After parting with Long Yangjun, Li Yao returned to the Gold Crystal Pyramid below the ground without wasting any time.
Before the coronation ceremony yesterday, he might've been hesitant about whether or not to activate the Sunspot Plan, fearing that the side effects would be too severe, but the invasion of the Imperium by the main-force fleet of the Covenant Alliance and his understanding of the people of the Covenant Alliance and the Ultimate Benevolence inside the Third Mental Research Institute were enough for him to drop all his burdens and make up his mind to wake up the sunspots that had been sleeping for a thousand years!
To defeat the Holy League, he had to find the most critical Ultimate Benevolence Masters.
In order to find the Ultimate Benevolence Masters, he had to project his consciousness into the Covenant Alliance as a beam of particles through the Sunspot Plan.
To project his consciousness to the people of the Holy League through the Gold Crystal Pyramid, he had to completely control the Gold Crystal Pyramid and make the first step from the Divinity Transformation Stage to the Divinity Branching Stage!
In the deepest part of the Gold Crystal Pyramid …
It was a mysterious area that nobody except for Li Yao and Wuying Qi had reached.
According to the information that Wuying Qi 3.0 left in Li Yao's head, it was the hub of the Gold Crystal Pyramid and the best place for him to break into the Divinity Branching Stage.
Only by completely controlling the hub could the Gold Crystal Pyramid be 100% controlled, and more techniques could be activated in the Gold Crystal Pyramid except for "infuriating the sun".
In the past half year, Li Yao had been hesitating. He was worried that Wuying Qi 3.0 might've left some traps in the place, and he was even more worried that he couldn't pass the test from "dragon slayer" to "evil dragon". So, he never opened the place.
But right now, he had no choice.
Li Yao passed through the long and dark pathway and isolated himself from the world, leaving a series of spiritual puppets behind him. They were all clones of Xiaoming and Wenwen. The two information lives kept Li Yao in touch with the outside world and protected Li Yao.
If Li Yao was mentally deranged during his training and had an accident, they would rescue him as soon as possible.
After walking in the darkness for ten minutes, a pitch-black door appeared in front of him. The door was full of potholes and inlaid with countless black beetles. After hundreds of thousands of years of erosion, the beetles had already dried up, looking like withered eyes.
Countless black eyes stared at Li Yao without blinking, as if they were scanning Li Yao's soul cautiously.
Hum!
Not long after, a soft sound came from the depths of the door. It split into six pieces and slowly shrank into the surrounding rock walls.
Li Yao, together with Xiaoming and Wenwen's clones, stepped into the hub at the bottom level of the Crystal Pyramid.
This place was enshrouded in the deepest darkness. Even though Li Yao was in the Divinity Transformation Stage, he could not see anything. It was not until something sensed his breath and brainwaves in the corners that gloomy phosphorescence was ignited.
The phosphorescence emitted orange brilliance and flowed everywhere like liquid, allowing Li Yao to vaguely see everything around him. A lot of black beetles the size of a thumb were hugging and entangling each other. They looked like ferocious beasts that could only be seen in nightmares.
Naturally, they had been dead for hundreds of thousands of years, but there were still complicated runes on their broken shells that were identical to the runes carved on the wall of the Gold Crystal Pyramid.
Those black beetles were the Houyi Clan, one of the thirteen strongest carbon-based intelligent species in the primeval era and the builder of the Gold Crystal Pyramid.
Li Yao had come here, hoping to be enlightened by the Houyi Clan so that he could brand the runes on their shells into his soul and become the master of the Gold Crystal Pyramid.
In the meantime, according to Wuying Qi 3.0, the Divinity Branching Stage was entirely different from the Divinity Transformation Stage. In the Divinity Branching Stage, one's soul had to be divided into dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of parts, so that one could be transformed from an individual into a collection of countless individuals.
As individual lives, it was hard for human beings to understand the feeling of "one person is an entire group". Even if their pure strength or wisdom were dozens of times higher, they could only patrol outside of the Spiritual Mountain without finding the entrance to the Spiritual Mountain.
At such a moment, it would be a great opportunity if they could be enlightened by the collective consciousness. It was possible that they would be enlightened by a new meaning of life.
Unfortunately, most carbon-based intelligent life forms were individual civilizations. Very few bee colonies, insect colonies, and ant colonies could evolve to the point of producing civilizations.
In the Pangu alliance, it seemed that only the Houyi Clan and the Gonggong Clan had the features of a bee civilization when they were born.
The Houyi Clan was made of countless beetles that could absorb solar energy, while the Gonggong Clan was a life form that was similar to jellyfish. When the jellyfish intertwined with each other, they could even connect all the water on the planet and share all the information in the water.
