Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Li Yao can clearly perceive the shaking of Choi Ling Fengdao's heart, like the wavering stars in the dark universe. He couldn't help but hastily say: “Mr. Speaker, are you also bewitched by Lu Qingdust and Ding Zhengyang's so-called 'fixing Immortal 2.0’? ”

“No.”

Choi Lingfeng shook his head, “I've been thinking about these issues long before Ding Zhengyang told me all about them, even 10 years ago, when we met the Federation of Xingyao, another practitioner civilization on the edge of the star sea.

“Know why I've always resisted and completely integrated into the Federation of Stars and Glows? The stubborn pride in the Republic of the Stars and the mistrust in the Federation are, of course, one side, but perhaps more importantly, doubts about ourselves.

“The former Republic of the Stars and Seas, a great nation in the golden age that has not yet given birth to the monster 'Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi’, certainly deserves pride.

“But then, after the birth of Wu Yingqi, did the ‘Orthodox Government’, which fled in the midst of a thousand years of displacement in the star sea, still deserve pride?

“Once our integration with the Federation of Stars and Glows accelerates, all our efforts to survive over the past millennium will be fully exposed, and the secrets that are deeply locked in the Speaker's office will not necessarily be so bloody hot, turbulent, crying, and bright!

“I don't know, once those documents are decrypted, the federals know what they're going to think of us over the last 1,000 years, about everything that's happened on the Firefly.

“Will they still think of us as‘ true fixers', or will they think of us as another form, a changing, minimalistic 'civilization of immortals' that disgusts us, rejects us, and is alert to us?

“Understand, perhaps, from the bottom of my heart, I am not refusing to join the Federation, but I am afraid that the Federation will refuse to join us when it finds out all the truth! ”

Li Yao took a deep breath and felt that Choi Lingfeng looked very different under the reflection of the deep star sea.

Perhaps that is the truest aspect of the Supreme Speaker of the Starling Sea Republic.

After so much darkness, lies and struggle, there is only one line between him, and everyone on board, and the immortals such as Ding Zhengyang and Cheng Xuanxin.

Choi Lingfeng looked out of the crystal dome and let the stars penetrate his old and weak body like arrows. Ghost: “But we have no choice.

“I don't know if Ding Zhengyang's ‘Xiuxian 2.0’ of Lu Light Dust has been placed in all the seas of truth, but at least on the Firefly, it looks irrefutable - if we haven't encountered the Federation of Stars and Glows and exiled all the way to the barren land of the universe where no one smokes, the starships are becoming more and more crippled, the resources are scarce, and the population is skyrocketing, so to speak, how long can we persist? Ultimately, without the erosion and enchantment of the real human empire, we will all automatically become immortals, the most terrible immortals!

“The resources in the universe are limited, and the explosion of life can be limitless, and it is the extreme scarcity of resources that is the normal of the universe. All of us, the Federation, the Empire, the Alliance and the Republic, live on a bigger 'Firefly' and go towards a darkness that we know nothing about. So, what do you think about this theory, Captain Lin? ”

Li Yao remained silent under the icy starlight for a long time, until Choi Lingfeng thought that he could not answer such a question. He waved his hand deliberately and was about to end the conversation when he suddenly said: “My Lord Speaker, there is a cockroach on the Firefly. ”

Choi Lingfeng stunned: “Of course. ”

“And there's more than one, at least I can feel a dozen different kinds of mutants from the horns of the horns by releasing a few random minds. ”

"Cockroaches are a very successful species, not only more successful than us humans, but even more successful than our paternal civilization - whether Pangu or Lady Civilization," said Li Yao.

“From the examination of our archaeologists and historians today, even if our paternal civilization, the Pangu and the Lady tribes, from their rise to their decline, that is, hundreds of thousands to a million years ago at most, the ‘lifespan’ of the entire civilization will not exceed one or two million years.

“But cockroaches have appeared at least 350 million years ago, and so far, the 'lifespan' of this race is 300 times longer than that of both Pangu and Girls!

“In 3500 thousand years, countless formerly known as kings reigned, and the glorious and glorious races and civilizations were destroyed. Dinosaur civilizations, Pangu and Lady Xiang, demonic tribes… The formerly known as the mighty men of the male universe, the reigning kingdoms of the first generation and the glorious civilizations all perished in the waves of light and shadow.

