This is not mechanical ascension...

"Ladies and gentlemen, long time no see." Li Ming looked around at everyone, his gaze lingering on the three tears streaming down their heads, his expression a little strange.

"Your Excellency Qinglong..."

"Chairman..."

Various titles were heard, and everyone had a strange sense of contradiction in their hearts when facing Li Ming. The root of the problem came from the two aliases of Li Ming and Qinglong.

But to some extent, it also weakened Li Ming's youthfulness. As long as he is not addressed directly as "Li Ming", many honorifics can be called out naturally.

Li Ming walked over and said, "I'm sorry to have scared you all. Actually, I wanted to give you some reassurance some time ago, but in order to solve the problem once and for all, I didn't tell you that I have already won the race."

Naturally, people would not blame him for anything. Instead, they praised him for his foresight. Otherwise, they would not have been able to catch all those guys in one fell swoop.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Malcolm couldn't help but ask what everyone was thinking, "What's the situation over at Yongyuan? Has the crisis been resolved?"

"Well, not yet..." Li Ming shook his head. "The Abyss Lord is in the Eternal Abyss, which is equivalent to mounting an infinite perpetual motion machine. It is very difficult to kill him."

Lord of the Abyss?

Everyone looked at each other. Is this the nickname of Yongyuan Consciousness?
They were speechless for a moment. Li Ming seemed helpless in what he said, but it also revealed a message that that place was Lord Yuan's home ground, and the other party could not do anything to Li Ming.

"So now..." Malcolm asked tentatively.

"It's not a big problem actually. I just happen to have something that I would like you to help me with." Li Ming said.

help?

Everyone was slightly stunned, but immediately expressed their opinions--
"Your Excellency's business is our business, please feel free to speak."

Li Ming said leisurely: "It's not complicated, it's just collecting metal materials."

Ten trillion metal energies would take a long time to accumulate even if the interstellar civilization had not yet wandered.

What's more, now that it has begun to wander, many metal mines have been swallowed up by the abyss fog. A good cook cannot cook without rice, and there is almost no continuous source of metal energy.

It is not an easy task to extract 10 trillion metal energies from the existing resources, and this group of guys must be mobilized.

metallic material?

Everyone was surprised and looked at each other. They thought it would be something more important.

Li Ming has been collecting metal materials, and they all know about it, but they didn't expect that they would need it now.

No matter how much alloy materials they have, it is probably difficult to cause any harm to Yongyuan, right?

Everyone was quite surprised, and then they heard Li Ming say: "The amount of metal materials I need this time is very large, so..."

"Don't worry, sir. We will do our best to prepare." Malcolm nodded solemnly.

Antigo sighed, "It's a pity that many advanced civilizations have long parted ways with us. They should have a lot of inventory."

Compared with the Empire and the Federation, the Star Covenant suffered the most serious loss of strength. The Star Covenant was originally created because of the concentration of geographical coordinates.

Now that everyone is fleeing, who would still stay together to be oppressed by the advanced civilization? The whole thing is not completely falling apart, but it is almost there.

"Separate ways?" Malcolm looked at Mikhail in the corner with a gloomy look in his eyes. "Sir, you should still have the coordinates."

Antigo's eyelids jumped, "You still have a backup plan?"

Mikhail nodded. "Among them, no one has a higher technical level than Reynolds and I. I have the escape coordinates of all civilizations."

Malcolm then explained, "It's better to be prepared. I originally thought that if something happened to a certain civilization, we could go and help. Now it's been put to good use in an unexpected way."

Everyone looked at the federal president with strange eyes. He was indeed one of the three oldest gangsters in the universe. Now that Adam was dead and Gutierrez had retired, it was up to Malcolm.

No matter what accident or help, it just depends on who finds a good place and then goes over to take over.

"In that case, let's go our separate ways." Alvis volunteered, smiling, "I believe other civilizations will be very happy to hear that there is hope of returning to their homeland."

Li Ming nodded with satisfaction, "In that case, I'll trouble you all."

.........

In the fourth year of the Wandering Era, enemies from the deep dimensional world caught up with the Wandering Fleet, intending to completely wipe out the Wandering interstellar civilization. However, Qinglong appeared out of nowhere and intercepted the enemy with his overwhelming strength.

In the same year, the Wandering Fleet issued a metal confiscation law, requiring all metal materials, except those necessary for life, to be handed over.

