noveltune Chapter 290 Four-Star Alliance
Chapter 290 Four-Star Alliance
Chapter 290 Fourteen Star Alliance
Pang Xiuming nodded slightly and said, "That's right. The beast infestation in Kunlun Ruins in the northwest of Blue Star is one of the most severe situations that Blue Star is currently facing."
What many people may not know is that at least 10,000 strange beasts emerge from the Kunlun Ruins in Northwest China every day. In the past three months, the day with the most strange beasts emerging was 13574, including 13 seventh-tier strange beasts and 362 mid-tier strange beasts.
In other words, 4 million strange beasts emerge from Kunlun Ruins in the Northwest every year. Our Northwest Front Army has to dispatch 10,000 elite troops at least twice a month to regularly exterminate the strange beasts outside the Northwest defense line. If the extermination is not carried out properly, the number of strange beasts in the Kunlun Mountains will increase dramatically, and the defense line will be lost in just a few days.
"Once the northwest defense line falls, the beast infestation will spread globally in an instant. At that point, our human habitat on Earth will be instantly compressed by massive hordes of alien beasts, and even a safe training ground will cease to exist. We will constantly face the threat of these beasts."
One student asked, "If 10,000 strange beasts emerge every day, and 4 million emerge every year, does that mean there are at least 10 million strange beasts in Kunlun Ruins?"
Pang Xiuming said, "Tens of millions of strange beasts, no less."
If our Northwest Army cannot eliminate more than three million monstrous beasts in a year, their numbers will surge within a few years, overwhelming our defenses.
One student asked, "Our Earth's technology has advanced a lot compared to a hundred years ago, right? Why not use firearms to eliminate the alien beasts, or drop nuclear weapons on Kunlun Ruins?"
"We have been using firearms. Every time we send out elite troops to wipe out the alien beasts, firearms have played a huge role. However, firearms are only effective against some low-level alien beasts. Alien beasts of level four and above are immune to most firearms."
As for nuclear weapons, they were already used twenty years ago when the Blue Star authorities discovered that the situation with the alien beasts was out of control.
The nuclear weapon was dropped, and a huge mushroom cloud rose into the sky, but it only destroyed a few thousand alien beasts at the epicenter. Due to the impact of the nuclear weapon, the diameter of the entrance to the Kunlun Ruins underground cave expanded from 60 meters to over 100 meters, and the number of alien beasts released from the cave every day almost doubled.
This result profoundly tells us, the people of Earth, that in this martial arts era, only personal strength matters. We shouldn't be overly reliant on firearms; even nuclear weapons don't have the power people imagine, and in fact, they've had the opposite effect, exacerbating the beast infestation in the northwest.
"If even nuclear weapons are useless, then it means that we can only rely on martial artists to quell the beast infestation in the Northwest?"
"Kunlun Ruins already has over ten million strange beasts. More than ten thousand of them emerge from the underground caves every day. How long will it take to quell this beast menace?" a student couldn't help but ask.
Pang Xiuming continued, "In the 7287th year of the Galactic Calendar, which is 78 years ago, strange beasts began to emerge from Kunlun Ruins. This year marked the 27th year since our Blue Star entered the Martial Arts Era, and the first time a seventh-level martial artist who had cultivated protective qi was born on our Blue Star."
After that, strange beasts began to frequently emerge from the Kunlun Ruins Cave. Until the year 7340 of the Galactic Calendar, which is 25 years ago, a master-level strange beast emerged from the Kunlun Ruins Cave for the first time.
Ten years ago, the Kunlun Ruins could only produce a maximum of seven or eight master-level beasts a year. But starting three years ago, the number of beasts emerging from the cave has reached more than a dozen every year.
Especially this year, only halfway through the year, nearly 20 master-level beasts have already emerged from the underground caves.
As the situation continues to deteriorate, if one day, ninth-tier Grandmaster-level alien beasts begin to emerge from the Kunlun Ruins, that will be a day of catastrophe for our Blue Star.
"Are we just supposed to sit here and wait for the situation to worsen?" one student couldn't help but ask.
Pang Xiuming shook his head and said, "Of course not. Our Grandmaster martial artists from Blue Star once went deep into the cave where strange beasts emerged in Kunlun Ruins, reaching a depth of 30,000 meters, to investigate the matter."
Since the strange beasts suddenly appeared on Earth, there must be something extraordinary deep within the underground caves, causing the strange beasts to keep emerging. As long as we can solve the problem at its source and stop the emergence of strange beasts from the underground caves, then the tens of millions of strange beasts currently entrenched in Kunlun Ruins will be nothing to fear.
According to instrument detection, the depth of the Kunlun Ruins cave is about 60,000 to 70,000 meters. Under the cover of two Grandmasters, a Grandmaster martial artist at the peak of the ninth rank struggled to penetrate 30,000 meters into the cave. When he was about 40,000 meters deep, he was completely exhausted due to the continuous attacks of the beast hordes and almost did not make it back.
