Ke Xue: He mastered the steel-cutting divine skill at the start.

The enormous figure had sharp teeth in its mouth and sharp, claw-like nails on its hands, as if it could easily tear anything apart.

This is undoubtedly an extremely terrifying creature. Although it was just walking calmly, the terrifying aura it exuded was enough to instantly kill any ordinary creature.

After passing through the long black crystal corridor, you arrive at a narrow area where the passageways are filled with extremely large survival pods.

In each survival pod, there is a life form similar to him, but these life forms are all different in size from him. The largest is only a little over six meters tall, which is a big difference from his seven or eight-meter body.

"Western Ink"

A voice rang out, and then another enormous figure emerged from the depths of the shadows. His body was even taller, a whole size larger than the lizardman named Ximo from before.

"Slay the Sky Leader!"

Upon seeing the newcomer, west Mo hurriedly bowed, his ferocious face showing extreme respect, and then immediately knelt on one knee to pay his respects.

"Hmm," Zhan Kong nodded, gently shaking his neck, producing a faint crackling sound, and revealing pale purple marks between the rough muscle folds.

When the muscles swell slightly, these purple marks spread out completely, looking extremely ferocious and terrifying.

How long will it take us to reach our target planet?

"Chief Zhan Kong, I was just about to report to you that, based on our current flight speed, we will reach our target planet in another 76 natural days."

Zhan Kong nodded in satisfaction: "Very good, it seems I can finally get a good night's sleep."

"Rest assured, leader. Leave everything to me. In fact, I don't even need to lift a finger. According to the observations sent back 130 years ago, that small planet, although fortunate enough to have carbon-based life, is pitifully low in both energy utilization and combat potential."

"They can only use extremely rudimentary chemical energy, making them only slightly more powerful than those savage people who practice slash-and-burn agriculture. They could not possibly pose any threat to us."

Zhan Kong shook his head: "No, Xi Mo, you are too proud. The probe did indeed send back this information, but that was more than a hundred years ago. In the universe, anything is possible!"

“It’s not unheard of for some weak planets to surpass advanced civilizations in just a few hundred years. It’s true that our Yangyuan Empire is a powerful empire that radiates throughout the entire star system, but the number of warriors under my command is still very small. I don’t want to cause any losses. Every warrior is extremely precious to me, and I don’t want to see any losses!”

Ximo nodded, his respect for the leader growing even stronger.

As one of the five leaders of the Yangyuan Empire, he is a powerful figure who controls hundreds of inhabited planets and wields unparalleled power.

The other commanders were all extremely arrogant and domineering, and they didn't take anyone seriously at all.

Not to mention, a planet that has been 'radiated' by them simply cannot possess any power of resistance.

Chapter 839 The Proud Warriors of Yangyuan

The so-called 'radiation' involves using a type of high-energy radiating mineral from space, which, after being specially charged, is launched into high dimensions and brought to life on some planets.

The Yangyuan Empire discovered the existence of Earth a century ago.

However, the universe is vast and boundless, and there are quite a few planets with life in them; the civilizations in the universe are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

However, for these advanced civilizations, a planet with life is not of great value. The truly valuable planets are those with martial artists.

However, for ordinary life-bearing planets, the energy dimension is insufficient to produce powerful martial artists.

After all, even the conditions for the emergence of life are extremely demanding, let alone the emergence of advanced civilizations and the possession of powerful warriors.

The method of converting radiation energy into genetic energy is an insurmountable barrier that blocks the path of a civilized martial artist!

It's cruel, but that's reality, and the cruelty of the universe.

So here's the question: how do we make a planet more valuable?

The answer is radiation-induced meteorite!

This was not something the Yangyuan Empire came up with, but rather a common practice that originated from advanced civilizations in the universe.

Just like the Singer civilization in The Three-Body Problem, which can easily eliminate exposed weak civilizations.

Advanced civilizations in this universe use these radiation-induced meteorites as a means to increase the value of habitable planets.

Radiation-induced meteorites can cause large-scale mutations in organisms that have not mastered genetic energy.

The process and development of mutation are just like the situation on Earth before, except that the mutation speed is much faster when the meteorite is intact!

At that time, countless creatures mutated, and these mutated creatures were devastating to primitive civilizations!

Humans, on the other hand, go through a process of self-selection.

First, humans will die in large numbers due to the invasion of mutated creatures. This process is like a terrible selection process, which can easily filter out the strong with martial arts qualifications.

Then, humanity will enter a struggle for survival mode.

Of course, some powerful individuals will begin to study the repair of genetic energy, gradually improve their cultivation, and then fight against mutated creatures.

This will be filled with human blood and tears. Hundreds of millions or even billions of people will die in the turmoil, either becoming food for mutated creatures or starving to death in the face of natural disasters.

Without external intervention, this is the best possible outcome.

Even more terrifying is the possibility that a tiny error in the meteorite's impact could destroy the entire planet.

Just like Miyazaki Yu's actions before, if he hadn't directly destroyed the meteorite, Earth would be finished by now.

The path ahead is fraught with difficulties. Every slight mistake, every step that fails to reach the optimal solution due to human factors, will inevitably lead to greater losses and more deaths.

