The Ascension Empire is an ancient galaxy country with a history of 820,000 years. It is an imperial multi-ethnic and multi-element basic country.

The origin of the empire is located in the area near the silver plate edge of the Little Magellanic System and the remote area near the silver halo. If we use the language of the earth, the shining section where the Senostians are located is the Second Ring of the Imperial Capital, then the origin of the Ascension Empire has reached an underground cave in the mountainous area of ​​the Great Northwest.

There is no paradise of life between this remote countryside. There are less than twenty star systems in a vast area of ​​nearly two thousand light years. The only planet with life is a "death star" far away from the mother star.

On this planet, there is a harsh environment. It is surrounded by ice and snow. The oxygen concentration in the ocean is extremely low. There are many volcanoes around the equator that constantly squirts gases such as sulfur dioxide, which can gradually extreme the catalytic ice chamber effect. A storm of one or two hundred degrees below zero stirs on the snow-white flat plain, and a iridescent storm like an ice lamp is set off in the refraction of the thin sunlight.

For other intelligent lives, such an environment is enough to trigger a mass extinction of creatures, and it is not surprising that they have completely become death stars.

But on this planet, a species that has continuously improved has emerged.

A kind of "ice crystal" life.

Not only heat can give birth to life, nor can it only be carbon-based, silicon-based, or elemental life involving psychic energy can be born in such extreme environments - even gas giants and violent star hurricanes can give birth to the consciousness of wind, let alone the more stable ice star?

As long as there is a structure that can stabilize self-replicate and record information, life can be born.

In the ice layer around the volcano, a crystal life is being born. Under the high pressure environment of the frozen ocean, a crystal structure that can replicate and proliferate appears. It is similar to a gem, a self-derived "snowflake crystal". Its molecular structure is dense, but its density remains unchanged, which allows it to accumulate more information.

On this planet with active geological activities but frozen by a distant environment, ice crystals spread according to plate activities, recondensing the discrete ice crystals and water with unstable structures as a reproduction process. And because of the continuous dissolution and reconstruction of volcanic movements, a slow "evolution" is carried out.

Their evolution is very slow, just like the condensation of gems, it takes a long time to evolve, reconstruct and evolve. However, their "reaction" is very fast, using the internal heat vibration and mechanical waves of ice crystals as information transmission media. After the ice crystals initially form a "stable large-scale ice crystals" that are almost like the "multicellular life cluster" of life on Earth, they have initial wisdom.

Ice crystal life was born on this quiet, intense, cold and scorching planet. They spread their clusters with the help of geological movements, and even accelerate their evolution with the help of high heat in the cracks in the earth's crust and the high pressure of the ice sea.

Their tools are ice, methane ice, and pure ice crystals. They use this tool to activate the heat of the planet, burn and dissolve the ice sea, and create a brand new living area.

They worship the cracks of plates spreading at the bottom of the ice sea, worship the insignificant light in the volcanoes and the seabed ice. This group of lives based on cold but yearn for heat and ‘evolution’ even created primitive religions based on ice and fire, worshiping the gods who brought creation and destruction.

Because after the ice crystal life dies, it will turn into discrete ice crystals or water, and these materials will give birth to new ice crystal life, so destruction and birth are one for ice crystal life.

And when they yearn for the light, they head towards the top of the ice sea, it was already four million years after they had wisdom.

Leaving the high pressure at the bottom of the ice sea, the structure of ice crystal life is no longer stable. After they reconstructed a crystal structure that can adapt to a low-pressure environment, it was a very distant time.

As for how shocking Ice Crystal Life is when she left the dark bottom of the ice sea and stared at the ice storm that reflected the rainbow light under the sunlight in the distance, it was the "beauty" that carbon-based life could not understand.

Just like all intelligent lives, they began to be curious.

I am curious about the ice sea and the nature of the planet, the origin of the rainbow light storm, where the light in the sky that seems to never be touched comes from, and the principle of its birth.

And, how to go to a place you are curious about.

Ice crystal life is limited. The temperature on the surface is higher than the bottom of the ice sea. The ice crystal life dissolves and reconstructs faster, but it is difficult for them to accelerate. Sending their compatriots to the sky - the accelerated heat will ignite their methane ice tools and melt the ice that allows them to exist.

For Ice Crystal Life, there is only one way to explore the mystery of the sky, stars and the distance.

That is to build a tower.

A tower that is more than 400,000 meters high.

This is a long time.

Dissolving, moving the mass of the ice sea, condense a tall tower on the surface, and constantly dissolving and reshaping is a process that requires the entire ice crystal life to devote generations to life. This process lasted for millions of years, and the time to build the tower even exceeded the time they arrived at the surface from the bottom of the sea.

And in the process of building the tower, they encountered many difficulties.

For example, the shaking of strong winds, the geological movement caused by volcanic eruptions, the disintegration caused by storm friction, the melting caused by the focus of high-rise sunlight, etc.

The ice crystal structure is unstable, the planning is wrong and needs to be rebuilt, the location you selected is not correct or not at the equator, it is affected by the power of the planet's rotation, etc.

However, this is just a difficulty and does not fail to be answered.

During the process of building the tower, they gradually mastered the secrets of the planet, understood the essence of ice, and understood the limitations of their own race.

They even knew that as residents of an ice star, the process of entering space was almost equivalent to suicide, and the light they yearned for was actually a hot fire ball that burned out their entire planet, a hell that was enough to destroy all the lives of ice crystals.

——But so what?

In the process of exploration, constantly dissolve yourself and recast yourself.

Beyond your natural limitations and surpass your original appearance.

In the process of building a high tower, make the tower better step by step, step by step, surpassing the heights you have reached in the past, and even surpassing all the peaks on this planet, surpassing the atmosphere of this planet, and directly into the universe.

