<h4>Chapter 2597: Houyi Shooting the Sun!</h4>
Behind Wuying Qi, nine out of the ten suns had all dimmed and died out, and only thest one, which seemed to be steady and unattractive in the prime years, was magnified nonstop, revealing the crazily-dancing fire and the swirls that were enough to swallows on the surface. Lei Chenghu couldn’t help but feel that it could burn everything.
As a contrast, some insignificant ss pebbles were scattered around the glittering sun. They were all thes that were moving around the sun.
Around thoses, on the other hand, were clusters of dust. Even though Lei Chenghu had fully activated his spiritual energy in the Divinity Transformation Stage, he could only vaguely see the ck spots that made up the dust.
The ck spots that were norger than dust were exactly the super warships that human beings were proud of, thinking that they could conquer the sea of stars with them.
Suddenly, the sun sneezed.
Or rather, a certain scorching swirl that only took up less than one percent of the surface of the sun had a minor sneeze.
Immediately, countless mes millions of kilometers long spurted out, snatching at the cosmos like the arms of gods that had been extended out of the sun.
Although the arms did not grasp any specific matter, they were like hands churning ake and soon raised overwhelming, destructive waves.
The arms split, spread, and exploded. The crimson waves swept across all thes like a cosmic storm.
Even thes protected by the atmosphere sensed the intense shock. It was needless to say the fleets that were no more than dust. They were all blown apart or even shattered into smithereens.
“I am not a man who underestimates myself. However, how small and weak is the civilization of mankindpared to the formidable universe? The starships we are proud of, the Colossi that we consider as ‘ultimate weapons’, and our marvelous spiritual energy and techniques... All of these are nothing when faced with the wrath of the universe. They can’t stop anything.”
Wuying Qi heaved a deep sigh. “Since ancient times, the ssic battle cases where the weak defeated the strong couldn’t have been achieved without favorable circumstances. In some cases, the magnificence power of nature was the key to victory. Too many overwhelming armies were lost in the boundless deserts or destroyed by the surging tides in an ocean.
“It is not going to be an exception this time.
“I have never considered winning the war with only the Imperial Guards, the Deep Sea Fleet, or Marquis Liaohai’s Astounding Thunder Fleet. Faced with enemies who are a hundred times more than us, any courage, determination, or schemes would be useless.
“However, even if the four Kurfürst families were ten times, a hundred times, or a thousand times stronger, they would still be dead for sure in front of the roars of the sun!”
Lei Chenghu’s eyes were so deeply attracted by the exasperated sun that a minor volcano eruption seemed to have taken ce inside his pupils. Staring at the virtual picture for a long time, he couldn’t help but ask, “Does Your Majesty have a way... to make the sun sneeze?”
“Yes.”
Wuying Qi smiled. “Like I said just now, I would never underestimate myself. However insignificant human beings and however vast and formidable the universe is, human beings willpletely conquer and utilize the universe someday!
“While stars are among the most important celestial bodies in the universe, their structures and state of operation are rtively simple, even simpler than manys. The stars in the prime years can run stably mainly because of the subtle bnce when the power of fusion offsets gravity. You can imagine them to be extremely sensitive scales. As a matter of fact, as long as a tiny force is imposed on them, it will be possible to break the bnce and make them plummet toward chaos and destruction.
“However, the scales are too enormous for the knowledge and technology of mankind. Precise calctions must be run, and all the features of the scales have to be grasped, in order to find the point to impose force upon.
“As long as the point is found, it will be possible to trigger a series of chain reactions. We can make the sun sneeze without the least trouble.
“There’s no need to doubt our abilities. In fact, the whole thing is like a na?ve child ying on a dry, windy hill. He identally caused a sparkle, which led to a forest fire that burnt down dozens of mountains and killed countless creatures. With the child’s own heart, wisdom, and strength, was he capable of burning dozens of mountains and killing countless people? Of course not! However, when all the conditions were miraculously met at the right moment in the right ce, one child and one sparkle would be enough for that.
“It’s the same for us right now. All we need to do is to project a tiny sparkle toward the sun.”
Lei Chenghu was silent for a long time, as if he were assessing the veracity of the matter. He asked cautiously, “How did Your Majesty learn the specific features of the star in the Empyreal Terminus Sector, how would you grasp the subtle bnce point, and how are you going to send the ‘sparkle’ to the sun, Your Majesty?”
“This is exactly why I have named the n ‘Sun Shooting’, from the tale ‘Houyi shooting the sun’. Marquis Liaohai is not wrong at all. It hasn’t been long since I woke up from a thousand years of dormancy. I do not control any study institutions or specialists in the Imperium. Naturally, I don’t have enough time to understand the features of the sun. However, the Houyi n, part of the Pangu civilizations’ alliance in the past, was capable of it.”
