Starting with Growing Mushrooms

World of Gods.

All the gods are gathered here.

Before launching a new war, they must first gather various information and data about this civilization.

If they don’t even know their own level...

How can they attack the enemy?

On the throne, under the shroud of endless divine radiance, sits a majestic figure.

The gods below are reporting recent situations.

"Speak,"

God on the throne said indifferently, "How many strong ones above the eighth tier and fifth level can we muster?"

The gods looked at each other, for a moment even they were unsure of the intelligence.

Finally, Pure Yang Immortal Venerable Xu Changsheng stepped forward and said, "I am not sure about the other sects, but under the command of our God of Time, there were previously seventeen experts of this level!"

"But now, this data is inaccurate... Even I, as a god, do not know how many are in the sect under my command."

God heard this, and couldn’t help but sigh softly. After a pause, he called out the retired Goddess of Fertility, Lilith: "You speak."

Although Lilith no longer handled transmissions, she originally had a 100 affinity in this area, and is still monitoring the affairs of the Magic Net transmissions.

Lilith stepped forward and solemnly said, "The entire cosmos has now been completely ruled by us."

"But it also hasn’t been completely ruled by us."

Lilith reported the situation, speaking to the gods beside her: "We are in the dark about the world."

"We don’t even know how many Church Court Countries our respective sects have."

"We can only settle in our own galaxy cluster, like the imperial capital of the last dynasty, where imperial power only radiates to the surrounding cities."

The crowd, upon hearing this, had their expressions tightened.

Indeed.

This is a very big problem.

They are like a small town, only able to see the nearby villages... more distant villages, they don’t even know their names.

Because the cosmos is too vast, every second, there are civilizations consuming themselves, rising, and perishing.

Liu Jun also showed a slight seriousness in his expression.

He is now in a bizarre state of ruling over this cosmos.

He is like someone who has densely planted mushrooms in each area of the cosmos, turning it into a colorful mushroom forest of magic...

But he himself cannot personally govern this vast, expansive civilization forest.

"Can signal transmission not be solved?" Cain shouted nearby.

The God of Chaos, Bal, shook his head, "The cosmos is too large, network signals have latency."

"Simply put, in the network era, the internet on a planet allows countless countries to become a global village, where one can know worldly affairs without leaving the house."

"And the network is transmitted through light, meaning its signal speed does not exceed the speed of light."

"If it’s just on one planet, a light-speed network can indeed give you all kinds of real-time information immediately."

"But the cosmos is measured in light years!"

Bal calmly analyzed:

"Although the Magic Net, with the blessing of me, the Light God, has surpassed the speed of light, reaching an astonishing speed of over 380 light-years per second!"

"At this amazing speed, the Magic Net’s speed takes only 0.0001 seconds to leave the solar system and just over a minute to traverse the vast galaxy, but it still takes hundreds of years to cross the entire cosmos."

God pondered.

For information to travel from a remote edge of the cosmos through the Magic Net... it takes hundreds of years?

The cosmos is unimaginably vast!

And this is still about information transmission on the Magic Net.

If one were to go personally, it would probably be slower and more troublesome.

From this perspective, venturing out of our galaxy cluster... is extremely laborious.

God smiled, "Do any of you feel that our civilization has returned to the most primitive era of city-states?"

"In primitive feudal kingdoms, transportation was inconvenient, and they used outdated carriages and ox carts, and emperors might hardly leave the capital a few times in their lifetimes."

"Several emperors in history who were good at southern tours were already special."

"Indeed, even a message from the capital required relay stations and months of nonstop horses to reach local governments."

God slightly tightened his expression, "And now, we’re like that emperor and his ministers, our notifications only exist in name."

Everyone remained silent.

Fortuna chuckled carelessly, "Yes, it’s kind of fun, we’ve returned to the primitive city-state era, isn’t it a kind of cycle?"

The retired Goddess of Fertility also joked, "The world indeed is a cycle of civilization, so now we’re in the primitive era of carriages and ox carts, shouldn’t we continue our research?"

"We must strive to enter the information era of transportation."

Nearby, Bal shook his head.

He mastered light, darkness, the Five Elements, and transformation... precisely because he knew more, he appreciated how hard it was to reach the level they mentioned...

How exceedingly difficult it was.

God smiled, "Civilization always needs continuous advancement. Since we’ve returned to the primitive era, we just need to climb up again."

"Everyone, do you have any solutions?"

"Communication is extremely important. Otherwise, I wouldn’t discuss this crucial issue with you before preparing to invade the Second Trial Universe."

