Gods: Civilization Cultivation, Infinite War

Chapter 161 World Assessment
The world of magic weapons.

Since the establishment of the Holy Alliance, with the support of hundreds of Blue Star gods, the entire Divine Weapon World is rapidly recovering its vitality.

Only a few hundred years later, its population returned to its heyday.

After that, the many worlds ruled by the Dawn Empire began to come into contact with the Holy Alliance again, and they completed the anchoring with each other.

Under Chen Li's influence, many worlds converged with the T09-AZ-326 plane group at the fastest speed.

Today, the plan to upgrade the T09-AZ-326 plane group world has finally reached the final step.

"Marshal Chi Yan, welcome home."

With the emergence of a space fluctuation, Chi Yan, one of the high-ranking military officials of the Dawn Empire, returned to her home world.

Chi Yan, who had always wanted to retire, not only failed to resign from his position, but was promoted and awarded the rank of marshal.

Her position actually did not change. She was still the commander-in-chief of the Glory Expeditionary Corps, in charge of the internal affairs of the entire Glory Expeditionary Corps.

However, as the Dawn Empire digested hundreds of complete planes, the size of the entire Glory Expeditionary Corps also increased dramatically.

From the original millions of troops, it has grown to the current scale of hundreds of millions.

This is the result of the Dawn Empire intentionally reducing the number of conscriptions, otherwise its scale could be expanded a lot.

Chi Yan had already selected a number of candidates, waiting for them to take over his position.

It’s just that the Glory Expeditionary Corps is expanding too fast, and no candidate can keep up with it.

In the beginning, a legendary fighter was qualified to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Glory Expeditionary Corps.

But now, there are already quite a few ordinary legends and senior legendary extraordinary people within the Glory Expeditionary Corps.

Not to mention any random legendary fighter, even the top legends may not be able to hold this position.

Chi Yan himself was able to convince the public because of his thousands of years of experience and his combat power that was comparable to that of a top legend.

If he randomly appoints a successor to take his place, the entire Glory Expeditionary Corps will probably be in chaos.

Therefore, even though he had been talking about retirement, Chi Yan had no choice but to grit his teeth and stick to his post.

In addition, the average overall quality within the Glory Expeditionary Corps is higher than before.

Just as Kane had expected before, the current Glory Expeditionary Corps is compared with the Holy Angel Corps.

Except for some gap in high-level combat power, it has completely surpassed the Holy Angel Legion in terms of grassroots troops.

After all, the size of the Holy Angel Legion is less than one million, excluding those epic and legendary legions.

The remaining basic legions are hundreds of times smaller in size than the Glory Expeditionary Legion.

No matter how strong an individual's combat power is, it is difficult to overcome such an exaggerated numerical gap.

The current top leaders of the Dawn Empire are already intentionally reducing the number of basic legions of the Holy Angel Legion.

It is planned that at some point in the future, all basic legions will be disbanded, and only epic-level and above legions with independent titles will be retained.

The reason why they were not disbanded immediately was simply because those basic legions were the top guard legions.

At least in their place of origin, they can still play a unique role, which is difficult to achieve even with numerical advantages.

In addition, Chi Yan, the commander-in-chief of the Glory Expeditionary Corps, was awarded the rank of marshal.

Another person who was awarded the rank of marshal was the commander of the Dawnwatch Legion and one of Kane's successors.

Even in the current Dawn Empire, there are more than one legendary legions, but the Dawnwatch Legion still has a unique status.

This is the first epic legion of the Dawn Empire and the legion that has made the greatest contribution to the development of the Dawn Empire, without a doubt.

What's more, Kane, the current supreme leader of the Dawn Empire, has always been the commander of the Dawn Watch Legion.

The entire Dawnwatch Legion was also established and developed by him.
Therefore, the identity of the commander of the Dawn Watch Legion also has an extra color in the Dawn Empire.

Its legion commander also serves as the cardinal of the Church of All Souls, in charge of the entire military affairs of the Dawn Empire.

Including the Glorious Expeditionary Corps and even military affairs within the major worlds, they are actually under the jurisdiction of the Cardinal.

Although they both hold the rank of marshal, the other marshal wields far more power than Chi Yan.

But Chi Yan doesn't care about these things.

If she really had a strong interest in power, it might not be her turn to take the position of cardinal.

After being teleported to her home world, Chi Yan looked around and saw people all around her welcoming her.

