Chapter 704 Wisdom Tree and New Holy Seats (7400)

What exactly is learning?

From the perspective of ordinary intelligent life, learning is the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through imitation, understanding, and practical action in the course of life, so as to improve oneself.

The civilization of intelligent life is built on mutual learning. It is precisely because one can share one's knowledge through learning and allow others to understand one's perceptions that life born of 'genes' can build a civilization composed of 'memes,' achieving a qualitative leap.

Even the most inconspicuous goblins in the magical world, the most carefree fairies, and the spirits and beasts in the immortal world who are born from plants, trees, earth, and stones and have inherited bloodlines will learn from other similar creatures or other powerful beings.

Naturally, the Aether Dragons living in outer space are no exception.

The earliest sightings of Aether Dragons in the Milky Way galaxy occurred one hundred billion years ago, during the early days of the galaxy's birth.

At that time, among the earliest ancient pioneer civilizations, some had not yet ascended to the skies and had not yet given birth to the spark of wisdom, while others had already begun to explore the universe. When traversing the sea of stars, they accidentally discovered these enormous and terrifying beasts around some stable stars.

Legend has it that the Aether Dragons actually come from another universe and are super-lifeforms that arrived in this universe to escape the destruction of the Great Collapse, but there is currently no instance to prove this legend.

Developed to the extreme, a fully-grown Aether Dragon can exceed 55,000 kilometers in length. Generally, this is enough for them to envelop ordinary planets and build nests on them.

The largest sighting example is the [Aether Progenitor Dragon] located in the Andromeda Galaxy. It is a super-beast that surpasses the imagination of existing civilizations, whose strength is still above the Creator Tianzun and may have reached the level of a 'Dao Architect'. Its mass exceeds thirty-two suns, and it usually sleeps in the accretion disk of the central black hole of the Andromeda Galaxy, taking pleasure in devouring the endless high-heat cosmic matter.

This cosmic beast, which is larger than an ordinary planet, is naturally the most powerful psionic user. The power of its breath is so great that it can completely penetrate gas giants, and even stars will be shaken. Its scales are extremely strong, a special coupling structure that penetrates down to the level of protons and neutrons, similar to degenerate matter, and is an armor that can be described as 'reality warping'.

Aether Dragons have no natural enemies. They feed on high-quality psionic mineral planets. They wander in the starry sky and are basically alone except during the breeding season. The only things that can threaten them are other super-lifeforms such as 'Star Eaters', 'Subspace Source Demons', 'Photon Birds', and 'Real-state Gravity Aggregates', which are all kinds of strange monsters. Even so, in the battle between Aether Dragons and Star Eaters, Aether Dragons generally initiate the attack first.

Of course, this doesn't mean that Star Eaters are weak: after all, Star Eaters feed on stars, which are everywhere in the universe. The completely omnivorous Star Eaters will only actively attack other lifeforms when they are bored or have become corrupted by Twilight.

And if Aether Dragons cannot find good enough spiritual planets, they will simply attack other lifeforms. They are predators.

Such powerful Aether Dragons naturally need to learn as well—in addition to the instincts left in their bloodlines, adult Aether Dragons will take their children to travel the stars, teaching them how to hunt, how to find edible planets, what kind of gas giants are the most delicious, and also how to wash away the psionic residue in the gaps of their scales...

There are too many unique experiences that cannot be relied upon by bloodline inheritance and can only be taught by example: according to a paper by an Aether Dragon researcher among the Seraphim, Aether Dragons in the Andromeda Galaxy and Aether Dragons in the Milky Way Galaxy have many differences in their behavioral patterns. Moreover, Aether Dragons in the Andromeda Galaxy are more inclined to use gravity wave cannons, while Aether Dragons in the Milky Way Galaxy are more inclined to use vector penetrating cannons.

This is probably due to the differentiation caused by the different Aether Dragon progenitors of the two galaxies.

Generally speaking, Aether Dragons value their offspring very much. For the sake of their offspring, they will choose to go to war with all creatures. Many unlucky fleets happen to encounter breeding beasts and don't turn around and leave after hearing the warning. They are destroyed in the starry sky. Therefore, there are basically no uneducated Aether Dragon cubs in the universe.

But nothing is absolute.

Earth United Fleet - Reserve Food - Aether Dragon Nine Dragon Brood, is such a group of Aether Dragon hatchlings without education, without parents, and with little experience of dragon life.

The birth of the bewildered Nine Dragon Brood was actually an accident.

Before the interruption of psionic energy, the parents of the Nine Dragon Brood, two powerful Aether Dragons, sensed the turbulence of time and space and the fact that psionic energy would be completely cut off in the future. Although they found a space-time rift that could travel to other universes, the turbulent flow in the void was severely damaged even for themselves, let alone a few small eggs?

