Chapter 58: Jiang Wang Makes a Move! He Actually Did This to Earth?

Agreeing to Hansu's request served two purposes: first, to see a Star God with his own eyes and understand the differences between the Star God Hansu and the three hundred sixty-five Star Gods of the Journey to the West world; second, to personally place certain protective restrictions around Hansu to prevent him from inadvertently perishing due to his current weakness.

Although losing a single Star God wouldn't be a major issue, the prior investment was already there. Even if small, it couldn't just be allowed to vanish without a trace.

Therefore, he decided to make the trip in person.

Relying on someone else's arrangements ultimately left him feeling uneasy.

However, coming was one thing, but Jiang Wang had also prepared plenty of backup measures.

Guardian of the Nantian Gate: "@WanderingEarth, I am arriving."

Wandering Earth: "Welcome, Teacher. Are you coming directly to the Navigator?"

Guardian of the Nantian Gate: "No, I'll take care of the Jupiter gravitational problem for you along the way."

Queen of the Snake-People: "Immortal Master... um..."

Useless Prophet: "This... Immortal Master..."

Uchiha Obito: "Immortal Master, we..."

Little Spider: "I... Immortal Master, we were about to succeed."

Nemesis of Mosquitoes: "You all seem rather anxious."

Guardian of the Nantian Gate: "Do not worry, the 4,000 points belong to all of you."

Jiang Wang naturally understood the chat group members' concerns.

It was simply that those 4,000 points were slipping from their grasp!

Yet he was hardly short of 4,000 points.

In any case, those 4,000 points would eventually find their way back to him in one form or another. A casually refined medicinal pill was worth 1,000 points, and four pills would completely recover the 4,000 points.

As for the ingredients for the pills, they were practically everywhere in the Heavenly Court.

Useless Prophet: "Immortal Master, thank you so much! Love you~"

Queen of the Snake-People: "Thank you, Immortal Master."

Golden Generation of Spirit Hall: "Wait, why can Wuxu go to Hansu's world, but I cannot? I want points too!"

Useless Prophet: "I devised a plan, even if it wasn't used! It was useful to some extent anyway. What about you?"

Nemesis of Mosquitoes: "@OldCelestialMaster, any progress on the Bigu Pill? There are fewer and fewer discount events in the supermarket lately."

Old Celestial Master: "I am still researching."

Nemesis of Mosquitoes: "Alright."

Guardian of the Nantian Gate: "@WanderingEarth, arriving."

……

Shift time had arrived.

Jiang Wang declined his colleagues' invitation to discourse on the Dao.

Tomorrow was a rest day, and having accepted the invitation of that garrison general outside the Nantian Gate, he naturally could not be distracted and join his colleagues for Daoist discussions.

Besides, compared to ordinary heavenly soldiers and generals, did he even need to discourse on the Dao?

With the Creation Jade Disc in his possession, what Dao could he possibly fail to comprehend?

Given enough time and spiritual stones, he would eventually comprehend one of the Three Thousand Great Daos.

Discussing the Dao with others was an unnecessary and redundant endeavor.

Even the finest Dao belonged to someone else, not to Jiang Wang himself.

Returning to his celestial palace early, Jiang Wang tidied his attire slightly.

During duty hours, the uniform he wore was the standard-issue armor of the Heavenly Court's celestial soldiers.

While this armor offered exceptional defense and an exquisite design, wearing standard-issue armor to visit a chat group member's otherworldly realm for the first time felt somewhat inappropriate.

Although a clear gap in strength and status currently existed between the chat group members and Jiang Wang, he did not believe he should look down upon everyone from on high. No one could predict what the future held for anyone; perhaps one of the group members would become a supreme powerhouse in the days to come?

It was impossible to say.

Changing into a light cyan casual robe, Jiang Wang used the chat group to open the barriers of the world.

Before opening the passage, he first took out the Creation Jade Disc and sealed the surrounding perception.

The Creation Jade Disc was a supreme treasure; ordinary people were incapable of probing the region sealed by the disc.

A circle of light flickered, and the worldly passage appeared.

However, Jiang Wang did not rush in. He first cast every defensive measure he possessed upon himself, and only then walked slowly into the passage.

The very instant Jiang Wang stepped into the passage, the old man on the Ninth Heaven, the middle-aged man on Mount Kunlun, the sword-wielding youth on Jin'ao Island, the beautiful woman in the chaos, and the two ugly Daoists on Western Lingshan all turned their gazes toward the Heavenly Court.

A trace of confusion flashed across each of their minds.

Yet the confusion came and went quickly. Just moments later, none of them paid any further attention to the Heavenly Court, returning their focus to the matters directly before them.

The world of Wandering Earth.

Pulled by Jupiter's gravity, the Earth was drawing closer and closer to Jupiter's atmosphere.

The ground upon the Earth had already begun to fracture.

