Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“... I can’t.”

Gu Wuxin’s face changed countless times before it was condensed into a complicated, anxious, and angry look. “It is exactly because we have been waiting in the dark sea of stars for billions of years that we cannot waste even one more second.

“You haven’t been connected to a super body yet. You don’t understand how uncomfortable it is for me, who has been connected to a super body and is used to the interaction of tremendous information, to be trapped in this small, cold, enclosed universe, unable to absorb the information from the big universe!

“It was like... although I had eyes, I could not see. Although I had ears, I could not hear. Although I had a mouth, I could not tell the entire Universe Ocean my feelings. Pain. Extreme pain. Pain that could not be described with words!

“I can’t stand such a feeling for even half a second. Believe me, you will understand me when you are all connected to the super bodies.

“Right now, I can more or less understand it... You are probably like a drug addict. In the beginning, a tiny amount of information was enough to satisfy you, but gradually, you became the captive and slave of information. You needed more and more information in order to stimulate your soul. As the ‘threshold’ of your soul grew higher and higher, you needed more and more very stimulating information, to the point that the entire Pangu Universe could not satisfy you—it was like a drug addict who could do anything insane when he was not satisfied. You also reached the stage where you would not hesitate to destroy your own civilization even if you had to resort to robbery!

Li Yao said, “After all, you are talking to yourself. Our choice is not important at all. There is no room for us to express our opinions, is there?”

“From any perspective—from the perspective of the super body civilization, from the perspective of the Pangu civilization, or from my own perspective—I am qualified to call you ‘child’.

Gu Wuxin said, “Child, you will understand it when you are connected to a super body. Your civilization is still young and ignorant. It will destroy itself and other people in the confusion. Have you ever seen a parent asking for their child’s opinion before they educate their child?

“The so-called ‘education’, or ‘guidance’, is a form of coercion in the first place. Right now, you are still the ‘host’ whose genes are inherently bad. It is impossible for you to strip away the darkness and evil in the depths of your genes willingly. You must have a bright and strong civilization of kindness to help you purify them.

“Otherwise, you will not be able to control the immense strength that you possess. Not only will you destroy yourself, you will also destroy the entire Pangu Universe and even cause greater damage in the sea of the multiverse. Do you understand?

Gu Wuxin’s words were sincere, but they were not. He extended his hands to Li Yao, and his body suddenly expanded like a soap bubble under the scorching sun, making him both splendid and illusionary.

“I understand.”

Li Yao nodded. “My companions... have figured it out, too!”

Hardly had he finished his sentence when dazzling flames burst out of not only the four monsters and the deities under Gu Wuxin’s control but also the ‘Rainbow Bridge’ not far away and the research base of the captives of the Flood Tide Legion.

It was Ding Lingdang, Long Yangjun, Boss Bai, Li Jialing, the Fist King, and the other experts on Li Yao’s side. They had analyzed the countermeasures through the tactical network hundreds of times and locked onto the loopholes of Gu Wuxin and the Bifrost. They had shocked the world with a single brilliant feat and launched the most fatal attack.

Li Yao and Gu Wuxin did not communicate with each other through language. Instead, a lot of information was transmitted through brainwaves.

Therefore, what seemed to be a long story was actually just a matter of a few thoughts.

The conversation between the two of them lasted less than a minute. Even though Gu Wuxin was trying to buy himself more time, Li Yao had hinted Ding Lingdang and the rest of them to steer the Giant God Soldiers around Gu Wuxin and destroy the ‘Rainbow Bridge’ from the source.

“Cut the nonsense. I’ve seen too many guys who think that brightness and justice can save the civilization and the universe.

Ding Lingdang shouted and was the first to lunge at Gu Wuxin. Since the long-range attack just now didn’t have much effect on the Indigo Devil God, he might as well let her pull out her most beloved iron fist. “No matter how extravagant the words of scumbags like you are, no matter how many empty promises you make, you will inevitably give yourselves away in the end—you simply won’t respect the opinions and feelings of others, and you have never treated others as equals like you. In your eyes, others are just chess pieces, ants, dust, and paint that depicts a ‘bright future’.

“Stop your sweet talk. No matter what you say, we will not believe you. We will find the answers to our questions on our own. Even if we are doomed, we do not need answers that are imposed upon us. Never!”

