National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 863 The Demise of the Chaos Demon Ape Clan
Part Two: The Torchbearer Project

When the main civilization faces an irreversible crisis of destruction, all its captains can be prioritized to transform into "Torchbearers," either fleeing to the stars, infiltrating various civilizations in the myriad worlds, or hiding in various star realms of the Chaos God Continent... in order to wait for the opportunity to restore the glory of the Torchbearer in the future.

The Watchers are composed of:
Core members: 12 Starship Captains equipped with five-color or higher transformation parts, and 100 Star Destroyer Captains equipped with three-color transformation parts.

Elite members: 10000 captains who possess transmog parts of silver, gold, and black quality.

Grassroots members: 1000000 captains who own red or lower-tier transmog parts.

Watchers' Mission:
Civilization Observation: The [Civilization Seed Monitor] is activated once every 10,000 years. If the concentration of the civilization seed is below a critical value, it will continue to disperse and hide. If the concentration of the civilization seed is above a critical value, the coordinates of the "New Seed Civilization" will be automatically unlocked, and all core, elite, and grassroots Watcher factions will attempt to merge with the New Seed Civilization in batches...

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Inside the hall, the starlight screen trembled slightly, and Jiang Yuan's various plans to preserve the heritage of civilization were listed one by one on the projection screen.

The most important of these is undoubtedly the initial "Civilization Seed Project," which is also the primary focus of all captains within the palace.

In this "Civilization Seed Project," it was initially agreed that around one hundred fleets would be dispatched. The most crucial of these was the one that possessed the mirror image of the "Gods' Diagram" component. This fleet was jointly dispatched by the four great empires and the Dragon Spine Song Clan. The fleet's top captains included a superdimensional mothership that had just been promoted during the Origin Star Operation, as well as three Star River Captains and ten Star Destroyer Captains.

The configurations of the remaining ninety-nine Firefighting fleets were far inferior, with only nine having a Starship Captain in command and the other ninety each led by a Star Destroyer.

Unfortunately, it wasn't that the higher-ups of the various civilizations were unwilling, but rather that the threats facing the Ancestral Domain of the Flame would only grow larger in the future. Star Destroyer captains and above were the elite combat force of the civilizations, and it was absolutely unacceptable to lose too many personnel.

Regardless, they still preferred to preserve the foundation of their ancestral domain.

As for other plans, they were also rapidly launched under the joint impetus of all the top powers in the civilization. Of course, they were all prepared in secret with the highest level of secrecy, and no more than a hundred people knew all the information about the plans.

Even Jiang Yuan, Song Chi, and a few others, who were under the highest level of secrecy regarding the "Civilization Spark Project," did not know where all one hundred Spark fleets would go.

Only in this way can the survival rate of all Fireseed fleets be ensured to the greatest extent possible.

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Two hundred and twentieth year after Origin Star separated from the Chaos God Continent, the entire Heavenly Ape Star Realm had long since fallen into a state of absolute chaos.

In just over two hundred years, the Imperial City of the Firewood has discovered at least five transcendent-level legions that have entered the Heavenly Ape Star Realm. There are nearly a hundred mythical legions with eleventh-order mythical figures in charge, and even more than a hundred ordinary mythical legions.

The key point is that this number is still growing over time. A complete chaotic star realm is too tempting, and the benefits it contains are countless. In addition, with five transcendent forces taking the lead, how can it not trigger a frenzy among all forces?

However, for the native forces that originally belonged to the Tianyuan Star Realm, this was undoubtedly a huge disaster.

In just over two hundred years, the number of Chaos Cities that have been confirmed to have been breached has reached over a hundred. Among them, ordinary Chaos Cities are the most numerous, accounting for more than 90%, while there are more than ten high-level Chaos Cities that are strong enough to withstand senior myths. Even the top-tier Chaos Cities that are on par with the [Human Emperor City] are said to number three.

Faced with such an outcome, all the rulers of the top-tier Chaos Cities who were still stubbornly persisting were under immense pressure.

The City of the Human Emperor, the Palace of the Human Emperor.

Jiang Yuan raised his hand and brought up a holographic image. In the image, the chaotic mist surrounding the Tianyuan Star Boundary was being constantly eroded by various foreign substances. After two hundred years, the star boundary membrane of the Tianyuan Star Boundary had become extremely fragile, with giant holes dotting it. At this moment, figures were moving between some of these holes.

Even from one of the recently torn rifts, a large number of figures emanating black energy are pouring out. This is a mythical legion that has just arrived in the Celestial Ape Star Realm.

Jiang Yuan's gaze swept over the holes in the membrane, and she spoke:

"Breaking news: The Sand Spirit Clan's [Yellow Spring Sandstorm Legion] has successfully breached [Chaos Demon Ape - Black Ape City], and they are currently continuing their advance towards the Chaos Demon Ape Ancestral City."

