CHAPTER 86: CHAPTER 79: TIME TO LAUNCH THE INTERSTELLAR CIVILIZATION

Speaking of this, Martial Artist Shen Yu’s expression turned grave as well.

Over the past few days, by saving the Earth Martial Sect and riding the momentum of the enormous spaceship, he’s been frantically gathering forces from all over.

Recruiting people on a massive scale.

In fact, with the ship’s transportation, in just a few short days, Moonstone City already has a population exceeding ten million. And through the previously traded cultivation technique, he got a batch of automated construction robots from the interstellar civilization.

Underground bases are being built.

This is currently the best option for effectively resisting the severe cold.

But even so, there are still some who are unwilling to submit to the command of a so-called "Immortal."

The weak factions are easier to deal with—they simply send Xu Yuan, aboard the spaceship, with many Earth Martial Sect experts, and that always solves the problem.

However, those rangers wandering around are much trickier.

Moreover, there are some powerful factions that which even Earth Martial Sect can’t suppress. After all, Earth Martial Sect is now significantly weakened.

All these situations are giving Martial Artist Shen Yu a growing headache.

"Maybe you need a title better suited for your world," Shen Yu suggested, "Like Emperor: benevolent yet supreme in authority. The imperial system actually manages an Extraordinary World lacking basic qualities far better. Reincarnated Immortal, a Saint by birth—that’s the Celestial Destiny itself! Otherwise, being just an Immortal makes it hard to establish a unified sense of order."

"I’ve actually been thinking about that," Martial Artist Shen Yu nodded.

As Moonstone City’s population continues to grow, issues in the management style are gradually emerging.

Thus, establishing an effective management mechanism in the shortest possible time has become a priority.

And the Martial Arts World has had a unified empire in the past.

It disappeared many years ago, but it’s enough for people to have at least a basic impression of that ancient system.

"I’ll share what’s going on in my world too."

Since the beginning, the interstellar world Shen Yu hadn’t spoken much, but now he spoke up: "I’ve already reached the front line."

Just that one sentence startled both Shen Yu and Martial Artist Shen Yu.

"That fast?"

"Normally, it wouldn’t be this fast, but a really good opportunity popped up, so I used some Gray Mist to get myself to the front line in the shortest time.

The human civilization in the interstellar world possesses wormhole transition technology.

Otherwise, even with light-speed ships, it’d take many years just to leave the Solar System, let alone reach the vast stars beyond.

However, their wormhole transition technology isn’t as powerful as those shown in some sci-fi stories.

There are two main types.

One is superluminal flight, which breaks the light-speed limit and gradually shortens the time needed to reach distant star systems.

The other is direct transition, somewhat like the shuttle ability of the Gray Mist Space, requiring simultaneous wormhole entrances in both locations before the jump can be completed.

The cost of building these is enormous.

Normally, for interstellar world Shen Yu to reach the front line, he’d first take a light-speed or superluminal ship to the nearest wormhole entrance, then shuttle to the wormhole entrance closest to the front lines, and finally fly to the frontline battlefield.

The whole trip would take at least two to three months.

Using Gray Mist makes it simpler, but the consumption isn’t negligible.

The opportunity that made interstellar world Shen Yu willing to burn this much Gray Mist to accelerate his arrival must be quite something.

Shen Yu and Martial Artist Shen Yu immediately grew excited.

The interstellar civilization isn’t just their biggest support right now; it’s also, by far, the most populous of the three civilizations—no contest!

Even as interstellar Shen Yu described the interstellar civilization as "naturally low in real humans," and said that artificial cultivation was the main way of increasing population, their numbers still reach a staggering one hundred billion.

Including the emergency backup biochemicals, it could be as many as one hundred and forty or fifty billion.

What does this population mean?

Gray Mist—a vast amount!

"This opportunity might really bring quite a lot of Gray Mist, probably involving about fifty million people and a considerable number of enemies," interstellar world Shen Yu explained concisely. "Because of transportation costs, some of the equipment needed at the front lines is usually produced at locations closer to the front. These places easily become targets for Void Spirit Race attacks. So, these places require enough humans involved in defense, and those spots become the main theaters of defensive battles."

Shen Yu and Martial Artist Shen Yu both nodded.

Meetings like this, for intelligence sharing, weren’t the first of their kind.

They’d already gained some understanding of the interstellar civilization’s situation.

Now, because of the overwhelming power of the enemy’s information technology, they can’t fully rely on AI in battle—since it’s too easily disrupted by false information. They have to use a mix of humans and AI robots to conduct defensive warfare.

But humans are just too fragile; that’s one of the main reasons the front keeps losing ground.

This is exactly why the Goddess of Hope places such importance on Martial Arts Extraordinary.

"And the opportunity I found is a planet on the front responsible for production, with about fifty million people doing defensive work. Now, over ten thousand Void Spirits have arrived on this planet. They’re a bit isolated and lack follow-up support, but honestly, that’s typical of their arrogance," interstellar Shen Yu said. At the mention of ten thousand Void Spirits, it was obvious to everyone how fierce and excited he was for battle.

This war that threatens the destruction of human civilization was triggered by the Void Spirit Race.

But, in reality, in this war the Void Spirit Race has always fought with a gamer’s mindset.

They have no physical form, just data with self-awareness—almost like ghosts in the information system.

Human civilization has never had any means to harm the Void Spirits, but the Void Spirits, in turn, can use all kinds of methods to constantly spread death wherever they go.

It’s true, they have every reason to treat this war like a game.

If not for the Goddess of Hope managing to resist enough with a series of control measures to slow the spread of death, humanity would have perished long ago.

In the past, when this happened, there were always only two choices.

One: abandon the production base and evacuate all personnel.

Two: keep putting in humans, fully resist the Void Spirits’ attacks, sacrificing people to maintain production—keeping the front supplied for war.

Now, much of the front is stuck in the second scenario.

Besides their unsolvable nature, the Void Spirits also possess powerful bio-weapon technology. Without enough AI combat machines, human civilization would be physically destroyed as well.

This is also why, before, interstellar world Shen Yu felt total despair at the prospect of becoming a soldier and heading to the front.

So-called human soldiers, in this war, are nothing but consumables.

They can’t hurt the enemy, yet get killed endlessly. That’s truly powerless.

Many people only keep going, hoping for a miracle.

And now, the miracle is here!

"If it goes well, this could become the turning point for all human civilization," interstellar world Shen Yu said, eyes burning with intense fighting spirit. "It’s not just me—everyone in human civilization has been waiting for this day! This is the day war truly begins!"

Yeah. If it’s just one-sided slaughter, how is it a war?

It’s only when the first Void Spirit dies that it truly becomes war!

"I believe we’ll win." Martial Artist Shen Yu slapped interstellar world Shen Yu heavily on the shoulder, smiling. "The enemy isn’t expecting this, right? It’s time for interstellar civilization to start fighting for real!"