82: Technology VS Cultivation 1

The male protagonist, Overlord, was already the strongest in his Cultivation World. He could change all the rules and Laws of this world with just a thought.

Even the Heavenly Dao had to obey him; he was the undisputed boss of this Cultivation World.

Yet despite holding such immense power, the softest part of his heart held only one person—the bright-eyed and beautiful-smiling Chu Xinger.

That day, Chu Xinger leaned against his side, gazing at the boundless sea of stars, her eyes sparkling with childlike longing:

"How wonderful it would be if there were a garden that was the largest in the entire Universe, with all the stars blooming with my favorite flowers."

Her casual, coquettish words became, for him, a supreme decree that had to be fulfilled.

To win a smile from Chu Xinger, with a flick of his sleeve, Overlord mobilized the vast and majestic power of the entire Cultivation World.

The colossal planet he inhabited transformed into a Mobile Divine Court crossing the void heavens, sailing into the cold and dark depths of space.

From then on, a silent harvest in the name of love began to spread across the galaxy.

Wherever they passed, life returned to nothingness.

Countless primitive planets nurturing original life were instantly reshaped under the ripples of the Laws, turning into monochromatic puzzle pieces in the vast garden.

Even those worlds that had ignited the fires of civilization and established glorious kingdoms could not escape their doom.

From Level 1 civilizations that had just glimpsed the mysteries of energy to Level 2 and 3 technological Empires capable of traversing the sea of stars,

before his absolute power, they were nothing more than dust lingering briefly on his fingertips.

Until their trajectory quietly approached a cerulean planet—Blue Star.

The creatures there, relying on their amazing wisdom and unyielding will, actually pieced together a warning from chaotic cosmic signals before the catastrophe arrived.

They exhausted all means to build a defensive line they believed to be impregnable and gathered the courage of their entire race to stand ready against that unknown world-ending enemy.

However, despair arrived silently at 그 moment.

Overlord didn't even cast a single glance.

Merely a vanguard fleet sent by his most ordinary Level 1 civilization vassal easily crossed that seemingly distant starry sky.

Blue Star's brilliant civilization and the cries and struggles of countless lives turned into nothing but a fleeting, insignificant firework under the cold orbital beams.

As the dust settled, Blue Star's former bustle returned to eternal silence, leaving only a strange sea of flowers, forcibly brought forth by the Laws, that would never wither.

It covered the former oceans and fields, becoming the newest and quietest corner in the Universe's largest garden about to be presented to Chu Xinger... [Plot introduction finished]

[Mission: Help Blue Star develop technology and use it to defeat all incoming enemies]

"Technology vs. Cultivation, quite interesting."

Qin Jiuge directly released a Time Law, rewinding the plot 100 years before the enemies attacked Blue Star.

"Alright, let's begin."

Then Qin Jiuge teleported directly into the highest command center of Blue Star from the plot... Inside Blue Star's highest command center, the alarms were ear-piercing.

The flashing red dots on the screen indicated an unknown fleet was approaching.

That was the vanguard unit sent by the Level 1 civilization under Overlord's command. According to the original timeline, Blue Star would be completely wiped out in 72 hours.

Chaos reigned in the command center; the generals' expressions were solemn,

and the scientists were desperately calculating the probability of survival—0.0001%.

Right at that moment, ripples suddenly appeared in the air, and a figure appeared in the center of the command hub without warning.

It was a man dressed in a black robe. Just by standing there, the air in the entire room seemed to freeze.

"Enemy attack!"

A guard drew his gun.

Qin Jiuge didn't even lift an eyelid, and all weapons instantly became useless.

"Quiet."

His voice wasn't loud, but it was directly imprinted into the depths of everyone's consciousness.

"I am here to give you a chance. Not for escape, but for revenge."

"Who are you?"

The Commander-in-Chief, Li Zhenguo, forced himself to stay calm, but his trembling hands betrayed him.

"I am Qin Jiuge. Your civilization is about to be destroyed because a certain woman wants a garden."

Qin Jiuge's lips curled into a mocking smile.

"What a romantic reason, isn't it? Paving a rose path of love with the corpses of countless civilizations."

He waved his hand, and a holographic image unfolded—it was the scene of Overlord and Chu Xinger standing at the peak of a cultivation planet, overlooking the starry river.

Then came the horrific process of countless planets being 'remodeled' into gardens, with creatures wailing and civilizations withering.

"This is..."

A young scientist covered her mouth, her eyes filled with fear and anger.

"This is your future. No, it's the original future,"

Qin Jiuge said calmly.

"But I have turned back time by a hundred years. Now, you have a century to prepare."

"Why?"

Li Zhenguo asked,

"Why are you helping us?"

"Haha, for the fun of it,"

Qin Jiuge said bluntly... Qin Jiuge wasted no time; he first opened an independent time-flow space beneath the command center.

One day outside, one year inside.

"This is the 'Demon God Domain'; I will teach you the basics here."

