The place where the black monument should've been was empty, but a lot of … black gaps were floating, or rather, 'frozen' in the air.
Li Yao did not know how to describe such things. They were like raging, intertwined roots that had been dug out, burned into carbon powder, and solidified into the weirdest, most twisted form. They were also like the works of a crazy artist who had been inspired by a nightmare and placed on the burnt corpses.
Hundreds of black gaps, which were three-dimensional and real, were not affected by gravity at all. Ripples that looked like spider webs were released to the surroundings, as if they were directly 'embedded' in the air.
The smallest gap was about three to five meters long. A couple of ripples and almost ten tentacles were released to the surroundings.
The largest gap had dozens of roots, and the maximum length and width were more than a hundred meters.
"Are they … wormholes?"
Li Yao found it hard to believe.
When he performed a space jump, he had seen or scanned wormholes with magical equipment more than once. The so-called 'wormholes' were not really round holes. Most of the wormholes were in the form of extremely twisted cracks, which were very similar to the black gaps in front of his eyes.
However, a wormhole was a gap between the three-dimensional universe and the four-dimensional space. It should not have a real entity at all. It should not even be visible to the naked eye and could only be detected by telepathic thoughts and spiritual waves. How could it be that they could be seen and touched?
Li Yao even felt that the 'frozen wormholes' were like the marks of certain bizarre-shaped alien species that had been burnt into burnt corpses by the flames of hell.
Li Yao swallowed hard. Manipulating the muscle groups that he had trained countless times, he turned on the magical equipment mechanically and carried out the scanning and exploration procedures.
Yes, it was not a 3D illusion in front of his eyes. It was indeed a certain material that was neither gold nor stone but extremely hard that was embedded in midair. Also, from the depths of the material, intense radiation was being released incessantly, which could promote the extreme division, mutation, and failure of cells.
The 'Light of Life' was released from the inside of the black gaps.
The cluster of black gaps was about five thousand meters in diameter. Li Yao circled around the cluster of black gaps and discovered more traces of human exploration squads. Magical equipment, Crystal Suit, compression tanks of strengthening drugs and high-energy nutrition drugs that had been used, medical gels stained with blood, broken bullet shells, and so on.
Also, judging from the distribution of the traces, they were gradually shrinking toward the center and eventually disappeared below the black gaps.
"What's the meaning of this?"
Looking at the black gaps that were floating in midair and twisting nonstop, Li Yao mumbled to himself, "Is it possible that Ding Ling Dong, Long Yangjun, and Li Linghai finally reached the black monument after taking care of the wild Pangu who went on a rampage, only to discover that the monument, the monument, had 'split', and then they crawled into it?"
Li Yao was not sure whether or not the black gaps drifting in the air were the broken pieces of the black monument, or whether or not they were the real entrance to the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum and the correct way to open it.
After scanning repeatedly and confirming that there was no other fatal radiation except for the 'Light of Life', Li Yao held his breath and tied up the tiniest black gap with his telepathic thoughts, trying to move it with the technique of 'Remote Manipulation'.
After he advanced into the Divinity Branching Stage, Li Yao's vitality field was unprecedentedly powerful. He could even interfere with and make use of the magnetic field of a planet and, to some extent, transform the gravity of the planet into his own.
When his technique of 'Remote Manipulation' was activated to the maximum, he could move objects more than five hundred tons. Even Colossi and even starships could be lifted and pushed easily.
However, no matter how he pushed and pulled, the black gaps were simply nailed to the void and did not move at all.
Li Yao changed three black gaps and exerted all his strength, only to fail to move them at all.
"That's — that's impossible!"
Li Yao breathed heavily and sweated hard. He bulged his eyes and observed the black gaps, not knowing how they were fixed in the air. They were almost like the marks of the three-dimensional universe.
"Shua!"
Li Yao unsheathed his chainsword and raised it high with both hands. The aura of the sword soared into the sky and turned into a dark red dragon more than ten meters long.
Li Yao couldn't have looked more solemn. It had been a long time since he focused all his attention, willpower, and strength into a sword aura and waved it so carefully.
Hiu!
By the time the noise echoed, the dark red dragon had already turned into a streak of redness and slashed at one of the black gaps brutally.
It was a flawless attack. Even if 'Sword Maniac' Yan Liren were here in person, he would not be better than Li Yao in terms of speed, strength, and rhythm. Whatever was standing in the way of the attack — the Crystal Suit, the Colossus, the starships, or even the space fortresses — Li Yao was confident that he could cut them in half.
However …
Clang!
