A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 299 The Obsession Continues Too Deeply

Should I become his disciple?

What can he teach?

How to more efficiently eliminate other races and civilizations?

Or how do we fight a successful interstellar war between civilizations?

"I am fully conscious! Master! Please lead me to the supreme path!" the space serpent replied firmly.

Ever since witnessing that immense power, the Space Serpent has been certain that it is the supreme path it has been searching for. If it could take the powerful figure in front of it as its master and have him guide it, its future spiritual energy cultivation would surely be smooth sailing and its progress would be rapid!

If this space serpent were a human, it would probably be clinging to Lu Shang's leg right now, refusing to let go no matter how much he wanted to kick it away.

Lu Shang couldn't help but roll his eyes. He wasn't an expert in psionic energy, and his own psionic energy was so weak as to be negligible. Asking him to lead someone onto some supreme path was probably a sign that this psionic creature had its brain slammed in a door.

Thinking of this, Lu Shang was unwilling to get entangled with the other party any further and gave orders to the bee swarm.

"Freeze the cycle of reincarnation, and then randomly throw this psionic creature into another universe."

"OK."

The planetary creatures responded.

At this moment, the giant space serpent was still excitedly trying to say something, but the next moment...

"Master!..."

In space, a three-kilometer-long snake stands motionless, like a sculpture, and is remarkably lifelike.

This "lifelike" quality is not exaggerated at all, because this thing is a living being, but it has been frozen in a stagnant space-time, which is why it resembles a sculpture.

Before long, a wormhole opened in the space, sucking the sculpture made of living creature into the other end of the wormhole.

As the wormhole closed, Lu Shang shamelessly picked at his ear, "Finally, some peace and quiet."

Immediately, Lu Shang ordered the swarm, "Get down to business. Freeze the current universe. We're going to meet with Moston and Grana next."

Within the bee colony network, many bee creatures were puzzled. One worker bee asked, "Huh? Haven't we found them yet?"

Lu Shang replied, "I have a general idea about them and the bee swarms they command, but I need to verify it further."

"Grana, Moston, and their swarms are all in this universe, and they are spread throughout the entire universe. However, they are very well hidden, and we have all been deceived by them."

……

From a certain day onward, the Layadia civilization was imprisoned within its home planet system by an invisible force.

Scholars in the Layadia civilization were once alarmed, believing that the entire star system would rapidly approach heat death due to its small spatial scale, and predicted the time of the civilization's end.

In this timeline that keeps moving towards the end of the world, the Layadians tried every possible method to break through their home star system, or pinned their hopes on some new theory to find a breakthrough in the heat death realm, but all to no avail.

Social unrest and public anxiety led to a precipitous drop in the population of the Layadia civilization within the Mother Star system.

As long as they don't have children, their offspring won't have to suffer the pain of heat death within the star system, that's what the Layadians who refuse to reproduce think.

In this situation, those who still choose to have children are either optimistic about the future or hope that their offspring can replace them and witness the spectacle of heat death.

As time went by and the end of civilization approached, the Layadians were shocked to discover that the heat death predicted by their mother star system had not occurred.

The mother star system remained exactly as it was, and the Layadians were pleasantly surprised to discover that the energy released by the star did not seem to be without outlets; they simply hadn't noticed the process of its release.

The scholar who predicted that the mother star system would eventually heat die was, of course, exhumed and his grave desecrated.

In the time that followed, the Rayadians developed a psionic network based on psychic energy, which, with societal changes and the choices made by each individual in the civilization, gradually resembled a swarm of bees in the Tower of Babel.

Finally, one day, a Layadian named Moston appeared in the Layadian civilization.

He is very smart and can learn many things very quickly, as if he already knew them. Learning is just a key to unlock the door to knowledge in his mind.

This Rayadians named Moston, by virtue of his powerful abilities, naturally became the supreme leader of the entire Rayadian civilization.

Under this leader's instructions, the Layadia civilization became indistinguishable from a swarm of bees.

On that day, the supreme leader of the Layadians, as if summoned by some divine inspiration, hurriedly went to a deserted riverbank on their home planet.

Lu Shang was fishing by the river when he saw the newcomer and said, "Don't you have anything to say about what you've done?"

"You are, Lu... Lu..."

The supreme leader of the Layadia civilization struggled to think of a way to express himself fully, but he couldn't remember what to call him.

Lu Shang finished speaking for him.

"Lu Shang".

"It seems your approach hasn't been very successful."

Lu Shang looked away and continued fishing.

The supreme leader of the Layadia civilization, or rather, the swarm's mastermind, Moston, walked over and sat down next to Lu Shang, looking at the fishing rod he was using.

"As long as the bee colony can survive indefinitely, none of the problems are problems," Moston said.

Lu Shang asked, "If we miss a little information this time, and a little information next time, one day even the bee colony itself will forget it. You're telling me this isn't a problem?"

"..."

Moston fell silent.

After a moment of silence, Lu Shang suddenly asked, "What are your plans? Will you continue down this path, or will you come back and follow the same path as us?"

Seeing that Moston was about to argue, Lu Shang spoke up first: "Don't misunderstand, I just came to ask a question."

"I am different from the old master. I am happy to see the hive take more different paths. Before we came into contact with you, the hive encountered a hive that took a different path. The hive did not choose to destroy them, but allowed them to continue to explore and move forward on that path."

Moston wanted to argue, but Lu Shang's words silenced him. After a moment of silence, he decided, "...Grana and I intend to continue down this path."

As he spoke, Moston fell into reminiscence, conveying his thoughts to Lu Shang as he recalled them.

"The existence of ultimate destruction shows us the end of the original path, and also shows us your limits."

"Lu Shang, you can lead the swarm to victory in countless battles, but if you lose just once, the swarm is very likely to perish. The survival of the swarm should not depend on the mercy of the enemy and luck."

"After the devastating blow, Grana and I thought a lot and agreed that the swarm was able to survive until now purely because of good luck. We were lucky enough to meet you, Lu Shang, and we were lucky enough not to encounter a powerful opponent that far exceeded our development capabilities at the time, so we were able to develop smoothly to a very high level."

"But eventually, the bee colony's luck will turn bad, and then the colony will perish, and no one can save it, including you."

As he continued, Moston's tone became unusually pessimistic. Or rather, this was the result of his and Grana's constant contemplation of the swarm's future—a future they could not accept and were filled with despair for.

Moston said firmly to Lu Shang, "The swarm is about to embark on a new path, a path where there is no master and no swarm."

"Is there nothing on this road?" Lu Shang asked.

Moston replied, "There is a god on this road who makes the swarm eternal."

"The swarm of bees makes God eternal, and God makes the swarm of bees eternal, building each other up—that is our answer."

Upon hearing this, Lu Shang shook his head slightly, disagreeing with the answer found by Moston and Grana.

"If eternity exists, the cosmic sea wouldn't be what it is now. However, I respect your choice and hope that you can bring good news to the hive on this path."

If it has an eternal place in the cosmic sea, then why is the cosmic sea still the way it is today?

Shouldn't it already be filled with countless civilizations that have reached the level of eternity?

(End of this chapter)