Su Ming ultimately refrained from rashly altering this segment of history.
A thousand-year span was simply too vast; he wasn't confident he could stabilize this history yet.
Especially since he hadn't actually figured out how to connect the altered, illusory history with his current illusory timeline.
If they couldn't connect, then it would all be for nothing.
Therefore, he merely left a strand of consciousness a thousand years in the past, keeping an eye on the development of the three major tribes while simultaneously training his Millennium in an Instant Spirit Skill.
[Douluo 1]
"The Sun Moon Continent... it's time for me to start exploring it as well."
Su Ming had opened the 'ruins' for over a year now. The Douluo Continent had been in a frenzy for a full year.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan, Spirit Hall, the two Empires' royal families, and even many smaller sects were all frantically exploring the ruins, excavating the spirit tool legacy within. Some factions had even begun training Spirit Engineers.
Especially the Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan, who had previously dabbled in spirit tool creation, had exceptionally rich reserves of personnel in this area. In just one short year, they actually managed to produce Spirit Engineers in the double digits.
Of course, these were only capable of crafting simple, entry-level level-one spirit tools.
Aside from the breakthrough from zero to one in spirit tool creation, the Douluo Continent also gained awareness of the existence of the overseas Sun Moon Continent.
The ruins were open to the entire Spirit Master world, not just the major powers.
Therefore, nearly all Spirit Masters now knew about the existence of the new continent and were sharpening their tools, filled with a sense of pioneering and expanding territory.
Both Empires, as well as the various major powers, wanted to take a bite out of that Sun Moon Continent!
The Empires wanted to expand their territory.
The powers wanted more resources, and some even harbored ambitions of establishing their own nations, turning the new continent into their personal backing.
"The time is ripe. Both public opinion and maritime technology have been revived. The giant ships have been successfully built. The great voyage operation led by the Spirit Hall is about to commence."
The Eastern Sea coast.
That's right, the route to explore the Sun Moon Continent started from the eastern coast.
The western side of the Douluo Continent led into the deep sea where the Sea God Island was located. The collision between the Sun Moon Continent and the Douluo Continent also came from the west. However, based on Su Ming's investigation of historical records from Douluo 2, he discovered that the Sun Moon Continent's initial position might have been closer to the Douluo Continent's eastern coast.
By the Douluo 3 era, due to development in various industries, experts in archaeology, history, and others had studied geological changes and deduced the initial relative positions of the Sun Moon and Douluo Continents.
All of this was reference material Su Ming used when leaving traces of the Sun Moon Continent's existence in the ruins.
He used an inaccurate nautical chart, vaguely drawn by a lost native of the Sun Moon Continent, to guide the Spirit Master world of the Douluo Continent in the general direction.
The route was imprecise, but the general direction was correct.
Su Ming hadn't been in a hurry to move before, firstly because he genuinely needed scouts to pave the way, and secondly, he was waiting for heavyweight figures to take action.
This time, the various forces on the continent reached a consensus: the major powers would provide powerful experts to ensure the safety of the giant ship during the voyage. The more experts a power provided, the more mining rights they would have in the new continent.
The Spirit Hall dispatched five Titled Douluos: Ju, Gui, Ci Tun, She Mao, and Qing Luan. Among them, Ju, Gui, and Qing Luan were all Peak Douluos!
Such a lineup could be described as extremely luxurious.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan sent Chen Xin.
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's Yu Yuanzhen was guarding the clan and truly couldn't be spared.
Dugu Bo represented the Heaven Dou Empire, and the Star Luo Empire sent the Star Crown Douluo.
As for the Blacksmith Association, Su Ming kept Zhu Jiuyang on the Douluo Continent, not allowing him to make the trip.
Although there was a consensus, when it came to faction development, the Spirit Hall wouldn't necessarily refrain from suppressing the Blacksmith Association, so they couldn't afford to move their Titled Douluo, Zhu Jiuyang.
Even though they didn't send a single Titled Douluo, the Blacksmith Association, as the party that publicly revealed the ruins, was tacitly granted the rights equivalent to five Titled Douluos by the major powers.
This, of course, wasn't decided by Su Ming alone, but was jointly agreed upon by the major powers. Note: 'Major powers' did not include the Spirit Hall.
Five, putting them on equal footing with the Spirit Hall.
The number of experts at the Titled Douluo level was about it. Below them were Spirit Douluos.
There were many more Spirit Douluos.
This voyage had a full twenty-four Spirit Douluos!
The Spirit Hall contributed a full nine Spirit Douluos, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan three, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family two, the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire three each, the Blacksmith Association one, and the remaining powers managed to scrape together three more Spirit Douluos.
Forty-three Spirit Sages.
Over a hundred Spirit Emperors.
The lineup for this great voyage was luxurious.
"Don't go running off."
Dugu Bo boarded the ship with Su Ming.
He warned Su Ming: "Although you are strong and can fight above your level, don't push yourself if you don't have to. After all, we are passing through the deep sea."
Dugu Bo's expression was grave.
"Don't take my words as just empty noise. that bloody-red sword energy from before might still be locked onto you at any moment. You'd best save your energy for dealing with that. It's better not to die in the deep sea. Otherwise, even if you can resurrect, if your resurrection point is constrained and you die in the deep sea, no matter how many times you come back, you'll still be in the deep sea. Then you'd be in a situation where heaven doesn't answer and earth doesn't respond."
Su Ming nodded.
"Don't worry, Senior, I know."
He said this, but in reality, he treated the warning as empty noise.
His resurrection was anchored.
Under normal logic, resurrection would certainly depend on the location of death.
But Dugu Bo and the others didn't possess the Trinity and didn't understand Su Ming's resurrection logic.
The foundation of Su Ming's resurrection lay in Douluo 2.
If he could traverse the River of Time, managing a simple positional anchor was well within his capabilities.
Even if he died in the very center of the deep sea, he could resurrect at anchored locations like the Ice Fire Two Eyes.
"However, dying once..."
Su Ming's eyes narrowed slightly.
If Dugu Bo hadn't reminded him, he would have continued to rack his brains over how to leave the team.
He had no intention of following the main fleet to explore the Sun Moon Continent.
He was going to gather intelligence in advance!
After landing, he absolutely planned to seize control of the continent's resources first.
According to the agreement between the powers, the so-called 'development rights' didn't mean directly dividing shares of all the continent's resources—that would only kill everyone's motivation.
The proportion of development rights referred to the share each party could claim when multiple parties discovered a resource point simultaneously.
With his intelligence advantage, Su Ming had no desire to fight others for scraps.
He wanted to loot the richest areas first!
"During the voyage, I can gather intelligence."
Su Ming entered the perspective of the River of Time and activated his spirit domain once more. This time, he sent himself to the Sun Moon Continent of fifty years ago.
First, collect information on resource distribution, then go ashore and plunder ruthlessly.
Then withdraw contentedly.
God Realm.
The Shura God stared down at the giant ship below, watching as it sailed into the Eastern Sea, lost in thought.
Dugu Bo's words had reminded him.
"Yes, this Su Ming's resurrection must have limitations. As long as I ensure he is killed in the deepest part of the ocean, then even if he can still resurrect, he'll most likely end up on some small island in the deep sea. If not spending the rest of his life surviving there as a castaway, it would at least delay him for decades."
A few decades probably wouldn't be enough to provoke the God of Destruction into a fight to the death with him.
And that period would be more than enough for the substitute to mature.
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