Ever since they knew that their souls were artificially created by Qu Jie, and that mechanical beings might not have souls in the first place, the Emperor and their Nine Heavenly Venerables announced the news to the public as soon as the Upper Council ended.

and arrange for the manpower to register the ordinary mechanical life that was previously created by them, but has not been recognized because they have no soul.

Make it officially a citizen of the Machine Empire.

The other is to start creating mechanical life in large numbers.

Previously, because they had always thought that the mechanical life they had created was not the same as them, they didn't dare to make more at all, but now they know that it was a misunderstanding, and with such a large territory, there is indeed a lack of personnel management.

Therefore, it is natural to rush to increase the population.

Then, there is no doubt that the entire mechanical empire ushered in a wave of population explosion, the first year may be less than 10 million people, the second year can grow to 10 billion, the third year is more than 360 billion, the specific number of people, not in the fertility rate and other flesh and blood problems, but in how many people they need!

Whenever needed, with adequate resources.

Their population can grow almost indefinitely.

Although the strength of these mechanical life forms is terrifying, not inferior to the legendary immortals, they can destroy the planets with a single move, and they can destroy the stars with a few means, but they are different from those who cultivate immortals and bloodlines, the higher the cultivation, the stronger the bloodline, the more difficult it is to reproduce descendants.

They do not reproduce through the combination of yin and yang.

Not through flesh and blood.

It's about creating directly, making directly.

Anything, once it can be mass-produced, the only constraints on production capacity are energy, raw materials and the market, but today's mechanical empire obviously does not need to consider these three aspects.

Energy, everywhere stars can be utilized.

Raw materials, can you still find enough raw materials within three million light years? The same is true for the market, where a territory of three million light years requires a huge population to manage, and there is no need to worry about having a large population and nowhere to settle.

On the contrary, there are not enough people, and I am in a hurry.

Moreover, they do not have the moral constraints of human beings, and for human beings, it is illegal or immoral for human beings to give birth to babies against their will, let alone mass production of babies.

But the mechanical beings have no such concerns at all, they do not have a so-called blood relationship with each other at all, and each individual has no blood relationship, at most it can only be said that it was made by the same batch.

Therefore, mass production manufacturing is no problem.

Rapid population growth is no problem.

In less than thirty years, the huge territory of the Mechanical Empire, which was originally a little difficult to control, was quickly stabilized under the filling of countless mechanical lifeforms, and at the same time, the Emperor Heaven did not forget Qu Jie's request, which was to start the road of full expansion again, and at the same time send a cross-river interstellar exploration fleet to the star field with Blue Star as the core and a radius of 10 million light years.

Discover suspicious human traces and civilizations.

How do you describe how much they take it?

They sent a fleet of 300,000 exploration ships to 10 million light years away, although each exploration fleet has only one mechanical life to control, but for their clan, as long as there is enough energy and resources, one mechanical life is enough to create countless followers.

and even create an army of machines.

It's not a problem for one person to become an army.

So it's enough to have a mechanical life manipulation.

However, even if they were very serious about completing Qu Jie's request and investing a lot of money and manpower, it was still not so easy to find the human race.

Because they know very little about human beings, and there are too many humanoid beings in the entire universe, if you want to find out whether a civilization is a human being, you have to either conquer each other, or imperceptibly and secretly enter the other party's society to survive for a period of time and understand the history of the other party.

In the face of those relatively weak civilizations, civilizations that can be handled by a single exploration ship can naturally easily conquer the other party and directly view the other party

All history books.

However, in the face of some relatively powerful civilizations, the exploration ship cannot handle it, or in other words, even if the exploration ship can conquer the other party, it will inevitably cause a large number of casualties to the other party, so it is necessary to take some relatively mild measures.

For example, disguise yourself as the image of the other party's species, get yourself a more hidden identity, enter the other party's society, try to retrieve information, and understand history.

But once you take a gentle approach.

A waste of time is for sure.

Therefore, until hundreds of years later, when the Mechanical Empire had expanded its territory to a radius of more than seven million light years with the Blue Star as the core, there was still no good news from the exploration ships sent out.

Species suspected of being humans have been found in abundance.

But upon closer inspection, it was neither.

In order to ensure the absolute authenticity of the information, the emperor issued an order, that is, not to immediately give up those suspected human civilizations, and to continue to explore other star fields while leaving some people stationed in the suspected human civilizations to continue to explore and stare deeply.

Gather information about civilization.

and even genetic information of suspected human species.

They don't know much about human beings, so they can't judge accurately, plus the number of humans who escaped at that time was very small, and it is possible to lose history and forget the past, so don't judge in vain, anyway, it doesn't take much trouble to collect information, go back and let Qu Jie see it for herself.

They got it wrong, and it was obviously their fault.

But Qu Jie's own judgment has nothing to do with them.

And the next step is undoubtedly to continue to expand, to continue to explore and label all civilizations that are suspected of being human civilizations.

And when expanding, you have to try to avoid those civilizations that are suspected of being human civilizations, or be a little polite when targeting those civilizations that are suspected of being human civilizations.

At least not directly engage in operations such as extermination and slavery.

It is mainly based on coercion and inducement, internal provocation, and even support the forces that are willing to depend on them, so as to reduce the number of casualties as much as possible, lest in case one of the civilizations suspected of being human civilization is human civilization.

It's hard to explain to them the mechanical emperor***.

Anyway, it's just a little more work, their mechanical clan has a long lifespan, and it's hard to die if they don't want to die, so it doesn't matter if they waste some time.

As soon as the thousand-year period arrived, and they sensed Qu Jie's awakening again, the Emperor Heaven Qingtian and their nine Heavenly Venerables quickly tore apart the spatial passages from their respective areas and descended directly to the edge of the conference table, and then after exchanging a few words with Qu Jie, they handed Qu Jie all the information they had collected that was suspected of human civilization.

And they took advantage of Qu Jie's review of those materials, seized the time, and officially convened the council, anyway, Qu Jie had to look at the information carefully for a while.

That's enough time for them to have a meeting.