Chapter 429 - 417: The Key to Unlocking the "God’s" Legacy
The Blazing King sat down.
He had considerable patience when faced with unusual situations.
He was very cautious; he could afford to wait.
Finally, a subordinate reported, "Chief, a message from Blazing Eyes! The million souls of the Seven-Eyed Race who participated in the ritual have all perished! According to on-site speculation, the emergence of a treasure must have triggered a massive cataclysm in the Star Sea. Everyone present died in a Celestial Calamity, not even their bones remain."
A Celestial Calamity...
’That makes it much easier to accept. Our own failure was certainly frustrating, but the enemy’s even greater failure is invigorating.’
’Not even their bones remain...’
’So, the million members of the Seven-Eyed Race are all dead, and the only survivors are those on the fringes. In that case, are they still worthy of possessing such a vast Star Domain? Their heritage and legacy can’t be allowed to go to waste, can they?’
’Also,’
’the living beings have perished, but what about the treasure?’
’It can’t have vanished into thin air! Some other creature must have hidden it... It seems I’ll have to conduct another sweep. I can’t even trust Blazing Eyes, despite him submitting to our race. Yesterday, he betrayed his own people for personal gain; today, he’ll surely betray us again for a treasure.’
He had seen plenty of his kind before.
"Investigate the current state of the Seven-Eyed Race’s territory!"
"If the situation is confirmed, we will wash their domain in blood in the name of vengeance."
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Shi Ming flipped through the books he had found in the Storage Pyramid of the Seven-Eyed Race’s wise man and shook his head after a moment.
’The language barrier is a real problem!’
With his powerful Spiritual Power, he could learn a language quickly if he had a text to compare it with. But without a reference, it was difficult to find a breakthrough to master the language of the Seven-Eyed Race.
’A breakthrough?’
He thought for a moment, then focused his eyes on the twisted characters and used his skill, [Borer]!
’The target of Borer isn’t limited to physical objects; it can also be civilizations, languages, or abstract concepts. Since I can’t find a breakthrough in learning this foreign language, maybe I can use Borer to create one?’
The abstract characters were bitten by Borer.
They broke apart into crumbling symbols of civilization.
The borer worms in Shi Ming’s eyes rapidly gnawed on the fruits of that civilization, and he soon received positive feedback. The development, loopholes, and meaning of the Seven-Eyed Race’s language were laid bare before him.
’As expected of a numbered Nirvana-level skill.’
’It’s basically a bug in the system!’
Compared to when he had learned the Dark Star Race’s language from the Grand Commander Beyoncé, this method of brute-forcing a language from its very roots was much simpler and more direct. Three books were deconstructed into their most basic information by Borer, their weaknesses gnawed open. Then, relying on his powerful Spiritual Power to analyze and reassemble the data, he quickly achieved a decent proficiency in the new language.
’It seems that sometimes you have to break free from rigid thinking. Learning doesn’t have to mean following a textbook or a fixed path. Brute-forcing it from the root is actually simpler and more direct.’
As a wise man, Chahar had stored quite a few books in his Storage Pyramid.
Shi Ming could glean a lot of intelligence from them. The most important information was about his current coordinates and the Unmoored Boat.
The Unmoored Boat Star Realm belonged to the Thirty-Seventh Cosmic Country.
And the Thirty-Seventh Cosmic Country possessed nearly 100,000 Star Domains. Among them, 5 were high-level civilization Star Domains, 299 were Intermediate Civilization Star Domains, and 2,131, including the Unmoored Boat Star Realm, were low-level civilization Star Domains. The rest were Native Star Realms.
In a narrow sense, a thousand different races might have a thousand different perceptions of what makes a civilization superior or inferior.
But in the Star Sea, the level of a civilization was defined by its [Risk Resistance]. Things like technology, culture, and morality were rarely evaluated.
Number of Holy Hall powerhouses
Number of Holy Hall powerhouses ≥ 1 but
Number of Holy Hall powerhouses ≥ 10 but no Nirvana Powerhouses: Intermediate Civilization.
Number of Nirvana Powerhouses ≥ 1: High-level Civilization.
Of course, this system of definition wasn’t exactly rigorous.
However, in the Star Sea—a place that revered strength and truly embodied the principles of natural selection and survival of the fittest—classifying civilizations by their risk resistance was the most intuitive and scientific method. Generally speaking, a greater number of powerful individuals signified a more advanced civilization.
