**Chapter 2619: The Giant Ship Braving the Wind and Waves**
The Bose Clan did not give any positive response to the quiet development of the Carbon Alliance, acting as if it simply did not exist!
Little did they know, they were also working hard to accumulate strength, preparing to deliver a heavy blow to the Carbon Alliance during the Sequence War, intending to crush it completely!
As the overlord of the starry sky, how could they tolerate their subordinates not listening?
But at least during the preparation period, things remained peaceful!
The Carbon Alliance was happy to have this peace and quiet, seizing every moment to develop and grow!
As for the Silicon-based, they certainly couldn't have been unaware of the Carbon Alliance's affairs. Their data intelligence network was even more terrifying than the Bose Clan's!
Yet, the Silicon-based took no action either, instead focusing all their efforts on restoring the Guangke Star Domain!
Jiangnan could guess a bit about the Silicon-based's thinking!
In terms of top-tier deterrence, the Silicon-based were inferior to the Bose Clan. Although their Ultimate Star Weapons were terrifying, they were limited in number and extremely difficult to manufacture—each one used was one less!
But Xun Zu was different; his very existence was a weapon in itself, with no limit on usage!
Thus, the Silicon-based were relatively disadvantaged. If the Bose Clan hadn't had Xun Zu backing them, the previous Bose-Silicon War would likely have ended with the Silicon-based directly seizing the overlord throne!
For the Silicon-based, they didn't mind the appearance of the Carbon Alliance, because it helped share the pressure from the Bose Clan, giving them a chance to catch their breath!
Moreover, although the Carbon Alliance had a massive presence, they had no top-tier deterrent in the starry sky, so nothing had truly changed!
If the Silicon-based attacked the Carbon Alliance, the Carbon Alliance would inevitably retaliate, and the Bose Clan would never miss such a golden opportunity—they would certainly take a bite!
It was a complete losing proposition!
Therefore, the Silicon-based showed no reaction to the Carbon Alliance's emergence!
From the Silicon-based perspective, at this stage, the benefits far outweighed the drawbacks!
And from a long-term perspective? The Silicon-based didn't bother with that; they followed a short-term victory strategy, focusing only on the immediate gains!
Furthermore, the Bose Clan wouldn't just sit idly by. The Silicon-based were happy to see the Bose and Carbon Alliance start fighting each other!
Months passed one after another!
All races were pouring resources into the Sea of Star Embers to build and develop, while also training legions for the upcoming offensive and defensive battles. The pre-war atmosphere grew thicker and thicker!
During this period, humanity focused entirely on the implementation of the Human Lingxiao Plan!
Massive amounts of resources were sent into the Dimensional Gap and then disappeared without a trace, like stones sinking into the sea!
Humanity did not initially engage in large-scale technological construction in the starry sky. Instead, they set up engineering troop manufacturing and production factories within the Dimensional Gap!
Only after accumulating enough confidence would they begin construction in the starry sky!
This was also done to prevent the Silicon-based from detecting any clues. At the very least, humanity wanted to spend the 180-day preparation period in peace!
Although paper could not wrap fire, it could contain it for a while!
The massive Feiyu Insect Swarm located in the Fairy Palace Star Domain was put to good use. Large numbers of insect soldiers were sent into the Dimensional Gap to use resources to construct engineering war machines and production factories for mechanical soldiers!
Then, insect soldiers built engineering soldiers, and engineering soldiers built more engineering soldiers—the base grew larger and larger, increasing exponentially!
After several months, initial results were already visible!
In Ai Jiang's plan, the goal was to build the Star Sea Source Flow Cosmic Array, as well as batch production equipment for conventional weapons, during this preparation period!
Li Bing went even further. Using the knowledge base from the Terminal, she created a built-in brain-computer interface, allowing her brain to connect directly to the Terminal!
She could access any information stored in the Terminal at any time, which greatly aided her research and experiments!
However, since the human brain's storage capacity was limited, Li Bing couldn't simply copy the Terminal's contents into her head—no amount of storage would be enough!
She could only access it as needed!
Still, this was already a blessing for Li Bing. She would often stand in the lab giggling to herself, making other researchers think she had gone mad!
All the equipment in the lab had been upgraded as well. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it the most advanced tech lab in the starry sky!
Meanwhile, Freya gradually took over the Carbon Alliance's work from Yang Jian!
Jian Ge started to focus on organizing the military. Although the Carbon Alliance had been established, humanity still needed to commit troops to the Sequence Offensive and Defensive Battle—it was only proper to put in some effort!
Moreover, while other races might have to fight tooth and nail in the Sequence Offensive and Defensive Battle, for humanity, with the Netherworld Race as their trump card, it was an excellent opportunity for training!
As for Yakeli, he simply didn't train at all. Instead, he continued leading the Star Collective Chaos Legion, formed from the Bully Gang, to rescue enslaved races!
With the establishment of the Carbon Alliance and the support of their allies, the rescue efforts for enslaved races became much easier!
Each family had various connections, and the Star Project was growing bigger and bigger!
Normally, as the Star Project's membership increased, the drain on humanity would become increasingly severe!
It would continue until humanity could no longer bear the burden!
But in reality, as the Star Project grew, the resources invested by humanity actually decreased!
This was because the various races within the Star Project were all developing their own businesses, exploiting specialty products, and using their racial abilities to create useful small items for sale!
