I Have Infinite Skill Points-Chapter 530: Originally Thought It Was Very Fantasy, But Now It’s Very Sci-Fi
In the meeting room, Wang Lan sat quietly with the four Emperors, listening to Number One recount events from ten years ago. In this moment, a fleeting spark could be seen in the eyes of the Emperors as they seemed to visualize the scenes from a decade prior.
Ten years ago, within this very meeting room, the current Number One wasn’t the same person as back then, and the one sitting in Wang Lan’s place wasn’t the Wang Lan of today.
"I need someone to undertake this arduous task, a task that, even if successfully completed, might mean they can never return. I need your opinions on which of Jade Country’s eighty-eight Titled Strongmen would be most suitable for this mission."
"The strength of a Titled Strongman might not be sufficient, right? If we compare strengths, Titled Strongmen are still in the Qi-refining phase. Of course, maybe our Qi-refining phase could match up to their Foundation Establishment phase. But even those at the Foundation Establishment phase are considered low-end in terms of battle prowess. If they go, I’m afraid they won’t be able to accomplish much."
"Then it should be one of us."
"Jade Country only has five Star Soul Realm warriors; the loss of any one would be significant to us."
"Whether or not we can return is actually not important. If we go, it’s not like we can’t continue to fight, right? Either way, the enemy is the Demon Clan; it’s just heading to another battlefield. It might be a loss for Jade Country, but for humanity, it will definitely be a gain."
"Then... who should go?"
The young Flame Emperor slowly stood up, his voice resolute as if the choice were obvious, "Of course, it’s me!"
"Stop joking around. You’re the youngest, and your value is the greatest. Your staying is the biggest help to Jade Country."
"My reasoning is also because I’m young. Because I’m young, my future still holds potential. Sending you guys? Ming Emperor, Emperor Bai, Xuan Emperor, please, you’re all a bunch of old men already. If you go, at best you’ll just muddle through with mediocre talent.
"Qing Emperor and I are still fine, but can Qing Emperor go? If Qing Emperor disappears for even a month, I guarantee that bunch will all jump up in chaos. Then, before the enemy arrives, we’d already be a complete mess. So, it has to be me, it must be me!"
The crisp sound of his voice still echoed in their ears, but now, things were no longer the same.
Number One’s voice, calm yet laden with gravity, drifted over, "The concept of Heaven’s Realm began to arise after the Twilight of the Gods in the West. It was after that time that many stories about ascension and becoming immortals or gods started to pop up.
"Afterward, the concept of the Heavenly Court became increasingly clear. This was especially true after your last visit to the Sunlight Sword Pavilion. It was destroyed three thousand years ago and likely established between four and five thousand years ago. It left behind accurate information about the Heavenly Court.
"But actually, a hundred years ago we discovered the existence of the Heavenly Court, and even came across several space portals leading to it. In the Eastern Continent, particularly in our Jade Country, there have historically been over a dozen Ascending Immortal Stages, each with legends of achieving immortality. In truth, these are the bridges connecting to the Heavenly Court.
"As long as one’s strength reaches a certain level, they can pass the trial of the Heavenly Court and gain entry. Unfortunately, the Heavenly Court did not escape the fate of paradise, and in the end, it too was destroyed."
"Destroyed? My mother went to the Heavenly Court?"
"We are certain that your mother had not gone to the Heavenly Court at the time of its destruction. We found eight Ascending Immortal Stages, all purposefully ruined. Atop these stages lay mountains of skeletons—a horrifying sight to behold. How could such a scene exist if the Heavenly Court still existed?
"At the same time, we also acquired another piece of precise intelligence—although the Heavenly Court had been destroyed, it left behind a world called the Cultivation World. The Cultivation World, blessed by the Heavenly Court, preserved a complete civilization of cultivators. Moreover, like our human race, they have continuously been in conflict with the Demon Clan.
"Then, at Yaochi Peak in the Western Kunlun mountains, we finally found an Ascending Immortal Stage that had not been destroyed, though it was on the verge of collapse. Scientists estimated that this Ascending Immortal Stage could only be used once, and it would surely collapse afterward. Moreover, the Ascending Immortal Stage could only accommodate a single person for transmission.
"In the end, your mother became the person to go to the Heavenly Court. Ten years ago, under the watch of fewer than ten people, your mother stepped onto the Ascending Immortal Stage and then vanished. After your mother’s disappearance, the Ascending Immortal Stage collapsed and could not be repaired."
Hearing this, Wang Lan’s mood immediately grew heavy. Slowly raising his head, he asked, "So you’re saying, no one knows where my mom is or if she’s even alive? And we don’t even know if this mission is a death sentence?"
"No! Your mother is likely not dead. She had an electromagnetic wave transmitter with her when she ascended, and electromagnetic waves can propagate over vast distances in space.
"Three years later, our satellite received a segment of radio waves, also recorded using the encrypted wave patterns we had created. Your mother successfully arrived—not at the Heavenly Court, but at the Cultivation World.
"In the Cultivation World, there are three planets very similar to Sky Blue Star. Each has a volume and mass five to ten times that of Sky Blue Star. The Cultivation World continues the legacy of the cultivation civilization. Their population is about thirty billion, and the number of their Star Martial Warriors, whom they call cultivators, is roughly one hundred million. Because they have a heritage of cultivation civilization, their strength is much greater than ours. However, since they’re not suppressed by laws, they face much larger forces from the Demon Clan compared to us.
