This was the first time Li Xingkong had ever traveled such a long distance.
Even if he could use the Earth-Traversing Golden Light to travel at the speed of light, and even if he could find the Snail People's warp point and trace their route back to Earth Star, the time he would spend on this journey would still be considerable.
Moreover, when you go to an unfamiliar place, who knows what kind of messy things might happen? It's all unpredictable.
Once they leave, it might take decades, or even centuries, for them to return.
Humans have emotions, and as cultivators, we can only suppress these emotions in our hearts. After such a long time away, who knows what Earth Star will become?
And you also need to say a proper goodbye to your family and friends.
After resolving the matter of the Spiritual Root Mother Tree, Li Xingkong put aside everything else and spent some time at home with his parents.
Even as he prepared to depart, Li Xingkong did not tell them what he was going to do.
It's just that when one's cultivation reaches a critical point, one needs to find a place to go into seclusion.
The saying "Parents should not travel far" serves two purposes: firstly, it means supporting them in their old age; secondly, if you travel, your parents' hearts will follow you.
No matter how comfortable a person's life is, a person who has lost their heart will eventually grow haggard.
Fortunately, spiritual practice is the prevailing trend now, so the excuse of going into seclusion is quite reasonable.
Afterwards, Li Xingkong informed Old Tang that it was necessary to inform Divine Land about his whereabouts, so that if anyone needed to contact him, they would know where to go.
Although the Earthly Capital tried to persuade him to stay, Li Xingkong's decision was final and he would not change it.
Earthly Capital worried about is that Li Xingkong went to other star systems. If the Snail People's offensive pushes to Earth Star, without him in charge, things might go wrong.
Li Xingkong, however, believed that sitting idly by and waiting for death was not an option. He argued that if the Snail People's warships arrived in the Solar System, regardless of victory or defeat, they would cause significant losses to Earth Star.
It's important to understand that the Snail People's spaceships and battle lines also require logistics. Every second they fight in the Solar System consumes the entire Solar System's resources, which are invaluable assets for Divine Land's future rise. The Snail People squandering these resources is a huge loss for them.
Therefore, this war must be fought, but it cannot be fought within the Solar System. Ideally, the Snail People should be intercepted before they deploy their troops, and the battlefield should be dragged into the Snail People's star sector.
Divine Land doesn't currently have this capability, but Li Xingkong.
Besides gathering intelligence, Li Xingkong was also prepared for an encounter with this Snail People.
As for why Li Xingkong was so certain that he could stop the Snail People's warship, it was mainly due to his memory search of those Snail People.
On the Snail People's side, both military operations and major policy implementation are basically led by Intelligent Brain. A planet is essentially managed jointly by several Intelligent Brain.
Regarding the marching route to Earth Star, there is already a path calculation file for the first operation, and subsequent troop deployments will also use the route from this operation.
It's important to understand that calculating routes requires computing power. If there's an existing, sufficiently safe route to take, then there's naturally no need to calculate another one.
As long as he walks back along the route the Snail People took, he will definitely encounter Snail People warship.
Although they thought Li Xingkong's choice of Earthly Capital was feasible, they still had some concerns.
What if these Snail People have enough computing power and just want to cause trouble, insisting on figuring out an alternative route to take?
Earth Star is too weak right now; even if there's only a 1% chance, Earth Star can't afford it.
Fortunately, this matter has finally been resolved.
Since plans alone couldn't convince anyone else, they brought in the Snail People prisoners for further questioning and received some good news.
First of all, the Snail People's battle report was indeed sent back.
But the Snail People's technological level is just so-so; their communication method is still based on signals, and the speed of transmission is still the speed of light.
So at this moment, the Snail People haven't received news of defeat yet; the news is still rushing back through the boundless universe.
Secondly, the computing power of the Snail People's Intelligent Brain is not as abundant as one might imagine.
Almost no one would approve a request to recalculate another route of advance without any reason.
During the route calculation, all other industries on the planet built based on the Intelligent Brain must cease operations.
Such a shutdown would cause enormous losses to the entire planet, and the Snail People would absolutely not agree to it.
Once these two key points were raised, no one objected to Li Xingkong's proposal.
His current speed, combined with spatial warp, has shortened the distance.
It's not impossible that he went to the Snail People ' sector before the battle report even reached Snail People.
Moreover, it is impolite not to reciprocate.
The Snail People act so brazenly because they believe weaker civilizations are incapable of attacking their star sector.
What's the use of just defeating their vanguard? If we don't retaliate, no one on Earth Star will be satisfied.
Of course, the plan was set, but the Earthly Capital assigned Li Xingkong a person to accompany him.
A Snail People.
Divine Land still has far too little experience in space travel.
Li Xingkong wasn't very good at this either.
To successfully reach the star sector, you'll need a guide.
However, Li Xingkong's Earth-Traversing Golden Light can only affect himself, making it unlikely that he could take someone with him.
So they used a workaround.
On Venus, this Snail People was killed dozens of times, and each time it was checked whether he retained his soul.
No, then revive and kill again.
It wasn't until they killed him seventeen or eighteen times that they detected a soul leaving his body and remaining in place.
Once the soul has emerged, the rest is simple.
He crafted a small magical artifact specifically for capturing ghosts, and then placed the Snail People's soul into it.
Since Li Xingkong can't take the living creature with him, let's just make it an inanimate object.
This Snail People was unlucky; he suffered several fatal wounds for nothing, and in the end, his soul was absorbed into the magical artifact.
If he had known this would be his fate, he would have preferred his soul to dissipate long ago.
Now look what's happened! He's been turned into a magical artifact, and he even has to go back with Li Xingkong to destroy his own country. That's incredibly unlucky.
Although Li Xingkong indeed strong, this Snail People did not believe that his operation would succeed.
The Snail People is quite powerful; if a large group of people surrounds him, he should be able to defeat them.
(This Snail People young and didn't know who shot down the Star Destroyer)
It still looked disdainful when it saw that Divine Land had only sent one person.
That's incredibly disrespectful. Once we're in their territory, we'll teach that guy a lesson.