Chapter 1254 The Third Sanctum 2
Be it the three Universal Civilizations or the World Tree Civilization, they were all empty shells.Han Xiao took a deep breath, cleared his emotions, and buried them, not looking at the empty light sphere in front of him any longer.
“This isn’t a bad thing. At least it’s not an illusion of the past like the Celestial Star Alliance. Plus, judging from the Celestial Star Alliance’s ti period, the Galaxy is far from the Great Reboot. I don’t even know if I’ll live till that day...
“Speaking of which, if I search for Planet Earth, will it have any results?”
This thought suddenly appeared in Han Xiao’s mind.
He looked down at the mark but realized it did not respond this ti. He raised his brows.
“Hmm, no reaction, huh? My old ho is still in another world then. It has nothing to do with our Iterations...”
Han Xiao shook his head.
He focused his mind and went back to business, putting the information he read into the storage device.
Although his devices lost internet connection, they still functioned. He wanted to see if he could go around the mory capacity limit of the Sanctums by storing information in his hardware.
Han Xiao quickly stored the technology he acquired into the storage device, then started to touch another light sphere to read its information. The new technology he acquired once again replaced so information in his mind.
Then, Han Xiao opened the storage device and saw that the sa information disappeared in it too.
“Looks like this doesn’t work either... Be it the human brain, chanical hardware, or anything else, as long as it’s an information transmission dium, the part of information will be wiped no matter what. It’s similar to how Destiny’s Child works, just in a more advanced way. It’s one of the principles of the High Dinsional Information Form...”
Han Xiao then tried a few more tis using different thods, but nothing worked, so he had no choice but to let go of this thought.
He put the storage device away, stopped making aningless tries, and looked around the Sanctum. He nodded.
The Sanctum revival was successful, what Jayz said was verified, he found out about part of the chanisms of the Sanctums, and his mory capacity reached the limit. From how Han Xiao looked at it, his goal of entering the Sanctum was basically achieved. It was about ti to leave through the gate he ca from.
Just as he was about to move, he suddenly had a flash of insight and realized a problem.
“Wait a minute. I knew about the Sanctums’ origin, the contributions of the Savior Civilization and the Sanctum Civilization, and how they passed on the knowledge from Jayz... but how did Oathkeeper find out?
“If the information he has only ca from reading the light spheres, with so many light spheres here and the mory capacity limit, it should most likely be incomplete...”
Han Xiao frowned.
The Sanctum did not just record the final civilization of an Iteration but all civilizations of every Iteration. As long as they once existed, they would be recorded whether they were weak or strong, unlike the information of individuals.
This ant that only an extrely few light spheres contained the information about the origin of the Sanctums and The Great Reboot.
According to Han Xiao’s experience of reading so many light spheres, if not because he found out about the full picture from Jayz, he would most likely not have been able to combine them into this much information just by reading the light spheres. The mory capacity limit was the main reason.
However, Oathkeeper’s authority level in the Third Sanctum was far lower than his; unless he got extrely lucky and touched one of the ‘final civilizations’, there was no way he would know so much. Therefore, Han Xiao started to have doubts about Oathkeeper’s source of information—he did not believe that b*stard would be so lucky, or he would not have taken so many years to collect all the Sanctum keys.
Han Xiao pondered. The mont he doubted why the Sanctums existed, a change suddenly occurred!
Buzz!
The Sanctum mark on his hand suddenly flickered and shot out streams of light like silk that ford a translucent light curtain hovering before him.
“Hmm? What’s this?”
Han Xiao looked at it closely.
Chains of symbols that he could not understand appeared on the curtain. The language seed to have changed every few paragraphs. Han Xiao could read none of them.
However, the next second, all these symbols turned into the common Galaxy language.
“It can automatically change into a language the reader understands, another Information Form chanism, I see...”
Han Xiao focused and read from top to bottom. He realized that the contents of the Sanctums and the Iterations were right at the top, clearly explaining the full story. It was basically completely the sa with what Jayz said, only more detailed.
Reading further, gaps started to appear every now and then. The further down he read, the more gaps there were.
After reading it for a while, Han Xiao roughly understood what was going on.
“I see, what this light curtain records are the last words of the final civilization of every Iteration. This thing is probably a special ssage board that passes down the important experiences of final civilizations to the next generations.
“These ssages should be arranged according to ti. The earliest ssages are at the top, basic and the most crucial information about the origins of the Sanctums and the Iteration. This is basically the source of the information Oathkeeper knows... The lower it gets, the closer the ssages are to the current Iteration, and the more random gaps there are. This is probably also related to the level of authority. The gaps will only decrease with a high level of authority.”
Han Xiao suddenly understood the purpose of the ssage board—to record the order of the Iterations and let those that ca after quickly understand the origins of the Sanctums and the Great Reboot. That way, they did not have to randomly touch light spheres and piece the puzzle together themselves. Those that ca after could learn from their experiences and make fewer mistakes.
This ssage board should be the main platform for the relay between the final civilizations of the various Iterations!
Han Xiao rubbed his chin and said with surprise, “This ssage board doesn’t feel like it ca from the Sanctum itself but a change created by the later Iterations...”
