Chapter 281 Choosing to Believe in Hope (6000)

Just a while ago, before Su Zhou directly demonstrated the full power of a Tǒnglǐng-tier cultivator and killed the four Venerable Lords of the Beast God Realm on the spot.

At the entrance to the Beast God Realm, the multinational joint forces, in just three hours, had already used various spells and quick-setting cement to build a heavily armed, extremely solid, permanent fortress in the primitive mountains.

The power of transcendence itself represents extreme productivity. If an Opening Spirit cultivator is equivalent to a normal human with all-around qualities comparable to an athlete, then an Awakening-tier cultivator is worth dozens or even hundreds of people.

This is not an exaggeration, because with the existence of magic and spiritual power, an Awakening-tier cultivator can move more than a hundred tons of heavy objects and dig dozens of cubic meters of soil in a day. If it is a spellcaster, then according to the subtlety of the spells they master, this number will further increase.

Of course, if using machinery, ordinary people driving excavators and transport vehicles can also do the same thing, but in the case of using machinery and magical instruments at the same time, the efficiency improvement of transcendents will only be more exaggerated.

Not to mention, this time, the construction workers are dozens of Awakening Peak, and even Transcendent-tier experts.

Under the shocked gaze of the Yǔ (feathered) race scouts, all the woodland within a few kilometers around the two-world portal in the deep mountains was flattened by a ruthless gust of wind within half an hour. The earth element mage troops from the Europa Federation summoned more than four hundred giant earth element golems, allowing them to use their bodies as the foundation to build huge and solid city wall foundations.

After that, the Druids sprinkled spores, and used high-density fertilizer and spiritual liquid to catalyze growth. Immediately, on this foundation, giant mushrooms as large as buildings and as hard as steel rose from the ground, turning into solid city walls.

Immediately afterwards, the spellcasters from the Zheng-Guo (Orthodox Nation) Discipline Bureau also moved in. They brought a total of three hundred and sixty-five Zhōu Tiān Xīng Sù (Cosmic Constellation) array base plates that had been prepared long ago, and then embedded these base plates around the city walls.

Almost instantly, after the array plates were activated, majestic spiritual power vibrated, covering the entire area within dozens of miles under the protection of the great array.

From then on, no matter what method was used from the outside world, it was impossible to truly see the things around the portal. Whether it was direct eye contact or spiritual light detection, all methods could only see a hazy starlight. And several slave soldiers who were sent out by the combat species to explore the way to their deaths also disappeared after entering the area covered by the magic array. It was not known whether they were dead or lost in the great array.

All of this happened within a short three hours. Before all the divine beasts in the Beast God Realm could react, such an unyielding nail was inserted into the heart of the Yǔ race.

Of course, the Yǔ race commander and some of the divine beasts' private soldiers were not inactive. During these three hours, they repeatedly attempted to launch attacks on the fortifications.

However, the countries of Earth only sent out a few high-level Transcendent Nǐ Dào (Imitation Dao) cultivators, releasing their own aura. Then, basically all the slave soldiers and production species fell to the ground, not daring to move, while the combat species were also extremely hesitant and unwilling to come forward.

Even if the divine beasts behind them urged them again, the bottom-level soldiers of the Beast God Realm, who had been brainwashed too much, did not dare to attack another Venerable Lord. And their IQ was really unable to understand the principle that 'the Venerable Lord of another world is not a Venerable Lord'... What a joke, a master is a master, isn't it? Could it be that the master in the north is not a master?

Some Beast God Realm soldiers even committed suicide, not daring to charge into the Earth countries' positions. This method was even regarded by other soldiers as a good idea to solve the dilemma. Attacking the Venerable Lord would reduce merit, and disobeying the Venerable Lord's order would also reduce merit, so it would be better to die!

At the beginning, the Earth Nǐ Dào cultivators, who originally thought there would be a fierce battle, only pointed and watched the jokes of the Beast God Realm. Even if the other soldiers committed suicide, they only shook their heads and sighed a few times.

But later, as more and more spirit beast soldiers committed suicide, even piling up into small hills, so that the divine beasts behind them were helpless and had to temporarily withdraw their troops, everyone couldn't laugh anymore.

It's okay to watch a funny thing once or twice, but if it goes too far, it can only make people with normal thinking feel a chill from the bone marrow.

"This is a bit too much..."

Li Han Shan, who was watching this scene, murmured in his heart, shaking his head with some unbearable feelings.

And beside him, except for Shao Qi Ming, who only frowned slightly, all the other team members had similar expressions.

