40,000 Years of Cultivation

"Snipe and clam fight, the fisherman gains-in the battle between the two giants of the Empire and the Holy League, our Federation is certainly not a fisherman, but it can also get a certain amount of breathing space."

Jiang Hailiu’s view is similar to what Zhou Yifu said before the Yuan Ying Conference, "If there is only a super power in the center of the star sea, the real human empire, then they can concentrate all resources and military power to defeat the weak forces on the edge of the star sea. With our three great worlds, it is naturally not enough to compete with hundreds of great worlds."

"But now, the biggest enemy of the empire is the Holy League. The two sides are launching a magnificent millennium war in the center of the Xinghai Sea. Obviously, it is impossible to mobilize too much military force to deal with the ‘hillies’ in the ‘poor mountains and bad waters’.”

Jiang Hailiu's self-deprecating statement aroused a lot of laughter and made the atmosphere in the venue a lot easier.

Jiang Hailiu also smiled slightly, and continued: "Most of the information we have collected about the'True Human Empire' comes from'Xinghai', and Xinghai said during the battle with fellow daoists such as Li Yao and Luo Xingzi. Yes, the policies of the real human empire are quite magnanimous. If they are willing to cooperate with the empire, the empire can give the flying star realm a high degree of autonomy, as long as the flying star realm continuously surrenders its population, resources, and powerful people. Up."

"These remarks may have a certain degree of credibility. The Empire and the Holy League are engaged in a close, life-and-death war. In this war, both sides are desperately collecting more population and resources of the world and throwing them into the raging fire. In the purgatory of war, whoever can collect more population, resources and strong people, may be able to win the final victory!"

"Then the purpose of the Imperial Expeditionary Force is clearly revealed."

"Not for long-term conquest, but for plundering a large number of people and resources in the shortest time, to deal with the real life-and-death war between them and the Holy League!"

"Therefore, the expeditionary army we will face in one or two hundred years may not be the strongest army of the true human empire. It is more likely to be like a'slave team' or a'predator'. It is here to find 'Cannon fodder'!"

"And we don’t need to eliminate it completely. Just let it realize that the resources consumed by the war continue to far exceed the benefits that can be gained after defeating us. This is a war of'not worth the gain', then it will have Maybe it's hard to retreat!"

With Jiang Hailiu's analysis, many Yuan Ying's eyes sparkled.

Everyone originally thought that the expedition of the true human empire was a catastrophe, but when you think about it carefully, war is an extension of politics, and politics is about benefits. No one will start a war without profit.

Strong as a real human empire, sending a huge expeditionary army to millions or tens of millions of light-years away is also a painful thing and consumes countless resources. The people of the empire may be evil, but they are by no means idiots. , What is the picture?

cannon fodder! The purpose of their coming to the Federation is to collect a large amount of cannon fodder and go back and invest in the war with the Holy League!

In other words, as long as the Federation can inflict heavy damage on the Imperial Expeditionary Forces and make the Empire realize that the input and output of this war are completely disproportionate, this transaction is very likely to "loss", and the Federation may continue to ensure its independence. !

"Our Federation, of course, will not be limited to winning this small defensive battle, this is just our starting point!"

Jiang Hailiu said meaningfully, "War is the best catalyst for the advancement of civilization, and the fastest way to learn from advanced civilizations! If we can really survive the torrential storm of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, then our civilization will surely be able to leap forward. A big step!"

"In the center of Xinghai, the empire and the Holy League are fighting, killing the sky. The empire must have developed a lot of tactics and magic weapons against the Holy League, and the Holy League will inevitably develop countless assassins specifically aimed at the empire."

"If we Federation members have the opportunity to go to the center of the star sea and learn how these two star sea beasts fight, how to bite each other’s throat, and dig out the other’s heart, then we will definitely have the opportunity to grow into a new star sea beast. !"

"You may think that I am whimsical, but we don't need to grow to the size of the empire and the Holy League, even if the overall national strength is only one-tenth of theirs, it is enough."

"As long as the empire and the Holy League are still at the stage of evenly matched, it is like a balance that barely maintains a balance, then even if we are just a feather or a straw, we can also affect the result of this'life and death balance'!"

"Our principle is only one,'hoe the strong and support the weak.' If the Holy League is strong and the empire is weak, then we will temporarily unite the empire against the Holy League; if the new power of the Holy League is insufficient and the empire has the upper hand, then We will unite the Holy League to fight the empire!"

"In short, we should maintain the balance of power between these two superpowers, and prevent either of them from gaining the upper hand, allowing them to continue to lose blood and lose both in the long war, and we will take the opportunity to learn their most advanced marvelous arts and war methods until In the end, our minions are completely sharp and their wings are full, making us the top players in the sea of ​​stars!"

