacrificial vessel, and shennongs compendium of spiritual plants in the deck layers...

...but he finally found that nine-leaf lingzhi grass.

By now, it had grown into a crack at the rear of the deck and had merged with the hull.

Looking closely, one could see its root patterns spreading across the deck, covering nearly a third of it.

"No way, this thing can actually take root on my small fishing boat?"

Jiang Chen originally wanted to pull it out, but after thinking about it, he decided against it and just let it grow on the hull.

"Go to Shaanxi Province."

Jiang Chen gave the order to the small fishing boat.

Xue Yao asked, "What are we going there for? Aren't we going back to Kyoto?"

"I've decided to place this flag at the very center of our country to increase the concentration of Qi."

Jiang Chen explained.

The geographical center of the Dragon Kingdom is located in Beiliu Village, Yongle Town, Jingyang County, Shaanxi Province.

The coordinates are approximately 34 degrees North latitude and 108 degrees East longitude, with an elevation of 417 meters.

After another hour, the two of them appeared at the center of the Dragon Kingdom.

This location was determined as far back as the 1970s, and a black stone monument still stands there to this day.

On it is written: Geodetic Origin of the Dragon Kingdom.

Jiang Chen threw the gathering immortal flag with force, planting it into the ground behind the stone monument.

Depth...

888 meters!