magician in town

Chapter 665 Ancestral Gift (55)

The three bright stars of Orion rose before them, and Roach stared blankly at the distant stars. Liu Ziyu looked up blankly, her face expressionless, but her chaotic thoughts and intense emotions were almost colliding with Roach's consciousness.

Wusu chuckled softly, like a sigh, yet with a hint of mockery, and took a step back before leaving the room.

Liu Ziyu's emotions suddenly plummeted, and just as her mind became highly focused, Luo Qi grabbed her wrist and forcibly dragged her away from the obvious control panel.

"Luo Qi?" Liu Ziyu turned around angrily, her pent-up emotions almost bursting forth. She looked confusedly into Luo Qi's eyes, and the unwavering determination within them felt like cold water being poured over her. She paused, letting Luo Qi pull her away. "I can..."

“Is it meaningful?” Roach said. “We already have enough to guess. Fully activating this place is just a waste of time. We don’t have time. We can’t predict how others will react when they discover the truth. The Lotus Burners will definitely not react well. We can’t create unnecessary trouble. Besides, think about it calmly. Do you think the higher-ups in Qionglin don’t know these things? At the very least, your teacher, Pei Shu, should know. Besides being your teacher, what other identity does he have? Do I need to remind you? If you discover a secret he doesn’t want to tell you, it won’t be a good thing. Let’s stop here. It’s all just your wild guesses. Don’t try to find concrete evidence for your guesses.”

A fleeting moment of surprise crossed Liu Ziyu's mind, mixed with a dazed sadness and a great deal of confusion. Luo Qi retreated from these emotions, carefully controlling himself to avoid Liu Ziyu's active awareness. She was too pure, sometimes not even bothering to hide her thoughts. Luo Qi had to carefully control himself not to passively read her mind. A thought suddenly occurred to Luo Qi: on the other side, Sect Leader Zhao was like a stone; even witnessing things that would overturn a clever mage's understanding, he showed almost no emotional fluctuation.

Roach focused his attention on Master Zhao, clearly observing that his thoughts and emotions were also shifting due to the new discoveries. Unlike others, however, his thinking and emotions were functioning more positively, responding well to all new findings, and maintaining a consistently positive state of mind, readily incorporating all new discoveries into his thinking. In other words, Master Zhao possessed an exceptionally high emotional intelligence, making him a natural-born theological leader.

If a leader needs to remain professional in all situations, then Master Zhao is truly exceptional. Even without delving into his thought process, Luo Qi could deduce that his entire focus was on incorporating the new discoveries into the Lotus Burner's thought system, compiling the three major stars of Orion into a new belief manual, and constructing a better ancestor worship and anti-human ideology program.

Luo Qi had some doubts before, and now he is increasingly certain that he guessed correctly. It is likely that Master Zhao is no longer an independent and complete individual.

Two knocks sounded as a reminder. It was Wusu, who was leaning against the door, tapping on the wall to remind Luo Qi to leave. Luo Qi nodded in understanding.

Luo Qi dragged the dazed Liu Ziyu out, and Zhao, the sect leader, quickly followed. They returned to the hexagonal corridor and entered the second room. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it the second chamber at this point. The lights in the second chamber turned on naturally, revealing a circular space about three meters in diameter inside. The most striking feature was the transparent cylindrical container in the center of the chamber, about two meters high and one meter in diameter. Luo Qi walked over and touched the surface of the cylinder. He could feel that the container was still operating at low energy, and its translucent interior was empty. He knew what it was; it was the same as the ones they had seen before, only smaller and separate. In human terms, it was a cultivation chamber, or a life support device.

As he witnessed, the Primordial Mages used incubation pods to cultivate bodies. They created adult bodies devoid of any thought, treating the bodies like mere devices, which the soul or will would then attach to. Theoretically, if they could download thoughts into human bodies, they could also download thoughts into the bodies of other creatures. Roach could put himself into cats and birds; there was no reason why the Primordial Mages wouldn't do the same. They did it even more casually; they even put themselves into alien creatures.

In the Alien Queen's memory, she saw the "Mystic Bird" open, and a creature resembling her stepped down, its mind containing the soul of a mage. Wasn't this somewhat like an ancient human? The Mystic Bird landed on the earth, and a creature resembling a human stepped down, its mind containing the soul of a mage.

Roach was very curious about the true forms of the mages. Were they really humanoid? Had they changed forms countless times during their long journey? Their true forms might be human, alien, lizard, insect, or even a five-clawed golden dragon—who knows? The Six Paths of Reincarnation might simply describe six stages of their fashion trends.

Then what are we monks? What are we considered?
If Roach were to boldly speculate based on what he already knew, the Primordial Mages… whatever they really were, wherever they came from, their greatest expertise and interest seemed to lie in biology. They preserved and created Earth's original dinosaurs, they collected Xenomorphs from other worlds, and they deeply studied the characteristics of Xenomorphs. It's understandable that their symbiosis with Xenomorphs was the most worthy of study compared to other creatures. So where did the Mages come from? This world has far too much evidence to prove that humans were its original inhabitants; the theory of human evolution should hold true, and humanity has a vast body of research to prove its origins. But what about the Mages? The Mages have no origin, and no future.

Humanity has been constantly evolving, or rather, progressing. But mages haven't. It's as if the mage species appeared at its peak, then began to decline, and now a heavy twilight has descended upon them. The Lotus Burners sensed the approaching twilight, but their response was completely misguided. No amount of hatred or envy towards humanity could save the future of mages.

There are many versions of the legend of the Primordial Mage, but it seems all of them state that the Primordial Mage created mages. After seeing so many of the Primordial Mage's creations, this claim sounds quite terrifying. What exactly did the Primordial Mage create? Aliens, dinosaurs, insects, snakes… and mages. The only mercy is that among all these creations, the mage was the only one allowed to retain free will.

He had thought of these things, and someone as clever as Liu Ziyu must have thought of them long ago as well. It seemed that the sorcerer Wusu from Wushan had already guessed this, and the reason he was willing to come with a junior like Luo Qi was probably just to confirm Wushan's own guess.

Yet, the Ancestral Mage meticulously separated mages from humans. Mages and humans were so alike that they could easily fall in love, like Guan Xinyue's grandparents. However, mages and humans could not produce offspring. Mages could not…mages could not corrupt human genes. This sorrowful thought flashed through Luo Qi's mind. Suddenly, he remembered Du Zhengyi. The Du family was a descendant of the Ancestral Mage and a human; it seemed that this was the only legend involving humans. If the Du family was the son of the Ancestral Mage and a human, didn't that mean the Ancestral Mage and humans were the family, while the mages were outsiders?
But once the idea took hold, Luo Qi couldn't help but veer off course. He suddenly wondered if Du Zhengyi and a human could have a child together. Would little Dudu resemble a human more or Du Zhengyi more? This thought was about to spread like wildfire when Luo Qi suddenly remembered that the Du family was once a rare and prosperous clan in the mage world. Their clan alone once filled an entire town. How could they possibly only have mated with mages? Mages have an even harder time having children than pandas.

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