metaverse evolution.

In the vast expanse of space, there is one unavoidable factor: time. Even the Purple Star Sage cannot instantly traverse distances of tens of thousands of light-years.

This is precisely why the Yanhuang civilization had ten years to prepare. Ten years, for a technologically advanced civilization, simply means that the advantage lies with us.

Over the years, what the Yanhuang civilization has done is:

Traps with a range of thirty light-years have been set up in the predetermined battlefield direction;
There are also cultivators at the 25.0 level who directly broke through to the 30 million level.

Originally, one-third of the experts in the Rising Dragon Fleet were playing with formatting and rebuilding; the remaining two-thirds were preparing for formatting and rebuilding.

Now that a major battle is about to begin, those guys who were undergoing formatted training should hurry back to training as well.

The unique characteristics of big data training have been pushed to their limits. People are quick to format and rebuild, ready to be fully revived whenever needed.

Now, the more than 30 million sages of the Yanhuang civilization are fully prepared, armed to the teeth. Their so-called "armor" in terms of science and technology means each person has their own warship.

Under the astonished gaze of the Sky-Splitting God, tens of millions of warships rushed straight into the void. The vast and mighty warships were like a steel torrent, piercing through the void and disappearing without a trace.

"Is this the so-called charm of industry?" The God of Rending the Sky silently looked at the void. Although he had already witnessed it when the Rising Dragon Fleet arrived, he was now ten times more shocked.

Over the past thirty years, the Yanhuang civilization has almost transformed into an "insect race," dismantling the surrounding continents into several parts, all of which have been turned into industrial raw materials.

Besides building warships, these industrial raw materials also included a large number of vacuum energy bombs. How many of these vacuum energy bombs were there? Enough to cover a space of thirty light-years. This area also includes the current inhabited area of ​​the Yanhuang civilization.

The mine is laid out at the pre-designated battlefield location, spanning thirty light-years—the void is not flat, but three-dimensional.

The location of the pre-set battlefield is simple: turn your own base and the surrounding void into a battlefield—as long as the enemy attacks the Yanhuang civilization, they will inevitably step into this area.

During this time, Chu Fei began to inspect the deployment of a large number of vacuum energy bombs.

Vacuum energy bombs are not arranged evenly. If they were to be made that way, even if the Yanhuang civilization worked tirelessly for ten thousand years, they wouldn't be able to produce that many.

The deployment of vacuum energy bombs follows a certain pattern, ultimately forming a three-dimensional mesh structure of varying density, with the "mesh" covering a range of tens of millions of kilometers or even larger.

How to deal with a war involving saints has been a topic of discussion for Chu Fei, Jin Tierong, and others for the past few centuries. They have also consulted the "True Ruler of Heavenly Sin" on several occasions.

The Heavenly Sin True Ruler is the Purple Star Saint, and Chu Fei, along with various "medical personnel," has studied the Heavenly Sin True Ruler's physical structure; the data is extensive.

The fleet was vast and imposing, and the experts of the Superego faction noticed it as it set out. This was a battle between saints; the two sides, separated by light-years, had already detected each other and could no longer hide.

But attacks need to be closer. Long-range attacks are not impossible, but their power will eventually diminish to a limit, making them ineffective.

A unique characteristic of battles between sages is that they can spot each other from a great distance, but to inflict serious damage, they must engage in close combat. There's no other way; at greater distances, attacks can be dodged, and their power is reduced.

Of course, there are also methods such as so-called remote curses, but these methods always have limitations, such as setting up altars.

Setting up an altar to curse a saint is extremely complicated and requires a great deal of resources and time. If the two sides engage in fierce combat upon meeting, there probably won't be time to set up such things.

The fleet raced forward, and the experts of the Superego faction also sped off. But ten light-years away from the headquarters of the Yanhuang civilization, the powerful figures of the Superego faction made their move.

The distance was too great for Chu Fei to see clearly, but he could vaguely sense that the opponent had made a move. Shortly afterward, celestial punishments suddenly flashed around the fleet, automatically locking onto the nearest physical objects, such as spaceships, continents, meteorites, and wreckage.

