Chapter 716 394: Victory Will Be Ours! (2)

Yes, Shen Yu's words just now were not only about courage, not just about comfort.

He was pointing out where the concrete hope lay.

That was the Gray Mist!

The Gray Mist Space can draw strength from a fate that is otherwise doomed to destruction.

Then in the current situation, is the Association destined to perish?

If it is, then every bit of change they create, every bit of salvation they achieve, can earn Gray Mist!

And not just any Gray Mist, but an unprecedented, incomparably vast amount of Gray Mist!

This is not merely saving a single world, or a few worlds, but saving countless people across the entire Association!

It even includes saving the Eight Great Forces.

What an enormous amount of Gray Mist is waiting for them ahead.

All the Shen Yus present, at this moment, already had their eyes lighting up one after another; quite obviously, they had all realized where their confidence came from.

Under the power of the Gray Mist Space, any situation that appears hopeless still hides immense opportunity!

Thus, what they needed to do next seemed already decided.

"The Gray Mist we've stockpiled in such quantities has reached the time to be spent." Shen Yu looked at the intersellar world Shen Yu. "On the battlefield—especially a battlefield like this, where there's a chance to obtain immense gains—using Gray Mist to obtain battlefield intelligence yields the greatest positive return. Overall command will be in your hands. The other core Shen Yus will join me in going all out toward the Thirteenth Stage. As for the non-core Shen Yus below that, they will be deeply involved in the war, obey the intersellar world Shen Yu's command, and fully leverage the advantages of the Gray Mist Space—then inform everyone in the entire Association, every warrior, that what lies ahead is sure to be an exceptionally arduous war. However, victory will definitely be ours, and the Association will be their firmest backing!"

"Understood!"

Everyone responded in unison.

After this, as the Association's upper echelons carried out mobilization from top to bottom, the entire Association rapidly shifted from a time of peace into a time of war.

This was by no means a simple process.

A single word from the upper levels can be enough to bring about sweeping changes for those within the civilization, especially the broad masses at the grassroots.

The many Shen Yus were not perpetually aloof; their gazes would likewise penetrate deep into the civilization.

At this moment, Shen Yu split off a strand of consciousness and sank into the Primordial World.

Now, the Primordial World had already become the most central part of the entire Primordial Civilization, the capital of the civilization.

All the elites and geniuses from each Parallel Universe were converging here in a continuous stream.

Among them, some relied purely on talent and followed special recruitment routes through the schools.

According to Shen Yu's highest directive, the unified age to begin cultivation within the Primordial Civilization was ten years old.

Placed in the present-day Primordial World, this was a very reasonable age.

After all, as Extraordinary Power grew abundant, the human species itself had undergone a major transformation: basically, by the age of one they could speak normally, by three they could begin studying some basic and exploratory knowledge, and by ten their temperament would have largely stabilized.

Starting cultivation at this time, stepping into the Extraordinary Level, would ensure that problems did not arise from unstable temperament.

Likewise, talent itself only truly began to manifest at about this stage.

Even for some whose talent was indeed overwhelming—so great it showed itself right at birth—seals still had to be placed so they would enroll in school and develop normally alongside other children of the same age, and only when they reached the age suitable for cultivation would their talent be unsealed.

Because the period from birth to ten years old is precisely the crucial stage for personality development.

With the Association's crisis yet unresolved, the Association must, to a certain extent, suppress excessive individuality.

To ensure that even in the absence of an external crisis, the civilization could still maintain cohesion and order.

However, Extraordinary Power is, in the end, an expression of individuality.

Thus, ten years of age had become an important watershed.

On the premise that personality had basically formed, all newborns, once they stepped onto the path of Extraordinary cultivation, could then display themselves to their heart's content.

Especially those with exceptional talent.

Some truly powerful talent bearers could even directly enter the Primordial World!

At this time, in the Primordial World, countless cities had long since been built across its boundlessly vast lands.

After all, no matter how enormous the Primordial World might be, it still could not quite match the continuously growing population of the civilization.

Even if it gathered only the most talented, most elite population of the entire civilization, the number was still astonishing.

It even required Shen Yu to use his personal Mighty Power, and supplement it with his adjustments to the entire World Laws, in order to meet the needs of the many cultivators now within the Primordial World.

And at this moment, under Shen Yu's observation, the majority of people in the Primordial World held an excited attitude toward the current fierce war.

Take, for example, a certain school that could rank only in the middle-lower tier within the Primordial World.

Some students were standing in the plaza, freely discussing part of the publicly released intelligence from the front lines.

"The situation at the front is very clear: we're at an absolute disadvantage in terms of scale!" A student who seemed quite authoritative stood in front of a projection, speaking with a steady tone. "However, in terms of technology, our advantage is just as obvious. We have essentially mastered the enemy's main technologies; we already have targeted countermeasures for over sixty percent of their battlefield methods, and that proportion is rapidly rising—even if they bring out new tech, we can still quickly master it."

Shen Yu nodded slightly.

This was indeed true, and moreover a fact laid out in plain sight.

However, on the current front lines, information was abundant and chaotic, with all sorts of public discussions and analyses coming one after another. For someone who was still just a student to sift through such a jumble of news and accurately pinpoint the core factors of this war was no simple feat.

Most important of all was the powerful confidence revealed between the lines.

"And it's not just on the technological level," another person added. "We should also see that although the enemy, as a technological civilization, has a huge advantage in terms of growth in scale, we, as an Extraordinary Civilization, while maintaining the diversity advantage of Extraordinary Power, also possess an advantage in scale growth—the Association Points can massively reduce the time we need for cultivation. As long as we earn enough military merit, our cultivation speed can break common limits. This is an edge the enemy does not have, and even our allies lack this advantage."

Exactly, this pointed out another advantage.

In essence, these two advantages all existed only because of the Gray Mist Space.

And this was another fundamental aspect of this war.

By relying on the Gray Mist Space, the Association could, to a certain degree, "sustain war through war."

They could use a series of small victories to continuously obtain Gray Mist, and then use that Gray Mist to gradually cement their advantage.

One could say that this underlying structure had already been laid out in front of many people, and had become a source of confidence for many.

Even these students could clearly articulate the outcomes they could foresee.

"In short, this war will inevitably be extremely arduous at the beginning, but the final victory will inevitably be ours. And all the hardship at the start will become nourishment for the growth of the whole civilization. Whether it's us, or those pioneers, or those powerhouses who can already play a major role on the battlefield, we all need to seize this opportunity: either perish in the war, or rise from the ashes and ascend in the midst of war!"

Voices this impassioned were not found only among these genius students in the current civilization.

They had become the mainstream.