Swallowing the Stars: Starting with a Meteor Tear

Chapter 249 Message

It was a vast, silvery sea of ​​stars.

No, perhaps it's not accurate to call it a silver starry sea.

That vast expanse of space was, in fact, mostly shrouded in endless darkness.

However, in the endless darkness, there were still enormous silver stars floating in the air.

Three thousand silver stars revolved continuously in the endless void along some mysterious trajectory.

Each silver star was infinitely large, and a soft silver light flowed from each star, spreading across a vast expanse of void and forming extremely dreamlike star realms, which made the entire space look like a silver sea of ​​stars.

However, those dreamy silver lights, though seemingly gentle, also contained an incredibly deadly danger.

According to information circulating in the cosmic sea, without a token in hand, even the most powerful being in the universe would be silently melted into nothingness upon contact with this silver light!

"After nearly 15,000 years, the silver token space has finally arrived!"

Zhou Yang stared at the dazzling silver starry sky, and a smile finally appeared on his lips.

He could not, after all, be like the strongest being in the universe, whose sheer power could make even the rules of the universe yield.

Therefore, traversing the many perilous areas of the core region was extremely difficult.

Some of the most powerful beings in the universe could easily cross dangerous terrain, but he had to be extremely careful and traverse it slowly, which is why it took him a lot of time.

Thankfully, we've finally arrived!

"Three thousand silver stars, could they correspond to three thousand silver spaces?"

Zhou Yang couldn't help but gasp in astonishment.

Silver tokens are almost extinct in this cosmic sea, and it is said that the few that have been found are all in the hands of the two great holy lands.

The silver token in his hand was obtained from the corpse of a black-robed ape-man who was suspected to be at least a Void God.

If the silver token corresponds to the identity of a Void God, then there are three thousand silver stars here. Could it be that at least three thousand Void Gods were once stationed on this ancient spaceship?

"That's probably impossible. Three thousand Void True Gods—that number is terrifying. Perhaps this silver token space, though established, isn't necessarily completely full."

Zhou Yang shook his head, deciding not to dwell on it any longer.

He first teleported to the vicinity of the nearest silver star field, and then began to ride the azure palace to try to get closer.

"Not here, next one."

Holding the silver token, Zhou Yang began to approach each silver star, making repeated attempts.

It took about a day and a half.

Finally, as they approached a silver star once again, the token in their hand emitted some subtle signals.

"This is it."

The azure palace slowly approached, and when it reached the edge of the silver domain that enveloped the star, the silver light rippled slightly like the surface of water, and instantly engulfed the azure palace, disappearing without a trace.

……

Wow~

The doors of the azure palace opened, and Zhou Yang flew straight out.

He stood in mid-air and looked around—

This is an endless, vast space, which is self-illuminating even without light.

Below them stretched a vast and boundless continent, with rolling mountains and rushing rivers, as if they had arrived in a beautiful wilderness.

In the very center of this vast wilderness, a towering, almost endless, ancient, verdant tree stands majestically.

"Whoosh!"

Zhou Yang instantly teleported to the front of the giant ancient tree.

Splash splash~~~

The leaves of the lush ancient tree swayed gently, and a vague thought entered Zhou Yang's mind.

Zhou Yang's consciousness worked quickly, and he soon understood the message contained in that thought.

"I am Cang Xuan, a member of the Void Ancient Ape Clan."

"I come from a powerful clan of Void Ancient Apes. I am quite talented and broke through to the Void True God realm early on."

"Later, I was even more fortunate to follow my teacher in my spiritual practice."

"My teacher is a powerful figure who stands at the pinnacle of the entire Wu Kingdom. With his guidance, I have made rapid progress and reached the ultimate level of Void True God long ago."

"If I continue cultivating steadily like this, I should be able to break through to the level of Eternal True God soon. If I can break through within the next 10 billion years, I can be considered one of the top five geniuses in the entire history of my race in terms of breakthrough speed. And my race will grow stronger and stronger under my leadership!"

"But--"

"A disaster struck without warning!"

"The entire Wu Kingdom crumbled in an instant. Even the king died in battle, and my teachers and other powerful figures perished one by one. My clansmen, my relatives, and my friends all died!"

"I hate those enemies who destroyed the Wu Kingdom, and I hate even more my own weakness, watching helplessly as my family and friends die before my eyes!"

"Later, under the summons of General Tian Gu, the remaining soldiers of the Wu Kingdom were gathered to prepare to pilot one of the few remaining war fortresses deep into the cosmic sea in an attempt to find and capture a juvenile Beast."

"Every Realm Beast is incredibly terrifying. Legend has it that the Purple Wood God-King enslaved a Realm Beast King, nurtured it to its peak maturity, and then easily destroyed a God-King level enemy with it!"

"If General Tiangu's plan succeeds, our Wu Kingdom will have hope of restoration, and countless displaced people will be able to settle down again!"

"My family and friends are all dead. I have no more attachments, only hatred!"

"Therefore, I joined the operation without hesitation!"

"However, venturing into the vast ocean of space not only involves facing endless unknown risks, but even if we succeed, we don't know how many years it will take, and whether I will still be alive by then is also unknown."

"Death is not frightening; forgetting is!"

