King of the Solar System?
Yana's words made Feng Lin's heart skip a beat, and he couldn't help but stop in his tracks.
"What do you mean by that?" he asked in a deep voice.
"Nothing much. But if you want to be the top scorer in the Solar System assessment of this Cosmic University, doing it alone is too hard. I might be able to help you!" Yana chuckled softly, her eyes gleaming with the light of wisdom, as if everything was under her control.
Though she said "might," the confidence in her words was undeniable.
"Are you that confident?" Feng Lin was slightly surprised.
Yana looked frail, as if a gust of wind could blow her over.
It wasn't that Feng Lin looked down on her, but how could a weak woman boast so boldly, claiming she could help him become the King of the Solar System? Where did that confidence come from?
Anyone would find it puzzling.
If he didn't know that Yana was following the path of the Athena myth and was exceptionally wise, not one to speak recklessly, Feng Lin might have thought she was joking...
"How dare you doubt what my sister says?" At this point, seeing Feng Lin's repeated questioning, Ares immediately bristled. Her still-childish face twisted into a snarl, like a fierce young tigress.
She growled low in her throat, issuing a threatening sound. "Kid, let me tell you. My sister never says anything wrong! She's kindly trying to help you, and you dare to doubt her? You don't know what's good for you!"
Ares looked fierce, but Feng Lin paid her little attention.
Different positions lead to different perspectives.
Ares treated her sister's words like a sacred decree, but Feng Lin had never met them before and had no such notion.
Even if it was the path of the wisdom goddess, how could it be?
Decisions made aren't always absolutely correct.
Feng Lin had his own scale of judgment and wouldn't easily trust anyone.
Yana, sharp-minded, understood why Feng Lin was skeptical. She didn't defend herself much, just pointed a slender finger at her forehead. Her face was pale and bloodless, but her eyes blazed with an incredibly confident light, dazzlingly bright.
"My wisdom can achieve all this," she said flatly. It was precisely this calmness that made her inner confidence and conviction even more apparent.
Feng Lin paused for a moment, knowing that Yana was on the path of the Athena myth.
As one of the twelve main gods of Greece, Athena was among the top in both combat and wisdom among the Olympian gods—an absolute supreme mythic path.
Could it be that Yana had gained some of Athena's mythic inheritance, acquiring some mysterious ability, and that was why she was so confident?
Should he take a gamble?
Feng Lin was tempted.
In this second round of assessment, there were over ten thousand candidates. Feng Lin was absolutely confident he could achieve a decent result.
But becoming the top scorer, the King of the Solar System among the younger generation—that was uncertain!
Strength, luck, wisdom... all were indispensable.
Becoming the King of the Solar System brought endless benefits, both in fame and fortune.
Feng Lin didn't care much about these things, but he deeply understood that in the universe, everything could be used for his own purposes.
Though fame and fortune might be useless in the long run and even bring trouble, in the short term, they could yield huge profits.
As the saying goes, when one person attains enlightenment, even their chickens and dogs ascend to heaven!
If Feng Lin became the King of the Solar System, besides gaining fame across the system, many close to him would benefit behind the scenes.
The only downside was that it might attract too much attention!
But since he had become an interstellar cultivator, he had to compete everywhere.
The interstellar era was an age of great contention. If he didn't compete, how could he overpower many rivals and seize numerous opportunities?
The path of the great Dao is one of contention—advance without retreat!
Only with an indomitable heart could one break all taboos and charge forward boldly.
So, Feng Lin was determined to claim the title of King of the Solar System, but he wasn't sure how to go about it.
Seeing his interest, Yana chuckled again and spoke, hitting the nail on the head. "Now, over ten thousand people are participating in the second round of assessment! The competition is fierce. If you rely on yourself to hunt aliens one by one, the efficiency is too slow! Completely inefficient. Others are grouping up to hunt aliens, forming encirclement tactics, moving much faster than you. Although interstellar cultivators value personal strength, and numbers mean nothing in the face of overwhelming power, this is an assessment akin to monster hunting. With more people, you can achieve results where 1+1 is far greater than 2. In the long run, you might get decent results, but becoming the King of the Solar System among the younger generation is hopeless!"
She wasn't a woman with short hair and shallow views; she pointed out what Feng Lin had overlooked.
