296: The Spiritual Pattern Clan? The Guide!

As Ibosho lowered his head and returned to the Japanese transcendent camp with his hoverboard, the live stream was flooded with comments from countless Japanese netizens demanding that Ibosho commit seppuku to atone for his actions.

Other netizens from various countries, eager for drama, immediately joined the discussion.

Thus, the term 'Ibosho should commit seppuku to atone for his actions' instantly became a global trending topic.

Yang Dian, who had Zero constantly monitoring online news, couldn't help but chuckle upon receiving the information.

"These Little Japan are quite amusing."

"It wouldn't be bad to keep some of them around in the future to add a little fun to life."

After laughing, he took a step forward.

A faint light flickered between his eyebrows, and the space before him rippled like water.

When Yang Dian's step landed, his surroundings had transformed from the spacious airport plaza to a somewhat cramped conference room.

Pushing open the conference room door, he found himself in the Space Research Institute's observation room.

Han Zhang and Wang Xiuzhi stood side by side in front of a screen, pointing at it and discussing something.

Standing beside the two, Yang Dian glanced at the screen, which was divided into tens of thousands of smaller sections, and then spoke:

"Elder Wang, Chief Han, what's the situation now?"

Han Zhang tapped the control panel in front of him, and the central screen on the wall projected a beam of light that formed a light screen in front of the three of them.

Then he tapped the light screen, enlarged an image within it, and said:

"The war robots are in a standoff with the Lingwen Clan."

"We've gathered a fairly comprehensive understanding of the Lingwen Clan's situation."

As he spoke, the light screen divided into three parts.

One showed a Lingwen Clan priest wearing a hood, with glowing blue lines patterns on her body.

"Lingwen Clan priests, City-Level combat power, the top combat power of the Lingwen Clan."

"They can control the power of nature through the Lingwen on their bodies, unleashing destructive power equivalent to City-Level combat strength."

"These priests can also form spell arrays, fusing their energy to unleash combat power far exceeding that of ordinary City-Level individuals."

After speaking, he tapped on the image of the Lingwen Clan priest again:

"Lingwen Clan priests are all female. To become a priest, they need to undergo a ceremony at the age of five, where inscriptions are carved onto their bodies, and they drink 'Spirit Liquid'."

"The Spirit Liquid corrodes and reshapes the body. Those who endure it gain City-Level combat power; those who don't, die."

"The success rate is about one in ten thousand."

"The World Tree bears a fruit that the Lingwen Clan calls the 'Fountain of Life'."

"The Fountain of Life possesses effects such as extending life, repairing the body, and limb Rebirth."

"Eating the Fountain of Life during the ceremony can increase the ceremony's success rate to 50%."

"The life-extending divine object promised by the Lingwen Clan to those families is likely the Fountain of Life."

"The Lingwen Clan originally had 326 priests, losing over 90% in the war with the Cosmic Creature. There are currently 32 surviving priests, not ruling out the possibility of priests hiding in secret places we haven't explored."

After introducing the Lingwen Clan priests, he swiped the priest's light screen aside and pointed to the Lingwen Clan airborne cavalry, who were riding Alien Planet flying creatures.

"Lingwen Clan airborne cavalry, the mid-tier combat power of the Lingwen Clan, all male."

"Their mounts possess the ability to control natural forces, and their Physical Body are exceptionally formidable."

"Based on analyses of their training and combat footage, their burst speed approaches 200 meters per second."

"Their strength is comparable to the strongest Street-Level combat power in our country."

"With their mounts, organized Lingwen Clan airborne cavalry are capable of destroying some small Eastern European nations."

"Their numbers are also not large; only over 300 remain."

After introducing the Lingwen Clan airborne cavalry, Han Zhang pointed to the light screen of the last image and said:

"Spearmen, archers, the lowest-tier warriors of the Lingwen Clan."

"Their combat power is equivalent to that of ordinary Village-Level combatants; a single missile can kill many."

"The only thing to note is that the weapons in their hands can emit energy waves, comparable to our ordinary transcendent weapons, but far inferior to transcendent armaments."

"The advantage is that ordinary people can also use them."

"These two types of soldiers are relatively well-preserved, totaling around fifty-five thousand people."

"The rest are ordinary Lingwen Clan people with little combat power, with a total population of about a million remaining."

After introducing the Lingwen Clan's combat power, he played a video.

The video content was simple: Lingwen Clan priests flying in the sky were chattering something to the war robots.

After translation, the general meaning was that they only wanted a place to live and multiply, and did not want war.

If Earth was willing to accept them, they could pay a sufficient price.

After the video finished playing, Han Zhang opened another video and simultaneously said:

"Based on the available information, the Lingwen Clan is not a good thing."

"After analyzing the various collected information, we found that the Lingwen Clan has undergone 9 major migrations."

"Every time they migrated to a new planet, within 10 years, the Cosmic Creature would find them from the vast Universe and launch an attack on them."

"This means they have been targeted by Cosmic Creature, but have continuously preserved their clan's 'spark' through large-scale migrations."

At this point, Han Zhang's voice suddenly grew two shades heavier:

"Note, the 'spark' here refers to the Lingwen Clan's spark."

"You can probably guess the fate of the indigenous people whose planets were invaded by Cosmic Creature, even if I don't say it."

Yang Dian nodded:

"Destroyed by Cosmic Creature?"

"Roughly so." Han Zhang nodded, then offered a new conjecture:

"Why were they always able to preserve their 'spark' during the Cosmic Creature's attacks?"

"Why were the Cosmic Creature able to cross the vast Universe and catch up to them shortly after they arrived at a new planet?"

"Why, before their migration, could the invaded planets resist the Cosmic Creature's attacks, but immediately fell once they left?"

"Therefore, we have reason to believe that the Lingwen Clan are the vanguard and guides for the Cosmic Creature."

"If they are allowed onto Earth, it won't take many years before Cosmic Creature attack Earth."

Yang Dian raised an eyebrow, "Then why not just attack them directly?"

Han Zhang nodded:

"We have to fight, but there's a problem."

Han Zhang opened another video:

"The moment we surrounded the Lingwen Clan, a natural lifeform friendly with the Lingwen Clan had already left the World Tree and was heading towards the location of the Lingwen Clan's royal palace."

"It is expected to arrive at the Lingwen Clan's royal palace in just 10 minutes."

As he spoke, he played several videos of natural lifeforms fighting Cosmic Creature, and finally looked at Yang Dian:

"How is it? Do you have confidence?"

Yang Dian rubbed his brow, as if rubbing the star core that was clearly in Fusion with his brow, yet separated from him by a Dimension:

"We might not win, but we definitely won't lose."

Han Zhang smiled:

"After mastering the power of Dimension space, your words certainly have more weight."

Yang Dian also smiled:

"Before mastering the power of space, I thought space was just 'that'."

"After mastering the power of space through the Dimension Butterfly, I realized how powerful space is."

"Those space ability users couldn't unleash the power of space simply because their accumulation was too little."

"Space is king, time is revered."

"The power of space, for transcendent beings who have Awakened ordinary transcendent powers, is truly a Dimension-reducing strike."

At this point, he looked at Han Zhang again:

"So, what is the strategic objective of this operation?"