The interior of the Blackstone Ancient Hall was fairly spacious.With Xia Li on her back, Qiu Fu kept going deeper and deeper. Only after running for nearly half an hour did she finally arrive before a set of black iron doors.The stone walls on either side of the doors were carved with many murals. Xia Li lifted his head and forced his already unfocused eyes to sharpen again.The first mural showed ten suns hanging in the sky, each one containing a Golden Crow.Qiu Fu was studying the murals as well, but the mont she saw the first one, shock flashed across her face."Three legs, a crown on the head, tail feathers spreading like fire. These are ten Golden Crows in the Feathered Ascension stage!""Feathered Ascension stage?"Xia Li asked in confusion. He did not know much about demonkind."We demons cultivate our bloodlines and bodies. The purer the bloodline, the less our physical growth depends on age. If we lack what we need to mature, we may remain in our juvenile stage until death, even after hundreds or thousands of years.""Ordinary demons usually only have three transformation stages: juvenile, growth, and adulthood.""But demons with special bloodlines undergo one more transformation after adulthood. Dragons have the Reverse Scale stage, phoenixes have the Nirvana stage, black tortoises have the Deep Slumber stage, and white tigers have the Golden Attainnt stage.""For a Golden Crow, after adulthood and the passage of long ages, it enters the Feathered Ascension stage. A Feathered Ascension Golden Crow is like a true sun that can illuminate an entire land. A single one can suppress the fate of a whole region. Ten of them appearing at once... what era was this? Why is there no record of it?"Qiu Fu's face stayed full of disbelief. Demonkind should never have failed to record an event of that scale.Xia Li remained silent for the mont. There were no records here, but Earth did have records, only passed down as myth.They turned to the second mural. Contrary to what Xia Li had expected, it did not show heaven and earth being scorched barren. Instead, it depicted snow and ice lting away.Only the third mural showed the world dried out and withered, birds, beasts, and humans all kneeling before the ten Golden Crows.The fourth mural showed the Golden Crows trying to break through the wall of heaven and fly beyond the world.The fifth mural showed a towering giant drawing a bow and shooting down the Golden Crows.The sixth mural showed all kinds of living beings kneeling before the fallen Golden Crow and pleading, as though begging it to stay.The seventh mural showed nine Golden Crows leaving and one remaining behind.And the eighth mural...It showed nine Golden Crows flying toward an enormous circular outline. Behind that outline were many tiny dots."Where are they going? And where is that?"Qiu Fu could not make sense of the eighth mural, but Xia Li was already shaken to the core.That eighth mural was a star chart.The Golden Crows had flown toward a star.The ninth mural showed the final Golden Crow, its flas extinguished, flying off into the distance beneath a night sky.Taken together, the nine murals told an ancient tale completely different from the myth Xia Li knew.There was no written record beside them. Even if there had been, Xia Li likely would not have been able to read ancient script. He would have had to let the Heavenly Dao Computer analyze it."Could this be a record of the Golden Crows returning ho? It's said that Golden Crows are born from the great sun itself, and when death approaches, they return to it.""The old books also say that the extinguishing of a Golden Crow is a great catastrophe. It becos a giant fireball that blocks out the sky and devours everything nearby, then explodes and annihilates whatever it reaches.""But the books only record two such extinctions. The timing of the first can't be verified anymore. The second was Sunscorch Valley, and the damage is still ongoing even now."Qiu Fu told Xia Li everything she knew. In her eyes, this was a tale of a Golden Crow returning ho, of a world once covered in ice and snow that could not bear to let it leave and even attacked it.But if all ten Golden Crows had gone extinct together...
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Even imagining that scene was terrifying."I can more or less imagine what a Golden Crow's extinction would look like..."It would be just like a star nearing the end of its life. After becoming a red giant, it would erupt as a supernova. That would not be the Golden Crow's intention. It would simply be the inevitable course of life for descendants of a star.Could life exist on the sun?Yes.Such life was called energy life, sothing that could only be born under extrely harsh conditions. But the Golden Crows were likely not the first generation of energy life.Golden Crows were powerful, but the truly primordial energy lifeforms could practically be called higher-dinsional beings.They were true gods.The Golden Crows still fell short of that.The Golden Crow was probably a form that erged only after several further rounds of evolution, slowly gaining flesh and blood and a soul, while its core nature never changed.Xia Li had never expected the origins of the Golden Crow to be so mysterious.Descendants of stellar lifeforms?The demon race called itself the descendants of gods. It seed that those so-called gods were the many energy lifeforms born in the early universe."What now?""Carry closer to the door."Xia Li had Qiu Fu take him closer to the black iron doors. Once they reached them, Xia Li used his blood-soaked left arm to try to push them open.The doors did not move at all.For a mont, panic flashed through him. What if he was not qualified? Wouldn't that an he had co all this way for nothing?But the very next instant, the doors began to tremble. A narrow crack slowly opened between them.Xia Li let out a breath of relief.Good.He was qualified.The black iron doors opened themselves to Xia Li. The space beyond was dim, but from deeper inside ca a faint, pale white glow."Let's go in."Xia Li had Qiu Fu continue forward. Carrying the mindset of a pilgrim, Qiu Fu stepped inside.She knew that the remains of a king lay within.A Feathered Ascension Golden Crow would be an ancient king no matter how one looked at it, a king of a bygone age.What slumbered here should be the last Golden Crow from the ninth mural, the one that had flown away alone.Xia Li stared with his eyes wide open, desperately searching for what he needed.He needed a Fusang Branch, Golden Crow feathers, solar fla, and black obsidian refined gold.But the inside of the doors was empty. Only a layer of black ash on the ground was stirred up by Qiu Fu's footsteps.After passing through a long corridor, the two of them entered a vast circular hall.At the center of the hall floated a dim sphere of light no larger than a thumb, slowly rotating in the air. As they approached, they could feel the heat radiating from it."This is... a Golden Crow inner core?"Qiu Fu reached out, wanting to touch it, but the dim sphere suddenly darted away. She stared at it in disbelief. Could the remnant spirit of the Golden Crow truly be dwelling within it?"No. It's a dwarf star. The remnant of a dead star gone cold."Xia Li reached his hand toward that tiny white dwarf."Do you...""long...""to fuse again?"To rekindle dead ashes.To make that cooled dwarf star blaze again.To make the core undergo fusion once more.Xia Li sent out a thread of thought, carrying Earth's knowledge of the sun and its understanding of nuclear fusion. At once, the sphere of light drifted toward Xia Li of its own accord."Put down."Xia Li had Qiu Fu set him down. After forcing himself to stand upright with difficulty, he watched as the sphere of light sank straight into his dantian.At that mont, Qiu Fu no longer knew what to say.The Golden Crow's remnant spirit had acknowledged Xia Li?How?【Unable to detect the detailed paraters of the current object, but it has already reached the ideal embryonic form of an imitation-star golden core.】That was the Heaven Chip's judgnt.
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