As early as when he left the forest, Hao Ren already had doubts about the "illusion" he had experienced.
So far, all the illusions he had experienced had a carrier. It was either the Gilded Disc, the palace of the goddess of creation, or simply the divine blood of the goddess. So where did the distorted and hazy starry sky come from?
Hao Ren easily thought of the divine scepter because it was the last thing he had come into contact with before he fell into the illusion.
And now, Raven 12345 had used her divine power to dispel the camouflage of the core of the scepter, revealing the essence of the cosmic fragment. Hao Ren was almost certain that the starry sky he saw was something in the fragment: a torn universe.
Raven 12345 held the fragment in her hand and tried to use some of her power to probe into it. She was very cautious because she could feel that this thing was quite unstable: as a torn universe, it was rapidly "self-evaporating", and its incomplete information structure was collapsing due to the lack of self-consistency in this real world. After a few attempts, she retracted her power. "There is indeed something left in the fragment, but my power can't penetrate it. This damn thing is part of the Plane of Dreams. Just like I can't interfere with the Plane of Dreams, I can't interfere with this thing either. Its rejection of foreign divine power is too strong."
Hao Ren was not surprised. He just nodded. "But I think my guess is still right."
"Well, it's more effective to trust your intuition at times like this." Raven 12345 returned the fragment to Hao Ren. "You'd better keep this thing with you. You have some strange abilities, which can allow you to resonate with the products of the Plane of Dreams. If there's anyone who has a chance to unlock the secret of this thing, it's probably you."
Hao Ren took the fragment, but his eyes fell on the Godslayer not far away. "If there is still a physical structure of the universe left in the fragment, then this sword … could it also have something in it?"
The Godslayer was bored as it spun in circles. When it heard this, it suddenly shivered. "You want to poke me open? This sword doesn't like to poke people, but I also don't like to be poked. Let me tell you … "
"Shut up. Who said I'm going to cut you up?" Hao Ren glanced at the Godslayer. "Just keep spinning and don't make a sound."
"Oh."
"I have left the sample information of the cosmic fragment," Raven 12345 said. "When I go back, I will hand over the information to the higher-ups' data center and let the guys over there help analyze it. Maybe they will find a way to send you back in. Before that, keep the Godslaying Sword and this fragment with you. They have been purified and will not cause any harm in the future. "
"Oh," Hao Ren nodded and carefully put the two items away again.
After that, he left the place with Vivian.
For the next few days, everything seemed to be peaceful.
The summer had come to an end, and the hot weather that lasted for nearly two months had finally cooled down. Yesterday was another good autumn rain, and the air was especially fresh after the rain. Hao Ren sat in his favorite chair in the living room by the window, looking out the window.
From here, he could see the empty space behind the house. The empty space had now become the territory of the little demon Y 'lisabet. The little demon girl had piled up the old appliances she had collected from the surrounding villages. She had also dragged her father to build a colorful steel shed on the empty space to protect her treasures. Now, she was fiddling with her collection, checking to see if yesterday's rain had poured into the shed. Rollie was running around behind her, just like when she was still a cat: jumping around in all kinds of uneven places. It looked very thrilling, but she was having fun.
Y 'zaks stood not far away with his arms crossed, looking helplessly at his precious daughter. The "Demon Princess Ascension Training Plan" that he had designed for the little girl had been completely ruined. At present, it seemed that there was no hope of training the little girl into a qualified demon queen within three hundred years. The old demon had been reflecting on his education recently, but with the degree of his daughter control, it was estimated that even if he reflected on it for another two centuries, he would only be able to accompany his daughter to collect garbage on the streets.
Hao Ren looked away from the window and back at the scroll in his hand.
This was the second scroll. The first scroll had been analyzed and recorded. From today on, he would deal with the second scroll.
Raven 12345 threw this hot potato to him, but she did not completely let him handle it. The unreliable goddess gave Hao Ren some auxiliary tools and taught him how to read these things more safely. There were three main tips: Don't read too much at once; Don't think about anything about the Mad Lord while reading the scroll; Recite the name of Raven 12345 before reading the scroll.
Hao Ren translated it, which was: Don't read it all in one go, don't use your brain when reading, and don't imagine your female boss before reading.
The third tip felt weird …
Hao Ren shook his head, took out a crystal from his pocket and put it on the table. After the soft light of the crystal spread, he began to read the rest of the scroll.
"… The war reshaped the order of the universe, and the foreign god gained supreme authority. He sealed the Mad Lord in the darkest depths of the universe and set up heavy prisons to suppress it. The tyrant's howl in the cage shook the stars, but it could not escape: because the stars had fallen silent, there was no way to escape. After the war, the god felt sad about the chaos of the universe and decided to completely change the rules of the stars …
"He visited the ancestors among the stars. The ancestors were a race born from the earliest order of the universe. They were once ruled and enslaved by the Mad Lord, but now they had gained freedom. These ancient creatures came out of the sanctuary and called the foreign god the 'pioneer'. They decided to follow the new god to build an orderly world … After hundreds of centuries, the universe entered the Pastoral Age of Order …"
Hao Ren put the scroll down and knocked on the MDT. The MDT immediately projected the interface of the notebook, which showed lines of notes. Hao Ren wrote a new line at the end of the notebook: The ancestors among the stars = the denizens of the stars?
He glanced at the crystal on the table. The crystal was still emitting a constant light, but there were visible fluctuations on the edge of the light. Maybe he could read a little bit, he thought.
"… Order sprouted among the stars, the ancestors and the new god formed a strong alliance. They began to clean up the scars left by the Mad Lord, and at the same time, the Mad Lord was constantly attacking its own prison. The tyrant was not willing to be trapped, and its power spread out from the darkness, so the stars were extinguished, the matter was torn apart, and the core of the universe was gradually covered with cracks …
"… The new god noticed this change in time, so he strengthened the prison. The new prison was a more empty and silent space, with ninety-nine layers of barriers, and a powerful divine wall every thirty-three layers. At the deepest layer of the divine wall, the Mad Lord was imprisoned. The ancestors selected the most tenacious people and volunteered to be the eternal jailors of this prison. The jailors were one with the stars, watching the eternal prison in the darkness … After all this, the new god saw that the world was operating normally, so he rested in the palace and handed over the power to his children … "
The light around him suddenly dimmed. Hao Ren suddenly looked up and saw the crystal on the table was flashing, and the light released by the crystal had shrunk to less than half a meter around the table.
This crystal was given to him by Raven 12345, and its function was to constantly purify the power of distortion released during the reading process and to provide an early warning. When the crystal began to flash, it meant that the power of distortion released by the scroll had reached a dangerous threshold. At this threshold, the crystal could still purify it, but Hao Ren had learned too much taboo knowledge at once, and this was the time to stop.
So he closed the scroll, stretched his body, and threw it back into the safe box and kept it in his Dimensional Pocket.
Although he was quite curious about the second half of the scroll, he knew what he was doing. As a demigod, the power of temptation released by the scroll could not work on him, and he could easily resist the desire to continue reading.
After a short rest, he woke up the MDT again. The MDT had recorded the latest analysis of the scroll, and there were a few lines of annotations automatically added by the system on the notepad. He added a sentence at the end of the record:
The alliance of the goddess of creation and the denizens of the stars had never appeared in the records of the guardian giants.
Finally, he thought for a moment and added:
Were the guardian giants and the First Borns really the first creatures created by the goddess of creation?
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