Chapter 345: The True Origin of Insect Identification?
"Don't worry, they will be fine." Looking at the agitated Ra's eyes, Yu Cang reassured, "They are very important comrades of mine. I can't put them in danger for no reason."
"Okay, okay... You must realize their importance. They are different from other insect identifiers..." La Zhi looked at Yu Cang's eyes and was relieved when he saw that the expression in his eyes did not seem fake.
Then, he continued, "After sending Kong and Xu away safely, I thought... I should be able to break free from Huang's entanglement, but I was wrong. Although Huang's infection of the Starry Sky Vision is still immature, the power contained in it is surprisingly strong and absolute. My knowledge can hardly harm those roots, and they can easily capture me.
"I struggled with all my might, almost exhausting all I had learned in half a lifetime, but in the end, I was defeated and captured... Fortunately, Huang seemed to have lost most of his infectiousness after entering the Xingtian Vision Zone, and the erosion of his intelligence was no longer absolute, so I survived."
Hearing this, Yu Cang's brows raised slightly.
Will Huang lose some of his infectiousness after entering the Xingtian visual field?
...Yes, that's for sure, otherwise what he saw on the giant tree just now was not the "Fruit of Beast Consciousness", but groups of beasts that were infected and turned into wild beasts.
That……
A hint of thought flashed across Yu Cang's eyes.
At this moment, a voice suddenly rang out.
"Wait." A ray of light shot out from the card box of Yu Cang's body, and the spirit particles spread in the air, forming the appearance of the princess.
"Hello, respected scholar." The princess bowed and then asked impatiently, "Could you please show me the records from the last era you mentioned?"
La Zhi looked at the princess, then at Yu Cang, somewhat puzzled: "Who is this..."
"...I forgot to introduce myself." The princess bowed gently. "I am a princess from the empire, my name is Stardust."
"What empire?"
"..." The princess was silent for a moment before she said, "Of course it's the empire that disappeared from your memory."
Lazhi's eyes widened slightly, and he stood there in a daze for a long time before he came to his senses.
"So...I'm so sorry."
"You're welcome," the princess said. "I know that the Roland Sky Realm has nurtured the most powerful mage civilization in the starry sky. My father once praised you highly, and the empire has also conducted many academic exchanges with the Sky Realm."
"Is that so..." Ra's Eye shook his head helplessly, "I'm ashamed. I can't remember any of these things."
Thinking about it now, he still feels horrified by this blank period in his memory.
What kind of existence could quietly take away so many memories from my brain without me even noticing?
It may even take time to look back and sort things out carefully before you realize that you have forgotten an entire vast empire?
Seeing the reaction of the Eye of Ra, a hint of gloom flashed across the princess's eyes.
But she didn't show it, and said calmly, "Don't feel guilty. I left the empire before it was forgotten. As for the empire... I've mostly forgotten it. For now, it's better to focus on the wilderness."
"I understand." La Zhiyan looked a little disappointed. "However, the record has been lost for a long time. I want to show it to you, but I can't."
"...It's not that I don't trust you, scholar." The princess looked directly into Ra's eyes. "As for records of Huang, even Roland Sky Realm, renowned for its mages, can't compare to the Empire's collection. I've read almost every ancient tome from before the epoch. From beginning to end, the only one capable of fighting Huang is the Imperial Star. Where does the second method come from?"
"this……"
"How can you prove the authenticity of this information? If you can't prove it, then with all due respect, this is most likely some kind of trap, waiting for you to fall into it and take the bait!"
"But this is the only way, isn't it?" Ra's Eye said sadly, "Now the road to the Imperial Star is no longer accessible..."
"Who told you that this road is blocked?"
"Hmm?" Ra was stunned. "Could it be that the Emperor Star didn't fall?"
"This has indeed happened."
"That……"
"However, the Emperor Star fell in order to use itself as nourishment to nurture a civilization that could truly fight against the wilderness, and..." The princess glanced at Yu Cang beside her, "Also, the Emperor Star fell ten thousand years ago, and now, He has been reborn into the world."
"The Emperor Star has been reborn?" The Eye of Ra couldn't help but reveal obvious surprise. "Where is he? When did it happen? Who is the chosen one now..."
"Ahem."
Wang Zhi I coughed lightly a few times.
Seeing Xingchen's sudden silence, Ra's Eye grew anxious. "So where is it exactly? There are only a few worlds in the starry sky that haven't been infested by the wilderness. If the chosen one encounters the wilderness before growing up, they will most likely die halfway!"
Yu Cang: "Ahem."
"Why are you still so leisurely? This is a major event that concerns the entire starry sky!" La Zhiyan came close to Wang Zhiwo, "Yu Cang, hasn't your world been fighting with Huang for more than four thousand years? I think there is definitely no place in the entire starry sky that is safer than this world!
"We must hurry and find this chosen one and their civilization, and bring them here!"
Yu Cang stretched out his hand: "That..."
