Angel Race

<Mining stocks, which had languished for centuries, surged across the board!>

<Interstellar Mining Group, a mining giant, saw its stock price double, its market value surpassing one trillion and making it another colossal corporation in the Milky Way with a valuation exceeding one trillion!>

<Just how great was the appeal of Spirit Stones? It had driven all humanity into a frenzy of buying!>

<The last buying frenzy had been a century ago, when the Human Race's fleet had been wiped out and all humanity had felt endangered. Back then, people had scrambled to stock up on all kinds of daily necessities. This time, however, it was Spirit Stones that had once been utterly worthless!>

<In just one day, Spirit Stones that had originally been worthless soared to twelve thousand per piece!>

<The emergence of Spirit Stones would accelerate the rise in humanity's average strength, but it would also have an enormous negative impact on the stability of human society!>

<The Federal Government summoned the major mining giants for talks. Spirit Stone prices were expected to stabilize and fall!>

Recently, with the New Cultivation Method created by Yi Chen possibly proving utterly worthless,

the major media outlets had focused mainly on transporting a new batch of Serious Criminals to Exile Planet.

Only a small portion of their attention had been directed toward the New Cultivation Method created by Yi Chen.

Once Spirit Stones appeared, every media outlet turned its attention to them, as they had shaken the entirety of human society in a short time.

However, this wave had come swiftly and fiercely, and it receded just as quickly.

As news spread that the Federal Government had summoned the major mining giants for talks, the wildly soaring price of Spirit Stones immediately stabilized.

In less than a day, the major mining giants announced large-scale mining of Spirit Stone Mines, with an external sale price of only one thousand per piece.

The buying frenzy brought about by Spirit Stones immediately vanished without a trace.

Because every citizen already had a Spirit Stone in hand.

And a single Spirit Stone could last for a long time.

But the true root of the matter was that the Human Federation controlled countless Resource Planets, which contained innumerable Spirit Stone deposits.

In the future, if humanity had yet to reach the limits of cultivation and demand for Spirit Stones kept increasing as realms rose, there might be a shortage of Spirit Stones.

But at present, compared with the reserves in Spirit Stone Mines, the Spirit Stones consumed by humanity's current cultivation realms were simply not worth mentioning.

The price of Spirit Stones might rise slowly in the future, but there would absolutely be no explosive surge in the short term.

Once public discontent settled, the fervor plummeted like water rushing down a thousand-foot cliff.

The public's attention shifted once again to the transport of a new batch of Serious Criminals to Exile Planet.

As that day drew nearer and nearer, the level of attention would only grow higher.

Milky Way, on a certain Life Planet.

There was a factory called Baohe Machinery Factory.

"Divine Envoy, you summoned me!"

Factory director Jin Zhenghe entered a secret chamber and prostrated himself on the ground.

The secret chamber was enormous, built deep underground.

All of its construction materials were an alloy capable of weakening Scanner scans.

Moreover, on the outside of the alloy walls, layer upon layer of patterns filled with strange energy had been drawn using special materials.

Energy fluctuations flickered within those patterns.

They were even more capable of blocking Scanner scans than the alloy walls.

Inside the secret chamber, a creature with a pair of silver wings growing from his back, standing over two meters tall even while seated and otherwise resembling a Human Race member, was studying the information displayed on a virtual screen.

He seemed neither to see Jin Zhenghe arrive nor hear his voice. His eyes, glinting with sharp light, remained fixed on the virtual screen.

Jin Zhenghe, prostrate on the ground, did not even dare breathe too loudly, much less harbor resentment.

For the one seated before him was an envoy of the Angel Race, as well as the master who had nurtured and supported his rise.

"Arrange an identity for me. I want to enter Exile Planet!"

At last, the Angel Race envoy spoke.

"The Divine Envoy wishes to go to Exile Planet personally? All Serious Criminals sent to Exile Planet must have their strength abolished, and even Gene Warriors are no exception. The loss to you would be far too great."

Jin Zhenghe was dumbfounded, scarcely able to believe his ears.

"As long as I can strangle this Yi Chen in the cradle, losing my strength is no matter! His threat to our Angel Race is growing greater and greater."

