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Bastion of Life
Whether it was a bastion built by humans or the Celestial's Legacy Clan, the construction process required countless materials. There were all kinds of alloys, special minerals, energy crystals, and even formations.
So much so that the bastion's central control system was similar to that of the interplanetary networks of the planets. It was a cross between a living and a non-living superbrain.
Even so, a bastion like this was still a dead object!
But Xing Bo's final work, Long Ye Hao, was alive. And by alive, he meant … it was a real lifeform!
The construction of Long Ye Hao didn't use any other materials. There were no alloys, no minerals, no energy crystals, no formations, and nothing like that.
In truth, it was a World Bug that had simply used the natural growth and development of a living body to forcefully grow into a World Bug!
World bug: a mysterious and unknown lifeform. So far, only the great pioneer of human technology, Xing Bo, had ever found and obtained one!
Its characteristics were currently not fully understood, but one point had already been verified by Xingbo, and that was that this mysterious life form possessed an extremely strong ability to self-evolve, as well as a unique characteristic of malleability. Furthermore, its loyalty could be said to be absolute … It would only serve one master for life!
The so-called malleable uniqueness could be seen as dominoes. You only had one chance to push down the first domino. Once you pushed down the first domino, the entire chain of dominoes would continue to react. If there was no end to the chain of dominoes, the chain of dominoes would continue to be pushed down by the previous domino, which would continue to be pushed down by the previous domino in succession …
This was basically what the malleability of the world bug meant.
After Xing Bo obtained the World Bug, he should have hesitated for a period of time, but in the end, he decided to guide the World Bug and evolve it into the most powerful super fortress.
Therefore, he used up the evolution premolding rights of the world bug, which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It was equivalent to gently pushing the first domino down.
Even the Devouring System couldn't understand the process through the Long Ye Hao. Perhaps it could be seen as some kind of program writing method, or perhaps it was even more complicated. Xing Bo was the great pioneer of the human race's technology. Who knew what he was capable of?
In short, Xing Bo's vision of what a perfect, powerful bastion should look like had been inputted into the world bug's body through some unknown method. It was almost like data input.
This infusion marked the end of the world bug's malleability. From then on, it would continue to evolve according to Xing Bo's vision of a perfect bastion. Like the chain reaction of dominoes, it wouldn't stop until it died!
According to Xing Bo's research, the world bug didn't die. It wasn't that it had a strong life force, but that it was a special kind of life form. In Xing Bo's words, it should be called a group of mononuclear self-evolving life forms!
To put it simply, this so-called World Bug was not a single bug. It was a swarm. This swarm was made up of countless tiny World Bugs. It was like the cells of a human body. Every moment, old cells would die, but at the same time, a large number of new cells would be born.
In Xing Bo's view, this self-evolving cycle was immortal and indestructible!
Therefore, once the evolution began, the perfect bastion that existed only in Xing Bo's mind would continue to evolve. At most, some accident would cause the world bug to go into hibernation. That was why the evolution was temporarily halted.
Right now, the evolution was in a temporary halt because the mononuclear self-evolving life forms were in a very bad state.
Tens of thousands of years ago, it no longer had the strength to spawn more minuscule World Worm cells and continue the path of evolution according to Xingbo's vision, incessantly condensing new and more powerful fortress components and functions.
Because the lack of energy supply was so severe, the world bug's core, which was equivalent to the commander-in-chief of the group, had no choice but to go into hibernation.
That was why, for tens of thousands of years, the independent world bug's evolution system continued to produce new members, but their numbers were few and far between. They were only equal to the ones that had declined and died.
The only way to change this situation was to provide enough energy to the independent world bug's core, a mysterious crystal that Xing Bo called the Source of Evolution.
Moreover, after injecting energy and reactivating this source of evolution, Ye Xuan still had the chance to brand a strand of his own soul imprint onto it.
Xing Bo had left this opportunity for him, and it was also the world bug's other greatest feature aside from its malleability.
Once the soul imprint was imprinted, then this World Bug would be absolutely loyal to Ye Xuan. Moreover, this kind of master recognition was unique to every World Bug in its entire life.
It could only be done once, and it couldn't be changed unless the entire group was destroyed!
It was a pleasant surprise!
Imagine, once the world bug recognized a living bastion as its master, it would be completely loyal to the owner. Even if the passageway was wide open and enemies were allowed to enter, they wouldn't be able to do anything. On the contrary, a single thought from the owner would be able to command the bastion to kill them!
It was a pity that Xingbo didn't use the sole Recognized Sovereign. It wasn't because he was great, but because when he injected the idea of a perfect superfortress into the World Worm's crystal of evolution, he realized that there wasn't much lifeforce left in the crystal when it was innately nurtured.
The best he could do was wait until the world bug's core, which was only the size of a fist, grew to the size of an ordinary fortress five thousand meters in diameter. When that happened, the evolution process would have to stop as the core went into hibernation.
Xing Bo tried to supply it with all sorts of energy, but to no avail.
In the end, for the sake of realizing his dream of building a perfect Bastion, Xing Bo decided to keep the Long Ye as its master. He hoped that whoever discovered the ship's secrets would be tempted enough to find the energy required for the evolution of the world's insectoids. That way, the Bastion of Life could be restarted on its path of evolution.
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