In the southern suburb of the capital city of the Tian Yuan Realm, next to the General Staff and the battle center of the Union Army was the 'Defense Counsel of the Federation'.
As a civilization of Cultivators with a high individual combat ability, the Xing Yao Federation had been 'parallel' in terms of national strength since the old Federation six hundred years ago. While it boasted a powerful Union Army, all the sects and even private individuals were allowed to boast a very high level of combat ability as long as they abided by the Constitution of Cultivators.
In many cases, the super experts from the major sects even boasted individual combat ability that far exceeded that of the Union Army. However, in terms of 'depth' and 'thickness', they naturally could not compare to the Union Army.
Although the military and the Cultivators had some conflicts in the history of the Federation in the past six hundred years, such as the era of the Red Dragon Army where one party completely suppressed the other, their shortcomings were soon exposed and restored to the parallel system of the two fists. The two parties supervised and checked each other until a dynamic balance was reached.
After six hundred years of cooperation, together with the threat of the Imperium of True Human Beings, the military and the 'Association of Cultivators', which represented the interests of the majority of Cultivators, had been highly integrated. To this day, the highest decision-making and commanding agency of the Federation was neither the Ministry of National Defense, the General Staff of the military, or the National Strategy Institute of parliament, but the 'Defense Counsel of the Federation', which was made of the leadership of the military, the leadership of the Secret Sword Bureau, and the Jin Dan, Yuanying, and even the Divinity Transformation Stage members of the Association of Cultivators.
By convention, other than the Speaker of the Federation, who was also the president of the Defense Counsel, the three vice-presidents were the big shots of the military, the Secret Sword Bureau, and the Association of Cultivators.
The seemingly unattractive silver, egg-shaped buildings in the southern suburb of the capital city were the 'command center' of the lethal forces of the seven Sectors of the Federation!
At this moment, countless armored shuttles and even fully-armed Exos were shuttling among the silver, egg-shaped buildings like infuriated bees. Alarms were echoing inside the Defense Counsel, too. Everything was in chaos!
The military, the Secret Sword Bureau, the Association of Cultivators, parliament … The giants of various parties arrived one after another. A lot of mysterious people who barely showed up in the news showed up, but even they were anxious and anxious.
Indeed, something earth-shattering had happened.
Two hours ago, more than ten starships disguised as supply starships launched an assault on three space gates at the periphery of the Tian Yuan Realm at the same time. They successfully seized one of them and blocked the other two with bombs that were mixed with tremendous interference materials such as "Gold Graphite".
It meant that, for the time being, of the three enormous lighthouses in the Tian Yuan Realm that were used to guide the starships from the outside to jump in, two of them had been blocked, and the navigation light of the last one had been redirected to the unknown darkness.
Who knew what would pop out of the darkness?
Because of the internal infiltration, the assault was carried out smoothly and quietly in only half an hour. Also, the attackers had hacked and replaced the communication between the three space gates and the 'space jump control center' on the ground of the Heaven's Origin Sector with rather advanced technologies to hack and replace the communication between the three space gates and the space jump control center on the ground of the Heaven's Origin Sector in advance. Therefore, it was not until more than half an hour ago that the incident was completely noticed.
The Federation today boasted seven Sectors at the edge of the cosmos. It could more or less be called a 'dinosaur'. Naturally, the reaction speed of its central nervous system could not be as fast as that of a mouse.
By the time the Defense Counsel of the Federation confirmed the severity of the situation and sent the main force of the 'Heaven's Origin Fleet' stationed in the capital space zone to march toward the three space gates aggressively, the ripples from the four-dimensional space near the largest space gate had already raised a vortex of spiritual energy of an unprecedented scale. It was like a bloody mouth that was slowly opening and was about to swallow the entire planet of the Heaven's Origin Sector!
When Wan Guqing, the Supreme Speaker of the Xing Yao Federation, stepped into the command center of the Defense Counsel, what he saw was the colorful, shocking 3D images that were generated after hundreds of light beams scanned the 'bloody mouth' in various detection methods.
Wan Guqing was two hundred and twenty-five years old this year. As the Speaker of the Federation, he was not a glamorous person. He lacked personal charisma, and his relationships with the major sects and the military were not deep enough, either. He was nothing more than a diligent, hardworking civil servant.
Behind his back, many people called him 'camel'. Even his wife and children sometimes called him that in front of his face half-jokingly.
