Xue Dili awoke to the first light of dawn, sitting up in bed, frowning as he glanced at the Qijela seeds currently controlled by numerous Sealing Techniques within the Magic Academy.

The Technique showed no changes, yet even in such a condition, he was pulled into the Black Mist Council.

Originally, the one expected to enter the council should have been Blington, but Xue Dili, who had never tasted the Divine Wood Fruit, was surprisingly deemed one of them and drawn in by the council.

In fact, that meeting didn't care whether the members were loyal because they knew well that anyone who consumed the Divine Wood Fruit would become addicted, like a rabid dog, and no one would forsake the enhancement and satisfaction it provided.

Consequently, no one would easily leave the Black Mist Council, whether it was to acquire intelligence from other civilizations or to trade for more materials needed to grow more Divine Wood. For those joining the organization, it was a rare fortune.

And as soon as you start planting trees, others can gain significant benefits from you through trade or information.

It wasn't an organization tied to religion and loyalty, purely of interests, and as long as you could offer them interests, it didn't matter who joined them.

They were confident that under the nourishing of the Divine Wood Fruit, no one could remain indifferent, except for Xue Dili, who accidentally wandered into the chat group.

He only had one Qijela seed, although Blington had eaten a Divine Wood Fruit while alive, so the energy of the fruit was somewhat transferred to the seed after his death.

But Xue Dili really got pulled into the chat group by accident. It was as if an ordinary office worker, who held disdain for the group, found himself accidentally pulled into a political chat, only to read the news and feel something was amiss with the group members. After checking the timings, he realized he had truly been drawn into a high-level group!

"Yes, the Interstellar Corps, I still have messages there..." Xue Dili immediately got up to retrieve the Interstellar Corps message board. However, halfway through writing a message, he thought better of it and erased the contents silently.

He couldn't hastily send out intelligence now. Due to the Black Mist, he couldn't even confirm the intelligence and strength of the others; he could only roughly judge each should be Tier Five and possess numerous clans and forces, each with their unique skills and techniques.

Otherwise, these people would've long been apprehended by the Interstellar Corps, not still roaming freely, planting trees across various worlds uncontrolled.

At the very least, until Xue Dili could fully verify one member's information and start preparing for their real-life encounter, he planned to contact the Interstellar Corps.

For this, he even needed an emergency contact device, to ensure that during the real-life encounter, the opposing side wouldn't have a chance to escape. He aimed to be fully prepared.

Also, they mentioned holding a council meeting on a "great day" once.

Later, Xue Dili estimated that a "great day" of the council corresponded to roughly 7 days of Blue Star's time.

7 days...

Xue Dili silently calculated his own strength and resources, realizing it was challenging to kill everyone inside thoroughly. Due to his consciousness instantly traveling there, he couldn't even ascertain the location of the council.

If he could know the coordinates, perhaps he could directly contact an Interstellar Corps member.

He couldn't believe an organization using the "Venerable King" power would be weaker than the council.

Nonetheless, since he now had the opportunity to enter here, he must have a way to capture everyone inside.

Even though he lacked strength now, being at Tier Three with 68% experience, Xue Dili was confident that within a year, he could reach Quasi-5th Tier on the panel. By then, the power he had would surely stand a chance against the old Tier Fives.

This was going to be a long mission; Xue Dili needed to ensure his identity remained undisclosed whilst becoming a shadowy figure, gradually earning other members' trust.

Ideally, once they trusted him to the point of mutual sacrifice, Xue Dili would reveal himself and strike them down.

He was extremely cautious in the Black Mist Council, not daring to use any Blue Star-related codename. He had thought about using "Xue Dinger" or "Masked Rider" as his codename, but in the end, he chose the most common element in the Cosmos as his codename.

Light.

At least this way, he would reveal less about himself, preventing immediate exposure of his true identity. With the Faceless person's mask, this treasure crafted by the skilled old man, he must hide until accumulating enough strength...

Of course, if by all of this, he still exposed Blue Star, Xue Dili had no choice; he'd done everything he could to the best of his abilities.

And just as Xue Dili was readying for the long-term battle, he suddenly noticed a message on the message board, leaving him stunned.

[Thank you for providing the information, we have found the planet and made a certain contact with Lotte's daughter Fafnir. Thanks, in the future, there is a chance we will offer you gifts and gratitude.]

