40,000 Years of Cultivation

Extreme heaven, celestial star.

Imperial capital.

One hundred thousand years of cultivation, the greatest and most glorious glorious world ever, the heart of human civilization, the center of the sea of ​​stars.

Since the monster dynasty ruled the Xinghai, all the unified Xinghai kingdoms have regarded the extreme heavens as their ruling center.

This is true of the Monster Beast Dynasty, Xinghai Empire, Xinghai Republic, and even the real human empire.

And any careerist who has ambitions and tries to control all the heavens and stars in his hands will also unanimously regard the extreme heavens as the ultimate goal that is bound to be achieved.

The extreme heavens tens of thousands of years ago were not such a rich world.

From the perspective of the star field position of the three-dimensional universe, it is not in the center of the star sea where the stars are densest.

But the three-dimensional space of this big world has extremely mysterious characteristics, and the void is full of folds, gaps and stable wormholes.

From the perspective of four-dimensional space, travellers from other large worlds can jump to the extreme celestial realm with the least energy consumption; people in the extreme celestial realm can also easily travel to all parts of the star sea through the ubiquitous space folds.

With this characteristic, the extremely heavenly realm has become the place where the heavens and the ten thousand realms converge. It has become the first choice for the capital of every unified country.

People who have crossed the wormhole for the first time and jumped to the extreme heaven are often shocked by the metal-like cold texture of this world.

In the past 40,000 years, from the monster dynasty to the real human empire, the metal and mineral materials of the thousands of worlds controlled by human civilization have been persistently transported to the extreme heavens, and the main star here, the "celestial star", has been implemented. A high degree of transformation has gradually turned this planet into an indestructible steel fort.

Here is the supreme symbol of "human beings" using their own "will" to transform the "universe".

When travelers enter the atmosphere from the synchronous orbital starport on the periphery of the planet, take the sightseeing floating platform that descends vertically, and they can see the undulating, row upon row of metal buildings shining under the sun. The various buildings are in the strangest and most splendid appearances. Colors, to fully demonstrate human ambition, desire and desperate impulse.

Except for the imperial palace and a handful of noble estates, there is not much green on the Celestial Star, but the ubiquitous air circulation pipes release day and night fresh air rich in various trace elements and beneficial to physical and mental health. On this planet, there are hundreds of billions of people densely packed like insect swarms, so they won't go crazy with depression.

Travelers who came to the imperial capital for the first time were shocked by these metal buildings like lions, domes, gods and demons, and even pants, and soon they could see the second wonder-all over the land. , The gaps tens of thousands of meters deep underground are like huge canyons crisscrossing the entire land.

According to legend, at the end of the Xinghai Empire 10,000 years ago, the emperor and the Doomsday mad blood **** son fought an earth-shattering battle in the extreme heaven and the celestial star. The battle was so fierce that the sky and the earth changed color. It was blown abruptly by them and shattered into two halves.

This is of course nonsense. No matter how strong human beings are, it is impossible to completely explode a huge planet. This is completely inconsistent with the law of conservation of psionic energy.

But the earth’s crust is riddled with holes, activating the long-dormant seismic zone, causing drastic changes in the geological plate, tearing apart criss-cross gaps-this is a true fact, and perhaps it is also the limit of human combat effectiveness. .

In the ten thousand years after the demise of the Xinghai Empire, the surviving people repaired the fragmented planet carefully and painstakingly.

They were surprised to discover the mineral veins hidden deep in the cracks and the huge geothermal energy contained in the underground magma belt. They simply bombed out the emperor and the blood god, and built huge dungeons in the depths of the cracks as deep as 10,000 meters. , Multiplying and thriving here, the living space of the imperial capital instantly expanded several times.

Naturally, nobles and clansmen would not live in the dark and sultry underground. Taking the sea level of the imperial capital as the standard, tens of thousands of meters from the underground all the way up, it is a clear map of the distribution of the real human empire.

The primitive people and slave workers at the lowest level live in the ground tens of thousands of meters deep, operating geothermal factories to provide energy for the entire planet; thousands of meters underground are the residences of miners and smelters, and large areas of underground crops are also planted. On the ground, there are a large number of low-level cultivators and a small number of wealthy primitive people-these primitive people are often inextricably related to the cultivators, and rely on the protection of the cultivators to reach the Celestial Star. The sunshine, they are the top level of the pyramid of the primitive class, and they are also responsible for maintaining the industrial and commercial operations of the imperial capital.

As for the nobles and magnates, they often live on the twelve satellites of Celestial Star-in addition to the two natural satellites, ten are artificially constructed super space stations. It is said that the interiors are all beautiful and extremely luxurious. wonderland.

Since the establishment of the true human empire for thousands of years, the imperial capital has been operating in such a hierarchical and methodical mode.

