Beichen Sword Sect's Headmaster's Secret Records

Chapter 428 Damn it
Chen Xuantian was utterly dumbfounded. Even his Blood God Child was shaken so badly that it was buzzing. For a moment, he was just thinking, "Damn it, so it turns out I'm not even human..."

"Wait a minute! I'm a person! I'm a person! I was born from my mother! I, I... I'm a person, right?"

Hehe,
"Bullshit! Count how many times you've died! And look at yourself now, you think you're even human? Would your mother recognize you? Pah! You don't have a mother! You're Unit-01, okay?!"

Holy crap, so that's how it's set up...

All I can say is that the previous episode was packed with information; not only was Chen Xuantian shocked to the point of exclaiming "Holy crap!", but he was also momentarily stunned.

Even the Kun was spitting and spitting, pop pop pop, pop pop pop, foaming at the mouth and collapsing on the ball, exhausted to the point of near death.

There was a moment of silence. Chen Xuantian gathered his thoughts and waited for Kun to calm down before speaking.

"So what do we do now? It turns out we're all Heavenly Demons? Are we still going to fight those Heavenly Demons?"

"What's the rush? The tutorial for newcomers has only just begun. Just take these words back to him, and you can decide for yourselves what to do later."

So the ball continued to carry the Kun, a group of inhuman creatures, heading deeper into the logistics cruiser.

The bubbles kept coming in waves, and I continued to explain the ecology of wet components to him.
"The place we just came from is a biomass field, used to produce the organic nutrients needed for wet production. To put it simply, it's plants, animals, microorganisms and their metabolic products. You mix them together, add various sugars, aldehydes, alcohols, esters and amines according to the blueprint ratio, and finally produce living high-protein organisms, which are maggots."

Of course, this maggot is a laboratory-grade bioengineering material, a very advanced technology that's hard to explain in a short time. In short, as the biomass basis of prosthetic engineering, all custom wet parts are also modified and evolved using maggots; you could say they're our ancestors.

Chen Xuantian, "Holy crap..."

The ball left the biological field and entered a narrow passageway. This seemed to be some kind of production workshop, where a pile of meteorite ores were crushed, refined, and processed. Then they were transported to other production workshops for secondary, tertiary, and even more processing until finally producing rolls of glittering gold... silk.

Bubble path,

"That's right, this is the silk from Fairy Palace Spinning. In your time, circuits were etched onto wafers and then packaged into chips. Now, technology has made it possible for a single thread to be a supercomputer."

By simulating the structure of biological neural networks, these neural fibers and neuromorphic chips are implanted into the body of a patient, forming a completely new neural functional system, which is what we locally call 'meridians'.

Chen Xuantian exclaimed, "Holy crap... meridians... no wonder... wait, could true qi also be man-made?"

"No, you've got it backwards. Humanity's technological capabilities may be sufficient to terraform the Earth, but it will not engage in investment activities that forcibly violate natural laws and economic benefits."

Therefore, the core of wet component design is not to modify nature, but to adapt to nature. Because Taiji Heaven has true Qi, wet components can develop a meridian system that can utilize true Qi to evolve itself.

Because different universes, different celestial bodies, and different environments have different rules of survival, we need wet components that can be updated and evolved in real time, constantly adjusting their own ecology, in order to always ensure the dominant ecology of the population in natural competition.

As for True Qi, that is a natural environment unique to this Taiji universe. To be honest, such an environment is rare even in all the heavens and myriad worlds. So far, only the Thirty-Three Heavens have been found to be suitable for it, and there are no more.

Then Chen Xuantian saw a humanoid wet object on the operating table, receiving an implantation of the meridian system.

"Huh? Isn't that the Queen Insect? How come this is someone from the Celestial Palace? Is the immortal form most suited to the Taiji Realm actually an insect?"

Bubble path,

"Of course not, otherwise they would have evolved fairy silk on their own while still in the egg, so why would they need to modify and implant it later? These are the crew members who arrived earlier, probably from a spacetime that was more suitable for some kind of insect form."

In short, for various reasons, humanity has pushed genetic engineering, bioengineering, and electronic engineering to their limits on this frontier, enabling the simulation, creation, evolution, and enhancement of any organism. However, conventionally, to match the age-old ergonomic equipment and production lines, the human form remains the primary design element.