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered around the transmission node, and cheers from the heart resounded everywhere.

Because Chi Yan's home world is a world completely controlled by the Dawn Empire.

Therefore, as one of the high-ranking officials of the Dawn Empire, Chi Yan also has extremely high prestige in her hometown world.

After all, even the highest leader of this world has a considerable gap between him and Chi Yan in terms of rank.

And it’s not just because Chi Yan has an extremely high status, more importantly, her hometown world has indeed benefited greatly from Chi Yan’s existence.

Not only are there various resources allocated to them, which also enables them to develop better.

The most important thing is that when the [World Autonomy Act] was just introduced, Chi Yan's hometown world was established as one of the only nine first-level autonomous worlds.

The introduction of the [World Autonomy Act] will not have any negative impact on ordinary people.

But one thing is for sure: the more autonomy a world has, the more benefits ordinary people in it will gain.

After all, the introduction of the [World Autonomy Act] is to suppress the ruling classes in various worlds and reduce their income.

Part of this income needs to be handed over to the superior world, and the other part is used for the development within the world, which is also where ordinary people can benefit.

In this case, the more autonomous a world is, the fewer resources it needs to hand over and the more resources it can use for its own internal development.

The third-level autonomous world needs to hand in a profit every year and is in a state of pure loss.

The secondary autonomous world can basically maintain a balance between income and expenditure.

A first-level autonomous world can obtain a large amount of additional resources every year to develop itself, which is also the main reason why Chi Yan's home world respects her so much.

Of course, the level of autonomy of each world is not static.

The Cradle of Life conducts a comprehensive assessment of the internal development status of each major world every year.

The final result will directly affect the adjustment of the autonomy levels of the major worlds.

Therefore, during this period of time every year, the ruling classes and ordinary people in all major worlds are very nervous.

At least in this respect, their interests are consistent.

The first-level autonomous world naturally wants to maintain its own level of autonomy, while the second- and third-level autonomous worlds want to improve their own level of autonomy.

Being able to maintain its status as a first-level autonomous world also shows that the ruling class of Chi Yan’s hometown world has not acted recklessly, and is at least above the passing line.

After all, the top leaders of the empire were able to establish her hometown world as a first-level autonomous world for Chi Yan's sake.

This was already a kind of reward given by her hometown world, considering that it produced top combat power and military leaders like her.

It is impossible to expect them to give easy access in the subsequent world assessments.

That would not allow her home world to develop better, but would only encourage the bad practices of the ruling class and hinder its overall development.

It happens to be the annual world assessment period now, but Chi Yan suddenly returns to his hometown world.

This also sent a certain signal to the world's top leaders and many ordinary people that there would definitely be no accidents in this world assessment.

After all, as one of the empire's top leaders, Marshal Chi Yan finally got the chance to return to his hometown world.

The staff of the assessment department can't just not even give us this little bit of face.

"Marshal Chi Yan, the people here are so enthusiastic. Would you like to move to the manor we have prepared for you?

All the leaders have been waiting for you there for a long time."

The staff member responsible for welcoming Chi Yan suggested with a smile.

"No, I have something else to do."

Chi Yan directly rejected the other party's proposal.

Chi Yan actually doesn't have much affection for his hometown world.

After all, all her family members had died in that huge disaster.

There are no people or things left to recall, and a thousand years have passed. The original love has long since disappeared, and what remains is just a responsibility.

Chi Yan was well aware of the reason why his home world had such a big reaction to his arrival, and he had no interest in wasting time attending any banquets.

The next moment, Chi Yan's figure disappeared from the spot.

"Long time no see, Lianna."

Seeing Chi Yan's appearance, Liana was a little surprised: "Why do you have time to come back here?"

As one of the most popular geniuses in the Dawn Empire, Lianna lived up to expectations and successfully broke through to become a legendary transcendent hundreds of years ago.

If it were a thousand years ago, as a legendary extraordinary person, he could have become one of the top leaders of the empire.

But hundreds of years ago, the Dawn Empire's high-level combat power also underwent a round of expansion.

She is also a legendary transcendent in the destiny system, and cannot use the legion battle formation to exert combat power comparable to that of the top legends.

In the military system, he could only obtain the rank of general, not even a major general.

In addition, Lianna had previously left the military system and was pursuing her own legendary path.