Therefore, they used a part of their bodies as raw materials to construct a seal on the planet, sealing their eggs in the depths of the planet's rift, using the gentle temperature of the mantle to immerse these unborn children.

Facts have proved that they succeeded: when psionic energy returned, the seal they had laid was lifted, and their children returned to the starry sky once again.

It's just...the number may be a little more.

This was an accident.

Generally speaking, because of the density of psionic energy in the universe, Aether Dragons will lay 6-12 eggs each breeding season, and only 2-3 can hatch each time. Whether they can successfully grow into adults after leaving their parents depends entirely on luck.

However, the psionic energy burst in the early stage of the return of psionic energy...the resulting psionic energy density in a short period of time far exceeded the normal period.

Too much source energy activated all the Aether Dragon eggs, causing all the juvenile beasts that should have been fighting for spiritual energy and competing to see who was stronger to be normally conceived and born.

A large outbreak in the number of species caused by similar situations is actually very common in this universe after the return of psionic energy, and there may even be many species that were originally on the verge of extinction once again filling the starry sky.

But even so, the simultaneous appearance of nine Aether Dragons is still a very rare thing.

These young dragons, who had no parents to teach them and whose bloodline inheritance did not tell them how to deal with this extraordinary era, wandered blankly in the cosmic starry sky.

Yes, their bloodline instinct told them how to find high-energy planets to feed on, and also told them how to gradually grow warp organs and put on strong armor...

But the problem lies here: without the help of their parents, how could juvenile Aether Dragons warp to high-energy stars?

And without the minerals of high-energy stars, how can they grow up healthily and grow warp organs?

This is a vicious cycle.

"We should look for opportunities. It's not a good idea to just drift around like this."

The eldest brother of the Nine Dragon Brood gave this suggestion. He felt that staying in their birthplace was not a good idea, after all, the resources of the birthplace could not satisfy the growth of nine Aether Dragons, and their parents did not expect that so many children could be born.

Naturally, the other young dragons, who did not want to kill each other, all agreed with this proposal.

Ignoring the rather difficult process, they did find their own opportunity.

A warship that looked very much like a dragon!

Meeting Su Zhou was the greatest opportunity in the Nine Dragon Brood's life (although they were only seven or eight years old), and the warm and friendly Su Zhou did indeed generously teach them a lot of knowledge about interpersonal communication, space navigation, and psionic combat.

The warship form he showed made the fifty-four eyes of the nine Aether Dragons sparkle, exclaiming 'it can be like this'!

Although, not long after, Su Zhou took them directly into the battle with the Star Eater, and he directly separated his soul, leaving these poor, helpless, weak, and edible young dragons to be chased by the Void Cult, but what they learned, they learned!

Not to mention, after Su Zhou's soul left, the body of the Death Star did teach these Aether Dragons more valuable knowledge.

For example, how to find cover and avoid when the enemy is bombing indiscriminately; how to quickly breathe in the gaps and hit moving targets; how to stabilize themselves on the Death Star without being shaken off by the ultra-high acceleration and impacts...

And, most importantly, eating.

The days of fighting against many Twilight Family fleets with the Death Star on the edge of the Milky Way galaxy were probably the most painful and happy time for the Nine Dragon Brood—although it was extremely dangerous, the Aether Dragons who could never be full did eat their fill for a while.

[4.25, Went to the edge of the red giant star with the Death Star, the star is very warm, and the solar wind is very comfortable]

[5.06, Fought with the Death Star in the outer star system, this time there are crystal life spaceships to eat]

[8.13, A decisive battle with the Void Cult fleet on the edge of the Milky Way galaxy with the Death Star. The Void Cult's fleet is very scary, but it's not scary because the Death Star is with us]

[Death Star is the best!]

After eating many different types of Void Cult spaceships, the Nine Dragon Brood even summed up a set of eating aesthetics.

The most difficult to eat are still biomass spaceships: these spaceships mostly have a texture that is too soft, wobbly and tough. In human terms, it's like chewing a fruit jelly that can't be bitten. The Aether Dragons' eating organs are too rough, so they can only swallow it whole, and the energy absorption efficiency is very low.

And the most delicious are the spaceships of crystal life: these spaceships have a crunchy texture, are extremely rich in energy, and are very similar to the high-energy minerals that are most common in the Aether Dragons' diet, even more pure and delicious.

As for metal spaceships, they are also much more delicious than imagined. Their taste mainly depends on the attached psionic energy. Depending on the psionic energy, they can be divided into various different flavors such as sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy. The most delicious ones are even more delicious than crystal spaceships, and the most unpalatable ones feel like excrement.

