Chapter 1983: 22: Star Annihilation Dharma Assembly, Completion of the Taoist Book!

Of course, this premise is based on the fact that the timeline has reached the beginning of the Desolate Third Epoch, with the other two ancient paths, the Sea Passage and the Bright Light Ancient Road, already excavated about eighty to ninety percent. The Ancient Hill has gained substantial experience, and discovered overlapping parts of the path with the Annihilation Star Corridor from these two ancient paths, leading to such swift efficiency.

Zhao Xing now doesn’t have such high demands; his goal is simple: as long as he can excavate a few Origin Realms along the Annihilation Star Corridor before the Desolate Third Epoch, it will suffice.

As for excavating it completely, he doesn’t wish to do so, because upon reaching the other side’s spiritual energy territory, they would inevitably encounter resistance from local forces of another spiritual energy territory, making a cross-domain war unavoidable.

The transport efficiency of the Annihilation Star Corridor is too high, possessing spatial channels; among the nine ancient paths, it is known as the [Ancient War Path], the main channel for the Great Emperor’s army deployment.

It’s impossible for Zhao Xing to monopolize the rights to this channel, which would be a suicidal move. Therefore, once the excavation is mostly complete, selling the rights of this ancient path to the Empire to take over will be the best choice. At that time, taking money and escaping the battlefield of interest is the optimal choice.

"What is the third objective difficulty?" A voice interrupted Zhao Xing’s contemplation.

Zhao Xing raised his head and realized that, unbeknownst to him, Lord Lu Shan had also joined the chat.

Lord Lu Shan is an expert, and when answering his questions, Zhao Xing is much more precise.

"Uncle, actually the third objective difficulty is based on a subjective guess by the disciple, the conclusion likely won’t be encountered in the short term."

"Let’s hear it," Lord Lu Shan said with a smile.

Zhao Xing nodded, waved his hand, and the map of the Annihilation Star Corridor instantly spread out, shifting direction.

At this moment, the Annihilation Star Corridor looks like a rough belt on a piece of emerald ore, with a large black crack appearing about three billion starry sky units to the northwest.

There’s nothing there, Zhao Xing wrote three annotations on this cross-section:

Spiritual Energy Index is suspected to be zero.

Protected reproduction rate is zero.

Suspected Silent Extinction Layer.

Lord Lu Shan was thoughtful: "Are you saying the end of the Annihilation Star Corridor is a void area transitioning from the Phenomenon Layer to the Silent Extinction Layer? How did you come to this conclusion?"

Zhao Xing raised his hand again, showing columnar data charts from various regions of the Annihilation Star Corridor.

"Uncle, please look, starting from the corridor’s beginning, the index of the concentrated spiritual energy area is 7, and decreases by two points every billion astronomical units."

"Following this pattern, after about 3.5 billion astronomical units, the spiritual energy index will entirely drop to zero."

"The second set of data is the plant life status of reproduction within the four major families over seven thousand years."

"Every time they advance roughly thirty-five thousand astronomical units into the Si Yue Desolate Domain, the protected reproduction rate of plant life decreases by 0.003. The probability of variant degradation correspondingly increases by 0.007."

"This change is subtle, yet extremely systematic."

"When reaching this place..." Zhao Xing pointed at the black void area, "I suspect no native species can maintain protected reproduction."

After Zhao Xing finished speaking, all the Ministers of Agriculture, including Lord Lu Shan, fell silent.

Other professionals, seeing everyone quiet down, didn’t dare utter a word, only secretly scrambled to research data, trying to understand the conversation between Zhao Xing and Lord Lu Shan.

However, it was easy to understand for the Ministers of Agriculture from the Primordial Realm.

Protected reproduction refers to plant life continuing to maintain the same quality as the original mother species after multiple generations of reproduction.

For example, the Seven Realms True Spirit Bamboo in Zhao Xing’s body is of Emperor Level quality, because it is a native species without the Life Origin Lock restriction, so as long as it reproduces in a suitable environment, its next generation will also contain Emperor Level quality in abundance.

Naturally, any plant life has a protected reproduction rate; the stronger the life, the harder protected reproduction becomes, and the shorter the rate.

But the Self Sect’s Minister of Agriculture’s four auxiliary methods, Divine Splendor, Jiedao, Yuanming, and Yuanji, greatly extend the rate.

However, these data emerge with the premise of being the data from when the Ministers of Agriculture from the four major families planted plants to supply.

Under the intervention of Ministers of Agriculture, the trend of downgrading and degradation still appeared.

This indicates a massive, unavoidable environmental factor influencing it.

Within the seven thousand year period since the four major families opened up, it’s not very conspicuous, but if Zhao Xing’s data model develops, this situation will certainly be encountered.

"Qiusheng, I don’t understand; can you explain what this means?" Yang Baihe quietly messaged Yuan Qiusheng beside him.

"Suppose, using the True Spirit Tree as an example, when we arrive at Zhao Xing’s designated location, some extreme situations will occur, like an Emperor Level True Spirit Tree there being completely unable to blossom and fruit, providing supply for people."

"Without the feature of bearing True Spirit Fruit, it’s only good for chopping for firewood, having no value at all, no different from ordinary quality, possibly even worse than ordinary quality branches for burning," Yuan Qiusheng explained.

"Because it still needs to absorb nutrients far beyond ordinary quality to maintain its life without withering."

Yang Baihe suddenly realized and said: "It’s like a breeding bull becoming sterile, yet not affecting its appetite. But indeed, it serves no purpose, is this what you mean?"

"More seriously, if auxiliary plant life can’t blossom and fruit, it’s completely useless, keeping it is a burden, chopping it for firewood isn’t as good as low-quality branches for burning."