Chapter 297: The Truth of Tianyuan Jie, the Homeless Fugitive

"Buzz, buzz..."

"Click..."

Accompanied by heavy footsteps that began to echo continuously from the entrance of the starship, the interior of this starship, which had not been stepped into for a long time, also lit up with streaks of light one after another, illuminating it brightly.

Even after passing through who knows how many years, this starship was actually still in an operational state.

Seeing this, even Baichuan, who had already clarified some of the starship's situation from the information within the permissions, could not help but marvel.

What kind of civilization had a starship fall here?

Amidst his marvel, Baichuan looked at this incomparably vast interior space, where various large unknown machines were placed in an orderly fashion, and he felt somewhat bewildered.

Whether in his past life or his current one, this was his first time coming into contact with a crystallization of wisdom that represented the highest level of a technological civilization to a certain degree.

"Hiss..."

"Intelligent life signature scanned, Captain permissions confirmed, activating, please wait..."

Then, just at this moment, amidst a sound like an electric current, he heard a mechanical, emotionless female voice ring out.

Baichuan paused for a moment and looked toward mid-air, where a piece of crystalline blue light was suddenly radiating.

Within a bright blue light, a massive panel containing vast amounts of information immediately appeared before Baichuan.

On it was clearly a guide map of the interior of the ship's hull, with a highly conspicuous orange route guiding him toward the starship's cockpit.

"It seems I don't need to worry."

With a light chuckle, Baichuan flew straight ahead according to the guided route.

In less than a quarter of an hour, he had crossed a small half of the starship's interior space and arrived at the cockpit; this was a vast space, and what entered his eyes were dozens of objects placed in a scattered manner that looked like seats, and within the entire room existed a massive display screen of nearly 360°, the image within the display screen was currently completely red, and one could faintly see the red occasionally rippling like liquid.

Baichuan guessed that perhaps when the starship crashed, the location where the cockpit was situated had pierced into magma.

Of course, these were not the main points, and Baichuan did not pay much attention to them.

What caught his attention at this moment was inside this space representing the cockpit, in front of the highest position—

There, a three-dimensional projection nearly thirty meters long was quietly floating; it was the three-dimensional image of the entire starship, and at this moment, this image was quietly presenting the damage situation of all parts of the entire starship, and its most severely damaged right side had even been directly pierced through, creating a huge gap.

Beneath the large table directly in front of the image, a ghastly skeleton wearing a tattered white robe was leaning; judging by its physique, it seemed to be a female skeleton, and in its left bony hand, it was clutching a jade-white jade slip.

Baichuan was no stranger to that object; it was the information storage material used by Tianyuan Jie to store various cultivation secret manuals.

Presumably, what was stored inside here was the information left behind by the original owner of this starship, right?

Thinking this, Baichuan walked up slowly, hooked it up gently with a Dragon Claw, and injected Spirit power.

In an instant, accompanied by the injection of Spirit power, the scene of information flowing into his mind that Baichuan had imagined did not appear; instead, a female light projection resembling a researcher wearing a white robe appeared before Baichuan.

That white-robed female had delicate features and a gentle expression; as soon as she appeared, she spoke to the air in front of her:

"Latecomer, descendant of ours, presumably when you entered here, you had already passed the test of the Eclipse, right?"

Although the female's voice was in the form of a question, her tone carried an attitude of certainty, as if she were extremely sure.

Baichuan did not speak, quietly watching the other party.

Because he already understood this scene before him; it was very clear that the female in this image was the skeleton leaning against the table below, the real her had long since died, and the current her was merely a "video" recorded by the her of the past.

The female paused, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "Very good, since you could defeat the pseudo-Planet Overlord level Eclipse, in this way, your strength should have at the latest successfully reached Planet Overlord, or even true Planet-level! You already have the strength to set foot outside the planet."

"No need to be humble, the Eclipse is my proudest work of my life."

"I imagine you must have many doubts? For example, what are Planet Overlord, and what is outside the planet? What is this behemoth you stepped into, and so on."

"No need to rush, I will tell you slowly."

Hearing this, Baichuan's spirit was also lifted; not to mention anything else, having grown step by step on an Original Star all by himself, he simply did not know the specific situation outside the planet, how the various strengths were divided, or at which stage he was currently at.

