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Lu Ren's face was serene, showing little impatience; it was a necessary procedure.

Although he found it extremely time-consuming, in the real world, under the great power dynamics, it was an inevitable process.

His sharp gaze swept across the powerful figures of the Northern Bear and the Beautiful Country, exuding a palpable sense of pressure. Nosnov from the Northern Bear's eyes froze, his previously crossed arms unconsciously dropped, and his whole body tensed as his muscles suddenly bulged.

BOOM!!

A sound like an engine roar erupted from his body, echoing throughout the entire room.

The biochemically modified robot from the Beautiful Country also immediately detected Lu Ren's spiritual fluctuation. Although it couldn't be seen directly, it could be captured by analyzing Lu Ren's life magnetic field form, thereby determining the opponent was launching a spiritual attack.

Even though the super transformers of the Beautiful Country underwent deep, all-around modifications, they still had significant spiritual voids, only able to use a kind of shielding magnetic energy field for spiritual defense.

Beep beep beep beep!!

The electronic eyes transformed by Thunder had a slight reddish hue, clearly detecting the rapidly rising life energy emitted by both Nosnov and Lu Ren.

He unconsciously touched the high-frequency blade at his waist to prevent either of them from suddenly taking action, ensuring he could respond immediately and not fall into a disadvantage.

Although there was a 99 percent chance that this meeting wouldn't turn into a fight, who knows how the minds of those who surpass human limits work; such incidents had happened too many times before.

Fortunately, Lu Ren just gave them a glance before sitting aside on his own, looking at the information Wang Yong gave him.

"A statue was discovered on the far side of the Moon last year?"

Lu Ren carefully examined the high-definition images transmitted from the lunar rover. The statue was half-buried underground, only the upper part was exposed, and it looked very strange.

The statue seemed to have gone through an extremely long period; its surface was eroded and blurred beyond recognition.

"If there had been a ground quake on the Moon, causing cracks and leaving this statue exposed, I'd never known there were such things on the Moon."

Speaking of this matter again, Wang Yong's face showed an incredulous expression. This statue was from an extremely ancient period, and professional verification confirmed that the carving technique was very crude, lacking any fine detail.

The only regret was the inability to scrape some material; otherwise, it could be detected when exactly this statue was formed.

"So, are there traces of life on the Moon from long ago?"

Faced with Lu Ren's inquisitive interest, a young man with glasses beside Wang Yong nodded with excitement.

"It seems so; this is a true relic of a super ancient civilization. Some excavation works reveal that few super civilizations existed on Earth before the human era, and the relics on the Moon might have been left by one of them."

Lu Ren pondered, "So what's the content of this meeting?"

Wang Yong looked somewhat helpless, "Since the exploration satellites from both the Northern Bear and the Beautiful Country detected the statue exposed by a moonquake, they've been wrangling over how to explore it. In the short span of a month, the three parties have conflicted multiple times, and now they must sit down and talk since the Moon is indeed too far from here."

After detailed inquiry, it was confirmed that Huaxia had already begun preparations for the preliminary work of their third lunar landing plan and even prepared a spacecraft.

With the extensive use of hydrogen energy, the current long-lasting energy supply can effectively guarantee the spacecraft's ability to land on the low-gravity Moon and take off to return to Earth.

This round-trip plan has been carried out three times by Huaxia, and the Northern Bear and Beautiful Country are quite envious. In the current global economic downturn, only Huaxia can brazenly spend nearly three billion to create an aircraft weighing almost two hundred eighty tons.

But there is a problem: Huaxia's current heavy rockets aren't sufficient to send a two hundred eighty-ton aircraft into the air.

Only the Northern Bear Kingdom's Arctic Light super rocket has enough lift force, with a maximum payload of three hundred thirty tons, alongside the Beautiful Country's top-notch lunar detection devices and landing technology.

"So the first two lunar orbit plans were with the first-generation aircraft?"

Lu Ren looked bemused, those shrewd elders of Huaxia were incredibly farsighted, considering far beyond the present; the project of an aircraft of such magnitude was completed in just a year and a half, clearly forcing the Northern Bear and the Beautiful Country to collaborate in this exploration, and since they held the critical environment, the two had no choice but to accept it.

Lu Ren's mind raced, having guessed an idea but said nothing more because he had a substantial interest in venturing into outer space.

Even ancient strong ones, whose divine souls ventured out of their bodies, had few who could travel beyond the heavens. To ascend meant facing fierce astral winds; without a treasure to stabilize the soul or immense personal power, even touching it once meant being scattered to nothing.

Besides, extending into the space environment facing all sorts of cosmic rays directly, how many could withstand such a perilous environment?

Even now, with wings, Lu Ren knew ascending into space alone was not an easy task.

Discussing with Tongxuan, Lu Ren was instantly drawn in; his counterpart had reached profound depths in the Ninth Step of Bright Awakening, perhaps on the brink of Path Determination.

"In fact, the Nine Steps of Bright Awakening, as everyone's way of breaking through and advancing beliefs differ, is just a broad generalization. In the domain of Bright Awakening, you never know who's stronger unless they fight."

After pausing, Zhang Tongxuan sipped tea and continued, "However, in the last three steps of Bright Awakening—the seventh, eighth, and ninth—each step further deepens one's spirit and physique, while optimizing their most fundamental genes to transform cell structure, achieving another limit breaking stage."

Lu Ren thought deeply: the Seventh Step of Bright Awakening indeed elevated his body, while the second limit breaking significantly advanced his body and spirit, coupled with the Qi Seed planted in his body, transformed into a Dantian organ, practicing True Qi through the Bright Sun True Technique.

With all these conditional factors combined, Lu Ren's power had reached inhuman levels.

"Celestial Master Zhang, have you walked the path through the Inner Realm?"

Zhang Tongxuan contemplated, then nodded slightly, "I did explore, but I think my Path Determination's key point may not be that path; something is off about that place."

Lu Ren's interest piqued.

"What do you mean?"

After all, both Chen Xuzi and Subodhi also mentioned that the path through the Inner Realm was a very perilous journey, leading to an unknown final destination.

"I heard, the path through the Inner Realm leads to the Infinite Land." Lu Ren added.

Zhang Tongxuan shook his head, "I found that saying in ancient texts too, but where exactly the Infinite Land is, and what's inside remains a myriad of speculations. Even among past Celestial Masters of Dragon Tiger Mountain, those more brilliant than me couldn't explain clearly what's in there."