Because of the limitations of the bee civilization, they could barely leave clear legacies and complete remains.
The reason was simple. When a Pangu or a Nuwa Clan member trained themselves to the highest level, the rare elements would seep into their bones and strengthen their cells. Their bodies could be preserved for hundreds of thousands of years. Even if they turned into fossils, they would still be of great research value.
The experts of the Houyi Clan were made of thousands of beetles. After the experts died, the beetles collapsed too. It was impossible to tell that they used to be an advanced life form that had great wisdom.
It was needless to mention the Gonggong Clan. After they died, their bodies were dissolved in the ocean and turned into the most fundamental elements to nurture everything.
Therefore, the experts of modern human beings could barely be enlightened by the bee civilization, and few of them could appreciate the incredible "Divinity Branching Stage"!
Li Yao was quite lucky. The Gold Crystal Pyramid was almost a sacred object of the Houyi Clan. Deep inside the Gold Crystal Pyramid, the remains of the Houyi Clan that protected it were indeed left.
The nesting and connecting structure of the remains was mostly intact and did not collapse into the tiniest beetles. Therefore, Li Yao could clearly see the connection between the different runes on different shells. Based on the mysterious connections between the runes, he could infer the logic of how the Houyi Clan activated spiritual energy.
Those members of the Houyi Clan had been dead for hundreds of thousands of years and could not provide living matter for Li Yao.
However, human beings were the children of the primeval civilizations in the first place, and a lot of genetic fragments of the Houyi Clan were embedded in their genetic strands. As long as Li Yao could read the runes on the remains of the Houyi Clan, together with the legacies that Wuying Qi 3.0 left for him, his soul would be able to sneak into the deepest part of his cells and find the genetic fragments that were related to the Houyi Clan. Then, he would unlock the genetic information that had been sealed for hundreds of thousands of years and reach a new level!
Li Yao spent an entire hour memorizing the runes on the shells of the remains of the Houyi Clan and the connections between the runes.
Xiaoming and Wenwen helped him with the deduction, too, with dozens of super crystal processors assisting his training.
Then, Li Yao sat cross-legged at the center of the secret chamber and retrieved tremendous high-purity crystals and marrow crystals from his Cosmos Rings. He had almost emptied his inventory for the seclusion.
Li Yao still remembered that he had learned the secret arts to sneak his soul into the body, crawl into the cells, and activate the primeval memories through the mitochondria and the cell nucleus in the Blood Demon Sector more than a hundred years ago.
It was the same this time, except that he would go further. Maybe he would find the memories that belonged to the Houyi Clan before human beings were born more than a million years ago.
"Dad, are you sure you want to do this?"
Xiaoming's and Wenwen's voices echoed in the dark chamber anxiously. "We believe that you can activate the gene segments and retrieve the primeval memories. But you must be careful. If your soul dives too deep, chances are that you will mistake the memories for reality, and you will never be able to come back!"
"Grandpa Zhuang dreams of butterflies. Don't worry, I understand."
Li Yao smiled and took the last breath of dirty air. He cleared all the distracting thoughts in his brain and expanded his vitality field to slightly leave his body, attracting all the crystals and marrow crystals to float in midair and revolve around him.
The runes that he had memorized and Wuying Qi 3.0's legacy were like two unstoppable rivers that collided and congregated deep inside his soul, raising surging tides that shattered the real world around as well as the crystals and marrow crystals.
The crystals and the marrow crystals turned into powder without a sound, and the purest spiritual energy contained in them flowed into Li Yao's body through his eyes, ears, and pores as "fuel", pushing his soul to crawl into the deepest part of his cells and search every gene strand for the gene fragments of the Houyi Clan.
In a trance, Li Yao's soul entered the microscopic world, and he could no longer sense the macroscopic world around him. His body had turned into a grand universe, and his every cell was like a planet on which countless tombstones were standing. On a closer look, the tombstones were made of dense books, and every book was a gift from the primeval ancestors. …
In the amazing journey of the microscopic soul, time and space had lost their significance. Li Yao did not know how long he searched in the billions of books on the billions of tombstones on the billions of planets. Suddenly, he sensed that some of the books had subtle reverberations with the runes of the Houyi Clan that he had just memorized.
Boom!
The books, the tombstones, and the planets suddenly exploded, and countless black beetles swarmed out like a black tide, enshrouding the whole world and Li Yao's soul.
For some reason, Li Yao was neither surprised nor scared. Instead, he felt the warmth of returning to his mother's body.
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