Chapter 592: Everyone Is a Dragon
The figure on the bridge, whose outline was barely discernible, let out a soft sigh, then slammed a heavy palm down onto the Zhou Tian Star Array, which glowed like the internet.
Immediately, with the palm print as its center, dozens of stars surrounding the array swiftly dimmed. Even the starlight in the outer ring flickered several times like light bulbs with unstable voltage before shining brightly again.
After leaving that palm print, Bai Mo's avatar re-merged with the rainbow bridge and departed without a word, leaving behind only an array that resembled a colossal shield.
Several seconds later, the starlight in the center, which had been extinguished by the boundless might, flickered back to life, much like its shimmering counterparts, stubbornly burning like candles in a fierce wind.
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“Zzzzzzzzzz...” A massive Spirit Energy reaction suddenly erupted on an open patch of ground within the Moon Fortress. By leveraging the power of the Zhou Tian Star Array, Li Shun Sheng’s true body was precisely projected there.
Of course, his landing posture wasn't exactly graceful; he was thrown into a "Falling Goose on Flat Sand" pose. The terrifying spatial dizziness was quite uncomfortable, even for a Six Tiers martial artist like him.
“Do I still get motion sickness from teleportation arrays?” Li Shun Sheng suddenly recalled that when he was an ordinary person, he seemed to get motion sickness from cars, boats, and all sorts of vehicles.
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As for the main body of the Zhou Tian Star Array, it was naturally inscribed within the Moon Fortress. Each of the eighteen Presiding Council members of the Federation held control over a section of it. In the face of an utterly irresistible enemy, the grand array could be activated to perform a random, ultra-long-range planetary teleportation.
As for how many would survive, that was left to fate.
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“It’s all over.”
“Just a moment.” After returning, Li Shun Sheng called out to the group, who were preparing to enter seclusion and rest.
The events of the past few days on the Moon had left them feeling emotionally and physically drained.
“Whatever it is, let’s talk in a few days. Your contract doesn’t take effect until half a month from now.”
“It’s not about the contract.”
“Then what is it?”
“The palm he struck before leaving gave me this information.” Li Shun Sheng pulled out the data he had just received.
“Form-Transformation Art? What does he mean by this? We don’t need something like this.”
The council members, who had been about to depart, patiently read through the Spirit Art that Li Shun Sheng uploaded to the communication network, feeling even more bewildered.
“We are the Human Federation. What is the point of a spell that transforms non-human creatures into human form?”
“I don’t know.”
“Did he say anything else?”
“How long will it take for the chess pieces to jump off the board.” Li Shun Sheng seemed to detect a hint of helplessness in the words. “He also said that.”
“Perhaps Spirit Qi itself is a grand chessboard.” Bai Mo’s words resonated deeply with many.
On one hand, they held positions of power, able to view others as mere chess pieces. Yet, on the other hand, the still-unknown nature of Spirit Qi remained an ever-present, unignorable hidden concern.
Some had tried to interpret the emergence of the Spirit Tide as a purely cosmic event, akin to a supernova explosion, with no involvement from extraterrestrial life.
But such a theory couldn’t explain one problem—why did Spirit Qi come bundled with so many technological black boxes?
Relying on Spirit Energy, humanity achieved rapid, leapfrog development in technology within a short period: short-distance spatial movement, the creation of various super-strong materials, and even the suppression of nuclear weapons and the preliminary use of controlled nuclear fusion, all became reality one after another.
If not for the fact that a common external enemy had almost continuously threatened them for thirty years, from the early Sea Race to the later Land of White, both universally recognized public enemies of all nations.
After gaining Spirit Energy-based technological armaments and considerable defense against nuclear weapons, they would have long ago erupted into a Third World War.
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After a brief period of melancholic reflection, the revitalized council members shook off their weariness and began to focus their attention on the Form-Transformation Art that Bai Mo had finally given them.
“This thing has great potential.” Ramdo was the quickest to change his stance.
“We can use it to humanize all the conquered races.”
“You mean, make them all look like humans?”
“Precisely.”
“But what’s the point? According to this Form-Transformation Art, transforming into a human won’t enhance combat power; in fact, it will make them weaker due to unfamiliarity with the new body.”
“We, after all, are human. Our aesthetic will always deem humans more pleasing to the eye than any other strangely shaped creature. Normal humans wouldn’t find a Moon Dust Fiend beautiful or feel any desire to engage with it. Only humans are truly agreeable to look upon.”
“Even if we recruit a group of alien servants, if they look like humans, they’ll be more pleasing to the eye?”
“That’s one way to put it.”
“Not only that, but the Earth Immortals, who rely on a single individual transforming an entire race in the legal codes, can now choose their supporting host race from these ‘sub-humans’ instead of being confined to ordinary humans.”
After unification, the Federation began promoting new common language education across the Moon, temporarily retaining the original languages of various countries as dialects, and using the common language and several major dialects as temporary official languages.
The upper echelons planned to completely unify the Federation’s written and spoken language within thirty to fifty years, striving to eliminate communication barriers caused by cultural and linguistic differences. To reduce learning difficulty, the common language’s elements were primarily drawn from several major language families. Even a Six Tiers monster like Ramdo had mastered it in less than a month, now speaking terms like Earth Immortal and Celestial Immortal without any awkwardness.
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“Then the Star Web Project should undergo some modifications.”
“Instead of indiscriminately slaughtering the conquered races, we will compel them to cultivate the Form-Transformation Art.”
“And we will list the improvement of this art as an SS-level priority, aiming to refine the Form-Transformation Art, which currently only maintains human form for a short time, into a permanent physical change.”
“We must elevate the Form-Transformation Art into the Path of Form-Transformation, embed hidden doors within it, ideally capable of suppressing their rebellions with a single command.”
“We can draw reference from the Huaxia legend of the Carp Leaping Over the Dragon Gate, or a snake transforming into a flood dragon, making the ultimate destination of cultivating the Path of Form-Transformation to become human.”
“The hidden door could perhaps draw inspiration from the legendary design of Dragon’s Might, making these alien races believe themselves to be of inferior bloodline, naturally subservient to us, the superior humans.”
“Humans taking the position of True Dragons, then?”
“Does this count as the so-called ‘Everyone Is a Dragon’?”
“...”
A group of human supremacists, seasoned veterans in the art of setting traps, began to plot the disposition of other races even before anything concrete had taken shape.
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