Chapter 892: Harvest on a Spree
It can be said that the earth civilization with a large number of monks is the most serious restraint on the ancient civilization among the surrounding galaxies, and even the cosmic-level civilization is not as serious as the threat that the earth civilization can bring to the ancient civilization.
After all, the soul bodies of ancient civilizations are simply undetectable by ordinary methods, and cosmic-level civilizations must also use special soul body detection equipment if they want to discover the existence of these soul bodies, and these devices are not only technically difficult and have high production costs, but more importantly, the output is also very limited, and the production capacity that can be increased in a short period of time is not much.
Therefore, no matter how great the ability of a cosmic-level civilization is, many times it will not even be able to discover these soul bodies, let alone deal with them in a targeted manner.
As for the earth civilization, because of the existence of a large number of cultivators, the earth civilization has a very thorough understanding of the spiritual and soul realms, and any ghost and immortal-level monk can go out of the body and discover the existence of these soul bodies from a distance.
Relatively speaking, the threat of ancient civilizations to the civilization of the earth is naturally minimal.
Although the ancient civilization had such a killer weapon as the soul body virus, the monks of the earth civilization had a deep understanding of the soul mysteries and could easily discover those anomalies that existed in the soul realm.
Even if the soul bodies of these ancient civilizations wanted to deliberately spread the soul body virus, they could be extinguished by the monks of the earth civilization at the initial stage, and it was impossible for the soul body virus to spread wantonly within the earth civilization.
In this way, just relying on the strength of tens of millions of powerful soul bodies of the ancient civilization, it is just a small dish for the earth civilization, and the ancient civilization hits the earth civilization with its ideas, which is really called a self-defeating self-defeat.
However, after a long journey, the ancient civilizations that had just entered the scope of the meteorite star sea civilization circle did not know the horror of the earth civilization at all.
After crossing the long void and experiencing dangerous star fields everywhere, the remnants of the ancient civilization who had just entered the Meteorite Star Sea Civilization Circle were extremely hungry and thirsty.
How have these souls, who have always been arrogant and accustomed to being arrogant since they came to the material world, have lived such a long and hard life?
In the past, when they were in the lair, they had a large number of soul bodies for them to devour and absorb at will every day, and how comfortable it was. Many times there are so many soul bodies that they can't swallow them at all.
But this expedition to the depths of the meteorite star sea really pitted them.
The distance between the habitable zones of each civilization is extremely far, often tens of thousands of light years away, even if there is a wormhole passage left by the ancient civilization to borrow, it often takes tens of hundreds of years to cross the distance between the habitable zones of the two civilizations.
These souls are really fed up with such hard days.
Even before leaving, they had stored as much soul resources as possible to support the consumption during the journey. But the voyage of tens or hundreds of years still makes them extremely uncomfortable.
No matter how much soul body you have in reserve, you are limited, and in the practice of nearly a hundred years, no amount of reserves will be slowly depleted.
It may be that at first they can enjoy ten soul bodies, but slowly as the resources continue to be consumed, they can only reduce their food consumption to one or two, and finally they even have to starve, and it will take ten days and half a month to swallow one soul food.
Such a painful life that makes people feel extremely tormented really makes every soul body of the ancient civilization live like a year, and there is a feeling that life is worse than death.
The longer the journey progressed, and the longer the hard days passed, the more the souls of these ancient civilizations missed the taste of the living soul.
The quality of soul food is also very different, the freshly harvested soul is like a delicious fish, but the soul food that has been stored for too long will inevitably make people lose their appetite like salty and dry salted dried fish. Unfortunately, even this kind of unappetizing food is getting scarcer and smaller, and it has to be supplied in limited quantities.
For the souls of ancient civilizations who have gone deep into the depths of the meteorite star sea to explore, they really have experienced it once and don't want to try it a second time.
Fortunately, between the habitable zones of various civilizations, although large areas are barren and uninhabited interstellar ruins, occasionally there will be some civilizations that have survived the catastrophe in some star fields.
These civilizations that survived in the meteorite star sea encountered the souls of the hungry ancient civilizations, and they really fell into blood mold.
Every time it is encountered by the soul body, it is inevitable to encounter a tragic massacre, and a large amount of soul food will be harvested and stored, waiting for the soul body of the ancient civilization to enjoy it slowly.
Every time they encounter such sporadic civilizations, for these ancient civilization soul bodies, it is nothing less than a good day like the New Year, several times these soul bodies have overharvested, and directly slaughtered the interstellar civilizations they encountered, although the ancient civilizations are also trying their best to avoid such a situation, and want to operate these interstellar civilizations as long-term granaries, but the hungry new generation soul bodies of the ancient civilizations do not take care of these, they often only care about a full meal to fill their empty soul bodies, and the wanton devouring often leads to the extinction of civilizations。
Crossing the distance between the habitable zones of ordinary civilizations is already so difficult for the souls of ancient civilizations, and the journey from the last habitable zone of civilization to the meteorite star sea civilization circle is even more difficult for the souls of ancient civilizations.
Even if it is the closest civilization habitable zone to the Meteorite Star Sea Civilization Circle, the distance from here is several times the distance between other habitable zones, even if the convenience of having a wormhole passage can greatly shorten the navigation time, it took nearly one hundred and fifty years for the souls of the ancient civilization to just enter the Meteorite Star Sea Civilization Circle.
What's even more hateful is that the environment around the meteorite star sea civilization circle is even more complex and harsh, and the number of interstellar civilizations scattered in the meteorite starry sky is pitiful, and the ancient civilizations have not been able to encounter a few along the way, and the complete harvesting of these interstellar civilizations has not allowed the souls of the ancient civilizations to enjoy a few good days.
