Chapter 587 The World of Earth, Terrifying Indeed! (7800, First Update!)

"Surrender, surrender?"

"Surrender to whom? Xiantian?"

"That's pretty novel, but we don't even know who's on the other side of Xiantian, so how do we surrender?"

"Are there any experienced veterans who can tell me if choosing the surrender option results in a net positive or a net negative?"

After a long silence, the entire Pioneer Explorer's soul space erupted in an uproar.

Hundreds upon hundreds of people spoke at once, a cacophony of voices, with no one knowing who was talking to whom, and no host to keep order.

This wasn't surprising – all the explorers were equal. Even Yun Wang Bai Yuntian was just a powerful, veteran explorer. No one truly respected him because of his title as Yun Wang, but rather for what he had done for the people of the Nine Xuan Yun Wang territory.

Now that the topic had been broached, everyone voiced their own opinions.

"Everyone, the reason I suggest surrendering is simple: the essence of the battle is meaningless. The despair rooted in our Nine Xuan World isn't 'resource scarcity,' but a problem with the social structure."

At this moment, Bai Yuntian, under Su Zhou's guidance, loudly persuaded the other Nine Xuan explorers beside him: "Has our Nine Xuan World reached the point where people are starving to death? Perhaps some Wang territories have, but most haven't reached that point. All everyone is fighting for is the chance to become a cultivator!"

"But as far as I know, Xiantian is a land of outstanding people and abundant resources. As we all know, Xiantian is connected to myriad worlds, and they definitely don't lack resources after the spiritual energy revival, but they do lack manpower to explore the many realms... We, the people of Nine Xuan, and the people of Xiantian are born of the same root, and can complement each other. Why must we fight each other?"

"Surrender is just a way of putting it. In essence, it's treating each other with sincerity and trust, and both sides trade and get what they need!"

Bai Yuntian's opinion was just one among many voices.

However, it did guide a significant portion of the thinking.

Soon, as different viewpoints sought out similar minds, the entire soul space was divided into two major categories.

Those unwilling to surrender, and those willing to negotiate peacefully.

The views of those unwilling to surrender were very old-fashioned. They believed that the people of Nine Xuan were inherently noble, descendants of the Great Heavenly Venerate. Even the Xiantian race were at best equals. How could they surrender without a fight, making them seem afraid of Xiantian?

More importantly, they were explorers of the Pioneer Space. What did the damage to the Nine Xuan World have to do with them? It was easy to talk without experiencing the pain. Naturally, they would choose the option of standing firm and not kneeling – if they really couldn't win, it wouldn't be too late to kneel then. If all else failed, they could just return to the Pioneer Space.

Those willing to negotiate, on the other hand, were mostly tempted by this novel option.

In their view, everything in the Nine Xuan World was known and had been explored, whether it was the geographical environment or the human system.

Winning would only bring more wealth and glory, and Xiantian would become another expanded version of the Nine Xuan World... Putting aside whether they could win, even if they did, such a world would be very 'boring' for these explorers.

After all, the Pioneer Space was rooted in the will of a great being, and its resources were terrifyingly abundant. Although it was suspected of stealing the bloodlines of other great beings and the Zhuzhou and other ordinary Celestial Immortals for its own use without paying patent fees, for the explorers, anything that wasn't too rare was practically worthless. The spoils of ordinary wars were not worth mentioning.

To put it simply: Because of the chaotic situation in the Nine Xuan World, these explorers were tired of the results that the 'war' option could bring. The 'peaceful negotiation' option was a bit novel and worth trying!

Exploring the different results of different choices was what the Pioneers loved to do most.

Of course, there were also arguments.

"You bird-thief, what are you trying to do by surrendering without a fight?!"

"What do you know? Don't you want to see what developments come after surrendering? It'll definitely be interesting!"

Bai Yuntian, as the one who started the topic, didn't say another word after raising the issue and explaining his point of view.

He just silently watched everything, watching the surrender faction and the pro-war faction argue, each citing scriptures and analyzing the benefits and losses.

Guiding the thinking of the explorers in the Pioneer Space was just a matter of convenience for him. These explorers were destined not to choose the same option, because they themselves were representatives of exploring the endless unknown. All Bai Yuntian did, at Su Zhou's request, was to expand the 'surrender faction's' thinking.

