Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 386 Singer Civilization

Mars.

Throughout Mars City, and in its more than ten colony counties with populations of over a million, the round soap bubble enveloping the city trembled like ripples on water.

The earth is shaking.

"Marsquake?" (Note: "Marsquake" is a proper noun referring to an earthquake on Mars.)
"I don't know... That's really strange, do they have earthquakes on Mars?"

"Of course there are. Mars and Earth are twins. Mars has all the geological activities that Earth has."

"Run! Don't stay under the building! Get to the plaza!"

"Don't panic. Little Moss said this Martian earthquake is about magnitude 4.2. The houses won't collapse. We just need to stay away from the billboards."

"Why does this earthquake feel a bit strange?"

"My game friend just said that Qiming City is also experiencing an earthquake. Qiming City isn't in the Utopia Plains area; it's on the opposite side of the Utopia Plains..."

"Good heavens, you mean the entire Mars is experiencing Marsquakes?"

"Is Mars going to explode?"

Amidst the chaotic discussions among the Martian residents, the Martian municipal government reacted swiftly, with various early warning and alert messages spreading across the Martian network. Some disaster relief robots and order maintenance robots also took to the streets to assist in maintaining order.

But the city government soon received some kind of warning.

(Note: Apart from the provisional government of Jupiter formed by the Fleet International, the administrative level of the other planetary colonies is that of a city, and they are under the unified jurisdiction of the Earth United Government.)
The mayor addressed the entire Mars community via live television, essentially telling people not to panic, as technical tests showed this was a normal geological event that occurs only once every century on Mars, and so on.

...

Under Luo Qing's will, the [Crimson Pivot] of the Nine Luminaries Celestial Array began to operate. A small amount of golden patterns appeared on the surface of the entire red planet. The array patterns began to connect remotely with the three stars of Water, Gold, and Earth. The vast energy from the sun was frantically extracted, gathered, and compressed by the array.

Since the array has not yet been fully adjusted, the sun's total outward radiation will decrease to 0 within the first second of the array's activation.

Eight minutes later, the people of Earth will experience one second of global polar night.

Mars' poles, craters, canyons—all the key nodes of the array simultaneously spew forth brilliant streams of light. These streams of light converge, collapse, and reshape themselves wildly at a predetermined focal point above Mars' orbit.

"My God, this pillar of light, damn mayor, can you stop lying to people? You should have just said that Luo Qing was tinkering with an array."

"Disperse, disperse, it's Qingxian who's busy."

"If he caused the earthquake, it's impossible for him to have killed anyone. I'm going to bed now."

"I wonder how long the Marsquake will last..."

"And 'once-in-a-century Martian geological activity'~" (sarcastically)

"Start a quantum live stream! Show those idiots on Earth Qingxian's grand formation, and make them drool."

Amid the attention of nearly ten million Martian residents, a "gun" made entirely of energy is beginning to take shape.

Starfire Spear!

Power: A normal attack from a Tribulation Transcending stage cultivator!
The gun is composed of extremely concentrated stellar power and starlight. It is about twenty kilometers long and has a dazzling white-gold color throughout, while its tail is surrounded by a ghostly blue that seems to devour everything.

The space around the gun churned violently, unable to withstand the terrifying energy.

The moment the Starfire Spear was successfully condensed, its dissipated energy caused the surrounding interstellar dust to ignite, and even Mars itself trembled slightly due to the energy backlash.

Then, the spear, capable of killing cultivators at the Integration Stage, was launched with a thunderous roar.

All those who gazed upon this spear felt a piercing scream on a spiritual level.

The spear accelerated to the speed of light in an instant and disappeared from the sight of all humans.

"How did it suddenly disappear?" someone shouted.

In Luo Qing's faster-than-light vision, the Starfire Spear, ignited by Mars, successfully pierced the center of the giant ring.

A week ago, the Giant Ring Amplification Formation was completed simultaneously thanks to the joint efforts of Luo Qing and Li Bai.

The spear was magnified exponentially the instant it passed through the center of the ring.

The spear, which was originally twenty kilometers long, instantly expanded into a giant stellar spear that stretched across the sea of ​​stars!
Its length extends to 200,000 kilometers and its width is nearly 10,000 kilometers—equivalent to the diameter of the Earth—so much so that it is no longer a "gun" but a surging galaxy of energy.

The enlarged Starflame Spear still retains the core of the previous smaller spear, and the true power of the Starflame Spear lies precisely in this: the core temperature remains hundreds of billions of degrees, and the extreme light and heat make its properties closer to a law-based weapon that destroys the basic structure of matter.

As for the enormous phantom spear on the outer layer, its temperature is only a few million degrees Celsius, but that is enough to pierce through dwarf planets like Pluto.

If the Great Ring were to be struck by this attack, its structure would be instantly shattered, becoming a broken 'donut.' The destructive power would be far greater than that caused by a human using a stellar-class warship to collide with the Great Ring at 20% the speed of light. The spear flashed, and the might of the Nine Luminaries Celestial Array shook the world.

Luo Qing transformed into a ball of photons and chased after the giant spear at the speed of light.

Li Bai instantly leaped to the designated strike point of the Starfire Spear and waited idly.

About a week later.

The Starfire Spear pierced the Oort Cloud.

