Chapter 63: The Future Has Arrived, a New God Descends!

What left Liu Jun completely speechless was the frighteningly swift execution of Xu Changsheng and the Angel King.

Tonight, at eight o'clock.

The Angel King was about to hold an unprecedented product launch event for a new intellectual brain.

The scope of the release was limited to the various cities under the administration of Rehe Heavy Industries.

The title of this intellectual brain launch event carried profound implications:

[The Future Has Arrived, A New God Descends]

Liu Jun wore an expression full of question marks.

They are already starting to sell goods?

Wait a minute, did seeing that Last Supper drive them into such a frenzy that they jumped straight into intense action?

Yet from their perspective, it was entirely understandable.

The Butterfly Clan—which of them wasn't bold and unrestrained?

Walking like moths to a flame, they inherently possessed a fearless conviction.

Coupled with the fact that these two fellows held ambitions higher than the heavens.

Having ruled era after era in the past, why couldn't they rule this "era" as well?

Liu Jun sighed, "The eras they ruled before were illusions, but this world outside right now is real. Do they really think this is their Angelic Prairie, ready to charge forward?"

Unable to find words to complain, he simply watched quietly to see how things would unfold.

When eight o'clock arrived.

Liu Jun began accompanying Li Feng and Zou Anmeng, sitting in the living room eating popcorn as they tuned into the broadcast of the launch event.

On the screen.

The Angel King appeared first, opening with a prologue:

"What is a born sage?"

"Strictly speaking, a more accurate term is a born sage-brain. Because they can only cultivate soul-thought energy and cannot cultivate the physical body, such a brilliant civilization was formed."

"If someone were born with a sage-body, could they cultivate the physical path? Today, we shall weave a sage-body for the world."

"I have brought back a mutilated tree from antiquity—the Tree of Life."

On the screen, he manifested a tree behind him.

The audience below—powerful figures hailing from various factions—felt their hearts skip a beat the instant they laid eyes on this tree, followed by a violent thumping in their chests.

Right at the very opening, this launch event had touched upon the matter they cared about the most.

There was a secret in this world:

Possessing a Sage Body was the key to breaking through to the fifth tier!

Only by having both the physical body and the soul reach the fourth tier could one cross into the fifth tier!

In truth, all the major factions possessed fifth-tier entities because they had artificially manufactured mechanical versions of the Sage Body.

This was their ultimate nuclear deterrent.

Once piloted into mechs, they became true Intelligent God-beings!

However, their current technological standards were imperfect; the Sage Mechs could not be piloted long-term without damaging the soul...

They were in the midst of tailoring physical bodies that perfectly matched their souls—exclusive Sage Mechs, though this technology was still being refined...

This was also the path of mechanical ascension they were currently treading.

Yet what about now?

Someone else had introduced an entirely different system: physical ascension.

You build mechs, I build flesh; both paths led to a bright future.

Now, if this tree could genuinely weave life using the knot-tying methods of the Butterfly Clan, then perhaps...

Many powerful figures had a premonition that after today, the era was bound to undergo drastic changes.

Although they would still follow the path of mechanical ascension, the emergence of a second path to the fifth tier... meant a second choice, which in itself was an immense benefit.

Weaving!

Knots!

If the might of an entire era were gathered to weave a physical body...

What would humanity transform into?

Would martial arts, which had never truly risen and had vanished into the dust of history, be thoroughly born?

Almost instantly, a large number of observing sages from other factions were moved.

The knot-tying techniques of the Butterfly Clan civilization—butterfly knots, colorful cloud knots, Chinese knots... the possibilities were infinite!

Amidst their shifting thoughts, the Angel King declared:

"Today, as I arrive at Rehe Heavy Industries and hold this launch event in Rehe City, I have only three things to do."

"Fairness, fairness, and more fairness."

"This task is arduous and long-term, but I will strive for it. The first step I must take now is to open up new upward channels for impoverished children."

"I will put books on the market and pioneer an entirely new lineage."

Behind him, several books floated into view.

Tier-Two Book: [Disaster of Wisdom]

Tier-Three Books: [King of Angels], [The Elephant God on the Mountain], [Disaster of Water and Fire], [The Last Supper]

"These are wonderful fairy tale books, and they are also the mythical elegies of the era we inhabit."

