Chapter 597 Fast Forward to Cosmic Overlord (7400, First Update)

Some time ago.

On the Moon.

Under the dark veil of the cosmic night, the leaves of the Divine Tree scattered and fluttered, falling across the lunar backside like a heavy winter snow.

At the very heart of the snowstorm, tens of thousands of firefly-like leaves, branches, and twigs swirled and coalesced like a vortex, transforming into arrays of runes and glyphs, which coiled around the trunk, becoming the armor and defensive formations on the warship's surface.

Meanwhile, nine towering root systems, as majestic as mountains and resembling colossal dragons, emitted a soft spiritual glow. They gradually contracted, transforming into the warship's rear thrusters.

Spiritual streams surged forth, as if nine nascent stars had coalesced into true suns, providing the warship with the power to break free from the lunar surface.

Having returned from the Perfect World and fully recovered from all injuries, Su Zhou was preparing for liftoff.

Layer upon layer of jewel-like spiritual energy crystals glittered with cyan-purple light. Anti-gravity rune formations flickered around the massive vessel, which stood several thousand meters tall. Although the lunar surface had no atmosphere, the vacuum created by the absorption of spiritual energy still transmitted a violent rumble throughout the spirit world.

All the roots were extracting themselves from the lunar crust, emitting streams of light like rocket nozzles, while all the branches drooped, becoming armor, covering the surface of the trunk.

With an archaic yet futuristic, mystical yet scientific appearance, Su Zhou now seemed extremely Zhuzhou.

[Prepare for shock!]

On the lunar backside, the lunar bases of all major global powers had taken shock-prevention measures. Ships and reconnaissance satellites hovering in near-lunar orbit focused their lenses, locking onto Su Zhou, not missing a single detail on the warship Divine Tree.

Every faction with its own warship design concepts was now wide-eyed, eagerly searching Su Zhou for parts they could imitate and borrow.

Su Zhou's warship form was not merely a new combat form for his Zhuzhou true form.

Its true significance lay in 'testing.'

Assisting the entire Earth civilization in testing all 'experimental' warship technologies.

After Su Zhou returned from the Perfect World and revealed his warship Divine Tree form to the entire planet, the four permanent members of the United Nations Security Council directly passed relevant resolutions, enabling official cooperation between countries to help Su Zhou integrate the technologies of various alien spacecraft and design his warship form.

At the same time, as an immortal Heavenly Immortal who could test and modify at any time, without the need to build related production lines or wait months for a single test, Su Zhou could use his power to simulate various cutting-edge technologies, providing data on more than ten completely different technologies every day.

In the past, this data might have required the sacrifice of a spaceship crash, the sacrifice of elite pilots, a complete overhaul of production lines, the construction of various supporting factories, the related work of at least tens of thousands of people, and even the establishment of specialized departments in universities and academies, all to be obtained at such a cost.

But now, this extremely rare data could be easily acquired by Su Zhou simply simulating it with a part of his body.

Yes.

Su Zhou had the technological support of the entire Earth civilization.

And the entire Earth civilization also received empirical feedback verified by Su Zhou himself.

Just as Su Zhou condensed his 'Giant Divine Tree Warship Form 0.9 Early Edition,' which was thousands of meters tall.

Major forces on Earth also obtained large and small, various types of warship-related technical data, as well as extremely detailed and accurate data from Su Zhou.

For the military industry, interstellar engineering, and materials science, this kind of data was truly priceless!

Think about it carefully. While other civilizations were still meticulously building production lines, collecting raw materials, testing relevant alloy ratios, and testing the most suitable shape for spacecraft shells.

A certain transformable giant biological warship had already tested the amount of work they could do in five or even ten years in just one afternoon!

Just for the engine alone, a completely new experiment for an ordinary civilization would take years to complete, but Su Zhou was not afraid of the engine exploding. Any whimsical ideas could be directly self-manufactured, making the speed extremely fast.

In particular, the size of Su Zhou's warship form allowed the Earth civilization, which originally had difficulty building even cruiser-class spacecraft, to unlock the technological options for 'large battleships' and even 'Titan-class behemoths' in advance.

As long as the hard conditions could keep up, the Earth civilization could directly skip the long development period and manufacture its own fleet with the most advanced warship technology!

This was a benefit that ordinary civilizations with Alpha-level psionic power users could hardly replicate...

After all, what powerful psionic power user could transform into a rocket or a warship like Zhuzhou?

Even if they could, could they become so big and so fast?

Were they Zhuzhou?

Obviously not.

This was the mutual complementation between a strong individual and a civilization.