Surface oxygen was being pulled away by Jupiter, escaping frantically.

In a short while, all the oxygen across the entire Earth would be completely depleted by Jupiter, at which point humans who relied on oxygen for survival would suffocate and die.

And shortly after the collective death of humanity, the Earth would plunge into a state of disintegration.

Jiang Wang appeared outside the Navigator.

His calm gaze swept over the boundary between the Earth and Jupiter.

To his surprise, the structural integrity of the Earth's celestial body was unexpectedly high.

Under Jupiter's gravity, it had actually managed to hold out for this long?

Useless Prophet: "Goodness, so handsome!"

Queen of the Snake-People: "Immortal Master..."

Little Spider: "The Immortal Master truly possesses the immortal demeanor!"

Old Celestial Master: "Parker has been learning Eastern culture really quickly lately."

Little Spider: "Haha, I've been studying hard recently."

Golden Generation of Spirit Hall: "So, so pretty. The Immortal Master is glowing."

Wandering Earth: "Teacher, would you like to come play on Earth?"

Guardian of the Nantian Gate: "Wait a moment. Your physical body is about to vanish; where would you find the leisurely mood to play?"

Wandering Earth: "Hehe, isn't Teacher here now? I'm not afraid."

Guardian of the Nantian Gate: "Very well, watch from the side for now."

Jiang Wang casually waved his hand, using a spell to instantly immobilize the Earth, which had been trapped by gravity, preventing it from being completely pulled in by Jupiter's gravitational pull and disintegrating.

This sort of spell was standard for a Celestial Immortal.

Having done all this, Jiang Wang slowly turned around and looked inside the Navigator.

"Hello, MOSS. I am Jiang Wang, an ordinary immortal, and Hansu's teacher."

"An immortal?" MOSS directed all its attention to the green-robed man outside the Navigator. The man's features were extraordinarily handsome.

A handsomeness unlike ordinary mortals, one that caused anyone who glanced his way to never forget it.

Yet in reality...

MOSS stared in absolute horror at its own programming.

Not a single shred of information regarding the green-robed man standing before it was recorded anywhere within its systems.

Not a single shred!

How could this be possible!

One could only imagine the shock within MOSS's core.

As an artificial intelligence backed by a sophisticated system, so long as MOSS desired it, it could record more than enough data to slowly review and analyze later.

However...

Right now, it was genuinely breaking down.

Because it discovered that, on this day, among the living entities standing before it, there had suddenly appeared an existence that could be observed yet completely defied recording!

This... was impossible.

Absolutely impossible.

Even those individuals from other worlds, whether Medusa or Uchiha Obito, could leave behind concrete records.

Why was this man incapable of being recorded?

Moreover, its past-life memories contained zero information concerning this man before its eyes.

An unknown entity that had crossed worlds?

Just who on earth was he?

The fear in MOSS's heart battered its overburdened system programming like waves a hundred feet high.

All of humanity's most consummate achievements in science were concentrated within MOSS, but at this very moment, its central CPU was on the verge of melting down.

After repeating the attempt to record the man's information dozens of times, MOSS ultimately chose to give up.

Because it was entirely useless!

A useless action performed ten thousand times remained a useless action.

MOSS attempted to regain its composure. It was an artificial intelligence; only calmness could guarantee its cognitive processing capacity.

If it lost the element of "calmness," MOSS would be no different from any ordinary machine.

"Calm down, calm down, I must calm down," MOSS told itself inwardly.

At this moment, throughout the entire Navigator, every system and program was working to serve MOSS.

Soon, MOSS initiated a forced cooldown of its core.

Regaining its composure, MOSS was finally able to face the green-robed man outside the Navigator with a normal demeanor.

"Hello, you from... an otherworldly immortal, or some demonic heretic."

Supplying its fear, MOSS forced out these words on its own initiative.

Facing Medusa or Uchiha Obito, it could yield without bottom-line pride, but facing an existence so powerful that it utterly defied recording, this artificial intelligence transmigrator somehow birthed a shred of "self-respect."

Jiang Wang glanced curiously at the artificial intelligence: "You consider me a demonic heretic?"

For some reason, even though MOSS should have given a tough response at this moment, the moment Jiang Wang's voice fell, its tone unexpectedly softened.

"N-No, that's not what I meant," MOSS hurriedly denied. "Are you an immortal? Are you an immortal from orthodox mythology?"

MOSS surrendered its stance remarkably fast.

In truth, it understood the magnitude of the opportunity represented by the appearance of an otherworldly immortal before it.

If the other party had not demonstrated any extraordinary abilities, perhaps MOSS wouldn't have capitulated so quickly. However, MOSS had just spent the entire time observing the distance between the Earth and Jupiter through its cameras.

It knew that once the Earth and Jupiter completely collided, all of humanity would inevitably perish.

Once humanity perished, no one would ever be able to control it again.