"For thousands of years, they have also constantly suffered numerous attacks from the Demon Clan. Although they’ve managed to resist each attack, they’ve also been retreating steadily. From Sky Blue Star’s perspective, the Cultivation World has become a mythical place. In our eyes, they are the Heavenly Court, while in their eyes, we are the ancestral home. The direction from which that radio signal came... is in the Magellan Galaxy!"
Hearing this, Wang Lan’s eyes suddenly ballooned, his mouth hung agape in a state of... utter confusion.
"You’re saying my mother is on... an alien planet?" This news utterly astounded Wang Lan. Wang Lan had always thought he was in a fantasy world, perhaps a Xianxia world, but never in a million years did he expect it could be a sci-fi one as well.
There’s a Demon World in this universe. Hmm, Wang Lan had seen the Portal of the Demon World open with his own eyes. Its interior was shrouded in pitch-black fog and swirling mists, quite fitting for what one would expect of the Demon World.
This world has Different Dimensional Space, filled with Exotic Beasts that look like some kind of joke. Although it’s unscientific, it’s completely in line with the fantasy setting. But the so-called ascension to the Immortal World, the act of traveling to the Cultivation World being on alien planets within the Magellan Galaxy—Wang Lan simply couldn’t stand it.
So the so-called ascension is just interstellar migration?
"It’s not an alien planet; it’s an alien star system," Number One said, gazing into the distance with a profound look.
"We’ve always believed that humanity has been evolving, becoming better and smarter. But is that really the case? Ten thousand years ago, our previous civilization was capable of interstellar travel. That’s something our current civilization can only look up to and cannot reach."
"Can my mom... come back?"
"I don’t know!" Number One honestly shook his head. "If we can find an Ascending Immortal Stage on Sky Blue Star that connects to the Cultivation World, and if there’s a corresponding Ascending Immortal Stage in the Cultivation World, then the two can be connected.
"If we had to travel by foot, it would take decades of light years to leave the solar system, let alone traverse the Milky Way, not to mention the Magellan Galaxy."
"I understand. Thank you, Lord Number One."
"You don’t resent us?" Number One looked curiously at Wang Lan. "It’s because of us that you lost your mother at the age of ten and might never see her again in this lifetime."
"For the continuation of human civilization, anyone can die; why can’t my mother contribute to that? Besides, my mother is still alive, right? If there’s a chance, I will personally bring her home."
BRRRING— Suddenly, the telephone rang. Number One, jolted from his thoughts, picked up the phone on the desk. "Hello? What?"
After hanging up, Number One hurriedly reopened the satellite video. The wasteland of the desert still sprawled before them, the land still in disarray.
A gigantic desert ’eye’ was projected before everyone’s eyes from the aerial perspective. The desert, ravaged by dozens of nuclear explosions, wouldn’t cool down and return to calm as quickly as it would after conventional missile strikes.
The intense radiation would continue to wreak havoc within the blast area for an extended period, and the distorted high temperatures would linger. As the area gradually cooled, the satellite images also slowly cleared up.
In the twisted expanse of the vast desert, a mysterious figure emerged—a lone, proud, chilling figure.
His long cape fluttered in the wind and sand as he walked step by step through the radiation zone of the nuclear blast, slowly moving eastward.
"Such a strange and powerful force..." Drulu thought, feeling the rising radiation and heat around him, his eyes gradually turning cold.
"The Law is suppressed to one percent? The Empire’s literature mostly shows data around half, and only elite warriors reach suppression to one-tenth. Yet my power is suppressed to one percent. The Ancient God sleeping on Sky Blue Star is indeed formidable.
"However... a human civilization capable of creating such powerful weapons is now a threat to the Divine Clan. It must be destroyed; even the awakening of Sky Blue Star’s Ancient God cannot prevent it."
The nuclear explosion utilized nuclear fission, instantly releasing terrifying energy. This was an energy far beyond what Earth’s civilization could master, comparable to cosmic energy releases.
With a civilization level of 0.7, humanity was indeed like mortals touching the realm of gods. But despite the great power of nuclear weapons, they were ineffective against a strongman like Drulu.
It wasn’t that Drulu could withstand the power of nuclear weapons. But as the old saying goes, powerful attacks only work if they hit their target; missing is as good as not having them at all.
It’s like the Droplet in *The Three-Body Problem*, which was just a space probe but could easily destroy all of humanity’s warships. But if that Droplet stood still and a nuke was detonated on it, the Droplet could also be destroyed.
But is that possible? Against an incomparably advanced civilization, even possessing weapons capable of razing heavens and earth is useless.
If a person stood still, letting ants bite him, in theory, ants could indeed kill that person. But this hypothesis is fundamentally flawed. If you have an ant fight a person one-on-one, it’s bound to be crushed by hand.
If the Demon Clan’s strength reached the described level of civilizational disparity, then no amount of human nuclear bombs would be useful, and the Demon Clan wouldn’t care. But Drulu knew that with humans wielding such weapons, they were no longer, under certain conditions, the beings the Demon Clan could manipulate at will.
The Cultivation World had yet to be conquered, and now the Earth Star Realm was also developing rapidly. This gave Drulu an ominous premonition.
It seemed like the Demon Clan’s winning hand was about to be broken.
