Under One Person, your rebellious life has reached the heavens?

"Everything is fine. The Star Destroyer is in good condition and can fire the Star Destroyer beam to its homeland at any time. The Dragon People have not left any clear traces."

Zavo spoke calmly on the surface, but in his heart he was still thinking about what exactly was the substance that was blocking the transmission of light streams in the void neural network.

The threat posed to him by the dragon race was extraordinary. Zavo hadn't felt this vague unease for many years. Given his overwhelming military strength, this suspicion, vigilance, and caution were all the more precious.

“During your inspection, we overstepped your authority, modified the message transmitted in the optical stream, and gave them half an hour to consider it. Now there are 7 minutes left.”

"Dross said slowly, a digital countdown timer appeared in front of his face: 06:32."

"If they still refuse to let it pass when it's reset to zero."

"Then the Empire will not need to unilaterally notify them, and will not care about the right to life on the conquered planets under the original law, but will launch a final attack on them to destroy them in one fell swoop, thus opening the entrance to the unknown world ahead of schedule."

"Zavo, prepare to act. Let us send a brilliant spark to our unseen relatives and end their enslaved and manipulated fate."

Elder Zefer urged him on with a smile. The fat on his cheeks squeezed at the corners of his mouth, making him look extremely treacherous and cruel. The fierce glint in his narrow eyes was even more chilling, more terrifying than a demon.

"You don't need to say more."

Zavo responded coldly, simultaneously manipulating the colossal star-destroying cannon mounted on the sun within the network world, shifting its muzzle, locking onto a fixed trajectory, and pointing it straight at Tianyuan.

The fate of the entire blue planet was thus controlled by his single thought.

..........

Tianyuan, night, Sanyi Gate.

Jiang Mo, the Flying Immortal Master, and the Elder Xianhua were still brewing tea and discussing philosophy in the pavilion, chatting and laughing about all sorts of strange and wonderful stories from ancient times to the present.

The bright moon hangs high in the sky, and three people are reflected in its light.

“Ding ding ding!!”

"Drip drip!"

Suddenly, the tablet on Jiang Mo's desk emitted a rapid and sharp alarm. It was a communication tool provided to him by the scientists of the Dragon Clan, and it usually had four distinct alarm sounds.

The one that sounded at that moment was the most urgent one.

“Ding ding ding!!”

"Drip drip!!"

Coincidentally, a miniature computer badge on the front of the Flying Immortal Master's robe was also trembling and chiming.

"Oh?"

A playful smile played on Jiang Mo's lips. The formidable enemy he had been waiting for was finally showing signs of life!

"It's coming..." Xuan Hua murmured, somewhat lost in thought, and slowly sighed.

"Let's go and have a look."

The Flying Immortal Master finished his tea and then stood up.

"Buzz!"

The space trembled, and in an instant, the three arrived at a cutting-edge planetary defense base jointly built by the Dragonkin race and the Nine Tribes.

Several senior leaders from the Nine Departments were present, along with four Dragon Elders.

Berg, sensing the familiar presence, did not turn around. Instead, he began to explain the crisis while displaying the deciphered light stream information on a giant, ultra-high-definition projection screen.

"Just ten minutes ago, a stream of light descended from another dimension and arrived in the solar system of the real world. It headed straight for the surface but was successfully intercepted by the Tower of the End. It was a message sent to us by the Starry Sky Race, and the content is as follows."

Jiang Mo, the Flying Immortal Master, and Xuan Hua slowly stepped forward, their gazes fixed on the azure screen image.

A tall, imposing, and somewhat obese old man was greeting all the creatures of Tianyuan, telling them about their arrival, their origins, and their power.

All living beings in the Heavenly Abyss have only two choices: submit or die.

As the overlords who dominate the galaxy, Elder Zefer, the representative of the Starry Sky Humans, clearly stated that the empire built by the Starry Sky Humans possesses extremely high levels of technological civilization and morality, and emphasized that the Starry Sky Humans never enslave other races.

Their AI mechs have long since replaced tedious human labor; all they want are resources. If the creatures of Tianyuan voluntarily give up resistance, they promise never to use weapons of war to kill humans or other highly intelligent races.

Furthermore, we are willing to assist them in establishing a civilized nation of their own race, or to upgrade existing nations, so that those poor, weak, and unjust individuals can become wealthy, strong, and enjoy complete fairness.

The problem of uncoordinated resource allocation has existed since ancient times. The creatures of the homeland cannot solve it, cannot efficiently develop existing resources, and cannot sit back and enjoy the fruits of others' labor. But the Starry Sky Humans can do it!

Every citizen in their empire enjoys abundant material and spiritual resources, living a free and carefree life like that of immortals.