As you swipe your finger across the image, a torrent of polluting data, like grains of sand, cascades down.

"In addition, the Sand Spirit Clan's Sand Rules are assimilating the basic rules of the Sky Ape Star Realm... 40% faster than the expected invasion speed."

Upon hearing this, Ji Heng added from the side:
"Although the Chaos Demon Ape clan has more than ten top-tier Chaos Cities under its command, this [Black Ape City] is already the third one to fall. If there is no way to break this deadlock, in a few hundred years, the ancestral city of the Chaos Demon Ape will most likely face the threat of the Sand Spirit Clan. And if the Chaos Demon Ape clan is truly wiped out, our [Human Emperor City] will be the second to fall."

Having said that, Ji Heng and Jiang Yuan glanced at everyone in the hall, but did not continue.

The others naturally understood what the two meant, and soon someone said:

"Could we secretly provide support to the Chaos Demon Ape clan?"

"No, the Chaos Demon Apes already had a tense relationship with our race. If they were the ones begging us, why should we rush to their aid?"

"War King, how can we still concern ourselves with such things in this situation?"

“Agreed. With the Chaos Demon Ape Clan’s super-limit-level ancestral city, if we provide support from the rear, it will be able to hold out for a very long time even when facing the siege of the Transcendent Legion.”

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As the discussion continued, more and more captains leaned towards secretly supporting the Chaos Demon Ape Clan. However, in the end, Prince Xiangri Yingwei of the Immortal Qin Clan added one more point.

"Our group alone is not enough. If we can bring together the Wizard Civilization, the Imperial Barbarians, and others, we can not only share the distribution of support materials, but the Chaos Demon Ape Clan will also receive more materials each time, and ultimately we will be able to hold out for a longer period of time."

“It seems to work!”

Having reached this point in the discussion, the final outcome can be considered a done deal. However, in order to finally achieve this, in addition to persuading the wizards, the barbarian tribes, and other parties, there is another crucial point.

"If a support agreement is indeed reached, how can we secretly and promptly deliver the supplies to the Chaos Demon Ape and the Heavenly Ruins Market?"

Someone tentatively asked a question, and immediately a smile flashed in the eyes of everyone in the hall.

"Of course!"

From the very beginning, the Zhutianxu Market was the transit point that most of the captains present had envisioned. However, they had no way to completely resolve the matter and had to ask the Song family of Dragon Spine, who held a prominent position in the Zhutianxu Market.

"What's the situation on the Wolf's side? Did the expeditionary fleet encounter a large-scale resistance in the [Lanicaia River System]?"

As soon as Ji Heng asked the question, Song Yan, who was present, quickly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, because the news that you have officially advanced to become the second mythical warrior of civilization has gradually spread throughout the star sea, the top advanced civilizations in the Lanikea Galaxy Cluster do not have much will to resist. Even the Rakshasa civilization, which received the request for help, has not yet sent anyone out. At present, the expeditionary fleet is advancing at an extremely fast speed. It is preliminarily estimated that in less than a thousand years, our Torchfire Civilization will completely occupy the entire territory of the Lanikea Galaxy Cluster."

“Very good. Ji Heng and I will contact Tanlang immediately. You don’t need to worry about the market token.”

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Song Yan's words revealed a lot of information, and upon hearing that the expeditionary fleet would complete its control over the entire [Lani Kea River System] within the next thousand years, all the captains present in the Emperor's Hall showed excitement in their eyes.

That's the territory of an entire river system. The key point is that the [Lanikaia River System] is a medium-sized river system, with a diameter of over 1.3 billion light-years. The system contains as many as 1205 river systems, and its size is even more than two-thirds of the combined size of the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon River System and the Corpse Emperor River System.

One can only imagine the sheer quantity of rare resources hidden within this river system.

Although they themselves did not participate in this war of civilization expansion, they will not be shortchanged from the share that should be given to the forces behind them after the war.

They had to give up their positions to protect the Human Emperor City. If it weren't for ensuring the safety of the Human Emperor City, why would they choose to stay there at this time? Why would they allow the two mythical immortal ships to remain stationed in the Human Emperor City, while designating the still superdimensional mothership, the Heavenly Ruins Sky, as the commander-in-chief of the Torch Expedition?
As another astral membrane was torn apart in the holographic image, Jiang Yuan's fingertip suddenly drew a golden trajectory in the void.

At the end of the trajectory, a silver token engraved with the word "Walking" appeared out of thin air.

"Greedy Wolf has indicated that he has reached an agreement with the Lord of the Heavenly Market, who has agreed to open a transit trading channel in the Heavenly Market."