This divine punishment covered an area spanning a light-year, turning the entire world into a minefield. Such an attack was not to be underestimated even by ordinary saints; those below the quasi-saint level would be swiftly annihilated if struck repeatedly.

However, the Yanhuang civilization had warships!
A lightning-fast attack completed across ten light-years? Chu Fei, sensing the surrounding divine punishment, remained unfazed. The power of such divine punishment couldn't even break through his defenses. Activating 30% of the fleet's defenses was sufficient to handle it.

Even the Purple Star Sage couldn't easily project an attack ten light-years away out of thin air. That's ten light-years, not ten kilometers.

Within an hour, the fleet located some positioning equipment that the Superego faction had left behind in the void.

The space where the Yanhuang civilization is located is the territory of a super-self faction, so it is easy to leave some positioning methods here.

The Yanhuang civilization had searched for these things before, but without activation, they were very difficult to find. Searching for these deliberately hidden methods in the vast starry sky was harder than finding a needle in a haystack.

But now that it's been stimulated, it's much easier.

Unmanned spacecraft were immediately dispatched and located the hidden methods. These methods were mostly arrays or similar devices. Dealing with them was also simple; attacks such as extreme ultraviolet lasers and quantum microwave pulses could easily destroy them.

The Yanhuang civilization has advanced significantly in technology. Especially after studying the Heavenly Sin True Ruler, many of their attacks have been specifically enhanced. Furthermore, the crafting techniques for many magical artifacts are now inferior to the Yanhuang civilization's current rune technology!

The two sides drew closer, and when they were less than five light-years apart, the superego faction launched another attack, again through telepathic sensing. But as they closed the distance, it was no longer a simple divine punishment, but rather a fierce wind.

The gale, or rather the chaotic storm, was entirely composed of fragments of laws. Each part of this storm was equivalent to a "chaotic flame" from a chaotic divine beast. And this chaotic flame still covered an area a light-year wide.

However, compared to the dense array of divine punishments, these flames were more like scattered meteors. These sparse chaotic flames covered an area of ​​one light-year, and each flame varied in size, ranging from a few hundred meters to tens of thousands of kilometers.

Furthermore, these chaotic flames naturally lock onto the nearest object—spaceships, continents, wreckage in the void, and so on. This is an inherent locking ability, similar to divine punishment.

All one could see was that under the chaotic flames, the continent would be easily burned through. And the continent was so large that it could often attract tens of thousands of chaotic flames to fall, and then the entire continent would turn into ashes in the blink of an eye, covering tens of millions of kilometers of void.

As for the Rising Dragon Palace's fleet, it also attracted the chaotic flames. Each of these large spaceships, with a volume of tens of thousands of kilometers, could easily attract hundreds of chaotic flames.

However, these chaotic flames had only been appearing for a short time before they were unable to lock onto the spaceship.

This locked relationship is simply a connection between Heaven and humanity. Unfortunately, the Yanhuang civilization had a profound understanding of this connection, delving into its very essence. Now, with just a slight reversal of the algorithm, these chaotic flames completely lose their direction.

Even if a few chaotic flames fall, it doesn't matter. Chaotic flames are fragments of laws, and we know that since they are fragments, they are not continuous. For the current technology of the Yanhuang civilization, they are merely a tickle.

This is a ranged attack; it looks spectacular, but it's actually quite weak. These attacks might have some effect against pseudo-saints (meritorious saints) and below, but that's about it.

It's a pity that the Yanhuang civilization launched this attack with more than 20 million sages! There are also more than 10 million sages in reserve.

The entire team of the Yanhuang civilization is composed of saints!

The two sides closed in frantically, and in the blink of an eye, they were less than two light-years apart.

Based on the experience of the Yanhuang civilization, this is the distance to the decisive battle. Many sages possessed the ability to instantly leap two light-years to appear beside their target.

This is possible because of the laws of nature. The bodies of saints are no longer flesh and blood; they are the laws themselves, merged with nature. However, not completely merged; that would be completely "dissolved" by nature. Generally speaking, the limit of control is about two light-years. Beyond two light-years, it becomes uncontrollable.