Feng Lin fell into thought and asked noncommittally, "Since that's the case, what method do you have to ensure I get first place?"
Yana smiled mysteriously, confident. "For an interstellar cultivator, strength is important, but wisdom is also indispensable. Wisdom is like a lever, allowing strength to be multiplied a thousand or ten thousand times, moving entire planets or even the universe. Every famous strong person in the interstellar realm possesses both wisdom and strength. I have a plan that can, in a short time, allow us to charge to the top spot with an extremely high score. That's the power of wisdom..."
She spoke slowly and calmly, as if holding all the cards.
Seeing her so confident, as if everything was under control, Feng Lin grew curious. "What plan?"
Yana smiled lightly, her slender finger tapping her brow. "Because all the information about this Shura Star is stored in my mind—the types, distribution, and groups of aliens... I know it all. Feng Lin, you need to understand that aliens are not all the same. Their types and strengths vary greatly, and the assessment scores for hunting them are completely different, with tenfold increases. I know how to hunt aliens in the most efficient way!"
"Huh?" Feng Lin suddenly realized something very strange. From start to finish, Yana had been saying "aliens," not "biochemical monsters" like others.
Moreover, claiming that all the information about the massive Shura Star was in her mind was a bit too exaggerated.
This was an entire huge planet, with incredibly complex geography—mountains, oceans, canyons... involving various terrains and the distribution of aliens. This information was astronomical, covering astronomy, geography, biology... many disciplines.
Even if an interstellar cultivator's brainpower was greatly developed, they couldn't process so much information at once.
Could Yana really do it?
Wisdom genes?
Or some other ability?
...
Feng Lin had some guesses but no definite conclusion.
"Exactly!" Yana saw his hesitation and felt there was no need to hide it. She had already revealed too much information; any smart person could figure something out.
She straightforwardly admitted, "My genes are highly developed in wisdom, giving me a thinking power no less than a light brain. I've recorded all the data on Shura Star."
Yana's tone was calm, as if this were a very ordinary thing.
No less than a light brain?
Feng Lin was quite surprised.
But mythic genes had infinite potential, so he was no longer surprised.
With such an ability, his previous doubts were perfectly explained.
"Aliens?" Feng Lin asked, feigning ignorance.
"That's the name of those biochemical monsters. It's quite obscure, known to few!" Yana felt no need to hide it and said directly, "In ancient Earth times, there was a terrifying series of movies called 'Alien.' The movies said there was an Engineer race in the universe with biotechnology at its peak, creating a strange and terrifying active substance called black liquid. This substance usually looked like black liquid but had life, capable of combining with the genes of different races to mutate and evolve, giving birth to a terrifying biochemical guardian called an alien, theoretically with infinite evolutionary potential. Depending on the combined biological genes, the types of aliens vary greatly.
The specific evolution formula is:
Black liquid + man = zombie
Zombie + woman = giant tentacle monster
Giant tentacle monster + Engineer = alien
...
As interstellar human technology advanced, some crazy scientists had a sudden idea to try to create this kind of sci-fi biological weapon, to be used in interstellar colonization.
Once created, a small can of black liquid would spread like a plague on a life planet, completely wiping it out without effort.
This seemingly absurd idea was initially met with ridicule, called wishful thinking.
But the wonder of science lies in tracing the truth of the universe, with infinite possibilities.
The power of science and cutting-edge technology eventually perfectly created the alien, making it a reality.
This terrifying biological weapon, when first used, led to the complete extinction of a life planet, without a single human soldier, just a small can of black liquid.
Just as those crazy scientists were immersed in their great creation, the horror began.
When humans set foot on that alien planet, eagerly expecting to take it over, they were horrified to find themselves also targets of the aliens.
The control programs previously set in the alien genes had been removed by the aliens' self-purification.
Humans were stunned to realize that this terrifying biological weapon only had desires for killing, evolution, and reproduction, with no emotions, even turning against its human masters. In some ways, it was even more terrifying than the most feared plague race in the interstellar realm—the Zerg!
Even more terrifying was that under the control of the Alien Queen, the aliens left eggs inside the bodies of survivors. When these people returned to human planets, the aliens burst out of their stomachs, spreading through the starships across the interstellar realm. Wherever they went, it was like doomsday, quickly spreading to over a hundred life planets, turning them into hells of flesh and blood.
