"Before the apocalypse, it was the golden age of the human civilization of the Flying Star Sector. Everything was vigorous and positive. Nothing seemed to be able to stop us from marching forward. 6d”
"However, the news of the arrival of the Heavenly Tribulation dragged us from the golden age to the desperate Black Iron Age."
"The new human beings born in the Black Iron Age had a different understanding of the world from the seniors of the golden age since the very beginning. The estrangement and hostility between us were almost innate."
Li Yao did not understand. "In the face of a great catastrophe, we should be united. Even if we don't like each other, we can just stop talking to each other. What's the point of hostility?"
Sha Yulan said, "According to the original calculation, the apocalypse would take place more than seventy years later. But as the observation techniques of the apocalypse developed and the trajectory and speed were adjusted time and time again, the precise time of the apocalypse was calculated to be a hundred and one years later.
"A hundred years is enough for several generations to be born.
"Imagine that you're a homelander born in the Black Iron Age. When you're just learning to speak, your adults have told you that your civilization will suffer a destructive strike in several decades. All your hope is to build a huge shield."
"Your parents, your ancestors, and your brothers and sisters all worked hard for the same purpose. The meaning of your life was to build such a shield!
"The Cultivators among you may enter space for a short period of time to build a planetary defense system," Li Yao said.
"The ordinary people among you, on the other hand, dug holes on the ground day and night, building underground shelters hundreds of meters deep.
"Everyone, overdraw your life force and burn your spirit."
"Countless Cultivators fell during the construction of the planetary defense array. Some were even crushed into meat pies by the whistling space meteorites."
"Countless ordinary people were sacrificed valiantly in the collapses, the rampant poisonous gas, and the scourge of the underground demon beasts, too.
"After everything you've been through, when your father was killed in the planetary defense system, when your brothers were ripped apart by the demon beasts below the ground, and when you were heavily wounded because of the planetary defense plan, you gave up everything you had.
"At that time, you suddenly learned that there were some other people who didn't want to fight with you. He was actually unwilling to stay behind and fight alongside you. He was actually prepared to abandon you, abandon his home, and flee! "
"Besides, they didn't just flee. They took away a lot of resources, too!
"Those resources could have been used to build your shield. It was made bigger and thicker. It can protect more people! "
"But now, because of their cowardice, the shield that could protect an entire civilization has become smaller, lighter, and thinner."
"What do you think of these people?"
Li Yao was stunned and fell into deep thought.
Sha Yulan continued, "The same goes for the Stellar Race. The new generation of the spacers is told from the moment they are born that their destiny is to build countless crystal warships and lead the civilization on a long voyage.
"In the past decades, countless people have sacrificed themselves in their posts, too. Many refiners have been drawing the structural designs of starships day and night, too. As he was painting, he fell down and never woke up again! "
"Every spacer firmly believes that as long as one more starship is produced, more lives will be saved and our civilization will be continued!
"If. You are such a member of the Starry Sky Race. You should know that some people steal a lot of resources and refine a giant but useless turtle shell because of their stupidity and stubbornness because they are afraid of exploring the universe. What do you think of them? "
"One loss of resources means one loss of starships, and one loss of starships means that tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people will not be able to escape!"
Li Yao was silent.
It was indeed an unresolvable knot.
Sha Yulan said, "Besides, as the two parties' plans were pushed forward, the social form had completely different changes.
"The social structure of the homers was centered on the underground shelters. Before the underground shelters were built, they had built countless enclosed cities on the ground to simulate the underground environment. If a few meteoroids broke through the defense and hit the ground, they would be able to survive underground.
"Over the past few decades, in order to simulate the situation of the Heavenly Tribulation, they even used their great divine abilities to create meteor showers and conduct actual combat exercises.
"In the meantime, to adapt to the small society in the sea of stars, the spacers divided everyone into small towns. The small towns had tens of thousands of people, and the big ones had hundreds of thousands of people.
"Every town was a virtual starship society. The residents of the towns would board the same starship in the future.
"The Cultivators of the six major sects took the opportunity to go deep into the 'starship towns' and develop different branches and branches as the leaders of the starships.
"Every time a starship was successfully produced, a town would be relocated as a whole. Everybody would be moved to the starship.
"After so many years of preparation, everyone has adapted to this kind of small-scale social system. It's quite orderly, and there hasn't been too much chaos."
"It is not hard to imagine how unfamiliar the new generations were with each other and how hostile they were to each other!"
Xiong Wuji suddenly grew anxious. He raised his voice and shouted, "Stop talking about the useless stuff. Tell me about Operation Profiler!"
