Chapter 13 Reaching the Goal
Day after day, year after year, in the long interstellar voyage, time seems to be the most worthless thing, and before Ye Qiuli knows it, another 7 or 8 years have passed quickly, counting the previous 3 years, he has left the earth and flown in this empty and lonely universe for more than 10 years.
The long flight of more than 10 years has completely tested Ye Qiuli's psychological endurance, and after surviving the discomfort at the beginning, he has slowly become accustomed to this lonely long-distance travel, and now he can cultivate or study very calmly.
Master loneliness!
After experiencing the test of this long time, Ye Qiuli deeply understood the meaning of these words. Loneliness is not only a description of the state of life, but also a thorough spiritual baptism. After getting through the initial stage of restlessness and calming down the inexplicable fire in his heart, he was now not only able to face everything in front of him calmly, but also felt that his spiritual cultivation had made a huge breakthrough, and his realistic cultivation had also improved a lot.
Indeed, after 10 years of careful tempering, Ye Qiuli's overall cultivation was already completely different from the realm when he first left the earth, and his abilities in all aspects had been significantly improved.
In the past 10 years, although in order to prevent sudden accidents, he needed to frequently compare and adjust the flight attitude of the spaceship, and he was not able to carry out in-depth retreat cultivation, but he still used the relatively free time during the flight to turn out all the jade slips that he had obtained from Lu Yan, Baicaosan and others before and studied them again, not only remembering all those huge and complicated information in his mind for later use, but also repeatedly deducing some cultivation techniques, increasing the depth of understanding and improving proficiency.
In this systematic summary and reflection, although Ye Qiuli's cultivation level has not made any obvious breakthroughs, he is still in the early stage of Yuanying, but his skills, experience, insight, and realm have been greatly improved, and his comprehensive ability has improved many times compared to before.
Just like the "Xuanji Spectrum" that he studied in order to pass the time, although he only learned the formation arrangement skills of the low-level realm, but the effect really satisfied him, the high-level alchemy technique that he had just mastered not long ago has taken a big leap forward with the blessing of this magical skill, and now he can successfully refine the medium-grade spiritual weapon, and he is one level closer to the realm of the refining master.
Also, Ye Qiuli's "Star Jue", which had been cultivating for a while, had also made great achievements. It was probably easier to absorb star power in the empty cosmic space, and after these 7 or 8 years of cultivation, he obviously felt that his divine consciousness had been greatly improved, although the realm was still in the early stage of the Yuan Infant, but his divine consciousness had grown to a level that only cultivators in the out-of-body stage could achieve. He also felt incredible when his divine consciousness broke through, but after repeatedly comparing the cultivation codex of Lu Yan, Baicao Sanren and others, he was finally able to confirm that his divine consciousness had indeed cultivated to the out-of-body stage realm one step ahead of schedule.
Such big and small breakthroughs, Ye Qiuli has really made a lot in the past 10 years. This made him sigh with emotion, loneliness is indeed a double-edged sword in the cultivation process, if it can't pass its test, it will naturally bring a lot of damage, but if it can successfully break through its limitations, it will also bring a lot of benefits to the cultivator, not only the spiritual cultivation is more complete and transparent, but even the cultivation can also be cultivated more mellow and free.
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"Report, we have arrived at the target star field and are about to enter the Alpha Centauri star system, please get ready!" On this day, just as Ye Qiuli was concentrating on learning the cultivation knowledge in the Jade Slip, the "Red Rabbit" spacecraft suddenly came with a news that made him overjoyed.
"Ahh Although he has adapted to this long period of loneliness, he is still excited to finally end this long period of loneliness.
"Ahh After this long interstellar flight, he finally successfully reached the set goal, and is about to end this monotonous and lonely life and start a new wonderful journey.
"It's a long distance! It's finally over now!" After venting all the depression and unhappiness accumulated in his heart, Ye Qiuli suddenly felt that his whole body was much more relaxed, and his whole body was filled with a feeling of refreshment.
Looking at the huge star system in front of him, which was completely different from the solar system, and recalling the long distance he had made before, Ye Qiuli couldn't help but let out a heavy sigh again: "4 or 5 light years away! If an explorer from the earth came here, I am afraid that he would still be a young man in his prime when he set out, but he would already be a gray-haired old man when he arrived!"
