Chapter 192 Prince Rong is captured, where can Zheng Ya escape?
With the help of Daiyu piloting an interstellar spaceship to lock onto Kyoto and monitor and transmit data in real time, Zheng Ya becomes a diligent little hamster, scavenging resources all over the underground secret room.
The area was thoroughly cleaned of resources such as Void Stone and Black Gold Minerals, leaving nothing but desolation in its wake.
Unwittingly, the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams Demon-Suppressing Array was activated. Emperor Chengping could detect the fluctuations of Zheng Ya's resource plundering, but he could not lock onto Zheng Ya or see a trace of him.
Zheng Ya moved between the real and virtual spaces, stepping across them without a trace, appearing and disappearing without a shadow: "Yu'er, the three underground chambers have been searched. Are there any other chambers?"
"There's no fluctuation of spatial power, let's observe further?"
"How many resources have you plundered? How many interstellar ships can you build?" Daiyu's focus was on the spaceship resources needed to save all living beings, and she had long since ignored the heavy casualties caused by the chaos in Kyoto.
Zheng Ya strode to a rooftop, stood facing the wind and sun, and surveyed the battle situation of the cultivator team besieging Prince Rong, saying, "The resources we plundered this time are not much, but we estimate we can build three spaceships."
"It's far from enough to save lives. Let's take another look."
"What do you mean by this?" Daiyu keenly sensed something, but couldn't quite put her finger on it.
Zheng Ya watched the scene for a moment and pondered before speaking: "You must understand that even using a spaceship to save people is useless."
After all, the spacecraft is equipped with a self-sufficient system that can support fewer than 100 people.
The key point is that this way of surviving by drifting in space is meaningless and will eventually lead to extinction…
"What do you mean by this? Just say it!" Daiyu couldn't control her tears. Was it really that difficult to save her family and more people?
Just now, Daiyu was monitoring the situation in Kyoto and caught some people's comments. She learned that her biological father and his clansmen had done something ungrateful. She was already overwhelmed with emotion and didn't know how to apologize or explain to Zheng Ya.
Zheng Ya's words seem to suggest that he is giving up on saving the world, telling him that there is no need to save them, or is this a form of revenge?
Liu Yan'er only had her grandfather Liu Yuan left in the world, so she wasn't worried that Zheng Ya wouldn't give him a chance to live. She seized the opportunity to comfort him: "Sister Yu'er, perhaps Master Brother has other plans?"
"Yes, I know, and I will do my utmost to help him develop his interstellar navigation business, even at the cost of my life." Daiyu's words had a double meaning, expressing her determination and stance.
He didn't want Zheng Ya to misunderstand that he was a mole planted by his own father and clansmen.
They even tried to make up for the damage caused by their own father.
I'm just too ashamed to talk about this, and I don't know how to make up for my mistake.
The key point is that Earl Dai represented the Dai family, so it was impossible for him to admit his mistake.
All cultivators in the world are risking their lives to seize the seal, hoping to achieve immortality and escape this world that is about to be destroyed.
Is it wrong for an enlightened person to do extraordinary things?
From Count Dai's perspective, Zheng Ya's idea of developing interstellar navigation beacons was simply a pipe dream.
Instead of getting lost in the big picture, it's better to focus all your efforts on the seal itself; that's more practical.
Besides, Earl Dai unwittingly placed Daiyu into Zheng Ya's basket, making it a choice to pursue both options simultaneously. Was that wrong?
That's right, it's just a difference in perspective.
Of course, being quite selfish, Count Dai never thought of sharing the news of the seal and key with Zheng Ya, thus becoming an ingrate.
This was something Zheng Ya couldn't accept, and she also didn't know how to explain it to Daiyu: "Don't overthink it, everyone."
The real way to save lives is to create a habitable environment for humans in the surrounding star systems.
Changing a planet to make it habitable for humans and animals is not something that can be accomplished overnight.