As a member of the Zheng-Guo combat team, responsible for cooperating with the Nǐ Dào cultivators from Zheng-Guo to investigate the surrounding situation, Li Han Shan, a young cultivator with the bloodline of the Chong Ming bird, originally thought that the task of blocking the Beast God Realm's beast soldiers' attack would be a thrilling and exciting experience, a good material for novels.

But now it seems that if you easily describe this kind of plot in detail, there is no doubt that it will definitely be censored.

Moreover, this inexplicable behavior of immediately committing suicide just because of facing a 'class'... is enough to prove to these ordinary human cultivators who have just arrived in the Beast God Realm how distorted the civilization of this other world's divine beasts is.

"The civilization level of the Beast God Realm is very low, basically at the feudal age of mankind, and the people's thinking is even more primitive."

In the fortifications, researchers from various countries are analyzing the information brought back by the Zheng-Guo and Europa action teams at the front line, as well as various picture and video materials collected by drones from various places.

And their conclusions are very consistent: "Their war methods are basically equivalent to hand-to-hand combat, and the development of magical instruments is almost non-existent. This kind of civilization model leads to the fact that except for the divine beasts, most of which have the strength of the Transcendent high-level, the other spirit beasts and slave soldiers are not worth mentioning."

Magical instruments are the reliance of low-level cultivators. Low-level cultivators holding magical instruments can exert power beyond their own realm. In this way, multiple low-level cultivators have the power to resist higher-level cultivators.

Obviously, the divine beasts of the Beast God Realm will not allow this technology to develop and mature. They denounce it as ingenious and elaborate tricks. Even if they need to use it, it is only for the high-level to use themselves... This kind of policy is naturally a good way to maintain internal stability, but it is quite weak when facing foreign invaders.

The human side is quite aware of their role as invaders. The researchers did not feel that there was anything wrong: "The Awakening tier, when facing modern firepower, is not much different from ordinary people, and although the Transcendent early stage can resist certain bullets, they are still powerless when facing artillery fire. Only when they reach the Transcendent high-level, relying on various magical powers and abilities, can cultivators freely act and shuttle in the battlefield of modern warfare."

"But this is not invincible. You see, we tried to launch a surface-to-air missile at this spirit bird that has repeatedly harassed us and attacked the great array. It didn't react at first to what this thing was, and it was too late when it realized the danger. Although it was not directly killed, the explosion also destroyed its flight ability, allowing us to capture it."

It can be seen that a half-crippled spirit bird is lying comatose in a temporarily built sterile medical room. Seven doctors are treating it, analyzing the spirit beast's body data, and three powerful Transcendent tier Nǐ Dào cultivators from all over the world are sitting next to it, in case the spirit beast wakes up and hurts the doctors present.

And around this sterile room, there are rows of the same medical rooms, but what is being studied inside is not spirit beasts, but the slave beasts that were previously sent in by the Yǔ race commander to explore the situation.

"They are very advanced in biological modification."

This is a conclusion. A doctor named Ning Shi Yu submitted this report. In the report, she stated that most of the slave beasts have undergone modifications to the brain and even the soul. This modification completely deprives the slave beasts of the ability to associate and resist, making them biological machines that only obey orders and never rebel.

"After the modification, these lives have reproduced for more than three thousand generations. The divine beasts of the Beast God Realm seem to have a peculiar Nǐ Dào technique that can maintain the stability of genetic modification for a long time, making it extremely difficult for it to mutate naturally." This Doctor Ning analyzed: "If this technology is transferred to humans, perhaps, we can completely expel all genetic diseases, even cancer, from the genetic level... Of course, this is just a concept."

In addition, the creatures captured locally, called 'Dedication Species', have been completely modulated from the genetic level. They reproduce extremely quickly, and... are very delicious.

At least, the aroma alone surpasses any non-spirit beast meat 5A grade meat on Earth.

This is a shocking discovery!

In fact, under the background of global spiritual energy recovery and national cultivation, the entire Earth civilization circle has fallen into the predicament of 'food shortage'.

Of course, with the hard work of many researchers, led by the Zheng-Guo Agricultural Saint, various hybrid spiritual plant crops have been launched, but this is only in terms of staple food. The increased appetite of the whole people represents the same increase in the demand for meat products and other proteins. However, unlike spiritual plant hybridization, the modification of spirit beasts is still a complex technology, ethical and other complex issues, because spirit beasts have the potential to gain wisdom and cultivate Nǐ Dào.

This is not being a saint, because in the case of spiritual energy recovery, the spiritual beast transformation of global creatures is only a matter of time, and their existence itself is actually adding a new source of intelligent life to the world.

Based on the observation records of the Zheng-Guo 'Iron-Eating Beast' (panda) clan, most Iron-Eating Beasts that have gained wisdom do not have reproductive desires for their kind that have not opened their spiritual intelligence. They do not think that they and the non-spiritual Iron-Eating Beasts are the same kind, or rather, not so close to the same kind.

