Chapter 136: Aftermath of the Ninth Impact

"Data integration failed; the current civilization cannot yet be integrated into interstellar civilization research points and units. The current point gap is 99.9994%. You are still a very long distance away from an interstellar civilization."

"Your plan, the thirteen bombardments, has been discovered by the nations of the world!"

"Because of your reckless actions, the plan for the thirteen bombardments has become known to the nations of the world! The nations of the world have begun to correctly assess your combat power and are preparing to establish various types of diplomatic relations with you."

"Because of traits such as your Star-Bearer status, your diplomatic relations have been unlocked! Due to your past actions, all Order factions will naturally possess an attitude better than goodwill toward you. This is a rare opportunity; you must seize this moment to unite everyone on the entire planet!"

"Because your demand for the thirteenth bombardment would destroy the entire world, the goodwill of all sentient biological factions toward you has currently decreased!"

"Your technological blockade has been lifted! The Anti-Psychic Power Matrix has begun to take effect!"

"Due to fear of your power, the following organizations are about to form an encirclement net!"

"..."

At the moment before the bombardment, Li Ang was looking at his interface, quietly contemplating his own affairs while facing countless red lights.

He was a very great individual.

Perhaps even many fantasy novels had not reached the level of his great achievements.

In just one year, he had already begun to ravage and forcibly occupy the entire planet.

The vast majority of novel protagonists, even those who cultivate immortality, aside from the extremely rare powerhouses who manipulate time itself and are isolated from the main timeline, would normally only be at the stage of gathering Qi after one year of cultivation.

Everyone else was still engaged in intrigue within their sects, harboring hostility toward one another, or encountering their destined women; yet at this time, Li Ang had already begun to plan his ninth bombardment against the Ancient Ones' shield above the planet. To put it bluntly, he was already capable of tearing the entire player planet to shreds.

Furthermore, by comparison, relative to those normal protagonists, Li Ang was also clearly aware that he was indeed not a good person; one could even say that the average moral abyss was not as low as his morality.

From the perspective of an individual, Li Ang should be among the most base and vicious.

Hypnosis, personality destruction, killing the innocent, fraud, spreading disinformation, deceiving all the players and all sentient beings on the planet to achieve his own personal dream and long-cherished wish. The Star-Bearer, this individual disguised as a civilization, had finally deceived everyone and was about to usher in his final chapter on the planet.

Yes, from the very beginning, Li Ang had not lied.

The Star-Bearer collective was him, and he was the Star-Bearer collective. The so-called individual will was merely an illusion; when Li Ang gave up control, everyone could live incredibly richly and colorfully.

But when Li Ang decided to take over the Star-Bearer, all Star-Bearers would mesh together precisely like gears in a machine, acting according to the thoughts of the supreme leader, Li Ang. Without a doubt, in terms of political effectiveness, Li Ang had truly made initial contact with the beginning of an interstellar civilization.

Yet, even though Li Ang had abandoned his morality and had begun to walk the most extreme path, wanting to walk out of this planet; even though Li Ang had exhausted all his efforts, wanting a perfect path that could make him feel happy and ideal, the final result presented to Li Ang himself was filled with a subtle sense of defeat.

He had always thought he was the most special one, but when all the collected samples expanded to an interstellar scale and began to be selected on a planetary basis, Li Ang was finally able to realize that he was not the most special one.

"Star-Bearer has obtained the planetary-level faction ultimate trait: Gestalt Consciousness"

"With the thoughts of a single individual as the core, the entire civilization will act according to these thoughts. The method of connection can be Psychic Power, or other products such as pheromones or hormones."

"For this civilization, there is no fundamental difference between the individual and the collective, because from their very birth to their end, they have never thought about what the gap between the so-called individual and the collective actually is. Everyone's life is as precise as a gear, and every individual is an indispensable part."

"The interstellar civilization characteristics for possessing this government type are: Energy production, mineral production, alloy production, and food production all increase by 25%; cohesion characteristics are cancelled and converted into governing points."

