Chapter 196
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Chapter 196: The Rulers of the Galaxy
The Old Soul did not lie to Yuan Huo.
Two hundred million years ago, the Soul Clan indeed ruled the galaxy.
In fact, they were the strongest race in the entire star system.
However, without the ability to transmit troops over long distances on a large scale, it took a considerable amount of time for other races to conquer different star systems.
During this extremely long period, the overall strength of the Soul Clan became so overwhelming that the resources of the galaxy could no longer sustain their consumption.
Unable to escape the ecological system of the galaxy, the lack of resources led to endless division and internal strife.
If this continued, either the consumption of resources would gradually recover balance, or there would be a complete collapse.
The Soul Clan faced misfortune when a powerful mysterious creature passed through the galaxy and directly drained all the spirit stones they had stored.
This triggered a series of chain reactions, leading to protracted and intense internal strife within the Soul Clan.
Ultimately, the resources of the galaxy gradually depleted, resulting in the second outcome: a complete collapse.
The end of the magical era arrived, and the ecosystem rebooted.
Some strong members of the Soul Clan fled to other star systems.
The Soul Emperor of the Soul Clan chose to gather various rare materials and treasures, refining them into an item that could reduce consumption to almost zero.
Afterward, he entered a deep sleep along with over one hundred million carefully selected powerful clansmen within this treasure.
Only one member was sent out to monitor the outside movements, searching for opportunities to rise again and awaken the Soul Emperor and the Soul Clan for a revival.
When this member’s life or energy was depleted, another would be awakened to continue the cycle of guarding.
And so, this went on for a long time.
As the galaxy began to recover its vitality, hope slowly emerged.
However, the rapid rise of the Federation of Humanity soon caused despair among the guarding Soul Clan.
This was because the Soul Clan belonged to a parasitic race.
They needed to attach themselves to other beings, eroding their souls and consciousness, using their bodies to enhance their own soul power.
The stronger the puppet, the faster their enhancement.
Conversely, the stronger they became, the more the puppet’s power would increase, allowing it to unleash even greater strength.
But the Federation of Humanity was too weak in overall strength, ruling the entire galaxy through technological civilization, which greatly compressed the living space of fierce beasts.
This was a disaster for the Soul Clan.
When they possessed members of the Federation of Humanity, their power increased slowly. If they weren’t careful, they might be discovered by the Federation’s advanced technology.
Though possessing fierce beasts allowed for a quicker increase in power, there was little living space available.
It wasn’t until four years ago, when humanity began practicing the Chaos Technique and embarked on personal cultivation paths, that the guarding Soul Clan reignited their hope.
When they discovered that the Federation’s strength was improving rapidly by stealing skills from Yi Chen, the guarding Soul Clan was overjoyed.
What the Soul Clan appreciated most were such puppets whose self-cultivation speed increased dramatically.
The humanity transformed into the best puppet targets in the eyes of the Soul Clan.
He immediately awakened a top-level powerful soul master, the Old Soul mentioned by Yuan Huo, to oversee the situation.
In recent years, the Old Soul had been selecting suitable candidates.
Although the Soul Emperor and the Soul Kings were powerful enough to destroy a planet with a single strike, the overall Soul Clan was still vastly inferior compared to the Federation of Humanity.
They needed to find someone to elevate to a high position, using a life planet as a base, making the Federation members on that planet their puppets, gradually building up strength, and then slowly devouring surrounding life planets.
However, they did not find a suitable candidate and instead encountered a huge problem.
Yi Chen created divine consciousness.
Whether it was fierce beasts or other races, as their power increased, their Perception Ability would also improve.
The stronger the Perception Ability, the easier it was to detect the presence of the Soul Clan and resist their invasions.
In the same realm, Yi Chen’s divine consciousness was leagues ahead of these Perception Abilities.
The Federation of Humanity, once seen as the best puppet targets by the Soul Clan, now turned into their nemesis.
Four months ago, after encountering Yuan Huo, someone who could be guided and controlled through words and special means without eroding his soul and consciousness, the Old Soul contemplated deeply and ultimately decided to take action.
The appearance of this suitable candidate was the trigger.
The root lay in Yi Chen seemingly unintentionally creating mental attack skills based on divine consciousness.
These skills, combined with powerful divine consciousness, posed the most lethal threat to the Soul Clan.
Moreover, since the time required to teach these skills was extending, even if Yi Chen created mental attack skills, it would take ten years or even decades before they could be imparted.
This time was enough for the Soul Clan to build up their strength and find and cultivate powerful puppets for the Soul Emperor and the Soul Kings.
As long as they cultivated puppets with matching strength, the Soul Emperor could easily invade the exile planet and capture Yi Chen.
They could force Yi Chen to continue creating subsequent skills for humanity, giving the Soul Clan countless puppets whose enhancement speed was extraordinarily fast.
While the Federation of Humanity worried that Yi Chen might tamper with the skills, the Soul Clan did not fear.
They had endured for billions of years; even spending hundreds or thousands of years testing the skills posed no issue for them.
In fact, even if the skills had problems, it would only be the top geniuses of humanity who would suffer, and they would incur no losses.
The Old Soul did not wish to sleep for another few billion years, waiting for humanity’s demise and the galaxy to enter a new cycle.
Because whether humanity would be destroyed was uncertain.
Even if the Soul Clan fell into the same trap as before and the galaxy entered a new cycle, whether they could find an opportunity to rise again remained unknown.
It was better to take the plunge, transforming a bicycle into a motorcycle!
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On the exile planet, in the stone house, Yi Chen was quietly cultivating.
From the first level of the Spirit Law stage to the second level, without extra talent bonuses or spirit stones to assist in cultivation, his strong talent as a member of humanity would require about seven and a half months.
With nearly ten times the extra talent bonus and ample spirit stones for assistance, he only needed a little over ten days to achieve a breakthrough.
In just over a month, he progressed rapidly, reaching the fourth level of the Spirit Law stage.
With a wave of his hand, documents that had accumulated in his mailbox for over ten days flew towards him.
Injecting spirit power into the formation eye, the defensive formation closed.
This defensive formation, while having a two-way function allowing the energy shield to withstand external attacks, did not prevent internal attacks from affecting the outside and could easily pass through the energy shield.
However, since it could not distinguish the spirit power of the one who set it up, he still needed to close the formation to use divine consciousness to control the documents in the mailbox to enter the formation.
Once all the documents were in hand, Yi Chen reopened the formation.
His divine consciousness enveloped all the documents, starting to look through them from the bottom up.
A document from the intelligence organization caught his eye, making his pupils brighten.
