Above The Sky
Chapter 804 - 804 36 We are Pioneers 6200_4

804: Chapter 36 We are Pioneers (6200)_4 804: Chapter 36 We are Pioneers (6200)_4 “In my view, Inscriptions and many Origin Structures are essentially some sort of program designed by a super civilization, omitting all complexities and rewriting the world in the simplest way, then throwing this power they derived from transforming the world out there for other civilizations to freely use their ‘program’.”

“Isn’t this just a form of artificial intelligence?”

“But for the vast majority of Terra People, all of this resembles ‘natural laws’ and ‘Logos’…

No one has considered these things.”

“Everyone is unaware of the true principle behind it, but only knows the most superficial ‘phenomenon’—everyone knows that friction can produce fire, but why friction causes fire, that explanation is too complicated.”

“Adalbert, we are Pioneers.”

“We are doing the ‘complicated stuff’ right now.”

Adalbert went from initial dumbfoundedness to shock now.

What Ian said was something even he hadn’t thought of throughout many years of his research career.

It wasn’t that Adalbert wasn’t intelligent or lacked the spirit of scientific inquiry.

In fact, the fact that Adalbert could offer so many suggestions about Ian’s plan demonstrated his profound critical and scientific spirit.

But for Terra People, Inscriptions were merely a way to mobilize Origin Quality and Spirit Energy Fields.

Just like lighting a fire to boil water, or apples falling towards the ground.

This was an instinctive recognition embedded in the deepest layer of their Bloodline long before their civilization had taken shape.

However, how long might it take for a species to develop intelligence and then form a civilization?

Merely a few million years…

For the scale of the universe, that’s just a brief moment.

Creatures born in the Terra Universe might never think about these things.

But Ian wasn’t like this.

He transmigrated.

He had the memories and knowledge of another universe, a completely different ‘cognitive comparison system.’

He could.

And Ian knew.

He knew of a super civilization in this universe capable of creating the ‘Star Prison Tianyu’, and almost all the stars in the sky were covered with this prison.

He knew this universe was vast and boundless, and the civilization capable of such a feat was almost indistinguishable from God.

Therefore, he could guess and doubt these things that to others seemed as ‘truth’.

“We Humans are not a species that can directly see the Logos; what we see with our eyes, is like looking through a mirror, all illusory and hazy.”

At this moment, Ian softly recited the Maxims that Hiliard had initially guided him on The Path of Sublimation:

He started to smile, pure and sincere like a child: “Therefore, everything can be falsified to cultivate the truth—just as the Origin Structure of Magical Beasts replicated by artificial intelligence is ‘false’ compared to the real Magical Beast Origin Structure, but still can achieve ‘real’ effects—this is all the same.”

“Adalbert, you asked me how to ensure artificial intelligence isn’t exploited for personal gain…

The answer is quite simple.”

Ian looked calmly at the Deceased Monarch: “Just don’t let anyone other than you and I know that an artificial intelligence capable of turning people into ‘Sublimators’ exists, completely black box the matter.”

“For the people of future generations, the ability to become Sublimators through meditation and meeting specific Rules and conditions, in essence, is no different from trading with some great existence in the Domain of Void for power.”

“Even this great existence, to the people of future generations, is just a ‘natural law’.”

“But…

even if we stop talking about this now…” Adalbert was now thoroughly subdued by Ian’s thoughts, yet he still murmured: “Surely there will be clever people in the future, they will discover the truth of all this…

They will find out.”

“Isn’t that a simple matter?

Clever people have discovered ‘natural laws’ and summarized them for use.

What’s the big deal?”

“Even now, we can’t be sure that the various ‘truths and laws’ we’ve discovered are not some sort of rules set by some super civilization.”

Ian spoke calmly, even indifferently: “Moreover…

first, Terra must have a future, and we must also successfully create the Arcane Pathway.”

“What lies in the future is for the future to decide, even Prophets can’t manage that much.”

“At the end of the day, my aim…”

—Is only to ascend Above the Sky.

—That is all.

[If my actions affect the beings of the future…

I won’t say I’m sorry]