I fabricated myths to guide the revival of spiritual energy.

Before the still-warm furnace of creation, Gu Qing stood calmly. The failure of his first experiment had made him fully aware of the underlying logic of matter recombination: junk code cannot be pieced together into a perfect program.

To create a cannon fodder army capable of resisting the void and without the risk of collapse, an absolutely pure and extremely strong "underlying framework" is required.

"System, extract one-thousandth of my innate Qi, strip away all emotions, memories, and intellectual logic, and retain only the most basic 'physical stability' and 'energy conduction network'."

Gu Qing issued the command in his mind.

"Buzz!!!"

As the command was given, a pure white, flawless light appeared in Gu Qing's palm. This light had no temperature, yet it exuded an aura of indestructible "absolute rule." This was the world's most perfect "blank code," formatted by the system.

"Use this code as a master template and put it into the furnace. Re-inject the material parameters of the beast carapace, vampire cells, and werewolf bone marrow. But this time..."

A cold glint flashed in Gu Qing's eyes:

"Initiate the reshaping process. They will represent Kunlun's will and walk among men; they should not be a group of ugly, deformed monsters. Use my 'Qi' to reshape their appearance."

The pure white code fell into the furnace, like a king descending, instantly suppressing all the violent and mutually exclusive mutated genes. Under the invisible net, precise to the nanometer level, the vampire's super-fast regeneration, the virtual beast's radiation-resistant coating, and the werewolf's metal skeleton were perfectly stitched together.

boom!

The Creation Furnace emitted a deafening roar, the furnace lid exploded open, and a dazzling beam of light in both blue and gold shot straight into the sky.

The white steam slowly dissipated, and Gu Qing stood with his hands behind his back, quietly watching the "new species" emerge from the oven.

It stands nearly three meters tall, with a slender and upright physique. Most strikingly, its ferocious biological features are completely concealed beneath a set of seemingly naturally grown, cyan-gold full-body heavy armor.

This armor is not an external accessory, but rather a "biological armor" formed by the outward extension and keratinization of its own ethereal beast carapace and metallic skeleton. The surface of the armor is covered with profound and righteous runes of the Kunlun orthodoxy. Its face is completely covered by a faceless metal mask engraved with cloud patterns, leaving only a narrow, eerie blue slit around its eyes.

From a distance, this is not some kind of genetically engineered monster at all, but a majestic and inviolable Taoist celestial general who vanquishes demons and monsters!

Absolutely upright, absolutely sacred.

However, beneath this sacred exterior beats a heart devoid of warmth, born solely for slaughter. It is as still as a lifeless stone, even its breath is held back to the extreme.

It knelt heavily on one knee, its dark golden, faceless head bowed deeply, offering absolute submission to Gu Qing.

[Ding! A new host has been detected creating a stable unit.]

[Unit Code Name: Xuanjia Dao Soldier]

[Overall Assessment: Lacking sentience and pain sensation, with an extremely high energy conversion rate. Possesses the physical strength of a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator, and exhibits immunity to void radiation and super-fast regeneration.]

[Special Settings: The upper limit is permanently locked. This species' gene sequence is closed-loop, with a potential value of 0 and an evolution probability of 0%. It cannot cultivate immortality, cannot comprehend the Dao, and its highest potential in this life is its factory state. Reproduction method: It cannot reproduce naturally; it can only be hatched in batches by consuming resources in an energy mother nest.]

"The upper limit is locked, it can't evolve, that's right."

Looking at the perfect killing machine before him, Gu Qing gave a cold assessment: "Since they are cannon fodder, they don't need the possibility of evolution. Once they have the potential to break through the genetic lock, they will generate a distracting thought called 'hope,' and may even turn against their creator. Forever stuck in the Foundation Establishment stage, forever serving as the most convenient expendable material, this is their only destiny."

Having completed his creation, Gu Qing slowly turned around and walked towards the edge of the cliff at the summit of Kunlun.

He looked down at the blue planet obscured by thick clouds. His eyes closed slightly, and his vast divine sense instantly connected to the global "Information Network".

In his view, the current state of the Earth is transformed into the most direct and also the most brutal data.

Current global population: 40.5 billion.

[Population Decline: Since the resurgence of spiritual energy and the Void invasion, the population has plummeted by nearly 40 billion.]

Interspersed within the massive data stream were countless bloody scenes transmitted in real time from the mortal world, flashing before Gu Qing's eyes like a revolving lantern:

In a ruined European city, the defenses were torn apart by a void rift. A swarm of low-level mutated cave spiders flooded into the refugee camp. In the scene, a father, his face covered in blood, wielded a broken fire axe, futilely trying to protect his crying daughter behind him, only to have his chest pierced instantly by several sharp spider legs and torn to pieces.

On a North American highway, a convoy of armored vehicles carrying mortals was overturned by a rampaging storm of spiritual energy. The surviving soldiers were devoured alive by a pack of frenzied, mutated wolves, their screams echoing through the night.

On the southwestern border of China, several human cultivators who had just entered the Qi realm, in order to cover the retreat of civilians behind them, resolutely charged towards a giant Void Mantis. In despair, they self-destructed their Qi seas, but only managed to sever one of the monster's forelimbs.

A mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood; a living hell.

Civilization is wailing, order is collapsing. Every minute, every second, thousands of lives perish in extreme fear and despair.

However, standing on the cloud, Gu Qing took in the most tragic events in the world, yet not a single emotion flickered in his deep eyes.

There was no pity, no grief, and no intention of transforming into a savior to turn the tide and save the father and daughter or the monks.

"The tempering of civilization is inevitably accompanied by intense pain and elimination. If I intervene now and shield them from all the disasters, humanity will forever remain a group of hothouse flowers that never grow up."

Gu Qing's voice was scattered by the gale, as cold and indifferent as the merciless Heavenly Dao hanging high in the sky.

He doesn't care whether any particular person lives or dies; what he cares about is the survival of "humanity" as a whole, and whether this civilization can provide him with a continuous source of computing power and information in the future.

But he couldn't just stand by and watch humanity be wiped out by the void before it could even develop.

"System, connect to the database of all biological materials offered as tribute from the Western Transcendent Realm, and link to the spiritual energy of the Kunlun Mountains' ley lines. If you don't have enough, buy directly from the store!"

Gu Qing slowly turned around and looked at the Creation Furnace behind him, which had begun to roar again.

"Activate full-power continuous operation mode. Within five days, I want to see 100,000 'Mystic Armor Dao Soldiers' come off the production line."

Gu Qing waved his sleeve and gave the final order:

"Once they're offline, deploy them directly to the war zones with the highest casualty rates globally. Tell those struggling in the mire—the 'heavenly soldiers' of Kunlun have arrived."