Chapter 701 This Thing... Seems Familiar (6000)

Since returning from the Aeon World and awakening the World Tree, Su Zhou had received a reward from the source of the sacred tree.

A blessing supposedly related to 'all living beings'.

He had to admit that Su Zhou didn't feel much when he received the blessing.

After all, if he were to count all the buffs on him, it would probably take up at least two pages, front and back. Just listing them would probably take five minutes. If an enemy wanted to analyze how many enhancements he had, they probably wouldn't finish counting before he beat them to death.

And among those blessings, there were quite a few from Great Existences.

Plus, Su Zhou figured that since it was a blessing from the sacred tree, it would probably be some power related to 'regeneration' or 'rebirth'.

Maybe it was another 'Wither and Flourish Resurrection' (Kūróng Fùshēng) type of revival opportunity.

*Sigh.*

You know, he hadn't even used Yala's Undying Blood yet. Having this just made things a little safer. Although it wasn't bad, it wasn't something Su Zhou was looking forward to.

But now.

While exploring the World Tree's aura in his Heavenly God Measurement, Su Zhou sensed a similar aura resonating within him.

The power from the World Tree's blessing was rapidly manifesting.

At this moment.

In the public hall, a wind seemed to rise suddenly, causing the light to flicker. The strongest ambassadors vaguely felt something amiss, but couldn't find the source of the abnormality.

Ning Hui, the ambassador of the Ascendant Empire, took a slight step back. He felt a strange sense of dread, a fear that everything about him was being seen through, analyzed, and completely exposed for others to observe.

[This feeling...]

Raising his head, Ning Hui instinctively looked towards the source of the greatest anomaly, which was Su Zhou on the podium.

Then, he met Su Zhou's gaze as the latter turned his head.

In that instant, Ning Hui didn't feel any intimidation. The young man's gaze wasn't particularly emotional, but it wasn't indifferent or cold either. Being stared at by such a gaze wasn't enough to make one tremble in fear.

But for some reason, the ambassador had a strange illusion—when he met Su Zhou's gaze, he seemed to see his 'parents', his 'children', and even many 'siblings' and 'apprentice friends'.

Ice crystal beings didn't have the traditional Earthling concept of parents. Every small ice crystal was formed by the condensation of a larger ice crystal. Powerful ice crystal beings would naturally produce many offspring during their growth.

Such a method of reproduction naturally couldn't cultivate much deep emotion. So, rather than parents and children, ice crystal beings valued 'students and disciples' who inherited their 'knowledge' and 'spirit'.

When he met Su Zhou's gaze, Ning Hui didn't feel any pressure from the strongest Earthling, who was rumored to be extremely skilled in combat and was indeed covered in a destructive aura of blood... on the contrary, he recalled his days on Divine Revelation Star, recalling the friends and students he was familiar with.

It was as if a strange connection linked him to his relatives and friends!

It wasn't just him.

As the inexplicable power spread with Su Zhou's will, all the ambassadors inside the hall recalled various things from their homelands.

Instantly, a wave of homesickness filled the entire venue.

On the podium, Su Zhou, who seemed calm, was actually experiencing indescribable shock.

"It actually... it's actually this effect?!"

He whispered in his heart with an incredible tone. In the young man's vision, countless dense lines were crisscrossing through the boundless space-time: "It can actually allow me to see 'the eternal connection'?!"

"All living beings are connected to each other..."

At this moment, Su Zhou was truly surprised.

In fact, he wasn't wrong. The blessing given by the World Tree was indeed related to 'eternity', 'regeneration', and 'rebirth'—but he completely guessed wrong about the specific effect. He could even say he guessed the opposite.

Because the effect of the blessing given by the sacred tree was to allow Su Zhou to see 'the eternal connection'.

As everyone knows, when a transcedent cultivates to the Overlord Earth Immortal realm, they can achieve immortality by spreading their inheritance and cultivation methods.

Of course, there were other ways to achieve immortality, but they were too troublesome and difficult, so they were ignored.

Generally speaking, to completely eliminate a Overlord-level Immortal God, one needed to completely overwhelm the power of their entire inheritance system and launch a full-scale attack, leaving them no possibility of hiding their inheritance among the people in order to revive later.

At the same time, the art of divination and prediction had to be extremely proficient, otherwise, the 'sleeper agents' that many large sects and inheritances had would be impossible to find. Even if the sect was destroyed on the surface, the 'Tao-spreading sleeper agents' who secretly carried the inheritance would continue to carry on the teachings, making it impossible to completely eliminate that Immortal God.

