This is not mechanical ascension...

"…The situation is not optimistic. The number of casualties continues to increase. The number of deaths of Class X life forms has reached sixteen, and the defense line is also shrinking…"

On the virtual screen, Costat was reporting on the battle situation with a solemn expression: "At present, our defense line is only about half of its original size."

Li Ming listened quietly. Costat sighed, "The morale of the army is not optimistic. The erosion of Yongyuan has dealt a heavy blow to the soldiers. They were teammates fighting side by side one moment, but became enemies the next. Many soldiers have suffered serious psychological trauma."

"The pessimistic atmosphere in the main universe is serious. News about Yongyuan has slowly spread, and the theory of the end of the universe is very popular."

"There is not a single piece of good news." Li Ming couldn't help but shake his head. This was not an accusation against Costat, but just an objective sigh about the reality.

"And..." Costat hesitated and whispered, "In the Higher Life Forms United Organization, many X-level life forms have thought about evacuating."

Li Ming's eyes flickered slightly, but he was not too surprised by this. As the intensity of the war increased, it was no joke if X-level life forms died on the spot.

Although the danger of the Eternal Abyss may affect the entire universe, it is still a possibility. If we continue to fight, death is imminent.

Those X-level life forms specially cultivated by advanced civilizations have a certain sense of belonging, and even restrictions engraved in their genes, making it difficult for them to choose to evacuate.

But the united organizations of higher life forms are different, and the quality of their members is inherently mixed.

"Being afraid of death is a normal psychological state for living things. If they want to leave, let them go..." Li Ming said calmly. Forcing those people to continue the war would have a counterproductive effect if they harbored resentment and colluded with Yongyuan.

"Once this hole is opened..." Costat was slightly stunned and reminded: "I'm afraid that many people will choose to evacuate, and the most troublesome thing is that they may not leave easily."

"What do you mean?" Li Ming frowned slightly.

Kostat's eyes were filled with murderous intent as he said, "The remaining interstellar lunatics who were not cleared out took the opportunity to plunder many civilizations during this period of time, and then fled..."

Li Ming's eyes were slightly cold, and this was obviously one of the reasons.

Most of the combat power of the three major civilizations is in the dimensional world, but the main universe is in an empty state, which gives opportunities to those higher life forms that are already unscrupulous.

Costat said helplessly: "Those people believe that the Eternal Abyss is destined to invade, and this star system will definitely be destroyed. They have no intention of coming back, and we can't find them."

Not to mention those star cluster-level civilizations, even some bases of the three major civilizations were attacked.

He then explained: "Although the members of the United Organization have basically never committed serious crimes in the interstellar space, it does not mean that they are good people. If they must leave this interstellar space, some of them may choose to rob a lot of money or take revenge on the civilization they once had a grudge against."

Many higher life forms have always been law-abiding in the past. They did not really abide by the law, but simply made choices after weighing the pros and cons.

With the danger of collapse imminent, some people will completely let go of their reservations.

"I understand. I'll take care of this matter." Li Ming looked indifferent.

This war is for this galaxy as well as for himself, and he will not sit idly by and watch any behavior that hinders his progress.

Costat sighed secretly. The trouble with this matter was that they really had no way to find those who had escaped.

Even if Li Ming used his power to exert pressure, the effect might not be very good.

When disaster strikes, everyone flees. Li Ming may not even be able to escape the current Eternal Abyss crisis, so how can he have the time and energy to settle accounts with them? Some X-level life forms already have this idea.

Costat's virtual projection disappeared and Li Ming stood up. War seemed to be just two words, but it involved many things and would expose the hidden evil of many people.

Opening the Black Hole Network, Li Ming searched for information about the looting.

Before Costat's report, he really hadn't paid much attention to it. His energy was limited and it was impossible for him to know everything.

Soon a large amount of information emerged, and many civilizations did not announce such news to the outside world in order to maintain stability.

After locking onto a few names and faces, a stream of light flickered and a mirror-like glow appeared in front of Li Ming.

After about half an hour, Li Ming dealt with the matter. He walked out of the spaceship expressionlessly, and in front of him was an empty starry sky.

When Costat reported to him, he was already on his way to the coordinates of the last holy fortress.

With arms spread out, the last holy fortress slowly emerged.

The style of this holy castle is even more distinctive. Its outer walls are covered with scaly biological armor. Fluorescent vines grow in each gap of the blue-gray armor, and crystal clear fruits grow at the ends of the vines.

