The day before Zhou Bai left Earth for Mars.

Zhou Bai stood in front of the projection of Qian Wangsun, with all sorts of intelligence, data, and information flashing and exchanging between the two of them.

The reflection of countless data waterfalls could be seen in Zhou Bai's eyes, and he discontentedly said, "Too slow, our development is still too slow."

Qian Wangsun said, "Compared to the development speed of humans in the last hundred years, this is already like we've opened a cheat. Never in human history have there been so many cultivators produced on such a large scale."

Yet Zhou Bai was still dissatisfied, saying, "We've integrated three powerful technologies: Xian Dao, Homo Sapiens, and the Nine Calamities of Heaven, and this is only the beginning?"

"Especially the improvement in the Dao transformation degree, with the support of aesthetic pressure and the assistance of the Longevity Dao Fruit to extract pollution levels, my goal is for everyone to increase their Dao transformation degree to over 90% in the future."

"In the past, every time I advanced in realms, it was an instant thing as long as I found the original Daoist treasures."

"I don't expect everyone to progress as fast as I did, but at least everyone should be able to reach the ninth realm of imitation within weeks or months, achieving universal cultivation like eliminating illiteracy."

"This efficiency improvement, dozens or hundreds of times, is what can truly be called progress brought by technology; it's a transformation of the whole society."

"As for the old methods that took years or decades to achieve something, they should all be eliminated."

"Imagine if there were a billion cultivators at the ninth realm, and if all those cultivators had liberated their minds and became the productivity of humanity rather than weapons of war, how fast could we develop?"

"But until now, we've only developed a hundred thousand cultivators, and Supreme Heaven could attack at any moment, the extraterrestrial threats are also glaring at us."

"Too slow, our development is still too slow."

Listening to Zhou Bai's words, Qian Wangsun said helplessly, "Universal ninth realm is a good goal, but it's not that simple."

"To digest so many technologies in just a few months, reform the existing system, and establish comprehensive norms in management, law, production, agriculture, and so on, is too difficult. The current speed is already a limit, what we need more is time."

Zhou Bai said, "What if I can completely subdue the Heavenly Demons this time?"

Zhou Bai laid out reports and said, "The growth rate of cultivators is starting to decrease, and although the total production of various weapons and ammunition has increased tenfold, the per capita efficiency is only half of what it used to be."

"Our numbers are growing, but efficiency is declining."

Qian Wangsun explained, "Because as numbers grow, management costs keep rising, and a lot of manpower and resources are needed for logistics, food, hygiene…"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Bai was a bit overwhelmed. In the past, when he was just leading Jing Xiu and a dozen others, they could just emphasize the essentials, and everyone worked extremely efficiently.

Additionally, the fact that people like Jing Xiu could pass the Dao School entrance exams from so many in Donghua City already proved their extraordinary talent. After being granted the power of the Ugly Diagram, they could become determinative geniuses in any era, with exceptionally high efficiency in everything they did.

But now, as the number of people increased, so did the difficulty of management, and even the trivial personal matters like eating, toileting, clothing, and self-discipline, all became major issues when it came to tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people.

When Jing Xiu and Qian Wangsun couldn't manage them, they'd need to recruit subordinates to help manage.

When the subordinates weren't enough, they'd need the subordinates of the subordinates to manage further, and as the numbers expanded, they would have to form a government-like organization to manage it.

Because of the increasing complexity of affairs, different departments needed to be established to handle different matters, requiring different talents for different affairs, which also required reforms in education.

Constant change then leads to conflicts of opinions between people, trade-offs of interests... all kinds of those things.

Fortunately, Zhou Bai handed everything over to Qian Wangsun and Jing Xiu, as he had no interest in dealing with these troublesome matters; just thinking about it gave him a headache.

Qian Wangsun shrugged, "Alright, I know you're not interested in listening to this. Apart from the rising cost of employing people, collecting materials has become increasingly difficult, and our speed of collecting and processing resources from the Heavenly Demons can't keep up with the consumption by the cultivators."

"So if you really can subdue the Heavenly Demons, and bring the entire Earth, Mars, and even the Solar System's Heavenly Demons into our control, turning the whole Solar System into our farmland, our efficiency would increase a lot."

"Especially with the warships of the Heavenly Demon Sect that can temporarily evacuate humans from Earth, eliminating concerns about the dangers of upcoming large-scale battles."

Zhou Bai nodded, "Subduing the Heavenly Demons... might not be easy."

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At this moment, on the Heavenly Demon's ship.

Zhou Bai looked at the test plan sent by the Heavenly Demon Queen, frowning more and more as he read.

The Homo Sapiens Consciousness Transfer Plan, just hearing about it suggests an enormous project, and theoretically, one can't be too cautious.

And to test the plan of transferring Homo Sapiens consciousness into the bodies of Spiritual People, it naturally requires going through the whole process once.

There's no way to complete all technical reserves for consciousness transfer and just use it straight away; who knows how many problems will arise from that.

For safety's sake, for the future transfer of tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or billions of consciousness to happen safely, identifying various issues and side effects in advance,

The testing will not only happen once but also hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of times, testing various ages, races, genders, different education levels, different backgrounds, different health states, different physical cultivation levels, and so on, under various circumstances to see the results of consciousness transfer.

If the entire testing process is more comprehensive, it may even require years or decades of observation, and ideally, continuously tracking the target test subjects through all kinds of activities, including practicing martial arts and dao techniques, even recording results up until their death.

Just by anticipating these things, Zhou Bai could guess how large the Heavenly Demon's testing scale might be.

"A city on Mars with a hundred thousand people?" Zhou Bai said in disbelief, "Were they all captured from Earth by you?"

The Heavenly Demon Queen explained, "The war on Earth involving the Heavenly Demons has been going on for a long time. We have exterminated many mortals and naturally recovered many humans, and cloning their bodies is not an impossible technology."

Zhou Bai asked, "What is the current state of these hundred thousand people?"

The Heavenly Demon Queen: "I don't know."