This is the news on the surface. There is also news circulating secretly that the main user of metal materials is Lord Qinglong.

He has already thought of a way to deal with the disaster called Abyss Mist, but it requires a large amount of metal materials.

Some believed it and thought there was hope, while some did not and thought it was a means of cutting off the source of the firewood. The last bit of metal materials in their hands would be confiscated and they would have no ability to resist.

A month later, in a fortress space somewhere in the Wandering Fleet, the criss-crossing corridors had been demolished, and almost only the giant tree that ran through the entire space could be seen.

"Hey, hey, I still have..." Krillin called out to the recovery team that was leaving the living cabin, carefully pulled out a metal mechanical knife from under the bed, and handed it to the recovery team.

"Where did you get such a big knife?" The guy, who was originally a member of the fortress supervisory guard, changed his expression slightly and asked in a deep voice, "What are you going to do now?"

However, Krillin didn't care. Instead, he smiled and said, "Don't worry about what you were going to do before. Now you must contribute to His Excellency Qinglong."

"You are no longer the monitoring guards, you are the ones who collect metal materials."

The collector frowned slightly, but then slowly relaxed his brows and patted Krillin on the shoulder. "There was really nothing we could do about many things before, but now there is hope. Just bear with it no matter what."

"Of course, if I can't bear it, why would I need to hand it over?" Klin asked back, and then he said dimly: "If it weren't for Lord Qinglong, who knows how much trouble would have arisen if I had continued to bear it."

The other party stared at him, said nothing more, and continued to move towards the next living cabin.

.........

The fifth year of wandering.

The three major civilizations issued a communication call, asking all interstellar civilizations to move closer to their positions, but not many people responded.

In the same year, the United Organization of Higher Life Forms and many X-level life forms went to various coordinates of Li Ming to carry out the mission of persuading him to return.

In the tenth year of the Wandering Era, at the edge of the universe, in an unknown starry sky, a long fleet was sailing.

On the top floor of one of the most magnificent flagships, there was a luxurious room covered with red-gold carpets, and the table was filled with all kinds of food, including giant Morning Star shrimps, whose meat glowed with golden light.

These foods can be considered luxurious even in the old interstellar world.

The burly figure behind the table wiped his mouth with a silk handkerchief with an indifferent expression. A man stood in front of the table, reporting in a low voice.

"President, this is the fifth time that the three civilizations have sent us communication instructions."

"Refuse to respond." The president said coldly, "We finally managed to escape from the control of the three major civilizations, and you still want us to go back?"

"But they said..." the subordinate hesitated.

"With only a few blurry pictures and a video where nothing can be seen clearly, they say Qinglong has solved the biggest problem. They are not trustworthy at all." He sneered, "Besides, even if it is true, I don't know how many people I will have to look up to after I go back. I may even have to hold new elections, which is worse than now."

The subordinate's face tensed slightly, but he heard the other party say: "Okay, take these things down and send them to the factory to be made into nutritional medicine. We should save them if we can."

"Yes." The subordinate said helplessly. When he was about to call someone to come in and clean up, a virtual screen suddenly appeared on the desk, flashing red light.

His president's face stiffened slightly as the radar detected an abnormal energy source. The picture gradually became clearer, and as the light converged, a familiar-looking figure emerged, looking down at him with a cold gaze.

"Ah, Alves!" The president was shocked.

In the twentieth year of the Wandering Era, scattered interstellar civilizations gradually came to the gathering points of the three major civilizations.

At the same time, they also brought with them the huge amount of resources they had accumulated.

On the outskirts of the wandering fleet, a fortress has been formed. A steady stream of transport fleets come from all directions, carrying large amounts of metal materials, passing through a vortex similar to a star gate and entering an unknown space.

"Why does the cosmic environment here feel so strange?" On a transport ship, the operator stared at various parameters in a daze.

"Why do you care so much!" The captain's voice came from behind, "Get ready for docking."

The transport ship followed the intelligent guidance to a docking point and carried out fully automated processing. All the metal materials in the cabin were unloaded in less than ten minutes.

Then he followed the instructions and returned.

"Is this place the rumored lair of Lord Qinglong?" The operator couldn't help but mutter before leaving. Looking through the porthole, the densely packed docking points were like a spider web hanging in the starry sky.

“I don’t know when I can return to my hometown…”

.........

In the Heavenly Palace, Li Ming opened his eyes, and the energy particles surging all over his body gradually dissipated. He whispered: "In fifteen years, the development progress has advanced by 15%. Not bad, not bad..."

