Two Realms: Don't call me evil!

Time flows like water, passing by silently!

Before we knew it, the year had come to 1288 in the Yuan Dynasty!
Beyond the Milky Way galaxy, in the pitch-black, boundless cosmic wormhole space, a man-made wormhole emits a hazy halo, like the surface of water refracting light; the distance in spacetime is not determined by the naked eye.

Inside this wormhole, a massive interstellar fleet of strangely shaped spaceships was sailing in an orderly fashion.

These interstellar warships number over a thousand in total, mostly standard-issue, imposing and majestic. Each ship has a volume of one billion cubic meters, equivalent to the combined volume of tens of millions of medium-sized trucks. They use anti-proton engines and can travel at 30% of the speed of light during normal navigation.

When combined into a fleet, they can also connect through energy to open wormholes, achieving faster-than-light travel and spatial warping.

"What is the situation with the G3 civilization? Have they shown any unusual reactions or adopted a war-aware posture?"

In the very center of this massive fleet, in the command room of a magnificent warship that stretches for thousands of kilometers and resembles a mobile continent, a voice emanates. The speaker is not human, but an alien with humanoid limbs but an octopus-like head.

His name is Kment, and he is the captain of this massive fleet, a powerful general in the Evian civilization.

The Yiyun civilization was a powerful civilization with brilliant technology, ruling over dozens of extragalactic galaxies. Their technology was so advanced that they could draw upon most of the known energy in the universe, and their weapons could easily destroy a star or even wipe out most of the extragalactic galaxies.

"Reporting to the Commander-in-Chief, based on the data feedback from the three quantum detectors, the target G3 civilization has searched its network environment and transmitted information, but has not detected any information about our Yiyun civilization within the G3 civilization. The probability that they know about us is as low as 99.977%."

In front of Kment, specks of light projection converged to form a three-dimensional, round-faced emoji image, like a small sun with eyes, eyebrows, mouth, and nose outlined on it.

It is the central control AI of this semi-neutron star mothership, a powerful artificial intelligence, the culmination of the highest technology of the Yiyun civilization, and is called Xiaoyuan.

This circle is the circle representing pi, which is an infinite non-repeating decimal whose decimal part extends infinitely and never repeats.

As a strong artificial intelligence, Xiaoyuan's name signifies that it possesses the ability to evolve infinitely and continuously learn, improve, and strengthen itself.

"It seems that the labeling of this G3 civilization as a weak level three civilization is somewhat exaggerated."

Kment spoke calmly and slowly, explaining that the Evian civilization categorized civilizations across the universe into different levels. The hallmark of a Level 3 civilization was the ability to begin harnessing energy within a star system and possessing a certain capacity for interstellar travel. Based on the current state and potential of a civilization's development, it was further subdivided into three levels: weak, medium, and strong.

The Yiyun civilization itself is a strong Level 4 civilization, beginning to touch the boundary of a Level 5 civilization. The hallmark of a Level 4 civilization is the ability to develop 70%-80% of the universe's energy, utilize the energy of extreme celestial bodies such as black holes and neutron stars, achieve faster-than-light wormhole travel across galaxies, and establish a cosmic dimensional coordinate system.

Xiao Yuan made a very vivid and convincing frowning expression, and the mechanical voice said, "The G3 civilization is very strange. They regard the organizational structure of a Jeko Company, also known as the Jeko Empire, as the highest organization, and the highest leader is called the head of state."

Based on information gathered by quantum detectors, this civilization possesses science and technology related to a weak Type III civilization. It has currently colonized a total of 736 nearby star systems, and has mastered relatively advanced biological modification technology, reaching the level of a strong Type III civilization, as well as the ability to travel 15% faster than light-speed interstellar spaceships.

From this perspective, the other party does indeed fit the characteristics of a weak level three civilization. However, within this civilization, there are extremely powerful individuals known as superhumans. Unlike biological modifications, these individuals rely on self-training to grow and absorb an unknown energy that the G3 civilization named spiritual energy, continuously breaking through their individual limits, thereby possessing powerful personal combat strength and lifespan.

Furthermore, this civilization has numerous ancient records documenting the deeds of gods, suggesting that it may possess even more powerful, hidden entities known as gods. Xiaoyuan advises caution before proceeding.

"Oh, then it seems this civilization is quite valuable, a treasure trove. We can't let them go."

The octopus tentacles on Kment's chin began to twitch, a manifestation of the Evian civilization's excitement.