On these cruisers that traverse long distances, the hatched crew members are typically female wet-bodied individuals, or more precisely, some form of hermaphroditism. They possess the original genetic blueprint within their bodies, enabling them to self-repair in the event of damage, destruction, or disease. In the event of sudden, extreme environmental changes or irreparable fatal injuries, the female can urgently produce new eggs and revive on the spot.

Of course, there are also super-humanoid wet parts specifically designed for combat, but those are superhumanoid killing machines that require multiple surgical modifications and the addition of military-grade implants for enhancement. They can only be activated with special approval from the company's board of directors. Unless it's a high-intensity, high-stakes conflict like a corporate war, they are basically never used.

Moreover, although the newly born wet creatures are not strong enough and need time to grow and evolve, they have the assistance of various technologies. Furthermore, their genes determine their minimum strength. Given time, they will almost certainly grow into the strongest apex predator in the current natural version. In any case, it is much better than when they couldn't even cross the threshold and were put into jars..."

"Wait... wait, before? We couldn't cross the doorway? We had to put it in a can?"

"Oh, there's no need to worry about a string that's already been cut. Just focus on what's in front of you."

The ball popped open a door, suddenly revealing the starry sky outside.

Chen Xuantian initially thought he was outside a spaceship, but upon closer inspection, he discovered that it was a simulated starry sky projected in some kind of holographic projection.

In the vast and boundless cosmos, glittering constellations can be seen everywhere. In space, they converge into an arc of light, almost spanning the entire Orion Arm, like a bridge connecting the Perseus and Sagittarius Arms. Of course, if the Milky Way is still called that…

"This is the Starway. Well, to put it simply, it's a faster-than-light highway."

"Fuck..."

Kunbobobo,

"Every point of starlight you see represents a human colony, or more precisely, a human settlement. It could be a planet, a satellite, or a space station; in short, every colony has an artificial moon."

Yes, it's that mercury-like satellite you just saw. Simply put, it's a man-made satellite, or more specifically, a wormhole jump generator. The XXXXX silver key warps spacetime, opens a door, and illuminates the subspace beacon, guiding the fleet's jump. Of course, the radiation is still too strong; humans can't cross it yet, they can only use eggs to get through.

In addition, the moon also serves as a quantum communication relay station, enabling lossless, real-time communication between Perseus and Sagittarius not only through quantum entanglement.

As for the pseudo-Dirac Sea on the satellite's surface, it's a QHLR—a quantum home location register encoded with a mixture of phase quantum states and timestamp quantum states—used to record the personal data we call 'souls,' which is the projection of 'reincarnation,' 'heavenly path,' and 'thirty-three heavens' onto the material world.

"Fuck..."

"You've only just entered the field, so you don't need to understand the principles right away. In short, it still comes down to this: although humanity has broken free from the shackles of gravity and embarked on a journey among the stars, humanity's journey is ultimately limited, and that limitation is humanity itself."

No matter how advanced spaceships are, due to genetic limitations and the constraints of lifespan, the cosmic regions that humans can set foot in are always confined to a very small space.

Therefore, in all interstellar development and space exploration, it is always the Wetkin beings who set off first. After all, once the Wetkin evolves to the egg form, it can resist all kinds of supergravity, nuclear radiation, and electromagnetic waves, and can be transported to countless light-years away via the FTL spaceship to explore new worlds.

The research vessel will then analyze and scan the local environment, study native life forms, screen genetic blueprints, incubate the most compatible wet components, and deploy them to the surface to evolve into a perfect form suitable for survival. The information will then be transmitted to Earth. If a company in the new world bids for development and confirms colonization, various engineering carriers and logistics cruisers will warp in to build the colony star city and wormhole portal.

The colony fleets carrying humanity will arrive one after another in the distant future. The older generation will settle in the new world, while the new generation will set sail for the next destination, traversing the galaxy step by step, just as their distant ancestors did.

Crossing mountains and deserts, conquering seas and oceans, illuminating the entire Milky Way with the torches we've lit.

Chen Xuantian suddenly discovered a blind spot.

"Wait a minute, a colonial fleet? Why do we need a colonial fleet? Isn't it possible to directly use quantum communication and possess a physical body?"

Kun Bo Bo,
"Are you stupid? You think internet access is free? Do you know how expensive it is to rent a private bandwidth connection in the quantum hub? Do you think everyone can afford VIP medical services for reincarnation? Do you really think that the pinnacle of human wisdom and civilization is something that people without trillions of dollars in assets can afford?"