"My teachers, relatives, friends, and clan have all perished. Of my teacher's lineage and my Void Ancient Ape lineage, I am the only one left who has reached the level of a Void True God. If I were to die as well, the lineages of these two lineages would likely be severed."

"Before entering the Cosmic Sea, I dared not leave my legacy behind, fearing that it would attract the pursuit of the enemy and lead me deeper into the Cosmic Sea. In the vast Cosmic Sea, only our war fortress is drifting alone. Not to mention the legacy, perhaps even I myself would perish in the next second."

"However, this war fortress is the pinnacle of my civilization's mechanical engineering, and it is virtually indestructible. The core compartments of this war fortress are even more sturdy to an unimaginable degree."

"Even if the entire war fortress collapses and all of us soldiers perish, this core compartment should still be preserved intact."

"I left all the inheritance of my Void Ancient Ape lineage and my teacher's lineage here. Not only me, but I guess everyone around me did the same, leaving their own inheritance in their respective cabins."

"If we succeed by sheer luck after countless epochs, that's fine. But if we fail, I hope these legacies can be preserved. Perhaps after endless ages, these legacies can be seen and passed down by future generations, so that future generations will know that there was once a powerful nation like our Wu Kingdom. It can be said that the flame of our civilization has not been extinguished."

"If that day ever comes, and a successor comes here and receives the inheritance, I have something I want to ask you."

"Please, if you have the chance, help me return to the old lands of Wu, to the ancestral homeland of my Void Ape clan, and take a walk there and have a look."

I really miss home.

The message ended abruptly there, and Zhou Yang fell into a brief silence.

In this state of mind, he felt a deep sense of despair, hatred, confusion, longing, and other emotions.

A being at the level of a Void True God possesses an incredibly high state of mind. Even the emotions contained in a trace of his residual will caused Zhou Yang to involuntarily resonate with them.

After a long while, Zhou Yang finally let out a long sigh.

"Even the Chaos Rulers, or even those at the level of God-Kings and Kingdom Sovereigns, can fall in an instant, causing the collapse of entire ancient kingdoms and the extinction of billions of lives on the Origin Continent. It is probably far more brutal than the primordial universe."

He shook his head, forcibly banishing the trace of emotion affecting him.

He sympathized with the fate of this senior "Cang Xuan," but the Wu Kingdom had been destroyed for countless cycles of reincarnation, and even the cosmic ship was damaged and had been stuck in this dimension of the cosmic sea for an unknown period of time.

Over such a long period of time, it is likely that the former Wu Kingdom, the former ancestral land of the Void Ape, has left no trace whatsoever.

"However, if I obtain the inheritance here, I will indeed be entangled in a karmic connection. If I become strong enough and can actually find the ancient land of Wu or the ancestral land of the Void Ancient Ape, then I will send you there."

Zhou Yang sighed softly.

If he guessed correctly, the black-robed ape-man he discovered in the abyss of Wanku Gorge should be the Void Ancient Ape 'Cang Xuan'.

At this moment, even his body was stored in Zhou Yang's storage space.

Not only did I obtain the treasure he left behind, but I will also inherit his legacy. If I have the ability in the future, I would not mind making a trip there.

He stopped thinking about it and instead turned his gaze to the towering ancient tree in front of him.

The ancient tree was incredibly tall, with lush branches and leaves.

The trunk of this ancient tree, every branch on the trunk, and even the leaves on the branches, all subtly contain some kind of mysterious fluctuation.

And every fluctuation is a powerful inheritance!

Zhou Yang directly probed his consciousness into the trunk of the ancient tree, and immediately—

boom!

It was as if his entire consciousness was roaring, and an endless stream of massive information poured in instantly, almost filling Zhou Yang's entire mind!

Law cultivation, soul cultivation, divine power cultivation, even the crafting of supreme treasures and the raising of insect beasts—a constant stream of special inherited information flooded into Zhou Yang's mind. Even with his current limit-level willpower as the strongest being in the universe, he could vaguely feel a 'swelling pain' in his soul, a manifestation of receiving too much information in an instant!

Zhou Yang sat cross-legged in the void before the ancient tree, his will working rapidly to process and digest the unfamiliar information that kept flooding into his mind.

A variety of novel cultivation methods, a variety of powerful secret techniques, and a variety of special and hidden matters were mentioned in the message left by the Void Ancient Ape 'Cang Xuan', which stated that it contained the inheritance of his teacher and the Void Ancient Ape lineage.

However, it is impossible for his teacher or his entire Void Ancient Ape clan to have accumulated only one or two core inheritances over countless years. They would also have some other secondary inheritances, or even some powerful methods from other cultivation schools that they had collected.

In order to prevent the transmission of civilization from being cut off, Cangxuan naturally imprinted as much information as possible on it, so the types and quantities of the transmission were naturally enormous!

Zhou Yang silently digested the information while organizing it into categories.

They received and processed the information in this way, and it took hundreds of years to finally complete the sorting out of the massive amount of information that kept pouring in.

Of course, that was all that was done; Zhou Yang didn't have time to look at the details.

If you read it more carefully, it will take much longer.

Sorry, gentlemen, some content wasn't completely deleted before, but it has been corrected now. Please forgive me, gentlemen. (bows repeatedly)

(End of this chapter)