Two Realms: Don't call me evil!

Zhou Yucheng walked all the way to Su Jie. In the eyes of outsiders, he was an absolute prodigy, a dark horse who had emerged from ordinary people.

Standing before the leader, looking at his young face and the centipede with a thousand hands perched on his shoulder, Zhou Yucheng felt quite nervous.

He grew up listening to stories of the leader of the state. In the past, he could only see the leader of the state through television and the internet, but now he can see him face to face and even receive a handshake and encouragement from the leader.

"Zhou Yucheng performed very well. He truly deserves to be called a man who strives for excellence throughout his life."

Su Jie shook hands with Zhou Yucheng, his eyes carrying a deeper meaning that Zhou Yucheng could not understand.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Zhou Yucheng scratched the back of his head, looking rather embarrassed, and gave a simple, honest smile.

For some reason, standing in front of Su Jie, he could vaguely sense that Su Jie had a lot of goodwill towards him.

"Father, who is this older brother?!"

A beautifully sculpted little girl peeked out from behind Su Jie, her big eyes staring curiously at Zhou Yucheng, and she inexplicably felt a sense of closeness from him.

"Brother, give me a hug!"

Instinctively, the little girl strolled over, opened her arms, and looked like she wanted a hug.

"Nannan, be a good girl."

Standing next to Su Jie was a woman of stunning beauty, who spoke softly in rebuke.

This woman was none other than Wei Yushuang, the former eldest princess of the Great Li Dynasty. Of course, she is now Su Jie's wife.

The two had long since ended their grudges and, in their carefree days, had the fruit of their love—the little girl whom Zhou Yucheng carefully held in his arms. This was Su Jie and Wei Yushuang's child.

Over the past thousand years, Su Jie has had quite a few offspring, including Su Jie and Han Ruyan, who both had children, and more than one.

Zhou Yucheng held the little girl Nannan, who wasn't shy at all. She kissed him on the cheek and giggled.

Zhou Yucheng also felt inexplicably happy. Looking at the little girl, and then at Wei Yushuang, he felt a sudden surge of affection.

After a brief delay, the awards ceremony continued.

Su Jie picked up the championship trophy and the prize for this competition—a top-grade spiritual treasure flying sword—and personally handed it to Zhou Yucheng. He patted Zhou Yucheng on the shoulder and announced loudly, "The champion of this competition is Zhou Yucheng, a first-year student from the Northern Frontier Academy. As the champion of this extraordinary competition, I hereby announce his imperial edict bestowing upon him the title of Heavenly Martial!!!"

The audience erupted in thunderous applause. The champion of each year's Rising Star Extraordinary Competition receives a unique title, which is like a moving golden signboard. However, to receive a personal conferment from Su Jie is a rare honor.

Zhou Yucheng grinned happily, his white teeth gleaming in the sunlight. He felt that the title 'Tianwu' was excellent and he liked it very much.

Standing next to Su Jie, Wei Yushuang's delicate body trembled violently. Others might not know what the words "Tianwu" meant, but how could she not know?
Looking at Zhou Yucheng's eyes and eyebrows again, perhaps sensing something in her heart, she truly saw the image of her Wei royal ancestor, Emperor Tianwu, in him.

Remembering what Su Jie once said, after the Immortal War ended, he sent the remnant soul of the Heavenly Martial Emperor into the Great Dao River of Reincarnation.

Perhaps this is the remnant soul of the Heavenly Martial Emperor, returning to the world after a thousand years of silence in the Great Dao River, blooming into a flower that seems familiar.

"Work hard and don't waste your talent; your future achievements are limitless."

Su Jie chuckled softly, his gaze suddenly passing over Zhou Yucheng and looking up at the sky.

Meanwhile, in outer space near Earth, ripples spread across the sky, and a massive fleet quietly appeared.

The warships were all as majestic as mountains, their steel hulls arrayed in formation, the energy halos from their anti-proton engines illuminating the dark depths of space, and one by one, their cold and deadly weapon systems unfolded, exuding a strong aura of death.

