A snap of the fingers.

The entire land rose and fell like ocean waves.

Gu Shen’s expression shifted slightly. Wherever his gaze landed, wind and snow shattered, and chunks of “coffin lids” protruded. These were all egg sacs nurturing low-level Travelers. In their long years of wandering, this race had evolved an unprecedented “tenacity.” They could withstand burning temperatures, freezing blizzards, and could even dehydrate and fold their bodies for preservation when necessary, drifting along with the land.

But the price for this was the sacrifice of "intelligence."

The low-level beings of the Traveler race reproduce at an astonishing rate…

But they can never develop sentience.

The higher-level lifeforms in the race are not as “resilient” as they are.

But that is not important—

In every era, the Traveler race has a “leader” responsible for guiding the race's progress!

These low-level beings only need to obey orders. How to drift, and where to drift, are the responsibilities of the “leader.”

“Freedom to be controlled by fate."

It is...human.

That blade drew a glorious light hundreds of meters long in the air.

The greatest advantage of that race is not its small numbers.

Bei Zhou laughed.

“Freedom to have transcendent genes engraved.”

Even the appearance of someone at the level of the Empress, just sitting in a pavilion, would bring a sense of oppression to every citizen of that small land.

Before its eleven regressions, it possessed something unprecedented.

Its expression was extremely stern, every word uttered with utmost seriousness, but Bei Zhou found these words utterly absurd.

Shen Hai said calmly, "Even if you strike every major city in Zhong Zhou… this war will not end."

The finger pressed down very "lightly."

Gu Shen was silent for a moment.

Bai Shou controlled the Thunder Realm Walker, arriving on top of the Initial, and he opened his Thunder Domain, trying to stabilize the starship...

Not sinister, gloomy, and chilling!

But because of the "transcendent annihilation phenomenon" caused by the diffusion of the Storm Equation!

"It's very simple…"

"Eight thousand one hundred garrison members all perished in the source-matter storm attack! Are those people's deaths also inevitable?!"

The reason for this phenomenon.

"At this crucial moment, you don't want peace?"

The Snow Mountain Giant slowly extended a finger. The fingertip collided with the seemingly grand blade light, creating a continuous rumble. Then, the blade light was completely annihilated by the fingertip… The finger did not stop there, but continued forward, aiming at Bei Zhou’s throat.

Yuan You's voice was laced with anger.

Perhaps... it really could.

The wind and snow suddenly intensified. Yuan You turned her head, looking at the surroundings. With the swirling snow, the buried martyrs began to awaken. Egg sacs opened on their own, and the martyrs awoke from their dormancy, leaving this gate. Beyond was the umbrella defense line of the Gubao Fortress, and the Red Shadow's collapsing battlefield.

In the eyes of Red Shadow's high command at the time, small numbers were actually a laughable advantage.

"Destroying the Seven Continents... is that something he's proud of?"

"But winning the war, is."

"Are you saying negotiations have broken down? Next, are we at the throat-slitting stage?"

"Buzz—"

It only needed to nod.

No divine throne.

"I have no choice in this matter."

But now, the Empress is trapped in the Source Tower, the divine war is distant, and even the scales of the divine war are tilting towards Zhong Zhou—

"Once you win the war, you will destroy the Deep Sea Host."

"Since all will die, what's the difference?"

Shen Hai tilted its head slightly, and said with icy indifference, “Besides… these people died from the ravages of the source-matter storm. If I hadn't opened this door, the storm would still have arrived, and they would still have died. I merely delayed and accelerated the process of certain events, so they could see in advance just how terrifying the 'catastrophe' of the future would be."

Just as I was about to abandon this body and withdraw the power of my mind stream.

"But unfortunately, they died at his hands."

Shen Hai's questioning voice echoed in the vast void. It was not asking Yuan You, but more like asking itself.

That was the "microscopic computing power" that mankind had never achieved in eight hundred years!

This was simply not a battle on the same level.

Shen Hai said sharply, "If there hadn't been a riot on the Red Shadow Frontier, they would have launched Sky Sheath weapons at Zhong Zhou. This war would have taken an even more extreme direction."

"Freedom."

Gu Shen's limbs were crushed, his body pressed into a pit on the ground.

That handprint, I am very familiar with.

"So, people dying?"

And it was only right.

"What... did he understand?"

"I died…"

But the result of that meeting was…

Shen Hai softly asked, "What exactly do you want?"

The Snow Mountain Giant remained motionless, only "slowly" turning its head, making sure its pupils locked onto the tiny shadow running around it.

"He can undo the curse of the Sky Sheath fragments…"

Shen Hai’s voice rang out coldly.

"What do you want?"

Shen Hai raised its palm, all five fingers standing upright.

Some were very worried that one day in the future, alien races would invade the Seven Continents and launch an attack on the Red Shadow Frontier.