According to official Blue Star analysis, only a Celestial Master or a tenth-level martial artist can reach the end of the underground cave.
After a heated discussion, the high-ranking officials of Blue Star firmly believed that as long as Blue Star produced a tenth-level Celestial Master, the beast scourge in the northwest could be resolved.
To this end, our Blue Star Martial Arts Association headquarters has established a rigorous talent cultivation mechanism.
An ordinary martial arts student progresses from the regular class to the elite class, from the elite class to the genius training camp, and then to the provincial youth genius group. The allocation of resources for martial arts students is absolutely fair and just, allowing even impoverished geniuses to rise above others. As long as their talent is strong enough, they can eventually surpass the children of the powerful and wealthy.
"Those of you who have made it to Blue Star University represent the future of Blue Star. If even one of you becomes a tenth-tier Celestial Master, you will be a hero of Blue Star, the pride of billions of people, and even I will feel incredibly honored because of you."
After Pang Xiuming finished speaking, the 150 students in the classroom began to whisper among themselves.
Pang Xiuming continued, "The beast infestation in the Northwest is just the severe situation within Blue Star. Blue Star also faces external pressure, namely the competition with Muyuan Star."
Here, I will explain in detail the environment we are in.
"115 years ago, the Star Patrol Envoy of the Azure Star Region of the Central Galaxy Empire visited Blue Star, allowing us to learn about the world beyond our Blue Star and the vast universe, and also spreading invaluable martial arts knowledge to us."
An overview of the Star Patrol Envoys of the Central Galactic Empire: Our Blue Star is a territory under the jurisdiction of the Central Galactic Empire.
The Central Galactic Empire is a vast divine nation that stands in the universe, with a territory spanning billions of miles of starry sky, governing more than 10,000 inhabited planets, ten major star provinces, and hundreds of star regions.
Our Blue Star belongs to the Azure Sky Starfield, one of the hundred starfields under the jurisdiction of the Central Galactic Empire.
Our Blue Star, on the other hand, is a life-bearing planet located in the eastern part of the Azure Star Region.
"The Azure Starfield has thousands of planets, but only 84 of them have signs of life."
The 84 inhabited planets in the Canglan Starfield are divided into five parts: east, south, west, north, and central. The planet located in the central part of the Canglan Starfield is the most prosperous place for martial arts. The Starry Sky University that we have been talking about is located in the central part of the Canglan Starfield.
The previous Star Patrol Envoy of the Canglan Starfield established the Canglan Starfield Ten-Star Alliance to assist the Star Patrol Envoy in governing the 84 inhabited planets in the entire Canglan Starfield.
Initially, the ten permanent council members of the Ten Star Alliance were only the ten most prosperous martial arts planets in the central part of the Canglan Star Region.
However, ten years ago, the newly appointed Star Patrol Envoy believed that the permanent council stars of the Ten Star Alliance should not be solely composed of planets in the central part of the Canglan Star Region where martial arts flourish. Although the other four regions of the Canglan Star Region, namely the southeast, northwest, and southwest, were somewhat lacking in martial arts, each should select a permanent council star to form the Fourteen Star Alliance, which would facilitate communication and governance for the Star Patrol Envoy.
The method for selecting permanent council stars in the four regions of the Canglan Starfield (east, south, west, and north) is very simple: the planet with the strongest martial arts will serve as the permanent council star for each region. The southern, northern, and western regions of the Canglan Starfield quickly elected their respective permanent council stars.
But only the five planets in the eastern part of our Canglan Starfield have encountered problems.
Of the five planets in our east, Crimson Flame Star boasts the strongest martial arts level.
"Logically speaking, Crimson Flame Star should be the rightful permanent council member star in the eastern part of the Azure Blue Starfield, but unfortunately, Crimson Flame Star is currently in a state of division."
Because of the constant factional strife in the court of the Great Yan Dynasty, the serious corruption of officials at all levels, the emperor's laxity and incompetence in governance, the Crimson Flame Star suffered from constant natural and man-made disasters. Thirty years ago, the people of the Crimson Flame Star, unable to bear the burden any longer, finally rose up in rebellion. Under the leadership of a force called the Taiping Sect on the Crimson Flame Star, the uprising spread like wildfire.
With the support of the Taiping Rebellion, tens of millions of rebels planned and unified their forces, causing the Great Yan Dynasty's government troops to suffer repeated defeats and ultimately being forced to abandon the capital and move south.
However, at this time, the already precarious Great Yan Dynasty received support from an extraterrestrial force. With the help of this extraterrestrial force, the Great Yan Dynasty survived the attack of millions of rebel armies, but it was powerless to launch a counterattack or a northern expedition.
Thus, Crimson Flame Star fell into a long-term state of division between north and south. The southern hemisphere of Crimson Flame Star belonged to the Great Yan Dynasty, while the northern hemisphere was occupied by the rebel army led by the Taiping Sect.