Moreover, it would require a lot of resources to build human habitats.
More human resources will also be needed.
Only after establishing a habitable planet for humanity can we proceed with the next step of saving humankind and all living things; otherwise, all our efforts will be in vain!
That's the absolute truth.
Back then, Zheng Ya spent several months transforming the moon on Earth before finally establishing a foothold there. He then worked hard to cultivate vegetation, and it took him more than a year to transform the moon into a climate suitable for human habitation.
Currently, there are no planets around the Hongli Continent that can be modified, or rather, there are five planets in the Five Elements, but they all exist alongside the continent and are destined for destruction, so they have no value for modification.
If we want to transform planets into habitable ones for humans, we need to look to the surrounding star systems.
However, this meant that Zheng Ya was restricted by the Tower of Babel authorities and could not venture into space millions of kilometers away from the mainland to terraform planets. He could only train people to terraform planets that were habitable for humans.
Does this mean there's not enough time?
We still need a lot of human and material resources. What should we do?
In fact, Zheng Ya's immediate choice to have Daiyu pilot the interstellar spaceship to set up an interstellar navigation signal transmission station in outer space was precisely for the purpose of terraforming the planet.
After all, Daiyu's birth treasure was the Crimson Pearl Fairy Herb, which, after being planned and modified by Zheng Ya, had the ability to cultivate plants.
The problem is that terraforming a planet can make it habitable for humans by adapting to local conditions.
No one knows what kind of planetary texture they will encounter, which brings uncertainty to planetary terraforming.
If time is tight, this is not a problem.
The problem is that time waits for no one.
Therefore, Zheng Ya did not want anyone to accelerate the destruction of the continent. Delaying everyone's plot to seize the seal was an inevitable trend, otherwise it would infinitely shorten the continent's existence.
Daiyu, unaware of the inside story, upon hearing Zheng Ya's plan, decisively said, "Tell me your plan directly. I trust you and will do my utmost, even if it means dying without regret!"
"Well, don't overthink it. Our top priority is to extract more resources from Prince Rong. You need to help me summon Prince Rong himself. Important resources like the Void Stone will definitely be carried by Prince Rong, and we absolutely cannot let him fall into the hands of outsiders!" Zheng Ya had already realized that this turmoil was not simple.
Why did they choose this time to plot against Prince Rong?
Daiyu immediately took control of the spaceship to conduct a comprehensive scan of the eight small battlefields.
Because Zheng Ya's interstellar spaceship was built primarily using a spacetime spirit-gathering array, supplemented by various auxiliary arrays, it inherently possessed the ability to sense the power of spacetime.
The development of spacetime-sensitive performance is based on Zheng Ya's desire to better transmit spacetime signals and make contact with the Blue Star's deliberately crafted system sensing capabilities as soon as possible.
I never expected to need it now.
However, when Daiyu scanned the real Prince Rong using her spaceship and disguised herself as an ordinary bodyguard to escape to the North Gate, Emperor Chengping used the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams Demon-Suppressing Array to capture Prince Rong's true form: "Damn it, Prince Rong's true form is at the North Gate, and has now been suppressed by Emperor Chengping using the array..."
"Prince Rong, my imperial brother, where are you running off to?" Emperor Chengping immediately imprisoned Prince Rong and simultaneously transferred people to their positions.
When the shadowy figure and Zheng Ya arrived at the North Gate, Prince Rong had already disappeared.
After Emperor Chengping detained Prince Rong, he used the Great Array to issue an edict for the entire city to be on high alert: "I have captured Prince Rong and sealed off the capital. I hope everyone will cooperate with me to capture Zheng Ya, interrogate the two men, and share information about the imperial seal."
"My word is law! Fellow Daoists, give it your all and do not let Zheng Ya escape the capital!"
"Great, fantastic..." The entire city erupted in cheers, and a full-scale operation to track down Zheng Ya was launched...
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