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Chapter 338 The Grand Strategy, 'Revenge'

"The dominant powers that are now leading the removal of the list of civilizations have three options."

The Throne of the Abyss spoke up: "The first option is for the hegemonic civilization to suspend its encirclement and suppression of the civilizations on the list, giving them a chance to breathe."

"In this way, the civilizations on the list may even have the potential to coalesce into a powerful force and regain their footing in the Crystal Domain."

"The second option is for the dominant civilization to accelerate the process of encircling and annihilating them, but this will inevitably leave some survivors, which may cause many problems later."

"The third option is for the dominant civilization to feign a halt to the encirclement and annihilate them halfway through their rendezvous."

"Unfortunately, this is too difficult. If the timing is not right, the hidden dangers left behind will definitely be greater than the second option."

"All things considered, I believe that the probability of a superpower-level civilization choosing the second method is the highest."

"I think they'll choose the third method." A sarcastic smile flashed across the Ash Dragon's face. "After all, they're a supreme, overlord-level civilization. Why would they be as cautious as we are?"

Although the strongest beings of both hegemonic civilizations and top-tier large civilizations are at the eighth rank, the existence of eighth-rank law treasures results in a power gap of at least ten times, and in some cases, even more than a hundred times.

Aside from a few special factions whose level 8 treasures are unparalleled and might catch the overlords' eye, they don't even bother with the other ordinary level 8 treasures.

Of the seven eighth-tier beings present, only the leader of Lingkong was given special consideration; the rest were all ordinary eighth-tier beings and were not taken seriously at all. Therefore, they harbored some resentment and dissatisfaction towards those hegemonic civilizations.

This is also why Ash Dragon would develop a prejudice.

Of course, even with its biases, it doesn't believe that the dominant powers would choose the first option.

After all, they've already taken action; they can't possibly expect to coexist peacefully in the future, can they?
“It shouldn’t be that bad.” The leader of Lingkong shook his head. “I think they will most likely choose the second method, after all, there are quite a few hegemonic civilizations on the list.”

"Perhaps." Ash Dragon nodded noncommittally, then added, "However, I suggest we refrain from attacking the Cloudwing Civilization for now. The situation is unclear, so let's wait and see."

Prior to this, seeing that the civilizations on the list were doomed, they had already agreed to pool the power of the entire Sea of ​​758 to destroy the Cloudwing top-tier large civilization on the list from the neighboring Sea of ​​758.

It was partly to respond to the call, and partly to try and gain some personal benefits.

In hindsight, it was better to play it safe.

"can."

"Row."

"it is good."

The Ash Dragon's suggestion was unanimously approved by the six civilization leaders, including the leader of the Sky Piercer, and they were all somewhat relieved.

Fortunately.

Fortunately, the notification from the Vortex Plane Sea was issued early; if it had been a thousand or two thousand years later, they would probably have already been fighting with the top-tier large civilizations of Cloudwing.

By then, they will surely be on the revenge list of those who escaped the net.

If some sly individual manages to slip through the net and inexplicably becomes the overlord, the entire 758 seaside location will be thrown into turmoil.

After one hour.

The Sea of ​​Life, within the central plane of an inconspicuous plane cluster.

"Crash-"

Space Flower parted the grass and trees surrounding the leader of the life civilization, and bowed to him in alarm, saying, "Leader, something bad has happened. It seems they are about to launch a general attack ahead of schedule."

"Hmm?" The Life Leader's heart sank, and he hurriedly asked, "Why?"

Currently, less than half of the overseas space nodes in the life dimension have been reached, making it absolutely impossible to capture them all at once.

No matter how you look at it, now is not the right time to launch a full-scale offensive.

"I overheard a sixth-tier spatial being say that the Silkworm Dream Civilization just released a new announcement, the content of which is..."

Space Flower recounted everything it had overheard, and then added, "Just now, they received another order from the Underworld Overlord to immediately construct teleportation arrays at the spatial nodes, awaiting the arrival of the main force of the civilization."

"Upon hearing this news, I immediately went to check on the spatial nodes constructed by the other dominant civilizations. They had already begun building teleportation arrays."

The construction of the interdimensional teleportation array at this point, combined with the information previously heard, could only ultimately point to one thing: launching a full-scale attack on the civilization of life.

After listening, the leader of the civilization of life remained silent for a long time.

The lush flowers, grasses, and trees that once grew around it gradually withered and died in its silence, eventually turning into ashes, and the entire plane became deathly silent in an instant.

"Do you think the Silkworm Dream Civilization did this on purpose?"