The Angel King stated:

"However, Tier-Three books are irrelevant to the majority of ordinary citizens. My primary focus here today is on the Tier-Two book, [Disaster of Wisdom]."

"As everyone knows, the higher the grade of a book, the greater the world information it contains and the broader its map range."

"The Tier-One book [Amber Monarch Butterfly] is merely a forest butterfly devoid of plot, whereas the current Tier-Two [Disaster of Wisdom] will have its map fixed upon the Indus Tree."

"Your mission is to tie knots, protect the Prophet, and defeat wave after wave of invading enemies."

"You will travel back through time to that distant mythical era, witnessing and participating in the species explosion of that age!"

Following the Angel King's words, various contents of this book manifested behind him.

To put it simply, the map was only as large as the Indus Tree, functioning as a "tower defense plot."

The core gameplay revolved around weaving life, defending the Indus Tree, and resisting wave after wave of assaults from those evil entities.

Yet the corresponding historical plot left everyone thoroughly shocked: a Jurassic species explosion?

Hearing this, Li Feng, who was sitting nearby, nearly popped his eyeballs out: "Holy shit!! The guesses of those guys in class were actually true?"

Zou Anmeng also chimed in: "There really is a Prophet's Strict Selection? The plot of this book is protecting the Prophet as if he were a crystal tower?"

This book was also a type of power-fantasy web novel.

Just imagining it was super engaging: learning the art of knot-tying, weaving races to transform them into a tower defense system, and engaging in continuous defense.

These successive waves of attacks—how were they any different from auto-chess gameplay?

Fun!

I want to play!

In reality, while those two individuals possessed limited vision, Liu Jun perceived a much deeper meaning:

"What looks like a tower defense game is actually a game about... the biological explosion!"

"Could it be that they intend to organize the entire populace to create Butterfly Clan life, pooling the wisdom of the masses to weave a Butterfly Clan Sage Body?"

Thinking of this, Liu Jun froze for a moment:

"The release of this book—is it to work for me? To carve out territory for my lineage and school of thought?"

"For you humans to put on this Butterfly Clan Sage Body, wouldn't there be some degree of rejection? Then again, having any choice at all is already quite good for you."

The sheer workload of this project was astronomical. Just how many organs were there in the holy skin, holy viscera, holy bones, and holy muscles? To achieve a flawless fit was a supreme miracle in its own right!

Liu Jun felt this was a massive surprise.

One had to remember that during the era of the Butterfly-Veined Elephant, he had also constantly pushed for the development and weaving of the Sage Body, yet the progress had been painfully slow.

The engineering undertaking was simply too massive.

Yet if he were to marshal the wisdom of an entire era to create this Sage Body and cultivate martial arts... it would shatter the bottleneck that had consistently blocked him from pioneering a new transcendental system.

Surprises always arrived so abruptly.

The Angel King spoke calmly:

"This Tier-Two book, [Disaster of Wisdom], will be sold for only 99 thought-blades, while the Tier-Two Butterfly Clan intellectual brain will be sold for a mere 500,000 thought-blades, and you can even trade in your Tier-One Little Angel intellectual brains to offset the cost!"

As the news spread, the entire network erupted into an uproar.

Silence!

Every single student in Rehe City rose to their feet, watching this launch event in utter stillness.

Have they gone mad?

Fifty thousand—this was the absolute lowest price for a Tier-Two intellectual brain, and that was for secondhand, flawed models.

This intellectual brain, destined to become an instant hit, was being sold for just fifty thousand?

This wasn't making a profit at all!

Then the Angel King dropped another heavyweight revelation:

"Furthermore, any student in Rehe City who possesses this intellectual brain, as long as they join our faction, will only need 1,000,000 thought-blades after turning thirty, and we will reshape your body and weave a physical form for you!"

"You will be born upon the tree, break out of your cocoon to become a butterfly, and live the life you have always desired!"

His voice was majestic yet filled with boundless benevolence.

"In days gone by, our Butterfly Clan homeland housed a Weaving Garden where the little bugs would weave, spin cocoons, and hurl themselves like moths to a flame!"

"And today, Rehe City shall become a new Weaving Garden for children, just as you have continually broken out of your cocoons amidst the acid rain."

"They were the ones of yesteryear; you are the ones of today."

"I hope every single one of you becomes a beautiful butterfly!"

For a very long, long time, the audience remained completely silent.