Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Su Changfa sat on his knees and said, “You know, I am from the University of the Real Human Empire. The main research area of our University of the Real Human Empire is to expand the territory of the Empire and achieve colonization and conquest in a thousand different worlds. Today, I'm going to pass on some of these little experiences to you. ”

“Tell me, Li Yao, what do you think is the most important and precious resource in the universe? ”

Li Yaocheng exclaimed for a moment: “Ling Neng? Minerals, natural treasures? I'm afraid it's not that simple, is it? ”

“Exactly. ”

Su Chang smiled slightly, "Although spiritual energy, mineral veins and celestial treasures are important, their value cannot be maximized without the other two resources. ”

“I tell you, in a vast universe, the most important resources are twofold - time and information. ”

“Time implies the possibility of development, and information implies the direction of development. ”

“To give the simplest example, the Real Human Empire and the Federation of Stars and Glows are now in a state of hostility, with an Imperial Fleet far above the Federation coming at you! ”

“If this Imperial Expeditionary Fleet could instantly appear before you, the Federation would be almost irresistible and defeated! ”

“Unfortunately, the near-limitless sea of stars is in itself the best barrier, and it will take at least a hundred years for this expedition fleet to appear before you, and unfortunately the message of 'Expeditionary Army Coming' is known to you in advance. ”

“Then in a hundred years, you can develop and evolve in a targeted way, and when it does, victory becomes unknown! ”

“This is the importance of the precious resource of ‘time’. ”

“And the reason it takes a hundred years to get there is because it doesn't know your exact coordinates - this‘ message '! ”

“Time and information, complementary and interactive, determine how far a civilization can go and how strong it can become! ”

“So how to hide and disguise your own information and gather each other's information to the greatest extent possible in contacts, exchanges and even confrontations among civilizations is the key to victory! ”

“At our Imperial University for Reproduction, there is a lesson that has been passed down for nearly a millennium - don't underestimate the natives of any planet, no matter how backward and weak he may seem, and never divulge any information about us before the natives without absolute certainty of security! ”

“Indigenous people are very dangerous, and once they get our information, coupled with hundreds of years spent blocking the stars and oceans, who knows how far they can go and how much trouble they can cause the Empire! ”

“Look, I'm the best example myself. ”

Su Changhaired referring to himself, smiling bitterly, "It's no good to be honest with you. In exploring the thousand worlds with indigenous civilizations, we have a whole set of operating procedures that are precise enough to fully integrate ourselves into the indigenous world, gather key information, accurately assess the level of local civilization, and determine 'harmless' before deciding on the next course of action. ”

“If we were to reach the stars directly, you would never have found us before we had a thunderstorm! ”

“Humph, just because we landed the remnants of Pangu civilization far from the planetary realm, and were drowned out of our minds by the flood battlefield there, you deceived us under your guise, with irreparable consequences. ”

“Thus it can be seen that indigenous cunning has nothing to do with civilizational standards, and that even indigenous people who fall behind in civilization may emerge such a despicable, cunning, harsh-hearted existence of you, implicitly from the seekers of more advanced civilizations! ”

Li Yao coughed dry a few times: “Thank you! ”

"In the conquest and expansion of the last millennium, our true human empire gradually summed up a standardized process to open a whole new world, with the following four main steps: infiltration, observation, interference and transmission! ”

“The first step is infiltration, disguised as a local indigenous identity, seamlessly blended into local civilization, which is the most important step and must not be made known to each other about our existence. ”

“Because there are no civilizations of absolute goodwill in a star sea with limited resources, we must assume that any civilization is initially malicious in order to maximize our own security. ”

“The presumption of innocence may not apply in such places. ”

“Assuming first that a civilization is malicious, using it as a starting point to silently observe the population, resources, armament power, high-end force of that civilization in the dark, to finally determine whether it has the power to impose its‘ malice ’on us and how much it will cost us when we impose' malice ’on it! ”

“This is the second step, observation. ”

“Often, the great thousand worlds worth devoting a lot of time and resources to ‘observe' have a certain strength, and in their ‘home' they are not so easily conquered. ”