Many races had set up sales points in the Lost Kingdom, and quite a few had already become self-sufficient—some were even making money with booming businesses!
This was exactly why Jiangnan had initially let them develop their own means of survival!
Combined with Yao Hong's skills as a money-making expert, the Star Project's revenue was extremely substantial!
Humanity didn't take a single cent of this money, nor did they take a cut!
Instead, these races would contribute a portion of their earnings back to the Star Project, pooling together to form a Star Fund!
This fund was used to finance the rescue of even more enslaved races!
Those races that Jiangnan had pulled out of the abyss began learning to hold umbrellas for others~
It was like a kind of inheritance...
Jiangnan and his group weren't idle either. They started an internal training competition in the Dimensional Gap!
Originally, Qing Ke wanted to take Jiangnan and the others on a few months' trip through the starry sky, picking up a dozen or so ancient inheritances or powerful legacy items to boost everyone's strength!
But Jiangnan refused, as it would further consume Qing Ke's total destiny energy!
Currently, Jiangnan hadn't found a way to solve Qing Ke's problem, so it was better to conserve her abilities!
However, Qing Ke wasn't willing to give up. She felt that as a treasure-seeker, she wasn't playing her part well. So she started pulling out many secret techniques and powerful legacies she had previously collected but couldn't use herself, letting Zhong Yingxue and the others browse and pick whatever they liked!
Everyone was stunned by this!
She was absurdly generous!
And indeed, there were quite a few things they could use!
Additionally, the Terminal's database wasn't entirely about Silicon-based technology; a large portion contained records of various ancient techniques from the Eternal Era!
After all, back then, the Silicon-based had already begun their anti-racial methodology, so their research on the various starry sky races was thorough!
Among these ancient secret techniques, many were useful, including long-lost uses of divine runes, which Wu Liang and Zhao Dezhu thoroughly enjoyed digging into!
However, these techniques were completely useless to Jiangnan now!
Jiangnan was already at Transcendent Tenth Stage, and those secret techniques provided virtually no improvement—they were very underwhelming!
What Jiangnan was truly interested in was the Silicon-based's application of space technology!
Under Jiangnan's current Starry Sky Domain, space could be manipulated and transformed at will. As long as he understood the underlying principles, things like Möbius strips and space that was infinitely close yet infinitely far could be achieved!
Delving deep into space and putting it to practical use was the direction that would bring Jiangnan the greatest improvement!
Moreover, the Terminal database also contained extremely valuable data and information regarding Black Holes!
This was immensely helpful for Jiangnan in mastering the Black Hole Jet and Black Hole Flare!
Although Jiangnan now possessed the knowledge of fate, and with the causal threads binding him, there was no longer any possibility of returning to the wrong reality!
However, the problem of memory loss had still not been resolved!
Although he could use a brain-computer interface to store his complete memory in the Terminal and sync it in real time—after using Black Hole Devouring Star and losing his memory, he could come back and review it to find the lost memory fragments and know what happened—the issue was that after memory loss, even if he recovered the fragments, he would have no sense of participation or immersion!
It was like watching a movie where the protagonist was himself, but he had no idea what he was feeling at the time, no emotions at all—it was completely alien!
A little bit was fine, but if it happened too often, it would inevitably cause big problems, and various complex emotions would be worn away in the process!
Jiangnan didn't want that, so he still strongly resisted using Black Hole Devouring Star!
Until the problem was completely resolved, Jiangnan would never easily attempt it. This was taking responsibility for himself and for the companions who cared about him!
The path of controlling space was temporarily blocked!
However, luckily, Jiangnan was sprinting wildly down another path—integrating into space!
Under the new combat system, his strength was not weak, at least for now, it was seemingly unassailable!
After all, things like the 2D Armor, 2D Blade, and Star Domain Armor were too unfair!
With the support of massive resources, Zhong Yingxue and the others smoothly advanced their cultivation stages!
Only Jiangnan remained completely still!
Three months of intense training competition—using everything from Teng Wu's energy absorption and transmission to Strongman Pills, Black Garlic, Pop Rocks—Jiangnan had never felt so hardworking in his cultivation!
But his level had only improved by a tiny bit—still at Transcendent Tenth Stage!
At this rate, when would he ever pile it up?
The half-year preparation period would probably pass, and Jiangnan would still be at Transcendent Ten!
Not even being able to raise one stage in half a year was completely unacceptable to Jiangnan!
This was too slow!
He still didn't know how many stages he needed to accumulate before a qualitative change, and when would he ever reach Star Devourer?
Little did he know that other races had to accumulate energy for who knows how many years just to have one qualitative change!
Some people spent their entire lives accumulating energy and never advanced a single stage—everyone had a limit!
If it were that easy, then Star Devourers would be everywhere!
The Thousand Stars Era had lasted so long, and how many Star Devourers were there?
Jiangnan's cultivation speed was already monstrous!
But he still wasn't satisfied. Since he was already the strongest below Star Devourer, what was the point in staying there?
He wanted to become a Star Devourer as soon as possible so he could start cracking the skulls of those big Star Devourer大佬s!
As they say, when you have a Child of Destiny in hand, luck is good!
When tired, a pillow comes; when hungry, food comes!
Just as Jiangnan was thinking about whether to go out and relax, Ai Jiang sent a message!
"Master! Master! The Star Sea Source Flow Cosmic Array has been preliminarily constructed~"
Jiangnan: (*ﾟﾛﾟ) Oh ho ho~