Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Li Yao understands the meaning of the Blood Heart Demon.

For a "quasi-beest civilization” such as the Covenant Coalition, cutting off a limb outside it, destroying its vast fleet and even occupying its dozens of great thousands of worlds is fundamental, and its morale and resistance will not be diminished at all, and it can truly “fight one soldier at a time”.

However, the greatest element of bee civilization is its “queen” or “brain”, which, as far as the Alliance is concerned, currently appears to be the five mysterious and ubiquitous best masters.

The vast majority of the Allies cannot think independently, only mechanically execute the orders of the good superiors, then if someone can tamper with the orders of the good superiors and even erode and kill the good superiors, the seemingly massive bee herd could collapse, smoke out and disappear.

Li Yao invaded the Guild for this purpose.

The threat of “heresy” that breeds within the Alliance is also evident here.

In order to prevent attacks on the "brain” and spiritual networks from spreading out of it, the Inquisition Service has become one of the most important organs of the Alliance, even taking precedence over the Alliance's regular army, and the Imperial Army has been entangled in the "God Bless Army” for thousands of years.

Li Yao carefully retrieved the data transmitted by the Blood Heart Demon.

“You say that this‘ Fortress of Divine Punishment 'is the home of the purifier and the sweeper, who I already know, and what is the sweeper? ”

Li Yao asked.

“Purifiers and sweepers are one of the main battle units under the Heterogeneous Interrogation Service, with different targets. ”

Blood Heart Demon explains, "Purifiers are mainly for ‘objects', as we have seen in New Le Castle on Black Castle, for goods and works of art from empires that contain strong human emotions and desires, categorizing them into categories, purifying, destroying or recycling them.

“The target of the sweepers is not ‘objects’, but ‘people', that is, the ones who are eroded by monsters and become ‘demons’ or even 'heretics', all of whom are the targets of the sweepers.

“The sweeper is also more severe and harsh than the purifier in terms of degree and means. Just by listening to both names, one can think of ‘purifier', which means that there is room for salvation, which can be recycled just by purifying it; and 'sweeper', which means that the demon is deep, irremediable, can only be completely extinct, burned to ashes and then ‘swept’ off like garbage.

“So the sweepers are a special occupation that is a hundred times scarier than the purifiers. Their daily job is to capture and destroy demons, heretics and imperially flowing guys, and the purifiers who are the equivalent of garbage collectors. The sweepers are the real elite troops, not just the Gentile Interrogation Bureau, but the most powerful single combat unit in the Alliance as a whole, and are best at rapid response, team raids, counterosmosis and counterassassination operations. In short... It's like white blood cells in the blood, ruthlessly eating germs, that's about it!

“But you don't have to worry too much, now that the sweepers' energies are rekindled and attracted by an increasingly powerful heretical association, besides, they didn't expect us to become such a strange form of life, continue to lurk boldly inside the Alliance - they thought we'd already run away, so in the short term, the sweepers don't have a hunting plan that targets us, and we can still do a little activity in front of them, unconscious. ”

“Interesting. ”

Li Yao's soul stretched out its tentacles and greedily sucked on the intelligence of the Xenophobia and the sweepers like octopus.

Although Blood Heart Demons do not want to move lightly and do not dig deep into the core data of the Fortress of Divine Punishment, the surface data flowing through the Spiritual Network alone is sufficient for Li Yao to have a preliminary understanding of the most elite investigation and destruction organizations within the Alliance.

“The sweeper is key. ”

Li Yao thought about it and said, "Since this organization is the most powerful fighting unit under the heretic interrogation bureau, and is responsible for catching heretics so sensitive, there must be an opportunity to reach the best master. If we can infiltrate the inside of the cleaner's organization, can we not be able to find out the secret hidden behind the scenes of the Alliance?

“By the way, I have a hunch that the heretical association of the ‘Rekindling of Dead Gray, Magic Flame and Sunrise’ is of great research value. Did you find any relevant information? Ah, the Heart of God. Is that it? ”

Li Yao had good luck.

He stumbled on the remains of the master crystal brain from a large mobile lab called Project Demon Boy.

The original purpose of the Demon Boy Project was to study the genetic provider of Zhou Xiuyun and Chu Zhui Yun, the founder of the “Evil heresy”, "Chu's Spirit”, centuries ago.

