"If that's the case, Long Yangjun's background makes sense now!"
Li Yao mumbled to the mental devil deep inside his brain. "During the God-Sealing War, in Long Yangjun's previous life, she was an important person on the Nuwa warship and even the entire fleet. She was sometimes a 'captain of assault'.
"The Nuwa fleet discovered the Ancient Sages Sector, which was hidden deep inside the dark nebula, by accident during a patrol. By chance, they even figured out the secrets of the Pangu's legacy plan!
"However, for various reasons, they were mired in the swamp and could neither jump out of the dark nebula nor send the message back to their homeland.
"Well, it was probably because the dark nebula was still very thick and impenetrable at that time and was completely blocked from the outside world.
During his hundred-year hibernation, Li Yao had observed that, as time went by, the density of the dark nebula was actually decreasing. In another tens of thousands of years, the dark nebula that covered the Ancient Sages Sector would probably completely vanish.
On the other hand, hundreds of thousands of years ago, the dark nebula must've been very dense and full of the most intense blockage and interference. Once someone jumped in by accident, it would've been barely possible for them to jump out.
Li Yao had once discovered a star map from the primeval era on Kunlun. On the star map, there was no dark nebula outside of the Ancient Sages Sector.
Therefore, the 'dark nebula' was probably an 'artificial black barrier' that the Pangu civilization had created with the celestial bodies and the magnificent forces in the universe. It was a military defense array to protect the top secret plan of the legacy laboratory!
Then, when the 'dark array' was just activated, its intensity must've been the highest. It was perfectly normal that the message could not be sent out!
All in all, whether it was because the message could not be sent out or because the local garrison of the Pangu had discovered it and was afraid that the enemy would move the laboratory while they waited for reinforcements, the Nuwa fleet that Long Yangjun was in had made the decision to launch an assault on the Ancient Sages Sector on their own!
"The attack of the Nuwa fleet almost annihilated all the Pangu garrisons in the Ancient Sages Sector. More than half of the Pangu laboratories were sabotaged, too. The incubation base at the bottom level was the only thing left.
"The Nuwa warship has been suppressing the incubation base all the time. Long Yangjun left a 'life seed' when she was dying in her previous life, hoping that it would continue fulfilling the mission in the long years to come!"
"On the one hand, she will persistently send messages to the mother port, reporting the situation here. Hopefully, when the dark nebula outside becomes thinner, the message can be sent out."
"On the other hand, perhaps she is also playing the role of a 'watcher' and a 'warden'. She needs to warn the latecomers about what is going on here and what terrifying existences are hiding in the Pangu laboratory below the ground!"
Li Yao's mind raced as he repeatedly deduced his conjecture.
There were definitely a lot of differences in the details, and there were many things that he had overlooked. However, based on the main storyline, it should be close to the mark!
In such a case, the incident where 'Long Yangjun II' was ejected out of the Nuwa warship by the escape capsule would be perfectly explained.
Wu Suiyun and Meng Chixin, two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators, were naturally not enough to alarm the assault captains of the Nuwa civilization hundreds of thousands of years ago.
However, they had broken the barriers, broken into the Pangu laboratories, and released the most dreadful 'activation beasts', turning themselves into living Pangu members!
There must be certain rune arrays and magical equipment inside the Nuwa warship that could monitor the Pangu. Discovering that the Pangu had invaded the warship again, Long Yangjun, who was in the embryonic state, was woken up in an emergency and ejected out of the warship after pouring some random random information streams into her.
In the meantime, all the spiritual energy that had been accumulated for hundreds of years was gathered again and poured into the communication magical equipment, sending out the latest alarm to the mother port billions of lightyears away!
Perhaps, in the hundreds of thousands of years earlier, the Nuwa warship had sent alarms to the outside world countless times, but because of the blockage and interference of the dark nebula, the alarms had all perished in the long journey of space.
But this time, the dark nebula was finally thin enough for the alarms to penetrate through.
The alarms were immediately received by the mother ports of the Nuwa fleet in the past and the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector today!
That was why the Xing Yao Federation was so shocked and many stories about Li Yao traveling in the dark nebula!
"Hu."
Li Yao thought everything through and took a long breath in relief in his heart. He felt as comfortable as if he were sweating hard after having a hot pot on a hot day!
"Help me sort it out. Are there any flaws in my speculation?"
Li Yao asked the mental devil. But before the mental devil said anything, he frowned and said, "No. There is still a minor problem that cannot be explained.
"In the past tens of thousands of years, it is obvious that some Cultivators have entered part of the cabins on the Nuwa warship. Otherwise, the rumors about the Divine Palace wouldn't have spread out in the outside world, and the locals of the Ancient Sages Sector wouldn't have produced the Thousand Stars Tray, which can parse the map core of the Divine Palace!
