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"A win-win?"
Brilliance was swirling quickly inside Meng Chixin's eyes. He smiled and said, "It means that there are benefits for both parties, right? However, the way I see it, your original intention was not a win-win. You wanted to suppress and conquer the entire Ancient Sages Sector and trick the experts of the Ancient Sages Sector to work for the Black Wind Fleet as cannon fodder, didn't you? "
"Exactly!"
Heiye Lan did not deny it. Breathing heavily for a moment, she bellowed, "For a while, it was indeed my intention to summon the Black Wind Fleet, conquer the entire Ancient Sages Sector, and enslave all of you! As the saying goes, the strong prey on the weak. Is there anything wrong with my idea? The weak deserve to be suppressed, conquered, and enslaved. Isn't it an undeniable truth on the prairies, in the Central Plains, and in the bloodstained sea of stars?
"If you were weak and stupid, you would have deserved to be conquered and enslaved!
"But judging from your current situation, you are strong enough, and you are smart enough to discover my scheme. You also have so many … Colossi under your control. Then, attacking the Ancient Sages Sector in a head-on clash might not be a profitable action anymore.
"Times have changed. Now that you have proven the formidability of the Ancient Sages Sector, it is only natural that we can cooperate on relatively equal terms. You can even join the Imperium while maintaining your dignity and independence. Isn't it only natural?
"The Imperium of True Human Beings has boasted hundreds of Sectors and thousands of planets large and small in only a thousand years. Of course, it is impossible to conquer every Sector and every planet by brute force after bloody battles. Such an expansion approach is too idiotic, inefficient, and costly! The cost of the war and the cost of maintaining the reign, suppressing the resistance, and collecting resources is extremely high. It is not a worthwhile action!
"A lot of Sectors have joined the Imperium voluntarily after realizing the formidability of the Imperium and the benefits that the Imperium can offer. The Black Wind Sector was the same at the beginning, too! Therefore, the Ancient Sages Sector does not need to worry about such problems at all. It is the tradition of the Imperium! "
Deep in thought, Meng Chixin pointed at Li Yao and said, "Are you suggesting that the Imperium of True Human Beings treats the … remote worlds exactly like how the Great Qian Dynasty treats Fellow Cultivator Spiritual Vulture's forests in the Southland of Sorcerers? Because the cost of attacking and garrisoning is too high, the local chieftain is simply enfeoffed. Nominally, the local chieftain will submit to the dynasty in the central plateaus, but in fact, the chieftain will still be autonomous?"
Heiye Lan's eyes glittered as she nodded hard. "Yes, yes, that's exactly it! If the forces in the desolate worlds were weak and full of uncivilized barbarians, the fleet of the Imperium would naturally take them down! However, if it were a world like the Ancient Sages Sector, where there were too many experts and even experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage, it was very possible that the local experts would be enfeoffed as' Sector Masters' and local autonomy would be implemented like the Southland of Sorcerers. The best that could happen was that a few people such as the Appeasing Ambassador of the Fifth Prefecture of the Southland of Sorcerers would be appointed as the liaison officers between the desolate border and the capital! "
Meng Chixin and Wu Suiyun looked at each other and chuckled. "The court must offer a huge reward when they enfeoffed the Southland of Sorcerers. But I wonder, what benefits will the Imperium of True Human Beings give us if the entire Ancient Sages Sector agrees to join the Imperium of True Human Beings?"
"Too many benefits!"
Heiye Lan said in a hurry. "The spiritual energy of the Ancient Sages Sector is very dense, and it has not been disturbed by the evils of the outside world for tens of thousands of years. As a result, a lot of Core Formation Stage Cultivators, Yuanying Stage Cultivators, and Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators have been born in your Sector.
"However, your training system and your techniques are still very crude and low-level. Not just the 'Colossi', you haven't even grasped the crystal suits, the mainstream 'kings of magical equipment' in the universe today!"
"As long as you join the Imperium, you will have the opportunity to receive the assistance of the techniques, resources, and magical equipment of the Imperium, which will help your civilization achieve a leap of thousands of years in only decades!
"The modern civilization of Immortal Cultivators, after thousands of refinements, has produced endless brand-new techniques and magical equipment that are beyond your imagination! Cultivating these divine abilities will allow your stagnant cultivation base to reach a higher level! By manipulating the magical equipment, you will be able to unleash your ultimate potential in the most violent form!
"In short, the Imperium will definitely give you tremendous changes and allow you to step into the mysterious realm that nobody in the Ancient Sages Sector has ever reached in the past hundred thousand years!
