I Have Infinite Skill Points-Chapter 538 International Security Council Recruitment Assessment
"Ancestor, please accept my condolences."
"To have it was my fortune, to lose it was my fate. To live another lifetime is sheer luck. In the past, I lived to become immortal. My life flew by in a hundred years, half of which was spent in secluded cultivation. Now that the path to immortality has been severed, it is time for a change in how I live."
"The Ancestor jests. Although you can’t become immortal, you’ve injected the Longevity Elixir. Doesn’t that grant you eternal life, making you undying like the gods? How is that different from being immortal?" Yu Ruoyun asked anxiously.
Usually, when one at their peak changes their way of life, they remain at their peak. King Jiangshan was once wholly dedicated to the pursuit of immortality, disdaining worldly honors and riches. Now that the immortal path is cut off, there is a fear that King Jiangshan might shift his pursuits from immortality to a quest for imperial hegemony.
"Immortality? HAHAHA..." King Jiangshan burst into laughter. "You don’t really think that I could live forever just by injecting some elixir, do you? The mystery of life isn’t that simple. I only managed to live another lifetime thanks to divine medicine.
Even if the elixir prevents me from aging, to achieve true immortality... one must not defy destiny. By extending my life with the elixir, I’ve incurred a great karmic debt to the Heavenly Dao, a debt that must be repaid. If I can’t repay it, the heavens have myriad ways to claim my life.
This is the Law of the Heavenly Dao: no grace given without reason, nor gains made without cost. Awakening this time, I realized what my mission is. I originally thought that when I intercepted the strand of destiny six hundred years ago, it was due to my Cultivation Level reaching a point where I could extract fortune from the River of Fate.
After waking up this time and taking advantage of rebirth’s moment to peer through the gates of life and death, my Cultivation Level progressed further. But with the increase, I could no longer even see the River of Fate. Do you know why that is?"
"This... Ancestor, I don’t even know what the River of Fate is."
"Forget it. If you don’t know, you don’t know. With such an increase in Cultivation Level, yet unable to see the River of Fate, there can only be one explanation. The River of Fate that I saw back then, the strand of destiny that I intercepted, was not taken by me but given to me by the Heavenly Dao.
Otherwise, I cannot explain why the raw stone emerged so soon after I captured that strand of destiny. All this was the arrangement of the Heavenly Dao, precisely so that I could live until now.
Humanity is becoming better and stronger, but the actual strength of humanity is indeed regressing. The power of humanity now is too fragile. The Heavenly Dao needs me to live into this era; it needs me to protect this era."
Yu Ruoyun’s eyes suddenly lit up. "The Ancestor means to say..."
"This is my mission! Although I don’t know the status of that Demon Clan member who claims to be a God Warrior, his pride in his status clearly indicates he is a master even among the Demon Clan.
This roughly allows us to estimate the strength of the Demon Clan’s masters. Such masters should not be abundant, but they are also not rare in the Demon Clan. If it weren’t for me, you really couldn’t have blocked them..."
"Indeed, we could not have blocked them."
"When you’re free, follow me. I will personally guide your cultivation. I alone can’t necessarily protect an era. By the way, I’ve learned to send WeChat emoticons with that cellphone you mentioned. Teach me what else is fun to use it for."
"The Ancestor is truly brilliant to have learned so fast! Shall I teach you how to use Moments? You can share your daily life and reflections with everyone..."
With the Demon Clan invasion crisis averted, the sword that seemed to hang over the world vanished. But in reality, as long as the spatial coordinates marked on the Time-Space Gemstone were not dealt with, the Demon Clan could descend at any time.
"The facts prove that not only can the Demon Clan army arrive when we open the Portal of the Demon World, but the Demon Clan also has the ability to open the space channels on their side. With this, the invasion of the Demon Clan is almost a certainty, inevitable," stated a representative at the International Security Council summit.
"So what now? Are we preparing for war?" came a cold rebuttal.
"Even if the descent of the Demon Clan is unavoidable, we must minimize the danger. Didn’t Jade Country do exceptionally well this time? The Demon Clan descended, only to be annihilated in the uninhabited areas. They had to retreat sheepishly and close the space. This shows that we already have the strength to strike back effectively."
"Don’t be blindly confident. The Demon Clan expert who appeared later nearly single-handedly defeated the entire world. If not for Jade Country hiding such a powerful figure, he could have rampaged unchecked on Sky Blue Star.
Unfortunately, we don’t have more experts of that level, like the one from Jade Country, while the Demon Clan might have many. The next time the Demon Clan descends, there might be countless such masters."
"If they had that many masters of such caliber, humanity would have been extinct long ago."
"Ladies and gentlemen, are we straying from the main issue?" Number One gently tapped the table and said.
"This time, we are here to summarize the method of the Demon Clan’s descent and how to minimize losses, given the certainty of their arrival, not to debate our speculations."
"Do we even need to discuss the manner of the Demon Clan’s arrival? We activate the Portal of the Demon World on our side, and they open it on theirs. It’s as simple as people inside and outside a house opening the same door."
"No, opening a door requires a key. If the key is lost, the door can’t be opened. Obviously, activating the Portal of the Demon World on Sky Blue Star is not as simple as mere activation.
