Li Yao could not free himself from the vast, ancient, and sacred picture. It was not until a long time later that he finally shuddered hard and woke up.
If he wanted to feel sorry for himself, he might as well wait until he was home. He had to make sure that his companions were safe and sound first.
"Crack! Crack! Crack!"
"Sun Calamity", the ragged Colossus that had been through multiple battles, straightened its back in the ocean of bubbles. It fell on one of its knees at first, before it stood up carefully and warmed up its wrists and ankles, performing a self-examination by bouncing its fingers.
"My left hand and my right hand, are you all right?"
Li Yao stretched out the iron arms of "Sun Calamity" and opened his palms, shaking them softly.
"… We're fine."
The mental devil and Lu Qingchen did not reply until a long time later, as if they did not like the appellation of "my left hand and my right hand".
"It's good that you're fine."
Li Yao took a long breath in relief and looked around. Very soon, he discovered a lot of shadows of iron devils in the ocean of bubbles. They were exactly the Colossi that Ding Ling Dong and the rest of them were using.
Thankfully, although Ding Ling Dong's Colossi seemed to be riddled with holes and missing limbs, the breastplate and the main structure of the spiritual residence were not damaged. The users inside should be safe and sound. Just like Li Yao, they were slowly waking up and climbing to their feet.
The tactical network among the Colossi of Li Yao and Ding Ling Dong was also being automatically searched and established. More and more performance parameters and battle data of the Colossi had been linked to the mainframe crystal processor of "Sun Calamity", allowing Li Yao to grasp the situation of his companions further. After such an unbelievable adventure, it was almost a miracle that most of the members of the exploration squad of human beings were unharmed.
Other than that, what surprised Li Yao most was that a lot of Pangu, Nuwa, and other primeval species had survived.
They did not perish in the ocean of bubbles but merely fell into a coma. As the Colossi of human beings uttered deafening noises, they slowly woke up too, with wariness, fear, and fury on their faces. However, their bodies were so weak that most of them could not even get to their feet, much less attack human beings.
Li Yao noticed that the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan mostly had a very special emblem on their suits and uniforms, which was similar to the emblem on the Flawless Heavenly Suit of the Moon Gazers. It was the symbol of the Divine Palace.
It seemed that these survivors were all from the Immortal Palace. They were the guards who had fought against the beast tide around the Tower of Babel earlier.
Li Yao estimated that as the human testers succeeded, the depths of the Tower of Babel had indeed released destructive rays of death, which destroyed or "restored" all the deformed monsters whose genes were highly mutated and whose gene chains were extremely unstable. Therefore, most of the ferocious beasts turned into a sea of bubbles.
However, the people in Celestial Palace were isolated from the world and were not affected by the monster virus. The genes in their bodies were still rather stable. Right now, they were just exhausted and could not fight anymore. Their lives were not in danger.
"Moon Gazers! Moon Gazers!"
With his keen eyes, Li Yao soon found the little girl of the Nuwa Clan who had fallen into the same ice gap as him. She was the little friend of the legendary "Supreme Emperor" of human beings.
The Moon Gazers were the only people of the Nuwa Clan who could communicate with Li Yao. They were the bridge between the civilization of mankind and the Pangu civilization.
After learning the truth of the destruction of the civilization on Earth and the cause and effect of the rise, prosperity, and decline of the primeval civilization, Li Yao had lost interest in the competition between the civilization of mankind and the Pangu civilization.
Since they were 'father and son', they could also be considered as blood brothers who had been pioneers for a hundred generations. It was the destruction of the prehistoric civilization that gave birth and growth to them. Was there any reason to fight to the death?
"Li … Yao?"
Waving her long snake tail, the Moon Gazer crawled through the ruins carefully and bypassed the enormous, hideous bones of the ferocious beasts. She stopped in front of Li Yao and looked at him in surprise. The brainwaves that were transmitted over did not disguise the shock and disbelief at all. She stammered, "You — you've succeeded?"
"Sort of."
Li Yao thought for a moment and opened his hands, indicating that he meant no harm. "Moon Gazers, can you explain to your people that there is really no need for us to fight and destroy each other? We have solved the 'ultimate test', and we have received a lot of precious legacies, heritages, and lessons, but we are not going to swallow everything in the Supreme Tower alone. I believe that with the help of the specialists and scholars of the primeval era, we will be able to digest and absorb the legacies faster and better.
"Times have changed. Hundreds of thousands of years have passed since the prosperous primeval era of the Pangu civilization. Right now, it is the world of human beings outside. You are probably the last few people of your race left. I really cannot bear to see a once glorious and great civilization being completely annihilated and reduced to the 101st body in the primeval relics.
