Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'-Chapter 1255 - 255: Empire Line: Toward the [Spiritual Deer] Ending (50)

The progress of the work was more than doubly difficult than anticipated. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Whether it's Li Aozi or Oshen, in essence, they are all warriors. If you only consider ideology, Oshen is an absolute conservative, longing for past historical and imagined monarch-subject, father-son relationships, while Leoz is purely a usurping warlord.

The fact that they decided to unite to overthrow Lai Anding's regime speaks volumes about how bad Lai Anding's rule was.

But then again, doesn't Lai Anding have supporters?

No, where there are those who sacrifice their interests, there are bound to be beneficiaries.

A quick review of the communication records between Leoz and Oshen during the first meeting of the Yuanyuan Formation reveals that the two had no disagreements about Lai Anding's "From Star Abyss" plan and even tacitly avoided mentioning its negative impacts.

The reason is simple, the "From Star Abyss" plan, in its massive conscription of Spiritual Warriors to enhance intervention in the Starry Abyss, indeed caused many deaths.

However, what about the benefits?

Both Li Aozi and Oshen know clearly that Primordial Abyss itself is a barren cosmos, suitable only for the survival of the Starry Abyss Divine Race, with no truly suitable soil for civilization.

To put it bluntly, if the Primordial Abyss didn't have the Five Layers of the Starry Abyss, whether it could support such a vast political apparatus would still be in question.

Moreover, both Li Aozi and Oshen come from a military and warrior background, never one to hide their ambition and desire for territory.

Though "From Star Abyss" is a malevolent colonial control and garrison interference effort, even the Cannon Fodder Deity and Slave Labor Deity received relatively equal and fair treatment for the first time in the process.

For a Cannon Fodder Deity like Li Aozi, it's like unimaginable wealth fell upon him.

For Oshen, from a traditional warrior class, to regain influence over the Starry Abyss is practically the glory of the Divine Race's revival.

Thus, Li Aozi and Oshen tacitly avoided criticizing the "From Star Abyss" plan, and did not even reject the garrison issue with the Starry Abyss.

Indeed, Lai Anding's original intent is malicious; she wants to reclaim the dominant position in the Primordial Abyss, turning the Five Layers of the Starry Abyss into her backyard and colony.

But fortunately, neither Li Aozi nor Oshen are saints.

Or I should say, in this era of grand narratives competing for supremacy, there is no distinction between good and evil.

Civilians are just cells, armies are teeth, territories and resources are bones and flesh, and even leaders and parties have become the brain and thought.

In cosmic war, no one can remain outside the grand narrative.

In the struggle between the narrative civilization and the society of beasts, both sides are becoming increasingly alike.

There's nothing tragic about it; reality has always been a cold blade that wipes out all weak, unfortunate, and complacent failures.

Losers each have their unique flaws, while winners are uniformly excellent and complete.

What Li Aozi and Oshen really decided at the meeting was the future narrative of the Primordial Abyss.

As the Divine Race, they cannot be like other mortal narratives, which only need a pretext to unite the people.

Because in the past, they once ruled the Six-Layered Starry Abyss and the Starry Abyss Cosmos, even at their peak, their realm bordered Earth's cosmic space.

At the same time, in order to consolidate its influence, the Primordial Abyss long ago shared the Pathway of Ascension to Godhood, leading the Starry Abyss Civilization, no matter how its narrative civilization develops, to ultimately choose the more stable and orthodox route of the Primordial Abyss God Clan.

And this provided the divine mindset with a supernational civilization identity.

In Li Aozi and Oshen's vision, the Primordial Abyss Divine Race should only be the main ethnic group of the Primordial Abyss; the narrative civilization of the Primordial Abyss should be a concept more universal than an empire.

The advantage of the Primordial Abyss is that it is a truly heavenly kingdom society, where in the deepest part of the Primordial Abyss, any deity can actually exert their greatest strength and enjoy the highest quality social development, but the Primordial Abyss itself cannot and does not need to produce any manufactured goods, while possessing the highest spiritual enjoyment and the top Pathway.

In this way, the new Primordial Abyss narrative can attract more post-natal Ascenders to join the Primordial Abyss, drawing these divine elites cultivated by various narrative civilizations into the lineage of the Primordial Abyss Divine Race.

In this process, the Primordial Abyss can expand its power and iterate its political talents without any production activity or commodity exchange, relying solely on natural endowments (Primordial Abyss blessing) and cultural attraction.

That is enough.

To be honest, if the Primordial Abyss chose to launch a civil war, no Starry Abyss could face off against the Primordial Abyss Divine Race in a direct confrontation; not to mention the basic strength of the Divine Race and the reserve of billions of veterans from the War Beyond the Abyss.

If Lai Anding plans to invade other Starry Abysses from the bottom up, it's no different from the north invading the south.

But Lai Anding dares not fight.

Li Aozi and Oshen understand Lai Anding's thinking, and they know why Lai Anding dares not use military force to unify the Starry Abyss.

First, Lai Anding is not a military leader; they have never received wartime education, let alone participated in military action. If Lai Anding goes to war, their power will be instantly overshadowed by various military faction leaders or many Spiritual Warriors.

Second, conquered land needs a garrison to administrate, and with a garrison, it's equivalent to directly delegating power to Spiritual Warriors, resulting in a pile-up of low-ranking Leozs.

Therefore, the Primordial Abyss still needs to migrate to the frontier to prevent more Lord Leozs from coming to usurp power and secession, and quite embarrassingly—Lai Anding has already lost the ability to birth or create, and the only one who holds this authority under them... is Land Loyd.

Third, after unifying the Starry Abyss, the Secret Society-led societal clusters would also band together.

Lai Anding can appease the societal side through appeasement. With the loose narratives of the Starry Abyss, facing small-scale societal invasions, they fight for themselves, not wasting Primordial Abyss resources.

But in the face of a large-scale societal allied invasion, even Leoz at the Executer position couldn't hold it back, and Lai Anding knows well that as a Chief God in charge of birth, medical, and logistics in the rear, they have no qualifying opposition against Gaia.

They cannot do it.

Therefore, Lai Anding crafted such a system and forged the "From Star Abyss" plan, to not anger Gaia while gradually strengthening control over the Starry Abyss by remaining detached.

It can be said that Lai Anding has really exhausted every effort for the stabilization of their regime.

Faced with such a situation, even revolutionary figures from the Yuanyuan Formation like Li Aozi and Oshen couldn't help but sigh.

"Lai Anding is masterful at playing power politics, truly top-notch in the Starry Abyss."

Elevent couldn't help but say:

"If they had left us even a small chance of survival, we wouldn't need to rebel."