Ali's return, for the Omowan people, means the end is coming.

Before Ali returned, Zhang Xiaogang sent a large number of soldiers to find her, so Zhang Xiaogang also accelerated the expansion of the size of the legion.

In the past six months, Zhang Xiaogang has formed more than 800 legions, and even after deducting the warriors who flew to the neighboring star system, the military strength of human civilization has reached 1,000 legions, that is, 10 million warriors, and all warriors have ninth-level composite star cores and ninth-level fusion star cores.

If necessary, it can also give some of the warriors access to the Convergence Core.

It's not that Ali refuses to teach the art of creating a Convergence Star Core, but that the resources that human civilization now has are not enough for all warriors to have a Convergence Star Core.

Even the second-level convergent cores require one hundred and sixty-two types of cores.

In other words, a warrior with a second-level Convergence Star Core will possess one hundred and sixty-two times as many Star Cores as a warrior with an ordinary Star Core.

If it is a ninth-level convergence core, it requires seven hundred and twenty-nine types of star cores.

Arming a warrior with a level 9 Convergence Core can arm nine warriors with a Level 9 Composite Core, or arm 729 parasoldiers with a Core, that is, the police who exist to maintain order within the Alliance.

Obviously, it takes a lot of cores to form a legion from warriors with Convergence Cores.

Of course, human civilization is not without enough star cores.

After the surrender of the Debarangs, and the weak intelligent civilizations that have joined the alliance one after another, the number of star systems controlled by humans has approached 4,000. Although human civilization has retained many intelligent civilizations in these wars and given them a broad living space, human beings have never made concessions on one key issue, that is, all intelligent civilizations have to degenerate to the stage of natural evolution.

Human civilization does this nominally to prevent other intelligent civilizations from becoming a threat.

Of course, this is also a reasonable reason.

It's just that, fundamentally, it's about protecting the most critical resources. For intelligent civilizations in the natural stage of evolution, not only can they not use star cores, but they also do not need star cores. The vast majority of intelligent civilizations in the natural evolution stage only need to master controllable fusion techniques to obtain sufficient energy, and at most they only need to use mass energy bodies to make space tools, or build space cities to expand living space.

In this way, human civilization gained the power to monopolize the star core.

In fact, this is the only resource that human civilization needs.

According to Zhang Xiaogang's arrangement, the population size of human civilization will be controlled at about 20 trillion. Although not everyone is suitable to become a warrior, at least ten trillion warriors can be armed, that is, a billion legions can be formed. A billion legions are enough for a predictable war. Even if one legion were used to occupy and control a star system, and half of the legions were set aside to prepare for the next war, human civilization could sweep across the galaxy if one billion legions could be armed. In other words, even if the war spreads throughout the galaxy and human civilization fights on multiple fronts, the current population size is enough.

In this way, human civilization obviously does not need much living space.

A slightly larger galaxy could hold 20 trillion people. If ten trillion people become warriors and carry out combat missions in various star systems, then the remaining ten trillion people only need an ordinary star system that is slightly larger than the solar system.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Xiaogang is very generous on the issue of living space.

After accepting the Debarang people, Zhang Xiaogang decided to open all star systems controlled by human civilization to all intelligent civilizations in the alliance, and asked all intelligent civilizations in the alliance to open their star systems to ensure that all intelligent civilizations in the alliance can travel freely.

To put it more bluntly, as long as the social rules set by human civilization are followed, any member of all intelligent civilizations in the alliance can go to live in any star system in the alliance, and obtain all the resources needed for survival through their own efforts, that is, labor.

Zhang Xiaogang did this, obviously not to promote the great alliance of wisdom and civilization.

In his opinion, instead of letting various intelligent civilizations settle in a fixed star system, it is better to disrupt this order, let all intelligent civilizations be dispersed into all star systems, and let different intelligent life live together. Although this will produce many social problems, such as not all intelligent life is suitable for the same living environment, such as different intelligent civilizations have different cultures and values, such as many intelligent civilizations have different aesthetics, but these problems can be solved, and they are not serious. The benefits are substantial. That is, after dispersion and settlement, no intelligent civilization can control a star system alone, and it is impossible to pose a threat to mankind after it has contradictions with humanity or its ambitions are inflated.

