Chapter 774 - 542: Seeking Change!
"Star God... Red Moon!"
Jiang Ming’s heart was a tumultuous sea, even the qi and blood circulating around him became chaotic.
[Star God Compatibility: 1%]
Pale blue characters appeared before his eyes.
Jiang Ming’s body trembled violently against the washstand, the shock in his eyes was beyond words, and his heart was filled with a complex mix of fear, confusion, and disbelief.
He stood there in a daze, staring at his pale face in the mirror, his mind churning like the tide.
Since childhood, he had studied Martial Arts and had read extensively about the history of the Federation, understanding that behind these two names lies the darkest and most painful past of human civilization.
The Federation’s long history has seen many ups and downs, and the adage "All things have spirit" is no empty talk, but an iron law verified repeatedly by time.
Humans are not the only spiritual beings; grass, trees, mountains, stones, flowers, birds, fish, insects, instruments, and apparitions...
All things in the world have the possibility of awakening spirituality and transcending the mundane.
And among these creatures, the most awe-inspiring and terrifying is none other than the planet itself.
Heaven and Earth are a furnace, Yin and Yang are the coals!
The planet nurtures all things and nourishes all living beings!
Once the planet awakens spirituality, the power it births is beyond the reach of any creature in the world.
Its destructive force is unimaginable, akin to the heavens collapsing.
The birth of the Federation was the best example!
In the year 2459, the Red Moon descended!
That era-shocking Natural Catastrophe changed the heavens and earth, overturning the universe.
The once luminous moon was suddenly shrouded in a layer of crimson glow, like a fallen sun, suspended above the sky, casting a blood-red hue over the earth.
At that time, all beings were bewildered, unaware of the impending change when a Star God silently emerged above the moon.
That Star God had no specific form, like a cloud, like fog, like light, like electricity, silently standing at the peak of the moon.
He did not discern good from evil, did not distinguish between order and chaos, bestowing no grace, delivering no punishment, not even the slightest movement.
He merely existed silently above the sky, causing everything on the earth to undergo earth-shattering changes.
From the day the Star God was born.
Spirituality surged across the earth, soaking everything like spring rain.
Ordinary flowers, birds, fish, insects, and beasts awakened spirituality, their minds opened, transcending the mundane in countless numbers.
Weeds by the road, fish swimming in the streams, tigers in the woods, even stubborn rocks in the corners, could all birth spiritual wisdom...
These awakened creatures, their power growing by leaps and bounds, their ferocity escalating, wreaking havoc on the human world.
The Great Catastrophe thus unfolded.
Initially, humans relied on technological power and could barely contend with them.
To distinguish these extraordinary beings from ordinary species, humans gave them a cold and terrifying name—Divine Calamity.
Humans thought that with the edge of technology, they could ultimately quell this disaster, but they underestimated the power of the Divine Calamity and also the cosmic changes brought by the Star God’s existence.
As the years passed, day by day.
The power of the Divine Calamity grew exponentially, like a wildfire, its strength had surpassed the scope of human technological control.
Laser cannons aimed at high tier Divine Calamity were just scratching the surface.
Human legions were besieged, only to be slaughtered by the Divine Calamity, staining the earth with blood, cries resounded across the fields, life was devastated.
In the year 2678, the Red Moon Catastrophe reached its peak.
A turtle-shaped Divine Calamity hidden in the depths of the sea unleashed an unprecedented tsunami, waves as high as mountains swept in all directions, displacing landscapes, exterminating creatures.
That tsunami swallowed more than seventy percent of the planet’s land, turning it into a vast ocean.
The homes where humans had lived for generations, instantly became submerged lands.
The order of human society completely collapsed during this catastrophe.
Technological facilities were destroyed, civilization’s heritage interrupted, famine rampant, plagues spread, the strong slaughtered the weak, chaos replaced order...
Darkness engulfed the entire land!
It was a period of everlasting night, a three-hundred-year-long Dark Age, where human civilization was nearly wiped out by the Divine Calamity!
Only a few humans survived, hiding in deep mountains and forests, underground caverns, struggling through hunger, cold, and fear, barely hanging on like a candle in the wind, about to be extinguished at any moment.
As humans were on the brink of extinction, a sage worshiped the Red Moon and comprehended extraordinary power—Qi and Blood.
Thus Qi and Blood Martial Arts were born!
The sages compiled their insights into books, passed down from generation to generation, the surviving humans practiced Martial Arts, harnessing qi and blood power to fight against the Divine Calamity’s slaughter.
Later, the surviving human strongmen united to form the Human Federation, finally reigniting the flame of civilization, providing a refuge for humans to survive in the darkness.
Later on, scholars excavated from seabed ruins a strange metal imbued with immense qi and blood power—Blood Gold, capable of conducting and amplifying qi and blood.
Humans integrated Blood Gold with technological power, after a century of research, finally developed Qi and Blood Mecha.
Qi and Blood Mecha, with Blood Gold as its frame, technology as its vein, and the Martial Artist’s qi and blood as its power...
It could connect with the Martial Artist’s heart and mind, amplify their power, and defeat high tier Divine Calamity!
Since the advent of Qi and Blood Mecha, humans have finally taken the initiative against the Divine Calamity, gradually gaining the upper hand in this centuries-long catastrophe.
Countless Mecha Masters stepped forward, leading humanity, fought bravely, bit by bit driving the Divine Calamity off the planet, reclaiming lost territories, rebuilding homes.