Chapter 1

The Star River History class was almost entirely made up of aliens... or maybe it wouldn't be quite right to say that, everyone was an alien. Li Hao had thought a class like this wouldn't be very popular, but he was wrong. There were plenty of higher civilizations who just loafed around. Many Tianren (celestials) with good backgrounds didn't need to fight. While the Holy Church warriors were glorious and influential, their essence was very dangerous. It was enough for them to muddle through with a Holy Church warrior identity.

Star River History allowed Li Hao to better understand the Tianren, as well as the origins of galactic civilization. Of course, this history had been processed and was only for reference.

According to the Tianren concept of the pan-galactic system, the earliest civilization was actually the Casting Dragon Race. This was a race in which individuals were extremely powerful, blessed by the universe with the ability to travel through space. They possessed powerful bodies and considerable intelligence. The Casting Dragon Race didn't need language, and could master a civilization's language in a short time, just with their yu zhu (spiritual pearl). This was part of their innate talent. Because of their overly powerful abilities, this civilization had very little technological development, nor did they need it. In terms of character, they were a truly peaceful race, full of love for the universe and life.

Contemporaneous with the Casting Dragon Race were the Tianren and the Sea Race. Later, the Mechanical Race, the Zerg Race, and the Spirit Race appeared. In terms of living environment, the Casting Dragon Race were natural all-weather beings. The Tianren originated on land and were carbon-based, while the Sea Race were born in the sea and also belonged to the carbon-based. It was easy for these civilizations to break free from the constraints of their environment once they had evolved to a certain stage.

The Mechanical Race were silicon-based life forms without gender attributes. There were many theories about the birth of the Mechanical Race. The Casting Dragon Race were the first to discover them. The Mechanical Race in their primitive state were also very backward and physically weak, and it took them hundreds of thousands of years to develop to their current state. As for their origin, the Mechanical Race had a theory of a "spark," a theory of divine selection, and even a legend related to the Casting Dragon Race. The Mechanical Race were not robots. They were silicon-based, rich in superabundant iron elements. This kind of body was also very strong, but not a particularly great advantage. The Mechanical Race also had souls.

The Zerg Race included both silicon-based and carbon-based life forms. They were not innately mixed. Romero was a mixed base, but he was a reincarnated type, not natural. Some races had genders, some were genderless, and some were hermaphroditic. The Zerg Race developed very quickly and were the most expansionist and compatible civilization. During the First Star River War, the Zerg Race once wanted to expand throughout the entire galaxy. In the end, they were completely defeated by the Dragon Race, together with the Tianren and other races. However, the Zerg Race's tenacious ability to survive and reproduce allowed them to re-propagate and develop. However, this time, the reborn Zerg Race also learned their lesson and evolved to the "Zerg Human" level, which changed a lot. They joined the Star River Alliance, but because they could not adapt to the "Tianren Armed Forces," they still maintained their powerful group combat capabilities and characteristics, but had fallen behind, and this is their current state.

The Spirit Race were also carbon-based life forms contemporary with the Zerg Race. They were a bit like the Casting Dragon Race, possessing their own uniqueness. Of course, compared to the Casting Dragon Race's low inheritance and fertility rate, the Spirit Race's form of the spring of life was much better. After collecting energy from the outside world, they could pass it on. In the early days, they were pure energy bodies. After intervening in other civilizations, they continuously evolved and changed, and the current dual form of energy body and entity appeared. This transformation truly allowed the Spirit Race to integrate into the Star Alliance. In the long process of contact with other civilizations, they developed the concept of self-defined gender and presented it when they materialized, but they did not have the ability to reproduce across races.

After long-term coexistence, all intelligent races would more or less produce commonalities, or rather, all civilizations themselves had commonalities. Moreover, in the long-term research of the higher civilizations of the Star River Alliance, they discovered a strange phenomenon: regardless of the basic composition, the six major civilizations had various wonderful commonalities even before they communicated with each other. After the civilizations developed, they also showed terrible learning abilities and transformed them into forms suitable for themselves. Even the integration of aesthetic cultures once made them civilizations capable of contending for hegemony in the Star River. It was just that the appearance of the void life directly shattered the Spirit Race's ambitions. It was unknown how the void creatures came to be, but they were a threat to all civilizations, devouring and destroying, as if they wanted to restore the universe to its initial state. However, no one was as miserable as the Spirit Race. Facing the void creatures, the Spirit Race had no power to resist.

Therefore, the Shadow Empire had always maintained good relations with the Tianren. Only the Tianren could give them enough help in fighting against the void creatures. Of the six most powerful species in the galaxy, five once had ambitions to dominate the universe, but in the end, only the Tianren succeeded.

Among them, the Casting Dragon Race also contributed. The Tianren Race never shied away from this point, and even talked about it with relish, explaining that they were chosen by the gods and were the most suitable for this universe.

