Chapter 1073 - Crab People (1/2)

When the Azure Dragon gave these people its instructions, they quickly agreed.

After completing this mission, even though they could yet become gods and saints, they should be considered as Heavenly Soldiers and Generals at the very least…

With the Heavenly Book serving as the central liaison, Fang Ning felt more at ease. Fortunately, they had already integrated the Ultra Spatio-temporal Communication. Otherwise, such a broadscale mission would not have been possible.

The first step would always be the hardest. Once they had successfully tested the waters with the first two nodes, the following steps would be much easier to accomplish.

Fang Ning studied the star chart of the Milky Way Nets Above Snares Below and started to come up with a plan.

He delegated the unimportant hubs to the various clans on Earth for them to worship and offer sacrifices.

As for the important hub nodes, he left these to his own core group of people to worship.

After all, only those who gave worship and offered sacrifices would possess the right to speak at their respective star mansions later on.

He was not a fool who would set himself to an arduous yet fruitless task. He might be lazy, but he would never give his opponents the opportunity to hold greater power than him.

Incidentally, in order to set up one thousand and eight stars throughout the Milky Way Nets Above Snares Below, the entire giant maelstrom of the Milky Way could be included as well.

Meanwhile, in terms of the most important central nodes, there would only be eighty-one of them, and Fang Ning wanted to gain control of all eighty-one of these central nodes.

If a problem were to arise with any one of them, the entire Milky Way Nets Above Snares Below would be lost. On the contrary, the other nodes could replace one another in the case of any damages, so they would mostly function as backup alternatives to each other.

Among the twenty-eight star mansions, the Heart of the Azure Dragon, the Claw of the White Tiger, the Tail of the Vermillion Bird, and the Shell of the Black Tortoise were some of the hubs.

The Northern and Southern Dippers, the Northern and Southern Polaris stars, as well as a few other important constellations from the myths and legends also belonged among the eighty-one central nodes.

Fang Ning planned to make all of these famous star mansions the territories of the Whitestone people since they had no shortage of people right now.

“It is indeed important to plan ahead. If we hadn’t taken them in previously, where would we be able to find so much support and assistance now? A good team is always stronger than an individual after all.” After he was done with his planning, Fang Ning began to give himself credit.

“Oh, yes. As long as none of my money is spent here, it’s all good,” Sir System said gratefully.

After the planning stage, Fang Ning directed Sir System to pave the way for their project. If they wanted to get the others to perform well, they had to make an initial path for them first.

Of course, the preparation they had to make was to construct portals on the planets attached to the relevant stars.

Then, the follow-up work could be assigned to the various clans, which included many trivial affairs such as the tasks of setting up the formation of the Nets Above Snares Below, of constructing Vitality Transformation Equipment, and of offering sacrifices to the stars that they would become spiritualized…

As they worked their way to the thirty-fourth star, Fang Ning came upon a difficulty.

This was a star that was a thousand light years away from Earth. It was a second-class star. 1

These were not the source of the problem.

The issue was that there were seven planets attached to this particular star.

Among these, the two planets that were nearer to it were inhabited by lifeforms of the same clan.

Their technological skills seemed to be more advanced than that of the humans from the Era of Technology, and they had already realized colonial development projects within a stellar system, which was something unachievable by humankind back then.

The night side of the two planets was illuminated by sparks of light, although there were more light sparks on one planet than on the other.

The Azure Dragon hid itself as it observed the more brightly lit planet, which was obviously the Mother Planet.

“Mr. Rich Boss, what should we do now?” Sir System asked anxiously. “This place is already taken. I can’t just forcibly occupy their sun, right? We’re heroes. We can’t resort to such tyrannical ways.”

“Let observe the situation first. This problem is bound to pop up again,” Fang Ning said seriously. “Later on, we still have over a thousand more nodes to set up, so from now on, we’ll need to have two ways of managing the inhabited and uninhabited stellar systems, and there has to be an overall standard to distinguish between the two methods.”

While he was speaking, he looked outside through the System View. With the strong dragon sight, he could see as clear as day even under the dim lighting.

The areas covered with sparks of light were concrete jungles made of reinforced concrete.

If he had not checked again to see that they were really in outer space, Fang Ning would have mistaken himself to be back on the Earth before the Era of Mystery.

“How lucky they are that the mysterious side hasn’t extended its reach to this place,” Fang Ning sighed as he watched the large group of creatures go about their activities on the planet surface.

They were walking around in the concrete jungle, clearly enjoying their nightlife.

Of course, this was how things looked like on the night side of the planet. Correspondingly, on the other side of the planets, there were others living their daytime lives.

Those crawling creatures each had six limbs, of which four were used for crawling. The remaining two limbs grew on the front of their bodies, and had eight fingers on them. It was overall a rather odd sight to behold.

Nonetheless, Fang Ning got used to it very soon. After all, he had come across various types of strange-looking creatures in the recent years, and had grown accustomed to their appearances.

Moreover, the form of these creatures was not particularly extraordinary, even during the days before the arrival of the Era of Mystery.

For instance, the typical crab had ten jointed legs.