Even more than that for the Earth civilization.

The Cenostians were also very interested in the plans devised by the Earthlings: The inspiration for Su Zhou's warship form came from their warship armor. The core allowed them to understand part of the essence of Su Zhou's power. The supernatural components unique to Su Zhou, related to the Divine Tree, Divine Dragon, and Divine Bird, were also technologies that the Cenostians had never encountered.

The two sides exchanged technology in this regard, and both civilizations and Su Zhou were very satisfied.

As for the Tallinn and Kro people, they had no experience in building such large warships.

But it must be noted that they were technological civilizations of 'normal size', similar to the Earth civilization.

The Cenostians' technology was certainly advanced, but their warships and armor were obviously impossible for Earthlings to popularize and learn. That was their unique technology... Of course, the most important reason was that the Cenostians were simply too large.

As everyone knows, differences in size are a hurdle that is difficult to overcome with perseverance, courage, will, determination, and love.

Therefore, in terms of warship standardization, the technical personnel of these two civilizations also played a huge role.

And they could therefore share some of the high-end technology of the Earth civilization and the Cenostian civilization.

In this way, all the civilizations participating in the cooperation benefited and progressed.

True win-win, nothing more than this.

This was Su Zhou's creed.

"Gather the power of all beings, and then return it to all beings."

After returning and communicating with Yan Sheng, Su Zhou had been thinking about the relationship between 'strong individuals and civilizations'... The current scene was the initial answer he had come up with.

Civilization breeds the strong, and the strong feed back into civilization.

When civilization becomes strong, it is always convenient for the strong.

Even immortal gods of unified races and unified civilizations are not omniscient and omnipotent.

Epistemic obstacles, inspiration, and all kinds of different ideas are also very worthy of attention and learning for the strong.

Similarly, the strong can lead civilization to rapid progress in related fields, just like Su Zhou today. He almost single-handedly allowed the Earth civilization to surpass the progress of other civilizations by ten years or even longer in just one month.

Although the subsequent rate of progress will be much smaller, if the Earth civilization had a few more Overlord Earth Immortals, and a few more immortal Heavenly Immortals in different fields, how fast would the technological development of the Earth civilization accelerate?

In a few years, at most ten years, it would be enough to complete several essential leaps.

It could even fast forward to becoming the overlord of the Milky Way.

Of course, the most important thing about this theory is that the strong and civilization should treat each other equally.

One-sided contributions from the strong, or exploitation of civilization, will eventually become meaningless.

Uncompensated contributions from the strong will eventually become counterproductive. Conversely, exploitation to the end will also be of no benefit.

Not to mention Heavenly Immortals, even Earth Immortals do not need to exploit a feudal civilization. Even a modern industrialized civilization cannot bring much benefit to Earth Immortals. At least, it needs to reach the atomic information age, or even the interstellar age, to have the value of being 'exploited'.

Just like Su Zhou now.

If the Earth civilization did not have relevant warship engineering knowledge, did not have many samples of alien spacecraft on the moon, and did not have the technical support provided by the Cenostians and the other two alien civilizations, it would not be able to produce the resources and technology he needed at all.

As for going further up... For Heavenly Sovereigns, Great Heavenly Sovereigns, and even the Heavenly Emperor, at least it must be a galactic superpower like the Cenostians or the Corporate Alliance, which can artificially manufacture celestial bodies and move stars to build stellar arrays, to be meaningful.

Even for themselves, the strong need to cultivate a powerful civilization as their backing.

Meaningless is always relative.

[Very good, very good, Su Zhou, the test is perfect!]

On the moon, Yan Sheng and Yu Sheng, who had been paying attention to this scene, were very excited—the successful takeoff of Su Zhou's warship form basically did not use any extra power from Su Zhou himself, only the power of the 'warship form' itself.

In other words, if necessary, Su Zhou's warship form could be strengthened again at any time.

This also meant that Earth had successfully obtained a design drawing for a 'giant battleship' that was rare even in the entire galaxy.

As long as the production capacity met the standards, they could successfully replicate warships similar to Su Zhou's true form.

"Good, this form of mine is very good!"

Similarly, Su Zhou himself was also very satisfied.

Although there were no extra modules, it was clear that those were things that needed to be done in the next version update.

By creating the Divine Tree warship form, he also completely mastered his 'Heavenly Immortal body', that is, the power of the 'Zhuzhou Original Form', and completely mastered this ever-changing power of the immortal god that can simulate and learn the advantages of all beings with his own strength.

Next, according to the normal plan.

