Morning Star Principality, Golden Shark Star Region, White Tower Floating Land.
Jiangyuan City, suburbs, ultra-long-range star sea launch platform.
With a thousand-meter light column rising into the sky, the hundreds of fire-flying ships that were neatly parked on the platform just a moment ago disappeared completely and were launched into the unknown distant starry sky.
At the same time, thousands of miles away, Jiangyuan City, one of the five major cities of the White Tower Floating Land, is Jiangyuan City.
In the No. 3 dormitory building for boys in Jiangyuan City's No. 1 Fire Academy, Song Chi took off his virtual helmet and logged out of the White Tower network.
A nervous mood emerged on his face. What he just watched was the real-time star sea launch live broadcast of the graduating students of Jiangyuan City Fire Academy.
And after Jiangyuan City, it was Jiangyuan City where he was. As a graduating student of Jiangyuan's No. 1 Fire Academy, that is to say, the scene just live on the screen will soon be his turn.
Ultra-long-range star sea deployment, exploring the unknown star sea, how can I not be nervous when I think that I will experience both of them in person soon?
In addition to being nervous, there is a hint of expectation in the depths of his eyes, because this is also a rare opportunity. As long as you can grasp it, it is not impossible to soar into the sky.
This is a great era of the star sea. Tens of millions of years ago, the multiverse was broken, and the fragments of the universe left after the countless universes were broken were scattered in the void of the star sea.
Since then, the era of the multiverse has ended, and a new era has come into being. The remaining civilizations of all parties call it the era of the broken star sea.
These remaining fragments of the universe have also been given a new name in the long time—the floating land of the star sea.
Soon, the various civilizations discovered that as the final essence of the broken universes in the era of the multiverse, most of the floating lands of the star sea contain countless rare resources.
In order to compete for these resources, the remaining civilizations of all parties refused to give in, and the entire broken star sea was in flames.
For tens of millions of years, countless civilizations have been destroyed in every corner of the boundless broken sea of stars, annihilated in the long river of time, but at the same time, various new civilizations have begun to emerge like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.
Xinhuo human civilization is one of them.
In the Xinhuo civilization territory, all civilized citizens can use the Xinhuo flying ship to conduct ultra-long-distance interstellar delivery at the age of 30 to start the exploration of the sea of stars.
Of course, due to the optimization and advancement of genetic technology, the average life expectancy of Xinhuo citizens has reached 140 years old, and today's 30 years old is actually equivalent to the age of just becoming an adult.
Since the Xinhuo source seed was ignited more than 300,000 years ago, this has become a rule that all members of the Xinhuo human civilization abide by. Legal citizens over the age of 30 can try to awaken the Xinhuo seed, bind the Xinhuo flying ship, and start star field exploration.
Search for resources in the foreign star sea, strengthen the Xinhuo flying ship, and sublimate the life level, in order to fight against the increasingly powerful alien civilizations adjacent to the Xinhuo human civilization territory and guard the territory of the Xinhuo human civilization.
It can be said that awakening the seed of fire and controlling the fire flying ship is the most important opportunity in the life of all citizens of the fire civilization. Once they successfully awaken and obtain their own fire flying ship, they will immediately become superior people.
Even as long as they can strengthen their own fire flying ship to a higher level, they can become the master of a vast star field in the future, have a long life, and enter the ranks of the nobility of the fire human civilization. It is not difficult.
Suppressing the strange emotions in his heart, Song Chi stood up, spread his legs apart in a horse stance, and raised his hands with his palms facing up and slowly opened.
This is the standard posture for practicing the guiding technique.
According to the official authoritative data of the fire human civilization, this set of guiding techniques developed by the fire human civilization for tens of thousands of years can not only strengthen the body and promote the sublimation of the life level, but also effectively increase the success rate of awakening the fire seed. Before the age of 30, the higher the level of guiding technique practice, the greater the chance of successfully awakening the fire seed.
As for why the age of awakening the seed of fire is set at 30 years old.
It's very simple. Based on the average life expectancy of 140 years old, awakening the seed of fire at the age of 30 and controlling the fire flying ship can not only give people enough time to practice the guidance technique, greatly increase the awakening probability of the seed of fire, but also not fall behind the learning of all the basic knowledge of the star sea, effectively reducing the mortality rate of subsequent exploration of alien star domains after the successful awakening of the seed of fire.
And the remaining 100 years are also enough to strengthen the fire flying ship in the future and further sublimate their own life level, which can be said to kill three birds with one stone.
...
Three hours later, Song Chi ended his practice.
After more than 20 years of uninterrupted practice, his guidance level has already reached lv4. If he wants to improve it, it is not possible in a short time.
Now it is already dark outside, and he has no intention of continuing to practice. After washing up, he went straight to bed.
Tomorrow is the day of the fire awakening, and it is more important to keep enough energy than anything else.
...
The next day, Jiang Yuan No. 1 Fire Academy playground.
The awakening ceremony has already begun early.
"Zhang Lili, the fire awakening is successful, the quality is "colorless", the next one is Zhou Pengfei."
As the voice of the White Tower Fire Bureau agent rang out, hundreds of students below the awakening platform responded one by one.
Some sighed softly, but more people still showed envy in their eyes.
Although all legal citizens of the Fire Civilization can try to awaken the Fire Seed at the age of 30, the awakening success rate is actually not high. According to the average success rate of the First Fire Academy in Jiangyuan City in previous years, it is very good if four out of ten students can awaken.
