20: Spatial passage, sea creatures from another world

Under your watchful eyes, the space fissure on that uninhabited island slowly opened.

The fissure opened, eventually forming a massive Space Tunnel over a thousand meters long and about a hundred meters wide.

The interior of the tunnel shimmered with a deep silver light, and then the Space Tunnel began to fluctuate violently, as if something inside was about to rush out.

Before you could carefully observe this newly formed Space Tunnel.

At the entrance of the tunnel, a huge shadow slowly emerged.

It was a creature at least three hundred meters long, with a shape between a whale and a manta ray. Its entire body was covered in deep blue scales that shimmered with a metallic luster, and several crystal-like structures bulged from its back, emitting a soft blue light.

Standing on the back of this giant creature were dozens of humanoid figures.

They were about two and a half meters tall, with light blue skin, long limbs, and webbed structures between their fingers.

Fish-fin-like organs grew on the sides of their heads, and their eyes were large and deep, without pupils, only a dark blue. These creatures wore garments woven from some kind of glowing seaweed, and in their hands, they held weapons that looked like a Fusion of coral and metal.

Judging from the clothing and weapons on these people, these creatures emerging from the Space Tunnel must have also formed a certain level of civilization.

Since it was temporarily unknown whether this civilization was friendly or ferocious, the Federation did not immediately order the weapons to fire.

Instead, they first used drones arranged near the Space Tunnel to pose your questions to them.

These drones were equipped with universal translators manufactured by the Federation, capable of conveying the meaning you wanted to express directly into the minds of the intelligent creatures by releasing specific mental wave frequencies.

They could even capture the mental wave frequencies released when others spoke and translate them into a language you were familiar with.

You first asked them questions such as "Who are you?" "How did you come here? What are you here for?" and other similar inquiries.

The response received, through translation, was instead words that only invaders would say, such as "Kill all the creatures on the opposite side," and "Occupy this place."

Since it was known that they were here to invade, what else was there to say? Just start fighting!

With the Federation's current weapons, just one round of attacks blasted 70% of the creatures from another world into slag. If it weren't for the fact that the Federation wanted to obtain some information from these people, one round of attacks would have guaranteed that not even slag of these things would remain.

The rest were captured alive, including that giant fish-like creature.

In April of the 122nd Year of the Dawn Era, through special means, you extracted rough information about the other side from the brains of these captured creatures from another world.

This type of creature called itself the Sea Clan, and they also lived on a planet.

The surface area of this planet was about twice as large as the original Blue Star.

However, 95% of this planet was covered by seawater, leaving only a few sporadic islands.

Therefore, the Sea Clan called this planet the Deep Sea Star.

The Sea Clan were the race living in the deep sea, with a population of about 3 billion.

The Sea Clan was also a race with clear social stratification, ruled by a so-called royal family, just like in the ancient times of Blue Star.

These royals were born smarter and stronger than ordinary members of the Sea Clan.

The Sea Clan members you captured were not royals; the average height of the royals was around 5 meters.

Spiritual Qi also existed on Deep Sea Star and had appeared three hundred years ago.

However, their planet did not experience the expansion that Blue Star did, and according to the information known to these Sea Clan members, there were not many strong individuals on Deep Sea Star.

Even the ruler in their memories, the Lord of the Sea Clan—the Sea Emperor—did not display strength comparable to a Fifth Realm Martial Artist who had forged a Transcendent Body.

This counted as good news. Of course, you would not be careless because of this; who knew how deep the foundation of a race that had seen Spiritual Qi for 300 years was.

And the other piece of information could not be considered good news.

From these Sea Clan members, you learned the general situation of the Space Tunnel.

Fifty years ago on Deep Sea Star, a Space Tunnel suddenly appeared on their planet. At that time, the Sea Clan, just like humanity now, suffered an inexplicable invasion from another world.

The result was that the Sea Clan eventually repelled the creatures from another world and successfully launched a counter-invasion.

The resources and knowledge plundered from the other world gave the Sea Clan a taste of success. Afterwards, another Space Tunnel appeared, and the strength on the opposite side was also inferior to the Sea Clan, so the Sea Clan's strength rapidly increased by utilizing the plundered resources.

However, after passing through the Space Tunnel and entering another world, one would be subjected to an inexplicable suppressive force, which would affect the exertion of one's strength.

And the stronger the strength, the stronger the suppressive force.

Even so, this Space Tunnel was now the third piece of "fat meat" delivered to the Sea Clan's doorstep. Having experienced two victories, the Sea Clan was now a little arrogant.

Of course, the Sea Clan was also an intelligent civilization and certainly would not dive headfirst into an unknown world. These captured Sea Clan members were all cannon fodder used to scout the path, with strength not even comparable to a Second Realm Martial Artist.

That giant fish-shaped creature possessed a special ability to synchronize the scenes it saw and perceived into the minds of the Sea Clan members it had a mental connection with; even the Space Tunnel could not stop this transmission of information.

If this was the case, the Sea Clan on the other side should already have some understanding of Blue Star.

However, if the Sea Clan's strength was truly as it appeared in the memories of these cannon fodder, even with more understanding, they would still be crushed by you.

What you were worried about was whether one day, Blue Star would, like the Sea Clan, face a Space Tunnel where you could not defeat the opposite side at all.

Although it was uncertain whether this situation would occur, the Federation still entered a state of combat readiness and began to research large-scale weapons of mass destruction, so that even if they couldn't win, they would be able to perish together.

It had been more than ten days since this batch of Sea Clan cannon fodder came out of the Space Tunnel, and there was still no movement from the other side; you always felt that the Sea Clan was brewing something big.

During this period, you also tried attacking the Space Tunnel with various weapons. As expected, just as the Sea Clan said, attacking the Space Tunnel was useless; you simply couldn't hit the other side. This Space Tunnel seemed to have its own judgment mechanism where some things could not pass through.

The Space Tunnel on the Sea Clan's side opened in the sea, but no seawater poured out on this side.

The Sea Clan didn't come over, and the Federation wasn't prepared to go over either. You and the Federation were now both researching the weapons used by the Sea Clan.

Speaking of weapons, the Federation had also thought about forging those kinds of Magical Artifacts mentioned in novels, but later discovered that they didn't have the technology for that.

And weapons forged purely from alloys made by the Fusion of various Spirit Irons simply couldn't withstand the eruption of Qi and blood.

And for Martial Artists who converted Qi and blood into spiritual power, these weapons, apart from being hard, were like useless chicken ribs; they were not as good as the weapons they condensed themselves using spiritual power.

But the Sea Clan's weapons were different; they were engraved with some unique patterns that could amplify Spiritual Qi.

You named these patterns Spirit Rune.

And what you had to do next was to deduce and create more Spirit Runes based on the prototypes, and try to apply them to various aspects.