Jayz had once said that because the Sanctums were eternal, many final civilizations saw the Sanctums as a breakthrough point and carried out all kinds of plans around it. That caused the Sanctums to ‘mutate’ and gain new functions. The Sanctum’s revival function might be one of them, since the class of the revival targets was not restricted by the different types of Sanctums.
This ssage board was very likely one of the mutated functions too. Through reading, he realized many civilizations did indeed carry out plans concerning the Sanctums. The first civilization to leave a ssage clearly conveyed in the ssage that it was the first to discover the ssage board function, and there were light spheres of civilizations in earlier Iterations than them.
The first civilization also briefly described the basic chanisms and functions of the Sanctums, such as the required keys of the other Sanctums. As Han Xiao expected, the Sanctum fragnts represented the level of authority.
Even Beyond Grade As occasionally receiving a feeling that Sanctums existed was a mutated function so that the following Iterations could co in contact with the Sanctums earlier and have more ti to prepare.
At the sa ti, the final civilizations in the later Iterations also continued the work of introducing the functions of the Sanctums, adding new mutated functions on the ssage board. However, most of them were incomplete, and Han Xiao could not see them.
“All the rulers of the Iterations were leading the path for those who ca after them...”
Han Xiao’s eyes flickered and looked at the light curtain again with different emotions.
[Today is the day to carry out the ███ Plan. Hope everything goes smoothly.]
[Will the ███ really work? We’re not actually confident...]
[The Rebirth Plan is based on ███. According to our calculations, our success rate is only at about 1.44%. Maybe we’ve not studied it enough and won’t make it through the Great Reboot, but the technology of the Rebirth Plan will be recorded by the Sanctums. We hope those who co after us can continue to study it. The na of our civilization is ███.]
[We’re the ███ Civilization. The Great Reboot has begun; all of this is not a lie. We are using the remainder of our ti to leave this ssage. Our plan will fail. It proves that the ███ technology won’t work. Don’t take our path, it’s a dead end!]
On the light curtain, there were ssages full of hope, ssages that sounded unconfident, and ssages that analyzed the path they took...
Looking at these ssages, Han Xiao could almost feel the emotions these civilizations were going through when leaving them. They suppressed their anxiety, despair, and fear, forcing themselves to calm down and leave the knowledge they had to those who ca after...
“This must be the true aning of ‘A Relay Across Iterations’... What an incredible history.”
At this ti, Han Xiao finally had a deeper understanding of the na of this mission. He felt complicated and could not help but respect these civilizations.
“Maybe one day in the future, the three Universal Civilizations will leave a ssage here too... hmm, or the World Tree Civilization?”
Han Xiao sighed, cald his emotions, and started searching for ssages related to the Celestial Star Alliance.
As the ssages were arranged by ti, he wanted to see where the Celestial Star Alliance ca in and how many Iterations they were away.
He read one ssage after another, and when he ca to the fifth last ssage, he saw the related information.
As this was relatively recent, the ssages below were mostly empty. But he saw the familiar phrase ‘World Reset Plan’, which was the Celestial Star Alliance’s plan to get through the Great Reboot.
“Fifth last, huh. This ans that the Celestial Star Alliance is at most four Iterations before us, or the last Iteration before us at minimum...”
Han Xiao nodded.
As one Iteration could leave multiple ssages, he did not know who wrote the last few ssages. It might be other Iterations or the Celestial Star Alliance. Originally, he could judge from their language as the sa language would an they were from the sa Iteration, but the ssage board had already translated all of them into the Galaxy’s general language. Han Xiao tried to but could not turn them back to their original language; he did not know if there was no such function or his level of authority was not high enough. Either way, there was nothing he could do.
The last few ssages were filled with blanks. The only valuable piece of information was a phrase in the middle of the last paragraph.
[██████ Information Form becoming real. This is the right path ██████]
Han Xiao scratched his head and did not know what to say.
“Information Form conversion... Both the Intelligent Plague and the Sanctum revival function should share this trait. However, this ssage actually said this path is the right one... If it really is, how did you guys perish?”
Han Xiao sighed.
He pondered for a while. He then tried to leave a ssage on the light curtain, but it did not respond.
“Hmm, speaking of which, all the ssages on this light curtain are from civilizations, no individuals. I wonder if my authority level is not enough to leave a ssage, or are the ssages left by individuals not recorded by the ssage board?”
Since there was no way of figuring that now, Han Xiao could only put this question aside and close the ssage board.
The goal of this trip was mostly achieved. To him, the biggest thing he acquired this ti was that he recorded the full thods to open the other Sanctums with his authority level, which was much higher than Oathkeeper’s.
Due to the limit of mory capacity, he would probably have to wait till the next ti he entered if he wanted to acquire more things.
“I hope I can see other Sanctums next ti. The First Sanctum would be best; my authority level there is quite high too.”
Han Xiao mumbled to himself and returned to the stabilized Sanctum gate.
He glanced at the Sanctum, then turned around and flew into the gate.
When the bright light filled Han Xiao’s sights once again, in the short mont his consciousness was blurry, he only had one thought.
“I’ve stayed in the Sanctum for five hours at most. I wonder how much ti has passed in the universe...”
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