Rebirth of the Supreme Immortal Emperor-Chapter 433 - 430 Alien Civilization [First Update]

Seeing Li Chen effortlessly down two bottles of flaming strong liquor, not only the onlookers munching on watermelon seeds were frightened to trembling, even a tough northeast man who soaked himself daily in liquor tanks was shivering in fear.

Holy moly, is this guy even human? Even if the legendary drinker Du Kang were alive, could he do better?

"We admit defeat!" After hesitating for a moment, the man with the dark face bowed to Li Chen.

"Then take your friends and scram quickly; don’t disturb our mood for eating!"

Li Chen didn’t make it difficult for them, and gestured with a wave of the hand for them to beat it.

Once the dark-faced man and his group had dispersed, Cui Pu, Zhou Ji, and others gathered around. They were very inquisitive and probed Li Chen about why he was so good at drinking and whether he had trained for it before.

Li Chen brushed them off directly with the words "born this way."

The fangirls from the Music College and Art College were also subdued by Li Chen’s manly performance while drinking and wanted to strike up a conversation.

However, when they saw Ye Chuxue and Lan Huanxi, even the most narcissistic person would feel utterly ashamed of themselves.

Especially Ye Chuxue, with her graceful demeanor and the noble and proud aura she emitted, one glance was enough to tell she was from an aristocratic family brought up with an air of nobility. Trying to hit on her man in front of her would surely be an embarrassing endeavor, right?

The meal continued until three in the afternoon before everyone went their separate ways.

After escorting Ye Chuxue and Lan Huanxi back to their dormitory, Li Chen didn’t return to his own but headed straight for Yuhua Mountain Observatory.

The Earth is in the End of Dharma Age for cultivation, where the only way to break through quickly is by operating the Nine Heavens Star Technique to snatch the power of the stars from the boundless universe.

Unfortunately, his current level of cultivation was still too shallow to leave the Earth’s atmosphere and delve deeper into the universe. He could only capture some meteor energy attracted and absorbed by Earth’s gravity.

However, he couldn’t afford to continuously project his spiritual power to monitor this, so through Old Sir Moo’s connections, he planned to set up a monitoring station at Yuhua Mountain Observatory.

To ensure that the observatory could serve him better, he decided to invest five billion annually as a token of his appreciation.

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At dusk, at Yuhua Mountain Observatory:

An elderly man in a zhongshan suit stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at the sky with a somewhat melancholic expression.

His name was Lu Zhongshan, the dean of Yuhua Mountain Astronomical Research Institute.

Recently, the whole country has been focused on economic development, with the real estate industry booming. The public is only concerned with immediate benefits, which is not to be criticized. However, the governors holding the power have also been only looking after their own performance achievements, continuously decreasing the investments in astronomy.

Some time ago, he went to the provincial finance department to apply for funds to repair the astronomical telescope.

However, the finance leader questioned him on the spot, asking if this thing could feed the people or keep them warm.

For these high-ranking officials, any department that couldn’t achieve economic benefits or produce performance achievements was deemed useless and not worth spending money on.

With no argument to make, Lu Zhongshan had no choice but to leave, disappointed.

However, luckily enough, every cloud has a silver lining.

Half a month ago, his old friend Moo Hee came to visit him, saying that he has a young friend who plans to invest five billion annually to the observatory to repair various pieces of equipment and machinery.

This unexpected piece of good news almost drove him wild with joy!

"Grandpa, it’s getting dark. Why hasn’t the person you’re waiting for arrived yet?" A girl with a ponytail on each side of her head pouted slightly, asking somewhat discontentedly.

Her name is Lu Yaoyao, whose father excelled in his studies at Newport Chinese University, staying on to teach after graduation, and marrying a local girl from Newport, settling down in Newport.

Therefore, Lu Yaoyao is a true Newport native. Aside from annual festivals, she rarely returns to the Mainland.

However, ever since last year when she witnessed the exciting duel between Jiangnan Immortal Master Li and Heavenly Master Sect immortals on Heming Mountain with her best friends, her worldview was turned upside down. She became deeply curious about the Mainland, the land that once birthed five thousand years of splendid civilization.

For this reason, even though she hadn’t graduated yet, she came to stay with her grandfather under the guise of an internship.