Su Zhou should fly around the Earth's orbit for a week to show his Heavenly Immortal strength, boost the morale of all Earth people, and also brush up on relevant reputation.

However, just before Su Zhou was about to set off.

A streak of dim yellow light, emerging from the Nine Xuan World and appearing directly above Qingzhou, Zheng Country, attracted the attention of all the Earth's high-level officials in outer space, including Su Zhou.

"This is the aura of Twilight? How could it appear there?"

Sensing the Earth from afar, Su Zhou couldn't help but frown—expressed on the warship, the spiritual energy crystals around the sensors began to charge.

Then, his heart moved, and he understood: "Sure enough, something went wrong in the Nine Xuan World!"

"There must be a lineage of Twilight Believers in that place, just like the Heavenly God Descent Society on Earth, who have been lurking in the folk, and then recently took advantage of the critical moment of confrontation between the two worlds to suddenly launch an attack!"

Su Zhou was not wrong. Although there were many differences in details, things were generally the same.

However, to his surprise, the Twilight aura from the Nine Xuan World did not continue to erupt within the Nine Xuan World. Instead, it turned into a psionic signal like a beacon, transcending time and space, and spreading towards the depths of the distant starry sky.

"What's going on again?"

Immediately, Su Zhou couldn't help but be a little confused about the Twilight's goals: "This seems to be a signal for help?"

But he was very familiar with this scene. Whether it was the Tallinn, the Kro, or the Cenostians, they had all staged similar dramas.

And the beacon that a certain villain on the moon had transmitted to the entire galaxy was even more impressive in the youth's mind: "I'm familiar with this situation—Yan Sheng!"

"Help me open a space-time gate to Jupiter's orbit!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Su Zhou requested so—the only stable subspace entrances and exits within the entire solar system were at Earth-Moon and Jupiter. If the target summoned by the Twilight's family directly arrived at the Earth-Moon system, then let it taste the power of the Earth-Moon space orbit defense line's artillery fire.

If the other party appeared in Jupiter's orbit... Then let the other party taste the power of its warship's main gun!

Both sides were very fast.

In the distant space-time, receiving the signal for help from the fellow believers, without the slightest hesitation, the Twilight's family who came to support at the first time, the Extinction AI Adad, ended its hyperspace pinpoint jump.

But what greeted it was a devastating burst of white light from the warm and hospitable Earthlings!

At this moment, on the back of the Moon's Shifting Array, at the top of the Zhuzhou warship, the spiral bow formed by countless intertwined trunks had already unfolded, and countless fluttering light particles floated in the universe, and then gathered from all directions towards the unfolded muzzle—the five elements of light and the four elements echoed together, and the Yin and Yang qi combined to form thunder.

Then, just like that, it locked onto the Twilight Family at the end of time and space!

If this all-out Liangyi Annihilation Divine Thunder Cannon was released in the form of the former Zhuzhou Cosmic War Form, let alone the teeth would be burned off, I am afraid that half of the head would be difficult to survive, and it would be melted by its own too powerful destructive power.

However, this time it was different.

Because this time, what was releasing the Divine Thunder Divine Light Cannon was not the dragon's head, but a genuine warship main gun muzzle!

A truly professional divine light cannon was about to be launched at this moment!

Deng! Deng! Deng!

Around the muzzle, psionic crystals lit up in turn, and the charging hum resounded through the spirit world.

Even on the back of the moon, the light was so bright that half of the people on earth could see it. After a sudden contraction, it erupted like a torrent!

In an instant, both ends of the space-time gate were swallowed by the rushing light, and thick psionic arcs jumped around the light column, coiling around the 200-meter-radius light column like winding dragons and snakes!

And as the target of the Liangyi Annihilation Divine Thunder Cannon, the Extinction AI had not completely dissipated at the first time. In the flowing light, its shell scattered like dust, and the precise electronic structure was destroyed, just like cream melting in boiling water, and then only the silhouette-like black metal skeleton could be seen twisting and collapsing, and finally burned to ashes.

Light swallowed everything. The central processor of the Twilight AI was full of bewilderment: [Where did this attack come from?]

[Mission, mission failed, terminate terminate terminate terminate terminate—]

Before waiting for this final designation to be issued, it was completely destroyed—and the rushing light passed over the already shattered AI warship and flew towards the atmosphere of Jupiter not far away.

Dozens of seconds later, a dazzling circle of fire burst out on the surface of Jupiter. A visible shock wave spread for thousands of kilometers and still did not dissipate. Instead, it rolled up a crown-shaped cloud of gas on the surface of the star, knocking some of the star's mass out of Jupiter's orbit.

