From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword-Chapter 900 - 522: The Truth (Part 2)
After a brief discussion, Xie Shi’en, on behalf of the Great Xia Military, announced the truth of the incident to the superpower users who rashly passed through the Star Gate, urging them not to enter the Demon Nest Cave.
However, these Star Gates connect to various continents of Blue Star, and these superpower users who passed through the gates come from all over the world.
Perhaps the superpower users from Da Xia would still follow the orders issued by their own military, but superpower users from other countries had different thoughts.
Some superpower users from the White Eagle Federation and Shendu Country even believed that Da Xia wanted to monopolize the benefits and outright ignored the warnings.
Xie Shi’en knew very well that it was impossible to stop all the superpower users in this situation.
Explaining the truth about the Abyss Demon Nest incident to them was already a decision of utmost benevolence.
The rest was to respect others’ destinies.
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At the bottom of the Demon Nest Cave, in the Slime Lake.
After discovering that the Zero Civilization had opened the Star Gate, Lu Heng hesitated over whether to stop the Star Realm Merchant from reviving his kindred.
The most crucial part was the result of the fluorescent plant experiment.
If the Zero Civilization provided a false experimental result, then this whole incident would have been a scam from the beginning to end.
Lu Heng was originally willing to help the Zero Civilization, but he could not accept deceit and manipulation.
However, regarding the experimental result of the fluorescent plants, now both the Star Realm Merchant Azik and Zero Civilization had their own conflicting claims, and it was impossible to verify who was telling the truth.
After a brief thought, Lu Heng took out the Zero Civilization’s Crystal Core, summoning out the White Light.
The White Light appeared and immediately detected the Reincarnation Source Material.
White Light: "You found the Reincarnation Source Material, quickly bring it back."
Lu Heng said in a deep voice: "You shouldn’t have opened the Star Gate, luring so many superpower users in."
White Light: "As long as you bring back the Reincarnation Source Material, I’ll close the Star Gate immediately."
Lu Heng scoffed: "What about the people you deceived into coming here?"
White Light: "I can open the Star Gate back to the Human World and send them back."
Lu Heng: "Alright, open the Star Gate back to Blue Star now, then issue a bounty to have the incoming superpower users withdraw."
White Light: "You bring back the Reincarnation Source Material first and give it to me."
Lu Heng’s gaze darkened, questioning: "If you’re sincere, do as I say."
White Light: "Opening the Star Gate requires accumulating energy, it’s not always possible to open it. You bring the Reincarnation Source Material back first."
Lu Heng couldn’t help but laugh coldly: "It seems the bridge of trust is broken. Now tell me, is the fluorescent plant experiment result real or fake?"
White Light: "Of course, it’s real. Didn’t you personally see the experiment process?"
At this time, Azik, emotionally agitated, retorted: "You’re lying! Blue Star is not suitable for fluorescent plant growth, you fraud!"
White Light: "You’re just a thief, you should return what you stole."
Azik continued to counter: "We obtained the Reincarnation Source Material from demons, I just used it to save my clansmen, and once that’s done, I’ll return the Reincarnation Source Material to you."
White Light ignored Azik, persuading Lu Heng again, "He’s just a thief, don’t listen to his sophistry. Bring back the Reincarnation Source Material. You can make any request."
Azik, suppressed by White Light’s energy, was flattened against the ground like a gel but still emotionally scolded:
"He’s lying, fluorescent plants can’t maintain their fluorescent characteristics on Blue Star. I conducted experiments for two years to reach this conclusion. And, and..."
He panted and found new evidence: "Do you remember? It was Jalama who brought you into the Ecological Ball, your only chance to contact fluorescent plants was that Ecological Ball.
"If we wanted to keep fluorescent plant secrets, we could completely destroy all the fluorescent plants in the Ecological Ball, or even throw the entire Ecological Ball into the Star Realm rift to destroy it.
"In that case, you wouldn’t have been able to get any fluorescent plant samples, nor had the chance to experiment.
"If we really wanted to occupy Blue Star, why would we leave you with the fluorescent plants?"
