Chapter 1099

In the top-secret underground Level 10 laboratory of Xia Meng, Zhou Yuanwu personally activated multiple layers of monitoring and protective measures.

"This is the elf corpse?"

When Hearing Ling Shuang took the crystal coffin out of her space ring.

Including Emars and Zhou Yuanwu, everyone present observed curiously.

Xu Jingming did the same.

Unlike when observed from afar, up close one could clearly see the elf's breathtakingly beautiful face.

Her lips were moist and red, her skin faintly tinged with pink.

If not for the obvious absence of life energy, he would have suspected she was merely asleep.

"My Eye of Fate cannot perceive any information related to her—everything is void."

Emars's pale golden eyes glowed faintly, with a trace of purple swirling deep within.

She had already activated her SSS-rank ability, "Eye of Fate," and her SSR-rank combat technique, "Ziwei Eye."

Combined, these two techniques could reveal useful information even from peer-level supreme beings.

Yet, both methods failed completely on this elf corpse.

"Open the coffin first—her space ring should contain plenty of useful information."

Zhou Yuanwu stepped forward to the crystal coffin and exerted slight pressure with his right hand.

But the coffin lid did not budge at all.

Remember, as a supreme being, even his casual exertion carried hundreds of millions of kilograms of force!

Yet now, he could not open even a single coffin lid.

"Hmm?"

Zhou Yuanwu frowned and immediately activated his enhanced S-rank beast-type ability—Crimson Blood War Qilin!

Crimson blood qi erupted violently; his body swelled to three meters tall, and a pair of qilin horns pierced the air with a piercing shriek.

With another surge of strength from his muscular right arm, the coffin lid finally emitted a grating, teeth-chilling friction sound.

The instant a gap appeared—

A strange ripple surged out instantly, filling the entire chamber!

"My ability?"

Zhou Yuanwu's expression changed slightly.

The qilin horns on his head, along with his surging blood qi, were forcibly suppressed back into his body!

Not just him—even Emars's pale golden glow within her eyes flickered and died.

"This… is similar to the suppression effect that corpse in the Breakthrough Tower had on other ninth-rank beings?!" Xu Jingming immediately realized.

"So this corpse's strength when alive was at least Starlight Peak?"

Zhou Yuanwu, who had heard of this from Xu Jingming before, also understood.

"No—it was stronger than Starlight Peak."

Xu Jingming's expression turned Solemn. "The corpse in the Breakthrough Tower could only suppress ninth-rank ability users. This corpse suppresses supreme beings!"

"Above Starlight Peak… could it be Star Level?" Emars whispered.

As the controller of the Ember Temple, she knew well how rare Star Level beings were.

Only one such supreme being emerged per thousand inhabited planets—even in the universe, they were extraordinarily rare.

And now, the corpse of a Star Level being had appeared on their Blue Star…

"Star Level…

Even as a corpse, we probably couldn't harm her in the slightest."

Xu Jingming sighed, then immediately thought of a question: "Can we open the space ring of a Star Level being?"

The space ring bore the original owner's mental imprint.

Without erasing that mental imprint, the space ring could not be opened.

"Try and see."

Zhou Yuanwu waved his hand and removed the ring from the elf corpse.

A corpse was merely a lifeless object; no matter how strong its pressure, it shouldn't hinder the actions of a supreme being like him.

"No good—the mental imprint on the space ring is too stable. I can't erase it."

After attempting, Zhou Yuanwu shook his head.

"Let me try," Emars said next, but after a moment, she too shook her head.

Next, Xu Jingming, Su Qingli, and Hearing Ling Shuang—all in the chamber—each tried in turn.

Yet none of them could open the space ring!

"Unless one possesses Star Level mental strength, this space ring is impossible to open."

Zhou Yuanwu chuckled bitterly. "This was all for nothing."

To stand before a mountain of treasure yet be unable to claim it—this was unbearable.

"Not necessarily. Let Emars try."

Xu Jingming still remembered Emars's reaction upon first seeing this crystal coffin.

"Emars? Your personal AI? What use could she be?" Zhou Yuanwu looked puzzled.

But Emars froze slightly—she had noticed from the beginning.

The elf corpse's face bore an astonishing resemblance to Emars of the Second Civilization Era!

"Emars, come here."

A glow emanated from the smart bracer on Xu Jingming's left hand.

A faint blue virtual beam projected out from it.

It coalesced into a petite girl, only about one meter fifty-two tall, with green twin-tails.

At this moment, Eva had lost her usual mischievous charm; she stared blankly at the elf's corpse inside the crystal coffin.

The next instant,

her emerald twin-tails stirred without wind, and her projected body flickered with unstable data streams!

Immediately after, she floated slowly toward the crystal coffin, her slender fingers piercing through the lid, stirring ripples upon the elf's forehead.

At the same time, the ring on the table suddenly erupted in blinding light!

In the stunned gazes of Zhou Yuanwu and the others, it levitated into the air and slipped precisely onto her ring finger.

Whoosh—!

A visible storm of Yuan energy exploded outward from Eva.

When she lifted her head again, her clear eyes had transformed into a glittering galaxy.

Wherever her gaze fell, even space seemed to ripple.

Though merely a holographic projection, Eva's gaze made every person in the chamber's hairs stand on end.

It felt as if this were not a hologram, but a supreme powerhouse who had roamed the cosmos!

But the next instant, the strange phenomena surrounding Eva vanished abruptly.

Her familiar mischievous charm reappeared on her adorable face; she exclaimed in delight:

"S-Class! I remember! I remember everything! I was truly a supreme powerhouse before!"

"Oh?"

Xu Jingming raised his swordlike eyebrows. "Tell me in detail."

As soon as he spoke, Zhou Yuanwu and the others turned to look curiously.

"Hmph, this will take a while to explain."

Eva proudly puffed out her flat chest and began to recount slowly:

"Let's start from ten thousand years ago, when I landed on your planet aboard the Primordial Ship..."

Through her narration, Xu Jingming and the others finally understood the full story.

It turned out Eva's true body was the elf corpse lying inside the crystal coffin.

Years ago, while traveling through space as an interstellar adventurer, Eva encountered a Star-Class demon race being.

The opponent was higher in rank; she could only flee desperately.

But she accidentally fell victim to its innate secret technique and was forced to land on whatever life-bearing planet appeared on her ship's radar.

That planet was Blue Star.

When the ship landed on Blue Star, she was already mortally wounded.

To survive, she forged a forest sanctuary and placed her body inside the crystal coffin.

Using a special method, she converted her consciousness into an AI lifeform aboard the ship and sent the vessel out of the sanctuary.

She had intended to gather sufficient resources on this planet and attempt to revert back to her original form.

But unexpectedly, that demon race being had also tracked her to this planet and destroyed her ship.

The AI core was damaged in turn, sinking forever into the earth alongside the ship, falling into slumber.

Four thousand years later, during the First Civilization Era, psychics emerged.

After excavating the Primordial Ship from underground, she saw daylight again.

But due to the damaged AI core, she had long lost her original memories.

The powerful figures of the First Civilization Era merely treated her as the ship's artificial intelligence and paid her no special attention.

Thus, the AI lifeform known as Eva survived, continuing until the present day.

Only when Xu Jingming opened the sanctuary and brought out the crystal coffin, making contact with her space ring, did she recall everything.