Moreover, without a fight, allowing the two worlds to experience each other's power, many things couldn't be justified and wouldn't be convincing... Only after a fight, when the Earth side knew the weight of the Nine Xuan World, would they consider the possibility of peace talks and accepting surrender.

As for why Su Zhou wanted to do this... the reason was actually very simple.

Explorers weren't actually that powerful. Hundreds of explorers combined were probably comparable to the fighting power of one or two king-level personal guards. They couldn't guide the internal power of the Nine Xuan World.

However, these people were a huge variable – a group of adventurers who could explore myriad worlds, and who knew what things and inheritances they could pull out!

Mixing the unique products of two different worlds might create a 'miracle'!

At that time, even if the Earth side had a hundred plans, they might not be able to cope with the thousands of schemes of these explorers.

Therefore, he simply used Bai Yuntian's power to use the simplest method to make it impossible for the Pioneer explorers to unify their opinions internally.

Of course, if there were really people who wanted to surrender, both Su Zhou and Bai Yuntian would applaud and welcome them: In the final analysis, Su Zhou didn't want to transform the 'internal contradictions' of competition between the heirs of the former Central Divine Court into a 'fundamental contradiction' of war between the two worlds that was almost endless.

Now, the Pioneer explorers, a group of potential troublemakers, had been roughly taken care of by Su Zhou and Bai Yuntian, two Zhuzhou, one big and one small.

The next thing to do was the more in-depth main business.

Returning to the real world from the noisy soul hall, Bai Yuntian, who had already regenerated his injuries, woke up in his camp.

"...A novel feeling."

Closing his eyes, the corners of the Nine Xuan Yun Wang's mouth turned up slightly – although he had already signed the relevant contract with Su Zhou, what truly attracted him to Su Zhou wasn't the powerful strength and the bloodline of the Primordial Zhuzhou, but the possibility of constantly bringing about new developments.

Walking out of the camp, he raised his head. The two red suns of the Nine Xuan World were gradually setting, and the third sun had already fallen below the horizon.

The former palaces of the Great Heavenly Venerates were built in these 'suns' of the Nine Xuan World, responsible for artificially regulating the world's light and weather. At that time, the Nine Xuan World had favorable weather and peaceful seas, and was a beautiful garden world.

But now, Bai Yuntian looked around his camp: Everywhere he looked, he could only see countless black-green trees. These trees didn't bear fruit, their bark was poisonous, and their roots were knotted, making the land in the surrounding area impossible to cultivate.

Apart from these trees that had mutated to adapt to the environment without spiritual energy or light, there was no other superfluous vegetation on the surface of the entire Nine Xuan World... Not to mention wild vegetables that humans could eat, there wasn't even a bit of pasture that cattle and horses could eat.

The entire world's ecology had been completely destroyed. To truly and completely solve this problem, decades, or even hundreds of years of continuous transformation were needed.

"Alas."

Thinking of this, Bai Yuntian couldn't help but sigh. The Nine Xuan Yun Wang raised his hand and tied up his light cyan long hair, inherited from the Azure Dragon bloodline. He said to himself with some worry: "If we could live a normal life, be able to eat without fighting, and let the people live and work in peace, who would want to start a war?"

"But the change of this entire world isn't something that mere Human Immortals or Earth Immortals can do... Even Celestial Immortals would have to expend a lot of effort if they wanted to do such a thing alone."

As a descendant of one of the heirs of the former Central Divine Court, Bai Yuntian was well aware of matters related to the transformation of planets like the Qingqiu Star – transforming a lifeless world into a living world was indeed within the power of a Celestial Immortal, but if there were no corresponding helpers and the Celestial Immortal had to do everything personally, then for a long time, at least ten years, that Celestial Immortal wouldn't have time to do anything else.

And would that Celestial Immortal – Su Zhou – be willing to waste so much time?

Of course, Celestial Immortal Su Zhou wasn't willing.

Nonsense, in ten years, he might even advance to the Great Heavenly Venerate!

At that time, who would still be playing the step-by-step planet transformation game here?

