Chapter 183

Since his exile in the universe, Wen Jing has encountered no Awakened beings among all the civilizations he has ever come into contact with.

Previously, she had used her invisibility to subtly investigate the Forging Alliance. Her other extraordinary abilities include: long-distance travel through the Ancient Wilderness Era, spatial teleportation via Door Handle, mental power, and the ability to Turn Stone into Gold as a backup Skill Points... and so on.

When these extraordinary powers are placed within the framework of pure physics, they become terrifyingly advanced technology!

The Forging Alliance 'Forging Alliance warships, shaped like giant discs, are constructed from materials capable of supporting interstellar travel, withstanding extreme temperatures, and resisting massive physical and energy attacks.

However, when it is transformed into gold, even if its structure remains unchanged, its strength is vastly different.

A sickening metallic cracking sound rang out.

The railgun shell, about to be launched, suddenly became twisted and deformed under the immense electromagnetic force due to a sharp drop in the strength of the gun barrel, and got stuck in the newly forged golden gun barrel.

The core members of the fleet in the command center saw that all the connecting devices completely failed before the alarms could even light up.

That wasn't the end of it; the next moment, the entire warship suddenly sank.

With the anti-gravity engine failing, the warship's overall mass increased dramatically due to the fact that gold's density is far higher than that of corundum, causing it to plummet straight into the sea under the powerful gravity of the planet.

"Boom..."

The entire planet-conquering behemoth was utterly destroyed by this attack, resembling a giant gold coin, half-floating and half-sinking on the ocean, stirring up a violent tsunami as vast as the sky, sweeping outwards in all directions.

If this weren't a planet entirely covered in oceans, it would likely have destroyed vast amounts of land.

However, the entire Forging Alliance civilization was too preoccupied with the warship and the battlefield at this point.

Besides the warships that form the main force, near-space observation ships will broadcast all of this back clearly.

Inside the ' Furnace Core ' of the Forging Alliance's home planet, top scientists and engineers gathered, frantically replaying the process of turning giant ships into gold over and over again with the highest precision.

"No energy reaction, no physical contact... the matter conversion is completed instantly! What kind of technology is this?!"

"What is the maximum range of substances her technology can alter, and... why gold?"

"The technology itself is no longer important! This means that all our weapons and defenses are meaningless to the enemy!"

Deep within the Forging Alliance's homeworld, the civilization's highest leaders—six ' Master of the Furnace Core' —abandoned their physical bodies, uploading and fusing their brains and consciousness into a colossal war machine.

The exchange was completed at a speed not much slower than that of sharing ideas, and an emergency resolution was passed:

First, all fleets engaged in outward expansion must immediately cease operations and enter a state of maximum combat readiness and defense.

Second, activate all deep-space telescopes and gravitational wave detectors to scan a 30,000-light-year radius around the battlefield, searching for any traces of possible civilization.

Third, authorize the activation of the ultimate weapon— the Stellar Mass-Energy Projector.

Fourth, execute the Abyss Echo Plan.

The fourth resolution was completely deleted the moment it was passed, but the very existence of this resolution would trigger the survival contingency plan for the Forging Alliance civilization.

Because it was a live broadcast across the entire civilization, the officers and civilians were deeply shocked when they saw the Alliance's invincible warships suffer a defeat due to the existence of an unknown enemy, and some voices advocating for negotiations began to emerge.

In particular, the fact that there were some enslaved civilizations within the Forging Alliance that were not like the dwarves and still possessed advanced intelligence ignited their hope upon seeing the emergence of another mysterious and powerful civilization capable of rivaling the Forging Alliance.

However, as a civilization with a clear class division, the upper echelons of the Forging Alliance possess overwhelming power and resources.

Despite the terrifyingly advanced technology Wen Jing displayed, it would be naive to expect a military superpower civilization with over 80 billion people and influence extending nearly 100 light-years to immediately surrender and hand over everything due to the threat of a single advanced civilization.

Individual strength has its limits. They acknowledge that material transformation is tactically unsolvable, but what about at the strategic level?

They are a vast civilization spanning several star systems, possessing boundless war potential and tens of thousands of warships.

Since this kind of high-tech weapon is a weapon, it must have limitations in energy consumption, range, and area of effect. The enemy has converted a nearby warship, but can she completely convert an entire fleet of thousands of warships, or even an entire planet, in an instant?

The higher-ups of the Forging Alliance had come to believe that Wen Jing came from a super civilization with a higher level of technology than theirs, but they believed that as an individual, the power he could mobilize was limited.

If Wen Jing dares to send a fleet to invade their home star system, then they also have ultimate weapons waiting to be used against them.

