The Emperor Star, the Imperial Capital, the Human Alliance Council Hall.
For Ding Yun, a newly emerged Orcish Venerable, they convened an emergency meeting to discuss matters.
As soon as the emergency meeting began, the councilor in charge of information collection hurriedly played all the information they had recently gathered about Ding Yun.
For example, Ding Yun's recent actions.
For example, some of her past experiences.
And, for example, the complete content of the cultivation techniques she had disseminated.
"This information is clearly incomplete. The investigation so far cannot explain where her cultivation technique came from, nor how she managed to play weak and yet defeat stronger opponents.
She quietly cultivated to the Venerable realm."
As soon as the viewing was finished, someone voiced their opinion.
"Of course, I know it's incomplete. If we could easily figure out her background, why would we need an emergency meeting? It's like you think you're so smart!"
Zhang Kai, who was responsible for intelligence gathering, rolled his eyes at Li De, who had just spoken, and after some contemptuous remarks, continued:
"All the information we could gather is here.
For the first ten-plus years, the person was very normal. She was an ordinary panda beast adopted by hamster beasts, and she worked tirelessly and wholeheartedly to earn money to support her many younger siblings.
She appeared not only very conscientious.
But so conscientious that she neglected her own needs!"
"The change occurred a little over a year ago, a few days before the panda merchandise was released. She suddenly resigned from two energy mining factories. At the same time as resigning from the martial arts hall, she unexpectedly met the Dai siblings. Through negotiation and talks with them, they jointly established a panda merchandise company.
Following that, her path to prosperity became unstoppable. She continuously earned money and expanded, earning money and expanding, and through normal channels, she provided employment for over sixty percent of the families in her local area, successfully obtaining enough votes to be elected as County Governor. Subsequently, she disseminated advanced cultivation techniques, encountered inquiries from the Beastmen Alliance Council, and revealed her Venerable strength.
The key issues now are twofold.
One, where did her cultivation technique come from? Two, how did she, seemingly having barely cultivated, reach the Venerable realm? Was there a shortcut, or something else?
These two points are the most crucial issues.
And they are the questions we are most unable to clarify."
After finishing his speech, Zhang Kai sat down. Du Huai, the head of the Genetic Research and Cultivation Technique Institute, then stood up and said, "Let me share my thoughts.
I have meticulously studied the cultivation technique 'Golden Pass Locked Jade Art' and performed calculations using a quantum computer. The results show that the technique is sound.
It can indeed allow beastmen to break through to the Venerable realm.
However, there is one problem: the cultivation speed of this technique is not fast. Even for a genius, it would take at least eighty years to reach the perfect stage of the technique. If one were slow-witted, it would take at least two to three hundred years to cultivate successfully.
This clearly does not match Cang Yun's strength.
She is twenty years old at most, and a Venerable at this age is unheard of, not only now but even during the most prosperous era of spiritual energy recovery when there were almost inexhaustible alien beast resources. In history, the youngest Venerable ever broke through at the age of sixty.
Therefore, we can reasonably suspect.
That this beastman has a problem.
Either the cultivation technique she disseminated is not the one she primarily cultivates, or there is a shortcut. Of course, it is also possible that her bloodline is indeed special. Our current understanding of panda bloodlines is almost zero, so it's difficult to say anything definitive on this aspect."
"All of this talk is nonsense.
Just say she has a problem, wouldn't that be enough? Send people to obtain her hair, preferably her blood, and we can study it carefully. Then we'll know if her bloodline is special or if there's some other reason.
Also, increase the resources provided to the Beastmen Alliance Council and let them handle some matters themselves.
It's better than us interfering.
For now, let's do this: designate Cang Yun as a person of key interest. If it's ultimately determined that her bloodline is special, then so be it. A single Venerable can't cause much trouble. But if her bloodline is not special, or if we discover she has the ability to cultivate Venerables in batches.
Eliminate her immediately, understand?"
One more Venerable was not a major concern for the Human Alliance Council. If this Venerable hadn't been so young and appeared so abruptly.
They wouldn't have held a meeting to discuss it.
As the specific reasons were not yet clear, the Speaker was unwilling to expend too much effort, so he quickly made a decision and finalized the specific response plan.
The attendees had no objections and all nodded in agreement, promptly concluding the emergency meeting.
Those responsible for intelligence and external affairs.
Immediately followed orders and began making arrangements.
...
Since Ding Yun's current influence had not yet reached the Emperor Star, she was naturally completely unaware of this.
She was still systematically developing her forces.
And gradually cultivating trusted subordinates.
To become an empress, one cannot be a lone wolf. After all, there's no saying that being the best at some martial art means you can be an empress. You need enough people who absolutely obey your command to control a vast power.
The hired personnel can be used.
But they cannot be relied on entirely.
Therefore, whenever Ding Yun had some free time, she would select those with talent from the schools she established for intensive training, while also picking out those with potential from among her younger siblings for focused cultivation.
The cultivation here mainly refers to their strength.
Cultural education is taught by teachers at the school.
That's right, Ding Yun actually wanted to cultivate a batch of Venerable-level disciples herself. As a single Venerable, it would be quite difficult for her to completely control the Orcish planet, let alone break free from the control of the Human Alliance Council.
However, if there were dozens of Venerables, they could contend with the Human Alliance Council. After all, the Human Alliance Council only had a few dozen Venerables, more than half of whom were over five hundred years old.
As for the technological gap, while it couldn't be bridged in the short term, Ding Yun herself had already surpassed the Venerable realm. As long as the Human Alliance Council didn't use planet-destroying weapons like the Star Annihilator, Ding Yun wouldn't fear them.
She could definitely block them.
And on the Orcish planet, over ninety percent of the resources belonged to others. If they used the Star Annihilator, wouldn't their own resources turn to dust as well?
Therefore, Ding Yun believed that the possibility of them using the Star Annihilator was quite low. Especially since, even if relations broke down, she wouldn't proactively confiscate all assets of psionics and gene humans on the Orcish planet. In that case, the possibility of them using the Star Annihilator would be even lower.
Extremely minimal, in fact.
In short, Ding Yun was confident in her plan.
And the disciples she paid close attention to, under her continuous nourishment with various high-energy foods, top-tier elixirs, and medicinal baths and diets,
Their cultivation was growing at a visible rate.
Their bloodlines were also improving at a visible rate.
Coupled with the "Tracing the Source and Returning to Origin Art" that Ding Yun secretly taught them, which had the effect of purifying bloodlines and promoting ancestral reversion, although the children's cultivation speed was still far inferior to Ding Yun's, compared to most of their peers.
They were dozens of times faster.
One day of cultivation for them was equivalent to two months for others.
In less than a year, they had successively advanced to Rank Two or Three beastmen. If it weren't for another technique, the "Turtle Breath Concealment Art," to mask their progress, it would have caused a huge sensation long ago.