"By the way, can you teleport across worlds now? If not, I can help build a channel! But if the chosen one is in the astral realm, it will be troublesome. Now that my power is almost gone, I'm afraid I can't help you pass through the sun..."
"No, actually, I just..."
"We can't do without! This is a serious matter!" Seeing Yu Cang's indifferent look, La Zhiyan became even more anxious. "Yu Cang, you may not know how terrifying the wilds are. They are not only highly contagious, but they can also evolve at any time. Now they can already enter the Xingtian visual field. In a few years, your means of resisting the wilds may be ineffective. By then, everything will be too late!"
The Eye of Ra looked a little angry. "You still don't realize the importance of this. The Imperial Star has given birth to a civilization that is not afraid of the wilderness. This may be a turning point for the survival of the entire starry sky. You..."
At this point, Ra's eyes suddenly froze.
He blinked, and then subconsciously hissed.
"Wait a minute." Ra looked at the princess, "The civilization nurtured by the Emperor Star is not afraid of being infected by the wilderness?"
Princess: "Yes."
The Eye of Ra looked at Yu Cang again: "Your civilization has been fighting against the wilderness for four thousand years."
Yu Cang nodded: "Yes."
"Hiss..." Ra's Eye took a breath, "Don't tell me this is the civilization that was born from the Imperial Star?!"
Yu Cang/Princess: "Yes."
There was a hint of clear stupidity in the Eye of Ra.
"Then, the person chosen by the Emperor Star..."
"Ahem." Yu Cang coughed lightly, finally finding an opportunity to interrupt, "It's me."
"……ah?"
…
Next, Yu Cang briefly told Ra's Eye about the current situation.
"So that's how it is." La Zhiyan was stunned on the spot.
It took him a while to come back to his senses.
"This is truly... God's blessing." He sighed, "I never thought that after five years, the first person to come to my rescue would be the legendary Emperor Star..."
"So, you don't have to worry anymore." Yu Cang said, "Although we have only recently realized the true harm of Huang, it seems that we still have plenty of time. My safety is probably guaranteed."
"Is that so...that's good." Ra's Eye breathed a sigh of relief.
"So, you already know about the Imperial Star." The princess took over the conversation, "Now, we just need to accumulate strength step by step, and we will be able to fight Huang without taking the risk of searching for a ruin whose authenticity is unknown.
"Even if we find it, we can't be sure whether it's a trap or not. What if this is Huang's conspiracy, and he wants to use it to wipe out or weaken the power of Emperor Star?"
Upon hearing this, Eye of Ra pondered for a long time.
"...It is indeed possible." His tone was very difficult.
He has been trekking through the starry sky for ten thousand years in search of the power to fight against Huang. After such a long time, he finally found a glimmer of chance of victory, but now he is told that it might be false information. It must be difficult for him to accept it.
But as a scholar, he naturally had a strong ability to accept things, so in the end he just shook his head.
"Well... During these years of fighting Huang, I've forgotten most of what I learned. I'm not suited to thinking right now." Ra's eyes were filled with desolation. "However, thanks to these five years of hardship, I was able to observe Huang up close, and thus gained some intelligence... I can't guarantee its authenticity, so you can judge for yourselves."
Yu Cang nodded gently: "I would like to hear the details."
"First... let's talk about the second possibility." The Eye of Ra sighed. "Besides that sentence, I also received a set of coordinates from that old acquaintance. It's quite amazing. Those coordinates are just ordinary numbers, but they unexpectedly have the power of teleportation."
Yu Cang's expression changed slightly: "You are not talking about..."
"That's right—if my guess is correct, Yu Cang, you must have found a string of golden coordinates and were teleported to my vicinity, right?"
"Yes... I thought it was a distress message you spread..."
"Indeed," said the Eye of Ra, "I had originally prepared to die in the giant sun tree, but then I found some information that might be useful. I thought this information couldn't just disappear with my death, so I wanted to ask for help.
"But by then, I was already dying from the torture of the Giant Sun Tree. Even sending messages became difficult, so... I could only rely on these coordinates."
The Eye of Ra recalled for a moment and said, "This coordinate contains some mysterious power. Through my observation, I have found that no matter what medium or method is used, as long as these coordinates can be written down and certain conditions are met, a teleportation power will be generated immediately."
Yu Cang opened his eyes wide: "So magical?"
"Indeed... I conducted extensive research after obtaining these coordinates. However, under the starry sky, it seems that only this string of numbers possesses such magical power, as if... they were once blessed by some being."
Yu Cang couldn't help but look at the princess, but the princess just shook her head: "I haven't heard of it."
"It's normal that you haven't heard of it." The Eye of Ra was not surprised, "Because the conditions for meeting this series of coordinates have no pattern at all, even a person who has met the conditions may not be able to trigger it the next time he writes down the coordinates. Moreover, this kind of transmission is usually very secretive. Unless you pay close attention, you won't be able to find any clues.
"Furthermore, this type of transmission is often linked to unexpected events, which can mask the fluctuations in transmission, making it even more difficult to detect."
At this point, a strange look flashed across the Eye of Ra.
