Above The Sky

Chapter 2152 - 60: The First Tranquility (Part 4)

[Obviously, the Deep Space Accelerator is the most crucial key for transporting the Spark, so the Dwarves’ ancestors had to protect it at all costs... You all did very well; it’s almost undamaged, truly unbelievable, even after sixteen hundred years, it still operates smoothly.]

"We treat a thousand years as a day."

Panloss uttered a Dwarven Maxim, and at this moment, he also received information: "The committee has some opinions, but the vote is in favor of supporting you."

[I heard they want me to personally prove my existence and ally with Gantreignum.]

Ian smiled faintly, for almost all the world’s information held no secrets from him. Even when he had been gone for so many years, and the Silverpeak Domain continued to rapidly develop, there were still some who doubted: [All right, but I have to start first.]

"So urgent?"

[Time waits for no one.]

Ian and Panloss flew towards the Deep Space Accelerator, and the Hammer of Creation suddenly remembered something: "Wait, didn’t you say the Fifth Energy Level can’t cross the Random Gate either? Shouldn’t you be the same?"

[Yes,] Ian nodded slightly: [Without the Perpetual Motion Machine, you can’t survive passing through the Random Gate—isn’t it like facing malice? Without the Perpetual Motion Machine, many of the Star God’s Creations simply can’t be used.]

This left Panloss a bit confused: "Then what are you planning to do? Transport the Humans’ Spark?"

[I plan to transport my ship, one of my exploration satellites.]

Ian said calmly: [Follow the light and directly transport it over a dozen light years away. I’m testing something very important.]

"Didn’t you say," Panloss asked in puzzlement, "Nothing but the Spark could be sent out? Wouldn’t the ship and satellite be easily crushed?"

[I will place a protective shell around them.]

Ian lifted his hand, and in his hand, a pitch-black sphere was rapidly forming.

"Infernal Heaven?!"

Upon seeing this unassuming black sphere, Panloss was taken aback. As the holder of the Deep Space Shuttler, the Dwarves had naturally observed the Infernal Heaven: "You can actually create an Infernal Barrier?!"

[That’s my confidence,] Ian said with a light chuckle: [I never make an unprepared plan.]

Panloss nodded slightly. It seemed he was completely convinced by Ian and no longer expressed any doubts about Ian’s actions.

Soon, Ian arrived at the Polaris Apex.

It looked like a gigantic, overturned umbrella, maybe a bit like a radar or some sort of vector nozzle. No wonder the Dwarves once suspected this thing could be a planetary engine or a Planetary Shield—after all, with the precedent set by the Imperial Capital’s brilliance, their wild guesses had some ground.

However, its energy consumption was even more terrifying than that of the Imperial Capital. Over the many years, Gantreignum had its moments of glory, and they could certainly build an Aether Furnace Array enough to power the Imperial Capital at full capacity, but it was mostly to activate the Deep Space Shuttler occasionally and create the Mystical Phenomena of the Pitch-Black Star Dome.

For true launching, it either required the full power of a civilization in a single moment or the Perpetual Motion Machine.

But Ian was different.

Raising his hand, under Ian’s power, countless rays of light surrounded the entire Polaris Apex. Billions of aether particles surged forth from the void according to Ian’s will, forming a giant serpent coiling around the apex between the firmament and the earth, enveloping the entire deep space launcher completely.

The surging energy, channeled through Ian’s body, burst forth like a raging torrent. At this moment, even Panloss at the Fifth Energy Level felt his own insignificance. Compared to Ian’s exertion, he was like a meandering stream, easily drowned!

"You?!"

He said in disbelief: "Have you constructed a Perpetual Motion Machine all by yourself?!"

[Perhaps.]

Ian was non-committal: [There are many kinds of Perpetual Motion Machines; the Star God hoped we would construct one based on infinite space-time, the ’Spacetime Perpetual Motion Machine.’ But I also found another path... Building one’s own Infinite Loop is indeed very difficult, but what if I directly found a ’universe’ with nearly or absolutely infinite energy?]

With that, Ian laughed: [As long as I use my body as a channel, I can endlessly draw energy from that space-time to use as my own—at least charging it is no problem.]

Panloss clearly understood what Ian meant—being an ally in the joint reconstruction of the Sky Ladder with the Silverpeak Domain, he actually knew Ian’s distant journey was to seek the aether’s ethereal origin... He originally thought that even if Ian had gains, they wouldn’t be too significant, but apparently, Ian truly discovered another method to access infinite energy.

And even a simpler method.

As long as one searches far enough in the aether, one can naturally find worlds of infinite energy among infinite possible worlds, in that hot, ever-expanding universe incubating many strange creatures. Perhaps infinite numbers of pure energy beings like the Sunbird exist there... But that’s just theory, who would’ve known Ian could actually find it?

"Where have you explored?"

At this moment, Panloss’s voice carried a hint of awe, as he understood well that someone who could accomplish all this had surpassed boundaries that were hard to transcend for them.

Fifth Energy Level? Sixth Echelon?

It made no difference... Ian needed no Power Level to ascend; the path he took, the markers he left, were their realm.