Nothing could calm Hao Ren down more than Asurmen's words. "The Ancients are an extension of the Mad Lord?"
"The Ancients … Is that what you call us creatures?" Asurmen's voice sounded ethereal as if it came from a dream. "Yes, in that age of madness and darkness, ordinary creatures could not survive at all. Occasionally, primitive life sprouted on a few planets at the edge of the universe, but they were often destroyed before they could develop. It was an era of disorder. All physical laws and mathematical definitions were vague. Life and death were random. In that case, only life like us could survive longer. We were born on the edge of the dark power of the Mad Lord, and as its power vibrated, we appeared in the chaotic energy sea. So it is not wrong to say that we are an extension of the Mad Lord."
Vivian gently pinched her chin. "But you are obviously not a creature of chaos."
"No life can be as chaotic as the Mad Lord. It is the ultimate manifestation of the chaos of the universe, and it is even similar to a natural phenomenon in the early days of the universe rather than a creature. We, who are born in the aftermath of its power, are destined to be distinct from it from the moment we appear. It was a painful time. We had self-awareness and the idea of a stable life, but we could not get rid of the pressure of the Mad Lord. We could survive longer because of our weak connection with it, but every day, our people were inexplicably destroyed. Sometimes, even our entire race would be destroyed once, but because of a dream of the Mad Lord, we were all resurrected. "
Lily gulped and said, "I can't live well anymore …"
Hao Ren frowned. "This situation did not improve until the appearance of the goddess of creation?"
"Since she appeared in the universe, things have changed," Asurmen replied. "Because of our weak connection with the Mad Lord, we, the Ancients, can actually borrow its power to observe a large area of the universe. One day, we suddenly found an unprecedentedly powerful energy reaction in the depths of the universe. This energy reaction instantly dispelled the influence of the Mad Lord within millions of light-years, and a stable and orderly Field of Order, which had never appeared in the universe, was formed in this range. This Field of Order shocked and confused us. Because we had never seen it before, many of our people were frightened. But soon, we realized that it was the real environment that life should live in. It was the 'idyllic' landscape that we had fantasized about countless times but had never really outlined.
"We began to try to send a signal to the energy reaction, but all our efforts were in vain. The energy reaction just quietly lurked in the depths of the universe and did not respond to any stimuli. At first, we thought it was similar to the Mad Lord, a powerful energy source with no consciousness. That was our impression of all the gods. But as thousands of years passed, the energy reaction suddenly became active and showed signs of consciousness. "
Hao Ren nodded slightly. "This should be the goddess of creation waking up and beginning to explore the place where she 'landed'. It seems that she was in a coma for a long time when she first landed on this planet. "
Asurmen continued, "That period lasted for a long time. As the energy reaction gradually grew, its range of influence slowly increased. More and more regions of the universe were opened up by it. In some regions of order, there were even primitive planets with ecosystems. During this process, we never gave up communication and continued to send various signals to the growing region of order. "
Vivian did not know whether to laugh or cry. "It seems that a lot of things happened without the goddess of creation's consciousness, but she didn't seem to know it."
"We also later learned that the energy reaction turned out to be a foreign god, and she had no concept of hyperspace communication because she had never needed to communicate with someone remotely." Asurmen sounded helpless. "But perhaps it was fate. She eventually left the place where she landed and began to move deeper into the universe. When she finally found us, it was many, many years later."
"The days when Lockmarton followed his mother on an adventure," Hao Ren murmured.
"When she came, the entire starry sky trembled, and the power of the Mad Lord left us for the first time." Asurmen's voice was still emotionless. It seemed that it really could not express its feelings through words. "At that time, she had a 'creature' with her. She was very happy when she saw us and introduced the creature to us as her traveling companion, a child she created, named Lockmarton."
Hao Ren immediately asked, "Did Lockmarton behave differently at that time?"
"No, at that time, Lockmarton was still a relatively stable creature, at least in our view. Although he would vent powerful energy from time to time and unconsciously do some unpredictable behavior, as long as his mother spoke, he would still calm down. What really caused his distortion and corruption was when the goddess of creation took him to 'study' the Mad Lord. "
"They went to study the Mad Lord?" Lily's eyes widened.
"The goddess of creation was curious about all life, or rather, she was curious about everything she had never seen before. I told her about the Mad Lord, so she went.
"We don't know what she found in her first exploration. She and Lockmarton explored that dark and crazy space for hundreds of years. During that period, there were several bursts of powerful energy waves from the depths of the darkness, very much like the aftermath of a battle. When they came out, the power of the Mad Lord was obviously weakened by half a level, and Lockmarton became a little strange.