"In a war, in a military expedition, if information cannot be transmitted, our civilization’s wars are doomed to not gain any advantage."

This is a very simple principle.

The army has set out. Do we really need, like in ancient times, to spend several months to contact the front line’s situation through post stations?

What are we fighting for then?

The essence of military warfare is the battle of marching and deploying troops.

And the essence of marching and deploying troops is the process of obtaining information and making judgments.

If there’s no information... no matter how brilliant the general is in making judgments, he’d only be blindly commanding with black eyes.

As for perhaps someone might say.

In a world where personal combat power is at its peak, why go to war?

One person can just sweep through everything.

Sorry.

This method only applies to the First Desert Universe right in front of us.

Because in the Desert Universe, there are only a few Eighth Tiers. As long as you capture the leader first, taking out these few leaders solves the problem.

And the opponent?

Fortuna accidentally opened a door.

An Eighth Tier appeared, indicating that the era of the second trial has already ushered in an environment with many Eighth Tiers.

The same Eighth Tier... on a level of combat power, naturally, it’s about who has more numbers.

Moreover.

Even if God is truly strong, able to fight all the Eighth Tiers, he wouldn’t personally risk his life to explore the uncertain map of unknown civilizations.

Our boss naturally wouldn’t easily dispatch himself; sending the major civilization armies under the gods is the right strategy.

"When the army sets out, does it necessarily need information dissemination and troop deployment?"

Next to him, Fortuna mumbled, "It’s not just us. Those civilizations are also like this. Everyone follows a lazy fighting model, just sending people out for a big brawl."

What Fortuna said is indeed the normal state of civilization wars in this universe.

Take the previous Desert Universe as an example.

The three desert empires under Munis’ rule... these rulers are also being lazy, with extremely poor governance, unable to step out of their galaxy groups.

Fortuna straightforwardly stated, "Since everyone is so lousy, I can be lousy too. Anyway, we have the advantage when we fight."

"That’s not necessarily the case."

Bal suddenly looked serious, "It seems we can nurture Eighth Tiers on a large scale, but do we really have more than the others?"

"Not necessarily, they’ve accumulated countless ages, possibly having Eighth Tiers everywhere. We don’t have the numerical advantage, so naturally, we need to win in other areas."

They had a chaotic discussion.

God smiled, "Ladies and gentlemen, let’s discuss how to increase our gods’ dominance over the cosmos. Does anyone have any ideas?"

Xu Changsheng hesitated for a moment, stepping out, "Actually, Magaras has already provided a solution in his highly developed civilization of the 165 Divine Era."

Liu Jun pondered.

Indeed, the problems we encounter are also those Magaras faced on the path of civilization exploration.

And how did he solve them?

He improved various cosmic transportations step by step.

Time Terrace Kingdom, Time River Kingdom, Time Waterfall Kingdom...

Essentially, they are all creating high-speed roads in time regions. As long as you get on the highway, you can quickly reach the other side.

In this way, the cosmos can quickly connect together.

God said plainly, "This method is not feasible. Sitting on the other side’s time high-speed channel, the speed is fast, but it’s also burning your life to travel that fast."

This method has too many side effects.

"What about space?"

Next to him, the God of Low Space, Great Black Heaven, shouted, "The current space movement is not fast. If we can obtain the final Space Divine Object, perhaps we can solve transportation."

"Hmm..." God pondered for a moment, "But that is a problem to be considered for the future."

They couldn’t come up with a result.

In the end, they could only choose a temporary compromise.

Constructing time post stations and time post roads to supply Messenger signals back and forth, transmitting commands of various military districts.

They also planned the army’s organization and orders...

Finally, after ensuring everything was correct, the gods issued an order to the entire cosmos.

Wow——

Almost instantly, it spread everywhere through the Magic Net, lighting up the temples in each place, just like thousands of household lights in the night, lighting up one by one.

The statues emanated divine light, and divine oracles were issued:

"We, the gods, will launch a war against the entire civilization."

"You can exchange various Divine Grace Scrolls based on battle merits, strengthen the Divine Format, and exchange for various top-tier Divine Artifacts."

For a time, the sound of heated discussions quickly spread.

Countless people were eager to start amassing battle merits!

This is not a desperate cosmos; there is hope for advancement, and under the command of the gods, the entire civilization burst with a vibrant aura.

"Charge!"

In an instant, eagles from various places tore through space, doors wide open, breaking into the Otherworld.

The unprecedented super-dimensional war began with a roar.