Chapter 409: Emperor of the Universe
The universe is a celestial system with a hierarchical structure, diverse material forms, and constant movement and development.
If we were to start naming celestial systems step by step using the Earth as an example, they should be the Earth, the Earth-Moon system, the inner solar system, the heliosphere, the Oort Cloud, the solar system, the Local Cloud, the Local Bubble, the Gould Belt, the Orion Arm, the Milky Way, the Milky Way subgroup, the Local Group, the Virgo Supercluster, the Laniakea Supercluster, the Pisces-Cetus Supercluster complex, and the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, the largest celestial structure currently observable in the universe.
Finally, there is the observable universe and the complete universe that has never been observed.
A small galaxy cluster consisting of about forty galaxies, including the Milky Way, is called the Local Group.
Because of its "barren" location, the civilization of this galaxy group is relatively weak compared with the civilizations of other cosmic giants. The highest level of civilization is only a third-level civilization called Pandora Intelligent Creatures in the Large Magellanic Cluster.
However, there are actually far more than just Level 3 civilizations in the universe.
For example, the Hercules, a race known as the overlord of the universe, is a civilization located in the Hercules star system, where the resources of the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall are the most developed.
Level three civilization is also called galaxy civilization, that is, intelligent creatures can use the energy of the galaxy. Level three civilization can utilize all the energy of the galaxy in which it is located, and intelligent creatures can travel freely in the galaxy. At this time, the creatures of this civilization can extract energy from the vacuum, which is more powerful than nuclear energy.
Because of this, the Pandora civilization was able to create a gamma-ray burst emitter.
The Wuxian civilization has even surpassed the Pandora civilization by a large margin, reaching the fourth level of civilization, the highest level that the universe can currently achieve.
Although there is only one level difference between level three civilization and level four civilization, in fact there is a huge difference in their technological levels.
Level 4 civilization is also called cosmic civilization.
Intelligent creatures can utilize the energy of the entire universe, and energy development at this stage becomes energy development that the galactic civilization cannot recognize.
When a civilization reaches level four, their demand for energy is no longer limited to their own galaxy, but has reached the entire universe.
A level four civilization can control all the energy in the universe it is in, and the aircraft it manufactures can easily reach the speed of light. Its space jumping technology is so advanced that it can easily travel across hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of light years.
The first three levels of civilization are nothing compared to the fourth level civilization.
Only a very small number of level three civilizations can break through themselves and reach level four civilization.
Today in the universe, there are only three civilizations that have reached level four.
The Wuxian clan is one of these three civilizations, and is the most powerful among the three level four civilizations.
Because of this, Layas, the star lord of the Wuxian clan, is recognized as the emperor of the universe by billions of developed civilizations.
On this day, the Hercules King Layas was riding on the "Cadillamola" spaceship, which was a symbol of his status, to patrol the Hercules Star Cluster, which was the direct territory of the Hercules clan.
Sudden!
The "Cadilla Mora" spacecraft, which was praised as having defenses that could not be penetrated by all the third-level civilization space battleships in the universe, suddenly malfunctioned!
All the instruments on the spacecraft kept flashing and jumping!
The tens of thousands of staff members on the spacecraft were all shocked and quickly checked the instruments to see what was going on.
Layas naturally also learned about the unusual movement of the spacecraft. Although the spacecraft might be lost in the endless starry sky due to problems, he did not show any panic at all. On the contrary, he still appeared calm, worthy of being a man respected as the emperor of the universe.
Fortunately, the instrument failure only lasted a short while.
Layas then called the captain with a gloomy face and asked expressionlessly: "What happened just now?"
The captain knelt on the ground with sweat all over his forehead, and replied tremblingly: "Reporting to my king, the spacecraft was invaded by unknown energy just now, causing the instruments to malfunction."
"Huh?" Layas looked surprised. "It's not the instrument that has a problem, but an external factor?"
At first he thought that someone was trying to "usurp the throne" and was thinking of confirming it before returning to find out the thief and kill him.
Unexpectedly, it was caused by external energy invading the spacecraft.
The captain said with lingering fear: "Yes, it is an external energy intrusion."
Layas frowned and asked, "Have you found out which civilization did this?"
The captain smiled bitterly and said, "Wang, I just asked someone to track him down, but...but..."
Rayas asked, "But what?"
The captain said with fear on his face: "With our technology, we can't find out where the energy that invaded the spacecraft came from. Moreover... the energy detection instruments on the spacecraft show that this energy is a special energy that our civilization has never discovered."