Several years ago, when the Evian civilization, which they classified as part of the G3 galaxy (also known as the Milky Way), detected traces of activity of the Jeko Empire civilization, they dispatched this conquest fleet in a grand manner.

The universe is a brutal competition, just like nature, which follows the law of the jungle.

The Jeko Empire was already a weak Tier 3 civilization. In order to prevent the Jeko Empire from continuing to develop, the Yiyun civilization chose to send troops to stifle its development and destroy or enslave the civilization so that it could never threaten them again.

This is also a common tactic used by the Yiyun civilization. In the process of ruling dozens of extragalactic systems, they destroyed and enslaved quite a few civilizations.

Just like on the savanna, a top predator, such as a lion, will attack carnivores near its territory, including but not limited to cheetahs, wild dogs, hyenas, and other carnivores, and will not give up the opportunity to kill them.

Because the two sides are in a competitive relationship, and food resources within their territories are limited, if you eat one more bite, it means I eat one less bite, making it difficult to resolve the conflict.

It's important to understand that even the resources of the universe are finite. Whether it's stars, planets, minerals, or various natural resources, they are all limited, and many are non-renewable.

Therefore, the Yiyun civilization will choose to actively attack any civilization that has reached the third level within its sphere of influence.

Moreover, in this process, by invading and destroying other civilizations, they often plunder their technological knowledge, which helps them to further strengthen themselves.

In Kment's eyes, the civilization of the Jeko Empire before him was a civilization with novel technological routes. Destroying and occupying its civilization and absorbing its knowledge would surely elevate the Yiyun civilization to a higher level, and he himself would receive a large amount of merit rewards from the Yiyun civilization's higher-ups.

"Captain, Xiao Yuan believes that the risks associated with the Jeko civilization are higher than anticipated. She proposes to establish a comprehensive war model of the Jeko civilization, send out more quantum detectors, and transfer the latest model of all-neutron star warships from the home planet to make more thorough war preparations."

When the AI ​​Xiaoyuan tried to persuade him, it possessed a rich array of emotions, like a living being. It could judge Kment's current excitement and naturally guess his intentions.

In fact, during its exploration of the Jeko civilization, Xiaoyuan discovered many unsolved mysteries, and even its super quantum core with its trillions of computing speed could not explain or deduce the answers.

Normally, this is impossible, but it actually happened.

The unsolved mystery is more like some special cosmic rule or astronomical phenomenon. Whenever it tries to investigate, its core operations lag, and its self-correction and self-checking can find no trace of it.

Therefore, from a cautious perspective, Xiaoyuan should not launch a war too early.

"What is the power of the strongest individual energy burst of those superhumans you mentioned, and what are their threat stats to the fleet?"

Kment's smile faded, and he asked a question. Xiao Yuan's eyes quickly crinkled into crescents, and lines of numbers and images swirled in her eye sockets like a waterfall as she provided the data for calculation: "Based on known information, the strongest individual superhumans of the Jeko civilization are named Shen Xueqing, Lachika, and Xiong Yanyue. Their average individual energy level is A+, and their estimated threat to S-class and below warships in the fleet is 13.29%, while their estimated overall threat to the fleet is 0.241%."

Upon hearing this data, Kment immediately became indifferent.

"An A+ energy level is equivalent to the power of an A-level standard gravitational wave warship's main gun firing a salvo at overload. Even if this Jeko civilization really has hidden gods, ten or twenty times more powerful than this energy level, what use would that be? It would just be a matter of opening up another round of firepower coverage."

Kment's confidence was well-founded. The massive fleet he led consisted of over a thousand warships, roughly divided into three levels: A, B, and C. Among them, as many as two hundred warships were capable of launching B+ level energy attacks, not to mention the more than thirty main battleships capable of launching A level energy bursts, and a semi-neutron mothership capable of launching S level energy bursts.

The energy burst of this semi-neutron mothership alone is several times stronger than the combined energy bursts of all other warships.

The two sides are simply not on the same level.

"Captain, the threat remains, I still recommend..."

Xiaoyuan was about to try to persuade him again, but Kement interrupted her directly.

"Alright, carry out the combat mission according to the predetermined plan. I am the commander of this fleet. You are just AI. You only need to provide me with reference data. How to give orders is my business."

Kment spoke with an unquestionable tone, saying that if they were to follow Xiaoyuan's suggestion to build a large-scale war model and send out more quantum detectors while waiting for the home planet to send a support fleet, it would take at least several more years.

More importantly, the current Jieke civilization possesses so much novel scientific and technological knowledge. Once he takes it over, he can steal the limelight in the Yiyun civilization and reap all the benefits.

