"Haha..."

"Hahaha..."

"Hahahahaha..."

Lanling laughed wildly, finally bursting into uncontrollable laughter.

"What a low-level civilization indeed." Lanling began to clap vigorously: "No wonder the Lunar Holy Palace didn’t even send a single priest but merely dispatched an energy life form like you to deal with me."

Shi Yiyue said: "Although I am an energy life form, I serve the Hall of Temple Council Secretariat, meaning strictly speaking, I am a level five citizen, so my status here is equivalent to yours."

"Wow..." Lanling laughed heartily, "So it turns out I, the Chaos Emperor, am a level five citizen. It’s truly remarkable. The moon energy civilization has nine levels, yet I, the Chaos Emperor, am only level five, hahaha!"

Shi Yiyue said: "In fact, it is precisely because you are the highest monarch of the Dragon Demon Planet that you’ve been designated as a level five citizen; otherwise, you’d never reach this level."

"Bullshit..." Lanling spat directly towards him.

October gently wiped off the spit, saying: "Although you come from a low-level civilization, you are still a monarch. Please mind your manners and decorum. Your uncouth behavior certainly doesn’t befit the treatment of a level five citizen."

"Haha... He he..."

Shi Yiyue instantly felt more disgusted, saying coldly: "Mr. Lanling, I hope you won’t sabotage yourself. Ignorance is fearless, and unyielding ignorance is invincible—this attitude doesn’t work in our world. While you may be the Chaos Emperor, outside of your domain, here in the moon energy civilization, you are nothing. In terms of sheer force, there are countless who could easily eliminate you! In our eyes, you truly amount to nothing, so please remove that pretentious facade of a ruler. You come from Earth; you should know Earth’s history. When European colonizers entered the Americas, what was the mindset of the armed modern army facing a primitive tribal chieftain? That’s exactly our mindset now. All your semblances of dominance are like a primitive chieftain doing a war dance, attempting to chase away enemies by urinating. Crude, unbearable, lowly, and disgusting—all are fitting descriptors."

"A great sense of superiority," Lanling said. "As an energy life form, a tool produced in bulk, your logic and adaptability are quite decent. But please, listen to what I have to say next, okay?"

"I’m all ears!" Shi Yiyue said. "Much like how colonizers pretended to listen to the tribal chieftain, even though their crude, primitive dialect was not always understood, nor important."

Lanling said: "Firstly, the so-called lunar super energy civilization isn’t some kind of colonizer, but originates from the same roots and bloodline as those on the Dragon Demon Planet. In terms of race, neither is superior nor inferior. Do you agree with this?"

Shi Yiyue said: "I agree!"

Lanling said: "Secondly, the so-called lunar super energy civilization, regardless of the Demon Race here or the humans, are all fugitives, right? Despicable fugitives, aren’t they? You originally belonged to a part of the Dragon Demon Planet, but when the apocalypse of the Dragon Demon Planet struck, when the Void Creatures sought to devour the entire planet, you gathered the energy of the Dragon Demon Planet into one place, forcibly splitting a sixth of the planet, and launched it into space, thereby becoming the moon, completely freeing it from the Void Creatures’ threat, correct? Thus, the land of the fallen being shattered by Ancient Gods and Demons and Ancient Dragons is an incredibly vile, shameless lie. The truth is, when the catastrophe of the Dragon Demon Planet came, a portion of the so-called high-level people on that planet split a sixth of the planet, transformed it into the moon, and fled the mother planet. This group of high-level people may have been thousands or perhaps tens of thousands. In short, they fled, leaving the majority on the Dragon Demon Planet to face certain death. Am I guessing correctly?"

Shi Yiyue said: "Absolutely correct."

Lanling said: "Then, these tens of thousands of you thrived in lunar space. Countless years passed, and now this has developed into a population of over a billion. Yet, you still have to remotely control the Dragon Demon Planet, why?"

Shi Yiyue said: "Take a guess?"

Lanling said: "I suspect it’s because not only do you need to completely evade the devouring crisis of the Void Creatures, you also need the gravitational pull of the Dragon Demon Planet. Once the Dragon Demon Planet is fully devoured by the Void Creatures, your moon would be captured by another planet’s gravity, a planet which might spell catastrophic disaster for you. So, you need the Dragon Demon Planet to remain there in its impaired state, but you absolutely can’t allow the Dragon Demon Planet to develop into an advanced civilization. It’s best if it remains stagnated like a primitive society, is that right?"

Shi Yiyue said: "Yes, absolutely correct. We need the Demon Race and humans on the Dragon Demon Planet to live like pigs and dogs. Ignorance is bliss, and anyone attempting to tap into advanced energy civilization must be eliminated. The trend of your Flame Dragon Empire and Flame Demon Empire is quite dangerous now."

Lanling said: "So, you manipulate both the Sky Holy Palace and Yao Xing. Keeping the Dragon Demon Planet perpetually at war — today humans fight the Demon Race, tomorrow the Demon Race fights humans, back and forth, exterminating each other. In short, they cannot advance in civilization. The sole purpose of the Dragon Demon Planet is to provide gravitational pull for the lunar civilization, correct?"

