novelraw Chapter 99: The Descent of the Interstellar Colonial Ship
Chapter 99: The Descent of the Interstellar Colonial Ship
'Exactly when will the Interstellar Colonial Ship arrive?'
Su Yuan retracted his gaze and directed his inquiry to the gray mirror deep within his sea of consciousness.
The gray mirror's surface churned with a hazy mist before delivering an answer.
"Seven days, one hour, thirty-two minutes, and fifty-one seconds."
Su Yuan glanced at the mirror. He had asked this question many times. In fact, he did not even need to ask; he could estimate the time himself.
Meanwhile.
Information regarding exactly where this Interstellar Colonial Ship would land on Blue Star, what actions it would take upon arrival, and other details...
...also flashed through Su Yuan's mind.
An hour later.
Su Yuan returned to The Truth Society's base constructed in the North Pole.This base was the former lair The Truth Society Founder had prepared for himself. Its defensive capabilities were arguably the strongest of any facility on the planet.
Furthermore, it was connected to worldwide surveillance footage, allowing The Truth Society Founder to monitor and control everything at a moment's notice.
To be completely honest.
If The Truth Society's opponent had been anyone other than Su Yuan, relying on over a century of meticulous planning and technology far surpassing that of Blue Star...
...even if all the nations of the world united, they would not have been able to do anything against it.
At worst, they could have simply turtled up within this fortress.
And once the Interstellar Colonial Ship arrived, the rest of the world would still have been powerless to change their fate.
Sitting in the control room of the base, Su Yuan looked at the surveillance footage playing across the screens before him.
Currently, the monitors displayed the Australian Continent, where Director Zhou and the others were making their final deployments.
The Australian Continent was the exact location where the Interstellar Colonial Ship would make its descent.
Of course.
Only Su Yuan knew this landing spot. Not even Captain Ao Qu of the Interstellar Colonial Ship knew that he would command his vessel to touch down on the Australian Continent in seven days.
After all, the ship's landing zone was chosen completely at random by Captain Ao Qu.
It could have been the Australian Continent, the Americas, or Asia.
All of these landmasses possessed more than enough space to accommodate the arrival of the massive Interstellar Colonial Ship.
Having determined exactly where the Interstellar Colonial Ship would land, Su Yuan had ordered Director Zhou and his team to begin setting up their arrangements on the Australian Continent well in advance.
The multitude of High-Tech Weapons produced over the years had been entirely relocated to the Australian Continent, waiting solely for the Interstellar Colonial Ship's arrival.
However, all of these High-Tech Weapons had been concealed by Su Yuan using a specialized form of technology.
This camouflage was more than enough to evade the foreign energy detection systems that the Interstellar Colonial Ship would sweep across the outside world.
This layer of deception was absolutely crucial; it could very well dictate the ultimate success or failure of his entire plan.
Even though the three arriving Multieye Second Generation members were somewhat lacking in experience.
The Interstellar Colonial Ship itself came equipped with numerous advanced detection systems.
It was fully capable of picking up on any traces of danger ahead of time.
And if Captain Ao Qu and the other Multieye Second Generation members sensed that some kind of threat existed on Blue Star...
...they would inevitably raise their guard and likely choose to never step foot outside the Interstellar Colonial Ship.
"Has the message been sent?"
Su Yuan glanced at The Truth Society Founder, who stood respectfully a short distance away.
According to his agreement with Captain Ao Qu, The Truth Society Founder was required to transmit a regular status report to the captain at set intervals.
These reports detailed The Truth Society's control over the global situation, as well as whether any unforeseen variables had emerged on Blue Star.
"Everything has been transmitted exactly according to Master's demands,"
The Truth Society Founder replied with deep reverence.
"Good."
Su Yuan nodded, unsurprised by the confirmation.
"When the Interstellar Colonial Ship finally lands, you remember exactly what I told you to say and do, right?"
Su Yuan asked.
