Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Li Yao’s hesitation was clearly seen by the Observer through the transmission of brainwaves.

The Moongazer Serpent blushed and lowered her head in silence for a long time. Then she smiled bitterly and said, “Yes. It was not until a long time later that I learned that the outside world had so many doubts, concerns, and fears about our excavations and studies in the Heavenly Palace. It was even possible that the ‘Ultimate Testing’ that the Forerunners set up might decide whether to save our civilization or to be saved in the blink of an eye would raise such a riot when it was leaked.

“There are many people out there—mainly the Pangu Clan, who have sealed their emotions and will and believe that we should continue hibernating for billions of years. They believe that we shouldn’t touch the secrets left by the ancestors. Some of them are even radical fundamentalists who believe that the ancestors established the black wall in order to protect us from the flood. Any attempt to overthrow the black wall will be a betrayal of the ancestors, and the dead bodies of hundreds of civilizations will be the most severe punishment.

“Of course, there are also countless people, mainly those who are passionate, impulsive, and adventurous. They believe that the qualification to analyze the mysteries of the primeval ancestors and perform the ultimate tests should not be monopolized by us ‘people of the Heavenly Palace’. Instead, the primeval relics should be opened to all the citizens of the civilization. The wisdom and courage of everybody should be gathered to solve the problems together.

“For the majority of the ordinary people, they could not bear the cost of their entire civilization being destroyed instantly. They were about to have a mental breakdown just thinking about it. Since a hundred ancient civilizations failed, why should they believe that we would be different from the rest and that we would definitely succeed? They believed that our operation was purely a suicide of the civilization and that we were merely moths darting into flames. Therefore, they supported the views of the fundamentalists of the Pangu Clan in the beginning and imposed tremendous pressure on the highest authorities, demanding that the exploration and research inside the primeval relics be halted immediately and that all the ‘people of the Heavenly Palace’ be evacuated.

“All in all, the messy and chaotic ideology grew more and more rampant until it turned into a torrent that was about to engulf the Heavenly Palace.

Li Yao could not help but remark, “In fact, it is not unreasonable to think that you are committing suicide from the perspective of ordinary people. After all, the hundreds of civilizations have failed…”

“But we have no other options!

The Moongazer Serpent shouted, “Did you think that the hundred ancient civilizations were all brawns and no brains? Did you think that the suicidal genes deep down in their genes drove them to do stupid things? Even if the first twenty civilizations did not know the formidability of the ultimate test and were fooled by it, the dozens of civilizations that followed had already discovered the relics and corpses of the previous civilizations and knew the dangers of the ultimate test. Why were they still marching forward without regret?

“The reason is simple. When the civilizations were able to discover and explore the ancient relics, their civilization had already reached its peak and passed the turning point of decline. Their population exploded, their resources were scarce, and their society was in chaos. Their killing techniques and war machines reached the peak of perfection. They even developed weapons that could destroy themselves and the planet instantly. They were going to die in the first place and could only watch their civilization perish. Even the wisest scholars and the bravest warriors could not stop them.

“Therefore, if they had no other options, they would risk entering the primeval relics and try to save their civilization through the ‘ultimate test’.

“Same goes for the Pangu Civilization.

“Of course, we can retreat from the primeval relics and seal the place. But even so, it will not solve the ultimate destruction that our civilization is faced with. The only thing that can be done is to move the time of our death back thousands of years. Is there a difference between the instantaneous destruction and being suffocated in an airtight iron house? If there is a difference, the latter way of death will only expose the ugliest side of our civilization before our death. It will be a humiliating death! Why do the outsiders not understand such a simple logic?”

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Li Yao smiled bitterly. “As you said, you grew up in a very special environment. You’ve been used to the rise and fall of hundreds of civilizations since you were a kid. The glory of a civilization is just a fleeting spark in your eyes. Therefore, you can look at the problem calmly. “But for most of the ordinary people, as well as the politicians, soldiers, and rulers who are responsible for the ordinary people, it is impossible for them to say things like ‘I’m going to suffocate in hundreds of thousands of years anyway, so I might as well give it a try right now’. The ordinary people can’t understand it, nor can they accept it. “Besides, the interests of the politicians, the ambitions of the warlords, the survival instincts that are buried deep inside our genes…

The Observer was dazed for a moment. He sighed and said, “Maybe you’re right. In short, the Pangu civilization at that time was already in the middle of a storm, and the Heavenly Palace enjoyed a moment of peace as if it were in the eye of the storm. I was lucky enough to be born in such a short, precious peace. When I grew up, I inherited my father’s legacy and studied the cutting-edge fields of gene reproduction and integration. I also got in touch with my father’s research project. You already know what that is, don’t you?”

