The Supreme Emperor's voice was filled with infinite sorrow.
Li Yao had a lot of mixed feelings, too.
The more powerful a civilization was, the more arrogant they were, and the more they had a tendency to destroy themselves. Perhaps, the hundreds of ancient civilizations before the Pangu civilization were not destroyed by the Primordial Ruins, but by their own ambitions, which were provoked by the Primordial Ruins.
Li Yao sighed softly. He focused and continued listening.
"My only friend told me that the ones who attacked the Primordial Ruins were mostly the most elite warriors and the cruelest killing machines of the Pangu civilization. Furthermore, they were controlled by a mysterious power, which allowed them to transform into ferocious beasts filled with primitive wildness. The people in the Primordial Ruins were mostly non-combatants, experts, scholars, and researchers who were powerless. Even though they had cracked a large number of ancient civilizations' combat techniques and repaired some war machines, they had never thought of using them to deal with their own kind."
The tomb keeper said, "Therefore, the attackers were unstoppable, while the defenders were forced to retreat in defeat. If it weren't for the fact that the spatial rift into the City of Silver was too narrow, preventing the attackers from fully deploying their forces in one go, the City of Silver would have fallen long ago. Even with the spatial rift as a hindrance, the City of Silver would not have been able to hold on for more than half a month.
"In order to unlock the mysteries of the Primordial Ruins, the researchers had long sealed away 90% of their emotions. They had no fear of impending death, but they had yet to completely find the answer. They had also vaguely sensed the danger hidden deep within the Primordial Ruins. If the people outside were allowed to do as they pleased and angered a certain power deep within the Primordial Ruins, the Pangu civilization would very likely follow in the footsteps of their predecessors and be annihilated instantly, reduced to nothingness.
"Therefore, the leader of the researchers decided to activate the 'Ultimate Weapon.'
"It was a piece of magical equipment excavated from the depths of the Primordial Ruins that was at least billions of years old. It was connected to the core that controlled the entire Primordial Ruins. The specialists of the Pangu civilization studied it for a hundred years before they figured out its usage. It seemed to be able to modify the curvature radius of the arc of time within a small range.
"I don't know what the 'curvature radius of the arc of time' is, either, but according to my friend, the time in the Primordial Ruins would be temporarily frozen like an invisible amber. Everybody — including the ruthless researchers, the crazy attackers, the relics and corpses of the hundreds of Primordial Civilizations, the captives of the Flood Tide Army and the brand-new life forms that were replicated with the genes of the captives, and so on — would be sealed. It was an advanced hibernation that was more advanced, safer, and longer than regular hibernation.
"Although that was theoretically the case, it was the magical equipment of the creator of the black wall after all. The leader of the researchers was not confident that it would still be as effective after it fell into the hands of the Pangu civilization, instead of obliterating everybody instantly or sealing everybody in the river of time forever as impenetrable pebbles that would sink into the mud at the bottom of the river.
"Therefore, it was very likely that this would be our farewell forever.
"My friend said that she once heard her father and her colleagues talking about 'curvature of time'. According to her speculation, I was deeply connected to the creator of the black wall in the first place, and I was naturally resistant to 'time freezing'. Also, I was about to hibernate in the first place, and my physiological functions were slowly decaying and converging. Therefore, I would be less affected by 'time freezing'. If the 'curvature radius of the arc of time' gradually returned to normal one day, and the frozen river of time began to flow again, it was very likely that I would be the first person to wake up.
"She injected certain special nutrients into my hibernation potion to ensure that I could continue to absorb nutrients and grow and blossom during hibernation. Then, she tapped my crystal tower softly with her tail, hoping that if I broke out of my cocoon one day, I would take a look at the outside world in her place and see her real hometown, the civilization that she, her father, and all the researchers tried their best to save at any cost, even at the cost of their lives.
"This was her only wish, and it was also the last time I saw my … friend.
"She retracted her tail and left without looking back. Not long after, I sensed invisible ripples in the space around me — no, in 'time'. The ripples turned into waves, and the waves turned into vortexes. At first, the vortexes revolved very fast, so fast that they were dazzling. However, as countless vortexes collided and merged, turning from a hundred small vortexes into a huge vortex, their speed gradually slowed down. In the end, they almost came to a standstill.
"Time in the primordial ruins was frozen, and I fell into a long hibernation. The muddle-headed, unpredictable darkness."
In front of Li Yao's eyes, the time in the picture gradually became blurry, as if the entire primordial ruins had been injected with a layer of sticky, soft, and transparent jelly. The golden ball of flesh stopped fluctuating and even shrank slightly, like a light gold cell embedded in amber.
