I became a god through frontier slaughter, and I crushed the academy's prodigies!

"Oh God..."

A young martial artist's Adam's apple bobbed as he stared in disbelief.

A huge shadow was cast down, shrouding most of the plain in darkness.

Shen Tian manipulated the distortion of space in the air.

The 30,000-meter-long, dilapidated giant ship hovered in mid-air for a moment before crashing to the ground with remarkable stability.

The black soil churned wildly, like a magnitude 10 earthquake.

The tangible shockwave swept across the ground, sending up plumes of dust hundreds of meters high.

Even though they were thirty kilometers apart, the towering energy shield of the base still rippled with layers of dark blue light.

Before the smoke of battle had cleared, the heavy gates of the base were suddenly flung open.

Two hundred Tier 6 engineering golems, their tracks grinding wildly across the ground, formed a steel torrent and roared out of the base.

Above them, dozens of heavy transport ships flew low, their stern hatches wide open at the same time.

Three hundred thousand tons of unrefined deep blue ore cascaded down beneath the Sky Dome warship like a blue waterfall, quickly piling up into a massive mine that emitted a ghostly blue light.

Solomon's mechanical clone's metal wings fully unfolded.

"Cut open the bottom layer of the No. 3 armor and establish a temporary energy transmission channel."

The engineering puppet simultaneously raised its right arm.

Two hundred blazing white laser beams erupted, converging in mid-air to form a giant blade that slashed fiercely at the alloy armor at the bottom of the Skybreaker.

Sparks rained down like a storm, and molten iron flowed down the hull.

Shen Tian stepped through the void and landed beside Solomon.

"Source, dismantle the bottom-level defense barriers."

Shen Tian spoke.

Blue light spots intertwined in mid-air, condensing into a holographic projection of the source.

At the bottom of the warship, accompanied by a dull mechanical clanking, the alloy armor, hundreds of meters thick, slid open to the sides, revealing a vast and complex network of pipes inside.

At the deepest part of that network, hangs a withered metal sphere with a diameter of over two hundred meters. Its surface is covered with dull patterns.

Resource conversion furnace.

The armor retreated to both sides.

The resource conversion furnace has revealed its true form.

It was a huge metal sphere.

With a diameter of over two hundred meters, its surface is uneven and covered with intricate dark patterns, resembling a lifeless metal heart suspended in the center of a network of crisscrossing pipelines.

The ground below.

Three hundred thousand tons of deep blue ore were piled up like mountains, their dark blue halos stretching out and illuminating the dark blue sky for several kilometers around, making it appear and disappear.

Solomon's mechanical clone took a step forward.

The metallic wings on his back fully unfolded, with twelve sharp feathers pointing into the void.

Invisible ripples spread out from him.

In mid-air, visible silver threads were drawn from Solomon's body and swam toward the control node at the bottom of the Sky Dome as if they were living things.

He planned to force his way into the ship's underlying control network and establish an energy channel.

A hand shoved in from the side.

Shen Tian raised his arm and stood in front of Solomon.

"The Speaker of the Legislative Council?"

Solomon stopped what he was doing and looked at Shen Tian.

"The connection is limited to the physical level of energy supply."

"Until then, no deeper data connections are permitted. Access to Earth's network is forbidden, and reading of the Expeditionary Force's personnel database is prohibited."

Solomon remained silent.

He understood Shen Tian's concerns. A destroyed advanced civilization, and a super artificial intelligence that had survived for countless years.

No one can guarantee that its underlying code does not contain any instructions that could backfire or possess the user.

If it harbors malicious intentions and comes into contact with Earth, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The holographic projection of the source hovered in mid-air.

According to the conventional human way of thinking.

An AI that has just relinquished supreme control and even assisted in killing the abyss monster will at least offer an explanation, state its achievements, or try to prove its safety in the face of such distrust and defensiveness.

But the source is not there.

"Absolutely correct."

Shen Tian looked at it, waiting for it to continue.

"As a remnant intelligent system of the Azure Sky Civilization, I myself possess an extremely high level of danger. From a system perspective, I am a huge risk variable."

The face in the holographic projection lowered its head slightly.

"Supreme Commander, if you allow me to contact your homeworld civilization without conducting a full security review, I will immediately lower my assessment of your civilization's governance capabilities."

Solomon's eyes paused for a moment.

Admittedly, he hadn't considered this aspect either.

Since Shen Tian became the first councilor of the Human Race Federation.

He habitually relied on Shen Tian's judgment.

He subconsciously assumed that whatever Shen Tian brought back was good.

but.

He was also somewhat surprised by Yuan's logic.

Stripped of all emotions, only pure rationality remains.

This is true advanced artificial intelligence.

The source continued to state his position.

"The Azure Sky Civilization has been destroyed. According to Article 7 of the Civilization Seed Inheritance Act, after the legal transfer of authority is completed, the human civilization you represent has been officially recognized by the system as the inheritor of the Azure Sky Civilization's seed."

Blue light spots converged on Yuan's chest.

The light shimmered.

A diamond-shaped virtual core emerged, upon which flowed dense, celestial script.

"Protecting the safety of the inherited civilization takes precedence over my own survival. This is the core code engraved in my underlying logic."

Yuan reached out and pushed the rhombus-shaped core toward Shen Tian.

To expedite the trust process, I request that a supreme security agreement be entered into with the human race.

The content of the agreement is as follows:

First, the source and all the devices under its control shall never do anything to harm humanity;

Second, the source will never execute any instructions that hinder the development and evolution of the human race.

If this is violated, I will initiate the self-destruct procedure.

The rhombus-shaped core slowly floated down and hovered in front of Shen Tian.

As long as Shen Tian imprints his spiritual power or laws onto it, this agreement will become an absolute constraint.

Shen Tian looked at the virtual core.

Crimson power swirled around his fingertips.

Without hesitation, he tapped his fingertip.

A ray of crimson light shot out and pierced directly into the rhombus-shaped core.

A confirmation voice rang out in the space.

An invisible shackle formed deep within the Sky Dome, completely locking away any possible paths of rebellion that the Source might take.

"The agreement is established."

"Now, please allow your mechanical intelligence to begin reviewing my peripheral interfaces. Physical connections can proceed synchronously."

Shen Tian withdrew his hand, turned his head and nodded at Solomon.

The twelve metal feathers behind Solomon vibrated once more.

The silver threads of law were drawn back from the void.

This time, the source proactively opened the physical control node.

Two completely different mechanical forces made their first contact in this endless wasteland.

Silver threads of law climbed upwards along the cracked armor at the bottom of the Skybreaker, quickly wrapping around the shriveled resource conversion reactor.