Chapter 121 The End of the Expedition
The disease ability mastered by Lin Ji reminded Ji Xiu of the ability of "Guizhu", the first black tide demon king.
It is also about controlling plagues and curses, there is no essential difference between the two.
This also gave him a conjecture.
Could it be that all the abilities possessed by the time traveler are related to the demon king of the Black Tide Natural Disaster?
War, death, divine punishment, famine, destruction, killing... Thinking of the names of abilities possessed by each time traveler, Ji Xiu felt that this conjecture was not impossible.
Because every time traveler's ability sounds related to "evil".
These names fit perfectly with the power wielded by the Dark Tide Demon King who ended the World Era.
But there is an unexplainable problem here.
Only his own ability has nothing to do with evil, because he is the God of Wishes.
He had complained about this issue before.
The predecessors were all about war, death, destruction, etc.
Including his parents, they are also full of darkness, fear, rage, and cunning. These are the names of gods that sound like villains.
Compared with the names of gods of his predecessors in time travel, he felt that his god's name was like a docile little sheep, but it turned out to be a god of wishes, which didn't sound bluffing at all.
This is completely inconsistent with the ability style of former era travellers.
But the ability of the time traveler comes from the Kuroshio natural disaster. It is just his guess, and he cannot get a definite answer for the time being.
In the future, he will continue to stick to the high wall, buy time to create more legion commanders, and buy time for the continuation of mankind.
He believes that as long as he persists until the day when human beings are strong enough, the truth of everything will be revealed before his eyes.
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The emperor built it in 1673.
The 17th Legion of the Human Empire was established, and the three additional legions were the Wraith Legion, the Curse Legion, and the Dark Night Legion.
This year, the population of the Human Empire officially exceeded the 200 billion mark.
The expedition plan is still going on. Every day, millions or tens of millions of people die due to the counterattacks of evil gods and alien races, but there are also more than 10 million new generations born.
The huge territory brings inefficiency in operating efficiency.
Especially when the communication base station is destroyed and there is no message transfer station, it will take more than ten years for an order from the Imperial Church to be transmitted across the vast ocean to the border resource island.
The bloated human empire has made the management efficiency of the Imperial Church low.
In order to ensure operational efficiency, in addition to protecting resource islands, those communication base stations have also become important buildings protected by humans.
But this seriously dispersed the combat power of the human empire.
In order to solve this problem, the Imperial Academy proposed an unprecedented technological innovation plan.
Shenyuan Communication Plan.
This technology comes from the weapons laboratory code-named "God Creation" in the Expedition Area 1 of the Human Empire.
This laboratory was originally one of the bases for making divine tools. The remains of the gods brought back by the major legions after their death were used to extract divine power and make divine tools and weapons.
After receiving an inquiry about the update and upgrade of the communication equipment of the Imperial Church, they began to test the communication enhancement using the pure divine power extracted from the original god.
It turns out that pure divine power can be used as a communication medium.
Each original god is a trace of the rules of heaven and earth. After the communication device built with their pure divine power is adjusted to the same frequency, as long as you are in this world, the signals of the same two divine tools will be transmitted simultaneously without any hindrance.
After the initial test was successful, the Shenyuan Communication Plan was launched.
During this period, the evil gods killed by the major legions were sent in batches to the "God-making Weapon Laboratory" for use in the construction of divine source communication devices.
This technology is put into use directly after it matures.
It is foreseeable that there will be no communication hub cities in the territory of the human empire in the future.
All instructions from the Imperial Church will be delivered to cities with divine source communication devices in an instant. There is no possibility that the communication center base station city will be destroyed and the transmission of subsequent messages will be blocked.
But the maturity of this technology does not mean that Shenyuan Communications can be quickly popularized.
Divine source refers to the pure divine power extracted from the remains of the original god. The current output of divine source is simply not enough to cover the entire human empire.
In order to ensure the smooth flow of communication, the Emperor Xiu Church made sacrifices.
In the past, the divine source was a resource that belonged exclusively to the God-chosen warriors, and would be made into divine tools and weapons tailor-made for specific God-chosen warriors.
But in today's era, nearly one hundred thousand original gods, that is, evil gods, are killed and refined by the human empire every year.
Although divine source is still the most scarce resource, it is also used in other fields besides divine weapons. The produced divine weapons will also be awarded to super warriors other than those chosen by God.
However, after the launch of the Divine Source Communication Plan this time, the Imperial Church revised the consumption weight of the Divine Source.
Among them, the two items with the highest priority are the customization of divine tools and weapons for the chosen warriors, and the creation of divine communication devices.
In this regard, the welfare policy that super soldiers can be awarded divine weapons is in name only.
The emperor built it in 1789.