Sha Yulan paused for a moment. The calmness on her face was torn apart for the first time. She said gloomily, "Although the two parties were hostile to each other, they were faced with the same threat after all. For the sake of the big picture, they did not start a war. The situation lasted until the hundredth year, right before the arrival of the apocalypse.
"At that time, the homers finally finished the planetary defense array. But because of the lack of resources, it was not as good as the stellar magical equipment that it should have been. It was merely a piece of 'quasi-stellar magical equipment'.
"The spacers, on the other hand, had produced a lot of starships and space towns, too.
"Due to the limitation of technology, the space towns did not have the ability to cross space zones, much less cross Sectors.
"But their advantage was that they were large in size and boasted a self-circulation ecosystem that could accommodate a lot of ordinary people.
"Finally, it was time to part ways!
"The two branches of the same civilization were about to embark on different paths of survival!
"If that were the case, maybe the estrangement between the two parties could be resolved after thousands of years, and they could be reunited.
"But right then, Operation Profiler took place.
"The spacers. Most of them were the leadership of the six major sects in the past. They were in possession of the most confidential training techniques and facilities of their sects.
"Many of the techniques and facilities passed on from the Star Ocean Imperium could only be read and used, not copied or duplicated.
"According to the agreement, the spacers would leave some of the techniques and facilities behind before they left.
"But nobody expected that. Some of the younger generation of the spacers had already grown up. They grasped part of the power and became the backbone of the final evacuation!
"281 of the younger spacers reached a secret agreement and carried out Operation Profiler. They stole a lot of the techniques and facilities that were supposed to be left behind!
"When they were discovered, they had already fled on their starships!"
Li Yao was dumbfounded. "How shameless!"
Techniques and facilities were the foundation of the spacers. It was the foundation of a cultivation sect. If these things were stolen, the sect would no longer be able to continue its legacy!
No wonder there were only 'qi-trainers' left on Iron Plateau. A lot of the techniques had been lost!
No wonder the qi-trainers hated the Cultivators so much!
Sha Yulan said gloomily, "We are talking about the continuation of our civilization. What's the point of talking about shamelessness and morality when the lives of billions of people are at stake?
"The new generation firmly believes in the spacers' theories and believes that staying on Iron Plateau will only result in death. The techniques and the training facilities are very valuable. The techniques and facilities would only be buried with the homers.
"If that's the case, I might as well steal them all and make the Stellar Race stronger so that our civilization can survive!"
"Every divine ability is the tinder of a civilization. Everything they do is to ensure that the tinder of human civilization is passed down. Nothing more.
"It was shameless and cruel, but it was a realistic choice.
"The homers were naturally infuriated when they found out, but there was nothing they could do. Although they had some starships, they were short of crew members. Since the apocalypse was coming, most of them had to stay inside the planetary defense array and burn their souls. Therefore, they could only watch the spacers flee in panic.
"Finally, the apocalypse arrived!"
Li Yao held his breath. Although he knew that the human civilization of the Flying Star Sector had survived the disaster, he was still shocked by what he had seen.
Sha Yulan said bitterly, "Out of everyone's expectation, the meteor shower, which had been divided into three waves, split into a fourth wave and lunged at the main fleet of the spacers!
"The main fleet of the spacers was caught off guard and was almost entirely annihilated.
"The remaining starships were involved in the cosmic storm and lost their homes in the broken sea of stars. They were forced to develop on their own in the darkness. It took them four thousand years to recover.
"However, to this day, they still haven't recovered to their peak state!
"The outcome of the homers was not much better. Although part of the most powerful apocalypse was diverted to attack the spacers, the rest of the apocalypse was still too much for the planetary defense array to resist. A lot of meteors still broke through the defense array and bombarded the surface of Iron Plateau, changing the environment of the planet and causing a catastrophe that lasted hundreds of years!
"In the catastrophe, all the Cultivators above the Refinement Stage, including the Building Foundation Stage Cultivators, the Core Formation Stage Cultivators, and the few Yuanying Cultivators, were all driving the planetary defense array to resist the apocalypse under the leadership of a Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator. In the end, their souls were all burnt up and they perished one after another!"
Li Yao was confused. "Wait. Didn't you say that the only three Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators were all members of the spacers?"
Sha Yulan sighed. "The Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator who was assassinated by the 'God Slaying Operation' at the beginning stayed on Iron Plateau at the last moment. He said that he hadn't changed his opinion and still believed that space was the only way out. However, it was the responsibility of a Cultivator to protect mankind. Since so many ordinary people stayed in their homeland, one of the three Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators had to stay and fulfill their responsibility, too.
"Born in Iron Plateau, die in Iron Plateau.
"Those were the words of the female assassin who tried to assassinate him a hundred years ago.
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