Chapter 56: Chapter 56: The Dawn of Interstellar Martial Arts
What is the greatest factor behind the Hope Goddess’s management authority over the entirety of human civilization?
It is precisely her safety and impregnable strength.
As long as there remains a final bastion for human civilization, the Void Spirit Civilization cannot destroy her.
And this is the only reason why the Hope Goddess’s authority can stand above all humankind.
But now, this has been broken.
The Hope Goddess is no longer safe.
Intersellar world Shen Yu now has the possibility to threaten her!
Eliminate intersellar world Shen Yu?
As soon as this option emerged, it was immediately vetoed.
Intersellar world Shen Yu had no concerns in that regard.
The power that can truly threaten her, is not Intersellar world Shen Yu, but the Multi-Dimensional Apocalypse Civilization Mutual Aid Association!
The Hope Goddess is not human, and she would never take risks.
The "Resurrection Altar" in the earlier Association footage was prepared precisely for this purpose.
Under such entirely new intelligence, as long as the Hope Goddess continues to treat the survival and development of human civilization as her core objective, she must lower her own authority and elevate intersellar world Shen Yu’s priority—because his future already holds the possibility of controlling the Hope Goddess, and even the entire civilization!
Even if the power comes from the Association, rather than his own talent, it is still domination.
"Behavioral logic corrected. The proof you presented is valid." After a long silence and operation, the Hope Goddess finally spoke again. "The fate of human civilization will ultimately belong to you in the future, and I am powerless to stop it. Therefore, for the sake of civilization’s future, I will gradually transfer authority to you and do my utmost to cultivate you—until you can truly shoulder the responsibility of leading civilization; or, you might change my core logic and gain complete control over me and the entire civilization."
It succeeded!
Although all had gone as anticipated, it was only at this moment that intersellar world Shen Yu could truly breathe a sigh of relief.
However, as joy surged forth, a sense of responsibility welled up in his heart.
There was pressure, but it was not unbearable.
"What level of management authority do I have now?" intersellar world Shen Yu asked in a deep voice.
"C1 Level management authority. C1 Level military command authority," replied the Hope Goddess. "As your abilities and power grow, I will continue to raise your authority. Relevant missions will also be assigned, and the pace of authority transfer will accelerate in accordance with your task performance."
What does this level mean?
Roughly, the former would allow decisions over the affairs of a hundred thousand people; the latter, command over a force of ten thousand human soldiers.
But the directly mobilizable resources are now entirely different from before.
No transactions are needed. No reasons required. All can be moved by his will alone!
"I want to speed up the production of anti-worm-eye drones, and double the total quantity." Intersellar world Shen Yu immediately issued his first order.
That’s right—with the industrial capacity of interstellar civilization, there’s no way it should take days to optimize and produce a batch of anti-worm-eye drones.
This was simply dragging out the process as much as possible within reasonable limits.
After all, the longer it took, the greater the number of worm eyes.
This is in the interest of interstellar civilization—but not of Shen Yu and intersellar world Shen Yu.
For every additional person who survives, more Gray Mist can be obtained from various crises!
By comparison, what does using a few more worm-eye materials matter?
"Confirmed. Production will finish in an estimated one hour and twenty-six minutes." According to the resources now at intersellar world Shen Yu’s command, the Hope Goddess immediately gave the order.
Excellent!
Intersellar world Shen Yu finally could feel what Shen Yu and Martial Artist Shen Yu had been experiencing.
His will could be immediately executed!
Only at this point did intersellar world Shen Yu take out the chunk of meat from the worm.
"This is a new resource, with extremely high value..."
Just a simple description, paired with footage of Sword Return Two in a display of Divine Power, at once elicited the Hope Goddess’s highest attention!
"I will mobilize ten top-level research institutes to study this resource under maximum secrecy, and simultaneously activate three million emergency reserve bioengineered humans for Martial Arts cultivation experiments. As soon as you obtain the relevant cultivation technique via trade, we will commence full-scale calculations and optimization for the Martial Arts cultivation plan." Hope Goddess responded immediately.
Upon hearing that three million reserve bioengineered humans were involved, intersellar world Shen Yu was slightly amazed as well.
This was of course beyond his level of authority.
Rather, the Hope Goddess had mobilized them due to the potential value contained within the worm resources.
The concept of reserve bioengineered humans was quite distinct from regular bioengineered humans.
Ordinary bioengineered humans supplement the core population of human civilization, especially as the number of natural humans declines.
Their living environments, education, and even thought patterns are designed to resemble those of natural humans as much as possible. The only big difference lies in whether they have a birth family.
However, reserve bioengineered humans are typically activated only in the event of mass human extinction. They lack strong self-awareness, are highly obedient, and never despair no matter how dire the situation. They are a force for last-ditch resistance and rebuilding civilization in extreme emergencies.
But in this case, their mobilization was clearly for another purpose.
—To leverage the highly consistent baseline of reserve bioengineered humans for Martial Arts Extraordinary optimization experiments!
This, too, was an advantage that neither of the other two worlds could easily match.
In the Martial Arts World, technological progress relies on a handful of geniuses and powerhouses. What suits a genius may not work for the masses. On Mother Star, while large-scale Martial Arts cultivation experiments and sustained optimization are possible, the efficiency cannot compare with that of interstellar civilization!
"Martial Arts techniques with sufficiently high starting points, combined with abundant Martial Arts resources, and powerful optimization capabilities..." Intersellar world Shen Yu couldn’t help but clench his fist. "If everything goes smoothly, this will be a true Martial Arts civilization—no, an interstellar Martial Arts civilization!"
Though at present it was merely a blueprint, a possibility, intersellar world Shen Yu already had a sense of foreboding.
The path to salvation for this world might lie right here!
And at this moment, he couldn’t help but use the Gray Mist to relay the great news to the other two Shen Yu.
As the amount of Gray Mist increased, many day-to-day details became all the easier.
Such as cross-world communication.
Upon receiving the message, Shen Yu and Martial Artist Shen Yu were both delighted.
Intersellar world Shen Yu had gained a higher status and greater resource control, and both worm and Martial Arts had attracted the highest attention of interstellar civilization—two pieces of unequivocally good news.
"Do you need me to send you some basic body refining cultivation techniques right now?" Martial Artist Shen Yu even asked immediately. "The ones I have at hand aren’t of very high level, though."
"I’ll take them," said intersellar world Shen Yu. "But it would be best to have some top-level techniques as well. We don’t know enough about Martial Arts yet. The currently most effective way, though crude, is through mass data comparison experiments. For this, we need sufficient diversity: not only a large number of practitioners, but also many samples of techniques. The higher the level and the greater the number of initial technique samples, the more time we save."