The human empire is facing a crisis of decline.
After more than a hundred years of development, the Shenyuan Communication Plan has gradually become popular, and it still has high operating efficiency despite its bloated size.
Coupled with the fact that the Divine Religion Church has established branches of the Imperial Religion Church in major core cities, the belief in the Imperial Religion God has always been the unshakable loyalty in the hearts of millions of urban residents in the human empire.
However, the emergence of an alien force brought the human empire into partial collapse.
This force is called the Jiutu Clan.
Behind him stands an extremely powerful evil god. The ability bestowed upon the warriors of the Nine Slaughters is the "Counter Curse of Life", a powerful ability that can reflect damage within the body's tolerable range back to the damage maker.
With the blessing of this ability, the Jiutu Clan had an absolute advantage in the initial battle with the human race.
But what puzzled the intelligence department of the human empire was that according to the videos and audios sent back from the front line, it was discovered that when the warriors of the Nine Slaughters invaded the human city, the ancient foreign language they shouted turned out to mean: revenge.
With doubts, the intelligence department transmitted the news back to the Imperial Church headquarters in real time through Shenyuan Communication.
After receiving the news, the clergy of the Imperial Church began to look through the database history to find information.
It turned out that the Jiutu Clan and the Human Clan had fought against each other thousands of years ago.
At that time, it was the early stage of the Human Empire's expedition plan. At that time, there were only seven legions established by the "Original Seven Gods", and there were no new legions of gods formed subsequently, such as the Killing Legion and the Curse Legion.
At that time, the territory occupied by the Jiutu Clan was within the expedition range of the War Legion, and fierce battles took place.
The war lasted for less than three years, and the Jiutu clan was completely defeated.
In the end, the Jiutu Clan died with the original god, almost annihilated, and all the resource islands were occupied by the human race. They withdrew from the maritime stage of resource hegemony.
Only a handful of surviving tribesmen escaped from the sea and became a wandering force.
In the long years since the start of the human expedition plan, there have been countless ethnic groups in the outer seas that have been destroyed by the human race and become wandering forces. The grand history books of mankind have never stopped at the Jiutu tribe, or left a special mention.
Some are just a few descriptive records in the historical database and the cold expedition chronicles.
So many races have been destroyed in this way that even human historians will not dwell too much on these few sentences. But just such a race has become a major obstacle to the human race's expedition plan today, thousands of years later.
Subsequently, through the capture and interrogation of Jiutu clan soldiers, the human intelligence department learned the truth.
It turns out that the few hundred thousand remaining members of the Jiutu tribe experienced a long journey of wandering and migration after becoming a wandering force.
During this period, they crossed multiple sea areas and encountered a series of crises such as sea monsters, natural disasters in the sea, and alien killings. Only less than 10,000 tribesmen remained.
No island was found where they could thrive. Just as the Nine Tu clan was about to perish during their migration journey, they encountered an evil god who had escaped from the legendary sea area.
This evil god is called the "Great God of Destruction".
During the glorious period, he led his family into the legendary sea area and occupied a piece of resource land there. He was a well-deserved one of the super gods.
But it is said that the competition in the sea area is too fierce, and rising stars emerge like crucian carp crossing the river.
The forces occupying the legendary resource areas are all competitive targets in the eyes of outside rookies.
Less than 20 years after occupying the legendary resource land, the Great God of Destruction and his family members suffered a heavy blow. External forces invaded the legendary sea area, and the war started caused all the family members of the Great God of Destruction to die. Only one of his own souls managed to escape. Out of the legendary sea area.
The fallen gods and wandering forces met by chance.
The then head of the Jiutu clan seized the opportunity and offered his loyalty to the fallen god.
At this point, the Jiutu Clan has a new god.
The Great God of Destruction also regained his dependents who gained the power of faith.
This opportunity allowed the Jiutu tribe to catch a ride on development. The strength of the race has undergone qualitative changes in more than 1,600 years, and it has become a powerful force spanning many sea areas.
When the human expedition plan was pushed to the sea area controlled by the Jiutu tribe, the dusty history was opened.
The Jiu Tu Clan was surprised to find that the human race that had led to the destruction of the Jiu Tu Clan had arrived again.
The old hatred in history and the new hatred after the integration of the sea area made the Jiutu tribe take the initiative to launch a fierce offensive against the human race.
Blessed by the power of faith of the Great God of Destruction, the warriors of the Nine Slaughters were very powerful, causing heavy losses to the Killing Legion.
Realizing that the strength of the Jiu Tu Clan should not be underestimated, the leader of this front, the "Lord of Slaughter", personally led the main force of the legion to fight against the Jiu Tu Clan.
The result was unexpected.
