#605 - The 500th year of the era, but I haven't become a god yet.

Time passed quickly again, and it was the year 419 AD.

The 18th human civilization spent a large sum of money to purchase enough materials from the Temple of Greed to complete the construction of the "Central Array".

The entire city wall is built with thick earth-based materials, and its surface is rough yet solid, as if it has withstood thousands of years of wind and rain, yet remains unmoved - this is the ancient rhythm deliberately created by the masters of carving.

As the sun shines, the city walls glow with a faint golden luster, exuding a calm and heavy atmosphere.

This city wall is built around the inner ring of Green City. It is about 120 kilometers long and has certain protective performance and load-bearing capacity. It can accommodate trucks, which lays the foundation for the expansion of Sky City.

Standing under the city wall, one can seem to feel a tremendous force coming from underground.

At this point, the fourth-level technology [Pangu Mind Resonance Technology] has basically been realized.

The total cost was 329 points! Seriously over budget!

The Northern Array and the Central Array could, in theory, raise the upper limit of human divine attributes to 20-25 points - a considerable number.

Although there are still three large formations that have not been completed, we will have to wait until we have gathered enough materials to consider it.

"This formation is our first step towards a Level 4 civilization."

"We are in the primary stage of Level 3 civilization and will remain in this stage for a long time. We are now heading towards the intermediate stage of Level 3 civilization..."

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A level 4 technology is not enough to propel humanity to a level 4 civilization.

As the backbone of Pangu Continent, the fourth-level civilization should be powerful in all aspects such as culture, economy, industry, and technology.

Therefore, more level 4 technologies are being researched simultaneously...

Lu Yuan often sighed that the old cat was really patient. There was obviously a civilization relic at the northern limit, and the level 4 information inside could be easily obtained, but the old cat insisted that humans conduct independent research and even invested a lot of manpower and material resources for this - in this respect, it was generous.

It will bring about progress in the entire research system.

It can also cultivate more talents.

Although garbage collection is a fast-growing profession, it is difficult to develop a system.

In the 429th year of the Era, the second Level 4 technology showed signs of dawn - [Supermatter Condensation]!

This term is very strange. After Lu Yuan learned about it, he realized that this is actually an idealistic science that increases the level of extraordinary materials!

"Can the material level be increased?"

"Yes, Pangu Continent has developed to the Ninth Era, and legendary treasures have become extremely rare."

"In all the 18 civilizations we humans have traveled through, we have only found a few legendary-level materials. We haven't even found any epic-level materials... This shows how rare these precious materials are."

The professor who leads the [Supermatter Polarization] project is named Lu Guangming, and he is also a "super thinker".

Lu Yuan sat in the first row.

After some calculation, the only legendary items dug up by humans were obtained in the volcanic eruption of the "Source Fire Civilization", and there are no more than that.

"If legendary materials are hard to come by once in a century, then epic items are almost non-existent. Only a small number of anomalies can be produced."

"Immortal-grade materials are even more of a natural disaster-grade anomaly, and are only produced in very small quantities."

Not every natural disaster can produce "immortality". The productivity of [monsters] is far stronger than that of [ghosts], ghosts are stronger than [monsters], and [monsters] are stronger than [devils].

But there are also differences between [demons] and [demons].

For example, the poppy tree had been severely damaged and could only produce some excellent items until now. It has only recovered a little in recent years.

However, Lu Yuan's Tree of Life can produce legendary wood, and the output is just so-so.

But the Tree of Life is still a long way from producing immortality.

It would take a monster that had survived for several epochs and expended a huge amount of vitality to produce immortal items.

And the fact that Lu Yuan could pick up two immortal miracles in one day is truly unique in Pangu Continent!

The professor changed the subject and said, "Then how did those powerful civilizations obtain their advanced materials?

"[Supermatter Condensation] is a method that uses the power of the Pangaea Continent to catalyze and upgrade some materials."

"The specific process is as follows..."

This project is also quite troublesome, involving high temperature and high pressure, low temperature and high pressure, and the construction of special instruments.

This instrument is similar to the Large Hadron Collider and consumes an astonishing amount of manpower and material resources.

"But the process will consume a lot of luck, right?" Old Cat couldn't help but ask, "Is there such a thing as upgrading for no reason in the world?"

The professor was a little embarrassed and scratched his bald head. "That's true... The way to save money requires a huge amount of time, thousands or even tens of thousands of years. If you want to save time, you have to spend more civilization points."

"The current price-performance ratio is not as good as the direct purchase from the [Temple of Greed]. We estimate that it will cost more than a thousand civilization points to catalyze 1 kilogram of high-purity epic materials."

"Catalyzing the Immortal Level may cost five thousand or even more than ten thousand."

Everyone fell silent. Who could bear this?

The old cat almost burst into swearing, and the hair on his head exploded!

Although Lu Yuan was just listening from the side, he was secretly shocked and kept calculating the wealth of mankind.

"If there were no extra income from the trading market, the original 3,000 civilization points would really be stretched, and a few level 4 technologies would have used up all of them."

