Chapter 131 Truth

In the morning, Xu Jingming had breakfast with his wife and took a walk around the residential area. They ran into some neighbors, who were very excited, as Xu Jingming had just won first place in the world competition last night, and they felt honored to live near him.

"Fortunately, we live in the suburbs, and there aren't many residents in this villa district, otherwise, we would be mobbed by onlookers," Li Miaomiao said with a sigh.

"A few years ago, my income wasn't as high as it is now. If I wanted to buy a detached villa, I could only buy one in the suburbs," Xu Jingming said with a smile. "Now it seems like it was a very wise decision."

Compared to his parents' old house, this residential area had far fewer residents.

"By the way, aren't you going to practice your evolutionary method today?" Li Miaomiao asked.

"I don't need to practice recently," Xu Jingming said. "I've reached the peak of the planetary lifeform stage in reality, and there's no further progress to be made for the time being."

"Amazing!" Li Miaomiao exclaimed. "I wonder when my evolutionary method will reach its peak."

"Take your time." Xu Jingming glanced at his watch. "Let's go. The Blue Star Alliance is gathering some people later, and I have to be there."

Li Miaomiao nodded.

The couple still walked slowly, mindful of her pregnancy, and returned home before entering the virtual world.

...

Inside a huge conference room, invited experts arrived one after another.

Name cards had already been placed on the conference table. Xu Jingming, Liu Hai, and Tu Ling, the three experts from Xia Country, were seated together. Miyagawa Akari, Haru Singh, Alan Emelianenko, and other talented experts had also arrived.

"Senior Brother Xu." Tu Ling's eyes lit up when she saw Xu Jingming, and she called out respectfully.

"Tu Ling." Xu Jingming smiled at the young girl. "To reach fifth-order at sixteen, that's remarkable."

"Senior Brother, don't praise me," Tu Ling said, waving her hand. "I've only been practicing the evolutionary method for a little over ten months, the same amount of time as you, but your strength and realm are much higher than mine. I was stunned by your battle with Tejano Xire! I couldn't withstand any of your moves!"

"This kid Jingming is getting more and more powerful. I can't see through him anymore," Liu Hai said with a smile.

Xu Jingming smiled and looked around. "Are all the people who came today at the fifth-order?"

"They are all experts who reached fifth-order in this competition, but Yesalova, Madeline Logan, and Tejano haven't arrived yet," Liu Hai said, glancing around and nodding.

Suddenly—

Tejano appeared in the conference room, and at the same time, six other figures appeared, led by Secretary-General Angus.

Tejano sat down in the seat with his name card. His seat and Xu Jingming's seat were roughly in the middle of one side of the conference table. Secretary-General Angus and the six officials were on the other side.

"Okay, everyone's here."

Secretary-General Angus took his seat, smiling at everyone present.

"Everyone's here?" Xu Jingming, Liu Hai, Miyagawa Akari, and the others were puzzled. Besides the officials, all the meeting participants were at the fifth-order, and there were only ten of them!

"After the virtual world opened, humans around the world practiced the evolutionary method," Secretary-General Angus said with a smile. "A total of nine fifth-order experts were born."

"Nine?" Xu Jingming and the others were puzzled.

"I'm not wrong. This time, the virtual world only produced nine fifth-order experts. You will understand the details later." Secretary-General Angus looked to his side. "Let me briefly introduce the five people next to me. They are representatives from the five major council countries."

Xu Jingming immediately saw that Director Zhou was the representative from Xia Country.

"Everyone has received the inheritance, and you all know that after reaching the peak of the planetary lifeform stage, the next step is the cosmic lifeform stage," Secretary-General Angus said. "Only cosmic lifeforms are qualified to become cosmic citizens."

"You have all reached the fifth-order and will become cosmic citizens, with the authority to know the truth."

Secretary-General Angus smiled. "This all started in 2036, when humans first landed on Yinghuo Star (Mars)."

"Hmm?"

Xu Jingming, Liu Hai, and the others were jolted.

The truth?

"When humans first landed on Yinghuo Star, they explored it and later discovered the ruins of a civilization," Secretary-General Angus said. "With the discovery, a 'Yinghuo Star Development' craze swept the globe. At that time, the countries were competing fiercely, all wanting to seize more ancient civilization ruins."

"Later, they discovered that broken spaceship, which remained pristine even after crashing for over a million years," Secretary-General Angus said, as an image of the broken spaceship appeared in front of him. "While exploring this spaceship, they discovered the virtual chamber. Humans, through trial and error, logged into the virtual world network. And thus... the Cosmic Human Alliance discovered us, discovered the Blue Star civilization."

Secretary-General Angus said, "The universe is vast, but life-bearing planets are rare. Countless planets hardly have one suitable for human survival. Our home, 'Blue Star (Earth),' this blue planet, is too small in the universe and has always been unnoticed. It has always been considered an uninhabited ordinary planet in the cosmic starmaps."

"However, the moment we connected to the virtual world network, we were discovered."

Secretary-General Angus sighed, "Fortunately, we had already stepped out of our planet and began exploring other planets. We were recognized as a 'cosmic civilization,' although we were the most primitive cosmic civilization, we were still protected by the entire Cosmic Human Alliance."

"If our Blue Star was discovered when we hadn't yet stepped out of our planet, then we would have been considered an indigenous civilization! We would not have been qualified to join the Cosmic Human Alliance, and we would have been taken over by powerful cosmic civilizations and managed according to their powerful civilization order. Our fate would have been much more miserable."

Xu Jingming and the others were stunned.

They almost became an indigenous civilization?

If they had become an indigenous civilization, what would have happened to humans on Earth?

"The Cosmic Human Alliance is an alliance of all human civilizations in the vast universe," Secretary-General Angus said. "There are many human civilizations throughout the universe. Therefore, those barbaric and backward indigenous planets are taken over and transformed by powerful civilizations. The Cosmic Human Alliance has limited power and cannot support every weak indigenous civilization."

"As a newly ascended cosmic civilization, our Blue Star civilization is protected by the Cosmic Human Alliance for ten cosmic years! According to Earth time, that's about 32 years," Secretary-General Angus said.

"We officially joined the Cosmic Human Alliance in 2051 and began to access a lot of information and intelligence,"

Secretary-General Angus said.

"After learning enough information, in 2052, we started holding the first World Martial Arts Competition," Secretary-General Angus explained. "We began to promote martial arts in all directions! Cultivating the soil for martial arts on Blue Star."

"We only have 32 years of protection," Secretary-General Angus said. "Once the protection period expires, we will need to start normal trade and exchanges with other cosmic civilizations. These trades and exchanges are carried out according to the regulations of the Cosmic Human Alliance, and everything follows the regulations."

"Although it is said that we follow the regulations, everyone can guess the result of a weak civilization trading and exchanging with a powerful civilization under the same rules..."

"Powerful civilizations will use the rules reasonably and legally to squeeze weak civilizations, sucking them dry," Secretary-General Angus said indifferently. "From then on, weak civilizations will always be weak! They can only humbly provide resources, provide everything they can provide. And powerful civilizations give a little bit of leftover soup to weak civilizations..."

"If you want true fairness,"

"If you don't want to be exploited,"

"The only way is to strengthen ourselves," Secretary-General Angus said. "Only when we are strong enough will we not be bullied."