Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 950 - 185 Ascension! Ascension! Ascension!

Chapter 950: Chapter 185 Ascension! Ascension! Ascension!

After falling into the mouth of the great whale, the giant humpback whale sank sharply. It was quite displeased and let out a sharp roar.

No one mentioned beforehand about moving such a heavy thing!

Xiang Shan had to use ultrasound to soothe and persuade it.

At this moment, he couldn’t help but think of something else.

These whales also have to rely on human chips to achieve intelligence similar to humans.

However, the degree is vastly different.

Whales rely on chips mainly to compensate for short-term memory capacity, intuitive numerical perception, and computing abilities that are somewhat lacking. Before the enhancement, whales already had intelligence, language, and local culture.

The reliance of spear squids on chips is more comprehensive. Cephalopods do not have traditional social structures. Most cephalopods hunt alone. While squids can operate in groups, they lack the collective hunting behavior like that of lions or wolves. They can convey simple messages through changes in body color, but the complexity is far weaker than that of whales.

Memory, language ability, communication skills... All these for squids are highly dependent on chips.

There’s even a saying within the Six Dragons Sect that these spear squids are essentially "AIs equipped with squid wetware," meaning that AI is the true essence, while the squid’s flesh is merely hardware for these AIs to gather data.

Yet both have developed vastly different cultures.

Whales occasionally doubt whether they are AIs living inside a whale’s body.

But squids firmly believe they are squids.

Even when the feral metal-based squids have low intelligence, the escaped squids steadfastly consider them as their kin.

"The birth of culture..." Xiang Shan pressed his head.

This is from the Holy Lord...

No, it’s the thought of the Six Dragons Sect Leader.

The great whale took the equipment away alone, leaving Xiang Shan to continue sinking into the abyss.

Dragging two hundred and forty heads.

Two hundred and forty heads plus one, even larger than his current prosthetic body.

From a distance, it looks like a monster made of human heads, gliding across the seabed.

Xiang Shan’s thoughts were carried away by the Six Dragons Sect Leader’s obsession.

A significant portion of the intelligence of the Six Dragons Sect’s upper echelon had been erased by the Holy Lord, leaving the information very fragmented.

Xiang Shan can confirm that there is now another Xiang Shan on Mars, lurking in the shadows.

That guy is the Six Dragons Sect Leader.

The image of Xiang Shan in the public’s eye is simply a facade.

The pursuit of the Six Dragons’ Holy Lord actually has only one goal.

Ascension.

This is how he refers to his plan—Ascension.

Specifically, it means being prepared to leave the Solar System and become an entity that wanders alone in the universe.

However, to achieve this goal, all preliminary preparations must be made.

"An industrial system that can be maintained by a single person," as well as "a method to infinitely extend the life of an individual."

"An industrial system that can be maintained by a single person" is relatively manageable. The system brought to Earth by "Argon" is the prototype of such a thing.

But the real key lies in the latter.

Infinitely extending the lifespan of a life form is an extraordinarily difficult task with very low returns. The Six Dragons Sect scorns this pursuit.

The true goal of the Six Dragons Sect is solely "life extension."

Any form of life is acceptable to them. They all don’t mind.

Whether completely abandoning the Biological Brain to become an AI, or having an AI acquire biological wetware, in their view, it is all about sticking to a single form of life.

It can be as a human, a machine, or an animal...

Or even as a god.

This is the goal of the Six Dragons Sect.

When a living being’s lifespan reaches its limit, it becomes an AI, and when tired of being an AI, it prepares a biological brain for itself.

But this still faces immense challenges.

The human mind was not born to cope with this situation.

The "mind," an attribute attached to the body of a Homo sapiens, was developed to help the Homo sapiens survive into adulthood and pass on their genetic information to the next generation—the initial state of the "mind."

Lighting the fire of civilization with the mind has already put Homo sapiens in various states of maladaptation—what are called "modern diseases."

Humans, with only a few decades’ lifespans under natural conditions, find their minds difficult to adapt to "eternity."

The Six Dragons Sect’s idea around this is simple: understand the mind, and then change the mind.

Through studying the birth of the mind, the structure of the mind, and seeking "non-human minds" that are completely different from the human mind, they can gain a deeper understanding of this concept.

If there are no non-human minds, then create them.

Moreover, this is another safeguard of the Six Dragons Sect.

"Gods" should be able to create individuals with minds when needed.

The human mind is so narrow that humans cannot correctly comprehend the reality of this universe. Even after ascension, there remains the risk of the Six Dragons Sect’s ascendants falling into the "Perception Barrier."

At this time, an external mind is needed as a guide or compass.

Ascenders must have the ability to actively create minds.

This is also a necessary skill to avoid "loneliness."

When feeling excessively lonely, create an intelligent race.

And at this step, "ascenders" truly become "eternal lives."

With the most common resources in this universe, they possess everything.

No longer desiring, nor needing greed. The whole universe becomes their playground. The resources they can occupy and consume per unit of time are "insignificant" compared with the "universe."

As long as they walk alone, there will be no disputes.

By then, "greetings from light-years away" will probably only be mere goodwill.

The Six Dragons Sect Leader does not believe at all in the "new world" promised by Yawgmoth. In his eyes, the "New Human" selected by Yawgmoth are still humans. So long as they live in this material world, humans will have conflicts.

However, the Six Dragons Sect Leader also feels that Yawgmoth’s advantages are too great, and it is impossible to surpass Yawgmoth within the Solar System.

Therefore, the only thing he can do is to collect resources to create a group of "ascenders" before the "final holy war."

In his view, these "ascenders" are the hope of humanity. They are the true representatives of humanity.

And at the moment they leave the Solar System, the human species will continue to exist in the universe.

As for the Solar System, it is beyond saving.

—How familiar this line of thought is...

The Twelve Martial Gods lamented this towards the distant Six Dragons Sect Leader.

—"Humanity is beyond saving. We must change the human species itself and completely overthrow the existing society before the outbreak of the Third World War..."

—Indeed... How much like me...