Heavenly Ranking

Chapter 401 Technology
"Ubiquitous surveillance equipment, mechanical guards, drone hordes, space-based orbital weapons, the Knights Templar..."

All of this formed the foundation for the Mechanicus's rule over the entire world.

"The biotechnology and unmanned technology of this world are at least 100 years more advanced than those of our Red Star."

Zhao Changkong sighed sincerely: "Moreover, this is under the condition that the technology does not encounter bottlenecks and is developing rapidly. If it encounters some technological bottlenecks, the gap between the two will probably stretch to 150, 200, or even 300 or 500 years."

"It's really good."

Ji Fuyou nodded: "This is indeed an incredibly powerful civilization. If it weren't for us, this civilization would most likely have been the ultimate victor among the 108 civilizations in that round, or at least one of the victors."

After all, there exists a seventh-tier temple knight in this civilization who holds the power of life.

"We are currently shrouded in mist. The drone legions and mechanical guards cannot get in, and space-based weapons cannot pinpoint our location. The only ones we need to face are the Templar Knights..."

Zhao Changkong added, "They are still the kind of war knights who fully utilize the advantages of biological modification. The temple knights from the outside world are even more powerful thanks to biological technology and technological modifications. Almost every temple knight has genuine fifth-tier combat power."

"A genuine fifth rank!"

Ji Fuyou was somewhat surprised.

"According to our intelligence, the Cult of Machines has nine Temple Knights, three of which are War Knights targeting the Mist, while the remaining six are stationed in six major regions around the world..."

Zhao Changkong's eyes were filled with deep apprehension: "Each knightly order has 3000 to 5000 official knights. If you include the knight squires who have not undergone deep reformation, the number of people in each knightly order is between 1.5 and 2."

After saying that, he glanced again into the depths of the mist: "The 104 War Knights who chased us earlier represent less than 1% of the total number of War Knights!"

Wu Rendi, who was standing to the side, couldn't help but speak up: "President, this civilization...should we...reconsider it further?"

"Taking a long-term view" is just a euphemism.

He clearly wanted to retreat temporarily.

After all, the gap between the two civilizations is too great.

Zhao Changkong, standing to the side, nodded in agreement: "In another month or two, the fog will expand rapidly and engulf the entire civilization in a very short time. At that time, all the technological equipment of this civilization, and even equipment that cannot be 'recognized' by the fog, will become ineffective..."

"It's not that it can't be known..."

Ji Fuyou said, "It's just that the will of that 'Great One' thought their path was wrong, rejected their way of evolution, and thus deprived them of their ability to rely on external things."

This conclusion was reached by everyone after experiencing the Heavenly Ranking War and truly realizing the power of that "Great One".

Such a great being, capable of easily controlling the life and death of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even countless civilizations, would not be unable to recognize even some basic technologies.

Through the rules of the mist, He guides everyone to abandon technological and external means and evolve along the correct path...

At least it is the correct path of evolution in His "cognition".

"The power of that 'Great One' will strip technological and biological civilizations of their dependence on external objects. At that time, all surveillance will fail, all guards will come to a standstill, and drones and orbital weapons in the sky will fall to the ground. Along with the six knight orders, they will also be rendered half-crippled or even completely collapsed."

Zhao Changkong said, "At that time, the world under the rule of the Cult of Machines will inevitably be in chaos. It will not be too late for us to deal with this civilization then."

"That's theoretically true."

Ji Fuyou said, "But if we really do that, many of the research and documents of the Cult of the Machine God will be destroyed as many technologies fail. Other than that, it doesn't matter. But if their biotechnology is affected as a result, then the value of this civilization to me will undoubtedly drop sharply, and it may even affect the future development of the Crimson Star Civilization."

The others could naturally think of this as well, but...

"The Cult of the Machine God has forged the entire civilization into an impregnable fortress, with surveillance everywhere. If we outsiders want to enter..."

"You overestimate the limits of the power of technological civilization."

As Ji Fuyou spoke, he glanced at the three of them and said, "Similarly, they have underestimated the upper limit of power that cultivators possess."

He strode directly out of the fog.

"Our civilization uses wireless signals to control electronic devices and drones. This world will naturally have its own communication methods. Once we crack this information exchange capability, we will have cracked most of the world's technological capabilities."

His voice rang in the ears of the three, and at the same time, his powerful divine sense, almost at the level of a primordial god, spread out in all directions.

As his divine sense continued to improve, his detection range within the mist reached one kilometer.

And outside the fog...

It skyrocketed to 100 kilometers per hour!
With the addition of the Mind's Eye, he can directly "see" three or four hundred kilometers away.

