45: The mystery of the Su family's demise

"Do you think... throwing him into the spacetime wormhole back then was... a mistake?"

"If we had thrown him onto this hunk-of-iron planet, would he... already be snacking on Saint Kings by now?"

Elizabeth didn't answer him.

She just watched quietly.

In her heart, for the first time, her belief in the Dragon Clan's 'bloodline supremacy' theory wavered.

Perhaps... in this universe, there really exists... another path to the peak that doesn't rely on bloodlines or laws.

And her son was proving this to her... inside the [Gods Graveyard].

Su Jue didn't know how long he had been 'eating.'

He only knew that his [energy points] had already surpassed the eight-digit mark!

It had become a number he couldn't even count himself.

This feeling of sudden wealth made him incredibly intoxicated.

Just as he was preparing to 'march' toward a mountain made of countless discarded drones.

His footsteps suddenly stopped.

Because he saw something... very different.

Amidst the layers of cold, steel junk.

A silver-white metal pod, emitting a faint white chill and filled with streamlined beauty, lay there quietly.

It looked completely out of place compared to the bulky, crude mechanical creations around it.

Its style... was more like something from the Lanxia Universe Federation.

Su Jue's heart stirred, and he walked over.

He reached out his small hand and gently stroked the shell of the metal pod.

There was no system prompt.

This meant that this thing wasn't a 'power source' of the technological side, but a... container.

He walked around the metal pod and soon discovered an emblem on one side of the hull that was incredibly familiar to him!

It was a pattern formed by a crossed ancient longsword and an unfurled scroll!

It was... the Su Family's crest!

Su Jue's breath instantly hitched!

How... could there be something from the Su Family here?!

He reached out, wanting to open the metal pod.

However, the moment his fingertips touched the gap in the pod door!

"Buzz—!"

The [Primordial Human Ancestral Blood] that had been dormant in his body for a long time suddenly boiled violently!

A golden light burst from his fingertips and instantly flooded into the metal pod's control system!

"Click—!"

Accompanied by a crisp unlocking sound.

The low-temperature hibernation pod.

Slowly opened.

A wave of icy mist diffused from within.

Su Jue stood on his tiptoes, looking inside curiously.

He thought he would see a frozen clansman.

However, the hibernation pod was empty.

There was only a... faintly glowing... Data crystal, quietly floating in mid-air.

Su Jue was stunned.

What... is going on?

He reached out and grasped the Data crystal in his hand.

The moment he held it!

[Ding! High-density information storage medium detected!]

[Detected... homologous bloodline encryption!]

[Decrypting using 'Primordial Human Ancestral Blood'...]

[Decryption successful!]

[Reading internal information...]

The next second!

An unimaginably vast torrent of information, like a bursting dam, instantly crushed his soul's defenses and poured ruthlessly into his mind!

It was a... message... from the past!

The torrent of information did not harm Su Jue's soul.

It was more like a long-buried memory slowly unfolding in his mind.

An old, majestic, yet weary and unwilling voice echoed in the depths of his soul.

"Descendant of the Su Family, when you see this message, our race... may no longer exist."

Su Jue's consciousness was instantly pulled into a virtual space composed of Data.

Before him, the phantom of a white-haired old man wearing an ancient robe, with features thirty percent similar to his own, slowly took shape.

The old man's gaze was as sharp as an eagle's, as if he could see through time and space.

"I am the 372nd generation head of the Su Family, Su Wangshan."

"I do not know where you are or how you obtained this 'Kindling' crystal."

"But that is no longer important."

"What matters is that you are still alive."

"Our Su Family's bloodline has not been severed!"

The old man's phantom was somewhat emotional, but soon calmed down.

"Child, you must have many questions."

"For example, why did our Su Family perish?"

"Why did those Black Armor Army, those so-called top-tier clans, want to drive us to extinction?"

"!!!" Su Jue's heart suddenly tightened!

He stared fixedly at the old man's phantom!

This was exactly the answer he wanted to know most!

"Hehe..." Su Wangshan gave a sorrowful, bitter laugh.

"What they wanted was never our Su Family's meager 'source crystal ore vein'."

"What they wanted was the secret that the Su Family has guarded for countless eons, generation after generation!"

"A secret... about human origins, about... 'Gods'!"

The old man's voice gradually became extremely solemn.

"Child, remember this!"

"Our Su Family was never some martial arts clan!"

"We are 'Tomb Keepers'!"

"We are the... last bloodline guard left in this universe by the Primeval Human Emperor!"

"What we guard is not some ore vein, but an... archaic relic that is enough to overturn the entire current landscape of the universe!"

"Its name is... the [heart core]!"

Su Wangshan said word by word.

"It is a... super biological computer created by the greatest alchemist of the Archaic Human Race, fusing the core of a fallen 'Mechanical Deity'!"

"Inside it is stored the most complete technology tree of the Archaic Human Race, the most powerful cultivation techniques and scriptures, and... the only key to opening the door to 'Heart Power' cultivation!"

Su Jue's brain shook violently!

[Heart Power]!

[Heart Power] again!

That mysterious power that allowed him to see the phantom of the Human Emperor in the [law constant chamber]!

"For countless years, our Su Family lived in anonymity, hiding on the Blue Planet, just to guard the [heart core] and wait for the Human Emperor Bloodline to awaken once again."

"However, we still underestimated the greed of those jackals."

"The Council of the Lanxia Universe Federation somehow learned of the [heart core]'s existence."

"Thus, a conspiracy against our Su Family began."

"Under the pretext of 'possessing prohibited weapons,' they dispatched the elite 'Black Armor Army,' led by Lei Xiaotian, to launch a surprise attack on the Su Family estate."

"And those despicable traitors from the Wang, Li, and Chen families, in order to get a piece of the pie, took the initiative to provide them with intelligence and blockaded all our paths of retreat!"

As Su Wangshan's phantom spoke to this point, his body began to tremble violently, and his eyes were bloodshot!

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