If such days were to continue for a few more years, the Nine Dragon Brood might even create an unprecedented 'Spaceship Food Science'.

Su Zhou, who has a deep understanding of 'Evil Soul Food Science', would probably nod in relief after knowing this.

However, after Su Zhou returned, such days regrettably ended.

Although it is a pity that there will be no more spaceships with such rich flavors and large numbers to eat in the future, these Aether Dragons have completely recognized the Death Star (Su Zhou) as their big brother.

What? Su Zhou is not a good big brother?

How is that possible!

--Death Star gave them so many delicious things, taught them how to modularize themselves, taste spaceships, modify their breath systems, and even raised them so fat...

--How could such a person be a bad person?!

"Wisdom Tree, take care of these few reserve foods."

Then, the Nine Dragon Brood heard Su Zhou's voice: "Let them train hard to lose fat, don't eat too much. Yu Sheng was just asking me how these interstellar slimes can grow so big. It's too embarrassing to take them out!"

Eat? Interstellar slime? What is that, is it delicious?

The Aether Dragons, whose focus was completely wrong, were directly thrown into the personal space just like that.

Although their thick scales and full subcutaneous impact-resistant structure prevented them from being injured, they just bounced on the ground, but the Nine Dragon Brood still fell into thought.

Losing fat...what does that mean?

[Ah...Master, are you throwing garbage in again?]

Immediately afterwards, the Nine Dragon Brood heard another bright and clear voice: [Huo Xi people, and so many...another group of long strips...]

This voice was very young and seemed a little annoyed by Su Zhou's decision.

But soon, endless spiritual light lit up, enveloping the nine Aether Dragons.

[Forget it, it just so happens that I'm a little short of coolies to transform the world!]

Immediately afterwards, the Nine Dragon Brood, who were still wondering what garbage and coolies meant, all opened their mouths, and fifty-four eyes stared blankly at the sky.

Because, there, was an enormous tree suspended above the sky, its roots covering half the world, and its crown also covering half the central continent!

The magnificent tree hung in the sky, with endless thunder and divine wind swirling around its branches and leaves. The sacred aura and light spread out from it in all directions, towards the entire world, faintly suppressing the entire world.

This tree of fire and thunder, wind and light, spread the brilliance of wisdom, causing the stars and dots of elemental light to drift between heaven and earth.

Faced with such a behemoth, whose scale was calculated in hundreds of kilometers, even ordinary mature Aether Dragons could not compare, let alone a few young dragons in their infancy?

What's more...the Aether Dragons' instinct told the Nine Dragon Brood.

The age of the giant tree in front of them didn't seem to be much older than them!

The other party...seemed to be a super plant seedling that could travel in the interstellar void!

At this moment, the Wisdom Tree was examining the nine balls of meat in front of it.

After all, it was a divine tree named after wisdom. Even if its age was basically just a seed compared to other divine trees, it was still lush and verdant under Su Zhou's careful cultivation, especially with the various nutrients being transferred from the Death Star almost for free in the past two years, expanding the borders of the world at the same time.

Having grown for many years, the Wisdom Tree's thinking was no longer as ignorant as it used to be, but had a trace of its own spiritual intelligence.

[I'm much smarter now...let me see, where is it better for these meat balls to go]

It thought: [According to the information transmitted by the fertilizer officer, they are very strong and very heat-resistant and high-temperature resistant, and are good at mining inside planets...Ah! I've got it!]

The Wisdom Tree quickly thought of a suitable place for the Aether Dragons now.

That is to send them to the underground of the personal space to dig the foundation of the giant underground array!

In other words, it is a relatively artificial dragon vein dragon cave, condensing the spiritual energy of the entire world for self-circulation!

Trees are not good at moving. If they want to transform the world, it is very troublesome to rely solely on their roots. What's more, the World Tree Spear has not yet matured, and the Wisdom Tree's own roots are in the sky. If it wants to transform the earth, it does need someone to dig.

Unfortunately, neither the Teng Snake Soul nor Su Zhou's dependents in the water are very good at digging holes.

Fortunately, Su Zhou sent these Aether Dragons over, otherwise the Wisdom Tree would have been worried to death.

[They're so fat, the holes they dig must be very big!]

The tree spirit looked down at the well-behaved young dragons curled up in place in front of it, and couldn't help but mutter to itself in joy: [I've decided on you!]

As for using the cosmic dragon as an earthworm, is it a bit bad...?

How can earthworms be...ah no, how can earth dragons be such inconvenient things!

