The communication channels of Planet Jiuzhou were hit by severe interference.
Everyone’s heart was like a tightly stretched string, ready to snap at any moment. Everyone knew that Planet Jiuzhou’s communications depended on Xinbao to function.
If the communications were disrupted, did that mean the Sovereign’s situation was grim?
Could she make it in time to stop these Aola people?
“We have to trust the Sovereign, trust the Stardust humans.” The young girl spoke with a determined expression.
Her long hair fell from her shoulders, brushing across the face of a unconscious Stardust patrol member like a gentle breeze, ticklish.
In a flash, everything changed.
The Stardust patrol members who had been lying on the ground suddenly snapped their eyes open, their pupils like those of wild beasts, almost narrowed into vertical slits, coldly gleaming.
Without a moment’s hesitation, they raised the swords in their hands and thrust them at the ordinary people around them.
The young girl’s eyes went wide, her face filled with shock. She reached up and touched her neck—it felt warm.
The next second, blood gushed from the wound on her neck like a fountain.
The blood splattered into the sky like flowers scattered by a heavenly maiden, and under the pull of gravity, it dripped back down.
The young girl fell backward with a thud, blood droplets raining onto her face, her body, and her curled eyelashes.
Her bright, clear eyes were full of confusion, as if asking why?
But she could never speak again.
Lying beside her were her companions from the Book Society.
The Stardust patrol members had moved too fast—there was no time to react at all.
The last driver to be killed, his eyes still open in death, reflected the cold, merciless backs of the Stardust patrol members.
…
The Life Safety Center was likewise ambushed by the Stardust humans who had been Descended.
Fortunately, the central figure of the Safety Center, Old Brother Hei, had not been Descended.
He decisively gave the order to activate the Life Safety Center’s highest defense. More than twenty gates, refined and condensed by the Rock Clan, protected the core area of the Safety Center impenetrably.
The survivors huddled in the core area, silently watching the global live feed.
Planet Jiuzhou looked like it had been plowed over—a field of scorched earth.
The Stardust humans, who had once been the guardians of ordinary humanity, had turned around and become the cruelest executioners.
Who was a friend? Who could be trusted?
Everything had become blurred. The trust between ordinary humans and Stardust humans was like a wall—from this moment on, it was crumbling.
“Damn it!” Brother Thunder’s body was tense, his fists clenched so tightly that his knuckles stood out white, as if he could shatter anything at any moment.
His arms trembled slightly, his eyes bloodshot.
As a Stardust human himself, he didn’t dare imagine—when those Descended companions recovered and looked back on this moment, how would they break down?
What enraged him even more was that Lin Xiaohe had gone through untold hardships, poured her heart and soul into uniting multiple races and civilizations into one rope to face the crisis together.
But with a single Descension by the Aola people, all of Lin Xiaohe’s efforts had been ruined.
From today onward, Stardust humans and other races would no longer trust each other as before.
The damage to this relationship was also reflected in the Life Safety Center.
Ordinary researchers and Stardust humans had vaguely split into two groups, separated by a distance of three to five steps.
The distance wasn’t large, but the line was clearly drawn.
Old Brother Hei sensed the undercurrents, but he had no energy to deal with them, because Kailin Reynolds had woken up.
She was firmly bound inside the observation room, her cold gaze piercing through the transparent wall and shooting toward everyone.
She slightly curved the corners of her lips, revealing a faint, cold mockery.
Old Brother Hei spoke first: “This is your Descension? You tampered with human bodies.”
Kailin Reynolds seemed to be in a very good mood: “No, this doesn’t count as a true Descension. Only a [Domain Sovereign] can be called a true Descension.”
Old Brother Hei couldn’t help but lean his upper body toward the transparent wall.
[Domain Sovereign]—another new term.
“What is a [Domain Sovereign]?”
“No matter what civilization or lifeform, no matter which path of development they take, in the end they all converge to the same destination.”
Kailin Reynolds stood up and walked step by step to the transparent wall, facing Old Brother Hei.
She reached out and tapped Old Brother Hei with her fingertip, then tapped herself: “Like you and me—we are the lowest level of Yuan. We have energy in our bodies, and we know how to use it.”
A human scientist nearby couldn’t help asking: “What about us? We can also use spiritual power. Doesn’t spiritual power count?”
“Spiritual power? Heh. You’re like people who know a planet has gravity but don’t know how to use it. So you don’t count as Yuan.”
Kailin Reynolds stopped paying attention to these ordinary humans and continued to Old Brother Hei: “Above Yuan is Shu. Above Shu is the [Domain Sovereign].”
Old Brother Hei: “What level is our Sovereign?”
“Before, she was Shu. Now she is above Shu, but not yet [Domain Sovereign].”
Kailin Reynolds said no more.
Whenever she thought about how one quarter of her Godhood had been taken by Lin Xiaohe, she just wanted to curse.
If she had Descended earlier, the situation would be nothing like this!
Ah, who could have guessed that the Godhood wasn’t in the 1st Epoch, nor the 2nd Epoch, nor the 3rd Epoch, but in the 7th Epoch!
Probably a lot of civilized beings waiting to snatch the Godhood would spit blood when they heard this news!
…
On Taiyin Star, inside the Myriad Phenomena Ark.
The Zerg’s outer shell had once again withstood the test.
After the Aola people’s polyhedral ships made a few tentative attacks on the Ark without achieving the expected results, they gave up on the Ark and focused their main assault on Planet Jiuzhou.
Hardy watched the tragic scene of Planet Jiuzhou under siege, so anxious he was about to lose his hair: “Damn it, where did they come from? Do they have a grudge against us?! Someone, are our weapons and equipment installed yet?!”
The commander of the 6th Ring Military District patted his shoulder, his gaze heavy: “We’ve dismantled all the weapons and equipment from our ships. The energy system isn’t compatible with the Ark’s energy system. The weapons designers are still working on a solution.”
It had to be said—their luck was just terrible.
The Aola people had chosen to attack at the worst possible timing. The Ark wasn’t fully modified yet, and the original Federation human ships had been dismantled almost completely.
The ordinary soldiers could do nothing but stay inside the Ark.
“Damn it!” Hardy slammed his fist hard onto the control panel.
The panel was fine, but his fist swelled up.
“Look, what are they doing?” The chief scientist of the 5th Ring let out a cry of alarm!
Several triangular ships flew out from the polyhedral crystal structure and stopped in the airspace above Jiuzhou.
The triangular ships unfurled silver light sails, as if collecting something.
Suddenly, Hardy stumbled, his whole body groggy, as if he had taken sleeping pills.
He felt a powerful suction, as if something inside his body was being pulled out.
“Careful, it’s a trap.”