Of course, he imagined it shouldn't be that strong; he never felt that he was already invincible. After all, he was just a little bumpkin from a planet who hadn't even stepped outside the planet, how could he be so invincible? Not to mention anything else, that dragon at the source of the Dragon Blood system was not something the current him could reach.

While Baichuan's thoughts were drifting and associating, the white-robed female also continued:

"First of all, I am very sorry to let you live from the beginning on a planet that has lost the ability to receive the radiance of a star..."

Speaking of this, she waved her right hand, and one could see that where the ship's hull projection was displayed behind her, a three-dimensional projection of a pitch-black planet popped out directly; it seemed it should have been a pre-set program.

"Look, this is the world you are currently living in—Tianyuan Jie, its name is 'Planet', an incomparably huge sphere."

Upon hearing this, Baichuan also cast his gaze over.

This was a planet with a somewhat strange appearance; although it was somewhat similar to the planets he knew in general, for some reason, it was wrapped in a circle of mist that looked somewhat transparent?

Is that the planet's atmosphere?

Baichuan guessed somewhat uncertainly, but his intuition told him something was wrong, because this circle that looked somewhat like mist was at some distance from the planet, much further than the distance of an atmosphere.

"Perhaps you have lived in such a special, hidden world from birth until now, needing the power of the Eclipse or radiance to truly realize the division of day and night, and you do not know what the true planet looks like."

Hearing this, Baichuan scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly, because they were all dead, even if he didn't kill them directly, it was because of him that they died.

"But on our true home planet, and at the very beginning of this Tianyuan Star, there was simply no need for such creations to divide day and night; around them existed an incomparably huge star body like a fireball, which we named 'Star'... and our home planet revolved around it within this system."

"However, in the year 3051 of the River Calendar, our home planet encountered a heaven-shaking catastrophe—it unfortunately fell into the battlefield of two higher-level civilization fleets, and we, with our weak power, could not even withstand the aftermath of the other side's battle, even at the edge of their battlefield..."

"If it weren't for the fact that in a subsequent attack, the other side unfortunately broke a mysterious seal left over from who knows what era on the home planet, so that the world suddenly changed drastically, leading to the revival of a large number of sealed ruins, from which we obtained the power to protect ourselves, we wouldn't have been able to offer even the slightest resistance."

"Yet, fortune and misfortune are interdependent; the appearance of the ruins, although it gave us a weak power of self-preservation, so that we would not perish directly in the aftermath of the other side's engagement, it also attracted more civilizations from the depths of the Xingkong, because those ruins actually emitted an indescribable, seductive aura, and this aura ignored everything and drifted directly into the depths of the Xingkong."

"At this, the home planet, which had no chance to develop at all, decided under the encirclement of many enemies to gather numerous resources to build fleet after fleet, fleeing in all directions toward the depths of the Xingkong, to preserve a spark of civilization for humanity."

"And we, including most of the living beings on this world, are descendants of one of the fleeing fleets; this fleeing fleet was unfortunately chased by a warship of a higher civilization in the past, and was subsequently pierced on the right side, falling into the risk of crashing. Fortunately, when we were on the home planet, we had obtained a mysterious 'Faba' from the ruins, and were able to use the power of the Faba to escape the other side's pursuit, finally crashing onto this planet."

"Yet, although we successfully escaped the other side's pursuit, the starship was already damaged very severely, the propulsion system was 60% destroyed, and in the subsequent crash, we unfortunately crashed a small half of the ship's hull into the interior of the planet. With our power on the starship, it was simply impossible for us to repair the propulsion system and let it take off and leave again."

"At this, after discussion and decision by the authorities on the starship, it was unanimously decided to prepare to live and multiply on this planet, and this planet is the current Tianyuan Star. Later, for the sake of safety, and because of the special nature of this planet, we directly used that Faba to hide the entire planet into another space."

"Thus, it led to the living beings on this planet, which is you, living in a world without day or night, only able to rely on the power of creations to divide day and night..."

"Regarding this, I, on behalf of the colleagues who made this decision in the past, feel deeply sorry; everything was for survival."

