From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

The accelerated experiment on fluorescent plants has ended, and the experimental samples have been brought back to Earth.

While the Anhe Biological Research Institute was still testing the fluorescent plant samples, the United Conference of Human Civilizations had already issued a crisis warning.

The military forces across the entire planet gradually entered a state of war, preparing to deal with any possible invasion by extraterrestrial civilizations.

If this alien invasion occurs, it will be the most severe challenge humanity has ever faced.

In the past, whether it was a bloodline crisis or the arrival of other abyssal races, it was only a local crisis.

This time it's completely different.

The goal of the Astral Merchant Civilization is undoubtedly to conquer Earth. This is an advanced civilization with technological power that is unimaginable to humankind.

A civilization capable of wandering through interstellar rifts indicates that it possesses advanced space technology.

If the astral merchants are ruthless, they might even throw something like a two-dimensional foil down from above.

Fortunately, the Astral Merchants' goal was not to destroy Blue Star, but to occupy it.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, astral merchants would not use attack methods that would cause devastating damage to Earth.

According to the analysis of the Astral Merchant civilization by the Great Xia Think Tank, the Astral Merchants only need to restore their population to one thousand to have the ability to exterminate humanity.

Fortunately, Lu Heng discovered the crisis in advance, giving humanity a chance to prepare for the battle and at least avoid being caught off guard.

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In fact, Earth is also being invaded by the abyss.

Even if the astral merchants conquer Blue Star, if they cannot find a way to purify the abyss, they will face a second period of wandering in the future.

Even so, the astral merchants will still occupy Blue Star, as this is their only chance to restore their population and gain some breathing room.

Civilizations are destined to be unable to maintain an absolute alliance.

The first prerequisite for two civilizations to form an alliance is that they have no conflict of interest.

In the Abyss Era, this prerequisite was easily met.

Because two civilizations typically do not have spatial contact, they exist in two different worlds.

Without spatial contact, there is no territorial conflict.

However, the conclusion that fluorescent plants can be grown on Earth puts humanity and astral merchants on an irreconcilable opposing side.

This is a conflict of interests, and a conflict concerning the survival of the ethnic group, with absolutely no possibility of reconciliation.

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In fact, the think tank of the United Human Civilizations Conference has discussed a solution to the clash of civilizations.

That is to designate an area on Earth for interplanetary merchants to grow fluorescent plants and allow them to multiply.

However, the final conclusion was that this plan was not feasible.

the reason is simple.

Once an astral merchant acquires a piece of land on Earth, territorial contact is established with humanity.

As the number of astral merchants increases, the land they need will become increasingly larger.

As the abyss erodes more and more land, the habitable land on Earth will become less and less.

This means that the solution cannot truly resolve the conflict; it can only delay the outbreak of the conflict.

According to the analysis, within a maximum of ten years, territorial conflicts between astral merchants and humans will continue to escalate, eventually leading to a civilization war.

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Finally, this plan was used as the final negotiation proposal.

Yes, the Joint Conference of Human Civilizations needs to consider all possibilities.

In this clash of civilizations between humans and astral merchants, it is possible that humanity will be defeated.

As human leaders, what we need to do is strive to win the conflict between civilizations as much as possible, but we must also prepare for the worst-case scenario.

If humanity loses in this clash of civilizations, then a reconciliation will be needed through negotiation to buy time for humanity.

Therefore, this proposal would be a negotiation solution after the defeat in the clash of civilizations.

Of course, it's best not to let the situation escalate to that point.

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The best way to prevent this crisis from happening is to retrieve the essence of reincarnation.

The fact that the Astral Merchant Civilization has not launched an invasion for so long suggests that they are not yet ready, most likely because their population is insufficient.

The Reincarnation Essence is their method for restoring their population size.

As time drew closer to the point of rebirth in his previous life.

More and more memories of the Abyss Demon Nest surfaced in Lu Heng's mind, and a guess arose in his heart.

In my previous life, the reason I entered the Abyss Demon Nest to compete for the Source Essence of Reincarnation was...

This is because, among the superhumans, there are rumors of a teleportation channel leading to the Abyss Demon Nest, where there are massive amounts of high-level resources and divine essence.

At the time, there was no accurate information about the Reincarnation Source Essence; all that was known was that it was a high-level divine source essence with inexhaustible power.

After that, many stargates appeared on Blue Star, leading directly to the Abyss Demon Nest.

No one knows how these stargates came to be.

In order to compete for divine essence, a large number of superhumans passed through the star gate into the abyss demon nest, vying for the high-level resources inside and searching for divine essence.