This is the First Fire Academy in Jiangyuan, which is full of elites. The success rate of other Fire Academy in the city will only be lower.
In the crowd, Song Chi was like most people. While envious in his heart, he clenched his fists and was extremely nervous.
"It's been 30 years, everything depends on today."
Thinking in his heart, the announcement sounded again.
"Zhou Pengfei, the flame awakening failed, next one..."
"Zhao Yunfeng, the flame awakening succeeded, the quality is "colorless."
...
As one student after another succeeded or failed, it was soon the turn of Class 5 of the Tenth Year where Song Chi was.
"Next, Sun Hao."
Upon hearing the voice, a figure standing beside Song Chi, who was nearly two meters tall and looked like a black bear, trembled.
Seeing this, Song Chi gently patted the other person's shoulder and signaled him to relax.
"Haozi, come on."
The sturdy man was named Sun Hao, and he was one of Song Chi's few best friends in the school.
Sun Hao nodded gently and walked towards the awakening platform.
After a while.
"Sun Hao, the fire awakening was successful, the quality is "white."
Suddenly, there were bursts of exclamations from the students.
As we all know, the same is the awakening of the fire seed, but the quality of the fire seed is divided into different categories. Colorless is the lowest, and the next is white, followed by blue, purple, etc.
Although white is only the second-to-last qualification, it is often possible for one awakener to appear among dozens of awakeners. As for the quality of blue and purple, the probability of awakening is extremely low.
Song Chi smiled and was sincerely happy for his best friend.
As expected, as soon as Sun Hao stepped down from the stage, he was greeted by many classmates. Even those who had barely greeted him in the past ten years came around to deepen their friendship.
It was no wonder that everyone was so mercenary. In fact, Sun Hao was indeed a hot commodity at the moment.
The white-quality Xinhuo Seeds would definitely attract investment from small financial groups, chambers of commerce, families and other forces in the outside world. As long as Sun Hao nodded and signed a legal investment agreement, he would soon receive a considerable investment in resources to strengthen the Xinhuo Flying Ship. With this, the subsequent improvement speed of his Xinhuo Flying Ship would far exceed that of other awakeners.
After all, the initial Xinhuo Flying Ship was at level 0, and the subsequent upgrades and enhancements of each component would consume considerable resources. Without sufficient financial support, the upgrade speed would be extremely slow.
"Next, Song Chi!"
After four consecutive awakenings failed, it was finally Song Chi's turn.
On his side, Sun Hao also gave him a cheering look.
Song Chi took a deep breath, suppressed the nervousness in his heart, and stepped towards the awakening platform.
On the high platform, under the guidance of the Xinhuo Bureau, Song Chi stretched out his right hand to the dark flame in front of him. The dark flame is called "Xinhuo Source Seed". Although it is not the original fire in the core star field of Xinhuo human civilization, it is also separated from it. It can assist the human body in awakening the Xinhuo Seed and increase the success rate of awakening.
Song Chi only felt the warmth surrounding his right palm, as if it was only a moment, and it seemed like ten thousand years had passed. When a needle-like pricking pain came from the palm of his right hand, his tightly closed eyes opened again.
Before he could react, the announcement was already in his ears.
"Song Chi, Xinhuo awakened successfully, the quality is "colorless." "
Stepping down from the awakening platform, Song Chi felt mixed emotions in his heart, happy and worried.
He was happy that he had successfully awakened the Xinhuo Seed, and his future extraordinary road would be smoother, and his efforts over the past thirty years were not in vain.
What he was worried about was the quality of the fire. As the lowest level of fire, the colorless fire seed had a very low upper limit. It was okay in the early stage, but if the quality could not be improved, then as time went by, the strengthening of the fire flying ship would stagnate, blocking his subsequent extraordinary path.
"Hiss!"
Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly felt a burning sensation in his chest. Song Chi's eyes condensed when he thought of something, and he thought to himself.
"It's the Xinghai Market Order that is heating up. What's going on? This is the first time in 30 years."
He returned to the class team with a puzzled face, but this look, in the eyes of outsiders, turned into a lost soul.
"Brother Chi, don't think too much. The quality of the fire seed can be improved. It's nothing to be colorless..."
Sun Hao thought Song Chi was hit, and hurriedly comforted him.
Song Chi shook his head gently, indicating that he was fine. He was not forcing a smile, he really didn't care too much.
When the result of the colorless fire seed came out, he was indeed a little disappointed in his heart, but he soon came back.
As Sun Hao said, the grade of the seed of fire can be improved. Although it is extremely difficult and requires extremely rare special resources, as a time traveler, he is confident that he can slowly improve the grade of his seed of fire.
Yes, he is a time traveler, and he came from the womb.
At this moment, what he is curious about is the Xinghai Market Order hanging on his chest.
As the initiator of his own time travel, he came from the blue star in his previous life. In the past thirty years, he has been very sure that this Xinghai Market Order is his own golden finger.
When he thought that his golden finger was undergoing unknown changes, how could he not care?
Curious, Song Chi couldn't take it out on the spot to see what was going on in public. Fortunately, the burning sensation slowly dissipated after a while.
After about half an hour, the awakening ceremony of all the graduating students of Jiangyuan First Academy was completed.
There are more than 600 students in total, and less than 200 people have successfully awakened the seed of fire.
Crying, laughing, exclamations, wailing... the whole square was in uproar, some were happy and some were sad.
After all, from now on, the life trajectories of the two groups will be completely different.