We now know that the Demon Clan buried twelve Time-Space Gemstones on Sky Blue Star, and so far, we have found two. Each Time-Space Gemstone only serves to open a Space Gate. Therefore, there must be exact coordinates within the Demon World to precisely open the Space Gate.
Similarly, to open a passage to the Human World, the Demon Clan must set the coordinates on our side. The currently known coordinate is marked on the second Time-Space Gemstone. This means that as long as this gemstone exists, the Demon Clan can descend at any time. What shall we do?"
"Destroy it! What else can we do?"
"Apologies. We gathered the nation’s top scientists—including leading professors in physics, material science, metallurgy, energy studies, and other fields—who engaged in a year and a half of research and experimentation, only to find the Time-Space Gemstone indestructible. They even determined that it would be unscathed at the center of a nuclear explosion. In fact, it *was* at the center of a nuclear explosion. We just found it, and it remains intact."
"My God, what terrifying material is this?"
"It might not belong to any type of matter we’re familiar with; it might even be composed of quark-level material. If that’s the case, then I’m afraid that with our current level of technology, we truly can’t destroy it."
"Since nuclear bombs can obliterate the Demon Clan’s warships... why not just throw the Time-Space Gemstone into the sun?" a national leader suggested, raising his hand.
"No, no, no! The sun is our future energy source and our most precious asset. What if the Demon Clan damages the sun?"
"Damaging the sun? If they had that capability, I’d call them gods. Would they still be killable by nuclear bombs?"
"But the sun is too mild. Our nuclear bombs release fission energy instantaneously, while the sun involves a gentle, slow, and continuous fusion process. It’s different. Something a nuclear bomb can destroy, the sun might not be able to."
"But the sun isn’t just about high temperatures and released energy. It also has an environment and gravity. If the Demon Clan can survive on the sun, then we must accept that annihilation is our fate. There’s nothing more to say."
"Why not choose a Neutron Star? Wouldn’t it be safer to send it into a Neutron Star?"
"I bet you idiot didn’t pay attention in class! Tell me, how far is the nearest Neutron Star from Sky Blue Star? How long do you think it would take with our space travel capabilities to send the Time-Space Gemstone there? And even if we succeeded in getting it there, do you think our spacecraft could enter a Neutron Star’s orbit? The sun is the only star within reach of our current level of technology."
"So, regarding this proposal to send the Time-Space Gemstone to the sun, does anyone have any objections?"
"Agreed."
"Agreed!"
"Agreed!"
"Okay, next on the agenda: the coverage of the Time-Space Gemstone Detector. Jade Country has already developed a Time-Space Gemstone Detector with a coverage radius of three kilometers. The second Time-Space Gemstone was discovered in time thanks to this detector."
"This is a great device. Is there even a need to discuss this? Our goal is to achieve global coverage, preferably including uninhabited areas."
"Agreed!"
"Our country also greatly needs the Time-Space Gemstone Detector." 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
"No, no, no, you’ve all misunderstood. The point of this topic isn’t about the necessity of the Time-Space Gemstone Detector’s coverage, but rather... the pricing issue."
"What? You’re still asking for money?"
"What? You actually thought we’d give them away for free?"
The Global Security Summit proceeded fervently. Meanwhile, Wang Lan and Jiang Xinyu returned to their college life, with their junior year’s first semester nearly at an end. It felt as though they had hardly attended school this semester; if they weren’t venturing into the Cloud Sea’s Pioneer Space, they were off to the northwest, constantly busy. However, for excellent students like Wang Lan and Jiang Xinyu, Star Martial Academy of Modu City had given them the green light, allowing them to pass all subjects with full marks.
If the two requested early graduation, the academy would issue their diplomas on the spot.
Half a month passed by unnoticed. Neither of them had any missions, so they spent their time clocking in at the academy and Phoenix Plaza. Under Wang Lan’s guidance, Jiang Xinyu’s Cultivation Level experienced its Nth explosive growth. Although she was still in the early stages of the Star Sea realm, her strength was subtly approaching that of the later stages.
One day, the sunshine was splendid, but a sudden northerly wind blew, making it bitterly cold. The climate in the south was just that peculiar; yesterday it was still quite hot, but suddenly, the temperature had dropped.
After receiving a notification from the school, the two went to Eld Di’s office.
"Dean, you wanted to see us?"
"Yes, come in and have a seat. Take a look at these two documents," Eld Di said with a kindly smile, handing them the material.
Wang Lan quickly scanned the documents he received from Eld Di.
"International Security Council recruitment assessment?"
"That’s right. Are you interested in participating?" Eld Di asked gently, his face full of a benevolent smile.
"Well... I don’t think we’re interested, right? I’m already part of the Tianjian Bureau, and Xinyu already holds the rank of Captain. We’re going to be working at the Tianjian Bureau, so why would we join the International Security Council?"
"The International Security Council is a division of the United Nations; it’s the strongest special agent division under direct UN authority. Their ranks are globally recognized. Your rank in the Tianjian Bureau is recognized here in our country, but not necessarily abroad. However, ranks within the International Security Council must be recognized by all United Nations member states."