Upon reaching the anticipated decisive battle distance, signals were immediately transmitted from within the fleet. Then, a large number of vacuum energy bombs and various one-time-use technological devices, hidden in the void, detonated.

The main ones are vacuum energy bombs, which can tear through the void and disrupt space.

The technology that synergizes with vacuum energy bombs is dimensional reduction technology. Dimensional reduction technology is great.

There's a saying: "Don't argue with a fool; he'll drag you down to the level of a fool and then defeat you with his vast experience." Isn't this a kind of alternative, albeit one-dimensional, way of thinking? And the current albeit less sophisticated, technology of the Yanhuang civilization bears some resemblance to this.

We reduce the dimensions of the surrounding space and then use our rich experience in low-dimensional survival (experience with the surface world environment) to fight our enemies.

Then came various memetic contamination bombs targeting the laws of nature, which can be understood as biochemical bombs in the cultivation world. Various memetic viruses targeting saints were released.

The current Yanhuang civilization has studied the Ziwei Sage, especially since this Ziwei Sage is also the Heavenly Sin True Ruler, a naturally chaotic life form. Many of the experiences gained from the Heavenly Sin True Ruler can be directly used to create meme viruses without any transformation.

These meme viruses are designed to automatically avoid the fundamentals of big data cultivation. If some cannot be avoided, they preemptively allow big data cultivators to build "antibodies" within their bodies.

With so many technologies activated simultaneously, the spatial laws within a five-light-year radius fluctuated.

Because techniques such as dimensional reduction and vacuum energy bombs are destructive, the laws governing space become uneven.

Think of it this way: countless craters from explosions suddenly appear irregularly on what was originally a flat piece of land, affecting the maneuverability of both sides and impacting the takeoff and landing of aircraft.

Dimension reduction technology is equivalent to turning a hardened road surface into a muddy or sandy road surface.

However, this is a space, a three-dimensional space, and the "foundation" of this influence actually constitutes the fundamental laws of the world. Those "airplanes" are like saints.

The discontinuity of space rendered many of the sage's supernatural powers and spells unusable or ineffective. Unable to use spells, they were forced into close combat, thus weakening the sage's fighting power by at least 30%.

However, how could the Yanhuang civilization easily engage in close combat? With so many warships, they couldn't just be for show.

If you can't travel faster than the speed of light, then two light-years is a very long distance.

With the explosion of the vacuum energy bomb, the activation of dimensional reduction technology, and the contamination caused by meme technology, the entire space began to descend into chaos, rendering faster-than-light technology unusable for everyone.

When faster-than-light travel became unusable, the area within five light-years became a kind of prison, trapping the fleet of the Yanhuang civilization and the legion of the superego faction together.

However, the Yanhuang civilization made this choice actively, while the legions of the Superego faction made it passively. At this moment, the initiative completely fell into the hands of the Yanhuang civilization.

At that very moment, in the command center of the Yanhuang Civilization Legion's flagship, there was a void projection, and within this projection were displayed a series of star gates.

Meanwhile, the fleet itself is also deploying more stargates!
With technological advancements, these stargates are quite simple. When launched, they form a triangle, then the three sides unfold, connecting with the beams of light to create a temporary passage within, ranging in diameter from several hundred to tens of thousands of kilometers.

The fleet raced through the void, rapidly approaching the nearest stargate. Several ships then entered the stargate, reappearing behind the superego's camp.

Besides saints, the legions of the Transcendental Faction also include a large number of quasi-saints. These legions ride various flying magical artifacts and flying boats, stretching for trillions of kilometers and dotting the vast void.

After several spaceships appeared, they immediately launched a concentrated attack on the nearest targets, and before the enemy could retaliate, they initiated a random teleportation.

In this chaotic void, directional teleportation is impossible, but random teleportation is still possible. Relying on the powerful computing capabilities brought by technology and familiarity with this void, calculating a rough jump range is no problem at all.

