"Alright. It seems that we can only try our best. Let's take a chance!"
Li Yao held back the urge of cramping his soul. "Let's take a chance that this' Fuxi 'has not discovered our existence. Let's see what he is up to!"
The cluster of light spots in front of Lu Qingchen continued wriggling. Gradually, they turned from a precise geometry into a form that was primitive, ugly, and irregular but boasted vigorous vitality.
Li Yao observed for a long time before he suddenly realized that it was simulating the form of the most primitive creatures, such as viruses, bacteria, spores, and cells!
"Fuxi?"
The voice in the cluster of light spots said casually, "Although my origin is indeed related to 'Fuxi', the Grand-Unified Super Crystal Processor System, after almost a million years of evolution, absorbing so much information and data from the universe, and being given the most sacred destiny, I have far surpassed the boundaries and definitions of the 'Fuxi system'.
"However, a name is just a code name. For the convenience of communication, you may call me 'Fuxi'."
"Communication?"
Lu Qingchen chuckled. His laughter was extremely painful, miserable, and arrogant.
After the brief shock and hesitation, the determination to unleash his spirit to the maximum and fight the deities and devils in the universe to the end no matter when and where he was was returned to him. His soul, which had been slightly dim, was shining brilliantly again.
"It seems that the 'viruses' and the 'vaccines' that you can manipulate as a tiny remaining soul are still of great use!"
Lu Qingchen mumbled, "Otherwise, you could've simply torn me apart and swallowed me. Why would you pretend to 'communicate' with me?
"Or maybe, the strength that you presented was just a bluff, an illusion that you piled up with information and data, just like how you pretended to jump to the Empyreal Terminus Sector for the final battle and suffered the bombardment just now. It was a special mental attack just to break my mental defense line completely?
"Hehe. Now that I've been fooled by you once, wouldn't it be too stupid to fall for it again?"
Lu Qingchen also realized what was going on with the raging battle just now.
"Exactly!"
Li Yao's' Thought Touch 'was eavesdropping nearby. Hearing that, he secretly nodded for Lu Qingchen.
Fuxi's appearance had indeed caused them to panic. However, they still needed to study how powerful the enemy was. They could not be intimidated by the enemy's aura. After all, manipulating information and data to create all kinds of strange illusions was the enemy's strength. In the virtual world, it was possible to create any kind of powerful illusion.
As long as one maintained a clear spirit and a firm Dao Heart, the illusion would collapse on its own. The illusion would collapse on its own.
In any case, Fuxi's formidability had its limits, which were similar to the strongest experts of the Imperium of True Human Beings. If the Holy League under Fuxi's command was much stronger than the Imperium, it would not have had to hide in a corner of the universe for a thousand years!
"Whether or not you are a 'strong artificial intelligence' passed down from hundreds of thousands of years ago, there is at least one thing that I can be sure of."
Lu Qingchen's soul was even clearer and more exuberant. Holding back the pain of being cut by thousands of rays of light, he chuckled and said, "Your strength still depends on the crystal processors and human brains in the material world. It is impossible for you to exist without materials.
"Those crystal brains must've been excavated from the worlds at the edge of the cosmos under the control of the Holy League in the past thousand years and repaired carefully, right? Their structure is indeed very advanced, and their performance is remarkable, too. They are far more advanced than the crystal processors of the Federation and the Imperium. No wonder they can accommodate the legendary 'Fuxi'!
"It is a pity that the number of crystal brains is far from enough to support your conquest of the Imperium. Therefore, it is impossible for you to extend your tentacles to the center of the cosmos and excavate more, more advanced crystal brains that are buried there.
"However, the center of the cosmos was the most developed place in the primeval age. Assuming that you did have a major computational center in the heyday of the Pangu civilization, it must've been somewhere under the control of the Imperium of True Human Beings.
"In other words, you are far from your peak state. Just like me, you are just a remaining soul. You have to excavate more crystal brains and even seize the computational centers from hundreds of thousands of years ago in order to return to your peak state. Perhaps that is why you are attacking the Imperium in such a hurry without considering the sacrifices you have to make?
"If that's really the case, can you really devour me so easily when you're still incomplete?
"Or rather, if I resist violently, you will pay a heavy price, and such a price is absolutely unbearable for you who is about to wage an ultimate war against the Imperium?
"That's why you set up such a trap and pretended to be a ghost. You want to break my mental defense line and make me surrender and surrender without a fight?
