Up to this point.

Xiaolv had never transformed inside the train.

So he was actually pretty curious too.

His Train Armor was absolutely indestructible; not just against the outside, but even on the inside it was Absolute Defense. If Xiaolv or Xiaolv's mother transformed into feeding form inside his train and instantly expanded to 0.1 light-years wide—

His train definitely wouldn't blow up.

Then...

Only the other side could blow up.

That'd be pretty sinful too.

"Got it."

"By the way, ask her how she managed to lose her kid back then. It's not like he's an egg anymore, he's already hatched. How do you lose him out of nowhere? And where the hell did the kid's dad go?"

"Okay."

...

And just like that, this whole thing was perfectly resolved.

The Fixed Star train now had one more Stellar Giant Beast.

Xiaolv had one more mom.

Xiaolv's mother had basically zero resistance to joining the Fixed Star; after all, her child was here, and her child really liked it here—plus a bunch of other reasons. Of course, the most important reason was that Xiaolv's mother had seen with her own eyes just how strong the Fixed Star was.

She didn't dare go against the Fixed Star at all.

Stellar Giant Beasts might have relatively low intelligence, but they understood one thing very clearly: the strong are not to be defied.

"..."

Chen Mang sat in the train cabin, gazing toward the edge of the universe. At this moment, besides the 400 billion light-year Observable Cosmos itself, the overall universe diameter was 1,928.3 billion light-years. Before he could keep watching, it had already become 293.9 billion light-years.

The numerical values of the high-dimensional universe outside the cosmos itself were a bit too chaotic—completely random and utterly uncontrollable.

When he was idle.

He really liked watching the changes in the high-dimensional universe.

He felt...

The changes in the high-dimensional universe probably weren't actually like this. It's just that if you try to express it with three-dimensional data, you end up with this kind of scene where the data is insanely scrambled. One day, he absolutely had to go take a look.

Take a look at what the high-dimensional universe outside the cosmos itself really looked like.

Then pass through the high-dimensional universe and see what exactly lay beyond.

Now he finally understood why no civilization had ever left the universe. Even if your speed reached light speed and surpassed the speed of cosmic expansion, it was meaningless. That high-dimensional universe wrapping around the cosmos itself was like an eggshell, firmly cradling the cosmos in the middle, nearly impossible to pierce.

There.

Time and space both lost their meaning and could change at will.

"Hoo..."

He let out a long breath, withdrew his gaze from the radar display, and looked at the information on the control console screen.

Right after he fired that shot just now—

Several panels popped up in succession on the screen.

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"'Human Civilization' has met the Promotion Conditions and has been automatically promoted."

"The Promotion Ripple range for this promotion is 10 billion light-years."

"All life forms within any Level 1 and above civilization will receive this Promotion Ripple in their own way."

"The transmission speed of the Promotion Ripple is the speed of light."

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"Level 6 Civilization 'Human Civilization' has successfully advanced to Seventh-level Civilization."

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At this moment!

Human Civilization officially advanced to a Seventh-level Civilization!

It had formally stepped into the ranks of top-tier civilizations in the universe, and could be said to have obtained the admission ticket to become a Divine-level Civilization. From this moment on, his civilization had only one goal: to become a Divine-level Civilization.

With the obstruction of other civilizations.

The resources and territories in the universe had already been carved up.

There was no new territory left for him to seize.

If he wanted to become a Divine-level Civilization, he had to drag down one of the existing Divine-level Civilizations.

Through the "Doppler Radar" he could see the entire distribution of forces across the universe. Of course, he didn't have the patience to look at all civilizations; he focused mainly on those Divine-level Civilizations and a few Ninth-level Civilizations.

In some corner of the universe.

A Ninth-level Civilization called the "Starlight Civilization" was waging a decisive battle against one Divine-level Civilization, and all the Divine-level Civilizations in the surrounding region were sending support to that defending Divine-level Civilization.

The fight was insanely intense.

Light Cannons were flying all over the sky.

Two-dimensional Foils were being tossed out like paint splatters on an oil painting.

Utter chaos and devastation.

They were fighting till the heavens went dark and the earth turned dim.

That "Starlight Civilization" actually had some connection with him; it was the main clan after the "Rough Civilization" returned—the parent civilization of the Star Arrow Race. At this moment they were bringing out all their heritage and launching an all-out offensive against the "Divine-level Civilization"!