Hearing this, facing the other party's apology, Baichuan had no thoughts, because he was simply not a living being living on this world; he was an outsider, so what did it have to do with him?!

Moreover, for the sake of survival, this kind of behavior could not be called wrong.

However, throughout the whole process, accompanied by the other party's narration, an immersive projection was actually played from who knows where within this cockpit space, making it as if he had also truly witnessed with his own eyes everything that this fleet had experienced and suffered in the past.

That day, a water-blue planet faced various deadly attacks that could easily destroy the planet's tectonic plates, and even terrifying energy beams akin to planet-killing cannons occasionally streaked across; the people on the planet could only tremble in fear until the shattering of a mysterious seal and the appearance of ruins caused the situation to improve, yet good times did not last, as the ruins unexpectedly emitted a certain mysterious aura, leading to the appearance of even more enemies.

In an instant, various civilizations peered in, fleets of starships pressed upon the border, and countless towering weapons of war emitting terrifying auras—among them no shortage of large mechs thousands of meters tall—appeared; under such circumstances, people could only fight to the death, sacrificing themselves for righteousness or for the hope of their civilization, bursting forth with a final brilliance to break out from the heavy encirclement.

Alas, during the final scattered escape, they were overtaken by a super-battleship with terrifying firepower; brilliant energy rays tore through the Xingkong, piercing through this fleet that had been fleeing in panic for who knows how many years, and finally, under the power of a mysterious Faba, they successfully escaped, trailing a series of flames from the Xingkong to fall through the vast atmosphere onto this savage planet.

Within it were pain, sacrifice, sorrow, and despair, but also thrilling victories snatched from the jaws of danger, the courageous brilliance of human nature, the hope of preserving the sparks of civilization, and a resilience that never yielded.

This is the history of humanity, and likewise, the hymn of humanity.

Baichuan thought to himself, if it were some hot-headed youth, facing such a formation, as long as they had even a shred of identification with this world and a sliver of belonging to their own race, perhaps they would have felt empathy and had their blood boil for it.

While Baichuan was lost in thought, the immersive projection suddenly began to fade away, and at the same time, the image of the female projection also suddenly began to flicker, seemingly about to be interrupted due to energy or other factors.

This directly caused Baichuan to snap back to his senses, and he could not help but feel a bit anxious.

What is going on? How did it just end?

Wasn't it said that all doubts would be answered? What is that mysterious Faba, and where is it, and what is the division of strength in the universe...

How could it just stop halfway through? Is this kind of cliffhanger behavior okay?

This is not okay!

Fortunately, that white-robed female had anticipated this, and with a faint smile, she continued at the final moment:

"Apologies, although I know you still have many other doubts and I also wanted to explain them to you, my Time is running out. I can only store all the information in the starship's database; the entire development of this planet since the beginning of our arrival is also within it, and you can view it yourself later."

"Finally, although you already possess the power to step into the Xingkong by your own strength, remember not to be careless. The Xingkong is too mysterious and dangerous; even if you are already a true planet-level True Immortal, you cannot be too careless. Perhaps only the true powerhouses above that level can be slightly freer, but that realm..."

Speaking to this point, the figure in the projection went silent, seemingly interrupted.

After a long while, a faint sigh came through intermittently: "When you are strong, if you have the heart and the ability, go and take a look at our mother planet... perhaps there... still... needs saving..."

With this, the entire cockpit fell back into silence, save for the slight sound of machinery running and bits of shattered light.

"Sigh..."

After a long while, Baichuan, having savored the meaning, let out a long sigh, his expression somewhat complex.

Afterward, he stepped forward a few paces and carefully gathered the female's remains, placing them in a separate storage space.

Regardless of anything else, the female's actions had answered many of his doubts and left him a rich legacy to accept, paving many roads for his future entry into the Xingkong so that he would not be completely ignorant.

Therefore, collecting her remains was merely a small matter.

As for whether or not to head to the other party's mother planet, Baichuan was not yet sure.

Something that could be coveted by so many high-level civilizations must mean the ruins on the other party's mother planet could not be underestimated, and their value was bound to be extremely high.

Therefore, if he felt confident in his strength later on, he might just make that trip.

However, for now, he should first go and accept the database within this starship and find that Faba.

(End of this chapter)