But even if everyone knew what to do, it wasn't easy even for a Heavenly Immortal to completely eliminate the inheritance of an Earth Immortal. A considerable amount of planning was required.

Everything was because no one knew how much inheritance the Immortal God had spread in the world in order to achieve immortality.

Even the art of divination couldn't guarantee that all the sleeper agents would be found 100%.

This was the biggest problem in Immortal God battles.

But now, Su Zhou was different.

The current Su Zhou... could see the connection between these 'inheritances' and 'Immortal Gods'.

He could see the 'eternal threads' that theoretically didn't exist, only as a concept!

--Life is not an island. Every life is connected to another life.

Su Zhou raised his head and surveyed the entire venue.

The young man's eyes flickered, and a faint cyan glow rotated in the depths of his pupils.

The ambassadors of various civilizations sent to Earth were all powerhouses from their respective civilizations. After all, this profession had no credibility without strength, and too low a strength would lead others to underestimate the civilizations and races behind them.

Among them, the ambassadors of the various Galactic Empires were all in the Overlord realm, in other words, they all possessed elementary immortality, and some other relatively powerful civilization envoys were also in the Overlord realm.

In Su Zhou's eyes, these Overlords all had extremely complex, but carefully observed, unusually clear 'threads' that extended to the distant reaches of the starry sea.

He believed that if he followed these threads, he would definitely find people or objects related to the ambassador's inheritance.

And these people and objects must be related to their immortality!

"This can simply be called 'Undying Slayer'! The highest-level supernatural power targeting immortality!"

Su Zhou finally understood the true meaning of the World Tree's sentence, 'This blessing is related to all living beings'.

Indeed.

Whether it was inheritance or life, or standards and rules, establishing virtue, establishing words, and establishing merit, all three types of immortality had to be based on 'life'.

Virtue was the standard tool that life forged for itself. Words were the knowledge that life passed on to other lives. Merit was the deeds that life paid and did for other lives.

Life and life connected and passed on to each other. Immortality was thus established.

And as the supporter of existence, the World Tree, bestowed upon Su Zhou the ability to see these 'connections'.

Being able to see meant being able to interfere. Being able to interfere meant being able to destroy.

If Su Zhou wanted to completely kill an Immortal God, then he wouldn't need to go through the trouble of preparing absolute force and relying on divination to try his luck like ordinary Immortal Gods—he just had to chop them down one by one according to the relationship on the threads.

Evade? Conceal?

If one could still evade and hide from this blessing from the World Tree, then wouldn't that just prove that their life wasn't meant to end?

Simple, convenient, crude, and powerful.

Exactly the kind of blessing Su Zhou liked the most!

Of course, in addition to this, this blessing also had a small, attached function: this blessing allowed Su Zhou to observe and sense many inheritances and things related to him across many worlds and the void. It could also make him closer to sacred tree-type life forms. The vitality contained within could even turn a small world from barren to lush.

But the most important thing was still being able to see the enemy's threads of connection. The other blessings were dispensable.

'Immortal Sight', was the name Su Zhou gave to this blessing.

Unlike ordinary immortals, the powerhouses of the Void Cult either had very few threads, or simply didn't have immortality in the traditional sense—killing them was far easier than killing a normal immortal.

But if there were other extraordinary methods, this simplicity would turn into 'extreme difficulty'.

Because there was no example to follow, the more monstrous something was, the harder it was to kill.

However, Immortal Sight could solve all the problems related to the powerhouses of the Void Cult in the simplest and most obvious way.

Monsters die when they are killed—no matter how bizarre the monster was, it could be killed. The current Su Zhou could completely declare that he could do this.

The meeting was coming to an end.

Those ambassadors who had questioned whether Su Zhou had the ability to guard the Heavenly God Measurement didn't say another word. They all shrank into the crowd, pretending that they had never spoken.

And those who hadn't questioned him were also reminded of their hometowns by the aura and pressure that Su Zhou displayed later, so most of them had a good attitude towards Su Zhou, with a strange sense of closeness.

This was also a small part of the World Tree's blessing's function.

Things had reached this point and should be over.

Su Zhou had originally planned to announce the end of the meeting and return to Earth through the teleportation array to see what Earth had become.

However, just before Su Zhou was about to act.

He heard a voice.

[Please forgive me.]

A steady mechanical voice rang out from every corner of the hall.

The Galactic Empire·Galactic Network Ai, which had been silent until now, finally spoke: [Hello, Marshal Su Zhou. I am the Galactic Network Ai's communication terminal stationed in the Solar System.]

[Since the envoys of various civilizations are present, I have a secret message that cannot be made public on a large scale, which needs to be disseminated to the high-level officials of each civilization.]