After a long silence, the leader of life asked softly, "What is their goal?"

"Does my civilization really offend them so much?"

The flower of life stood with its head bowed, not daring to utter a single word.

How could it know what the lofty Silkworm Dream Civilization was thinking?

All it knew was that life and civilization seemed to be truly on the verge of collapse.

This is the general trend!

Even a great leader as powerful as life itself cannot reverse this trend!
"Go, bring Vio to me." The Life Leader ignored the Space Flower's silence and calmly gave the order.

"Huh?" Space Flower was initially confused, but quickly realized that now was not the time to ask questions, and immediately replied, "Yes, Leader."

There are a total of seventeen eighth-order beings in the life civilization, three of whom are overlords who possess eighth-order law treasures, and fourteen of whom are ordinary eighth-order beings.

Vio is a somewhat ordinary eighth-tier being in the Life Civilization. In terms of strength, he can only rank around fifteenth, and in terms of status, he is basically the same as Vio.

The fact that the leader didn't consult with the other two overlords about how to deal with the upcoming war, but instead prioritized contacting Vio, was truly puzzling to Vio.

"Tear--"

After saying that, the space flower immediately tore open a spatial rift and rushed towards a plane cluster that was 38,722 spatial nodes away from this place.

Ten seconds later, before the original spatial rift had fully healed, another spatial rift appeared beside the leader of the life civilization.

A one-meter-tall space flower and a five-meter-tall grass with blue and green hues and sword-shaped leaves flew out one after another.

"leader."

"Meet the leader."

Space flowers and sword grass landed before the leader of life, bowing their heads in respect.

"Hmm." The Life Leader responded, looked at Sword Grass, and asked in a calm tone, "Vio, if you became the leader of the Life Civilization, how would you lead the remaining members of the Life Civilization to survive amidst the malice of a host of overlord civilizations?"

In the upcoming battle, it and the other two dominant life civilizations will inevitably be the main targets of the other dominant civilizations.

Anyone can run, but they absolutely cannot.

In fact, even members of the eighth tier, including Vio, would have a hard time escaping. However, if Vio suddenly transforms from an eighth-tier member into a hegemon, everything would be a different story.

This was the best solution it could think of in a short time: to sacrifice itself and the other two overlords so that life and civilization could continue.

Vio is the most conservative and stable being among all the existing eight tiers of life civilization; as long as his answer satisfies it, he is an excellent candidate for entrustment. "This..."

Upon hearing this, Vio quickly understood the purpose of the Life Leader's questions, combining the information the Space Flower had given him on the road. His leaves stiffened, and he suppressed his grief as he said, "I will go and find undiscovered plane clusters in remote plane seas to settle them."

"One seat group is assigned one or more members of the sixth rank or below, and one seventh rank member is assigned to oversee every hundred seat groups."

"I myself travel between these plane clusters, promptly eliminating any living beings that find their way to the plane clusters."

"Once new members of the life civilization are born and establish connections with the origins of those planes, the life civilization may one day regain its former glory."

Because they lost contact with the plane group, all the escaped members of the life civilization can only reach the sixth level at most, and it is impossible for any to reach the seventh level. However, only this group of escaped members will be able to do so.

Once the newborn is born in the new plane group, it will reconnect with the origin of the new plane group, and there will be no more obstacles on the path to the seventh level.

Therefore, even if the life plane sea is lost, life civilization still has the opportunity to develop again.

“Indeed, after I die, you will be the new leader of the Civilization of Life.” The Life Leader’s branch swayed slightly, and a leaf with an incredibly dense life force, yet only half a meter long and wide, suddenly appeared in front of Vio.

A leaf drifted into a blade of grass in Vio's yard and disappeared in an instant.

“Yes, leader,” Vio grass replied sadly, its leaves swaying gently.

Having finally obtained the eighth-order law treasure that it had always dreamed of, it felt no joy whatsoever.

The change of ownership of this precious treasure of the laws also signifies the tolling of the death knell for the endless and brilliant civilization that once dominated the sea of ​​life.

"Okay, wait a moment." The Life Leader, Chao Vio, nodded slightly, then said to the Space Flower, "Go and fetch Nahn, Jenny, and Fissie."

Nunn and Jenny are the other two overlords of the Life Civilization, while Fisi is the strongest eighth-tier being below the overlords of the Life Civilization.

"Yes, leader." The space flower responded and tore open another spatial rift to leave.

Half a minute later.

"Tear--"

Another spatial rift opened.

A tree resembling the leader of life, a purple flower about 100 meters tall covered with mysterious black patterns, a plant ten meters tall resembling a sunflower, and a spatial flower flew out one after another from the spatial rift.

