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Chapter 350 Extracting the Star, Preparations for Ascension
Chapter 350 Extracting the Star, Preparations for Ascension
Through Ye Yang's fungal fruiting bodies, the Immortal Alliance and the Transcendent Ones held negotiations on that planet.
Void fungi must not continue to infect planets that are currently uninfected.
In return, the Immortal Alliance will undo the spacetime stagnation on all infected planets.
"impossible."
"Then I will continue to spread throughout the galaxy."
The Immortal Alliance will continue to retaliate against you based on karma.
"That kid couldn't withstand my counterattack, and besides, you're essentially abandoning the inhabitants of those planets. Creating conflict between Immortal-level and lower-level cultivators can lead to social division, collective ideological collapse, and ultimately affect the plans for the Age of Heaven. For your group-based civilization, this is tantamount to digging its own grave."
The two sides engaged in heated negotiations, exchanging words back and forth.
However, this was the first time the Immortal Alliance had communicated with the enemies of the "Information Ascendants," and many people immediately discovered the difference between the so-called "group social civilization" and the "information ascendant civilization."
Many people even feel that this should be described as a "gap".
"Community-based civilizations have 'commoners,' while information-driven civilizations do not have 'commoners,' but only countless alternate personalities."
Therefore, information-advanced civilizations can achieve the most extreme and centralized power, where all secondary personalities are merely organs of the single primary personality, and everything serves the primary personality.
Therefore, in wars between the two sides, group-based social civilizations will experience war-weariness, need to care about civilian casualties, need to maintain internal social stability, and need a certain belief to maintain collective cohesion.
But in information-advanced civilizations, there are no ordinary people; all personalities are under control, forever maintaining a state of peak work enthusiasm.
As for creativity—no one understands creative thinking better than the Information Ascendant who understands all the workings of thought, right?
In short, the Transcendent painted a perfect, flawless picture before the higher-ups of the Immortal Alliance, a picture that could be called the "ultimate form of civilization".
The transcendent beings proclaim that this is the end of all civilizations, and that all paths lead to the same destination.
This shocked and made the high-ranking members of the Immortal Alliance, who had not experienced the catastrophe that occurred more than a million years ago, feel self-doubt.
It is not aspiration for a civilization with rapid information advancement.
Anyone with a modicum of self-awareness knows that in that ultimate form of "one person on top and civilization below," the place left for them is inevitably a secondary personality that can be sacrificed at any time.
However, a seed of doubt was planted in their hearts, questioning whether they could defeat such an information-advancing civilization with such superiority.
"Don't be fooled by this old demon! Back when it transformed into the 'Cataclysm of Transcendence' and ravaged the galaxy, it used this very same ideological offensive to break down the will to resist of many. But in the end, everyone united to defeat this monster."
A True Lord who had experienced the Calamity of Transcendence noticed that the mood among the people at the meeting was not right and immediately stood up to speak.
Many of the original elders of the Immortal Alliance did indeed experience the era of the "Transcendental Calamity," but now most of these seniors have retired and withdrawn from politics.
Among the current high-ranking members of the Immortal Alliance, these True Lords and Star Lords are basically figures who rose to prominence during the early to mid-stages of the "silent era" around a million years ago.
Having never experienced the catastrophe of being surpassed, one is naturally easily fooled by the propaganda offensive of those who surpass them.
Another senior figure still in the decision-making circle spoke up: "Everyone only needs to think about one question: since the transcendents claim that information-advanced civilizations possess the highest level of civilizational superiority, why have they remained silent and dormant all these years?"
"During the middle of the Silent Era, our Immortal Alliance experienced a period of social upheaval, and everyone's faith reached its lowest point. Why didn't the Transcendent beings at that time dare to step forward and declare war on us?"
"There's only one reason: it's afraid—afraid of confronting the cataclysmic threat." That generation passed on this spirit to your generation.
"And its current eagerness to jump out shows that it is afraid—afraid that our multiverse plan will, if it continues, allow civilization to reach a height it can never catch up with."
With the speeches and encouragement of several senior figures, the group of senior executives finally dispelled their doubts.
Seeing the looks in these people's eyes, the senior elders and the four illusory figures of the Heavenly Venerables sitting at the top all shook their heads almost imperceptibly.
That wasn't the look of someone who was truly confident and self-reliant in the face of a powerful opponent, but rather the pride and complacency accumulated from being "invincible" and "powerful" for a long time.
"The Immortal Alliance has been dominant for too long, and this generation of middle-level members lacks real experience," Haotian Venerable sighed.
"We have to give them some time. After developing those level nine dungeon worlds, haven't they grown a lot?" the Savior of Suffering said with a smile.