After successfully breaking through the legend, she did not return to the army, but finally chose to work in other departments, specifically responsible for the annual assessment work of major worlds.

"I came back because of an important matter that needed to be dealt with.

I just happened to know that you are in charge of the annual assessment here, so I came to see you."

Chi Yan's tone was calm, with an imperceptible joy in it.

After she became the commander-in-chief of the Glory Expeditionary Corps, she and Lianna rarely met again.

After all, she was responsible for the internal affairs of the entire Glory Expeditionary Corps, and Lianna was attempting to embark on her own legendary path. Later, in the process of practicing the legendary path, Lianna also continued to experience various worlds, and basically had no intersection with Chi Yan.

If both parties want to meet, they have to choose a special time, and it is impossible for them to be inseparable like before.

This time, she learned that Lianna was in charge of the annual assessment in her hometown world, so she teleported back to her hometown world directly. Otherwise, she should have been teleported to the main plane.

"Really? I'm telling you, don't think I'll be biased in the assessment results just because you're here."

"No, just evaluate it as it should be."

Hearing Chi Yan say this, Liana nodded, and then said in an inexplicable tone: "To be honest, these high-ranking officials in your home world are a bit cunning."

"What does it mean?"

Chi Yan frowned: "Is there any problem with the world assessment?"

"That's not a problem, but as you know, the world assessment is divided into three levels: failing, passing, and excellent.

These three criteria are the comprehensive assessments made by our department after detailed assessments of many areas in each world.

And your hometown world has just barely passed the passing line in every world assessment.

The assessment of each field has corresponding indicators, which are clearly stipulated.

Failing the test may result in a decrease in the level of world autonomy rights, passing the test will keep it unchanged, and excellent results will give you the opportunity to have your level increased.

And your hometown world, in these thousands of comprehensive assessments, barely passed every time, without an excellent or failing grade.

This is obviously the result of active control by senior management.

They have the ability to improve their overall assessment scores, but this will harm their interests.

Moreover, this world already has a first level of autonomy, and they have no room for advancement.

To be honest, this phenomenon is quite common in those first-level autonomous worlds.

But this is the first time I've seen something done so blatantly like your home world."

Having said that, Lianna shook her head with some emotion.

If I have to say, this is not a big problem, otherwise so many years would have passed without any negative news spreading.

The staff members who were in charge of the assessment before did not give the passing result just for Chi Yan's sake.

Lianna specifically raised this issue with Chi Yan only because Chi Yan was her good friend and she mentioned it to her in passing.

Lianna herself had no opinion on the behavior of the world's top leaders.

After all, they were all doing things according to the rules of the Dawn Empire and did not engage in any excessive behavior.

Even if it is a third-level autonomous world, as long as it can meet the passing standards, it can guarantee that all residents can live and work in peace and contentment, not to mention that it is a first-level autonomous world.

It’s just that the speaker is unintentional, but the listener is intentional.

Lianna didn't think this was a big problem, but Chi Yan's face had become a little gloomy.

As the commander-in-chief of the Glory Expeditionary Corps, she rarely has any free time.

In addition, there is no one she cares about in her hometown, so she rarely comes back here.

However, she has always attached great importance to the development of her hometown world.

If she was truly indifferent to her home world, the imperial high-ranking officials would not have directly established it as a first-level autonomous world.

After all, the establishment of each first-level autonomous world puts considerable pressure on the empire's finances.

Before this, every time Chi Yan returned to his hometown, he could see that the whole world had indeed achieved better development.

Even in the cradle of life, there is no negative comment about their home world.

Chi Yan was also very pleased about this.

What she didn't expect was that those senior executives had been taking advantage of loopholes.

Although strictly speaking, they did not violate the rules of the empire.

But the fact is that those senior executives have kept more resources in their own hands instead of investing them in the development of the world as a whole.

Ordinary people cannot benefit from it, and it will only make the ruling class fatter and fatter.

There won’t be any major problems in the short term, but it’s hard to say what will happen in the future.

“The Empire is a bit too tolerant towards the top leaders of these first-level autonomous worlds.

After I return this time, I will submit a request to His Majesty to redraft the relevant world assessment rules.

Especially for these first-level autonomous worlds, they must at least achieve excellent standards in every assessment in order to maintain their level of autonomy.

And when conducting assessments in various fields, if any problems arise, the relevant personnel must be held accountable.