This was the primary reason he had used the "Mind Brand" to control The Truth Society Founder.
Only this lackey, who had served alien forces for many years, could put Captain Ao Qu's mind at ease.
Coupled with the carefully crafted script Su Yuan had prepared, it would convince Captain Ao Qu and the other two Multieye Second Generation members to lower their defenses and walk right into the trap Su Yuan had laid for them.
Over on the Australian Continent.
Director Zhou and his colleagues had just finished their hands-on work and immediately convened an impromptu meeting.
The participants of this meeting were not only citizens of Xia Nation, but also regional leaders from all across Blue Star.
Following two and a half years of integration, secretly driven by AI Xiaolan, the concept of the Blue Star Community Alliance had deeply rooted itself in the hearts of the people.
The main reason was that the establishment of the Blue Star Community Alliance had not harmed the interests of the lower classes. On the contrary, with AI Xiaolan distributing resources and ensuring fair trials, the rights of the common people had been vigorously upheld.
In any era, under any circumstances, as long as the foundation of society remained stable, the overarching structure would never collapse.
Combined with Su Yuan's use of the gray mirror to foresee and eradicate dozens of rebel factions, the Blue Star Community Alliance had become unshakably entrenched.
"Everyone," Director Zhou said, looking around the room. "Years of hard work all come down to next week."
To ensure that all the weapons Su Yuan had ordered were completed on schedule, the nations of Blue Star had spent the last two years abandoning nearly every avenue of development outside of basic public welfare.
The entirety of the world's national power had been funneled into supporting this massive armament production.
Throughout the thousands, even tens of thousands of years of Blue Star's history, such a thing had never once occurred.
Ever since the concepts of tribes and nations were first born on Blue Star, humanity had never been this united.
Giving everything for a single, shared goal? In the past, applying such a concept to the squabbling nations of Blue Star would have been an absolute joke.
Humanity inherently possessed selfish desires, and selfish desires naturally led to differing objectives. With conflicting goals, how could they possibly unite?
Yet, driven by Su Yuan's unseen influence, the impossible had become reality.
Naturally, Su Yuan also knew that the reason Blue Star was so united today was twofold: first, because he was constantly watching, ruthlessly erasing any factors that threatened this unity.
And second, because of the looming threat of planetary genocide.
If these two elements were removed, the solidarity currently on display would instantly crumble into dust.
Inside the Arctic Base.
Su Yuan closed his eyes in brief contemplation before speaking, "Xiaolan."
"Master, Xiaolan is here," AI Xiaolan's voice rang out immediately.
"In seven days, you are to voluntarily enter a "silent" state and erase all traces of your existence from the network," Su Yuan commanded.
"Understood, Master."
AI Xiaolan responded promptly.
The so-called "silent" state meant scattering herself back into the most fundamental streams of data, bordering on complete non-existence.
When that happened, unless Su Yuan personally input the command to "cancel silence," AI Xiaolan would remain permanently unable to recover.
The purpose of this drastic measure was to prevent Captain Ao Qu of the Interstellar Colonial Ship from finding any lingering clues.
While true Artificial Intelligence was utterly unique on Blue Star, it was a very common sight within the cosmic human empires.
At the very least, the three Multieye Second Generation members aboard the Interstellar Colonial Ship all had their own AI assistants.
Once the Interstellar Colonial Ship drew near to Blue Star, Captain Ao Qu's AI would actively invade the planet's networks to gather intelligence.
Only by entering a "silent" state could Xiaolan avoid their detection.
Having finished issuing his orders to Xiaolan, Su Yuan shifted his gaze toward the specific surveillance feed monitoring Ye Kunlun.
On the screen, Ye Kunlun sat cross-legged, exuding a terrifying aura.
'Has Ye Kunlun successfully initiated his cultivation of the "Nine Revolutions Life Burning Sacred Method"?' Su Yuan asked the gray mirror deep within his sea of consciousness.
