After saying that, Li Yao pursed his lips and bowed deeply. Then, he left the center of the hall on the lift.
Assisting the Heaven's Origin Sector with all his strength concerned the future of the Flying Star Sector. It was not going to be decided by him. He could only wait for the result together with Professor Mo Xuan and the other spectral Cultivators from the Heaven's Origin Sector!
After Li Yao left the hall, Luoxingzi, the host of the meeting, slowly rose to the center of the hall and looked around at the thousands of small meeting rooms that looked like crystal capsules.
Xiao Xuance used to be the leader of the Feathered Snakes Brotherhood. The Immortal Cultivators had infiltrated the Feathered Snakes Brotherhood deeply. His betrayal was a great blow to the Feathered Snakes Brotherhood.
Luoxingzi was Xiao Xuance's junior brother and an elder of the Feathered Snakes Brotherhood. When the Feathered Snakes Brotherhood was on the brink of collapse, he had shouldered the heavy burden resolutely. Not only did he purge the Immortal Cultivators in the Feathered Snakes Brotherhood mercilessly, the followers of the Feathered Snakes Brotherhood also led the charge in the battles against the space pirates and the remnants of the Immortal Cultivators, as if they were washing away the shame with blood.
Luoxingzi and the Feathered Snakes Brotherhood won the respect of the Cultivators again in such a way.
Luoxingzi bowed slightly and said, "That's all the intelligence we've collected so far. Next, we will begin the voting that will decide the fate of the Flying Star Sector and the Heaven's Origin Sector.
"However, before the voting begins, I'd like to share my opinion with you as a common Cultivator of the Flying Star Sector on behalf of myself.
"Firstly, from the perspective of the grand universe, the Flying Star Sector and the Tian Yuan Realm are right next to each other. We are out-and-out neighbors.
"If the minor apocalypse of the Imperium of True Human Beings … Really strikes the Tian Yuan Realm and even occupies the Tian Yuan Realm … Builds super star beacons in the Tian Yuan Realm for navigation for the army of the Imperium of True Human Beings.
"Then, it will take the army of the Imperium of True Human Beings to appear in the sky of the Flying Star Sector through the 'springboard' that is the Tian Yuan Realm instead of hundreds of years!
"As the saying goes, 'without the lips, the teeth will feel cold'. That's the logic.
"So. Rescuing the Tian Yuan Realm is, in fact, rescuing ourselves. Only by resisting this minor heavenly tribulation can we gain one or two hundred years of precious development time! "
"Secondly, I know that a lot of fellow Cultivators have concerns that we will be faced with the invasion of the Imperium of True Human Beings in a hundred years' time after the eight-year war, and that it will be too late for us to intervene in the war of another Sector. Won't it consume a lot of our strength? "
"In my opinion, the Tian Yuan Realm and the Flying Star Sector are highly complementary to each other. We should save the Tian Yuan Realm. It will bring us great benefits, far more than what we have to pay. "
"Let's leave aside the fact that the two parties have their own specialties in many techniques, arts, and magical equipment. We can learn from each other and take what we need.
"Let's talk about the social structure of the Tian Yuan Realm. There are many things we can learn from them."
"As we all know, ever since the Heavenly Tribulation descended five thousand years ago, the Heavenly Tribulation has never stopped. The Flying Star Sector is a tray of loose sand. There are dozens of space zones and thousands of sects. They are all in their own camps. Even Heavenly Saints City, the largest of them all, is just a super city.
"Although we have a lot of experts, powerful magical equipment, and popular Crystal Suit, we lack a powerful central government to integrate all the forces!
"It is exactly because our forces are too scattered that we can't do anything about a tiny Spider Den. The Immortal Cultivators even found a loophole and launched a fatal mutiny!
"If we continue to be in a state of disunity, even the space pirates and the small groups of Immortal Cultivators are having such a hard time dealing with them, will we be able to fight back when the well-trained, well-disciplined army of the Imperium of True Human Beings arrives?"
"Therefore, the reunification of the Flying Star Sector has become everybody's consensus.
"However, it is not easy to unite dozens of space zones under one government!
"We've been separated for too long. For five thousand years, we haven't built a large country, let alone a large army."
"Even the leaders and elders of the six sects of Heavenly Saints City are only in charge of a few million people at best.
"In our army, the fleets and Exo Societies of every sect have no more than a hundred thousand people!
"If we do establish a central government that governs billions of people and gather all the fleets and Exo Societies into an enormous army of tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, how are we going to operate the central government and make use of the resources of the Flying Star Sector in the most reasonable and efficient way? How are we going to command the army of hundreds of millions to confront the expedition army of the Imperium of True Human Beings head-on?
"Nobody knows what to do.
"Without real-life experience, everything is just theory. The Imperium of True Human Beings will not give us a second chance!
"Let's take a look at the Tian Yuan Realm.
"Although the Tian Yuan Realm is a small world with only one space zone, all the spiritual energy and resources have been gathered in the space zone, which has given birth to a rather prosperous and stable planet named the Heaven's Origin Sector.