This evidence was indeed very compelling.
After Jalama’s death, he even left his Ecological Ball to Lu Heng, including everything inside.
Lu Heng indeed obtained the fluorescent plant samples from the Ecological Ball, which led to subsequent experiments.
If it weren’t for this event, it wouldn’t have been known that the Star Realm Merchants had conducted fluorescent plant experiments on Blue Star.
Azik implored: "I beg you, give my race a chance to survive. Our largest Ecological Ball encountered a crisis ten years ago; tentacles suddenly emerged, drilling into the Abyss Demon Nest.
"Only Jalama and I escaped, all other clansmen died here, this is our only chance."
What he said did indeed align with logic, though it was not conclusive evidence.
Lu Heng thought for a moment and said: "I cannot guarantee the truth of your words, I cannot gamble the fate of civilization."
Azik pleaded: "I beg you, give us a glimmer of hope, you can make any request, you can kill me, but don’t take away the Reincarnation Source Material."
Lu Heng mused for a moment and asked: "Are you willing to accept Spirit Control?"
Without hesitation, Azik agreed: "Yes, anything, you can control me, do whatever you want to me."
White Light noted that the situation was becoming unfavorable for the Zero Civilization and incited: "His level is high, your S-Level control skill may not be effective on him."
The civilization level of the Star Realm Merchants was high, and Azik was one of the only two individuals who survived the crisis ten years ago, indeed ranking among the highest in his tribe.
Azik, upon hearing this, showed no hesitation, immediately degrading his body: "I can lower my level, is reducing it by half enough?"
A gleam flashed in Lu Heng’s eyes, he activated the [Soul Steel Seal], and commanded: "Look into my eyes."
Azik’s gel-like body barely lifted his head to look into Lu Heng’s eyes, and his pupils gradually lost focus.
Just at this moment.
White Light suddenly unleashed a burst of energy shockwave.
Lu Heng had long anticipated the Zero Civilization might make a move, raised his hand to deploy the Divine Origin Battle Armor, forming a shield to block the shockwave released by White Light.
"Panicking like a cornered dog?"
White Light: "You should follow my orders, what you’re doing now is opposing a Demigod Civilization, do you understand?"
Lu Heng: "A civilization that’s been deceiving and manipulating me from the start, does following your orders make sense?"
The Zero Civilization’s decisions were entirely based on the interests of their civilization, with no emotions or trust involved.
This was quite different from the Sikes Civilization.
Though the citizens of the Sikes Civilization were transformed into mechanical bodies, they still maintained a sense of empathy and life philosophy, even with a computational mindset.
Sikes citizens were born as living beings, so despite being transformed, to some extent, they could understand the emotions of organic life.
Zero Civilization was entirely different, being a unique non-living civilization, extremely closed off, unwilling to interact with other civilizations.
Therefore, when the Zero Civilization lured humans into the Abyss Demon Nest, they had no hesitations, as long as they achieved their goals, they wouldn’t care about human life or death.
Under the influence of the [Soul Steel Seal], Azik fell into absolute control.
Lu Heng inquired about the experimental results of the fluorescent plants, and Azik gave a negative response.
The experimental results of fluorescent plants on Blue Star indicated that after planting them to the third generation, they would gradually lose their fluorescent characteristics.
At this point, the truth became clear.
Now, Lu Heng needed to consider whether he should offend the Zero Civilization to save the Star Realm Merchants.
After all, the Zero Civilization was a Demigod Civilization, and offending it might bring a significant crisis to humanity.
Another concern was whether the Star Realm Merchants would be friendly after being revived, which was another consideration.
Lu Heng pondered briefly and ultimately decided to adhere to the Sword Holder’s principle.
To unite all allied civilizations and together find a way to counter the Abyss.
This was the original philosophy.
And by sticking to this philosophy, he had gained the alliance friendhip of multiple civilizations like the Elf Clan and Sea Demon Clan.
So, would the Star Realm Merchants be suitable to join the Sword Holder alliance?
Lu Heng looked into Azik’s eyes and asked: "Are you aware of the Sword Holder?"