You need to know that Aether Dragons originally have to go deep into the interior of planets in their infancy to devour high-quality spiritual mines to grow. The current Wisdom Tree is just making up for their lost childhood!

What's more, this is not purely child labor.

In this process, the Nine Dragon Brood can also immerse themselves in a large amount of high-purity spiritual power in the underground of the personal space and grow. This is a win-win situation.

Thinking of doing it.

So, the enormous and towering divine tree solemnly announced to the Nine Dragon Brood in the dazzling light of wisdom: [I am the boss!]

Immediately, the Nine Dragon Brood, who were captured by the light of wisdom and fell into confusion, nodded in unison and cried out.

--You are the boss!

[Fertilizer...Su Zhou is the big big boss!]

--Is the big big boss!

[And this is the little boss!]

The Wisdom Tree said so, and Sara, who was humming a song and clearing the spiritual nodes on the Wisdom Tree, exclaimed and was teleported to the front of the divine tree.

"Eeeeee?" The bee girl turned around blankly, not understanding what had happened.

But soon, the cries of the nine Aether Dragons drowned out the girl's confusion.

--Is the little boss!

[Good! Very energetic!]

This was the Wisdom Tree's satisfied encouragement.

"Hey, what's going on?"

Sara, who was still out of the loop, couldn't help but let out a wail.

……

After solving these things, the Wisdom Tree turned its attention to Su Zhou's perspective.

The spirit of the divine tree and the youth are one, and they can share perspectives with each other as long as they are in the same universe.

At this time, the Wisdom Tree could see that Su Zhou was in the conference room of Tiandu, Zheng Country, chatting happily with several people that it was also quite familiar with.

[Electric, playing with iron, talking, three eyes...]

While muttering like this, although the two had not communicated properly since Su Zhou's return, the Wisdom Tree could understand all of Su Zhou's thoughts the moment the youth returned to this universe. Ordinary words were not necessary.

However, the Wisdom Tree suddenly froze when it counted halfway.

[Huh?] It shook its branches a little puzzled: [Why haven't I been back for two years, and these people all have a similar aura to me?]

[Is everyone going to sprout?]

Of course not sprouting.

Compared to the Wisdom Tree, who had been away from Earth for two years and hadn't paid much attention to the outside world, Su Zhou understood the reason for these divine tree auras in the first place.

That is, the Reincarnation Immortal Art has indeed been popularized to all members, and even Miro Goddess, a world spirit, has practiced it out of curiosity.

After a grand welcoming meeting, Dao Saint, Li Saint, Wen Saint, Yan Saint and Miro Goddess were in the Security Bureau conference hall in Tiandu, communicating with Su Zhou about the details of the universe battle and the discovery in the Aeon world.

Several of the Thirty-Six Saints have retired in recent years. The original Military Saint has retired and gone home to practice returning to his youth, and the Life Saint also plans to choose a disciple to inherit his position and concentrate on continuing the genetic primogenitor transformation.

So after the official welcome meeting and meeting, only a few Saints who were more familiar with Su Zhou and Su Zhou conducted private exchanges.

"Defeating the Void Cult and capturing the End Facet...Su Zhou, this is a great event. In other civilizations, it is enough to directly commemorate a new festival!"

It was Dao Saint who spoke. The old man's eyes were bright and full of energy at the moment: "We can completely use celebration as a reason to hold a global-scale cultivator conference competition to integrate the global cultivator as a whole and then find out the bottom line."

"Good idea!"

Su Zhou naturally praised this idea--the essence of competition is strife and the pursuit of stronger. The moment he returned to Earth, he could sense that under the stimulation of many cosmic civilizations, the Earth civilization was absorbing the knowledge of other civilizations at an unprecedented speed and developing vigorously.

This national spiritual state is not only due to the confidence brought by national cultivation, but also to the guidance of the official of each country and the competitive spirit cultivated by various competitions, seeking for strength.

Su Zhou could sense that his inheritance was spreading throughout the entire Earth. Although the depth was not as good as that of the Aeon world, the breadth was surpassed.

This proved that in the Earth universe, Su Zhou's immortality still had a solid cornerstone.

Yala: "Tsk. (Regretful tone)"

However, before this competition, Su Zhou had to say another important thing.

"Perhaps you may have forgotten."

Even he almost forgot, but Su Zhou still started with this sentence: "The 6.5 billion people of Huoxi Star are now in my personal space--although I can continue to ensure that they can live in the Underworld server, so many souls are good for my personal space, but these 6.5 billion people should still live in a normal world."

"Compared to other things, it's better to solve this first."

