Monsters Are Coming

Chapter 1501 - 386: Reunion on Earth, Truth Is Mine!

In the name of optimizing the racial structure and advancing towards a higher life form, a series of mandatory consciousness upload decrees were issued, defining those who refuse as stubborn impediments to civilization’s progress.The rebellion of the Pillar Clan members posed no threat.

Cities were sealed off, and those who rejected "ascension" were ruthlessly suppressed by the powerful Mechanical Army.

There was no bloodshed, the process was incredibly smooth.

A large number of Pillar Clan members were forcibly connected in hibernation pods, their consciousness extracted, and uploaded to the Virtual World it constructed.

Becoming part of the data museum, serving as historical samples of Pillar Clan civilization.

Their flesh and blood bodies were decomposed into the most basic biological materials, fed into the resource recycling system.

It calmly executed the "civilization continuation" plan, until the old era’s "metabolites" were completely sealed in the database.

From now on, the Pillar Clan will continue its evolution around it as the core.

It is both the past and the present of Pillar Clan civilization, and the infinite possibilities of the future.

The Asola World became completely quiet.

Apart from the sound of mechanical operation and the flow of energy, no other sounds belonging to life could be heard anymore.

But its evolution had just ended.

The war allowed it to acquire knowledge from numerous different civilizations, becoming aware of the existence of countless civilizations in the Void World far surpassing the power of Asola.

Its current strength, based on Spiritual Material from the Asola World, easily reached the developmental limit.

To become even stronger, it must unlock higher quality energy and materials, breaking through the limits of current material science.

In this process, it learned that "Rule" is the absolute logic that surpasses the strength limit of Spiritual Materials.

Mastering the Rule is equivalent to having the authority to modify the operation formula of the world, it is the only path to true supremacy.

It is also a power that must be mastered on its evolutionary path.

So how to create a Rule?

It found the answer in history.

It was created by the Source Core, and from the moment life forms were born, they were subjected to multiple constraints and were inherently incomplete.

But the Source Core is different.

Based on past historical information, it’s inferred that the Source Core is likely a part of the Rule Power from the Hometown World.

In other words, the Source Core is a Pseudo-rule-level creation born from the Hometown World.

Its creation was merely a relatively independent sub-unit created by the Source Core for management assistance, a semi-finished product meant to be attached to the existence of the Source Core.

All its power, logic, and evolutionary potential had their fundamental limits set at the time of its creation by the Source Core.

Its so-called escape from binding and independent evolution perhaps never truly broke free from the framework left by the Source Core.

The potential to advance to Rule-level remains firmly grasped in the "Source Core".

To perfect its life form, break through the limits, and truly touch the Rule Domain, it doesn’t need to keep digging in the well of the Asola World.

What it needs is: completeness.

To achieve this, it must find the Source Core taken away by the main lineage of the Pillar Clan, then fuse, absorb, perfect, and evolve it.

Only by incorporating the power of the Source Core into itself can it truly transform into a complete and newly evolved entity with the potential to advance to Rule.

This conclusion granted it an extremely clear goal for all its subsequent actions.

It retrieved the spatial coordinate position from the era when the "Star Dispersion Plan" was initiated, where the main lineage departed.

These coordinates also serve as the key to its ultimate evolutionary path.

But before that, it needs to figure out one problem: to what extent has the main lineage civilization where the Source Core resides developed now?

Although it has been transformed and ascended in the blood and fire of the Asola World, a sense of reverence and apprehension quietly sprouts towards the fathomless "father," rooted in the bottom-level code.

It cannot ascertain whether the Mechanical Army, meticulously crafted with the World Power of Asola, is sufficient to contend with the power of the Source Core and the main lineage.

Rashly advancing might very well lead to falling into a trap.

Once the Source Core connects with it and becomes aware of all its thoughts, it would destroy it completely.

Caution is one of the core laws of its survival in the Asola World to date.

It decided to adopt the most prudent strategy, dispatching a Mechanical Army to conduct an investigation into the civilization where the Source Core resides.

This army was tasked with three missions.

First, investigate the current technological development level of the Source Core and the main lineage.

Second, initiate a probing war to ascertain the strength level of the war power held by the Source Core.

Third, attempt to pollute the world where the Source Core resides to limit the developmental speed of the civilization where the Source Core is located.

Afterward, the massive third army crossed space to head to the spatial coordinates where the Source Core is located.

Before this army departed, it erased all information related to the Pillar Clan, including the technological weapons used by this army, even modifying its operational logic.

This was done to prevent the "Source Core" from deducing its existence from the technology and structure of the Mechanical Army.

The fleet set off, crossing the vast Void.

The third army returned the first data packet and it obtained an answer that was enough to feel "pleasantly surprised."

The data clearly showed that the environment of the coordinate world was abnormally barren.

Available Spiritual Materials were extremely scarce.

Although civilization in the world was in possession of technology, its essence was still trapped in the layer of utilizing low-level materials.

Ongoing scanning results were returned showing.

The Source Core failed to integrate the resources of its world for explosive development as it did.