Even in the worst-case scenario, if civilization loses, they can feign compliance, providing only partial information while sending away the true core and the spark of civilization, disappearing into deep space.

In secret, the forging civilization has already unleashed all its claws without regard for the consequences.

On the surface, however, they kept making public requests to negotiate with Wen Jing, trying to maneuver and test the waters.

Unfortunately, Wen Jing had already considered all the possible reactions the other party might have when he was preparing to take action.

She was cautious enough from the start to deter an entire civilization with her individual efforts, without harboring any illusions.

Engaging with them at this point would only diminish her deterrent effect and arouse more suspicion.

Wen Jing had made up her mind from the beginning that if the Forging Alliance did not immediately meet her demands after she used [Turn Stone into Gold], she would ignore whatever they said and instead unleash her ultimate deterrent.

Where did she go?

The next moment, the tsunami engulfed Wen Jing's figure, and when it subsided, she had disappeared from the ocean planet.

"With their communication technology, they could have already located our home planet... Full alert, Oversight all anomalies!"

The Forging Alliance was right; Wen Jing had already opened a water gate through the Door Handle and arrived at their home star system.

But her destination this time was not their home planet, which was under the highest alert, but the star of their home star system.

The Forger civilization's home star system revolves around two stars.

The host star is a stable and young yellow dwarf, and the planets in the entire star system mainly orbit around it.

The other sub-star is enormous and highly active; it is a red giant in the late stages of stellar evolution.

The two stars form a loose gravitational system, orbiting each other with long periods of time.

"Hiss..."

The moment the Reconnaissance Clone reached the surface of the red giant using the Door Handle, its outer shell began to melt Extreme Speed.

However, the next moment, she directly entered the Ancient Wilderness.

The purpose of this trip is simply to leave behind a precise coordinate of Ancient Wilderness Traversal to this place.

Less than a second after the Reconnaissance Clone disappeared, another Wen Jing appeared here.

What appeared at this moment was his Strongest Clone, who almost never appeared in the material universe except for the occasional transfer of attribute points.

The Strongest Clone arrived, not only withstanding the high temperature on the surface of the red giant, but also having the strength to maintain its invisibility.

This Clone, which is the main force for Wen Jing's conquest of the Ancient Wilderness Ruins, now has nearly two thousand points in its three attributes.

She didn't know how she would fare against that 'stellar Wilderness Beast ' in the Scorching Thirst World, but this attribute already allowed her to swim on stars in the material universe.

For the first time, Wen Jing, as a biological individual, approached a star from such a close perspective.

On the surface of a star, what sweeps in first is not the spectacle, but the power.

Countless enormous solar prominences, like dragons breaking free of their shackles, roared as they rose, leaping hundreds of thousands of kilometers and hurling massive amounts of matter and radiation into deep space, forming magnificent yet deadly nebulae.

Space was torn and twisted into huge folds by two completely different and enormous gravitational forces. Wen Jing saw a boiling dark red sea of blood in a 'discontinuous' way—because her visual system was constantly being blinded by the light, and then regenerating under the terrifying regenerative force.

This red giant star is so large that if it were placed in her previous solar system, its very edge could engulf the orbits of all the planets.

Behind his own position, on the edge of this cosmic inferno, Wen Jing could detect some insignificant 'dust' in the distance—the stellar energy capture equipment set up by the Forging Alliance.

Those creations, which profoundly embody the civilized will and scientific achievements of the Forging Alliance, appear so insignificant when placed before the magnificent red giant.

Ignoring the other party's equipment, she immediately entered a state of Gluttony, transforming into a black hole that devoured everything.

The target is... the star below.

The ultimate deterrent Wen Jing had prepared was to devour a star from the opponent's home star system!

Chapter 183

In the ' Gluttony ' state, Wen Jing transformed into an invisible singularity and rushed towards the red giant.

Visibly, this star, which seemed to be forever roaring and raging, suddenly became 'peaceful'.

The first to disappear were the solar prominences, which resembled fiery dragons. Having just broken free from the surface of the star, they were drained of their life force during their ascent, silently disintegrating and reverting to the most basic stream of particles, which were then forcibly dragged toward that invisible 'point'.

Almost instantly, the Forging Alliance's largest energy collection system, the ' Stellar Integrated Array ' orbiting the star, detected the anomaly.

This equipment is primarily designed to collect energy from the edges of these stars.

The energy conduits of those giant stars that were operating stably suddenly stopped flowing with energy, and the readings plummeted to zero in an instant.

The drastic temperature changes caused these cutting-edge technological creations of the Forging Alliance to twist and deform, instantly turning them into space debris.