"Yes."
The gray mirror provided its answer.
Su Yuan gave a slight nod. The "Nine Revolutions Life Burning Sacred Method", also known by its full name, the "Phoenix Nine Revolutions Nirvana Sacred Method", was created by a saint of the Phoenix Clan.
As long as one possessed the Phoenix Bloodline.
Even if it was only a microscopic trace, when using this Sacred Method to burn and sacrifice everything they had...
...there was a certain probability that they could be resurrected using blood or bodily tissues left behind elsewhere.
And the magnitude of this "probability" depended entirely on the concentration of the Phoenix Bloodline within their body.
If it was a pure-blooded member of the Phoenix Clan, the chance of resurrection upon executing this Sacred Method was ten percent, or one in ten.
Of course, to the Phoenix Clan, this kind of resurrection was categorized as "Nirvana".
As for Ye Kunlun... During his youth, Ye Kunlun had undergone an Essence Blood Baptism from that Level 3 mutant beast in Mount Kunlun.
And that Level 3 mutant beast of Mount Kunlun possessed a faint trace of the Phoenix Bloodline within its body.
Through that Essence Blood Baptism, this sliver of the Phoenix Bloodline had been passed on to Ye Kunlun.
In other words, Ye Kunlun also possessed the Phoenix Bloodline.
It was just that this wisp of the Phoenix Bloodline was impossibly thin, to the point that it could not even be passed down through reproduction.
But regardless of how diluted it was, it was still the Phoenix Bloodline.
According to the mechanics of the "Phoenix Nine Revolutions Nirvana Sacred Method", given the concentration of the Phoenix Bloodline within Ye Kunlun's body, his final chance of resurrection upon using this technique...
...was one in ten million.
"One in ten million?"
Su Yuan's gaze remained calm.
In the answers provided by the gray mirror, probability did not exist; there was only "can" or "cannot".
And the result the gray mirror had shown regarding Ye Kunlun's execution of the "Phoenix Nine Revolutions Nirvana Sacred Method" was that he would successfully achieve Nirvana.
From the perspective of the Phoenix Clan, it simply meant that Ye Kunlun possessed exceptionally extraordinary luck, actually managing to hit that one-in-ten-million jackpot.
As for what would happen after Nirvana... Having endured this trial, Ye Kunlun would essentially be reborn.
The concentration of the Phoenix Bloodline within his body would surge massively. Not only would he shatter the shackles that previously prevented him from advancing any further, but he would also smoothly cross into the Level 5 Lifeform tier following his Nirvana.
"This luck..."
Su Yuan shook his head faintly.
From the moment he was born up until now, Ye Kunlun's luck had always been remarkably good.
'It is a pity... the Phoenix Bloodline... His success is built on his bloodline, which means he will inevitably be bound by it.'
Su Yuan lamented inwardly.
In the vast Universe, there were countless cultivators and evolvers. Among them existed a specific category known as bloodline cultivators and Bloodline Evolvers.
The ultimate cultivation goal for these individuals was to continuously purify their own bloodlines, drawing ever closer to the Pure-Blood Progenitor.
Purifying one's own bloodline? That was much simpler than cultivating from absolute scratch.
Therefore, the cultivation speed of such cultivators and evolvers was incredibly fast.
But by the same token, their absolute limits were firmly capped. There was virtually no possibility of them ever surpassing their own bloodline progenitor.
This was also the reason why Su Yuan had never made a move against that Level 3 mutant beast in Mount Kunlun.
Su Yuan simply looked down on the Phoenix Bloodline within its body.
In truth, several years ago, the Deep-Sea Mutant Dragonfish that Su Yuan hunted also possessed a faint True Dragon Bloodline within its body.
Yet Su Yuan had chosen not to let the True Dragon Bloodline spread through his own body for the exact same reason.