From this perspective, the development of advanced civilization is really not easy.

This requires civilization points, and that requires civilization points. I have a big family and a big business, and I can’t afford it!

But no matter what, this technology still needs investment and development...

"First... research cheap technology first..." The old cat felt like he was about to have a soul, and said tremblingly, "We still have to rely on picking up garbage... There is not much demand for high-end materials at the moment."

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In the 444th year of the Era, after thirty years of fermentation, the [Temple of Greed] finally gained the recognition of all major races in the North.

This thing called Divine Skill is indeed hard currency and has triggered a wave of sales craze.

Although the price is a bit high, the emergence of a divine skill may change the course of civilization development and effectively make up for one's own racial defects. It is indeed quite valuable.

"It's okay not to be powerful, but it's also okay to be absent!"

Under the guidance of this idea, civilizations came to trade every now and then.

In recent decades, Lu Yuan has successively launched several best-selling divine skills such as "Glyph Reader", "Whisperer", and "Treasure Hunting Eyes".

The one with the greatest purchasing power is actually the 18th civilization of humanity? !

Well, humans are indeed the wealthiest and most in-demand civilization...especially since humans have made a little money recently.

The old cat who knew the truth could only complain to the old aliens: "When I think about the humans buying up so much and all the hard-earned money going to Lu Yuan, it's like eating a pile of shit."

"Aren't humans enhanced? If I copy the skills of God, won't it cost money?!" Lu Yuan said shamelessly, "And if I sell it cheaply to humans, won't people soon speculate that this is the temple of the Greedy Demon God?"

That's true.

Combining "Carved Reading" with "Craftsman Talent" can further improve the craftsman's forging level.

The combination of "super thinkers" and "whisperers" can also enhance scientists' research and development capabilities.

However, those who naturally possess dual divine skills are extremely rare, and there may not be one in ten civilizations.

Therefore, equipping top talents with appropriate magical skills is indeed a way to improve the level of talents.

It’s just… too expensive!

Humanity bought more than 500 divine skills, spending nearly 1,800 civilization points!

The expenses are really like flowing water, and all the money earned is invested in talent training.

The most important thing is that people among themselves all say “no loss”, “no loss”, “we have been making money over the years anyway”.

The old cat muttered a few words in his heart, but finally he could only let go of this pain: "When can your [Temple] transmit life?"

"The humans have left the North, so you're still wasting time there, right?"

Lu Yuan said with a bitter face: "I have studied for so many years, but there are still some technical barriers that I have not been able to break through."

"I plan to use only small-level inspiration to accomplish this goal. Using large-level inspiration is a bit wasteful."

"Do you have that ability? You just do whatever you want." The old cat was speechless.

The development of human technology has actually brought a certain degree of inspiration to Lu Yuan.

In particular, the communication about the "Pangu World Will" and the construction of various formations filled some knowledge gaps.

So he plans to change his technical path.

Lu Yuan explained: "The teleportation function of [Immortal Palace] is limited to objects, and cannot teleport lives. This is a flaw at the rule level and it is difficult to make up for it."

"But in the short term, it should be only humans who are willing to buy the expensive [Temple], so the amount of transportation required will not be too large."

"Yes... that's it."

"So I plan to transform the ancient insect horn into a flying shuttle that is good at earth escape."

"I will connect the 'flying shuttle' to the will of the world and use its power to complete the long-distance earth escape."

This approach is equivalent to splitting the business into two.

The transmission of non-living things is accomplished by the [Temple].

The transmission of life is actually accomplished by shuttles.

The advantage of this approach is that the connection between [Asgard] and the world's will is greatly weakened to almost zero; the difficulty of forging is also greatly reduced.

If you really want to escape, just sacrifice the "Shuttle" to the will of the world.

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"As for the creation of the shuttle, it is not too difficult. The ancient insect horn itself is an immortal-level earth-attribute material. Its shape and size are suitable for earth escape. Its ability is 'penetration'."

“So there’s no need for too much modification… or even inspiration, just create some carriages that follow behind.”

"This modification will not destroy the shape and characteristics of the horns. If I need to use them in the future, I can remove them and modify them again."

"What's the downside?"

"The downside is that Earth Escape's ability to travel is slower than regular space jumps. Space jumps can really make the world seem like a neighborhood, but Earth Escape navigation may take some time."

"If more civilizations use the Temple in the future, one shuttle may not be able to handle it."

"If it really doesn't work, let the ancient insect grow another horn and I'll buy it! And then modify it into a flying shuttle?" Lu Yuan patted his chest with a look of wealth.

In order to compensate Gu Chong, the old man, he gave him 50 divine skills in the past few years, which made the big beetle very happy and he has become a brother to Lu Yuan.

As for how the ancient insects were distributed, Lu Yuan would not interfere.

With Prince Jinbote advising behind the scenes, there shouldn't be too many problems.

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Time passes again.

Year 483 of the Anno Domini era.

The earth escape shuttle is finally completed!

It looks like a large earth-drilling machine, with an eight-hundred-meter-long ancient insect horn in the front and a series of carriages at the back - Lu Yuan really put a lot of effort into tinkering with these carriages.