It was very simple, one could even say it was crude.

In fact, Li Ang had not intended to be this crazy at the beginning, but looking at the mark on the label, Li Ang still felt a wave of annoyance, and even felt an anger rising from within.

His Star-Bearer did not have anything special. Although on the planet, the posture of Li Ang overriding the entire civilization with one person's will looked exceptionally terrifying and efficient, for an individual who had already ascended to an interstellar civilization, a Psychic Power Gestalt did not seem to be a rare thing.

An ordinary start, one could even say it was a very common one.

White, without any precious appearance, and without anything worth praising; it was just an ordinary civilization trait. Although the appearance of an interstellar government on a planet was a remarkable thing, that was all it was.

Li Ang looked at that trait for a long time; it was the result that appeared after the eighth bombardment, when he began to more deeply and completely master the entire thinking process of the Star-Bearer. The system congratulated him on finally having gathered one of the entry tickets for an interstellar civilization. As for technology, culture, and other things, the gap was still a bit large.

To put it simply, how much energy is needed to gather one energy coin? Up to now, the first to eighth bombardments could turn the entire Old World into scorched earth, but the sum of these attacks, multiplied by nearly one hundred million, would only constitute the consumption of a single energy coin. Because Li Ang's method of operating energy was too simple and crude, the vast majority was wasted, not at all worthy of being called interstellar civilization energy operation.

Technology was the same; the data they had researched for countless years could not compare to even one minute of thinking time by a scientist from the interstellar era who had undergone genetic modification and psychic development. Culture and other things were even more so.

At the beginning, when he was unclear about where the benchmark for an interstellar civilization lay, Li Ang was still full of confidence, feeling that there was no one else in the world who could become such a powerful leader. But now, the benchmark for an interstellar civilization had appeared. Its requirements were also very simple.

Being able to produce one to three Neng Liang Dan Wei per month, being able to produce corresponding food and minerals per month, being able to colonize and explore other planets, and having unified the primitive planet itself was enough. In this way, one could initially become an interstellar civilization without any characteristics or special features.

Yes, you say you have all kinds of Planet Wonders, but so what?

Planet Wonders that look magnificent and have countless possibilities and greatness, if placed in the entire universe, every civilization would have countless planetary-level Wonders.

This is the cruelty of wanting to ascend. Only by constantly moving forward, constantly walking crazily ahead, can one realize how fragile and incompetent one's own civilization and the entire world actually are. There is nothing unique, no special strengths, and the planet is still internally fighting itself.

If it goes on like this, when he reaches the Starry Sky, can he really continue to walk bravely?

Li Ang was not sure; to tell the truth, he remained silent for a long time while looking at those characters.

Although there was still no change on the surface, he was still that crazy mad king, but Li Ang had long been prepared to rule the globe next. Some troublemakers had to be dealt with, and he had no time to engage in those warm and tender reunions; taking advantage of the existence of demons, Li Ang intended to solve all problems in one go.

Many people say that you cannot become a fat man in one bite, but that is because their bodies have limits. And a body without limits, an individual who truly intends to ascend beyond the planet, can of course do this.

So, looking at that brilliant golden ocean, Li Ang pressed the button in his hand.

Accompanied by unimaginable energy beginning to surge toward the sky, Li Ang, who was directly beneath the energy bombardment, could feel the rift between reality and illusion being shattered by the intense energy bombardment.

This should have been a good node for demons to descend, but every demon knew very well that it was simply impossible to resist the torrent of the Star-Bearer's bombardment. If they could, the Chaos Gods would have long since intervened to block that terrifying bombardment which, if placed on the ground, could even punch a hole through the planet.

But they did not; countless Psionic Spires stood on the Arctic continent like mountain peaks, absorbing Psychic Power from all directions across the globe. These vast energies, which transcended time and distance, were extracted into the Ancient Saint Relic where Li Ang was located, and through the Ancient Saint portal standing at the very center, he fired at point-blank range, aiming at the closest position calculated in the sky.