Mavilas, the youngest master of the Titans, was only more than a thousand years old when Yongyuan began to be active.

He has a special liking for plants. The defensive light ball suspended on the top of the holy castle is actually in the form of a giant dandelion, with millions of glowing hairs continuously scanning the sky.

In the gaps between the buildings stand ancient trees where flesh and metal coexist. Their trunks are covered with glowing veins that resemble circuits, and the silvery-white aerial roots hanging between the branches continuously drip nutrient solution.

Even the main entrance of the Holy Castle Hall is guarded by two giant ancient trees entangled together, and the surface of the tree trunks naturally forms a door lock structure.

When he stood in front of the door, the treetops hung down a vine bridge woven with light silk, and the interlocking branches slowly faded away.

Li Ming was quite curious about this. After entering, he saw the round crystal sphere with fine cracks all over the surface. Some places even had gaps, and white mist was emanating from it.

When he looked at it carefully in his hand, there seemed to be continuous mountains and rivers, but the mountains had collapsed, the rivers had dried up, and there was only an endless expanse of desolate land, with a void storm raging on the edge.

[Realm of Mavilas - Sub-Ultimate (Damaged): A special container created by the Titans with extremely powerful abilities.

Control conditions: 15 billion metal energies
Mastery Effect: Item Storage

Control ability - Position suppression: within a certain range, individual targets can be suppressed, causing 10% overall suppression depending on the intensity. 】

It was so badly damaged that it almost collapsed.

Li Ming was quite surprised. He thought that as an auxiliary thing, this thing would not be damaged too much, but it turned out to be the most seriously damaged among all the Titan creatures.

"Could it be that Lord Mavilas once put a Lord of the Eternal Abyss in there?" Li Ming speculated secretly, and estimated that it might be not much different.

He wanted to imprison the other party, but ended up being broken by him.

Li Ming was thinking about it, and had already taken control of it to check the effect.

[Item Storage: Most items, including living things, can be stored in the Realm of Mavilas.]

Can we store living things?
It's just average, Li Ming frowned slightly, and what he valued more was its ability to suppress external forces.

The metal energy accumulated over the past two months is more than enough to repair the [Realm of Mavilas].

More than 50 billion metal energies poured into it, and the spider-web-like cracks on the surface of the crystal sphere suddenly burst into liquid golden light and gradually began to enter the repair process.

The most peculiar thing is the interior scene, where collapsed mountains and rivers are reshaped, dry riverbeds become fertile, the earth reverses, and lush vegetation spreads.

Stars emerged, and the inner world gradually returned to its peak state.

Li Ming checked the instructions again and had to admit that the improvement from severe damage to complete condition was quite significant. [Marvelous Realm - Ultimate:…

……

Control Effect: The World in Your Palm

Control ability - World regulation: Have absolute control over the inside of the world, can adjust its size, strength, composition, and can place the entrance to the world externally.

Control ability - Field suppression: within a certain range, the target life form can be suppressed. Non-ultimate life forms have no resistance, and the ultimate life form's strength is weakened by 30%. 】

The name of the effect has changed, and there is one more ability.

[World Control] This ability is mainly aimed at the internal situation of the world of Mavilas. Li Ming checked it carefully.

The complete state of the Realm of Mavilas is quite vast inside, as big as a star cluster, which is larger than Li Ming expected.

[Field Suppression] Comprehensive evolution, needless to say for the Ultimate, it also has a 30% effect on the Ultimate Life Form, and it has evolved from single target to regional suppression.

"The suppression is also 30%, and the weakening of the annihilation power is also 30%..." Li Ming muttered. The suppression of these two must not be added together, otherwise it would directly soar to 60%.

"Not bad..." Li Ming was generally satisfied, and only then did he have time to check the changes in the effects.

[Control the World: All items within the Mavilas Realm can be directly called by the control system, or quickly repaired using metal energy. ]

Ok?
Li Ming's eyebrows jumped, quite surprised. Can all the items inside be directly used?
Then this can be used as a superior substitute for [Mechanical Fortress].

"Well, we are talking about objects, not just mechanical bodies. In other words, metal materials can also be directly converted into metal energy without having to be absorbed one by one?" Li Ming speculated.

He immediately teleported back to the Mechanical Royal Court and tried to conduct an experiment by throwing a piece of metal material into it.