"Uh……"

"As I have said before, humans are essentially monkeys who can die at any time. No matter how advanced the technology becomes, their greed and tyranny are no different from when they were eating raw meat and drinking blood. If the human brain does not evolve over thousands or tens of thousands of years and become something completely different, it will always be a monkey troop led by a monkey king."

As long as there is a king, there will be servants. So in the end, only a very few can stand at the top and enjoy all the fruits of civilization, while the vast majority can only desperately fight for the little bit of favor that the king reveals.

Therefore, those pioneers and leaders are naturally at the forefront, paving the way, while the vast majority of mortals can only wander around in the solar system, waiting for a spot and drawing a ticket in this lifetime.

However, having hope is better than having no hope at all. If they win the lottery, they will have the chance to embark on a journey to the stars.

Of course, a single ticket doesn't change anything. Their foreseeable future is nothing more than going from living in cramped factories on Earth to living in cramped colony cabins on a company ship, drifting through space on long voyages while working to pay off their debts, and possibly never reaching the promised ideal land in their lifetime.

But if we don't go out and remain trapped in a small pond, humanity will eventually become extinct for various reasons, just like the species that have disappeared from the earth in a revolving lantern over hundreds of millions of years.

So as long as you go out, there is still hope.

Their descendants, their genes, will have the opportunity to undergo wet modification and have a fresh start in the new world.

Humanity's seeds will scatter like dandelions across the Milky Way, travel among the stars, and continue to multiply and flourish in unseen worlds.

This is the truth about the Starship Path.

"Fuck..."

"In short, these are all irrelevant background details. Now let's talk about the crucial issue of life and death."

So Kun patted the ball, and the ball jumped onto the control panel, stretching out the star map and pulling it to the center of the star-crossing path, the starting point of everything, the location of the third planet in the solar system, a place that evokes nostalgia...

Chen Xuantian: "Holy crap? Where's Earth?"

The bubble is gone.

Chen Xuantian stared intently at the empty, desolate void of the universe.

"What...what do you mean...gone?"

"I don't know. It could be physical destruction, or it could be erased from the observation results by something. Quantum collapse, you know, it's either particle or wave, both alive and dead. The measurement results depend on the instrument's function and the involvement of consciousness, it's quite metaphysical..."

Chen Xuantian,
"Wait...wait a minute, no, I'm confused again. Earth is gone...wasn't the place I just came to Earth? Wasn't it??"

Bubble path,

"Yes and no. In terms you can understand, you are actually a reflection in the mirror. You are the ripple that was created on the Dirac Sea when you used the key to open the door. You jumped to a dimension on the string, crossed the boundary of the membrane, and arrived at the other side of the door. So although the physical body of the earth is gone, the afterimage on the membrane can still exist. However, it cannot exist for that long, because the ripple will eventually stop, and the deviation value will eventually return to zero."

Chen Xuantian quickly exclaimed, "Wait! I fucking can't understand this!"

Kun sighed, indicating that this ball was not his; he had traveled to a parallel universe.

Chen Xuantian said, "Okay, please continue."

Pao was too lazy to give the newbies a lesson and went straight to the point.

"In short, the problem now is that the original Earth is gone, QHLR has been horrified, and the 'Heavenly Way' has been corrupted by some special thing."

Just think of that culprit as the real 'Heavenly Demon'. Your current level is too low, and I'm afraid you'll explode if I tell you too much or too deep. So just understand it from the perspective of the material world for now.

All you need to know now is that this thing is like a virus; it will soon infect all QHLR databases in the Stellar Navigation System. Once infected, it will replicate and merge, and all wet components will be stamped with its mark, ready to be infected, erased, and replaced at any time.

And when the "you" who returns from the 'cycle' is no longer you, and with higher priority completely seizes the wet parts that match you, then you are truly dead.

"Holy crap... what do we do now?"

"no way."

"What the heck... what does 'no way' mean!?"

"There's nothing we can do. That's why we're hoping you can come up with a solution."

The Kun used its fins to flap and spin the ball. With each flash of the ball, the course of the brilliant stars changed, and the candlelight symbolizing human civilization was extinguished on a large scale, as if blown by a dark, dead wind.

Countless generations of people, one after another, painstakingly carved out the star map, only to have it visibly swallowed up by the dark void.

Just like the vast universe and the boundless sky, the bright campfire that the monkey once lit was extinguished in the wilderness, never having existed at all.

The last one was in the secluded path.
"Anyway, whatever you want to do, you'd better hurry up, we're running out of time."

(End of this chapter)