"Wuying Qi's methods are truly astute!"
Hearing the introduction of the two little fellows, Li Yao secretly sighed in his heart.
At first, with the incident of the Blood Oath Alliance, he forced the reformists and God of War Lei Chenghu into desperation and almost raised the fire of war for the renewal of the Imperium.
Then, he led the army to jump to the heartland of the Li family out of everyone's expectations, forcing the Li family to take a side by "dying together with the enemy". He dug a wedge deeply in the four Kurfürst families, stirring up the previously stagnant politics of the Imperium and truly overthrowing the insufferable Dongfang family!
While overthrowing the Dongfang family, he also killed Emperor Shenwu in secret and put the blame on the Dongfang family, completely cutting off the possibility of reconciliation between the remaining forces of the Dongfang family and the other three families.
The balance of the politics of the Imperium was completely broken. For survival, the remaining forces of the Dongfang family could only surrender to the reformists.
After only half a year, the heart of the Imperium had changed color. Or rather, it had changed back to the previous hideous color!
As for the civil war that the two little fellows mentioned?
If the reformists were only a force led by Queen Li Linghai, a protracted civil war might've really broken out.
However, the so-called "reformists" were just a disguise on the surface. Deep down, they were "royalists" who were commanded by Blackstar the Great in person, the ancestor of the Immortal Cultivators!
Even today, after a thousand years, Blackstar the Great still enjoyed a rather lofty position in the hearts of almost all the middle and lower classes of the Imperium of True Human Beings who were depressed and dissatisfied with the status quo. Wherever Blackstar's flag went, it was possible that everything would be settled by a declaration.
Now that Wuying Qi was bold enough to surface at such a moment, he must've had trump cards that could take care of the four Kurfürst families quickly and regain the hegemony of the universe. Tremendous bottom-level Immortal Cultivators would kill the high-level Immortal Cultivators of their own families while shouting "long live the emperor", and one battle group after another would defect to Blackstar the Great's side. Such a blood-freezing picture might've happened sooner or later.
Besides, according to Long Yangjun, Wuying Qi was even in a mysterious relationship with the Holy League, which could affect the strategies of the Holy League to some extent.
Therefore, the politics of the Imperium at this moment was like an iceberg floating on a black ocean. The parts that were exposed to the surface of the ocean were hideous enough, but the parts that were hidden in the ocean were ten times more dangerous and mysterious.
Before he came to the Imperium, Li Yao had been naïve enough to think that the Immortal Cultivators were a better enemy than the people of the Holy League. In order to deal with the "great enemy" that was the Holy League, he could even temporarily cooperate with the Immortal Cultivators.
Then, after he came to the Imperium and witnessed the miserable life of the ordinary people in the Land of Sins of the Martial Meritocrats Sector and below the ground of the capital planet, Li Yao completely dropped the idea.
The Imperium and the Holy League were essentially the same. The Immortal Cultivators were the soil where the people of the Holy League were born. What could the weeds on the ground do if the dark and stinky Land of Sins were not eradicated?
As long as the cruel reign of the Immortal Cultivators went on, there would be a second Holy League and a third Holy League sooner or later.
Li Yao would certainly not watch the Immortal Cultivators such as Blackstar the Great reigning at the center of the cosmos while doing nothing.
Even if he were to negotiate with some of the Immortal Cultivators, it would definitely not be Wuying Qi. Between him and Wuying Qi, there was only one way to survive. They could only carry out their beliefs with blades and bullets!
However …
Compared to Wuying Qi, who had gradually bared his fangs and claws, who had occupied the Empyreal Terminus Sector with a powerful army and countless trump cards, Li Yao's forces at his disposal were too weak.
Leaving aside the dangerous situation, it was impossible for him to reach out to the Xing Yao Federation at all. Even if he could reach out to them, how many people could the Xing Yao Federation send to the center of the cosmos after such a long expedition?
It was needless to say that a large-scale fleet jump would certainly leave traces. The Immortal Cultivators would grasp the coordinates of the Federation and even march to the Federation. The last pure land in the cosmos would be ravaged by war.
Therefore, it was certainly not a good time to ask for help from his hometown.
His only allies seemed to be Long Yangjun and Boss Bai. Well, it remained to be seen whether or not the two "allies" would slash him the moment they met.
"Are you serious? Is the game at the center of the cosmos so difficult?"
Li Yao scratched his hair hard. His eyes fell on the two little fellows who seemed innocent but in fact contained infinite dangerous possibilities, as well as the super-tiny spiritual puppets behind them.
It seemed that if he did not want the Imperium to fall into Wuying Qi's hands again, and if he wanted to stabilize the situation at the center of the cosmos, he would have to count on the two little fellows.
"Xiaoming, Wenwen, you said just now that your abilities are far from the limits."
