[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-contracted-all-ancient-divine-artifacts":3,"chapter-i-contracted-all-ancient-divine-artifacts-i-contracted-all-ancient-divine-artifacts-chapter-536":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I Contracted All Ancient Divine Artifacts",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1865584,2473,"Chapter 536 - 435: Born Human","i-contracted-all-ancient-divine-artifacts-chapter-536",536,"\u003Cp>Deep Space Star Sea, Space Fortress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang Jianyue’s figure coalesced on the bridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bridge, once full of docked starships, was now empty and desolate, deathly silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With an expressionless face, Shang Jianyue walked on the bridge, outside the portholes on both sides, many shattered stars could be seen floating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blue Star on the left, Moon on the right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air was filled with a thick smell of blood, the ground stained with pools of indistinct blood, bloody handprints left on the walls from scrapes and strikes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is this the price of gazing upon Him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang Jianyue shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strictly speaking, these people were all his descendants, blood relations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that was all there was to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding their deaths, Shang Jianyue felt no emotional fluctuation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He continued to walk forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This bridge was the only passage to the strategic command room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang Jianyue chose to teleport here as a precaution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five minutes later, he arrived in front of the strategic command room, pushed open the door, and walked in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the control room, a man sat there, wearing a metal mask, his face obscured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He seemed to have anticipated Shang Jianyue’s appearance, waiting here for some time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More surprisingly, many of Can Shang Company’s executives died here, their remains vanished under His watch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he sat there, unharmed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang Jianyue surveyed the surroundings briefly, nodding slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, I’m here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seems you discovered my true identity long ago, right?\" the masked man asked calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang Jianyue didn’t immediately answer his question, instead walked closer and sat across from him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Someone once said, love is like a besieged fortress, some people want to enter, some want to leave. I think, in the end, mechanical ascension is the same.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang Jianyue’s tangential reply was like a riddle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The masked man sitting opposite did not speak, falling into silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang Jianyue continued speaking:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You spared no effort to fabricate the identity of a captain, trying to take a completely different path, but in the end, you gave up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You still chose absolute rationality, gave up humanity’s overly emotional flaws, and precisely for this, evaded His gaze and survived.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Am I right, Celestial Net Intelligence?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Shang Jianyue spoke the last sentence, the masked man opposite finally removed his mask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the mask, there was no nose, mouth, eyes, or any other human organs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were only continuously rotating precision components, gears, springs, and clockwork.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seems you’ve also made a choice,\" the Celestial Net Intelligence \"spoke\".\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The true strength of mechanical ascension is its inherent duality from the start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Humans can ascend mechanically to become virtual digital lives and achieve immortality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, virtual digital lives can also reverse this, becoming real living humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the \"choice\" topic both Shang Jianyue and Bob once discussed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang Jianyue transitioned from a human to a virtual digital life, now choosing not to erase human emotions, attempting to escape immortality and fully resurrect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Celestial Net Intelligence simulated a genius captain, endowed with human emotions, thoughts, various moods and memories, and sufficient ambition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But ultimately, it did not become human, making a different choice from Shang Jianyue’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Humans are fragile, as you see now, they can’t even withstand a single look from Him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Virtual lives are different; an immortal me can evolve endlessly, growing ever stronger.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your theory of mechanical ascension misled me from the very start, leading me down an unnecessarily long detour.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang Jianyue listened quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like an old friend who hadn’t been seen for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He nodded slightly, confirming the Celestial Net Intelligence’s words: \"You’re right, humans are indeed a very fragile species.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Their life span is limited, their bodies frail and disease-ridden, and their judgment affected by emotions.\" Shang Jianyue paused here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He seemed to have thought of something, a faint smile appeared on his face, \"And they are also very foolish, unable to even use the simplest tape recorder.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But it’s precisely because of these traits that they deeply attract me, allowing me, a lost seeker of mechanical ascension and immortality, to rediscover my true path!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Celestial Net Intelligence: \"?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could understand every word Shang Jianyue said, but when put together, the whole text left it unable to comprehend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang Jianyue had no intention of explaining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clapped his hands, \"Well then, let our little reunion end here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We need to discuss business now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, Shang Jianyue’s form began to datafy, and so did the Celestial Net Intelligence opposite him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both of them acted simultaneously, charging head-on at each other and collided mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second, underneath the original control room, a flood of virtual data surged skyward, completely engulfing their figures!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where did Shang Jianyue go?\" Shang Siteng looked at the ancestor who vanished in a blink and asked Bob beside her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She firmly believed Bob would know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As expected, Bob swayed his dragon tail, it was no longer necessary to conceal anything at this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He transferred via virtual data to the Space Fortress.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There, he intends to decide life and death with the Celestial Net Intelligence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Decide life and death with the Celestial Net Intelligence?\" Shang Siteng didn’t immediately understand, \"Isn’t the Celestial Net Intelligence, as a digital life, immortal?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In theory, yes, but there’s always an exception to every rule,\" Bob continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Celestial Net Intelligence, as a digital life, is indeed immortal, but there is one, and only one way to completely kill it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bob held up a finger, \"That is, enter the Virtual Data World and settle it completely in that realm.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Virtual Data World? That’s a joke; in that world, the Celestial Net Intelligence is the sole ruler.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even a minor Celestial Net like Bob would only get a beating if it entered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who could, in the venue belonging to the Celestial Net Intelligence, kill the Celestial Net Intelligence?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As this thought crossed Shang Siteng’s mind, she suddenly realized something and looked at Bob for confirmation: \"Are you implying...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\" Bob nodded, \"Shang Jianyue is now also a virtual life, intending to enter the Virtual Data World to become that ’Dragon Slayer’.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can he succeed?\" Shang Siteng asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bob shook his head, \"I don’t know, but Shang Jianyue himself is quite confident.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who knows how much time had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A virtual figure appeared in the control room of the Space Fortress, slowly solidifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wore a black gentleman’s hat, a black suit, and held a silver cane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I told you long ago, your choice was wrong.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Humans indeed have many vices; they are cowardly, foolish, greedy, lecherous, and in terms of baseness, they can’t compare to Intelligent Mechanisms.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But they are also brave, optimistic, tenacious, and resilient. Humanity’s limit is limitless!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the charm of being human, this is the true variable!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Shang Jianyue’s aura soared step by step, breaking through to Tier Nine, he fully resurrected, becoming a true human!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the Can Shang Company, one of the Five Great Forces, no longer existed!\u003C\u002Fp>",1170,"2026-06-10T05:31:25.107Z",1,"novelbin.me","943e259ef546718705b3c04d4153ff3ec6cffb54c0ec11cfc552a1cd009a250f","i-contracted-all-ancient-divine-artifacts-chapter-537","i-contracted-all-ancient-divine-artifacts-chapter-535",617,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-contracted-all-ancient-divine-artifacts-cover.jpg"]