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"Connect me to Angel Nebula and find that old hag He Xi. No, transfer me directly to Keisha! Tell her that her dear sister Liang Bing has a life-or-death deal to discuss with her!"
Atto's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
"Your Majesty...you mean...Holy Keisha?"
"nonsense!"
Morgana slammed her hand on the control panel.
"Besides that bitch, who else is qualified to negotiate this deal with me? Go! Tell her that if she keeps putting on that queenly airs, we're all doomed! Then her justice and order will have to be realized in the void!"
----split line----
Angel Nebula, Celestial Palace.
He Xi frowned as she looked at the "exam paper" sent by Du Kao on the screen. She had repeatedly broken down and analyzed the combat data of Ge Xiaolun, Zhao Xin, and Qi Lin thousands of times.
There is only one conclusion: there is no solution.
The phenomenon known as "Honkai" was completely beyond the comprehension of Shenhe Technology. It was unreasonable and illogical; it was itself a more fundamental kind of "reason" and "logic".
"Keisha, did you see that?"
He Xi's voice carried a hint of weariness.
"The Galactic Force on Earth theoretically possesses the most advanced gene engine in the universe, and the concept of indestructibility. Although it hasn't fully matured yet, its concept was easily shattered in front of the lowest-level Honkai Beasts. This isn't an energy-level crushing; it's... a crushing of authority. Just like an administrator who can freely modify a regular user's document."
Holy Keisha, seated on her throne, gazed silently at the divine oracle. For the first time, the detached composure that usually characterized her all-encompassing control was gone from her golden pupils…
"A crutch... He said our divine bodies are crutches," Keisha repeated softly, as if savoring the meaning of the word.
"Perhaps he is right. We rely on divine bodies, on dark communication, on the judgment of the Heavenly Blade... We have not used our own eyes to see, or used our own brains to think about the nature of the universe for a long time."
"But we've been walking this road for tens of thousands of years, and there's no turning back now."
He Xi smiled bitterly.
“So, he came. To help us turn around.” Keisha’s voice was unreadable, neither relieved nor fearful.
Just then, an angelic guard strode into the hall and knelt down on one knee with a strange expression.
"Your Majesty, Celestial King. The Demon Civilization has sent a communication request, specifically requesting... to speak with you."
He Xi was stunned, then burst into laughter:
"Morgana? She hasn't even left the Local Group yet? And she still dares to contact us?"
Keisha's eyes flickered slightly, as if she had already anticipated this.
"Get in."
"Keisha, this..."
"Let her speak."
Soon, Morgana's face, adorned with smoky eye makeup and bearing a mixture of displeasure and anxiety, appeared on the central projection screen of the hall.
"Hey, sister, it's been thousands of years, and you still have that same deadpan face. Sitting on that cold chair, doesn't your butt feel uncomfortable?"
Morgana's opening remarks were the familiar sarcasm.
Keisha remained expressionless.
"Liang Bing, if you just want to reminisce, then I don't think we have anything to talk about."
"Don't!"
Morgana immediately dropped her nonchalant demeanor, her expression becoming more serious than ever before.
"Keisha, enough nonsense. You know what happened on Earth. That man treated us all like students, trying to give us some kind of pop quiz. You saw the first question too; that little brat from the Galactic Force almost got wiped out by a grunt."
She paused, staring into Keisha's eyes.
"I ask you, if it were your third-generation divine body guards, or those little angels under He Xi's command, would the outcome be any different?"
He Xi's face darkened. She knew the answer; there would be no difference.
"What exactly are you trying to say?" Keisha asked.
“I want to say that our millennia-long sisterly war is a joke in this teacher’s eyes! He could crush us like an ant.” Morgana lowered her voice. “Right now, we’re like grasshoppers tied to the same string. No, we’re students sitting 1.5 meters apart in the same classroom, facing the same exam paper. Even though I don’t like you, and you feel like throwing up too, shouldn’t we… exchange some study tips before we get expelled by the teacher?”
"for example?"
"For example, can you pause your so-called 'justice and order' for a moment? Stop chasing after my demons all day long. And for another example, can you stop researching how to upgrade your broken throne all day long and start researching what this Honkai energy is all about!"
Morgana practically screamed it out.
"We have to find a way to pass! Keisha! We have to pass!"
The entire Heavenly Palace was deathly silent.
All the angels looked at Morgana as if she were a madwoman. She was actually asking Holy Keisha to suspend the order of justice and cooperate with the demons.
However, Keisha remained silent.
After a long silence, she slowly spoke, her voice echoing throughout the entire Angel Nebula.
"Liang Bing, I have to correct you on one point."
Morgana was taken aback: "What?"
"This isn't an exam just to pass." Keisha's gaze seemed to pierce through endless void, reaching the azure planet shrouded in a purple halo.