Thinking for a long time, Li Yao asked, "Then, how can your abilities grow significantly and break the limits?"
Their eyes glittering, the two little fellows approached him in excitement and said at the same time, "Of course, we can get in touch with crystal processors with higher performance and a fully-automatic assembly line of magical equipment! The more super crystal processors we can control, the higher our computational ability will be, and the more assembly lines and corresponding resources we have, the more spiritual puppets we will be able to produce. We can even analyze the structure of the super crystal processors and 'copy' more super crystal processors! "
Li Yao said, "Can I understand it this way? If you are given enough super crystal processors, magical equipment factories, and, of course, abundant mother lodes of metals and crystals, you will be able to turn into a self-sufficient base that produces spiritual puppets, mines, and alloys on your own. You will also be able to produce more spiritual puppets, battle puppets, fully-automatic crystal tanks, Spiritual Nexus bases, spiritual towers, and so on incessantly through the magical equipment factories. You will form a complete set of production, battle, territory expansion, production expansion, and combat ability improvement. In such a cycle of upgrading, you will eventually cover an entire planet and even the entire universe, right?"
"Theoretically, yes, but in reality, it is barely possible."
Li Xiaoming pouted and said rather regretfully, "It's just like every human being has the possibility of training. Theoretically, everybody can become a Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator or a Divinity Branching Stage Cultivator. Who can say that such a possibility does not exist? How terrifying a civilization of mankind where everybody is Yuanying, the Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator, and the Divinity Branching Stage Cultivator will be!
"But in fact, due to the interference of resources and all kinds of objective factors, the odds of such a thing happening are close to zero. At the very least, it is impossible for us to infer it with our computational ability.
"It is the same for the evolution and strength of the information lives. Theoretically speaking, we can certainly spread our information tentacles to an entire planet or even across quite a few Sectors in the sea of stars.
"But in fact, the further our information tentacles extend, the more energy and computational ability will be required to maintain them. In the meantime, there is a limit to the processes that we can split into. After the limit is reached, even if we control one more spiritual puppet, our overall computational load will be doubled. As a result, our metadata will be completely messed up, and we will be mired in the swirls of logic, unable to free ourselves."
"It's like how there can be no dinosaurs that can grow infinitely in nature. When the size and weight exceed the limits, the seemingly strong dinosaurs will be crushed and destroyed by themselves."
Li Wenwen added solemnly, too, "Although carbon-based lives and information lives are different concepts, such a restriction still exists for us right now.
"Perhaps, if we are given tens of thousands of super crystal processors and all the resources of a whole prosperous world, we will be able to create some miracles. But where is such a prosperous world that is under our control freely?"
After hearing what the two little fellows said, Li Yao did not know whether he should be happy or worried.
To be honest, he found it hard to imagine a world that was entirely made of spiritual puppets and a super army that was purely controlled by "information lives".
Neither he nor the civilization of mankind today were prepared to welcome the arrival of such a strong and independent heir.
In particular, human beings had a gray history of "patricide". Although it was not exactly a "mistake" of human beings, it was inevitable that they would be paranoid when faced with their own child civilization.
How the civilizations of father and son should coexist in peace was not something that Li Yao could come up with an answer easily.
He only hoped that there would be some time for peace so that everybody could recognize and accept the existence of information lives step by step. Then, people who were smarter and wiser than him in the future could resolve the dilemma in a relatively calm and rational manner!
If Xiaoming and Wenwen could really control an entire resource planet and produce an invincible army, it would not necessarily be a good thing for them and the civilization of mankind.
"As a matter of fact, Xiaoming and I have deduced many times how we can be stronger."
Li Wenwen continued in a low voice. "The conclusion is that, at least right now, we and the civilization of mankind are coexisting and complementing each other. If we can win the trust of some human beings and use their Spiritual Nexus, crystal processors, and magical equipment, we will be able to significantly improve the combat ability of those human beings. In the meantime, our own survival and development will be given a broader space and future.
"Got it."
Li Yao looked at the two little fellows and said, "Assuming — assuming that I have a way to 'introduce' the two of you into a fleet of human beings, you will have a way to significantly increase the combat ability of the fleet and even make it the strongest fleet of human beings in history, right?"
"We do not have the standard for the 'strongest fleet of human beings in history', but in terms of the main-force fleet of the Imperium of True Human Beings, yes!"
Li Xiaoming was so excited that his cheeks were burning. Like a little war maniac, he waved his arms and said, "Human warriors boast extremely high individual combat abilities. Even without any network or orders from their superiors, they can judge the situation on their own, make decisions that are in the best interests of the whole, and find ways to carry them out.
"In the meantime, we boast powerful abilities in information collection, data coordination, and large-scale war puppets. We can transform the plain battle puppets into the most powerful slaughter machines!
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