"And the place these coordinates actually point to... is the world where the giant sun tree resides. It's called 'Source Star', a fairly large planet with countless vast continents and incredibly abundant resources."
"Wait a minute," the princess suddenly interrupted. "So, according to what you said, the coordinates can be triggered just by writing them down, without any energy support. So, many people must have been accidentally teleported to the source star, right?"
"Indeed." Ra's Eye nodded. "I discovered that when I went there... there are an unusually large number of 'travelers' from that world. Almost all of them died unexpectedly in their original world and were transported here because of this string of numbers nearby. And for some reason, almost all of them achieve great things after arriving there, as if they are all 'children of destiny.'"
Yu Cang: "...good guy."
The designated planet for the traverser?
It's still so intact after being torn apart by so many time travelers. It seems that what he said about "the resources are exaggeratedly abundant" was not a joke.
"However, only the first half of that string of coordinates has a teleporting function. Within the area it covers, there are a full forty-two locations similar to the Source Star... But thankfully, I don't need to search world by world. Once I reached the location marked by the complete coordinates, I easily found the 'key'."
Yu Cang: "The key is on the source star?"
"Yes." Ra's Eye said, "The ruins aren't actually that secret, but for some reason, even on the Source Star, where so many talented people are, they've never been discovered. Even I, if I didn't have the coordinates, would probably have simply ignored the ruins."
"So what then? What can the key unlock?"
"Then I don't know." The Eye of Ra shook his head. "I searched the ruins thoroughly, but couldn't find a place where I could use the key. Later, the rhythm in the key was eaten by Kong and Xu, and the key turned to powder and dissipated, completely breaking the clue.
"However, all those years of research on that string of coordinates weren't in vain. I discovered the ability to modify the transmission conditions of those coordinates to a certain extent. So when I was trapped, I released many of my modified coordinates in the hope that someone would discover them."
Yu Cang: "Then the condition is...?"
"Possessing a complete Rhythmic Body," the Eye of Ra said, "Only someone like you has the ability to save me... Honestly, when I first saw you, I was completely despairing. I could see that, despite your impressive Rhythmic Body, your actual strength and knowledge weren't exceptional, and you were trapped within a seal. There was no way you could save me."
"But... heh, you're worthy of being chosen by the Emperor Star. You can actually summon at that level... even ignoring the power of the Sun Tree. So I decided to send you one of my eyes. This eye contains the message I want to convey. And with only one eye, it's more likely that you won't be targeted by Huang."
Yu Cang: "..."
That's not something I did casually!
The cooldown for entry implantation is quite long!
Ra's Eye didn't notice the change in Yu Cang's expression, and just continued:
"I have two pieces of information to share." Eye of Ra's tone became more serious. "First, although Huang can now enter the Starry Sky Vision Zone, its infectious ability is no longer absolute. There, a Consciousness Beast infected by Huang will not become a Desolate Beast.
"However, they are completely defenseless against those brown branches. As soon as they see them, they can't help but rush forward and try to eat the desolate rhythms. This will trigger the branches' predatory behavior... Once entangled, there's a high probability that they won't be able to break free. This also applies to the rhythmic body."
Yu Cang nodded.
So that's it...has it transformed from a zombie virus into some hallucinogenic poison...It does sound a lot weaker, but it's still tough.
The Eye of Ra continued, "Moreover, in the Starry Sky Vision, the Wilds can only continue to expand if they prey on Conscious Beasts or Rhythmic Bodies, and they cannot spread recklessly... Moreover, based on my experience over the years, the 'evolution' of the Wilds in response to certain difficulties can be learned by the Wilds in other areas, but it takes a long time.
"The speed of the wildness spreading within the Xingtian Vision Area is very slow. In other words, the wildness in other areas will not synchronize with this ability for the time being. But we still need to take precautions early."
Yu Cang nodded: "I understand. What about the second message?"
"The second piece of information is very important." Ra's expression became more serious. "I discovered... Huang can affect the beasts, but not the insects! All the insects captured on the giant tree were ambushed when they approached, not lured here by Huang's ability!"
Yu Cang raised his brows: "What does this mean?"
"Huang's infection targets wisdom, but even the Wisdom Insects can easily ignore Huang. In the past few years on the giant tree, I witnessed countless Insects passing by me. Combined with Kong and Xu, they easily devoured the Key Rhythm...
"I think that identifying insects is most likely the second chance to win!"
The Eye of Ra's tone was a little excited.
"Haven't you noticed? The Consciousness Bug is actually very similar to Huang. Both can't control their appetites, and their wisdom is often dominated by desires... Yu Cang, the Consciousness Bug is most likely a weapon of war created by people in the last era to imitate Huang's power!
"And Sora and Seki, who devoured the Key Rhythm and were able to perfectly control their desires, are the complete forms of this weapon of war!"
"Hiss..." Yu Cang couldn't help but take a breath.
On the side, the princess frowned slightly.
Identifying insects... is that so...
Thanks to Weihuohu nv for the reward!
(End of this chapter)
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