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

108,000 streaks of lightning seemed to be hiding in the gaps of Ding Lingdang’s fingers. They congregated into two crimson storms and rushed at the super-large octopus that Gu Wuxin was standing on without any mercy. Even the transparent spiritual energy barriers that were condensed in front of Gu Wuxin seemed to be unable to stop Ding Lingdang’s unstoppable attack.

“A civilization of absolute brightness and justice? Hehe. Hehehehe. Why don’t I believe it?”

Boss Bai launched an attack at Gu Wuxin from the flank like a white ghost. “Although the Primeval Civilization in the ‘ultimate test’ must’ve boasted a lot of things about themselves, they admitted the darkness and evilness of their ancestors after all. The bloody and cruel history of conquest sounded a bit more real.

“But when you mentioned the rise of the super body civilization and the path of conquest, you glossed over everything with the words ‘snowball’. ‘More and more low-level civilizations and alien species in space have joined the families of the super body civilizations’. Haha. Is that a fairy tale? Are all the civilizations and all the alien species so naïve, kind, and unsuspecting that they are all scrambling to join you?

“If a low-level civilization or an alien species does not want to join you because they want to maintain their independent, ‘selfish’ social form and mindset, what will you do? If a civilization changes their mind and wants to quit the super body after they are connected to it, will their requirements be met? If a group can only join but cannot quit, it will be even worse than the pirate gang!

Boss Bai’s giant soldier was attacking Gu Wuxin’s feet like a translucent saber. It seemed that he was trying to separate Gu Wuxin from the four demon beasts and take advantage of their advantage in numbers.

“It’s true that there are many unreasonable points about your theory. For me, who is also a ‘cluster life’ in a certain sense, there are a lot of technical problems that I can’t figure out. If possible, I hope you can provide further answers.”

The boxing champion followed behind Ding Lingdang, too, controlling his enormous iron body. On one hand, he was protecting Ding Lingdang from the bombardment, and on the other hand, he had prepared all the long-range firepower, ready to launch a second wave of attacks when Gu Wuxin could not resist his retreat.

In the meantime, hundreds of small battle puppets jumped out of his enormous body of steel. The smallest battle puppet was only the size of a palm and looked like a small drone that carried spiritual energy bullets. The larger ones looked like the six-legged spiders that were commonly used in mining bases. Since they could blow away the hardest ores, they could naturally crush the armor and bones of the enemy, too.

After Li Yao’s modification, the modification of the best crystal processor experts of the Star Glory Federation, the Star Glory Federation, and the Star Glory Federation, together with the assistance of Xiao Ming and Wen Wen and the hard training of the Fist King himself, his computational ability and combat ability had both soared to an unbelievable level. It was not difficult for him to control thousands of clones at the same time.

Of course, the more clones one had, the more pressure it would put on the mainframe crystal processor. If a lot of data that needed to be calculated was allocated to every clone, such as the cloud calculation, the network would be much more demanding.

And this was the problem of the boxing champion.

“‘Unified Universal Superinformation’ sounds like a very advanced and perfect concept. However, any concept that falls from theory to reality will inevitably be greatly undermined.

The Fist King sent out a lot of questions calmly. “If such a super information network does exist, how large and advanced would it be and how much energy would it consume to connect all the intelligent creatures in the universe, the countless Sectors, and the countless galaxies?

“You mentioned ‘Quantum Entanglement’ and ‘Gravity Wave’ just now. I don’t know much about the application of such technologies in the field of information interaction. But I believe that, however advanced the technology is, it is unavoidable that it involves the consumption of energy. It is impossible to absorb energy from the void, is it not?

“In this universe, there is no energy that can be obtained out of thin air. To maintain the tactical network between a thousand clones, I have to consume a lot of crystals and put tremendous pressure on the mainframe crystal processor. Your ‘super body network’ involves an unbelievable number of billions of times. To maintain its existence and stability, the energy consumed per second is astronomical. I’m afraid that the energy generated by a hundred supernovas exploding at the same time will not be enough for you to burn for one minute. After billions of years of consumption, what kind of terrifying changes has your ‘super body civilization’ made to the entire sea of the universe?”