The Shadow King silently looked at the artifact that made it hate and love. After a long time, he asked, "All the elders have arrived, right?" ”

A clansman beside it immediately said respectfully, "Great Your Majesty! Among the ten tribes of the royal court, except for the elders who have missions and have not returned from traveling, the elders who can be summoned at the moment and have reached the fifteenth-order Youhuang Commander level are all here! ”

"That's good! Get started now! King Zhan Ying said lightly.

"Yes!"

To use the "Celestial Celestial Sundial" once, you need to exhaust all the life essence energy of the four Brilliant God King level elders! This kind of consumption is unbearable for the Zhanying clan today!

It's just that it has to be like this, a large race with a strength comparable to one of the ten tribes of the royal court has been completely wiped out! I can't even find a clue afterwards, what kind of existence can have such terrifying abilities? If they continue to target other tribes, the consequences will be unimaginable!

Moreover, it has already learned the news of the fall of the guardian beast of the Yanwei Tribal Alliance, the Heavenly Feather Snake! I heard that it was also in the northern part of the Prison Soul Star Sea, and the Kotila tribe was originally responsible for something in the vast star field! This makes it even more unsettling!

Of course, it doesn't believe that the power of the Human Empire can deal with that big guy, and it is more likely that it should be that unknown existence, or some unknown powerful civilization has secretly attacked!

So, open the Celestial Dial and trace the source with the power of the artifact! Finding out the real culprit of the incident has become its inevitable choice now! Even if it costs a lot of money!

Of course, King Zhan Ying can take action in person, or use other means, but the cost of that kind is even more than worth the loss!

Therefore, it adopted a compromise approach, summoning all the elders above the fifteenth rank to participate in the opening ceremony at the same time! Hundreds of elders shot together, and the loss was evenly spread, and it was within the range that could be beared!

Under the command of King Zhanying, the Celestial Dial was successfully activated by the joint efforts of the six oldest Brilliant God Kings!

Bursts of seemingly nonexistent energy fluctuations spread, and the runes on the surface of the artifact emitted a luminous white light one by one, and the level of activity also increased by one level! It's as if some strange life is waking up from its slumber!

At the top of the artifact, the strange coordinate scale on the disc also slowly reacted, and one after another mystical runes floated up, emitting colorful brilliance!

Under the control of the powerful divine mind of the Zhan Ying King, the symbols representing the coordinates of the ten-dimensional quadrant began to change their positions rapidly, and in the moment of dislocation, the light and shadow were distorted, and the combination changes were hundreds of millions of times in an instant!

A huge light screen ten meters square condensed above the artifact, revealing a vast sea of stars!

As the changes in the coordinates of the ten-dimensional quadrant gradually stabilized, the fast-paced picture on the light screen was slowly frozen, and finally locked on the depths of the Prison Soul Star Sea, an extremely hidden area!

This is where the Kotila tribe once lived: the Sea of Stars!

Next is the critical stage of the artifact's operation! King Zhan Ying looked at the hundreds of high-ranking elders present, and a trace of bitterness appeared in his heart!

This is all the vitality of our people!

The Ten Tribes of the Royal Court are the core ethnic group of the entire Zhanying Clan! The spiritual pillar in the hearts of hundreds of millions of people! These hundreds of elders are already the essence of most of the ten tribes!

It is precisely because of the existence of these strategic forces that the great Zhanying clan is guaranteed to be on an equal footing with other old civilizations in the Star Sea World! If there is a slight accident in them, it will definitely directly affect the future rise and fall of this race!

Although the lost life essence can be evenly distributed, it will also cause the elders involved in the opening ceremony to have a short period of weakness, which must be carefully recuperated before they can recover!

One or two elders are nothing, but if hundreds of elders are like this, it will be a bit dangerous! If something big happened inside and outside the clan at this time, it would be ......

It would never have made such a decision unless it had to!

Anyway, the safety of our people is of paramount importance! The enemy in the shadows must be found in advance at all costs! Otherwise, when the situation in the Star Sea evolves to a critical state in the future, that enemy will jump out and make trouble, it will be very likely to destroy our people's meticulous planning for many years and cause a catastrophic impact!

Thinking of this, it finally made up its mind and issued a second command!

The artifact body trembled, and strands of white light as thin as a hair pulled out from those flying arcane runes! It was intertwined into layers of light webs, and then slowly spread, enveloping the hundreds of elders present in it!

The elders released all their aura at the same time, and so many high-level Brilliant Commanders launched it together, and the mighty and surging power was simply earth-shattering! The unimaginable vitality erupted, shaking the specially reinforced space violently!

A gentle pulse of energy emanated from the Zhan Ying King's body, easily stabilizing the spatial structure that had begun to loosen!

The light network began to draw a large amount of life energy from the elders, which was used as a source of power to drive the operation of the artifact! After a while, the pale golden magnetic field on the bodies of those fifteenth-order Brilliant Commanders was visibly dimmed!

