Ling Cage: I am a spiritual master, devouring source matter to become a god.

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and found that it was Bai Yuekui speaking.

Bai Yuekui looked at everyone calmly, "Whether it's the Devouring Beast or the Earth Vine, they are weapons used by higher-dimensional life forms to deal with us. What we really need to do is to deal with the higher-dimensional life forms behind them. If we only deal with the Earth Vine, it will regenerate just like the Devouring Beast."

"Higher-dimensional life?" Jing Yuan asked in confusion. "The Lord of Light and Shadow mentioned that before us, several civilizations had tried to resist the Mana ecosystem, but they all failed."

The Lord of Light and Shadow believes that humanity can only continue by living according to His requirements.

He said that these 'them' are a kind of beings that we cannot understand!

Are the higher-dimensional beings behind the Mana ecosystem you mentioned the same as the 'them' mentioned by the Lord of Light and Shadow?

“Yes!” Bai Yuekui said, “Before the disaster broke out, we received a warning from higher dimensions. They forbade us to explore the truth of higher levels, which is why they launched the world-destroying operation.”

"What truth?" Jingyuan looked at her.

Bai Yuekui looked up at Jing Yuan, but did not answer.

"It is eternal life!"

It wasn't Bai Yuekui who spoke, but Flynn!

Flynn walked up to Bai Yuekui, somewhat shocked and somewhat fearful.

“I’ve seen you before! Back then… Morgan brought you to the Lighthouse! I never imagined that after all these years… you would still look exactly the same as you did back then! Immortality has been achieved in you!”

Bai Yuekui looked at Flynn but did not answer.

In fact, Jingyuan already knew about Bai Yuekui's immortality, so he wasn't surprised.

The others, however, were shocked to varying degrees.

After all, he is an immortal person!

Who doesn't want to live forever!

Jing Yuan recalled the conditions for the continuation of humanity that the Lord of Light and Shadow had mentioned, the first of which was to give up immortality!

Jing Yuan looked at Bai Yuekui and asked, "Do you believe that human immortality angered higher-dimensional beings, causing them to want to exterminate humanity?"

Bai Yuekui glanced at Jing Yuan, and as if she had gotten carried away with the conversation, she said, "It's not immortality itself. Rather, it's that after achieving immortality, everyone's lifespan is greatly extended, time can make up for any lack of talent, and everyone can master all scientific knowledge."

If humanity achieves immortality, it can explore the universe with endless life!

This is precisely what higher-dimensional beings want to forbid!

"You mean, higher-dimensional beings want to limit our exploration of the universe?" Jing Yuan asked again, "Then what is their purpose in doing so?"

Bai Yuekui shook his head: "We are still far from the truth. Only through further exploration can we get closer to the truth."

Jing Yuan looked at Bai Yuekui and said, "How can we explore further?"

"We must enter the higher-dimensional world and confront higher-dimensional life!"

Jing Yuan stared at Bai Yuekui, "Could you be more specific?"

"This is not something you need to worry about!" Bai Yuekui said expressionlessly.

Upon hearing this, Jing Yuan's expression changed.

What does she mean by that?

Bai Yuekui immediately added, "Although you can kill a King-level Devouring Beast, with your human body, you still cannot enter a higher-dimensional world!"

Jingyuan then realized that it wasn't that Bai Yuekui was arrogant enough to want to save the world alone, but rather that the human body couldn't enter the higher dimensions.

Who can go in?

Jingyuan turned his gaze to Mark.

"You said there's a place only Mark can go to, and that's the world where higher-dimensional life exists!"

Everyone present heard those words.

But only Bai Yuekui and Mark truly understood its meaning.

Jingyuan only knows that Mark is a skeletal clone. Could it be because of the special genes that Mark carries?

“You didn’t need to say it in this setting,” Bai Yuekui said.

"What does it matter?" Jing Yuan looked around. Although Quaid of Steelflame Fortress was present, he didn't think it would have any impact if he said it.

"And what happens once you're inside? How do you plan to deal with the higher-dimensional life form? Will Mark kill it? Or will Mark negotiate with it? Also, is the higher-dimensional life form an individual or a race?"