Although he did not focus on areas three or four hundred kilometers away at the moment, he used the characteristics of the unity of man and nature to instantly capture the electromagnetic wave band that is omnipresent in the world.

Human neural electrical signals are only 30 millivolts strong, billions of times weaker than cell phone signals, but...

Highly ordered arrays of neurons can produce macroscopic quantum effects, which can then be extended to macroscopic electromagnetic control.

What Ji Fuyou is doing right now is relying on his own nerve signals...

To be precise, it is divine sense, which is several orders of magnitude higher than the quality of neural signals, that analyzes the omnipresent electromagnetic waves in the universe.

Especially when a drone detected his location and flew over quickly, Ji Fuyou noticed something around the drone.

He waved his hand, and the world before him seemed to be constantly refreshed at a peculiar frequency, over and over again.

In a single breath, the refresh rate exceeded 60 times.

When the refresh rate reached the 61st time, Ji Fuyou suddenly realized something.

He could clearly see a blue line hanging down from the sky and connecting to the drone.

Just then, the drone flew up to Ji Fuyou.

With a swift movement, he disarmed the drone, which hadn't even had a chance to fire yet, and held it in his hand.

Then, he fiddled with the blue beam of light on the drone.

As the Void God Realm operates, light is projected into it and rapidly analyzed by countless creative and computational forces within it.

During the analysis, countless scientific theories and even conjectures uploaded by experts and professors were fully utilized by the computing power of the virtual god realm.

During this analysis process, more and more blue light appeared before Ji Fuyou's eyes.

From just one at the beginning, it grew to ten, a hundred, a thousand...

Ji Fuyou knew that these were signals from unmanned equipment 300 kilometers ahead.

When this analysis reached a certain level, Ji Fuyou projected a divine thought directly onto one of the signals.

In an instant, this divine thought traveled along the signal line that descended from the sky, soaring straight into the clouds and reaching a space 800 kilometers away at near the speed of light, where it entered a communications satellite.

However, after entering the communications satellite, Ji Fuyou did not make any rash moves.

The divine thought split in two, one part remaining on the satellite, and the other heading straight for the area below with the densest signal.

There……

It's a communications center for the Cult of Mechanism!

Because divine sense is completely outside the normal electromagnetic spectrum, the staff did not notice when Ji Fuyou entered the communication center.

Soon, relying on this communication center, Ji Fuyou's divine sense spread rapidly, and he sensed the communication network composed of more than 4 satellites in one fell swoop.

only……

Ji Fuyou had to stop when he needed to control the communication network consisting of 4 satellites.

"Too much."

He sensed the Void God Realm with some regret.

The power of the illusory god realm has ultimately weakened somewhat.

Despite the fact that there are now over a million people online at any given time, and that each person's brain is equivalent to a state-of-the-art biological computer, with its neural structure forming a quantum matrix beyond human comprehension, providing unparalleled computing power, conceptualization, and imagination, but...

The Void God Realm only absorbed their scattered spiritual energy; it did not truly remove their brains to serve as computing units.

In addition, Ji Fuyou's own limitations in his cultivation level prevented him from gaining complete control over all 4 communication satellites in one go.

In addition...

"The Cult of the Machine God has more than one communication system. I have also sensed several other systems... each with its own function."

After a moment of contemplation, Ji Fuyou began to analyze all the signal bands again.

Especially all scanning equipment.

As time went on, the surrounding space centered on him seemed to undergo slight changes.

Zhao Changkong and the others, who were in the mist, could clearly see Ji Fuyou's body flickering between light and shadow, and the surrounding light was constantly changing, sometimes red, sometimes white, sometimes black, and sometimes colorful.

This sixth-tier Martial Saint, who possessed some basic physics knowledge, observed for a moment and immediately realized something: "President Ji... is constructing a domain to absorb all the wavebands that are directed at his body... These wavebands include not only electromagnetic waves and mental waves, but even light waves that can be detected by the naked eye..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the area where Ji Fuyou was located grew darker and darker...

It was like a black hole, swallowing up all visible light.

The light returned the next second, but Zhao Changkong and the others could no longer see Ji Fuyou's figure with their naked eyes.

he……

They vanished right before their eyes.

Immediately afterwards, the drone controlled by Ji Fuyou took off again and continued to search for target signals in the surrounding area.

After searching for a while and finding no target image, it took off and disappeared into the horizon.

At that moment, Ji Fuyou's voice came from an area they couldn't see: "You should return to Red Star. I'm going to the Church of the Mechanical God."

(End of this chapter)