"Yes," Shi Yiyue said.

Lanling said: "But you also need someone with an incredibly powerful willpower and psychic energy field. Every day the Void Creatures continue to expand, and every two or three ten thousand years, you need a Demon Emperor or Dragon Emperor to sacrifice themselves to control these Void Creatures, coercing them to curl up in the Void Abyss and refrain from devouring the entire Dragon Demon Planet, right?"

"Correct." Shi Yiyue said, "The current Lunar Holy Palace is half Demon Race and half human. Long ago, when the apocalypse crisis arrived, they already shook hands and reconciled, developing together. So whether the master of Yao Xing is the Demon Emperor or the Dragon Emperor, we don’t really care. We only care about two things: first, the Dragon Demon Planet cannot develop a high energy civilization. Second, when necessary, whether it’s the Dragon Emperor or the Demon Emperor, they must sacrifice themselves to suppress those Void Creatures. They must use their own souls to become their souls, making them continue to lie low."

Lanling said, "What is your goal? It can’t be to perpetuate this situation forever, can it?"

Shi Yiyue said, "Our ultimate mission is to develop the ninth generation of energy civilization, making the moon a giant Universe Battleship capable of space jumping, completely escaping this starlit sky surrounded by the Void Master, moving to absolutely safe star systems, and redeveloping our glorious and brilliant civilization."

"A good goal, a magnificent goal." Lanling said, "Your goal might be Earth, right? Otherwise, why do you keep transferring Earth humans here endlessly?"

Shi Yiyue smiled mysteriously, without answering.

Lanling said, "But have you ever thought about it? Your lunar civilization is indeed much more advanced and powerful than ours, perhaps tens of thousands of times, perhaps millions of times. But as I said, you’re only a hundred years ahead of us, at most two or three hundred years. Just give us a hundred years, and we can become as advanced as you."

"Impossible." Shi Yiyue said, "Ninety-nine percent of the energy on the Dragon Demon Planet has been taken away by us, condensed on the moon. What’s left on the Dragon Demon Planet is merely a bunch of residue, only able to nurture you low-level races."

Lanling laughed, "On Earth, once worthless sand turned into CPUs and became the core of modern technological civilization. Once insignificant water might even become an endless energy source. Civilization, who can say clearly what it is."

Shi Yiyue said, "Perhaps so, but you haven’t even reached third-level energy civilization yet; how can you leap across these ten or so civilization levels to surpass us?"

Lanling said, "We can change our mindset. I alone can’t, but there are billions of people, and they will continue to think and forge a brand-new energy civilization. You’re stuck within the moon, narrow-minded, and it’s natural for civilization to hit a bottleneck. How many years have you been here? Tens of thousands, or even longer? Yet you’re only ahead of us by a mere few hundred years. Maybe thirty thousand years ago, or fifty thousand years ago, you were already this advanced, and now you’re still the same. What’s worthy of pride? What’s there to boast about? What high civilization, super civilization, pfft..."

"Trapped in your own cocoon, stagnant and complacent, and yet you boast about your super energy civilization," Lanling said disdainfully, "Thousands of years, and you’re only a few hundred years ahead of us? What’s worthy of pride? What low-level civilization? We’re your home planet; without the Dragon Demon Planet, you’d be nothing!" 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

Shi Yiyue was silent for a long time and then began to applaud.

"Well said, excellently said, leaving me speechless." Shi Yiyue said, "But unmatched eloquence can’t change the fact that we’re advanced, powerful ten thousand times, a billion times than you. Unmatched eloquence can’t change the fact that here, your Chaos Emperor is only treated as a fifth-level citizen. Unmatched eloquence can’t change the fact that with the power of a single star, we could easily destroy your Flame Demon Kyoto."

"Oh?" Lanling sneered, "Then why don’t you do it? Why don’t you do it now?"

Shi Yiyue said, "Of course because of you, Lord Lanling, you’re so unruly and unorthodox. The Lunar Holy Palace was not meant for you, yet you came anyway. There shouldn’t have been a Chaos Emperor, but you created one regardless. Although it’s still a child’s play in our eyes, it crossed the line."

Then, Shi Yiyue sighed, "Lord Lanling, go back! Go back and sacrifice yourself to suppress the Void Creatures, save the Dragon Demon Planet, save your family. That’s your only way out. Did you come to the Lunar Holy Palace just to see your sister, Lancome? Alright, we’ll have her meet you immediately!"

"Summon Lancome!" Shi Yiyue said.

Instantly, a spaceship flew over, docking outside the massive Crystal Stone canopy.

The spaceship opened, and a beautiful woman gracefully walked out.

She was Lanling’s incredibly familiar yet slightly unfamiliar sister, Lancome. She was what he longed for day and night, what he reminisced about countless times, even his long-term motivation for development and survival in this world.

The person he loved most, once a companion for life, a lover!

Once the Dragon Emperor who chose to inherit the Dragon Emperor’s legacy for Lanling, and was imprisoned by the Sky Holy Palace for him.

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