"Furthermore, if you make enough military credits, you will even have the opportunity to study in the capital planet of the Imperium, which is the center of the entire universe and the holy land that all the Immortal Cultivators in the sea of stars dream about! You will be conferred and rewarded by the Imperium there. You will become the nobles and generals of the Imperium of True Human Beings and an unparalleled existence above the hundreds of Sectors, thousands of planets, and billions of creatures! "
Wu Suiyun interrupted her coldly. "That is the benefit for us personally. Then, what is the benefit for the Ancient Sages Sector as a whole?"
"That's even more!"
Licking her lips that were still bleeding, Heiye Lan smiled. "The Ancient Sages Sector has been enshrouded in the dark nebula for thousands of years. You are like a bunch of ancient beasts that have stopped evolving on a lone island. Faced with less and less food and resources, you have no way out except to attack each other.
"Do you not want to reach out to the outside world? Do you not want to conquer more worlds in order to ease the crisis inside you?
"Hehehehe. The internal contradictions of the Ancient Sages Sector are so sharp that they can't be resolved. Han Baling, Qi Changsheng, Wan Mingzhu, the three of you must understand that very well, don't you?
"I can tell you honestly that, judging from the history of the three thousand Sectors outside, there is no way out of a single world no matter how hard you struggle! The dual pressure of population explosion and technological bottlenecks will crush any self-enclosed world! The only choice is to charge out, crash into the stars, and evolve from a planetary civilization into a space civilization! "
"The Ancient Sages Sector has lost the opportunity of self-evolution because of the dark nebula. But right now, the Imperium can extend a hand to you. As long as you seize the opportunity and break out of the sea of stars, you will be able to save your world!
"The Imperium is not interested in ruling a remote world like yours directly. It is totally possible to appoint one of you as the Sector Master and implement self-governance!
"If your relationship with each other … is not so harmonious that you cannot accept an independent leader, the twelve of you can also be appointed as' elders'. You will be granted the title of nobility of the Imperium and establish a 'Council of Elders' to govern the Ancient Sages Sector!
"Furthermore, other than the Ancient Sages Sector, the Imperium can also grant you the right to expand your territory. You will be enlisted into a Class-C legion of the Imperium. You will be provided with tremendous military assistance so that you will have the ability to conquer across the sea of stars. The resource planets and Sectors that you conquer will all be under your reign!
"Just think about it!
"Right now, the situation in the Ancient Sages Sector is unprecedentedly tense. The contradiction between the Great Qian Dynasty and Ghost Qin is extremely intense. The Heaven Battering Army, the White Lotus Cult, the six major sects, and many other forces are also stirring up trouble. Isn't the source of everything because there are too many people and too little land?
"If you are willing to join the Imperium and join hands with the Black Wind Fleet to sweep across the thousands of lightyears nearby and conquer a few vassal worlds for yourselves, what are you worried about?
"By then, Han Baling, Qi Changsheng, Wan Mingzhu … and all of you will have a planet of your own with countless slaves to collect resources for you. You will become the dominating 'Sector Master'. Won't all the problems of the Ancient Sages Sector be resolved perfectly?"
Heiye Lan was not a well-trained lobbyist.
She spoke too hastily, too straightforwardly, and even somewhat anxiously. She was like a lousy player who had thrown out all the good cards the moment she entered the game.
But it was exactly because of that that her words were even more inexperienced and sincere. Everybody could not help but feel that their hearts were racing.
The two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators and the ten super Yuanying looked at each other and were all deep in thought.
"You are making it sound like a dream, but how can there be such a bargain in the world?"
Li Yao's eyes were bloodshot. He said in the most hoarse voice, "The Imperium of True Human Beings is willing to give us so many benefits. We will certainly have to pay a high price, won't we? What is the price? Let's hear it! "
"The universe is a large place, but there is never a free lunch," Heiye Lan said.
"This is a fair deal. You have enjoyed the benefits of the Imperium. Of course, you will have to fulfill your responsibilities as citizens and noble warriors of the Imperium!
"The responsibilities are very simple. They are military credits!
"All the Cultivation arts, techniques, magical equipment, and information of the Imperium can be converted into 'contribution points'. The contribution points are converted by the military credits earned from battles on the battlefield. You can earn military credits by conquering a brand-new world or discovering a resource planet, or by killing an Exo of the enemy, or by developing a brand-new Cultivation art and announcing it to the public. You can earn military credits that can be converted into contribution points.
"Therefore, after you join the Imperium, as long as you are willing to go out with the Black Wind Fleet, help us capture Firefly, catch the escapees of the government-in-exile of the Star Ocean Republic, and clean up the local forces in the area, the Xing Yao Federation, you will earn tremendous military credits and become the first bucket of gold for the development of the Ancient Sages Sector!
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