Moreover, the situation in the Nine Xuan World was far from needing that level of transformation. Based on his cultivation in the Way of Divine Wood, Su Zhou realized that the matter of the Nine Xuan World might be more difficult for others, but it wasn't something that he, who had a deep connection with the Divine Wood lineage, couldn't solve.

"The Divine Wood lineage will develop a giant ecosystem based on it during its growth process. If this ecosystem appears in a world that already has a local ecology, it might be a disaster, like what the Banyan Undying Tree did in the Divine Wood world."

A wisp of divine thought relied on Bai Yuntian's soul, and Su Zhou's soul murmured to himself: "But if, in a world where the ecology is almost completely lost, promoting or planting a new Divine Wood, perhaps this situation will be greatly improved?"

Su Zhou couldn't say that he was familiar with this matter, but he did leave a plant that was almost a Divine Wood in the Reincarnation World and the Perfect World.

The Xuanbing Divine Wood guarding the 'Soul of Water', and the Anxi Divine Wood guarding the endless grievances.

Although Su Zhou was just taking advantage of the situation in both places and didn't really create a Divine Wood with his own power.

Even his current warship Divine Wood form was essentially more of a warship, just with a shape that looked like a tree.

However, whether it was the Wisdom Tree, the Banyan Undying Tree, or the other Divine Woods located around the Transmission Tower in Zheng Guo, he knew them and had relevant contact channels.

The ecology of the Wisdom Tree was already very obvious. Emu and Qiling were essentially the dependents derived from it and Su Zhou. In a sense, it wouldn't be surprising to consider them the creations and descendants of the Wisdom Tree.

He was also quite familiar with the other Divine Woods and could ask them for help.

"Speaking of which, I remember that the Lord of Life Tree in the Beast God Realm seems to be a real Divine Wood that created the entire world's ecology with its own power."

"It's more professional and suitable than other Divine Woods."

Thinking like this, Su Zhou couldn't help but mutter to himself.

But before that, he still needed to carefully observe the geology and ecological situation of the entire Nine Xuan World.

After all, everything was just speculation now.

"Bai Yuntian, go and take a look deep underground."

"I want to see how your Nine Xuan World has survived these thousands of years."

In the divine thought, Su Zhou's clone said so. His tone was peaceful and didn't have the meaning of ordering, but Yun Wang nodded seriously: "I obey your command, Lord!"

While Su Zhou's clone and Bai Yuntian were stirring up the ranks of the Pioneer explorers and then sneaking into the depths of the Nine Xuan World to analyze the world.

The entire Earth's reaction to the current Nine Xuan World, and even the fact that Wu Shen Liu Li advanced to Earth Immortal, was very interesting.

[Friend or Foe? Extraterrestrial Civilization Acts Aggressively, Intending to Capture Our Exploration Team!]

[Another New Extraterrestrial Civilization Discovered, Possibly Descendants of Ancient Heavenly Venerates – Every Night at 8:30 PM, Tune into Central Channel 16 and Explore the Secrets of the Former Central Divine Court with Experts!]

[The Siren of War: My Opinion on the Relationship Between Two Worlds]

In just one night, all sorts of sensational reports, clickbait news, and even rumors emerged endlessly, occupying all relevant interfaces on the Southeast Asian regional network.

Even the giant virtual projection screens located in the city center had advertisements for related official programs, playing news related to the Nine Xuan World in a 24-hour loop.

Among them, the vast majority were about the possibility of 'war.'

War.

Since the spiritual energy revival, all wars in the traditional sense had completely disappeared. Even if there were local conflicts, they were at most warlord infighting in some remote areas. If that thing counted as war, then the civil unrest in the turbulent areas was probably not much different.

All major forces around the world were paying attention to supernatural-related matters within their own forces, trying to get everyone to start cultivating and enter an era of 'national cultivation'... As a result, the world's former troublemakers, who used to send money everywhere for training and make many places uneasy, had also restrained themselves, making the whole world a lot cleaner.

Except for the super-powered patients, the whole world was countless times more peaceful than before.

Therefore, when the word war appeared, everyone was surprised, but the first thing they thought of was being somewhat excited.