Therefore, in this fragmented crystalline brain wreckage, there is a lot of information about the "Divine Heart Association” and other heretical associations. Li Yao does not even need to venture into nearby spiritual nets and crystalline brains. If you read the information in the wreckage, you have a general understanding of the origin of heresy, as well as the rise, destruction and resurgence of the Divine Heart Association.

Over the past millennium, since the Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi activated the “man-made factory” dust sealed by the stars for hundreds of thousands of years, the Covenant Alliance, a deformed nation, has grown and erupted at an incredible rate, quickly occupying hundreds of vast and barren worlds along the stars.

For mankind in general, the intolerable desolate, harsh and dry environment is like water for the Allies.

Because they don't care about the environment, they don't have any pleasure at all, life is simple to the limit, and every drop of resources is absorbed efficiently.

Residential planets don't mean much to them, and the vast majority of the Allies live, no, on starships, to a much deeper degree of starship and networking than the Federation and Empire.

Typical saints have a very simple way of surviving, building synthetic farms on inhabitable planets on a large scale, because the farm produces a high unit yield and can feed a large population even on poor, barren planets, without considering the taste of food and the use of a large amount of hormones without fear.

These populations, in turn, devote themselves to the depths of the planet, digging for metallic veins and crystalline raw materials and excavating the remains of hundreds of thousands of years old floods.

All the metals and crystalline raw materials excavated were refined into new starships using technology from the ruins of the floods, and when a starship formed a new fleet, it was launched into a new thousand worlds and the process was repeated.

No entertainment, no art, no desire, no internal consumption. When they need it, they can work 10 days and 10 nights in a row without expression, inject a strand of hormone and stimulant into almost dry blood vessels until the last drop of life is squeezed out, falling twistedly in a mine pit, never complaining as their imperial counterparts do.

And when they don't have to work, they sit in a lounge that's much bigger than the coffin, minimizing heartbeat, breathing, and pulse, and reducing energy consumption.

Sometimes, when a resource planet is completely emptied and the transfer of local workers consumes too much resources to match the value they can create in the future, these “worker bees" are ruthlessly abandoned, and when the last trace of oxygen runs out beneath the artificial dome of the resource planet, they will not be half afraid of drowning their own death.

The Covenant Coalition relies on such a ruthless and efficient system of social organization, as well as unrepentant, unreserved "worker bees” and “soldier bees”, to usurp the barren world in the corner of the star sea, and the center of the Astronautical Sea, rich in resources and powerful layers of the Imperial Chamber of Real Humanity to defy, and even conceal, the upper hand.

However, small nations, however gorgeous their initial victories may be, will always face the shadow of failure if they are not won quickly.

Lei Chenghu, the "god of war” of the Real Human Empire, once analyzed the two most deadly problems of the Covenant Alliance. First, their basic plates are too small and too weak to last; and more importantly, as "quasi-beest civilizations”, lacking sufficient creativity, the vast majority of the Saint Allies have no subjective dynamism and creativity at all, only to know how to follow the rules and obey the instructions of the good superiors, and to talk about the birth of new technologies?

They can only make up for the lack of technological progress by constantly discovering the ruins of a flooded civilization hundreds of thousands of years ago.

But there are limits to the excavation of relics. If flood relics can solve all problems, it is also within the Real Human Empire in the center of the star sea, and more relics can be excavated!

After a millennium of confrontation, today's Covenant Alliance is at the end of its development. On the one hand, all the resources at the edge of the star sea have been scraped away by them in order to build an invincible and unrivalled fleet to reach its peak of combat power; on the other hand, almost all habitable planets and resource planets have reduced their ability to develop continuously to zero, requiring rest and recuperation for hundreds of years before the next resource harvest can take place.

In other words, the Allies have put all the chips on the table and are going to throw them.

And the strategic contraction of the Allies in the "Empire Fight Back" is precisely for this purpose - a strategic duel with the Empire.

This is the judgment of the “god of war" Lei Chenghu a few years ago. It coincides with the information that Lee Yao obtained today. Lee Yao cannot help but be stunned by Lei Chenghu's strategic vision.

The information that Li Yao gathered, of course, had no information on the movements of the main fleet of the Alliance, but just by looking at the sudden outbreak more than a hundred years ago and the infinite number of large-scale heretical activities, you can imagine the extent to which the then high level of the Alliance compressed these “soldier bees” and “worker bees” underneath, so that even these flesh and blood machines could not stand, awaken and rebel!