# Chapter 2244: Star Project! Willing to Be the Umbrella Holder
Jiangnan squinted as he looked at those Xing Xu projections. The Xing Xu worlds were all different!
There were endless violet-blue grasslands dotted with starlight, and barren lands emitting hydrogen sulfide that were still built up with vitality!
The Spirit Control Race, the Flame Pool Race, the Mist Hidden Race, the Heavy Rock Race... there were far too many of them.
Different planetary environments had bred completely different forms of life, diverse racial civilizations, and cultures!
Once upon a time, Blue Star was kept in a corner by the Ten Thousand Races Accord, yet it still held a strong curiosity about the Starry Sky World!
Constantly exploring, launching satellites, various detectors, using their own methods to seek out the unknown Starry Sky World!
But they found nothing. Humanity had asked itself the same question countless times: In the vast starry sky, is there only one type of intelligent life—humans? Are we lonely?
Actually, that wasn't the case. Humans weren't alone. How vast and brilliant were the starry skies? Ten thousand races coexisted in the same era—a hundred flowers blooming, a thousand peaks competing!
Humans had only been blinded by the Ten Thousand Races Accord, blocked from the path to the truth!
This starry sky should have been even more brilliant, but Holy Star's Xing Xu development had strangled too many possibilities. Countless civilizations had lost their cultures and faiths, reduced to slave species, squeezed dry unto death!
Sometimes, the value of an entire race didn't even amount to a single incense bead.
The Starfall Round Hall was created by Holy Star. Starting from the Starfall Round Hall, one could reach countless Xing Xu!
The name was fitting enough—Starfall, Starfall! The stars falling!
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a cemetery of civilizations!
If humanity's four generations of accumulation hadn't won that Xing Xu war, then this new batch of Xing Xu would have been eighteen!
Jiangnan knew all too well what that feeling would be like.
Even today, Jiangnan still believed that the slave species system was the greatest tragedy of this Thousand Stars Era, and humans were also victims!
There were tens of thousands of Starry Sky Sequences, but how many Xing Xu were there? Hundreds of thousands was an understatement!
How many races and civilizations had been strangled in their infancy?
To Holy Star, the Xing Xu War might have been just a game—give them Ling Xu spiritual energy, give them time to develop, then have a fair duel!
The winner joins the Sequence, the loser becomes a slave species...
Fair? Hah—was this really fair? Where was the fairness here? It was just reaping leeks!
Yakeli couldn't hold it in any longer. Watching the representatives of the various races present, pointing and commenting on those slave species, discussing their abilities—which ones were suitable for entertainment, which ones for mining—
The killing intent in his heart boiled madly!
*I've had enough of this kind of world! All of you, just die!*
He was about to stand up, but Jiangnan's mental energy exploded violently, pinning him down firmly!
Jiangnan sent a telepathic message: (￢_￢) "Stay put! What are you trying to do? Expose yourself, kill everyone here, then wait to be suppressed by the Sacred Law Council—to go die? Even if you kill them all, will these slave species stop being bought and sold? What can you accomplish? What can you change?"
"If you want to change things, listen to me!"
Yakeli's eyes were bloodshot as he replied: "Endure and endure again? Until when?"
"Your goal is too far away. I can't wait that long, and I don't have the patience to wait! A real man, born between heaven and earth, seizes the moment—life or death be damned!"
"Don't forget! I'm not your subordinate! You have no right to stop me from doing anything!"
Jiangnan's eyes widened: "Sit down! Do you want the last hope to be destroyed too?"
"Did I say I wanted to endure? Before, I couldn't save them because I didn't have the ability—humanity could barely save itself! But now, I do!"
Yakeli frowned deeply, glaring at Jiangnan!
"What are you going to do?"
Jiangnan remained silent, instead turning to Xuanse and sending a telepathic message.
Xuanse's face darkened. What else could he do? Pay with Huabei again? Anyway, buying these slave species wouldn't cost that much!
Compared to the three thousand trillion he'd just thrown out, this really was small change!
Xuanse burst into laughter:
(´-ꇴ-`；) "What a coincidence? The slave species put up for auction today—I, Xuanse, will take them all!"
"Consider it supporting the Bose Race's business!"
Venus was startled, then sneered. Was this an apology for his earlier rudeness?
(￢～￢☫) "Hah—what's this? Aren't your Chaos Race's mining areas already under development? Do you still need that many hands?"
"No need to do me any favors. If you, Xuanse, don't buy them, there are plenty who will! Slave species are never hard to sell!"
Xuanse scratched his head and smiled: ୧(〃´-ꇴ-`) "No such thing, no such thing! It just so happens that another batch of previously undiscovered rare gold was found in my mining area recently—made a small fortune!"
"I'm a bit short on manpower, so these slave species will just fill the gap!"
Venus sneered and gave Qiaona a look. Qiaona grinned: "Then we'll thank Brother Xuanse for supporting our business?"