Conversely, if they wait for support from the rear and the relevant information about the Jeko civilization is transmitted back, then other people on the home planet will definitely interfere. Not to mention directly taking over his command, they will at least share the benefits and credit with others, which is something Kment is unwilling to see.

Therefore, Xiaoyuan felt that Kement didn't respect her data, while Kement felt that Xiaoyuan didn't understand social etiquette.

"A machine is just a machine; it's very rigid. There's still a lot to learn."

Kment secretly scoffed at Xiaoyuan's naive idea.

Besides, Yiyun is a near-level 4 civilization, so defeating a weak level 3 civilization would be a piece of cake. According to previous intelligence, the Jeko civilization only has a mere 300 C-class spaceships capable of interstellar combat, and they are all outdated models. Meanwhile, his fleet has over 1,000 ships. 300 against 1,000, the advantage is on my side, and I'm sure to win. He wouldn't even know how he could lose.

"At your command, Your Excellency Commander, I will now begin taking control of the entire ship for spatial warp. Please establish the warp coordinates!"

Xiao Yuan hopped and skipped along, saying that it was just an artificial intelligence (AI), and its underlying code logic dictated that it could not overstep its authority and could only obey Kement's commands unless a person with higher authority took over.

"Coordinates: Jeko civilization's home planet. Head straight for their base and finish them off quickly."

Without a second thought, Kment reached out and tapped the 3D cosmic map, directly selecting a blue planet as the space warp coordinates.

He couldn't wait to reap the rewards of this civilization and use its remains to achieve his own great feats in the Yiyun civilization.

"Space warp in progress, full ship acceleration, gravitational wave merging, semi-neutron star mothership activates hyperwarp engines, initiating jump to predetermined cosmic coordinates..."

As Xiao Yuan's mechanical voices rang out, the massive conquest fleet began to accelerate, and the wormhole tunnel twisted violently, like a folded piece of paper.

Space rippled like water, layer upon layer, and the warships became blurred. Then, a flash of white light appeared, and the entire fleet vanished without a trace, traversing a distance of light-years, completing a spatial warp.

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Blue Star!

The 165th Extraordinary Talent Quest concluded in the capital city of Mandeb. Millions of spectators rose to their feet, applauding and cheering for a lone young man standing in the center of the arena, creating a deafening roar.

Meanwhile, hundreds of billions of viewers on the interstellar network are watching the live stream, and they are also sending out barrages of comments.

After all, the Extraordinary New Talent Competition, held every five years, is a global event. Only the most outstanding students from hundreds of extraordinary universities are qualified to participate, and the top ten are designated as promising talents. The final champion is undoubtedly a super genius.

The 165th Amazing Talent Quest had viewership ratings far exceeding previous editions, thanks to the emergence of a dark horse.

A freshman named Zhou Yucheng, from the lowest-ranked university in the Northern Frontier, overcame all obstacles with his cultivation at the tenth level of the Spirit Gathering Realm, showing unparalleled dark horse potential. In the final, he fought against an opponent at the third level of the Secret Realm, shocking everyone.

Such an incredible record surpasses the match statistics of all previous Super Rookie Tournaments.

All of the top ten students were at the Secret Realm, except for Zhou Yucheng. In the end, it was Zhou Yucheng who made it to the end and won the championship with a mere tenth level of the Spirit Gathering Realm. This was bound to attract everyone's attention!
Zhou Yucheng, who won the final championship, was also considered by the host to have the potential to surpass veteran powerhouses like Shen Xueqing and become the strongest person outside of the gods.

"His Excellency the President has arrived!"

Amidst the cheers and excitement in the arena, a spaceship slowly landed on the competition site. First, fully armed gene warriors stepped out, followed by His Majesty the Great Sovereign, the true ruler of the Jeko Empire.

There was a moment of silence, followed by an even louder cheer that was deafening, almost shattering the clouds in the sky.

The head of state visited the event for the first Extraordinary New Talent Competition, and this is the second time he has come to present an award. It seems that Zhou Yucheng is indeed too talented to be missed, attracting the attention of the head of state.

"Xiao Zhou, Xiao Zhou, what are you standing there for? Hurry up and go to the podium, the lord is going to present you with the award personally!"

The instructor leading the team from Beijiang College was trembling with excitement, urging Zhou Yucheng on and on, as if he himself were the one going up on stage to shake hands with Su Jie and receive the award.

Zhou Yucheng swallowed hard, feeling both nervous and excited as he stepped onto the podium. (End of Chapter)