# Chapter 2931: A Fated Encounter
The real-life Star Ruins War ultimately ended with humanity's top combat power completely destroyed, with Jiangnan, Mila, and Lan escaping into the dimensional gap as the curtain fell!
Humanity lost, lost completely. There was no miracle of zero casualties, no breakthrough of all obstacles to charge onto the starry sky stage...
Reality... was suffocatingly cruel!
Odin, Baldr, Mi Ye all died in battle, all to preserve Jiangnan, this spark of hope!
As for Jiangnan who escaped, the Bose clan didn't bother with him!
Just an ant, couldn't stir up much trouble, it didn't matter!
Besides, they didn't want to risk pursuing Jiangnan into the dimensional gap!
Humanity had lost completely. Unlike the Pupil clan, every human on Blue Star would be branded with a slave mark, as goods to be sold!
And the descendants of those branded humans would have the slave mark from the day they were born—born as slave stock!
No one was willing to accept the fact of defeat, nor did they want to become slave stock for others' entertainment and wanton play!
You could defeat our bodies, but you could never make our souls submit!
We would rather die than bow our heads to the Starry Sky Races!
When the slave marks were being applied, countless humans cursed, roared, and immediately self-destructed or took their own lives, preferring death over becoming slave stock!
Large numbers of humans ended themselves. They didn't want to become slave stock, face a dark future, or let their descendants be inferior—they would rather die!
But this put the Bose clan in a difficult position. They had paid such a heavy price, lost many Bose warriors, and now was the time to enjoy the fruits of victory!
If all the high-quality human goods died, what would they earn? Even if they forcibly applied the slave marks, they couldn't stop them from committing suicide!
Just then, the Bose clan's blade was pressed against Yang Jian's neck!
"Stop them from killing themselves, or you die!"
Yang Jian's eyes were filled with grief. He turned his head coldly and glared at the Bose, then red-eyed, he spoke loudly:
"Comrades, listen to my advice! We have lost. Now we have nothing. We have fallen into the abyss! We will become slave stock, facing a future so dark we cannot see the light!"
"But don't forget, this isn't over yet. We have preserved the spark of hope. Jiangnan has left, heading into the boundless starry sky. He will bring hope back, he will pull humanity out of the abyss! He definitely can!"
"So... live! Even if we live with hardship, with groveling, with dignity shattered, we must live. Then become stronger by any means necessary, so that in the near future, we can seize the opportunity with Jiangnan! Change humanity's fate!"
"Only by living... is there hope!"
At this moment, countless humans reddened their eyes, clenched their fists tightly, accepted the humiliating slave mark, stopped committing suicide, stopped giving up their lives!
The light had long vanished from their eyes, but deep in their hearts, the seed of hope had been planted!
That seed was Jiangnan...
The Bose clan sneered: "Quite the talker, aren't you? Fine, fine... Though I don't think Jiangnan has any ability to contend with the Bose clan!"
"You were stubborn before. What's this? To keep yourself alive, you can still be obedient after all?"
"Blue Star Ruins needs an administrator. Li Mingshan didn't seize the opportunity before. I think you're perfectly capable..."
Yang Jian stared coldly at the Bose body:
"Hah～ Don't misunderstand... Life and death don't matter much to me. I just don't want my comrades' deaths to be meaningless..."
At this moment, Yang Jian's gaze looked out over the broken land of Blue Star, hope gleaming in his eyes as he murmured:
"Just wait and see. He will definitely succeed... I really want to see with my own eyes humanity rising among the stars, our race soaring, an era of peace and prosperity..."
"Pity, pity... I don't have that fortune..."
"Comrades! Though we are beneath others, never forget today's humiliation! Never lower your proud heads!"
"We can lose, we can live kneeling, but we must never lose our spirit of resistance. Once we lose it, humanity will truly become slave stock! And true humans... never yield!"
The Bose body was startled: "You..."
The next moment, Yang Jian's third eye suddenly exploded. Right before everyone's eyes, he died on the high platform, blood splattering three feet!
Yang Jian had a chance to live, but he didn't take it, because he knew—if he, as the Chief Commander, yielded to the Bose clan, how many humans could still maintain that unyielding pride in their hearts?
He used Jiangnan to plant the seed of hope for humanity, and used his own death to plant the seed of resistance!
Yang Jian had no desire to become the Lord of Star Ruins, helping the Holy Star sell his own kin...
...
The Star Ruins War ended. Blue Star was fully developed into a Star Ruins, the Star Gate connected to the Starfall Round Hall, becoming one of countless slave races!
Humanity did ascend to the starry sky stage—just as slave stock!
Although the Holy Star had violated the Ten Thousand Races Accord and was condemned by the Starry Sky Races, the human slave stock still interested many of them, who were willing to pay high prices to buy and cultivate some!
After all, Jiang Fan had emerged as a dark horse before, and during the Star Ruins War, humanity's performance was equally impressive!