This massive alien plague finally caught the attention of the entire interstellar human community. They paid a huge price to clean up all the aliens.
But as a pinnacle human life creation, humans didn't immediately exterminate them. Instead, they placed these aliens on an isolated giant planet, then exiled death row inmates there to continue experiments, observing their life characteristics. In fact, the entire Shura Star was a large alien experimental field, with those death row inmates as experimental materials..."
Yana slowly revealed a brutally cruel truth.
Neither Feng Lin nor the Greek twin sisters showed any change in expression.
Since they were death row inmates, it meant they had committed unforgivable crimes, no longer treated as humans, with no political rights, expelled by all humanity. Using them to deal with the aliens was just right.
Evil is punished by evil!
But keeping the aliens penned up...
That method was truly chilling to hear.
But after thinking it over, Feng Lin understood.
Aliens, these terrifying creatures, might have been unstoppable horrors in ancient Earth times, but in this interstellar era, they were no different from pets.
The terror of interstellar technology was already beyond imagination—destroying planets, even interstellar systems, was nothing, as long as one was willing to pay the price...
Previously, when the aliens spread unnoticed to over 100 life planets, they were quickly dealt with.
A mere biochemical monster, without supernatural abilities, posed no threat to interstellar humans at all.
From this, Feng Lin gained a deeper understanding of the terror of interstellar technology.
But what did all this talk from Yana have to do with him becoming the King of the Solar System?
Feng Lin got straight to the point. "What's the use of all this talk?"
Yana rubbed her brow with her slender fingers, her face growing even paler, but her eyes were dazzlingly bright, hard to look at directly.
The heavy mental exertion seemed to be a huge burden on her already weak body.
"Because omniscience leads to omnipotence! I control all the information on Shura Star. With enough action to utilize this information, it can have unimaginable effects! According to my research, the alien group structure is similar to an ant colony. Large groups of aliens gather in a hive, forming a stable ecological structure. Different types of aliens have different abilities and different statuses within the race. The highest status is the Alien Queen, equivalent to a queen bee, the mother of all aliens. The Queen usually has little combat power, but can produce various types of aliens based on the genes of the creatures she devours. The Alien Queen is the biggest production machine of an alien hive, but also its biggest weakness. You need to know that the higher the level of alien we hunt, the higher the assessment score. If we can kill the Alien Queen..."
Yana's tone was mysterious, stopping just short. Anyone normal would understand her meaning.
Beside her, Ares's eyes were already blazing with fervor, eager to rush into the alien hive and smash the Queen under her fists.
"You mean...?" Feng Lin's heart stirred.
"Exactly! Assassinate the Queen! If we kill the Queen, we'll definitely get the highest score. Then we'll split it three ways. Whoever becomes the top scorer will depend on their own ability! The more other aliens we hunt, the higher the score." Yana proposed a plan for dividing the spoils.
Feng Lin fell into deep thought.
Yana really made him see her in a new light.
He never expected such a frail woman to come up with such a bold and wild plan, extremely dangerous.
But he had to admit, the greater the risk, the greater the reward.
If this plan could really succeed, becoming the King of the Solar System might just be possible...
Should he take the gamble?
Feng Lin was tempted but didn't rush to decide. Instead, his eyes flashed with sharpness as he asked, "You know so much, and your plan is perfect. Why did you call me in?"
Yana didn't hide the truth, knowing that without a reasonable explanation, Feng Lin wouldn't take the risk.
"This plan is very dangerous and requires elite-level combat power from cultivators, the more the better! My sister and I alone aren't enough. Others aren't trustworthy, and you're the only helper we can find right now," Yana said calmly.
"Are you that sure of me?" Feng Lin didn't think it was that simple.
"After all, you saved our lives and kept your word, which is more reliable than other unfamiliar candidates! We've already had a successful cooperation, and both sides have some understanding of each other. That forms the basis for a second cooperation, doesn't it?" Yana smiled slightly, asking in return.
Hearing this, Feng Lin also smiled and, without further hesitation, nodded. "Alright!"
Fortune favors the bold...
Let's go for it!