Chapter 713: Chapter 708: Earth Core Space
Western Capital, Central Council, Underground.
This is Vault Number Five, one of the seven major secret repositories of Huaxia, storing a large quantity of Spiritual Materials.
As for the other vaults, each focuses on different items: Vault Number Four stores various equipment, Vault Number Three stores Rare Artifacts, and Vault Number Two stores Spiritual Marvels produced in the Wilderness Area.
Vault Number One, while the smallest in scale, has the highest specifications and stores the accumulation of Huaxia’s National Destiny Artifacts over the years.
Other countries also have National Destiny-level Artifacts, just not as consistently produced as Huaxia’s.
Thanks to Huaxia’s relatively stable situation in Spiritual Energy for the past eight hundred years, with no large-scale internal turmoil, these National Destiny-level Artifacts serve as a deterrent, similar to nuclear weapons, and are rarely depleted.
In contrast, countries with chaotic situations find their accumulated National Destiny-level Artifacts easily consumed in civil wars. The more chaotic the situation, the harder it is to organize large-scale world events with the Spirit Realm Will, resulting in fewer new National Destiny Artifacts obtained.
This is also the reason why during the Yazd Star invasion, Huaxia was able to quickly deploy multiple wide-range shields to protect major base cities, minimizing civilian casualties by invaders.
These shields are National Destiny-level Artifacts, which cannot be broken without attacks at the Evolver Level. Furthermore, the shield formed by a National Destiny-level Artifact can be recharged with Spiritual Points, offsetting the wear from attrition attacks, sustaining it for long periods.
Bai Pu stepped into Vault Number Five.
After a series of cumbersome yet necessary identity verification procedures, Bai Pu finally beheld the true appearance of Vault Number Five.
Row after row of large grid storerooms contained pieces of refined Spiritual Metal, including the precious metals Mithril, Refined Gold, and others that Bai Pu was well acquainted with.
The more common materials, such as Red Iron and Fire Copper, were even more abundant, neatly stacked in plenty.
The materials exchanged for Gaia’s Will’s Planet Power Core—Shadow Iron, Star Pattern Sand, etc., are not as rare and valuable as Mithril or Refined Gold, nor are they as common as Red Iron and Fire Copper, but rather are considered moderately rare Spiritual Materials.
However, the demand this time was substantial, requiring significant effort from the authorities to gather.
"Ten tons of Shadow Iron, one thousand meters cubed of Dragon Ridge Stone, one ton of Star Pattern Sand..."
Bai Pu counted, then lowered his head and concentrated his thoughts on the Gaia Mark on his chest.
"I apply for the exchange with Major General authority, to receive the Planet Power Core."
The Three-leaf Scythe of the Gaia Mark slowly rotated, and a prompt appeared before Bai Pu:
"The required exchange materials are complete in variety and sufficient in quantity. Exchange application approved."
"You have obtained a special item: Planet Power Core. Please check in the Storage Space."
"Your next material exchange permission will restore in one natural month."
A slight glow flashed, and in the witness of Bai Pu, Li Ling, and several managers of Vault Number Five, all the prepared materials disappeared into the light.
It looked just like the Spirit Realm teleportation of the Awakened.
Li Ling looked at Bai Pu: "...Has it succeeded?"
Bai Pu immediately checked the Storage Space.
In the Storage Space, quietly suspended was a silver-white sphere with many holes, like the round holes on honeycomb coal, arranged quite neatly.
"It should have succeeded." Bai Pu had previously researched the "Planet Transformation Battleship" and naturally understood how to use this small core.
He turned to Li Ling: "I’m now leaving for the Earth Core."
Li Ling said in surprise: "How are you going to get there? Earth has a radius of over six thousand kilometers, even the deepest Mariana Trench is only ten kilometers deep... And the temperature of the Earth Core is six thousand degrees, no Awakened could withstand that."
Bai Pu shook his head: "I won’t need to. This core will help me."
He took out the Planet Power Core and injected a stream of Prismatic Demon Fighting Qi into it.
As if igniting an electric spark, the once dormant Planet Power Core suddenly rose into the air, spinning, and emitted an engine’s hum! Following that, a silver light ring enclosed Bai Pu, vanishing suddenly.
The others in Vault Number Five looked at each other in dismay.
Li Ling said: "I need to report to the Central Council immediately... I hope Gangxin succeeds."
...
The scenery before Bai Pu froze.
"This... is the Earth Core? The deepest part of Earth?"
Bai Pu was full of shock.
The Earth Core was not as he imagined, neither airtight nor filled with iron-nickel metals as scientists postulated.
This was a spherical space of unseen bounds, filled with dark red dust clouds resembling amber flames. The gravity here was peculiar, seemingly canceling each out from all directions, with the floating Bai Pu feeling no trace of gravity.
On the walls all around were crystal mountains. Between the mountains flowed seas of liquid metal—
Indeed, given the extreme temperatures in the Earth Core, these metals appeared as rivers, lying on the walls due to gravity adsorption and quietly flowing.
A temperature over six thousand degrees, comparable to the sun’s surface, rendering terms like Melt Gold and Refine Iron inadequate.
Understandably, if not for the presence of a silver-white protective film provided by the Planet Power Core, Bai Pu, no matter how tough, would be incinerated by the terrifying heat, becoming part of the dark red dust clouds.
"This surpasses the horrors within the Demon God Salajael."
Bai Pu couldn’t help but marvel.
The silver-white Planet Power Core rotated, suddenly breaking into countless silver-white light dots, embedding into the mysterious Earth Core space around the walls.
Before Bai Pu, a prompt from the Spirit Realm Will appeared.
[Data sampling complete, Earth Core Spiritual Essence transformation underway...]
[Earth Core successfully transformed into a Planet-class Engine.]
[Spiritual Particles will swiftly transform the mantle and crust, enabling them with basic functions of a Major General Level Flagship. Warning: This process will produce unpredictable Earth Vein impacts.]
[Would you like to spend additional Spiritual Particles to ensure the basic safety of indigenous life derived from this planet? This will consume 0.14% of Earth Vein Energy Storage.]
Bai Pu inquired: "What does consuming 0.14% of Earth Vein Energy mean for surface life?"
[Choosing to consume Earth Vein Energy will cause a surface temperature drop. 0.14% means a conventional temperature drop of 1.59 degrees Celsius.]
Bai Pu breathed a sigh of relief, a temperature drop of one or two degrees wasn’t lethal. Protecting Earth’s indigenous life remains very important.
"Can a portion of indigenous life be sacrificed to specifically protect another portion?" Bai Pu asked.
"No."
"Alright, I choose to use Earth Vein Energy to protect the safety of indigenous life derived from this planet. We’ll ignore those invaders," Bai Pu said.
