Extraordinary Pedigree.

Chapter 1251 Virtual Reality: Ascension to New Heights!

Within the red scars, the war did not slow down with the withdrawal of the Hecate family.

On the contrary, after Xia Xiu reached an agreement with the High Priest of the Spirit Race, the three civilizations seemed to have simultaneously obtained new conditions for victory. Their respective technology trees, municipal trees, and mega-construction lines began to advance rapidly. The originally chaotic battlefield in the southeastern arm of the Five Hundred Worlds was also cut apart by three civilization lines of different colors.

Luo Jia's Covenant Empire was the first to enter the expansion phase. Because it was the smallest in size, it was still in the growth phase of development.

[During the 21st to 28th rounds of extraterrestrial intervention, the Covenant Empire completed the integration of its edge star sectors; the 777 World Outer Ring Ecological Ring entered its second phase of construction; the Dyson Cloud prototype expanded into a stellar energy cluster; and the first super-large shipyard was put into operation. Luo Jia unlocked new battleship hulls, a quantum communication backbone, a subspace listening network, and an interstellar strategic bombing and fleet AI staff system. The Covenant Empire officially leaped into the era of interstellar hegemony.]

During this phase, the Covenant Empire transformed fourteen small bubble planets, converting six into industrial forging planets, three into fleet supply planets, two into core planets for the Holy Word Cult, and establishing fortified defense networks on the remaining three. Rhoga used the Covenant Code to integrate colonies, vassal civilizations, and newly incorporated worlds, transforming the Covenant Empire from a regional interstellar nation into a star-based hegemonic system capable of suppressing multiple civilization war zones.

The Holy Covenant Empire is developing at an extremely rapid pace.

With the administrative blueprint provided by Utramar and Xia Xiu constantly shortening the trial-and-error cycle of key technologies through [superior annotations], Luo Jia could immediately enable that region to develop rapidly whenever he occupied a star sector.

However, Luo Jia's focus was not entirely on expansion. He was well aware that the Holy Covenant Empire would also be connected to the Vision Needle in the future, so he was not as ambitious as before. Now he was more concerned about the people's livelihood, and the welfare of the people of the Holy Covenant Empire was getting better and better.

On the other hand, Alansur Starshine Court's performance was even more aggressive.

With the support of Farah Ontius, this psionic civilization hatched by the Eldar finally received the highest authorization, and the entire Starshine Court regarded the Aether Engine as the sacred ladder for the entire race's ascension.

[During the 22nd to 30th rounds of extraterrestrial intervention, the Alansur Star Court completed the prerequisites for the Aether Phase Engine: First, acquiring three stellar-level psionic nodes; second, completing the Void Realm Beacon Network; third, establishing reserves of dark matter and Zelo Dust; fourth, unlocking the Aether Phase Traction Theory; and fifth, clearing six high-risk civilization outposts in the surrounding area, freeing up safe starfields for the Final Megastructure Foundation.]

[During this phase, the Starry Court began constructing the first stage of the Aether Phase Engine—the Phase Foundation; this foundation expands around the ninety-ninth world's main star, with twelve psionic phase towers anchored into the star's orbit. The Void Pathway was rewoven into energy input lines, drawing the psionic tides of the entire galaxy towards the megastructure's core.]

The people of Xinghuiting were almost caught up in a collective frenzy.

They believe that once the Ether Engine is completed, the entire civilization will ascend to a higher phase along the path given by the Supreme God, escaping the wars, decay, and pollution of the five hundred worlds, and becoming a true psionic holy race.

Countless Starlight Court artisans, prophets, fleet priests, and psionic scholars volunteered to enter the high-risk engineering zone, inscribing their names on the inner walls of the Phase Tower, believing it to be the first sacred mark on the path to ascension.

Meanwhile, in Kiliman, the manufacturing of ascension instruments has also begun.

Xia Xiu directly used the ability of [World Bubble - Master Creator] to flash out the prototype of the Vision Needle.

At that moment, a silvery-white base spanning tens of thousands of kilometers lit up outside the main star of Utramar. The ring-shaped giant structure resembled an unclosed crown, with the main body of the needle slowly rising from the center of the base, its tip pointing directly to the boundary of the upper narrative of the Five Hundred Worlds.

[In the twenty-third round of extraterrestrial intervention, Hugh Abraham, the fourth swordsman of Heaven, flash-forged the prototype of the Vision Needle through the [Master Craftsman Creator]. This prototype completed the basic structure of the base, population preservation layer, civilization archive, reality anchor array, and world bubble stabilizer. The right to further refine it was transferred to the Utramar civilization.]

[From rounds 24 to 32 of the extraterritorial intervention, Gileman mobilized resources from 500 worlds of Utramar to initiate the Civilization-wide Engineering Completion Project!]

As the three civilizations developed rapidly, the remaining few civilizations from the Five Hundred Worlds began to make contact with them one after another.

As a result, wars began to break out frequently.

