156: A woman who has lived for 100,000 years

The woman heard the movement behind her, turned around slowly, and looked at the newcomers.

Xu Jingzhe and Zhang Manyue's bodies were tense, ready to unleash a world-shaking attack at any moment; the woman gave them both an extremely dangerous feeling.

"You... two don't need to be nervous; I won't hurt you." The woman spoke with a delicate fragrance, her voice soft and sweet, making people involuntarily lower their guard.

However, Xu Jingzhe dared not relax even more; it would be no exaggeration to describe this woman as 'bewitching'.

At first glance, her appearance was unremarkable, the kind of person who would be swallowed up in a crowd.

But she had a pair of purple eyes that would attract you to look at her a second time, a third time, involuntarily...

Every subsequent glance felt like a lifetime, and it was impossible to forget her.

Xu Jingzhe even had the urge to become her slave, willing to go through fire and water for her without hesitation.

The energy within the Golden Contamination Core and the energy stored in his cells operated simultaneously, reaching their peak state.

Points of light appeared in Xu Jingzhe's clear eyes, and a trace of golden blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.

"Oh?" The woman stared at the golden blood at the corner of Xu Jingzhe's mouth, let out a soft exclamation, and then smiled—her smile like a gentle rain on the street, soothing to the heart—and continued, "Interesting little fellow."

"I didn't expect that after sleeping for hundreds of thousands of years, having just woken up a year ago, I would encounter two very interesting little friends."

Although the woman's voice was not loud, it sounded like pearls falling on a jade plate, and Xu Jingzhe heard it clearly.

Slept for... one hundred thousand years?

His heart shook violently, and he looked at the woman in front of him in disbelief.

Zhang Manyue had her Black Gold Long Saber in hand, red light flickering deep in her eyes, and her aura became restless.

This plain-looking woman was too terrifying; just standing there, she made the two of them feel as if Mount Tai were pressing down on them.

Seeing that Xu Jingzhe and the other were highly tense, the woman was not angry; she extended her jade hand and flicked it three times.

Immediately, Xu Jingzhe's tense body relaxed, entering a peaceful state.

Zhang Manyue also put away her Black Gold Long Saber, a trace of confusion in her eyes.

"My surname is Ji, Ji Qingci." The woman descended from the large bluestone, her figure graceful, and she walked toward Xu Jingzhe, extending her jade hand.

The blood in Xu Jingzhe's body stirred again, his eyelids twitched, and he couldn't help but want to attack.

In an instant.

The energy was suppressed again, unable to be mobilized, so he had to extend his hand and shake the woman's hand lightly.

"Xu Jingzhe."

"Zhang Manyue."

Ji Qingci nodded, a smile always on her face: "A nice name. Jingzhe marks the beginning of the second lunar month, a sign of growth, when the weather warms up and the spring thunder begins to rumble."

"Manyue. The moon has its cloudy, clear, waxing, and waning phases; the fifteenth of the eighth month is the full moon, a time for family reunion—wonderful."

Afterward, her purple eyes dimmed slightly, and she murmured to herself: "I just don't know if today's moon is still as clean as it was one hundred thousand years ago."

Determining that the woman had no intention of hurting them, Xu Jingzhe asked the biggest question in his heart: "Ji... Miss, have you really been asleep for as long as one hundred thousand years?"

One hundred thousand years!

Time passes, seas dry up and rocks crumble; what kind of person could sleep for so long?

In Xu Jingzhe's understanding, the longest recorded human civilization on Blue Star was only five thousand years.

By that calculation, this woman was a super ancestor of humanity. There were countless generations between her and Xu Jingzhe; it truly is 'three years older, holding a golden brick; thirty years older, gifting a kingdom; one hundred thousand years older, the Queen Mother of the West feeding you!'

Ji Qingci smiled brightly: "If it weren't for a problem with my cryo-sleep pod, causing me to wake up a dozen years earlier than scheduled, I wouldn't be awake now, and you wouldn't have met me."

Xu Jingzhe frowned. A cryo-sleep pod?

He tentatively asked: "You are not a native of Blue Star? Did you come across the Galaxy?"

Ji Qingci shook her head and sighed softly: "Forget it. Soon, all the major super-factions will wake up. The entire Blue Star will know soon enough; telling you in advance doesn't matter."

"However, can you first tell me why your blood is golden?"

"I, this..." Xu Jingzhe was momentarily at a loss for words: "My blood is red, not golden. The golden liquid spilling from the corner of my mouth is actually a manifestation of some kind of energy." Xu Jingzhe didn't know how to explain the pollution core to a woman who had lived for one hundred thousand years.

Ji Qingci nodded, then looked at Zhang Manyue and smiled: "You have truly received a great benefit from my Ji family, yet you hold such great hostility toward me."

"Otherwise, your body would have already disintegrated."

Zhang Manyue paused and politely said thank you.

"Alright, alright~" Ji Qingci stretched, appearing to be in a very good mood, and said: "In the history of Blue Star, there have been dozens of epochal shifts: the Archaic Era, the Ancient Era... the Jurassic, Cretaceous, Cenozoic, the Human Era, and so on."

"And I was born in the Cenozoic Era. The entire Cenozoic Era existed for 65 million years, and the Blue Star's civilization level reached Level 2."

"Later, in order to compete for resources, a cosmic-level war broke out on Blue Star, spreading across the entire Galaxy and destroying numerous living things."

"By the time I was born, it was already the end of the Cenozoic Era. Resources on Blue Star were severely scarce, and personnel from various major families dispatched batch after batch of elites to suitable planets in various galaxies of the universe to maintain the development of civilization."

Speaking of this, Ji Qingci's purple pupils seemed to pierce through Blue Star, traveling among the numerous stars.

"But... batch after batch of elites left and died in the universe. Blue Star's resources were no longer enough to support us."

"Every family was forced to move away from Blue Star as a whole, taking the most advanced technology with them, leaving only a portion of the 'seeds' on Blue Star to enter cryo-sleep, prolong life, and pass on the family lineage."

"I... am just one of those who chose to stay behind."

Ji Qingci's face was filled with a lonely expression. It had been one hundred thousand years, and the people of the Ji family had not returned. Either they had all died in the vast universe, or they had already settled on suitable planets and forgotten about them.

Xu Jingzhe was shocked speechless. Since coming to the Pollution Zone, his worldview had been refreshed time and time again.

The things taught in the Seed Zone could not be trusted at all.

It was all fake.

Fake!

"In the year since I woke up, although I cannot leave this area for the time being, I have also learned about your later civilization history."

"I saw a very interesting setting that made me laugh until my stomach hurt."

"What?" Xu Jingzhe asked.

"You revere our Ji family, the Jiang Family, the Jiuli, and several other families as the ancestors of human civilization—the so-called 'Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors'."

"The advanced technological wars and ability wars between the families were also recorded as 'divine powers,' calling wind and rain, overturning seas, and capable of anything."

"Our Ji family is the surname of the Yellow Emperor you speak of. Tell me, isn't that hilarious?" Ji Qingci asked with a smile.

"You... also have abilities?" Xu Jingzhe keenly grasped this point and asked.

"That is natural. Technology modifies the body, producing numerous abilities; isn't that what an ability is?" Ji Qingci looked at Xu Jingzhe and said: "It is much the same as the Moon Soil Evolution Fluid you are currently developing and the pollution core produced inside the bodies of those infected in the Pollution Zone."

"In the process of human civilization's development, there was clearly a gap. Yet, the direction of research and development is surprisingly consistent. It really is puzzling."

Ji Qingci looked up toward the depths of the universe, light flowing in her purple eyes.