There is an unwritten rule in advanced civilizations, that is, grudges over resources in unexplored universes rarely survive into grudges between countries.

The reason is simple.

There are countless expeditionary forces sent by each empire to the unexplored universe to search for resources, and in the case of the Lyra Empire, there are hundreds of millions of formations in units of hundreds of warships at any time. It is conceivable that although most of them will not encounter a war, even if only one percent of them encounter a war, it will be an extremely large number under the staggering base, not to mention that the probability of encountering a war is far more than one percent.

In one day, there will even be hundreds of confrontations, and it is an expeditionary force with different countries, if they all rise to the height of national grievances, if the expeditionary force of any country kills your people, you will run to destroy other people's countries, then even the strongest country will not be able to keep busy, and in the end, no matter how strong your national strength is, you will have to be dragged down alive.

The conflict over resources is only resolved in the unexplored universe, and each side sends its own people to fight, if it rises to the level of national grievances, and then starts a war, it is aggression, in fact, there are not many opportunities to find this kind of thing in high-level civilizations.

It stands to reason that the Lyra Empire is the strongest country in this starry sky, so why not invade other countries and directly seize more resources and territory from other low-level countries?

Because the entire high-level civilization that has entered the cosmic era is actually an intricate network of relationships.

Dependency!

This point can be seen from the aspect of resource development: the entire higher civilization is concentrated in a region, this area radiates from the center to the periphery, the higher the civilization level in the center, and the lower the civilization level in the outer area, and the Tianqin Empire is in the peripheral area.

It is only in the outer regions that the Lyra Empire is the best among them, and if it is compared to the kingdom of the inner circle, it is not at the same level at all.

However, why did he never encounter a fleet of level 8 or even 9 civilizations in the process of exploring resources?

The fact is that when the entire area where the advanced civilization is located continues to expand outward, according to the agreement of those super empires in the most core area, the civilization in the inner circle will no longer be allowed to enter the undeveloped universe to search for resources, and can only be searched by the outermost civilization.

The purpose of this is to let those middle and low-level civilizations below compete for each other, and no war of too large scale will break out because of the intervention of the top civilization, which will not benefit anyone.

So...... The higher civilizations in the inner circle are not allowed, searching for the resources of the unexplored universe, how can they survive?

That's where dependency comes in!

According to the regulations, the fourth-level civilization is the threshold to enter the higher civilization, if you encounter a race lower than the fourth-level civilization in the undeveloped universe, you can have two choices: completely destroy the race, plunder everything of the race, or take this race as your own people.

But if you encounter a fourth-level civilization, you must not destroy it, otherwise it will be a big taboo, and once it is found above, there is only a dead end.

There is only one way to deal with this civilization, and that is to turn it into your 'downline'.

After that, other countries can no longer attack the civilization, otherwise it will be considered an invasion, and the civilization will become a vassal state of the country where the civilization counterpart is discovered.

In the same way, taking the Tianqin Empire as an example, they were also discovered in this way a long time ago, and as the country that was the 'online' of the Tianqin Empire, it has now preliminarily entered the eighth-level civilization, and has thousands of directly subordinate vassal states under its command, and the Tianqin Empire is only one of them.

And the 'upline' of the Lyra Empire also has a higher 'upline', all in all, such a line has been pulled up, and finally reached the most powerful level in the advanced civilization.

In this way, the advanced civilizations in the inner circle that are not allowed to enter the unexplored universe to search for resources have the easiest way to survive: that is, every fixed period of time, the subordinate subjects will provide a specified amount of various resources.

Every country that is 'on the line' has thousands of dependents underneath, and even if one of them only contributes 1% of its resources, so many subjects add up to an extremely staggering number, and this 1% output is not a large number for these dependents.

This is the mode of maintaining the coexistence of the entire high civilization, all empires.

A small country provokes you, and you go to destroy the other party?

On the one hand, if one's own subject country is invaded, it will lead to a loss of face, and make other subject countries lose confidence in the suzerain, and even switch to the name of other empires, and will also lose the tribute of the subject country.

If the strength of this 'upline' is not enough, there will be a higher-level 'upline', all in all, aggression is definitely a very troublesome thing, and it will affect the whole body.

Unless the country that took the initiative to invade was sure enough to wipe out the huge empire on the line where the target was located, which reached the ninth-level civilization!