[In the thirty-third round of extraterrestrial intervention, the unknown advanced interstellar civilization, the Silent Ring Federation, attacked the Forging Star Sector on the edge of the Covenant Empire. The two sides engaged in a fleet battle around three small bubble planets. The Silent Ring Federation used ring-shaped warships to cut off two deep-space air ports of the Covenant Empire and briefly occupied the Carna II Forging Moon and the White Bell Fortress, attempting to seize the Covenant Empire's military production capacity in the southeastern String Arm.]

[In the latter half of this round, Luo Jia mobilized battleships and the Holy Word Expeditionary Force to counterattack. The Holy Covenant Fleet entered the battlefield from the direction of Stargate 777, first using long-range artillery to shatter the outer ring ship array of the Silent Ring Federation, and then dispatching the expeditionary force to land on Carna II Forging Moon. For three consecutive days, they cleared the orbital factory and surface outpost, and finally recaptured the Forging Moon, White Bell Fortress, and two ship repair ports.]

This was the first tough battle the Holy Covenant Empire encountered on the main battlefield of the Five Hundred Worlds.

The Ring Federation's ring-shaped fleet formations were extremely difficult to deal with. They could organize their fleets into a rotating fire ring, constantly switching their defensive surfaces and main gun angles during head-on engagements, causing the Covenant Fleet to suffer significant losses in its first offensive.

Luo Jia quickly adjusted his tactics, having the Covenant Expeditionary Force cooperate with the fleet to recapture surface military facilities, using planetary production capacity to pressure the enemy fleet to resupply, thus turning the tide of the battle back.

[Outside Intervention Round 36: The Mostronian Ember Swarm, a civilization comprised of the Vormless Collective, launched a surprise attack on the border colonies of the Radiant Court on the planet Elansur and the Purple Bay. This civilization's fleet, composed of numerous irregularly shaped geometric ships, zombie horde landing craft, and aberrant armored units, first used an orbital debris rain to breach the outer defenses of Radiant Bone, then deployed Plague Infantry to the surface, attempting to transform the two colonies into forward nests for the Ember Swarm.]

[The Starry Court of Aranthur deployed two Starsing Fleets and three Psionic Ground Corps to engage the enemy. The Prophet Council disrupted the Geometry Fleet's formation with a Psionic Storm, allowing the Starsing Fleet to regain air superiority over the Purple Bay Colony. The ground battle lasted eight local days and nights. The Starry Court ultimately defended the two colonies, but two Psionic ports were destroyed, and the border fleet suffered nearly 30% losses.]

These battles were back and forth, but the overall situation remained relatively stable.

Of the three civilizations, the Starry Court of Aranthul was the most radical and most like a civilization that truly believed it was about to ascend.

They treated each section of the Aether Phase Engine as a stepping stone to the Divine Phase, and even as their border colonies were constantly attacked and their Starsong Fleets were lost one after another, they still poured their best craftsmen, prophets, and psionic cores into the Phase Foundation.

Whenever Luo Jia and Gilman saw Xinghuiting working so hard, they would occasionally show a bit of pity, because they knew that ascension was just a lie and their Lord had never truly looked at them. However, the two of them would not reveal too much information. They only needed to focus on their own little world and could not concern themselves with anything else.

Soon, Xia Xiu's outside-boundary intervention advanced to the hundredth round.

In this round, the entire star field outside the main star Utramar was illuminated by the silvery-white radiance of the giant structure.

The ring-shaped base of the horizon needle finally closed, and the enormous silvery-white needle rose from the center of the star's orbit, its tip piercing the upper boundary of the Five Hundred Worlds, like a needle of civilization extending from within the miniature garden.

[The 100th round of extraterritorial intervention has resulted in the official completion of the Utramar Ascension Megastructure [Horizon Needle]!]

[Prompt: Do you wish to activate the first stage of the Vision Needle – Civilization Transfer?]

Xia Xiu looked at the prompt but did not immediately press confirm.

He issued new instructions to Gilman through the [Narrative Book], ordering Utramar to suspend the formal ascension process and transfer the fleet, starports, megastructure permissions, technology catalog, resource star sectors, administrative database, industrial planets, and military-industrial complex to the Star Court of Alanthur in batches.

At the same time, Roger's Covenant Empire also received the same order.

[In the 101st round of extraterritorial intervention, Utramar and the Covenant Empire initiated the transfer of their civilizational heritage. Both civilizations excluded population, core archives, and voluntary relocatees from the transfer, while granting full access to the remaining planets, megastructures, fleet arsenals, technology blueprints, military production lines, and colony management rights to the Elansur Star Court.] [In the same round, the Elansur Star Court established a temporary takeover headquarters, dispatching a psychic governor, a star-singing fleet, engineering priests, and administrative prophets to the remaining star sectors of Utramar and the Covenant Empire. The Star Court quickly gained access to the vast resources accumulated by the two civilizations, and its civilizational power began to expand rapidly.]

Xinghuiting had known for a long time that they would receive an inheritance, but when the actual takeover began, they still had some difficulty digesting it.

This time, they essentially made a fortune off Liangzi.

While Starlight Court was busy swallowing this enormous inheritance, the Vision Needle officially opened the population preservation layer.

