35: Ancient Human Bloodline
This was the law constant chamber!
It was cast in one piece using the most stable metal in the entire universe—Hephaestus Alloy!
The physical properties and law inertia of this alloy were incredibly high!
Let alone the insignificant power of the bloodline shot from Su Jue's fingertips, even if the Great Emperor Ao Yuan himself were to come and burn this place with his Destructive Dragon Flame for a hundred thousand years, it would be impossible to leave a single trace on it!
But now... it actually... produced such a violent reaction just because of the touch of a single strand of bloodline power?!
"Something's not right..."
Just as Ao Ning was completely bewildered, Elizabeth, who was beside her, spoke up.
Her voice was deep and raspy.
"This alloy..."
"Something is wrong with it."
As an ancient Saint Queen from the same era as Ao Yuan, her knowledge and experience far surpassed Ao Ning's.
She stared fixedly at the violently vibrating wall, and in her mind, a memory that had been sealed for an unknown number of billions of years slowly surfaced.
She remembered.
This batch of Hephaestus Alloy was not smelted by the Dragon Race themselves.
Rather... in some long-forgotten archaic era, the Dragon Race's expeditionary army unearthed it as spoils of war from an ancient battlefield ruin called the "Gods Graveyard."
At that time, all the dragons thought it was the remains of a fallen, unknown god-level civilization.
Because the sturdiness of those alloys surpassed the creation level of all known civilizations at the time.
The top alchemists of the Dragon Race had studied it for millions of years and could not analyze even one-ten-thousandth of its structural principles, let alone replicate it.
In the end, they could only be used as the highest-grade "raw materials" to build the most important core facilities like the law constant chamber.
For a long time, Elizabeth had thought it was an alien civilization with a level of technology far beyond imagination.
But until today... until she saw Su Jue's awakened human bloodline produce such an eerie resonance with this alloy wall... an absurd yet highly probable thought of the truth emerged in her mind.
Could it be... could it be that the so-called "Gods Graveyard," that great archaic civilization that created a super alloy that even a Saint Queen could not damage... was... Human?!
As soon as this thought appeared, even Elizabeth herself felt it was crazy!
Humans?
Those weak, lowly humans with an average lifespan of only a short hundred years, whom the Dragon Race regarded as a "lower race"?
They... once possessed such a glorious past?
How... how could this be?!
This completely overturned her deep-rooted perceptions from over hundreds of millions of years!
And in the center of the room.
Su Jue also sensed that something was wrong.
The moment that strand of his golden bloodline power touched the wall.
An indescribable feeling surged into his heart.
It wasn't a connection of power.
But rather a kind of... intimacy... of shared blood.
It was like... a traveler who had been away from home for many years finally touching the city walls of his hometown.
That cold metal, in his perception, was no longer cold.
It seemed to have Life and warmth, and was sending him silent cheers and shouts!
"Welcome... home..."
A vague thought from ancient times followed that golden thread and was transmitted to the depths of his soul.
Home?
Su Jue was stunned.
He subconsciously injected more bloodline power into that golden thread!
And as his power was injected.
That alloy wall, which was originally as smooth as a mirror, underwent an even more astonishing change!
"Buzz—"
On the wall, those golden runes belonging to the Dragon Race were extinguished one by one under the impact of this stronger bloodline power!
In their place.
Sheets of even more ancient, more complex silver patterns filled with a profound sense of high technology slowly emerged from within the alloy!
These silver patterns were no longer the style of the Dragon Race, which was full of the flavor of nature and laws.
They were straight lines, perfect arcs, and precise geometric figures that looked like circuit boards!
They connected with each other, weaving into an incredibly massive star map that covered the entire interior of the spherical room!
"Mother! Look! Inside the wall... there's something!"
Ao Ning cried out in shock!
She finally understood why the Dragon Race's alchemists could not analyze this alloy!
Because from the very beginning, their research direction was wrong!
This wasn't some simple "material" at all!
This was a... information storage device!
A super database from the archaic human civilization, using a laboratory the size of an entire planet as its shell!
And the "key" to opening this database wasn't some law power or soul password.
It was... the purest, atavistic... human blood!
Elizabeth didn't speak.
She just stared fixedly at the slowly unfolding star map, her massive dragon body trembling slightly due to excessive shock.
She saw.
On that star map, countless flickering points of light were marked. Every point of light represented a galaxy, or even a star sector!
That was a... universe map ten thousand times larger than the territory of the Lanxia Universe Federation!
And at the very center of this map.
The position where the Dragon Race's "Ten Thousand Dragon Fortress" should have been was a patch of deep darkness.
In its place was another incredibly brilliant coordinate, guarded layer by layer by countless concentric rings of light, like the sole monarch of this star map!
Beside that coordinate, two words were marked in a script even more ancient than the Dragon Script—
Ancestral Land!
And just then.
Su Jue's system also popped up notifications frantically!
[Ding! Ultra-high-dimensional information stream detected!]
[Attempting to connect...]
[Connection failed! Insufficient permissions!]
[Ding! Host's 'Primordial Human Ancestral Blood' detected, matching First Sequence permissions!]
[Reconnecting...]
[Connection successful! Downloading Data...]
[Data packet is too massive! Downloaded 1%... Estimated time: 97.8 billion years...]
[Initiating emergency plan! Prioritizing download of index files!]
[Index file download successful!]
[Obtained fragmented information: 'Primeval Human Emperor' Star Map (Ancient Fragment)]
[Obtained fragmented information: Introduction to 'Human Emperor' exclusive cultivation technique Heart Canon (Incomplete)]
[Obtained fragmented information: Design concept for 'Human Emperor' Imperial Guard 'Mythological Mecha' (Incomplete)]
...A series of [Fragmented Information] flooded into Su Jue's mind like a scrolling screen!
And at the exact moment the Data download was complete!
The star map on that wall suddenly burst into brilliant light!
All the light rays converged toward the center!
Finally, in front of Su Jue, Elizabeth, and Ao Ning, it condensed into a... figure!