It was only at this moment that Su Zhou realized his previous omission: he had forgotten about the creation left by this ancient super civilization, one of the Galactic Empires!

"Please, go ahead."

So, in surprise, the young man nodded and vacated his position on the podium: "It's a meeting anyway. Anyone can speak."

This request was reasonable, and he naturally wouldn't refuse: "Please speak. If there's any problem that needs my answer, feel free to ask."

[Thank you for your generosity, Marshal Su Zhou, the singularity in the prediction.]

The Galactic Network Ai politely responded with thanks: [I know that the meeting should have ended now, but the timing is just right.]

Although, due to its lifeform, the Galactic Network Ai's identity as a Galactic Empire might be difficult to understand, it did have the powerful force to influence the direction of the galaxy.

Thinking about it now, Su Zhou was also very strange as to why the Galactic Network Ai's communication terminal didn't say a word when everyone was discussing so heatedly.

In theory, they should have been the first to speak.

Now, stepping aside, Su Zhou looked at the ethereal psionic message aggregate in the center of the hall, a string of information bodies with self-awareness.

The young man also wanted to know what important message the Galactic Network Ai wanted to announce and disseminate.

[Envoys of all civilizations.]

At this moment.

In the center of the hall, the Galactic Network Ai's voice echoed throughout the entire hall: [Next, the message I am about to announce will be related to the 'Galaxy Star' and the 'Heavenly God Measurement'.]

[Similarly, it is also greatly related to the first fallen fragment of the universe in this universe, named the 'Final Universe Seal'—that is, the ultimate goal of the Void Cult.]

The first sentence that the Galactic Network Ai spoke firmly attracted the attention of everyone, including Su Zhou.

After all, apart from a few people, very few people knew the true connection between the Galaxy Star and the Heavenly God Measurement, and even fewer people understood the existence of the Final Universe Seal and knew that this was the ultimate goal of the Void Cult.

Many civilizations regarded this information as a treasure, but now, this treasure was directly stated by the Galactic Network Ai.

Ai naturally didn't care about the complex emotions of these non-artificial lifeforms. Invisible information flows gathered psionic energy, causing layers of ripples to surge throughout the hall—in an instant, the intangible Ai displayed a light model composed of psionic light particles in the center of the hall, and this model was a real model of the entire galaxy, shrunk countless times!

It could be seen that this bright silver disk was slowly rotating, with various subtle color markings on it, representing civilizations and forces one by one.

An invisible giant hand condensed and pointed to a certain place in the galactic model. The Network Ai solemnly said: [My main body, the 'Galactic Network Service Module', was built by the super-ancient pioneer civilization, the 'Probability Science Federation'.]

[As everyone knows, in the distant past, my creators, the 'Probability Science Federation', left the galaxy, and even left this universe, disappearing from the sight of all later civilizations.]

Hearing this, except for the Earthlings, basically all the ambassadors of the civilizations made actions similar to nodding, representing affirmation.

They were all very clear about this period of history, and they also understood that the 'free' galaxy they now occupied was nothing more than a front-line battlefield for super civilizations in the past, or even just a trivial corner of the battlefield.

Even now, many civilizations could occasionally discover relics or creations left by these super civilizations in space.

As for Earthlings... Earthlings weren't well known. Earthlings didn't know anything.jpg

[In the past, no one knew why the Probability Science Federation and other super-ancient pioneer civilizations left our universe.]

As it spoke, the Galactic Network Ai twisted the model of the galaxy. In its hands, a model almost identical to itself had appeared around the galaxy—that was the projection of the galaxy in the sub-space.

The Network Ai filled the sub-space projection with psionic energy, making it glow and become conspicuous: [And now, the truth should be revealed.]

It condensed a red arrow and pointed to the edge of the sub-space galaxy projection, an extremely large and strange distortion.

There, there was an overly bright and overly deep gravitational depression spreading, like a deep sea abyss.

At first glance, it seemed that in that small area, another galaxy was rotating, pulling the galaxy's sub-space projection to become distorted and fall towards this void abyss.

And this was not an illusion.

The Galactic Network Ai solemnly stated: [My creators, and the wars of other ancient pioneer civilizations, shook the foundations of the universe, leading to the space-time rifts that you and I can all see, scattered throughout the entire universe.]

[And just as the rifts burst, the disaster that affected the entire universe, the first psionic energy severance, occurred.]

[That psionic energy severance lasted far longer than this one. Even though the major civilizations all had 'Path Makers' who used almost endless power to maintain the continuation of civilization, the nearly 100 million years of the absolute psionic energy era also caused the development of civilization to stagnate—and after the psionic energy gradually recovered, the pioneer civilizations believed that the second psionic energy severance was inevitable. This universe had begun to be damaged and was extremely difficult to repair.]