Humans weren't inherently belligerent lives... But without experiencing real blood and fire, they never rejected 'struggle', because that was the instinctive desire for competition in the human body.

Especially after cultivating and mastering powers beyond those of ordinary lives, the sense of superiority and power that came from the marrow was even more likely to lead people to be competitive and courageous.

If the Foundation Establishment cultivation methods of various countries weren't the kind that would make people peaceful, then perhaps the chaos of the mortal world, with great heroes and giant bandits, superheroes and supervillains everywhere, like the ancient gods, would have already appeared.

If there was no war, there were still competitions and matches.

For those cultivators who had cultivated for a long time and showed off their skills in the arena, or rather, in their eyes, war was just a bigger arena, a bigger stage, that would allow them to better show their strength.

They were not only unafraid, but also eager to try.

The fact that Liu Li achieved Earth Immortal status had further changed the atmosphere of the entire Earth.

[Ms. Stepani Dochka, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency of the Ross Republic, Successfully Broke Through the 'Heavenly Gate', Advanced to Overlord, and Achieved the Realm of God!]

[Mr. Feran Earl, Director-General of the Southern District of the Concordia Bureau of the European Union, Cast the 'Silver Body', Advanced to Overlord, and Achieved the Realm of Holiness!]

[American Federation...]

After Liu Li advanced, either to strengthen their own momentum and not be weaker than Zheng Guo, or because they originally had relevant plans and were just advancing them slightly, in short, all the major forces around the world had corresponding Earth Immortals emerging and advancing to Overlord.

But unfortunately, although the process of these Earth Overlords' advancement was also filmed and recorded, in terms of momentum, it was still far inferior to the scene of Wu Shen Liu Li wielding light into a sword and drawing the ground as a prison to capture the entire Hong Wang and his personal guards.

On major video websites, the video of Old Man Liu Li's advancement had already soared to tens of millions of views. In a few days, or even less, surpassing one hundred million would be a piece of cake.

It was a bit like the situation during the war when the American Federation was building warships like dumplings. The situation of the world spawning Overlord-level powerhouses like dumplings undoubtedly stimulated the civilian atmosphere of the entire Earth.

Under this atmosphere, everyone was more or less numb to the 'possible upcoming war', or had great confidence.

"In just a day or two, four Overlord Earth Immortals have advanced. The officials have really been hiding their strength! By the way, someone has finally caught up with Su Zhou – at least they won't be pulled down by two major realms."

"I'm asking you, how can we lose with our four Overlords advancing one after another? There's no way we can lose!"

"Yeah, the Flying Dragon is already riding our faces, how can we lose? I'll bet my underwear that we won't lose!"

"The guy upstairs should put away his underwear. You've probably forgotten that our Celestial Su is still sitting on the moon – the Nine Xuan World would be crazy to really start a war."

This was the current public opinion on the Earth side. Although it couldn't be said that they looked down on the Nine Xuan World, they all unanimously believed that if a war broke out, the Earth side would definitely win.

They wouldn't even need Su Zhou to take action. The Earth's basic productivity alone would be enough to crush the other side.

Of course, there were also a few relatively sober netizens who, in addition to being optimistic, also raised some more practical questions.

"What's the situation in the Nine Xuan World? How many troops do they have, how many Earth Immortals do they have, and how many battle-ready troops can they pull out now?"

"And why did the Nine Xuan World attack our exploration team? And why did they have a conflict with us? These key questions aren't mentioned in the programs and news!"

Of course, they weren't mentioned – because, apart from Bai Yingxue's 'reborn' information, the Earth side was actually completely ignorant of the Nine Xuan World.

And the Zheng Guo side naturally couldn't release the information of the reborn person so openly. Even if they wanted to release it, they had to find a reasonable enough channel to use as a cover.

For example... the captured Nine Xuan King, Hong Wang.

At this moment, in the underground secret room of the Zheng Guo Qingzhou Security Bureau, Hong Wang, who had a whale horn, looked extremely tired.

Hong Wang's original name was 'Hong Kun', and he was a descendant of the bloodline of the former Nidao lineage demon venerate 'Kunpeng'. However, the spiritual energy was cut off and the bloodline deteriorated. In his generation, only the narwhal horn derived from the Kunpeng bloodline could be considered proof of his bloodline.

