Chapter 895: Purpose! Breakthrough Void Tower!

"You don't need to flatter me—what happened before is past, and I won't hold it against you." Xu Jingming smiled.

He had figured it out: Meng Ke had a lively personality, the type who could adapt and was naturally sociable.

As for yesterday's incident, it wasn't significant—he wasn't petty enough to dwell on a few arrogant words.

"Thank you, Senior Xu, for forgiving me!" Meng Ke's face lit up, and he quickly paid another compliment.

Nearby, Meng Yu let out a breath of relief.

They now represented the Hearthfire Divine Temple.

If Xu Jingming still held ill will toward Meng Ke, the upcoming recruitment effort would become a serious headache.

"Senior Xu, let's sit down and talk."

Seeing the atmosphere ease, Meng Yu's fair, delicate face bloomed with a bright smile.

"I already know you come from the Hearthfire Project of the Second Civilization Era.

This doesn't need further explanation—I only want to know your next plan.

And why you're challenging the prodigies of our Third Civilization Era."

After sitting down, Xu Jingming got straight to the point and asked.

Upon hearing this, Meng Yu and the others felt no surprise.

The high-level psychics of Blue Star already knew their origins.

As Blue Star's top prodigy, it was natural for Xu Jingming to know some internal information.

"Our goal is simple: to draw the attention of Blue Star's psychics and lure you into our Hearthfire World," Meng Yu replied softly.

Her voice was pleasant—clear and melodious.

"Hearthfire World? That space you're in?" Xu Jingming asked, puzzled.

"That's right."

Meng Yu nodded. "In our Hearthfire World, there is a Breakthrough Void Tower. Entering it for trials grants many benefits.

Including various combat techniques, rare treasures, and even opportunities for psychic evolution and transcendence.

Once your elites enter the Hearthfire World, the Breakthrough Void Tower will be opened to you.

"So you're making such a loud show just to lure us into your world to seize your own opportunities?"

Xu Jingming raised an eyebrow.

Do the leaders of the Hearthfire World have no sense?

Why not keep such valuable things for themselves and instead open them to outsiders?

"It's not that we want to—it's unavoidable."

Green, who had been silent until now, shook his head and interjected:

"The Breakthrough Void Tower has thirteen levels. We can access the first six, but beyond level six, there is a personnel requirement.

Our numbers are insufficient—we've never been able to enter the higher levels beyond level six."

"Oh?"

Xu Jingming narrowed his eyes. "Aren't you the ones who built the Breakthrough Void Tower? How could it have a personnel requirement?"

"No."

Green shook his head. "The Breakthrough Void Tower was brought back by the Grand Priest from the spatial chaos.

We don't know where it came from—perhaps the answer lies at the tower's highest level."

The origin of the Breakthrough Void Tower was, in fact, a top-secret matter of the Hearthfire Divine Temple.

But since Master Boke had instructed them, telling Xu Jingming was acceptable.

After a pause, he added: "To enter level seven of the Breakthrough Void Tower, you need at least twenty thousand psychics of sixth rank or higher."

"Twenty thousand sixth-rank psychics?" Xu Jingming suddenly understood.

The entire Great Xia had only around ten thousand psychics above sixth rank.

It was normal that the Hearthfire World, as a remnant of the Second Civilization Era, couldn't muster so many.

And to attract so many strong individuals in a short time, the Hearthfire World truly had no choice but to act so conspicuously.

"How many sixth-rank or higher psychics are there in your Hearthfire World? And what's your total population?"

Xu Jingming was curious.

"Total population: 120 million. Sixth-rank or higher psychics: roughly five thousand."

After a moment's thought, Green replied.

This was also a secret of their Hearthfire World.

But to show sincerity, they didn't conceal it.

"That many?" Xu Jingming was startled.

Great Xia had 2 billion people and only ten thousand psychics above sixth rank.

By ratio, the Hearthfire World's probability of producing strong individuals was ten times higher!

"Those chosen for the Hearthfire Project originally were elites from every field.

Their descendants naturally have a much higher chance of becoming strong."

Green explained simply.

"S-class, ask them right away—what exactly happened after the Hope-ship crashed? And how did their Hearthfire World develop?"

At that moment, Eva's voice, brimming with curiosity, echoed in his mind.

She herself came from the Second Civilization Era and had always been curious about what had happened before.

Xu Jingming, too, wanted to know this, so he asked:

"Can you tell me how you survived the world-ending threat of the Molten Beast and managed to endure until now?"

"Alright."

Meng Yu hesitated for a moment before nodding and slowly began to recount:

"Back then, after the Hope was destroyed, facing the threat of the Molten Fire Beast, we......"

With Meng Yu's account and Eva's additions, Xu Jingming finally learned the rest of the previous civilization era.

When the Hope spacecraft crashed, the Land of Jin still had four Apex Warriors remaining.

The original seven Apex Warriors had been utterly powerless against the Molten Fire Beast, let alone with only four left.

In the time that followed, the Molten Fire Beast continued its slaughter.

Of the four Apex Warriors, only the last one survived—the Void God, who possessed the strongest escape ability and an SS-rank spatial ability.

With the Void God's strength, he could have easily hidden in the void, evading the Molten Fire Beast's world-ending catastrophe.

But she did not do so. Instead, at the cost of her own life, she created an independent space.

And with the SSR-rank combat technique 'Spatial Freeze,' she froze the entire space solid.

She also severed this space's connection with Blue Star and placed the entire space into the spatial turbulence.

It was precisely because of the Void God's sacrifice that the Spark Project was successfully carried out, allowing twenty million humans to survive.

"The Void God is truly a warrior worthy of admiration."

After hearing the entire account, Xu Jingming nodded slightly.

The vast majority of powerful warriors only center on their own interests.

They won't help others, let alone sacrifice their lives to save people who, to Apex Warriors, are nothing but ants.

"Because of the Void God's actions, the entire space has been drifting in unknown spatial turbulence.

Successfully evading the Molten Fire Beast's perception, allowing us twenty million humans to survive.

It wasn't until over a hundred years ago that the effect of Spatial Freeze finally wore off, allowing the entire space to revive once more.

Although humanity awakened again, problems followed in its wake.

The entire space is situated in unknown spatial turbulence—we have no way to return to the Blue Star world."

After a brief pause, an expression of fervor gradually crept onto Meng Yu's Bai Xi pretty face:

"For the decades after that, the entire space survived in the dangerous cracks of spatial turbulence.

It wasn't until that lord appeared that the situation finally took a turn......"