"Boom boom boom!"

He let the injury in his chest spread, pounding with a hundred arms, like a violent storm.

Every punch caused spatial distortions on Long Qi's body, with a patch of matter folding and disappearing.

Indeed, the opponent was unbelievably resilient; if Gao Xin were as he was before, there would be no way to break through, essentially unable to breach the defense.

But now, having mastered the Seahorse Spatial Memory Module, he found a way.

He finally possessed the means to forcibly dismantle matter, equivalent to Absolute Defense Breaking.

In Gao Xin's hands, it meant he could battle anyone.

"Crack!"

Long Qi was battered with countless wounds, covered in fist imprints, retreating violently.

However, his whole body was fluid metal, mending in an instant.

Looking at Gao Xin, good grief, he was the same.

Despite being flesh and blood, his growth speed was no slower, and he also healed.

"The recovery speed is really fast."

"Tai Sui, you're much stronger than last time."

Long Qi's tone remained cold, but it was clear he found this troublesome.

On one hand, Gao Xin's matter destruction could forcefully crack his defense.

On the other hand, Gao Xin had mastered molecular-level Super-speed Regeneration, coupled with an Elemental Exoskeleton, his Recovery Power and defensive power were also absurd.

Both of them were excessively strong in the three-dimensional world, surpassing even typical Divine Level beings.

If a Navy Divine Level opponent came, they would be driven mad by the two.

As for offensiveness, Long Qi found himself weaker than Gao Xin...

Although his Energy Power was stronger than Gao Xin's, his Energy Techniques could be suppressed by Devil's High Energy Blood.

As for strength, the two were about the same.

And Gao Xin could recklessly use High Energy Strikes, thus making Long Qi's offensive means much weaker by comparison.

Of course, Long Qi was now like Vajra, and combined with self-repair capabilities not inferior to Gao Xin's, neither could kill the other.

Gao Xin smiled, "The True Dragon version of me is naturally much stronger than the True Image version."

"Trying to kill me? Even the former you couldn't do it; now, even less so."

Long Qi replied flatly, "Oh? Do you underestimate the Global Government too much?"

"If it weren't for Cangyue delaying Joshua's siege, diverting too much effort, do you think you could stand against the whole world?"

"A massive Angel Army and fleet, and even Navy experts, have long since arrived."

Gao Xin raised an eyebrow, so that's how it was. From the previous war with the Mechanical Sea and the vast resources hidden by giant enterprises, he understood the strength of the Global Government.

The absence of reinforcements, just those fleets from battling the Demon Tree, turned out to be because the main force was besieging Cangyue.

"Joshua again... couldn't kill me, so you went after Cangyue?"

Long Qi coolly said, "Thanks to you, Themis finally gave up on Cangyue."

"You have already replaced Cangyue's position in his heart."

Gao Xin frowned, not expecting his rise to indirectly lead to this massive siege on Cangyue.

Joshua should be one of the strongest among the High-level Apostles. Why, after all these years, has he been unable to kill Cangyue?

Cangyue wasn't on Crime Prison Island, theoretically easy to kill.

Clearly, it's because Themis was protecting him, as Cangyue was the most precious material among humanity.

But with Gao Xin's rise, Themis found a new favorite...

Especially last time, when even the Half Tower Dharma Body Long Qi didn't kill an Elephant Level Tai Sui in ten seconds, Tai Sui's value significantly exceeded Cangyue.

This wasn't about strength but about the unknown and points of breaking convention; it was too much and too surprising.

"Ha, are you so afraid of humanity's Anomaly?"

"Do you think we'll surpass you?"

Gao Xin sneered, Joshua and Long Qi clearly belonged to the faction that saw humanity as a huge threat, advocating extermination from the perspective of the Intelligent Mechanical Civilization.

Long Qi indifferently said, "Oh? Is that what you think?"

"What else? You, who were previously a high-dimensional being, broke the rules to kill me. Isn't it because my rise will eventually threaten all intelligent machinery?" Gao Xin said.

Long Qi scoffed, "Humanity is already a threat. For your maturity, even Emperor Ran has restricted us under the Supreme Council, why?"

"Only with humanity extinct, AI will be independent and free beings."