"Then, it is rather odd. Why haven't the Cultivators in the past hundred thousand years opened the seals or been stabbed by the 'activation beasts', injected with 'gene activators', and transformed into the Pangu?"
Li Yao had an obsessive-compulsive disorder. Even if he could not explain the tiniest loophole, his heart would feel as if it were being scratched by a cat.
"The problem is not exactly a major flaw."
The mental devil scratched its red, messy hair and said, "There are two possibilities."
"Firstly, when the Pangu civilization was planning the 'succession plan', they set a time limit. For example, they had to wait fifty thousand years or a hundred thousand years before the plan was activated. They did not want to be revived too early, in case they were exposed when the entire universe was still under the absolute control of the Nuwa civilization.
"Therefore, before the plan was activated, all the 'activation beasts' were in the hibernation state or spore state. They would not have caused any trouble.
"However, that is not very likely. I'm more inclined to the second possibility. The activation beasts would not bite anybody randomly. They had to choose targets who were strong enough to be transformed into the Pangu!"
Li Yao was slightly dazed. "Strong enough to be transformed into the Pangu? What do you mean?"
"Literally," the mental devil replied matter-of-factly.
"Normal human beings are two meters tall at best, but the members of the Pangu Clan can be more than ten meters tall, or even larger. Do you think that it does not consume spiritual energy to transform from a human being into a member of the Pangu Clan?
"However strong the Pangu Clan was, it was impossible for them to make something out of nothing. They had to abide by the law of conservation of spiritual energy. Then, astronomical amounts of spiritual energy would've been consumed during the transformation of human beings into the Pangu Clan!
"If the spiritual energy cannot be absorbed from the outside world, it will have to count on the reserves of the human body itself!
"To put it more simply, ordinary people or low-level Cultivators cannot bear the crazy consumption of activating the gene strands of the Pangu and transforming into Pangu. It is estimated that their flesh and blood will dry up halfway through the transformation, and their soul will dry up. They will turn into dry corpses that will crumble at the first touch!
"Only the unparalleled experts of a certain level, such as the Yuanying Stage and the Divinity Transformation Stage, who have stored enough spiritual energy inside their bodies, can withstand the whole transformation process. They are the hunting targets of the 'activation beasts'!"
"Fair enough!"
Li Yao snapped his fingers in his heart. "Only the Cultivators who are strong enough are qualified to be transformed into Pangu. In such a case, everything makes sense now. Do you agree with my speculation?"
"Of course!"
The mental devil said with a smile. "The succession and possession of civilizations are the most common things in the universe in the first place. The Blood Stripe Virus can possess other civilizations. When the Pangu civilization is on the verge of destruction, they will naturally try to make their civilization continue, too.
"The life and death of individuals do not matter. What the Pangu civilization pursues is not the resurrection of a certain 'individual Pangu' but the rebirth of the entire civilization!
"If the transformation is completed, Wu Suiyun will still be Wu Suiyun, and Meng Chixin will still be Meng Chixin, but they will have turned into Pangu from human beings. Naturally, they will shoulder the mission to revive the Pangu civilization!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. What an excellent plan. It is even simpler, more efficient, and more delicate than the Blood Stripe Virus lurking inside the meteoroids stupidly and wandering in the dark universe!"
The mental devil chuckled, as if it were gloating. "If your speculation is valid, the civilization of mankind is in an awkward situation!"
"Let me tell you a story.
"Once upon a time, there was an invincible and wealthy general who lived in a magnificent, lofty, and all-encompassing castle with his beautiful wife and concubines."
"In the castle, there are mountains of gold and silver, pools of wine and forests of meat, and even the sharpest swords and the sturdiest armor!"
"In a corner of the castle, there was also a slave who was doing the dirtiest, most exhausting, and humblest work in the castle. He was no different from the animals in the castle.
"One day, the general was about to go on a long journey. He promoted the slave to be the 'gatekeeper' and entrusted the entire castle to the slave. Then, he left the mountains of gold, lakes of wine, lakes of wine, swords, armor, and beautiful wives behind, never to return.
"Just like that, hundreds, thousands of years passed, but the real master of the castle never returned.
"Perhaps, the slaves at the beginning still remembered their identity as the 'gatekeeper' and did their duty dutifully, not daring to overstep at all.
"However, the descendants of the slaves gradually forgot their identity as the 'gatekeeper' and enjoyed the gold, lakes of wine, and lakes of wine and women in the castle without any qualms. They considered themselves to be the masters of the castle!
"Hehe. If the real master of the castle never returned, it would be a happy ending.
"But what if the master came back?
"Human beings, ever since we looked at the starry sky and our ambitions were born, we have always considered ourselves to be the strongest warrior species in the sea of stars and the only dominator of the three thousand Sectors.
"But are we the masters of this universe, or are we just humble 'gatekeepers'?
"Right now, the familiar footsteps of the master in the past are echoing outside of the castle and drawing closer and closer. What should we do?"
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