Extraordinary Pedigree.

Chapter 971 [Collapse]

Xia Xiu gazed at him, and in that instant, he could sense the emotion flowing from Armand's eyes—not a plea, not a pleas, but the calm and certainty of someone who had passed the baton of fate.

He slowly raised his hand and shook hands with him.

[Heavenly Genealogy - Sharing Begins...]

He mobilized the Heavenly Lineage within his body, transferring a portion of its power to Amund. The profound power of the Heavenly Lineage surged into Amund's being like a tide, and the call of Heaven once again stirred up waves within Amund's ethereal body.

Amund trembled slightly, a long-lost feeling, a power hidden deep in his soul, that majesty, that calling, that sense of mission, that pulled him back to this world, back to the embrace of heaven.

The moment the link to the Heavenly Kingdom's lineage was completed, Amund released Xia Xiu's hand, as if a heavy burden that had weighed on his shoulders for countless years had been lifted. He opened his arms, facing the void of the shattered divine kingdom, his expression one of relief, yet his eyes held a deep, indescribable emotion.

"Finally... I'm back again."

He chuckled softly, like a prodigal son returning to his ancestral home after many years.

Immediately afterwards, Armand loudly ordered: "Eden, retrieve the relevant information about Taronyu."

[Discovery of [Secret Jurisdiction] Content]

[Authorized by: Data Ghost Armand Katchari]

[Yarween is involved—]

[Analyzing data structure]

Everything is normal!

[Begin the decryption—]

[Unlock security clearance code: V-EA-04]

[Start retrieving file: TK-4547]

[Synchronizing - Loading planetary observation footage]

A vast and magnificent scene suddenly unfolded before Xia Xiu's eyes.

In the void, a vast, desolate planet slowly rotated, coming into his field of vision.

It was a planet scarred by the remnants of a great ocean, with a size similar to Terra, but it presented a strange sense of incompleteness.

The planet's atmosphere glowed with a pale blue light, and thick water vapor overflowed from its edges as if it were being diffused.

The vast red plateau stretches across the lower hemisphere of the planet, dotted with huge and regular craters and rift valleys, seemingly having been bombarded by ancient celestial bodies, or perhaps, scars left by human mining over thousands of years.

On the western side of the planet lies a vast blue area covered by water—but unlike the ocean, these bodies of water are not continuous; instead, they are fragmented by wastelands, fissures, and mountain ranges, like a scattered seascape reflected in a shattered mirror.

Above the sky, large swaths of high-altitude clouds can be seen slowly gathering, like a long-lasting storm waiting to explode.

Xia Xiu gazed at the planet, his brows furrowed slightly, his tone tinged with doubt.

"Where is this?"

Amund did not answer immediately, but gazed silently at the reddish planet, dotted with rings of water and cracked plateaus, before speaking in a low voice after a moment:
"Taronyuu - a planet fifteen light-years away from Terra."

"It was first discovered by the Heavenly Kingdom Vision Agency, and its designation is TK-4547."

Amund's gaze fell upon the void, where a round, brownish-blue planet shrouded in mist floated silently in the light and shadow projection of the Eden System, so lonely that even the universe seemed to have forgotten its existence.

"When it was first discovered, it was just an alien planet with a Terra-like ecosystem, a mild climate, moderate gravity, a stable atmosphere, and a complete carbon-based ecological cycle system on the surface."

“But…” he changed the subject, “as we delved deeper into the data layers, we discovered Taronu’s differences.”

“This is the home planet of the Talonius.” Amond began to tell Xia Xiu everything about the planet based on his memories. “They were a humanoid intelligent race that had long been extinct. Their physical structure was similar to that of humans. They possessed both innate divinity and extraordinary factors, and had enormous potential. Moreover… their level of civilization was almost infinitely close to that of the Terra civilization during the Fifth Supernatural War.”

“The only difference,” he paused, as if mourning the other side’s defeat, “is that they did not develop a lineage path… nor did they have the protection of the Crystal Heaven.”

"Their civilization's internal structure relies excessively on natural supernatural forces, but lacks a logical self-repair mechanism. This leads to extremely violent abnormal growth within it, eventually resulting in a large number of unnatural phenomena, such as B-level collapse factors and C-level inverse configuration disturbances at the civilization level."

Xia Xiu asked in a deep voice, "So they're all dead?"

“Yes, dead.” Armand nodded calmly, his tone as low as a bell. “The entire civilization… was utterly destroyed by the end factor.”

At that moment, silence seemed to solidify, pressing down on the air.