In fact, the Iron-Eating Beasts that have gained spiritual intelligence are a blank piece of paper. As long as they are guided, all the spirit beast Iron-Eating Beasts will be close to human civilization, and after cultivating Nǐ Dào, they will gradually begin to simulate the human body, taking pride in obtaining human identity.

And the Iron-Eating Beasts who have obtained human identity will even be more fanatical and more loyal than humans to teach other Iron-Eating Beasts, presenting a spreading trend.

And their children, if they choose to be born in human form, are naturally human babies who hold a certain Nǐ Dào cultivation - that is, the prototype of the Nǐ Dào family.

Teaching beasts to be human is the fastest way to add a force's transcendent power and labor force. Those modern countries with serious aging especially value this point. In places like Dong Ying (Japan), the conservatives who deny Nǐ Dào have been completely defeated and completely suppressed by the reformers. At least the reformers have found a way to solve this country's problems through Nǐ Dào.

Therefore, in dealing with spirit beasts, countries are very cautious. Unless those are obvious evil beasts, most spirit beasts are kept and released, and are not arbitrarily driven away or killed. Therefore, in the era of spiritual energy recovery, the problem of meat products, unlike grain staple foods, has not yet been solved.

But now, the discovery of the Beast God Realm has shocked the countries: a kind of creature that has been completely deprived of the possibility of giving birth to spiritual intelligence from the genetic level, and has been transformed into a pure source of meat production! If it is popularized, it will undoubtedly greatly increase the world's meat production!

"But this feeling is also a trampling on life..."

A researcher from the Europa Union said hesitantly: "It can be seen that these Dedication Species should also have had spiritual intelligence before they were transformed..."

"At least we have to learn this technology - you can't let all humans be vegetarians, can you? And there are also many spiritual plants... If you have to go online like this, even elements and spiritual energy will give birth to elemental gods and pure energy gods. Then do we still need to use magic, do we still need to cultivate?"

Naturally, there will be researchers from other countries who refute - some things, it is enough to think about them. Going too far online will only lead to absurdity.

In general, although there are occasional twists and turns, the Beast God Realm is indeed worthy of being a huge treasure house. In this new and different other world from Earth, all the countries in the world have discovered huge sources of profit from it.

And the biggest beneficiary is bound to be Zheng-Guo, which has the Beast God Realm channel.

Twenty-four hours later.

"Have you safely arrived near the Life Master Tree?"

Bai Ze bloodline, Zheng-Guo Nǐ Dào leader, Sheng Sheng (Sage of Life) Cang Lun Zhe, for this Beast God Realm mission, temporarily put down his research and came to the front line. This silver-haired middle-aged man was quite surprised to watch the terminal in his hand: "It seems that Qing Yun (Dao Sage)'s mission is going very smoothly."

"The Europa action team has now also escaped the pursuit of the Yǔ race border troops. They have infiltrated a plantation and are looking for opportunities to see if they can infiltrate the Yǔ race's main city... These divine beasts feel like ancient lords, and their control over the bottom is almost non-existent."

Facing this kind of weak enemy, most people will feel happy or relaxed.

But Cang Lun Zhe couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He couldn't help but ask himself: "Clearly born with such talent, such bloodline, a civilization composed purely of divine beasts, how could it fall to this point?"

"Of course I know that a small group of powerful individual force holders will affect the progress of group civilization, so I hope to turn all human beings into divine beasts called 'human beings', to become stronger than any naturally bred divine beasts, a more advanced life created and nurtured by human wisdom... But this transformation cannot be popularized to the whole people in an instant. There must be some early and some late."

"And will those who are early allow those who are late to catch up? Will those who are late allow those who are early to take advantage? If my goal is really achieved and new humans are born... then, contradictions will inevitably be born, right? Just like what the divine beasts did to the spirit beasts, will the new humans do the same to the old humans in the future?"

Thinking a lot is undoubtedly an advantage for researchers.

But thinking too much will disturb the state of mind.

At this moment, Cang Lun Zhe's heart was turbulent.

But even so,

What should be done, still needs to be done, and the road that should be taken, someone always has to walk.

If you stop because of 'fear of the future' and fear of current ethics, then the era cannot be advanced and civilization cannot be improved.

"I am just a researcher, I have no way to decide the future of mankind."

Thinking like this, Cang Lun Zhe suppressed his somewhat worried heart and strengthened his thinking: "What human beings will eventually become, what can decide the future of this race, will always be human beings themselves."

"If one day, human beings are destroyed by the evil in their own biological instincts, it can only show that human beings are just creatures like this."

