CHAPTER 362: CHAPTER 221: SPECULATION ABOUT THE PASTURE MASTER_2

The entire Mude System is actually not just the Milky Way Galaxy. After all, a C-level Civilization can possess a Star Domain with a diameter of nearly a thousand light years, while the Milky Way’s diameter is only about thirty to fifty thousand light years. According to this distribution, the entire Milky Way would roughly be the domain of a B-level Civilization.

In reality, there are not just one but two.

The Mude System consists of eighteen B-level Civilizations, three A-level Civilizations, plus one unknown Pasture Master, occupying about thirteen star systems, basically in the vicinity of the Milky Way.

So, could the Pasture Master be someone who absorbs their entire civilization into their Consciousness World, achieving a model of "this body and civilization"?

It might have seemed unbelievable in the past, but now it seems entirely possible.

The biggest difference between today’s Primordial Energy World and the "Main God Space" is that people cannot physically enter the Consciousness World; everything within it is only at the consciousness level. But since B-level Civilizations have already mastered Primordial Energy Manifestation technology, transforming actual material into energy, making it conscious does not seem impossible. In this way, the Pasture Master can reign supreme over the entire Mude System as a singular life form, which makes sense.

Of course, the Pasture Master is still far away from human civilization today, even the humans of the second future line are far from accessing that level.

What Shen Shi is doing is merely following this speculation to make a guess about the support the Es Civilization provides to C-level Civilizations.

If this speculation is correct...

Then the Pasture Master might be capable of assimilating civilizations above B-level.

The Master of Primordial Energy can only absorb the consciousness of their own people, but there is no rule against absorbing the consciousness of other civilizations once Primordial Energy Technology reaches a certain level.

This speculation’s significance for the development of the current human civilization lies in the fact that human civilization remains safe until it becomes a true B-level Civilization.

"The first future line is still very far from B-level; it may not expose anything," Shen Shi murmured to himself.

Even if the first future line defeats the Daike Civilization and attracts the attention of the Es Civilization, it still cannot surpass the second future line to become a B-level Civilization first.

Although these are guesses based on the current situation, Shen Shi is not entirely uncertain. At least, there is likely a common secret among B-level Civilizations.

In fact, Shen Shi had already issued a command to the second future line seven or eight years ago.

He instructed them to send spacecraft and market terminals to investigate the territories of the other B-level Civilizations to see if they, like the Es Civilization, freely support civilizations that break through C9 technology.

At the same time, he instructed the Collector to conduct investigations in Gus Land.

Though Gus Land does not belong to the Mude System, being a person likely at A-level Civilization level, Gus Land cannot be ignorant.

If the speculation is correct.

That’s troubling.

Humanity will be caught in a dilemma of "becoming powerful might lead to unknown dangers, yet not becoming powerful means losing the future."

Fortunately, for at least the next century, human civilization will be in a period of rapid development that’s not likely to leap into the future world’s breakthrough.

Both the second future line’s investigations and the first future line’s wars require this period.

So, in the end, Shen Shi slowly closed his eyes.

"In the next century, I will focus on enhancing my Primordial Energy Mastery; there might not be much time to manage other affairs," Shen Shi sent notifications to his wife Ai Xin’Er, as well as Tao De, Chen Feng, and many others.

This means he will reduce his presence in the forthcoming period.

After all, as the center of the timeline, his every move might change the future, but within this century, it’s only necessary to follow the schedule.

Of course, reducing presence doesn’t mean isolation.

Primordial Energy Mastery training is not like cultivating immortality; there is no concept of closing for a thousand years, merely settling over a century.

Besides Ai Xin’Er feeling a bit reluctant, everyone else responded positively, even civilization requires time to digest and absorb everything Shen Shi has brought.

Time starts to accelerate at this moment.

...

Starry Era year 153.

The population of human civilization has reached seventy billion, nearly ten times the population during the Earth Star Period, a result of extreme expansion. It’s not that it couldn’t be more; rather, today’s individual humans are vastly different from those of the past.

Educational resources, housing resources, transportation resources, Primordial Energy training resources, research resources...

Such a huge population requires an astronomical amount of high-level resources.

Even with the Cosmic Civilization providing support with all their might, coupled with human civilization’s ever-expanding production line, reaching the seventy billion mark is already reaching the limit.

Even though Shen Shi continues to offer assistance through trades with future lines, the resources needed for the past hundred billion compared with the current seventy billion are vastly different.

Not to mention.

Just the advanced personal transformation devices and Primordial Energy training devices are unimaginably vast.

So at this point, underneath the strong momentum of human civilization, many contradictions have accumulated and are hidden.

For example, the needs brought by people’s perspectives and the contradictions with the outdated technology level of civilization.

Then there are the contradictory levels of technology, status, and contribution between the older generation and the newer generation’s powerful talents and abilities.

Additionally, the contradictions between entertainment-driven stagnation and the core requirements of arduous development from the top levels.

And many other issues.

The super-efficient development scene created by Shen Shi that avoided almost all detours through exploits a century ago no longer exists. Although civilization continues to move forward at a certain pace, it is far from reaching the extreme.

Of course, Shen Shi is aware of these problems and not without solutions.

Yet he does nothing.

On one hand, his constantly provided advanced devices and technologies are also an intrinsic problem within civilization, even an extremely important and influential one. On the other hand, without clarifying the Es Civilization’s true intentions, he cannot rashly advance the future world to the level of a B-level Civilization three thousand years later.

In fact, over this century, the human civilization of the second future line has still made significant strides toward B-level Civilization.

The civilization molded by Sage Saint Shen Shi has immense potential.

The core drive of relentless expansion combined with the system of subsidiary species has turned the entire human civilization into a colossal behemoth, its sphere of influence even encompassing more than half of the Star Domain managed by the Es Civilization, even a small part of it alone could annihilate a civilization like Daike.

And this naturally includes the tacit approval and even unequivocal support of the Es Civilization.

Under such circumstances, quantity has finally begun to lead to qualitative changes.

In just a century, human civilization has successfully broken through seven key technologies and forty-two sub-level technologies to reach B-level, particularly outstanding in the Primordial Energy Domain, with even the capability to independently produce B-level Shipborne Original Energy Weapons!

Don’t underestimate this quantity.

In the first future line, the Daike Civilization under the support of the Es Civilization exhausted hundreds of years, yet couldn’t break through a single minor technology.

Though Shen Shi is indeed delighted by human civilization’s progress.

However, amidst the unresolved unknown information from the Es Civilization and the Mude System, this growth speed also fills Shen Shi with unease.

It’s akin to witnessing a fat pig, thriving under meticulous care.