It is a pity that with the "collapse of rituals and music", the laws of the cultivator formulated by the black star emperor Wu Yingqi gradually peeled off and collapsed. The empire embarked on a road of poverty, and the capital gradually lost its former glory.

As the great worlds merged into the empire one after another, the empire has become too large. As the heart of the empire, the extremely celestial realm and the celestial star inevitably become more bloated day by day.

In the past five hundred years alone, the population of the imperial capital has skyrocketed tenfold. In order to maintain more and more complex, chaotic and complex rule, the number of bureaucracies and offices stationed in the imperial capital from the outside world, It is ten times faster than the population boom. The resources of the extreme heavens alone are simply not enough to support such a huge population and the daily consumption of so many immortal cultivators. The ecological chain is on the verge of collapse every year. Relying on blood transfusions from the nearby world.

When the official statistics of the total population of the Extreme Heaven Realm exceeded 80 billion, residents of the outside world were strictly prohibited from moving into the imperial capital at will.

But the imperial capital has always been the place where hopes and dreams are. No matter how it is banned, it can't stop those poor but ambitious poor boys from swarming.

At present, the total population of the imperial capital according to the official statistics of the empire is 120 billion, but many demographers and economists estimate that it is at least 200 billion. The vast majority of black households dormant like ants in the depths of thousands of meters. At the bottom of the cracks, even if God gave the authorities statisticians with 10,000 levels of transformation, they would never be able to figure out the true population.

With such a large population, the resource supply chain of Jitianjie and Tianjixing has become extremely fragile. As long as the external world stops blood transfusion for one day, it will cause riots in the imperial capital; if the external world does not have blood transfusion for three days, the imperial capital may completely collapse.

When the population exceeds the critical point, it will also trigger a powerful chaotic effect, giving birth to many lawless gray and even dark areas-although only tens of thousands of meters away from the empire’s nominally supreme ruling institution, the bottom of the ground fissures, However, even the cultivators of Yuan Ying and the transformation of the gods are not willing to touch easily. Where the mist is, countless people are on the most glorious and sacred planet of the empire, following the law of obscurity. People are not humans and ghosts. Live without ghosts.

Perhaps this is exactly what the four major electoral families hope to see.

Maintaining a too strong imperial capital is not very good for them. The bloated, weak and filthy imperial capital like this is the paradise for adventurers, the stage for careerists, and the dining table for them to carve up the sea of ​​stars!

It's a pity that now a new force has emerged, wanting to break into this paradise, trample on this stage, and smash this dining table!

Lei Chenghu escaped from the Shenwei prison, and also took away a large number of political prisoners and the entire Shenwei fleet, which reached the ears of the Gonggon princes of the Imperial Capital and the Senate two days ago.

What's more terrifying than Lei Chenghu's escape from Shenwei Prison is-on what basis did he escape, and with the help of what power?

And what did this force want to help Lei Chenghu escape?

This question is like a poisoned dagger, gently cutting through the throats of the elders.

However, the elders knew that Lei Chenghu had returned to the third theater, but they had little choice with him.

Lei Chenghu is a well-known defense expert in the empire. For nearly a hundred years of defense against the black wind front, the Saint League army dare not cross the thunder pool.

The third theater is the top priority of the front line. It was Lei Chenghu's exhaustion of his life's efforts and countless resources sent from the rear to build a bronze wall, an iron wall, a sea of ​​swords, a sea of ​​fire, and a tiger's lair in Longtan.

Even if the four major electors’ families now mobilize all their forces to attack the third theater, they may not be able to eliminate the Thunder Fleet in a short time, and doing so is tantamount to setting off a full-scale civil war in the empire. Any one of the four major electors’ families, It's hard to do this.

What's more, Lei Chenghu is destined not to wait foolishly for them to attack in the third theater.

Fleet is not a planet. It comes and goes without a trace. It can stray between the stars and the sea. Unless the opponent wants to search for a fleet in the vast sea of ​​stars for a decisive battle, it is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack!

This is the situation now.

Before the Senate could respond, Lei Chenghu had cut off all communications between the third theater and the outside world, and of course, closed all the starry sky gates in the third theater.

The third theater has become a dark, unfathomable misty world.

In the Senate, spitting and red-faced quarrelling for a long time, no one's fleet was willing to jump in and die first.

We can only cut off all channels for the outside world to send supplies to the third theater, hoping to trap Lei Chenghu to death or force him to negotiate.

But no matter how stupid people can see, Lei Chenghu will never wait to die. The resources he has on hand are enough to launch an earth-shattering suicide attack!

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The imperial capital in this work is a tribute to Asimov’s great work "Base", the galactic capital Chuanda planet. Its details and inspiration are completely derived from "Base". I hereby declare and express my sincere heart to the senior sci-fi writers. Respect and infinite gratitude!