"May 5, Year 1121 in the Star Ocean Calendar.
"I've spent more than a hundred years alone in the darkness again.
"This time, I'm truly running out of fuel. My fire of life is about to die out.
"Spectral Cultivators are fragile life forms in the first place. They are easily scourged by radiations and spiritual waves and perish instantly.
"Under the protection of the Underground Silver Sea, being able to survive for more than two hundred years is already the limit."
"I'm not scared of death.
"After living alone in the darkness for more than two hundred years, ten thousand meters below the ground of an uninhabited planet, the deepest level of hell is as splendid as a palace for me.
"Every second, I'm on the verge of mental derangement and want to kill myself.
"For several years, I was even very, very jealous of the maintenance puppet.
"Because as long as the rune arrays of the puppet are turned off, it will be in the hibernation state forever.
"But the fire of my soul will only be quiet for a few hours before it starts bouncing again.
"One time, when I was almost mentally deranged, I smashed the maintenance puppet into smithereens.
"Right now, I can only repair Sparkle slowly with the help of the mustard-level maintenance magical equipment. I'm afraid that it will take me ten thousand years to fully repair it.
"Once I'm dead, who will tell the truth to the next batch of explorers and tell them not to open Skeleton Dragon's residence recklessly?
"Is there any way that I can keep my life burning for another ten thousand years like Sparkle?
"May 10, Year 1121 in the Star Ocean Calendar.
"Immortality is a laughable thing that only the foolish and selfish ancient cultivators of 30,000 years ago would pursue."
"The belief of the modern Cultivators is that our short life is burning brilliantly and that we can learn the truth in the morning. We can die peacefully in the evening!
"But right now, I'm starting to pursue the realm of immortality like those ridiculous ancient Cultivators.
"Five days. I've been thinking about how to live longer until just now. Then, I suddenly had an epiphany.
"As a Cultivator, my fire of life is burning too vigorously. With the intensity of my soul, it is impossible for me to keep it burning at 100% for a few more years.
"However, what if it burns at 1%, or even 0.1%? What if it burns slowly?
"My remnant soul is enough to keep it burning for a long time!"
"Anyway, I just want to send out a message. As long as I keep 0.01% of my life force, have a little bit of computing ability, and don't even need thinking ability or self-awareness, I can complete the final mission!"
"Emotions, memories, calculation ability, thinking ability … all of these are unnecessary things. I can completely erase them all and exhaust the flame of life. Compress to the limit! "
"Yes, this is my choice. I want to destroy my own spiritual fire. Erase yourself! "
"Galaxy Calendar, Year 1121, May 20."
"It took me ten days to take care of everything on board. I switched Sparkle into the hibernation mode, leaving only the mustard-level maintainers functioning normally.
"In the next few thousand years, it will automatically absorb the spiritual energy contained in the silver ocean that seeped in from the rocks and transform the rocks into strengthening materials for the repair of the starship. Then, it will slowly repair the starship at the speed of a snail.
"Finally. As the acting captain, I gave an order to the mainframe crystal processor that had just been repaired by 1%. All permissions will be granted to the first human Cultivator who enters Sparkle in the future.
"Right now. I summon my spiritual energy and bombard my own life force. I'm going to erase myself.
"I'm going to erase my memories, thinking ability, and self-awareness completely in case they consume too much of my soul.
"The first thing I'm going to erase is the memories related to training.
"When I was young, I was raised by the experts of the resistance army in the dark, stinky sewers and trained in secret … The first time I slayed a demon … Betrayal and destruction … Escape and counterattack … Everything will be erased!
"The erased memories and telepathic thoughts have been copied and stored in jade chips. If someone finds them in the future, they may be treated as a special gift.
"Galaxy Calendar, Year 1121, May 21.
"After yesterday's erasure, my computational ability has been reduced to seventy percent of its peak state. My thinking speed has slowed down a lot, and my brain is empty. I can't remember anything. It also feels like someone has stuffed a lot of sticky things into my brain. Everything is a mess."
"I almost forgot that I don't have a brain at all.
"Today, I'm going to erase most of my memories, including everything about the Imperium and the army.
"More than two hundred years have passed. Nobody has ever come to explore Boneyard. Maybe the Imperium is truly gone. But it still hurts me to erase the memory of the past and my pride as a human being."
"I was born in the Pan Mountain Sector. Before I was twelve, my hometown was still ruled by demons. The resistance army, who were unwilling to be enslaved, hid here and there in the sewers like rats.
"I didn't see the sun for an entire year.
"It was not until the arrival of the Cultivators in the sea of stars and the liberation of the Pan Mountain Sector that I realized the magnificence of the civilization of mankind and the glory of being a human being for the first time!
"After joining the Imperium, I finally knew that human beings were not rats in the underground world but the soul of all species and the strongest fighting species in the sea of stars! Nothing can stop us from moving forward! "
"Maybe the Star Ocean Imperium has indeed declined, but I believe that the flame of the civilization of mankind will never die out! In a thousand years, or ten thousand years, there will be a second and a third Star Ocean Imperium!
"Let me shout for the last time as a Cultivator and a guardian of the civilization of mankind.
"Long live mankind! Long live the civilization of mankind!
