"A mausoleum of the gods?"
Li Yao gasped hard.
In the current context of the civilization of mankind, the so-called "gods" were only one concept, which was the thirteen carbon-based species in the primeval era. Only the strongest experts of those species deserved the title of gods and devils!
"Is it an enormous prehistoric mausoleum where the ultimate experts of the Pangu Clan, the Nuwa Clan, the Kuafu Clan, the Houyi Clan, the Zhurong Clan, the Gonggong Clan …
Li Yao found it hard to believe.
"Exactly. If you think about it carefully, the Supreme Emperor and the Blood God encountered each other below the capital planet unexpectedly, and neither of them was prepared to suffer heavy losses. When the Supreme Emperor was heavily wounded by the Blood God and could have perished at any moment, would he have had the time to build a mausoleum for himself?"
Li Linghai said, "At that time, the Star Ocean Imperium was about to collapse. Who was going to build a mausoleum when everybody was busy?"
Li Yao thought for a moment and realized that it did make sense. The Supreme Emperor and the Blood God encountered each other for the Gold Crystal Pyramid, and their troops almost perished together. In such chaos, even if the mausoleum had been built, it would've been demolished by the rebels. How could a new one be built?
As for before the Blood God's rebellion … At that time, the remnants of the demon race hadn't been annihilated, and the Star Ocean Imperium was still in the expansion phase. All the resources had to be devoted to development. Li Yao estimated that the Supreme Emperor couldn't have devoted a lot of resources to the mausoleum after his death.
Therefore, the mausoleum of the Supreme Emperor was just a rumor. If a mausoleum with complete facilities and infinite treasures did exist, it certainly wouldn't have been the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum in the beginning, but the mausoleum of the primeval experts who were older and stronger than the Supreme Emperor!
"Are you not curious about why the Supreme Emperor rose?"
Li Linghai continued, "Neither the classics of the Star Ocean Republic nor the studies of the Imperium of True Human Beings could figure out the mysteries of the Supreme Emperor's rise. At that time, while the thirty thousand years of darkness of the demon race had come to an end, and the future of mankind was still buried in haze, the Supreme Emperor shone like a shooting star that cut across the darkness and shortened the time for the renaissance of mankind by almost a thousand years on his own.
"Nobody knew where his unparalleled strength and his amazing commanding skills came from.
"In many legends, the Supreme Emperor became the strongest Cultivator in history and led the civilization of mankind to the revival of mankind with the three volumes of the Book of Revelation. But where did the three volumes of the Book of Revelation come from?"
Li Yao thought of something and said, "The Supreme Emperor found the three volumes of the Book of Revelation from the mausoleum of the gods and brought the legacy of the primeval civilization to modern mankind? If that's the case, then everything makes sense! "
"Yes."
Li Linghai said, "It was the Blood God who told Wuying Qi about it, and Wuying Qi relayed it to me. Although it was passed around, the Blood God was sort of a witness to some extent. Naturally, his information was much more convincing than the scholars who buried their heads in the classics.
"The Supreme Emperor at the beginning should've been a gladiator who was caged in the Bloody Arena of the demon race. He escaped from a great uprising because he could not bear the oppression anymore. On his way to escape from the hunting of the demons, he accidentally discovered the mausoleum of the gods and practiced the magnificent, mysterious, and marvelous arts in the mausoleum. Then, he found the three volumes of the Book of Revelation, which opened his path of glory.
"At that time, he was still on his own. He could only bring the three volumes of the Book of Revelation from the mausoleum, but he was not capable of developing the mausoleum on a large scale.
"After he almost unified the forces of the entire universe, he mobilized a lot of starships and engineering legions and shipped them to the first world fragment that I mentioned just now, which was also known as the 'Empyrean Transcendence Sector'. He was planning to open the gate of the mausoleum with the Empyrean Transcendence Sector as a platform.
"But out of his expectation, the news of the Mad Armageddon's rebellion came, which disrupted the Supreme Emperor's plan to develop the mausoleum on a large scale. A lot of starships and magical equipment of the engineering legions were left in the Empyrean Transcendence Sector. Those things later became the capital for the reformists' uprising.
"When he was counterattacked by the Blood God, the Supreme Emperor himself was heavily wounded and drained. He was about to perish at any moment. He had to escape into the Godly Mausoleum and end up exactly like the top experts of the primeval era hundreds of thousands of years ago!
Li Yao rolled his eyes again and again and keenly noticed a problem. "The Supreme Emperor could have died at any moment and had to escape into the mausoleum of the gods. This place is also the burial place of countless top experts in the primeval era. Is there anything wrong with it? Otherwise, why did the Supreme Emperor have to die in the mausoleum when he could've died anywhere? "
"You are very smart to see the key after only one look."