Sure enough, as his thoughts turned, the metal material was decomposed into metal energy and absorbed by him.

"Hmm, this really works. It can save a lot of effort..." Li Ming pondered. In this way, he only needs to place an entrance outside and he won't have to return to the Mechanical Royal Court to absorb.

"And the mechanical bodies finally have a place to be stored..."

Li Ming came to the void starry sky of the Mechanical Royal Court. The array of mechanical bodies placed here has reached 3 billion.

Li Ming estimated that if he wanted to reach the standard of the ultimate life form, he would need an E-level mechanical strength of at least 10 billion.

The greater the number, the stronger the fused Mechanical Holy Spirit will be.

"Each of these Titan relics has its own exclusive function, which is really great..." Li Ming couldn't help but sigh. If there were no remaining Titan relics, it would be really troublesome to fight against Yongyuan.

"However, the more powerful one is the control system. These abilities are essentially the abstraction of its nature..."

Li Ming pondered, then returned to the development room to continue developing genetic seeds.

.........

In the center of the dimension, void cracks appeared, as if a high-intensity war had just ended. Anduin, Anatoly and others flew out of them with unhappy expressions.

The large group of people following behind had different expressions, and the atmosphere was silent and weird.

It was not until they returned to the Joint Command Headquarters that someone in the team spoke up, "I want to leave here..."

The person who was speaking was named Severus. His skin was dark blue and his body was covered with wounds that were slowly healing.

Anduin and others who were walking in the front paused slightly.

"…Four more of my colleagues have died in battle. If this continues, I don’t know when I will die here too."

His words seemed to be a signal, and someone immediately echoed, "Yes, the three major civilizations have reaped all the benefits of interstellar space. They have reasons to hold on, but we don't."

"There's no hope in this battle. It seems like there's no end to the X-level life forms in the Eternal Abyss!"

"..."

The voices gradually became louder. In the united organization of higher life forms, apart from those cultivated by civilization, there were only a small number of those that were truly independent.

At first, with the vigorous preparations for war, they were really quite enthusiastic, but as the battle progressed, after they calmed down, they began to back off.

But because of concern for Li Ming, they have been holding back until now. However, four colleagues died in the recent battle, which made some people realize that they could not delay any longer.

Anduin and Anatoly looked at each other, their faces looking a little ugly.

"This is a war to defend the stars. There are bound to be casualties. If..." Anduin said in a deep voice, but before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Severus:
"My race was almost completely destroyed by a civilization of the Star Alliance more than a thousand years ago." Severus said in a low voice, "Now I don't even know who I am fighting for."

Anduin paused, and someone else said coldly, "Vice Chairman, don't flatter me. After evolving to this level, even if they look the same, do you still think that those lower life forms are the same race as us?"

"Don't be so sanctimonious. You're just afraid of the chairman's criticism."

"Who am I thinking, Cruz..." Anatoly said slowly, "After so many years, you are still so afraid of death."

"Anatole..." Cruz sneered, "If it weren't for your special evolutionary path, you would have escaped quietly long ago. What's wrong with being afraid of death?"

Naturally, his strength was no match for Cruz, but there were sixty or seventy other guys around him who had the same mentality as him and they had already made secret contact.

Anatoly's expression froze and he stared at the other person coldly.

The other party's energy level is only 500X. If it were in the past, someone would have attacked you if you dared to talk to him like this.

But now, he expressed the thoughts of most X-level life forms.

Anduin looked around at the crowd with a tense expression, but he couldn't help but think in his heart that they were indeed a group of rabble.

Even though the cohesion has been greatly improved, when disaster strikes, everyone still wants to fly away on their own.

After all, when they joined the joint organization, these guys had already reached their current point and their minds were extremely complicated.

"You can go..." A cold voice came from the other end of the corridor. It was Costat. He was wearing a military uniform and had a solemn expression. He said as he walked, "We will not force you to continue fighting, but once you leave, you will be regarded as leaving this galaxy."

"The interstellar network, the black hole network, the higher life form alliance, and all major civilizations will cut off contact with you, stop trading any items, and will not open any shipping routes."

"In addition, if anyone among them follows Jeffreys's behavior and plunders interstellar civilizations, they will be regarded as mortal enemies."

"At the same time, your departure must be kept extremely secret and not leaked to anyone.

(End of this chapter)