High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

Zhou Wangyue didn't press for details about what kind of breakthrough would trigger an alarm at global monitoring stations; he simply nodded.

Then Zhou Wangyue stood up, took out a list from his pocket and handed it to Song Chen: "We have formed a delegation of thirty-seven people these days, all of whom were selected by the parliament from various fields."

"There are negotiation experts from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, cultivation system analysts from the Martial Arts Research Institute, physicists and linguists from the Academy of Sciences, and two strategic advisors from the military."

"Gu Qianzhi personally led the team. He said that since they were going to sign indenture contracts, there had to be someone who knew how to read them."

Song Chen took the list, glanced at it, and had no objections.

Just then, the sound of a spaceship landing came from outside.

Zhou Wangyue looked outside: "It seems the Speaker has arrived. Let's go out and take a look."

The two walked out of the office and went to the top floor of the administration building of Tianhai University, where Li Qingcang had just gotten off the spaceship.

He turned around after hearing footsteps, his gaze falling on Song Chen, scrutinizing him for a full three seconds: "You've gotten stronger again."

"That's enough. If you stand in front of Yuan Qian now, he won't even dare to raise his head."

"Perfect timing, I have something to discuss." Song Chen walked up to Li Qingcang, raised his hand, and forced out ten strands of dark golden sword intent as thin as hair from his fingertips.

Ten sword intents floated in the air, each slowly rotating, radiating a chilling sharpness. This was the sword intent of the Star-Splitting Slash, more than enough to deal with a sixth-tier alien beast.

Song Chen said, "Speaker, these ten sword intents are for you. The method of using them is very simple; just trigger them with your mental power."

"If Yuanqian and Jingyue make any small moves, don't hesitate to kill them. After killing them, replace them with someone from the Sea Dragon Clan or the Giant Whale Clan. There are plenty of people in their clans who are willing to be dogs."

Li Qingcang looked at the ten sword intents, nodded, and then raised his hand to put them into his robes.

"I know, go ahead without worry, I'll take care of Blue Star."

Song Chen nodded, then turned and walked to the window.

Through the glass, he could see the entire city of Tianhai awakening in the morning light, workers on the docks beginning to load and unload a new batch of materials, soldiers in the barracks lining up for drills, and wisps of smoke rising from the residential areas in the distance.

"By the way, Speaker, keep our departure a secret. Just say I'm in seclusion, and my teacher and Dean Gu are with me."

"Humanity's strongest warrior has gone into seclusion to break through to the eighth rank. This reason is enough to put everyone at ease."

"Don't worry, the council has already made the arrangements." Li Qingcang patted him on the shoulder.

Song Chen nodded, then looked at Zhou Wangyue.

"Teacher, let's go."

Zhou Wangyue stood beside him, and Song Chen grabbed Zhou Wangyue's shoulder and activated the Void Shuttle.

After a few flashes, the two appeared on the Cangxing spaceship, which was hovering three thousand meters above the Pacific Ocean.

On the spaceship, Gu Qianzhi and his delegation were already waiting in the corridor; they had arrived well in advance.

Gu Qianzhi walked over to Song Chen and said, "I've read through all the information. 1.2 million cosmic crystals and a treaty for affiliated civilizations. I've done a preliminary analysis, and it's going to be difficult to negotiate. I estimate that whatever the other side says, we'll have to sign."

"Just like... just like the Yuanqian Whale signing the Ocean Peace Convention."

"No rush, we'll talk about it when we get there."

After saying that, Song Chen walked to the center of the hall and placed his hand on the main control crystal.

The spaceship shuddered slightly, then began to ascend steadily.

Clouds swept past the transparent outer wall at high speed, and the sky changed from light blue to dark blue, then to inky blue, and finally to pure black.

The moment the spaceship broke through the atmosphere, everyone involuntarily turned to look back. The blue planet was slowly shrinking outside the porthole, with blue oceans, white clouds, brown land, and a dazzling white dot at the poles.

Most of the 36 members of the mission were leaving Earth for the first time.

Some of them had spent their entire lives researching psionic theories at the Martial Arts Research Institute, while others had commanded hundreds of raids against sea monsters, but none of them had ever seen such a sight.

The clouds swirled into white vortices above the ocean, and the outline of the land appeared and disappeared through the gaps in the clouds. That was the coastline of the Great Xia, a place they had never left from birth to adulthood and into old age.

Gu Qianzhi stood in front of the transparent outer wall and stared at it for a very long time.

"When I was young and serving in the South China Sea Fleet, I once spent forty days in a submarine."

"After forty days without seeing the sun, the moment I surfaced, I thought the ocean was truly vast. Now, I realize the ocean is just so-so."

Standing next to him was Chen Yuanzhou, the deputy leader of the delegation and a researcher of the psionic system at the Martial Arts Research Institute.

This is a scholar in his early sixties, with half of his hair already white and his fingers covered in calluses from holding a pen for a long time.

From the moment the spaceship began to accelerate, he had been rapidly recording on a transparent tablet, muttering to himself, occasionally glancing up at the porthole before looking down to continue writing.

"Do you know what I'm thinking right now?" Chen Yuanzhou asked without looking up.

"Are you thinking that everything you've researched in your life has been wrong?" Gu Qianzhi said.

"Yes." Chen Yuanzhou took off his glasses, wiped them, and put them back on.

"The textbook on the origin of psionic energy in our department, which I edited, has been used for twenty years, and it has to be completely rewritten from today onwards."

A few scattered laughs echoed inside the spaceship.

Song Chen did not participate in their conversation. He stood at the back of the hall, leaning against the wall, looking at the blue planet that was moving away through the transparent outer wall.

His gaze lingered on Blue Star for about ten seconds before shifting away.

He felt a little emotional. From breaking through to the Star Core Realm to setting off, he had spent less than a month on Blue Star.

Most of the month was spent on breakthroughs and stabilizing the realm in the Pacific Ocean, with only one day and one night actually spent hunting alien beasts to accumulate kill points.

One hundred and fifty-five million alien beasts sounds like a lot, but the unit price of low-level alien beasts is too low. Even if you kill them all, you will only accumulate five billion.

The third level of the four combat skills, each starts at five billion.

Not to mention the 100 points of Star Origin Power needed to break through to the eighth rank, plus 100 million Qi and 100 million Spirit Power. Just thinking about that number gave him a headache.

Time is too tight. If he had another month, no, half a month would be enough. He was confident that he could wipe out the remaining low-level alien beasts in the ocean and accumulate several hundred billion more kill points.

However, the Cangxing Alliance only gave him a one-month contract period, which meant he could only stay on Blue Star for that long at most.

Song Chen turned his gaze away from the blue planet and looked at the starry sky in front of him.

Outside the porthole was endless darkness, dotted with countless points of light—far away, near, bright, dark, emitting white light, emitting blue light, and even a few emitting pale purple light.

These stars appear as tiny, bright dots on Earth, but when viewed up close in space, each one is a gigantic celestial body.

There's a limit to the number of alien creatures on Earth, but the universe is different.

The starry sky he can see contains hundreds of billions of stars.

Every star may have planets around it, every planet may have civilizations, and every civilization may need him to teach them how to be human.

"After leaving space, I shouldn't lack kill points, right?"

Song Chen muttered something to himself.

"What did you say?" Zhou Wangyue came to the side and glanced at him.

"It's nothing." Song Chen snapped out of her thoughts and straightened up.

"Teacher, aren't you going to look outside?"

Zhou Wangyue glanced out the porthole, then looked away: "I've seen stars my whole life, whether they're near or far, they're still just stars."