On a clear night, the sky was full of stars, and fireflies danced across Bird Nest Plain, casting a light on him like silky luminance.
This light was absorbed and refined by him, invigorating it, and bursting into flame.
The light was golden, and his whole body was bathed in a layer of gold, no, not gold, but like the setting sun splashed upon him.
The only contrast was his brow, which became as transparent as crystal.
Yang Qinglan and Li Qianxia quietly watched him, in his world, there was not a single sound between heaven and earth, only the overflow of light, the envelopment of color.
The previously unattainable 'Constant Sand,' nourished by the light, finally showed signs of breaking through the void.
Overnight, a chunk of light the size of a mobile phone disappeared.
As soon as Li Changzhou opened his eyes, Li Qianxia eagerly asked, "How is it? Did it work?"
"So annoying," Li Qianxia slumped onto the chair, "why do we have to mine in the real world after fighting desperately in missions, isn't there an excavator or something?"
"There's basically none," Yang Qinglan also took an apple, "Even at the Divine Will Great Wall, it's the immortal-level Divine Will Warriors who painstakingly collect bit by bit."
Li Changzhou and their group of six had taken a job from a wealthy client, faced with the firepower of an entire planet, and had pulled away an Artificial Constant Star spending nine days to exchange for a few dozen chunks of light and metal, which shows how incredibly rare is light in the highly developed Divine Will Great Wall.
"I'll give it a try later to see what the collection speed is like," Li Changzhou said with another bite of his apple.
"I'll join you," Yang Qinglan offered.
"No need, you cultivate your Neutrino Primordial Spirit, my Five Elements True Saber is almost there, besides, I have nothing else to do."
How could he have nothing else to do? A man with many talents should not feel burdened, with so many Divine Power Techniques in the 'Fragrant Leaf Crown,' who would not want to cultivate?
Yang Qinglan didn't say much, just nodded.
Putting aside personal relationships, as teammates, there must be give and take, and sacrifice within a team.
And indeed, Li Changzhou was the best candidate for collecting light — having a Divine Body, not needing to spend mana to defend against cosmic radiation was one thing, but he could also use it to recover his mana.
He was definitely the ultimate Qi Collection machine.
Too bad, he was a Supreme Immortal, no one dared to treat him as a Qi Collection machine.
On the contrary, if he was a bit more ruthless, he could exploit lower-level immortals, have them do the heavy labor.
"Should I follow my elder brother, or stay and cultivate?" Li Qianxia asked.
"As you wish," Li Changzhou discarded the apple core, "Use these lights first, three months is the time I need to condense 'Constant Sand.' If I use 'Honey Jar World' as my own earthly realm, the speed would be even faster, needing even less light."
"No one is planning to be polite with you," Li Qianxia scoffed at his generosity.
"Didn't you use all your light to buy the Flying Car for someone? Do you even have a share here?" Yang Qinglan looked doubtfully at Li Changzhou.
Li Changzhou was increasingly realizing just how expensive Itheri's Flying Car was no wonder she was so angry she wanted to kill him.
Leaving the 'Honey Jar World,' Li Changzhou flew from the Moon towards Earth.
The light resided about 100 kilometers above the Earth's surface.
100 kilometers is the boundary between the inner layer of the atmosphere and space, also known as the Kármán line, just over this line one reaches outer space, and the flying vehicles that operate above 100 kilometers can be called spacecraft.
Li Changzhou hovered outside the atmosphere, looking at the Earth in front of him, blue and glassy, beautiful, dreamy, pure; Konglu Star could not even compare with Earth.
Standing in front of her, Li Changzhou felt like he was facing his mother — of course, not his birth mother, but a deeper layer of dependence.
On the edge of this beautiful planet's atmosphere, there was a hazy shield of light, which was the airglow.
The airglow could be divided into three types, to put it in modern terms:
The first is Sunlight Airglow, which occurs when the Sun's rays illuminate the edge of the nighttime hemisphere of the atmosphere at dawn;
Second is Twilight Airglow, a small band of light that forms at dusk on the Earth's day/night boundary;
The third is Night Airglow, when solar radiation causes oxygen and nitrogen particles to decompose in the upper atmosphere, forming Night Airglow.
Now it was morning, and the sun, unweakened by the atmosphere, was just a globe of white light, blindingly bright.
Li Changzhou sat cross-legged in the vacuum of space, took a deep breath in.
Across many parts of Earth, the sky began to display phenomena similar to the aurora.
The light burst forth from an unnamed place, enveloping the entire sky, like fluttering ribbons, floating drapes, and as if... Earth was handing down an oracle to all life.
Nations with satellites orbiting above watched the transmitted images and were struck by profound shock, their conference rooms fell into silence, dead silent.
The sight of a weak and insignificant human body against Earth, inhaling and exhaling the Qi of heaven and earth, amounted to an incredibly majestic and grand existence!