When Ice Butterfly broke out of the cocoon, the world around her had undergone drastic changes. What she was faced with was no longer the warm and humid breeze in the south of the Blood Demon Sector, her hometown, but the freezing rain and coldness in the early spring on the Grand Desolate Plateau in the Tian Yuan Realm.
The huge change caught this small, translucent life form off guard.
However, the species it belonged to was known for their tenacious vitality. Even during the long winter, when most of the insects froze to death in the ice and snow, the species it belonged to could still turn into ice pupae and survive the cold winter. When spring was cold, they would break out of their cocoons and become butterflies, seeing the light of day again.
Before the simple neural network reacted, the strength hidden in the deepest part of her genes had already made her flap her wings hard and fly to the high altitude.
It curiously looked at the world around it, trying to find a slightly warmer shelter. Of course, it also looked for food. After eating and drinking the fresh and sweet juices of flowers and plants, it also looked for companions to pass down the genes it had inherited from its ancestors for millions of years from generation to generation.
Ice Butterfly's neural network, which was so simple that it bordered on shabby, could not bear too much hesitation, hesitation, and self-pity. After confirming her destiny, she was no longer confused, nor did she consider failure and death. She began to fly in the cold rain wholeheartedly.
What appeared in front of her eyes, however, was a dizzying brand-new world.
The boundless Grand Desolate Plateau, after a few months of hard work by millions of workers and the federal army, was no longer empty and desolate. Instead, it was bustling and thriving with construction!
The molten steel was splashing, and the heavy magical equipment was rumbling. Hundreds of workers gathered together and roared the most magnificent work songs, which were marching side by side with the military song of the construction corps of the Union Army. The sky was almost shattered!
With the forsaken starships and the fixed arc-shaped tents as the foundation and the underground buildings as the core, a brand-new city gradually took shape in only several months.
The city named 'Grand Desolate City' would not only be the location of the Grand Desolate War Institution but also the communication center of the latest technologies of the three Sectors and the intersection of the economy, politics, and culture of the three Sectors!
The ice butterfly is attracted by the hot scene. Under the sweat of the workers and the construction corps, the temperature in the Grand Wasteland City is a few degrees higher than the surrounding area — these few degrees may determine its life and death.
The ice butterfly danced gracefully and flew toward the Grand Desolate City.
Countless glittering, bizarre-shaped buildings that had never appeared in the history of the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector passed below her translucent wings one after another.
If her intelligence was magnified billions of times and she evolved for tens of thousands of years, she might realize the purpose of the buildings and what an incredible miracle it was that such buildings had appeared on the desolate land!
At the outermost edge of her flight, to the northwest of Grand Desolate City, a super communication array made of more than fifty thousand transmitters and receivers that looked like silver pots could break the limitation of the three-dimensional space and make the information flow 'break the void'. The real-time communication among the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Flying Star Sector, and the Blood Demon Sector was realized.
Although the so-called "real-time" inevitably required a delay of a few minutes or even a few hours, for the two Greater Thousand Worlds that were separated by countless light years, a delay of a few hours was nothing more than a short moment.
Next to the super communication array, on the other hand, was a giant pit dozens of kilometers in diameter. It was so dark that one could not see the bottom of it. The sand and rocks excavated from the pit alone had piled up into a continuous man-made mountain range next to Grand Desolate City. The pit itself had its own unique microclimate. There was even an inward attraction force that almost sucked Ice Butterfly into it.
The pit was the 'Heaven's Artillery', an upgraded version that was still under construction. Based on the most advanced space jump technology of the Flying Star Sector, its teleportation ability would be dozens of times higher than that of the old Heaven's Artillery. It would not be a problem for it to send several Yuanying experts to a certain coordinate in a nearby space zone!
The new-generation 'Heaven's Artillery', together with the 'Eye of Blood Demon' that was being repaired and strengthened in a hurry in the Blood Demon Sector and the 'Universal Slingshot' on Ice King in the Flying Star Sector, would become important bridges that connected the three Sectors!
"Wu —"
Suddenly, a long screech came from another giant building below the ice butterfly. It was startled and hurriedly dodged to the side.
The arc-shaped dome above the building that looked like a silver egg suddenly split from the middle and shrank to the two sides. A light crystal warship activated the anti-gravity rune arrays and slowly floated up from the inside.
On the head of the warship, the strengthened external skeleton that was vaguely emitting the air of vitality and the incompatible crystal railguns and acid cannons suggested that it was not a common crystal warship.
It was a new-generation warship that was still being tested. It was a combination of the most cutting-edge technologies of the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Flying Star Sector, and the Blood Demon Sector, compatible with the dual systems of biochemistry and spiritual energy, covered in crystal armor and strengthened external skeleton, installed with crystal railguns and acid cannons, and maneuvered with crystal cables and artificial neurons.
Or, according to the journalists of the Xing Yao Federation who liked to exaggerate the truth, it was a future warship!
BOOM!