So once put up for sale, the business of Blue Star Ruins was exceptionally booming!
Many of the Starry Sky Races came to Blue Star Ruins to hunt. While humans rebuilt their homeland and multiplied on Blue Star, they also had to face hunting from the Starry Sky Races...
Extreme humiliation!
And because they had become slave stock, humans were sold to all corners of the starry sky...
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In the dimensional gap, Jiangnan's eyes were bloodshot as he stared fixedly at the scenes on the pages one after another!
An intense suffocating feeling rushed over him. In the original real trajectory, humanity had become slave stock like this?
So... so this was how it was...
...
In that reality, after Jiangnan left the Star Ruins battlefield, he began to wander in the dimensional gap...
He wanted to die—really, really wanted to die. Every moment he thought of ending his own life!
Everyone was dead. Humanity had become slave stock. He had escaped with Mila and Lan, but he didn't know what meaning there was for him to continue living...
But Jiangnan couldn't die. His body carried too many people's wishes and entrustments. Humanity was still hoping for him to return and save them. He was everyone's hope...
If he died, hope would be shattered!
But in the vast starry sky, what could Jiangnan alone do...
Jiangnan still didn't die. He didn't want to disappoint Xuexue. No matter how hard it was, he had to keep living!
He melted the red bone into a bone ring, engraved with the words "Heart Has Only One," urging himself to live on. Whenever he couldn't hold on, he would look at the wolf fang necklace, look at the crimson bone ring!
And then, Jiangnan would find the courage to continue living, right?
So Jiangnan wandered aimlessly in the dimensional gap, killing dimensional creatures, growing stronger bit by bit!
Until Jiangnan discovered the dimensional wind tunnel, and following the wind tunnel, found the existence of the Lost Kingdom!
And it was here that Jiangnan first met Black God...
Of course, Black God wouldn't give Jiangnan a chance!
He naturally wanted to take his body as a collectible figurine!
After all, because of encountering Jiang Fan three thousand years ago, Black God had always been interested in humans!
Now that the opportunity was at his doorstep, how could he miss it?
Having just escaped from the Star Ruins War, Jiangnan encountered this calamity. Black God was a dimensional will—how could Jiangnan defeat him?
Black God played with Jiangnan in a cat-and-mouse manner, wanting to see what abilities Jiangnan had!
Under such high pressure, Jiangnan, whose level was already about to break through to Transcendent, absorbed quite a few dimensional star beads during this time and was forced by Black God to break through to Transcendent!
He directly comprehended the Black Hole Devouring Star Domain and unleashed it right in front of Black God!
Black God got excited and became thrilled!
After all, seeing a human control the power of a black hole was something he had never seen before!
This made Black God, who was bored to death, extremely interested. He temporarily didn't want to make Jiangnan into a figurine!
He wanted to see how far such a special Jiangnan could go in the starry sky world, whether he could match Jiang Fan of that year!
When he got tired of playing, he could still make him into a figurine, right?
How wasteful to make him a figurine now! Too much loss!
So at the moment Jiangnan activated the Black Hole Devouring Star, Black God left...
Having barely returned from the black hole, Jiangnan thought he had overcome the crisis through his domain!
He felt like he was missing something, but Jiangnan didn't pay attention!
But shortly after overcoming the crisis, he met Ye Yuan of the Abyss clan...
Black God had switched to a smaller account...
And by the same excuse of "accidentally falling into the dimensional gap," he quickly built a good relationship with Jiangnan, even volunteering to be Jiangnan's guide in the starry sky world!
Jiangnan sensed something was off, but didn't refuse. And so, the four of them—Ye Yuan, Jiangnan, Mila, Lan—used the Extreme Dark Star Dome Dimensional Battlefield as their first stop, landing in the starry sky!
They began their adventure among the stars...
Because humanity had already become slave stock, Jiangnan couldn't appear in the starry sky under the identity of the human race!
He couldn't even use his original name!
In this reality, Jiangnan had no little pudding, but Jiangnan had other methods of disguise...
Some might think the original reality was forced and unreasonable, but it wasn't so in truth!
Precisely because the original reality existed, based on it, the dream reality later came into being!
The original reality had to be established first, and then the dream reality was born from this foundation. The order must be clear!
One cannot take the dream reality as the foundation and deduce backward to the original reality—that would certainly look unreasonable!
Without system props, how could Jiangnan accomplish anything?
A living person wouldn't be suffocated by urine, would they?
It was precisely because the original reality was difficult, desperate, and full of thorns that Jiangnan paid even heavier and more painful costs, advancing with difficulty and pain by any means necessary!
He couldn't fulfill all expectations, stumbling, bruised and battered, climbing upward!
And in the dream reality, system props played a huge role, making the original difficulties simple, thus creating a dreamlike reality—beautiful like a fairy tale!
It was precisely for this reason that the two lines of reality, having developed to the present, were already as different as heaven and earth!