A few years later, envoys who had traveled to the civilizations of wizards, barbarians, and angels brought back good news one after another. The leaders of these civilizations were all persuaded and agreed to secretly support the Chaos Demon Ape Clan.

In the following period, several dominant civilizations of the Shattered Star Sea secretly joined forces to support the Chaos Demon Ape as agreed, successfully slowing down the advance of the mythical legions that had invaded the Celestial Ape Star Realm.

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One thousand four hundred and twentieth year after Origin Star separated from the Chaos Divine Continent, in the Heavenly Ape Star Realm, at the [Tongtian Chaos City].

As the only transcendent chaotic city within the Heavenly Ape Star Realm, the [Tongtian Chaos City] is the ancestral city of the Chaos Demon Ape clan, standing for over several eras.

However, this ancient city is now in ruins. The countless rule inscriptions engraved on the dark red chaotic city walls have long been worn away, and cracks with diameters of tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of kilometers, are all over it, making the city teetering on the brink of collapse.

"Smash it!"

Outside the city, several figures, even more dazzling than the sun, hung high in the sky, and with a wave of their hands, boundless rules of the universe crashed down.

Boom boom boom!
At a certain moment, the city wall of [Tongtian Chaos City] completely collapsed, and countless alien legions poured into the city through the collapsed section of the wall. Even more tragic battle sounds rang out, only this time they were inside the city.

The Celestial Ape Star Realm, the City of Human Emperors, where the Flame of Life resides.

Inside the main hall, the holographic star map trembled violently, and scarlet alarm runes poured down like blood rain.

"The Chaos City of Tongtian has fallen."

Jiang Yuan's voice was low and cold, echoing in the deathly silent Emperor's Palace.

In the holographic projection, the once majestic Chaos Demon Ape Ancestral City has now been swallowed up by an endless sandstorm of the Yellow Springs.

The final frame of the scene shows the self-destruction of the last mythical-level powerhouse of the Chaos Demon Ape Clan—its flesh and blood transformed into billions of scarlet chains, which held back three mythical legions for a full half-month. Even so, it was not enough to allow the remaining Chaos Demon Ape Clan members to initiate the final [Chaos Exile] ritual.

Unfortunately, the outcome could not be reversed in the end.

"The Sand Spirit Clan, the Abyss Demon Clan, the Ice Demon Clan... six transcendent legions have begun their advance towards the Human Emperor City."

Ji Heng lightly tapped the star map with her fingertips, and countless invasion trajectories spread like venomous snakes.

"At their rate of advance, the flames of war will reach our feet in three hundred years at most."

Inside the main hall, all the captains remained silent.

For over a thousand years, the Torchfire Civilization, in alliance with several dominant civilizations such as the Wizards, the Barbarian Emperors, and the Angels, secretly supplied countless resources to the Chaos Demon Ape. They even went so far as to utilize the hidden channels of the Celestial Market to barely slow down the collapse of the Chaos Demon Ape race.

However, without a transcendent being to oversee it, the Chaos Demon Ape was ultimately unable to withstand the combined attack of several transcendent forces.

Now, all the pressure has shifted onto them.

"We don't have much time left." Jiang Yuan slowly raised her head, data flashing wildly in her deep eyes.

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Meanwhile, in the boundless, shattered star sea, within the Lanikea Galaxy, lies the headquarters of the Torch Expeditionary Force.

Song Chi stood on the bridge of the flagship "Tianxu Cangqiong" and looked down at the newly conquered star field below.

Over a thousand years of warfare, though some unexpected events occurred along the way, more than 90% of the territory of the Lanikia River system has now completely submitted to the expeditionary fleet of the Torchfire Civilization.

Today, this vast territory spanning 1.3 billion light-years has become the fourth directly subordinate river system cluster of the Shining Fire Civilization, and it will provide the civilization with almost unlimited resources for the next thousand, ten thousand, or even million years.

However, the joy of victory did not last long before the news of the destruction of the Chaos Demon Ape, the Seed of Fire between the eyebrows, came like a thunderclap.

"How could this be? With the covert support of several dominant civilizations, the Chaos Demon Ape Ancestral City only managed to hold out for less than a thousand years?"

Muttering to himself, Song Chi's gaze became extremely solemn.

This was completely different from their secret plan. It only delayed them for a little over a thousand years. The Holy Temple Continent had not yet begun its ascension, and the [Heavenly Light] and [Immortal Qin Ancestral Dragon] were naturally still making preparations with all their might.

In other words, even if one of the two ultimate superdimensional motherships successfully advances to a mythical immortal ship in the next few hundred years, it will be virtually impossible for Ying Yi and Ferdinand to break through to the tenth-order guidance technique in such a short period of time.

(End of this chapter)