Bai Yuekui was taken aback and couldn't answer for a moment. "We know very little about higher-dimensional life. Only by entering the higher-dimensional world can we know what to do next!"

"So, in other words, we know nothing about higher-dimensional life right now?"

Jing Yuan walked towards Jing Nan and said, "Search the information on the Star Twilight Civilization and see if it mentions higher-dimensional life."

Jingnan nodded, then went to the computer to operate the search process.

This process takes time.

Jingyuan didn't say a word, but his mind was racing.

He originally thought Bai Yuekui knew how to deal with Mana Ecology, but now it seems she's just a half-baked expert.

Jingyuan was lucky to encounter the time capsule from an ancient civilization.

However, the information inside the capsule was completely opposite to what Bai Yuekui had said.

One theory is to eliminate the earth vines, while the other is to deal with higher-dimensional life.

While the plan to eliminate the earth vines was concrete and feasible, it was, after all, a plan from fifty million years ago. Was the Stardust Civilization's understanding outdated? Jing Yuan didn't know either.

If the ground vines are not the main component of the mana ecosystem, there is indeed no need to focus on manufacturing weapons.

Jingyuan looked at Bai Yuekui. Where did she get her information? Besides that skull-born being who shared the same origin as Mana's original body, it was Master Lai!

Both of these are actually related to the initial body.

Therefore, the information obtained by ancient civilizations may not be as comprehensive as theirs.

From this perspective, perhaps entering a higher-dimensional space is the correct solution.

Jingyuan was also somewhat helpless.

They also obtained too little information.

We have no idea what the higher-dimensional beings behind the Mana ecosystem are, or what their purpose is!

When Ash connected to the Mana prototype, it was to obtain information from the prototype.

But Ash was swallowed up instead.

Jingyuan had met Ash in Clotho, where she was just a flawed artificial intelligence.

A part of Ash merged into Master Lai.

In a sense, Master Lai is a pawn that humanity has infiltrated into the ecosystem. As such a crucial figure, couldn't he have gathered absolutely no information?

Jingyuan suddenly looked at Bai Yuekui and asked, "Where is Master Lai?"

"He went to Dragon Bone Village."

"What are you doing there?"

"Research how to get the Devouring Beasts to leave."

"The Devouring Beast has already broken through the shielding system, will it still leave?"

"The fact that this group of Devouring Beasts entered the shielding system's range is only because they are under the control of the ecosystem. However, the ecosystem will not control them forever. Once the ecosystem stops controlling the Devouring Beasts, they should leave the shielding area."

When Jingyuan heard Bai Yuekui use the word "should," it was clear that she was also unsure.

Jing Yuan said, "I remember when the Lord of Light and Shadow communicated with me, he mentioned a plan to save humanity."

He said that as long as humanity gives up immortality, it can survive under ecological control.

Master Lai then said that this was impossible.

Clearly, immortality technology was not the trigger for the disaster!

If the goal of higher-dimensional beings is merely to control our lifespans and prevent us from exploring the universe, then simply destroy the technology of immortality and kill the immortals! Why must we exterminate humanity?

"When a technology emerges, simply eliminating the technology and the individuals involved is far from enough. The idea of ​​immortality will spread like a virus, and ultimately, the extinction of the human race will be the optimal solution!"

"But what good would killing us all do for higher-dimensional beings?"

Chapter 206 Unanswerable Questions

"The ecosystem is robbing every single person of their life essence!"

“That’s right!” Jing Yuan continued, “We all know that the Devouring Beasts will devour our life essence. So why do they devour life essence?”

Standing behind Bai Yuekui, Xia Tianlai thought Jing Yuan didn't know, so he explained to him: "After the Devouring Beast devours the life essence, it will transfer the life essence to the Mana Flower King. We liken this process to 'paying rent'. After completing the 'rent payment', the Devouring Beast will also receive a reward and undergo further transformation."

Jing Yuan nodded and said, "Yes! Doesn't this mean that the ecosystem needs the source of life?"

What if we humans were merely food in the eyes of the ecosystem?

"If all humans die, won't it have no food source?"

Jingyuan kept asking questions that Bai Yuekui couldn't answer.

Bai Yuekui could only say, "I cannot answer these questions!"