“You…” Xia Xiu suddenly stared at Amond, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes, “Your Demon Lord Council eliminated them? You used CR-13?”

Amund shook his head and denied it, saying, "The one who destroyed them... is not heaven."

He looked up, his eyes devoid of any emotion, yet as unfathomable as the deep sea.

"Although we did play a role in the Tarunoun incident, ... what truly caused that civilization-level destruction was another, more ancient and fundamentally chaotic threat."

As he spoke, the Eden system activated a higher-level demonstration, and multiple semi-transparent logic models and diagrams appeared in the air.

The intersecting blue and white tracks spun like a galaxy, unfolding before Xia Xiu's eyes.

"They also established an organization called 'Tìhawnum'."

Armand gently clasped his hands together, his fingertips interlacing, as if cradling the remains of a lost civilization.

"That was the most glorious and desperate symbol of their civilization—akin to heaven, except that they had successfully unified the entire planet, unifying all dissent, sectarianism, languages, and divine concepts. Their determination... I must admit, was admirable."

In the void, the Eden System began to retrieve deeper records, showing a giant obsidian council hall and multiple fields of consciousness rising from the prayers of the Talonu tribe.

“Tihaunum are their gatekeepers, purifiers, and the last sentinels of reason. They are trying to build a supernatural society with limited technology and faith.”

Amund spread his hands and let out a soft sigh.

"But unfortunately... they lack the tradition of concealment and a true understanding of the anomalous."

Xia Xiu squinted, remaining silent.

“Their culture has never established a real mechanism for blocking and containing; instead, the abnormality has been integrated into their beliefs, daily life, and political system.” Amundt’s tone was calm, but his words contained an irreversible sense of mourning.

“Miracles are no longer threats that need to be contained, but have become the core of a kind of faith; those structural distortions of reality are recorded in the poems as whispers of the gods; worse still... some of the saints among them even deliberately induce abnormal forces to spread in society, in an attempt to achieve a higher level of ‘cognitive sublimation’ through this.”

"And their price was—collapse."

As he finished speaking, Xia Xiu frowned.

"Collapse?"

Armand nodded slowly, his tone deep and serious:

"Yes, the collapse that wipes out civilization in the form of a K-class crisis sequence incident." A K-class crisis sequence incident refers to various disasters that destroy the world and civilization.

The Kingdom of Heaven has a different definition for K-level crisis sequence incidents.

For example, XK represents various classic apocalyptic scenarios, such as the destruction of Terra and the collapse of reality...

MK—Human consciousness is infected and erased; the body remains but the mind perishes.

ZK – A complete failure of reality; the restored world is no longer the original one.

Heaven has prevented many K-level incidents from occurring, and Xia Xiu has participated in many of them. For example, the last kick-off operation was essentially a crisis sequence incident of XK level.

Amund continued speaking:

“Each collapse corresponds to a specific end of the world—we have recorded at least six different crisis sequences.”

Amund reached out and gently swept his hand across the void once more. The Eden System responded by unfolding a magnificent map of planetary evolution, with six red star marks drawn from the surface of the Taronu home planet, like blood-red words of divine judgment.

"IK Type - Crisis Sequence: Death Hand (Social Collapse - Nuclear Winter Event)".

"Back then, the super-federal nation of Taronu established a strategic system called the Death Hand to prevent the outbreak of total war. Ironically, the system was too precise and instead triggered a world-destroying nuclear strike."

The Eden system displayed a blurry image—below the black atmosphere, tens of thousands of mushroom clouds bloomed like a sea of ​​flowers, the earth cracked open in flames, and floating island cities in the sky were swallowed by flames and fell.

"During the regime change, the system misjudged the government's shutdown and automatically detonated 12,000 nuclear warheads. For a full five hours, Taronyo was transformed into hell."

“Here we need to learn from the folly of the Tihaunum organization—they did not strangle [Crisis Sequence: Death Hand] like Heaven did. Heaven invented the Ghost Particle Formula to limit the spread of the nuclear crisis, but the Tihaunum organization did not.”

"Born in hardship, die in comfort—they failed to establish a crisis sequence library to cope with the demise of civilization."

Armand then swiped through the data.

“RK type - crisis sequence · competitive elimination (“integration” existence special event)”.

"Taruno once attempted to use nanomachines to physiologically modify the population. The result was that these nanorobots destroyed stable areas of brain tissue, inducing aggressive tendencies, cannibalism, and even living corpses in an infinite state of stasis."

