Showdown, my deck is from the East.

Chapter 1216 When Humanity's Stars Shine
Unlock new crafting recipes:
[Eternal Golden Elixir] + [Penglai] + [Below Tianjing] = [Penglai·Xuanming (Black Lantern) Heavy Industrial Star Sector]

[Eternal Golden Elixir] + [Penglai] + [Upper Tianjing] = [Penglai - Void-Gazing Level Light Industrial Star Zone]

Core features:

Passing through the curtain of stardust, beneath Penglai lies an eternal night.

The use of energy is not necessarily more powerful with bigger noise and more exaggerated special effects. Sometimes, the more restrained the energy is, the more energy is conserved.

"Creation forges the pivot, the eternal night tempers the profound darkness—production capacity completes a qualitative leap in silence."

This passage is inscribed on the sun-blocking banner, but it cannot be seen without some means.

Because the entire region uses the Eternal Night Shielding Production Protocol, under the shroud of darkness, sound and light are controlled, and 99.8% of photons and energy resources are directed to the fusion casting array.

The Nine Heavens Supergravity Well silently injects molten lava from planetary debris (10^7℃) into the rune-forging stream, unseen and unheard, its immense power and production capacity unparalleled.

The production capacity of a star-shaded factory is on a completely different scale from that of a planetary civilization.

To put it simply, the Yunzhou Gun and Arrow Factory produced 110,000 real fire-based magical weapons over twenty years.

As long as there are enough raw materials, it will take at most three days!
This is the Penglai Heavy Industrial Zone.

Ladies and gentlemen, now follow me as I leap out of the Xuanming on my sword!

Above Penglai, rays of light shone in countless directions.

Planetary civilizations, due to their low photon projection levels, can only perform microscopic operations at most.

The Penglai Photon Star Sea Protocol: A stellar-level photon torrent (1.8×10^45 photons/second) enables virtual-level precision sculpting.

Stellar-level illumination provides a massive amount of photons, like a galaxy pouring in, making virtual reality operations commonplace. The wonders of virtual reality creation lead to leaps and bounds in all industries.

Beneath Penglai lies utter darkness, above Penglai shines a blaze of starlight; light and heavy industries are two sides of the same coin, as the poem says:

Nature bestows its most wondrous beauty, dividing day and night with yin and yang.

The leap in basic production capacity and the upgrading of high-end industries have a ripple effect on the entire industry.

Civilizations flourished in a variety of ways, each with its own strengths. Tianjing's technology was far ahead of other civilizations of the same era, but it was not without its weaknesses.

In the planetary era, Tianjing has undertaken an energy revolution in energy technology.

Spiritual energy was a common "fuel" used by the people of Yujing during the Celestial Immortal era. Celestial craftsmen would travel in celestial boats to collect the atmosphere of gaseous resource planets, send it to Kunlun Mountain for purification through a spiritual steaming process, and then distribute it to all realms of Tianjing, which can be considered a revival of spiritual energy.

However, the gas is mixed at this time, and each sect and mountain gate needs to use the spirit gathering array to purify it again, or when using it, the cultivators and immortal beasts need to breathe and refine it themselves.

After designing a way to shoot down the most advanced fighter jets of the Demon Race, two revolutionary leaps were made in energy.

With a Golden Immortal presiding over it, the Jade Capital Civilization has already reached the level of a stellar-level civilization, and large-scale production of high-grade solid fuel spirit stones/immortal stones and high-grade liquid fuel jade liquid has become possible.

In the past, spirit stones and spirit liquids were naturally formed by the universe, but that's no longer the case.

The first energy leap was the pagoda condensation method - the Tianhe pressure irrigation technique.

The gaseous energy is condensed through nine layers of magical artifacts, and then pressurized and liquefied by the power of the nine heavens (gravity). The high-grade spiritual liquid is almost equivalent to 1 cubic meters of compressed immortal energy!

It is sufficient to support the energy storage of large-scale war artifacts and the mountain-protecting formation.

The second energy leap would be terrifying.

Hengdi Vein Crystallization Technique - Bagua Star Refining Furnace Process.

Cooled stars are dwarf stars, which have extremely dense cores. The furnaces built from these cores are exceptionally strong and can withstand eight spatial folds of their contents without collapsing. They are known as the Bagua Furnace.

It can solidify and nucleate the "fuel".

The Immortal Core Solid Fuel is a strategic reserve at the level of a Golden Immortal, with each one containing energy equivalent to the total energy output of a hydrogen-helium energy galaxy over ten thousand years.

Many problems that are unsolvable by planetary civilizations are simply 1+1 for stellar civilizations.

For example, starship forging:
[Eternal Golden Elixir] + [Kunlun] + [Jade Pool] + [Military Port - Dragon Palace/Qingqiu] = [Radiant-Class Skyship Foundry (Starship Production Line)]

The giant ship construction technology of Tianjing originated in the early planetary era. The Xiao-class battleships and war behemoths quickly made great achievements. However, because the Northern Expeditionary Army had no place to stay while driving through enemy territory, the navy had high requirements for surprise attacks and concealment, and small size and high speed became the direction of development.