How is this lifestyle created?

By continuously expanding, exploring, and developing surrounding star systems, the Star Race aims to obtain inexhaustible resources and achieve ecological balance within the empire.

In fact, every citizen who is willing to live can live forever!

Either clone your consciousness and body, or transplant your memory network—either way is fine. Live until you're tired of living, until you don't want to live anymore. You're not limited by economic conditions; the right to live or die is firmly in your own hands.

The Starry Sky Clan's demands were simple: from the moment they submitted, all the natural resources of their homeland would belong to them, and the intelligent species living there would receive their favor and assistance to carry out a technological explosion, rapidly realizing a new world structure. Humanity would need to migrate to other planets, such as Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, and so on.

The Star Humans also pledged to help them transform the environments of those planets and to send an elder to be stationed there long-term to oversee the completion of the nation-building of all intelligent species, providing comprehensive assistance.

Over the past few thousand years, the Starry Sky Humans have left their mark on 136 ancient life-bearing planets in the vast universe. They are not benevolent, and can even be described as cold and ruthless. Very few planets have received such a gentle invitation as this one.

Most of the time, the Empire simply unleashes a Life Reset Ray, causing the billions of beings inhabiting resource planets to instantly disintegrate, collapsing from the genetic level, and ultimately turning into ashes and disappearing into the world.

Most of the planets that were preserved had humanoid intelligent species or certain characteristics that were worth the attention of the Starry Sky Race. As a result, they were invited to join the Empire and become vassal states, and were relocated to new terraformed planets. All the resources on those planets belonged to the Starry Sky Race.

Nominally belonging to the Starry Sky Humans, but the Starry Sky Humans have never misappropriated the resources of those vassal states, because there are simply too few, too few to arouse their interest, since the majority of the resources have already been taken by them.

According to Zeffer's examples, there were three different forms of intelligent life species that survived the process of the Star Humans conquering the surrounding star systems, and even achieved more brilliant accomplishments than any previous civilization.

After his gentle words ended, Zeffer revealed his ruthless side in his speech on the screen, playing one ultra-high-definition video after another to the billions of beings illuminated by the stream of light.

It includes a vast scene of 100,000 warships traversing the universe, entering wormholes, and crossing galaxies;

A life reset ray was concentrated and charged from the Sky-class warship, and within three seconds it shot out a beam of light tens of thousands of kilometers long, annihilating the civilization and race on a resource planet.

Once the resource development is complete, a single star-destroying cannon will shatter those planets, which are dozens or hundreds of times larger than Tianyuan, into endless fragments.

Beneath those menacing warships, in the frigid universe, no life-bearing planet could withstand such plunder.

Even the densely packed, seemingly endless mech fleets were prominently featured, like a metal frenzy. They were fully armed and equipped with weapons that far surpassed the imagination of humankind in all previous historical eras.

Just before his speech ended, Zeffer, with an arrogant and conceited expression, faced the camera and pointed at his seemingly distant enemy, coldly speaking:

"Finally, I want to say that those Dao Lords and Demon Kings who killed our kin and drove us far away into the starry sky, after 3,672 years and 109 days, we have returned. Are you ready to bear our wrath?"

This is the end.

The speech abruptly ended, and the dazzling beam of light, like an intelligent device, was projected onto the human retina. Zeffer's figure disappeared, leaving behind a control panel that resembled a highly intelligent system.

Following the instructions above, each notified life form can access the empire data created by the Starry Sky Humans, just like logging onto the internet.

The anthropologists, dragon scientists, and high-ranking officials from both sides present were all browsing different information on the virtual panels on their retinas, their expressions slightly solemn.

In terms of technological level, the Starry Sky Humans are indeed superior, but the Tianyuan side is not without any power to fight back. From a comprehensive comparison, the odds are probably 90/10.

"Mystic Venerable, should we let these streams of light enter the atmosphere, or should we keep the public in the dark?"

Benjamin inquired, and it was the Dragonman's scientist, Berg's deputy.

"........"

Jiang Mo seemed to be thinking about something, hesitated for half a second, and then decided to say:

"If these light streams won't cause radiation distortion to the genes, let them pass. There's no need to stop them. These living beings have the right to know."

"But... the situation will collapse!"

Zhou He sighed in distress. Those of them who knew the truth could still accept the shock brought by this information and resist the temptation of submission. But most people would not feel any resistance in the face of such a powerful empire.

Xu Qiuyu sighed sadly, her brows furrowed with worry. This day had finally come.

The conflict between the native creatures and the alien race is inevitable.

"Master Xuan, why don't you reconsider?"