Therefore, as soon as they entered the Meteorite Star Sea Civilization Circle, just by coming into contact with a few interstellar civilizations in the outermost part of here, the ancient civilizations couldn't help but start celebrating wildly, wantonly harvesting their souls, and filling their empty and hungry souls with massive soul food.
You must know that the rich area of the Meteorite Star Sea Civilization Circle is quite large, and this area alone spans tens of thousands of light years in diameter, and it is a very prosperous habitable zone.
The large and small interstellar civilizations here must have a scale of hundreds of thousands, to say the least, because the earth civilization ended the domination and hegemony of the original three hegemonic civilizations and established the ruling order of the earth civilization.
With the tools at hand, a more stable and safe order, and because the earth civilization actively advocates business and trade cooperation, the meteorite star sea civilization circle has been fully developed over the years, and many interstellar civilizations have actively explored and developed to the outside world, expanding the scope of the meteorite star sea outward.
The interstellar civilizations that the ancient civilizations had just entered the meteorite star sea civilization circle and began to harvest recklessly were some of the weak civilizations that were now actively expanding the boundaries of the meteorite star sea civilization circle.
Although such a weak civilization is not known in the current Meteorite Star Sea civilization circle, and there is no weight at all, they are still part of the current Meteorite Star Sea civilization order.
Behind these civilizations, they have direct contacts and information connections with a large number of civilizations, not to mention that the earth civilization controls every wormhole channel in the meteorite star sea civilization circle, and has established an unbreakable ruling ability and inextricable information channels in the meteorite star sea civilization circle.
It can be said that in the meteorite star sea civilization circle, any interstellar civilization, even if it is on the edge, must have a stronghold of the earth civilization within a thousand light years around it. Any slight news or abnormal change in the Meteorite Star Sea civilization circle cannot escape the ears and eyes of the Earth civilization.
Therefore, when the news that these interstellar civilizations suddenly encountered an alien fleet and that the entire civilization had suffered heavy casualties due to strange epidemics, the earth civilization had already made several rounds of confirmation of the relevant news before the other interstellar civilizations had reacted or even realized its seriousness.
Even the earth civilization has obtained a large number of first-hand information on the scene of the relevant victim civilization, and through various intelligence details, the earth civilization has confirmed that there is an alien civilization invading the meteorite star sea civilization circle.
And I'm afraid that even the ancient civilization can't believe that the earth civilization actually confirmed that the invading enemy was the ancient civilization through various signs for the first time!
In fact, what may be beyond the imagination of the ancient civilization is that the earth civilization is actually no stranger to the ancient civilization, the soul body civilization.
In the past thousand years, although the earth civilization has not been expanding aggressively to the outside world, but has been entrenched in the meteorite star sea civilization circle, this is not actually because the earth civilization is unable to carry out external expansion actions.
This is more of a strategic choice for the civilization of the planet.
For the earth civilization, the current meteorite star sea alliance circle, a huge space spanning tens of thousands of light years, can actually fully meet the development needs of the earth civilization for a period of time, and the earth civilization does not have the need for large-scale external expansion in a short period of time.
After all, even those true cosmic-level civilizations, the focus and core of their real operation are just the big galaxies they came from.
For the primary stage of cosmic-level civilizations, even if they have the ability to extend their tentacles into the surrounding large galaxies, but generally speaking, for those surrounding large galaxies, these cosmic-level civilizations will not focus on management, carry out a large number of immigration, etc., they generally have to adopt more resource plundering strategies.
For the surrounding large galaxies, these cosmic-level civilizations generally only send a small number of fleets or armed forces to form limited settlements within the corresponding large galaxies, support local capable civilizations as subordinates, and plunder the unique biological resources within these large galaxies as much as possible through the production of faster-than-light spaceships, as well as some scarce mineral resources, etc.
It can be said that if it does not develop to a certain stage, even if it is a cosmic-level civilization, just having a large galaxy as a territory is already fully able to meet its own development needs, and more territory and more resources are just icing on the cake in many cases, and there is no great significance.
If this is still the case for cosmic-level civilizations, the appetite of earth civilizations will naturally be even smaller.
The vast universe with a radius of tens of thousands of light years in the Meteorite Star Sea Civilization Circle was already enough to meet the needs at least before the Earth civilization was promoted to a cosmic civilization.
Although the earth civilization has not really been promoted to the level of cosmic civilization, because of the special innate conditions of the earth civilization, the earth civilization has long had a clear understanding of how to go on the future road, which science and technology trees should be lit, and so on.
In the future, the various products and resources needed by the earth civilization have found sufficient reserves in the meteorite star sea civilization circle, and all kinds of scarce resources can fully meet the development needs of the earth civilization. Even if the future earth civilization can fully exert the potential of this territory, then the strength of the earth civilization on the scientific and technological side will be stronger than that of the vast majority of low-end cosmic-level civilizations.
Therefore, in an environment where there is not too much pressure on resources and security threats, there is no need for the earth civilization to expand blindly, and it only needs to work hard and concentrate on development, and naturally the earth civilization will be able to go to a higher level and grow to a more powerful state.
This is true for the development of the science and technology side, and the same is true for the development of the cultivation side.
After thousands of years of development, the cultivation side of the earth's civilization has long been deeply rooted and grandiose. Under the accumulation of time, the cultivation side of the earth's civilization has reached a considerable height, and everything has been able to achieve basic self-sufficiency.
The biggest external demand on the cultivation side of the earth's civilization is the demand for raw materials for aura, and the existence of many interstellar civilizations in the meteorite star sea civilization circle and the existence of a large number of population resources have also been able to fully meet the development needs of the earth's civilization.
In this case, the earth's civilization naturally has no urgent will to open up to the outside world.
As long as it is developed naturally, it can be obtained at your fingertips, and naturally no one has to make a big deal about the rights and wrongs of life.