Chapter 457: The Western Expedition and the Northern Expedition (Part 2)
King Zhanying looked at the magical artifact that made it hate and love for a long time and asked, "All elders are here, are you?"
A tribe member around him immediately said respectfully: "Great Your Majesty! Among the ten tribes of Wang Ting, except for the elders who have tasks and have not returned from traveling abroad, the elders who can be summoned to the level of the fifteenth level Youhuang command are all here!"
"Okay! Let's start now!" Zhan Yingwang said lightly.
"yes!"
Using the "Zuoji Tiandian" once requires exhausting all the life essence energy of the four elders at the level of the Ghost God King! Such consumption is unbearable for the Zhanying Clan's current family!
But it had to do so. A large clan with a strength comparable to one of the ten tribes of Wang Ting was simply completely destroyed! Afterwards, I couldn't even find out any clues. What kind of existence could have such terrifying abilities? If they continued to attack other tribes, the consequences would be unimaginable!
Moreover, it has known that the fall of the guardian beast of the Yanwei Tribe Alliance, the Tianyu Tengshe. It is also said that it was also in the vast star field that the Ketila tribe was originally responsible for in the northern part of the Prison Soul Star Sea! This made it feel more and more uneasy!
Of course it did not believe that the power of the human empire could deal with the big guy. The greater possibility was that the unknown existence or some unknown powerful civilization had taken action in secret!
Therefore, opening the Earth's Sky Dian and tracing the roots with the power of the magical artifact! Finding the real murderer of the incident has become its inevitable choice now! Even if it pays a huge price for this, it will be spared!
Of course, Zhan Yingwang can take action himself or use other means, but that consumption is even more costly!
Therefore, it adopted a compromise method to summon all elders above the fifteenth level and participate in the opening ceremony at the same time! Hundreds of elders took action together, and the loss was spread evenly, within a range that could be afforded!
Under the command of King Zhanying, the six oldest God Kings of the Zhouji Tiankong Sutra worked together to implement the work, and finally started successfully!
Flashes of energy fluctuations spread, and the runes on the surface of the artifact emitted bright white light one by one, and the activity level also increased by a level! It seemed that some strange life was waking up from the sleep!
At the top of the artifact, the strange coordinate scales on the disc gradually reacted, and one mysterious runes after another floated up and emitted colorful light!
Under the control of the powerful divine consciousness of Zhanying King, the symbols representing the coordinates of the ten-dimensional quadrant began to change their orientations quickly. With the movement of light and shadow, they experienced billions of combination changes in an instant!
A huge light screen ten meters square was condensed above the artifact, and a vast sea of stars appeared inside!
As the coordinates of the ten-dimensional quadrant gradually stabilized, the rapidly jumping picture on the light screen was slowly frozen, and finally locked in a very secret area in the depths of the Prison Soul Star Sea!
This is the former settlement of the Ketila tribe: the Sea of Yanxing!
Next is the critical stage of the operation of the artifact! King Zhanying looked at the hundreds of high-level elders present, and a hint of bitterness appeared in his heart!
These are all the vitality of our clan!
The Ten Tribes of Wang Ting are the core tribes of the entire Zhanying clan! The spiritual pillars in the hearts of hundreds of millions of tribes! These hundreds of elders are the essence of most of the ten tribes!
It is precisely because of the existence of these strategic forces that the great Zhanying clan is on par with other old civilizations in the Star Sea World! If they have some accidents, it will definitely directly affect the future rise, decline, honor and disgrace of this race!
Although the lost essence of life can be distributed equally, it will also lead to the elders participating in the opening ceremony having a short period of weakness, and they must be carefully recuperated to recover!
It’s nothing to have one or two elders. If hundreds of elders are like this, it’s a bit dangerous! If something big happens inside and outside the clan at this time, then...
If it were not forbidden, it would never have made such a decision!
Forget it, no matter what, the safety of our clan is a crucial matter! We must find the enemy in the dark in advance at any cost! Otherwise, when the situation in the star sea evolves to a critical state in the future, the enemy will jump out to make trouble, which is very likely to destroy our clan’s careful planning for many years and cause a disaster-like impact!
Thinking of this, it finally made up its mind to issue a second order!
The body of the artifact trembled, and white light as thin as hair pulled out from the flying mysterious runes! It intertwines into layers of light nets, and then slowly spreads, covering all the hundreds of elders present!
The elders released all their breath at the same time. So many high-level commanders launched together, and the mighty power was simply shaking the sky and the earth! The unimaginable vitality burst out, which shocked the particularly reinforced space to shake violently!