Qin Jiuge said to the 1,000 top scientists, engineers, and military strategists gathered from around the world:

"Traditional technology is like a toy in front of cultivators. What you need is—Demon God Technology."

He demonstrated the first technology: Quantum Soul Encoding.

"The essence of life is information. Cultivators are powerful because they can reach and manipulate the Origin information."

Qin Jiuge explained:

"And Quantum Soul Encoding allows your Soul to break free from the fragile shackles of the physical body and become an informational lifeform that can exist at the quantum level."

Within three months, the first batch of volunteers completed the transformation.

Their consciousnesses were uploaded to quantum servers, allowing them to travel through networks at the speed of light, with thinking speeds increased ten-thousandfold, and they were virtually immortal.

As long as a data backup existed, they could be Rebirth.

"But this is only the beginning."

In the laboratory, Qin Jiuge demonstrated the second technology: the Reality Distortion Engine.

"The Universe is a membrane; cultivators can move mountains and fill seas because they can exert pressure on this membrane."

He tapped a point in the air, and space rippled like the surface of water.

"The Reality Distortion Engine is based on the same principle, but it uses purely technological means."

In one year, Blue Star built the first prototype engine.

When it was activated, an entire mountain range disappeared before everyone's eyes and reorganized ten kilometers away.

"A miracle..."

An old physicist fell to his knees, eyes brimming with tears.

"No, this is science,"

Qin Jiuge corrected him.

"It's just science you have never touched before."

Year Five: The First Defensive Line Established

Five days later in the outside world, Blue Star had already experienced five years of internal development.

A global unified government was formed, named the 'Human Civilization Continuity Front.'

Under Qin Jiuge's guidance, they built the 'Void Realm Great Wall' surrounding Blue Star.

A defense network composed of 3,600 Reality Distortion Engines could deconstruct any approaching object at the atomic level.

At the same time, Quantum Soul Encoding technology had spread to 1% of the global population, forming the 'Mind Legion.'

Their collective computing power far exceeded any supercomputer, capable of simulating millions of future possibilities in a single second.

"The enemy will arrive in ninety-five years,"

Qin Jiuge announced at a global conference.

"But they are only sending a vanguard fleet of a Level 1 civilization. To you now, they are already like ants."

He paused, revealing a meaningful smile:

"But we don't just want to defend. We want to strike back and make them pay the price."

"We want Overlord to know—some 'gardens' need to be watered with blood."

Year Ten: The First Practical Combat Test

The opportunity came sooner than expected.

A wandering civilization that accidentally entered the Solar System detected Blue Star's abnormal energy signals and sent three scout ships to investigate.

Although this civilization's technology was mediocre, according to the old timeline, they were supposed to make contact and establish a friendly relationship with Blue Star thirty years later.

"The time has come to test your weapons,"

Qin Jiuge said indifferently.

After a 0.3-second quantum meeting, the Human High Command made a decision: demonstrate power, but do not kill.

As soon as the three scout ships entered the Kuiper Belt, they were locked by an invisible force field.

The alien lifeforms on the ships discovered with horror that all their control Systems failed simultaneously, and the entire ship was forced to turn and fly back out of the Solar System.

Even more shocking to them was a clear thought transmitted directly into their consciousness:

"Leave, and never return. This is a marked world."

"This is... the power of a Divine-Grade civilization!"

The alien captain recorded in the log,

"That blue planet is already being protected by an unimaginable existence."

"All personnel attention, immediately delete all relevant data and swear a blood oath—never mention this encounter."

In the Blue Star command center, Qin Jiuge nodded with satisfaction:

"Good control. Remember, true power lies not in destruction, but in precision."

Year Twenty-Five: Realization of the Dark Forest

Within the time-acceleration space, humanity had developed for twenty-five years.

Blue Star's civilization had leapt from Level 0.7 to Level 1.8, mastering Advanced technologies such as stellar energy collection, matter reorganization, and spatial jumping.

More importantly, they had developed a brand-new philosophy of war.

"The dark forest law is a universal truth in the Universe."

Strategist Chen Ming lectured at the military academy,

"But we don't have to hide in the shadows. We can be—the fire that ignites the forest."

Qin Jiuge provided more Advanced technology: a prototype causality law weapon.

"Attack the cause, thereby changing the effect,"

he explained.

"For example, we can make the 'existence' of an enemy ship be erased from the timeline, so it will never have appeared in the first place."

"This... this violates all Laws of physics!"

A scientist exclaimed.

"Laws?" Qin Jiuge laughed.

"Laws are just summaries of phenomena. When you can create phenomena, the Laws can be rewritten."

Humanity began testing the causality law weapon. The first test chose a crater on the far side of the moon as the target.

The moment the weapon was activated, the crater disappeared from all observation records.

It wasn't destroyed; it 'never existed.'

Even more eerie, all memories of that crater faded from people's minds, with only individuals possessing quantum backup consciousness retaining complete memories.