Following that, Su Yuan transmitted a Secret Method to Ye Kunlun, one designed to conceal the fluctuations of his own life aura.
This Secret Method would allow him to evade the comprehensive scan the Interstellar Colonial Ship would conduct to detect all Level 1 Life Forms and above on Blue Star.
Time flowed on.
In the blink of an eye, seven days had passed.
On this day, countless citizens across Blue Star were simply going about their daily lives.
Suddenly.
High up in the vast, boundless sky, a tiny black dot faintly appeared.
As time ticked by, the black dot grew larger and larger, until a colossal warship measuring dozens of miles across hovered ominously in the heavens.
This battleship hung there like a second sun, looking down upon Blue Star.
"What is that?"
"It's an alien spaceship! The alien spaceships are here!"
"My God, aliens are real, and their ship is so massive!"
In an instant, the entirety of Blue Star was thrown into an uproar, with countless people staring dumbfounded at the gargantuan vessel.
The entire warship sported a sleek, streamlined design, radiating a high-tech aesthetic as if it were an entire continent hoisted into the sky.
Immediately, images and videos of this battleship flooded Blue Star's internet.
While numerous netizens on Blue Star were incredibly shocked, the prevailing attitude among the vast majority of the public was one of utter terror.
Given the sheer technological might displayed by the warship and their innate dread of an alien force, the attitude of these extraterrestrials would completely dictate the survival of Blue Star's ten-plus billion inhabitants.
"An alien warship!"
Director Zhou and his team also looked up at the colossal interstellar warship the moment it appeared.
Even though they had mentally prepared themselves long in advance, actually facing this interstellar marvel that far exceeded Blue Star's technological capabilities inevitably filled their hearts with nervous apprehension.
At the same time.
Inside the alien warship, Captain Ao Qu, First Officer Dosien, and the other Multieye Second Generation member were gazing down at the myriad details of Blue Star.
They took in the shock and terror of Blue Star's countless inhabitants with amusement. This exact scene had played out in their memories many times before; every time they descended upon a Native Planet, they were welcomed by this exact same spectacle.
"What a beautiful planet... Such a suitable living environment, perfect temperature, abundant moisture, and an atmosphere that blocks out radiation..."
Captain Ao Qu sighed with emotion, comparing the habitable environment of Blue Star to their own origins.
Back when the Multieye race was still bound to their home planet, their circumstances had been far more arduous.
At that time, even though the Multieye home planet had barely managed to birth life.
The star system it belonged to was illuminated by three separate suns.
Three suns? Shining day and night?
The catastrophic environmental conditions this caused had driven the Multieye race to the brink of extinction countless times.
Ultimately, living under this constant threat of total annihilation...
...the strongest individual of the Multieye race at the time had finally stepped into the Starry Sky Life form tier, breaking free from the planet's gravitational chains to make contact with external factions in the Universe.
From that point on, the Multieye race had finally been able to develop.
For any civilization bound to a single planet, there were only two paths to development.
The first was to advance their technology and use it to reach out to factions in the wider Universe.
The second was to birth a Starry Sky Life form. These beings could roam the Starry Void and similarly make contact with external cosmic factions.
Between these two methods, the latter was vastly superior to the former, simply because the power of technology was heavily constrained in its early stages.
Just as the Interstellar Colonial Ship approached Blue Star, inciting fear, shock, and unease among the masses...
...in the North Pole, situated perfectly within the Interstellar Colonial Ship's blind spot, Su Yuan gripped his long gun, stepped out of the base, and set foot on the icy continent.
Without delay, he began practicing his spearmanship.
The "Thirty-six Forms of Ultimate Yang", the "Thirty-six Forms of Ultimate Yin"... he executed every thrust and sweep of the spear effortlessly, moving with natural, flawless perfection.
As he continuously performed form after form, a formless aura gathered between each successive strike.
It accumulated and compounded, layer upon layer, much like the eerie tranquility right before a volcanic eruption.