Return to Blue Star, the Cosmic Human Federation, and the Tianyin Empire's Envoy
Chen Du's mind stirred slightly, and with a single thought, he activated his ability to Myriad Worlds Traversal.
In an instant, all the colors of the surrounding world were stripped away. The Daoist temples of Qingfeng Mountain and the vast sky of the Ancestral God Realm were all instantly crushed and isolated.
The boundless, pure darkness instantly engulfed everything. This was a chaotic void that existed outside of all planes, without heaven or earth, without light or sound, without time or heat.
His True Spirit broke free from the shackles of the plane, like an ancient, solitary star floating in the depths of the dark void.
He traversed layer upon layer of dimensional barriers, pierced through the barriers of countless worlds large and small, with thousands of stars passing by and the Dao Resonance aura of countless planes flashing and disappearing.
Time and space are distorted, and the years are out of order.
I don't know how much time has passed, but when the darkness suddenly receded and the light of day returned, all things returned to their original forms.
He was already standing in the deepest, ancient underground cave in the heart of Mount Tai.
Beneath your feet lies a cold, hard rock layer formed by millions of years of crustal compression; the stone is thick and heavy, and its chill is bone-chilling.
Above was a towering, deep dome, and the rock walls hung silently, desolate and barren.
Here, there is no sunlight, no wind, only the deathly stillness accumulated over millennia, silent and desolate, as if no one has set foot here since the beginning of time.
Returning to my homeland, the familiar scent of the earth washes over me, a sense of peace and profoundness.
Chen Du slowly moved his shoulders, neck, and limbs, gradually concealing and completely sealing away the vast and boundless aura of Fourteenth Tier ruler from top to bottom.
The gray, sovereign Dao Resonance was originally enough to overturn the Ancestral God Realm and intimidate all the saints of the heavens was completely absorbed into the depths of his sea of consciousness.
The perfectly formed Soul Heart, condensed and solidified, floated quietly at the core of the sea of consciousness. Its entire body was pure and flawless, with a faint, almost imperceptible light flowing across its surface. It was calm and composed, unmoved and undisturbed, revealing not the slightest hint of domineering power over all living beings in the universe.
At this moment, he looked just like an ordinary mortal, calm and unperturbed, without the slightest sign of extraordinary phenomena.
After tidying up, Chen Du stepped out of the deep underground cave.
The moment he emerged from the mountain, his vast and boundless Spiritual Power instantly spread out, sweeping across the land like a wind, covering the entire earth, mountains, seas, and ocean.
In the short time since our separation, Blue Star has undergone tremendous changes.
The landmass of the entire planet visibly expanded, its overall territory increasing by more than ten percent compared to before he left.
The Spiritual Qi Revival continues to penetrate deep into the very fabric of heaven and earth, causing mountains and dragon veins to rise, elevate, and extend.
All the famous mountains and rivers in the world have been revived, with peaks rising, spiritual veins gushing forth, ancient mountains being reborn, and the continuous mountain ranges becoming more majestic and magnificent.
Beneath the vast, deep sea, countless new islands rise and emerge from the surface, altering the old maritime map.
The once barren and desolate Gobi Desert has been transformed by the vitality of nature, sprouting and growing green everywhere, turning into a continuous new forest where all things flourish and life goes on endlessly.
His Divine Sense swept across every corner of the globe, bringing peace to the earth, stability to the mountains and seas, and normalcy to all living beings.
He had long since wiped out and eradicated the extraterrestrial infiltration bases, hidden rifts, and remnants of the alien races that had once lurked throughout the Blue Star.
Within a short period of time, no Extraterrestrial Race dared to covet this newly born human land.
Having confirmed that there were no hidden dangers or anomalies in the world, Chen Du slowly withdrew his Divine Sense, which had covered the entire world, and walked leisurely towards the bustling city in the distance.
The streets are bustling with traffic and pedestrians, and the sounds of fireworks are commonplace.
As he strolled through the streets, casually glancing at the public electronic screens and messages on passersby's phones, a globally pinned announcement suddenly caught his eye.
It was the highest-level global announcement issued by the Spiritual Qi Revival Administration. The entire announcement was extremely solemn and heavy-hearted, with a suffocating sense of urgency that seemed to be brewing a storm.
