Feng Qi believed that using the Silver Moon Clan's spatial technology to bring Xiao You and the others back ahead of time was totally feasible.
Just how advanced the Silver Moon Clan's spatial technology was had already been proven in previous timelines.
Inter-world ultra-long-distance teleportation—this wasn't something a regular small race could master. It was clearly a legacy passed down from the Silver Serpent Empire to the Silver Moon Clan.
That also explained why the Silver Moon Clan possessed technology far beyond what their strength level would suggest.
Even the earliest spatial tech in Star City had been developed based on Silver Moon Clan designs.
The sacrificial plan to summon the Demon Blade, for example—the spatial teleportation technology used in that plan had also originated from the Silver Moon Clan's framework.
With their help, as long as he could provide the correct spatial coordinates, it would be completely possible to jump across domain fields and enter the domain space where Xiao You and the others were.
Once he made up his mind, Feng Qi's desire to form an alliance with the Silver Moon Clan became even more urgent.
The Silver Moon Clan didn't have much combat strength, but they held a vast reserve of advanced technological knowledge. The only reason they hadn't developed it yet was a lack of resources.
Give them a platform, and the Silver Moon Clan would grow rapidly.
And under controlled conditions, the human race would benefit directly from that growth, experiencing a boom in engineering and technological development.
After thinking it through, Feng Qi came to a decision.
He carefully reviewed the intel he had written in his notebook several times. Once he confirmed there were no mistakes, he opened the desk drawer and pulled out a new notebook.
Opening it, he began writing out the plans for the next sacrifice line.
Actually, the general direction of the next timeline had already been set by the Crimson Research Institute and Wei Wei.
Later, Zhang Daowen had even prepared over 1,200 domain creatures specifically for him to extract abilities from, all in preparation for launching the next timeline.
This timeline—Feng Qi called it: The Nation of Superpowers Timeline.
Also known as: the Faith-Based Growth Path.
This plan had been in the works for a long time, but they had never been able to implement it.
Mainly due to three core issues.
First, a lack of talent abilities. Just a few dozen powers weren't enough to support an entire civilization.
Second, borrowing talent abilities came at a cost. Every borrowed power placed stress on the body, gradually wearing it down.
And now, in this latest sacrifice line, they'd discovered another hidden danger of using borrowed abilities.
That was—spiritual corruption.
Each time someone borrowed a power, it was like making a deal with a devil. It came with a price—mental strain. The more someone borrowed, the more their mind deteriorated, eventually leading to total mental collapse.
These three problems had made implementation impossible.
But now, they finally had possible solutions.
First, the issue of physical burden—this couldn't be eliminated entirely, but it could be eased through cultivation techniques.
Second, the lack of talent abilities—now resolved.
Even though a thousand or so abilities weren't exactly a huge stockpile, it was enough to provide options. Even if Mu Yan's path failed and the cultivation system collapsed, humanity wouldn't be stuck relying solely on rune modification.
Lastly, the problem of mental corruption.
In the previous sacrifice line, Lin Ran and his team had poured all their efforts into solving this exact issue.
Wei Wei had described it in detail in her message.
Though Lin Ran hadn't fully resolved the problem before his death, he did provide a potential solution.
Using Eternal Spirit, it might be possible to create a guide within Feng Qi's mental sea—a kind of Spiritual Ferryman.
This ferryman could lead believers through the sea of consciousness, helping them avoid losing themselves.
The techniques of Eternal Spirit had already been refined multiple times in that sacrifice timeline and were now deeply imprinted in Feng Qi's mind.
Now that the theory was complete, all that was left was to test it in practice.
The envisioned faith-based growth system would usher in a new era of superpowers for the human race. Believers would only need three steps to borrow powers from his talent ability library.
Step One: Worship his faith statue and establish a faith connection with him in the main timeline.
Step Two: Deepen the connection, and allow their consciousness to enter his sea of spirit.
Step Three: Access the talent ability track and select the power they need.
If this growth path succeeded, humanity's overall strength and development speed would soar.
And there would be zero chance of traitors among the believers.
Non-believers might still become human traitors—but believers never would. They would follow his Dawn Plan to the letter.
Most importantly, the faith-based path had extremely low talent requirements for humans.
As long as someone could form a connection of faith, they could access abilities. There was no need for the years of slow cultivation typically required to gain power.
The strengths and weaknesses of this path were all very clear.
There was no denying it—this would be the best backup option for humanity before resolving the issue of Mo.
Even if they managed to fix the collapse of the cultivation system caused by Mo, the faith-based growth path could still serve as one of humanity's critical strategies.