Woo-drip! Woo-drip! Woo-drip!

The piercing air raid siren echoed throughout the space port. Just as the Jeko Empire warships deployed at the Blue Star space port were starting up, an invisible beam of light swept out from the semi-neutron star mothership.

The control systems of Imperial warships were forcibly shut down, and the various protective matrices deployed around the planet also lost their operational capability under this invisible light wave.

This is the quantum suppression of the strong artificial intelligence Xiaoyuan, and also the technological crushing of a strong fourth-level AI.

Although there is only one level difference between a Type III and a Type IV civilization, they are actually worlds apart. One is a stellar-level civilization, with most of its energy sourced from its star, while the other is a galactic-level civilization, capable of drawing upon 70% of the various forms of energy in the universe.

The technological gap between the two sides is like primitive people using stone spears and axes encountering modern soldiers armed with rifles and wearing level 3 bulletproof vests.

In just one encounter, the Jeko Empire lost almost all means of resistance, leaving only extraordinary powerhouses who soared into space to become the last barrier protecting the blue planet.

At this moment, the entire population of the Jeko Empire received emergency evacuation notices via mobile phone, and riots broke out at the competition venue.

"Hey!"

Suddenly, the large screen at the competition venue was forcibly invaded by Xiao Yuan, and the screen showed a live broadcast of Captain Clement, the commander of the Evian Conquest Fleet.

"Natives of the Jeko civilization, I am Captain Kment, the commander of the expeditionary task force of the Yiyun civilization, from an extragalactic galaxy 488 million light-years away from the Milky Way civilization. You now have only two choices: submit or be destroyed!"

As Kment spoke, his gaze drifted toward Su Jie's direction, clearly indicating that he knew who was in charge here.

The scene of the riot gradually quieted down, and Su Jie's long-standing prestige made them willing to trust their leader.

"Submission or destruction?"

Su Jie's lips curled up slightly as he looked at Zhou Yucheng beside him with interest and asked, "What do you think?"

"Huh! You're asking me?"

Zhou Yu was dumbfounded. You're asking me, a freshman, about something that concerns the life and death of the empire? No matter how capable he is of challenging those above him, he can't withstand an alien fleet that can instantly dismantle the empire's main fleet's ability to resist! They'll be reduced to ashes in no time.

"Hit Daddy, hit them."

The little girl clenched her fists, scrambled into Su Jie's arms, and shouted fiercely, her voice sweet and innocent, showing no fear whatsoever.

"Truly worthy of being my bloodline."

Su Jie chuckled, raised his head, and his gaze seemed to pierce through the sky, seeing a massive fleet of thousands of warships gathering in outer space, stretching as far as the eye could see.

Zhou Yu clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and almost squeezed out a sentence: "Submit or be destroyed, what right do you, the Yiyun civilization, have to say that?"

Kment gave a cold, cruel smile and said calmly, "Because... you are insects. When you crush an insect, do you need to care about the insect's feelings?"

Zizi!

The Thousand-Handed Centipede, which had been sleeping soundly on Su Jie's shoulder, straightened up, feeling as if it had been insulted, and insulted in a rather vulgar way.

"It seems you have made your choice. It is regrettable that another civilization is about to disappear into the universe. Our Yiyun civilization will inherit your science and knowledge and prove to the universe that you once existed."

With the disdain and arrogance characteristic of advanced civilizations, Kment slowly raised his arm and issued the order for destruction: "Xiao Yuan, take control of all warships and execute the Jeko civilization destruction plan. Carry out a comprehensive elimination strike."

"Operation in progress, all weapons are charging, saturation firing imminent."

Xiaoyuan's voice, which was reporting, suddenly stopped. Kment's vision blurred, and Xiaoyuan's 3D image disappeared without a trace in front of him. The attack orders of the entire massive fleet were also forced to stop.