Li Hao listened with great interest and gained a lot of knowledge. This kind of history class, excluding the pride in the Tianren's bones, was mostly solid content. The Tianren also deeply analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of other civilizations. From this, Li Hao could somewhat feel that the reason why the Casting Dragon Race chose the Tianren was probably not entirely because the Tianren were really so excellent. In a real fight, the early Tianren were the weakest. Rather, among these civilizations, the Tianren had the greatest compatibility and a relatively short lifespan. These characteristics could maintain the balance of multi-civilization coexistence. Also, he didn't know if he should say this, but judging from the "internal strength value" of these six major civilizations, the Casting Dragon Race had the lowest, and the Tianren... the highest.

Humans were exactly the same in this regard.

It seemed that the Casting Dragon Race was not that honest either. This was the real wisdom. The current Star River Alliance was indeed in the balanced state that the Dragon Race needed. In addition, the Casting Dragon Race had the wonderful ability to combine with other species and civilizations to give birth to offspring. No matter how you look at it, they were chosen by the heavens.

"Could Blee be a member of the Casting Dragon Race? Although I don't know much about them, judging from the content, these guys are a bit self-proclaimed gods." Even if they didn't say it, that's probably what they thought in their hearts. Their style was a bit detached and pretentious. Blee must think that he was gifted and had the aura of a king.

It was very possible. As for his 50 yuan... where was he going to get it back? He had experience owing people money, so he was carefree, but it was the first time someone owed him money. Although the amount was not large, was this a question of amount? He couldn't set this precedent. Where was he going to get it back?

This person must be hiding in the academy. Right, he had to calculate the interest. Was there such a thing called "donkey rolling"?

Thinking about it, Li Hao felt a little dizzy.

After a history class, Li Hao felt that it was still worth the money. At least the lecturer was a Tianren. In the afternoon was the Zhou Li (Cosmic Force) class, which was a large class and also belonged to the Zhou Li enlightenment. In fact, it was not needed for someone like Gaia. Zhou Li enlightenment was basic for the Tianren, but other civilizations had various powers of their own, but these powers were not pure enough compared to the original Zhou Li, which directly led to insufficient power. As long as they possessed a soul, they could comprehend Zhou Li, it was just a matter of level.

The Zhou Li class was taught by a Holy Church mentor, a graduated Holy Church warrior. Besides becoming a formal warrior of the Star River Alliance, staying in the Holy Church was also a very good choice.

The course itself was very easy, because for most Tianren, the basics were not a problem at all. His existence was just to help the few people who didn't understand.

Mentor Gilmore had a very amiable personality. Mentors also needed to assess scores. "Everyone is a potential warrior from various civilizations, and you all have your own combat habits. Don't rush to change. The main purpose of the Zhou Li class is to let everyone first understand Zhou Li, be willing to accept it from the bottom of their hearts, and master it," Gilmore said with a smile. His gentle voice and spring-like smile made everyone feel good. "The origin of Zhou Li does not come from the Tianren, but from the Casting Dragon Race. Of course, it is not a single race that has formed it to this day. Everyone has their own unique understanding. In the use of soul power, the Tianren and Sea Race are relatively pure. The Sea Race's Arcana is also the use of Zhou Li."

"To understand Zhou Li, we must first understand where our power comes from," Gilmore said. "Those who don't know much may think that this is the power of the body. From a micro or individual sense, it is indeed, but from a macro perspective, the energy of the universe is conserved. When the power is magnified, when Zhou Li is magnified to be powerful enough, it can even reach the planetary level. Then such energy is somewhat inappropriate from an individual point of view. Of course, from the perspective of atomic power and so on, various civilizations have their own theories. The Tianren's unified view is that the power is the power of the soul, which can also be called the power of the inner universe..." Gilmore patiently explained to everyone, and also used terms from multiple mainstream civilizations to explain from a perspective that was easier for the other party to understand. The inner universe has attributes. Today we mainly analyze the Tianren. The Tianren have three major mainstream factions: the Thunder, Fire, and Ice factions. The Ozil Empire mainly uses the Fire faction, the Seventh Art mainly uses the Ice faction, and the Silver Heart Alliance mainly uses the Thunder faction. Of course, there are many small categories of special factions. We will talk about these later. The three major mainstream factions are also reflected through the Tianren Armed Forces, which elevates our power to a very high level..."

Li Hao was also listening carefully. These things were very necessary for popularizing science in the solar system in the future. Since humans were close to the Tianren, in fact, humans were very close to the Tianren in the use of power. Moreover, in the development of mankind, the potential intervention of the Tianren would probably not be small. At least from his observation, apart from the height gap, many aspects were very similar.

Since ancient times, Tianjing has emphasized soul cultivation, such as meditation and inner cultivation. The essence was the same, but there was no technology like Tianwu that could completely induce power.

"The power you use broadly belongs to Zhou Li. What we are learning now is to use purer Zhou Li, which requires changing your own power usage habits. Now everyone will receive a piece of calcium stone, which will help you understand purer Zhou Li."