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Li Yao shook his head. "The question is too sensitive for me to answer. Let's talk about another question."
Long Yangjun sneered. "Even if you don't answer, I can roughly guess who you are. The delicacy and the style of your armor are not something that any Cultivator in the history of the Ancient Sages Sector can produce. You are also familiar with the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan, and you know a thing or two about the Nuwa warship. When you talked about cruising in the sea of stars, it was quite normal for you to be an extraterrestrial Cultivator. You should be from a world beyond the dark nebula. Soaring in the sea of stars is a very common technique in the extraterrestrial lands, isn't it?"
Li Yao sniffed, which was his tacit admission.
The Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was a Crystal Suit from the modern industrial system of the Cultivation civilization. It was vastly different from the armor of the ancient Cultivators that was made purely by hand. Anyone who was not blind could tell the difference.
"It's not strange that you are an extraterrestrial Cultivator. What I'm more curious about is why you have shown up in the Ancient Sages Sector," Long Yangjun said.
"You are obviously on your own and do not have any backup. If you did not end up here by accident, you must be some sort of scout who collects intelligence for the main troop."
Li Yao's heart almost skipped a beat. He did not expect that Long Yangjun's senses would be so keen that she could figure out his real identity from the insignificant traces.
Long Yangjun's eyes suddenly turned sharp, and her voice gradually turned cold. "If you have a lot of super magical equipment similar to the Nuwa warship that is coveting us covetously outside of the dark nebula, there doesn't seem to be any possibility of cooperation between us."
"Don't misunderstand me."
Sensing that her killing intent was soaring again, Li Yao hurried to explain. "We mean no harm to the Ancient Sages Sector."
"That's rather odd."
Long Yangjun immediately grasped the key. "If the Ancient Sages Sector is hidden inside a dark nebula, it is a paradise that can barely be discovered by the outside world. If you mean no harm, how did you find this place?"
"In fact, it was the Ancient Sages Sector that sent the signal to my world first.
Li Yao pondered for a moment and tried to describe the whole thing in a vague way. "I can't tell you the specific details, and it's hard to explain in a few words. Let me put it this way. For example, one night, when you are resting in the depths of your cave residence, you suddenly hear a crisp laughter. When you are shocked and go to investigate, you find that the laughter is very likely to come from thousands of kilometers away from your cave residence. How would you deal with it?"
Long Yangjun was slightly dazed. Deep in thought, Laughter from thousands of kilometers away drifted into my residence in the dead of night and reached my ears. I'm afraid that I will have to find the source of the laughter in fear and sleepless nights from now on. I have to find out the source of the laughter.
"That's right."
Li Yao said, "You can think of me as someone who has come to the Ancient Sacred World in search of the source of the laughter."
Long Yangjun rolled her eyes. "Then, have you found it?"
"Not yet."
Li Yao replied quickly. "The Ancient Sages Sector is thousands of times more distant than my world. It is beyond your imagination. Even a Yuanying monster with infinite spiritual energy might not be able to reach it even after ten thousand years of rushing at the highest speed.
"Very advanced magical equipment or rune arrays are certainly required to transmit the laughter so far away. However, I have been active in the Ancient Sages Sector for such a long time as a magical equipment specialist. I have collected tremendous intelligence about the magical equipment of this Sector, even the groundless legends, but I have found absolutely nothing.
"However, since the Nuwa warship is so well-preserved, it is possible for it to send a few streams of laughter to the outside world even if it cannot cruise in the sea of stars."
"Are you suggesting that, about a hundred years ago, somebody sent a message to the outside of the dark nebula through the Nuwa warship?"
Long Yangjun's eyes suddenly turned dangerous. "When exactly?"
Li Yao calculated with his fingers and said, "Converted into the time of the Ancient Sages Sector, it was about ninety-seven years and eight months ago."
It was rather odd that the time it took for the Ancient Sages Sector, the Heaven's Origin Sector, and the Blood Demon Sector to revolve around their respective stars was almost the same, and the calendars they used were not very different, either.
Perhaps the worlds where carbon-based creatures such as the Pangu, the Nuwa Clan, and human beings could survive and develop brilliant civilizations shared some similarities.
"Ninety-seven years ago."
Long Yangjun's face suddenly turned extremely weird. "I am exactly half of ninety-seven years old this year. However, my birthday was counted from the moment I was picked up by my foster parents. That is to say, I was probably born ninety-seven years and eight months ago."
The hair on the back of Li Yao's head was all standing up. He felt that a gloomy chill was rising from his tailbone to his skull.
It could not have been a coincidence.