"This is an entrance exam... for the purpose of gaining the right to attend the lectures."
"And we haven't even received our exam admission tickets yet."
Chapter 424 Different Tests
Sea view villa, restaurant.
The rich aroma of beef tallow hot pot, mixed with the numbing spiciness, permeates the air. The red oil simmers, with tripe, beef aorta, and duck intestines bobbing up and down, making it incredibly tempting.
Zhou Ye picked up a perfectly cooked slice of beef, dipped it in the garlic and sesame oil sauce, and popped it into his mouth, squinting his eyes in satisfaction.
"Hmm... this tastes the most authentic."
Feng Shayan sat to the side, chopsticks in hand, but had little appetite. Her mind was filled with images of the silent and terrifying Honkai Beast legion on the orbit, the scene of Ge Xiaolun and his group fighting desperately, and the epic "online meeting" between angels and demons.
The instigators of these momentous events, which are enough to overturn the known universe, are currently agonizing over whether a piece of beef hotpot is overcooked or undercooked.
This extreme contrast gave her a strong sense of unreality.
"gentlemen."
She finally couldn't help but ask, "You...are you really planning to teach the entire universe a lesson?"
"Ok?"
Zhou Ye fished a piece of pig brain from the bubbling red soup, blew on it,
“Teaching is tiring, so I only assigned a few homework problems. Whether they study on their own, find someone to tutor them, or simply copy homework is their own business.”
"But... the price is too high."
Feng Shayan thought of the despair brought by that Ranger-class Honkai Beast.
“They’re going to die.”
"You only learn fast if you die."
Zhou Ye put the pig brain into his mouth, savoring its delicate and mellow flavor.
“A towering tree cannot grow in a greenhouse; a comfortable environment only breeds arrogance and stupidity. Look at them, each one calling themselves gods, readily judging this and defining that, and what's the result? They even need canes to walk. How laughable.”28
He put down his chopsticks, picked up a tissue to wipe his mouth, and his gaze fell on Feng Shayan.
"Sha Yan, what do you think is the essence of power?"
Feng Shayan was stunned, not expecting her master to suddenly ask such a profound question. She thought for a moment, then hesitated and said, "Is it... stronger genes? Faster speed? Or... world-destroying energy?"
“It’s cognition.”
Zhou Ye gave an unexpected answer.
"Cognition?"
"Yes. If you perceive the world as one-dimensional, then all your power can only be exerted along a single line. If you perceive the world as three-dimensional, you can understand height, depth, and breadth. When you realize that time is also a river that can be trodden upon, you can walk through the past and the future."
Zhou Ye pointed to the starry sky outside the window.
"The gods of this universe, their understanding is locked in by the formula of the super gene. They think that by mastering the formula, they have mastered the truth of the universe. But they don't realize that the formula itself is merely a clumsy imitation of truth. What I want to do is tear down their formula, let them see this world anew with their own eyes, and start anew..."
Understand it.
He picked up a bottle of iced cola, took a big gulp, and let out a satisfying burp.
"Of course, the process might be a little painful. But good medicine tastes bitter."
Feng Shayan nodded, seemingly understanding but not quite. Looking at her husband's ordinary face, she felt for the first time that behind that face lay a wisdom deeper than the universe, and... a wickedness.
This isn't a teacher; it's clearly a devilish instructor who enjoys tormenting his students.
----split line----
Dead Song Academy.
There's no aroma of hot pot here, only cold streams of data and oppressive darkness.
Karl, however, was even more excited than Zhou Ye, who had eaten ten hotpot meals. His face was flushed with a sickly redness, and his eyes shone with a fervent thirst for knowledge.
In the center of his temple, a massive holographic projection was in operation. At the core of the projection was an extremely complex energy model that constantly twisted and changed, attempting to simulate one ten-thousandth of the characteristics of "Honkai energy".
"Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful!"
Karl opened his arms wide, as if embracing a perfect work of art.
"Deniing dark energy, denying the conservation of matter, conceptually erasing existence... This is not destruction, but the key to reality! It is the projection of the essence of emptiness into the real world!"
Beside him, the projection of the Gluttonous King Shizhu trembled. Just now, in order to verify a hypothesis, Karl remotely linked to a Gluttonous reconnaissance ship located at the edge of the solar system, which had not yet been "cleaned up" by the Honkai Beasts.
He simply injected a tiny, insignificant stream of "pseudo-Honkai energy" data, which he had simulated and was riddled with errors, into the warship's energy core.
As a result, the massive starship, several kilometers long, did not explode or disintegrate; instead, it vanished instantly like a punctured soap bubble. The thousands of Taotie soldiers inside didn't even have time to utter a single scream.
"My God Carl..."