From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword-Chapter 923 - 534: The Sword Holder Alliance’s First Online Meeting
Energy is the hard currency when a civilization develops to an advanced stage.
Even before the Abyss Era, oil represented energy resources, valued equivalent to hard currency.
As the level of civilization continues to increase, the status of energy as hard currency becomes higher.
For instance, on that abandoned industrial planet of the Sikes Civilization, Sikes citizens left behind on the deserted planet used batteries as hard currency.
The essence of batteries as hard currency is still related to energy.
The history of human civilization’s development can also be seen as a history of energy development.
From firewood to coal, from oil to nuclear energy, these transformations profoundly reshaped human life and society.
Every energy revolution drives an energy revolution.
Now, under the leadership of Lu Heng, humanity has initiated a technology leap program.
The first step of the technological leap is to break through the bottleneck of energy technology.
In fact.
The energy technology bottleneck of human civilization appeared as early as the last century.
The application of nuclear energy was a revolution.
However, nuclear fission posed the risk of nuclear pollution, so it could not be used on a large scale.
Before the Abyss Era, only a few countries with cutting-edge technology had the capacity to construct nuclear power plants.
It can be said that nuclear fission was merely humanity’s initial exploration of this advanced energy.
The real trigger for an energy revolution would inevitably be the realization of controlled nuclear fusion technology.
The Abyss Descent brought a crisis to humanity, even reducing the Blue Star population by over a billion people within three years.
The threat of the Abyss was significant, but the Summoning Will that appeared alongside the Abyss invasion also exposed humanity to worlds of a higher civilization level.
After witnessing the integration of Xavier Technology with the Black Iron Dwarves, Lu Heng decisively promoted this technological leap.
With the technological leap of humanity, controlled nuclear fusion technology was achieved within three months.
With the help of Xavier Technology, fusion technology began to be miniaturized.
This means humanity is about to quickly enter an era of energy abundance.
Because fusion technology lacks nuclear pollution and even causes less environmental pollution than thermal power generation.
Therefore, after the breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion technology, Da Xia launched dozens of fusion power station projects simultaneously, aiming to illuminate the Shen Zhou Continent with fusion power stations.
The value of controlled nuclear fusion technology far exceeds what the average person imagines.
Because the fuel used in fusion is deuterium, which is an isotope of the hydrogen element.
Deuterium exists abundantly in seawater; within the two hydrogen elements in a water molecule, a certain proportion is deuterium.
Scientists have calculated that the deuterium in each liter of seawater produces energy equivalent to the energy released by burning 300 liters of gasoline.
What does this mean?
A typical car fuel tank is filled with about 50 liters.
Which means 166 milliliters of seawater’s deuterium could provide the same energy as a full tank of gasoline for a car.
If a car’s engine could use fusion energy, just pouring a ladle of seawater would allow it to run seven or eight hundred kilometers.
Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are even more convenient, floating at sea, almost like perpetual motion machines.
If deuterium material is purified, the energy density is even higher.
Another fuel for fusion reactions is tritium, another isotope of the hydrogen element.
This is relatively rare in nature but can easily be produced through neutron and lithium reactions, and the lithium in Blue Star oceans is enough to support long-term demand.
This means that once humans master fusion technology, the energy supply becomes nearly endless.
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In May of the fourth year after the Abyss Descent, human civilization entered the nuclear fusion energy revolution.
All aspects of society, life, and military began to undergo dramatic changes.
Moreover.
The human military began gradually mastering Xavier Technology’s nuclear bomb manufacturing techniques, significantly reducing the radiation pollution of nuclear bombs.
Combined with nuclear pollution cleaning technology, humanity could use nuclear bombs on a large scale for long-range strikes against the Abyss Demons.
Starting in May of the fourth year after the Abyss Descent, humanity launched its first counterattack when facing the erosion of the Abyss, clearing large areas of the Mist Zone and eliminating countless Abyss Demons.
Beyond nuclear bombs, with the commencement of the energy revolution, energy weapons began to become widespread, granting the human military more capability to retaliate against the Abyss Demons.
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With the joining of Star Realm merchants to the Sword Holder Alliance, assisted by Star Realm technology, the Sword Holder Alliance acquired Star Realm communication technology. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞
This allowed members of the Sword Holder Alliance to communicate without crossing worlds.
After the implementation of this Star Realm communication technology, Lu Heng convened the first full meeting of the Sword Holders.
Azik arranged a Sword Holder council chamber on the Star Realm Merchant Ship.
Inside the chamber was a circular long table, where Lu Heng and Azik attended the meeting in person, while other Sword Holder members projected their holographic images into the meeting room using Star Realm communication technology.
After the meeting began, members of different civilizations’ Sword Holders appeared one after another.
Queen Orelana was the first to appear, already a demigod, and even her holographic projection exuded a holy aura that inspired awe.
She glanced around and praised, "Star Realm communication is marvelous, it seems even more magical than magic."
In fact, in a way, magic is the technology of the Magic World.
Whether technology or magic, both are methods by which intelligent beings learn, research, and master the application of world rules to serve themselves.
To the Elf Clan, the Star Realm technology mastered by the Star Realm merchants seemed like a kind of wondrous magic.
