Swallowing the Stars: Becoming a God Starting with a Hundred Generations of Talent

The hovercar came to a smooth stop in front of the main entrance of the building, which was located beneath the ice.

The hatch slid open, and a tall, composed middle-aged man was already waiting there.

He was wearing the dark blue executive uniform of the Tarland Group, his fifth-order planetary energy fluctuations were restrained and heavy, and he had a warm smile on his face.

"Master Lu Yun, welcome." The middle-aged man extended his hand. "I am Rosen Tarlan, the manager of the K-7 mining area."

"Manager Rosen." Lu Yun shook hands with him briefly.

Despite being a member of the same Tarlan family, Rosen adopted a very humble attitude.

He knew very well that within the group, a "first-tier weapon refiner" who was so young and had been specially assigned by the higher-ups carried far more weight than him, the person in charge of this remote planet.

The two walked side by side into the technology center, which was brightly lit inside, seemingly a different world from the extreme cold outside.

"Master Lu Yun, here's the situation." Rosen led the way while succinctly explaining, "The 'Extreme Flame Gold' mine is buried deep in an ice cave ten thousand meters underground. The environment is extremely harsh, and large equipment cannot enter."

"Therefore, at present we can only send planetary-level miners, carrying specially made 'solar collectors,' to go deep into the area for manual mining." He admitted, "This method is very inefficient, but the risks and costs are extremely high."

Lu Yun nodded slightly and listened quietly.

"Mining is only the first step; the real challenge is refining," Rosen said, his tone becoming serious.

They arrived at a heavy alloy door, their identity was verified, and the door slid open silently, revealing an incredibly spacious and enormous workshop.

In the very center of the workshop, a highly complex refining machine sits quietly, with countless pipelines connecting to its core smelting furnace like the blood vessels of a giant beast.

"This is it, the 'Ultra-Precision Smelting System'." Rosen pointed to the behemoth. "We refine the collected ore every three days."

He led Lu Yun to the control panel on the side and pulled up a series of failure data reports.

"That's the problem," Rosen frowned, "the properties of each ore collected are completely different."

The types and proportions of impurities within them, and even the energy structure of 'Extreme Flame Gold' itself, all exhibit subtle differences.

"Although this machine is sophisticated, its program is static. It is completely unable to cope with this kind of dynamic and constantly changing ore."

Previous teams tried hundreds of times, but the results were either damaging the precious ore or producing a finished product with too low a purity, completely failing to meet the standards.

Rosen sighed and looked at Lu Yun: "Therefore, we need a true weapon refiner to use his mental power to perceive and control in real time to complete this last and most crucial step."

Lu Yun's gaze calmly swept over the complex data, finally settling on the cold smelting furnace.

"When is the next refining?" he asked.

Rosen perked up and immediately replied, "Tomorrow morning."

Lu Yun nodded slightly.

"I see."

The next morning, in the huge refining workshop.

The three technicians were already in place; they were veterans of the mining area, and their expressions carried a trace of their usual weariness.

When Supervisor Rosen accompanied Lu Yun in, all three of them were stunned for a moment.

too young.

Even though the first-tier weapon refiner badge on their chests was genuine, a barely perceptible hint of doubt still flashed in their eyes.

In their view, experience is far more important than talent when dealing with this tricky ore.

Rosen briefly introduced, "This is Master Lu Yun, sent from headquarters. From now on, he will be in full command of the refining work."

Lu Yun calmly swept his gaze over the three of them, without uttering a single polite word, and spoke directly.

"From now on, follow my instructions."

"I'll take responsibility if anything goes wrong."

"If you disobey orders, you'll be held accountable."

The three technicians instinctively straightened up.

Lu Yun's gaze swept across their faces: "Did you understand?"

"clear!"

This time, the three answered in unison and loudly, no longer daring to be negligent in the slightest.

"start."

Lu Yun walked to the main control panel, closed his eyes slightly, and instantly enveloped the entire massive machine with his powerful mental energy.

"Sample number one, put into the furnace."

"Preheating power, 73.5%"

"Inject stabilizer A-3, 37 ml."

"Centrifuge at 36,000 RPM for nine seconds!"

"Core melting point locked... Now's the time, B-7 circuit, overclock!"

Commands were issued continuously from Lu Yun's mouth, precise and urgent, leaving no room for anyone to think.

The three technicians were able to keep up at first, but they quickly became flustered, all of them highly focused, almost instinctively executing the extremely precise instructions.

The only sounds in the workshop were the hum of the instruments and Lu Yun's clear commands.

After what seemed like an eternity, when the last instruction was given, the three technicians almost simultaneously breathed a sigh of relief, only to realize that their backs were already soaked with sweat.

"Buzz—"

The indicator light on the smelting furnace changed from red to green, and a line of data was clearly displayed on the control panel: Purity 99.7%.

Successful.

Moreover, it was an unprecedented and perfect success.

"That...it worked?" A technician muttered to himself, looking at the data. "It didn't seem that difficult, just some basic operations..."