"We'll send people to coordinate with your side for the handover and deliver this batch of goods to your location."
Xuanse smiled and waved:
(*꒦ິꇴ꒦ີ)ﾂ "Sure thing! No problem!"
Inwardly, he was already screaming bloody murder. *Damn it, I'm losing so much money today! I must be the MVP of today's entire auction!*
Yakeli's gaze flickered, and he sent a telepathic message: "So your so-called 'not enduring' is just buying them?"
"As you said, you can save these, but can you save all of them? A drop in the bucket. You can't change this messed-up world!"
"And even if you buy them, all you do is fuel Holy Star's arrogance, letting them harm even more races. What are you going to do with these people anyway?"
Jiangnan took a deep breath and replied telepathically: "The hardest thing in this world is taking that step from zero to one!"
"Indeed, this move is a drop in the bucket. I can't save all the slave species. But at least I'm doing this now—better than doing nothing!"
"Before, I didn't have the ability or the courage to do this. But now, I should take this step!"
"This plan has been brewing in my heart for a long time. Now it's time to realize it."
Yakeli was stunned: "What plan?"
Jiangnan smiled brightly: "The Star Project!"
The slave species he bought back—Jiangnan would send them to humanity's home territory, the Milky Way Star Domain!
He would remove the slave marks from their bodies, return their freedom, find suitable planets, transform them into life planets, let these slave species settle there, and revive their own racial civilizations!
Now, humanity's home star domain encompassed the entire Laniakea Supercluster—a vast cosmic space!
It was a boundless expanse of the universe, with countless galaxies like the Milky Way.
It could accommodate not just these seventeen races but tens of thousands of races to develop freely within it!
Humanity would not enslave these civilizations, nor turn them into subsidiary races.
Instead, they would become the protective umbrella for these races—in this unfriendly Starry Sky World, they would撑出一块 can grow freely! A fertile land!
No need to worry about being captured or persecuted by the Starry Sky Races!
Since they were weak, they would huddle together for warmth!
And if foreign races wanted to enter the Milky Way Star Domain, they would first have to get past humanity!
Indeed, this process had too many uncertainties, and the upfront investment was enormous!
Transformation of life planets, construction, and so on!
But now, humanity could afford it! Humanity was long past the stage of being a clay idol crossing a river— unable to save itself!
Although the upfront investment was huge, full of difficulties, and faced too many uncertainties—
There might also be ungrateful races that would repay kindness with enmity!
But just because it was hard didn't mean they shouldn't do it!
It was like scattering seeds across their own star domain. Races and civilizations would grow and develop.
Eventually, they would become shining stars, emitting light and heat!
And these different civilizations—what surprises and rewards, even growth, would they bring to human civilization?
After hearing Jiangnan's Star Project, Yakeli felt goosebumps rising from his spine straight to his crown!
"You're really a madman! Are you planning to have humanity be the protective umbrella for these races? Hold the Milky Way Star Domain? Turn it into the last fertile land under the starry sky?"
"Is this your answer? Can humanity withstand such pressure?"
Jiangnan smiled: "Give fertile soil to thousands of civilizations, irrigate them with heart and blood, shelter them from the storms—I believe we will eventually reap abundant fruits!"
"As long as humanity, this towering tree, doesn't fall, the fertile soil will be spring everywhere! An old brother taught me that!"
"Humanity crawled out of the mud and the abyss. Since we've survived, we must not forget our roots!"
"I once personally slew the dragon and led humanity to stand in the starry sky. Now, I don't want to become that evil dragon, don't want to live as the person I would hate the most. The Star Project is the beginning!"
"Since no one is willing to hold an umbrella for these slave species, then I, Jiangnan—humanity—am willing to be the umbrella holder! Let the Milky Way Star Domain become the last pure land under the starry sky!"
Jiangnan firmly believed that giving would never be without reward—and the rewards were often beyond imagination!
Different races and civilizations each had their own specialties, their own unique skills! Under mutual collision and integration—
With human civilization as the umbrella holder, gathering the strengths of a hundred schools—how high would they grow?
If there ever came a time when the stars shone brightly, then humanity would surely be the most brilliant blazing sun among them!
To this day, Jiangnan still didn't know what the correct path of this era was.
But in the process of growing, Jiangnan was slowly giving his own answers!
The beginning of the Star Project was the step from zero to one!
Jiangnan was not the kind of person who said one thing and did another. Whatever his heart sought, he pursued it with his whole life!
Now, humanity already had the precedent of the Pupil Race and the Antenna Race. The Star Project was not an unfounded fantasy!
Yakeli stared blankly at Jiangnan and took a deep breath.
"If there really is such a pure land under this starry sky, then I, Yakeli, am willing to be the blade that guards it!"
Jiangnan smiled: "There will be. Follow me, and I'll show you a Starry Sky World you've never seen before!"