Then, soon, a huge red gas cyclone began to be born, spread, and then began to rotate around the equator of the gas giant, and merged into the countless turbulent storms on this restless giant star.

On Jupiter, because of Su Zhou's blow, there was an extra little red spot.

At this moment, on Jupiter's orbit, the original Twilight AI, now only a group of dim yellow evil souls were wandering in the vacuum of the universe, revealing endless confusion.

The same confused as this AI was, within the Chen King's territory of the Nine Xuan World, the other Twilight Family members who were waiting for reinforcements to support them.

Under the leadership of King Chen, among the entire Chen King's Guard, all the elites, and the newcomers who joined the King's Guard in this recent period, were basically Twilight Family members—Twilight Family members, in addition to being naturally summoned, can also appear through acquired shared thinking and mutual influence, which is why it is said that if a Twilight Family member appears, a large group will be discovered.

But now, this large group of Twilight Family members were all staring blankly at the empty scene in the light curtain, and then looking at each other in dismay.

"Strange, strange... Where are the reinforcements that the king summoned?"

"Such a large church army, why did it suddenly disappear?"

"Yeah, why did the aura suddenly disappear, the induction light curtain didn't respond, and the screen went black?"

Some stammering exchanges appeared, and the Twilight Family members in King Chen's territory were puzzled: "Could it be that the signal is bad? But this problem has never occurred before."

Not only the Nine Xuan World.

In the distant space-time, the trade hub star system, the Milky Way base camp of the Nihility Church.

Inexplicable messages rang out.

[The soul fluctuations of Adad have disappeared.]

When saying this, in the central star system, the Twilight Family member responsible for assigning tasks was also full of confusion: [Strange, is there something wrong with the instrument? Or did the subspace fluctuations isolate the soul aura?]

[Why did the signal suddenly disappear?]

Among the Twilight Family members, there is a unique communication channel based on the souls of the Family members as a bridge. In theory, there is no means in the current universe that can isolate their communication.

Since the signal disappeared, then even the most incredible possibility is possible... Although it is very bizarre, it is clear that the excellent Twilight Family member, Extinction AI Adad, whose single firepower even exceeded that of an entire interstellar civilization, destroyed many races and planets, and brought nothingness to all things, has been completely destroyed.

This made the Family member who assigned the task feel extremely unacceptable.

Although the Twilight Family members are fearless because of their unique thinking, ignore interests, and are united from top to bottom.

However, all their actions are for an 'ultimate meaning'.

For this ultimate meaning, they can give up everything, pay everything, and do everything—because other than that, nothing can be called meaningful.

Although the Twilight Family members are not afraid of death, and even expect death, they cannot accept being eliminated without contributing any strength to the ultimate meaning, and they feel pain.

For a time, King Chen's territory, the Nihility Church, and even Emperor Xuan and the Earth side, were stunned for a moment because of Su Zhou's actions.

They were either amazed by Su Zhou's power, or unable to understand it, but in general, they were all extremely shocked.

Only Su Zhou, who had done this, had only one feeling in his heart.

"Speaking of which, I don't even know who the other party is. I only know that there is a high probability that it is a Twilight Family member... Is it really good to just eliminate it directly like this?"

The huge Divine Tree warship was like an interstellar fortress. It slowly passed through the space-time gate and came to Jupiter's orbit, like a mountain drifting in the dark.

Su Zhou rarely had doubts: "Although there is an evil soul, which proves that the other party is indeed not a good person, am I being a little too preconceived by doing this?"

Of course, whether it was Yala or the Divine Tree, the reincarnation or the pioneer, except for the perfect old good person, basically all the great existences, and even those who had a little relationship with the great existences, unanimously said 'Twilight is not good'.

Even Su Zhou himself, after learning about the Twilight Family's actions, felt in his heart that 'Twilight is not good'.

But just like that, launching an attack based on 'trumped-up' prejudice... It may indeed be a bit impulsive.

"Are you sympathizing with the Twilight Family?"

However, just as Su Zhou was conducting a self-examination, Yala, who had appeared in the Earth's universe in physical form after a long absence and was now in the command cabin of the Divine Tree warship, shook her head.

She complained: "You need to know that even perfection is just trying to understand 'Twilight', and there is no such thing as 'innocence' in the Twilight's Family—these guys, even if you kill a hundred out of a hundred people, someone will think it's not enough!"

"They are the enemies of the universe, all civilizations, all individuals, whether good or evil, orderly or chaotic, all monsters who are happy to kill!"

At this moment, Su Zhou recovered the dim yellow evil soul left by the AI.

