Chapter 377: The New Ji Race
Through repeated testing—at the cost of countless intelligent lives—the New Ji and the alien races came to understand certain aspects of the Ji’s legacy. While some parts were untouchable, others could be modified, requiring further attempts to probe their boundaries.
This was an extraordinarily dangerous endeavor, where a single misstep could breach forbidden ground.
As such, some turned to technology. If the Ji’s technology could be fully extracted and the alien races collaborated for a time to digest and develop it, then perhaps with comparable weaponry and sheer numbers, they could forcefully remove the “tumor” and free everyone from their shackles.
Reality proved otherwise: how could the Ji, who had ruled for hundreds of thousands of years, have such an obvious loophole?
The three tenets of the Ji legacy, while not explicitly mentioning technology, had effectively locked it within strict rules.
Under the original rules, alien races were required to dispatch their own researchers to earn points in exchange for Ji technology. During this process, the research outputs of these personnel were owned by the Ji. If their home races wanted access to these results, they too needed to exchange points. Moreover, the Ji had a rigorous system in place to enforce this framework.
After the demise of the native Ji, the New Ji emerged from these dispatched researchers, and the rules naturally underwent changes. Each alien race was required to select suitable individuals to join the New Ji.
These individuals automatically renounced their original citizenship and adhered to Ji regulations. Other aspects remained largely the same. Even as members of the New Ji, they could still choose to earn points for their original race.
However, as the Ji’s technological system had become increasingly comprehensive, the difficulty of earning points had skyrocketed compared to the early days. To accommodate newly integrated civilizations, both present and future, the Ji implemented a policy.