If they won, they would become a Divine-level Civilization!

If they lost, they wouldn't even have a grave left!

The surrounding Divine-level Civilizations were tacitly sending troops to support that challenged Divine-level Civilization—in a sense, this counted as one versus many.

Trying to advance to a Divine-level Civilization was anything but easy.

It was worth mentioning...

Only a race like the "Star Arrow Race" or a Cultivation Civilization, which could use "bloodline Wormholes" to gather all their clansmen together and expand the strength of their main race, could pull this off. If it were a Train Civilization, even if they used bloodline Wormholes to bring in a ton of clansmen, what good would it do? They couldn't bring resources along; completely pointless.

Only those civilizations that concentrated great power in themselves could use this method to rapidly increase their civilization's means in a short time.

However...

Once you resorted to this method, you could say it had become a final showdown. You'd completely exhaust your race's heritage, and if you lost, your entire species would be almost erased from the universe. Forget rising again someday—there wouldn't even be such a race left in the universe; a total and complete extinction.

The risk was insanely high.

It was basically a desperate all-in.

In the short term, it was impossible to tell who would have the last laugh. Wars at this level of civilization weren't something that could end quickly.

"The battlefield of Divine-level Civilizations really is the most exciting."

Chen Mang's hands were itching as he watched. He genuinely kind of wanted to join in, but he still wasn't strong enough yet—at least, not absolutely invincible. Give it a bit more time to develop, and he'd pretty much count as truly invincible!

At that point, he could officially step out into the world.

Another panel slowly surfaced on the screen of the control console.

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"Civilization Name: Human Civilization."

"Civilization Level: 7."

"Civilization Leader: Chen Mang."

"Civilized Planets: Water Blue Star, Black Tortoise Star, No.1 Mining Star, No.2 Mining Star, No.3 Mining Star, No.4 Mining Star... etc."

"Civilized Population: 61 trillion."

"Promotion Conditions: highest-attack Energy Range exceeding 500,000."

"ps: From promotion to Second-level Civilization onward, each promotion will release one 'Promotion Ripple' detectable by all nearby civilizations. The higher the level, the wider the range of the 'Promotion Ripple'."

"Civilized Means: the generation speed and capacity of resource mines such as Murphy Stone Ore, iron ore, copper ore, etc. are doubled; their generation probability is doubled; Special Tool birth probability is doubled."

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This was the new Human Civilization panel.

The Promotion Conditions for advancing to Level 8 were extremely simple—there weren't even any more restrictions on territory or the number of Civilization Wonders. It all boiled down to a single requirement on the strongest attack energy. In other words, as long as he had a 5000-level Akanon Light Energy Main Cannon, he could advance to an Eighth-level Civilization.

The Promotion Conditions for a Seventh-level Civilization were a 3000-level Akanon Light Energy Main Cannon.

The Eighth-level Civilization's means were resource-type.

They could help a civilization obtain more resources during its development.

Not that important.

They fell under "development means."

The important part was—

The shot he'd just fired to rescue Xiaolv's mother was a 5000-level Akanon Light Energy Main Cannon, not a 3000-level one...

So.

A few more panels slowly appeared on the train control console screen.

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"'Human Civilization' has met the Promotion Conditions and has been automatically promoted."

"The Promotion Ripple range for this promotion is 100 billion light-years."

"All life forms within any Level 1 and above civilization will receive this Promotion Ripple in their own way."

"The transmission speed of the Promotion Ripple is the speed of light."

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"Seventh-level Civilization 'Human Civilization' has successfully advanced to Eighth-level Civilization."

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The shot he'd just fired to rescue Xiaolv's mother was a 5000-level Akanon Light Energy Main Cannon, not a 3000-level one...

So.

A few more panels slowly appeared on the train control console screen.

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"'Human Civilization' has met the Promotion Conditions and has been automatically promoted."

"The Promotion Ripple range for this promotion is 100 billion light-years."

"All life forms within any Level 1 and above civilization will receive this Promotion Ripple in their own way."

"The transmission speed of the Promotion Ripple is the speed of light."

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"Seventh-level Civilization 'Human Civilization' has successfully advanced to Eighth-level Civilization."