"When choosing a permanent council member star, the Canglan Star Region naturally cannot choose a planet that is in a state of division. Therefore, the Star Patrol Envoy abandoned the Crimson Flame Star and turned its attention to the other four stars in the eastern part of the Canglan Star Region."
In the eastern part of the Canglan Starfield, apart from Chiyan Star, Blue Star and Muyuan Star have the strongest martial arts level, and the strength of the two stars is almost at the same level.
After learning about the situation of Crimson Flame Star, the Star Patrol Envoy said, "Then let's choose a permanent council star between Blue Star and Wood Origin Star!"
With these words spoken, the battle between Earth and Jupiter began!
Over the course of ten years, Blue Star and Wood Star fought each other relentlessly, each assassinating geniuses on the other's planet and supporting rebellious forces within the other's territory.
At Star University, senior students from each planet suppress freshmen from the other planet, all for the sake of a spot on the permanent council.
Pang Xiuming's long speech left all the students in the classroom with their minds wandering.
The students were all surprised, realizing that Earth faced such a situation in interstellar space.
A student raised their hand and asked, "Excuse me, Professor, what does a Star Patrol Envoy do? And what is the purpose of the permanent council star of the Fourteen Star Alliance?"
Pang Xiuming said, "The Star Patrol Envoy is a position in the Central Galaxy Empire, established to patrol the 84 inhabited planets in the Canglan Star Region."
In other words, the Star Patrol Envoy is the chief administrator of the Canglan Star Region, acting as the shepherd of the people on behalf of Heaven. He is the one who can see the sky whenever the billions of people in the Canglan Star Region look up.
As for the Fourteen Star Alliance's permanent council member, you should all know that joining the Fourteen Star Alliance would greatly increase our Blue Star's influence in interstellar space. Resources from the Azure Star Region would be tilted more towards Blue Star, and we could even use some extraterrestrial forces to solve the beast problem within our Blue Star.
The most obvious example is that if our planet Earth could join the Fourteen Star Alliance, the number of students admitted to Star University each year would double.
Pang Xiuming's words shocked the students.
"With so many benefits, we definitely should fight for it!"
"This Star Patrol Envoy wields such power? How formidable must his martial arts skills be!"
"So there's such a powerful Star Patrol Envoy from beyond the stars. If the Canglan Starfield is so vast, what must the Central Galaxy Empire be like?" Huang Yuande couldn't help but ask.
Chen Lie said, "For the Canglan Star Region, Blue Star is like a remote county town, and for the Central Galaxy Empire, the Canglan Star Region is also like a remote county town."
If you compare the province that ranks first on Earth with the province that ranks last, you'll see the difference.
"Damn, forget about last place, which province outside the top twenty on Blue Star is even worthy of being compared to Blue Capital?"
Huang Yuande said.
"Alright, students!"
Pang Xiuming stopped the students' discussion and said, "What I just said mentioned two serious situations that Blue Star is currently facing. One is internal, namely the beast threat in Kunlun Ruins in the northwest of Blue Star."
The second is external competition with Jupiter.
The northwest beast infestation on Blue Star has mobilized over 80% of the world's standing forces. In the battle against the alien beasts, we have been constantly being worn down, while Jupiter has been able to develop steadily. Given this disparity, the situation is actually unfavorable for Blue Star.
"I hope everyone will work hard in martial arts training, strive to surpass Muyuan Star, help our home planet become a permanent council member star, and enter the Fourteen Star Alliance."
"Next, we will begin the martial arts lesson."
More than 20 years ago, there was no such thing as the Qi and Blood Extreme Realm on our Blue Star. It was only after a senior brought the cultivation method of the Qi and Blood Extreme Realm from outer space that geniuses began to appear on our Blue Star who entered the Qi and Blood Extreme Realm.
Today I'm going to talk about the ultimate martial arts.
Those who have reached the pinnacle of Qi and Blood are different from those who have not.
Reaching the pinnacle of Qi and Blood will result in an elevation of one's life level. Even if one breaks through to become a martial artist in the future, within the same realm, there will be a huge difference in combat power between those who have reached the pinnacle of Qi and Blood and those who have not.
I am an eighth-level martial artist who once reached the pinnacle of Qi and Blood. It is no exaggeration to say that even if two or three grandmaster martial artists of the same level attacked me together, I could defeat them all within a dozen or so moves.
For those who haven't reached the Qi and Blood Extreme Realm, it takes at least three Grandmasters to deal with a Grandmaster-level beast. But for those who have reached the Qi and Blood Extreme Realm, unless it's a particularly powerful Grandmaster-level beast, I can handle most Grandmaster-level beasts by myself.
This is the difference between extreme conditions and non-extreme conditions.
As he spoke, Pang Xiuming looked at the students below the stage: "Let me now count how many of our 150 students have reached the pinnacle of Qi and Blood."
Students who have reached the pinnacle of Qi and Blood, please raise your hands!