# Chapter 2063: War Has Never Been the Goal! It's the Means
What lay before Di Chou and the others was a complete mess, a mess that couldn't get any worse!
The instigator was none other than Jiangnan!
There wasn't even time to assess the damage; the most important thing was to first stop the Wanxiang Star, which was still circling around!
Chen Mu waved his hand: "Domain Expansion • Stardust Gravitational Field!"
The powerful domain even enveloped the entire Thousand Stars Domain. Under the pull of gravity, Wanxiang Star finally stopped moving. Chen Mu pulled it and placed it at the center of the Thousand Stars Domain!
Returning to its original position!
And the remaining stationed planets were also nudged by gravity back to their original orbital paths!
The terrifying strength of a Star Devourer was evident for all to see; it was shocking every time one witnessed it!
None of the Star Devourers had good expressions on their faces as they watched the Strategic Mechanism Brigade still causing chaos everywhere, acting like happy troublemakers!
Di Chou was furious!
(ꐦ°᷄益°᷅) "Silicon! Damn Silicon! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have arrived only now, and the Thousand Stars City wouldn't have been destroyed to this extent!"
"Dimensional Descent!"
The massive Strategic Mechanism Star had almost no resistance as it was decomposed into energy by the descending four-dimensional world!
All the anger he couldn't vent on Jiangnan was poured out on Silicon!
He was about to move against other Strategic Mechanism Brigade units to completely suppress the chaos!
Just then, a massive spindle-shaped machine suddenly warped into the scene!
An extremely intense signal wave erupted!
"Boom!"
After releasing the signal wave, the spindle-shaped device exploded violently!
At the same time, all Strategic Mechanism Brigade mechanical warriors covered by the signal wave self-destructed!
Brilliant fireworks bloomed across the starry sky, as if celebrating the end of this great Thousand Stars calamity!
What exploded wasn't just the Silicon mechanical units, but also all Silicon products!
Anything infected with the Watt virus was completely destroyed, leaving none behind!
Jiangnan squinted, watching Silicon's operation with great interest.
Cutting off the tail to save life? Decisive enough!
For Silicon, the Terminal Database was of utmost importance, with database security being the highest priority!
So they would rather destroy all Silicon products in the Thousand Stars Domain than leave any chance of infection!
The idea of using the Watt virus to infiltrate the Terminal Database fell through.
That spindle-shaped machine was something similar to a self-destruct virus? Interesting!
However, compared to this, Jiangnan was more curious about how Silicon would clean up this time!
After the spindle-shaped machine exploded, a massive mechanical planet warped in again!
It repeatedly checked for any remaining virus traces and dispatched countless disinfection drones to thoroughly destroy and eliminate any virus programs that might remain in the Thousand Stars Domain!
They were cautious to the extreme!
Only after confirming the complete elimination of the virus did the mechanical planet lift the signal blockade.
Muke's mechanical prosthetic stepped out from it, its mechanical eyes cold!
"Jiang! Nan! You..."
Jiangnan clicked his tongue: (๑•᷄◡•᷅) "He's coming~ He's coming~ He's walking in with the gait of a fool!"
Even the usually calm Muke couldn't help but clench his fist!
(╬◣_◢) "***!"
At this moment, even Di Chou and the others were stunned. What the hell? Silicon cursed?
The usually calm and rational Silicon was actually driven to curse by Jiangnan?
Jiangnan rolled his eyes:
(*꒪ั～꒪ั) "Is that all? Is this how Silicon treats its allied forces?"
Muke glared: (ꐦ⊚_⊚)☛ "Silicon is not your allied force! Don't put that label on us! Can you take responsibility for what you say? You..."
Noah said coldly: (￢～￢) "Oh? Is that so? Not allied forces? But Silicon has done everything it should do!"
"You did the deed, received the payment, and now that you're caught, you say you're a law-abiding citizen? Who do you think you're fooling?"
Gamma Star Devourer Benni Mei squinted: "You helped humans incite the Thousand Stars chaos, and used your mechanical legion to attack various Star Devourers, delaying the suppression of the dark matter tide?"
"If it weren't for you, we would have arrived earlier, and things wouldn't have developed to this point!"
Muke was fuming, feeling he couldn't defend himself no matter what he said!
(ง⊚_⊚)ง "No! It was Jiangnan who used a program virus to invade Silicon's data network, which caused this incident!"
"Silicon couldn't possibly be an ally of humanity!"
Jiangnan fanned the flames, waving his hand: (︶.̮︶〃)ﾉ "Ah~ stop pretending! So what if you were? You already did it; admitting it won't change anything! It's not like they can kill us or anything, right?"
Muke:!!!
The hell "us"!
"You little brat! Shut up! Don't add fuel to the fire! You..."
Noah sneered: "Invaded by a program virus? Silicon holds the second seat in the Starry Sky Sequence, with strength and foundation that mere humans can't compare to!"
"What kind of virus could just casually invade you? Don't be ridiculous, okay?"
Female Venerable Manti squinted: "You say you were invaded by a virus? Do you expect us to believe that just because you say so? Tell us specifically how you were invaded, why don't you?"
At this moment, Muke directly experienced the feeling Di Chou had when being targeted by everyone, so frustrated he wanted to just shut down and give up!
"I... I don't have data on the invasion process. To ensure the safety of the Terminal Database, those data were erased!"
The current Muke was a backup of the consciousness mainframe from the Terminal Database. He had no memory data from the suppression of the dark matter tide to the end of the Thousand Stars calamity!
Because he dared not synchronize the data!
He didn't even know how Jiangnan used the virus or how it invaded him!
His memory was completely blank!
He had only received that clean message sent back to the Terminal Database!