Lu Heng also participated in that event and eventually discovered the Reincarnation Source Essence. He lost consciousness after touching it.

……

Lu Heng carefully recalled this memory, pondering the reason why the Reincarnation Source Essence fell into the Abyss Demon Nest.

However, there was no memory of why the Reincarnation Essence fell into the Abyss Demon Nest.

Looking back now, I've come up with one possibility.

The time of rebirth is very close to the time when civilization was restarted from zero.

In other words, the stargate that appears on Earth, leading directly to the Abyss Demon Nest, was likely opened by the Zero Civilization.

The Zero Civilization must have the ability to open a stargate. After all, it is a demigod civilization and it can definitely do it, but it must consume a lot of energy.

If the Stargate in the previous life was opened by the Zero Civilization, with the purpose of having human superhumans help them retrieve the Reincarnation Source Essence, then who threw the Reincarnation Source Essence into the Abyss Demon Nest?

Before the Astral Merchant obtained the Reincarnation Essence, it was in the hands of the Shadow Lord Erebus.

The astral merchants must have conducted experiments on fluorescent plants on Earth in their previous lives, and learned that Earth was a world where they could thrive and multiply.

Therefore, the behavioral logic of the Astral Merchant Civilization must be the same in both its previous and current eras.

In other words, the Astral Merchant was also vying for the Reincarnation Source Essence in his previous life.

In the abyss battlefield of the Shadow Demon world, Galmavie's final appearance and killing of Erebus was likely not accidental, but rather the result of a long period of preparation.

That's right, the Astral Merchant should know that the Reincarnation Essence is in Erebus's hands, so he has been waiting for an opportunity to seize it.

If the Abyss Battlefield hadn't appeared, would the Astral Merchant have tried to seize the Reincarnation Essence from the Shadow Demon?
Lu Heng's answer was affirmative.

Galmawi was willing to pay the price of his life to take away the essence of reincarnation.

In his previous life, he might have made the same decision.

Based on the available information, the source of the previous reincarnation is either in the hands of Erebus or the Astral Merchant.

In other words, the Reincarnation Essence ultimately ended up in the Abyss Demon Nest either brought there by Erebus or by the Astral Merchant. ...

Thinking of this, a flash of inspiration struck Lu Heng.

In my previous life, when I entered the Abyss Demon Nest, I encountered a large number of Shadow Demons there.

At the time, I didn't think it was possible.

After all, encountering a Shadow Demon in the Abyss is a perfectly normal occurrence.

Looking back now, it seems those Shadow Demons were also vying for the Reincarnation Essence.

Why does the Shadow Demon want to fight for the Reincarnation Essence?

Lu Heng thought of a possibility: in his previous life, the Star Realm Merchant had taken the Reincarnation Essence from the Shadow Demon.

The Shadow Demon would naturally not want to lose such an important treasure, and would definitely track down the Astral Merchant in an attempt to reclaim the Reincarnation Essence.

If that's the case, it's very likely that in the previous life, the Star Realm Merchant also stole the Reincarnation Essence and took it to the Abyss Demon Nest.

It was as if everything had converged in the abyss's lair.

Lu Heng took out the Zero Civilization Crystal Core and said directly, "Did you get any results from investigating the Abyss Demon Nest?"

A white light appeared and replied, "We tried to observe the Abyss Demon Nest using spatial projection, but we could only observe the outer area and found nothing yet."

Lu Heng: "I need to go to the Abyss Demon Nest. Give me a spatial beacon."

Bai Guang: "You think the Reincarnation Essence is in the Abyss Demon Nest? But wasn't the Reincarnation Essence taken by the Astral Merchant? Shouldn't we be tracking down the Astral Merchant now?"

Lu Heng: "I have no interest in explaining to you. Give me the spatial beacon. Otherwise, you can find it yourselves."

In fact, if it were just a matter between the Zero Civilization and the Star Merchants, Lu Heng could have stood by and watched.

But now things have become complicated.

The Astral Merchants' target is Earth. The best way to stop this crisis is to retrieve the Reincarnation Essence.

This turned what was originally a conflict between two civilizations into a contradiction among three civilizations.

Bai Guang: "Okay, I'll give you a spatial beacon."

Lu Heng opened the star gate and teleported in the direction of the spatial beacon. The moment he stepped out of the star gate, he entered a space filled with abyssal energy.

The Abyss's Lair.

Three years later, I came to this place again.

This is a huge underground space where you can't see the sky above and there is a vast expanse of land below.

The abyss, stretching tens of thousands of kilometers, is filled with the aura of the abyss.

The land was littered with the remains of monsters, as if countless enormous abyssal creatures had been buried here after their deaths.