After this Nine Xuan King was captured, he was directly sent here, his cultivation was sealed, and he was subjected to uninterrupted interrogation... In fact, regardless of whether he said anything or not, the Zheng Guo side already had a source of information, so the interrogators weren't particularly serious and didn't try to torture Hong Wang on purpose.

However, Hong Wang was torturing himself at this time.

"Wh, what?! The descendants of Xiantian are actually so deeply rooted, four Earth Immortals in one day, and still so at ease?!"

After watching the video of himself being beaten up by Liu Li after his advancement to Earth Immortal, Hong Wang also watched the advancement videos of the other Earth civilization Overlords. Of course, he could see that those videos were all real and didn't have the slightest trace of being faked, so he was shocked beyond measure: "Great Heavenly Venerate above, such a grand occasion was enough to make the Heavenly Venerate take notice even in the former Central Divine Court!"

Of course, they would take notice. Earth Immortals were already enough to enter the Myriad Immortals Court and the Myriad Gods Palace, register their names in the Ascension Records, and become a member of the real Immortals.

Earth Immortals who had received specialized training could also become the governing Immortals of one side of the world. If they didn't want to be delegated to a local area, they could also stay in the Central Divine Court and continue to cultivate and pursue the Great Dao.

Four Earth Immortals in one day was equivalent to the Immortals having four more of their own kind in one day, and this was of course something to celebrate.

Hong Wang felt a trace of good fortune in addition to his shock.

Although he seemed very tough when he was communicating with Yun Wang earlier, that was just because he was confident due to knowing the strength of the Nine Xuan World.

His Majesty the Nine Xuan Emperor was a high-level Earth Immortal who wielded the Nine Xuan Emperor weapon, the 'Flame Melting Illuminating Ten Directions Seal'. With the Red Earth Fire Formation of Jun Heavenly Territory, even Celestial Immortals could be fought.

And the Nine Xuan Twenty-Four Kings, although everyone claimed to be peak commanders, everyone knew that a few Kings had already advanced to Earth Immortals by some means that couldn't be disclosed.

Like that Nine Xuan Yun Wang, Hong Wang knew very well that the other party could probably advance to Earth Immortal in half a year.

The reason why those Earth Immortal-level Kings were hiding it, Hong Wang guessed, was probably to take advantage of the opportunity of the future war with Xiantian to get rid of the jurisdiction of the Nine Xuan Royal Court, completely cut off the territory, and try to become an 'Emperor' themselves!

In short, the emergence of multiple Earth Immortals within a year was a fairly proud achievement for the Nine Xuan World. In the past, it would have been enough for the Nine Xuan World to receive awards and encouragement from the Divine Court and gain great glory.

But... now, that confidence had been completely shattered.

Because the foundation of the Xiantian Realm... was obviously even more unfathomable!

He could completely see that the many Earth Earth Immortals of Earth, including Liu Li, were obviously able to achieve it earlier, but they deliberately suppressed it.

"...The Xiantian race is terrifying!"

Just as Hong Wang was shocked.

Three extraterrestrial civilization ambassadors, including the Tarins, the Krolls, and even the Celestiaths, were also shocked.

[So... the Earth civilization is really just suppressing its power to maintain social stability?]

Compared to the Tarins and Krolls, who grew up in the Silent Era and didn't know anything about supernatural society, and were just simply shocked by the strength of the Earth civilization, Taine, the Seer, the ambassador of the Selos Tia civilization, saw it more clearly. He stared at the video in front of him and couldn't help but nod silently: [Few civilizations would do this, giving up high-end force just to maintain stability and social development.]

[In the dark universe, facing endless threats, only by constantly increasing power can we ensure the 'future'... And for the future, whether society can develop steadily is not worth mentioning. Gradually, all civilizations will embark on the road of focusing on psionic powerhouses and superhumans.]

[But Earth is different...]

Thinking like this, Taine, the Seer, raised his head and looked reverently at the gradually emerging bright moon in the sky above the Earth.

[Because of the existence of Mr. Su Zhou... in this universe, there is absolutely no civilization that can defeat the Earth civilization in 'high-end force' – even we Celestiaths cannot.]