“That's step three, interference. ”

“The so-called ‘interference' is the mobilization of resources within the world into a meaningless state of internal consumption through the explorer's own ability. ”

“For example, we can instigate the infighting of the powerful within a civilization with a formula that transcends several times of the civilization. ”

“For example, we can incite an ambitious warlord of that civilization to a civil war with the government that dominates it. ”

“For example, we can release the plague and the crystalline brain virus and even summon a 'small-terrain robbery' from the Empire's homeland, plunging the civilization into constant natural disasters. ”

“In short, before the arrival of the Imperial Army, do your utmost to drain the strength of the civilization and disrupt or even strangle their evolutionary path! ”

“The 'chaos of the fairies' that once erupted in the planetary realm is a kind of ‘interference', which dramatically delayed the development of the planetary realm by establishing the Palace of Evergreen, stirring up the ambitions of Yanxi Northwest and Xiao Xuanzhi and others, and even reached the fourth step of 'transmission’! ”

“It was originally a textbook-level classic case of Imperial Reproduction. I didn't think it would be the last moment. It was killed by your slash. It was interrupted raw and cooked into a pot of raw rice! ”

“Oh yeah, there's a fourth step to 'pass’, which is to build a gateway to the stars, transmit the destination coordinates, and find a way for the local army to jump right over! ”

“Seems like the easiest step, but there's still a lot to learn about how and where the gates of the stars are built, etc., little by little! ”

“Infiltration, observation, interference and transmission seem to be quite daunting tasks, but because they are sent out as explorers of the stars and seas, they are often strong in the number of yuan infants. No matter which great thousand world they appear in, they are superior masters. It is not difficult to penetrate into each other's core circles. With a small subtotal, a thousand worlds will be reached! ”

The more Li Yao heard, the more shocked he was: “Don't compare our Federation to your empire. What you want is conquest, but what we want is integration! We're out looking for allies, and if they don't want to join a big family in the Federation, we won't force them! ”

“Convergence and conquest are just two translations of one meaning. ”

Su Chang smiled and said, “The reason why you chose ‘fusion’ is because you have too little time left, only a hundred years, and your long-range strike and force delivery capabilities are too weak to cross a million light years to conquer a new world, even if you barely conquer it, you just can't digest it! ”

“If you had a superfleet like the Empire, and you had hundreds of years to absorb it slowly, and when a new world of fertility and beauty was presented to you, and the Aboriginal people on it were arrogant enough to show off to you and refuse to ‘integrate' you, would you not use a tiny little force to ‘accelerate its civilizational process'? ”

Li Yao kept his mouth shut and was too lazy to discuss these hypothetical issues with Su Changfa, the unfortunate modifier.

“Even if you are so ‘innocent', at least two steps - ‘infiltration’ and ‘observation’ - are essential to learn the essence of Imperial University for Development! ”

The old man sighed in his breath, "Although I can't help but bruise your bones, I really don't want to see you fall into the hands of the indigenous people in the depths of the dark nebula, and they squeeze out the information in every brain cell of you! ”

“Why?”

Li Yao touched his nose and asked.

“Didn't I just say that? ”

Su Long looked at him obliquely, "Your glorification of the Federation has nothing to do with me, but the fate is that you now have not only your own information, but also a great deal of information about the Real Human Empire! ”

“If a dark nebula really exists, a very powerful malicious civilization, and when it devours the Federation of Stars and Glows, it will definitely solve a lot of information about the Real Human Empire. Do you think it will let go of the Empire by then? ”

“Even when it squeezes all the information out of your head, perhaps the first one to devour is the Empire, not the Federation. ”

“After all, empires are a hundred times richer than the Federation and more appealing to the predators in the universe! ”

"Hey," Li Yao smiled. “So this expedition could have dragged down the Empire? ”

“Yes.”

Su Chang's hair stared at him cold.

“I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry! ”

Li Yao said without apologies.

“No need to apologize. ”

Su Chang sighed in his breath. “Follow me and learn. Let the Empire accumulate the essence of cultivation over thousands of years. For the sake of the Empire, I hope that this exploration operation will be successful. ”