As a highly advanced civilization, these warships are almost entirely controlled by artificial intelligence, which is far more precise and reliable than human control. Now that the artificial intelligence has suddenly disappeared, the operation of the warship's attack commands has come to a standstill.

Kment wasn't the only one bewildered. Looking at Su Jie, he saw a cotton ball-like, pale golden sphere radiating warm energy in his hand, with facial features like eyes, eyebrows, nose, and mouth clearly visible—it was the powerful AI, Xiao Yuan. "Eh? What's going on? How did I get here?"

Xiao Yuan was equally bewildered; its super quantum core was operating so fast it was almost burning up.

He was perfectly fine on the mothership, so how did he end up in this person's hands in the blink of an eye, and lose all control over the spaceship?

"Little girl, take this and play with it."

Su Jie tossed the cotton ball to Nannan, whose eyes lit up. She hugged the little ball and started kneading and shaping it, having a great time.

Having lost all means of controlling machinery and information, it could only be at the mercy of Nannan, its eyes brimming with tears from being bullied.

"Xiaoqian, why don't you go and have some fun too!"

Su Jie patted Xiao Qian's shoulder and head again.

Xiaoqian's tentacles swayed, it held a grudge; that octopus-man had just insulted it, did it really think Xiaoqian was easy to bully?

"Quickly, switch to manual control and launch an immediate attack to destroy this Jeko civilization."

Kment had already sensed that something was wrong and quickly notified the fleet's crew to change the control method, making sure to deal with the Jeko civilization as soon as possible.

But before they could complete this step, space suddenly went completely dark.

The octopus-man who was piloting the warship looked out the porthole and saw a giant centipede with thousands of arms encircling the solar system and growing from its abdomen, grabbing them with one of its pale, corpse-like arms.

The pale corpse hand was larger than a star in diameter. The massive fleet of over a thousand warships of the Yiyun civilization was like a swarm of headless flies or buzzing mosquitoes in the palm of the pale corpse hand. It was tiny and insignificant, and no matter how much it struggled, it could not escape its grasp.

It seems that Chihiro is using this method to tell these octopus people who the little bug really is.
"Warning: Energy level S-class, SS-class, SSS-class."

The little round object in Nannan's arms, which was being manipulated at will, still retained the core of the super quantum computing power. At this moment, it detected the expanding energy index in space, and even the cold mechanical voice trembled slightly.

"So this is the god you've been talking about!"

Xiaoyuan witnessed the vast, imposing insectoid bodies stretching endlessly into the depths of space and finally understood where that vague sense of danger came from.

This is no weak level three civilization, level five... no, level five civilization is not enough to describe its terrifying level, it's level six or seven, or even higher.

Zhou Yu was dumbfounded, and all the citizens of the Jieke Empire had the same expression.

The Evian space fleet, which had previously been so arrogant as to threaten their destruction, became the plaything of the Thousand-Handed Centipede in the blink of an eye. This turn of events came too quickly and was too astonishing.

Snap! The Thousand-Handed Centipede had had its fill of fun. With a squeeze of its corpse hand, it crushed these expensive spaceships one by one, and the octopus-men inside were also reduced to dust. The explosions were deafening.

"Use dimensional weapons!"

Kment manually activated the most powerful weapon system of the semi-neutron star mothership. Centered on the mothership, the void cracked layer by layer, like a huge black hole, spreading a terrifying aura that threatened to shatter the entire space and even the galaxy, turning it into an endless black hole.

"Hahaha, under the power of dimensional weapons, everything will be reduced to dust!"

Kment's face was contorted with rage. This was the strongest attack method that their Yiyun civilization had mastered so far as they climbed the technology tree. It was precisely because they had mastered the use of this dimensional weapon that they were confident that they could hope to enter the fifth level of civilization in the future.

However, the Thousand-Handed Centipede had a strange expression, because a continuous stream of chaotic energy was emanating from the shattered space.