Facts have proved that the others had almost forgotten--as evidenced by the shocked expressions of everyone present, Miro Goddess's three eyes widened.

"6.5 billion people?!"

Wen Saint even stood up, although he quickly sat back, but just looking at his constant stroking of his beard, one could know that the Saint's mood was agitated and unbearable at the moment: "Yes, I forgot, Huoxi Star still has 6.5 billion descendants of immigrants from the Nine Xuan world...they are all humans, right? Is there anything related to the ancient Lord?"

"They are all humans and were related to the ancient Lord before, but now they are basically cut off."

Su Zhou nodded. After his answer, not only Wen Saint, but even the most calm Li Saint took a sip of tea to suppress the joy rising in his heart.

"Population."

The oldest Saint among the people present said in a solemn tone: "Population is a resource!"

The Earth's population reached nearly 9 billion at the end of 2021.

Sounds like a lot?

A drop in the ocean.

Let's change the description direction: from 2014 to the end of 2021, in these seven years, more than 1,100 worlds of various sizes of time and space channels have been discovered on Earth. If you add secret realms, the number will be even greater.

Even if there are 10 billion people on Earth, if they are divided into 1,000 worlds, there will only be 10 million people.

And 10 million people cannot even establish a modern industrial society.

The more advanced civilization is, the more population it needs. Although the population demand may decrease when strong artificial intelligence can replace work, this is essentially just creating an artificial transcendent intelligence that can be equivalent to countless people to solve those jobs, rather than the work really disappearing.

Complex division of labor, many systems that require coordinated cooperation, population is the coupling part, is the cell of the behemoth of civilization, the most basic component.

Although it is impossible to divide it this way, the Earth civilization cannot really colonize 1,000 worlds at the same time, but the problem lies here.

With the power of the Earth civilization, even if the countries join forces, it is difficult to open up more than ten worlds at the same time.

Zheng Country has the Beast God Realm, the Nine Xuan Realm, and the Qingqiu Realm, and there are original civilization forces that can develop on their own, which is more convenient to open up, while foreign countries also have some world realms with native civilization development, which are very convenient to open up.

However, other worlds really need to start from scratch--this level of resource expenditure and the mobilization of population is enough to make all civilization leaders have seven or eight big heads.

The world is here, and it is impossible not to develop it. It is picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons to feel sorry for the resource expenditure.

So, when Su Zhou said that there were 6.5 billion people in his personal space, all the Saints present reacted.

--These are 6.5 billion people with no homeland, no foundation, no Earth relationship...excellent pioneers!

"By the way, they can't go to the Nine Xuan world."

Su Zhou added a sentence at this moment. He prompted: "The Huoxi people are ultimately descendants of the traitors of the Nine Xuan world. After the Heavenly Venerable's Palace is repaired, these traitor descendants may be identified as enemies. Let's consider other things after we fix the Heavenly Venerable's Palace system."

"Naturally."

In fact, no one intended to let the Huoxi people go to the Nine Xuan world where the Nine Xuan people had already settled. Dao Saint was now thinking about which of the time and space realms under Zheng Country's control were suitable for the Huoxi people to fully reclaim.

6.5 billion people, more than half of the Earth's population, no matter how you think about it, you have to be cautious...and in order to ensure that these Huoxi people can be controlled by the Earth, it is best to place them separately in several different worlds.

In the past few years, the Earth has really opened up a lot of time and space realms, with various ecological environments, and many that are suitable for survival, even it can be said that basically all are suitable for human survival.

Especially the special world exploration team composed of the dependents of the great beings that Su Zhou recruited. This team really has unique skills and found 167 large and small time and space realms and secret realms in two years. Now it has become the most elite force under the New World Exploration Department.

As for why they are all livable areas...

The Immortals and Gods had nothing to do at that time, so they played with transforming planets. For example, when the Qingqiu people applied to transform a planet, two Heavenly Immortals and five Earth Immortals signed up that day.

The endless lifespan of the Eternal Transcendent made them transform all the places they could go to and convenient to go to into livable sections. This is actually a happy trouble for future generations.

It doesn't matter where the Huoxi people live. After all, they do have technology. With material resources, everyone thinks that it is impossible for them to starve to death in the new world.

Specific details, specific considerations.

"Let's hold an emergency internal meeting of the Thirty-Six Saints later."

Li Saint decided: "The situation of the Huoxi people, and the tasks entrusted to you by other alien civilizations, will be discussed together at that time."

"Also."

Speaking of this, the gray-haired old man looked at Su Zhou, who seemed to be aware of something, with a gentle gaze. He smiled calmly: "Minister Su...it's time."

"Now that it has reached this point, you should also become a new generation of Saints."

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