571: Information about the ancient atmosphere

Yang Dian felt a sudden sense of helplessness as he looked at the majestic Dragon Carp with its prominent horns, then at the Fire Flame Turtle, which had shrunk to the size of a normal turtle, its eyes smaller than sesame seeds.

“Zero, retrieve information on ancient aura.”

“Yes, Commander. Retrieving now…”

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“Retrieval complete.”

“According to the retrieval results, ancient aura appears extensively in fantasy works such as novels and anime on Earth.”

“This information also appears in various civilizations’ fantasy works within the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty’s Wenlan Pavilion.”

“In addition, a large amount of information regarding ancient aura appears in the Wenlan Pavilion’s 176th-floor Phantom Spirit World, 353rd-floor Flying Cloud World, 666th-floor Sun-Lost World, 888th-floor Ancient Beast World, 1151st-floor Mirage Spirit World, and 1237th-floor Beast Taming World.”

“Furthermore, Cultivators from Chongming Star’s Fulu Temple have been engaging in numerous ancient aura conversations for the past three years, indicating that life within the temple is Cultivating evil methods or has undergone mutation.”

“This temple has abducted tens of thousands of boys and girls over the past three years, and none of them have reappeared after entering the temple.”

“Upon verification, in these worlds, ancient aura is similar to the genetic information remnants of certain powerful life forms.”

“In other words, it can also be called memetic pollution.”

“Powerful life forms left behind life information an unknown number of years ago. When new-generation creatures acquire this information, their life essence will mutate towards the powerful life form’s species.”

After listening to Zero’s explanation, Yang Dian subconsciously rubbed his furrowed brow.

“Life information left behind by powerful life forms an unknown number of years ago?”

“Is it the planetary debris that fell from the dimensional rift?”

After asking himself, Yang Dian looked again at the Dragon Carp, enveloped in a bubble by the Fire Flame Turtle.

“Or… a Dragon?”

“And those vampires and Nine-Tailed Foxes that the Dimension Butterfly dug up before…”

“Perhaps Earth really does hold some secrets?”

“Since our Huaxia’s Dragons are real.”

“Then, could the mythical creatures of other civilizations also be real?”

“Hmm, perhaps not mythical…”

“After all, besides the Dragon, all other animals in the 12 zodiac signs can be seen.”

“A Dragon might be an animal that was once discovered, truly existed, but later disappeared…”

After a long period of thought, Yang Dian looked at the Fire Flame Turtle again:

“Can you take me to the place where you collected the ancient aura?”

The Fire Flame Turtle shook its massive head:

“No, I have to keep moving forward to sort out the underground fire veins; I can’t go backward.”

Saying this, it looked back again:

“The place where I collected the ancient aura is 693 steps from here.”

Yang Dian looked in the direction the Fire Flame Turtle was facing, then gestured at the Fire Flame Turtle’s body:

“Each step of the turtle is roughly 1200 meters.”

“So, 693 steps would be about 830 kilometers away.”

“In the East Sand Archipelago area?”

After pinpointing the target, Yang Dian looked down at the seabed again.

Actually, there was an even simpler method.

Just follow the Fire Flame Turtle’s enormous footprints.

After locating the spot, Yang Dian waved at the magma red carps on the Fire Flame Turtle’s shell, and a large portion of magma along with a third of the magma red carps were collected into Yang Dian’s Star Core Bracelet:

“These carps are enough for me. You can continue raising the rest of the carps and that Dragon Carp.”

The Fire Flame Turtle nodded, then took a step forward:

“I’m off to continue sorting out the underground fire veins!”

As its voice faded, its two raised feet had silently sunk into the seabed, and its head plunged directly, deep into the ocean floor.

If Yang Dian’s senses weren’t mistaken.

Streams of explosive, chaotic underground flames were being continuously devoured by the Fire Flame Turtle, making the entire seabed environment more harmonious.

“This turtle…”

“It feels like it can rival the Artifact Refiners in the Weapon Forging Grotto-Heaven.”

“They’re all destined for a life of hard labor.”

After muttering to himself, Yang Dian followed the footprints left by the Fire Flame Turtle on the seabed.

However, when he swam along the trail to the 693rd Fire Flame Turtle footprint, he didn’t sense anything amiss.

He searched high and low, and even dispatched the Dimension Butterfly to scour every spatial interlayer repeatedly.

After confirming that there was no ‘ancient aura,’ Yang Dian couldn’t help but rub his temples.

“Was that so-called ancient aura something the turtle accidentally obtained?”

Unable to come to a conclusion after much thought, Yang Dian simply had the Dimension Butterfly take him back to Canglan Star. Upon returning to the Weapon Forging Grotto-Heaven, he first released the magma red carps into the magma river of the Blessed Land.

Watching the red carps splash a bit of magma before disappearing from sight, Yang Dian couldn’t help but feel a little emotional.

“Following me, you’ve certainly found a better life.”

“When else would you have the chance to taste magma from different worlds?”

As his voice fell, Yang Dian ignored the Great Yu Artifact Refiners, who toiled day and night like beasts of burden, and directly had the Dimension Butterfly take him away from the Weapon Forging Grotto-Heaven, then flew towards Chongming Star.

Since Chongming Star had information about ancient aura, even if he didn’t know if it was true or false, he didn’t mind going to check it out.

While heading to Fulu Temple, Yang Dian also had Zero retrieve the records of ancient aura from the Wenlan Pavilion’s six realms, including the Phantom Spirit World.

“The ancient aura in the Phantom Spirit World can cause humans there to revert to an ancestral form, becoming creatures with two horns on their heads and two wings on their backs.”

“However, the process of absorbing the ancient aura is like genetic recombination, extremely painful.”

“If one endures it, they can gain strength close to the Star-Patrolling Realm, and their subsequent Cultivation talent will be greatly enhanced.”

“If one cannot endure it, their flesh will proliferate, turning them into monsters.”

“In the Flying Cloud World, are the indigenous people a group of white clouds that developed sentience?”

“Does the ancient aura cause the white clouds to merge and become a super-invincible giant cloud layer?”

“The Ancient Beast World is similar to Earth before the Qi Revival, also a technological world.”

“But after the Qi Revival and the widespread appearance of ancient aura, animal life underwent extensive atavism, becoming tall, large, and fierce, quickly overthrowing human civilization and becoming the world’s overlords.”

“In the Beast Taming World, people fight by taming beasts. The ancient aura can cause pet beasts to undergo super-evolution, transforming them into strange, extraordinarily powerful forms…”

As he continuously browsed the information retrieved by Zero, Yang Dian found that the actual situation was largely consistent with what Zero had described.

Ancient aura was like a memetic contamination, capable of polluting the original body into the form of the memetic subject.

“Knowing that a species is facing extinction, so they leave behind a piece of memetic information.”

“No matter what creature obtains this memetic information, it will evolve into the form of the species that left the information in the future, thereby ensuring the species’ immortality?”

Various thoughts flashed through Yang Dian’s mind like a carousel until he entered the Chongming Star’s range. Only then did he collect his thoughts and fly towards Fulu Temple, following the direction indicated by Zero’s navigation.

As he flew, he also observed Chongming Star.

“Strange.”

“The three great Sects of Chongming Star are so powerful, they should have a way to gather Spiritual Qi, right?”

“Why do they let the Spiritual Qi spread everywhere?”