"For a cosmic civilization to grow strong, there are mainly three paths: technology, economy, and evolution."

Secretary-General Angus said.

"Technological growth is very slow," Secretary-General Angus said. "Moreover, it requires a large number of scientific and technological talents, and it needs to be accumulated generation after generation before it can transform."

"Economy. If the economy is strong enough, we can purchase sufficiently powerful weapons to protect us," Secretary-General Angus said. "Don't think that cosmic citizens are protected by the regulations of the Cosmic Human Alliance and that no one dares to kill them."

"The universe is vast. In a remote starfield, wiping out a civilization without leaving any evidence makes it impossible to find the culprit."

"Of course, wiping out a civilization without the Cosmic Human Alliance discovering the truth is extremely difficult. Once discovered, the cost is also enormous. So the possibility of it happening is extremely low. But the killing of individual cosmic citizens is still very common."

Secretary-General Angus said, "So we need a sufficiently strong economy to buy sufficiently powerful weapons to protect our Blue Star humans. But the economic growth of a civilization also needs time to accumulate slowly, and this cannot be rushed."

Individual investment may involve gambling for high returns.

But the economy of a cosmic civilization is very large and involves assets in all aspects. Stability is the top priority, and the growth rate is naturally slow.

"The third path is evolution," Secretary-General Angus said. "This is the most common path for many weak cosmic civilizations to rise in the vast universe, because this path is most likely to produce miracles."

"Individual evolution is the pursuit of countless civilized humans," Secretary-General Angus said. "With evolution, individuals will become stronger, their brains will become more developed, their intelligence will become higher, and their lifespans will become longer. More powerful life forms will also have a higher status in the Cosmic Human Alliance."

Director Zhou of Xia Country smiled and said, "I believe you can feel now that your brain's thinking speed is much faster than before you practiced the evolution method! And you are still within the scope of planetary life. If you become a Starry Sky life, your brain will be more developed and you will learn faster! If you reach the ninth level, you will surpass the scope of Starry Sky life and become a higher level of life! Your learning ability will be stronger, and your long life will accumulate endless wisdom. Your strength can easily destroy planets, and each of you will be a treasure of the Cosmic Human Alliance."

"The universe also values talent. What is talent? Strength and wisdom are both selection criteria," said the representative of Rome. "The rarer the talent, the more it will be valued. If you are valued and have a high status, you will naturally help your home civilization."

"The so-called ten evolution methods were not discovered in Firefly Star, but were obtained after contacting the Cosmic Human Alliance. These are the most basic ten evolution methods of the Cosmic Human Alliance," Secretary-General Angus said.

"After integrating into the Cosmic Human Alliance, all countries of our Blue Star civilization quickly united and began to discuss countermeasures."

Secretary-General Angus said, "The cultivation of evolution methods must be coordinated with the virtual world. Otherwise, the mortality rate is too high. And the value of seven billion 'virtual helmets' and a 'virtual world host' that can support tens of billions of people is higher than a life planet!"

"Actually, many humans from elementary cosmic civilizations..." Tiano Shirei, who was sitting there, suddenly said, "have never entered the virtual world."

"Huh?"

Xu Jingming and the others looked at Tiano Shirei in surprise.

"Let me introduce you. This is the envoy from the Cosmic Human Alliance." Secretary-General Angus stood up, and the representatives of the other five major council countries also stood up.

"An envoy from the Cosmic Human Alliance?" Xu Jingming was a little dazed, and Liu Hai and the others were also a little dazed.

The person they were competing with was an alien?

"Everyone."

Tiano stood up, smiled slightly, and his skin began to change, turning gray, his hair and eyebrows also turned silver-gray, the color of his pupils also changed, and his aura returned to the aura of a Starry Sky life, much stronger. Tiano looked at Xu Jingming, Liu Hai, Miyagawa Akari, and others who were shocked, "Let me introduce myself, my full name is Tiano Chimon Shirei. I haven't been working for the Cosmic Human Alliance for long, but I took on a mission to protect the entire Blue Star civilization, and there is still one year left before it expires."

Everyone present had stood up.

"Envoy Tiano," they all said respectfully.

"Sit down," Tiano was the first to sit down, and then everyone else sat down.

Xu Jingming looked at Tiano with complicated feelings.

Tiano, who had been competing with him for so long, was an alien? An envoy of the Cosmic Human Alliance?

Tiano glanced at Xu Jingming with a smile that was not a smile, and then continued: "The star system where Blue Star civilization is located has been identified and confirmed to have quite precious minerals. By selling a lot of minerals, the 'virtual world host' was finally installed on Blue Star, so that everyone in the entire civilization can enter the virtual world. This alone has surpassed most elementary cosmic civilizations."

"Most elementary cosmic civilizations still learn slowly in reality through martial arts halls, schools, and other methods, and they are more careful and slower. Unlike you, everyone is recklessly trying in the virtual world, not afraid of failure," Tiano said with a smile, "Your Blue Star civilization has indeed invested a lot in evolution."

