Chapter 442 : Volume Twelve: Division
Chapter 442: Volume Twelve: Division
The resource most suitable for the Infinite Serpent Clan was the ‘Source World Origin’. Infinite Serpent Ancestor himself had long since become undying and indestructible, and for the needs of his clan, he could not possibly agree.
“All the Source Worlds within our territory, handed over to you? You’re simply dreaming!” Infinite Serpent Ancestor’s gaze was icy, “There’s absolutely no room for negotiation on this condition!”
“All Source World beings are our clan members. Generation after generation, our Cultivator faction has worked toward reclaiming them all. We cannot possibly tolerate Source World beings forever becoming food for you!” Yuan also said coldly.
Infinite Serpent Ancestor sneered: “You want all the Source Worlds? Then there’s only all-out war! When that happens, the countless Source Worlds within your Cultivator territory will also be swept into the war!”
The many Ancestors and the eight Lords were filled with killing intent.
“All-out war? We Lords don’t care.” Yuan said indifferently, “The Lords are undying and indestructible. Let’s see how many of you Ancestors will die in battle.”
“Haha, our Innate Primordial faction indeed needs enough blood and fire.” Extinction Ancestor spoke, “Only through blood and fire can Life Cores grow, and only then can more undying and indestructible existences be born!”
“All-out war, who would be afraid?” Endless Ancestor also sneered.
The Ancestors who had reached the undying and indestructible level did not care.
Those Ancestors who were extremely close to ‘undying and indestructible’, such as Extinction Ancestor, greatly looked forward to advancing one step further. A sufficiently brutal war would be beneficial to their evolution.
As for whether those at the bottom lived or died?
What they cared about was the continuation of their clans. As for how many were eliminated through war after war during that process of continuation, they did not care.
“The Innate Primordial faction has been the number one faction in the Endless Primordial Space for far too long!” Luo Feng spoke, “It’s time for the number one faction to change.”
Luo Feng, who controlled the power of the World of Destruction, was able to carry out ‘periodic cleansing’, and would receive the favor of the Abyss of Destruction for doing so.
Luo Feng was prepared for a great slaughter!
If negotiation could not achieve control over all Source Worlds, then there was only war!
One side consisted of eight undying and indestructible Lords! The other consisted of five undying and indestructible Ancestors as well as more than one hundred Ancestors of varying strength. Once all-out war began, the casualties were destined to be extremely heavy.
Some Ancestors like Extinction Ancestor, who were close to breaking through, instead longed for such a brutal war!
“What you want is only the Source Worlds?” Giant God Emperor suddenly spoke. Infinite Serpent Ancestor and Extinction Ancestor immediately looked at him angrily.
“Correct.”
Yuan nodded, “You should also know that Life Core evolutionary resources are not important to us Cultivator Lords! We only care about Source Worlds, while within a vast territory, besides Source Worlds, there are countless other resources. All those countless resources can belong to you. Of course, as for Mysterious Places, we’ll still compete fairly.”
For Mysterious Places, all sides had always tacitly accepted fair competition! Whoever could refine and control them would depend entirely on their own abilities.
“You promise that throughout the endless years to come, you will never again invade the territory of our Innate Primordial faction?” Giant God Emperor asked again.
“We eight Lords will promise all Ancestors that we will ‘never expand’.” Yuan said.
Giant God Emperor understood.
He looked toward his other companions and said: “The eight Cultivator Lords are collectively promising that they will never expand again. They only require us to hand over all Source Worlds to them! I don’t think Source Worlds are that important to us.”
“Source Worlds are very important to us.” Infinite Serpent Ancestor stared at Giant God Emperor.
“Our Giant God Clan doesn’t care about them.” Giant God Emperor looked at him, “Your Infinite Serpent Clan does care very much, but…… throughout the long years, the strength of your other Ancestors has hardly improved at all. Infinite Serpent Ancestor, I think your clan relies too heavily on Source Worlds. Completely abandoning Source Worlds might also serve as tempering for your Infinite Serpent Clan.”
“Your Giant God Clan doesn’t need them, so you can give them up.” Infinite Serpent Ancestor shook his head, “But as for this condition, my Infinite Serpent Clan can never agree!”
Among the Infinite Serpent Clan, the proportion of World-level Primordial Lifeforms who became Ancestors far surpassed that of other clans, precisely because they devoured Source World Origins. Once they gave them up, it would become vastly more difficult for the Infinite Serpent Clan to produce future Ancestors.
“Many clans don’t really need Source Worlds.” Giant God Emperor looked behind him, “I believe that among the 86 Ancestors present, many don’t care about ‘Source World Origins’.”
Many Ancestors were somewhat tempted.
Previously, they had believed that the Cultivator faction was still dissatisfied after occupying the ‘South River Territory’ and intended to continue expanding! For the territory where their own clans survived and reproduced, these Ancestors had shared a common hatred and were willing to pay any price to deal with the Cultivator faction.
But now, the eight Lords had promised never to expand!
This was not the promise of a single Lord, nor was it a private promise! It was a promise made publicly by all eight Lords…… to all the Ancestors. Considering that the Cultivator Lords did not possess Life Cores either, the credibility of this promise was still quite high.
Never expand? Then what was there left to fight over?
As for Source Worlds, they were merely resources that supplemented the reproduction and growth of their clans. Losing this one type of resource did not matter much.
“What Giant God Emperor says does make sense.” Primordial Ancestor, who had remained silent all this time, suddenly spoke, “Your Infinite Serpent Clan has always relied on ‘Source World Origins’. Perhaps breaking away from Source World Origins would be another kind of tempering for Life Core evolution.”