A gentle energy pulse was emitted from the body of Zhanying King, easily stabilizing the space structure that had begun to loosen!
The light network began to greatly extract the elders' life energy and use it as a source of power to drive the operation of the magical artifacts! In a short while, the light golden magnetic field on the body of the fifteenth-level commanders' commanders became obviously dimmed!
As the artifact was officially activated, the picture in the light screen gradually changed, and the coordinate symbol symbol symbolizing time flickered frequently. According to the will of King Zhanying, he began to trace back the past time!
Soon, time was played back one month ago, followed by two months and three months... Zhanyingwang deliberately controlled the speed of time flow to avoid missing some important information that may exist!
Just as this group of volleyball players spent a lot of money to track down the real murderer, a meeting on how to go about the future of the kingdom is being held in the palace of the Starry Kingdom!
In front of all the senior officials of the kingdom, Yun Haoyu announced the results of his meeting with the special envoys of the Five Major Powers of the Prison Soul Star Sea!
The envoy brought the goodwill of the five leaders, as well as their hope to establish a fixed communication mechanism, their views on the current situation in the Star Sea, their proposals for the division of power, and so on!
After the talks lasted for a long time, Yun Haoyu had learned the attitudes and bottom lines of the five major forces: he could send a fleet to incorporate the kingdom's territory by sending a fleet to the kingdom, and recognized that the kingdom had an equal position with the five major forces! In exchange, the Starlight Kingdom will not be allowed to expand its territory at will, especially to mobilize troops to many larger forces west of the kingdom!
Yun Haoyu understood their concerns. The army of the Tiloya Empire was sharpening its swords on the Xibeng Xingyuan. Many forces were working together to guard the natural barriers. If he continued to expand endlessly behind, many threatening forces would no longer be willing to defend!
If the coalition's defense line collapses and the imperial army that drove straight into the sea of prison souls, everyone will be finished and no one can escape!
According to Feng Lanxi's prior analysis, once these hundreds of star fields are fully incorporated into the kingdom's territory, they can almost build a safe enough defense line! In just a few months, the kingdom's star defense can be connected into a stable whole!
So, the current meeting is about discussing the future direction of the Kingdom’s strategic offensive!
Should we reject the goodwill of the alliance of five major forces and continue to move westward; or choose other directions to expand the living space of the kingdom? This is a question that needs careful consideration!
As a result, most of the ministers participating in the meeting agreed to stop when they saw it, and accepted the request of the alliance of five major forces!
"Your Majesty, and everyone here!" said Crassus,
"The expansion routes of the Starlight Kingdom in the previous stage were two main goals: one was to increase strategic circumference space; the other was to choose a suitable national border to create a safe and stable star defense to ensure that the Kingdom had no worries in the next strategic actions!"
"Now both goals are close to achieving! So, what we need to discuss is how the kingdom will develop next? Should we continue to grab territory in the Prison Soul Sea, or do something else! It can bring more benefits to the kingdom!"
Yun Haoyu smiled and said, "If you have any opinions, you might as well speak out!"
Crassus nodded and continued: "I think that the current Star Kingdom has reached a critical period of national strength development!"
"The previous cost-effective investment in capital and technology, as well as the large-scale promotion of cheap gene optimization agents, has enabled the kingdom's national strength to develop leaps and bounds in just a few years! In addition, the ever-expanding territory has brought various rich development resources! All these favorable factors have combined, making the kingdom's current comprehensive national strength reach the peak of a second-rate power! It is close to the level of a first-rate power!"
"But this is not enough. As the situation continues to evolve, the battles and killings among the countries in Xinghai will become more and more fierce! In order to be invincible in the more violent competition in the future, the national strength of the kingdom must be further improved to reach the level of a first-class power or even a superpower!"
"To achieve this goal, simply developing the economy and technology, or seizing more backward star fields, can no longer meet the requirements! Or, it cannot meet our requirements in the short term!"
"So, the only feasible way is to grab it! Snatch the prosperous star fields of those first-class powers or superpowers that belong to the past! Turn it into our own territory, and through digestion and absorption, we will eventually achieve the goal of rapidly improving national strength!"
"The target you want is probably the Shufeng Empire, right?" Yang Wentao asked with a smile.
"To be precise, it is the twelve provinces in the southern border of the Shufeng Empire!" Crassus explained,
"Although the empress dowager took rebellious actions in the empire, it made people angry! But the foundation of the superpower is there, and with the current strength of the kingdom, it is not enough to deal with this huge thing! So you can't just make the idea of it!"
Chapter completed!