Observing this evil soul, which was as transparent as colored glaze and looked like a small dark yellow sun, he couldn't help but shake his head slightly after listening to Yala's words: "But I still don't understand what kind of virtue the Twilight Family is."

"The Family of Reincarnation are all heroic souls who intend to transcend reincarnation and heroes who intend to break the shackles."

"The Family of Pioneers are all adventurers who want to explore the unknown, and madmen who don't care about any danger."

"The Family of the Divine Tree, everything is for existence, existence is everything, in order to survive and continue the inheritance, they can do anything—they can really do anything."

"And we have also seen the Family of Perfection, a group of miserable people pursuing absolute perfection, and even more so, fanatics."

Speaking to himself like this, Su Zhou naturally had some things he hadn't said, such as destiny, such as Yala... They were all guys who were quite sick. Fortunately, he was just Yala's covenantor, not her Family, and was still considered normal.

But it was clear that the Families of all great existences, even if the paths they were taking were somewhat different from the true intentions of the great existences.

But in general, they were still understandable.

However, the Twilight Family was very strange.

"Could it be that they are all lunatics who pursue nothingness, so they are not afraid of death, and even pursue letting others die with them?"

Su Zhou felt that it shouldn't be so simple—if Twilight was really like this, then it should change its name to Self-Destruction.

But if it was self-destruction, it should be to die themselves, why would they go everywhere to find people to drag to die with them?

This should be the style of destruction, destruction, and annihilation, which does not match nothingness.

Moreover, the most important point is the definition of nihilism.

Nihilism does not represent pure pessimism.

Although nihilism itself means that there is no absolute truth, absolute meaning in this world, nor are there any inherent human rights, inherent rights, all things in the world have no inherent absolute meaning, correct morality, or supreme technology, and whether it is freedom or dreams, they are just meaningless illusions of human beings.

However, precisely because of this, people should seek strength from their own 'will'.

'Superman' can obtain courage and meaning from his own heart—as the so-called hero, he still loves life after knowing the truth of life.

Even if there is no truth and meaning in the world, it is 'a piece of nothingness', but this does not prevent people from living.

Just like at dusk, when darkness is coming, destined to bring everything into the veil of nothingness... Is there any meaning?

Darkness is coming, nothingness is the final ending, and suffering and torment are the footnote of life. For existence that is not infinite, even if it is close to eternity, it is not true eternity, and one day it will sink into the sea of ​​nothingness like the setting sun.

This is truth and correctness.

But it doesn't prevent the light from still shining at dusk.

But conversely, nihilism may be too fatal an inquiry for 'ordinary people'.

In the work of the German philosopher Nietzsche, 'The Birth of Tragedy', there is a small story.

King Midas hunted the companion of the god of wine in the forest for a long time, but the clever Silenus was not found. When he finally fell into the hands of the king, the king asked: What is the best and most wonderful thing for people? The elf stood there blankly, without saying a word.

Only at the end, under the king's compulsion, he suddenly burst out with a piercing laugh and said: "Poor floating life, child of impermanence and suffering, why are you forcing me to say what you would rather not hear? The best thing is that you cannot get it at all, that is not to be born, not to exist, to become nothingness. But for you, there is also a second best thing----to die immediately"

Here, is actually satire.

Life is indeed impermanent and full of pain, but if someone reads this story and there is no thought in his heart like 'What nonsense is this, isn't it good for me to live?', and even begins to doubt the value of his life.

If he doesn't even have the instinct to argue with this life after seeing this passage.

Then this friend should cleverly choose the second best option, which is 'to die immediately'.

After all, he can't find a reason to live, so what can he do?

Su Zhou's understanding of nihilism is that simple.

Therefore, he didn't have much dislike for the nothingness represented by Twilight. Instead, the actions of his Family were a bit like the one-sided interpretation of Nietzsche's works by the German Nazis when the European Union had not merged.

On Jupiter's orbit, the huge Divine Tree warship fell into incomprehension.

But soon, he gave up his unnecessary thinking.

Because, in his hand, isn't there just an evil soul of a Twilight Family member?

"Let me see, what the hell are you?"

The dim yellow evil soul was sent into the power furnace.

From the perspective of the warship, this was even considered to have been eaten by Su Zhou, sensing the feelings that were not the same as when he was in human form: "Well, the taste is a bit like nuclear power. It is not the tranquility of hydroelectric power nor the dryness of thermal power. It has a hidden sense of bursting and has a corrosive property... For example, it's like hot Coke with white vinegar!"

Then, the young man knew the origin and origin of the Extinction AI.

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