Su Ming's first task wasn't to map out the more detailed resource distribution of the Sun Moon Continent.
The primary issue he needed to solve was anchoring himself to the Sun Moon Continent.
He first had to ensure that after dying and resurrecting, he would appear on the Sun Moon Continent, not return to the Douluo Continent.
Only then could he get ahead of everyone else, plunder the continent in advance, and complete the development and utilization of the Sun Moon Continent's resources.
"Establish connections with the three major tribes."
This was the method Su Ming thought of to deepen his connection to the Sun Moon Continent.
"Fifty years ago... this point in time is acceptable; I can try to connect it with the illusory history."
"The changes on the continent over a thousand years have been truly dramatic. All three major tribes have produced Titled Douluos. Under the protection of these Titled Douluos, their spirit tool technology has also developed steadily, expanding to level seven."
"I only need to lead them to complete the breakthrough from level seven to level nine, and I estimate this segment of history will undergo a drastic change."
And that is exactly what Su Ming did.
He observed the three tribes and finally chose a genius Spirit Engineer from the Silver Moon Tribe whose Martial Spirit was the Silver Needle.
On the Sun Moon Continent, the tradition of using medicine to boost cultivation had existed for a long time.
Su Ming discovered that the development path here was medicine-boosted cultivation combined with being a Spirit Engineer. Only those Spirit Masters from the three major tribes with top-tier hereditary Martial Spirits would choose to cultivate on their own to break through the limits of a Spirit Master.
This genius Spirit Engineer was named Ye Wushuang, fifteen years old, who had already used medicine to reach the Spirit Elder level and mastered the method for crafting level-three spirit tools.
He was a genius of this era.
Su Ming possessed Ye Wushuang, teaching him how to cultivate correctly, how to reasonably combine medicine use, and step by step guided Ye Wushuang from Spirit Elder to Spirit Sage, mastering the techniques for crafting level-seven spirit tools.
This process alone took Su Ming fifteen years.
In the subsequent five years, Ye Wushuang advanced to Spirit Douluo, systematized the Spirit Engineer framework, innovated upon the old, and pioneered the direction for level-eight spirit tools!
His breakthrough sent the three major tribes into a frenzy and brought Spirit Engineers on the Sun Moon Continent to tears of joy, because level-eight spirit tools already posed a certain threat to hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts!
As long as there were enough level-eight spirit tools, even hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts would not return alive.
Although Ye Wushuang was part of the Silver Moon Tribe, he received support from all three major tribes.
With resources pouring in towards him, he simultaneously organized the spirit tool system and broke through in spirit power. Finally, twenty years later, he achieved a breakthrough using the Spirit Core method Su Ming had given him!
After obtaining his ninth Spirit Ring, Ye Wushuang spent another five years, inspired by Su Ming, to create the first level-nine spirit tool.
At this point, the River of Time trembled, shedding this segment of false history like a shell, expelling it.
In the true history, Ye Wushuang, due to improper medicine use, only reached Spirit Emperor cultivation at best, merely a level-seven Spirit Engineer, and he only mastered the method for crafting level-seven spirit tools at the age of seventy.
"A full forty-five years have passed, overlapping with parts of the illusory history already."
"This segment of my illusory history hasn't truly involved the Sun Moon Continent yet; over there, everything developed according to the original history. However, the illusory is just illusory; the cost of modifying it would be much smaller, especially since there is no real power interfering there—it's inherently similar to Schrödinger's Cat."
I haven't opened that part of the map yet, so it remains unknown.
Moreover, Su Ming also left a hook.
He had Ye Wushuang propose a plan to expand into the ocean and personally selected a family that matched the fabricated spirit tool noble family from Su Ming's ruins.
Under Su Ming's influence, this family also (by chance encountered a storm at sea, got lost, and ended up on the Douluo Continent, leaving behind ruins.
With this, the loop was completely formed.
Su Ming stood above the River, watching as another segment of history rose from it, becoming illusory. Every scene within it fell before his eyes.
In this new segment of illusory history, the final few years undoubtedly overlapped with Su Ming's own growth process.
It is worth noting that what Su Ming changed was history; he entered the history within the River. This history did not contain Su Ming.
When it involved himself, he split off a second strand of consciousness to fabricate an identity in his own birthplace.
In other words, during these forty-five years of history, Su Ming was also born.
He very smoothly obtained the ruins left by this Spirit Engineer noble family.
Calling it 'ruins' was really just their family assets.
The ruins themselves were also created on the spot.
When the two segments of illusory history overlapped, the imagined major upheaval did not occur.
Everything happened silently.
If Su Ming weren't standing at the highest point overlooking the fusion of the two illusory histories, he wouldn't have been able to detect that this segment of illusory history had extended further back.
He examined the illusory history and was quite surprised himself.
"All of my past has been overwritten, just like the experiences I fabricated for the final few years."
Su Ming marveled.
Is this the great power of Time?
Or is it the power of Fate?
Regardless, no matter what, Su Ming had even managed to obscure his own past, making everything perfect.
"No, there's still a hint of inconsistency. Although the ruins were created on the spot, the death of the spirit tool noble family was too abrupt. They left a legacy, and I just happened to obtain it. There's no breathing room in the logic here; there's a problem."
"Of course, this isn't a flaw; it's an advantage. It's the opportunity for my next upward expansion."
Next time, Su Ming would choose to alter history again.
But the time node he would choose would be a thousand years ago.
A thousand years ago, a spirit tool noble family began exploring the ocean. A hundred years later, the family head suddenly wondered if there were new continents, thus embarking on a magnificent voyage...
He had already written the new script.
"Ye Wushuang..."
Su Ming fell into deep thought.
By altering history and creating this level-nine Spirit Engineer, it had likely become real.
Therefore, when he went to explore the Sun Moon Continent now, he would definitely be able to meet Ye Wushuang there.
"The leaders of the three major tribes are all Titled Douluos. Ye Wushuang is a Titled Douluo and a level-nine Spirit Engineer. This configuration can counterbalance the Douluo Continent side to some extent."
Cooperation for mutual benefit.
Su Ming wasn't coming this time to colonize.
Although all the other major powers had colonialist mindsets.
For the Blacksmith Association, it wasn't about primary and secondary.
As long as the Blacksmith Association could be established, who ruled the Sun Moon Continent didn't matter much to Su Ming.
The foundation of cooperation is strength.
"Level sixty-nine already."
Dugu Bo looked at Su Ming emerging from his room, his gaze complex.
The great voyage had been underway for three months.
Su Ming had kept to himself daily, diligent and unwavering. His spirit power advanced another step, reaching level sixty-nine.
Only one step away from Spirit Sage!
"It's time for me to condense a Spirit Core."
Su Ming's offhand remark made Dugu Bo's pupils contract sharply.
Because he had researched it together with Su Ming, Dugu Bo knew that although condensing a Spirit Core didn't directly increase spirit power, the transformation it brought to a Spirit Master was enough to allow them to overcome their current bottleneck.
Even the bottleneck at the ninth ring could definitely be broken through.
Therefore, if Su Ming condensed a Spirit Core at level sixty-nine, he would inevitably break through directly to level seventy!
Hisss~
Woo, finally posted before midnight again.
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