305: The last gift of a civilization and the world

'Entered the interlayer space, a Blessed Land?'

As the thought arose, Yang Dian felt his vision go black and his body tighten. Dozens of times the normal gravity pressed in from all directions, and Little Orca let out a mournful cry.

Yang Dian enveloped Little Orca in Qi and blood, counteracting the gravity acting on it, then looked around.

It was indeed a different world.

Not only had the gravity greatly increased, but even the seawater had vanished.

Beneath the trench was a scarred world, approximately a thousand li in diameter and ten thousand meters high.

The earth was cracked, mountains toppled, and dark brown blood covered every inch of land.

There were no plants, no buildings; everything seemed to have been pulverized.

Endless Battle Intent and indignation flowed through the air, tinting the entire world a dim yellow.

Listening intently, Yang Dian seemed to hear the unwilling roar of a civilization before its demise.

Subconsciously, he visualized the Rage rune in his mind.

Then, a series of incredibly clear battle songs, which Yang Dian didn't understand yet felt made his blood boil, resounded between heaven and earth.

This feeling...

It was like a bugle call on a battlefield.

A pulsation etched deep within the Soul.

Amidst the battle songs, the dim yellow light began to gather towards the sky and the ground, and then an epic battle replayed itself in this long-dead world.

Alien Planet people, identical to humans in appearance and physique but more robust, with muscles seemingly sculpted from granite, leaped from the ground, creating Mach rings in the sky as they charged resolutely towards the black dots falling from above.

There were no flashy Awakening abilities, nor overwhelming Qi and blood power.

There was only soaring Battle Intent and an extremely powerful physique.

Fighting against the heavens, battling the earth, and then nobly dying in battle.

That soaring Battle Intent made Yang Dian instinctively feel that this was a race born for war.

Even if their civilization was overthrown in battle, they would only laugh as they died, becoming martyrs for their civilization.

"So, what made them so angry?"

The 'heaven and earth' seemed to hear Yang Dian's words.

And so, the scene shifted.

In the sky, countless Alien Planet powerhouses were fighting Cosmic Creatures.

On the ground, the Lingwen Clan priests, whom they had taken in and fought alongside, had blue spirit patterns flashing on their bodies, summoning endless lightning.

However, these lightning bolts, unlike usual, did not strike the Cosmic Creatures from beyond the heavens, but rather hit the ground.

Lightning tore through space, and nightmares emerged from the shattered space, their cruel eyes fixed on the Alien Planet children left on the ground, who were learning to train their bodies like adults.

All the Alien Planet powerhouses were fighting to the death in the sky.

Although the guards left on the ground were strong, how could they compare to the Lingwen Clan priests arrayed in battle, and the nightmares they had summoned?

Countless children died beneath the scythes of the nightmare creatures.

Through betrayal, the Legacy of the Alien Planet people was severed.

"So that's why you left behind endless anger, and even this anger touched the most fundamental rule runes?"

"But I guess I've avenged you, haven't I?"

"The Lingwen Clan was nuked by me, and the nightmares were shattered into dust by the lingering obsession on the Rage rune."

"As for the other Cosmic Creatures, they'll die eventually too~"

Amidst his murmur, the ground began to tremble, leaving only a final afterimage, or perhaps it was already the projection of the Alien Planet people's obsession and Legacy, which once again transformed into dim yellow light and gathered onto the Rage rune.

No, it shouldn't be called the Rage rune anymore.

Yang Dian could feel that the essence of the rune was changing.

'Rage' was merely the surface, the unwilling emotion left behind by the Alien Planet civilization as it passed on its civilization's Battle Intent.

'Battle' was its essence.

Its essence was that spirit of fighting heaven and earth, never yielding.

"Fighting heaven and earth, never yielding, huh?"

"It's like us."

"We've never admitted defeat either."

"If I could have met you before your demise, it would have been a great experience, we'd have a lot in common, wouldn't we?"

"What a pity~"

The world is like this, it doesn't shift according to personal will.

Yang Dian sincerely admired that Alien Planet civilization, which left no name, only its unyielding Battle Intent.

But they did perish.

"I wonder if their Alien Planet experienced dimensional folding erosion, or if they left any sparks on other Alien Planets."

"If not, that's truly a shame..."

Amidst his lament, the trembling earth transformed into countless tiny black specks of dust.

The Dimension Butterfly, sensing something, flew out from Yang Dian's glabella. Its rhomboid star core instantly transformed into a butterfly shape, and with a flash, it vanished before Yang Dian.

A blink later, it reappeared.

However, when it reappeared, it held a golden gem, rhomboid in shape and the size of a grain of rice.

"A star core fragment?"

No sooner had he spoken than Yang Dian felt a sense of repulsion acting on him.

Realizing what was happening, Yang Dian did not resist this repulsion.

After a few blinks, space began to twist around him.

When his vision returned to normal, he found himself having left that dead 'Alien Planet Blessed Land' and returned to the ocean trench.

He looked around.

As he obtained the Alien Planet civilization's final gift, the Alien Planet civilization's endless Battle Intent and rage dissipated, and the anomalies in the seabed area also vanished.

Sea fish, sea shrimp, crabs... countless deep-sea creatures, all returned to normal.

Uh, not exactly normal.

They seemed to sense danger and fled madly into the distance.

His gaze fell upon the trench in front of him, which was gradually beginning to vibrate. Yang Dian raised an eyebrow, grabbed the Dimension Butterfly, which was perched on Little Black Cat's head and couldn't be caught no matter how Little Black Cat tried, and pressed it back into his glabella.

Then, the world in Yang Dian's eyes began to change.

He clearly saw the Lizardmen Alien Planet fragment space, 'embedded' in Earth's space, trembling and collapsing, as if it was about to shrink into a core.

"The civilization's final gift was unyielding Battle Intent."

"As for now, is it the world's final gift?"

Amidst his murmur, Yang Dian rubbed his glabella.

Dimension Butterfly.

No, it shouldn't be called a Dimension Butterfly either.

Butterfly was just a concept Yang Dian added to it.

It should be said that the Dimension Butterfly had just transmitted a message to him.

"Besides the Lizardmen Alien Planet fragment and the newly acquired Alien Planet fragment, if you devour 9999 more star core fragments, you can initiate your next evolution?"

"Why don't you just eat me and evolve?"

"If I could conquer another 9999 Alien Planets, I'd spiral up to heaven myself."

Yang Dian annoyedly rubbed Little Black Cat's head a couple of times, then stretched out his hand and grabbed the black sphere 'squeezing' out of the spatial rift. Finally, he turned his head to look at the blue figure that had suddenly appeared beside him:

"Captain, long time no see."