After finishing the basic outline of the faith-based growth system, Feng Qi stood up from his seat.
He decided to convene Star City's highest council and share all the intelligence from this sacrifice timeline with his fellow companions from Dawn.
Two hours later.
Feng Qi arrived at the Tiger Soul Research Institute.
After briefing the current director of Tiger Soul on the situation, the notice to initiate the Supreme Council was sent out to both the Military Department and the Crimson Research Institute.
This time, the Supreme Council would only include three parties: the Military Department, the Crimson Research Institute, and the Tiger Soul Research Institute.
Hours passed, and one vehicle after another pulled up outside Tiger Soul.
Choosing to hold the Supreme Council at Tiger Soul had been Feng Qi's decision early on—mainly as a precaution against Old Mist.
After all, Tiger Soul was the publicly recognized strongest support institute, while the Crimson Research Institute had to stay in the shadows to ensure everything remained absolutely secure.
This was one of the trump cards in Feng Qi's hand.
Soon, the conference room inside Tiger Soul was filled with Star City's top leadership. Old Mist, who was stationed at the Tiger Soul Research Institute as an ally, also joined Feng Qi for the meeting.
Once the meeting began, Feng Qi started sharing the intelligence from this sacrifice timeline.
The experiences in this timeline were long and complex. To tell everything in full, he'd need several days and nights.
So Feng Qi chose to focus on the key points.
During the meeting, only his voice echoed throughout the room. The entire Star City leadership sat in silence, listening intently.
This Demon Blade timeline began with the fusion with the Demon Blade and ended amid the snowfall in Winterfell City.
Eliminating Jian Ji was the final goal of this sacrifice line, but during the long God Ascension Challenge, he also gathered a huge amount of crucial intel.
Things like the ultimate weapon, Xiao You, Fate City, the state of the humans in the Central Region...
As Feng Qi spoke, it felt to those present like they had boarded a magical train bound for distant lands. Strange and wondrous scenes slowly unfolded before their eyes.
They saw giant stone titans like mountains standing between heaven and earth beneath the sunset, their bodies covered in flowers, grass, and moss—slumbering for countless ages. A single movement could shake an entire domain field.
They also saw the golden sea domain field, where countless golden-colored creatures swam in clusters, playing out the brutal rules of survival—competition and slaughter at every turn.
They journeyed to the Elf City in the Central Region, where cities were fully merged with lush vegetation. There, the humans had developed elven technology and used Elf Seeds to power the city's operations with incredible efficiency.
Some people's autobiographies are filled with repetitive entries day after day. But the story of this sacrifice line, as told by Feng Qi, was like an epic history book—filled with intense moments and countless dazzling tales.
Even with only a summarized retelling, the high-level officials of Star City could feel the vastness and grandeur of that story.
A human life is short. The sights one can witness are ultimately limited.
But Feng Qi's stories opened a door in their minds—a door to a new world they had never imagined.
Through his storytelling, Star City's leadership gained a clearer understanding of the future.
It wasn't a future that belonged solely to humanity. It was a new world where countless races showcased their strengths.
Humans believed they were the main characters of this world. But in the true future, there were no protagonists—or perhaps all were protagonists. Every race was a participant in this brutal competition, and humans were no exception.
Even without the human race, time would continue moving forward. The fierce struggle would go on.
With a broader perspective came a new understanding of race itself.
The core of these stories wasn't the tales themselves, but what they were meant to teach—namely, that among races, only interests mattered. There were no eternal enemies.
Just like Feng Qi himself.
He used to think domain creatures were inherently evil and destined to be enemies of humanity.
But as his experience and understanding deepened, his way of viewing and solving problems changed completely.
Through these stories, Feng Qi needed to plant a seed.
The road ahead was long and uncertain. Marching forward alone was far too lonely. Maybe what humanity needed were companions who shared the same dreams and goals—even if they weren't human.
The meeting lasted eight hours, and Feng Qi still hadn't finished telling the full tale.
He announced that the next part of the Supreme Council would resume in three days, then left the Tiger Soul Research Institute.
He and Wei Wei boarded the Crimson Research Institute's secure transport vehicle and headed to the institute.
His mind still held a massive amount of knowledge—including Xiao You's memories.
As per usual, all this vital data would be archived at the Crimson Research Institute.
Once Xiao You was brought back, the memories of their long journey together would be returned to her.
But Feng Qi had one selfish thought.
The memories related to his own death—there was no need to pass those back to Xiao You.
After all, those memories were too heavy.
He once heard Old Wang say: a person's first step toward maturity often begins with an understanding of death.