Including himself, everybody knew very well that he was not the Speaker of the Federation who could command the world and be hailed as a 'hero'. Instead, he was the type who set up the stage for the heroes, prepared the armor, sharpened the blades, and sent the heroes to the peak of the era with his shoulders as the stairs. From the age of the old Federation to this day, of the hundred Speakers of the Federation in the past six hundred years, few of them could be counted on one hand that could be briefly described in even half a chapter in a history textbook. Most of the Speakers of the Federation would only appear as a name and a chronology of their birth and death at best. Wan Guqing was one of them. Even his 3D photo could not be found in any of the Federation's papers. Even the trickiest examiners would not give the students a hard time with him.
In the meantime, he was more than willing to accept his mission. During his two five-year terms, he had tried his best to mobilize all the forces that could be mobilized, accumulating the war potential of the Federation coin by coin, laying a solid foundation for the 'highest war state' that was to come, and providing the armor, the blades, the stage, and the stairs for the real heroes such as Ding Ling Dong and Jin Xinyue.
In the past ten years, he seemed to have aged a hundred years. He did not seem to have the charisma of a leader in the first place, but right now, he seemed even more clumsy and dull, like a dead tree that had been burnt countless times in a fire.
In two weeks, the new Speaker of the Federation was supposed to be elected. From that day on, the power of the Federation would be transferred one after another. In one and a half months, the new Speaker would be sworn in in front of the Rising Dragon of the Nine Stars flag and the hundreds of billions of people of the Federation. Then, he would be able to completely unload the heavy burden that had been deeply embedded into his flesh and bones.
In one and a half months, would the Xing Yao Federation still exist?
All of Wan Guqing's emotions were hidden in the deep wrinkles on his face, just like every day in the past ten years, like an old camel that was unhurried despite being caught in a black storm in the desert, and like the dense light spots on the hundreds of light beams were just an annoying camel.
His attitude, which was so calm that it bordered on sluggishness, had an amazing reaction with the slightly panicked atmosphere of the Defense Counsel. Gradually, all the anxious and anxious people around were infected by him. They all slowed down and even looked at him expectantly!
Almost a hundred enormous light beams were connected to the telescopes that were located everywhere on the home planet of the Heaven's Origin Sector and even on the satellites and asteroids. They depicted the terrible scenes that were taking place in space from different levels in different ways.
On the 3D images sent back by the telescopes that mainly focused on the change of gravity and the capture of space ripples, the deep sea of stars was like a fragile eggshell. Something suddenly broke out of the shell. The splashing 'pieces of the eggshell' were clearly visible and did not perish until more than ten seconds later.
On the telescopes that mainly focused on spiritual energy and heat, dozens, hundreds, and thousands of butterflies appeared. They were surrounded by raging but glamorous brilliance, which intertwined and mingled with each other, illuminating the entire dark universe!
Some of the space cameras that were deployed at the periphery of the Tian Yuan Realm for reconnaissance purposes could clearly see the real bodies of the 'arrivals' in the close-distance images that were sent back before they were jammed and destroyed.
They were all super starships that were pure black, with bodies that were as smooth and uniform as mirrors and as clear and transparent as crystals. The 'crystals' on the two sides of the head of the starships were embedded with the lightning trident emblem and the black storm emblem!
After a long-distance jump that spanned dozens of lightyears, the arrivals, who tore apart the four-dimensional space with invisible flames of spiritual energy and barged into the central area of the Xing Yao Federation, still maintained the most uniform, precise, and tidy battle formation in the battle formation that was almost ten thousand kilometers long. It looked like a square that was aimed at the home planet of the Heaven's Origin Sector.
The solemn, creepy, and thorough battle formation, as if nobody was around, demonstrated the advanced performance of the starships of the Imperium of True Human Beings and the toughness of the Immortal Cultivators of the Imperium who were piloting the starships!
"Super — super high-energy reaction!"
"More than three thousand starships of the Imperium are arriving at the Tian Yuan Realm through a space jump. This should be just their vanguard. More troops are waiting to jump!"
"The space zones at the periphery of the Heaven's Origin Sector are in a mess right now. The entire space has been stirred into a highly unstable area of turbulence!"
"Not good. Our lock-on has failed!"
A space jump was a long process. It was like an enormous dinosaur passing through a narrow canyon. Even the three thousand starships in the vanguard were not able to complete the jump in one go. Despite the intense spiritual reaction, they were still in the highly unstable space overlap state. To some extent, most of them were still in the orbit of the brown dwarf and the Tian Yuan Realm at the same time.
It was the most vulnerable moment and the best opportunity for the defenders to attack.
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