Luo Qing, who had transformed into a beam of light, followed closely behind the long spear.

The target is right here.

A concentrated cloud of interstellar dust was covering the area. Li Bai had gathered this interstellar dust in advance to test the strength of the Starfire Spear.

Before the giant spear even made actual contact with the dust cloud, the energy shockwave at its tip swept everything away. Countless ice particles, rocks, and dust were instantly heated to temperatures far exceeding their tolerance and directly plasmaized.

As the core of the Starfire Spear was poured in, even the plasma was torn apart by the violent energy, undergoing neutron decay and ultimately being reduced to the most basic quark soup.

On a macroscopic level, the vast dust cloud region seemed to have been wiped away by an invisible divine hand, replaced by a fireball that existed briefly before vanishing into nothingness, leaving behind only a completely purified, empty space and ripples of energy spreading outwards.

Unable to effectively release its energy, the spear, after evaporating the interstellar dust cloud into quark soup, continued to shoot into the depths of the Oort cloud.

Two years later, the Starfire Spear will pierce through the Oort Cloud, flying deeper into the universe, and finally, after traveling hundreds of light-years, its energy will be exhausted and it will dissipate into the universe.

This was merely a test firing of the attack unit of the [Nine Luminaries Celestial Array].

It is also the total energy released by the star Sun in one second.

After witnessing the power of the spear, Luo Qing and Li Bai both disengaged from their light-speed flight.

"It's a pity there wasn't a single target," Luo Qing said, still feeling unsatisfied.

What kind of target do you want?

"It should be at least a small white dwarf star. The Starfire Spear should be able to effectively damage a white dwarf star. As for a neutron star, it can also penetrate the outer neutron star matter. After all, this kind of concentrated energy is enough to shatter matter into a quark field. Neutron degenerate matter cannot withstand this level of attack."

While the sun's instantaneous power output may not be impressive enough for truly advanced civilizations, its energy is concentrated enough that its power remains terrifying.

Li Bai nodded: "It was a very violent test launch, but it's meaningless to a god-level civilization."

Luo Qing asked, "So, what level of combat do you think this formation can participate in?"

Li Bai thought for a moment and gave Luo Qing an answer: "The Carbon-based Federation probably wouldn't even look at an attack of this level. You know, in the fierce battle between the Carbon-based Federation and the Silicon-based Empire, thousands of supernovae were ignited by explosions alone. This kind of concentrated release of the instantaneous power of the sun is still far inferior, but it should be able to participate in interstellar battles without any problems."

Li Bai gave Luo Qing an example: "At the end of this spiral arm, there is an advanced civilization called the 'Singer Civilization.' This civilization should be considered a relatively powerful advanced civilization within a few thousand light-years of the solar system."

At this moment, the 'Singer Civilization' is engaged in the Dark Forest War with a 'Ringworld' of similar level, and the Singer Civilization is at a disadvantage. If all 100,000 star systems under its control had your formations, it might slow down the Singer Civilization's defeat, but it would only prolong the time before defeat, not turn the tide of battle.

Luo Qing was shocked: "A civilization that controls 100,000 star systems?"

Li Bai scoffed: "So what? The Singer Civilization hasn't even met the minimum requirements to join the Carbon-Based Federation. Its civilization level is 3A, or maybe 4A, I forget. Anyway, the Singer Civilization is already preparing to escape to the two-dimensional universe to eke out a living."

Upon hearing this, Luo Qing chuckled self-deprecatingly: "Then I'm quite proud that the formation I painstakingly created can participate in a civilization battle of this level."

Li Bai nodded: "In the interstellar battlefield, this formation is like a machine gun bunker or a prism tower in a game. It can cause some trouble for the attacking enemy. If we can expand the size of this formation to the entire Milky Way, it might be quite interesting."

Luo Qing sighed, "Let's talk about it after I transcend my tribulation and become an immortal. I was hoping to use this formation to defend against a possible silicon-based empire, but it seems that won't work."

Li Bai commented: "The first and second forms of the formation may not be enough to defend against the silicon-based empire, but if the third form of the formation is used to put the sun into a helium flash state, it might actually give the silicon-based empire a big surprise—such as destroying a few of their hyperdimensional warships."

Actually, you don't need to worry too much. The entire silicon-based empire has been crippled by the carbon-based federation. It won't be able to recover for tens of millions of Earth years unless something unexpected happens.

This long period of time is more than enough for human civilization to join the carbon-based federation... Humanity truly is a race with great potential.

Luo Qing suddenly remembered something and asked Li Bai, "Speaking of which, why have dinosaurs evolved for 60 million years and are still at this stage? Did you lock it?"

Li Bai explained: "There aren't that many reasons, and I didn't impose any restrictions. It's purely because the dinosaurs themselves were not competitive. The main focus of the entire civilization was on how to eat and how to worship me as a god, so technological development naturally stagnated."

Luo Qing understood; it seemed he had misunderstood Li Bai.

Watching the star-flame spear soar through the sky, destined to travel through space for hundreds of years, Luo Qing consoled himself, "The Second Fleet might break the speed of light in another three years. We still need to be careful; we can't put all our hopes on the Trisolaran world. This formation, at least, can deal with the Second Fleet."

Li Bai agreed: "It's certainly enough to deal with those primitive light-speed spaceships."

(End of this chapter)