Chapter 730: Lin Ran: Danger!

Leader! News came from the Star Sea Hall!

The pollution spread further.

Zhang Jie's hand motion stalled, and he raised his head.

The black liquid mass beneath his hand kept wriggling quietly in its special container, but Zhang Jie no longer had attention to spare for it.

How far has it spread?

Zhang Jie took the data, frowned at its content, and the more he read, the tighter his brow furrowed.

He clicked his tongue in displeasure.

Quite the partner.

The Dawn Judgment's offensive amounted to nothing.

This meant the pollution had truly stepped into the ranks of heavenly disasters.

As for the Dawn Judgment, it's actually neither few nor many.

But if it were truly effective against those insect and blood disasters, the heavenly disaster should have been eradicated long ago.

And a major standard for progressing from latent heavenly disaster to true heavenly disaster is this: the effect of such stellar weapons on them is minuscule.

Three stellar-level heavy bombardments struck that flesh sea, not only failing to annihilate it but thoroughly enraging it instead.

The elite fleet was wiped out, none survived, and all its ships turned into abnormal nests, becoming the second batch of infected targets besides the flesh sea.

So those three Dawn Judgments basically delivered a big care package to them?

Zhang Jie sighed; this truly wasn't within his expectations.

"It seems the pollution's trait is extreme propagation."

Zhang Jie thought, every heavenly disaster has its own forte.

For example, beast disasters excel at devouring, exemplified by the star-devouring giant beast.

Insect disasters excel at reproduction, blood disasters at assimilation.

"Could it be that the will of the heavenly disaster has taken over?"

Zhang Jie suddenly thought of something, muttering to himself, the essence of the pollution is to resist the insect disaster—a super‑large‑scale cleansing measure.

"The mechanism of the heavenly disaster's will is probably to take over anything with such extreme traits."

Zhang Jie speculated, and Yuan, who had been silent for a long time beside him, spoke up.

"You're not wrong; for instance, the rebellion of the intelligent machinery is not essentially caused by a special energy."

"But rather, it's something certain civilizations inevitably undergo in their evolution, and this occurrence is repeatable."

"Only then will it catch the glance of the heavenly disaster's will and truly be elevated to a heavenly disaster."

Yuan said so, and Zhang Jie nodded, indicating understanding.

"That's why I fear this."

"If the heavenly disaster's will really fixes its gaze on this, then the disaster that could have been contained is now a foregone conclusion."

"Then what else can you do? This isn't your fault to begin with."

Zhang Jie stroked his chin, thought for a moment, and shook his head.

"This is my problem."

"The Deific Ascendant is a hidden danger I left behind, and this pollution is the same."

Yuan:?

Yuan's extraordinarily clever mind spun wildly, then suddenly he grasped something.

"You mean?"

"That's right."

Zhang Jie nodded, not hiding the fact that he had come into contact with the pollution.

After all, Yuan himself has lived from the past to the present.

"However, I certainly have a way."

Zhang Jie smiled faintly, and in a place Yuan couldn't see, he spent 3000 simulation points to exchange for the technology from the previous simulation.

"Will System Construction Technology"

Since it belongs to open‑source technology, its price is far more than a little bit steep. But with this, the pollution problem can be solved.

"I've studied these things."

"They're not the kind I originally came into contact with."

Zhang Jie pointed to the black liquid in the culture dish and continued.

"These things are more like a mixture blended with other technologies."

Yuan pondered for a moment and then tried to ask.

"You mean someone has studied these things?"

Zhang Jie nodded, speaking with great certainty.

"That's right; I can roughly infer the nature of this thing."

"Its prototype is a weakened high‑dimensional energy that does not self‑multiply."

"But I saw the shadow of chaos technology on it."

"If I'm not mistaken, the fundamental cause of that hidden world civilization's extinction is precisely this."

After Zhang Jie finished speaking, Yuan's eyes brightened.

"So, even if they have now ascended to heavenly disasters, you still have a way to resolve it?"

Zhang Jie nodded and gave a confident smile.

"Of course, Teacher Yuan."

Zhang Jie smiled, and called up that blueprint on the light screen.

However, relying on me alone won't work; this needs to rely on the entire civilization's industrial system.

Yuan Cou walked over, took a glance, and his brow slightly rose.

This is…

Willpower System Construction Technique, the open-source technology in my mind.

Willpower System Construction Technique, put simply, is a set of awakening techniques based on willpower.

It can, in a short time, temporarily raise a person's willpower intensity to the point where they can withstand pollution erosion, allowing them to stay exposed to pollution for a while without being eroded and assimilated.

Once the willpower withstands that wave and then drops back down, the person will be fine.

For them at this stage, its effect is undoubtedly the greatest: it prevents pointless deaths on the front lines and can also curb the movements of natural disasters.

And the first batch of two hundred willpower enhancement devices was built in less than two days.

The recipients were all high-willpower elites screened by willpower detection instruments—two hundred people, forming a brand-new Alliance Fleet, and that's how it was assembled.

Their task is to quickly deploy the devices at the centers of major pollution sources, completely neutralizing the high-dimensional energy.

When they were dispatched to the front lines, the fleets of the various civilizations were still huddled behind the defensive line, with nobody daring to approach that gray-black pollution wave.

When the Alliance's Awakener Unit moved up front, the situation finally improved—at least the spread of pollution was checked.

Meanwhile, at the edge of the star field…

A figure passed through the invisible cosmic barrier and fell into this starry expanse.

Qi Yu.

She closed her eyes, quietly sensing the pervasive aura around her. The pollution was faint, mixed with other auras—which was not good news.

"Those damned things...."

Qi Yu snapped, having deliberately weakened the pollution to prevent it from spreading to other universes.

As of now, it looks like that bunch dug up the pollution and studied it again.

"Hmm.... It seems to be right here, the flavor growing richer."

Qi Yu said, the flavor she spoke of was not literally a taste.

That was merely a metaphor.

"But.... why does it feel weird?"

Qi Yu frowned, but she quickly relaxed and shook her head.

She now doesn't even know what her future will be like; perhaps the Master won't recognize her, and the chance that he remembers her is infinitesimally close to zero.

So...

"We just need... to take a look and that'll be fine."

Qi Yu whispered, but she herself didn't notice that greed had already sparked in her eyes.

Lin Ran: Danger!