However, those ninth-level civilizations have existed for an unknown number of billions of years, and because they are not on the periphery, there are hardly many wars and conflicts, and the strong people accumulated over the years are like the sand of the Ganges, and the technology has developed to an incredible extent, and those countries on the periphery want to fight against this super civilization, which is no different from looking for death.

This is also Qin Yan's most tangled problem.

The Alpha Star civilization is not terrible, and he is absolutely sure that he can completely destroy this civilization in a short period of time. However, if the Alpha Star Man is destroyed, it will inevitably alarm the 'upline', 'upline' and 'upline' of the Alpha Star civilization, and he will not be able to have enough ability to resist at all.

It seems that there may be another way to go, and that is to incorporate the earth into the vassals of the Lyra Empire: because of North, the earth's technological level has reached level 6 civilization.

But there is a big trouble in the middle, that is, the Alpha Star people know that the human beings on Earth can improve their strength through self-cultivation.

If the Earth is included in the Lyra Empire, the Alpha Stars are likely to tell this secret to the 'upline' after they can't covet the Earth, or even directly to the world.

That would be an even greater disaster!

What's more, even if the earth becomes a vassal state of the Lyra Empire, once the Lyra Empire knows about the human beings on the earth, won't it be tempted to cultivate and improve?

In short, this path is absolutely impassable, and in order to prevent this secret from being made public, it is imperative to completely destroy the Alpha Star civilization!

Not only to completely destroy this civilization, but also to make them not even have a chance to jump over the wall and reveal their secrets.

It is very difficult to solve this problem, and this is exactly what makes Qin Yan difficult.

It is precisely because of all these factors that there is nothing to worry about in the fight for resources, and there is only one thing to worry about - whether you can kill the other party.

Although this kind of struggle for resources will not rise to the level of grievances between countries, let alone cause the two civilizations to pour out of the nest, but it is related to the most direct interests of both sides, the winning side can obtain precious resources, and the losing side will not only gain nothing, but will lose warships and troops.

The process of competing for resources in the untapped universe is a battle for interests.

Next to the wormhole of an unknown star system, a five-star warship belonging to the Lyra Empire jumped out, breaking the dead silence and tranquility of this void.

"Boss, it's almost there." Agurts reminded.

"Oh."

Qin Yan, who was cultivating, stood up and chuckled, "It seems that we are going to lose another five-star battleship...... Are you ready? ”

Everyone understood what he meant: after one more wormhole jump, you will enter the target star system, and the enemy will definitely place a large fleet next to the wormhole. Therefore, just jumping over will definitely be like fighting against that hunter group more than two months ago, and before it can react, it will be covered by the firepower of a large number of warships, and with the combat power of the other party, which is also a seventh-level civilization, this battleship will definitely be destroyed immediately.

Of course, this is also unavoidable.

"Ready."

"Kill those little cubs!"

"Wormhole Jump Ready!"

Everyone was screaming with excitement, and they were not afraid of war at all, because they were sure that they would win.

It's not just because Qin Yan's combat effectiveness has reached the level of being almost invincible under the Seven Heavens. Even the members of their gang are no longer the cultivators of the past, and in the 51st formation, there are no people below the Tianwu Sixth Heaven at all, except for those hunters who have recently been recruited.

For the time being, the nearly three hundred hunters can only be regarded as the appendages of the No. 51 formation, but even they are the elite of the elite!

Fine electrical patterns lingered outside the ship, and as the five-second countdown ended, the void returned to calm, and the battleship was gone......

Thundered......

As soon as the battleship jumped out of the wormhole, it was hit by overwhelming firepower, which was many times more powerful than when it was ambushed by the hunter team more than two months ago, and there were thousands of warships around the wormhole of this star system.

Rules - Dimensional Space!

At the same time as the five-star battleship exploded in an instant, the distorted space with a diameter of about 100 meters enveloped the official members and appendages of the No. 51 formation, that is, the nearly three hundred hunters: a diameter of 100 meters was the limit that Qin Yan's current realm could reach in the dimensional space.

In other words, the dimensional space is not truly an absolute defense, and if there are too many of his men, they cannot all be protected.

However, less than 400 people in total can still fit it.

"Kill."

An understatement burst out from the corner of Qin Yan's mouth, and the next moment, endless rules were released from this twisted sphere that was directly a hundred meters.

Dimensional Blade!

In air combat, this rule still plays an irreplaceable role, and the name of the battleship killer does not have the slightest element of boasting.

The energy shield containing the power of space was useless in front of the dimensional blade, and the twisted blade shape directly passed over the shield, tearing the battleships to pieces.