When one realizes that they will die, that their parents will die—that death is inevitable—that sorrow marks the first step toward maturity.
What he wanted was a carefree Xiao You.
Even if she would eventually grow up, he hoped it would be through a peaceful life, not one where she was forced to mature through grief.
After arriving at the Crimson Research Institute, Feng Qi convened another internal Crimson-level meeting.
Many things couldn't be openly discussed in the Supreme Council, but there was no such concern during the Crimson internal meetings.
After all, the Crimson Research Institute had always been at the heart of his intelligence network. Across all the timelines, it had remained his most dependable stronghold.
This time, the meeting focused primarily on intelligence related to the elimination of Jian Ji and more.
After the meeting ended, Feng Qi immediately ordered a Crimson investigation team to head to Winterfell City to gather intel.
Whether Jian Ji had truly been erased still needed confirmation.
If Jian Ji was indeed dead, then that would prove Feng Qi had truly mastered the ability of temporal erasure.
Even more importantly, if Jian Ji was dead, then Winterfell City would finally be free from the control of the Sword Clan and could become a future ally city in the upcoming timelines.
Its residents would eventually join the efforts to build Dawn City.
After the meeting, Feng Qi followed Wei Wei into her private lab.
Before extracting knowledge and memory, he had to undergo a thorough physical exam.
Updating his physical data was always part of the procedure at the end of each sacrifice line. It affected details like the dosage of anesthesia during memory extraction.
After a series of meticulous procedures, Feng Qi lay down on the familiar operating table.
He glanced down at Wei Wei. She had changed into a white lab coat and was now wearing a mask, her expression serious as she checked the instruments and calculated the anesthetic dose.
The anesthetic was extracted from a special domain creature and was hundreds of times stronger than normal ones.
But with Feng Qi's current body, putting him under wasn't easy.
Besides needing a higher dose, his body had to cooperate too.
He had to consciously relax, slow down his blood circulation, and try to suppress his body's regeneration abilities.
Otherwise, the powerful self-healing properties of his body would quickly eliminate the anesthetic's effects and cause him to wake up mid-surgery.
If that happened, the risk of surgical failure would shoot up.
Even an involuntary movement caused by pain could lead to a failed memory extraction.
Feng Qi actually thought he didn't even need the anesthesia. After going through the Heart Refinement Challenge, he had already mastered the "Mind Like a Mountain" state—his body wouldn't act on its own anymore. As long as he didn't want to move, his body wouldn't dare act on its own.
But Wei Wei felt that mental states were too vague and untrustworthy. Her understanding of such things was still shallow, and she trusted pharmacology more.
Unable to argue with her, Feng Qi compromised.
Besides, being under anesthesia meant he wouldn't have to endure the pain of the operation.
The process of extracting knowledge and memories was long. With the help of the anesthetic, Feng Qi felt like he had slept for a very long time.
When he woke up, he felt completely refreshed.
According to Wei Wei, all the information and knowledge stored in his brain had been successfully extracted into the Crimson database.
The operation had gone perfectly.
But that wasn't the end.
Next, Feng Qi had to visit the data room and write down as much of the knowledge he had memorized for the future as possible.
All of it would serve as the foundation for developing the next timeline.
During this period, he received some intel from Winterfell City.
The Crimson investigation team hadn't reached the city yet, but the director of the Crimson Institute had already made contact via remote communication.
The main contact had been with the military department in Winterfell City.
One confirmed detail: the Winterfell City Military Department was still under the control of the Sword Clan—because the high-ranking officer who spoke with the Crimson director was a Sword Clan member.
That proved the Sword Clan was still occupying Winterfell.
The only thing uncertain was whether Jian Ji was still alive.
If Jian Ji had vanished—or died—but the Sword Clan remained, then the point of erasure must have started from the moment the sacrifice line was launched in the real timeline.
The past history could no longer be changed, but everything forward from the real timeline would be affected by the erasure.
This didn't affect the existence of the Demon Blade.
After all, both the Demon Blade and Jian Ji's history belonged to the past, which wasn't subject to temporal erasure. What had already happened still existed.
Over the next few days, Feng Qi held several more Supreme Council meetings in Star City.
He finished telling the stories he hadn't had time to share earlier.
After wrapping all that up, Feng Qi decided to make a visit to the Energy Research Institute to talk with Yin Ling of the Silver Moon Clan.
If everything went smoothly, the Silver Moon Clan would become an official ally of the human race.
He was genuinely looking forward to seeing what kind of transformation humanity would undergo with the support of the Silver Moon Clan's engineering expertise.