Cosmic Trading System

Chapter 384 Cultivation Civilization_2

The resources he gathered were mostly rare. In total, he had collected less than ten million tons. To give you an idea of scale, ten million tons of seawater is equivalent to a lake that's thirty meters long and wide and ten thousand meters deep. That still falls short of ten million tons.

So, in terms of Earth's mass, this figure was but a joke.

If Lin Yun included the common resources he collected, then the figure might be more significant.

Moreover, Lin Yun had been transporting various types of floating soil to Earth, along with some construction materials...

Although most of them were worthless, they outnumbered the rare resources and therefore had considerable weight.

If this continued, the gravitational force of Earth might genuinely change. However, not due to it becoming lighter, but heavier. This realization meant that Lin Yun needed to pay more attention to this issue, lest undesirable consequences arise.

One of the reasons Lin Yun didn't plan to continue gathering resources was that he didn't want these precious resources within the Earth to dissipate. Additionally, he was also concerned about the relationship between the Earthlings' exceptional spiritual talent and these various resources.

"Nurture shapes nature." It wasn't a mere saying. Lin Yun had reviewed the resources he collected in the Cosmic Trading System and none of them were proven to be related to such potential life changes.

However, the environment of the universe is a complex subject; who can guarantee that the composite of these resources wouldn't trigger such change?

The most valuable treasure was human beings on Earth. As long as Lin Yun could continually harness the spiritual energy emitted by Earthlings, millions or even billions of Spirit Crystals would be insignificant.

Therefore, considering all aspects, Lin Yun decided to cease gathering Earth's resources after amassing ten million Spirit Crystals.

Now, he had accumulated ten million Spirit Crystals.

"Ten million Spirit Crystals could purchase a level-four civilization battleship. Unfortunately, my mental strength is inadequate..." Lin Yun sighed softly and murmured.

If he owned a level-four civilization battleship, he would face no problems traversing interstellar space, even when coming across level-three technological civilizations, provided that they didn't harbor too many high-level cultivators.

In reality, Earth could no longer be regarded as a primitive civilization. Ignoring the sophisticated technologies owned by various countries, the life forms of countless civilizations across the universe existed on different scales and encompassed numerous cultivation systems.

Citing martial artists as an example, Mingjin martial artists were level-one cultivators, Dark Strength martial artists were level-two cultivators, and Huajin martial artists were level-three cultivators.

If not supported by technological power, it was challenging for inhabitants of certain civilizations to leave their planet... This was why numerous civilizations referred to them as primitive civilizations. However, if a civilization's cultivators were powerful, despite lacking impressive offensive abilities, they would have sufficient defensive capabilities.

This could be categorized as an existence beyond primitive civilizations.

Also known as cultivation civilizations.

Some powerful cultivation civilizations were even stronger than regular technological civilizations.

As for the later stages, Lin Yun wasn't sure. According to the trading ability of the Cosmic Trading System's owner, different levels of the owner possess different levels of authority.

Lin Yun didn't currently have the authority to know more details about civilization divisions.

But he did know that at the preliminary stage, the realm of a certain number of top cultivators in a cultivation civilization, after subtracting three levels, would be deemed the level of the civilization.

In a standard level cultivation civilization, there had to be at least thirty cultivators at the highest realm.

So, a cultivation civilization with thirty level-four cultivators would be considered a level-one civilization.

Innate experts were level-four cultivators, and level-four magicians were also level-four cultivators. The fact that the number of level-four experts who had attacked Qingyun Company last time exceeded thirty meant that Earth's civilization was actually a level-one civilization.

If Earth produced a cultivator who reached the Golden Path or became a level-five cultivator but the number did not exceed thirty, it could also be considered a level-one civilization. This situation was not uncommon amongst countless civilizations in the universe.

A level-one technological civilization could enable its life forms to leave their planet, but their technological power was still primitive. Although they had discovered super energy, their production methods for it were rudimentary, and the super energy they produced was of low quality. They had not yet developed super energy equipment.

Battleships of a level-one technological civilization posed a significant threat to Innate experts. However, this was only true in long-range battles. In close combat, Innate experts still had a chance to fight back.

In conclusion, if a level-one technological civilization were to go up against a level-one cultivation civilization, it would not be easy for them to overcome the latter. It wouldn't be surprising if they were to bite the dust.

Convienietly coming across a Golden core martial artist or a level-five cultivator and failing to escape in time would result in a devastating defeat...

Golden Core martial artists and many cultivation systems' level-five cultivators can perform teleportation easily. They can effortlessly teleport into a level-one technological civilization's battleship. Hence, at close range, a Golden Core expert could destroy a level-one civilization battleship as easily as chopping up vegetables.

Therefore, explorers from different civilizations generally hope to encounter cultivation civilizations, as these civilizations often have abundant resources. However, their biggest fear is also to meet cultivation civilizations because it's easy to determine the technological level of a technological civilization and gauge its level.

Yet, determining the level of a cultivation civilization's strongest cultivator is not easy.

Even a low-level cultivation civilization could potentially produce a high-level cultivator.

The super energy protection shield released by a level-two technological civilization's battleship can defend against a level-five cultivator's teleportation. But, level-five cultivators also have the power to counter. Like Lin Tian, who had the strength of a Golden Core period martial artist, was able to deal with those aircraft earlier.

Continual, rapid attacks might break the aircraft's protection shields... However, the super energy protection shield released by a level-two technological civilization's battleship was powerful and not easily breached.

Besides, the attack range of a battleship was extensive, so a level-five cultivator could not launch an all-out attack indefinitely. If it turned out to be a war of attrition, it would be uncertain who would win.

If they found they couldn't win, level-two technological civilization's battleship could leave at any time, and a level-five cultivator could teleport away at any moment, too.

Therefore, equating level-five cultivators with level-two civilizations in the division of countless civilizations was not without reason.

Only a level-six cultivator could crush a level-two technological civilization's battleship.

Similarly, a level-seven cultivator could crush a level-three technological civilization's battleship.

If Lin Yun had a level-four technological civilization's battleship, he could put up a fight, even against a level-seven cultivator. Plus, he would be able to traverse interstellar space safely.

Unfortunately, as previously mentioned, since battleships are large combat machines, one hundred people with the same level of mental strength are needed to operate them perfectly, or ten people with one level higher mental strength, or one person with two levels higher mental strength… Without perfect operation, a level-four technological civilization battleship wouldn't stand a chance against a level-seven cultivator.

It would only be another's target.

Lin Yun's current mental strength was only level-four. He could only operate a level-two technological civilization's battleship unless his mental strength reached level-six. Only then would he be able to operate a level-four technological civilization's battleship by himself.

Alternatively, he could find another ninety-nine people with level-four mental strength to operate the battleship with him.

This wasn't due to operational techniques. Operating a battleship was extremely complex and required an individual's mental strength to be powerful enough to process the tasks, enabling rapid thinking and issuing a massive number of mental commands.

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However, how easy would it be for Lin Yun to find another ninety-nine people with level-four mental strength on Earth?

Even if he found them, making them obey his commands and learn battleship operation techniques would require significant effort!

It would be better for him to concentrate on his cultivation, and when his martial arts realm improves, to raise his mental strength to level-six!

"Mental strength can only be two levels higher than the martial arts realm. So, that means my martial arts realm must reach the Innate Realm…" Lin Yun shook his head, finding it rather unpleasant to contemplate.