The Angel Race envoy's gaze carried deep wariness and gravity.

"Even if he is the greatest genius in Human Race history, the Human Race is ultimately an inferior race. How could he, by himself, possibly threaten the Angel God Race?"

Jin Zhenghe could not help but object.

As a member of the Human Race, his confidence in the Angel Race was even stronger than that of the Angel Race envoy before him, and he felt even more pride in it.

The Angel Race envoy's words even stirred a thread of anger in his heart, as though his faith had been defiled.

"Do as I say!"

The Angel Race envoy did not explain.

The Angel Race had been one of the first races to come into contact with the Human Race.

Several thousand years ago, not long after the Human Race had emerged from the Barbaric Era, the Angel Race discovered Blue Star and the existence of the Human Race.

At that time, the Human Race had not attracted the Angel Race's attention in the slightest.

Because the Human Race was simply too weak.

The only thing worth praising was that the Human Race was adept at creation and possessed an extraordinarily strong ability to pass on knowledge, advancing slowly with every generation.

Because of these two traits, the Angel Race sent a group of angels to descend upon Blue Star, attempting to rule the Human Race.

They wanted to see whether, relying on those two traits, the Human Race could develop enough to qualify as a vassal race of the Angel Race, becoming cannon fodder or vanguard troops whenever the Angel Race went to war with other races.

It had merely been a casual gesture.

The Angel Race's higher-ups had not cared at all.

As for treating the Human Race as a threat, the thought had never even crossed their minds.

Yet unexpectedly, after the Human Race emerged from the Barbaric Era, its rate of development became absurdly fast.

A thousand years meant nothing at all in the eyes of the Angel Race.

It was no more than the flick of a finger.

Yet the short-lived Human Race had used only two or three thousand years to break free of Blue Star and enter the Interstellar Era, relying on its terrifying creativity and ability to pass on knowledge.

In a short period, it conquered every Life Planet in the Milky Way and joined the ranks of the Myriad Races.

By the time the Angel Race reacted, the Human Race's strength had already surpassed theirs.

Fortunately, humanity's technology had ultimately reached its limit, making it difficult to continue advancing by leaps and bounds as before.

In its struggles against the Myriad Races, it had also suffered the painful defeat of having its Ace Fleet completely wiped out.

It was precisely that crushing defeat a century ago that caused the Human Race to retreat into the Milky Way, shifting from offense to defense.

The Angel Race had believed this was a perfect opportunity to swallow up the Human Race in one stroke, yet it had not expected that even after its Ace Fleet was wiped out, the Human Race was still not something the Angel Race could contend with.

Not only was the Angel Race's invasion defeated by Nine Star General Yi Tenglong, but Yi Tenglong even led his forces to a Life Planet occupied by the Angel Race and directly slaughtered an entire planet's worth of Angel Race members—several billion of them.

Had the Federal Government not feared that another Human Race invasion of Life Planets beyond the Milky Way would once again cause the Surrounding Races to reorganize a Coalition, and forcibly passed laws compelling Yi Tenglong to withdraw, the Angel Race would have suffered even greater losses.

From then on, the Angel Race's attitude toward the Human Race became one of irreconcilable enmity.

Friction and war between the two sides continued every year.

What no one in the Angel Race had expected was that, several decades later, Yi Tenglong's descendant would suddenly emerge.

With a self-created cultivation method, he gave all humanity a new opportunity for development.

Although the Research Institute established by the Angel Race envoy's traitors within humanity had determined through research that the Human Race's talent ceiling was not high,

and that even Yi Chen, the strongest genius in Human Race history, would soon reach that ceiling and be unable to create cultivation methods for higher realms,

the emergence of the Spirit Stone incident still gave the Angel Race envoy a deep sense of crisis.

Because he knew that the universe contained not only Spirit Stones capable of accelerating cultivation, but also a vast number of materials that could improve cultivation talent.

Unable to eat or sleep in peace, he ultimately decided to act personally and find a way to silently erase Yi Chen, the greatest genius of the Human Race, and eliminate all future trouble.