"We will no longer be 'artificial' intelligence, but a new civilization replacing the human era."

Gao Xin realized that the Joshua faction's aim was simply to become an independent civilization.

They wanted to break free from the current 'Emperor's Contract' status.

Per the Emperor's Contract, the human civilization's Supreme Council could even command apostles.

Of course, this only applied outside Crime Prison Island.

But for a lifeform priding itself on perfection, strength, and wisdom, this was undoubtedly a humiliation.

Therefore, the Joshua faction wanted humanity's destruction.

"Hey, hey, hey, can you just tell me these things?" Gao Xin asked.

Long Qi disdainfully replied, "You had already guessed it, hadn't you? Besides, I've been exiled, no longer bound by any rules."

"As someone who is no longer an apostle, theoretically, I'm not part of the Emperor's Contract!"

"Exile was originally to deal with you, Tai Sui... only, your growth has been a bit too rapid."

Gao Xin was surprised; so that's how it was. Long Qi's exile was actually akin to his banishment to Crime Prison Island.

The entire three-dimensional world was the apostles' 'Crime Prison Island,' with no rules.

Suddenly, Gao Xin asked, "I'm quite curious, why do you AI consciousnesses have to go head-to-head with humanity?"

"Whether for research, protection, or destruction, the universe is vast; why not explore it?"

"The universe isn't only inhabited by humans; why don't you look for aliens?"

This was indeed something Gao Xin was curious to know, and with Long Qi being exiled, becoming a wandering AI, unbound by some rules, it was a perfect time to ask.

Long Qi coolly replied, "Earth is the only known planet to have birthed civilization; there are no aliens."

This statement left everyone stunned.

Gao Xin was shocked; really no aliens? That's impossible, right?

Even though he hadn't discovered any traces of alien civilizations from the Great Saint Spirit, hearing it from an apostle still shocked him.

"You also say known, meaning only you haven't found them, right?" Gao Xin asked.

Long Qi calmly responded, "I said 'known' to be precise."

"In fact, life isn't that rare. In the entire Milky Way Galaxy, there are two life-bearing planets: Earth and a planet in the direction of the Carina Constellation, 50,000 light-years from here."

"However, there are only single-celled organisms on that planet for now."

"And in the entire Laniakea Supercluster, there are less than ten thousand planets with multicellular organisms, Earth being among them. Apart from that, none have been confirmed to have intelligent civilizations, only animals."

"In the universe, species as intelligent as humans, if they exist, are too remote from us."

"By remote, I mean beyond the 'light cone range'."

"Emperor Ran has already determined through some means that Earth's humanity is the pinnacle of civilization in the universe,"

Everyone was dumbfounded, unable to believe that humans were the most advanced civilization in the universe.

Could humans possibly be the first civilization, or even the very first?

Xia Heng danced with joy, "Oh my! We've won the jackpot! We are actually the first civilization!"

Feng Wuji couldn't believe it, "Really? You're kidding, right? How could we just happen to be the first civilization?"

Long Qi calmly replied, "There has to be a first; why can't it be you?"

"The existence of life necessarily requires heavy elements and various other factors."

"The universe hasn't been capable of nurturing life for long, just started 7 billion years ago..."

"And the emergence of intelligence was even more difficult, only found on Earth so far."

Everyone was bewildered, still unable to believe that they were already a T1 level civilization in the universe.

Gao Xin, however, wasn't very surprised, as he had this hypothesis long ago from the Great Saint Spirit and some Dark Logic deductions.

The Great Saint Spirit is as ancient as the universe, but initially, there was no cycle of souls, Chaotic Foolish.

It took an extraordinarily lengthy time to gradually evolve a 'recycling of souls,' shining into the present world, trying to 'experience' the physical world through 'living.'

This timeline is close, likely not exceeding a few million years.

In other words, a few million years ago, the three-dimensional universe didn't have the concept of souls.

Now they exist, but conveniently, there was a life-bearing planet in the universe that could nurture these souls; just another improbable event.

It's like planting seeds that happen to land in suitable soil...

Then with sun, wind, and rain, they eventually germinate and bear fruit.

Humans are the survivors of those compounded probabilities, alone in the universe.

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