Wha…what?
With such advanced technology of our Wuxian clan, we can't detect any energy?
Layas was severely shocked. You know, the Wuxian clan is one of the three highest-level civilizations in the universe, and it is also the strongest civilization among these three fourth-level civilizations. Otherwise, how could he become the emperor of the universe?
But now, the Wuxian clan’s technology is unable to detect what energy has invaded the spacecraft?
For the first time, Layas felt a sense of crisis. He knew that if he couldn't figure out what kind of energy this was, he might encounter more dangerous things in the future.
Thinking of this, Layas no longer had any mood to patrol the territory.
He immediately returned the spacecraft to the Wuxian star system.
Hercules is a super red giant star comparable in size to UY Scuti.
The radius of this super red giant is about 1,708 times that of the sun. Its radius alone reaches a terrifying 1.189 billion kilometers, and its volume is about 5 billion times that of the sun.
Unlike UY Scuti, which has a mass only seven to ten times that of the Sun, the mass of the Hercules star is about a thousand times that of the Sun.
It is precisely because of the terrifying mass of the Hercules star that it has captured many celestial bodies, and not only planets, comets, etc., but also some stars with relatively smaller mass.
It can be said that the Hercules star system is almost equivalent to a small galaxy cluster.
The Hercules planet is located right in the middle of the star system where resources are most developed. Similarly, the Hercules planet is a super-Earth planet where hundreds of billions of Hercules people live.
There is a huge temple located in the central plain of the planet Wuxian.
This holy temple is where every king of the Wuxian tribe lives and holds "court meetings".
As soon as Layas returned to the temple, he immediately summoned all the princes and ministers of the Wuxian tribe, and also convened the supreme leaders of countless affiliated civilization alliances to attend a meeting.
Among them, Pandora, the king of the only third-level civilized race in the Milky Way and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, is on the list.
However, since Pandora can "run rampant" in the Milky Way and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, it can only be ranked last here.
There is no way, there are too many developed civilizations.
Layas swept across countless virtual projections and knocked on the metal conference table. "Today, when I was inspecting the territory, my spaceship was invaded by an unknown energy. Even my Wuxian civilization is still unable to detect what this energy is, nor can we find out where it comes from..."
At this point, his face turned a little gloomy. "I really want to know if any of your civilizations has developed any new weapons. According to the regulations of the Universal Federation, civilizations above level three must report any weapons that exceed planetary power. I just checked the reporting information and there are no weapons with this kind of energy."
"What?"
"The Wuxian Clan civilization can't even detect the energy attributes?"
"Hiss, could it be that the other two level 4 civilizations have developed some new type of weapon?"
A group of supreme leaders of the third-level civilization were all in an uproar, looking extremely unbelievable.
Only Pandora was stunned. He seemed to have thought of something vaguely, but he was not sure.
Layas narrowed his eyes and said, "If it weren't for your newly developed weapons, it seems we would have to interrogate the other fourth-level civilizations about the situation!"
When these words were spoken, everyone in the room was shocked.
Why?
Because what Layas meant by this was that he was preparing to go to war with the other two level four civilizations.
In fact, it is normal to think about it. As the emperor of the universe, Layas controls most of the universe. Now he is provoked while riding on a spaceship. It seems that except for the other two level-four civilizations, no one else can do it so quietly.
What do the provocations from the other two Level 4 civilizations represent?
It represents an infringement on the unshakable dignity of the Emperor of the Universe, Layas!
Then, in order to maintain the dignity of the emperor of the universe, Layas must go to war with the other two level four civilizations.
You know, it is a very terrible thing for a level 4 civilization to go to war. At the very least, it will destroy countless star systems, and at worst, it will destroy countless galaxy clusters and even superclusters. Such a horrific scene is definitely something that no civilization wants to see.
Seeing that the situation was getting serious, Pandora knew that she could not sit still and wait for death. She had to speak out what she knew. Otherwise, if a level-four civilization war broke out, the Milky Way and the Large and Small Magellanic Clusters might all be destroyed in this "god-level war."
"Great Lord Layas." Pandora praised him first, and then said, "Perhaps, I know what that unknown energy is."
"You know?"
"Your Pandora race is just the bottom civilization among the three-level civilizations. How could you possibly know what's going on?"
"Pandora, this is related to the cosmic war, don't speak carelessly."