This is already the fun of ice crystal life and the meaning of survival.

【Beyond】

From the deep ice sea bottom of the planet, melt the ice layer step by step and climb to the top.

Then, from the empty surface, except for the light and storm, building high towers of ice, transcending the atmosphere of the planet, heading to a more empty cosmic vacuum.

A world beyond the ice.

Beyond the planet's surface.

Beyond the turbulent atmosphere.

A vacuum beyond the universe.

When ice's life [transcends] its own life essence and replaces part of its own crystals with mineral crystals, achieving a transformation similar to human "mechanization" and they embark on a journey to the universe.

They began to transcend all constraints and head to the other end of the future.

Even transcendence itself becomes the goal - it has nothing to do with freedom, strength, choice, and nothing to do with anything.

[Beyond] is not to be stronger than others, [Beyond yourself] is a way of life.

This is the lifestyle I chose when I was ascending to the Empire.

Even though there are thousands of different races in the empire, and even if the empire's capital has moved to the hidden subspace realm in the shining area, the core will not change.

Whether it is carbon, silicon, sulfur, amino, crystal life like them, plasma life on stars, gas life on gas giants, the essence is the same.

Because transcendence is the essence of life, as long as we adhere to this view and sublimate the original self and "ascend" to the next level, it is the "correct" path.

As for the process of transcendence, it is to transform into a giant of light, or to transform into ultimate life through biological or mechanized transformation, or to directly carry out a super robot combination, that is all other things.

'Rand Crystal Ning Hui' is the ambassador to the Ascension Empire. His name represents the "ice crystal that can reflect seven-color rainbow light under the sunlight and the glory of lasting tranquility". It is a very artistic name and sounds very culturally profound. However, the language of the earth cannot perfectly express this beauty.

The Ascension Empire welcomes people who surpass themselves by any means, but this transcendence is not about becoming stronger by any means. They believe that it is orthodox to find ways and channels to become stronger systematically and regularly, and then step by step to surpass their limits.

Whether it is the extraordinary entry into the saint of spiritual energy, the comprehensive transformation of mechanization, the cultivation of information cluster base from the genetic level, or the direct implementation of "extraordinary life elementalization", it is the path to ascension.

Ning Hui is a traditional ascension empire. He looks like a silver-white humanoid model - of course, his body is an octagonal ice crystal prism, and his current body only imitates the human body structure.

Like all empires, they have always taken the goal of constantly surpassing themselves, and becoming stronger is their way of life.

However, even the Ascension Empire, who sounded extremely extreme, were unwilling to become stronger by the method of dusk.

Even if you join the Void Cult, you can obtain various secret knowledge and inheritances as quickly as possible, and quickly surpass yourself and become stronger.

Because that is not transcendence, but the madness ahead of nothingness.

Therefore, Ning Hui was shocked by Su Zhou's words in the screen in front of him.

【……What!?】

He turned his head first and said in astonishment to the Earth, whose forehead was already covered with cold sweat, said: [Is it possible that one of the Earth has joined the Void Cult?!]

Similar words also appeared in the mouths of ambassadors of other alien civilizations.

This is no wonder.

After all, Su Zhou's sentence [I faced the 'Dungeon God'] [get the truly correct path of dusk] is like fundamentalist believers' judgment on revisionist believers - or vice versa.

In short, it's a bit like the orthodox fights heresy.

And considering himself orthodox, doesn’t it mean that Zhuzhou feels that he is also a relative of the dusk?

"Everyone, wait!"

In this regard, even after reaching the commander's rank, the representative of the earth who kept eating food on his forehead was immediately miserable, but he still showed the strength of a diplomat: "Let's wait a little longer and listen to Minister Su Zhou's explanation!"

——Then he kicked the ball to Su Zhou.

【No need to worry too much, everyone.】

In this regard, Su Zhou had long known that his words would definitely cause misunderstandings, but this was the method he used to absorb the attention of everyone present.

Faced with those alien ambassadors who were terrified and guessing whether they had already committed to dusk, the young man replied with a smile: [I believe that primitive religious beliefs should have been born in most civilizations, and there were also distorted systems that were completely different from the "doctrine".]

[Religions that require goodness in turn persecutes good people; religions that encourage innovation in turn limit innovation methods; doctrines aimed at the welfare of all people will still be distorted by people with greed in their hearts into plundering and exploiting organizations]

【I mean exactly: Most of the ancient Lords, the "evil gods" we are familiar with, are essentially similar to those initial "doctrines", and there are many and endless wisdom and life. Each person explains these doctrines according to his/her own **, his/her own intentions, and his/her own understanding, which will naturally cause distortions]

[And the Void Clan is the one with the most serious distortion]

Said this, Su Zhou signaled that Shao Shuangyue would transfer the camera behind the Death Star.

Immediately, all the alien ambassadors on Earth saw the endings that turned into the "cocoon of dusk".

[That is the Void Annihilation Envoy, which destroyed nearly 3,000 interstellar civilizations in 40,000 years!?]

Immediately, Ninghui, the ambassador of the Ascension Empire, let out a breath of cold air. It was hard not to be shocked: [He, He is sealed by you?!]

The Ascension Empire and the Central Government also fought against each other. During its heyday, the Central Government carried the lament of thousands of civilizations and the blessing of the Void Cult. Many galaxies passed by were dim. In the subspace, it seemed like a dark shadow that directly obscured many starry sky. Just passing by would cause the destruction of some small civilizations.

The Ascension Empire, which has always ignored races and regarded all life as ascension seeds, will naturally make hostile to the annihilation of this seed of civilization. Both sides have fought in major areas of the Milky Way for tens of thousands of years, each with their own victory or defeat.

But, want to completely seal an annihilation envoy?

How is this possible!
To be continued...