At the center of the Abyss Demon Nest, there is a spiral cave that leads downwards; that is the core area of ​​the Demon Nest.

Because the Abyss Nest is filled with abyssal energy, any non-abyssal creature that steps into it will be rapidly eroded by the abyssal energy, resulting in mutation, death, or transformation into abyssal monsters.

Those enormous skeletons that died on the ground were likely creatures that perished after their mutations failed.

A demigod's body is immune to the erosion of abyssal energy and will not undergo distortion.

However, Lu Heng still activated the Divine Source Armor to isolate the abyssal energy from his body.

Lu Heng looked around and found nothing unusual. Then he activated his demigod vision and looked toward the core cave of the Abyss Demon Nest.

Inside this enormous, spiraling cavern, a dark, abyssal aura lingered, and one could not descend any further than a thousand meters.

The place where I discovered the source of reincarnation in my previous life was in this abyssal demon's lair cave.

If the previous guess is correct, the Reincarnation Essence may be brought into the cave once again.

Lu Heng pondered for a moment, then flew down and entered the cave to continue exploring downwards.

This abyss-like cavern is like the gaping maw of a demon god, filled with an aura of terror.

If he hadn't become a demigod, Lu Heng wouldn't have been able to withstand this terrifying pressure.

Lu Heng flew swiftly through the Abyss Demon Nest cave, where various abyss monsters appeared on the cave walls.

These monsters do not have a fixed race; most of them are mutated forms of other creatures.

The direction of biological mutation is random, so most mutated creatures cannot form groups and can only be a lonely abyssal monster.

These bizarre abyssal monsters roared and howled on the cave walls, stretching out their sharp claws to scratch Lu Heng, but quickly retracted their claws halfway through.

Because they sensed the demigod aura emanating from Lu Heng, a powerful force that they could not resist.

Lu Heng didn't want to disturb the monsters in the Abyss Demon Nest. If he attracted some powerful demon god, it would be difficult to retreat.

The purpose of this trip is to find the source of reincarnation.

If the source of reincarnation cannot be found, then investigate the reason why the source of reincarnation was brought in.

Lu Heng had entered the Abyss Demon Nest many times in his dreams, and each time he woke up after seeing the Reincarnation Source Essence.

After dreaming about it so many times, I remember the route to the Abyss Demon Nest very clearly in my mind.

Lu Heng flew at top speed, trying to avoid the attention of the abyss monsters, and headed towards the direction where he had discovered the Reincarnation Source in his previous life.

Ten minutes later, after traveling dozens of kilometers through the abyss cave, they finally arrived at the place where they had seen the source of reincarnation in their dream.

However, the source of reincarnation did not appear there this time.

It could be due to different times, or the events themselves may have changed.

Lu Heng stood at the location of the source substance of his previous reincarnation, looking around and lost in thought.

At this moment.

A monster from the abyss, resembling a withered tree spirit, crawled out from the ground, raised its massive, withered wooden arm, and slammed it down towards Lu Heng.

Lu Heng's gaze darkened, and he activated the [Soul Seal] to directly control the Abyss Tree Spirit, preventing it from causing a greater disturbance.

His human aura was still too strong, which would easily attract the attention of abyssal monsters.

Lu Heng drew his Aurora Blade, shaved off pieces of wood from the Abyss Tree Spirit, and simply assembled them into a suit of armor, which he then donned to conceal his human presence.

Subsequently, Lu Heng used the control of the [Soul Seal] to try to extract information from the memories of the Abyss Tree Spirit.

The attempt failed, but an elven emblem was found on the abyssal tree spirit.

In that instant, Lu Heng guessed that the original form of this abyss tree spirit was likely the ancient tree of knowledge of the elven race.

Upon discovering this, Lu Heng felt a deep sense of regret.

Lu Heng had seen the Ancient Tree of Knowledge of the Elven race and understood its thoughts.

For the Tree of Knowledge, if it is corrupted by the abyss, it will choose to return to nature rather than become an abyss monster.

Therefore, Lu Heng granted the abyss tree spirit liberation, helping it return to nature.

They then continued deeper into the cave, searching for things related to the essence of reincarnation.

Not every monster in the Abyss Lair is devoid of thought.

Whether a mutated abyssal monster retains its consciousness depends entirely on whether the mutation damages its memory organs; in other words, it's random.

Deep within the Abyss Demon Nest, Lu Heng discovered an abyss monster with lively eyes that clearly possessed intelligence.

So they captured it and used the [Soul Imprint] to extract a piece of information from its memory.

Not long ago, some outside creatures entered the Abyss Demon's Nest, passing through its ambush location. (End of Chapter)