The experiment warship that represented 'future' had only floated up less than two hundred meters when a dull noise echoed behind it, with black smoke popping up, and it fell again, perhaps because of the incompatibility of the dual systems.
The refiners in the dock, on the other hand, had long been prepared. Hundreds of buffer rune arrays were activated at the same time, forming an invisible safety net above the dock and covering the damaged warship. After bouncing up and down for a few rounds, the warship came to a halt in midair.
Countless refiners, wearing the Crystal Suit specially designed for engineering from the Flying Star Sector, quickly rushed to the damaged parts of the warship.
Ice Butterfly was deeply awed by the behemoth. Although it had collapsed, a behemoth that had collapsed was still a behemoth. It was not something that she could approach.
Ice Butterfly continued flying toward the center of the city. She passed by the brand-new campus that the Grand Desolate War Institution was preparing for, a joint Crystal Suit R&D Center co-funded by the three major Crystal Suit centers of the Flying Star Sector and the Glorious Sunlight Group, the Biodiversity Research Institute of the Blood Demon Sector, and even a market that had been established spontaneously and had been operating before the central area of Grand Desolate City was completed and where the experts of the three Sectors could exchange information about technology, Cultivation arts, magical equipment, and relics.
Ice Butterfly did not know that the cocoon that she had been hiding in had been hidden in the soil of an 'Ice Light Flower' and brought to the market from the Blood Demon Sector in the form of a potted plant.
Even if she had known, Ice Butterfly would not have cared.
At this moment, she was gazing at the colorful glass walls in midair with great interest. Inside the glass walls, many enormous creatures, such as hairless apes, were vibrating the air and transmitting a message that she could not understand.
Ice Butterfly was not sure whether or not the glass walls were real, or if they were just illusions that could be seen but not touched, like a rainbow after a rain.
But her guess was very close to the truth.
The 3D light beams floating above Grand Desolate City were playing two pieces of the latest heavyweight news.
The first piece of news was that the trial of the war tribunal had finally come to a conclusion.
After the Blood Demon Sector submitted the letter of surrender and the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector signed the peace agreement, the war tribunal against the Blood Demon Sector's invasion of the Tian Yuan Realm had been put into operation immediately.
In the first ninety years of the hundred-long conflict, the first hundred years of the war had been in the form of 'beast tide outbreaks'. In many cases, it was not clear whether the demon beasts of the Blood Demon Sector had run to the Tian Yuan Realm on their own because of the natural appearance of the wormholes or because they were driven by the demons.
In fact, even ten years ago, although the two parties had regarded each other as a major problem, neither of them had officially declared war on each other.
Therefore, the war tribunal mainly tried the crimes of the Coalition Army of Demons that swept across the Grand Desolate Plateau in the 'Battle of Dawn' three years ago and the crimes of the demons that initiated the 'Red Tide Plan' in the beast tide outbreak in the capital city more than half a year ago.
The Battle of Dawn was the first military operation in which the Coalition Army of Demons invaded the Federation on a large scale. The planners and leaders were the 'continental militarists' in the Kingdom of Lion Butchers and the Nether Spring Kingdom.
It was a pity that almost all the big shots of the faction had been killed by Li Yao in the destruction of the Eye of Blood Demon.
The only one who survived was Elder Nether Spring. As for his ending … it was a good thing that the heavens had eyes, and the villains had their retribution.
Then, the only person who could be tried in the war tribunal and be held responsible for the beast tide outbreak in the capital city could only be Jin Tuyi, the commander of the Coalition Army of Demons!
After several months of trial, the nine special judges of the war tribunal unanimously ruled that Jin Tuyi was guilty of war crimes, massacre, and crimes!
However, the nine special judges had different opinions on how to punish him.
By logic, as the main culprit of war crimes, massacre, and crimes, punishment should be the only outcome.
But Jin Tuyi's case was very special.
After the examination of the Association of Meditation Healers and dozens of authoritative specialists in brain surgery, their unanimous conclusion was that Jin Tuyi had been plagued by cerebral sclerosis before the war tribunal was held. He had completely lost his intelligence and was as intelligent as a newborn baby.
It meant that Jin Tuyi, as a 'man of society', was in fact dead. What was left was just a piece of meat that was still breathing.
"As a murderer who committed appalling crimes such as war crimes, massacre, and crimes, if Jin Tuyi is executed in such an ignorant state, not only will it not bring him any pain, it will also be the greatest mockery for the citizens of the Federation who died miserably and even the entire Federation!
"As a Cultivator who once confronted Jin Tuyi face to face, I know his dreadfulness very well!
"I even suspect that he has intentionally accelerated the attack of his cerebral sclerosis with a certain secret technique so that he can turn himself into an idiot who pees and feces. He is trying to escape the real punishment in such a way so that he can mock the solemnity and fairness of the federal laws!"
"If Jin Tuyi is dragged to the execution ground as an idiot and punished by punishment, we will not be punishing him. We will not be punishing a real war criminal but a piece of meat that resembles Jin Tuyi!
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