NOVPUBAs for the deficiencies in other avenues, they could only be compensated with Civilization Points.
What cannot be created on one’s own, buy it!
Thus, by undergoing far more Trial sessions than Human Civilization, they barely achieved their current strength, and yet, they still cannot be compared to Human Civilization.
This is even without considering the formidable nature of Shen Hao, purely comparing the power of civilizations.
However, even so, in the production domain, Human Civilization with its most complete technology reserves and production conditions, was still outmatched by Heavenly Dao Civilization.
This civilization is far too terrifying in "replication".
As long as it’s a technology mastered by the Heavenly Dao, then casually, all those under the coverage of the Heavenly Dao can become absolute geniuses in this technology!
Talent, to some extent, can replace effort.
Therefore, in a very short time, Heavenly Dao Civilization became a civilization that specializes in the production of Lifebound Battleships.
Countless powerful Lifebound Battleships, even the components of Lifebound Battleships, were produced by the Heavenly Dao Civilization.
This also made the legions of the Heavenly Dao Civilization the second civilization to fully join in the pursuit.
And by this time, it had only been thirty years since the full technical alliance of the eight Trial Civilizations!
It is worth mentioning that:
The joining of the Heavenly Dao Civilization indeed provided Shen Hao with even more points!
"The core technology of the Lifebound Battleship, after all, originates from Human Civilization." Watching the increase in his own points, Shen Hao’s previously tense heart finally relaxed a little.
One can only say that the follow-up pursuit war, which seems to rely on the coalition seeing the hope of victory, is actually relying on Shen Hao’s cheats.
This even gives Shen Hao a bizarre feeling.
The Civilization Trial System might not be able to detect cheats, but it has already begun to include the performance of cheats, or rather, the performance established by Trial Civilizations on the basis of cheats, into the consideration of ability, directly increasing the difficulty!
However, this is after all just Shen Hao’s speculation.
As a Cheater, Human Civilization has long been accustomed to the difficulty of the Civilization Trials.
They don’t even think it’s a bad thing.
The tougher the challenges, the more valuable the rewards!
Without these high-difficulty Trials, it’s uncertain if today would have been achievable.
Besides—
It was due to a lack of understanding before, but at this moment, Shen Hao has more or less discovered that the Heavenly Dao Civilization also seems to have discovered some loopholes in the Civilization Trial System!
The reason is simple.
The number of geniuses within Heavenly Dao Civilization seems a bit too high!
Normally, it would be reasonable for more geniuses to emerge from this civilization, after all, the Heavenly Dao they have condensed will naturally create as many "Children of Dao" as possible.
But the geniuses Shen Hao has noticed are not at all like the geniuses under normal circumstances!
The number of geniuses in Human Civilization is just as numerous, but this stems from Shen Hao; Shen Hao has dispersed as much of his power as possible throughout the world, and under his protection, a new generation of geniuses continues to emerge. Most of these geniuses’ talents originate from the power held by Shen Hao.
Heavenly Dao Civilization, to speak of it covertly, should be the same.
But it is not!
Even, among the new generation of geniuses, most are of a type that clearly should not belong to Heavenly Dao.
For example, [Mechanic].
Heavenly Dao Civilization’s Heavenly Dao is created based on a path similar to Cultivation as its core. 𝖓𝔬𝔳𝔭𝔲𝔟.𝖈𝖔𝔪
How could it impart the talent of a "Mechanic"?
The possessors of this talent couldn’t even receive proper training within the Heavenly Dao Civilization, as the civilization’s technological path is very poorly developed and essentially a marginal road.
Similarly, there are many others.
Magic, technology, alchemy, mutation...
This could only make Shen Hao think of "Original Talent"!
Yes, the Original Talent bestowed by the Civilization Trial System!
"They have a way to disperse the talents from the Civilization Trial System to the newborn Non-Chosen Ones," guessed Shen Hao, a thought that shook him to his core.
If this is true, then this is a cheat that doesn’t even need a cheat panel!
Within the cheat panel, there is only one Chosen One talent cheat.
The function of this cheat is to increase the odds of Chosen Ones within a civilization drawing high-quality cheats.
The original probability was too small.
Even though the increase isn’t significant, with a large enough base number, it substantially boosts the quantity of Chosen Ones with high-quality talents within the civilization.
Obviously, the direction that the Heavenly Dao Civilization is exploiting loopholes in is somehow related to this, but in reality, it is vastly different.
It was already known that powerful Trial Civilizations would inevitably probe for loopholes in the Civilization Trial, but this was the first encounter.
Moreover, Shen Hao had a deeper speculation.
Perhaps, the Heavenly Dao Civilization will be a member of the Trial Civilization Alliance in the future, and they may also have participated in the creation of the cheat panel. However, they are one of the many civilizations that have utterly failed, and their future is likely to be detected by the automatic detection rules of the Civilization Trial System, which may send the entire civilization into a "Civilization Prison."
This also implies that the type of cheat they are currently exploiting poses a significant risk in the timeline when the cheat panel was created.
However, this is not the current timeline!
"Trial Civilizations that can find loopholes in the Civilization Trial System and develop them are the most powerful Trial Civilizations," Shen Hao has made his decision.
Although it is unknown whether the Heavenly Dao Civilization has joined the Trial Civilization Alliance, instead of letting them fall into their original fate, it might be better to step in and preserve this powerful civilization.
Besides, Shen Hao is also quite interested in the direction of the cheat development of the Heavenly Dao Civilization.
Even if it is a direction of a "past failure."
After contemplation, Shen Hao took a more direct approach.
After all, the cheat is just a speculation coming from Shen Hao himself, and instead of wasting time here on mutual probing, it might be better to ask directly.
The Titan Civilization decided to join precisely because of the Human Civilization’s demonstrated ability to decode the Civilization Trial System, did they not?
Of course, in order to ensure secrecy, Shen Hao directly dispatched one of his Avatars.
The Heavenly Dao Civilization might be centered around the Heavenly Dao, but the true ruler is naturally not the Heavenly Dao, but the "Creator" of the Heavenly Dao.
An Immortal named Huan Yu.
Indeterminate of gender, or rather, this being who has long lost the concept of gender, has pursued the path of the myriad beings.
I am for all beings, and all beings are for me.
Within the Heavenly Dao Civilization, they could be said to be omnipresent, anywhere could possibly be them.
In some sense, they could also be regarded as a nascent form of the Heavenly Dao, and it wouldn’t be odd for them to transform into the Heavenly Dao itself.
And Shen Hao also understands why they don’t do this — being a Chosen One is a form of restraint.
Take Human Civilization, for instance; if Shen Hao is discovered by the Civilization Trial System for cheating, or rather, is targeted directly because he stands out too much and cannot resist, then the entire Human Civilization will be destroyed alongside him.
It can only be said that this Chosen One named Huan Yu truly places the civilization at the core and can sacrifice and harm themselves for it, unlike Shen Hao.
If it weren’t for binding themselves completely to the whole civilization, ensuring a high degree of alignment between their own interests and those of the civilization, Shen Hao might not necessarily be such a selfless being.
However, the more selfless someone is, the easier they are to approach.
As soon as Shen Hao’s Avatar arrived, without needing to do anything, a figure appeared before him.
It was indeed the "True Body" of Huan Yu, or rather, the most commonly used body when assuming the identity of Huan Yu.
"Your ability is quite interesting," Shen Hao contemplated as he sized up the other, "It’s not just a simple Avatar, each Avatar is you, yet each has its own independent personality and thought process. This path you’ve chosen is originally to free yourself from the identity of a Chosen One, I presume."