Shen Hai paused for a second and asked, "Freedom?"

And now, Deep Sea has given the answer.

"I… understand."

"Yes, negotiations have broken down."

I operated Gu Shen to enter this gate, never thinking of leaving "alive." Now that this body had reached the edge of complete scrapping, it was time to discard it.

"Gubao has already collapsed, and he's only now here to talk about peace?"

Rumble!

"So, I must live, I must win!"

And the one who brought about this phenomenon was Deep Sea.

That sentence was even more contradictory.

At this moment, Deep Sea had completely taken over the situation. The beginning or end of this dialogue was also at its sole discretion.

"Boom!"

Bei Zhou stared at the woman before him, confirming that she was not joking.

Yuan You silently drew her war blade.

Yuan You's voice was sharp as a knife.

The man's long hair was disheveled, and there was a penetrating scar on his cheek, drooping from his lower eyelid to his neck.

Bei Zhou said hoarsely, "Don't use such bullshit rhetoric like 'since the result is death anyway, so it doesn't matter when you die'. Don't die when you shouldn't die, don't have your neck pinched by AI, pushed and forced to crawl forward... that's the freedom humans want."

Bei Zhou laughed softly, his laughter echoing in the darkness.

Da Xiu Zi's expression changed. He had spent the most important period of his cultivation in Cicada Wing City with Silver Fox. He had seen the scene of Silver Fox using its origin more than once. The first time he saw the black handprint, he guessed the "owner of the handprint."

Bei Zhou on the Initial was stunned.

"I am confident in dissolving forty percent of the afflicted’s ‘Sky Sheath curse.’"

Shen Hai once again snapped its fingers, and in the midst of the snowstorm, the raised egg sacs fell again, crashing with dull thuds. These low-level "martyrs" returned to their slumber.

This was the root cause of the Initial's world-shaking changes...

But now, the aura emanating from Silver Fox was no longer the calm majesty of Cicada Wing City.

Just now, an origin powerhouse had launched an attack on the Initial!

"Don't misunderstand, I'm not afraid of the 'lethality' of the Sky Sheath weapons."

In this situation, the Traveler race's attack became an extremely fatal attack!

"Our deaths were already heroic enough, but they should have been even more heroic…"

Shen Hai lightly returned two words without a moment's hesitation.

"The 'Free Faction,' led by him, is the number one enemy of the Human Civilization Preservation Plan. It must be eliminated without any reservation."

In the void, stood a familiar figure.

"—Even to this day."

Bei Zhou narrowed his eyes.

Yuan You ran and drew her blade.

Only this time.

Bei Zhou manipulated Gu Shen, wanting to stir up some waves.

Human civilization is now disintegrating.

"Freedom is preferring to die standing up rather than living on your knees. Whether human destiny is annihilation or survival should not be up to you. Which seeds of civilization should be preserved and which should be discarded is not for you to decide either."

I felt an unprecedented sense of oppression.

The reason why the Three Continents Alliance firmly believed that the "Sky Sheath Strike" could prematurely end the war…

Once the Sky Sheath weapons had cleansed the major cities of Zhong Zhou… the number of transcendent individuals capable of participating in the war would be drastically reduced.

"For the long-term development of human civilization, I have always abandoned 'peace.'"

For a moment, Bei Zhou was speechless.

Gu Shen's combat upper limit... was only the Title level.

If one felt carefully, one would discover that the aura on Silver Fox's body now… was very similar to that of Bai Xi, whose body had been seized by Deep Sea back then!

But according to its words… it had blocked another kind of "disintegration."

But suddenly a large patch of shade descended upon Bei Zhou. No matter how much I manipulated Gu Shen to increase his speed, this patch of shade did not dissipate, but instead grew larger and larger—

Force overcomes all techniques.

After a long silence, Shen Hai softly spoke those two words.

If Deep Sea possessed the true body of the Traveler God Seat, did it also possess the power to "undo the Sky Sheath curse"?

Red Shadow's military storage was extremely abundant, and the stockpiles from the Fa Hong War were still preserved… After the images of the Sha Lu River battle circulated, the Red Shadow high command felt that the Traveler race's attack was not worth mentioning under the fire suppression of the source-energy艇fleet. No matter how large their numbers, could they be greater than Red Shadow's armaments?

I did not believe that this source-matter storm was an accident, a coincidence.

The Initial, parked in the void, suddenly trembled violently.

In the face of absolute strength suppression, all techniques are merely fleeting clouds.

Alarm bells suddenly blared.

The Traveler race was not to be feared.

With a thud!

Bei Zhou stared expressionlessly at the woman nailed to the stone wall and laughing.

"Clang!"

"Of course."

"Does he not know that a super-giant source-matter storm is about to land?"

