Yun Ming: Don't Chat Casually with Strange Men. Na'er: You Told Me to Add the Universe Young Master

Meanwhile, aboard the high-speed Island Ring Train.

Yun Ming looked at the cities and wilderness speeding backward outside the window, then at the Universe emblem on the train carriage.

The sense of discord in his heart grew increasingly pronounced.

The world was changing too quickly—so quickly that even someone like him, standing at the very peak of the continent, was struggling to keep up.

A few years ago, soul masters, mechas, the Spirit Pagoda, Shrek, and the Federation had still firmly controlled the core order of the entire world.

Yet in just a few short years, Universe had forcibly grown from a massive business conglomerate into something from another dimension altogether.

The Spirit Realm, Artificial Soul Spirits, True God-Grade Mechas, Urban Smart Systems, Strategic Logistics Networks, spatial technology, Virtual Networks, and even the space exploration program that was now being launched.

In the past, many people had still debated whether Universe counted as the continent's fourth superpower.

Now, no one seriously discussed that question anymore.

Because even the term "four great powers" could no longer accurately explain the nature of Universe.

It was more like a new civilization system growing independently.

What Yun Ming feared most had never merely been weapons, but dependence.

Human society as a whole was becoming increasingly dependent on it.

Hospitals, transportation, the military, communications, the Spirit Realm, the placement of souls after death, inheritance of property, Artificial Soul Spirits—more and more things were tied to Universe.

The living could not do without it, and even the dead could not escape its reach.

This was no longer capital or influence in the ordinary sense. It was infrastructure.

And many of the people driving all this were not even top experts within the traditional soul master system.

The logic of the continent used to be simple: the