Chapter 320: Azure Dragon Civilization.
"This kid must harbor quite a bit of hatred towards his own race, planning to use a borrowed knife to kill,"
"His thoughts are quite malicious."
"Miao, what do you say, should we just inform everyone tomorrow to wipe out the Azure Dragon Clan?"
Of course, his words were nonsense, they didn't have the power to wipe out an entire race now. Not to mention wiping them out, they couldn't even find them; he was just saying this to scare Wang Defa, a man who didn't seem very smart. Enjoy new chapters from empire
"Right——"
"Not only did he say his race was the Azure Dragon, but he also happened to mention his name was Wang Defa."
"No one even asked for your name, why are you confessing without being pressed?"
At this, Wang Defa also realized he might have let something slip, his face turned as pale as a dead man's. He was now staring at the ground in a daze, murmuring something repeatedly under his breath.
I'm a sinner of the Azure Dragon...
The Azure Dragon perished because of me...
I, Wang Defa, have let down my ancestors and my hometown...
It was clear that not only had Wang Defa acknowledged Chen Miao's strength with great affirmation, but he had also confirmed Chen Miao's killer instinct.
"May I ask boldly."
Chen Miao began, his face somewhat curious, "Why do you think I would really wipe out your Azure Dragon race? Can you tell me the reason?"
He always felt that things were developing oddly.
"Because...because..."
Wang Defa lifted his head, his eyes red and bloodshot as he looked at Chen Miao and whispered, "You are protected personally by 'Great Qin', the civilization that has never vouched for anyone before."
"For 'Great Qin' to wipe out a race, isn't that just business as usual?"
"'Great Qin' has annihilated, if not hundreds, at least two hundred races by now. For your Great Qin, aren't all those who don't submit to Great Qin to be wiped out?"
"The Azure Dragon tried to have as little interaction with Great Qin as possible, but sadly, I failed here!"
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault!"
"I'm a sinner!"
"..."
"..."
"..."
After a long, expressionless silence, Chen Miao finally spoke softly, "Don't rush, sit down and take your time to tell me about the Fifth-Level Civilization and Great Qin, tell me everything you know."
He could understand every word the man said, but when put together, he couldn't make sense of any of it.
However, he did hear a very familiar name 'Great Qin'.
Wasn't that a dynasty from Earth's history?
Blue Star's culture had many overlaps with Earth's culture, but there was no 'Great Qin' dynasty in the history of Blue Star.
Meanwhile, Hungry Monkey and the others promptly brought out small stools, sat down, and prepared to listen intently as if it were a juicy story.
Zhou Shen even took out a big bag of sunflower seeds from his pocket, handing some to everyone else with a gesture: "Come on, let's enjoy the drama, this is first-hand juicy stuff, the first real alien we've ever encountered."
"That's not really the case."
The Black Doctor, sitting to one side, shook his head, "The Zhiren Race inside Miao's body is the first alien we've met; you've all seen it under the microscope."
"How can that be considered, that at most would just be an alien virus. They can't even talk, how are they considered aliens?"
"Ah...?"
The man, with a ghastly pale complexion, lips tinged blue-black, and eyes red with bloodshot veins, looked around at the babbling crowd. After being frozen in place for a while, he tentatively opened his mouth to speak, "You really don't know?"
"Hm."
"You seriously don't know?"
"Yeah."
"You don't know about civilization classification? Or the great collapse of civilization?"
"Yeah, yeah."
"You don't know about the Great Qin Civilization, the Azure Dragon Civilization, the Out-of-Bound Civilization?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah."
"Ah?"
Wang Defa's face was full of confusion as he realized these people knew nothing. That meant they didn't even know what the "Great Qin" civilization was, let alone the Azure Dragon, which also meant that they wouldn't exterminate his race, and he wasn't a criminal?
With this thought, he breathed a sigh of relief, sat down cross-legged on the ground, and took a cigarette passed to him by Hungry Monkey. After lighting and taking a deep drag, his condition visibly improved, and he began to speak at length.
"Well, that's a long story. I'll untangle it and tell you where to start."
"Let's start with civilization classification."
"There are countless civilizations in the universe. How many exactly, no one has figured out, and it's impossible to account for all, because who knows where, in some forsaken corner, a civilization could pop up. Take the Great Qin civilization, for example. It popped out of some godforsaken star system."
"Seems like it was called the Solar System."
"The 'Great Qin' civilization is a cultivation civilization, full of cultivators, with extremely formidable combat power. Despite the individual combat capabilities of each member being immensely strong, they also engage in rigorous military discipline and formation combat. Against most civilizations, they are overwhelmingly dominant. A few years ago, they were voted by the universe as a Fifth-Level Civilization."
"Officially promoted to, one of the strongest civilizations in the universe!"
"Every civilization develops in different directions. Some rely on cultivation like 'Great Qin', some rely on reproducing large populations like the 'Zhiren Race', some rely on physical capabilities like 'Azure Dragon', and some rely on technology like 'Seven Sided'."
"But no matter the direction, once a civilization reaches a certain threshold of overall combat power, it automatically gets classified by the universe's civilization classification system."
"Although the development directions differ and each has its strengths and weaknesses, a Fifth-Level Civilization will always reign superior over a Fourth-Level Civilization. We 'Azure Dragon Clan' are a Fourth-Level Civilization."
"Wait a minute!"
Hungry Monkey looked at Wang Defa with a peculiar expression, doubtfully saying, "You say your 'Azure Dragon' civilization's direction is physical prowess? With your condition? I could pin you down with just one hand. That doesn't work!"
"That's exactly where the problem lies."
Wang Defa spoke with a complex expression, "To put it without exaggeration, if this was the past, I could transform into a dragon, a genuine dragon. A single puff of dragon's breath could wipe this little town off the map, leaving no trace behind."
"But—"
"Hundreds of years ago, all the top civilizations in the universe joined forces, preparing to break out of this cosmic cage!"
"We all know the universe is continuously expanding outwards, expanding at a speed many times faster than the speed of light, and light speed is the fastest speed in the universe, an absolute limit that cannot be surpassed. What does that mean? It means that no civilization within the universe will ever be able to break free from this cosmic cage."
"At first, it was just speculation."
"People thought maybe the universe really is like a cage. At the time, there were a lot of opposing voices, and many scholars came forward to speak up, claiming the universe's expansion speed had already surpassed the speed of light from the very first second following the Big Bang."
"It's all conspiracy theories."
"All sorts of voices existed."