Five months have passed in the blink of an eye.
August 15, 2026 in the Milky Way Calendar.
An Uninhabited Planet in the center of the Milky Way, extremely close to its star.
The planet's surface is dotted with various volcanoes and lava flows.
Underground Base.
There is a huge training room.
This training room has been renovated.
The height reaches over fifty meters.
The area is tens of thousands of square meters.
The entire training room is made of High-Density Alloy materials that are resistant to high temperatures.
All the training equipment and facilities inside were moved out.
The east wall has been converted into a huge electronic display screen.
The display screen showed Yi Chen's stone house at the end of the Valley.
In the center of the training room stood a towering tree, eerily tall.
This towering tree is entirely emerald green.
It has lush branches and leaves.
It is over 100 meters tall.
The Root System, also reaching hundreds of meters, penetrated the High-Density Alloy and spread throughout the entire base.
The dense foliage bursts out of the training room and Underground Base, directly exposing itself to the planet's surface.
The stellar light, reaching thousands of degrees, continuously poured into the branches and leaves, where it was rapidly converted into pure energy.
This towering tree is a special envoy of the Earth Tree Race.
Beep beep beep...
Within a curled-up leaf.
Suddenly, a crisp sound rang out.
The blades unfolded, revealing a Communicator belonging to the Federation of Human Race.
Moreover, it is a modified Communicator capable of transmitting sound and images even in extremely low atmospheric pressure or in a vacuum environment without a medium.
Soon, a Virtual Image with white hair appeared.
If any member of the Federation's Human Race were to see this, they would immediately recognize him as Lu Qingxian, the Federal Parliament President.
The first person in the Human Federation.
"Your Excellency, the situation on Life Planet A12516 is getting worse."
After bowing slightly, Lu Qingxian said, "A few days ago, both our Council and the Military's intelligence personnel lost all contact."
"Though there are no abnormalities in any external exchanges or commerce across the entire planet, the lives of over five billion Human Race are very likely in the hands of that Yuan Huo."
"This Yuan Huo not only controls a large number of top-tier Ferocious Beast through various channels, but according to various clues, he also seems to have made contact with powerful figures from Various Races."
"Moreover, he seems to have some special means of controlling others."
"Our Council and Military Intelligence Organization can still contact us normally. The reason we say we've lost contact is because the content of our communications is slightly out of step with the habits of these Intelligence Organization members."
"It's more like their memories have been extracted, and someone is using those memories to respond to Council and the Military."
The implication was clearly a reminder to the Earth Tree Race Special Envoy that it was time to take action.
"This is the price the Human Federation has to pay; no matter how much the President wants to change it, he can't."
The Earth Tree Race Special Envoy replied casually.
"Your Excellency, could you perhaps make your move ahead of schedule?"
Lu Qingxian decided to be direct.
From the perspective of the Earth Tree Race Special Envoy, the Human Federation must pay a heavy price to offset the negative impact of the Calamity Qi.
There are only over five billion Human Race.
It's nothing at all.
However, from the perspective of the Federal Parliament, even knowing that this price must be paid, they still want to try their best to minimize the losses.
Most importantly, what if an entire Life Planet were to be wiped out, with all five billion Human Race of the Federation's human race perishing?
The news was a massive earthquake for the entire Federation.
The negative impact is simply too great.
Especially at this stage, some ordinary people in the Flame Mountain Tribe have already begun to break through to the seventh level of the Spirit Law Stage.
In a few months, the major negative news that ordinary people's talents will reach their limit and they will be unable to break through to the Spirit Sense Stage will be triggered.
If two extremely serious pieces of negative news were to break out one after the other, even if the Council had been prepared, the entire Human Federation would be thrown into chaos.
What's even more devastating is that these two major negative news items influenced each other.
For the benefit of the Human Federation, the Federal Parliament and the Military naturally felt that the benefits of learning the various New Cultivation Method created by Yi Chen far outweighed the losses caused by the Calamity Qi.
But this is the view of the Federal Parliament and high-ranking Military.
The reason they can "stand tall and see far" is simply because they hold great power; no matter how powerful the Calamity Qi is, it won't pose a threat to them.
Therefore, the Council and the Military naturally felt that the benefits of sacrificing the interests of a small number of their own people and continuing to steal their knowledge far outweighed the harm caused by the Calamity Qi.
The Federation's Human Race is a different matter altogether.
Most people do not have, and cannot have, the spirit to sacrifice their own interests for the greater good.
Knowing that Calamity Qi could plunge an entire planet and billions of people into a massive crisis is a reality no one wants to accept.
Because nobody knows whether this bad luck will befall them.
Those well-informed wealthy and powerful individuals can escape the moment the slightest clue appears.
Ordinary people, however, have no way to deal with it.
If one were to further understand that, due to limitations in comprehension, the upper limit of an ordinary person's talent is only the Spirit Law Stage Ninth Level Peak.
In that case, more than 90% of the people in the entire Federation would not hesitate to tell Yi Chen the truth, try to gain his forgiveness, and prevent the Calamity Qi from recurring.
In any case, whether or not I can continue to learn from others is no longer important.
Even if Yi Chen creates a more powerful cultivation technique and expands the path of cultivation further, ordinary people can still only stay at the Spirit Law Stage Ninth Level Peak.
To prevent this from happening, the Council undoubtedly favors this Earth Tree Race Special Envoy, who can harvest the Calamity Fruit as soon as possible.
The harm caused by the Calamity Qi should be distributed to other places, rather than being concentrated entirely on a single Life Planet.
"Wait another six months!"
The Earth Tree Race Special Envoy's answer was crisp and efficient.
Council has Gu Li, that's Council's business.
It has nothing to do with him.
He only knew that it would save time to harvest the Calamity Fruit once it had grown to a certain size.
Harvesting little by little is too troublesome.
Although the Earth Tree Race believes in the principle of cause and effect, they are not exactly benevolent people who care about others.
The Federal Parliament was eager to become the Earth Tree Race's subordinate, so why would this Earth Tree Race Special Envoy need to consider the Federal Parliament's difficulties?
He wasted his time, reaping the Calamity Fruit little by little; at most, he would only make the Federal Parliament owe him a favor.
There weren't many resources in the Milky Way that he valued. The price he paid for severing the karmic ties of reaping the fruits of his Calamity Fruit was mainly to benefit Yi Chen.
Because of his interference, all the Merit Aura gained from reaping the Calamity Fruit belong to Yi Chen.
The Human Federation will simply say a few kind words after they return; they won't require him to pay any price.
This favor is utterly worthless.
In fact, even on Yi Chen's side, he planned to achieve great things with minimal investment.
According to his calculations, the will of Heavenly Dao on the Exile Planet was not particularly strong.
If Yi Chen maintains this rate of improvement, after two Great Realm, he will reach the limit of the Heavenly Dao Dao's tolerance on the Exile Planet.
At that time, they will face the Heavenly Tribulation test of the will of the Heavenly Dao on the Exile Planet.
His idea was to give Yi Chen a few treasures that would allow him to withstand the Heavenly Tribulation without fail, thus easily smoothing over the cause and effect of reaping the Calamity Fruit.
"Alright! Sorry to bother you, Special Envoy."
Seeing the resolute attitude of the Earth Tree Race Special Envoy, Lu Qingxian had no choice but to end the call.
Earth Tree Race Special Envoy couldn't get through, the only option was to try to block the news and ensure that no matter how much trouble was caused, it wouldn't spread.