Inner Strife

Inner Strife

Lu Li's statue was a standing figure. He held the Kunlun Mirror in his right hand, while his left formed a "yin-yang fish" symbol, representing the might of a black hole.

Every strand of hair and every fold of his clothes had been painstakingly polished, making the statue unbelievably exquisite and overwhelmingly magnificent!

It stood 12,742 kilometers tall, exactly the diameter of Blue Star.

Now it towered majestically in space, a true cosmic wonder!

The Wujin priest was extremely pleased. He immediately led his people in kneeling before the statue and praying.

The pilgrims of the other races followed suit, their crowds stretching as far as the eye could see.

They furiously kowtowed to Lu Li's statue, crying out prayers as if possessed.

Meanwhile, everyone on Blue Star was dumbfounded... The alien fleet had come all the way to the Solar System just to do this?

They had erected a statue of Lu Li, then knelt down to worship it?

These intelligent species could travel between stars, and belonged to advanced civilizations. How could they be so savage and ignorant?

If it had been just one or two of them, ignorance might have explained it.

But now, a full billion pilgrims from beyond the stars had used the most primitive methods to forge a cosmic wonder.

They had even calculated everything by hand, creating a gravitational balance between the wonder and the Solar System so that it stood rock-steady beyond the heliosphere, moving along with the star system.

How could an intelligent species from beyond the stars, with numbers and capabilities like these, be fools?

They were not ignorant at all. Their reverence and worship came from the heart.

At that moment, people across Blue Star suddenly realized how shallow their previous understanding of Lu Li had been,