"The thirty-two-year protection period sounds very long," Secretary-General Angus continued, "but first there is contact with the Cosmic Human Alliance, collecting intelligence, integrating, identifying minerals, integrating into the virtual world network, the establishment of the Blue Star Alliance, building the entire civilization's security protection system, determining the buyers of the minerals, purchasing the virtual world host... all aspects require time. It takes time for the purchased items to be delivered from distant star systems."

"It is very rare to be able to allow everyone to enter the virtual world before the protection period," Secretary-General Angus said with emotion.

"In fact, in the past thirty years," Director Zhou said, "we have also done a lot of things to give people all over the world very high welfare, including Africa, which was initially backward in education. In these thirty years, the average life expectancy in Africa has increased rapidly and is comparable to that of other continents, and the level of education has also been greatly improved."

"The increase in life expectancy and the improvement of driving skills are also for the service of evolution," Director Zhou said.

Secretary-General Angus continued: "In this World Martial Arts Competition, Yershalova and Madeline Logan both practiced evolution methods more than ten years ago. They participated in order to temper you and give you greater pressure. Envoy Tiano was even willing to condescend and be in the virtual world from the beginning, which also gave the geniuses of our Blue Star civilization strong enough stimulation. For example, Xu Jingming, the breakthrough in the final, also has to thank Envoy Tiano."

"Yes," Xu Jingming nodded, looking at Tiano, "If it weren't for the envoy's secret technique, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to comprehend the Light Transformation Thirty-Six Combo. Without strong enough pressure, I wouldn't have been able to comprehend the Transcendent-Grade move."

Tiano nodded slightly after hearing this.

But he muttered in his heart.

Pressure?

I gave you a lot of pressure? And you broke through?

You gave me a lot of pressure too, and you even defeated me. Why is my progress so little?

"Everyone should have noticed that in the past thirty years, welfare has become better and better, and technology has become more and more developed," Secretary-General Angus said, "In fact, with our current technology, many jobs do not require human participation."

"No wonder robots are so advanced and intelligent. It turns out they have been exposed to technology from the universe," Xu Jingming thought to himself.

"In the future... there will be fewer and fewer jobs for humans."

Secretary-General Angus said, "We will reduce the welfare of ordinary people to ensure their basic survival needs. If they need high welfare, they must achieve something in science and technology, or evolution, or economy."

"Because the safe period is only one year, in the future, we must promote all mankind to work harder," Secretary-General Angus said solemnly, "If you want to have a good life and want to have a high status, you must contribute to civilization."

The other five representatives also nodded in agreement.

"Yes."

Tiano nodded, "You must seize the time. Once the protection period is over, powerful civilizations will definitely come to exploit you! Without the protection of Cosmic Humans, just according to the basic regulations, you will definitely suffer all kinds of losses in foreign trade, and even the entire civilization will eventually be unable to maintain itself. Choosing to join other civilizations is also common."

"The first year of the virtual world's opening was for exploration," Secretary-General Angus said, "After that, we must strengthen the 'social contribution' plan. All mankind must work together so that our Blue Star civilization can stand better in the forest of the universe. And you nine are geniuses selected from billions of people, and I hope you can contribute more to your home civilization."

"Yes."

Xu Jingming, Liu Hai, Tiger Fussen, Haru Singh, Tu Ling, Riven Gullit, Miyagawa Akari, Akinov, and Alan Emelianenko all felt a heavy pressure on their shoulders.

They nine... are the nine most talented people in the entire civilization!

When the sky falls, the tall ones hold it up. They are the nine tallest people!

"The first step is for you to become Starry Sky lives as soon as possible and become cosmic citizens," Secretary-General Angus said, "Only by becoming cosmic citizens can you be protected by the Cosmic Human Alliance regulations, and can you enter the virtual world network in your own identity."

Xu Jingming and the other eight nodded.

"The prize money for this competition will also be distributed to each of you," Secretary-General Angus said, "The prize money this time is cosmic currency. In the future, when you deal with other cosmic civilizations, Blue Star currency will be useless. It must be cosmic currency! These cosmic currencies are very precious. They were accumulated by our Blue Star selling minerals, so be sure to cherish them."

"Yes," the nine all felt the burden on their shoulders.

"Work hard. It's not just you. There are many people all over the world who are also fighting for their home civilization," Secretary-General Angus said, "Everyone is fighting side by side."

...

The meeting ended quickly, and the competition prize money was distributed to everyone.

"Envoy, please stay," Secretary-General Angus called out to Tiano after everyone else had left.

"Yes?" Tiano looked at him.

"Envoy, as you know, our Blue Star civilization has a very small vision," Secretary-General Angus said, "Now it is very rare to have a transcendent-grade genius, Xu Jingming. We are also discussing internally how to cultivate him and train him. But we are worried that because of our own short-sightedness and narrow vision, we will harm him instead. So I hope the Envoy can give us some guidance."

"I'll give you guidance?" Tiano raised his eyebrows and kindly began to think about it. "Let me think. I haven't been in contact with many transcendent-grade geniuses. I've been in contact with more ninth-level ones."