Long queues formed at the major starports of Utramar, with transport ships sailing towards the Horizon Needle like schools of white fish. Every passenger boarding had to confirm whether they were willing to migrate—and if they wished to remain in Utramar, the Star Court would treat them well.

Indeed, quite a few people chose to stay, but even more were willing to follow the great leader Killian into the real world.

[Intervention outside the boundary, rounds 106-110: The Vision Needle receives the first batch of population from Utramar.]

[Intervention from Beyond the Boundary, Rounds 111-115: The Covenant Empire initiates population relocation.]

[From rounds 116 to 119 of the extradimensional intervention, the Horizon Needle completed the expansion of the population preservation layer, and the transfer of the core population of Utramar and the Covenant Empire reached over 90% completion; the high-dimensional mezzanine chamber began operation, the civilization archive and the ecological simulation layer were simultaneously deployed, and all transferees entered the dimensional ascension preparation state.]

[Intervention outside the boundary, round 120; population acceptance of the Vision Needle is complete.]

[Note: The second stage of the Vision Needle—Dimensional Ascension—has met the activation requirements.]

On the Psionic Throne, Xia Xiu looked at the prompt and placed his fingertip on the activation bar of [Narrative Book], leaving himself no time to think.

[Startup confirmed.]

The next moment, on the outer side of the main star Utramar, the silvery-white needle that spanned the star field began to slowly rise.

Its speed is slow, but this slowness is not a mechanical sluggishness. Rather, it is the long stripping process that civilization itself must undergo when it leaves the miniature world. During this process, the EVE particles in Xia Xiu's body are burning wildly, and the great spirituality is also rapidly filling the huge amount of information needed.

If he weren't a [Miracle Worker], he'd probably be drained dry on the Psionic Throne by now.

At this moment, the tip of the silver-white needle inside the red scar pierces the upper narrative boundary of the Five Hundred Worlds, like a needle piercing the sky, slowly prying open the gap between the foam inside the red scar and the outer reality.

[The second phase of the Vision Needle technique has been activated.]

[Dimensional Ascension Progress: 1%]

[Current Status: The civilization's population has entered a higher-dimensional interlayer; the core archives of Utramar and the Covenant Empire have completed their first phase shift.]

[Expected completion conditions: After the terminal phase inside the red scar is opened, the vision needle can complete its final detachment using the world bubble rift created by the ethereal phase engine.]

The pages of the [Narrative Book] turned, and platinum-colored characters slowly appeared before Xia Xiu.

[Special victory condition has been triggered.]

[Hugh Abraham, the fourth sword-bearer of Heaven, gained partial inheritance rights to the Garden of Souls world through civilizational intervention, visionary needles, preparations for dimensional ascension, and accurate population anchoring.]

Xia Xiu slowly exhaled.

With this step completed, Killian and Roger's request has been fulfilled in its most crucial first half. As for the true transition from the abstract to the concrete, that will be a much longer process.

He turned his gaze to Farah Antius.

"Next, it's your turn to shine."

The high priest nodded.

She raised her scepter, and the Eldar genealogy network pressed down on the Starlight Court of Aranthur along the illusory channel within the red scar. The Prophets' Council, the Starsing Fleet, the Phase Tower Craftsmen, and the Priests of the Megastructures all received urgent commands simultaneously.

"Accelerate the Ether Engine."

"All resource restrictions before the final stage are lifted, and Utramar and the legacy assets of the Covenant Empire are given priority access to the Phase Engine Project."

Urged on by her, Ailansur Starlight Court began to speed up its work.

[Intervention from Beyond Boundaries, Rounds 121 to 130: The Starry Court of Alanthur fully absorbed the assets left behind by Utramar and the Covenant Empire, and invested all resources into the construction of the Aether Engine—]

The Starshine Court's star sector became busier than ever before.

Shipyards that originally belonged to Utramar were re-engraved with psionic runes, fleets left behind by the Covenant Empire were given purple-silver starlight insignia, the old Starsong fleets were mixed with Reality Anchors, and Titan-class warships were towed to the outer perimeter of the Phase Base, becoming the outermost steel wall of the Aether Phase Engine.

Around the main star of the 99th world, the second stage structure of the ether phase engine rapidly closed.

Black and silver arcs of light stretched between the twelve phase towers, gradually dimming the starlight. Psychic tides, stellar energy, Red King's wound projection parameters, and the miniature garden phase data were simultaneously sent to the central core.

[Intervention beyond the boundary, rounds 131-140: Construction of the second stage of the stellar phase collapse ring of the Ether Phase Engine completed.]

[The Alansur Starlight Garden is based on the mega-engineering legacy of Utramar, modifying the phase tower's supporting structure; supplemented by the Covenant Empire's stellar energy harvesting technology, it provides stable power to the phase engine core; this mega-structure already possesses the ability to extract the phase of target galaxies, compress local sandbox rules, and guide etheric collapse.]

[During the same phase, Starlight Court completed its final leap in civilization, entering the Era of Final Cataclysm!]