The Great God of Destruction is far stronger than imagined. Although he was severely injured, more than a thousand years of cultivation and support from believers have allowed him to recover most of his strength.
The Lord of Slaughter was killed in a fight with him, and his soul returned to Emperor Xiu.
The death of the Slaughter Lord led to the complete collapse of this front. In just a few months, the Nine Slaughter Clan swept through hundreds of resource sea areas controlled by the human empire, destroying human facilities and cities along the way, and killed more than 3 billion humans.
Since the legion commanders on other fronts were fighting hard on their own fronts and could not escape for the time being, the attack of the Jiutu Clan was overwhelming in a short period of time and could not be resisted at all.
Without the power of faith given by the Lord of Slaughter, it would be difficult for the soldiers of the Slaughter Legion to pose a threat when facing the warriors of the Nine Slaughters.
This catastrophe lasted for several years until the Lord of War, An An, took action.
In the collision with the Great God of Destruction, An An, as the original god, finally won the victory after months of hard work, repelling the Great Destruction at the cost of serious injuries.
The Battle of the Nine Slaughters has come to an end.
Humanity has recovered lost sea resources one after another, and the Lord of Slaughter, whose soul has returned to the Imperial Cultivator, has also completed his soul rebirth in the Imperial Cultivator's main city, returned to the front line, and reconnected with the power of faith.
Although this crisis is over, the damage caused is incalculable.
According to statistics, the total population loss has reached 7.8 billion, and the resource loss has caused the expedition 118, 119, and 120 area research and development bases connected to this resource area to be completely shut down. For several years, no weapons and equipment have been produced, and there has been no research and development of new technologies. .
This crisis caused the first decline in the overall strength of the human empire.
This once inconspicuous force in human history has dealt a heavy blow to the human race's expedition plan today.
In fact, there are many overseas forces seeking revenge against the human race.
During the expedition of the human empire, too many forces fell and became the nutrients that nourished the growth of the human race.
Many of these forces have regained opportunities for development through external development, and have even become forces descended from the gods. The evil gods they believe in often enter human resources through divine descent to seize resources.
But this is the first time that the Nine Tu Clan has caused such serious losses to the human empire.
If the Lord of War had not rushed to support after resolving the crisis on the main front, the losses caused by the Nine Massacres might even have caused the overall strength of the human empire to decline for decades.
The expedition plan is still going on, and no one knows when the next crisis for the Human Empire will come.
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Emperor Xiu 3232.
As the territory of the Human Empire advances towards the Legendary Sea, the output and quality of the resource islands along the way have made a qualitative leap and improvement.
The population of the Human Empire has officially exceeded one trillion, and the number of legions has reached 36.
Compared with more than a thousand years ago, the comprehensive strength of the human empire at this stage has reached a new peak.
The top group of non-god-chosen warriors in each major legion can also have the strength to kill low-level original gods with the blessing of the legion commander's power of faith.
Killing gods is no longer something that only warriors chosen by gods can do.
But while moving towards new heights, the human empire also encountered new development bottlenecks.
The income from ordinary resources can no longer satisfy the development of the human empire.
Level 1 and 2 spiritual plants that were once regarded as controlled resources have now become food on ordinary people's daily tables, as common as rice.
Humans in this era cannot imagine that in the early days of the development of the human empire, ubiquitous resources such as level 1-2 would be regarded as controlled resources and ordinary people were not allowed to keep them privately.
At this stage, the human empire needs a large amount of high-grade rare resources.
The production of the islands that control the core resources in the sea simply cannot satisfy the consumption of the human empire under the simultaneous development of all prehistoric civilization technologies.
Because of this, the human empire has set its ambitious eyes on the legendary land regarded as the "Central Sea".
On this day, the emperor repaired the main city.
After the imperial cultivator's prayer ceremony involving all the people ended.
Zuo Yi, wearing the golden Imperial High Priest attire, stood on the high prayer tower and delivered a speech to all the people in the human empire.
Through the Shenyuan communication device, the face of the high priest appeared on the display screens in major cities and was broadcast in real time:
"I declare...an expedition to the Legendary Sea."
Amidst the cheers that resounded in major cities and the roars of "devoting one's life" to the Imperial Cultivator, everyone knew that the coming battle would be the biggest crisis in human history.
The legendary sea area is a land that only the strongest forces in the outer sea are qualified to set foot on.
Endless resources, fertile land, god-level resources... There are various beautiful descriptions of that land in the open sea, but it is also regarded as the most dangerous place.
Just like a big wave washing over the sand, countless powerful clans that have been in power for a lifetime stayed there for a short time, but they all eventually fell to the challenges of endless newcomers.
The human empire will also choose a powerful clan in the legendary sea to challenge as a newcomer.
(End of chapter)