496: It's not a big problem to get a star.

“So, your plan is to perish with the root projection?”

“And you didn't even succeed, only suppressing a part of the root projection?”

Chen Heng truly couldn't understand Liu Ye's thought process.

He had clearly survived the previous Ultimate Return by hiding in the world-suppressing nail, so why was he risking his life this time?

“Brother Chen, do you know, the root projection is constantly evolving.”

“The anti-root alloy I created is becoming less and less effective.”

“If we don't do something, even if we survive the next Ultimate Return, what about the one after that?”

“The root projection will not rest until the Human Race is completely annihilated.”

Liu Ye sighed; if he could, he wouldn't want to do such a thing.

“Moreover, only I can control the temporal core. Other local natives use the temporal core with extremely low efficiency.”

“Not to mention having to constantly guard against mental replacement.”

“Once the mind of the native using the root core goes wrong, everything will be in vain.”

“In that case, it's better for me to explode with the root projection myself; at least the outcome will be good.”

Liu Ye spread his hands helplessly. If one could live well and enjoy life, who would be willing to risk their life?

“Oh right, Dragon, release the Ghost Race and have them clean up the battlefield.”

“The weather is becoming increasingly abnormal now. It would be troublesome if the corpses rot and cause a widespread plague.”

Mid-sentence with Chen Heng, Liu Ye suddenly remembered something and turned to Dragon, saying.

“Understood, Teacher.” Dragon nodded, pulled out a complex Silver White key from her pocket, and left the main battleship.

“Wait, I remember your experimental records stated that the Ghost Race couldn't be put into use?”

Chen Heng looked at Liu Ye with some confusion.

And he just happened to be one Ghost Race short of lighting up all five Golden Dragons of the human emperor seal... No, wasn't this human emperor seal created by this old fellow Liu Ye?

“Yes, but they're very useful for garbage disposal.”

Liu Ye nodded, pointing to the corpse-strewn battlefield below.

“The corpses eaten by the Ghost Race leave no residue; they're very green and environmentally friendly.”

“...” Chen Heng didn't know how to describe his Fellow Countryman.

His mental state seemed even more unstable than his own.

“Also, this human emperor seal, I'm just one Ghost Race short of lighting up all five Golden Dragons. Help me out with that later.”

Chen Heng pulled out the human emperor seal from his mouth. The three gold and one black Dragon-shaped totems on it glowed brightly.

“Hiss!” Seeing the human emperor seal Chen Heng pulled out, Liu Ye couldn't help but gasp.

“How did you do that? You actually lit up four Golden Dragons, but what's with the black one? I remember this Dragon represented the Human Race?”

“Ah... Maybe it scared the Human Race?”

Chen Heng couldn't very well say that his image in the eyes of the Human Race wasn't very good, could he? ... “When I designed the human emperor seal, I did some tests.”

“Theoretically, once all five Golden Dragons are lit, their power can almost rival that of a sky-based cannon.”

“And it can, to a certain extent, enhance the user's physical fitness and gather the elusive Luck upon them.”

“However, in actual use, the magnitude of the power still depends on the user's own prestige and physical strength.”

“I think this thing is very suitable for you to use.”

Liu Ye brought up various experimental data for the human emperor seal. The screen was filled with dense numbers.

“You don't need to show me this.” Chen Heng waved his hand. He felt sleepy whenever he saw numbers now.

“Just help me out then, and light up the last Golden Dragon representing the Ghost Race.”

“Helping you is not a problem, it's just...” Liu Ye's expression was a bit troubled, as if he was struggling with something.

“Just say what you mean, stop being so wishy-washy.”

“I can help you, this isn't difficult. It's just that the Ghost Race has no intelligence or rationality whatsoever.”

“How will you conquer them?”

Liu Ye was a bit curious what method Chen Heng would use to conquer those almost idiotic beasts.

“They're afraid, right?” Chen Heng didn't answer directly but instead asked back.

“Yes, they possess emotions.” Liu Ye nodded.

“Then it's easy to say. Awe is conquest, and fear is also a form of conquest.”

Chen Heng spread his hands. He wasn't good at gaining popular support, but he knew how to make people tremble at the sight of him.

“But the Ghost Race's fear threshold is very high.” It wasn't that Liu Ye didn't believe Chen Heng, but he felt that his creations wouldn't be so easily conquered.

“Is that so?” Chen Heng raised an eyebrow, unreservedly releasing the Devilish Qi and Evil Qi accumulated in his body.

Instantly, the temperature of the entire main battleship began to drop. Even Liu Ye, who had transformed himself into a metal lump, stopped breathing.

“Do you want to see my full power?”

“No, no, please quickly retract your Divine Ability.” Liu Ye quickly shook his head. The feeling of being targeted by a hunter was truly unbearable.

“Besides that offensive world-suppressing nail, do you have any other backup plans?”

Having retracted the Devilish Qi and Evil Qi, Chen Heng intended to discuss with Liu Ye how to deal with the root projection.

“According to my current timeline, there are exactly two months left to prepare.”

“After two months, the root projection will come to the real world from the gap between time and space, personally initiating the Ultimate Return.”

Liu Ye, who was about to take a sip of water to calm down, sprayed it out upon hearing this.

“Oh right, you're from the future, so you should know a lot about what's about to happen.”

“No, I don't know what happened to you all here. I only know that the root projection will arrive in two months.”

Chen Heng shrugged. Over a hundred thousand years, countless civilizations rose and fell. Their histories weren't preserved, let alone the desolate era.

“Dragon One used your temporal core to pinpoint the time when the root projection will descend. After all, I can't go looking for It in the gap between time and space, can I?”

“Tell me, how much combat power do you still have?”

“Currently, there are ninety-three million active forces remaining, not counting the civilians hiding in the world-suppressing nail, of course.”

“As for firepower, it's already at its limit. Ammunition will not run out, but the number of sky-based cannons and annihilation rays is not large.”

“There are currently eighteen operational sky-based cannon turrets remaining, and only the main battleship can fire annihilation rays.”

“If Brother Chen's timing is accurate, by increasing firepower at all costs, it should be possible to go even further...”

Liu Ye opened various data, beginning to calculate the maximum combat power he could achieve in two months.

A full fifteen minutes passed before Liu Ye finally calculated his maximum firepower.

“That's about it. If we go all out for these two months, blowing up this planet wouldn't be a problem.”

“Then why did you want to perish with the root projection?” Chen Heng was very confused. Your combat power is so strong, why would you still want to perish together?

“There's no other way. Even if the planet explodes, the root projection can still use time rules to perform time reversal.”

“Brother Chen, you said you've blown up a root projection before, so you should know about this move of Its.”

“And even if the current root projection is eliminated, It can still return to the present through the part of It hidden in the future.”

“Unless the root projection at three time nodes is eliminated simultaneously, eliminating a single root projection is useless.”

“But suppression is different.”

“Suppression does not affect the existence of the root projection, so the root projection will not use the part of It hidden in the future.”

“This way, the arrival of the Ultimate Return can be greatly extended. This is the most perfect method I can think of.”