Seeing this, Infinite Serpent Ancestor also realized the internal division.
Even among the Nine Emperors.
Giant God Emperor, Primordial Beast Ancestor, and Black Tide Ancestor stood together.
Primordial Ancestor and the Mother of Space-Time were somewhat inclined toward neutrality.
His good friend ‘Endless Ancestor’, ever since becoming undying and indestructible, had no clan because he was all alone, and no longer advanced and retreated together with him as he once had.
“We’re facing the Cultivator faction, and we’re just going to retreat like this?” Extinction Ancestor spoke.
“We don’t need Source World Origins in the first place. Why should we fight to the death over Source Worlds?”
“Exactly, the Cultivator faction has already promised never to expand. Why bother fighting them?”
The Ancestors transmitted messages among themselves.
Even the Nine Emperors were divided into three factions, and the other Ancestors were similarly deeply divided.
For the vast majority of Ancestors participating in the battle, there was a possibility of death! Naturally, they were unwilling to risk their lives for resources they did not need!
……
The eight Lords watched this scene. They could see that the Innate Primordial faction seemed to be splitting internally. These Ancestors were probably transmitting messages to one another. The Lords could not hear what they were discussing, but they could guess some of it.
“They seem to be arguing?” Moman watched.
“This was within expectations.” Starlight said.
Suddenly——
Endless Ancestor among the Nine Emperors spoke: “Eight Lords, regarding the condition you proposed, we need to discuss it carefully internally. We also need to discuss it with some Ancestors who did not participate in the battle. Let’s postpone the final negotiation for one era. One era from now, our Innate Primordial faction will give you a definite answer.”
“Alright, then we’ll wait for your answer.” Yuan nodded.
To surrender all Source Worlds throughout their entire faction, the Innate Primordial faction indeed needed to unify its position internally.
“Let’s go.”
Led by the Mother of Space-Time, the Ancestors immediately entered a space-time passage and departed.
Within the brilliantly colored space-time passage, the Ancestors continued forward.
“Giant God Emperor, are you truly unwilling to participate in the war?” Infinite Serpent Ancestor transmitted, “When facing the Cultivator faction, we must remain united.”
“As long as the Cultivator faction honors its promise, my Giant God Clan will not participate in the war. Not only us, quite a few Ancestors are unwilling to participate.” Giant God Emperor transmitted, “Nearly half of the Ancestors don’t need Source World Origins, and they’re all unwilling to risk their lives.”
Infinite Serpent Ancestor sighed inwardly.
“There’s still one era before the final negotiation.” Giant God Emperor transmitted, “Think carefully and come up with a solution. If there is no solution, then one era from now, I and the many Ancestors under my command will accept the Cultivator side’s conditions.”
Although Infinite Serpent Ancestor was forceful, faced with Giant God Emperor’s faction supported by nearly half the Ancestors, he also had no way to suppress them by force.
“This Cultivator faction truly is despicable. They won’t expand their territory, they only want the Source Worlds.” Infinite Serpent Ancestor felt extremely frustrated.
Never expanding indeed eliminated far too much hostility.
……
South River Territory.
“The objective of this clash has already been achieved. We displayed our strength to the entire Endless Primordial Space. Even the Innate Primordial faction lost three Ancestors in battle against us.” Yuan said, “We can take this opportunity to negotiate with all the factions!”
Using war to seize all Source Worlds was the inferior option!
After all, there were more than twenty undying and indestructible existences. Even if they forcibly occupied some Source Worlds, those undying and indestructible existences could still return and attack them.
Resolving the matter through negotiation was best.
“I’ll leave the negotiations to you, Starlight.” Yuan said.
“Brother Yuan, Brother Luo Feng, the two of you should send clones to accompany me in visiting the major factions.” Starlight said.
Luo Feng and Yuan both nodded.
With a single thought, they could condense weak clones within the target faction’s territory. The three clones could then directly visit the Ancestors of the weaker factions.
“When visiting those weaker factions, Luo Feng, Yuan, and I only need to send weak clones.” Starlight said, “But when we visit the Icepeak faction and negotiate with them, all eight of us need to go with our main combat clones.”
“The difficulty of negotiating with the Icepeak faction is no less than with the Innate Primordial faction.” Yuan also frowned.
In terms of strength, the Icepeak faction was indeed weaker than the Innate Primordial faction.
But the leaders of the Icepeak faction were twelve undying and indestructible existences! These undying and indestructible existences were not afraid of war. So what if they lost? They were undying and indestructible anyway.
“To permanently govern all Source Worlds throughout the Endless Primordial Space while facing a group of undying and indestructible existences really isn’t easy.” Starlight could not help sighing. Even though he could walk through countless future timelines, he still understood——there was no perfect solution.
Just Mogus alone, who had a blood feud with the Cultivator faction, could not be dealt with.
Mogus was undying and indestructible, acted alone, and loved devouring the souls of countless living beings! Mogus was destined to remain an enemy of the Cultivator faction forever.
“We’ll negotiate with whoever we can.” Yuan said, “Through negotiation, we can reduce a great deal of future trouble.”
Through negotiation, they would reduce their opponents as much as possible.
The fewer opponents they had, the less pressure they would face in the future.
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh——”
The main combat clones of all eight Lords set out together, heading toward the territory of the Icepeak faction.
At the same time, the weak clones of Luo Feng, Yuan, and Starlight also descended into the territories of various weaker factions, separately visiting one Ancestor after another and beginning negotiation after negotiation.