You should know that most of the carriages are as big as a 500 square meter house!

The largest carriage is as big as a 1-kilometer floating fortress!

He really doesn't have so much productivity by himself, so with the addition of that armored alien, it would be great.

In the end, it was only with the help of the industrial power of the Lanpeng civilization that these things were produced. (The Lanpeng people fell into a dream, but they still had some industrial power.)

Lu Yuan and the armored stranger Cosi hammered and carved the inscriptions on the carriage. It took them nearly 40 years to complete this huge behemoth.

[Earth Escape: Flying Shuttle]

[The product of the blood and sweat of the legendary Grand Master Craftsman Lu Yuan in the Ninth Era and the Master Craftsman Cosi in the Seventh Era. It does not use too much inspiration or high artistic attainments, but only brings out the extraordinary characteristics of the material itself.]

[The two craftsmen’s curses were left in the carved marks on the carriage.]

[They gradually lost their patience in the repetitive work for 39 years, and from time to time they were annoyed about why they had to produce such a thing with their own strength. Fortunately, they still completed this huge work. ]

[Function: Earth escape shuttle, can quickly shuttle between [temples] and [temples]. ]

[Theoretically, it can also shuttle to other places in Pangu Continent, but poor navigation ability makes it easy for this shuttle to get lost. (Immortal-level Artificial Wonder--)]

When Lu Yuan saw this line of text, he collapsed to the ground.

He completed this work without any inspiration.

However, because he has not fully comprehended the principle of "earth escape", he can only shuttle between temples for the time being.

Once derailed, the shuttle can easily get lost in the soil, and the cost of the shuttle will increase significantly.

"It's done..." The armored alien who had been working felt a lump in his throat. He had never been exploited like this in his life. His entire soul had been hollowed out.

But there was no way, he was the only craftsman among the alien group.

Moreover, the evaluation of "Immortal-level artificial wonder--" seems to be the best in his life?

Well, there's nothing to be proud of. It's not even as good as the material level, and it feels like a waste of resources. But as long as it doesn't drop below the immortal level, it seems to be acceptable?

Thinking of this, the armored stranger felt secretly satisfied.

"It's done... As long as we put in some spiritual energy, this shuttle will be able to move." Lu Yuan muttered to himself while lying on the ground, "Now, we can sell the [Temple] to other civilizations."

By the way, the results of the appraisal were hidden.

As the creator, he was able to hide a lot of information. Others could only see the simple name "Flying Shuttle".

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The official sale of [Temple] has caused a small wave of excitement in the North.

This proves that there is indeed a mastermind behind the Temple of Greed, but this mastermind never shows up and never even releases any information.

Of course, the weaker civilizations felt nothing about this news.

Each [Temple] costs 200 Civilization Points!

It's shockingly expensive!

But for powerful civilizations, there are some subtleties in their hearts.

The world seems so small... Just imagine, a floating fortress loaded with weapons is teleported out from the temple all of a sudden. What does that mean?

Of course, the most important thing is whether it is reliable. Will there be any hidden dangers after purchasing the [Temple]? Will there be any strange things transmitted to me?

In the year 499 AD, humans purchased two temples under the strong support of Lu Yuan and Lao Mao.

This kind of [temple] cannot enter the "Heavenly Palace" of the Immortal Palace, so it also avoids the risks related to taboos.

"Comrades, please don't be reluctant to give up these civilization points."

"This is a very good trump card. We have been staying in the North for more than two hundred years."

“Life here is comfortable, but it can never be the end of our journey! Once we indulge in pleasure, we will lose the motivation to move forward.”

“So it is also our strategic goal to prepare for future adventures and increase our trump cards.”

"Now, I declare that the first shuttle attempt begins!"

Lu Yuan, the ultimate beneficiary, said shamelessly that even he himself felt somewhat against his will.

The old cat was listening and felt his fur stand up, spitting non-stop.

But there was nothing he could do. He didn't mean to make money from humans on purpose. If the price of the [Temple] was too low, it would be troublesome for everyone in other civilizations to have one.

You know, this thing is actually tailor-made for humans.

Lu Yuan doesn’t even want to let other civilizations use it!

The two [Temple] were placed one in front and one behind, in the Green Market, near the Tengyue Clan, which is the northern limit. The total distance is about 32,000 kilometers.

"Don't be nervous, I have spatial abilities, I can take risks."

He even personally brought some experimental animals into the temple.

What came towards us was a milky white space, which was actually already inside the body of the "flying shuttle".

Lu Yuan felt a little overweight, but nothing else.

The Immortal-class Earth Shuttle was indeed powerful. It traveled 32,000 kilometers in about 14 seconds and consumed 0.12 spiritual charms - after all, it only had one carriage, so it was still relatively economical.

If you want to go faster, that's fine, but it will cost you luck!

When he arrived at the territory of the Tengyue Clan, he was greeted with a lot of exclamations and overwhelming applause.

This means that humanity’s projection capabilities in the North have reached a whole new level!

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Then, Anno 500!!

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