Yes, when broken down, each instruction seems simple, but when combined, why did they fail hundreds of times?

Lu Yun slowly opened his eyes, looked at them, and spoke calmly.

"The steps are simple."

"But knowing when and what steps to take is not simple."

As soon as the words were spoken, the three of them were shocked.

Rosen strode forward, his voice trembling with excitement as he looked at the refined product: "Perfect! Master Lu Yun, you've solved our biggest problem!"

[Successfully identified Extreme Fire Gold, Achievement +5]

Current Achievement: 5588

"Five thousand five hundred and eighty-eight points," Lu Yun murmured to himself, his gaze calm.

The accumulation of this life has already surpassed that of the previous life.

But that's not enough, far from enough.

Several figures flashed through his mind: Luo Feng, Hong, Lei Shen... The gap between him and them had not narrowed, but rather widened.

"To catch up with them, tens of thousands of achievement points are just the beginning."

……

The refining process is complete, and the next batch of ore will take three days to collect.

Rosen immediately wanted to host a banquet to celebrate Lu Yun's success, but Lu Yun politely declined.

Instead, he made a simple request.

"I want to go and see the mine tunnels."

Rosen, unsuspecting, immediately granted him the highest level of authority.

This mine tunnel, buried deep beneath the ice and in a harsh environment, was the real purpose of his trip.

The entrance to the mine tunnel was not the simple cave one might imagine, but a giant alloy building constructed on top of ice.

At the heart of the building is a giant lifting platform with a diameter of over 100 meters, like a throat leading to the abyss at the center of the earth, its depths unfathomable.

It was time for the miners to change shifts.

The huge entrance hall was bustling with noise, with thousands of miners gathered there, forming two distinct streams of people.

One group consists of miners who have just finished twelve hours of intense work and are walking off the elevator platform to go home.

They all looked exhausted, their bodies covered in ice chips and dust.

The other group consists of miners who are preparing to take over.

Lu Yun and Rosen stood side by side on a high platform, overlooking the scene.

"Master, please look," Rosen pointed down, "The Extreme Fire Gold ore is extremely valuable. Just in case, we are using the most primitive and thorough search method."

Lu Yun's gaze followed.

The miners, who were finishing their shift, were seen lining up in a long queue, heading one by one toward a checkpoint temporarily set up with alloy tables.

Behind each checkpoint stood two guards dressed in black, both of whom possessed strength at least at the third level of the Planetary Realm.

A miner walked numbly to the table and dumped his tool bag onto it.

One guard skillfully searched through the tools, while another guard stepped forward and used cold and rough methods to carefully pat and search the miner from top to bottom and inside to outside, not even sparing the soles of his shoes.

After confirming that there were no problems, the guard waved his hand impatiently.

"Next!"

The miners, feeling as if they had been granted a pardon, hurriedly packed their belongings and left quickly.

This purely manual inspection method is inefficient, but very reliable.

"Damn it, I almost died from exhaustion in the No. 3 mining area today. The ice rocks there are tougher than a woman's temper!" A burly man who had just passed the inspection rubbed his arm, which was sore from being pinched, and cursed at his companion.

"Yeah, right," his companion replied listlessly, "but we finally made it through. Let's go grab a few drinks in Section B! I've saved up half a month's worth of work points, I have to find a girl and have some fun today!"

"Haha, that's exactly what I was thinking! I heard a new batch of fox-woman girls have arrived, and they're absolutely gorgeous!"

"Really? We'd better hurry, or we won't get any soup!"

Several miners, arms around each other, walked briskly toward the living area, their voices filled with the exhilaration of surviving a disaster.

Lu Yun suddenly noticed someone.

An ordinary-looking miner mingled in the group, his face showing the same weariness as the others.

But his life force was even stronger than that of the guards beside him.

Planetary third order.

A powerful being at the third rank of planetary level working as a miner in a place like this?

It was his turn to inspect.

He silently emptied his tools, allowing the guards to roughly pat and search his body.

"Next!" the guard waved impatiently, to no avail.

The miners packed up their belongings and silently merged into the crowd.

Just as the miner turned around,

Lu Yun's gaze sharpened slightly.

His attention fell on an inconspicuous button on the other person's chest.

On the surface, it was just an ordinary alloy button, dull in color and even showing signs of wear, blending perfectly with his tattered miner's clothes.

No detection instrument detected anything unusual when it scanned the area.

However, under the spiritual perception of Lu Yun, a master of weapon crafting, the "essence" of this button was completely different.

It has an extremely sophisticated energy circuit inside, as if it were integrated with the rough metal outside.

This is enough to fool the group's detection equipment, let alone the physical search conducted purely by manpower.

Space equipment.

And it's the kind of extremely high-level one.

"When is the next shift change?" Lu Yun suddenly asked.

Rosen was taken aback, not expecting him to ask this, but still replied, "Master, our miners work in twelve-hour shifts. The next shift, exactly twelve hours from now, will be the early shift."

"Mm." Lu Yun nodded gently.

"Let's go down next time."

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