But she never expected that on her very first day, she would accompany her grandfather in waiting for someone the entire afternoon, which was dreadfully boring.

It was only after the sun completely set behind the mountains that Li Chen finally arrived late.

"Dean Lu, I’m really sorry to have kept you waiting!"

Lu Zhongshan had heard from Moo Hee that his friend was a young lad.

He originally thought his counterpart would be in his thirties or forties, but now it seemed the visitor was simply a youth not even of age, dressed in student attire, which truly surprised him.

Lu Zhongshan looked Li Chen up and down again, asking incredulously, "Are you Old Sir Moo’s young friend, Li Chen?"

Li Chen smiled very politely and said, "Yes, I’m Li Chen. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Dean Lu!"

Lu Yaoyao also began sizing up Li Chen, and she was startled to find that his figure seemed familiar, as if she had seen him somewhere before. But where exactly she had seen him, she couldn’t quite recall at the moment.

"Hello, my name is Lu Yaoyao. Have we met somewhere before?"

Lu Yaoyao, with her vivacious personality, straightforwardly reached out her hand.

Li Chen shook hands with Lu Yaoyao and smiled faintly, "Obviously, we’ve met right here!"

Lu Yaoyao was embarrassed.

"Are you also a student of the astronomy department?"

Li Chen shook his head and said, "No, I’m from the Archaeology Department!"

This time, not only was Lu Yaoyao shocked, but even Lu Zhongshan’s face was full of astonishment.

How did a student from the archaeology department suddenly take an interest in astronomy and even proactively invest five hundred million to refurbish astronomical equipment?

However, since Li Chen did not volunteer more information, they were too polite to pry further.

Lu Zhongshan stepped forward, introducing warmly, "Young friend Li Chen, our Yuhua Mountain Observatory is one of the four major observatories in the country, equipped with telescopes of all models."

"On a clear night, you can observe the beautiful Andromeda and the stunning Centaurus very clearly!"

Hearing Dean Lu’s introduction, Li Chen pondered for a moment, then asked, "Is it possible to observe the GG Tau A triplet star system, what you refer to as the GG Tau A star system?"

Lu Zhongshan’s expression froze, scrutinizing Li Chen with a look of disbelief.

The GG Tau A star system, located 450 light years from Earth, isn’t commonly noticed by general astronomy enthusiasts, let alone by professional astrophysicists.

"Young friend Li Chen, the GG Tau A star system is a desolate region. Why would you take interest in it?"

Li Chen shook his head and said, "No, there is life being born there, it’s not desolate at all!"

Lu Zhongshan was utterly astonished, then he burst into laughter, "Young friend Li Chen, you must have watched too many sci-fi movies!"

"The GG Tau A star system has a huge protoplanetary disk formed by the actions of the three stars, with a gravitational pull so strong inside that it absorbs any matter, preventing the accumulation necessary to form a planet, let alone the birth of life!"

"I’m saying it exists, and their level of civilization is even a level higher than Earth’s!"

When Li Chen said this, his expression was serious and his tone was exceptionally firm, giving a sense of incredulous determination.

Roughly 165 years later, beings from Taurus, known as GT, would invade Earth.

At that time, Earth’s civilization would be much too primitive compared to theirs. A single encounter in combat would lead to total annihilation.

The universe is broadly divided into seven levels of civilization, with Earth currently in the late stages of a First-level Civilization.

The GT extraterrestrials belong to a Second Level Civilization.

Li Chen’s past life was in a Civilization of Cultivators ranked as a Sixth Level Civilization.

As for the Seventh Level Civilization, it is referred to as Divine-level Civilization, the stuff of legends.

Even Li Chen from his previous life never actually encountered it, having only heard some rumors.

When Earth was destroyed, Li Chen was drifting in the cosmos; his friends and family on Earth had long since returned to dust. He learned of this from surviving cultivators much later and didn’t pay it much mind.

But now, things were different, given that he had been given a second chance at life. It was his responsibility to protect this Mother Star.

At the very least, he needed to protect the people he loved, to not let her come to any harm!

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The later parts of this story will involve the clash between the Cultivation Civilization and the Interstellar Civilizations, which will take a lot of time to get to. Here is just a brief mention to lay the groundwork~