Some supreme leaders of advanced civilizations couldn't help but frown, thinking that Pandora was talking nonsense.
Layas did not look down on Pandora like the supreme leaders of those advanced civilizations, but said calmly: "Tell me what you know."
Pandora took a deep breath and stunned everyone with her first words. "Everyone knows that the Large Magellanic Cluster where our Pandora civilization is located is one of the semi-living galaxy clusters in the Milky Way. In the Milky Way there is a place called the Solar System. There is a place called Earth where intelligent creatures were born, and also the guardian of the planet was born!"
"ah?"
"Planet guardian?"
"Hahaha, Pandora, are you crazy? How can you even think of something like a god?"
A group of Level 3 civilization leaders started laughing.
There's no way, things like gods sound too fantastic.
Not to mention that the Wuxian civilization has reached level four, just say that every racial civilization present has reached level three, and some of these racial civilizations have even experienced more than ten billion years, and can be said to be living fossils of intelligent creatures in the universe.
But even though civilizations have existed for such a long time, they have still not discovered any gods in the universe.
Because of this, when Pandora said that the Earth had given birth to a planetary patron saint, the leaders of the third-level civilization present all laughed at her, thinking that Pandora was making up stories!
At first, Layas also thought that Pandora was talking nonsense, but when he remembered that even such a developed civilization as the Wuxian tribe could not detect the energy attributes, he suddenly became confused and wondered if the energy that invaded the spacecraft was really the power of God?
When Layas thought of the word "God", his mind became heavy.
The reason why he was able to become the emperor of the universe was entirely because the Wuxian civilization was far superior to all other civilizations and possessed unprecedentedly powerful combat power.
What if there really are gods in this universe?
It is bound to threaten the Wuxian clan’s position as the overlord of the universe!
By then, he might even lose his title as the Emperor of the Universe!
Thinking of this, Layas became a little uneasy and said to Pandora, "Tell me the information about the planet's guardian in detail. Don't leave anything out."
"Okay, Lord Layas." Pandora thought that Layas was interested in gods, but she didn't think that he was thinking about "killing gods" in his heart, so she introduced: "The planetary guardian of the Earth is named Fang, and his given name is Yi. I first knew about this planetary guardian when the steel behemoth was causing chaos not long ago. At that time, a particularly powerful iron-based life broke into our local galaxy..."
He recounted the entire incident in detail.
The supreme leaders of the third-level civilizations became more and more speechless as they listened, and they always felt that Pandora was making up stories.
Things like gamma-ray bursts not being able to harm iron-based life in the slightest, being easily decomposed into invisible particles by Master Fang, and Master Fang subduing iron-based life all sound like myths and legends.
Only Layas's expression became more and more solemn as he listened. As the emperor of the universe, he had never been ambiguous about anything that might threaten his status and race.
Yes, he believed that the universe did indeed give birth to such terrifying creatures as iron-based life.
Why do others not believe it, but Layas believes it so much?
Because according to the secret books left behind by the Wuxian tribe, as early as 300 million Earth years ago, the Wuxian tribe had encountered an iron-based life form that could only exist in legends.
At that time, the technology of the Hercules tribe had reached the peak of the third-level civilization, but even so, they still had no power to resist the iron-based life form, and eventually had to evacuate their original star field, crossing thousands of planets and settling down in the Hercules star system.
It was precisely because of that heavy blow that the development of the Wuxian civilization stagnated for a long period of time.
Naturally, Layas knew how terrifying iron-based life was and that it was a real and terrifying creature.
However, the Wuxian clan has developed to the point where they have acquired powerful technology to eradicate iron-based life forms and are no longer afraid.
Since iron-based life has been confirmed to exist, Layas has reason to believe that Fang Yi, the guardian of the earth mentioned by Pandora, also exists in reality.
The thought that there really is a god in the universe, and that this god has the powerful force to easily destroy iron-based life, makes Layas feel even more threatened.
An instinctive thought came to his mind: he must kill this god, otherwise the Wuxian clan’s position as the overlord of the universe would be in jeopardy!
Yes, Fang Yi obviously had not done anything to infringe upon the interests of the Wuxian clan, but just because it might affect the Wuxian clan's position as the overlord of the universe, Layas intended to "kill him".
Layas not only wants to kill the gods, but also wants to bring back the body of the planet's guardian god mentioned by Pandora, and study why the gods are far more powerful than ordinary intelligent creatures.
Little did he know that having this thought had already put him on the brink of death!
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