"The Xing Yao Federation, which governs the Heaven's Origin Sector, has a population of tens of billions. It has been fighting the demon race for the past five hundred years, too.
"The Xing Yao Federation has been running in the 'state of war' for five hundred years. It has a lot of experience and profound theoretical knowledge about the operation of the economic system, the efficient utilization of resources, the establishment and control of an enormous army, the cooperation between Cultivators and ordinary people, and so on.
"According to Fellow Cultivator Li Yao and Fellow Cultivator Mo Xuan, the Xing Yao Federation can even gather an enormous army of more than two billion people under the most extreme circumstances and equip the army with chainswords, storm bolters, and other weapons!
"Compared to the small-scale banditry operations of the Flying Star Sector in the past thousand years, the Tian Yuan Realm has been fighting valiantly in the cruelest wars. Their experience is invaluable!
"If we cooperate with the Tian Yuan Realm, on one hand, the magical equipment and techniques of the two parties can be exchanged. On the other hand, we can learn from the Xing Yao Federation how to establish and operate a super large country and an army. In the meantime, we can consider the demon race as the best training targets, too.
"An army that has never seen blood is destined to be hopeless. The claws and teeth of the demon race are the best tools to sharpen the army of the Flying Star Sector!
"That's my thoughts on assisting the Tian Yuan Realm, including the benefits of assistance and the disadvantages of not providing assistance.
"However, putting aside the pure gains and losses, I still want to talk to you in a more in-depth way."
"During our battle with the star child, he once described a dreadful picture to us. All the Sectors of mankind have been conquered by the Imperium of True Human Beings. Every Sector is governed by the Immortal Cultivators. It is a cruel world where the strong prey on the weak. Only the strong can do whatever they want in such a world, and the weak are nothing but tools, toys, and garbage that are not worth mentioning at all!
"Although the star child was exaggerating, the Imperium of True Human Beings hasn't expanded to such an extent yet.
"However, if we continue to wait for our doom and bury our heads in the sand like ostriches, who is to say that such a picture won't become reality one day?
"After the Imperium of True Human Beings conquers the Tian Yuan Realm, the Blood Demon Sector, and all the other Sectors of the former Star Ocean Imperium, we will truly be the 'last Cultivators'. By then, who will hear our cries for help and fight side by side with us?
"Therefore, although I know that the price of assisting the Tian Yuan Realm will be high, that many people will die, that many starships will be destroyed, and that many sects will never be able to rise again …
"However, I still hope that you will make the right choice!
"At the very least, I, Luoxingzi, of the Feathered Snakes Brotherhood, would like to make a Blood Oath in front of all the fellow Cultivators here!
"If the motion is passed, I will be among the first to go to the Tian Yuan Realm. I will not leave until the demon race and the minor apocalypse of the Imperium of True Human Beings are completely defeated!
"Not just the Tian Yuan Realm. If we discover a new Sector one day, and the people there need the help of the Cultivators, I will go there without any hesitation, too!
"I even hope that, in the not-too-distant future, our descendants will form an overwhelming army to attack the homeland of the Imperium of True Human Beings and liberate all the ordinary people enslaved by the Immortal Cultivators!
"Think about it, everybody! Think about why we are gathered here today and vote!
"No. What we are here to decide today is not whether or not to save the Tian Yuan Realm, not whether or not to save the Flying Star Sector, but whether or not to save the future of the civilization of mankind!
"Perhaps, in a thousand years, whether or not the civilization of mankind will be protected by the Cultivators or completely tarnished by the Immortal Cultivators will depend on the sacred vote in your hands today!"
After Luoxingzi finished his speech, the voting officially began.
In the secret meeting rooms, the leaders and elders of the various cultivation sects were whispering to each other, deep in thought.
Many of them were checking the information about the Tian Yuan Realm again and again, calculating the losses and the benefits.
But more of them were browsing the intelligence about the Imperium of True Human Beings that they had excavated in the past half year, deep in thought.
Three minutes later, someone activated the virtual voting light beam one after another. Some of them were solemn, and some of them made their choice resolutely.
Li Yao, Professor Mo Xuan, and the rest of them were waiting in their own meeting room. It was perhaps the longest five minutes of their lives. The atmosphere in the meeting room could not have been more intense. They were all frozen like a giant iceberg.
Nobody was talking. Nobody was even breathing. Li Yao's eyes and the five pairs of crystal cameras of Professor Mo Xuan and the rest of them were all staring at the light beam in front of them in a daze.
Suddenly, ripples spread out on the light beam and condensed into Luoxingzi's face again. He glanced down. Although he tried to control every muscle on his face, scorching flames were popping up in the depths of his eyes.
"The result of the voting is out.
"11033 votes in favor, 1010 votes against, and 950 votes abstained.
"More than two-thirds of the votes in favor are in favor. The motion is passed!
"The Flying Star Sector will spare no effort to rescue the Tian Yuan Realm. Let's defend the future of mankind hand in hand!"
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