"Now it seems that Lockmarton should have gradually been infected by the Mad Lord during those hundreds of years of exploration. It has powerful energy, but it does not have the mind to fully control this power. Its activities in the dark space have probably attracted the attention of the Mad Lord from the beginning. For the Mad Lord, who had no consciousness and acted on instinct, such a powerful and almost 'ownerless' energy source was extraordinary attractive.
"Those energy waves should have erupted when the goddess of creation tried to protect Lockmarton."
Lily's eyes lit up as she listened. Listening to the story seemed to have a great attraction for her. "And then? And then?"
"Lockmarton's pollution gradually deepened. At first, he only seemed irritable, but soon developed into a strong aggressive and chaotic tendency. The goddess of creation had to take him back to the Star of Creation for 'treatment', but obviously, this treatment failed.
"When the goddess of creation appeared in front of us again, Lockmarton was no longer with her. Instead, there was an army she created — an army without thinking, shaped by the primitive matter in the depths of the universe, full of divine energy, and not easily contaminated by the Mad Lord. She came to the sanctuary where the ancient ones were hiding and issued a notice to all life, asking who was willing to go with her to destroy the Mad Lord."
Lily's eyes widened curiously. "And then all the ancient ones went?"
"No, only we responded to her call," Asurmen said faintly. "The other ancient ones were cowardly and had been frightened by the reign of terror of the Mad Lord. They did not even have the idea of resistance, or rather, they did not believe that the Mad Lord could be destroyed or defeated. Only we, the Denizens of the Stars, were the first to observe the existence of cosmic order and the first to feel the power of that order. We knew that the goddess of creation was the only hope to end the darkness and terror, so we responded to her call. The goddess of creation was not surprised by this result. After she reorganized the Denizens of the Stars, she led the army out of the sanctuary and challenged the Mad Lord. The war lasted for a million years. "
"A million years …" Lily dragged out the sound, her face full of shock.
"For the universe, it was just a moment," Y 'zaks whispered. "You won the war?"
"Of course, otherwise there would be no order and peace today," Asurmen replied. "After the war, although the Mad Lord was not destroyed, it was completely suppressed by the goddess of creation in its lair, and no trace of power could seep out. The goddess of creation became the only high-level radiation in the universe, so the whole universe ushered in a beautiful era of order. Shortly after that, I received a secret message from the goddess of creation. "
"She asked you to guard Lockmarton?" Hao Ren asked.
"Yes, I saw Lockmarton again on a planet that had been transformed by the goddess of creation. At that time, he had completely become a monster similar to the Mad Lord, and there was no way to save him. His mother had to suppress him permanently in the depths of the planet's core, hoping that he would gradually wake up over time. I volunteered to guard this prison because the power of the Denizens of the Stars and the Mad Lord itself had a certain connection. If this connection was used properly, it would be an excellent condition for monitoring and suppression. As for what happened after that … you all know. "
There was a moment of silence, giving everyone time to think. Hao Ren compared all the known intelligence in his mind and finally found something that he felt was not right. "Wait a minute, according to what you said, at the end of the war between the goddess of creation and the Mad Lord, she had already been able to create all kinds of life and powerful legions, and had explored a large area of the universe?"
Vivian and the others were stunned for a moment, but they instantly understood what Hao Ren meant.
The timeline did not match!
The goddess of creation had created life in the ancient times, explored the universe, and even found the ancient ones in the depths of the universe. She had also fought with the Mad Lord. These experiences were undoubtedly true. She had created the First Born to explore the alien planets, and created guardian giants to guard the ecological planets many years later. But according to the memory of the brain monster, when the goddess of creation created the first First Born, she was obviously nervous and looking forward to exploring space for the first time. At that time, she obviously knew nothing about the universe!
Was there something wrong with the timeline, or was there something wrong with the goddess of creation, or was the memory of Asurmen or the brain monster fake?
Lily could not hold it in any longer. She immediately told Asurmen everything. Asurmen seemed to have expected these questions. After Lily finished, he calmly said, "Don't worry, Asurmen, I'm not afraid.
"Because the goddess of creation erased her memory, erased all records and traces of her war with the Mad Lord, and erased all information that might restore her memory!"
"Why?" Hao Ren and his friends asked in unison.
"Because the memory of a true goddess has great power. Her memory is the only key to open the cage of the Mad Lord!"
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