Longevity Martial Arts: Starting from Inner Core Skill

"The Star Shuttle can navigate the cosmos, not only equipped with the latest energy extraction and compression technologies, but most importantly, it possesses spatial traversal technology. Theoretically speaking, it could navigate the starry skies for hundreds of years…"

Xia Yang's eyes lit up upon hearing this, greatly satisfied.

"What about Life Exploration Technology and Spirit Communication Technology... These are also crucial elements."

"You mentioned them, so naturally, I've installed them. However, be aware this might attract unknown enemies," Li Xueqian, having experienced much, was well aware that there were many unknown enemies in the cosmos.

"Don't worry, I will consult the Lifeless True Saint. This is also for the propagation of the True Saint's faith."

Li Xueqian nodded, offering no further comment.

The Starry Sky Shuttle was loaded with many new technologies he too wanted to test.

Soon enough, Xia Yang sought to contact Wang Sheng through prayer.

Wang Sheng had just finished dealing with matters in the Faith World not long before and received Xia Yang's request.

"Using the Starry Sky Shuttle to spread the faith, allowing the True Saint's light to reach other worlds one step ahead…"

Wang Sheng had not expected Xia Yang to have such an idea.

After pondering, he ultimately responded, "Agreed!"

Not only that, he secretly reinforced the Starry Sky Shuttle to make it more robust.

"If we really can find a world to spread the faith, it would be a good thing."

With specific coordinates, he could cast the Faith World over there.

With luck, he might easily claim a world.

Even if the inter-world channels weren't convenient, this kind of effortless strategy wouldn't be a loss.

Yet because of this, Wang Sheng didn't pay it much attention.

Even Xia Yang did the same, dispatching dozens of Starry Sky Shuttles, with only Li Xueqian needing data and paying the most attention.

"Teacher, one of the Starry Sky Shuttles lost contact; based on the last transmitted information, it seems to have been caught in a spatial turbulence..."

"Then don't bother with it... focus on gathering the other data."

Spatial turbulence, a common natural disaster in the cosmos.

Anything caught in it would disappear instantly; some speculate it gets transported to distant places.

Li Xueqian had anticipated such events happening to the Starry Sky Shuttles.

This was an inevitable loss for research, hence he didn't concern himself too much.

Meanwhile, on an unfamiliar planet, a creature with wings for arms, talons for legs, and the head of a bird cautiously approached the suddenly appeared object.

...

One year later.

New Calendar Year 86, Winged People Clan, Imperial Calendar Year 6700.

The Winged People Royal Family, the Golden Feathered Winged People, had ruled the Winged People Planet for 6700 years, achieving substantial technological success, with several resource planets ripe for development.

In theory, they were a clan with great potential.

But in reality, the resource planets of the Winged People Clan hadn't changed much in four thousand years.

In order to maintain the dominance of the Golden Feather Clan, a very rigid hierarchical system had emerged.

All resources were in the hands of the higher echelons.

From core technologies and cultivation resources to necessities like healthcare and food, all were controlled by the higher-ranking Winged People.

Even if the lower echelons had ideas, they lacked the capability to implement them.

The overly stable status quo had caused the once quite capable upper echelons of the Winged People to become complacent and idle.

After all, even if they did nothing, they still had everything.

As for the lower classes, even if they gave their all and dedicated everything, they received no cultivation in return.

A society that had lost its vitality was unlikely to develop significantly.

Some upper echelon Winged People recognized the problem.

But a system that had evolved over four thousand years couldn't be shaken by them.

A key reason was a law from four thousand years ago.

"The Bloodline Separation Act"

It divided the Winged People into different classes based on bloodline.

Most crucially, the Winged Person who proposed the act was still alive and the strongest among the Winged People Clan today.

Referred to as the Sky King, with a Seventh Realm cultivation.

Thinking oneself capable, yet powerless.

But to some, the upper echelon Winged People realizing the issues and continuously attempting to solve them internally but never considering uniting all forces, was all but a joke.

Hong Ling, as part of the Red Feather Clan and belonging to the lower echelon Winged People, never concerned herself with such matters.

She just wanted to live a good life and raise her child to adulthood; her child was everything to her.

That was until her child was killed merely for failing to kneel before the Golden Feathered Winged People, which changed her way of thinking.

"Why?"

She had never before contemplated this, but she wanted to ask, why?

"Why must one die for not kneeling?"

"Why are the Golden Feather Clan born superior, and why should the Red Feather Clan grovel?"

But there were no answers.

She couldn't think of any.

Limited by knowledge, she couldn't ponder much; she just knew that if not for this kneeling rule, perhaps her child, her dear daughter, wouldn't have had to die.

Yet thinking was of no use.

In the end, amidst the cold stares of many Winged People, Hong Ling returned home and amidst confusion, remembered the massive shuttle she had witnessed.

The shuttle landed before her, revealing a text.

She was illiterate but understood it unexpectedly.

It was introducing a deity!

To the Winged People Clan, deities weren't unusual; many lower echelons placed their hopes in them.

Hong Ling was a non-believer.

But having lost her daughter, her beliefs changed.

"If there is even a one percent chance..."

So saying, Hong Ling began to pray according to the text.

"To the Lifeless True Saint, most high and benevolent, hear the prayers of Your most devout believer…"

With all her sincerity, she prayed again and again.

And Wang Sheng, amidst cultivation, sensed this prayer from distant time and space.

Through the prayer, he roughly understood Hong Ling's plea and the situation on the Winged People Planet.

After understanding, his expression became peculiar.

"This situation… surely it's not about to start a rebellion, is it?"

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