“Yes.”

Li Yao nodded and said, “After you sensed the failure of a hundred ancient civilizations, you did not dare activate the ultimate test recklessly. Instead, you thought of a different approach. You wanted to replicate the real-life makers of the black wall and learn the mysteries of the ultimate test from them. You even planned to make use of them to take the test and significantly improve the success rate.

“Yes. Amazing observation and deduction ability.

The Observer complimented Li Yao and continued, “The Project ‘Progenitor Replication’ is the most important and the most difficult of thousands of simultaneous research projects in the entire Heavenly Palace. It is the core and crown of the entire ‘Heavenly Palace Project’. It has been going on for hundreds of years. My father was the latest leader of the project.

“He has always been fascinated by the cutting-edge fields of gene reproduction and integration. He is a talented, rarely-seen genius in a thousand years. Even in the Heavenly Palace, a place where almost everyone is an expert and a scholar, he is among the best.

“After my mother’s accident, he became mentally deranged and devoted himself to work.

“I knew what was on his mind. For him, ‘Progenitor Replication’ was not just for the civilization but also for my mother and his wife.

“He was going to replicate the real Master Origin and interrogate him by his collar. Why was that? “Why did the Forerunners seal everything with a black wall when they found the sea of stars with abundant resources and a stable environment?

“Why did the Originator create everything with his own genes and even countless civilizations, only to annihilate them time and time again? “Why did the Primeval Lord of Heaven leave such abundant treasures and advanced knowledge for the civilization of his children and grandchildren, only to set up a bizarre riddle with no correct answer, as if it were a cruel joke that gave hope to a civilization and then took it away, pushing the civilization into the abyss of desperation?

“More importantly, I knew that my father was trying to find a way to treat my mother from the original owner of the body. My father refused to believe that my mother was really dead. He firmly believed that my mother was still alive in the marvelous form of an ‘black iron life’ whose metabolism was billions of times slower. He was going to overcome all obstacles and overcome all obstacles to wake up his wife!

“In the beginning, I didn’t understand why my father was so crazy. I thought that he was on the verge of a mental breakdown and that he should take special measures to suppress the emotional area in his brain. Otherwise, he might have been mentally deranged like many other uncles and aunties. He might have been shouting and waving his hands, turning into a lunatic.

“However, my father’s willpower was unbelievably strong. No matter how miserably and hysterically he cried while leaning against his mother’s black iron statue in the middle of the night, he would always return to normal the next morning. He would return to the laboratory with red eyes and focus on his research. Not a single data was wrong.

“Under the influence of my father, I gradually began to doubt whether or not my mother was dead. Although she did not have a heartbeat, breath, or metabolism, and the cells all over her body had mutated into an unknown substance, would her soul still be stored in the mysterious substance, waiting to be reunited with her family one day? “I thought of the researcher who fell into a space crack and didn’t reappear until a hundred years later.

“Is it possible that my mother’s soul has fallen into such a nonexistent crack and is struggling and groping in the maze of the void? As long as she and we don’t give up, we will find the exit one day.” “Therefore, like my father, I became a ‘little lunatic’.

“I couldn’t wait to find a ‘Progenitor’ to figure out what was going on and ask if there was any way to rescue my mother.

“At that time, after hundreds of years of experiments, we had already duplicated a batch of intelligent, carbon-based creatures with 100% of the primeval genes, which were human beings like you. “However, those human beings are just simple piles and assemblages of the primeval genes. They are all fakes. Or rather, they are still hibernating because the mysteries of the genes have not been unlocked yet. No matter how they are studied and hypnotized, they cannot tell us anything about the primeval mysteries billions of years ago.

“Naturally, those human beings were not the targets that I was looking for. “Thankfully, right at this moment, my father made a major breakthrough in his research. He has indeed bred a very special ‘Progenitor Embryo’!