Some native planets, no matter how "civilized" they were internally, had zero risk resistance. Without a powerhouse to protect them, their civilization would immediately shatter into dust upon being invaded by another race.
’By that measure, was the old Earth not actually a native civilization?’
’With the Seven Holy Halls standing guard, it really did have some foundation.’
The current Earth no longer had the Seven Holy Halls, but Shi Ming had found a communication device similar to a "Starlink" in Rui Liang’s collection. If anything happened on Earth, the Starlink would deliver a message, and he could return immediately via the Star Lamp.
He continued to look through the information.
Several Star Domains near the Unmoored Boat Star Realm were also documented. Although Chahar and his people had never been there, they had learned the gist of things through various channels.
Unmoored Boat Star Realm,
Star Sea Coordinates: 2121, 9921, 1291
A part of the Thirty-Seventh Cosmic Country. The Seven-Eyed Race and the Blazing Race occupied the 11 life-bearing planets and countless non-life-bearing planets in this Star Domain. There was constant friction between them, but they were more or less evenly matched.
The nearest intermediate civilization was extremely far away.
It would take 17 days to travel there through the Dark Cosmos.
’Sigh, the pioneering stage is always so slow.’
’It’ll be faster once I’ve recorded more coordinates.’
’I wonder what the coordinates of the First Civilization Cosmic Country are. It can’t be 0, 0, 0, can it?~’
There was no information about the First Cosmic Country or the Tomb Star Realm in Chahar’s data stores. In the logs and ship data from the Dark Star Race’s Rui Liang, there were only fragments of information, with no specific coordinates. To the vast majority of creatures in the Star Sea, the Tomb Star Realm was merely a ruin buried by disaster and the distant past—a very niche topic.
The wise only cared about their own territory.
Adventurers and wanderers were more interested in low-level civilizations they could plunder.
Anything else was not worth mentioning.
The Fortune shuttled into the Dark Cosmos, and Shi Ming’s Spiritual Power shifted from the books to controlling the drifter ship. He was now heading for his target, an intermediate civilization. It was relatively more open there, and he could obtain more data and intelligence about the Star Sea. He might even be able to learn more about the Tomb Star Realm.
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BEEP BEEP.
BEEP BEEP.
A silver-haired woman in standard-issue armor opened a message from her precision device. As characters danced across it, a new piece of intelligence appeared on the screen.
[File Number: MH8890]
[Major disaster occurred in the Unmoored Boat Star Realm.]
[Investigation indicates the disaster was caused by spatial fluctuations from the emergence of a rare treasure. At the time of the disaster, one million members of the Seven-Eyed Race were performing a ritual at the "Holy Pot" as per their custom. They bore the brunt of it and the entire race was annihilated. The Blazing Race subsequently exploited the opportunity, occupying all of the Seven-Eyed Race’s territory.]
[Treasure’s whereabouts are unknown.]
[43% probability it was destroyed in the disaster. 51% probability it was obtained by the Blazing Race.]
[According to other intelligence, Wise Chahar of the Seven-Eyed Race had a prophetic dream before the ritual at the Holy Pot. The object in his dream was a super-treasure capable of shaking the universe, shaped like a token, with unknown effects.]
[Attached Information: None]
[Other Information: None]
The silver-haired woman quickly scanned the intelligence report.
"Hmph!"
’A prophecy from a mere Holy Hall Level Skill is worthy of a phrase like "shaking the universe"? What uncultured country bumpkins!’
’Low-level civilizations are nothing but ignorance and bloodshed to the bone.’
With a wave of her scale-covered right hand, she sent the message and its file directly into the "Information Trash Bin" on the side, where it was completely destroyed. It wasn’t even worth keeping. Her time was extremely valuable; it wasn’t worth wasting her energy on such a low-level civilization.
She paused, as if she had thought of something.
’A treasure...’
’My recent jobs haven’t had any perks. This could be a chance to earn something on the side. A treasure that can cause such a commotion upon its emergence must be worth at least 1,000 Cosmic Crystals. If I work with the Kettel Squad on a seven-three split, I can still get 300.’
’It would be best if the Blazing Race knows what’s good for them,’
’but if they don’t, then there’s no need for them to exist anymore.’