As soon as he saw the sphere, Zhou Meng couldn't help but change color, and said in a lost voice: "It's actually this thing?" The old man of your family is really willing! ”

Zuo Shiji said: "Things are good, but they have to fall into the hands of the right people to be able to play their true role!" With Xiao Junling's qualifications, this treasure is perfect for him to use! ”

Lan Ya, who was watching coldly, smiled and explained to Xiao Junling in a low voice, it turned out that this gold-like item was called "Ink Crystal Star", which was a strange concentrated crystal nucleus produced in the territory of the Northern Hell Civilization, and was carefully crafted by a top-level creator of the Zuo family a hundred years ago, and was a rare piece of equipment specially suitable for spiritual powers.

Its function is to increase energy, which can double the total amount of Xiao Junling's mental power, which means more durable combat ability on the battlefield; and can strengthen the effect of skills, with a range of 30%; Faster energy recovery halves recovery time.

To put it simply, with this treasure in hand, Xiao Junling's combat power can be increased by two times on the existing basis, and in the future, with the increase of rank, the combat power will also increase accordingly! Because it is promoted proportionally, not absolutely.

Zhou Meng thought for a moment and asked, "This is your family's treasures, take it out like this, don't you feel that the old man of your family is at a loss?" After all, your family didn't really participate in their conspiracy this time, so there's no need to pay for their stupidity, right? ”

"Of course not," Zuo Shiji explained calmly,

"On the surface, in order to facilitate this incident, the few families privately gave our family a lot of compensation. But what can make our family master really make up his mind is because of the development potential shown by Xiao Junling, which is worth our family to spend such a price to befriend! ”

"Then ......" Zhou Meng looked at him meaningfully.

Zuo Shiji looked at Wu Jing beside him, rubbed his eyebrows with a little headache, and said, "I will also transfer the things given to us by those families to Xiao Junling." In other words, this piece of equipment can be regarded as a gift from us to the future God of War of the Silent Star as a guarantee of our cooperation. ”

"That's ...... You should be satisfied, right? ”

Xiao Junling glanced at Lan Ya, the chief manager represented Xichen Qinglan's attitude, and seeing that she had no objections, he spoke: "Okay! Now that you've shown enough sincerity, that's the end of it! I can forget the behavior of Zhao Xianxuan's guys. I hope they can grow in the future and stop 'sending' things to me in a different way! ”

"Hehe, of course!" Zuo Shiji assured with a smile.

Then there was nothing to say, a few people chatted casually, and then the couple hurriedly left.

"These two have been busy all the time, how sincere do you think they can be?" After they left, Xiao Junling asked Zhou Mengdao.

"Sincerity has nothing to do with them!" Zhou Meng said disdainfully,

"But as long as there are enough benefits, they can sell everything they have, and there is nothing they dare not do, nothing they can't do, and they will ...... in the future You'll understand! ”

To this day, the young master of the Zuo family is swaying on both sides, judging the situation, pretending to be a good person inside and out, looking forward to being able to meet the source left and right, Zhou Meng has long been extremely disdainful of his character, and naturally he has no good face after meeting.

Xiao Junling smiled disapprenously: "Everyone has their own way of living, he likes this, we can't control him!" Just be more careful in the future! Hopefully, after this lesson, they will stop for a while. ”

"Of course, this is basically guaranteed!" ZHOU Mengdao,

"They have shed so much blood this time, those old guys in the upper echelons of the family are already very dissatisfied with them, even if there is any conspiracy, at least until the end of this war, it is unlikely that they will do anything more!"

In order to settle the bad consequences of this matter, these wealthy families not only have to spend a lot of money to buy Xiao Junling, but also have to come up with enough benefits on the side of the marshal and Xichen Qinglan to be able to let these two big men let them go. The sum of all the expenses, even with the deep heritage of these families, feels a little unbearable!

So, unless there is a very special reason, or there is enough certainty of success, they will not spend any more energy on it.

……

After many days of attacking, the Gambino legion was defeated again and again, and a total of 139 star fields in the six provinces close to the Anthropocene realm were all captured by the empire's tiger and wolf army, and the ensuing large-scale plunder and star slaughter operations wiped out one-seventh of the wealth and population of the Gambino civilization!

Coupled with the fleets and elite high-end combat power lost in previous wars, it means that most of the war potential of the Gambino civilization in the next ten years has been consumed! Returning to the pre-war state is basically a distant thing in the absence of large-scale foreign assistance!

Now, only the military strength of those local tribes is left who are willing to organize defense lines near the borders of the major provinces and near the wormholes of the main channel to resist the attack of the imperial legions, and the elite legions directly belonging to the royal court have long secretly abandoned these tribes that are not considered core strength, and instead concentrated all the remaining strength and completely retreated to the territory directly under the royal court.

Elder Timnart has issued several conscription orders on behalf of the royal court, relocating almost all the elite clansmen in the star fields that have not yet been occupied by the Imperial Legions to the direct territory of the royal court on a large scale, and then some of them will be transferred to the distant barbarian star fields, in case the overall situation is unsustainable, leaving some sparks of revival for this civilization.

Therefore, when the many Imperial detachments that had completed the purge plan reunited and continued to attack the new provinces, they found that there were not many decent legions left who dared to block the advance of the Imperial army! Those forces cobbled together by small and medium-sized local tribes are not even as good as second-rate motley armies!

Suddenly, the huge Imperial Legion entered the flock like a tiger and went on a killing spree! In just three days, another half-province, a total of more than 300 administrative planets in 41 star fields turned into purgatory scorched earth!

"With the speed of our march, it only takes another two months or so to reduce the number of individuals in this civilization to less than ten percent of what it was before the war!"

Li Weizhong said to Xue Cangyun,

"At that time, without a sufficient number of people and wealth, the strategic potential of the Gambino civilization will be weakened to an unprecedented degree, and it will not be restored in the next hundred years, even if they can still enlist assistance from other foreign civilizations!"

For a civilization to rise and become strong, certain key conditions are essential! For example, a vast territory, a large enough number of individuals, abundant resources for survival and development, a strong armed force, and so on!

If there are no such conditions, then the entire civilization will become a rootless and a castle in the sky! No matter how strong and wise the high-level is, it cannot guarantee the status of the entire race in the sea of stars.

Once the Gambino civilization falls into such a situation, it will completely lose its qualification to compete with the empire, and completely degenerate into a second-rate or even third-rate civilization, and it is only a matter of time before the extinction of the race!

This trend is well known not only to the Imperial military, but also to the decision-making level of the Empire and the Xinghai clans. Some of the forces that did not want to see such a situation unfold have decided to unite and move around trying to stop the offensive of the Imperial Legions as much as possible.

Therefore, the pressure that Xue Cangyun has faced in recent days has suddenly increased.