"Year 11211, Month 17, Day 36 of the Star Ocean Calendar.
"The lack of computational ability and thinking ability made me forget a lot of things. It took me an entire day to write down the broken words and revise them hundreds of times. I still feel that something is wrong.
"My memories, self-awareness, and the original have all been deleted. The only thing left is my feelings, which consume a lot of my soul power."
What appeared next was not a message in words. Instead, it was a twisted picture.
In a picturesque maple forest, where golden leaves were sprinkling on the path, there was a short man. A plain-looking officer and a plump woman in a white nurse uniform. They were walking slowly, hand in hand.
The officer was holding a bright blue orange in his hand. He was talking and laughing with the middle-aged woman as they drew closer and closer.
Behind them, there were two cute children, a boy and a girl. Their faces were round, and their hands were full of mud as they played in the forest. It skipped towards the two of them, mumbling something under its breath.
It was a pity that there was only picture and no sound. It was like a pantomime in a dream.
At the bottom of the picture, words appeared again.
"Honey, Xiao Guo, Fatty, I love you … I love you … Oh, I love you … Awww …"
The following words turned into a mess of broken lines, curves, and broken points.
But in the messy graffiti, there were two new words. They became clearer and clearer.
"Trap … Trap … Trap … Trap … Trap … Trap … Trap …"
The diary came to an end.
A lot of information and telepathic thoughts were stored inside the jade chip, including the activation methods of the key units of Sparkle and the activation runes. There was also the officer's summary of his life in the military, his thoughts on gunfighting in the past hundred years, and a lot of notes.
Li Yao, however, did not read any of them.
He was deeply shocked by the diary of this officer, Gao Xingce.
"So, this is why we sensed the weird metal reactions and spiritual waves at the bottom of the ocean. It was because of the signals that Gao Xingce sent out!
"In order to send out signals and leave alarms nonstop for thousands of years, the senior 'Gao Xingce' compressed the fire of his life to the minimum and obliterated his computational ability and thinking ability while he was still alive. He even suppressed all his feelings and turned himself into a 'zombie'. Just to keep the last feeble fire of his life burning longer. To keep it burning longer … "
The ragged puppet crouching in the corner was so thin and small.
But in Li Yao's eyes, he suddenly became like a god descending from the heavens, tall, majestic, and extraordinary!
"The Star Ocean Imperium was indeed the peak of the modern Cultivation civilization. Even an imperial official who did not join the expedition army and stayed in the rear boasted such courage and perseverance. I wonder how impassioned the heroes in the expedition army were!
"They are the role models for all Cultivators!"
Li Yao's heart was pounding. He walked to Gao Xingce's body again and bowed three times respectfully.
He couldn't have admired the senior more.
There was another paragraph in the diary that made him ponder deeply.
Before Gao Xingce obliterated him, he had reconfigured the mainframe crystal processor of Sparkle and opened the control to the next Cultivator who entered Sparkle?
Didn't it mean that he had a chance to control a real warship?
The thought raised thousands of tides in Li Yao's heart. A round drop of sweat was condensed on the tip of his nose.
"Yes. Only by repairing Sparkle and manipulating its giant drill of mystic rays can we break out of the underground!
"Don't forget that it's been almost ten thousand years since Sparkle was stranded here. Skeleton Dragon has been lurking for such a long time. Chances are that he has regained the ability to wreak havoc!
"Of all the times, the demons discovered Boneyard when Skeleton Dragon was most likely to be awakened. Also, both us and the exploration squad of the demon race were safe and sound on our way. We barely encountered any obstacles and found his residence easily!"
"It feels weird that everything went so smoothly!
"Chances are that everything is Skeleton Dragon's scheme. Both us and the demons such as Wang Ji are merely pawns that have been lured here by Skeleton Dragon!
"No. Senior Gao Xingce paid such a great price to give me this piece of information and Sparkle. I have to fulfill his last wish and destroy Skeleton Dragon!"
Li Yao was very clear that the two Sectors closest to Boneyard were the Tian Yuan Realm and the Blood Demon Sector. Besides, many creatures from the Tian Yuan Realm and the Blood Demon Sector were still lingering in the place. In a month, star shuttles from the Tian Yuan Realm would show up, too.
If Skeleton Dragon did break free from the barriers and was in urgent need of recovery, he would certainly choose to go to the Tian Yuan Realm!
The Tian Yuan Realm would become a hell on earth, which would be even more dreadful than the invasion of the Blood Demon Sector!
"Sparkle is our only chance!"
Li Yao took a deep breath. His eyes glittering, he spoke to the ragged puppet crouching in the corner softly.
"Senior Gao Xingce, although I am not a citizen of the Star Ocean Imperium, I am a member of the civilization of mankind, too. The Xing Yao Federation considers itself to be the successor of the Star Ocean Imperium, too.
"Therefore, your glory is my glory. Your destiny is my destiny, too!
"If you are watching from above, fight side by side with me!"
As he spoke, he followed the instructions in the diary and inserted his spirit threads into the chest of the broken puppet. A moment later, he fumbled around and found a cylinder that emitted a faint red light. It was translucent and sparkling like a crystal, but there were a few sparks in the middle of it.
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