Of course, due to the chaotic nature of space, even powerful computing power cannot guarantee 100% safety. In the ensuing frenzied sniping and random jumps, it was inevitable that one or two warships would intentionally jump into the enemy's encirclement. One warship even jumped directly into the enemy's command center.

This is war, after all; it's impossible to be 100% safe.

Fortunately, the surrounding area is in chaos, and the saint's supernatural powers and magic have been severely affected.

The warship that leaped to the enemy command center still suffered a devastating blow. Under the attack of multiple Great Dao Saints, seven level 25.0 experts on board perished.

However, the superego faction suffered even more deaths.

It is said that saints are hard to kill, but this war has made the superego faction panic.

The widespread contamination and rampant self-replication of meme viruses not only weaken the enemy, but these meme viruses also have their own location capabilities.

Many sages were captured and subsequently killed by the Yanhuang civilization.

Generally speaking, killing a saint is extremely difficult, as a saint's body is no longer flesh and blood, but rather the laws of nature. To kill a saint, one must sever those laws bit by bit.

Because the laws inherently possess fractal geometric properties, and because there are too many branches of laws within a saint's body, killing a saint seems almost impossible.

Because of this characteristic, the first choice after capturing a saint is usually to seal them away rather than kill them.

But the Yanhuang civilization possessed meme technology! It possessed big data technology! Meme viruses could directly invade, multiply automatically, actively sever the laws within a sage's body, and even corrupt those laws. With the acceleration of computers, a sage could be completely "erased" in just a few hours!
When a sage dies, he releases a vast amount of information and fragments of laws. "Harmless" celestial phenomena will appear out of thin air in the void.

Or suddenly a storm appears, or a mysterious light flashes, or rain falls, or dust flies, or a red glow appears...

Because the foundations of saints differ, their afterlife also differs.

The fierce battle lasted only a month, during which more than three hundred sages perished. Of these, only 27 belonged to the Yanhuang civilization!
The speed at which the Yanhuang civilization slaughtered the saints shocked even the Sky-Splitting God Venerable beside Chu Fei.

You should know that the Goddess of Nature was sealed away in batches for countless billions of years, and she is still alive. Normally, if people want to kill a saint, they have to capture him alive, then seal him away, and then slowly grind him down to death.

Moreover, sealing a saint is extremely troublesome, one could say incredibly troublesome. Capturing a saint might require three experts of the same level, but sealing one requires six or seven experts of the same level! Only after sealing can a saint be slowly worn down and killed.

In a battle between equals, killing a saint one-on-one would take hundreds of years, even if the saint allowed himself to be killed. Because of this characteristic, a captured saint has ample time to launch a rescue operation. This is the direct reason why a war between saints can last tens of thousands, or even millions of years.

The two sides are now fighting like madmen.

The 27 experts who died in the Yanhuang civilization were wiped out by the combined efforts of dozens of Great Dao Saints from the Transcendental Faction. But something was amiss with the Yanhuang civilization—they were killed too quickly.

The near-immortality of sages seems to have become a joke in the Yanhuang civilization.

The God of Rending the Void clearly saw that a saintly prisoner was thrown into a "furnace," and several hours later, strange phenomena appeared in the void.

It feels like the Yanhuang civilization could easily annihilate a sage.

This feeling made the Sky-Splitting God's expression solemn. However, when he looked at the legion in the void that surpassed his own faction, he suddenly revealed a cold smile and a strange mix of pity and mockery—the Yanhuang civilization originally belonged to your faction, but you played your cards very well, excellent!
The fleet flickered in the void, while the legions of the Superego faction were trapped in this void!
As long as the movement speed of the superego faction's legions cannot reach the speed of light or exceed the spaceships of the Yanhuang civilization, they are essentially trapped here waiting to die.

So what about the Yanhuang civilization? Chu Fei clearly told the Sky-Splitting God Venerable—wasn't it supposed to be a pledge of allegiance? I wonder if these legions from the superego faction are enough!
The God of Rending Sky was somewhat stunned when he heard Chu Fei's "arrogant words".

If we could really wipe out this legion, that would be... insane, and fantastic! (End of Chapter)