The Supreme Celestial Venerable also said, "No problem. If all else fails, we'll call all the old guys back to clean up the mess for these kids."
"To be honest, before attracting the attention of that civilization outside the Great Void, I believe the Immortal Alliance's current strength is sufficient to protect itself. If a real war breaks out, the outcome is truly uncertain." Gouchen Heavenly Venerable's gaze was sharp.
"How is Minghong doing?" Gouchen Tianzun asked again.
The Savior of Suffering laughed and said, "You've purified about ten more planets during this time, haven't you? You seem to be getting more and more skilled."
"His growth rate is much faster than Xiao Luo's, and we all know about Xiao Luo's special abilities. Her dungeon world is unparalleled in its vastness among level nine worlds. This kid's dungeon rating also has the [Gate of All Heavens] connection weight. I think there's something fishy going on."
"Could it be that he's the new No. 1, fooling everyone?"
"It's not impossible."
After discussions between the Immortal Alliance's high-ranking officials and the Transcendent Ones, the details of the ceasefire agreement were finally agreed upon.
A temporary ceasefire was eventually reached.
During this period, Ye Yang purified 17 more inhabited planets.
"The extra marks on the souls of these infected individuals—could they have been scanned and their consciousness uploaded?"
Ye Yang noticed something was amiss, but upon reflection, it made perfect sense. After all, for those who transcend, this behavior was akin to feeding, a process of replenishing their wisdom.
When asked, the Savior of Suffering said that this situation had been taken into consideration, and therefore the ceasefire would not last indefinitely. The current ceasefire was merely a preparation for the next sudden offensive.
"Now that I've made up my mind, I'll focus on improving myself."
In the secret realm of the Eastern Paradise, Ye Yang was carefully sensing the connection between the overall fortune of his civilization.
With his title of True Man Minghong, he drew upon the power of civilization and immediately felt a mysterious connection.
When transformed into a certain power, it gains an extra touch of mystery and strength in every gesture, as if it has been given a buff that enhances combat power.
When transformed into a guiding light, one feels an extra sense of emergence from the unseen realm during perception and enlightenment, telling one where the things one is thinking of are.
This power, belonging to the entire civilization, is not so easy to tame. It is born from enlightened cultivators, and only those who have comprehended the lowest level of Dao intent can begin to produce this power.
Above that, among the hundreds of millions of cultivators in the Immortal Alliance, those at the stages of Dao Rhyme, Dao Form, Dao Domain, and Dao Law, as well as those who have achieved the Great Dao, True Immortals, Star Lords, True Sovereigns, and Heavenly Venerables, all gather their Great Dao power to form a combined force.
It was originally ownerless, unconscious, and chaotic.
If one attempts to borrow this power, one is easily devoured, distorted, and assimilated by it.
Throughout history, many powerful practitioners of the path of cause and effect have fallen because of this. Even madmen who attempted to "establish a new faith in gods" have suffered the backlash of the power of faith, their personalities being completely purged.
After a long period of exploration, it wasn't until the Immortal Alliance era that people tamed this monster and mastered its power to benefit humankind.
Through the Great Dao Records, the Star River Dome, and the Star River Array, this power is systematically sorted, integrated, transformed, and distributed, ultimately being allocated through the title prefix system, the star official system, and other pathways.
"It will be soon. The growth brought by reputation is much faster than the growth brought by my personal purification of the planet."
Ye Yang carefully sensed it, waiting for the moment when his merits were complete.
Meanwhile, in the Milky Way Core region, there is a sparsely distributed star system in the sky.
"Fellow Daoist Minghong, this is the site approved by the higher-ups."
A clerk from the Boundless Palace brought Ye Yang's first clone here.
Ye Yang, in human form, looked around at the starry sky and saw clusters of stars in the direction of the galactic center, with several well-known nebulae on both sides.
The nearest star is only 0.8 light-years away.
Even so, this is still a relatively sparsely populated area in the Silver Core Star Region, making it a good place to settle down.
The galactic nucleus contains numerous stars separated by only a few hundred million kilometers (one ten-thousandth of a light-year).
"It seems that locations within the Milky Way are indeed very scarce."
Ye Yang sighed softly, then communicated with the [Gate of All Heavens] and summoned a projection.
He has received approval to place his own star in the Silver Core Star Region!
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In urgent situations, expediency was exercised. Hengxing's residency application, which would normally take several years to process, was granted expedited approval through special procedures.
"Although we have not yet achieved the ultimate goal, we must begin preparations from now on —"
Ye Yang smiled, his heart pounding with excitement.
"The day has finally come."
He knocked on the illusory image of the "Gate of All Heavens" deep within his consciousness and arrived in the world of Swallowed Star.
At this moment, the first human clone was already waiting in a star system under Ye Yang's name in the Cui Lang Star Region.