In fact, the intelligent civilizations within the alliance also support this.

The reason is simple, if an intelligent civilization gathers in a star system, then after a sudden attack and the destruction of the star system, this intelligent civilization will be completely extinct. Even in a few star systems, if the main one is destroyed, it will be devastated. If scattered in many star systems, the situation will be different, even if a few star systems are devastated, or even many star systems are devastated, as long as enough star systems are not destroyed, then the intelligent civilization that settles in these star systems will not be extinct, or even affected too much, and there is still a chance for revival.

This is obviously a great good thing for the creators of those who rely on intelligent civilizations.

Of course, this is not necessarily a bad thing for individuals in intelligent civilizations, because it allows them to go to other star systems to fight for their own opportunities and realize their own values. It can also let them understand the outside world, so that they can get a broader development prospect.

It's just that doing so inevitably has a consequence.

This is the great alliance of wisdom and civilization.

It may be more appropriate to describe it as "fusion".

Although it is almost impossible for intelligent civilizations in the natural stage of evolution to physiologically integrate with other intelligent lifeforms, there will not be too many obstacles to the integration of different intelligent civilizations in terms of culture, thought, values, aesthetics, etc.

In fact, the impact is already being felt.

That is, among humans, there are already many people who have been influenced by the Acadians and believe that the Acadians have the most beautiful physical form and appearance. Some even changed their form and physiognomy to become Arcadians, because they thought it was more beautiful. In addition, the Acadians have a way of communicating that is also recognized by many humans, and has been imitated by some.

Of course, Zhang Xiaogang doesn't care about that.

In this big family of intelligent civilizations, human beings are the absolute patriarchs, and only human beings are in the stage of self-evolution and can make full use of the star core.

To put it simply, the cores of the four thousand star systems all belong to humans.

The problem is that it takes enough labor to develop these cores.

If other intelligent civilizations are powerful, then mining star cores is not a difficult task. Even if it is only a mass-powered life, it can move on its own in the universe and can mine star cores with great efficiency. The problem is that other intelligent civilizations have degraded to the stage of natural evolution, possessing physical bodies, unable to leave the ecological environment in which they live, and needing to use the space tools provided by humans to travel to other astral bodies. What's more, they can only mine star cores with tools, so their efficiency is very low, and they can't compare to the quality of life at all.

Zhang Xiaogang understood this problem, but he didn't find a way to solve it.

In his opinion, it seemed more important to control the other intelligent civilizations in the alliance than to wage expansion wars.

This is also understandable.

After the end of the Debarão War, human civilization was strong enough that no intelligent civilization could pose a threat to humanity within a thousand light-years of the surrounding area. For a powerful intelligent civilization, if there is no strong enough external enemy, then the greatest threat comes from internal contradictions. As long as internal contradictions erupt, then no matter how powerful the intelligent civilization is, it will fall apart.

In fact, this is also a painful lesson for human civilization.

In Zhang Xiaogang's words, he would rather slow down the pace of expansion than let the intelligent civilizations that coexist with humanity pose a threat to humanity.

You must know that in this vast alliance, the scale of human beings is very small.

More than half of the more than 100 intelligent civilizations that make up the alliance outnumber humans, with the Debarans fifty times larger than humans and the Acadians ten times larger. If the core skills spread, these intelligent civilizations may cause the destruction of human civilization at any time.

Fortunately, only human civilization needs to use star cores, and they need to use star cores to arm their warriors.

A thousand legions is definitely not a small number, at least in the region where human civilization is located, no intelligent civilization has such a powerful military force.

What's more, this is 10 million warriors who all possess a ninth-level fusion star core.

Even in other powerful intelligent civilizations, most of the warriors possess composite star cores, only a very small number of warriors have convergent star cores, and even fewer warriors have ninth-level convergence star cores. If you judge by military strength, at least within a radius of a thousand light years, there is no intelligent civilization above humans. Of course, if you expand the range to 5,000 light years, this is not the case.

Whether or not we can win the next war with our current military strength has become the most crucial issue.