237: Chapter 237 The Star Council

"Star Council?!" Chen Xi's pupils constricted violently. "Isn't that..."

"Exactly! It is synonymous with the Federation's highest authority! It is the supreme council composed of twelve 'Ancient Pioneers' who awakened even before the Great Cataclysm a century ago!"

Xia Qing pushed up his glasses and took over the conversation, his tone filled with suppressed rage:

"We intercepted their high-level classified communication at a secret base on the Extreme North Ice Field. Do you know how this star gate came to be? It wasn't opened by alien gods themselves; it was the [Star Council] that used nearly half of the Federation's national treasury resources to actively build it and send coordinate invitations to high-dimensional space!"

"Why would they do that?! What benefit do they get from inviting the wolf into the house?!" Ye Fei questioned angrily. She couldn't understand why the supreme leaders of humanity would personally destroy their own compatriots.

"Because in their eyes, ordinary civilians and even low-level Professionals are nothing more than failed experimental subjects."

Shen Ye let out a cold laugh, his voice dripping with mockery:

"Those old monsters who have lived for over a hundred years have reached the end of their lifespans, and their strength has hit the upper limit of this world's rules. They can't progress any further."

"To pursue so-called 'immortality' and achieve 'life ascension' to a higher dimension, they have completely betrayed humanity's stance. They struck a devilish bargain with the gods of high-dimensional space—"

"The Star Council is responsible for establishing star gates on Earth to usher in the arrival of the gods, conducting a thorough 'High-Dimensional Purification' of the planet to erase all lower life forms. In return, those gods will grant the twelve of them the authority to break through dimensional barriers, allowing them to ascend to high-dimensional beings and gain true immortality!"

Boom!!!

The truth was revealed.

This was a shocking conspiracy, crueler than a demon and darker than the abyss!

The entire ruling class of humanity actually planned to sacrifice the lives of billions across the globe as offerings to terrifying alien gods for their own selfish desires!

"Those beasts..." Su Xiaoxiao gripped her staff tightly. In her extreme rage, her fingernails dug deep into her palms, and blood dripped down without her even noticing.

Chen Xi didn't speak. He just sat quietly on the ice, head bowed, with his bangs obscuring his eyes, making it impossible to see his expression. However, the temperature around him dropped by over a dozen degrees in an instant, and the violent spiritual energy surging faintly around him told of the monstrous killing intent churning within.

"Wu Tian is dead, and the star gate in the Extreme North has been destroyed by us."

Shen Ye looked at the silent Chen Xi and gave a heavy final summary:

"But this is far from enough. The [Star Council] controls the Federation's largest military and resources; they can restart the star gate elsewhere at any time. And..."

Shen Ye took a deep breath and dropped the final bombshell:

"In three days, the Imperial Capital will hold an unprecedented 'Global Federation Supreme Summit'."

"Nominally, it's to mourn the fall of Principal Wu Tian and elect a new Supreme Speaker. But in reality, the intelligence we intercepted shows that the Star Council intends to pass a final bill called the 'Humanity Cleansing Project' at that summit, forcibly stripping global civilians of their survival resources and concentrating all energy to open an 'Ultimate Star Gate' that covers the entire planet!"

"Chen Xi, the time left for us... is only three days."

The wind on the Extreme North Ice Field remained bone-chillingly cold.

But upon hearing the terms "Global Federation Supreme Summit" and "Humanity Cleansing Project," a monstrous rage capable of melting ten-thousand-year-old glaciers ignited in the hearts of the Nirvana Battle Team, Shen Ye, and the others.

"Three days... they really can't wait to sound the death knell for this planet."

Chen Xi slowly stood up from the ice. He brushed off the snow and bloodstains from his body. On his face, which was slightly pale from spiritual overexertion, an extremely cold and even somewhat eerie, arrogant smile appeared.

"Since those high-and-mighty old monsters think humans are failed experimental subjects and that we are lambs for the slaughter..."

Chen Xi slowly raised his right hand. The [Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain] card, radiating nine-colored divine light, and the newly condensed [Starry Sky Gate] card, which contained the laws of high-dimensional space, simultaneously emerged, intertwined, and rotated at his fingertips.

"Then there's no need for us to wait for them to open some bullshit star gate."

Deep within Chen Xi's eyes, a surge of crazed battle intent erupted, making everyone present tremble:

"Don't they want to see the gods?"

"Then today, I'll take you back to the Imperial Capital and kick down the doors of the Supreme Council myself!"

"I want them to see clearly what true—[Divine Punishment]—really is!"

"Captain, do you mean..." Li Murou swallowed hard, her large eyes filled with both shock and irrepressible excitement. "We're going to fight our way back to the Imperial Capital? To go head-to-head with the Federation's highest authority?!"

"Not just head-to-head; it's a complete reckoning."

Chen Xi turned around, his gaze sweeping over each of his comrades like a torch.

From the cold and lightning-like Su Xiaoxiao to the time-controlling Li Murou; from Ye Fei, who had awakened the Lord of Myriad Spirits, to the Undying Shield Lin Shan who was reborn through blood; and finally, to Shen Ye and Xia Qing, who had experienced life and death and mastered the laws of time and space.

These seven people now represented the absolute ceiling of individual combat power in the entire human world.

"Captain Shen." Chen Xi looked at Shen Ye, his voice low and powerful. "Although the Star Council is rotten to the core, in the Federation military, there should still be many iron-blooded generals like Commander-in-Chief Lei Zhentian and Li Zhenhai, who truly care about humanity and remain loyal to their principles, right?"

Shen Ye keenly caught the deep meaning in Chen Xi's words, and his single eye suddenly lit up. "You mean... a mutiny?"

"It's not called a mutiny; it's called 'Purging the Court'."

Chen Xi sneered and pulled out the special flare gun that Li Zhenhai had personally handed to him, representing the military's highest-level distress signal.

"Since this is a war concerning the survival of humanity, we can't just rely on the few of us to fight alone."

"We need an army. We need soldiers who are truly willing to fight to protect their home!"

Chen Xi tossed the flare gun to Shen Ye. "Captain Shen, you and Xia Qing have more connections in the military high command than I do. I need you to immediately use special channels to contact those two big shots, Lei Zhentian and Li Zhenhai, and send them all the evidence of the 'Star Council' conspiracy we gathered tonight!"

"Ask them, facing this group of old bastards attempting to sacrifice the Earth..."

"Are the two generals brave enough to charge into the Imperial Capital with us lunatics and flip the heavens?!"