Wuying Qi said, “I don’t know how much you know about the Houyi n, Marquis Liaohai. They were a carbon-based life born on thes very close to the sun. Thes suitable for the survival of mankind were usually the third or the fourth in a ster system. However, the Houyi n mainly lived on the second of a ster system.
“The Houyi n at the beginning were insignificant bugs that were covered in ck shells that looked like sr panels. They were strongly resistant to heat. However, their living environment was too rough. The star granted them too much light, heat, and destructive radiations. They had to observe the star all the time and adjust the elements and internal structures of their ck shells ording to the radiations to absorb energy as much as possible and to block radiations so that they could survive in such an extreme environment.
“In the Pangu civilizations’ alliance, there was also the Kuafu n, whose people were also star specialists born in simr ways. They pursued the sun to obtain energy. However, the Kuafu n’s specialty was the stable utilization of the energy from the stars. They established abundant energy-absorbing panels on the orbit of the star, trying to enshroud the whole star with a piece of magical equipment named ‘Kuafu’s Sphere’, thereby achieving a 100% utilization rate of energy.
“The Houyi n differed from the Kuafu n who were rtively mild and peace-loving in that they were tougher and better at breaking the subtle bnce in stars to unleash the most formidable power instantly for war and destruction purposes.
“It is said that millions of years ago, before the Pangu civilizations’ alliance was established, the Kuafu n and the Houyi n, two interster civilizations both good at making use of stars, once had a protracted, magnificent war.
“At that time, the Kuafu n was developed earlier. They stepped out of their mother almost ten thousand years earlier than the Houyi n did, colonizing the dozens of neighboring Sectors. They found ten stars in those Sectors that were very stable and suitable for energy collection.
“Around the ten stars, the Kuafu n set up ‘Kuafu’s Spheres’ and established a glorious and powerful interster civilization with the energy of the ten suns. They suppressed all the developing civilizations within their range of exploration, not giving theters a chance to surpass themselves.
“The Houyi n that was born in simr ways and equally good at making use of stars was their main target.
“At first, the Houyi n was absolutely no match for the Kuafu n. They suffered a losing streak because of the energy that the enemy collected from the ten suns. The whole civilization was almost obliterated.
“Everybody in the Houyi n said that the enemy was about to roast them with the ten suns.
“In the end, the Houyi n gathered all their elites and ambushed the stars with dozens of daring teams, finally detonating nine out of the ten stable stars under the Kuafu n’s control.
“The nine stars had drastic changes and unleashed destructive mes and radiations, almost wiping out all the Kuafu’s Spheres and the Kuafu n’s fleets.
“The Kuafu n was covered in the infinite darkness. The fleets wailed at the dim, messy cosmos after the sr storms. They jumped from one Sector to another, but the tragedy was the same. Most fleets died of insufficient resources before they reached thest sun that was still steady and peaceful.
“The battlepletely reversed theparison of the Kuafu n and the Houyi n. Having achieved a strategic advantage, the Houyi n was determined to pursue further and shoot down the Kuafu n’sst sun. Such an action would not bring them much good. After all, they were a species that depended on stars too. However, their strong hatred and their fear that the Kuafu n might rise again prompted them to obliterate the Kuafu n even though they would also suffer heavy losses in the process.
“At this moment, the Pangu n showed up.
“Or rather, the intense transformations of the nine suns made the Pangu n discover the Kuafu n and the Houyi n. They learned that the Pangu n was not the only intelligent carbon-based life in this vast universe.
“At that time, the Pangu n already boasted a civilization and war ability that was far beyond the Kuafu n and the Houyi n. However, they were still amazed at how the two carbon-based lives utilized stars—either in the peaceful way or in the violent way.
“The Pangu n realized that the carbon-based intelligent lives had been developed to such an appalling level that their war was very likely to destroy the whole universe or even jeopardize the civilizations that were not rted to the war. The war among the carbon-based intelligent lives had to be stopped in order to maintain the peace of the universe. Therefore, the Pangu n intermediated in the war between the Kuafu n and the Houyi n, secretly supporting the Kuafu n and preventing the Houyi n from destroying the Kuafu n’sst sun. Then, an agreement between the three parties was reached. That was perhaps the prototype of the Pangu civilizations’ allianceter.
“I’m telling this not to waste your time but to let Marquess Liaohai know that the Houyi n mastered the ability to ‘make the sun sneeze’ a long time ago, and it almost resulted in theplete destruction of an interster civilization after it was devoted to a real battle!”