Li Linghai smiled and said, "Perhaps you're right. It is said that the mausoleum of the gods is a place that is beyond the three Sectors and beyond the five elements. Time is even frozen there. The Supreme Emperor's heavy wounds would've killed him outside, but he will be in a mysterious state of neither life nor death inside the mausoleum."
"Beyond the three Sectors and beyond the five elements?"
Li Yao was somewhat dumbfounded. "What does that mean? Also … what does time freeze mean?"
"I don't know. The Blood God told Wuying Qi that, and Wuying Qi told me."
Li Linghai said, "Although the Blood God was the Supreme Emperor's strongest clone, he only received the parts of the Supreme Emperor's soul that were most inclined to battle, exploration, and conquest. The memories of the rest of the Supreme Emperor's memories are very vague. Also, did he hide anything from Wuying Qi, and did Wuying Qi hide anything from me? Everybody knows that there must be something.
"All in all, my understanding is that the mausoleum of the gods is even more mysterious than the Empyrean Transcendence Sector as a springboard, and it is even more distant from our three-dimensional universe. It's like … if our three-dimensional universe is a planet, the Empyrean Transcendence Sector and the mausoleum of the gods are two satellites that are very far away from us. They are even pulled by another planet and boast certain unbelievable rules!
"As for 'neither life nor death', oh, Wuying Qi also told me something that the Blood God said. The exact words went like this: 'Until an external observer opens the mausoleum of the gods, the Supreme Emperor will be in a superposition state of neither life nor death'. I don't know what that means. Maybe you will have to find out one day and tell me."
Li Yao thought for a long time.
The world of Cultivators was bizarre. The density of spiritual energy in the universe varied, and the rules of the universe were manifested in different ways. It was not strange at all.
However, an idea that suddenly popped up in his head made him shudder uncontrollably.
"Wait …"
Li Yao mumbled, "Assuming that the Blood God did not lie to Wuying Qi, and Wuying Qi did not lie to you, and the time in the mausoleum of the gods is really frozen and the creatures that escape into it are in a superposition state of neither life nor death, wouldn't it mean that not just the Supreme Emperor but also countless primeval experts in the mausoleum right now?"
"I'm afraid that you're right."
Li Linghai said with a bitter smile, "Why else do you think Wuying Qi lingered outside of the gate of the mausoleum and did not have the courage to enter it?"
Li Yao exclaimed. He was going to say that it was because Wuying Qi was missing half of the key to the mausoleum.
However, on second thought, the key to the gate of the mausoleum was divided into two parts. One part was in Li Linghai's hands, and the other part was in his foster father's hands. In the Empyrean Transcendence Sector a hundred years ago, Li Linghai and his foster father were together.
In other words, Li Linghai, his foster father, and Wuying Qi, who was lurking around them, were already able to assemble a complete key at that time!
Although Wuying Qi's remaining soul had been dormant for a thousand years and couldn't have been weaker, it was still not something that Li Linghai and his foster father could resist, could it?
Had it not been for the things inside the mausoleum, he probably would've snatched the key and entered the mausoleum.
"No wonder Wuying Qi 3.0 warned me repeatedly that I was not qualified to explore the mausoleum right now."
Li Yao was rather scared. "He said that I had to be at least in the Divinity Branching Stage in order to open the gate of the mausoleum."
"That's right. Nobody knows what will happen after the gate of the mausoleum is opened."
Li Linghai said, "The worst-case scenario is that hundreds of primeval experts who are neither alive nor dead will be awakened after the mausoleum is opened. Who can bear the consequences?"
Li Yao felt creeped out and sweated hard.
He recalled the member of the Pangu Clan that he had slain in the Kunlun relic. That was an existence that could fight a Colossus bare-handed!
Also, the Pangu must've been a regular officer or a noble. He was far from the level of a primeval expert.
Who the hell knew if the External Observer would be alive or dead after the External Observer opened the mausoleum and ended the superposition state of "neither dead nor alive"!
If he released hundreds of primeval experts while he was planning to explore the mausoleum of the Supreme Emperor, he would be asking for it.
"Let's take our time to consider the matter!"
Li Yao wiped the cold sweat on his forehead. "Let's take care of the four families and the Holy League first. It will be best if I can advance into the Divinity Branching Stage first. Wuying Qi left a secret chamber deep inside the Gold Crystal Pyramid for the purpose of breaking into the Divinity Branching Stage and practicing the unparalleled techniques in the Divinity Branching Stage. After I take care of the mess, I'm going to train in seclusion for a while, hoping that I can make a breakthrough. Otherwise, wouldn't I be embarrassed if I can't even defeat Li Jialing in a few days?"
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