This includes but is not limited to demotion, dismissal, and subsequent accountability."

“Isn’t this a bit too harsh?”

Hearing this, Liana's expression became a little solemn, and she couldn't help but ask questions.

If Chi Yan's words were really carried out, an invisible bloody storm would probably be set off within the major worlds.

"They have gained more power and are the biggest beneficiaries of world development.

However, there are still situations where people only care about their own development and want to use it to ensure their own lofty status.

When this kind of phenomenon occurs, more severe measures must be used to warn people."

"But each major world has the power of self-government. Doesn't it seem a bit inappropriate for us to directly interfere in their internal affairs like this?"

Lianna was still a little hesitant about Chi Yan's statement.

Chi Yan glanced at the other party and shook his head: "Autonomy or not has always been a false proposition.

Before the introduction of the World Autonomy Act, the major worlds theoretically had almost absolute autonomy and were not subject to the jurisdiction of the Cradle of Life.

But as long as the Cradle of Life introduces any policy, all major worlds will definitely respond positively.

This is not because the senior executives really love the Cradle of Life, but because they are all smart people.

The imperial high-ranking officials did not care who responded to the policy of the Cradle of Life, because it was a matter of course.

Anyone who fails to comply with the Cradle of Life's policies will be fully aware of this by the Empire's top brass, and should be prepared to face the wrath of the Iron Fist.

Seeing that Liana was silent, Chi Yan continued, "The Empire has never relied on gentle means to rule over many worlds, and that kind of means simply does not work.

Including common beliefs, they are only the basis for maintaining rule.

Only absolute strength is the greatest guarantee for the empire to rule over many worlds.

It is for this reason that when the [World Autonomy Act] was introduced, many worlds did not dare to raise any objection.

Unless the power of the major worlds can surpass that of the Cradle of Life, the rule of the empire will become unstable.

Before this, many of the empire's policies could be smoothly implemented in various worlds as long as they were not too outrageous.

What's more, the issue of world assessment modification that I mentioned is originally aimed at those who have failed in their duties in many fields within the major worlds.

Sacrificing their interests can benefit more people. This is not a difficult question to consider, and it is unlikely to cause strong opposition from the world."

"Okay, okay, let's not continue talking about this topic."

Lianna waved her hand and said, "When the time comes, you can discuss it with His Majesty and other high-ranking officials of the empire.

Once you have come up with a conclusion, we, the relevant departments, will be responsible for its implementation.

We have finally met, and I don't want to talk about such a serious topic."

Chi Yan nodded: "Okay, I'll do as you say."

"By the way, you just said there was an important matter that needed to be dealt with. Do you want to go and deal with it first?"

Chi Yan shook his head: "There's no rush for this. I returned to the plane group this time to carry out the final step of the world upgrade.

I received an oracle a few days ago, telling me to return here as soon as possible, so I teleported back to my home world as quickly as possible.

I just carefully sensed it and found that the conditions for the world's upgrade have indeed been met.

But there is still a crucial step missing: to trigger the tide of the will of all living beings.

The sacred celebration will take place in half a month. By then, it will surely stir up the tide of all living beings' will, and the world's ascension will proceed simultaneously."

Hearing this, Lianna sighed: "Is the world upgrade finally ready? This is really not easy."

More than a thousand years ago, Chi Yan had been preparing for the world's upgrade.

With the support of the entire Dawn Empire, the preparations have finally been completed.

It is difficult to describe the difficulty in a few words.

Of course, in this process, it was actually Chen Li who was doing most of the hard work.

The Dawn Empire is simply establishing connections between the many worlds and the Holy Alliance step by step, so that they can anchor each other.

Even after completing the mutual anchoring, it still took Chen Li a lot of effort to make these worlds converge together as quickly as possible.

But now he finally got what he wanted, and Chen Li’s hundreds of years of hard work were not in vain.

"Your current strength is comparable to that of a top legendary transcendent. After the world is upgraded, you will definitely receive corresponding gifts.

By then, I wonder how high your strength will be.”

Lianna looked at Chi Yan, her eyes shining.

Currently, there is no strongest legendary combat force in the Dawn Empire.

If Chi Yan could make another breakthrough with the help of this gift, he might become the Dawn Empire's strongest force.

As if sensing the other party's thoughts, Chi Yan sighed helplessly.

"I want to retire..."

(End of this chapter)