[And he is also full of tolerance and love for civilization. He neither blindly demands nor gives unconditionally, but silently watches, silently helps, and even if he cooperates, he is fair and just.]

[Only under the watch, and not the rule, of such a strong person can the sustainable development of civilization be guaranteed, so as not to completely deviate to the path of 'civilization is the appendage of the strong'!]

This was an unforeseen path. In the entire Earth universe, there had probably never been an existence like Su Zhou, who was almost desireless and frighteningly strong.

Therefore, Taine, the Seer, was extremely moved – this was not only Earth's fortune, but also the fortune of other civilizations.

In fact, not only in the Earth universe, but even in the entire multiverse, such a situation was extremely rare.

At least, this was the case for Jiu Ming and Shao Shuangyue, who had recently become senior explorers of the Pioneer Space.

"Hey, I'm still a long way from Earth Immortal, and even if I become one, I'll only barely be able to catch up with Brother Zhou's exhaust fumes."

Shao Shuangyue, who had already met up with Jiu Ming in Tiandu in reality, was now eating and drinking in a private room in a hotel under the Zhuzhao Group. While watching a video on her phone, she sighed: "And Brother Zhou's greatest strength isn't his strength, but his unchanging initial intention!"

"So many worlds, so many mission targets and outstanding people, their minds will change after gaining powerful strength, they will have additional goals, and then they will become less pure... But Brother Zhou seems to be the same from beginning to end."

Speaking of this, the girl stopped, and then, after thinking carefully for a while, shook her head: "No, it's not that there's no change – to be honest, the Brother Zhou at the beginning and the Brother Zhou now are quite different."

"It's just that, even if there are changes, they are better sublimations!"

Picking up a strawberry from the dessert cake after the meal and putting it into her mouth, the black-haired beauty sighed beautifully, then turned her head and looked at her teammate, who was staring at the laptop next to her without saying a word.

She asked curiously, "Brother Jiu Ming, what are you doing? Could it be that you're stimulated by the scene of Old Man Liu Li and the others advancing to Earth Immortal? But you're still far from Earth Immortal..."

"Of course, I know I'm still far away. I'm only fifteen years old and still a child. Don't talk to me about Earth Immortal, it's too early!"

The blue-haired Dragon King teenager raised his head and hurriedly replied with annoyance, then continued to lower his head and fiddled with his computer: "Don't bother me for now. I'm adding bricks and tiles to my cultivation!"

"According to the news from the Security Bureau and the New World Exploration Department, after a while, I'll be cooperating with the main force to 'expedition' the Nine Xuan World – before that, I have to prepare some trump cards!"

"Eh, what are you adding bricks and tiles to? What are the trump cards?" Hearing this, Shao Shuangyue was immediately curious.

She甩了甩头发 (Shuǎi le shuǎi tóu fa - flicked her hair) and then approached Jiu Ming, looking intently at his computer screen.

"These..."

At first, Shao Shuangyue thought she would see many books about cultivation.

But in reality, what she saw were all kinds of videos that she was very familiar with.

"Eh, wait a minute?"

Seeing those scenes that were obviously space-age landing assault battles, the black-haired girl who had personally experienced these scenes was a little confused: "Isn't this the process of our last mission in the 'Heavenly Pass World'?"

"Jiu Ming, when did you record it? What do these videos have to do with your trump cards and cultivation?"

Asking like this, soon, after a burst of crackling keyboard and mouse operations, Shao Shuangyue received Jiu Ming's reply.

"Does this even need to be said?"

Raising his head, Jiu Ming, whose expression was full of pleasure, showed a confident smile: "Of course, it's uploading videos!"

"Don't forget, one of my foundations of cultivation is 'Mind Cards', this kind of mental thing needs a lot of belief, wish power, or respect and love."

"So you see, I'm editing the wonderful clips from our mission process and uploading them to the video network!"

补昨天的，今天还有一更，大概在晚上 (Bǔ zuótiān de, jīntiān hái yǒu yī gēng, dàgài zài wǎnshang - Making up for yesterday's update, there will be another update today, probably in the evening.)