The massive psychic artillery fire at an altitude of thirty thousand meters even instantly caused the entire Planetary Shield to bulge outward by a large margin.

If the 3D modeling was correct, even in outer space, one should have been able to see a portion of the entire Planetary Shield bulging violently upward. Even on the other side of the planet, the people from Mi Liu Zhi Guo looked in horror at the sight of the Starry Sky being pulled down, almost falling onto the mountain peaks.

But after that violent artillery fire, although the Arctic night sky had become mottled and shattered, revealing the web-like structure flowing with light inside, it still perfectly protected the planet.

Watching the Planetary Shield slowly recede and gradually return to its normal appearance, Li Ang frowned.

"The self-repair mode is still running, huh. It's already been tens of thousands of years. And if there really were observers outside, such a bulge should have been noticed by the outside world. This means there are no observers outside at all, or they simply don't care about this point."

There are many ways to communicate, and one doesn't even need anything else; as long as they fired a shot from the outside toward the bulge of the Planetary Shield while it was being bombarded, Li Ang would know that there was indeed something existing outside.

But there was nothing; the bombing process went smoothly, and there was nothing extra.

This attempt also yielded no results; only the Subspace had truly been blasted open with a crack in the sky, pale golden light surged from all directions, and the boundary between the material world and the spiritual world seemed to have completely vanished. And looking at that shattered Xu Jing, Li Ang also received a new round of news.

"Your bombardment has been observed by the nations of the world! Your actions have seriously threatened the safety of all sentient beings!"

"The first Anti-Star-Bearer encirclement net has been established; the factions around you have formed an offensive and defensive alliance. They have sworn to advance and retreat together and to launch an attack on you at an appropriate time!"

"Please note that the strength of the members of the encirclement net far exceeds your own sphere of influence; please conduct diplomacy and lobbying properly, and try your best to make the encirclement net collapse on its own! If it is necessary to carry out a breakout operation against the encirclement net, please consider the geographical location and the time of the march as much as possible; targeted breakthroughs are the right way!"

"Currently, your faction is in the modern era and has not yet entered the space age, so you cannot launch interstellar era projects."

"Please note that there is no absolute cross-era gap between you and the encirclement net. But fortunately, the construction of the encirclement net is currently very slow, and all sentient races do not believe in each other's existence."

"Especially with demons and other intelligent beings, these sworn enemies will not form a unified encirclement before further threats arise! Please deal with the threat units as soon as possible to put all intelligent beings and allies at ease. In that case, the entire encirclement will collapse on its own."

"... Tsk, why is there no encirclement yet? If you aren't agitated, where am I supposed to get magic power from?"

Looking at the prompt provided by the system, Li Ang clicked his tongue in annoyance.

If one were to break down the list in front of Li Ang in detail, I'm afraid dozens or even hundreds of chapters in a novel would pass just like that. Because it would inevitably be filled with all kinds of clashes and contests between them.

The contradictory psychology between every race, the struggle between intelligent beings and Chaos, the distrust of demons by various populations, and the tens of thousands of years of accumulated grievances and all sorts of hatreds and accidents among the major races. Such a union is often impossible, because there is simply no crisis great enough to make all intelligent species unite.

Even now, with Li Ang's bombardment visible to everyone and the demons having begun to abandon their nature to call for reinforcements, the intelligent beings would still refuse this coalition based on their own abilities. Because they are not completely rational monsters, and of course they cannot unite with their sworn enemies and blood feuds just to fight a monster like Li Ang, who is ethereal and whose right or wrong is unknown.

But that won't do; if the numbers are insufficient, and if the agitated emotions cannot trigger the next round of bombardment, then Li Ang is the one who suffers. So, looking at the requirements above, Li Ang thought for a moment and decided to give them a chance.

"Let the Beast Hunters discover the truth about the Antarctic Giant Tower, and then spread the news. We need more anger and emotion."

Looking at his attendant Oliver beside him, Li Ang instructed with a calm expression.

(End of this chapter)