"If we cooperate, the bloodline of the prehistorical era can be passed on. One day, you may be able to find more dormant members of your kind and their life seeds in more prehistorical relics, so that your kind can be revived and rise again.
"If we fight against them, it will be impossible for you to defeat the countless human beings in the hundreds of Sectors. Also, the Flood is coming. It will be meaningless for the intelligent lives in the Pangu universe to kill each other and suffer great losses!
"Please. I'm really tired of fighting and killing. I really don't want to fight with you. Can you please tell everyone my intention?"
Li Yao looked at the Moon Gazers expectantly.
There was no telling if the Moon Gazers heard Li Yao's words.
She stared at the "blossoming" Tower of Babel behind Li Yao in a daze for a long time before she finally closed her mouth with difficulty. She looked at Li Yao thoughtfully again before she turned around and slithered toward her compatriots.
The Moon Gazers and the survivors of the Divine Palace communicated closely in their own way.
Li Yao could sense that, on a level invisible to ordinary people, the people in the Divine Palace were releasing colorful streams of information that crashed into each other brutally like surging torrents, creating a bottomless swirl.
It was not easy for the people of the Divine Palace who had been sealed for hundreds of thousands of years to accept the fact that the primeval civilization had been annihilated and that the civilization of human beings had become the dominator of the Pangu universe.
However, the people of the Divine Palace subconsciously believed that Li Yao had passed the ultimate test because they were deeply shocked by the anomaly of the Tower of Babel. Therefore, they looked at him in awe and respect.
On the other hand, the people of the Divine Palace had exhausted the last bit of their strength in the battle against the tide of ferocious beasts. It was impossible for them to fight again even if they wanted to.
Besides, they were not bloodthirsty warriors but experts and scholars who explored the unknown and sought the truth. They had long known that the so-called "human beings" were 100% genetic duplicates of the primeval beings in the past. Not only were they not puppets that they made, but they were also their ancestors.
Therefore, Li Yao's suggestion and request were not turned down immediately.
Looking at the vigorous Tower of Babel, the survivors of the Divine Palace were deep in thought.
Very soon, Ding Ling Dong, Long Yangjun, Li Jialing, Boss Bai, and the other human experts packed up their magical equipment and gathered around Li Yao.
Led by Li Linghai, many experts slowly drew the sabers on the waist of their Colossi.
"Calm down. You must calm down, everybody."
Li Yao pleaded in the communication channel, "Too much blood has flowed in the Pangu universe in the past billions of years. I really cannot bear to see a drop of unnecessary blood flowing out. Can't we give peace a chance and live in peace with the Pangu civilization?"
"You misunderstood us."
Li Linghai said, "We did not intend to annihilate the Pangu civilization in the first place. After all, they have been working in the primeval relics for a thousand years. Who knows if they will activate certain lethal weapons that will perish together with them when they are about to be killed?"
"That's good."
Li Yao asked curiously, "Then, why did you draw your sabers?"
"What do you think?"
Li Linghai said, "To cut you, of course!"
Li Yao: "… Huh?"
The last survivors of the primeval civilizations chose to put down their weapons after all.
They might not have been scared of death, but Li Yao's declaration that they would find the life seeds of more compatriots one day so that their civilization could continue had deeply moved them.
What's more, they and their ancestors had abandoned their homeland and lived in seclusion. They had painstakingly explored this place for thousands of years in order to unravel the mysteries of the "Tower of Babel". Now, with great difficulty, an astonishing change had occurred in the Tower of Babel, and the ancient secrets were about to appear in front of their eyes. Just for this point alone, there was no reason to give up and seek their own deaths.
Of course, the civilization of mankind and the Pangu civilization would not accept each other so easily. It was like the reconciliation and cooperation between human beings and demons in the Xing Yao Federation in the past. A contract was only an insignificant starting point. How they would get along with each other, whether or not they would run into new problems, whether or not the Pangu civilization would surrender completely, or whether or not Li Yao was nurturing a tiger for himself again … Everything was still unknown.
However, for the people who were involved in the mysteries of the primeval times, they more or less had the same feelings as Li Yao.
They had shed too much blood and caused too much destruction and slaughter. Even the most combative Immortal Cultivators were somewhat tired of it.
No matter what the future would be, at least let them put down their weapons and enjoy a moment of peace right now!
"Excellent."
Seeing that both parties had regained their rationality and were no longer at loggerheads, Li Yao took a long breath in relief and smiled from the bottom of his heart. "Although it was full of hair-raising twists and turns, we have finally passed the hurdle without any danger. We have won the recognition of the primeval civilizations, unlocked the brand-new form of the primeval relics, and received the enormous heritage of a hundred pioneer civilizations without even experiencing an earth-shattering battle with heavy casualties. This operation is truly a rewarding one!"
"Shut up!"
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