Xia Xiu frowned, and Eden simultaneously projected a series of emaciated, mangled bodies. Their eyes were devoid of life, only displaying the mechanical reflexes of an eternal hunt.

"We call them Honkai Infected. After the nuclear strike, more than a billion zombies roamed the world. It is speculated that these things can even infect humans."

"Followed by GK type - crisis sequence - death greenhouse."

"An ancient astronomical instrument, originally a device used to stabilize ecological frequencies and called the Glass Artifact, floats in the orbital space of this planet. However, it went out of control during the final war and released a biological veto field."

Armond looked up and could almost see the orbital instruments in the sky collapsing with a deafening roar.

“Any non-native alien life—including host species and introduced ecological pillars—was wiped out within three weeks. Eventually, even intelligent plants were eliminated, and the Taronoa food chain collapsed within days.”

"Then comes the variant of the Crisis Sequence, XK-Ω type - Apocalypse."

"This disaster comes from seven giant humanoid beings—we call them the Fathers of Doom, each five hundred meters tall and possessing autonomous consciousness."

The scene shifts, and seven figures slowly rise from the wasteland, their chests burning with twisted symbols of faith. Taronu believers kneel beneath them, wailing as if in prayer.

"They were originally slumbering guardians, awakened by the nuclear war. The defeated Taronius turned to them in exchange for survival... Ironically, these seven guardians eventually killed each other, their followers were wiped out, and only one victor survived alone."

"Subsequently, Crisis Sequence AK - Civilization Madness (Mem Crisis)."

"In the final stage of Taronu, a Membrane organization called the 'Fifth Church' emerged, whose doctrines revolved around the number 5 and were highly spiritually corrupting. Anyone who heard, read, or thought about its doctrines would gradually lose their sanity."

Xia Xiu whispered, "Mother's poison?"

Amund nodded.

"Initially it was just a paranoid cult, but later it transformed into a civilization-devouring structure—a specific form of pollution targeting intelligent civilizations that can never be removed."

"The last one is the WK type, crisis sequence, weather destruction."

"The final sequence is a celestial upheaval. An ancient, top-tier climate controller malfunctioned after the nuclear war, unleashing endless storms. Frequent earthquakes, violent volcanoes, and spontaneously generated hurricanes became the norm."

Eden emerges in a final still frame: the sky above Taronho is filled with cracked clouds and lightning, the ground is shattered into dozens of large rift valleys, and lava flows through the city's skeleton.

Armand's hand stopped at the last point:
"Nuclear war destroyed humanity, the living dead infected and corroded the remaining beings, the biofield disintegrated the ecosystem of the species, the gods backfired on the faith of believers, and the madness swept through the higher-dimensional will. In the end, even the sky itself abandoned this planet."

He uttered softly:
"And all of this—in just five years."

Xia Xiu stood in front of the suspended data projection, his gaze fixed on the life-size model of the dead planet, his expression gradually becoming serious.

He spoke slowly, his tone as cold as iron:
"So... in the end you used CR-13 to completely wipe out that planet? To eradicate all the remaining zombies, and any survivors who might be carrying the crisis sequence... completely?"

Amund did not deny it, but simply nodded slightly.

"Yes."

His tone was as calm as if he were recalling a weather forecast.

"At that time, we discovered 100,000 conscious individuals in a ruin in the northern hemisphere of Tarronu—the former branch warehouse of Tihaunum. They were still barely surviving, gathering, praying, and trying to maintain order."

“Our observations using the Yawei system revealed that at least 42 percent of the individuals exhibited varying degrees of abnormal infection symptoms—some were structural factor mutations, some were residual M. m ...

"And at this critical juncture, the thirteen council arbitrators reached a consensus—thirteen to zero."

He said this without any remorse, as if recounting a mission:

"Based on the authority to eliminate civilization, CR-13 instances were used for selective strikes and containment, followed by a complete overwrite attack."

"Target code name: Dead City Cleanup".

A silence lingered between them for half a second.

After a moment, Xia Xiu slowly uttered a sentence:
"These collapse events... from nuclear war, nano-infection, ecological lock-in, divine resurgence, the Mimu cult, extreme weather... one after another."

He turned his head to look at Armand, his tone revealing suppressed doubt:
"Did these things really happen 'naturally'? They're too neat, too orderly, too much like..."

He did not continue.

But Armand took up the last word that had been hanging in the balance.

"script."

Xia Xiu also sensed something familiar, only this time it was more sophisticated—a duet performance.

The power of the script of "The Crimson King", and it is the Crimson King script written in a serious state.