Lin Mu nodded slowly.
"That will significantly reduce travel ti."
"Additionally," Daoist Chu added, "the absence of strong gravitational
interference allows for more efficient movent."
ng Bai's expression brightened slightly.
"So we can go really fast?"
Daoist Chu allowed a faint smile.
"Yes,"
Lin Mu turned his attention back to the controls.
"Then we begin."
He adjusted the ship's orientation.
The vessel shifted smoothly, aligning itself with the projected trajectory. The engines activated.
A faint hum resonated through the structure.
Then they moved.
At first, the motion was gentle.
Then it increased.
The Fox Scion world began to shrink further behind them, its presence gradually diminishing as distance grew.
The stars ahead seed to stretch slightly as their speed increased, the sense of motion becoming more pronounced.
The ship accelerated.
Faster and faster.
Yet within it, everything remained stable.
The arrays compensated perfectly, maintaining a consistent environnt.
Lin Mu watched the map.
The distance, slowly dwindling.
The journey had begun.
And ahead of them lay the remnants of a world long lost.
The ship continued its journey deeper into space, its trajectory now aligned toward the region where the Runweld Barren World was said to exist.
The initial excitent of departure had settled into a quieter rhythm, replaced by focus and calculation. Space travel demanded patience, precision, and a level of awareness that went far beyond anything they had experienced within a world.
Lin Mu stood within the control chamber, his gaze alternating between the external view and the three dinsional map projected before him. The jade slip floated steadily, its information constantly updating as the ship moved. Small indicators shifted subtly, showing changes in position relative to the major celestial bodies.
Finding the Runweld Barren World was never going to be simple.
Lin Mu already knew that.
The information provided by the Rune Dwarves was helpful, but it was far from a direct guide. The destruction of the original planet had altered everything. Its orbit had changed, its mass had fragnted, and its visibility had diminished to the point where even immortals would struggle to locate it with the naked eye. "That is why it remained hidden for so long," Lin Mu thought.
He studied the map again.
The dwarves had not given exact coordinates. Instead, they had provided a thod.
A way to calculate the position.
"The third and fourth planets..." Lin Mu murmured.
These were the stable reference points that had predictable paths.
Unlike the shattered remains of the Runweld Barren World, which drifted in a more irregular pattern.
Lin Mu focused on the two markers.
The fourth planet was closer.
Relatively speaking.
At its nearest point, it was around ten million kiloters from the Fox Scion world. At its farthest, it could be over two hundred million kiloters away.
Right now, according to the data provided by the Foxkin astronors, it was near its closest approach.
"That simplifies things," Lin Mu said.
The third planet, however, was much farther.
Over a hundred million kiloters away at present.
The difference in their positions created a geotric relationship that the
dwarves had used as a reference system.
Lin Mu activated another layer of the jade slip's data.
A complex, multi-variable formula appeared.
It took into account the positions, velocities, and relative angles of the two
planets.
ng Bai glanced at it and imdiately looked away.
"I don't understand a single part of that," he admitted.
Lin Mu allowed a faint smile.
"It requires spatial interpretation," he said.
Even for him, it was not trivial.
But his experience with teleportation arrays and spatial coordinates gave him
an advantage.
He began calculating.
At the sa ti, Daoist Chu activated one of the tools provided by the Foxkin.
The telescope.
CLINK CLINK CLINK
It extended outward from the ship, its structure unfolding smoothly. The arrays within it activated, enhancing its perception far beyond normal limits. It was capable of locking onto distant celestial bodies and tracking them with
precision.
"There," Daoist Chu said after a mont.
The telescope adjusted, focusing on a distant point.
A faint sphere appeared within the viewing formation.
The fourth planet.
From this distance, it was small, yet distinct enough to serve as a reference.
Lin Mu nodded.
"Good."
He adjusted the map, aligning it with the real-ti observation.
"Now we locate the third planet."
This took longer.
The third planet was much farther away, and its visibility was lower. The
telescope scanned the region thodically, its arrays filtering out interference
from other celestial bodies.
Finally, it found it.
A dim shape, barely distinguishable from the surrounding darkness. Thankfully,
it was not on the other side of the sun, or it would be impossible to view from
their position.
Lin Mu's eyes narrowed slightly.
"Both references confird."
He began inputting the data into the formula.
The map shifted.
A new marker appeared.
It was faint and unstable for now as they would need more data to make it
accurate.
"This should be the region," Lin Mu said.
ng Bai leaned forward again.
"So we just go there?"
Lin Mu shook his head slightly.
"We proceed carefully."
The ship continued to accelerate.
Over the past day, Lin Mu had carefully monitored its performance.
The initial phase had consud the most energy. Lifting off from the Fox Scion
world, breaking free of its gravitational pull and establishing montum. That alone had required nearly two thousand high grade immortal stones worth of
energy.
Lin Mu had noted it carefully.
But after that....
Everything changed.
The ship now moved through space with minimal resistance.
There was no air. No friction. re montum carried it forward.
The arrays displayed the current speed: Fifteen thousand kiloters per hour.
Lin Mu looked at the number again.
Even he felt a mont of surprise.
"That is several tis faster than Shrubby at full speed," he thought.
But the context was different.
This was space.
A vacuum.
Here, such speeds were achievable and sustainable.
The energy consumption had dropped dramatically.
Now, the ship used only a minimal amount of Immortal Qi, primarily to maintain the protective arrays and make small adjustnts to direction.
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