——Member of the Interstellar Corps, Master of the original Hero Lotte, Stan Li.

Xue Dili: "!"

Goodness, did the message he sent out get picked up by other members of the Interstellar Corps so quickly? Xue Dili had thought it would take at least a few years before someone would respond to that message.

Unexpectedly, it was seen in just eight days. Perhaps the person who saw it passed the information through other channels to other members of the Interstellar Corps, which allowed Uncle Brave's mentor to discover Xue Dili's message by chance.

And when Uncle Brave's mentor went to receive Fafnir, at this moment, Xue Dili felt slightly relieved. He had seen Uncle Brave's memories, in which that mentor was a strict but very gentle person.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have taught such a naïve and sweet Uncle Brave. Perhaps his biggest regret was not being able to further refine Uncle Brave's character, allowing him to be deceived by a group of people from that planet, dying far from home.

Now that this mentor-grandmaster is personally going to take Fafnir, Xue Dili felt at ease.

This is already the best ending for that girl who has been tormented and lost everything since childhood.

Xue Dili sent her his sincerest blessings, and then suddenly remembered that he wrote the rough coordinates of the Holy Magic Continent in that message, breaking out in a cold sweat.

He didn't realize the danger before, but now knowing this cosmos not only has those Saints of the Interstellar Corps, but also the Black Mist Council who only want to plant trees on others' worlds and reap the fruit, he realized his actions nearly endangered Fafnir.

If that message had been intercepted by the Black Mist Council, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Ultimately, Xue Dili decided to take a look to ease his worries, even if it was just a distant glance.

[Everything's fine over there, the World Consciousness has talked to me about this.]

The message from the World Consciousness arrived.

Xue Dili: "..."

Hmm... how did they end up talking?

[It kept spamming me with annoying emails, asking me to send over some kids embodying "humility, honor, sacrifice, bravery, compassion, spirit, honesty, justice, and the willingness to give everything for others and the world" to become heroes in their world, which I kept refusing.]

Xue Dili: "..."

Their qualifications for recruiting heroes are quite high?

Possibly very high indeed. According to these standards, perhaps very few among the more than 8 billion people would qualify, let alone the small place like the Holy Magic Continent with only hundreds of millions.

Even Fafnir, whom Xue Dili personally trained, probably couldn't meet all the criteria, right?

Then, as Xue Dili was pondering, he was forcibly pulled by the World Consciousness into a unique subspace.

Here, he saw the World Consciousness, which was like a giant sphere resembling the "Sun," with a surface temperature probably tens of thousands of degrees Celsius. But to Xue Dili, it did not feel scorching or blistering, but rather like a warm embrace.

[I don't know about the Venerable King, but based on the intelligence you have, there might be more than one fragment of that "Venerable King" on Earth.]

The information from the World Consciousness stunned Xue Dili.

[4.6 billion years ago, a giant meteor carrying strange energy collided with me and assimilated with me. At that time, I sensed a peculiar energy which elevated my consciousness from mere instinctive muddleness to a level capable of complex thinking.]

The World Consciousness directly displayed imagery from that time.

Back then, the entire Blue Star was like a "molten rock star" straight out of purgatory, yet a meteor several times larger than the Moon struck the Blue Star, and eventually, the Blue Star completely absorbed and devoured the meteor, thus giving birth to the original "Blue Star."

[This was the first descent, and it enabled me to progressively attain complex thinking abilities over the subsequent billions of years. The information from the meteor was the starting point for the evolution of life, with the second descent... happening 2 billion years ago...]

[After the second descent, I fully absorbed all the energy the meteor brought once more. As a result, the primitive microbial life on me began its further evolution, giving rise to organisms more akin to the "Venerable King." The bacteriophage you are familiar with was born in this era.]

[The third descent occurred 65 million years ago, which you know as the end-Cretaceous mass extinction... That meteor landed in the Gulf of Mexico, and on it was the genetic information of the "Divine Wood" you are facing this time.]

After the World Consciousness relayed all the intelligence to Xue Dili, at this moment, Xue Dili suddenly felt how incredibly fortunate "humans" are from a world-scale perspective.

And "Qijela" actually originated from the meteor 65 million years ago, the one that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs...

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