Indeed, if it weren't for the assistance of cultivators' refining methods, and if it weren't for the use of many cultivation spiritual materials and their best efforts to create a super spaceship that far exceeded the imagination of ordinary people, Ye Qiuli would not have been able to arrive here smoothly in just such a little time.
In terms of the level of science and technology on the earth, even if Ye Qiuli announced the miniature nuclear fusion engine that he led everyone to research, it would be impossible for the spacecraft built by earth scientists based on it to reach the maximum speed of 50% of the speed of light of the new "Chitu" spacecraft, and even the maximum speed of 33% of the speed of light of the old "Chitu" spacecraft, which is only the level of 10% of the speed of light.
In that case, it would take at least forty or fifty years to fly from Earth to the Alpha Centauri galaxy. With such a long interstellar journey, in terms of the lifespan of ordinary human beings, a person can only do it once in his life, and he doesn't even have a chance to return to Earth alive!
"Chitu, release the satellite, observe the environment, and prepare to enter the interior of the star system. After deeply feeling the difficulty of interstellar navigation, Ye Qiuli quickly shifted his attention to the huge star system in front of him, and quickly commanded towards the spaceship Zhi Brain.
After 10 years of long flight, he finally managed to reach his destination, he couldn't wait to set foot in the Alpha Centauri star system, whether there was a teleportation array left behind by an ancient cultivator, he decided to rest here for a while. It was the first time for him to fly such a long distance alone, and he already felt an indescribable exhaustion, both physically and mentally!
"Understood!" After receiving Ye Qiuli's order, the "Red Rabbit" spacecraft quickly released several specially made satellites to connect with the earth, and then quickly moved around the three-star planetary system, exploring the specific environment while looking for a suitable landing site.
The Alpha Centauri star system is a triad star system, the closest galaxy to the Sun, located just 4.4 light-years from Earth. This triad consists of three stars, the main star Centauri α A is slightly more massive than the Sun and has the same chemical composition and brightness as the Sun, both of magnitude 0, and the main star Centauri α B has about 90% of the mass of the Sun and is a companion star of the main star A, with a magnitude of +1.33, located 13.8 arc seconds away from Star A. The two stars are a binary system that is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, orbiting each other once every 80 years.
As for the third star of the star system, α Centauri Centauri, also known as Proxima Centauri, is a red dwarf star with a magnitude of +12.4, located 2 degrees southwest from Earth, and is the closest star to the Sun, only 4.2 light-years from Earth.
α star C can almost be called a supernumerary member of the Alpha galaxy because it is far away from the two host stars, A and B, orbiting the two host stars in a distant region 0.2 light-years away. This distance is not much larger than the width of the entire solar system, so although it is a star, its actual status is only equivalent to an inconspicuous planet of the two main stars, and it is also a planet that has been assigned to remote areas.
Alpha Centauri is an extremely large star system, just looking at the two stars that are not much different from the sun, Ye Qiuli intuitively felt its majestic momentum beyond the solar system. Not to mention, it is also surrounded by a red dwarf star α C, which has gone through vicissitudes and has spent tens of billions of years, and even such a star is already worth half of the solar system.
From a distance, the entire Alpha Centauri star system was already extraordinary, and the planetary system observed after getting close made Ye Qiuli even more surprised. According to the search results of the "Red Rabbit" spacecraft, there are dozens of large and small planets in this huge galaxy with three stars, each rotating along a different elliptical orbit, and the most peculiar thing is that many planets orbit in the same orbit.
Ye Qiuli roughly counted, in the orbits of the planets orbiting the two stars, the largest number of planets was the layer equivalent to the asteroid belt in the solar system, and all the planets added up to more than a dozen. The Alpha Centauri star system does not have the scattered and anomalous asteroid belt in the solar system, and there are more than a dozen relatively small planets orbiting in that layer, which are almost evenly dispersed in the vast and boundless space.
The presence of so many planets in the same orbit at the same time is probably an astronomical miracle. It's a pity that the planets in outer space themselves do not emit light, and the reflected star light is very weak, so we can basically only rely on calculating the influence of star motion to speculate their existence, and in a huge galaxy with three stars like Alpha Centauri, the movement of stars is too complicated to human beings have not yet discovered the existence of planets in this star system, otherwise, such a scene does not know how many difficult puzzles to solve for celestial mechanics.