Di Chou squinted: (ꐦ‾᷄益‾᷅) "No evidence! You say you were invaded, so you were? Silicon! Don't try to shirk responsibility this time!"
Muke was cornered and finally spoke: "We can deal with this later! There are more important things to handle right now, aren't there?"
"The one who instigated this Thousand Stars calamity is standing right in front of us!"
Although he knew Muke was changing the subject, everyone's gaze fell on Jiangnan!
Indeed! They had to solve the human problem first!
But the most troublesome thing right now wasn't Jiangnan, nor humanity, but the Black God standing beside him!
Jiangnan twisted his neck, a light smile on his face!
"Indeed! It's time for a proper talk!"
Di Chou's face twisted: "Talk? What's there to talk about? This battle has already shown the depravity of humanity to its fullest, hasn't it?"
"The ten thousand races of the starry sky and humanity are irreconcilable!"
Jiangnan snorted: "Don't wash your hands so clean. The Bose race developed Star Ruins as slave breeding grounds, freely buying and selling lives—is that noble?"
"Neither of us are good people, that's all. Irreconcilable? I suppose you've been to the Milky Way galaxy? You came up empty-handed, am I right?"
Hearing this, all the Star Devourers had ugly expressions. Of course they came up empty-handed!
Jiangnan said coldly: "Understand this: the Sacred Law Council no longer has any means to threaten humanity! And negotiation can only be called negotiation when it's based on both parties being equal in status and level!"
"I think humanity now qualifies. Back then, the Sacred Law Council gave me two paths to choose!"
"Now, I'm giving you two choices as well!"
At this point, Jiangnan paused, his gaze sweeping across the faces of all the Star Devourers one by one!
Di Chou had to admit Jiangnan was right. Before, they could still use Blue Star as leverage.
But now there was no way; they couldn't charge into the Dimensional Gap to destroy Blue Star!
Damn it! How did humanity end up allied with the Black God?
Jiangnan raised one finger!
"First path! The Ten Thousand Races Accord is voided! The Sacred Law Council grants humanity the right to join the Starry Sky Sequence! No resistance, no obstruction!"
"Humanity enjoys all the rights that Starry Sky Sequence members have, and obtains the right to reside in Thousand Stars City! No race in the starry sky may suppress the normal development of human civilization for any reason or by any means!"
Hearing this, Di Chou laughed in anger. The other Star Devourers looked at Jiangnan as if he were an idiot!
Even Noah was confused. Was Jiangnan out of his mind?
Humanity had demolished Thousand Stars City, done such excessive things, and already formed an enmity with the ten thousand races!
Yet he still wanted to join the Starry Sky Sequence? What was the point? It would surely be boycotted by all races!
At this moment, humanity had already positioned themselves against all the ten thousand races of the starry sky!
Di Chou sneered: "At this point, you still want to join the Starry Sky Sequence? You've already overturned the table, and now you want a seat at it?"
"Have you lost your mind? Don't treat this like children playing house! Stop dreaming! Your wildest fantasies aren't even this wild!"
"Since things have come this far, it's irreconcilable! The face of the Sacred Law Council isn't something that can be slapped for nothing, and Thousand Stars City wasn't demolished for nothing!"
"The blood of the ten thousand races wasn't shed for nothing either!"
Muke's tone was firm: "There is absolutely no such possibility!"
Jiangnan smiled: "Oh? Is that so? Are you really sure?"
In fact, Jiangnan wasn't crazy, nor was his thinking naive!
Humanity had to join the Starry Sky Sequence—this was something that had to be done!
Indeed, developing Blue Star within the Lost Kingdom was one path, but did that really have a future?
Don't forget, the Dimensional Gap was extremely barren, let alone various resources!
For humanity to develop, to catch up with and even surpass the civilizations of the ten thousand races, the resource consumption was enormous. For this, they had to enter the circle of the ten thousand races!
Only in the starry sky were there resources and conditions for development!
Not to mention Star Source Points, various advanced technologies, specialties and abilities of different races, economic trade circles...
Some things could only be accomplished through cooperation!
These things didn't exist in the Dimensional Gap!
For humanity to develop quickly, to make the Lost Kingdom even more brilliant than Thousand Stars City...
Joining the Starry Sky Sequence was the only way out. Perhaps there would be grudges, humanity would be targeted everywhere, the road wouldn't be smooth—but where in the world was there a smooth, broad path for people to walk?
Just because the road was difficult didn't mean one should escape or give up. Choosing a relatively easier path would yield rewards proportional to the effort!
And if humanity always hid in the Dimensional Gap playing solo, building behind closed doors, not cooperating, not accepting the impact of outside things...
Could they truly develop like this?
If so, then their promise to the Black God would also be empty words!
This was actually the truly naive thinking, irresponsible to human civilization, irresponsible to the Black God!
For rapid development, to rush to higher peaks, to have a better future...
Humanity had to join the Starry Sky Sequence. This was also Jiangnan's ultimate goal!
If Jiangnan had started with the idea of hiding in the Lost Kingdom and building behind closed doors...
Then why fight this Thousand Stars chaos?
Jiangnan was not the kind of frivolous person who, after being wronged, would go all out to fight back at any cost, even risking humanity's future!
If he fought this battle, let his hands be stained with blood, just to vent his anger...
Then Jiangnan wouldn't be Jiangnan!
War has never been the goal; it's the means!
As the Era Lord, one must have their own sense of responsibility. Every decision would affect the direction of human civilization!
So from the very beginning, Jiangnan's goal was very clear: to join the Starry Sky Sequence!
The road would be difficult, very hard, but the fruits of harvest would definitely be sweet!
And no matter what choice he made, all humanity would closely follow behind Jiangnan, never leaving, never abandoning!
Jiangnan smiled: "You refuse so decisively? How about hearing my second choice for you?"