As the artifact was officially activated, the picture in the light screen slowly changed, and the coordinate symbol symbolizing time flickered frequently, and according to the will of King Zhanying, he began to retrace that period of time!

Soon, time was rewind to a month ago, then two months, then three months...... The Shadow King deliberately controlled the speed of time so as not to miss out on some important information that might exist! ——

Just when this group of volleyball players spent a lot of money to track down the real culprit, in the palace of the Starlight Kingdom, a meeting was being held on how the future of the kingdom should go!

In front of all the high-ranking members of the kingdom, Yun Haoyu announced the results of his talks with the envoys of the five major forces alliance of the Prison Soul Star Sea!

The envoy brought the goodwill of the five leaders, as well as their desire to establish a fixed communication mechanism, their views on the current situation in the Star Sea, proposals for the division of spheres of influence, and more!

The talks lasted for a long time, and Yun Haoyu had already learned the attitude and bottom line of the five major forces: the hundreds of star fields west of the kingdom could be incorporated into the kingdom's territory by sending fleets by him, and it was recognized that the kingdom had an equal status with the five major forces! In exchange, the Starlight Kingdom will no longer be allowed to expand its territory at will in the future, especially to the many larger forces west of the kingdom!

Yun Haoyu understood their worries, the army of the Tiroa Empire was sharpening their knives on the side of Ximeng Xingyuan, and here were many forces cooperating to guard the Heavenly Danger, if he continued to expand endlessly in the back, it would make many forces facing threats no longer have the heart to cooperate!

If the defense line of the coalition forces collapses, and the long-driven imperial army breaks into the Prison Soul Star Sea, everyone will be finished, and no one will be able to escape!

According to Feng Lanxi's analysis in advance, once these hundreds of star fields are fully incorporated into the kingdom's territory, they can almost build a sufficiently secure line of defense! In just a few months, the Kingdom's Star Defense will be strung together into a solid whole!

Therefore, the current meeting is to discuss the next strategic offensive direction of the kingdom!

It is to reject the goodwill of the alliance of the five major forces and continue to advance westward; Whether to choose other directions to expand the living space of the kingdom is a question that needs to be carefully considered!

As a result, the vast majority of the ministers who participated in the meeting were in favor of accepting the good news and accepting the demands of the alliance of the five major forces!

"Your Majesty, and all of you here!" Clarsu said, "The main goals of the expansion route of the Starlight Kingdom in the previous stage are two, one is to increase the strategic maneuver space; The second is to choose the appropriate national boundary line to create a sufficiently safe and stable star defense. To ensure that the kingdom has no worries in the next strategic actions! ”

"Now both of these goals are close to being achieved! So, what we need to discuss is, what is the next step for the kingdom? Do you want to continue to grab territory in the Hellsoul Star Sea, or do something else! There are many more benefits to the kingdom! ”

Yun Haoyu smiled: "If you have any opinions, you might as well speak up!" ”

Crassus nodded and continued: "The minister thinks that the current Starlight Kingdom's national strength development has reached a critical period! ”

"The previous investment in capital and technology at any cost, as well as the large-scale promotion of cheap genetic optimization drugs, have made the kingdom's national strength develop by leaps and bounds in just a few years! Coupled with the ever-expanding territory, it brings a variety of rich development resources! All these favorable factors add up to make the kingdom's current comprehensive national strength reach the peak of a second-rate power! Close to the level of a first-class power! ”

"But this is not enough, as the situation continues to evolve, the conquest and killing between the countries of the Star Sea will become more and more intense! In order to remain invincible in the next fierce competition, the kingdom's national power must be raised to another level, reaching the level of a first-class power, or even a superpower! ”

"To achieve this goal, it is no longer enough to simply develop the economy and technology, or to snatch more backward star fields! Or rather, it is impossible to meet our requirements in the short term! ”

"So, the only way to do it is to grab it! Grab those prosperous star fields that belong to the first-class powers or superpowers in the past! Become our own territory, through digestion and absorption, and finally achieve the goal of rapid national strength! ”

"Your desired target should be the Shuofeng Empire, right?" Yang Wentao asked with a smile.

"To be precise, it is the Twelve Provinces of Southern Xinjiang of the Shuofeng Empire!" Crassus explained, "Although the Queen Mother has acted perversely in the empire, she has made the heavens angry and resentful! But the foundation of the superpower is there, and with the current strength of the kingdom, it is not enough to deal with this behemoth! So at the moment you can't just hit the idea of it! ”

"But the twelve provinces of southern Xinjiang are currently in a de facto state of division, and Xue Chunfeng is busy cleaning up and rectifying the forces at hand for a while, preparing for the independence of the emperor, and it won't be long before he takes action! That's when our chance came! ”