Chapter 2706

The Qingfeng Beidou army has already breached the Orion Arm Fortress...

The triple quantum entanglement early-warning network, the dark matter minefield—all cleared. It is that power called xianshu, but the energy response far exceeds anything before!

The Alpha Lyrae sector defense line has been breached by the enemy fleet!

The Seven-String Qin dimensional barrier has shattered, the spacetime distortion field has shattered...

The Sagittarius A* Super Fortress is under attack, outer defenses shattered...

At the heart of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, wave after wave of ever more piercing alarms awoke the many Lyran people who had fallen into fear due to the enemy's energy levels, making their hearts tremble.

How could it be so fast?

The nearest Orion Arm Fortress is at least fifteen hundred light-years from the Tai Yang Xi—how could it be so fast? It's practically instantaneous!

This civilization from the xian must have mastered a way to move rapidly within this universe!

This is nothing short of the gap between civilizations!

One cosmic fortress after another shattered in succession, like eggshells under a great hammer, offering no resistance to the enemy whatsoever, especially that terrifying fleet with the fastest advance.

But now, in this difficult and perilous situation, this powerful civilization finally revealed its true colors. All useless fears were expelled from their bodies.

One after another, Lyran people in powered armor issued orders, abandoning the outer defenses, at all costs reinforcing the entire central defense line of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, while executing the Civilization Restart Plan, one order after another carried out by Lyran fleets between the star systems.

This war machine between the stars operated like a precision-coupled machine.

"What is the enemy's war objective?"

The voice of the Chief Magistrate Wan rang out like a bell, dispelling all fear beneath the starlight.

"They order us to surrender unconditionally to the Xian Gate, to the Chief Magistrate Yuan!"

"They order us to hand over all Lyran people who have harmed Xian Gate citizens in previous wars, and to execute them!"

The Foreign Ministry replied.

"Citizens..."

"Chief Magistrate Yuan..."

"Is this a coincidence of translation?"

The voice of Chief Magistrate Wan was low. These titles ought to belong only to the Lyran Civilization.

"No."

"This is the original meaning. For many years past, we have long known that this civilization shares many similarities with our ancestors, even... it is our ancestors."

"Yuan, this is the legendary Chief Magistrate of civilization's history."

A Lyran official of the Foreign Ministry revealed a hint of longing and reverence.

The Lyran Civilization has endured too long; much of its earliest history has vanished, but the name Yuan has somehow been passed down—a coincidence in the universe.

"Could it truly be our ancestors?"

"Could it truly be Chief Magistrate Yuan..."

Beneath the starlight, the buzz of discussion arose.

Many Lyran people wavered, for this seemed not a war to the death but an internal conflict of the same race, one that might be compromised.

Especially that still-living Yuan.

"Are the xian beings really that long-lived?" "The Yuan of the histories, distance from now probably already tens of billions of years, having lived through such an immeasurably long time—truly astonishing."

"Or is it merely a coincidence of names?"

One Lyran person could not help but say.

Many Lyran people discussed heatedly, some with longing, some with fear, some with hatred, falling into argument.

Finally, the resolution reached was,

to continue fighting.

The sole exception is, if encountering a battlefield with no chance of victory, citizens may choose to surrender.

The Expedition Fleet, the Xian Gate Deep Space Annihilation Fleet.

"Refusing to surrender?"

"Is our policy propaganda not detailed enough?"

Yuan's expression turned cold, revealing a hint of killing intent: "We are the same citizens, we share the same historical memories—would we massacre them wantonly, disregarding their interests?" "After all, we are no longer the Xian Gate; we need correction."

This commander revealed his iron-blooded side.

War within the same race, within the same civilization, is nothing unusual.

The Lyran Civilization developed alone for too many years; their historical memories, customs, culture, and even their central core are completely different from the Xian Gate—almost another civilization.

Before the war, many citizens believed the Lyran Civilization could merge with the Xian Gate without resistance, as long as history was clarified.

Now it seems such efforts have long been declared bankrupt.

"Advance."

"Destroy every interest group blocking the broad Lyran citizens' path to happiness—precisely these sinners who prevented the two peoples' return; they are civilization's sinners, and shall be utterly and decisively exterminated!"

Yuan spoke coldly.

Since the Lyran Civilization refuses to surrender, then execute the most fundamental logic of civilizational war: whichever side wins represents the future of civilization.

The Xian Gate Deep Space Annihilation Fleet had long been refitting at the Sagittarius Super Fortress, rebuilt the cosmic fortress, received nearby Lyran citizen representatives, incorporated them into the new order, and dealt a decisive blow to those Lyran citizens unwilling to cooperate and possessing destructive tendencies.

The two civilizations have been separated too long; reuniting requires iron and blood, and sufficient time. Even if these Lyran citizens refuse to cooperate, it matters not—the Xian Gate has prepared for this war for a hundred million years, with manpower and material resources fully sufficient to control the star systems.

The Xian Gate fleet advanced steadily, coordinating orderly with allied forces from all directions, slowly pressing toward the core of the Lyran Civilization, the Virgo Galaxy Cluster.

The Supreme Solar Heavenly Pivot.

"The advance proceeds smoothly, without incident."

"Is there really no possibility of a god-level civilization intervening?"

Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang, using countless armies as his eyes and ears, has always been monitoring the Spiritless Universe, and at this moment he murmured to himself.

He has some concerns about the Spiritless Universe.

That is, god-level civilizations, beings similar to immortals.

Therefore, he has never dared to go there in person.

"Let's talk about it later."

"When this lord truly reaches his limit and has no way forward, then I will go explore that unknown place." Jiang Ding withdrew his gaze from the Spiritless Universe and fixed it on the dense piles of Meteor Immortal Realm research materials before him, which were stacked like mountains, as he continuously simulated.

Here, within the exploration range of immortal beings in the Immortal Dao Universe, this is the only unknown place, even now.

This place is shrouded by unknown time and unknown rules.

"Is this a trace left by the previous cosmic era?"

"Or is it a convergence node of different timelines in the Immortal Dao Universe?"

"Did the Immortal Dao Universe once have a path comparable to the Primordial Ancient Scrolls' method of becoming emperor and attaining the Dao?"

Various speculations arose in Jiang Ding's heart.

Over these hundreds of millions of years, countless beings have continuously entered the Meteor Immortal Realm, bringing back utterly different and unfamiliar Immortal Dao civilization artifacts, as if stepping into one dream after another.

Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang has also been continuously analyzing the structure of the Meteor Immortal Realm.

At this moment, an idea appeared in his mind.

In different cosmic timelines, have there been beings comparable to him? Beings walking on a path entirely different from the Primordial Ancient Scrolls' method of becoming emperor and attaining the Dao?