“But the tiny cockroach survived stubbornly, and with the steps of the prehistoric mighty to conquer the universe, expanded to all parts of the 3,000 great thousand worlds, developing hundreds of millions of mutants, within abandoned starships that were nearly vacuum, cold and dark; desert planets rolling with yellow sand at temperatures of more than a hundred degrees above the surface; frozen planets with dripping water into ice, extremely deep cold… cockroaches can quickly adapt to the environment and live well wherever they go.

“Although I'm not sure, there's at least a 99% chance that one day, when all of our human civilizations are completely extinct, cockroaches will remain uninterrupted, even in worse, more brutal environments, and they will continue to ‘evolve', survive for a billion years or more!

“In this sense, we human civilizations, perhaps just cosmic passengers, cockroaches - are eternal. ”

Choi Lingfeng finally turned around and stared directly at Li Yao. He frowned: “Captain Lin, what exactly are you trying to say? ”

"I want to say that if the meaning of a civilized evolution is just to make ourselves last longer, then" Fixing Fairy Avenue "is by no means the best option for us humans," Fixing Cockroach Avenue "is the optimal solution, and come up with a way to abandon all of us, from fragile flesh to useless kindness, goodness and morality, and turn everyone into some form of cockroach —— assuming that in one case, the Firefly truly falls into darkness, and we kill each other, and the survivors all become pixie repairers, but you still can't live with the cockroach on board, right? ”

Choi Lingfeng was silent and thoughtless.

“Do you think I'm arguing? ”

Li Yao smiled and opened his arms to the star sea. “In fact, I have been thinking about the words of the ‘Lu Zhenren’ of the Imperial Palace for the past few days. The so-called 'Xiuxian 2.0’ is good to hear at first sight. Indeed, darkness is the main hue of the universe, weak flesh and strong, and the fittest survives. This is the ‘natural reason’.

“But then I suddenly thought, isn't the word ‘civilization' supposed to change the universe against nature? Starting with our earliest ancestors on an unknown planet, lighting the first flames, setting volcanoes ablaze, we are changing the planet at our feet, changing the universe above our heads, with good and bad, and sometimes even catastrophic consequences, but our steps forward have never stopped, biting our teeth and insisting, little by little, using our will to change the universe, conquer the universe, and make the universe our enemy, the so-called 'battlefield, its joy', that's exactly what it is!

“The universe is so vast and powerful, and as a result of its enemies, 89 out of 10 have been crushed into dust, so the immortals have succumbed, retreated, they have been loyal to the dark universe, they have surrendered to the cruel nature, let ‘inter-cosmic reason' change them, and they have annihilated the ‘humanity’ of our ancestors, which took more than a hundred thousand years of hard work to muster.

“Even so, what good can the civilization of the Immortals achieve? They can't live longer than cockroaches if they bow down, bend over, give up everything, and constantly change themselves!

“No, no, it seems to me that only a race that dares to declare war on the universe by its own will is qualified to be called ‘civilization', a 'civilization’, born to conquer the universe, to put the heart of its civilization into every corner of the star sea!

“Without such determination, even mastering the extraordinary divinity, the powerful force, driven only by the instinct of survival, is the creation of the universe, a pathetic thing!

“So, fixing Immortal 2.0 is fine, 5.0 is fine, 100: 00 is useless. In my opinion, there is no right to be called ‘fixing Immortal Civilization’, just a bunch of scrupulous and stealing iron cockroaches in the star sea.

“Perhaps they point out some natural reason, the laws of the universe, in the words of the ancient times, to the ‘way of heaven', right? Heavenly Dao is shaky, Shunchang is dying - but repairing the truth is going against heaven! Come out and fix it, if you can't even dare to reverse it, how can you fix your ass! ”

The more Li Yao said, the more excited, the dance of hands and feet, the spit flying across.

Choi Lingfeng glanced at him, suddenly haha laughed, smiled red-hearted, breathless, every wrinkle on his face trembled, like accumulating in his heart, all the darkness and haze over the past thousand years laughed out.

“I finally believe that you are not a fairy practitioner. ”

He laughed at the cloudy tears, “The fairy fixer can never say such a thing, even if he can't pretend to do it, give it to...”

He handed over to Li Yiu a silver glorious Yu Jane, “This is the key to the 'Orthodox Government' Confidential Information Center, which used to be kept by Cheng Xuanxin, and which records all the glory and glory of the Golden Age of the Starling Sea Republic, as well as all the darkness and ugliness of the exile years, including things like the 'Rebirth Plan’, which in any case are an integral part of the five words' Starling Sea Republic ’. ”

Li Yao blinked and finally knew why Choi Lingfeng was talking to him.

This seems to be a special test.

And now that he's passed the test, he's got… the history of the Republic of the Stars.