A crisp sound of something breaking echoed, but it was not from the black gaps but from Li Yao's chainsword. The moment the aura of the sword and the black gaps collided, a 'blade of space' seemed to have dashed out of the black gaps and shattered the chainsword easily.
Because Li Yao had poured too much spiritual energy into the attack, the broken chainsword did not stop reacting. Instead, it continued to break into hundreds of pieces and exploded like a shower of flowers.
Li Yao breathed heavily while maintaining the posture of drawing the sword. He was dazed for a long time before he raised the broken sword in front of his eyes and observed it.
The chainsword that was qualified to be used by him was, of course, an unparalleled weapon that was made of the most advanced technologies of the Federation, the Imperium, and the Holy League and made of the most solid super alloys. It would not have been broken even if dozens of Crystal Suits were cut into pieces in a row.
However, such an unparalleled weapon had been shattered by the black gaps the first time it was unsheathed.
As for the black gaps …
There wasn't even a millimeter of crack in it.
Li Yao's eyelids were cramping nonstop. His pupils constricted into two glittering needle tips.
Without saying anything, he retreated hundreds of meters and took a deep breath. All the protective covers of the remote magical equipment on the Crystal Suit were opened one after another. Hundreds of deadly rays interweaved and bombarded a cluster of black gaps like a storm. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! The cluster of black gaps was immediately enshrouded in fire, blast, and overwhelming dust. A giant fireball hundreds of meters in diameter slowly rose up, triggering squeaking noises from the vines and fungi nearby. In the middle of Li Yao's most terrifying attack, the extreme temperature in the deepest part of the fireball was close to the burning of a star!
However, when the fireball perished and the smoke dispersed, all the black gaps were still motionless. There was not the slightest trace of being burnt.
The creations of such a primeval super civilization were telling the greatness of themselves and the ignorance of the latecomers in such a subtle way.
"Damn it. They are invulnerable!"
Li Yao spat. After his fury and frustration, he calmed down quickly. Sitting cross-legged, he tilted his head and thought hard.
He realized that he had made a mistake.
The black gaps could not have been cracked by violence.
In terms of violence, perhaps Ding Ling Dong was on par with him, but Li Linghai and the specialists and scholars in the exploration team were definitely not better than him.
However, those people had all crawled in successfully, which suggested that the black gaps were in a certain … "open" state.
"Right. I've been making a mistake, which is that I thought that we had the key to the real entrance of the ancient tomb. I have half of it, and Li Linghai has the other half.
"But the two 'half' keys were supposed to be combined in the first place. If they were the key to the real entrance, Blackstar the Great would've opened it eight hundred years ago. There was no reason why Wuying Qi's remaining soul couldn't find what Li Linghai and my foster father found.
"At that time, Wuying Qi's explanation was that his remaining soul was too weak, and he did not dare to take risks because of the dangers deep inside the ancient tomb. However, Wuying Qi did not look like a rational and patient man at all.
"But is it possible that the key is not used to open the 'black monument' at all but for other purposes?
"The real entrance of the ancient tomb, whether in the form of a 'black monument' or a 'black gap', cannot be entered with a key but with other mysteries.
"Wait. What did I say just now? Drill?"
Li Yao stared at the black gaps.
The black gaps stared at him too.
Li Yao's soul was deeply attracted by the bizarre-shaped, waving black gaps. The drumming from his heart and the whispers from his eardrums echoed again as if they were summoned from the depths of his head.
He suddenly had a very weird feeling. It was not an exploration but a return home.
Deep inside the black gaps was his hometown and the starting point of all human beings in the Pangu universe.
Li Yao's eyes locked onto a cluster of black gaps that were more than ten meters long and two to three meters wide. There was no reason except that his intuition told him that.
"This is mine."
Li Yao walked to the bottom of the black gaps and pressed them softly, exerting pressure evenly. He was not pushing the black gaps but trying to squeeze himself into them.
At first, the black gaps did not move at all.
Such a material that even the hardest alloys and the most violent spiritual energy reactions could not hurt at all was certainly not something that Li Yao could open with his bare hands.
However —
When Li Yao's pushing force reached the maximum and every cell in his body was activated, the previously hard material turned soft and sticky like high-density glue. First, it was his fingers, then his hands, and then his arms. Li Yao's entire body was squeezed into the black gaps by brute force!
It was quite a weird feeling to watch his arms disappear as if they were swallowed by the black gaps.
It was like the 'wall-passing' technique in the ancient legends, where one solid body penetrated another solid body directly.
Speaking of which, even the hardest superalloys were empty on the microscopic level except for the tiny nuclei and electrons.
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