He has used the genetic essence extracted from the Lord of Eternal Abyss to upgrade all the evolutionary essences to the ultimate level.

The development rate, which should have been severely reduced, still remains at an incredible level.

He sighed slightly, his mind moved slightly, and the large amount of metal materials stored in the [Realm of Mavilas] disappeared.

Opening the control page, he couldn't help but grin, "One hundred and three hundred billion, that's enough..."

Over a period of fifteen years, a steady stream of metal materials gathered from all directions into the realm of Mavilas.

In order to help him, the three major civilizations not only sent unrefined materials, but even sent their entire main battle fleets, retaining only basic cruise ships. It can be said that they did their best to support him.

The vast majority of them are low-grade alloy materials.

If it weren't for the special properties of the Realm of Mavilas, metal materials could be directly converted into metal energy, only those low-level alloy materials.

It might take him decades to absorb it all.

Leaving enough redundant metal energy for himself, Li Ming stood up and said, "It's time to deal with the trouble of the Abyss Lord. I wonder what it feels like to be the controller of the Eternal Abyss..."

During these years, the expansion of the Abyss Mist did not stop at all, and even accelerated, probably to let the Abyss Lord know how difficult it was to deal with him.

Up to now, its activity level in the main universe has reached 100%, which is the peak activity level.

The original interstellar civilization space has been completely covered, like an island submerged in the ocean.

The space around him changed, and he appeared in the outer starry sky. He turned on the smart terminal and sent a message to Malcolm and others.

Then, he easily shattered the void, passed through layers of dimensional worlds, and headed straight for the depths of the Eternal Abyss.

When the surroundings were gradually enveloped by darkness, it didn't take long for Li Ming to feel the familiar feeling of being spied on.

"Have you thought it through?" The carrier of the Abyss Lord emerged in the distance. Compared with before, it seemed to have become more refined, with clearer facial features, and looked like a living being.

It seems that the other party has not been idle during this period.

"Well, after thinking about it, I think it would be more reassuring if I kill you." Li Ming pondered and said seriously.

The Abyss Lord hesitated for a moment, and then Li Ming felt that the sense of being spied on almost solidified.

Bang! !

The violent energy fluctuations spread out, the Abyss Lord's energy level rose steadily, and black waves gushed out from his body, as if to fill the entire space.

"Becoming stronger again?"

Li Ming was secretly surprised.

The Lord of the Abyss has indeed not been idle. He has been using the power of the Eternal Abyss to strengthen his body, but at this level, the cost-effectiveness is very low.

However, because of his enemy Li Ming, he had to do so.

"You can always easily irritate me." The Abyss Lord stared at him coldly, "I believe that after today, I will be able to make you completely change your mind."

Lord Yuan’s idea was very simple. Since they didn’t agree, then he would continue fighting!
boom!
A raging black wave came over like an overwhelming force, submerging Li Ming's entire body in an instant, and its depth contained extreme lethality.

Li Ming was already prepared. His arms were like knives, tearing through the black waves and rushing out.

hum! !

However, before he could react, a sharp cold light suddenly appeared, and he felt a huge force attacking his chest.

I saw a black crystal long knife flying towards me and stabbing straight into his chest. Then it suddenly decomposed into countless black substances and wrapped around his body.

The next second, Li Ming found that his arms were firmly fixed, and not only that, his legs were also restrained.

The crystalline structure formed by the black substance locked onto his limbs should be a highly crystallized form of the power of the Eternal Abyss, probably prepared by the Lord of the Abyss to deal with his absorption ability.

"I'm afraid he has been thinking about how to target me in the past few years." Li Ming was not surprised.

Lord Yuan had already rushed forward, and as if to prevent him from breaking free, he locked Li Ming's arms with both hands.

The black matter forms countless tentacle segments, which densely extend from the back to reinforce it again.

Li Ming seemed to be completely controlled, frozen in mid-air, unable to move.

While maintaining the confinement, Lord Yuan evolved more arms from his body. His fists with amazing power continuously landed on Li Ming, making loud explosions!

The Abyss Lord's eyes were dark, and he attacked and attacked tirelessly.

"I have already accepted the situation of coexisting with you, but you still want to kill me. You have no fear, no fear!"

The roaring mental waves swept across the battlefield, showing the Lord of the Abyss's anger at the moment.

(End of this chapter)