"But I choose to believe in hope. I believe that the goodness and order created by human postnatal civilization are enough to restrain their own evil instincts."

Three hours later.

Cang Lun Zhe received a communication from Dao Sage: 'Mission completed, the Life Master Tree has completely lost its vitality.'

Immediately afterwards, fifteen minutes later, as Dao Sage and others returned with their team, all the countries in the world also received this news.

While everyone breathed a sigh of relief and put down the big stone in their hearts, they noticed another puzzling question.

"Where is Su Zhou?"

"Where did that Zheng-Guo Tǒnglǐng-tier cultivator, that inexplicably strong young man, go?"

"Was there an accident during the teleportation?"

The staff of the Dao Discipline Bureau in charge of the teleportation formation even felt a chill in their hearts, feeling that they might have accidentally made some serious mistakes. This time, they would definitely go to the Transcendent Court... But then, Dao Sage's words made everyone stunned for a moment.

"Don't worry, Su Zhou said he was going to kill a few divine beasts and will be back soon."

Although his heart was full of worries, Dao Sage, stroking his beard and with a light and breezy expression, simply wrote 'low-key confidence' on his face. He said calmly to the garrison personnel of the fortress next to him: "I let him take a camera engraved with an observation formation that can communicate in real time. If he encounters any accident, he can definitely hold on until our reinforcements arrive."

"Of course, I don't think he needs reinforcements."

To this, most people from other countries were skeptical. It wasn't that they didn't believe in Su Zhou's martial power, but Su Zhou was now alone in the very center of the Beast God Realm. He might still have the advantage in a short period of time, but as the battle time increased, even Su Zhou would definitely be tired!

That guy, does he really not need reinforcements?

And although he said so on the mouth, Dao Sage immediately called people to come and set up a magic array instrument that could connect to that camera - because it was originally an instrument used by the forward exploration troops to transmit the on-site situation to the rear in real time, so there were ready-made ones that could be used.

"Although Su Zhou has the strength of the Tǒnglǐng tier, in theory, it is enough to guarantee his own safety in the Beast God Realm, but he has only been officially advanced to the Tǒnglǐng tier for less than a month..."

Even if he was chatting with Sheng Sheng one sentence at a time, narrating the situation and experiences along the way, Dao Sage's heart was still full of worries: "And the divine beasts of the Beast God Realm should be able to use the residual spiritual energy organs of their ancestors to temporarily exert the power of the Tǒnglǐng tier. Moreover, they may be more proficient in using the ancestral natal magical powers than Su Zhou in using his own magical powers... After all, it is a memory engraved in the blood."

The Nǐ Dào of Zheng-Guo also has similar inheritances. Like the Bai family, they enshrine the remains of four predecessors who cultivated the Western White Tiger True Body. But to be honest, this kind of thing, in the Zheng-Guo cultural circle... no, in the modern human cultural circle, is used for offering, not for taking and using. Unless it is a matter of life and death, who would use the ancestor's body to fight?

But the divine beasts are beasts after all, not humans. They naturally haven't thought about this problem, and in terms of combat experience, they may be stronger than Su Zhou.

With such worries, the instrument was activated.

The camera was connected.

And all the people present could only see a blazing white beam of light that filled most of the screen, sweeping across the sky.

Faintly, in the gaps between the scattered spiritual light of the white light, one could vaguely see, in the continuous explosions in the sky, what seemed to be densely packed black spots of spirit beast troops falling from the sky like dumplings in the distance.

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For a time, Dao Sage, who was dazzled by the white light, did not see clearly the content on the screen. He frowned subconsciously and said, "What's the situation?"

And the next moment.

Everyone, including Sheng Sheng, including the fortress staff present, including the cultivators from other countries around the world, saw it.

A huge, solid, and powerful dragon claw swept across the front of the camera.

This dragon claw was covered with smooth and aesthetically pleasing pale white scales. Just by looking at it, there was a feeling of being torn apart. And under the cover of the dragon scales, the muscles that were slowly bulging even more gave a strong sense of power as if from the wild ancient times.

This is a dragon's arm, and it is a type with very high strength!

Then, this dragon claw, with incredible control, used its incomparably sharp dragon claws to gently move the camera to another place, seemingly sandwiched in a layer of transparent scales.

The strange thing is that there is also a small grain of wheat in this layer of transparent scales... Why is there a grain of wheat here?

But at this time, no one had time to think about this question.

Because, at this moment, in the distance.

Four extremely bright spiritual lights, representing the Venerable Lords and beast kings of the Beast God Realm, were rapidly flying towards the location of the camera.

There have been a bit too many updates recently, so I'm taking a break today. There's only one update...

But at least it's nearly 3 chapters of the 2k party, please forgive me...