The death toll will be in the hundreds of millions!

To escape this vortex and get back on track, humanity will pay an unimaginable price, and in the process, technology will regress and disappear.

Maintaining both martial arts prowess and technological advancement simultaneously becomes an extremely difficult task.

That's why Ximo is so dismissive of Earth at this time. According to the timeline, the other side has only been catalyzed by the radiation meteorite for a few years.

In fact, according to the usual cosmic practice, after catalyzing life on a planet, it is generally not until a hundred or even several hundred years later that the harvest is carried out.

Martial artists with different gene sequences and life forms, as well as those new mutated organisms, may share commonalities due to catalysis.

However, there will always be powerful mutant individuals. These mutant individuals are the most valuable things, and they can be extremely valuable whether they are used as slaves or sold.

As for why the timeframe is several hundred years, the reason is simple: to give this primitive civilization, in their eyes, a little time to develop.

What they hoped to receive was an intelligent race that could understand the basic axioms of the universe, not a race that would be completely destroyed and degenerated into wild animals by the destructive meteorite.

After all, this is in line with the normal rate of evolution.

A planet that has suffered such severe damage may not recover for hundreds of years.

As for developing martial arts, well, that's just laughable.

The martial arts that many large cosmic empires spent hundreds of thousands of years perfecting are an insurmountable barrier for these inferior races.

Even if these races were given tens of thousands more years, they would still not be able to surpass them or achieve a complete counterattack.

If such an amazing planet really exists, then I guess I'm just unlucky.

Unfortunately, the Yangyuan Empire had just experienced something similar two hundred years ago.

After using the catalytic meteorite, due to a calculation error, they accidentally turned a planet that was not included in their calculations into a planet that was about to be harvested.

It was discovered afterward, but it wasn't taken seriously. Later, due to the loss of data, this planet remained isolated for thousands of years.

When the Yangyuan Empire rediscovered this planet, they were not met with lambs to the slaughter, but with tigers unleashed from their cages and dragons emerging from the sea.

The intelligent life on this planet has achieved a qualitative leap in both technology and martial arts. The number of powerful individuals with strong combat capabilities is astonishing. Although it is still not as powerful as the Yangyuan Empire, it is more than capable of competing with the Yangyuan Empire within its own star system.

Thus began a protracted war.

Although the Yangyuan Empire ultimately won due to its substantial resources, the losses it suffered were devastating for the entire empire.

Hundreds of billions of Yuanwu-level (Martial Master-level) martial artists died in battle, along with tens of thousands of Shenwu-level (Spirit Martial) martial artists and dozens of Xingheng-level (World-level) martial artists!

This is bad enough to cause serious damage!

The best way to make up for the losses is to plunder, to plunder those weaker planets.

Therefore, after reorganizing the archives, they discovered the existence of Earth and then used the same trick again, launching a radiation-induced meteorite towards Earth.

However, given the lessons learned from the previous failure, we absolutely cannot give weak planets time to develop, even though taking them over now might seem like forcing them to grow too fast.

Such newly transformed planets are difficult to sell at high prices.

But now, in order to replenish the empire, we can only resort to desperate measures and try to make a quick buck first.

It was precisely because of this that all the Yangyuan warriors on the entire spaceship fleet were bursting with confidence.

Such a newly transformed planet is probably in the midst of a huge disaster, and a major regression is inevitable. Once they arrive, they will be able to easily imprison the other party in a cage, just like they would a wild beast.

Therefore, there are only about 100,000 troops on thousands of ships, which means that there are only about a hundred combatants on each ship.

They weren't there to fight at all; they were there to buy goods.

Just like the slave trade on Earth in the past, European merchants could easily plunder black people and send them to plantations in the Americas to become slaves, much like they would livestock.

They're planning to do the same thing!

So these spaceships are actually cargo ships or trucks, they come here to pick up goods!

However, they still don't know what level of person they are about to face, and their facial expressions at that time must be quite interesting.

Chapter 840 Arrival!

In just three months, the world is already on high alert.

At first, Zhengui kept the impending arrival of the alien forces a secret, but the truth could not be hidden forever.

This is understandable, given the all-out preparations for war, with almost all production capacity being used to manufacture weapons, and all countries entering the highest level of combat readiness.

Those who have experienced this state of combat readiness know that all officers and soldiers on leave return to their posts and wait for orders.

All high-end weapons, such as long-range strategic bombers, ballistic missile nuclear submarines, aircraft carrier battle groups, and land-based tank formations, are ready for immediate use.

They were ready to fight at any moment, with swords drawn and guns cocked.

There's no point in hiding such a large-scale operation.

Moreover, the inability to keep information confidential is also due to the actions of the martial artists.

The warriors have more freedom of action, and as the main fighting force, the government cannot hide them from the public, but they have no intention of hiding them.

Moreover, news had already spread from Lingxiao Palace under Miyazaki Yu's command that all warriors under Lingxiao Palace were on high alert and ready to fight at any time.

In this way, the cover-up became a joke, so the government released the information directly a month after the incident.

Then came the desperate efforts to appease the public.

"The United States is mobilizing its fleets across both oceans and beginning a strategic deployment to become an outer force protecting key areas!"