"Old man, who do you plan to have deliver the treasure to Fizz?" Purple Flower showed no respect whatsoever to the leader of life and asked directly.

It had already learned of the Life Leader's arrangements from the spatial flower's mouth. Now that it had summoned it, Nahn, and Fissie together, it would surely give one of their Law Treasures to Fissie.

As for the remaining supreme treasure of the laws, it will most likely be left behind to confuse the other overlords.

Without a doubt, it wanted to leave behind its supreme treasure of laws, so that it could at least have a good fight before it died, right?
But reason told it that the old man's arrangement was more reliable, and for the sake of the future of life and civilization, it had to listen.

"Meet the leader."

"Meet the leader."

The other two bowed their heads in respect to the leader of life.

"yours."

The leader of life showed no anger and calmly said to Purple Flower, "Vio's goal is to protect, to ensure the continuation of the civilization of life."

"And Fisi's goal is to take revenge on those hegemonic civilizations and the Silkworm Dream civilization on behalf of my Life Civilization."

"Your treasure is undoubtedly well-suited for retaliating."

"Wait a minute." Purple Flower stared at the Life Leader in disbelief: "Old man, have you lost your mind? How is the Silkworm Dream Civilization going to retaliate? Which administrator can Fizzy defeat?"

It could understand revenge against the dominant civilization, but revenge against the Silkworm Dream civilization was something it truly could not understand.

"A trans-temporal transgressor." The Life Leader coldly uttered five words.

The moment those five words were uttered, all the living beings present were stunned.

They naturally knew about that person who transcended the limits of time and space.

But they never expected that their leader would set his sights on that person.

Life civilization is not without hope of continuing. If we kill the time-space transgressor and provoke the administrators to take action, then life civilization will truly be gone!

"Trust me one more time." The Life Leader looked at his five fallen kin and said softly, "Only by focusing all our efforts on the Time-Space Transcendent can my Life Civilization gain a chance to breathe."

It had already vaguely guessed the purpose behind the various actions taken by the Silkworm Dream Civilization, but it couldn't say it outright and could only gloss over it.

Compared to the Silkworm Dream Civilization, the Life Civilization is far too weak and can only be manipulated by it. It even has to actively cooperate with its manipulation in order to truly gain even a tiny bit of survival.

As for offending a time-space transcendent being, what will happen when they grow up?
As long as Vio spreads the seeds of life and civilization further and wider, and then uses himself as bait for the spacetime transgressors who grow up to consume them, life and civilization can be considered to have successfully continued.

Fisi is a tool to curry favor with the Silkworm Dream Civilization, while Vio and all the members of the life civilization he brought out are bait prepared for those who transcend time and space.

Only new seeds born from a group of seats represent the future of life and civilization.

This is the glimmer of hope that it found for its own civilization within the stage prepared by the Silkworm Dream Civilization for those who transcend time and space limitations.

“I believe you,” said Fish, the strongest eighth-tier being in the Life Civilization.

A leader who plans for the future of civilization at the cost of his own life believes that it can be trusted, and can only be trusted.

"I believe you too."

"Alright, I'll believe you then."

"I believe you too."

Including Zihua, the other members of the life civilization spoke up one after another.

The next day.

Thirty overlords, hundreds of eighth-rank beings, and tens of thousands of seventh-rank beings simultaneously entered the Sea of ​​Life Planes.

The leader of the Life Civilization fled with two overlords, while the remaining seventh and eighth-tier Life Civilizations each led a portion of their members to escape the Life Plane Sea.

Thirty overlords jointly pursued the three overlords of the Life Civilization, while the remaining eight tiers dispersed to pursue the eighth tiers of the Life Civilization, intending to annihilate all the eighth tiers of the Life Civilization.

As for the seventh tier, if you encounter one, you can easily wipe it out; if you don't, then forget about it.

The seventh-order beings, having lost the favor of the plane's origin, pose no threat to them.

The battle lasted a year. The two new overlords of the Life Civilization, each carrying an eighth-tier treasure, escaped successfully, while all others above the eighth tier were annihilated.

Meanwhile, the other dominant civilizations on the list received treatment similar to that of the life-giving civilizations.

However, compared to the life-sustaining civilizations that preserved the combat power of the two overlords, the fate of the other nine overlord-level civilizations was much worse.

Not to mention the overlord level, there are only a dozen or so surviving eighth-tier individuals.

As for those at level seven and below, a relatively large number survived because the encirclement and suppression was too hasty.

(End of this chapter)