With the Golden Immortal in charge during the stellar era, the neighboring Yanzhou demon race is practically already in their grasp. The future strategy should be to take Yanzhou and then exert comprehensive pressure on the demon race's central army from the Yanyun direction.

That's right. We need to squeeze the entire Demon Race's Lower Realm Central Army, at least force them to strategically retreat. Our brother forces are struggling to breathe, and we must force them to abandon their annihilation of the Allied Forces.

This isn't arrogance; it's a rather cautious strategy based on our current strength.

If it weren't for the fear of the existence of the Demon Lord of the Great World and the need to keep a large number of key trump cards, Lu Cheng would definitely have to siphon back all the demon forces from the lower realms in the west, south, and north to confront them!
To create a comprehensive posture of oppression, small and fast weapons of war can only serve as guards. When it comes to strategic threats, it's time for the real big guys to make their appearance.

Against this backdrop, giant/large naval and air force equipment has entered a full-scale research and development cycle.

Once the resources of Yanzhou are under our control, there will surely be a big surprise.

Of course, the army will not only receive new mountain and sea beast skin boots in the future. In order to improve the physical fitness of the entire state and the entire army, theology and ecology are also making leapfrog progress in the stellar era.

For example: [Eternal Golden Elixir] + [Ecological Research Institute - Wuzhuang Temple] + [Plantation - Peach Garden] = [Dao Fruit Cultivation Base]

Cultivation has always been inseparable from rare and precious materials.

There is a limit to the number of elixirs that can be created using mechanical techniques.

After acquiring knowledge of the photosynthetic engine and the notes of ancient cultivators, controllable spiritual fusion ginseng fruit cultivation became possible, and it could basically become a civilian-grade product.

Here's a direct look at the health product instruction manual published by Wuzhuang Temple—"Ginseng Dao Fruit Instruction Manual" V2.1:

Product Model: 12nm Sunburst Pattern Gold Sphere, Eternal Ginseng Fruit.

Production batch number: Culture medium No. 4, Quadrant III - Bingyin Xuanzi Tian

Shelf life: 1 yuan (129600 years) from the date of packaging.
The natural entropy increase rate per millennium is ≤0.001%.
Exceeding the expiration date may cause the energy of the prominences to dissipate (manifesting as sunspots on the surface of the gold sphere).

Technology and process: It takes three thousand years for the flower to bloom and three thousand years for the fruit to bear fruit. A supercritical culture medium is built to achieve super-spacetime growth. The surface is engraved with the pattern of the sun's halos, which completely corresponds to the energy reaction trajectory of the simulated star over six thousand years.

Aseptic technology: Wuzhuang Temple promises that the fruit is pure and natural, pollution-free, and the entire cultivation process uses the Tiangou-1 shaded greenhouse, which shields 99.1% of energy leakage and external pollution. The internal etched Qingxin Mantra array is larger than 80,000 (Peeping Void process), completely purifying spiritual pollution.

Health benefits: Non-medical use is expected to increase cultivation level by 6,000 years.

Medicinal value: Treats broken pills, pseudo-pill syndrome, leakage of spiritual energy in industrial elixirs, weakness of innate spiritual roots, and poor breathing.

Environmental adaptability warning (!!!)
Implantation/administration is strictly prohibited in the following environments:

Demon-contaminated area (demonic energy concentration > 300 ppm)

Ruin Gravitational Trap (gravitational fluctuations > 10^5 G)

The range of an unprotected supernova explosion (within 1 light-year).

Three prohibitions and three musts (!!!)
1. Do not touch the toilet bowl directly without washing your hands after using the toilet.

2. Do not eat only half.

3. Please keep out of reach of children. Do not throw or play with the fruit.

4. The ginseng fruit is a high-pressure, high-energy, and high-dimensional fruit, and its consumption must be assisted by a medical unit at the level of the Suwen/Lingshu sect.

5. The fruit body has its own spiritual root. When a cultivator without a wood spiritual root is implanted, the spiritual root needs to be carefully trimmed by a physician to the size of the dantian to avoid rejection. Cultivators with wood spiritual roots or pseudo-spiritual roots can be directly implanted to enhance the performance of their original spiritual root.

6. If you intend to use this fruit as an ingredient in alchemy, you must consult the local Heavenly Court Medicine Supervision Bureau. Do not attempt to do it without proper guidance. Improper alchemy will bring tears to your loved ones' eyes.

Quality Commitment:

If the fruit deteriorates prematurely due to process defects (entropy increase rate > 0.01%/year), it can be replaced free of charge using the cultivation code.

Accidental injury compensation:

Those whose Golden Core explodes due to improper operation may be provided with medical services such as physical reconstruction and nourishment of the primordial spirit, depending on the circumstances.

Warning at Wuzhuang Temple:

"Floating within the ginseng fruit are tamed stars—only by respecting the way of Heaven can one attain longevity."

Report link for pirated/smuggled medicinal materials: Nantianmen Security Division - Zhuxiantai direct link.