Immediately afterward, Huang Shang felt a faint dizziness, as though an almost imperceptible crack had appeared in the ground of "Imperial Truth" beneath his feet. He closed his eyes and opened them again, and the abnormal sensation quickly faded.
But Huang Shang would know that something had changed. The next time he carried out a destruction order, that momentary hesitation might last an extra tenth of a second. For the Empire's sharpest blade, that tenth of a second of delay might become a crucial variable in the future.
Lin Ye sat cross-legged within the "Heart Sea Observation Hub." Before him flowed the "feedback" from the mind-images of countless worlds regarding the ripples of the new era.
"An Eternal Reincarnation-type world has been detected. Non-periodic harmonic components have appeared in fluctuations at the foundation of its mind-image, weakly correlated with the emotional spectrum of 'questioning.'"
"A Sole Supremacy-type world has been detected. The aggression parameters of its core offensive nodes show a minute weakening trend, potentially linked to a 'sense of meaninglessness.'"
"Active connection requests have been received from a joint body of seven medium-sized moderate civilizations."
Lin Ye quietly "observed." The breeze had risen, but it was still far from truly changing the world.
"Establish a priority observation list and mark nodes whose feedback signals are weak but possess 'endogenous growth potential,'" Lin Ye instructed. "Open basic communication protocols to those actively requesting connection."
"At the same time," his gaze shifted toward the "stubborn zones" in the Heart Sea that still radiated intense rejection, "initiate the first-stage 'Contact and Assessment' protocol. Select extreme worlds with lower pressure at their peripheries and attempt to dispatch 'Messengers of Ideas.'"
"Messengers?" Harmonic Leaptone asked.
"They will be voluntary mind-images from the Resonance Network whose ideals are clear and resolute, and whose native backgrounds