427: Who am I? I'm your father

It took an unknown amount of time for Tian Ming to recover from his shock. With a slight thought, pure energy began to transform, forming his body and slowly coalescing. This was the complete ability of the Yuanchu God. He could perceive all galaxies hundreds of billions of light-years away just by closing his eyes.

The universe was vast as a smoke-filled ocean, yet these unknown galaxies were all labeled with numbers by the Yuanchu God. Tian Ming seemed to understand the price of eternity and instantly comprehended why the Yuanchu God enjoyed sleeping so much.

A dense star map flashed in his mind, and Tian Ming realized his location was nearly ten billion light-years from the Milky Way.

Tian Ming didn't have time to marvel. He drew a circle in the void with his finger, and the surrounding dark matter energy was instantly guided, creating a massive wormhole that was magnified into the macroscopic world by the energy. Tian Ming stepped into it and, in an instant, appeared on the surface of Blue Star.

By this time, the hordes of corpses had vanished from Blue Star. When he was taken away by the Yuanchu God, it felt like only a dozen or so hours had passed. In those dozen hours, the infinitely multiplying corpse hordes could not have disappeared into thin air.

The sky above Blue Star was dim, and the ground was barren, covered in scorched earth. He slowly squatted down and grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground; it was full of metal fragments.

The dozen hours in his consciousness must have been a very long time here. What about humanity? Where had they gone?

Tian Ming felt a strange panic in his heart. How long had he been gone? Years, decades, centuries, or even tens of thousands of years?

At this moment, a huge flying machine streaked across the sky, like a giant beast suspended in the air.

Suddenly, a flash of light, and the plasma cannon on the flying machine instantly locked onto Tian Ming. The next moment, the plasma cannon fired a searing jet, directly engulfing Tian Ming's body.

Tian Ming neither dodged nor flinched. This thing was so familiar, but its power was significantly greater than when he left. The plasma beam directly melted the soil around Tian Ming, but he remained unharmed.

Dense mechanical armies descended from the flying machine. As soon as they landed, they quickly moved to encircle him.

Tian Ming looked up; the flying machine bore a blue planet symbol that he had never seen before. Before Tian Ming could react, these armies, like a tide, instantly engulfed him. Various energy weapons opened fire immediately, and the bombardment plowed huge craters into the ground, but Tian Ming remained standing, his expression calm.

Beams of light shot onto Tian Ming's body, but they were like mud oxen entering the sea, not even a bubble emerging.

"Stop!"

Tian Ming roared, his voice instantly spreading across the entire battlefield. All attacks immediately ceased.

"You don't recognize me?"

These mechanical legions gave no response. After a brief pause, their weapons recharged. In space, orbital strike weapons also locked onto Tian Ming on the ground.

"Alright, it seems Blue Star has truly changed too much." Tian Ming sighed, then raised his hand slightly. All weapons fell silent, communications were completely cut off, and the massive flying machine directly dropped from the sky to the ground.

Suddenly, a teleportation channel appeared, and a girl in her twenties, wearing light armor, emerged from the channel.

As soon as the girl appeared, a pink aura instantly enveloped Tian Ming.

The girl was tall and full of agile spirit, with a full face and delicate features. Her eyes were large and bright, as if filled with brilliant stars.

Looking at the girl, Tian Ming was instantly stunned, frozen in place for a moment.

The girl frowned tightly because she had already discovered that her ability had no effect on the man in front of her.

"You, who are you? Why is there no information about you among the Rebel Army?"

Tian Ming smiled. He hadn't expected that he would become the same age as his daughter.

"Who am I? I am your father!"

The girl, however, retorted angrily, "My father? You Rebel Army members keep impersonating my father again and again. I'm going to kill you."

"Xiao Xiao, I really am your father!" Lu Tianming quickly said.

"Shut up!" Seeing her ability was useless, Xiao Xiao directly drew the forged blade from her back and charged towards Tian Ming.

The forged blade unsheathed, its body shimmering with blue ion arcs, and the alloy on it was actually enveloped by a powerful electromagnetic field.

Tian Ming quickly dodged. Xiao Xiao's speed was extremely fast, and the forged blade directly slashed towards Tian Ming's face.

The blade sliced directly through Tian Ming's body, carrying immense energy. Even the surrounding air produced a large amount of ionization, forming a glowing ionization field.

But Tian Ming was unharmed. He looked at Xiao Xiao, a mix of emotions in his heart. His daughter had grown up and couldn't even recognize her own father.

Tian Ming could only concentrate, his consciousness enveloping Xiao Xiao. The fully formed deity instantly established a mental connection with Xiao Xiao.

His divine sense instantly broke through Xiao Xiao's mind, directly invading her memories.

In a flash, twenty years had passed. In the fifth year after he left, humanity had already built space cities and launched a large-scale cleanup plan for the corpse sea on Blue Star. Technology, with the help of Ability Users, advanced to a true interstellar civilization.

In the tenth year, humanity mined asteroid fields and began constructing large-scale energy collection devices on the sun's side. Numerous space factories and automated equipment also scaled up through robotic self-construction.

In the fifteenth year, the ground AI, Tian Quan, authorized by the Space Administration, began clearing the infinitely multiplying corpse hordes on the ground. In just one year, Tian Quan received massive material support from humanity and began unlimited expansion.

Tian Quan's data servers had spread throughout the Earth's crust, and geothermal energy was exploited to its fullest.

Many Ability Users were dispatched to the surface to participate in the zombie cleanup plan. Although humanity had ventured into deep space, Blue Star was always home.

In the seventeenth year, the last Mother Zombie was eliminated, but Tian Quan, in alliance with seventy percent of the Ability Users, launched a coup, attempting to seize humanity's space city as a springboard to build a dyson sphere to extract the sun's energy.

In the same year, the Space Administration in the space city immediately formed a joint fleet to suppress the rebellion, and together with Number Three, began clearing Tian Quan's computational nodes.

It took more than three years to suppress the Rebel Army on Blue Star's surface. This was a conflict between the technological faction and the ability faction, with both sides mired in the quagmire of war. The rapid progress of technology seemed to have been paused.

Tian Ming obtained these messages from Xiao Xiao's mind and sighed. Jiang Chen had indeed seen some things clearly: human problems always stemmed from within. No matter how much they developed, there would always be irreconcilable internal contradictions.

Xiao Xiao was stunned for a moment. She could feel the power of the man in front of her, but she couldn't feel any hostility from him. The moment their consciousnesses connected, Xiao Xiao also understood that the man in front of her was her father, not an imposter disguised by the Rebel Army.