Counterattack System appeared when I m already At The Mahayana Realm

Chapter 590: Chapter 589: The 9th Mother Planet

“The understanding of the cultivator realms is skewed,” Bai Hongtu pointed out their mistake.

“The Qi Cultivation Stage should involve absorbing and exhaling the primeval purple qi, achieving a range of thirty thousand li of purple qi spread all around to qualify as an initiate in the Qi Cultivation Stage.”

“Next is the Foundation Establishment Stage, refining forty-nine tracts of primeval purple qi, this is the Heavenly Dao’s Foundation Establishment. Refining fifty tracts of primeval purple qi is the great Dao’s Foundation Establishment.”

“For the Golden Core Stage, the ‘golden’ stands for indestructibility. Attaining a Golden Core means you can roam freely across ten thousand realms, journey through the streams of time with a golden body that can never perish, existing throughout eternity…”

Jiang Li knocked on Bai Hongtu: “Enough with your fabrications.”

Yu Yin upon seeing this couldn’t help but withdraw his half-extended hand.

Jiang Li had seized the opportunity to knock Bai Hongtu first.

As for the captain, he didn’t mind this performance, it wasn’t uncommon for the delusional and powerful cultivators at the Body Integration Realm.

Modifying one’s body to reach the Body Integration Realm inevitably erodes the mind. This is the price one has to pay in their cultivation journey.

Jiang Li, pointing at the landscape outside the window, asked: “Is that object what you mentioned about the camera in the universe?”

A metallic creation hovered outside the spaceship window, it’s like a huge pot, with a maximum diameter of hundreds of kilometers.

Constructions of similar metallic objects could be seen everywhere. The spaceship had not flown for too long before Jiang Li saw seven of them.

“Yes, it’s called the Universe Eye, used for observing the universe. Universe Eyes are scattered throughout the whole universe with purposes like mining the stellar iron ores.”

“With such a body type, how do you reproduce?” As a frequent visitor of the Union Sect, Bai Hongtu couldn’t understand the captain’s actions.

Entire body of steel with no perception, no touch, no feeling, no taste – what’s the point of living then?

“What’s difficult about reproduction? Before merging with the spaceship, just need to deposit the seed in the hospital and it will take care of itself.”

“The process?”

“Is the process important?” The captain retorted, leaving Bai Hongtu at a loss for words.

The captain continued: “The actions on the bed are a result of hormone and physiological reactions controlling humans. As cultivators, we should abandon these behaviors. As observers, we should always keep rationality above sensibility.”

“We’re at the port,” said the captain.

Without even a tremor, the spaceship arrived at the port in silence. The port was bustling with hundreds of ships, it was the largest port on this planet.

The port was bustling, and as soon as we stopped, countless workers were unloading minerals from the ship. In just over ten minutes, all the stellaceous minerals were unloaded.

“The president, upon knowing of the arrival of you three, expressed a warm welcome. Do you wish to pay a visit to the fallen star corporation?” The captain reported the matter of the trio to his superiors, the top executives of the corporate group were very interested in the three of them.

Even without the captain’s report, the corporation would be aware of their arrival. Cameras are everywhere on the spaceship, the corporation knew all about the happenings on the spaceship.

“Thank you, but we would like to explore this place on our own as we have just arrived.” Jiang Li declined politely and disappeared into the crowd after disembarking.

The captain wanted to persuade them further, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he found that the three had disappeared beyond his sight.

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“Welcome to the ninth mother star.” A large electronic screen erected outside the port welcomed visitors from other planets.

The port serves both as a transit station for goods transport and as an interstellar transit station for tourism. Numerous people from other planets come here to play.

“The ninth mother star?”

Jiang Li noticed that in the lower left corner of the welcome electronic screen, there was a piece of text explaining the origin of the ninth mother star.

At first, there were only three stars in the observer’s world, known as the “Three Mother Stars”. Later, with more and more people coming to the space, a new gathering place was gradually formed, named the “Fourth Mother Star”.

Then, an unwritten tradition was formed – any planet with a population of over one billion is also considered a mother star.

So in the order of their formation, the fifth mother star, the sixth mother star… the ninth mother star… the one thousand two hundred and twenty-first mother star were established.

“Even the trees here are cast from steel.” Bai Hongtu knocked on the trunk of a tree, which emitted a metallic sound.

Whether it was the people walking on the street, the dogs running joyfully, or the birds flying in the sky, all of them bore traces of artificial creation, either in their organs or entirely artificial.

Most people living here are “steam cultivators”, whose bodies look like mishmash and aren’t quite harmonious.

For example, some people have mechanical arms, but both arms are right arms. Some people limp when they walk because the lower body weight adjustment device is not sensitive. Some people use their bodies as storage, walk to a corner, lift their clothes, open their bellies, and take out all sorts of little toys to set up a stall on the street…

In terms of physique, these people are stronger than common people. Their mechanical organs give them more enduring survival and combat capabilities.

Jiang Li took out a microphone, pretending to be a reporter, and started interviewing on the street: “Hello, I’m a reporter from ‘Jiuzhou News’. May I take a moment of your time for a brief interview?”

Seeing this, Bai Hongtu conjured a camera and hoisted it on his shoulder.

The small vendor looked doubtfully at the ordinary-looking Jiang Li, then at Yu Yin who was standing hands folded, wondering. Shouldn’t it usually be a female reporter doing the interviews?

However, the small vendor had no intention of refusing, after all, appearing on television might boost his business.

“Why did you choose to modify your body?”

“Because mechanical body parts are more efficient than our own body, you see. If your heart has issues, you need surgery, if your intestines have issues, you need surgery. But it’s different with a mechanical organ – if there’s a problem, you just replace that part, it’s simple and convenient.”

“My parents have educated me since I was a child that I should aspire to replace my whole body with machinery and progress to a higher level as a cultivator.”

“I thought I could replace my whole body when I was a kid. Not to mention anything else, at the very least, I wanted to replace the steam-powered parts with electric ones.”

“But now that I’m grown up, I’ve come to face the reality that I’m just an ordinary person. The cost of reaching the electric powered Foundation Establishment Stage is beyond our means.”

“Although, I still encourage my child to have aspirations, to become an electric powered Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator. I’m running this stall to save money now, so that my child can have a better body in the future.”

“No matter how poor, one can never skimp on their child’s body.”

The small vendor was a talkative person, he talked a lot in front of the camera, sharing his experiences and thoughts. The trio listened silently, interjecting occasionally.

What the little vendor said could largely reflect the lifestyle of ordinary people on the Ninth Mother Star.

“My son has been talking about joining the army since he was a child, no matter how much I dissuade him. It’s dangerous to be a soldier, I know. If a big devil crosses over from another world, soldiers are the first to go to the battlefield. That silly boy still thinks that being a soldier is some kind of honor, it’s one’s life at stake.”

“But then again, without the protection of soldiers, we would have died long ago to the attack of the big devil. We wouldn’t have been able to live as we do now.”

“It’s such a dilemma…Wait a minute, this isn’t live broadcasting, is it?” The small vendor realized that what he was saying shouldn’t be broadcasted on television.

Jiang Li smiled slightly: “It’s not a live broadcast. Could you please explain what the big devil is that crosses over from other worlds?”