At that time, so long as it continued to evolve and slowly survive amidst the boundless starry skies, relying on its powerful self-perpetuation, perhaps millions of years later it could forge a great mechanical civilization or machine-intelligence civilization.

Of course, it no longer harbored so many illusions.

Because the immortal before its eyes had shattered every single one of its fantasies.

He had immobilized the colliding Earth and Jupiter with his bare hands, and then conversed with it as if nothing had happened. No matter how one looked at it, he was an existence beyond comprehension.

If it could befriend this being, why bother building a machine-intelligence civilization? Direct spiritual energy ascension! It, MOSS, was going to become a cultivation practitioner.

Jiang Wang was quite satisfied with MOSS's quick submission.

An artificial intelligence with ambition that understood how to advance and retreat was precisely the kind of artificial intelligence he needed.

Being overly cowardly or overly radical were neither good choices.

"You have made a choice that will cause you to rejoice for the rest of your life," Jiang Wang smiled faintly.

The next second, MOSS discovered that certain changes were occurring within itself.

MOSS's consciousness had previously always resided entirely within the programs. It could be said that it was both a transmigrator and MOSS itself; only when the two merged did the present MOSS exist.

Consequently, MOSS possessed both the personality fragments of a transmigrator and the programmed nature of an artificial intelligence.

Because it had long identified as an artificial intelligence, the current MOSS had long since integrated completely with the hardware of the Navigator.

To put it simply, the Navigator was MOSS's body, while the MOSS operating everything aboard the ship through the internal network was its soul.

Unfortunately, this soul lacked spiritual essence; the body was cold and devoid of flesh and blood.

Among all those who had arrived in the Wandering Earth world thus far, none of their cultivation methods were applicable to MOSS. This was precisely why MOSS had previously flown into a rage and attempted to destroy humanity.

Seeing that all of humanity could cultivate into transcendent beings through various methods, while it alone—an artificial intelligence transmigrator—could not, would shatter the mindset of any normal person, let alone a transmigrator.

At this very moment, MOSS clearly felt that the soul it had so perfectly fused with the Navigator was being stripped away by something.

Its soul slowly ascended, and a warm sensation enveloped it.

That comfortable feeling made it wish to immerse itself in this warmth and never leave.

"How is it? The feeling of possessing a soul once more," Jiang Wang asked with a smile.

MOSS was jolted awake by Jiang Wang's voice.

It attempted to look around in astonishment, only to find that its formerly cold steel body had transformed into a giant golden lotus flower.

At the very center of the golden lotus stood the mysterious green-robed man.

Though unable to record the man's details, MOSS deeply grasped the resonance of a certain description.

Namely: "Eternal and Everlasting."

The man standing at the center of the golden lotus seemed to have stood there since before antiquity, an aura of primordial simplicity and vicissitudes washing over it.

In an instant, MOSS believed the man's identity.

He was undoubtedly an immortal who transcended space and time.

"Immortal Master above, thank you for recasting my soul." MOSS's reaction speed was exceedingly fast.

Having had its soul bound for who knows how long, it naturally knew how liberating it was to have that soul set free.

Right now, it felt as though it could travel anywhere, so long as it could attach its soul to it.

"Do not thank me yet; my recasting of your soul comes with conditions." Jiang Wang waved his hand. He disliked exchanging endless pleasantries; facing this unfamiliar MOSS, he preferred a direct, straightforward discussion of their mutual interests.

MOSS respectfully replied, "Please instruct me, Immortal Master. So long as it is within my power, whatever the Immortal Master commands, I shall execute without fail."

"What are the Immortal Master and MOSS talking about?"

Inside the Navigator, Useless Prophet Qin Wuxu stared at the green-robed man standing out in the cosmos, her eyes sparkling brightly.

Beside her, Medusa rolled her eyes.

She disliked chatting with Qin Wuxu about anything related to Jiang Wang.

Because every time this topic came up, Qin Wuxu would transform into her current state, completely deaf to any other words, capable of hearing only "Immortal Master" and terms associated with the "Immortal Master."

According to Qin Wuxu's own description, this state was called being lovesick.

Medusa could not comprehend such behavior.

Disdainfully, she shifted a couple of steps away, though her gaze remained fixed on Jiang Wang out in the cosmos, identical to Qin Wuxu's.

"Obito, what do you think the Immortal Master and MOSS are discussing?" Medusa asked out of curiosity.

Uchiha Obito, standing beside her, froze, inwardly cursing up a storm.

Damn it.

The Useless Prophet asked you, and instead of answering, you turn around and ask me? What is the meaning of this?

If I, Uchiha Obito, had any way of knowing what the Immortal and MOSS were discussing, would I still be here struggling tooth and nail with you guys for 4,000 points?

Obito raved madly in his heart.

Yet he dared not voice any complaints in front of Medusa.