The announcement was clear and forceful: the Heavenly Silver Empire, a third-tier interstellar power belonging to the Universal Human Federation, had officially delivered an interstellar ultimatum to the Blue Star civilization.
The Empire has decreed that all human civilizations on Blue Star must make full preparations to accept the Empire's jurisdiction within three months.
At that time, the Heavenly Silver Empire will send dedicated administrative bureaucrats and regular interstellar garrison to Blue Star take full control of all resource exploration and allocation, the management of all evolved beings, the revision of civilization laws, and all authority over external interstellar affairs.
At the end of the announcement was an official statement from the Heavenly Silver Empire, the words of which were cold and carried the extreme arrogance and condescending contempt that comes from an advanced interstellar civilization.
The statement bluntly states: The humans of Blue Star belong to the billions of human branches of the Universal Human Federation, and are an unregistered, uncertified, disorderly, and unautonomous low-level civilization on the periphery.
Now, the Imperial Central Authority has officially archived and incorporated Blue Star into the regular jurisdiction of the Milky Way Galaxy, taking over the sovereignty of all civilizations.
Every word and phrase is an absolute judgment of power that cannot be challenged.
The streets were still bustling with people, but this announcement, which was displayed all over the internet, weighed heavily on the hearts of all humans on Blue Star, like a massive boulder.
Chen Du stood on the street, quietly reading through the entire announcement, his brows slightly furrowed.
Heavenly Silver Empire.
He was familiar with this name.
In the vast and boundless universe, humankind has long been scattered across billions of star fields, with countless branches, forms, and civilizations.
The Universal Human Federation is the supreme unifying government that integrates all human civilizations in the universe, and it governs the territorial order and laws of the entire human race.
Humans on Blue Star are merely an extremely remote and insignificant branch among billions of humankind.
The Heavenly Silver Empire is a registered and certified third-class empire within the Universal Human Federation, belonging to the category of high-level interstellar powers with legitimate authority over star regions.
Its territory is far beyond the imagination of the people of Blue Star —it monopolizes the entire vast Milky Way Galaxy and also controls thirteen large main star systems Milky Way Galaxy Domain. Its star field is vast and boundless, with hundreds of millions of starships. Its level of civilization, technological and Martial Dao foundation, and interstellar combat power have all reached a level that is difficult for the people of Blue Star to comprehend.
The Koma interstellar civilization, which had previously invaded Blue Star and ravaged the land, was not even worthy of being called a vassal in the face of a true empire. It was like an ant or dust, and could not be compared with it at all.
The Kema People were at best a rudimentary interstellar civilization that had barely stepped out of their home planet, while the Heavenly Silver Empire was the orthodox interstellar hegemon that ruled over countless galaxies.
Chen Du calmed down a bit, found a street-side internet cafe, sat down, and tapped the screen with his fingertips to read the detailed story and underlying reasons behind the announcement.
Having read all the secrets and background information, he now understood everything.
The reason why the Heavenly Silver Empire only discovered Blue Star and delivered an ultimatum to this day is simple yet absurd: its territory is too vast and its system is too complex.
The vast Heavenly Silver Empire governs fourteen star systems, spanning billions of light-years across its vast territory, so expansive that even the empire's central command cannot accurately determine its total extent.
The vast imperial administrative system was bloated, cumbersome, and extremely rigid in its processes.
The Milky Way Galaxy is 100,000 light-years in diameter, while the Solar System is only about 2 light-years in size, like a drop in the ocean.
Blue Star is merely an insignificant speck of dust in the outer reaches of the star system.
A regular official document from the imperial central government, sent from the core star system to the most remote border planet, undergoes layers of approval and circulation, often taking decades or even centuries to process.
This is why, despite the revival of Blue Star Spiritual Qi Revival, the rise of civilization, the invasion of alien races, and the endless wars that have swept across the world, the Heavenly Silver Empire, located far above the Milky Way, has been slow to realize the truth.
They had never even explored this remote little star, knew nothing of the rise of Blue Star, and were completely unaware that a being who had ascended to the level of Fourteenth Tier cosmic life master had already been born in this remote, uncertified civilization.
An arrogant ultimatum, traversing billions of stars, arrived belatedly.
Little did they know that on the very dusty edge of the world they so casually sought to control, sat a being who held the power to govern the birth and death of countless lives throughout the universe.