Chapter 1 The Best Choice

"This is the best choice," the blue-black dragon said again, "Because you cannot fight five Kings at the same time."

The Kunlun battleship can indeed sweep through lower-sequence life forms, but even Li Tianran doesn't know what kind of destructive power it would have on the five giant nests of ancient civilizations.

At this time, the spherical lightning in the Valley of Death gathered energy, shocking the five ancient Kings. They recognized Li Tianran because of this enormous energy, believing that he had the power to threaten them, but this did not mean that the Valley of Death could completely destroy their clans and lairs.

It's like in the mountains and forests, a powerful tiger king might be wary of a bear's strength and sharp teeth and choose not to hunt it, wanting to coexist with it. But this doesn't mean the bear has the qualifications to replace the tiger king as the emperor of the forest.

They are engaging in equal negotiations with Li Tianran, not begging and compromising from a position of weakness.

"If I am willing to become the seventh Apostle, what will you do next?" Li Tianran narrowed his eyes, wanting to see through all of their intentions, so he suppressed the urge to press the launch button for the Valley of Death and continued to ask.

Thump, thump, thump!

Below, on the scorched earth, some lower-sequence creatures wanted to take this opportunity to escape back to the Sky Citadel, but the next moment, Li Tianran turned his gaze towards them. A faint arc of electricity floated out from the Valley of Death's spherical lightning, and a thunderstorm immediately erupted on the ground.

Within a range of more than five kilometers, everywhere was filled with azure lightning bolts as thick as tree trunks, raging wildly, mixed with high-temperature hurricanes, turning hundreds of lower-sequence creatures to ashes!

"Tell your clans to stand there and not move," Li Tianran said coldly, staring at the blue-black dragon. "If you are trying to stall for time with negotiations to allow your clans to escape, then you have miscalculated. From now on, as long as any creature in your clan dares to try to escape, I will immediately terminate the negotiations and release all the lightning storms."

The trace of energy fluctuation released by the Valley of Death made the ancient Kings even more solemn.

The dragon roared, the Sky Citadel stopped moving, and those lower-sequence creatures also stood still, no longer fleeing towards the Sky Citadel.

In fact, stalling for time would also be beneficial to Li Tianran. The Valley of Death needed three minutes to accumulate energy to its peak, and it would almost drain eighty percent of the Kunlun battleship's energy at once. After releasing it, the Kunlun battleship would fall into a short period of energy shortage.

So at this time, Li Tianran also needed a little time to allow the Valley of Death's spherical lightning energy accumulation to reach one hundred percent. After stopping the energy extraction, he could also allow the energy engine inside the Kunlun battleship to recharge, in order to replenish the previous shortage!

"..." Li Tianran looked at the five ancient Kings. After they had just witnessed Li Tianran slaughtering the lower-sequence creatures, they didn't show any anger, as if they were watching creatures die that had nothing to do with them, which gave him an ominous feeling.

The blue-black dragon spoke again, answering Li Tianran's question just now.

"If you agree to become the seventh Apostle, we will use biotechnology to help you complete your secondary evolution, allowing your lifespan to reach almost infinity, and your cell activity will always be at its peak, with no more aging."

"You will become an immortal."

"What do I need to do?" Li Tianran asked.

"Fight with us, cleanse the human civilization on Earth Star, and rebuild our kingdom," the dragon's voice was very calm.

Li Tianran raised his eyebrows: "You mean, even if I choose to become the seventh Apostle, you still want to destroy human civilization?"

"Yes, only your followers can join us!" The dragon continued, "And this number needs to be kept within ten thousand. Apart from that, all creatures on Blue Star need to be eliminated!"

"..." Li Tianran's brow twitched violently.

"Don't look at me like that. This is a choice that must be made in a harsh survival environment." The dragon noticed the ice in Li Tianran's eyes and explained, "The resources that Earth Star currently possesses cannot support such a large human population at all. If they continue to survive, they will definitely hinder us."

"We have also faced resource shortages in the past, and we have personally slaughtered the races we came from, occupying the remaining resources. Otherwise, we would have perished in the dust of history long ago, and would not exist to this day!"

Li Tianran felt a chill. None of these ancient civilization Kings were soft-hearted.

No wonder the population of their clans was so small!

In order to exclusively enjoy resources, ninety-nine percent of the creatures in ancient civilizations had already died at the hands of the ancient Kings of their own clans. Only the creatures chosen by the Kings could enjoy resources and survive to this day!

Li Tianran closed his eyes. Although the actions of the ancient Kings sounded very cold, ruthless, and cruel, it was indeed the only way to survive in a harsh environment.

If there had been no revival of sea beasts and ancient civilizations, then the entire human race might have been destroyed in internal wars over resources in the future. Perhaps one of the current five major powers would eliminate the other humans, leading their small group to continue to survive by relying on the remaining resources.

"I have a question... can your technology cut apart two memories in a mind, and then replace one of the memories into another life form?" Li Tianran thought of the question he cared about most, and asked softly, "Or, completely erase that powerful memory, and let the other, weaker memory occupy the main body!"

The promises of status and secondary evolution ability from this ancient civilization were not very attractive to Li Tianran. The only thing that attracted him was this!

So far, given the strength of the mental power within Hanhan, it was impossible to modify or overwrite her through the memory editing capabilities of other Zhinao (Intellect Brain) evolvers, allowing the powerful mind to fall back to sleep and Hanhan's memory to occupy the main body.

Therefore, Li Tianran could only look for technological solutions to accomplish this.

But as soon as Li Tianran said these words, the faces of the five Kings suddenly changed.

They stared intently at Li Tianran, as if trying to see through his soul!

"You have this problem?"

"If it's just a simple memory cutting, it can be done with the most ordinary Zhinao (Intellect Brain) evolvers. There are many followers with powerful Zhinao (Intellect Brain) abilities in your race!"

"But they can't do it."

"Let me guess why... This may be because the mental power of the life form requiring memory cutting far exceeds yours."

"You said you wanted to erase the powerful memory and keep a small part..."

"Can I assume that you are unfamiliar with and hostile to the powerful memory, and that you are close to and familiar with the small memory?"

"So the problem you face is that a powerful mind that is unfamiliar to you has appeared on a life form that is close to you and small!"

The blue-black dragon immediately analyzed Li Tianran's words and asked calmly.

"For a life form of your level, the powerful mind that is helpless can only be a creature after secondary evolution..."

"But through my understanding of human civilization just now, no secondary evolvers have been born among humans."

"Combining this with the interruption of the Triangular Tower's revival at the beginning and the fact that the Earth Apostle's clan did not appear, can I make this guess... the mind that appeared on the life form close to you is another one of our Kings?"

The dragon's eyes were ferocious, staring motionless at Li Tianran: "You, imprisoned the mind of the Earth Apostle in the body of your loved one, am I right?"