"All in all, in a word, there is hope for the Federation, and the Three Realms! As long as the Daoists are firm in Daoism and go hand in hand, we will not only be able to resist any foreign enemy invasion, one day, we will even be able to reach the center of the Star Sea and let the human The four words "Civilization" have renewed its true glory!"

Jiang Hailiu's impassioned ending, aroused thunderous applause, and all the Yuan Ying and the Demon Emperor were excited.

As the Nascent Soul Boss, who doesn't have the ambition to smash the stars and cross the universe? Who is really willing to be trapped forever in the poor country on the edge of the Xinghai Sea, treated as a "hillie" by the superpower in the center of the Xinghai Sea?

Especially knowing that there are countless ordinary people in the center of Xinghai who have been ravaged by the empire and the Holy League, living a life that is worse than death, their Dao heart will never allow them to sit idly by.

"We are the most authentic heir to the spirit of the'Xinghai Empire'! We are the last guardians of human civilization! Go to the center of the Xinghai and let'human civilization' reproduce the glory of 10,000 years ago!"

Including Li Yao, every Yuan Ying, whether he was fighting or not, was short of breath, and deep down in his heart, made such a cry.

As for the feelings of those demon emperors, the mood is even more complicated.

Perhaps they will not be able to understand the full meaning of the four words "human civilization" for a while.

But "Kill back to the center of the sea of ​​stars", but their ancestors have been thinking about it for ten thousand years, and they have penetrated the dream deep in their blood!

Over the past ten thousand years, the monster race has been retreating steadily, losing one after another homeland, and losing one piece after another. To this day, the blood demon world has become one of the last few demon worlds.

Even in the past, the strength of the Blood Demon Realm was slightly stronger than that of the Tianyuan Realm, but every Demon Emperor in the Pantheon Palace also understood that "killing back to the center of the Star Sea" is simply idiotic nonsense, and it is absolutely impossible. Realized fantasy!

But now, if you unite with the Xingyao Federation, there is such a slim chance to get back to the center of the Star Sea?

Even if you want to change a banner, a different identity, or even a different face, then... after all, you will get back to your hometown!

For a moment, the demon emperors looked at each other, and their breathing became short.

"You Dao Jiang is true, and I also think that the Federation has great hope. In fact, the power gap between the Federation and the Empire and the Holy League may not be as big as we imagined!"

The historian Zhou Yifu spoke again, "Yes, now we only control three great worlds, and the empires and holy alliances that occupies the central essence of the Star Sea may each control hundreds of great worlds!"

"But the comparison of our overall national strength is by no means as simple as'one to one hundred'!"

"I don't know if you have any understanding of the "imperial limit theory"? Limited by the complexity of communication, transportation and information processing, no matter how large an empire is, it has its limits of expansion, just like a powerful behemoth. It's impossible to grow without restriction. If you expand to a certain size, you must stop growing, otherwise you will most likely be overwhelmed by your own weight!"

"In the definition of modern cosmology, the vast world we live in is'a resource gathering area that can be reached in a short time through conventional navigation methods under sub-light conditions.'"

"In the same big world, traffic can be exchanged at sub-light speeds or even lower speeds, the exchange of resources and population is relatively easy, and the control is the strongest."

"And between different big worlds, it is necessary to rely on'broken void','breaking the three-dimensional space barriers', and'starry sky jump' to communicate. Not to mention the consumption of countless resources, the danger is still very high, and it will be easily affected. Into the turbulence of four-dimensional space, annihilate invisible!"

"Don't use'star jump', or use sub-light speed or even light speed navigation methods? Those two great worlds that are 100,000 light-years apart will have to travel a full 100,000 years to reach, and this does not count the expansion of the universe itself!"

"Think about it, everyone. Today we are just gathering the three powerful worlds together. For such a meeting, we must use the'Array Xinghai Communication Array' to burn countless spars every second To worry about the interference of high-dimensional space storms, there will be several minutes or even longer signal delays!"

"So, even if the true human empire and the Covenant Alliance really each have hundreds of great worlds, how high is their ruler's control over these great worlds? The empire's capital, the celestial realm, the celestial star, how to ensure that Tens of millions of light years away, what about the absolute control of another world?"

"The larger the territory of the empire, the weaker its control over the frontiers, and the higher the internal friction of the empire. Eight out of ten of the national powers are not consumed in foreign wars, but wasted in the empire’s vast territory. In the end, it is not necessarily the foreign enemy that will bring down the empire, but the hugeness of the empire itself and the bloated and awkward bureaucratic system developed to cope with this hugeness-this is the truth of ancient and modern times!"