[Therefore, they intended to use the power of the Final Universe Seal to open up a path to other universes.]

At this moment, the Galactic Network Ai enlarged the model. It solemnly displayed the shining essence of the twisted depression to the ambassadors of all civilizations in the venue.

Su Zhou exhaled. He somewhat understood what the Network Ai wanted to say.

Because what appeared in front of everyone was a huge, unparalleled 'super star' with a mass more than 20 billion times that of the sun!

The 'living star' that suppressed the cosmic rifts of the galaxy!

In the Eater of Stars' memories, Su Zhou had seen this star. The Eater of Stars had been led by the head of the Void Cult to try to break the energy barrier around the living star, but ultimately failed.

And in the process, the Void Cult realized that this living star did not only exist in the sub-space around the galaxy.

It simultaneously existed in more than 800,000 universes, connecting to more than 800,000 world clusters!

The living star, which was more brilliant than almost all cosmic celestial bodies, was emitting stable light, and this light was radiating to hundreds of thousands of universes simultaneously.

And just as almost all the civilization ambassadors gasped, or hurriedly recorded this scene, the Galactic Network Ai spoke again: [The process of migration was long and boring. Eventually, including my creators, many pioneer civilizations collectively left this universe and went to the vast void of the multiverse.]

[And they left the Final Universe Seal in our universe, maintaining the existence of the 'Gate of Final Radiance', sealing the cosmic wound they left behind.]

Gate of Final Radiance was the name of that super-giant star.

As its name suggested, it was a gate—a super celestial body used to connect other universes in the void.

"Network Master."

At this moment, an ambassador asked doubtfully: "This is indeed history and a past beyond our knowledge—the psionic energy severance was not the first to occur, and the secrets of the ancient pioneer civilizations are indeed fascinating to us."

"But all of this happened hundreds of millions of years ago. How does all of this relate to the current galactic situation and the cosmic situation?"

[Originally, no one could open the Gate of Final Radiance, so this news did not need to be disseminated. But five days ago, I detected an anomaly in the Gate of Final Radiance module. There was a formidable force from the depths of the void simultaneously impacting the Gate of Final Radiance from many time-spaces. This is what the Void Cult is doing.]

Regarding the question, the Galactic Network Ai patiently and calmly answered: [Although this cannot shake the stability of the gate, after chaotic deduction, if we do not react, everything will become extremely bad.]

[As for the connection—the Void Cult intends to obtain the Final Universe Seal in the 'Gate of Final Radiance' to accelerate the collapse of the entire universe, so we must stop them.]

[And the best way to stop them is to obtain the Final Universe Seal in advance and completely eliminate the Void Cult.]

[However, the key passages in the sub-space leading to the 'Gate of Final Radiance' have already been taken by the Void Cult. There are many fortresses, giant projects, and super-projects that they have left behind for hundreds of thousands of years. It is almost an impossible task to break through directly—around the cosmic rifts, they can also communicate with the evil god dependents of many different universes to aid them. It is unwise to fight a war of attrition with them there.]

[So]

Speaking to this point, the Galactic Network Ai turned its head, it looked at Su Zhou, and then surveyed the entire venue, stopping its gaze on a few people.

And these few people happened to include Shao Shuangyue and Jiu Ming, two little fellows who had just followed Su Zhou to gain some experience.

After finishing its survey, Ai calmly said: [We need to enter the interior of the Gate of Final Radiance from other entrances—many entrances located in other time-spaces, to obtain the Final Universe Seal before the Void Cult.]

"Oh?"

Su Zhou raised his eyebrows. He fell into thought and didn't say anything.

On the other hand, Shao Shuangyue and Jiu Ming, after looking at each other, couldn't help but start whispering at the bottom of the stage.

"I say, old brother... Have we seen something similar?"

The black-haired, straight-haired, beautiful girl whispered to her teammate: "That Sky Light World, the 'Source of Sky Light' that illuminates the entire galaxy, seems to be a similar super-giant star?"

"To be fair, that's true."

Jiu Ming nodded in agreement. The dragon man youth quietly said: "I originally thought it was a local cosmic specialty... but now that you say it, could it be..."

It wasn't just Shao Shuangyue and Jiu Ming.

Among the other Earth civilization staff members present in the hall, there were also pioneers of space exploration.

Among them, there were also a few who, like the young man and woman, frowned and had the same thought in their hearts.

"This star..."

"We seem to have seen it before?"