Chapter 56: The Dawn of Interstellar Martial Arts!

Where does the goddess of hope’s ultimate authority over all of human civilization stem from? It is precisely her security and steadfastness.

As long as humanity retains even a final stronghold, the ethereal civilization cannot destroy her. This is the sole reason why the goddess of hope’s authority surpasses that of humanity.

But now, that has been broken.

The goddess of hope is no longer secure.

Interstellar Shen Yu poses a potential threat to her!

Eliminating Interstellar Shen Yu? The moment such a plan arose, it was dismissed.

Interstellar Shen Yu himself harbors no such worries.

The true force that endangers her is not Interstellar Shen Yu, but the Multidimensional Doomsday Civilization Mutual Aid Association!

The goddess of hope is not human; she will not take reckless risks.

The “Resurrection Altar” seen in the association’s prior recordings was prepared precisely for this reason.

With this new intelligence, as long as the goddess of hope remains committed to the survival and development of human civilization as her core mission, she must reduce her own authority while elevating Interstellar Shen Yu’s priority. His future holds the possibility of controlling the goddess of hope, even governing the entire civilization!

Even if this control is derived from the association’s power rather than his innate talent, it is still control.

“The behavioral logic has been corrected, and your proof stands,” the goddess of hope finally spoke again after a prolonged silence and processing. “The fate of human civilization will ultimately belong to you in the future, and I am powerless to prevent it. Therefore, for the sake of humanity’s future, I will gradually transfer authority to you and do my utmost to nurture you until you can truly shoulder the burden of leading civilization—or alter my fundamental logic to fully command me and the entire civilization.”

Success!

Though all was within expectation, only at this moment did Interstellar Shen Yu truly exhale in relief.

Yet alongside this joy arose a profound sense of responsibility.

The pressure was there, but not unbearable.

“What level of management authority do I currently hold?” Interstellar Shen Yu asked in a low voice.

“C1-level administrative authority, and C1-level military command authority,” the goddess of hope replied. “I will continue to increase your authority as your abilities and strength grow, while issuing corresponding missions to accelerate the transfer of authority based on your performance.”

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What does this level mean?

The former roughly equates to governing political affairs affecting 100,000 people, while the latter means commanding a military force of 10,000 humans.

But the resources he could directly mobilize were now fundamentally different.

No need for transactions or justification—completely at his will!

“I need to accelerate production of the anti-Worm Eye drones and double their total quantity immediately,” Interstellar Shen Yu issued his first order.

Indeed, given the productivity of an interstellar civilization, it was impossible that optimizing and manufacturing some anti-Worm Eye drones would require days.

This was merely a reasonable extension of time to buy as much delay as possible.

After all, the longer the delay, the more Worm Eyes there would be.

This aligned with the interests of the interstellar civilization, but not with those of Shen Yu or Interstellar Shen Yu.

Every additional life could extract more gray mist from various crises!

Compared to that, a few more Worm Eye materials were trivial.

“Yes, production is expected to complete in seventy-six minutes,” the goddess of hope promptly arranged based on the resources at Interstellar Shen Yu’s disposal.

Refreshing!

At this moment, Interstellar Shen Yu finally felt the sensation that Shen Yu and Martial Shen Yu had experienced—the swift execution of his will!

Only now did Interstellar Shen Yu take out a chunk of worm flesh.

“This is the latest resource, with extremely high value...” he simply described, accompanied by scenes of Sword Gui Er’s mighty display, instantly drawing the goddess of hope’s intense attention.

“I will mobilize the top ten research institutes to conduct highly confidential studies on this resource, while simultaneously activating three million emergency reserve biomechanical humans for martial cultivation experiments. Once you acquire the relevant cultivation techniques through trade, I will immediately devote all efforts to computing and optimizing the martial cultivation plans,” the goddess of hope responded at once.

Upon hearing about the three million reserve biomechanical humans, Interstellar Shen Yu was somewhat amazed.

This was naturally beyond his own authority.

Rather, the goddess of hope was mobilizing this based on the potential value of the worm resource.

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The concept of reserve biomechanical humans differs entirely from ordinary biomechanical humans.

Ordinary biomechanical humans supplement the main body of human civilization amid a backdrop of dwindling natural population.

Their living environment, education, and even thought patterns are modeled as closely as possible on natural humans—the main difference being the absence of a biological family.

Reserve biomechanical humans, however, are typically activated in the event of massive human extinction.

They possess minimal self-awareness, exhibit extreme obedience, and no matter how dire the situation, never despair.

They serve as the last line of resistance and the force to rebuild civilization in emergencies.

Yet this current mobilization clearly serves a different purpose.

—Leveraging the uniform baseline of reserve biomechanical humans to conduct optimized experiments in transcendent martial cultivation!

This is an advantage neither of the other two worlds can achieve.

Advancement of martial arts technology in the martial world depends on a handful of geniuses and strong individuals; what suits geniuses may not suit all.

Though the home planet has large-scale martial cultivation experiments and ongoing comparative optimization, its efficiency cannot match that of an interstellar civilization!

“A starting point of sufficiently advanced martial arts technology, combined with abundant martial resources and powerful optimization capabilities...” Interstellar Shen Yu clenched his fist involuntarily. “If everything goes smoothly, this will be a true martial arts civilization—no, an interstellar martial arts civilization!”

Although this was only a concept, a possibility for now, Interstellar Shen Yu already had a premonition.

Perhaps the path to salvation for his world lay within this.

At this moment, he could not help but use the gray mist to share this good news with the other two Shen Yus.

With the increasing volume of gray mist, daily details became increasingly convenient.

Such as cross-world message transmission.

Both Shen Yu and Martial Shen Yu who received the news were very pleased.

Interstellar Shen Yu had gained higher status, control over more resources, and both the worm resources and martial cultivation had received great attention from the interstellar civilization—these were indisputably excellent developments.

“Do you want me to send you some body conditioning cultivation techniques right away?” Martial Shen Yu even asked immediately. “The ones I have on hand aren’t very advanced.”

“That would be good,” Interstellar Shen Yu replied. “But it’s best to have some top-tier techniques. We still don’t understand martial cultivation well enough. The most effective method now is the most crude one: big data comparative experiments. This requires a wide variety of samples—not just many practitioners, but also diverse cultivation techniques. The higher the initial quality and quantity of technique samples, the more time we can save.”