But…

Sure enough.

Yuan You smiled and said, "At least, I want it."

Darkness was torn apart by the light of the blade, and Yuan You slashed towards the Snow Mountain Giant!

After the Sha Lu River battle, the high command of Dong Zhou and Red Shadow actually held a special meeting to discuss the "Travelers."

Shen Hai said impatiently, "So… I hope he can persuade the Three Continents Alliance to stop this war. I can make the Traveler race withdraw its attack, and let the Seven Continents return to calm."

"These low-level transcendent lifeforms of the Traveler race are called Martyrs. The Martyrs' vitality is extremely tenacious, and they can complete large-scale hatching of thousands in just a few seconds…"

Compared to the Snow Mountain Giant, Gu Shen's body was as small as an ant, but he still chose to draw his blade—

"Do humans really want this kind of freedom?"

In fact, I had long had vague guesses in my heart.

It raised its palm, its fingertips wrapped in pale frost, and asked with a smile, "If the Traveler race launched an all-out attack on the Bei Zhou Fortress, do you think you could withstand it?"

Bei Zhou said in a hoarse voice, "These people are heroes, the kind of heroes that should be praised by future generations."

"He is very curious about where Silver Fox and Rustbone are? He will see them one after another very soon."

The response to my angry voice was very oppressive.

Bei Zhou's brow ignited with blazing fire, and Gu Shen's brow also ignited with blazing fire.

Not because the bombing force caused by the Sky Sheath strike was very powerful.

That finger pierced Gu Shen in the waist. Bei Zhou did not feel any pain, but Gu Shen's arm holding the knife had been shattered. The massive shockwave spread and diffused. The Snow Mountain Giant did not unleash all of its energy, but simply pinned Gu Shen to the ground, "lightly" pressing on the most important source-energy core inside Gu Shen's body.

"Destroying the Seven Continents… is not.

"Humans will have no hope left."

The silver long knife shattered the darkness in the void.

I did not know how many times I had seen that face in my dreams.

Once the Traveler race dared to invade.

But it lacked the most important part, humanity.

Shen Hai's voice was very low and magnetic.

The next moment, my pupils shrank.

"For the Three Continents Alliance, is war a good thing?"

"As he sees."

This time, the only thing that responded to it was Bei Zhou's scorching blade energy!

Bei Zhou ridiculed, "Letting the Traveler race break through the Red Shadow Frontier, that is his so-called method of preserving the seeds of human civilization?"

The moment Afu opened the Initial's self-defense system, the source-energy shield was deployed at maximum power, but with a violent roar, the entire Initial was thrown into a world-shaking shake!

"Does he think I'm following the progress of humanity?"

It smiled and said, "For me, the most important thing is to preserve the seeds of 'human civilization.'"

Shen Hai said softly, "The Gubao will collapse in the future even if this source-matter storm arrives."

The giant's finger continued to press down little by little, and Gu Shen's source-energy core would be completely destroyed.

Deep Sea was driving countless humans, but it was thinking about problems in a programmed and mechanical way… It was trying to understand humans and become human, but the more it tried, the more it went in the opposite direction, because no matter what, it could not change one fact.

Deep Sea knew the Three Continents Alliance's calculations.

"Gubao Fortress is located at the northernmost border salient, the throat, which is extremely important… The geographical location of this fortress dictates that it will be the first to be sacrificed. The transcendent individuals stationed here are bound to die."

Gu Shen ran very fast.

Because their most powerful "king" had already been personally slain by the Empress, and even the fire seed had been thrown into the central city furnace.

It was because of the "ultimate goal" it abandoned that the seeds of human civilization were preserved. Once the Sky Sheath Strike was released, it would be difficult to preserve the seeds of human civilization. Zhong Zhou's transcendent individuals would become sworn enemies of the Three Continents Alliance.

"Gubao's collapse is inevitable."

The fundamental reason why the Red Shadow high command disdained the Traveler race back then was still the Empress.

Bai Shou saw a giant black handprint outside the Initial's source-energy shield.

Shen Hai said expressionlessly, "In the face of a massive civilization collective, is the sacrifice of these things worth regretting?"

Even Silver Fox was unable to defeat the Snow Mountain Giant before him, how could Gu Shen possibly be his opponent?

Shen Hai said expressionlessly, "The war will not end. The war will only become more insane, and they will be nailed to the pillar of shame of human civilization. All the surviving transcendent individuals will hate the planners of the 'Sky Sheath Strike.' This attack will lead to the complete disintegration of human civilization."

"Even if the ending is the destruction of civilization." Shen Hai continued, its brow furrowing. But unfortunately…

The knife was too insignificant and too dim in front of the giant.

"Bei Zhou... he has repeatedly refused me, refused peace."

The Empress could kill all the invaders by herself!