This galaxy is relatively young, unlike the mature Milky Way, and therefore contains a large number of nebulae that are giving birth to stars and newborn stars.
(The Pillars of Creation Nebula of the Milky Way)
"Master's master." A King-level Immortal exuding a cold and desolate aura was quietly awaiting Ye Yang's instructions.
"Cooperate with me later and cast your freezing spell on the designated area," Ye Yang said.
"Yes." The immortal king who had comprehended the fundamental laws of water respectfully accepted the order.
Ye Yang wants to create a blue supergiant star with 20 times the mass of the sun. Such stars burn extremely fast, and therefore have extremely high power, with an output power that can reach tens of thousands to millions of times that of the sun.
However, its lifespan is only 100 to 1000 million years, which is only a fraction of the lifespan of the sun.
That's how it is with stars; if their mass increases a few times, the intensity of the reaction will increase hundreds or thousands of times.
Therefore, Ye Yang wanted to get a younger one, so he set his sights on the newborn stars here.
"138 newborn stars, none of which are very large, adding up to about 20.7 times the mass of the Sun."
Ye Yang manipulated space and time, and brought over 138 newborn stars from several light-years away. He placed them in this space of less than one astronomical unit, and the unstable stars immediately tore and deformed each other under the influence of gravity.
They will eventually collide under the influence of gravity, but they will not merge into a single planet. Instead, under the extremely high temperature and pressure of the impact, they will undergo the most violent fusion reaction, and then explode into many supernova explosions, illuminating the entire galaxy.
Therefore, the integration process requires human intervention.
Ye Yang ordered the King-level Immortals, who could quickly cool a star, to assist him. In just a few years, they gathered these stars together and created a blue supergiant star with a relatively low temperature.
The core temperature is only 4000 million degrees.
"The first star that a typical True Immortal refines is usually a small red dwarf. After all, one should only do what one is capable of. The larger the star, the more difficult it is to refine. If one's Great Dao is not strong enough, one will be overwhelmed."
Ye Yang looked at the enormous star before him and smiled.
The immense energy surging within the star core is comparable to the unburning divine power of a peak-level King-level divine body.
But now this star is just an inanimate object, unable to unleash any law-based attacks, and even ordinary immortals can shake it to some extent.
But it doesn't matter. Once it's extracted into the Immortal Alliance Master's world and ascended to its source, this blue supergiant star will come to life and become a part of Ye Yang.
The Immortal Alliance Master World, Silver Core Star Region.
Ye Yang opened his eyes, and a sealing bead appeared in his hand.
To extract substances from the [Gate of All Heavens], the instance master must first suppress and control them.
Otherwise, the cost will skyrocket.
Fortunately, suppressing the energy fluctuations of this blue supergiant star was only equivalent to suppressing a peak-level King-level expert, which Ye Yang was still able to do.
"Go." He threw the sealing bead in his hand, and spacetime distorted into a mess. The sealing bead appeared hundreds of millions of kilometers away and shattered.
Buzz~~
Almost instantly, a burst of intense blue and white light swept over us.
Even though it was just a newly appeared phantom, its brightness at close range surpassed that of the distant galactic center.
As the illusory image solidifies and spacetime overlaps, the laws governing the formation of matter with 20 times the mass of the sun mutate, generating some energy, which further increases the star's temperature, accelerates the reaction rate, and causes its power to surge again.
"This—" The clerk next to him was a little confused. He brought Ye Yang to settle Hengxing, but he didn't say that he was settling such a violent big guy.
"Fellow Daoist Minghong, are you sure you want to refine this kind of blue supergiant on your first ascension?" The document looked at Ye Yang, his eyes seeming to ask if he was mistaken.
"Yes, that's fine." Ye Yang nodded, staring directly at the boundless light that stung his eyes.
Some powerful Star Lords are capable of refining a Blue Super Giant, so Ye Yang is confident in this as well.
However, superstars are all short-lived, so after this, he will need to ascend to a standard star again.
Ye Yang took out a cluster of super-adaptive bacteria, which he had already adapted and evolved in a high-temperature, high-pressure, and high-energy environment.
When the microbial community was casually thrown into this blue supergiant, the high-energy radiation that could easily vaporize and destroy ordinary biological cells immediately became nutrients for the microbial community, activating them and causing them to begin to replicate and grow wildly.
"Refining a star from the outside in is too slow. But if I let the microbial community grow in advance and spread it to every part of the star, then I can use these microbial communities as a springboard to refine the entire star at the same time, without having to go from the outside in."
Ye Yang chuckled and turned to leave.
All that remains is a black spot that expands wildly across the surface of the blue superstar at a speed of tens of kilometers per second.