Starforce Warriors

Li Xiaofei sat by the seaside. He looked up at the snowflakes dancing through the sky. The snow had arrived abruptly.

The setting sun was like blood, dyeing the surface of the sea a deep red. The crimson waves reflected the fluttering white snowflakes, making them seem like white spirits who had mistakenly wandered into an Asura battlefield.

He gently reached out, and Ishihara Masami instantly stepped forward. She placed her wrist into Li Xiaofei's palm. Li Xiaofei infused her with the breath of cosmic life, while simultaneously sensing the changes in energy within Ishihara Masami's body and strengthening her physique.

He did not want Ishihara Masami to become a wasted subject before the experiment reached a final conclusion. A strengthened body would allow her to withstand greater and more intense repulsive forces between energies.

Li Xiaofei wanted more cultivation data. However, the process might be rather painful. After strengthening her body, Li Xiaofei looked into the distance.

Boom!

A brilliant burst of searing white light suddenly exploded in the sky. It was as if a second sun had appeared out of nowhere. The blinding radiance vanished almost instantly.

In that brief moment, countless people across the island witnessed the sudden appearance of a miniature sun in the sky. The spectacle lasted a full five minutes.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

One by one, miniature suns blossomed beyond the atmosphere, their blinding brilliance flashing across the sky. The snow-covered dusk of Rebun Island took on a strange and eerie hue. A look of shock surfaced on Ishihara Masami's face.

"That is..." She seemed to realize it almost immediately.

Those were nuclear warheads exploding in outer space. They were not small ones either, these were medium to large nuclear bombs. The energy from the detonations spread outward, their radiance reaching Earth. They resembled massive fireworks. From the ground, it appeared as if countless meteors were blooming with divine light outside the atmosphere.

This magnificent spectacle caused countless children to clap and cheer with joy. Many office workers who had just gotten off work also looked up, raising their phones to take photos and record videos.

People's faces were filled with delight. It was as if they were celebrating a grand festival. But at that very moment, the leaders of various nations and the upper echelons of their militaries felt as though their breath had stopped.

"What's going on?" Inside the white palace of Kempes State, which symbolized the highest authority in Yiggs Union, the President stared at the images sent by spy satellites and spoke in utter shock, "The nuclear bombs we launched were supposed to detonate over Great Xia's Southern Island and Sun-Moon Island. Why did they explode in outer space instead?"

In the operations command room, the top military decision-makers and national defense giants of the country were all dumbfounded.

Sweat was trickling down a female communications officer's temples. She spoke with a strange expression after repeatedly collecting and analyzing the data, "Orbital calculations are correct; signal transmissions are accurate; there's been no interference in communications or frequency bands. The data shows no error from launch to detonation... The forward command center reports only one possibility. Our nuclear missiles were intercepted and teleported by a miniature wormhole."

This meant that Great Xia had at least one Omega level spatial-type superhuman. Only someone of that caliber could teleport nuclear bombs into outer space.

Many Yiggs generals broke out in a cold sweat when they realized something terrifying. If Great Xia could teleport nuclear bombs into outer space, then it could just as easily teleport them to any location within the Yiggs homeland.

If that were the case... The Yiggs homeland would already be a wasteland, a post-apocalyptic land buried under nuclear winter.

"The entire world is our land. It must not be polluted." This was Great Xia's response.

The message spread like a hurricane, reaching the ears of world leaders in an instant. The six high-yield nuclear warheads the Yiggs Union had launched despite global condemnation had been intercepted and teleported into outer space by Great Xia's superhuman within just ten minutes!

Six months ago, such an event would have sounded more absurd than the wildest tale in One Thousand and One Nights. But now, it kept countless world leaders awake through the night.

These were nuclear bombs. The most terrifying strategic deterrent weapon ever developed by human civilization. They were long regarded as the Damocles' sword hanging over every nation's head, an unsolvable threat that loomed over the entire world.

But now, it was as if the enigma had been cracked, like a once-uncertain mathematical conjecture suddenly solved. The nuclear bomb had lost all its mystique and deterrent power.

This seemed to mark a turning point, that the rule of physical scientific civilization that had dominated humanity for thousands of years, especially in the last five centuries, had finally been dethroned by the unfathomable power of emerging superhuman abilities.

Now, all world leaders were faced with a pressing question. How should they coexist with Great Xia? The Eastern dragon that had slumbered for millennia had finally opened its eyes and awakened. It was much sooner than the world had anticipated. And no one had expected it to happen in such a way.

A new hegemon was rising. The global order and balance were being overturned. Some chose to watch and wait, but some took immediate action. Yet the old hegemon, unwilling to bow out, continued to resist stubbornly. Advanced weaponry, along with countless experimental technologies that had only ever existed in theoretical stages, were thrown onto the battlefield in hopes of shattering the myth of Omega level Awakened.

But in the end, all efforts ended in failure.

Ten days later, Yiggs forces at military bases across the globe were visited by Awakened from Great Xia. The figures were like god of death as they swept through their defenses, overwhelming and annihilating all facilities with unstoppable force.

Not long after, this special decapitation-style warfare reached the Yiggs homeland itself. Military bases, fortresses, garrison zones... Great Xia struck the Yiggs with ruthless demilitarization attacks.

These assaults were swift and lethal. The Yiggs had no power to retaliate. The wave of demilitarization quickly spread to other countries and regions. Within less than half a year, every part of the world, except for Great Xia, had been thoroughly demilitarized.

Only police forces, deemed necessary to maintain social order, were permitted to remain. Some gangs, opportunistic rebels, and regional warlords who tried to exploit the chaos were mercilessly eliminated by Great Xia's superpowered units.

A new global order was established with astonishing speed. Humanity had no choice but to adapt.

On July 19, 2010, Great Xia completed its total control over the world. Unlike the Yiggs of the past, who had relied on establishing military bases and stationing troops, Great Xia found such methods unnecessary.

Any incident across the globe that exceeded the control of local police forces would be captured by spy satellites and responded to immediately by Great Xia's Awakened, who could arrive instantly via flight or teleportation, like gods descending upon the earth.

Earth had never known such peace. Order had never been so efficient. There was also a fortunate surprise for people in the West. Great Xia enacted no racial policies, imposed no ignorance, and did not castrate their culture or erase their history.

They continued to enjoy the benefits of a developed society. After the intense pressures of competition subsided, the happiness index of the population actually rose.

A new era had arrived. Li Xiaofei sat once more on the cliffside of Rebun Island, gazing at the sunset. Yet there was no ripple of emotion in his heart.

As the Chief Evolution Officer of Earth No. 1818, his plan was already halfway complete. What came next was the stage of universal evolution. Unrestricted reproduction, and the mass production of cosmic level lifeforms. These two would mark the successful evolution of this planet. And Li Xiaofei had already grasped the key to it all.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Streaks of flowing light flashed through the air. Five figures appeared before him. Each one was a cosmic level lifeform. Their entire bodies radiated immense life energy, surging with energy fluctuations so powerful that they made it hard to breathe.