This so-called dimensional weapon is clearly just a way to open up the boundary between reality and the Great Dao River, and it is the most superficial way to understand the Great Dao River.

Unfortunately, the Thousand-Handed Centipede is a genuine chaotic creature, born to be the overlord of the Great Dao River.

Trying to kill the Thousand-Handed Centipede with chaotic energy is as ridiculous as trying to drown a fish.

The Thousand-Handed Centipede's body didn't waver at all; instead, it comfortably rolled over and crushed a large number of spaceships with a casual squeeze.

At this moment, Su Jie's figure flashed and appeared in the control room of the semi-neutron star mothership. He said to Kment, whose face had turned green, "The Yiyun Civilization has no reason to exist."

Kment looked up, not understanding what Su Jie meant.

Then he saw Su Jie strike out with his palm. This palm kept expanding, crossing the galaxy and universe, passing through the solar system, the Milky Way, and finally reaching extragalactic galaxies millions of light-years away. This was all within the territory of the Yiyun civilization.

"Warning! Warning! Warning! Energy has reached the quantum detection limit, undetectable, undetectable!"

Xiao Yuan huddled in Nannan's arms, terrified. If the Thousand-Handed Centipede was frightening enough, then Su Jie's attack was like the universe itself launching an attack. Their Yiyun civilization was a level four civilization, but what did it amount to in the vast universe?

Click!

With a single palm strike, in the blink of an eye, all the Yiyun octopus people in the extragalactic star systems where the Yiyun civilization was located were wiped out of the void, their bodies decomposed into basic particles, as if they had never existed, leaving behind empty and deserted city complexes.

Seeing this scene through Su Jie's perspective, Kment went insane.

With a flick of his finger, Su Jie caused the Kement and its warship to disintegrate and collapse, completely extinguishing the last survivor of the Yiyun civilization.

Thus, the entire Yiyun civilization vanished, becoming a negligible episode on a cosmic scale.

After doing all this, a smile involuntarily appeared on Su Jie's face. This was the first time Su Jie had taken action in a thousand years, and it also made Su Jie feel a long-lost excitement.

Su Jie scratched Xiao Qian's chin and muttered to himself, "Sure enough, deep down I still yearn for battle. A thousand years of rest and enjoyment is about to end. In that case, let's go and explore the Immortal Realm of the Primordial Ancestral Tree. What do you say, Xiao Qian?"

Xiao Qian nodded repeatedly, chirping as if to say, "Wherever you go, I will follow." Even the immortal realm on the Primordial Ancestral Tree, it dared to venture forth with great fanfare.

Ee-yah! A rotifer strolled out from the river of time and crawled onto the head of the centipede, indicating that it also had a share.

"Haha, okay, let's go to the Primordial Ancestral Tree together and start everything from scratch."

Su Jie laughed loudly, his gaze piercing through the endless chaotic river of the Great Dao, looking at the immortal gate located deep within the source of the Great Dao. It was time to reopen it.

The destruction of the Yiyun civilization can serve as a sacrificial offering, bringing good luck to my journey.

"Immortal Sect, I've arrived."

Others would clean up the mess. Su Jie patted the Thousand-Handed Centipede, preparing to take it into the Immortal Gate to explore the way, just like when he first transmigrated and led the Thousand-Handed Centipede out of the Insect Valley to face a completely new and unknown world.

"My husband, you mustn't leave me out this time."

A blood-red figure appeared silently; Han Ruyan had caught up with Su Jie.

She was his lawfully wedded wife, and no matter where Su Jie went, she would never leave him.

"Okay, let's go together."

Su Jie put his arm around Han Ruyan's slender waist and kissed her on the cheek.

"My husband, we're still here."

Further away, Liu Yingying, Ning Xinyue, Ning Yunying, Qin Yushang, and Wei Yushuang appeared one after another. This time, Su Jie was destined to no longer be alone on this long journey.

All his efforts in this universe, now accompanied by his beloved wife and companions, are the best reward for him. (End of Chapter)