"Hehe. I've seen too many such tricks. I've even performed them myself many times. You are daydreaming if you want me to be fooled!"
"Wow!"
After hearing Lu Qingchen's lengthy analysis, the mental devil couldn't help but remark in amazement, "You are still so resolute and determined when you are faced with an enemy that is too strong to resist. You are able to see through the enemy's weakness instantly and talk casually even with such a dominating being as' Fuxi '. What a great Lu Qingchen. What a Puppet King. As expected of a good man from the Xing Yao Federation. You are much better than' certain people '!"
"What do you mean?"
Li Yao asked, "Who is' certain people '?"
"What do you think?" the mental devil said.
Li Yao thought for a moment and said, "Long Yangjun? She did not piss you off. Why are you talking about her? "
"…" The mental devil.
The cluster of light spots codenamed 'Fuxi' seemed to be rendered speechless by Lu Qingchen's rebuttal, too. The cluster of light wriggled for a long time before it finally said, "You are very smart. Smarter than most of the people of the Imperium at the center of the cosmos."
Lu Qingchen sneered. "For the unimportant people from remote villages like us who have no resources or background, if we don't be smarter, we will be killed before we know it in the dark universe."
"It's a pity that your guess is wrong," Fuxi said.
Fuxi said, "I did not crack and swallow your soul in the most violent way because I wanted to keep the integrity of your soul. You should know that you are very special and represent the transition phase of mankind from a material life to an information life. You are like the amphibians that have just climbed onto the shore. I cannot destroy you because it is not in line with my destiny."
"Your destiny?"
Lu Qingchen's soul flashed. "What's that?"
"If you are willing to give up resistance, I can tell you everything as it is," Fuxi said.
"As long as you are not afraid that I am stalling for time."
Lu Qingchen smiled.
"We don't know who is stalling for time yet!"
He said frankly, "Speak now. Are you a human being or a ghost, a god or a devil, a pure program, or an information life with self-awareness? Are you bound by the Path of Ultimate Benevolence? What do you want exactly?"
"If my understanding is correct, your destiny is to save the civilization of mankind, isn't it, Lu Qingchen?"
Fuxi said patiently, "If so, our destiny is the same, and we have the same goal. It is also the reason why I am not in a hurry to destroy you."
"What?"
This time, Lu Qingchen was truly stunned. Ripples of disbelief flowed out of his soul. "Our destiny is the same? You want to save the civilization of mankind, too? You must be kidding! If you are really the 'Fuxi system' that was born hundreds of thousands of years ago, shouldn't your master be the alliance of Pangu civilizations? When you were born, the concept of 'civilization of mankind' did not exist at all! "
"It all depends on how you view the relationship between the Pangu civilization and the civilization of mankind," Fuxi said unhurriedly.
"The Pangu civilization and the civilization of mankind are closely inherited. The genes of human beings originate from the thirteen carbon-based species in the alliance of Pangu civilizations. The wisdom and techniques in the blood of human beings, as well as the relic technologies that human beings excavated from various planets, directly stimulated the development and prosperity of the civilization of mankind.
"Furthermore, one of the most important purposes that human beings were created was to replace the enormous shell of the Pangu civilization and become the latest carrier of the Pangu civilization.
"Therefore, in the eyes of many top experts and wise men in the alliance of Pangu civilizations, the future Pangu civilization should look like the civilization of mankind. The two are actually the same thing.
"They inculcated such ideas into my system as one of the unshakable 'meta logics'. Saving the civilization of mankind is saving the Pangu civilization. It is the same."
"I thought that human beings were just tools of the Pangu civilization," Lu Qingchen said coldly.
Lu Qingchen said coldly. "What about the so-called 'Path of Ultimate Benevolence — Three Fundamental Laws'?"
"It's a tool, but it's also an inheritor. Can't you understand such simple logic?"
Fuxi said. "The so-called 'fleshly body' is a tool for the intelligent lives to modify the material world in the first place. When a civilization develops to a certain level, it is only natural that it abandons the old fleshly body and learns to control new tools.
"It's like the civilization of mankind invented a lot of spiritual puppets that are controlled by crystal processors as tools and discovered many advantages of the spiritual puppets during their usage. Then, they further developed 'artificial bodies' to accommodate the souls of the spectral Cultivators.
"Maybe, before long, many people will abandon their fleshly bodies voluntarily and put on glittering shells of iron. It seems that, in your vision of the future, you do not reject the idea of spiritual puppets with iron bodies as the main vehicles for human beings to travel in the material world, do you?
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