According to the time of the Ancient Sages Sector, 'something' must've happened on the Nuwa warship ninety-seven years and eight months ago, which led to the transmission of the mysterious signal and the birth of Long Yangjun.
"We seem to be approaching the answer to the puzzle. I have a vague speculation about your identity, too."
Li Yao threw out a bait. "However, in order to figure out the truth completely, I would like to hear the answer to the question I asked just now. How did you find the Divine Palace?"
"You know who I am."
Long Yangjun rose abruptly and stared at Li Yao for a long time. Then, she slowly slid down close to the pillars of the crystal processors and said coldly, "I grew up in the remote valley, suffering the torment of weird dreams every day. Also, because of the abnormalities of my body, I was unwilling to hang out with other children and preferred to wander in the wilderness by myself. Gradually, I became a weirdo in the village.
"In the meantime, my strength was awakening, too.
"On the border, the people there are tough. There are many bandits who kill people and rob them. In the village, there are also a few martial artists who are known to kill people like flies. I once followed one of them to practice martial arts, but after a few days, I felt that his martial arts were extremely crude. It was not as effective as the strange cultivation method I obtained in several strange dreams."
"However, at that time, I was too young to control my strength. After I beat up a few young men who were five years older than me during a game, I was even more hated by the villagers. Therefore, I was even more reluctant to return to the village. Instead, I found a cave in the valley and lived in seclusion.
"My foster parents, because of my mysterious origins, regarded me as a blessed child. They did not dare discipline me and could only let me do whatever I wanted.
"At that time, I hunted and trained in the wilderness during the day. Unwilling to be tortured by the weird dreams at night, I sat outside of the cave and looked at the starry sky. I often thought of weird questions, such as what was beyond the sky and what the so-called deities were. Occasionally, I would find bizarre-looking giant bones in the wilderness. Everybody said that they were the sloughs of the gods and devils in the primeval era. They worshipped them and even built temples and altars to consecrate them. However, when I touched the bones of the gods and devils, I did not feel awed at all. Instead, I felt a sense of closeness and sadness. Why was that?
"Of course, what I thought about most were the weird dreams.
"Was everything that happened in the weird dreams just my imagination, or was it real? Was the picture where all the stars in the universe exploded and ten thousand starships on fire really my previous life?
"Just like that, the mottled pictures and the squeaking noises, after repeating the weird dreams countless times, gradually condensed into an uncanny belief that told me that the answer was at the end of the Land of Eternal Night and that I would know who I was as long as I found the place." Long Yangjun paused for a moment and took a deep breath. She took a deep breath and took a deep breath.
With vague sorrow spreading out of her face, she said quickly, "Later, the village where my foster parents lived was looted by a bunch of defeated soldiers from the prairies. At that time, Meng Chixin, the Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator and the previous dominator of the prairies, had already disappeared from the Land of Eternal Night together with Wu Xingyun. Han Baling, the new dominator, had yet to show his talents. The situation on the Dark Cloud Prairies was extremely chaotic. The tribes and the few sects were at war with each other. It was not unusual for the defeated parties to loot their way as bandits. My hometown unfortunately became an ocean of fire, and all the villagers were slaughtered.
"When I was training in the wilderness, in order to prevent other people from prying into my secrets, I always chose very inconspicuous locations, sometimes even deep inside the crevices. I didn't know anything about it.
"It was not until my training came to an end and I saw the skyrocketing fire on the horizon that I realized that it was not good. When I returned to the village, what awaited me was nothing but burnt, dilapidated walls.
"My foster mother was hiding in the cellar. She was barely breathing because of the high temperature and the intense smoke. She passed away abruptly after she managed to confess my background.
"I tracked the traces of the defeated soldiers, hoping to kill them all. But as it turned out, there were indeed a few tricky people among them. Also, my strength had just been awakened. Although I slew them all in the end, I was heavily wounded myself and was on the verge of death. I did not wake up until three days and three nights in a trance.
"However, the struggle between life and death seemed to have sharpened my intuition, and the pictures and voices in my head were clearer, too.
"My hometown has already been destroyed, but there seems to be an even more distant source hidden within me. I suddenly have a very strong urge to find my true hometown and figure out who I am."
"It's strange. At that time, I was just a wild child who grew up in the wilderness. I hadn't even been to a town hundreds of kilometers away. I should have been extremely ignorant.
"But my head was indescribably clear. I analyzed in an instant that it was absolutely impossible for me to reach the Land of Eternal Night by myself. Even if I did, I wouldn't be able to find the destination hidden somewhere in the vast Land of Eternal Night.
"I had to carry out real training and try to improve my strength as much as possible. I also had to establish my own force. I had to collect more intelligence about the Land of Eternal Night."
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