Another elder of the dragon people came to advise it, feeling that such a lack of restraint was too risky and could easily shatter the beliefs of the people in its own camp.

"Don't worry, let them through. They have the right to know. This is an invitation from the Starry Sky Clan, just to collect data. In any case, with us blocking the way, they won't be able to enter the Solar System."

"Even if someone wanted to kneel down and surrender, handing over their homeland, I would not give them that opportunity."

Jiang Mo said firmly, he didn't want to hide it from the world. This was their right to choose, and he didn't want to interfere.

"Senior Ji, why don't you try to persuade him?"

Some people became increasingly anxious as they watched, feeling that this was too arbitrary. They tried to persuade the Flying Immortal Master, and then gave examples to illustrate that once these streams of light radiated into the world, the faith of the Flying Immortal Sect's followers might collapse in an instant. They wanted the Flying Immortal Master to speak up and stop Jiang Mo's decision.

"No persuasion, let them pass."

This was the statement from the Flying Immortal Master, who spoke sparingly and calmly.

At the same time, he also used his divine sense to tell believers throughout the Nine Provinces and even the world in the blink of an eye that the enemy mentioned by the speaker in the virtual projection they were about to see was their Flying Immortal lineage, and that the two were destined to be enemies to the death. The believers' choice was entirely up to their free will.

With a "hum!" sound, believers scattered across the world heard the voice of the Great Dao rising from the depths of their hearts in a certain instant. It was a kind and gentle old man calmly recounting the truth.

Inside the base, Berg and Benjamin, seeing that Fei Xian Yu Zhu and Jiang Mo had given permission to pass, decisively took action and removed the Tower of the End's interception.

In an instant, a magnificent and sacred golden light descended from the universe, pierced through the atmosphere, swept across the world, and entered the eyes of countless living beings.

The entire world, at the same time, and in different places, was instantly plunged into immense shock.

Within minutes, people were letting out excited shouts, anticipating the arrival of an interstellar era.

Some people looked distressed, pursing their lips, unable to believe this sudden and terrible news.

Others curiously explored the virtual panel, wanting to learn more about the Star Humans in order to weigh the pros and cons.

This applies to all human beings, and to all races.

As the golden light spread across the land, all living beings outside the Heavenly Abyss Secret Realm underwent special changes in their retinas and began to make choices continuously.

Inside the base, the Flying Immortal Master seemed to sense something, slowly lowered his head, and a golden lotus appeared in his palm, which made a clear tremor. The faith of the entire sect was shaken like never before, and it was on the verge of collapse.

His gaze remained calm as he clenched his fists, the golden lotus vanished, and he stopped looking at it.

The peak breeds false supporters, twilight witnesses true believers.

And at this moment, he and the Flying Immortal Sect are witnessing together just how many devout believers still deserve their protection.

Several heads of the Ninth Department who were familiar with Jiang Mo's methods and style suddenly had a bad feeling. They clearly saw a certain data point on their retinal panels spike.

More and more humans are choosing to submit; in less than two minutes, the number has reached over seven million worldwide!

Without any barriers to communication, before the light stream reached the Abyss, the Starry Sky Clan used the information provided by the Subterranean Clan to translate existing human languages.

Even for intelligent species other than humans, those golden rays can be specially crafted into texts and meanings that they can understand, based on their brainwave responses.

In other words, all living beings with consciousness are aware of what they are doing!

Thinking of this, a chill ran down the spines of the nine department heads. Heaven knows what this Xuanzun will do next.

Could it be...

"I won't do anything to them."

Before they could say anything, Jiang Mo knew what they were thinking and simply offered an explanation:

Instead, I would send them to a safe place.

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Not to mention the heads of the nine departments, even the elders of the dragon race were completely baffled and did not understand the meaning of Jiang Mo's words.

"Survival is a biological instinct, and yearning for a better life is their most genuine desire. There's nothing to criticize about it."

"It's simply that their choices are different from ours."

From the moment Jiang Mo allowed the golden light to flow down to the mortal realm, he never intended to settle scores with those humans or other intelligent races who chose to submit.

On the contrary, he was willing to open up a new path for them and for all living beings, respecting the choices of all creatures in the world.

"What do you mean?"

Xu Qiuyu raised her head, her dim eyes filled with emotion.

He gazed at the white figure, his heart filled with mixed emotions. The real Xuanzun was even more compassionate towards all living beings than the Xuanzun he remembered.

"Those who are willing to stay, stay and witness the arrival of war together. It's either win or be destroyed. No one can predict the future. Even if I have a very high chance of defeating the Starry Sky Humans, I dare not guarantee that we will win this battle."

"In the worst-case scenario, if any unforeseen circumstances arise, I will personally destroy this place rather than let them take it."