"I don't know how long I slept in the endless darkness," the gravekeeper continued.
"I only know that I did not really 'die'. Occasionally, a ripple would appear in my mind that was almost frozen. Broken, colorful pieces were flashing in the ripple. There were pictures of the civilization of mankind walking on the stars and dominating the universe billions of years ago, as well as the time when I exchanged information with my friends when we were alone. I tried my best to remember everything, as if it was those things that made up my real 'self'.
"However, the erosion of time is something that no force can resist after all. In the freezing and solidification that lasted hundreds of thousands of years, my fetus did not receive enough nutrients and slowly withered and shriveled. The techniques that I used to be able to perform easily disappeared one after another. My senses and thinking in the past became sluggish and full of mistakes. I even lost the memories that were extremely clear and forgot who I was exactly. I forgot the origins of the primeval laboratory and the primordial ruins. I even forgot the name 'Blackwall Maker'.
"If I have to describe it with a word, it's like … I was in the state of '50% awakening' at the beginning, but after hundreds of thousands of years of consumption and erosion, I was only left with '10% awakening'. I became a baby again, a real baby in the true sense.
"If such a state continued for hundreds of thousands of years, perhaps I would've really forgotten everything. Even the flashback of the last picture would've been obliterated.
"Fortunately, the frozen time in the primordial ruins gradually began to 'thaw' at that moment.
"The so-called 'time' is something a hundred times more complicated than 'space'. The gods and demons of the multiverse who have mastered peerless techniques might be able to temporarily intercept a single ripple in the mighty river of time, slowing down the flow of the ripple slightly. However, such a method would definitely consume a large amount of energy and destroy the fundamental laws of space-time's stability. Moreover, it would not last long.
"Moreover, the researchers of the Pangu civilization had only scratched the surface of how to change the radius of curvature of the arc of time. They had done everything they could and staked everything on a single throw, but being able to delay the war that was destined to destroy the City of Silver for hundreds of thousands of years was already their limit.
"Just like that, as the curvature of time in certain places gradually returned to normal, as if countless bubbles of time were popping out, I finally broke out of my cocoon and landed on the ground!"
In front of Li Yao's eyes, the space that was filled with "transparent jelly" suddenly had countless crystalline bubbles emerge from nothingness. The bubbles burst and turned into small vortexes, like gears that had been sealed for a long time. They let out sharp screeches and slowly rotated again.
In such a strange scene, the golden ball of flesh split from the middle, and a baby with pale golden skin appeared out of thin air.
The baby's face was filled with innocence and ignorance, as well as the confusion that only belonged to an adult intelligent life form. There was even a hint of melancholy that even he himself did not realize.
He did not cry, nor did he laugh. He only stretched his back and yawned loudly. Pale golden ripples flashed and circulated around his body.
Perhaps the display time had been sped up a hundred times, or perhaps he, who had awakened 10% of his primordial techniques, was born to grow faster than ordinary babies. It did not take long for the baby to grow into a five- or six-year-old child. He used his strength to break through the crystal tower and climbed out.
He curiously explored the world around him. Every instrument and artifact in the laboratory became his toy.
He had so much fun that he completely forgot that he had carefully scanned the world around him when he was an embryo hundreds of thousands of years ago.
He strode forward with his short, fat legs, as if he was moving forward under the pressure of billions of tons of seawater. From the looks of it, time had not completely thawed. Even though he had the bloodline of the Black Wall Creator, it was still somewhat difficult for him to resist the power of time.
Li Yao followed the emperor's perspective and left the laboratory for the first time to see the full view of the City of Silver.
As expected, they were standing on a spherical fortress that surrounded the Skyreach Tower. They looked down at the entire battlefield from above.
The entire City of Silver was silent, like a chessboard that had been sealed in ice. Countless ferocious beasts like the Tyrannosaurus and war machines that were even larger than the Astral Cavalry were frozen in silence. They were like chess pieces that had been sealed for a long time. Even the broken limbs and dripping blood were frozen in midair. They were surrounded by a faint layer of gray fog, making them appear gloomy and unreal.
The pale golden child was the only bright color in this gloomy world.
He walked alone among the countless ferocious beasts and war machines, as if he was the only living creature in the world. The scene was strange and terrifying.
In the beginning, he wanted to shake the frozen giants with all his might in an attempt to wake them up and ask them clearly. However, every time his hand touched the gray fog that surrounded the giants, it was as if he was blocked by a time barrier. He could not reach in no matter what.
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